This article traces the work of William Demmert, Jr. in the Arctic and Subarctic as a member of the Steering Committee on Cross-Cultural Education in the Circumpolar North. It seeks to fulfill in part Demmert's wish that the work of the steering committee, of which he was the last chairman, be chronicled. From the time of the first planning session at the University of Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute where the committee's work was initiated in 1975, this account illustrates Demmert's significant contributions to the success of the committee.