Steffys honored by University of Alaska.

• Author: Pounds, Nancy
• Position: Inside Alaska Business

University of Alaska officials have named a Kenai Peninsula College building after long-time resource industry educators Dennis and Ginger Steffy. The Steffys have supported vocational-technical education in Alaska's mining and petroleum industries.

Since the founding of UA's Mining and Petroleum Training Service in 1979, the Steffys have helped train an estimated 100,000 students in everything from underground mine safety training to oil and gas drilling technology.

UA officials dedicated the MAPTS building on the Kenai Peninsula College as the Dennis and Ginger Steffy Mining and Petroleum Training Center of Excellence in June.

Dennis Steffy has nearly 40 years of continuous service to the oil, gas and mining industry. He's been director of MAPTS since 1979, when it was known as the Petroleum Extension Program at KPC. He's perhaps Alaska's most internationally...