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Arthur House is an adjunct professor in the Political Science  Department of the University of Connecticut.  

His background includes senior executive responsibilities in  business, the U.S. Government and state government. Most recently,  House served as Chief Cybersecurity Risk Officer for the State of  Connecticut from October 2016 to October 2019 after four years as  Chairman of Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.  House was Director of Communications and Congressional Relations  for the Director of National Intelligence and Chief of the  Communications Group for the National Geospatial-Intelligence  Agency, a combat support agency of the U.S. Department of Defense.  He holds a top-secret security clearance. As a White House Fellow he  served as Special Projects Officer on the staff of the National Security  Council.  

He worked in Asia and Africa as an economist and loan officer for the  World Bank, served on the Bank’s Policy, Planning and Program  Review staff and qualified to represent the Bank as fluent in French.  In the private sector, House was Senior Vice President of Public  Affairs at Webster Bank and held senior executive positions at Cigna,  Aetna, and Tenneco. He was a member of Tenneco’s European  Advisory Council. He is currently Lead Director of American  Superconductor Corporation.  

His career has also included three positions in the United States  Senate: Chief of Staff to former Connecticut Senator Abraham  Ribicoff, Chief of Staff to former Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd,  and Legislative Assistant to Senator Chris Dodd. While working in the  Senate his projects included the Camp David peace negotiations, the 

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II), Panama Canal Treaty  ratification and the Tokyo Round trade negotiations. He was a  Congressional Adviser to the United States Mission to the United  Nations.  

House is a graduate of Tufts College and has a Ph.D degree from the  Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He has  published a book on the United Nations Civilian Operations in the  Congo and several articles on international relations subjects. He was  Assistant Dean and on the faculty of the Fletcher School and taught  graduate courses at the University of Connecticut, Georgetown  University and the National University of the Congo.  

House has extensive live and print media experience, including work  as a public member of the Hartford Courant editorial board.  House is married to Rita Jepsen. They live in Simsbury, Connecticut.  

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Dick was born in Baltimore, MD and graduated from Cornell University in mechanical engineering.  He served in the US Air Force, and worked for Esso Research & Engineering before starting his own technology consulting firm.  He later served in both the US Depts of Defense and Treasury, and held executive positions at Chase Manhattan Bank and McGraw-Hill.

In 1990, he taught at the International Management Institute in Kiev, Ukraine, and spent the next twelve years working in and out of Eastern Europe, ending up as executive vice president of the International Executive Service Corps. Dick is provost emeritus of the European College of Liberal Arts (now Bard College Berlin).  Today, he is founder and publisher of Estuary Magazine, a quarterly print and online magazine all about the Connecticut River Watershed.

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There are 115 mountains in NE USA that are over 4000 feet high. I have climbed all of them at least once. I was younger then. 14 of the 115 are in Maine, 48 in NH, 5 in Vermont, 46 in the Adirondacks and 2 in the Catskills. I’ll start with Maine and go west.

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