Field Notes

IN REMEMBRANCE

THERE’S REALLY NOT ENOUGH INK to write about Dean Looper’s legacy to the City of Canadian. As City Manager for the last fifteen years, and a City employee for the last twenty-one, Looper has ushered Canadian from an era of relative chaos and unrelieved controversy in City government, into a new one marked by thoughtful planning, thorough preparation, fiscal efficiency, personal accountability, intergovernmental cooperation, and—last, but by far, not least—civility.