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THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA | SPRING 2010 SPRING 2010______VOLUME 27 NUMBER 2 conten PUBLISHER I Rita Munzenrider '83

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12 A Farewell To Dennison President Dennison and others reflect on his twenty years o f UM leadership.

22 Combating Climate Change By Erika Fredrickson '99, M.S. '09 mu#* i U M is working to serve as a m odel for sustainability with the ultimate goal o f becom ing carbon neutral b y 2020.

26 Just Doing It By Kevin Van Valkenburg '00 Eric Sprunk ’86, the vice president o f merchandise and product at Nike, along with other alums working at the company, share how a Montana work ethic E u was key to their success.

DEPARTMENTS 3 Letters 5 Around The Oval 33 Raising Montana 35 About Alumni 56 Artifacts

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Holiday Inn Downtown at the Park RESTAURANT I OUTDOOR PATIO ‘UU2 0 0 S PA I ICE .ST • MISSOULA, MONTANA-* 406.721.8550 • HIMISSOULA.COM I B a g l to John Shaffner of Zarzyski’s poetry class. Richard H ugo was Missoula. O f course supposed to teach the creative writing she is— John is her first class, but he was ill, so there was Zarzyski cousin. (rhymes with whiskey, he told us). The Phyllis Beecher Smith '73 man’s passion for the music in language Via e-mail was palpable, and it inflamed my own passion. I eventually found a direction and IT'S A SMALL have been spreading his gospel in my own W ORLD AFTER ALL classroom for more than twenty years. So I I grew up in Broadus was surprised not to find his name includ­ and attended college ed in the winter 2010 article “Where The at UM. M y husband, Big Fish Lie” about U M ’s Creative Writing Brett Swimley, grew up Program. Paul earned his master’s degree in Libby and gradu­ from the Creative Writing Program and ated from Montana was a student and friend o f Hugo’s. State University in 1983. We have laughed In the thirty-seven years Paul has been more than once over the years that even writing, he has published ten books and with 780 miles between our hometowns, produced four spoken word CDs. In we still know all o f the same people. Last addition to performing on Garrison night I read Bill Johnstons essay in your Keiller’s A Prairie Home Companion, he “All Roads Lead To Montana” feature has read for the Library o f Congress and titled “Guessing Game Gone Right” and The Kennedy Center. He also performed laughed, because it is so true. with the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra After reading the article, I said to my "I received my issue of the and at other venues nationally, as well as husband, “You have to hear this. It is an magazine today and was cjuite in Canada, England, and Australia. He article by a guy named Bill Johnston.” has appeared on national television and is taken with the picture of the new Without missing a beat my husband said, one o f six poets featured in the documen­ Payne Family Native American “I know him.” I laughed more and then tary No Need for a Saturday Night. H e has Center ,;. -J If looks so interesting read him the article! Then my husband branched into music and recendy co-wrote told me he knows Bills brother better than and obviously fills a need to songs on the C D Hang-n-Rattle! produced Bill and Bills grandmother took care o f by John Carter Cash. In 2005, he received encourage more American Indian my husband when he was little. the Governor’s Arts Award for Literature. students to attend and then finish Thanks for connecting us further. I’d say Paul Zarzyski is a pretty big fish. Everyone knows everyone in Montana! jneir aegrees. I t ’s unfortunate h e ’s one that slipped the Susan B rooks Swimley, '86, J.D. '89 Nancy Stephenson Bond '45 M on tan an s net. Via e-mail Susan Fogarty Sch w ab '86, M.A. '01 Belgrade WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS NATIVE PRIDE YOUR NAME I received my issue o f the magazine today When I looked through my mail today, and was quite taken with the picture o f W A N T E D * l The Montanan ” ™ • I welcomes letters I saw a classmates name, John Shaffner, the new Payne Family Native American m K to the editor. on the cover o f the Montanan. I flipped Center. It is fascinating and so appropriate ^ ^ - _ _ _ ^ ^ |1Please sign and through the magazine to read the story for it to be there. It looks so interesting OPINIONS include your but was sidetracked by “All Roads Lead to and obviously fills a need to encour­ graduating year Montana.” The stories were fun. Then I age more American Indian students to or years of attendance, home address, and phone number or e-mail address. I read Johns story. We were in costume and attend and then finish their degrees. I like I set design classes together. that President George Dennison visited s«nd them to: Montanan Editor, I have been president o f the Yellow- all o f the reservations to encourage just 325 Brantly Hall, Missoula, MT 59812 or [email protected]. | stone Genealogy Forum for several years. A that. Many o f the issues don’t really relate couple of years ago, the program coordina­ to me that much, but this one did. Because of space limitations, we are not able tor was a bubbly woman named Sydney. I Nancy Stephenson Bond '45 to include all letters sent to us. Letters may be edited for length or clarity. While universities found out she lived on a ranch in Dillon Ithaca, N. Y. are places of discussion where good people ! while growing up, and she knew a couple do not always agree, letters deemed potentially o f people there who attended UM at the THE O N E THAT G O T AWAY libelous or that malign a person or group same time I did. I then asked her what I was twenty-five when I enrolled at UM will not be published. Opinions expressed in the Montanan do not necessarily reflect her maiden name was, being the dedicated in 1982 with no academic plan other than those of The University of Montana. genealogist that I am. “Shaffner” was her pursuing the pleasure o f learning. And response. I asked if she might be related what a pleasure it was to walk into Paul

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he Montana Grizzlies basketball country. H e had gone from a team did something that seemed dishwasher to national superstar. impossible just twenty minutes Head coach Wayne Tinkle Tbefore it happened. The team beat Weber knew there was something State and claimed a spot in the NCAA special about this team. tournament. Riding senior guard Anthony “From day one we talked Johnsons thirty-four second-half points, about character,” Tinkle says. the Griz clawed their way back from a “We had some highs and lows, twenty-point halftime deficit to claim like losing to Northern Colorado a 66-65 victory. The improbable win and Montana State at home that launched the Griz and Johnson into the could have affected us, but we national spotlight. stuck to the plan.” Johnsons story is more than bringing O n March 14, with a full a team back from the brink of defeat. I i t His story is one o f being saved by his i wife, Shaunte Nance- country expected an easy Johnson, a Lady Griz victory for the No. 3 seed I * basketball player. Out New Mexico. The Grizzlies II o f high school for a didn’t follow the script. year and washing dishes Junior center Brian Qvale at a seafood restaurant, played the best game of Johnson met Shaunte his career, scoring twenty- and proposed to her six points and grabbing with a rubber band thirteen rebounds. just two weeks into the However, Johnson scored relationship. She knew only six points in the game. he was destined for His low scoring margin can more and helped him ^ Top right: Senior guard Anthony Johnson \ H be attributed to Dairese nab a basketball tryout at Yakima Valley catapulted into the national spotlight after his Gary, a member o f the Mountain West Community College. Johnson led YVCC forty-two point performance against Weber Conference All-Defensive team. The to a conference title, and several Division State in the Big Sky Conference title game. junior guard haunted Johnson throughout Above: With the come-from-behind win in the I schools recruited him. But Montana the entire game, but Johnsons open shots Big Sky Conference the Grizzlies punched gave him the opportunity to pay his wife wouldn’t fall in either. their ticket to the NCAA tournament. back. It was take both or neither. The Grizzlies trailed throughout most Two years later on the bus ride o f the second half but pulled within one home from Ogden, Utah, with the Big house o f fans at the Press Box, the Grizzlies point with less than two minutes to play. Sky Conference tide and conference watched as they were paired against New They just couldn’t finish o ff the Lobos, tournament MVP honors, Johnson Mexico in the first round o f the NCAA and New Mexico won 62-57. | received calls from ESPN, USA Today, and tournament in San Jose, Calif. The Although Tinkle was disappointed with [ The New York Times. A YouTube video of Grizzlies flew out the morning o f March the loss, he wasn’t with the team’s effort. the game produced by MontanaGrizzlies. 16 to the NCAA tournament. “We did it the Grizzly way, which is to | com received more than 85,000 hits and The Griz played in the last game o f day never say die,” he says. was linked to by websites around the one o f the tournament. Experts around the — -Jerek W olcott *

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Outdoor Access For AH yler Stosich is a twenty-five-year-old UM student from Lima majoring in media arts. He also is a Tquadriplegic who acquired his disability nearly five years ago. Before his accident he enjoyed hunting and wanted to continue that pastime even though he found himself in a wheelchair. Stosich met Chris Clasby, program Tyler Stoskh, a UM student, coordinator for U M ’s Montana Access to Outdoor uses equipment Recreation program, and began to learn about the options from Montana available to him and other Montanans with disabilities. Access to Outdoor An integrated program, MATOR offers opportunities Recreation on a for Montanans to recreate “in settings they choose, with regular basis. whom they choose, when they choose,” Clasby says. MATOR, part of U M ’s M onTECH resource center for assistive technology, helps people with disabilities and MATOR also frequendy offers educational workshops and aging members o f the community access the outdoors by providing demonstrations across the state to expose people to the program them with increased opportunities for fishing and hunting, as well and let them know its available for the public to use. as other outdoor activities such as camping and wildlife viewing. The program “creates more opportunities for those with One o f the biggest obstacles for disabled Montanans trying acquired disabilities and creates belief in themselves and to participate in outdoor recreation is how expensive adaptive encouragement to try new things,” Clasby says. equipment can be. MATOR offers a free equipment loan Montana has a wide variety of opportunities for outdoor program that can be accessed online and makes checking out recreation, and M ATOR is helping even more Montanans adaptive gear easy. access the activities the state has to offer. Clasby hopes to spread Stosich says he had previously bought his own gun mount, so awareness about the program and would like to see many more he appreciated the opportunity provided through the loan program Montanans benefit directly from MATOR in the future. when he wanted to go fishing. He also plans to take advantage of For more information about the program or to participate, some o f the camping equipment this summer. call 406-243-5751 or “You never thought any of this stuff would be possible,” visit http://recreation. Stosich says o f those with disabilities having the opportunity to go ruralinstitute.umt.edu/ outdoors and participate in activities they formerly enjoyed or have Mator/ i ndex. asp. never experienced and want to try. — Colette Maddock

REPORT OUTLINES UM'S ECONOMIC IMPACT ON MONTANA new report finds UM The bottom line is that through the earning in Missoula contributes the University has been, power of its graduates; operations, University research, 9,700 additional jobs to the and continues to be, a vital the contributions of its research, graduate earnings, visitors, and Treasure State, $1 billion in catalyst for growth in the state patents, and inventions; and the student off-campus spending. additional after-tax income economy," says BBER Director millions of dollars of business it "This report details how the and more than $200 million in Patrick Barkey, the report's lead conducts with Montana vendors University plays a key role in additional state tax revenues. author. 'This report reveals what of products and services. helping the state grow income, The report, "The University of the economy of the state of The report also found that the job opportunities, and prosperity Montana: Growing Montana's Montana would look like if UM average compensation per job for our future,' UM Executive Economy," was produced did not exist." throughout Montana is $ 1,346 Vice President Jim Foley says. during a three-month period by BBER researchers found higher because of UM. The report can be viewed UM's Bureau of Business and UM contributes to a more The study focused primarily at www.bber.umt.edu/pubs/ Economic Research. prosperous state economy on five areas: University econ/universityreport.pdf.

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IN RESPON SE TO HATE SPEECH and At the sessions, trainers ask people to list violent crimes toward members o f the lesbian, on an index card the three things that are most gay, bisexual, and transgender community at t a l l i e s important to them and three things they do in UM, a campuswide committee was formed to their spare time. Trainees are then given two create UM Allies, an organization that promotes minutes to introduce themselves, but they are a welcoming, safe, and inclusive atmosphere for not allowed to say anything about what they listed on the card. LGBT students at UM. “This is always the ‘aha’ moment during training,” Peters- Peters-McBride, while a student at UM, teamed up with Curry McBride says. “It really raises the empathy for the LGBT Health Centers Student Assault Resource Center coordinator Kate community, who often hide the primary components o f their Pruitt-Chapin, and music Professor Steven Hesla, to found the identity and interests. Trainees com e away from U M Allies group in 2008. Peters-McBride now works as a program adviser sessions with a better understanding of a community o f people for University Center Student Involvement and, with an intern, they’ll encounter all their lives and with more information about holds UM Allies training sessions for faculty, student volunteers, a minority that has a history of isolation, oppression, fear, and resident assistants and village assistants. These training sessions anxiety.” equip members o f UM Allies with specific knowledge about the “The fact that a program like this exists shows advocacy,” says LGBT community. The sessions discuss everything from basic chemistry Professor Laurie Franklin, who completed the training. definitions o f identity to facts such as the 1993 deletion o f the “I’m proud this University shows universality.” term “homosexuality” from the World Health Organizations list — Samantha Steven o f diseases, to contact information for medical or counseling services, human rights organizations, and social events.

Grizwald in the 2010 Winter Olympics: "Halfpipe!?! They said I was WHERE'S YOUR GRIZ BEEN? in the downhill!" MARY STEWART SALE M.F.A. '96 took this picture in front of the Sphinx in Egypt in 2005. "This photo was inadvertent," she writes. "Fellow tourist Meet Grizwald, Michael moved into the photo at the last minute." That inadvertent photo The University of Montana's cartoon bear. In the last pays off because she now won a $50 gift card for The Bookstore at UM. issue of the Montanan, w e asked readers to submit Do you have a photo of yourself wearing your Griz gear in an amazing captions interpreting Grizwald's actions in a funny place or while on an incredible adventure? If so, send it along with a way. This issue's winning caption w as sent in by ART brief description to: [email protected]. Winners will see their ADAMIEC '06. Congratulations, Art, you've won a Griz photo published in the Montanan and will receive a $50 gift card to The stadium blanket. Bookstore at UM. To be considered, photos must be in focus and with the Stay tunedl In the fall issue of the Montanan, UM or Griz logo clearly visible. a new cartoon featuring Grizwald will need a caption. You could be the next winner!

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Notable National Conference Brings ^ ^ C L Y l d _ ■ ■ Research Spotlight To UM Q uotable n April 15 and 16, more than 2,600 undergraduates from (<1V\ across the country presented original projects in their field at For the first time in the University's 117-year history, O UM during the twenty-fourth annual National Conference the main Commencement ceremony will be held outdoors on Undergraduate Research. on the Oval. The ceremony, which begins at 10 a.m. Not a competition, NCUR— the premier venue for undergraduate rain or shine Saturday, May 15, will be followed by research— featured several UM students, in addition to being ceremonies for individual schools and colleges at 11:30 hosted in Missoula. Many UM Davidson Honors College students a.m. and 1:30 p.m. This year UM will present four presented senior honors thesis projects. In all, there were 197 honorary doctorate degrees. Robert S. Bennett, one of presentations covering 45 topics by UM students. M ore than 1,300 the nation's most prominent attorneys and a generous oral presentations took place in more than fifty classrooms and lecture and dedicated friend of UM, will receive an Honorary halls. In addition, there were more than 1,000 poster presentations Doctor of Law; Stewart M. Brandborg, a towering figure held in the in the American conservation movement, will receive an Adams Center, 7 Honorary Doctor of Science; John Hollenback, a lifelong sixty dramatic 1 ' /IB Montanan who has worked tirelessly to steward state lands, will receive an Honorary Doctor of Science; and M att McCann, a former Montana representative and champion of higher education, will receive an Honorary Performing jligK « Doctor of Humane Letters. Arts and Radio/ Television Two UM commercials won three awards in February Center, and at the 2009 M ontana Addy A w ards S how and Dinner in Great Falls. The event was the first of a three-tired national visual arts j»Epj5wBW gi^ E BBBBPofc- B l competition conducted by the American Advertising presentations in Federation. UM's "Heritage" commercial took home "Best the University Center Student Lounge and I of Show— Electronic" and a Gold Addy. The "2009 Gallery o f Visual Arts. Tunnel Run" commercial won a Silver Addy. In addition, The conference also featured four ■jBBHjjBBW UM won a Silver Award for "Heritage" in the Council plenary speakers: William David Burns, for Advancement and Support o f Education's District VIII founder and principal investigator Communication Awards competition for the ads produced by for Science Education for New Civic INHI Montana-based Chisel Industries. The commercials can be Engagements and Responsibilities; R. viewed on UM's official YouTube channel at www.youtube, Carlos Nakai, the world s premier performer o f the Native American com/universityofmontana. flute and member o f the Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame; UM Regents Professor o f Ecology Steve Running, a Nobel Peace UM's official YouTube channel recently received Prize co-recipient for his work on climate change; and UM School of YouTube EDU status, making it one of only a handful of Journalism Associate Professor Henriette Lowisch, an international universities in the Pacific Northwest with a presence on journalist focusing on global relations. the site's directory. YouTube EDU is a listing of videos U M ’s involvement in N CU R goes back to 1997, when Professor and channels from the website's college and university Garon Smith (known to UM students as “G. Wiz”) and John Madden, partners. There currently are 38 videos on the official UM former dean, o f the Davidson Honors College bid to host the site, and more will be added regularly. Featured content conference at UM in 2000. Smith later became a chair o f the NCU R on the UM YouTube channel includes lectures by som e of Board o f Directors and now serves as a director. He organized this UM's top professors, lectures from the President's Lecture years conference with Janie Spencer, program manager for professional Series and Provost's Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series, development in UM Continuing Education, for the more than 2,000 Enrollment Services videos, UM outreach commercial attendees. spots, Montanan magazine Web-only videos, and a series “NC U R has no paid employees. Its designed to be self-sustaining,” created exclusively for YouTube with UM's president, Smith says. Smith also came up with the conferences tagline this year, "YouChat with President Dennison." The University's “Meet Me in Montana,” from the Grammy-winning country duet by official YouTube channel can be found at wvrw.youtube.com/ Marie Osm ond and Dan Seals. universityofmontana. — Samantha Steven

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way or another,” years class on and off the football field. Pflugrad says. “When you lose a lot o f players on “That is both on offense, defense, and special teams, it puts and o ff the field. you in a disadvantage. We put a lot of You have to have pressure on ourselves in this profession to CEO and CFO go out and get players that can keep this skills to be a championship level going.” coach. You have to And Pflugrad says he plans to keep The Coach Pflu Interview be tough and have the Grizzlies shining in the Football UM's new head football coach is not shy tough love for your Championship Subdivsion by focusing about the fact that form er Grizzlies coach players and other coaching staff as men. on two primary areas— recruiting and a Don Read was one o f his biggest mentors. Their lives are different from the average multidimensional offense that focuses on Could this philosophy mean the Grizzlies are U M student. They give us all o f their free establishing a running game. “Last fell was prim ed for another championship? time. I t ’s tough if you’re a student athlete as open o f an offense as w e ’ve had here. to make ends meet, so watching those There will be elements o f spread offense o spend time with coach Robin players grow is rewarding to me.” and the offense we ran last fall. T h e r e ’s Pflugrad is to understand what love While Pflugrad, U M ’s thirty-fourth no question Chase Reynolds will be and passion for football is all about. head football coach, has spent nearly highlighted. He is a tremendous running One needs to look no further than the thirty years in various coaching positions back and receiver. W e ’re going to give him hours he puts in, which he affectionately with various programs, including the ball through the land, sea, and air. But refers to as “Don Read Hours” or the the Pac-10 Conference schools the you c a n ’t ride your favorite horse every day lunch he spent at the M o Club talking University o f Oregon, Washington State and expect him to win at the state fair. We with others about how to run a statewide University, and Arizona State University, need to recruit the right kind o f players.” football camp— during his summer h e ’s never been a head coach. H e says recruiting is U M ’s No. 1 vacation. “I am off-the-charts excited to become priority, and he believes in attracting I t ’s obvious football comes first in life not only a head coach, but the head in-state interest first. “This year we were for Pflugrad not just because i t ’s how he coach at UM— a University and football in a unique situation because o f the makes his living but because his eyes take program close to my heart,” Pflugrad timing o f the playoffs and the [FCS] on a new sparkle when discussing the new says. After spending a little more than championship game. Many other coaches football uniforms or transitions in offense nine years under coach D on Read in the already had been in the recruits’ houses h e ’s spent coundess nights, mornings, nineties, Pflugrad moved on to the PAC- three, even four times before we had the and weekends running a fine-tooth comb 10. “I really loved working at UM, but it chance to meet with them once. When over to help the Grizzlies improve. But was tough. Salaries needed to be up to a I went around I said, ‘Do n ’t punish the to understand Pflugrad is to understand level where talented people could stay. So, Grizzlies because w e ’re an outstanding that i t ’s not just the game, but the people I began working at ASU. I looked at it football program.’ T h a t ’s why I feel in the game that make thisjob his No. 1 this way. If y o u ’re a stock broker and you recruiting happens 365 days a year. I priority. have a chance to go to Wall Street, y o u ’ll want to step up the recruiting at UM “Every coach I ’ve worked under go. You can always com e back.” and advocate that it needs to happen as a player for or with on a team has Pflugrad says his biggest challenge every day.” influenced my thought process in one as the new head coach is replacing last — Brianne Burrowes

When the Montana Grizzlies took on Appalachian State to homepage. In addition, traffic to UM's Enrollment Services seal their spot in the Football Championship Subdivision title website was up 131 percent, G oogle searches for UM were game last December, W eb traffic at UM shot up for three up 238 percent and visits to MontanaGrizzlies.com were hours and thirty-six minutes. The game, which was broadcast up 286 percent. All percentages are compared to normal on ESPN, brought 232 percent more new visitors to UM's Saturday W eb traffic.

WWW.UMT.EOU/MONTANAN MONTANAN SPRING 2010 I 9 around the oval HFACETIME FACE-OFF featured players, but when you step in the guys over moot up after the games? first gam e that's when the big boys come W e didn't play the Cow boys this year but s out to play. The game is a lot faster. The we did play the Falcons in our opening guys are in tip-top shape. It's crazy. It just game. There was a player hurt on the field, I moves a lot faster. You kind of think about so we were out there at the same time. It j being in your first pro gam e and start was a g oo d chance for us to catch up. It -1 thinking "wow," but if you think about it was kind of weird in gam e preparation to f too long, you're gone. You have to think play against Kroy and preparing against a about the task at hand. guy you were a teammate with in college. 3. How do you mentally prepare for a But that's the name of the game. You can't game? be on the same team forever. The minute that Sunday gam e gets over, 7. What did you learn as a Griz that still I start preparing for the next week. Every carries over into your time on the field as a gam e is different. You'll get nicked up here pro athlete? and there, and when you g o into the next It's definitely a lot of things. It's the work gam e you have to have your body in the ethic and practice carrying over to the best shape it can possibly be in. Of course games. Bobby Hauck [former Montana LEX HILLIARD os there's also lots of film study and practice Grizzlies head coach] did a great job of that's all part of the mental process in showing us how to practice and how if you After Lex Hilliard's explosive fiveyear preparing for the game. prepare properly in practice, it will pay off career with the Montana Grizzlies, he 4. In Week 16 of this past season you made in the game. Our coaches at Miami have was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in your first*evor NFL touchdown. What did the same mentality that hard work pays off. the sixth round o f the 2008 NFL Draft. that feel like? Because I learned that in college, it has He spent the entire 2008 season on the It was definitely a rush. It was crazy. I think helped make it a lot easier. practice squad, but then saw real time in Ricky [Williams, Miami Dolphins running 8. What are your expectations for yourself the 2009 season, racking up three NFL back] got hurt on the goal line, and I had and for your team this coming season? touchdowns. O ne of Hilliard's teammates, to g o in for him. It was one of our wildcat W e want to win the division and work Dan Carpenter, a kicker for the Dolphins, formation plays, and when I went in the hard as a team to accomplish the same a lso is a form er Griz. This pairin g marks gam e I was ecstatic. It's sweet every time goal that we have every game—to win. the first time two UM teammates have ever I get a touchdown. I had one against the My personal goal is to becom e faster and appeared on a professional team together. Steelers and two against the Texans last more explosive and get a lot better at 1. There was a lot of shuffling that went year. Touchdowns are definitely one of special teams. I'll work with my strength on with your position when you were first the better plays of mine in the NFL or in and conditioning coaches on explosive signed to the Dolphins. What was that like football. There's a lot of work that goes techniques and stuff like that. as a player? into each one, so in my mind when I get a 9. Do you still follow tho Montana Grizzlios I'm kind of a tweener, because I'm big touchdown it's proof that it pays off. whenever you can? enough to play full back and quick enough 5. What is it like to play with a Griz I am still so proud to be a Griz. I to play running back. They didn't know teammate, kicker Dan Carpenter, in the NFL? watched the Griz in all the playoff where to put me, so in 2009 they had me How is it different from being on the same games. I was on the road when they had playing both positions. The other thing you team with him at UM? their big comeback, but I watched the have to do coming into the NFL is play When we both were picked up here it championship game at home. I remember special teams, and I've never done that in was great having someone I knew and the disappointment of not winning. It's my life. I saw something I had to do, and someone I was familiar with. It's great definitely bitter. My heart went out to those knew I had to do it well to make the team. having him here. It's the same. He's seniors big time. That's their one shot at So I learned from Patrick Cobbs [Miami obviously practicing his kicks, and we're it, and it's hard. It's hard to make it all the Dolphins running back], and being in the not around each other a whole lot on the way there and lose after all the work you same room all the time really helped out. practice field. It's kind of the same, but it's put in to get there. He worked with me to make me decent at kind of different because we have different 10. As a Montanan, what advice do you have special teams, and I made the squad. roles on the team. for high school football players across tho 2. Tull mu what it fult liku to stup onto thu 6. When you play against othor UM grads, state who want to one day be in your shoes? field for thu first timu in a pro gamo. like Kroy Biermann of the Atlanta Falcons or Work hard. When nobody is watching that In the preseason you don't see a lot of the Cory Proctor of the Dallas Cowboys, do you is the time to work the hardest. to SPRING 2010 MONTANAN 4. Why did you decide to run the Facebook it doesn't affect me. I know what I'm fan site yourself when most guys have their supposed to do, so I go out there and I do publicists or fans run it? it to the best of my abilities. After the game I think it's important people are able to sometimes when it's [Chad] Pennington approach professional athletes. When it [Miami Dolphins quarterback], [Philip] com es down to it, we're just like everybody Rivers [San Diego Chargers quarterback], else. W e have bills. W e have families and or som eone like that, I reminisce on it. It's friends. The only difference is my job is just great to be out there. to play football and someone else's job 8. What did Montana teach you that carries might be to g o into surgery. But football is over into your game? my job, and I put everything into my job. I I would say it has a lot to do with who want to show fans what my daily life is like I've been raised to be. At a very young and open their eyes to the hard work that a g e my family said don't quit. You start goes in behind the scenes. A lot of people something and you finish it. That also was see a gam e and think we just show up and really stressed at the University. Finish KROY BIERMANN 07 play. But that's not true. W e put in hours your schoolwork, your drill, your quarter. upon hours of training into each game. It's As a defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons, That's part of being a successful person a 365-day-a-year job. I don't have a lot of former Montana Grizzlies Big Sky Defensive and athlete. If you're not finishing what time off. I'm always improving my skills. MVP and Buck Buchanan Award recipient you're starting, then you're leaving things The fan page is for people to see who I am Kroy Biermann is now making it big on out there you could have been great behind the face mask. professional turf. Last season he saw his first at. I noticed playing for the Griz I was NFL touchdown, but really he just loves the 5. During the game against the Buffalo Bills, surrounded by guys with a g oo d work ethic game and connecting with his fans. how did you become a kicker? who would put everything into a game. In the NFL it's not like college. W e can 9. When you played for Montana you used 1. What's your typical day like during the only have two active kickers on the roster. to wear scary rod contact lenses. Why? How offseason? Both of those kickers got injured during come you don't wear them now? I did some of my pre-Falcon training in the game, and w e still had half a game Indianapolis. I had a 120-minute workout The contacts added a fear factor. They to play. They knew I could kick because I a day with my personal trainer. I also were kind of a scary look, but there was always messing around with it during spent some time in my agent's office, and was an actual purpose for them. I have practice. W e were standing around in a we're working on marketing stuff like my astigmatism. When you wear contacts to huddle and I said, "I'll d o it. I don't know Facebook fan page right now and trying to correct that those contacts are bigger than where it's going to go, but I'll give it my get that up and running. normal. When you're playing outside you best." They said, "OK." I hadn't kicked sometimes get a glare. Having a red tint 2. How does that change during the season? since high school. I think it's something that helped that glare disappear. The red tint Offseason training is a lot more intense I'll always be able to d o to a decent extent also changed what I saw on the field. It in terms of weight lifting, running, and if som ebody needs it, but I don't see myself made the color of the ball really stand out. sprints. You're not breaking your body transferring positions anytime soon. Now, about 80 percent of my gam es are down in practices. When you start 6. You scored your first NFL touchdown played inside, so I don't have a need for practicing you'll cut back on the actual against the now*Super Bowl champion Now them. I haven't worn them since college. weight room work, and you don't make Orleans Saints after Drew Brees fumbled the 10. What advice do you have for Montana huge gains in lifting during the season. So, ball, during Monday Night Football no less. kids playing football in smalhtown schools? I . if you can make gains, great, but it's more What did this feel like? Put everything into achieving your goals. about maintaining and keeping your body Touchdowns are rare for a defensive Surround yourself with g oo d people, moving right and functioning. player, especially a d-lineman. It's kind because if you don't, it's going to be a lot 3. How did you get the nickname the of like getting a sack. It's something you harder to stay on that path of motivation. "Beerman*? work hard on, and that's your job. You You want to stay around coaches, family, It's kind of a football thing. Usually you'll sack the quarterback. When that happens and friends who are positive and want you refer to a player by their number or last all eyes are on you. The touchdown came to succeed and achieve those goals. While [ name. So, if someone wants to yell at you through, and I hope I can continue to make my friends were going to parties and across the field they'll just yell "Biermann." impacting plays for my team. It's something playing video games, I was working on my It grew from that. I have four fans in the I can build off of and grow from. agility and getting stronger. You sacrifice front row in Atlanta who have my jersey 7. What is It like to tackle the quarterbacks something, but if you love the game, it's and wear beer hats. It's pretty fun. It's a you used to watch on TV? not really that much of a sacrifice. play on words, and it's interesting. Not It might cross my mind during the week everyone has the last name Biermann. as I prepare for it. But during the gam e —Interviews by Brianne Burrowes

WWW.UMT.EOU/MONTANAN MONTANAN SPRING 2010 I 11 THIS ISSUE OF THE MONTANAN found encouraging and educational the MARKS MY LAST OPPORTUNITY to often stormy discussions, decisions, and hold forth from this very special podium— acuons with which others found fault and Oowkkh kxM by Photo President Dennison I almost said pulpit— as president of for which they berated me scathingly and The University o f Montana, the position publicly. In the end, the critics made their looks I accepted twenty years ago in August. legitimate points, and I accepted the blame Much has changed over those years, just for having taken som e missteps, and we back on as this magazine has changed remarkably righted the ship and kept moving. Most in appearance and responsiveness. As importantly, not once during those two twenty years I confessed recendy during the 2010 decades did we as a group look longingly Charter Day ceremony, I have enjoyed in the rearview mirror and change course of leadership every moment of the time I have had the with the purpose o f returning to the “good privilege to serve as president o f my alma old days.” And with good reason. Every person mater. In truth, I do not recall any down who thinks seriously about the challenges of times; every day and every new challenge lift understands that he or she who seeks to made life exciting and energizing. I even rediscover the past in the future walks in circles,

12 SPRING 2010 M O N T A N A N people actually care passionately about what or “Main” Hall— to the University happens to the young and not-so-young community. Over the past twenty years, we people attracted to the campus in pursuit of have added about 1.3 million square feet their dreams and aspirations, and they do all o f space— increasing total usable space by they can to foster student success. But they some 20 percent. And that happened not do so without making life dull, dreary, and because o f a Dennison “edifice complex,” routine, relying on their infectious love for as some asserted, but rather out o f the same learning and discovery, a finely honed, albeit drive present from the founding to make often dry, sense o f humor, and a forgiving certain faculty, staff, and students have the willingness to overlook errors that inevitably facilities they need to accomplish what they occur when people push themselves but com e here to do. Frankly, I had not even persevere. These campus attributes have an inkling as I walked the campus during remained constant, as I believe they always the evenings when I visited in July 1990 will, thanks to tradition and the incentive for o f the critical need for such a building good work in the examples left by those who program. I soon learned the facts, and I very preceded us at the University. much appreciate the work o f faculty, staff, However, the profile o f the faculty, staff, students, alumni, friends, and policymakers, and students has changed greatly over the without whose efforts and commitments years, becoming more reflective o f the state, nothing could have occurred. Perhaps not nation, and world. Significantly more highly surprisingly, it still remains necessary to qualified female faculty and staff members remind some persistent critics that the provide role models for aspiring students, facilities did not com e at the expense o f even if their numbers do not yet match programs, faculty, staff, and students, but needs. In addition, the University more to attract and serve them, with most o f the clearly recognizes its location within Indian work funded by earned revenue or private Country and its responsibility to serve all o f donations, although the state contributions Montana, not just part o f it. The wonderful truly made a difference. With so many to new Payne Family Native American thank, I simply cannot name them all, but Center, with its simple grandeur and they know.

inspiring presence, and the large numbers Even if unnamed individually, the alumni o f American Indian students on campus and friends who helped the University I as Saint Augustine told us centuries ago. provide profound evidence o f the depth of succeed in the effort to match facilities In a reflective moment recently, I asked those commitments. The University still has with faculty, staff, and student talent and ! myself what really changed and what stayed work to do with regard to other groups— aspiration also provided the private support : the same over those years. In my view, and I African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and for fellowships, scholarships, professorships, | doubt that anyone would disagree with the the otherwise abled and oriented— but has and programs. I have frequently paraphrased ; major premise, this University has changed made visible progress in the diversity of its the conclusion o f a study I read in the early I dramatically— physically, academically, constituents. 1990s that great societies depend for their and culturally— over the years since I first Physically, the last twenty years have vitality on great universities, and that in stepped on the campus as a student in probably witnessed as much change as todays world great universities depend on 1960. Nonetheless, in ways that matter occurred during the beginning years, when sustained private support. to students, parents, and alumni, it has buildings displaced the teepees o f the Salish In two aggressive campaigns directed | remained as originally chartered— “a high in search o f bitterroots on campus. In by the UM Foundation and continuous seminary of learning” in the vernacular of that regard, the first Founders’ Day— now engagement over the past twenty years, I the late nineteenth century— kept so by Charter Day— events occurred in 1899, the alumni and friends working with the the dedicated efforts o f the fine people who year the builders introduced the first two Foundation attracted roughly $500 million i have comprised the faculty and staff. These completed buildings— including University to transform UM into a “University for the

I WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN MONTANAN SPRING 2010 I 13 twenty-first century” by “Insuring a Tradition o f Excellence” (1992- 1997) and “Investing in Discovery” (2002-2007). Even more importandy, their passionate engagement and counsel assured we remained on track toward the attainment o f the goal. They, along with the faculty, staff, and students, provided the energy, passion, and dedication that sustained the University’s momentum. And, as a direct result o f the infusion o f so much energy and in response to developments as they occurred, the students and faculty came in ever larger A numbers. But numbers do not its begin to tell the story, because the jr J ma

Z 1962-Graduates 1967-Graduates 1990- B ecom es UM’s sixteenth 1993-Establishes the 1995- Grizzlies win first 3 from UM with an from the president. Cam pus Compact, a Division l-AA national a undergraduate degree University of public-service program that football championship. 1991- Starts the Diversity Advisory z in history. W ashington with promotes volunteerism. Q a doctorate in Council to promote cultural diversity 1996- Davidson Honors 2 1963-Graduates from history. through campus programs and events, 1995-Washington-Grizzly College building 2 . UM with a Master of which has led to significant growth in Stadium ad ds 7,000 seats. com pleted. g Arts in history. minority student enrollment.

Preserving The Pharmacy Program Additionally, Dennison was instrumental in creating a campus he Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education conducted atmosphere necessary to seek private an accreditation visitation in 1986 to review the pharmacy funding sources. The ALSAM baccalaureate degree program at UM. The University and the Foundation was then contacted and MontanaT Legislature were challenged to add considerable resources requested to provide resources to to the program, and modest but insufficient resources were made create modern space to support the available. The pharmacy program then was placed on “published programs growth in enrollment and probation” by ACPE in 1988. funded research. The foundation In his first State o f the University Address in 1990, President provided the University with George Dennison announced that the pharmacy program must be more than $ 11 million in brick- saved. and-mortar support, and in 1999 The 1991 Legislature appropriated a substantial base budget to Dennison, on behalf of the Board the University, and President Dennison matched it with University o f Regents, awarded L.S. “Sam” Skaggs an Honorary Doctorate. resources. Then Dennison, Provost D on Habbe, and I met with The pharmacy program was subsequendy renamed the Skaggs ACPE staff. Following that meeting the pharmacy program was School o f Pharmacy. awarded full accreditation status. Dennison understood s o c ie t y ’s need for health care education Dennisons support and vision enabled the pharmacy program and was a tireless proponent for legislative and private support to hire additional faculty and begin a period o f substantial growth. for the pharmacy program. W ithout his leadership and assistance, Since then, the program transitioned to the D octor o f Pharmacy there was a very real possibility that Montana would have lost Degree, doubled in class size, and created several biomedical and its only pharmacy program. That loss would have resulted in a pharmaceutical sciences graduate degree programs. Additionally, in number o f significant negative impacts, but most importandy, in 1990, the School o f Pharmacy was not ranked among U.S. schools the approximately 1,000 pharmacists the University would not have and colleges o f pharmacy in terms o f National Institutes o f Health graduated since 1990. biomedical research funding. But in 1998, it ranked thirty-seventh, and in 2009, seventh. DAVID FORBES Dean, UM Skaggs School o f Pharmacy

14 SPRING 2010 M O N T A N A N academic profile o f the faculty and the graduate research institution, simultaneously the major benefits accrued to the faculty and students improved as well. We boast o f enhancing the quality and breadth o f the staff who nourished these bright people and our Rhodes Scholars, Goldwater Scholars, undergraduate offerings. Funded research helped them find their places in life. And Fulbright Scholars, Truman Scholars, Udall grew rapidly, providing vital support for what a difference these graduates have made. Scholars, Guggenheim Scholars, Endowed graduate programs and jobs for faculty, staff, The most recent study o f the dramatic Professorships, Regents Professors, and and students, including undergraduates econom ic and cultural impact o f the the like— even including a recent Nobel who benefitted from the opportunities University on the city, region, and state no Laureate. But we understand as well that to participate in actual research projects. longer leaves room for doubt on that score. this University has always attracted and Talented faculty researchers attracted to In very real ways, these graduates put their captured the imagination and loyalty of the colleges, schools, and departments degrees and developed talents to very good good people, whether as faculty, staff, or by the University’s relative freedom from work as caring, committed, and engaged students. That some fare better than others bureaucracy and micromanagement led the citizens o f the communities in which they in national and international competition way in this maturation. In addition, the settled and the larger, ever-changing world. only serves to highlight the level o f fruits o f the research in terms o f technology They learned through practice those “habits performance across the board. We can . transfer and the talents o f the educated o f the heart” essential to good citizenship as rightly take pride, and we do. graduates made a significant difference students at UM. Academically, during those two decades, culturally and economically for the city of In a very special way, the University has the University claimed its legacy as a Missoula and state o f Montana. But I think returned recendy to its roots by redirecting

1997-Appointed to President Bill I 1999-$14.7 I 2000-President Dennison and the UM I 2000-Curry Health 2000-Dennison Clinton’s twenty-one-member million renovation Foundation lead the most successful Center is accredited implements the committee of college and university of Adams Center. fundraising campaign in Montana history, by the Accreditation new institutional presidents committed to increasing raising more than $71 million in private Agency for Ambulatory theme “The literacy. Starts Montana Reads, money and providing $8.8 million for Health Care, the primary Discovery a program in which UM student scholarships and awards, academics, accrediting agency for Continues.” volunteers tutored children and institutional support, and building projects. student health centers, provided books for schools.

Lessons In Lifelong Learning offers a diverse collection o f noncredit short courses taught by active or hat exacdy is it that has made George Dennison such retired UM faculty and community a highly successful president o f UM? Has it been the members. During fall 2 0 0 6 , the W increase in the number o f students and faculty, the institute received generous startup buildings, the phenomenal growth in research, the numerous support from the Osher Foundation, Council for Advancement and Support o f Education awards, or the which culminated in a $1 million fact that he is a hands-on administrator with an open door policy? Is endowment in 2009 for exceeding the it some o f these things or all o f these things? goal o f 500 members. MOLLI has From my perspective. President Dennison has never been one attracted more than 5,500 lifelong to say “no” to ideas, and h e ’s focused on what is possible and never learning students to campus and on the impossible. I would like to highlight just one case in which featured dozens o f diverse courses his initiative led to the development o f an important community over the years, including everything outreach program through Continuing Education. In 2005. from Iran: Between Two Revolutions, taught by Associate Professor flying somewhere on Delta Air Lines, he came across an article in Merhdad Kia, to Art & Insanity by Professor Rafael Chac6n. Sky magazine about the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the N ow in its fourth year, M OLLI has provided older learners in University of Utah. He tore the page from the magazine, scribbled Missoula with a unique opportunity. All o f us engaged with its across it, “Why d o n ’t we have one o f these?” and sent it to me via success continue to believe that its real value comes in reaching as campus mail. many learners as possible to introduce them, once again, to the That message led to research into the Bernard Osher Foundation joy and rewards o f intellectual growth, particularly with neighbors and the gathering of five community leaders to plan what has and friends from the community. Without that original vision and become the highly successful Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at continuing support o f President Dennison, the outcomes may have UM, or MOLLI. For those of you unfamiliar with MOLLI, it is an been significantly different. educational program for people ages fifty and older who understand the connection between healthy aging and keeping the brain actively SHARON ALEXANDER engaged. MOLLI is a unique University/community partnership that Dean, UM Continuing Education

WWW.lMAT.EDU/MONlANAN MONTANAN SPRING 20)0 I 15 energy and resources to the critical needs in education across the state. As H.G. Merriam noted in his brief history, the prep school started when the campus invited the first students in 1895, and the prep school students vasdy outnumbered the regular college students for several years. That happened because Montana did not have a sufficient number o f high schools to prepare young people for college. By 1908, with some forty-five high schools in operation, the University closed the prep school and relied on the high schools for students able to benefit from college. However, the president sustained the supportive relationships with the public schools until some time later. Gradually, the University

2001-Newly renovated 2002-Dennison selected 2002-4,000 se a ts added to 2004-UM ranks seventh in 2004-UM’s ROTC recreation center to lead the Inland Washington-Grizzly Stadium. research funding among all program secures the construction completed. Northwest Research pharm acy sch ools in the country. No. 9 slot on the U.S. 2004-0nly 12 percent of UM’s Alliance, a consortium (Research grants have increased Army's list of top 2001-Former “Lodge" budget com es from the state. of eight research nearly tenfold to $64 million in program s in the nation. becom es the Emma B. universities in the region. (In 1990,65 percent of UM’s 2004, com pared with $7 million Lommasson Center. budget came from the state.) in 1990.)

Habits O f The Heart Dennison realizes a successful democracy depends on an educated and civically engaged population. Often he would ■ know President Dennison lead dialogues among leaders in community service about the I as a builder who has made importance o f volunteerism. Building civic engagement to him was ■ Montana a better place. One not only an academic interest— it was about something bigger and can easily see all the growth at getting it done. UM — the expanded stadium, the Dennison provided the vision and leadership at the University, powerhouse football team, increased in Montana, and nationally to increase civic engagement. He served student enrollment, the rise o f the on the national Campus Compact board and was instrumental University’s academic reputation, in building, in Montana, one o f the most successful branches and other milestones. From my in the nation. Campus Com pact promotes civic engagement at personal experience and knowledge, the university level. Year after year, UM ranks among the top Dennisons legacy also is about universities nationally for civically engaged students, outranking building foundations that we can build on to create more and many prestigious schools. better volunteer programs, a more civically engaged population, For fifteen years Dennison was the chair, visionary, and leader and, consequently, a stronger democracy. of the Montana Commission on Community Service, which During my thirty-five years working in community service, promoted civic engagement. With his leadership, the commission civic engagement, and volunteerism, and ten years as the Montana developed and implemented more programs and created an director for the Corporation for National and Community Service environment that encouraged collaborations not often seen in larger (known as the domestic Peace Corps), I worked with Dennison to states. Civic engagement experts considered the Montana Campus encourage civic engagement and volunteerism. He is a builder— a Compact and Montana Commission on Community Service visionary with a can-do attitude. I cant count the number o f times as models for the nation, a direct result o f Dennison’s longtime in meetings where he would say, “Le t’s get it done.” H e is able to commitment and leadership. He gave tireless effort and always connect seemingly unrelated issues while fostering relationships made himself available. between far afield entities, like college volunteers working with senior volunteers to collect for food banks or young volunteers JOHN D. ALLEN 7 0 teaching senior volunteers about computers. Former State D irectorfo r the Corporation fo r N ational and Community Service

16 I SPRING 2010 M O N T A N A N went its way and paid only passing attention o f Education and Human Sciences, hosting Montana.” Many looked askance at my effort to the needs o f public education. In recent as it does the Montana Digital Academy to change how they identified the institution, years, that has changed, largely because o f reaching out to the public schools across erroneously perceiving a political agenda the recognition that the University cannot the state, offers profound testimony to this o f some sort at work. Frankly, I did want succeed if the public schools do not. That revival o f purpose. I have no doubt the people to speak respectfully of the University, recognition dawned as the United States resurgence will persist this time because the institution chartered to “provide the best all too rapidly lost its position o f world o f the realization o f the consequences o f and most efficient manner of imparting to leadership in the educational attainment allowing the collaboration in education to young men and women, on equal terms, a o f its citizenry. Other nations moved up in wither and dissipate. liberal education and thorough knowledge o f the rankings, signifying the deteriorating In many more ways, the University has the different branches o f literature, science, position o f the United States in the ever- changed. But in ways that matter, it has and the arts, with the varied applications” escalating cultural, social, economic, and remained the same, thanks to the work and for the benefit o f the state o f Montana. In a strategic global competition. The urgent commitments o f so very many people. I take sense, just as with the 1995 decision to revert i need to bring about change for the benefit great pride in the education and degrees I to the original maroon and silver colors | o f the students and society at large has received from UM. It required nearly all o f from Texas orange and gold, I looked to the 6 resulted in a resurgence o f the original my twenty years as president to persuade roots, to the chartering act o f 1893, to learn | impulse. The Phyllis J. Washington College people to refer to it as “The University of that the Legislature “established in this state

2004-UM ranks tenth 2004-President Dennison 2004-Construction 2005-President George W. Bush 2006-UM’s first “Day of nationally among medium­ implements plan to of student housing nominates Dennison for a four- Dialogue” takes place. sized institutions on the eliminate a nearly $1 called Lewis and Clark year position on the National 2006-Dennison participates in Peace Corps’ 2004 “Top million deficit in the Villages, an apartment Security Education Board. (Board the U.S. University Presidents Producing Colleges and athletics budget. complex for students, was created under President Summit, where President Bush Universities" (ahead of Notre is completed. Clinton to educate U.S. citizens launches the National Security Dame, Harvard, and Yale). about foreign cultures.) Language Initiative.

Twenty Years Is A Legacy unrecognizable to old-timers. But most new structures were built with private support or are revenue generating, and no eorge Dennison retires as the one argues that we have too much classroom space. The Payne H ■■longest-serving president of UM Family Native American Center on the Oval will be dedicated ^ ■ ^ ^ on August 15, 2010— twenty years this month. Even parking problems have abated thanks to the to the day since he took the job. During his Associated Students o f UM s shuttles. tenure, UM has undergone fundamental President Dennison constandy encourages international transformational changes and has emerged studies and school exchanges, and perhaps the most visible sign as the strongest public university in the o f change at UM is the increasing number of foreign students Rocky Mountain northwest. on campus (and UM students abroad). Emphasis on American Dennison is a Montanan— a graduate Indian enrollment, retention and support services for all o f Flathead High School with bachelor s students, and a proactive Disability Services for Students also and B la s te r ’s degrees in history from are hallmarks o f Dennisons leadership. UM. When he began his presidency, the University was still in many UM s president is a target o f criticism from all sides. Disgruntled ways a small provincial institution located in a regional backwater. students with causes, alumni, budget-conscious legislators, idealistic Today it ranks high in national surveys o f academic excellence, faculty, and an issue-oriented citizenry have all taken their shots. affordability, research, service, and location. Enrollment climbs Dennison has handled these slings and arrows with dignity and every year, and outside support increases. The University has helped resolve. He stood his ground when he and UM were right, and he Missoula become a dynamic, cosmopolitan community. instituted reforms when necessary. The average tenure o f a college UM now administers a multi-university system, including president in America is about six years. Twenty years is a legacy. Montana Tech in Butte, The University o f Montana-Western in Com e August 15, UM will undergo a significant change o f Dillon, and the Missoula and Helena colleges o f technology. Research leadership. The man who has led the institution for more than 17 support increased under Dennison from about $7 million to more percent of its history will step down. His successor will have big than $70 million. Two capital campaigns exceeded their fundraising shoes to fill. goals. Despite chronic financial crises originating at the state level, Dennison kept UM afloat, progressing, and expanding. HARRY W. FRITZ M.A. '62 Dennisons “edifice complex” is legendary. The campus is almost Professor Emeritus, UM Department o f History

WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN MONTANAN SPRING 2010 I 17 at the City o f Missoula an institution o f learning under the name and style o f ‘The University of Montana.’” While the legislative mandate initiated the action, the faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends over the years transformed the mandate for The University of Montana into reality through their good work. For that accomplishment, the state and people o f Montana will forever benefit, even if they occasionally forget. Thank you all for the many ways you have made these twenty years so memorable and meaningful for Jane and me. We believe that because o f your engagement, U M has made fine progress over the last two decades. However, we also believe even more firmly that your continued engagement assures an ever brighter future. In the final analysis, i t ’s all about the people. tUl

GEORGE M. DENNISON, ’62 , '63 President and Professor of H istory

2006-U.S. I 2007-Dennison I 2007-UM is nam ed I 2007-Don Anderson I 2007-Dennison receives 2007-The Ska ggs Environmental announces UM’s to the President’s Hall, which houses a Montana Excellence Building adds Protection Agency participation in the Higher Education the School o f in Leadership Award, another 42,000 names UM one of the American College and Community Service Journalism, is presented by the Montana square feet. Best Workplaces for University Presidents’ Honor Roll. completed. Interagency Committee for Commuters. Climate Commitment. Change by Women.

The Not-So-Secret Life O f Jane Dennison Jane also has been key to the Alumni Association’s successful outreach efforts since 1990, when the Dennisons returned to J S ost introductions o f President Dennison begin “George ■A m m Missoula. She has welcomed University alumni and friends to I w l Dennison is the longest-serving president of The campus events and those hosted by the Alumni Association across ■ w ■ University o f Montana.” Behind that statement, from the country. She also has volunteered as the International Travel the desks in the President’s Office in University Hall, i t ’s often program coordinator for the Office o f Alumni Relations for nearly the phrase “Jane Dennison is the longest-serving first lady o f the twenty years. She has done all o f this, often several times a week, University” that rings true. fifty-two weeks a year, for the past twenty years. She has done The material contributions o f Jane are well-known by many. it with enthusiasm and incredible grace as the first lady of the She is as much a steward o f alumni and donors as the president, University. attending events and cultivating relationships for the enhancement Jane also is committed to education. Few people know that while o f campus and higher education in the community and state. Some volunteering and prom oting the University and its events, she also even know about J a n e ’s involvement in the preparation o f these completed her bachelor’s degree— an achievement she considers events, including her thoughtful menu planning, her review of quite personal and private. Her total commitment to education and guest lists, and her conversation-stimulating seating charts at dinner her gracious and energetic support o f our University is nothing short parties. o f remarkable. But, w e ’re not sure the scope o f J a n e ’s support o f the Office of J a n e ’s presence and involvement in the accomplishments o f the President is frilly known and appreciated. Few may know the President Dennison will certainly have their own legacy at UM. The real “hot line” in the President’s Office is connected to the residence legacy o f her service reflected on campus for twenty years has truly at 1325 Gerald Ave.— not the corner office in University Hall. been, as President Dennison often quotes, “habits o f the heart.” There are days when those o f us who work outside that com er office consult with Jane more than the president to nail down details, CATHLEEN COLLINS get second opinions on invitation language, and coordinate travel Assistant to the President, President’s Office, itineraries. We could not accomplish much o f what we do without and BILL JOHNSTON 79, M.P.A. 91 her attention to detail, suggestions, and feedback. Director, Office o f Alumni Relations and Alumni Association

18 I SPRING 2010 MONTANAN Importance Of Education For All Buffalo Horse), always encouraged his children and all young people to get an education. He s the Chief of the Blackfeet Nation, I would said, “If you do not have an education, you like to acknowledge George Dennison, will have many problems. That will someday Awhom I met when he became the president be your livelihood.” My father was far-seeing of UM. When I met President Dennison, I observed and knew what difficulties were ahead for our the concern he had for all students, especially Native Indian people. In the Indian way to show our American students. His way of acknowledging the appreciation o f a person, we give a traditional students and the encouragement he gave them over name to honor them. Because o f his dedication the years paved the way for them to continue their and concern for our Indian students, I have given education. He encouraged Native American students President Dennison m y fathers name, “Fast to carry on their traditional and cultural ways and Buffalo Horse.” They both knew the importance made them truly feel like a part o f the University. o f education for our people. Not only has President Dennison supported all the students and President Dennison leaves behind a legacy to the Indian people staff at the University, but he has shown a great deal o f respect and through the new Payne Family Native American Center— dedicated acknowledgement o f tribal leaders on many occasions. He created this spring— and also through the many successful young Indian a scholarship in my name for Native American students. Many of students who have graduated from the University. H e will certainly these students have come to me and expressed their appreciation be missed by all who have com e in contact with him over the years. for this acknowledgement and have informed me o f how it has I certainly wish him the best in his future endeavors. I know he helped them. He has supported not only our cultural way o f life, will be successful, and he will bring honor to whatever he does. but also our young athletes such as Dana Conway, Malia Kipp, Mike Chavez, and Tamara Guardipee. EARL OLD PERSON During my childhood, my father, Juniper O ld Person (Fast Chief, Blackfeet Nation

2008-Washington- I 2008-Dennison flies at 97 I 2009-The Phyllis J. 2009-UM School I 2010-Dennison I 2010-The Payne Grizzly Stadium adds percent of the speed of sound Washington College of Law addition announces his Family Native 2,000 seats, raising aboard a Navy Blue Angels of Education and completed. intention to retire American Center is the capacity to jet during a 45-minute flight Human Sciences with twenty years completed. 25,000. from Fairchild Air Force Base building is of service, near Spokane, Wash. completed.

Making UM W hat It Is Today for thousands o f people who have stepped forward throughout the last onight as I write this, i t ’s been another amazing day in the twenty years to contribute millions life o f UM. The events that crossed m y radar include the o f dollars for University programs, TJeff Cole Distinguished Lecture at the School o f Journalism, facilities, and scholarships. a Latin American Studies social at the Davidson H onors College, It is stunning to think that the Grizzlies’ dance in the first round o f the NCA A basketball during G e o r g e ’s tenure, 720 tournament, and George Dennison rocking out in his 1962 privately funded scholarships were Starfires band persona. H e was the headliner at a student- established— bringing students and sponsored talent show to benefit Haitian and Chilean earthquake keeping students who might never victims. And those are but a few o f the myriad activities that go on have stepped foot on our campus. every day across campus. This outpouring of student support George, as he is known to students, faculty, staff, donors, and by donors is direedy linked to his alumni alike, has been the spark, the force, and the primary UM emphasis on student success and educational affordability. change agent over the past twenty years. H e made this University George has been a great partner to The University of Montana what it is today. I am a relative newcomer to the University Foundation, working hand in glove with our Board o f Trustees and community, but from my experience, I can assert that there is no one staff. H e provided the motivation for the successful fundraising in the country who can hold a candle to George for his fundraising results that we all have enjoyed. I thank him for his unflagging prowess, courage, and will to succeed. He has a passionate belief in support, his great sense o f humor, and his astounding stamina. the power of affordable and accessible public higher education. The His legacy can be summed up simply: He provided the tools for students are at the heart o f his work and his decisions. The events successful lives for UM students and society at large by accepting no happening tonight exemplify G e o r g e ’s commitment to the ideal of less than the best in higher education in Montana. a diverse and student-centered place o f learning. H e is spending the evening with students who are trying to make a difference. H ow LAURA BREHM refreshing and inspiring! H e has translated that vision into action President and CEO , UM Foundation

WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN M ONTANAN SPRING 2010 I 19 The Inaugural Promise Montanas reservations, particularly fostering ties to the remarkable tribal colleges. For his outreach, he was designated Fast Buffalo Horse by the ■ n the autumn o f 1990,1 co-chaired Blackfeet Tribe, a name he treasures to this day. His vision of a dramatic, ■ the planning committee for inspiring home on campus to Montanas Native American faculty, ■ President Dennisons inauguration. students, and visitors becomes a reality this spring. It is fitting that The Dean ‘Jerry’ Fetz and I met with the Payne Family Native American Center will be dedicated during the new president for a conversation week of his last UM Commencement as presiding president. about the values he holds dear in President Dennison is a pragmatic optimist who insists on academic leadership. The three excellence when faced with difficult decisions. Might it be more words he emphasized are the ones expensive to seek specialized accreditation for an academic program? we transformed into the theme of Yes, but “go for it,” he always says, because it is the best way in higher the inaugural festivities: community, education to ensure that universities really strive for excellence. diversity, and excellence. Excellence also pervades his expectations for programs in athletics. By “community” President Dennison meant that the University He is competitive and expects to be the best in every endeavor. should foster a sense of belonging among its students and employees During one football game in the early ’90 s, my husband, Hal, and and a sense o f connection to the residents living all around us in I were seated with George and Jane. The Grizzlies fell far behind. our city and state. Establishing the Quality of Worklife task force George glowered and grumbled. None o f us wanted to sit next to exemplified his commitment to e sp r it d e co rp s among employees. him, not even Jane. In the fourth quarter the Grizzlies mounted Holding open office hours with students on a regular basis meant he a furious comeback. As Hal, Jane, and I jumped out of our seats, came to know many students personally. He valued their opinions George sat quiedy and nodded as if it were just what he expected all and accepted most of their suggestions, if they spoke with him and along. When the rally came up short, he turned to us and said curdy, not at him. “We d id n ’t lose. We just ran out of time.” Every autumn George and Jane used home football game Community, diversity, excellence. These were the hallmarks o f brunches to invite a broad cross section o f the local and state President Dennison’s inaugural pledge. H e consistently proved for communities to campus to enjoy the camaraderie of town and gown twenty amazing years that he never forgot his promises. on those seven weekends when Washington-Grizzly Stadium became one of Montanas larger cities. SHEILA STEARNS ’68 , '69, E d.D . \83 In his commitment to diversity, President Dennison traveled to all of M ontana Commissioner o fHigher Education

Putting The Resources Behind Rhetoric international network of more than 300 universities in 42 countries, s George Dennison leaves the presidency of UM after with a variety o f program offerings twenty years o f service, there will be many who write about that serve a wide range o f diverse his leadership and legacy. I have the privilege o f writing A needs and interests. about his leadership and legacy to international education through George has been my teacher, his work with the International Student Exchange Programs. I met friend, and collaborator. He has George in 1998 when he joined the ISEP Board o f Directors, on played a key leadership role in which he served as chairman from 2000 to 2 0 0 7 . Although we IS E P ’s transformation. He always had not met previously, I knew him by reputation as a staunch was available to deal with any supporter o f international student mobility, and with that interest situation, whether an issue needed and his leadership skills, he guided the transformation o f ISEP from immediate attention or more long- a student exchange program to a leading international education range strategic solutions. He is a organization. university president who puts resources behind the rhetoric for When George joined the board, the organization had only the importance o f campus internationalization, and he has made been incorporated as an independent nonprofit in 1997, with the a difference not only for UM, but for the entire ISEP network. I challenge o f supporting itself after federal government grants that thank George for his unwavering support and effective leadership comprised more than 30 percent o f the ISEP budget were cut. in our large and growing network. We faced two choices— scale back considerably or grow out of the crisis. It quickly became clear the first option would erode one o f MARY ANNE GRANT ISEP s core values by limiting our ability to develop and implement President and CEO, International Student Exchange programs in nontraditional areas, such as Asia, Latin America, and P rogra m s N etw ork Africa. Thus, we faced the challenge o f developing new approaches to funding the organization. George never wavered in his resolve to It doesn't stop here! Visit www.umt.edu/montonan expand ISEP so we could stay on mission. to view a W eb exclusive It has been a pleasure to know George and his wife, Jane, over v id e o with President Dennison. ^ the years. ISEP has moved from a student exchange program to an

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Steve Running's UM office is decorated with climate change papers, stacks of climate books, and his bicycle. On one wall hangs the Nobel Peace Prize, an award he shares with 600 other scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for three 2007 climate change reports. But now, three years after the IPCC released the reports, the Regents Professor of Ecology in UM's School of Forestry and Conservation says he's witnessed setbacks. A recent Gallup poll reveals a measurable slip in the amount of confidence the public has in the IPCC results. In fact, about 12 to!5 percent of U.S. citizens who once thought climate change was an issue no longer believe it is.

“Th a t ’s millions and millions o f people in the called for greater sustainability U.S.,” says Running. “We never imagined w e ’d awareness on campus, and have to re-argue the same case over again with the same year a Sustainable the same data. But it shows you how shallow the Campus Committee advisory understanding o f climate science really is.” group was created. But its Running says the setbacks stem from a really been over the past four controversy that erupted over two typos in the years that climate change action has 2,000 pages o f reports. The errors show a failure exploded. In 2 0 0 7 , Dennison was one of in the editing process, he says, but both proved the first 100 university presidents to sign the to be isolated and easily fixed. The point is, he American College and University Presidents’ says, neither typo changes the science o f climate Climate Commitment. Whereas the Talloires Above: change. was a sort o f general declaration, the 2 0 0 7 UM Regents “None o f this recent public controversy has commitment sets the stage for a commitment to Professor of brought forth any new data that shows that concrete action. Ecology Steve Running in climate change is not happening,” he says. “We’ve “It ’s been really exciting to see the student the Missoula let the skeptic crowd go wild, and they obviously involvement,” says Erica Bloom, a graduate Rattlesnake a r e n ’t impeded by the facts. And now t h e y ’ve student and the Associated Students o f UM made a real dent in the publics understanding.” sustainability coordinator. “Th e y ’ve pushed this Climate change politics keeps Running so much over the years. I t ’s really the students constandy in Washington, D.C., where his who have made this happen.” scientific expertise is required. Public debate on Under the commitment, UM created a climate change roars on while governments haggle Greenhouse Gas Inventory in 2 0 0 8 to determine over energy bills and climate policy. Meanwhile, the current campus carbon footprint. Since then, at UM something different is happening. Instead students, faculty, and staff have created several o f debating climate change and doing nothing, sustainability projects to direcdy and quickly faculty, staff, and students have gotten the ball begin reducing carbon emissions. And on April rolling on a sustainability plan that will work to 21, just in time for Earth D a y , UM released the reduce the campus carbon footprint in a real local final Climate Action Plan, an aggressive step to effort to combat climate change. make campus carbon neutral by 2 0 2 0 . From In fact, UM has worked on the issue for small changes to major ones, UM is building a almost a decade. In 2 0 0 2 , President George model for tangible climate solutions from the Dennison signed the Talloires Declaration, which ground up.

22 SPRING 2010 M O N T A N A N CAM PUS LOOKS AT WAYS TO NEUTRALIZE ITS CARBON FOOTPRINT BY 2020, STARTING WITH INITIATIVES RIGHT NOW ROOTS AND RADICALS Plan used the Clean Air-Cool Planet campus carbon calculator. But You cant green a campus unless you know the root of the problem. this time instead o f looking at dreaded predictions for a status-quo Cherie Peacock, the sustainability coordinator for the UM Office situation, they were able to take the strategies, plug them in, and see o f Sustainability, says the 2008 greenhouse gas emissions how each one could reduce emissions over time. report helped provide a starting point for action. We looked at direct reductions that we could Using the Clean Air-Cool Planet campus reasonably do within five years,” Peacock says. “We Cherie Peacodc carbon calculator, the emissions report thought we could reduce our emissions by 10 (left) and Erica percent below 2 0 0 7 levels by the year group deduced exacdy from where Bloom ride bikes, the emissions stemmed. It also that any student 2015. W ere kind o f on track for predicted a continuous rise in on campus can that one. But the students really emissions if no action were check out. pushed for a particular date o f • • ■« taken. carbon neutral by 2020. And “Th e r e ’s great information th a t’s w h a t’s in the plan as a very that came out o f that report,” aggressive goal to achieve.” she says. “You look at it and Carbon neutral, according go, ‘Oh, now I see that two- to the presidents’ climate thirds o f our emissions come commitment, means reducing from our buildings and one- emissions where possible third from transportation.’” and offsetting the rest o f the Peacock and Bloom emissions. A basic amount o f collaborated with a multitude business takes place on campus of campus community every day that could only be members, as well as technical carbon neutral if all energy used experts from outside campus. was renewable, says Peacock. In just more than a year, they And, for instance, if UM is going took information from the emissions to participate in indirect energy use such report and transformed it into the Climate as air travel, some emissions will continue Action Plan, a full-fledged, ninety-six-page to emerge. Buying carbon offsets means UM is emissions-reduction plan. They encouraged public investing in projects that reduce emissions elsewhere involvement throughout the process. and getting carbon credit for that. Those offsets “We tried to involve as many people as we "...But the Irould include tree carbon sequestration projects or could with the time that we had,” Peacock say^ffl students really traffic rerouting that would reduce car idling. “We did that for quite a while, and then we started Peacock is an environmental engineer and taking those ideas and consolidating them and pushed for a architect who worked for the U.S. Forest Service categorizing them into more specific strategies.” particular date of for twenty years and has a history with green Those strategies read like a wish list for a dream building. The technology aspect to greening campus: Solar thermal Grizzly Pool. Four-day carbon neutral by a campus is exciting to her, and she says workweek. Hybrid fleet cars. Alternative energy. 2020. And that's incorporating sustainability into U M ’s curriculum But the truth is, U M ’s climate action groups is one of the other important parts o f the action are taking the ideas very seriously. The four-day what's in the plan. But throughout the process o f working on workweek might be far down the road, but other plan as a very the climate plan, i t ’s been p e o p le ’s energy that most strategies are not. U M ’s car fleet already uses some inspired her. hybrids, for instance, and UM currently is talking aggressive goal “One of the greatest things that has evolved is with companies about wind and biomass solutions. to achieve." this spirit o f collaboration,” she says. “A lot of this Other strategies are being implemented process is really organic. It is what the people on immediately. O ne o f the p la n ’s categories is energy campus want to do and want to take on. And th a t’s efficiency and conservation. While the action plan was being pud been really important to foster, because I think th a t’s w h a t’s going to together, UM did an energy audit to look at the efficiency o f sixteen help us make great reductions.” campus buildings. That audit spawned $6 million worth o f campus retrofit projects. Another strategy the plan addresses! behavior. Turning off lights and taking shorter showers in the residence halls Bob Duringer has big projects in his sights. The UM vice president are just a few choices people make that affect emissions. A campus o f administration and finance took a trip to the University of British behavior group is currendv working on how to encourage campus Columbia in ^n cou ver in March to check out the campus’ recendy consumers to make everyday decisions that could pare down the installed biomass co-generation system. The system uses steam, carbon footprint. which can be used to generate large amounts o f heat and electricity. As was the case with the emissions report, the Ciinjiaigc A c t io n And it may be the perfect fit for UM.

2 4 I SPRING 2010 MONTANAN Some people might not be aware that U M already uses some Then there are projects such as the Revolving Energy Loan Fund. alternative energy sources. Many campus buildings are temperature Students have created an optional fee which allows them to tax regulated through geothermal cooling and heating an l have been for themselves eachljemester to fund projects that reduce greenhouse several decades. gas emissions aim eventually create cost savings that pay back the “In fact, in almost all o f our buildings we have wells that pull out loan. I t ’s one way to take ideas from UM F L A T ’s experiment, for water from the aquifer, and we use it in our air conditioning and instance, and implement them on campus without needing further then pump it right back down into the ground so it never is exposed UM funding. Ill fact, Derek Kanwischer, UM FLAT program to the air,” Duringer says. “We save hundreds o f thousands of dollars coordinator, says he and other organizers are working on a project in our heating and cooling bills.” to get the real-time energy monitors in UM But in the end, i t ’s not enough to keep the "If you teach all the residence halls. It w o n ’t mandate a change in carbon footprint from increasing. The Montana students that are behavior, he says, but it will make students state governments energy bill in 2 0 0 7 w a s more tangibly aware o f how each student’s $ 2 7 .5 million, and just the cost for heating coming through the appliance use impacts energy consumption— or and lighting the states university system was University about conservation. responsible for 58 percent o f that bill. Climate change action is n ’t just about Duringer evaluates sustainability projects sustainability and projects. Part o f the Climate Action Plan puts to see if th e y ’re cost effective. For the Climate climate change heavy emphasis on education efforts— actively Action Plan, he and other staff rated the incorporating sustainability and climate proposed projects from smallest return to biggesttM g issues, then they take formation into the UM curriculum. Green return. Then they designated which projects w ere^ H that out to the ^ ^ T h r e a d started last spring in an effort to easy to do, hard to do, and really hard to do. r ignite creative sustainability teaching into “When you start to add up the things that are bigger world at any classroom, no matter the subject. The easy to do, whether you do them can make you feel large." two-day workshop this spring will add faculty good but it d o e s n ’t really go much toward getting rid from Montana State University, Flathead Valley o f your carbon footprint,” he says. “But when you get Community College, Montana Tech, and The right down to the very bottom o f the list, the two things University o f Montana-Western. that w e ’re studying really hard right now will [make a difference].” r Students also can actively incorporate climate change into their One o f the big ideas is wind. Montana ranks fifth in the nation studies. Last fall UM introduced a climate change studies minor. for potential wind energy. But the Missoula Valley is n ’t ideal for The minor is interdisciplinary and, in that sense, one of the only it. UM is currendy in negotiations with a wind farm company o f its kind in the nation. Whatever their majors are, students can (which they c a n ’t name until plans are solidified) to find out if i t ’s incorporate the new minor to add another dimension to their economically viable to invest in wind generated in Judith Gap. education track. “The steps you have to go through to put up a wind farm are “That could potentially have a bigger impact,” says Peacock. “If really quite complicated,” Duringer says. “I’ve got a proposal from you teach all the students that are com ing through the University this company, but I’ve yet to fin d ou t if it’s something a university about sustainability and climate change issues, then they take that would really be interested in because o f the [cost] risk involved.” out to the bigger world at large.” But the co-generation system has real potential. The process O ut in the wider world o f climate change, politics rage on. But uses biomass— tree trimmings and chippable wood— as opposed to for people like Steve Running, i t ’s U M ’s conversation about large U M ’s current natural gas system. Construction o f the plant would projects like the co-generation plant, as well as these student-run cost around $10 million, and UM could begin the building process campus projects, that make it hard to be a pessimist. For him, the as soon as this fall, if all goes according to plan. And, best o f all, i t ’s recent conference on climate change in Denmark d id n ’t produce projected to reduce 22 percent of U M ’s footprint. serious changes. And now, Congress is battling over language for an energy and climate bill that he feels is not set to do anything big. I t ’s 8IG PICTURE students in whom h e ’s put his faith. You c a n ’t set foot on campus without seeing some sign o f climate “It ’s your generation that just has to not take ‘no’ for an answer,” change action. The momentum is apparent in the UM Forum for he says. “From those highly pessimistic observations then, w h a t’s Living with Appropriate Technology, also known as UM FLAT— a interesting is down in the trenches Save a tree. Sign up to retrofitted campus house th a t ’s used as a demonstration project t h e r e ’s a lot happening. And maybe receiv e the M ontanan for sustainable living. Last spring, environmental studies students w e ’ll look back decades from now e-edition at www.um t. constructed an infill strawbale wall, while carpentry students poured and say th a t ’s what really mattered edu/montananonline. new concrete footings and installed energy-efficient windows. anyway.” fill Currendy UM FLAT students are working to build passive solar shelf walls on the south face o f the garage. And the house uses a real­ Erika Fredrickson is the arts editor at the Missoula time energy monitoring system so the live-in students can track how Independent. She graduated from U M ’s Creative Writing much energy each appliance uses in order to tailor their behavior to Program in 1999 and received a master’s degree in more sustainable action. environmental studies in 2009. She was a contributing writer to the 2008 Greenhouse Gas Inventory.

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2010 MONTANAN alumni profile ITTING STILL IS HARD FOR ERIC Discovering The Path SPRUNK. This is not an observation as much S p r u n k ’s journey from Missoula’s Rattlesnake neighborhood of as it is a fact. Lincolnwood to the boardrooms o f Nike is all the more interesting His insatiable curiosity is to blame. Sprunk when you consider he had very different aspirations for himself is more comfortable on the move, telling growing up. But each mile marker along the way feels, at least to stories, shaking hands, bear-hugging friends, Sprunk, like it had a purpose. asking questions, and, in general, pinballing his Even though he was a standout basketball player at Hellgate way through the cosmos. High School, he d id n ’t exacdy fit the mold o f the typical jock in He does not wear a suit to work. In fact, no one at Nike wears the early 1980s. He took weekly piano lessons and played the tenor a suit. The standing joke among employees on N ik e ’s Beaverton, saxophone in the school marching and jazz bands. His mother, the Oreg., campus is if y o u ’re spotted wearing a tie, y o u ’re either business manager for the Missoula Children’s Theatre, would not let interviewing for a job, or y o u ’re an analyst from Wall Street. him lead a one-track life. Sprunk is neither. H e’s N ik e’s vice president for merchandise and “I should have given her more credit than I did at the time,” product, which means a lot o f things, but mainly that h e ’s in charge Sprunk says. “I thought ‘I have to take piano lessons as a sophom ore o f overseeing everything Nike makes— from L e B r o n ’s sneakers to in high school?’ But that skill set is alive and well in m e today. I T ig e r ’s red shirt— from design to development to manufacturing, think I have equal friendships with all different types o f people from and that billions o f dollars are at stake when he makes a decision. different backgrounds and different upbringings.”

"I think of the people who know me, if you asked 100 of them where my values come from, 99 of them would immediately say Montana. j

He makes a lot o f decisions. After graduating from Hellgate, he played basketball for a year His typical wardrobe is a T-shirt and jeans. Comfortable sneakers at Linfield College in Oregon, but missed home, as well as his high are a must. school girlfriend, Kim, who would eventually becom e his wife. He The ringtone on his BlackBerry is usually something by KISS. returned to Missoula and enrolled in the business school. H e ’s friendly with some o f the band members, a detail he doesnt “I wanted to be a corporate tax attorney,” Sprunk says. “I figured want to brag about, but is thrilled to acknowledge. The last time after I graduated in accounting, I’d apply to law school and t h a t ’s they were in town, Sprunk gave them each a pair of monogrammed exactly what I’d become.” shoes. H e had to pinch himself. But then Sprunk took a class from Patricia Douglas, one o f the He slips the word “awesome” into conversation a lot. H e talks s c h o o l’s infamously tough professors. One day she d id n ’t appreciate fast and d o e s n ’t always stay on topic, but somehow, he never comes that he was chewing gum in class, so she made him attach it to the across as unfocused. His focus, like a laser, simply changes targets. tip o f his nose and wear it for the rest o f the hour. Quickly. “I thought it was som e kind o f joke,” Sprunk says. “She was the He has the relaxed gait and confident air o f a former athlete— hardest teacher in the business school, but she gave me discipline in which he is— but the good sense to know when to make fun of himself. my academic life I d id n ’t have prior to that. I think I signed up for In ten minutes o f conversation, he can make you feel like a friend. nine o f her classes. I use the things she taught me in her business He also might be the most unlikely corporate executive in writing class every single day.” America, considering he started his career as an accountant, and now When Douglas was named UM s Professor o f the Year in 1994, helps decide what shoes Kobe Bryant will market, and thus wear, Sprunk wrote one o f the letters recommending her for the award. each NBA season. As graduation loomed, Sprunk began to understand that his Nike certainly is n ’t run like a typical American corporation, but outgoing personality, com bined with his budding accounting skills, I even within its ranks, S p r u n k ’s ascension has been atypical. might actually make him an attractive job candidate when firms “I get asked that question all the time: ‘Seriously, how did you came to U M ’s campus to recruit. He weighed three more years o f end up doing what y o u ’re doing? H ow is that even possible?’” Sprunk school against the financial security o f working, and abandoned the says. “For people outside the company, i t ’s not possible. It would idea o f law school. never happen at their companies. Here, i t ’s a little more plausible. But he still had a decision to make. PricewaterhouseCoopers’ I just d o n ’t think that many companies would let somebody from Pordand-based offices wanted him. But so did a highly respected finance end up running global product for what one would argue is firm in Missoula. one of the best consumer products companies in the world.” His family was in Missoula. All his friends were in Missoula. And to hear Eric Sprunk tell it, he owes a huge chunk o f his He was comfortable and confident in Missoula. Still he chose to i success to his Montana roots and his degree from UM. live in Portland. “I think o f the people who know me, if you asked 100 o f them “My father taught me to always try to make the decision that where my values com e from, 99 o f them would immediately say gives you the most opportunity,” Sprunk says. “He said ‘You can Montana,” says Sprunk, who graduated in 1986 with an accounting always com e back to Missoula. But if you d o n ’t go to Pordand now, degree. “I d o n ’t make it public. I t ’s not like I advertise it. But I’m you may never get that chance again.’ That philosophy influenced a very proud o f it. I’m proud o f being a Griz.” lot o f decisions in my life.”

WWW.UMT.HXJ/MONTANAN MONTANAN SPRING 2010 I 27 The initial appeal o f PricewaterhouseCoopers w a sn ’t, however, that Nike was a client. It was Montana Power that interested Sprunk. H e wanted to work on the Montana Power account, make frequent trips back home, and eventually becom e a partner. Nike just w o u ld n ’t leave him alone. He had a great relationship with the company, and was handling the majority o f their account. His personality was infectious. He was a hard worker, but he was fun. O ne o f the people h e ’d always looked up to, former Grizzly basketball player Craig Zanon, had left PricewaterhouseCoopers to work at Nike and kept recruiting Sprunk. In 1995, they offered him the position o f finance director in charge o f the Americas. “It was a gut-wrenching decision,” Sprunk says. “In hindsight, it was way more difficult than it should have been. But at the time, I wanted to be a partner. Everybody who works in lunch,” Monahan says. “I’ll never forget, I went back to my office, I public accounting wants to be a partner, and I thought I could be called my wife, and I said, ‘I’m going to go to work for that company. one. So it seemed kind o f careless to give that up.” And I bet I’m not working anywhere else the rest of my lif e . ’” But again, Sprunk stuck to his philosophy: Where am I going to When Sprunk and Monahan bump into each other on campus have the most opportunities? these days, they bear hug and tease each other like old friends. It was, once again, the best professional decision o f his life. Monahan smiles. He and Sprunk are a lot alike, both in One o f the most appealing aspects o f Nike, especially for personality and in their journey up the ladder at Nike. T h e y ’re Montana graduates over the past twenty years, is that the company both proud Montanans, both graduates o f U M ’s business school has never particularly cared where its employees went to school, or where they were accounting majors, and both former CPAs. Nike is what their background is in. As long as y o u ’re smart and willing to one o f the few companies where their rise would even be possible. work hard in a collaborative environment, you can work at Nike, Monahan is now vice president o f sales for North America, meaning and you can do a lot o f different jobs. he has to be both an outgoing people person and a details man. So Employees jokingly call it the Matrix, but one o f its selling points how does a former accountant end up running one of the big sales is that i t ’s not hierarchical. If you want to talk to your boss’ boss, divisions for one o f the most recognizable companies in the world? you can. I t ’s a competitive environment, but a fluid one. “I took jobs outside o f my comfort zone just to learn,” Monahan That pitch w a sn ’t limited to Sprunk alone. Around the same time says. “I went from finance to manufacturing to sourcing to strategic Sprunk was hired, the company also recruited another UM business planning. But I always thought it would be good to work in sales school graduate, Joe Monahan ’89 . because o f the relationship side o f it. Growing up in Montana, th a t ’s kind o f what y o u ’re about— relationships. I never really left Pounding Montana growing up, and now I get to travel the world. When you The Pavement see what this brand means to people, i t ’s pretty powerful. T h a t’s Monahan, like Sprunk, had never really imagined working outside really cool.” o f finance. Growing up in Butte, Monahan had played baseball, The Monahan family is a baseball family, and thus, one of the football, and basketball, and sports were an important part o f his biggest perks o f his job is that he occasionally gets to introduce life. But professionally all he really wanted was to follow in the them to athletes like Alex Rodriguez, C C Sabathia, and Mariano footsteps o f his grandfather, a hard-working Butte Irishman who Rivera. O ne o f his great thrills in life was watching his sons take spent a lifetime as a trustworthy CPA. H e was doing exacdy that at batting practice from Orioles Hall o f Fame shortstop Cal Ripken. Moss Adams LLP until Nike talked him into coming to campus for But he has been adamant they not forget about their roots. His an interview. family still owns a place on Georgetown Lake, and som e o f his “I did the walk around campus, and then sat down by the lake for fondest memories o f his own childhood involve fishing and boating

2 8 I SPRING 2010 M O N T A N A N on the lake with his grandfather. have to go through three different levels o f management to bend his “My kids were all born out here,” ear. They can just as easily pitch him something face to face. Monahan says, referring to Oregon. “But “A lot o f times w e ’re in the business o f putting things out in if you ask them, th e y ’re native Montanans. front o f consumers they never thought were possible,” Sprunk Last summer, I was really busy. I said ‘All says. “A lot o f our growth comes from showing you something right guys, here is the deal: I ’ll take you on where you go, ‘Wow, I never would have thought o f that. T h a t ’s a weeklong vacation, anywhere you like.’ unbelievable.’ T h a t ’s the heat o f the brand. We believe we owe that We narrowed it down to Maui or Montana. to our consumers. So part o f my job is making sure we have an All three o f them at the same time said they environment that allows our people to be creative and innovative.” wanted to go back to Montana.” N ow more than ever, Nike is a global company. Its business

7 took job s outside o f my comfort zo n e just to learn.

outside the United States is growing faster than inside it. When Feeling The Movement Sprunk joined the organization in 1995, NIKE, I n c . ’s revenue for Like Monahan, Sprunk would never be the fiscal year was $ 4 .8 billion. At the end o f fiscal year 2 0 0 9 , Nike where he is today if his family h a d n ’t shown reported revenue o f $19.2 billion. But Sprunk is still convinced i t ’s the ability to adapt in support of their fa t h e r ’s run like a much smaller company. career. Nike asked Sprunk if h e ’d be willing to “Fundamentally, the culture of what we do is still the same,” Joe Monahan move and work for the company in Europe. Sprunk says. “It still rewards good work. I t ’s still way more about what believes growing y o u ’re achieving, do you have integrity, and are you a good teacher, up in Montana After working for a few years in finance there, teaches one about they asked him to take over their European than it is about what school did you go to or whom do you know.” the value of strong footwear division. relationships. It w a sn ’t the best time for his family to Finding The Stride make a big move, and the safe play would T h a t ’s one o f the reasons John Connors ’84 , a UM business have been to stay comfortable in the Pacific school graduate and former senior vice president o f finance and Northwest. But again, Sprunk chose opportunity over comfort. administration and chief financial officer at Microsoft, agreed to “It was good personally and professionally,” Sprunk says. “You have join N ik e ’s Board o f Directors in 2005. to hunker down and form a pretty tight bond, because literally you Connors, an accounting major who grew up in Miles City, is d o n ’t know how to buy groceries or furniture. And your perspective on one o f U M ’s most impressive success stories. He took a job with how you see the brand is different. There is a humbleness to be had, Microsoft in 1989 when the company had 2 ,8 0 0 employees and was and an appreciation for diversity and inclusion.” generating around $480 million in annual revenue. Sprunk took a division o f the company that w a sn ’t doing well, Over the next seventeen years, he steadily rose up the ranks, and in two and a half years, he turned it into one o f N ik e ’s better working in virtually every part o f the company— development, sales, performing assets. H e also experienced a bit o f luck along the way. information technology, and growth— and he contributed to and His two bosses while he was in Europe were Mark Parker and oversaw some o f Microsoft’s exponential expansion. Charlie Denson. When Nike restructured its company, the two were In 2 0 0 0 , Microsoft C E O Steve Ballmer tapped him to serve as named co-presidents. the c o m p a n y ’s chief financial officer, and Connors helped navigate ‘I remember going home one night and saying to my wife, Kim, a volatile transitional period when the company faced multiple anti­ I think Mark is going to ask me to do the global footwear jo b , ”’ trust suits, a difficult product transition period, and a stock that was Sprunk says. “I was thirty-seven at the time. M y wife was like, seen as massively overvalued. Y ou ’re out o f your mind. There is no way th e y ’re going to ask you to “It was around that time I got to know a lot o f the Nike do that jo b . ’” leadership team,” Connors says. “I knew there were a bunch o f A week later he was offered the job. He ran global footwear Montana graduates there because Montana natives are pretty good for seven years, traveling the world, leading a team o f designers, about knowing who has ended up where.” innovators, and marketing experts who were adept at anticipating O ne o f N ik e ’s founders, former CE O Phil Knight, asked Connors what consumers wanted instead o f reacting to it. He did well enough to join the Board o f Directors because he wanted to continue to that in 2 0 0 8 the company created a new position— vice president for bring in fresh perspectives and new ideas, even after he stepped down product— that put him in charge o f everything Nike makes. from being involved in the day-to-day operations o f the company. Sometimes that means working direcdy with athletes, asking for “When I was at Microsoft, I was recruited to serve on a lot o f their input and insight— although Sprunk generally leaves that to boards, and I’d almost universally turned them down,” Connors the creative types— and other times it means meeting with owners or says. “But Nike was analogous to Microsoft in some ways. T h e y ’re league presidents, or simply supporting Nike-sponsored teams. both highly recognizable global brands who create products used Every day, though, is about movement. Speed. Anticipation. by millions o f people. T h e y ’re both meritocracies, where the best He can be demanding to work for, but h e ’s developed a people are identified and moved up. I think a similar culture exists reputation for cutting through corporate jargon. Employees d o n ’t continued on page 32

WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN MONTANAN SPRING 2010 I 29 A Team Approach H Alums explain how a UM education guides their careers at Nike.

"As an athlete and a motivated student ■ in the business school at UM, l;always A w as challenged with maintaining b a la n ce across athletics, studies, and nw social I life. My experience at UM helped shape how I adjust to competing priorities on I a daily basis here at Nike. It wjbs an invaluable skill set to gain before heading into a dynamic, everevolvind|&mpan)Mj like Nike."

Adam Steffen '04 Category Planner, North America Basketball

| "My;, time at UM— and my Montana roots for that believe my response was, 'No, I'm good/ When matter— really shaped how | approach my career, I cam e to UM, I dove right in, even though others as well as my outlook on life; Growing up on a thought I would never finish because I was, shall _ ranch, I did whatever it took to get the job done w e say, sociable. W hen I finally broke into Nike regardless of the time of day or the deadline. after I took the same approach as I did on the When I had a job to do ... I did it. My dad ranch and at UM— I relied on the relationships tried to convince me in high school to take a I've built. I think Montanans are especially go o d year off and work before coming to college so at this because they know how to work and have HBpuid know what it was like to earn a living. I as much fun along the way as possible."

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*So much of my experience at UM shaped the yvay I playing for sucn a historically successful program and .approach my job.- Obvious^, the MBA program and copching staff, there is a high level of expectation my undergraduate degree in communications helped in terms of the. amount*of time and effort dedicated prepare me in terms of understanding tnerbusiness to playing ball, as well .as overall performance, of World and* being able to effectively communicate with course. The same can be saijql for working at Nike. It myteammates. But; in many ways, being a student- is a highly competitive work environment, and y o tj^ j athlete at UM has more strongly1 affected how I are rated based upon your performance, which is approach my job, simply because the experience has dependent on the amount of work you put in and Influenced the w ay ^approach everything ln life. By your ability to work well with others."

WWW.UMT.EOU/MON1ANAN MONTANAN SPRING 20.10 I 31 "I think a similar culture exists in both com panies [Nike and Microsoft], where the employees really have a passion for their product."

John Connors was asked to join Nike's Board of Directors to bring a fresh perspective.

continuedfrom page 29 this morning and the new helmet design for car makes the slow and steady climb through in both companies, where the employees The University o f Montana football team the Coeur d ’Ale n e Mountains and toward the really have a passion for their product.” and new uniforms are on my desk. That welcoming embrace o f Lookout Pass. Connors— who spent his formative feels like I’m playing. I love that.” Its a journey every Montanan knows well teenage years working on a farm, on an oil In addition to being a good friend and enough. Lookout Pass is n ’t as scenic as some rig, for the railroad, and on a ranch— knew international business leader, Sprunk is o f the s t a t e ’s iconic throughways, at least not Sprunks roots and journey w e r e n ’t much an inspiration for many— including UM in pictures. But the peaks always seem taller, different from his own. Director o f Athletics Jim O ’Day. “I ca n ’t say and the piercing blue sky always feels bigger “We have a lot o f people from the enough about Eric and what he does for our than you picture in your mind. business school who majored in accounting, athletic department. H e is a real visionary. The Sprunk kids smile when the who went to work for a big accounting firm, Along with being a very well-respected Montana state sign appears on the horizon. and then did well and ended up getting member o f our National Advisory Board for They can sense the tension draining from hired by their clients,” Connors says. “There Grizzly Athletics, he is a strong believer in their fa t h e r ’s body as the mountains open is just success story after success story.” investing in our product.” up, the highway crests at 4 ,7 0 0 feet, and Perhaps m ost impressive, O ’Da y says, their descent begins. R ealizing The Success is that fact that while Sprunk has obvious It may seem foolish to attach great If you ask Sprunk whether the twenty-two- interest in the sports o f football and m e n ’s significance to a moment defined by the year-old version o f himself saw any of this and w om en’s basketball, the majority o f his imaginary lines that exist only on maps. But coming, he does something rare. private giving goes to assist the Olym pic the transformation is real for the Sprunks. He pauses for a moment to consider sports such as soccer, golf, tennis, volleyball, They know Dad is about to feel different the it all, then chuckles like he d o e s n ’t quite and track and field. “That in itself says a moment Idaho is in the rearview mirror. believe it either. lot about him,” O ’Da y says. “He knows The stress o f his job will fade. It will be “I think people back then would be the student-athletes in these sports struggle easier to make him laugh. Time will slow floored if you told them,” he says. “Myself to get new equipment and uniforms, and down. In a few hours, h e ’ll be sitting on included. Because you never know. I wanted he wants them to look as good as possible his dock, looking at the ripples o f Flathead to be a corporate tax attorney. But it comes in their Nike gear. He believes that if they Lake with a beer in his hand. Everyone who back to what I said about opportunities. look good, they will perform even better. works at Nike for ten years gets a five-week The wider you keep your lens, the better Looking back, h e ’s been absolutely correct.” sabbatical, and when Sprunk took his, he o ff y o u ’ll be. Then you can spend the But there are a few weeks every year when spent the entire time in Montana. H e barely last twenty or thirty years o f your career the tornado slows down. When the stress of [ moved off his dock. Aft bringing your lens down, focusing on where I where LeBron James will play next season, you want to live and what you want to do.” what Under Armour and adidas are doing, or Life can feel like a tornado some days, how many Manchester United jerseys Nike is Kevin Van Valkenburg '00 is a but th a t ’s a rush as much as it is a concern. going to sell this year is put on hold. feature writer fo r The Baltimore Sprunks line between work and play is Sprunks three children can always sense Sun newspaper and a form er quite blurry. it coming. It begins with a drive east out of Grizzly football player. His work “I really do think I’m blessed with this Portland, but it doesn't truly take shape until is anthologized in The Best job,” Sprunk says. “I love sports. I show up somewhere in Idaho, when the Sprunk family American Sports Writing series.

32 I SPRING 2010 MONTANAN I Raising Montana Culture O f Giving Students Give Back To UM Through Senior Challenge by p a tia S te p h e n s

ne. hundred donated before April years ago, 23 were thanked when UM s in a K aim in ad and j enrollmentO was only also received a tassel 163 students, the Class charm to wear at I o f 1910 bestowed Commencement. I upon campus a useful Paul Vetersneck, I reminder o f itself. a management The students erected information I a memorial bench systems major from made of stone on the Washington state, southwest side o f the decided to donate Oval, where it remains when he heard his today. gift would help A September 22, plant a tree on the ! 1910, K aim in article Oval. described the class “I thought memorial as a place for Above: UM graduates what they were doing was really noble,” at Commencement students to “wait for the Vetersneck says. “I also learned that I Right: A 1915 photo car,” adding that it was could make a donation to any department of two men sittting expected to become a on campus. The Information Systems on the 1910 bench “favorite trysting place.” department is something I’m really excited Much has changed about. It seemed like the right thing to do I around the 1910 bench. Cars no longer to donate to them.” ! drive around the Oval, the landmark He sees his donation as a way of saying Grizzly statue has become a focal point, thanks. and the new Payne Family Native For more information about Senior Challenge 2010 or to “Right now, students d o n ’t have a lot j American Center is now its backdrop. But make a donation online, visit http://supportum.org/give/ o f money, but it sends a message to the the quirky bench, with supports shaped exfund/seniorchallenge.html. Checks also may be sent to the University and the department that they like tree stumps and seat back etched with UM Foundation, P.0. Box 7159, Missoula, MT 59807-7159. valued what they got there,” he says. the numerals 1910, is a lasting reminder o f Duke Oliver, a senior in those who passed this way before. “Our goal is to create a culture o f communication studies, chairs the Senior “The University and the student body student philanthropy— a message across Challenge 2010 committee. After a feel grateful to the Class o f 1910 and hope the University that education and twenty-year career coaching in Oregon, he I that classes to com e will make as fitting opportunities are dependent on private enrolled at UM, which he calls “a jewel in I choice as they,” wrote the Kaimin. support,” says Sarayl Shunkamolah, the Rockies.” Class memorial efforts have com e and Senior Challenge staff adviser at the UM “As a nontraditional student, I know | gone over the years. These days, the Senior Foundation. “I think students give back the importance o f the legacy we leave to Chall enge, a student-run fundraising in many ways, but they d o n ’t realize the University and to future generations,” campaign, offers students an opportunity everything here is n ’t covered by tuition Oliver says. “You paid for an education, to be memorialized and contribute to and fees.” but what y o u ’ve learned is worth so much j future generations. Last y e a r ’s Senior Challenge raised more. And it will keep paying you the rest The Senior Challenge 2010 class gift $ 3 ,2 0 0 , which was used to install a bike o f your life.” j will plant one or more trees on the Oval, rack and plaque commemorating the helping to replace the historic Dutch Class o f 2 0 0 9 at The Payne Family j elms destroyed by disease during the past Native American Center, with the j decade. Facilities Services has a plan to remainder going to scholarships. | replace them with maples and oaks, but The suggested donation this year Z&- / ; the cost o f $ 5 0 0 per tree thus far has been is $20.10, but contributions o f any U NIVE RS1TY O f MO N T A N A amount are welcome. Students who i prohibitive. F O U N D / A T I O N

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Pep Rally Singing on the Steps Fireworks Lighting of the M Reunions MONTANA Distinguished Alumni Awards ALUMNI Homecoming Parade ASSOCIATION Griz vs. Sac State GrizAlum.com about alumni Grace writes, “I play the piano to entertain the ALUMNI ASSOCIATION residents at Magnolia BOARD OF DIRECTORS Gardens, where I have lived the past two years.” Sharilyn McGuire Campbell '87 Redmond, WA

Thomas J. Dimmer '85 50 s Williamsfon, Ml The sixtieth reunion for the class o f 1950 w ill be Bernd A. Schulte '65 held May 13-15, 2010. Ocean Ridge, FL. You can see photos and watch a video from the Patrick M. Risken‘81 2009 class reunions by | Spokane, WA Logging on to our Web site, www.grizalum.com, and Alina Alvarez '99 follow ing the “Events!Class Denver Reunion” links. James Banell '63 TRUDI CARLETON PEEK Kildeer, IL ’51 , Port Orchard, Shane Bishop '86 Jocksonyille, OR Wash., has written Eric D. Botterbusch '87 Touching Earth, Touching Everett, WA Sky, published by Blue Brandon Byars '93 Raven Press. “The story Portland, OR is set in the fictional DIANNA REBER RILEY ’88 accepts the Montana Alumni Award Craig W. Crawford '79 town o f Clark Fork Darien, CT at U M ’s 2010 Charter Day, a celebration o f the University’s 117th (Missoula), campus Susan C. English '72 birthday. Dianna was recognized by the UM Alumni Association for her Billing* (UM), and Pattee work in initiating, promoting, and bringing to reality last f a ll’s Black Scott Horsley'73 Canyon,” Trudi writes. Studies Reunion. A host parent to students enrolled in U M ’s Black Scottsdale, AZ' “I am the daughter of Dawn Craven Loch ridge '85 Studies program during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dianna spent Linus J. Carleton, the Missoula countless hours contacting former students, planning, and hosting the longtime dean o f educa­ Jon 1, Mathews '84 three-day reunion that that drew more than eighty former students and tion at UM. Both my Boise, ID faculty members back to campus in September. The following award parents pushed hard for Erin Rogge Niedge '05 me to write this story, Miles City recipients also were honored at Charter Day: JOHN BLAKE, the ASUM were models for two o f Mamie McMeel Prigge '73 Student Service Award; ROBERT BURKE, the Neil S. Bucklew Presidential Butte Service Award; DAN PLETSCHER, the George M. Dennison Presidential the characters, and are Robert D. Ross '71 Faculty Award for Distinguished Accomplishment; JULEE STEARNS, greatly acknowledged, Sob Lake City along with Montana, for the George M. Dennison Presidential Staff Award for Distinguished Zane G Smith '55 their profound influence Accomplishment; DONALD POTTS, the Montana Faculty Service Award; Springfield, OR on my writing.” Gregory K. Stahl '82 and KENNETH WELT, the Robert T. Pantzer Presidential Humanitarian Missoula Award. Charter Day events also featured U M ’s thirteenth Native Greg Sundberg '01, '03 American Lecture, “Reconsidering American Indian Historical Trauma: Missoula 60s Ruminations o f a Critical Cultural Psychologist,” by Joseph P. Gone, an The fiftieth reunion fo r the Paul Tuss '88 enrolled member of M o n ta n a ’s Gros Ventre tribe and assistant professor class o f 1960 w ill be held at the University o f Michigan, Ann Arbor. M ay 13-15, 2010. You can see photos and watch a video from the 2009 Keep Us Posted. Send your news to Betsy Holmquist, class reunions by logging j Bill Johnston 79, '91 The University o f Montana Alumni Association, 40s on to our Web site, www. PRESIDENT AND CEO Brantly Hall, Missoula, M T 59812. Go to www. GRACE WRIGLEY grizalum.com, andfol­ 406-243-5211 grizalum.com and click on “Class Notes, "faxyour MOUTOR ’42 , Cottage low ing the “Events/Class 877-UM-ALUMS news to 406-243-4467, o r call 1-877-UM-ALUMS Grove, Oreg., celebrated Reunion” links. www.grizalum.com (877-862-5867). M aterial in this issue reached her ninetieth birthday LAWRENCE R. KABER ’61 our office by March 22, 2010. Note: The year in March. Grace gradu­ writes from Kalispell, immediately following an alums name indicates either ated in music education “I am in my forty- an undergraduate degree year or attendance at UM. from UM and has played eighth year of teaching JMONT ANA Graduate degrees from UM are indicated by initials. the piano for eighty-five mathematics— thirty- > ALUMNI Snowbirds!'Sunbirds—A nyone1. Whenever you change years. Her thirteen chil­ eight years at Flathead ASSOCIATION your mailing address, please contact the alumni office. dren all sing and play High School, one year at Let us know where you are an d when. Thank you. musical instruments. Harlowton High School,

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P.O. Box 7159 Missoula, MT 59807 ' t t r / (406) 243-2593 U n i ve rs it y o r M o n t a n a (800) 443-2593 F O U N D / A T I O N a b o u t alumni JONATHAN E. KRIM 77, tion that our family was SHANE D. MORGER 81, Rockville, Md., is the new exactly like every other,” Ventura, Calif., was senior deputy managing he says. Lex has published honored by the Oxnard editor for The Wall Street three other poetry collec­ Chamber of Commerce Journals online edition tions and is co-author of for his service on the at www.WSJ.com. Local three writing textbooks. chamber’s Board of innovations editor, assis­ NICKOLAS C. MURNION, Directors from 2004 to tant managing editor, and J.D. 78, Glasgow, took 2009, where he served as director of strategic initia­ the oath o f office as chairman in 2006. Shane tives for The Washington the new Valley County Post from 2006 to March attorney in August. Nick 2010, Jonathan had was the Garfield County previously worked as the attorney, the city attor­ assistant managing editor ney for Jordan, and in at the San Jose Mercury private practice there for News, where he directed thirty-one years before his and edited two Pulitzer current position. Gaining Prize-winning series, national attention during j JOHN DARRELL ROOD the Freemen standoff in 77, Jacksonville, Fla., was 1996, Nick received the is the public relations/ appointed to the Florida 1998 John F. Kennedy marketing director for Board o f Governors, Profile in Courage Award the Bunnin Automotive which manages the states and the Courageous Group in Ventura university system. From Advocacy Award from the County. He and his wife, 2004 to 2007, John American College o f Trial ^■82, sent this photo of some Geri, have two girls, Trey, sixteen, and Taryn, thir­ served as Ambassador of Lawyers in 2000. He and Kappa Kappa Gamma sisters who celebrated the United States to the his wife, LeAnn, have two teen, both o f whom are their one hundredth anniversary as the Beta Bahamas. John also has children— Erin, a nurse talking about becoming Phi Chapter at UM during Homecoming served as chairman o f in Billings, and Trevor, a Grizzlies at some point, 2009. "W e just couldn't be outdone by the the Vestcor Companies; freshman at UM. Dad says. vice chair, chairman, Kappa Alpha Thetas who got their picture CARLOS PADRAZA ’83, and commissioner of the in the last issue of the Montanan with Jim Bellevue, Wash., stumbled I Florida Fish and Wildlife '8 0 s O'Day!" Darlene writes. Pictured bottom row, into his status as a science Conservation; and com­ CANDACE L BLACK, left to r i g h ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H ' 7 9 , fiction celebrity about a missioner of the Marine M.F.A. ’81 , Mankato, Kalisnell^»W!roT*ffTO?^^2. Chesapeake decade ago when he dis­ Fisheries Commission. Minn., received the 2009 Beach, Md.; middle row: covered a fan-produced LEX RUNCIMAN, M.F.A. series on the Internet 77, professor of English '79, Lake O sw ego, Oreg.; top row: called Star Trek: Hidden at Linfield College in Frontier. “As a lifelong j McMinnville, Oreg., has Star Trek fan, I submit­ published his fourth col­ ted a story idea that was lection o f poetry, Starting accepted for produc­ from Anywhere. Among State University, Hugh O ’Brian Youth tion,” Carlos writes in an f its topics is the notion Mankato, where she Leadership. R o n ’s e-mail. “That led to a o f being born to other teaches creative writing association with HOBY couple more screenplays, parents, poignant for Lex, (poetry and nonfiction) began in 1986 as a guest becoming the staff writer j who was adopted at birth Thomas A. Wilhelmus and literature courses. speaker at a HOBY for three seasons and one Award from Rope Walk RON GILLET ’81 Tempe, leadership seminar in o f the producers, and to Press at the University Ariz., is president of the Montana. Since then a stint as one of the writ­ o f Southern Indiana for Board o f Directors of he has served as a key ers and producers o f the her book Casa Marina. the Arizona Chapter of volunteer within the Internet series Star Trek: “These poems are part organization, most Phase II.” Carlos now o f a sequence set in recently as chair o f the has his own production the Florida Keys and HOBY international company, Blue Seraph explore coming-of-age Board o f Trustees. A Productions, based in Los issues,” Candace writes. twenty-seven-year veteran Angeles. He also writes Her full-length book of o f the financial services and produces segments poems. The Volunteer, industry, Ron currently for Runic Films there. was published in 2003 serves as vice president/ JOHN BARNES, M.A. and raised in an era of by New Rivers Press. fulfillment unit leader for ’88, M.F.A. ’88, Denver, strict secrecy laws. “We Candace is an associate Bank of America Home received the Young lived according to the fic- professor at Minnesota Loans. Adult Library Services

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For more information, visit: \ montanasummer.umt.edu/crown a b o u t alumni workers o f the recently Shreeve Award for TOMAS MILO DEAN ’86 opened closed Smurfit Stone Teaching Excellence. Milo Creek Carvings in Great Container Corporation. David served as a mas­ Falls in 2008. A self-taught artist, The credit lasts until July ter teacher, mentoring Tom spent most o f his career in 1, 2010, applies to both twenty teachers for a pharmaceutical sales and ortho­ current and new custom­ UM Department of pedic appliances. In 2007, he ers, and requires former Educational Research began carving to relieve the stress mill employees to bring Services Excellence in o f his former jobs. Today his photo identification to Science Education grant. hand-carved native trout, drag­ receive credit. In response He also has received onflies, cattails, reeds, frogs, and to the question o f profit­ the Montana PTA other fish species— set in their ability by implementing Outstanding Educator natural river environments and this initiative, Gina says Award and the Montana made from exotic woods— sell for Frenchtown Drug priori­ State Aerospace Educator thousands o f dollars and garner tizes supporting the for­ o f the Year Award. highly acclaimed awards. In 2009, mer workers over business Featured in Northwest profit and holds financial Education magazine for T o m ’s artwork was featured in B ig his integration o f open- Sky Journal and Cowboys & Indians, ended technology, David which deemed him one o f the has presented at the Gates best woodworkers in the country. Foundation Technology in His piece “Brookies on the Hunt” Education conference for took first place in the Animal/Fish category contest o f Carving Magazine school administrators. “I in 2009. Tom and his wife, PATTI JO LANE ’89 , *93, have two children, am surrounded daily by MacKellin, eleven, and MacKenzie, eight. See Tom s work and read more high examples, supportive about him at www.milocreekcarvings.com. Beyer & McCarthy colleagues— including Maryfrances Shreeve loss to be worth the risk awardees SUE BARKER j Associations 2010 “My father worked in be a career as much as a in order to assist strug­ ROWE ’82 , M.Ed. ’89 , I Michael Printz Honor politics and fought for life,” Griff says. “The best gling customers during and Carla Clement— but Book Award for his art, and I merge art and things in my art life just the recession. “When bad also hundreds o f other I Tales o f the Madman politics because I think art do not compare to my things happen in small heroes who make it a joy Underground: An presents ideas (often polit­ kids. They’re my master­ communities, people to come to work each j Historical Romance 1973. ical) that cannot be pre­ piece.” come together to help day,” he says. j This is Johns twenty- sented otherwise,” Griff one another, and that is KENDRA BAYER- seventh commercially says. He founded and what we are trying to do FOREMAN, M.F.A. ’98 , published work; his twen­ currently runs Gallery 16 '9 0 s for the workers at Smurfit has gone from mak­ ty-eighth, a near-future in San Francisco, teaches DANA MICHAEL HARSELL Stone and the people in ing bronze sculptures j political thriller titled undergraduate printmak­ ’95 , M.A. ’97 , East the Frenchtown Valley,” to painting to sewing ! Directive51, came out Grand Forks, Minn., “Handbags for Healing” in April. received the Charles and Eric says. DAVID E. BIXBY ’97 , at her Eden Art Studio GRIFF WILLIAMS ’89 , Betty Corwin Award in M.Ed. ’08 , a fifth- in Tipton, Ind. From | San Francisco, had Teaching Excellence from grade teacher his artwork collec- the College o f Business at Hellgate j tion, “Griff Williams: and Public Administration Elementary Its Not Down On at the University o f North ! | Any Map; True Dakota. An assistant pro­ School in Missoula, I | Places Never Are,” fessor, Harsell has taught received j . showcased at the at UN D since 2005 in the U M ’s 2010 S Missoula Art Museum areas o f public administra­ Maryfrances j this March. In addi- tion, American govern­ | tion, Griff spoke at ment, and state and local j the Governors Arts government. BIRTHS j Awards ceremony on ERIC BEYER ’97 and Henry Walter Ehlert to TIMOTHY ANDREW | behalf of his father, GINA MCCARTHY 00, EHLERT 09, and Sarah Walter, February 13, 2010, j Pat Williams, the lon- Frenchtown, UM phar­ Minneapolis i t gest-serving Montana rep- ing classes at California macy school gradu­ Aleida Ann Alvarez-Driscoll to ALINA T. ALVAREZ, II resentative (nine terms), College o f the Arts ates and co-owners J.D. ’99 and JAMES R. DRISCOLL ’94 , October 8, !! in celebration and support and San Francisco Art o f Frenchtown Drug, 2009, Denver ’ o f his fathers eighteen- Institute, paints indepen­ implemented a $50 credit year commitment to dent projects, and raises plan toward prescrip­ Brayden Michael Severson to KELLY ANN KUKLENSKI maintain the National two sons. “Art even in the tion drugs for the 417 SEVERSON ’00 and MICHAEL D. SEVERSON ’99 , April Endowment for the Arts. best-case scenario cannot unemployed paper mill 18, 2009, Portland, O R

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Find out hard pressed to say which individuals BARRETT L KAISER ’99 , more at www.equinox- stand out the most, one clearly would Billings, is a principal brewing.com. and director of western be John Manix. operations for the political John was originally from Augusta and attended UM in the early ’40 s. He consulting firm Hilltop ' 0 0 interrupted his studies because o f World War II and family issues. He Public Solutions. During CHRIS WRIGHT 02, returned to campus in 1995 to help his sister, MABEL MANIX SCHULTE ’45 , the past eleven years, Sunnyvale, Calif., spoke Alexandria, Va., celebrate her fiftieth UM class reunion. John and I struck Barrett managed Sen. Max to UM Professor Jakki up a conversation, and he shared with me that he had not finished his UM Baucus’s eight Montana Mohr’s Principles of degree. While this bothered him and he wanted to complete his degree, a field offices and served as Marketing and High- fifty-year absence from collegiate work was daunting. the senator’s communica­ Technology Marketing I imagined John would return to Spokane, and his well-intentioned tions director and chief classes in November. thoughts would get displaced. I could not have been more mistaken. He spokesman and as his A graduate o f UM s contacted me following the reunion and asked if we could see what it would senior adviser during two School o f Business re-election campaigns. Administration, Chris is a take to finish his degree. N ot only did John follow up on contacting me, COLIN WESTCOTT ’99 and product marketing man­ but he also continually pushed me to get everything in place so he could SHANNON CARRIGAN ager for Google. finish his degree. WESTCOTT ’99 , Fort OWEN APPLEQUIST ’05 , Together we visited the UM Registrars Office. He needed fewer credits Collins, Colo., recendy Washington, D.C., was than we had thought, but it was not a cakewalk either. John set out to opened Equinox Brewing one of six athletes rep­ take the required classes. It helped that he was able to transfer credits from Company, adjacent to resenting Team USA classes he was taking at Gonzaga. A lot o f work, but within a year, John had Hops and Berries, their in Savoy, France, at the completed his degree at UM. home brew and wine January 2010 Winter John contacted me again to say he wanted to walk in spring Commencement. I met John on the Oval where the graduates lined up and got him into the business graduates line. Later, from the speakers stage inside the Adams Center, I scanned the sea o f graduates and all their smiles, looking for John. I finally found him— seated with the education graduates. M y heart sank. I worried that when the business graduates were asked to stand and be recognized, John would not rise because he was seated across the floor with the education graduates. Again, I was mistaken. When the business graduates were asked to rise, a seventy-six-year-old graduate stood, all alone, in his academic regalia, proudly waving to family and friends from the center of the education section. He directed a huge wave and smile my way. JUSTIN L HUNT 00, Heber City, Utah, is Following graduation, John sent me a copy of Stephen Ambroses newly pictured far right, with Montana's U.S. released Undaunted Courage, a book chosen not so much for the literary Olympics freestyle skiers Heather McPhie, read but as one that reflected his personal courage to complete his long- Bozeman, and Bryon Wilson, Butte. Justin is delayed degree. the head athletic trainer for the U.S. freestyle Last year on November 27, John passed away. This column is dedicated ski team, a position he's held for the past four in his memory as a proud member of the UM Class o f 1996. years. Libby native Scott Rawles, head coach of the freestyle moguls team, is on the left. "I yell 'Yeah, Montana' at the top of the hill," Justin says about his coaching Montana skiers Bill Johnston 79, M.RA. ’91 It certainly worked for Bryon, who went on to President and CEO, Alumni Association win an Olympic bronze medal in the freestyle D irector, O ffice of Alumni Relations skiing men's moguls in Vancouver, B.C.

42 I SPRING 2010 MONTANAN a b o u t alumni World Transplant Games. Port-au-Prince, Haiti. skin” that helped her A first-time contender, Following the January attain many of her writ­ BREANNA WILSON Owen raced in the slalom, earthquake, Project ing goals. ’08 , Seatde, got giant slalom, super giant 81 returned to Haiti, SHAUNA J. ALBRECHT, her start in pub­ slalom, and parallel slalom accompanied by MARK M.B.A. ’09 , Havre, is the lic relations just events. “Its a celebration BERGSTROM '06, Brady, new foundation direc­ three weeks after o f life Project 81 agriculture tor at Montana State graduation, when after a director, and Clays sister University-Northern. she began her trans­ and brother-in-law, Annie For eight years before six-month intern­ plant,” and Jared Brown. ship with the firm Albrecht Owen JESSE JAMES KRUSE 07, Edelman. Just a said in Great Falls, won the world week before her an inter­ saddle bronc title at the internship ended, view. National Finals Rodeo in she was asked to Owen December. “Shoot, this continue on with received a kidney from is a dream come true,” the company to work on its Microsoft account, his father on his sixteenth Jesse said in an interview specifically promoting Xbox. Since then s h e ’s birthday. In 2006, he was after his ride aboard helped promote the gaming system through diagnosed with Hodgkins Spring Blues. “It c a n ’t get news releases, creative mailers, pitched stories, lymphoma and in 2007 any better than this.” In and events— including the Madden Bowl in with post-transplant 2007, Jesse was the saddle Miami, an event held the week of the Super lymphoproliferative bronc Rookie o f the Year Bowl each year to promote the popular Xbox disorder. In 2008, with in the Professional Rodeo 360 game. “The great thing about public rela­ his cancer in remission, Cowboys Association. He tions is that what y o u ’re doing really varies day Owen climbed Mount becomes the sixth cowboy serving in this position, to day,” Breanna says. “It ’s one o f those jobs Kilimanjaro. His goal now from Montana to win a Shauna was the first that people can get a basic understanding of, is to be the first transplant world saddle bronc cham­ director o f Northern’s but there’s just so many things you’re doing patient and two-time can­ pionship. advising center. She and that i t ’s hard to explain. I laugh because my dad cer survivor to stand on all JENNIFER DIANE REED her husband, BRIAN J. will finally start to understand what my job is, seven summits— the high­ ’07 , La Mesa, Calif., is ALBRECHT ’04 , have a and then the next week I ’ll be telling him I’m est points on each conti­ the features editor at San four-year-old daughter, doing something different.” nent. During winter week­ Diego News Network, an Olivia. ends, Owen traveled from independent Web news his job in Washington, source. “I basically run the D.C., as an operations ‘etcetera’ part o f our Web research systems analyst site,” Jennifer writes. “I for the Army to the ski cover everything that falls slopes at Jack Frost in under lifestyle, health, 13-15 Commencement Reunions, Classes of 1940, 1950, 1960, eastern Pennsylvania. H e ’s relationships, family, and Campus skied since he was four. food.” Jennifer remembers 15 UM Commencement, Campus Owen plans 27-6/4 International Travel: Dordogne, France to compete in the 2012 9 Alumni Event, San Francisco Winter 24 Alumni Event, Chicago World Transplant 15 Alumni Osprey Night, Missoula Games in Switzerland 11 Griz/Cal Poly Tailgate, San Luis Obispo, CA and hopes 12-20 International Travel: Ancient Greece and Turkey Cruise one day to 18 Griz/E. Washington Tailgate, Cheney, WA | bring the 19-25 Homecoming Week 2010 I transplant 19 Homecoming Kickoff Celebration, Southgate Mall I games to 23, 24 House of Delegates Annual Meeting I the United 24 Class o f 1970 Reunion, Distinguished Alumni Awards, j States. her favorite UM classes International Alumni Reunion, SOS, Pep Rally, All Alumni CLAYTON CARL NYLUND as Magazine Freelance Social and Dance ; 06, Tarpon Springs, Fla., Writing and Outdoor 25 Homecoming Parade, Griz vs. Sac State Football, TV Tailgate | Is a founding director of and Travel Writing taught 25-10/3 International Travel: River Life in Burgundy and Provence Project 81, a relief effort by Jeff Hull. She credits began several years ago opinion writing Professor 2 Griz/N. Colorado Tailgate, Greeley, C O in support of an orphan­ Sharon Barrett for helping 16 Griz/Portland State Tailgate, Portland, O R age 81 kilometers from her develop the “tough

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ROY MARTINSEN 49, H a rd in KEVIN JAMES QUINN 71, M issoula IN MEMORIAM DOROTHY ANDERSON JACOBSON SIL 49, SYLVESTER "SLY" HARDY 75, M onrovia, CA To be included in “In M em oriam ," the M issou la GEORGE DONALD PAUL 76, M.B.A 78, Butte j UM O ffice o fAlum ni Relations requires a MARVIN ALFRED AMUNDSON 50, B utte SPENCEE UNN WILLETT 76, H elen a BRUCE WERNER ANDERSON newspaper obituary or a letter o fnotification 50, STEVEN B. HIGGINS 77, Powell, WY Corona D el Mar, CA from the im m ediatefam ily. We extend BENJAMIN LUKE SERRA 78, WILLIAM F. "BILL" ANDERSON '50, Jacksonville Beach, FL sympathy to thefam ilies o fthe follow ing Carmichael, CA JAMES M. BENEDICT, M .S. '80, M eridian, ID alumni, faculty, andfiends. Names without KEITH E. BYINGTON 50, Hamilton MARIE STREETER KUFFEL ’83, S u n City, A Z class or degree years include UM alumni, RICHARD EDWARD COOK 50, DAVID MICHAEL DARLOW 84, H elen a employees, andfiends. Newport News, VA EDWIN JOE DEMARIS, M .A. 50, ROBIN DAVETTE GERBER 84, '90, M.A. 91, Shoreline, WA M iles C ity ELIZABETH MCKENZIE GOLDHAHN 29, M.A. NANCY BLEJWAS LACROIX '85, Hinesburg, VT VO, F o rt B enton ROBERT HENNING GARMOE 50, Puyallup, WA FREDERICK J. DEWING 86, Renton, WA MARY BRENNAN HARSTAD 29, Glendive PATTI EATON LEAMONS 50, Irvine, CA CANDACE GARUTZ HOWELL 88, Whitefish RUTH I. HAUGEN 33, M issoula BURTON EUGENE THOMPSON 50, M.Ed. 59, B u tte CARL SHANLEY WHITE 89, J.D. 93, Havre ROBERTA BRAS DALKE MCLAUGHLIN 34, K a lisp ell ALLAN GLENN BIRD, J.D. '51, Port Angeles, WA REBECCA GRAHAM YARBROUGH ’90, Wheat Ridge, CO ELEANOR SPEAKER ROBINSON 36, Great Falls ROBERT L EHLERS, /.D. 51, West St. Paul, M N JONATHAN BRENNER, M .S. '91, LaCrosse, WI ELSIE MACINTOSH HANSON-ROE 37, M .Ed. GEORGE R. KRAUS 51, B utte 74, Spokane, WA EDNA MARIE THOMPSON SUGG 51, RONALD DUAINE KEENEY 96, M issoula DAVID J. CLARKE, J.D. 38, Castle Rock, CO Bremerton, WA JOHN W. MANIX 96, Spokane, WA BLAINE WADDOUPS MANN 38, Red Lodge JAMES G. HANDFORD, M.A. 52, TERRY LANE SHEPHERD, M.S. 96, Homer, AK Ocean Grove, NJ ELOISE CARVER LARUE 39, M ount Vernon, WA TWILA-JEAN ANDERSON MORGAN M.B.A. ROSEMARY ANDERSON FOSSUM 53, H elen a '97, Las Vegas, N V GERTRUDE T. ROONEY LINDGREN 39, Great Falls TUTTI BACH SHERLOCK HARRINGTON 53, s c o n ALAN FISK, J.D. '99, H elen a Rochester, M N ESTHER CUNNIFF "ES" WILSON 39, M issoula WRAY LANDON ‘01, D riggs, ID ROBERT WALTER BUCHANAN 54, B illin g HELEN A. SIMMONS BAILEY '40, Manassas, VA JASON A. CALOGAR '04, B ozem an MELVIN "PETE" HOINESS 54, Billings DUNCAN R. "SCOTTY" CAMPBELL 41, Bigfork WILLIAM ROY CUSENZA '07, Petroskey, M I RONALD DALE MCPHILUPS 56, J.D . '60, LEON BERNARD DORICH '41, G rea t F a lls DONALD E. AXINN, Jericho, NY Shelby FRANCES E. MANUELL '41, B utte DOROTHY B. BAYER, Theresa, WI DOUGLAS E. FOX 58, M .E d '61, K a lisp ell NORMAN SHEERAN '41, A tlanta, GA ALEEN H. BLOMGREN, M isso u la RUBEN EMIR SANTIAGO 58, M.A. 59, ROBERT F. PARKER '42, Brush, CO Brandenton, FL KELLY LEE CREMER GROW, G len d iv e SHIRLEY STRANDBERG PRATHER 42, JOHN ROBERT STELUNG 58, Hayden, ID CHARLES G. HAMMA, M isso u la Meridian, ID THOMAS ALLEN RING 59, M.A. 75, B illin g BARRY HANNAH, O xford, M S GROVER C. SCHMIDT, J.D. 42, Fort Benton ARTHUR A. RUDOLPH 59, O tis Orchards, WA MARY FASSLER HUNT, H elen a ROBERT ALLEN SWAN 42, Santa Rosa, CA GARY GENE BROWN '60, M issou la GERTRUDE B. INGOLD, M isso u la JOHN H. "JACK" WILKINSON 42, Phoenix HOLLY STEINBRENNER CARAWAY '60, B illin g S. DAN KIDDER, M isso u la THOMAS L. HUFF 43, Albuquerque, NM MERLYN DALE GRUHN ’60, A nchorage, A K DOLORES KLUDT, M isso u la WILLIAM J. MILOGLAV 44, San Rafael, CA MILDRED MANNIX BANDY '63, Deer Lodge WILLIAM D. MALONE, M isso u la ROBERT A. LATRIELLE 45, M issoula THOMAS T. LEVERING '63, Grants Pass, OR COLLEEN ELMORE MARINKOVICH, A n aconda CHARLOTTE ECK KILROY 46, Olympia, WA ROGER SAMPLE MEGERTH, M.A. '65, B illin g SCOTT ALLEN MEACHAM, M isso u la DONALD RAYMOND LEE 47, B illin g DOUGLAS BRUCE DAWSON '67, Salem , O R THOMAS A. NEWLAND, RICHARD "SH A G " MILLER 47, B utte Huntington Beach, CA DENNIS GORDON DUNLAP '68, M .S. '82, ALBERT J. MUSKETT 47, M .Ed '51, M issoula Salt Lake City KATHERINE LOUISE "KAY" PETERSON, B oise, I D JUDY BEELER BARTLEY 48, Anchorage, AK KENNETH WAYNE GILLETTE '68, M issou la GUDMUND RASMUSSEN, Tacom a, WA WILBUR EARL FUNK 48, M.M . '59, JOHN DAVID MAC DOUG ALL, J.D . 69, Portland, OR O xford, M S WILLIAM ROBERT SAN DELL, E ureka RICHARD D. "RICH" FOX 49, M .E d '54, DAVID BUCHANAN GRIGGS 70, Reno, N V RANDY JOSEPH TROSPER, P oison B illin g SANDRA LEE PEIFFER 70, Bellevue, WA CHARLES "JACK" TURNER, Great Falls RYBURN K. FOX 49, Great Falls KENNETH ROGER BAILEY 71, B illing VIRGINIA HOPE DURRER LARSON 49, ROBERT D. BARNES 71, B illing Eugene, O R

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first Commencement, the first l "dosing exercises' take place. Graduation traditions have changed dramatically throughout the years, but one UM's first offida! thing remains the same— the celebration. Commencement is held. U M ’S COMMENCEMENT TRADITIONS | Senator Paris Gibson of Great Falls BEGAN IN 1898, when the University’s first gives the Commencement address. Commencement featured only two graduates— both women. The State Board of Education and the chancellor of the £ | University attend Commencement, as UM is now constituted U M s progressiveness and inclusion o f women I under their supervision and control according to Chapter rried over for years to come. Beginning in 1925 l 92 of the Laws of the Thirteenth Legislative Assembly. d continuing for forty years, the Associated Women Students group circled the Oval with First year the Reserve Officers' Training Corps lanterns the night before Commencement. ® (ROTC) are honored ot Commencement. The Class o f 1925 initiated several festivities for Reverend John the night before graduation. First, a senior supper Norman Madean, “batting” (1910 slang for outdoor picnic) started at the father of 6 p.m. Next, seniors sang “College Chums” on the author Norman ih Madean, presents Main Hall steps, and U M s band performed on the Oval. As the night wore on, to-be graduates saw the benediction. a the lighted M and watched the Masquers Club and Emma Lommasson, English departments co-sponsored plays. who graduated with o bachelor's degree May Fete festivities are held for the first time. in mathematics this year, won the William Wesley Waymock, member of the title of May Queen U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, addresses during May Fete. the graduating dass. Graduation is held in the The mandatory church service on campus Field House (now called is omitted and graduates and family are the Adams Center). "allowed to attend the church of your choke.'

The carillon concert by The tradition of designing a dass John Ellis marks the first 1 banner and flag is discontinued. The graduating class Commencement music from 1 o f 1947 march to Main Hall's bell tower in the Commencement almost ten years. 1 ceremony. Only two students graduate The festivities that took place the evening before with degrees in home economics, Commencement came to be known as May Fete. Seniors elected compared to forty years ago, a May Queen, who sat on a throne atop the Main Hall steps and when the program consistently oversaw all activities. The night ended with Junior Prom. Oratorical had fifty candidates. contests, literary club readings, band concerts, and field day baseball games between alumni and faculty (sometimes faculty versus seniors) Graduation programs also were early- and mid-twentieth century graduation traditions. no longer indicate a As enrollment at UM doubled, tripled, and then quadrupled, graduate's hometown May Fete festivities ended, although Singing on the Steps and the lighting o f the M became Homecoming traditions. Commencement A group of seniors restore the took place in the Student Union Building (now the Fine Arts banner design tradition, and honor Building) until 1954, when the location changed to the Field House cords ore initiated into ceremony. (now the Adams Center). The only recorded graduation ceremonies Joseph McDonald, former president of | A Mom Commencement to take place outside occurred at the Craig Hall Grove in 1945 and Salish Kootenai College, and Earl Old Washington-Grizzly Stadium in 1999. The Class o f 2010 will be the 1 ^ ^ ceremony is held on the Person, traditional chief of the Blockfeet IjflWovol. first to graduate at an outdoor main ceremony on the Oval, ftfi Notion, become annuo! presenters.

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