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THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA | s p r in g 2007 MONTANAN SPRIN G 2007 VOLUME 24 NUM BER 2

PUBLISHER MANAGING EDITOR Rita Munzenrider ’83

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Brianne Burrowes ’07

DESIGNER Jennifer Paul

PHOTOGRAPHER Todd Goodrich ’88

EDITORIAL TEAM Brenda Day ’95 Erik Leithe ’00 Cary Shimek Patia Stephens ’00 Alex Strickland '06

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Betsy Holmquist ’67, M.A. ’83 Kathie Nygaard ’68, M.A. ’87

ADVISORY BOARD Laura Brehm Denise Dowling ’82 Jim Foley Daryl Gadbow ’75 Bill Johnston ’79, M.P.A. ’91 Jed Liston ’82, M.Ed. ’00 Ginny Merriam ’86 Carol Williams ’65 Kurt Wilson ’83

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10 In a New York Minute By Patia Stephens Broadcast alum Meg Oliver shines in a national news anchor spot on CBS’ Up To The Minute.

16 The Cutting Edge By Ginny Merriam How UM, St. Patrick Hospital, and Dr. Carlos Duran forged a path to create the world-renowned International Heart Institute

24 UM's Edifice Complex By Alex Strickland A new home for the School of Journalism and an addition to the Skaggs Building provide a change of landscape on campus.

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03 Letters 05 Around the Oval 27 About Alumni 40 Artifacts

COV ER PH O TO BY AND REW MARKS Anchor Meg Oliver at her desk on the set of Up To The Minute at CBS studios in New York City Drop Anchor! on Path ead [_ake @ Lakeside, M T

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Iron Horse Sotheby's Properties INTERNATIONAL REALTY Waterside (406)844-0415 Luxury L akefront Condominiums www.watersideatflatheadlake.com D E V IL W E A R S P R A D A REDU X? The editors of the Montanan should have read or seen The Devil Wears Prada before publishing Brianne Burrowes’ article “Staring a Dream in the Face.” Given the popularity o f the movie it is difficult to believe no one noticed the simi­ larities. The parallels are really too obvious to ignore. In fact, I believe the turning point for the book/movie’s heroine came during a simi­ lar “you remind me of me” moment with the demanding boss. Coincidence? Plagiarism? Either way, the article’s inclusion added nothing to the publication. It would have been more at home in the pages of, perhaps. Teen People. Ali Bovingdon ’95 , J.D. *98

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[Editor's note: Sharing the experiences o f current students is an important element o f this publication. remember the flooded Oval! Skaters on the UM Oval in 1962 Writer Brianne Burrowes was living the experiences Was the Oval flooded artificially or was as the movie came out last summer, an d her struggles there a freak rain followed by a freeze? PREY DISMAY were widely publicized on Jossip an d Page Six. Is the 1962 date correct? I was really enjoying your winter issue, The Montanan sta ff is confident in our colleague’s Darrel Choate ’65 , M .A. ’67 impressed with the articles, layout, design, and ethics and honesty. She is, after all, a University o f Bozeman, Montana photographs until I got to page 31 and saw the Montana journalism school graduate.} picture o f alumnus Richard Venola ’88 posed {Editor’s note: We checked the date o f the photo proudly beside the gem sbok he shot in Africa. SUSPICIOUS OF SKATING referred to above with U M ’s K. Ross Toole Archives, That picture is disgusting and only points out My roommate and I (both freshmen in 1961- an d it w as taken on February 5, 1962. There also the callousness and insensitivity of individuals 62) lived in Craig Hall the winter o f ’6l-’62 is a photo in the February 6, 1962, issue o f the who must prove their manhood by shooting and traversed the Oval daily. Neither o f us Kaimin o f what appear to be the same skaters.] defenseless animals. Couldn’t you have just remembers the Oval being flooded nor any printed his name and a statement about him skating on the Oval. ABER DAY REM INISCENCE rather than showing that photograph o f him Is this picture perhaps taken in the late As you noted in the Letters column in the win­ gloating over his prey? fall of 1962? We both lived at 333 University ter issue, you had a big response to Rick Tobin’s W allace D anielson ’50 Avenue that winter (1962-63). We still do not letter in the fall issue. I concur with his opinion, San Diego, California and I assume you’ve thought of it already, but I WANTED: YOUR OPINIONS bet thousands of grads would love to see a long article on the Aber Day kegger— the history, who played each year, The Montanan welcomes letters to the editor. Please sign and include your graduating year attendance, photos, and its even­ If you’re someone who loves the Montanan, consider or years when appropriate, home address, and tual demise, if I remember cor­ a $15 voluntary subscription. Those contributing phone number or e-mail address. rectly, primarily due to the efforts $50 or more will receive a Montanan Wherever I Am of one county councilwoman in cap. Donations can be sent to Montanan Editor, 327 Send them to: Montanan Editor, 327 Brantly 1979-1 am sure many people Brantly Hall, The University of Montana, Missoula, Hall, Missoula, MT 59812 or themontanan@ would be happy to write of their MT 59812. You also can call 406-243-2523 and make umontana.edu. own memories, and you could a contribution via credit card. publish the best ones on paper Thanks for your support. Because of space limitations, w e are not able to and put the rest online. And I include all letters sent to us. Letters may b e edited bet there’s a market for someone for length or clarity. W hile universities are places to reprint the posters advertising of discussion where good people do not always montanan ogree, letters deem ed potentially libelous or that the event! I would love to have j malign a person or group will not b e published. one or two or three. . . I Opinions expressed in the Montanan d o not nec­ R ick K olb ’79 G eology essarily reflect those of The University of Montana. via e-mail

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i Price, director of UM's Printing Graphic Services (far left), stands :t to the modern four-color press; over shot of Vichorek's book. Last go in Melrose, Montana (left). t elements of each book— edit- , proofing, indexing, pre-press, ign, and printing— will be done Montana and spread around the :e. The UM Press belongs to ntana, and the aim is to share :he work with the people of ntana— while at the same time providing an education on all Big Sky Country has to offer.” Rick Graetz, founder of Montana Magazine and a geography faculty member involved with reigniting the press, says, “The University o f Montana Press will pub­ lish books that make money, so we can be assured o f the runds to print other titles that m ight not necessarily ‘pencil out’ A Paper Phoenix: UM Revives its Book Press but need to be issued.” Besides Foley and Graetz, other any former students and The new press got rolling in Kuglin, states in the introduction: UM Press Comm ittee members Mfaculty members may 2004 with the publication o f a “Like the contents of the mound are Bonnie Allen, UM library recall a clattering pandemonium three-map project and a book pro­ on Vichorek’s incredibly messy dean; Gerald Fetz, College o f Arts that arose on occasion from the duced by Far Country Press. Now desk, you’ll find things in this and Sciences dean; Harry Fritz, Journalism Building basement a committee o f seven has been anthology that you never expect­ history department professor; as The University of Montana charged by UM President George ed.” The book is set to publish Ken Price, Printing & Graphic Press cranked out books and other Dennison with keeping the ven­ this spring, and all royalties will Services director; and Carol printed materials. The space was ture going. fund a UM journalism scholarship VanValkenburg, journalism pro­ cramped, and the hallways often The Vichorek book is a perfect in Vichorek’s name. fessor. overflowed with paper boxes. start to a mission that encom­ The second work to be released Distribution and sales will be The earliest book credited to passes celebrating the fabric of is a book written by UM Professor handled by Montana Magazine/Var the press was published in 1955, Montana— its people, landscape, Rafael Chacon on Montana archi­ Country Press o f Helena. UM but the venture faded in the 1970s. culture, and art. Last Tango rep­ tect A.J. Gibson, who designed alumni will receive a 20 percent Now the press has been reborn resents the writings of a talented several campus buildings, includ­ discount on the $12.95 retail in the modem offices of Printing UM graduate who wrote elo­ ing the revered Main Hall. price of both books. Shipping & Graphic Services in the James quently, and with humor, about Chacon’s writing is complemented and handling is $6 for one book E. Todd Building. Last Tango in Montana’s places, farmers, ranch­ by a generous collection of black- and $2 for each thereafter. Call Melrose, Montana, an anthology of ers, and overall way o f life. He and-white photos of Gibson’s work. 1-800-821-3874 or send orders the writings of Dan Vichorek, has was a well-known writer who Jim Foley, the University’s to Far Country Press, Box 5630, been chosen as the first book print­ penned many magazine columns. executive vice president and press Helena, MT 59604. Credit cards ed by the revived press. As the book editor, John committee chair, says, “All neces- are accepted.

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nother issue of the Montanan brings more exciting developments to talk about on our A Part of UM History Retires campus! We try never to miss an opportunity to showcase the achievements of our alumni. Meg hen Harry Fritz joined the historian and legend K. Ross Toole, Oliver has emerged as a rising star in the broadcast field and rep­ W UM history department in whose sizable shoes Fritz proved resents us with distinction. I see no reason why the Department of 1967, he was a young instructor more than capable of filling. Radio-Television faculty should not hold fast to her coattails. That specializing in early American his­ During his tenure, Fritz has she chose the University and that department for her academic work tory. When he retires this spring taught about 30,000 students, a speaks volumes for theA quality of the education our students receive. after forty years as a professor, he testament to his engaging lectures Another luminary, although not an alumnus o f the University, and respected reputation, since deserves the recognition he has achieved around the world. Carlos none of his classes are required for Duran came to Missoula to help The University of Montana and nonmajors to graduate. St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center establish the Though he hopes to stay a few International Heart Institute of Montana in 1995. Carlos really more years on a post-retirement has put Missoula on the map with regard to health care. As many contract, Fritz says there already will recall, we have within the list of priorities for the compre­ is a new faculty member for the hensive Capital Campaign the establishment of an Endowed Chair Montana history course, and that in Cardiovascular Sciences. Our success in that effort will provide life will go on at UM without him, wonderful recognition o f all that Carlos has accomplished. will have taught American history the way it does every year. Finally, we will dedicate two more facilities just prior to from colonization to World War II “In the winter of '69 the Commencement in May. Don Anderson Hall will afford a mar­ and be considered one of Montana’s Legislature was in session and velous new home for the School of Journalism, which can now most preeminent historians. people were worried about budget enhance the quality and responsiveness of an educational experi­ “To my surprise,” Fritz says, cuts,” Fritz says. “But a guy who’d ence already celebrated across the country. The addition to the “after a few years I was the Montana been here since World War II Skaggs Building will enable the College of Health Professions historian in the department.” said not to pay attention to it, the and Biomedical Sciences to continue its astonishing trajectory in The few years he speaks of are doors will open next year— they the world o f biomedical research. I must say once again how very the years after the death of Montana always do.” much we owe to all the private donors who helped to make these facilities possible for the benefit of the students and the faculty, as well as the state of Montana. There you have a taste o f what follows. Enjoy, and let’s hear An Eloquent Big Sky Voice Honored from you.

roadcast Media Center tant, or director— in the pursuit B Director William Marcus is and service of the humanities. right at home in his office at UM. As a small token for his life­ George M. Dennison, ’62 , ’63 A native of tiny Wibaux, Montana, time o f work, Marcus received a President and Professor of History he has been here for thirty years, Governor’s Humanities Award at a with every one spent— whether as March 1 ceremony in Helena. The a student, radio production assis- awards are given by the Montana the Performing Arts and Radio/ Center is all the talented people Committee for the Television Center. who work for it.” Humanities to honor And while Marcus is listed as Montana Public Radio turns service to and public the executive producer on all local 42 this year, and Marcus notes appreciation for the programming, he maintains that that one of its most enduring humanities. his role is primarily administra­ accomplishments is the loyal lis­ As director of UM’s tive, though he has hosted the TV tener base around the state despite Broadcast Media Center, show Backroads of Montana since an onslaught of other options. Marcus oversees KUFM its 1991 premiere. “In Missoula it’s routinely the Radio and KUFM- “I don’t pretend to be responsi­ No. 1 station,” he says. “There’s TV, the Montana ble for everything that happens on Internet radio, satellite radio, Public Broadcasting TV or radio,” he says. “The great iPods, podcasts, but you can only stations located in thing about the Broadcast Media get Plant Detective from us.”

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as excellence become ho-hum lenty can happen H for Robin Selvig and his P in a year. Just Lady Griz basketball team? Once ask former UM men's again, for the twentieth time in basketball coach Larry S e lv ig ’s twenty-nine seasons, UM Krystkowiak. won the regular-season conference Three-hundred title. Once again, for the seven­ and sixty-four days after he led I teenth time in his career, Selvig the G riz to an upset over the Club Sports Gain Ground won the conference coach of the University of N evada in the year award. His UM record now NCAA tournament, he guided the he teams that play on will come up to the table and tell stands at 672-192. languishing Milwaukee Bucks to T unadorned south campus us that they have been following While excellence has become an im probable victory over the grass d o n ’t bring in crowds like our lacrosse team via the Web routine for the Lady Griz, this sea­ San Antonio Spurs in his debut as <5 their main campus counterparts, and national standings.” son managed to stand out from the an NBA head coach. but U M ’s lesser-known club Along with lacrosse, U M ’s rest. For starters, UM ended the Krystkowiak w as signed to a J sports are making their mark in crew team was resurrected last regular season 27-2, garnering the multi-year deal March 14 to lead regional competition. year with the discovery of a four- team ’s most regular-season wins the franchise he once played for With two national champi­ person boat that had been squir­ ever. The team went 15-1 in Big in an attempt to find a new direc­ onship appearances in the last reled away and forgotten about. Sky Conference play. tion in the midst of the Bucks' two years, the Montana Grizzly The UM Rowing Club, overseen The Lady Griz also had the miserable season. Krysko's new ? lacrosse team is ranked among by Davidson Honors College conference MVP in sophomore team cam e out with renewed the top in small schools in the Dean Jim McKusick, held early- guard Mandy Morales. Morales energy and promptly snapped the country by the M en’s Collegiate morning practices at Salmon was a unanimous selection to the pow erhouse Spurs' thirteen-game Lacrosse Association. The team, Lake during the fall and com­ All-Big Sky Conference team, one winning streak his first night on celebrating its tenth season rep­ peted in a regatta in Spokane, of eleven finalists for the Nancy the job. resenting UM, competes in the Washington, in October. Lieberman Award— which rec­ UM's all-time leading scorer Pacific Northwest Collegiate Until 2000, UM boasted a ognizes the n a tio n ’s top point and rebounder, Krysko served as ? Lacrosse League and has domi­ rowing club, which was coached guard— and one of fifty-two final­ head coach here for two seasons | nated its division for the last two by a former Olympian in crew, ists for the ten-member Kodak/ before joining the Bucks as assis­ years. McKusick says. After that group WBCA All-America Team. tant coach last spring. The fastest growing sport in disbanded, the UM Rowing the United States according to Club— and the boat— disappeared Sports Illustrated, lacrosse’s popu­ until the boat was happened upon MONTANA'S MVP: DAVE EARNS larity was long confined to the accidentally in January 2006. coasts but has steadily gained McKusick says about forty ANOTHER CHAMPIONSHIP traction across the country. people showed up at the initial or Griz fans, few memories burn brighter The Pacific Northwest League meeting to form a team, many of Fthan the im age of star quarterback Dave includes nineteen teams from them students in the Davidson Dickenson rifling a football through opposing Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Honors College. “Th ere’s a histor­ defenses en route to UM's first national champi­ Montana. ical connection between crew and onship in 1995. “The success of the lacrosse honors colleges,” McKusick says. Last November Dickenson did it again, earn­ team has been noted around the “Other prospective students ing another ring on a bigger stage when he country with our prospective stu­ are thrilled to discover that we guided the B.C. Lions of the Canadian Football dents,” says Jed Liston, assistant have a crew team,” Liston says, League to a 25-14 victory over the Montreal vice president for Enrollment “although they often ask about Alouettes in the Gray Cup— the CFL equivalent of Services. “At nearly all of the the water temperature here in the Super Bowl. Dickenson also earned the most- college fairs we attend, students Montana.” valuable-player award.

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5:18 A.M. Its snowing lightly in midtown Manhattan as a black town car drops CBS news anchor Meg Oliver off at her apartment building. Perfectly coiffed and made up after a long night at work—and on television screens around the world—she will ride the elevator up to her apartment, scrub her face clean, feed her five-month-old daughter, then go to bed.

A 1993 graduate of The University of Montana School of Journalism, Oliver became a news anchor on the overnight news program Up To The M inute in March 2006. W ith more than 800,000 U.S. viewers— many of them insomniacs or parents of newborns— Up To The Minute is broadcast on CBS affiliates nationwide. O n the East Coast, it airs from 2 to 6 a.m.; in Missoula, it runs from 1 to 5 a.m. Up To The Minute also provides American news around the globe via cable television. It’s on, for example, at 10 a.m. in Iraq. Olivers training and experience have prepared her for the national anchor position, and her good looks and warm, intelligent demeanor have made her a natural. Waking at 1 p.m., Oliver begins her workday well before she heads to the CBS studio each Sunday through Thursday evening. W hile caring for her daughter, Maria, she checks phone and e-mail messages, converses with her boss, monitors the Associated Press wire service, reads, researches, and mentally prepares for the interviews she’ll conduct that night. By the time she blazes out the door of her apartment building at 8 p.m.— stopping for a frappucino at the cor­ ner market during her brief walk to work— she’s raring to go. W hen I was assigned to write this story, the name M eg Oliver rang a bell or two. G oogling her, the first thing that turned up in m y desktop results was an e-mail she’d sent m e two years earlier, com plim enting me on the TGIF newsletter I edit for the University. Later, I realized I remembered her face from the Flathead Valley, where I worked at the Whitefish Pilot newspaper and she was an anchor at KCFW-TV in her first job out o f college. Small world.

8:25 P.M In a rather ordinary ladies’ bathroom in CBS News headquarters on West 57th Street, Oliver hangs her coat on a hook and, reaching into her purse, places an array o f cosmetics and imple­ ments on a narrow shelf below a large mirror. The mirror is theatrically ringed with small light bulbs, several o f which are burnt out. Oliver runs a microphone and cord under her blouse and jacket, changes from street shoes into heels, then speedily applies makeup and fixes her hair. Five minutes later, she breezes into the Up To The Minute studio, greets her colleagues, logs into her computer, then picks up the phone to call downstairs and let them know she’s on the job and ready to take over if breaking news happens. In the middle of the room is the brightly lit set where Up To The Minute is taped. The set com ­ prises a news desk on a round elevated platform, a background partition of frosted glass, graphic backdrops on the walls to either side, and, in front of the desk, a half-circle of monstrous black cam­ eras. The television cameras are operated via robotics from the nearby control room. Cables and cords run everywhere. Buzzing with the quiet activity of a dozen people, the studio smells like Chinese food. It could use a good decorator.

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BROADCAST ALUM SHINES IN NATIONAL NEWS ANCHOR SPOT 8:45 P.M. 9:15 P.M. Oliver and her boss, Executive Producer Bob Bicknell, discuss strategies Four men in dark business suits arrive in the studio— Nader and his for interviewing the night’s main guest, three-time presidential candi­ assistants. Nader, tall and tan, shakes hands with Oliver and Bicknell, date Ralph Nader. Nader’s here to promote his new book, The Seventeen then follows her onto the set. They chat while Nader gets miked up and < Traditions, and a documentary film about his life. An Unreasonable Man. Oliver powders her face. Then the cameras roll, and she hits him: Is he 1 Oliver says to Bicknell, “I thought I’d start by asking him what peo­ running? “It ’s too early to say,” Nader calmly responds. ple really want to know: Is he running in 2008?” Eight minutes and thirty-five seconds later, the interview is over. It “Hit him,” Bicknell agrees affably. “Hit him!” will air as is, without editing, during the hour-long Up To The Minute Despite Nader’s new book getting delayed in the “anthrax room” newscast, which repeats throughout the night unless t h e r e ’s major break­ where all CBS mail must pass, working a second shift on the CBS ing news. Later, I ask Oliver if i t ’s scary to ask the tough questions. She ; Morning News, and a fussy baby who didn’t want to nap, Oliver managed cocks her head and replies, “No. I t ’s fun.” to read Nader’s book in barely one day. “I really enjoyed it,” she says. “It Oliver admits she was nervous when she first arrived at UM as an was interesting.” out-of-state freshman, but she soon found her place. “Majoring in jour­ Born and raised near Detroit, Michigan, Oliver was inspired by her nalism and pledging Delta Gamma were the two best things I did,” she maternal grandmother to pursue a broadcasting career. says. “They gave me a community." “My grandmother’s goal was to have one of her grandkids read the six She also found a mentor in broadcast journalism Professor Emeritus I o ’clock news on the air,” says Oliver, who has two older brothers and fifty- Bill Knowles. “Bill captured my attention right away in Journalism 101. five first cousins. “I knew I wanted to be a TV reporter in grade school.” He is still my mentor to this day. He gave me confidence.” In high school, when she began looking for journalism schools, Oliver Oliver and Knowles separately tell me about an incident they remem­ came across The University o f Montana. ber. After she and a fellow student had gone to tape a story on location “It had this phenomenal journalism program,” she says. “I looked at for the Student Documentary Unit, Knowles called her into his office. other programs, but they taught theory and didn’t offer the hands-on W hen she heard, “Oliver, get in here,” she thought she was in trou­ approach that UM has.” ble. “He yelled at m e for letting [the photographer} shoot m e too wide. j She and her mother flew out for a visit during Orientation. Back H e went on and on about quality control. He said, ‘Yo u ’re goin g to be a then in 1989, “Nobody knew where Montana was,” she says. “It took so reporter. D o n ’t let them shoot you that far aw ay.’” long to get there. W hen we landed, it was this gray, cloudy day, and we Knowles tells it slightly differently. He says he told the male photog­ couldn’t see anything. The airport had three gates, and deer heads, and rapher: “When you have a reporter who looks like M eg does, you shoot that stuffed bear. I said to my mom, ‘I’m not going to school h e r e .’” her tight.” But the next day, touring campus and meeting people, including a Either way, it was a pivotal moment for Oliver. “I left his office journalism student Advocate who took Oliver under her wing, Oliver thinking, W ow , he really thinks I’m going to be a reporter,’” she says. changed her mind. She never regretted it. That was the moment I knew it was going to happen.” “Going to UM was definitely one of the best decisions I ’ve ever made,” she says. “Right from the get-go, I loved it.” 10:15 P.M. O liv e r ’s next interview is with CBS News foreign affairs analyst Pam Oliver does her own makeup before going on the Up To The Falk, a lawyer and professor who radiates an intense intelligence. While M inute set (bottom left); "There's a big difference between a Oliver and Falk perform last-minute hair checks on the set, O liv e r ’s news reader and a journalist. Meg's a journalist," says Up boss is in the control room at the p r o d u c e r ’s mixing board, where a red To The M inute producer Matt Nelko, shown here at the news desk with Oliver (middle); producer Craig Wilson and Oliver Staples Easy button lies. But as the door slides shut, it soon becomes discuss "Show B," a ten-minute news segment (bottom right). apparent that what Bicknell and his two directors, James McGrath and

12 SPRING 2007 MONTANAN P H O T O S BY AND REW MARKS 150 PERCENT From partyer to producer, NBC executive found her passion at UM

Terry Meyers '91 is the classic high-powered female executive. As a top 'We have an obligation to the people of the producer at New York's WNBC-TV, the largest television newsroom in the tri-state area," she says. 'That's why I do it." country, Meyers averages eleven-hour work days and is on call 24/7. With no subways and Manhattan covered Although after ten years as an executive producer she now tries to take in ash, she walked home at 2 a.m. down the vacations, she still loses a week and a half of paid leave every year. middle of 50th Street. On the sixth floor of Rockefeller Center, Meyers is executive producer Meyers likes to say she gives 150 percent of two news programs— an hour at 5 p.m. and a half hour at 6 p.m. no matter what she does. 'That would be true She's also responsible for getting breaking news on the air. Her job whether I worked here or at Burger King," she involves making one tough decision after another— what news to cover, says. "If I worked at Burger King, I'd be selling which reporters and crews to send, in what order stories will run, and the most burgers." how much time they'll get. She decides everything from when to break in It was also true when she was a student at UM. A Virginia native who to regular programming to whether to send the chopper. had moved to Spokane, Washington, with her family, Meyers came to "I do a lot of running in circles. I basically delegate," Meyers says UM wanting to be a photojournalist, but was more interested in going out modestly, while her managing editor walks by and counters, "She's the than studying. best producer in the business." "I was a huge partyer my first two years," she says. "I wasn't really Meyers recently spearheaded the move to digital and high-definition interested in learning." TV at WNBC, which serves some twenty million people in the tri-state Then she took a writing class from broadcast journalism Professor Joe area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Durso. "He assigned us a story about milk prices," she says. "So I wrote "If I make mistakes millions of people see it," she says. "I have to a story that opened with the line, 'If you drink a lot of mijk, you're about know everything that's going on. And I have to know details." to pay a lot more.' He praised me for that, and I thought, 'Maybe I'm Coming from WCBS, Meyers had been on the job at WNBC a month good at this.'" before September 11, 2001. She says Durso and Bill Knowles pushed her to write and kindled her "We heard a plane had hit the World Trade Center, and that there interest in storytelling. 'They really took an interest and really cared," she was a fire," she says. "I turned and looked at a bank of monitors trained says. "Especially Bill Knowles. He took care of me, guided me." on the Trade Center. I said. That's not just a fire. There's a hole in that O f Meyers, Knowles says, "She's one hell of a talent." building.'" In retrospect, Meyers is grateful for UM's hands-on approach, like They were live on the air when the first tower came down. having to shoot and edit her own video. "I used to think, 'Why am I "At one point we thought this building was a target," she says. 'We'd doing this?' Now I thank God I had to do that. It put me way ahead of heard six planes were in the air. The general manager said, 'You're all here the curve." voluntarily from this point out.' People were crying, leaving. It was chaotic." On the job at WNBC, Meyers believes she's respected for her journalism Meyers decided to stay. With phones down, she e-mailed her parents skills and ethics, things that were stressed in every class she took at UM. to tell them she was staying, and that she loved them. "I think the education I got at The University of Montana is compa­ WNBC's transmitter— and a technician— had been on the roof of ont rable to any of the major journalism schools. I got the best education I of the towers, so only those with cable or rabbit-ear antennas could pick could have gotten anywhere." up the station's signal.

^hris Easley, do in here is anything but easy. Like the cockpit o f a fight- Oliver wanders in rubbing her nose. “I had to sneeze for about a min- -r jet> the control room is lit up with a million switches and lights and ute and a half,” she says. 1 dozen incoming and outgoing broadcast feeds on tiny wall monitors. Behind her, Falk sticks her head in the control room door. Before Bent over a microphone, Bicknell speaks into O liv e r ’s earpiece. taping, she had jokingly told me she was president of the Meg Oliver “Meg, you ready?” he says. “This is six minutes. And i t ’s a International Fan Club. Now she says, “I want to give you a serious quote. W elcome back.’” I’ve never been with an anchor w h o ’s as informed as Meg is. S h e ’s a dedi- He counts down the time, then Oliver smiles and speaks into the cated anchor. S h e’s also smart, beautiful, vibrant .... S h e’s wonderful." :amera: "W elcome back. I t ’s forty past the hour.” She turns to Falk. 'Good morning, Pam.” 11:30 P.M. The women discuss the latest deadly events in Iraq and a potential Oliver leaves the studio to fill a bottle— despite her busy schedule, s h e ’s build-up to war with Iran. In the control room, i t ’s barely controlled still breast-feeding Maria— and retouch her makeup and hair. “By the chaos as the three guys toggle switches and shout out commands, and a time I go home. I ’ve done my makeup three times,” she says. “Then I go jukebox-type machine called a beta cart noisily switches tapes. But i t ’s home and feed my five-month-old daughter. I t ’s not very glamorous.” over almost as soon as it begins. The cameras stop rolling, the control- She laughs. room adrenaline subsides, and the door opens. Bicknell asks me, “What Juggling a baby and a high-pressure career h asn ’t been easy, but sh e ’s do you think?” I respond: “Crazy!” pulling it off with the help of her husband, John, and her mother, who came

MONTANAN SPRING 2007 13^ from North Carolina to help take care of Maria until Oliver finds a nanny. At 12:30 a.m., pre-production taping begins. Here she has the luxury | She and John, a Harvard-educated corporate lawyer, married in 2002 o f backing up, like when she flubs the word “cafeterias” in a school lunch \ after meeting through a Montana connection. Oliver, then working food-poisoning story. But most of the time, s h e ’s flawlessly articulate. as a reporter and anchor in Detroit, had gone to Texas to attend her In between tapings, still seated at the anchor desk, Oliver chats with j friend A m y ’s wedding. The two young women had been co-workers in people off-camera. At 12:38 a.m., she stifles a yawn. At 1:09 a.m., she Kalispell, as well as roommates, renting a log cabin on Flathead Lake. tapes a “Moneywatch” segment. At 1:11 a.m., she reads weather. Pre- A m y ’s groom and John also had been roommates. “We totally hit it production taping is done by 1:30 a.m., and Oliver and her crew take off at the reception,” Oliver says. “Our first date was five days long. On time to relax and B.S. a bit before they go live at 2 a.m . our third date, we went to Greece. We just knew.” It s clear from the joking and teasing that the twelve-person Up To Oliver says a supportive husband, good help, organization, and yoga The M inute team enjoys working together. I t ’s also clear the staff has help her stay on track. “I’m just learning to strike the balance between genuine affection and respect for Oliver. In the television news industry, I work and family,” she says. “You c a n ’t really have it all, but you can have they tell me, the behind-the-scenes producers, directors, and technicians f a little bit o f it.” tend to stick around for years, while the “talent”—anchors and report- \ Oliver says she always knew she wanted to go back east, because her ers— come and go. Some make a better impression than others. family is there. “But I cherish my memories o f Montana. I loved, loved, There s a big difference between a news reader and a journalist,” says t loved Montana. My heart is there.” producer Matt Nelko. “Me g ’s a journalist. S h e ’s great. She really is.” “It ’s a pleasure to work with her,” agrees her boss. Bicknell, w h o ’s MIDNIGHT been at Up To The Minute for seven years, hired Oliver after seeing her W hile the staff breaks for ice cream bars, Oliver is back on the set pre­ resume tape. paring to tape pre-production lead-ins for packages that have com e in It had that X-factor, he says. “You know it when you see it. You from reporters. H igh heels kicked o ff under the desk, she runs a tele- could tell she had the ability and the brains.” prompter with her foot, reading over the script that scrolls down its Her UM mentor agrees. She was one o f those you see the talent in,” screen. If the teleprompter were to crash during live taping, s h e ’d revert Knowles says. “She was really into good reporting and good writing. to the paper scripts she holds on the desk. “I remember sitting around a table at a restaurant in Helena, and [the I late UM broadcast journalism professor] Joe Durso said how impressed \ he was with Meg. I said, ‘Sh e ’s a winner. S h e ’s going to make it . ”' KNOWLES IT ALL 2 A.M. His business card says "William L. (Bill) In the control room, Joe Gelosi is at the p r o d u c e r ’s desk for “Show A,” Knowles, Professor Emeritus," but with his ten minutes o f live news at the top o f the hour. Gelosi, whose Italian home and work addresses, phone numbers, good looks remind m e o f A1 Pacino, has spent the evening writing fax, and e-mail address listed on it, he and editing stories for this news block. The control-room adrenaline is hardly seems retired. amped up higher than before, because this is live, not taped. T h e r e ’s no 1 Indeed, Bill Knowles taught his definitive room for errors, no way to back up and start again. Journalism 100 class, Introduction to Mass When taping begins, the men do their thing at the mixing boards Media, last fall under a post-retirement contract. He insists it's his final with fighter-pilot precision, shouting commands, eyes on the clock, one, but some of us will only believe it when we see it. always on the clock. Gelosi speaks succinctly into O liv e r ’s ear, telling Knowles came to UM in 1986 after a twenty-two-year career as a her to speed up or slow down as needed. On the monitors, s h e ’s moving 1 television producer and executive at ABC News bureaus in Los Angeles, seamlessly between news stories about Senate hearings on the Iraq W ar, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta. He co-founded the Student Documentary House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Code Pink protests. When the live Unit at UM with his late colleague and friend Joe Durso. segment finishes and the newscast goes to commercial, Gelosi spontane- 1 After twenty-one years of teaching and influencing the minds of gen­ ously erupts. ] erations of print and broadcast journalists, the beloved professor retired “BeautifUl,” he says. “BeautifUl! S h e ’s SO good. She does it every time.” j last year. He continues to maintain an extensive network of alumni and It, he explains is all about timing. Getting a live news broadcast to professional contacts through e-mail, phone calls, and visits. fit precisely into its allotted time slot— neither a few seconds too long "I keep in touch with students who ask for it and who keep in touch nor a few seconds too short— is an art form. O liv e r ’s a pro, he says. with me," he says. "I believe that a professor in our business should be “It ’s easy with her because s h e ’s great,” he says. “Not only is she good, , available for post-graduate career counseling." s h e ’s nice. She d o e s n ’t have the ego that a lot o f talent has. W e ’re just Alumna and CBS anchor Meg Oliver says she still calls Knowles lucky. W e ’re really lucky.” when she needs a contact. "He is the king of networking," she says. "I've Knowles agrees with the lack of ego assessment. “What sets Meg never met someone so connected in this business." apart is that s h e ’s not foil o f herself,” he says. “She understands that you ■ A 1959 graduate of San Jose State University, Knowles returned to have to be a good person to make it in the business.” his alma mater in April to emcee the fiftieth anniversary celebration of its Oliver, for her part, is gratefol for Knowles’ advice to “never, ever bum ’ radio-television program. a bridge in this business. H e said, ‘It will com e back to haunt you, because j

14 SPRING 2007 MONTANAN PHOTO BY TODD GOODRICH “My grandmother’s goal was to have one of her grandkids read the six o ’clock news on the air. " - MEG OLIVER

everyone knows everyone.’ I had one boss who was awful, and B ill’s advice kept coming back in my head. I took it to heart, and thank goodness.” She also credits Durso and UM faculty members Ray Ekness and Gus Chambers for her success. “In college, [professors] help you find a game plan. “I graduated with a resume tape in my hand,” she says. “How many students do you know who shoot packages that run on local news?”

2:26 A.M. Producer Craig W ilson takes over in the control room. I c a n ’t shake the feeling that he looks just like UM journalism Professor Dennis Swibold, except on speed. W ils o n ’s “Show B,” also a 10-minute news segment, runs at the bot­ tom of the hour. H e ’s leading with a breaking wire story about alleged tograph of the little girl. Everywhere we go, Oliver has a warm greeting waste of taxpayer funds in Iraq. “I’m goin g to have to kill something,” for the people she meets. he says. Fortunately, “kill” is a figurative term h e r e — h e ’s looking at his In the Early Show newsroom, she introduces me to the only other per­ computer for a story to cut. “‘Minim um ’ is out,” he tells Oliver over the son in the room at that hour, a young production associate, then sits at a microphone. computer and begins softly reading the m o r n in g ’s news stories to herself. Without video or time to look over the script, she goes live with the Without prompting, the young woman says to me, “Me g ’s so nice and new lead story. down to earth. Sometimes with TV people, they seem nice on television, “When th e r e ’s breaking news, she gets nothing,” says Wilson, w h o ’s but then you meet them a n d __ ” She rolls her eyes. worked at Up To The M inute for thirteen years. “Sh e ’s left there hanging. T h ere’s no hand-holding, no spoon-feeding. 4 A.M. “It all rests on her,” he says. “I call the plays, but she executes them.” I follow Oliver into a small recording booth with a heavy door and hold When the broadcast is over, he shoots his fists into the air. “Great job, my breath while she records three headlines. Then she walks briskly Meg.” down the hall to hair and makeup, where one woman works on her face Oliver, who interned in New York at Good Morning America, came to and another blows out her hair before she goes on the set. Up To The M inute after thirteen years as a reporter and anchor at TV sta­ The morning news is taped in the CBS Early Show studio, which is tions across the country— from her first part-time job at KECI-TV in at street level and lined with windows and graphic backdrops. At 4 :3 0 Missoula to KCFW in Kalispell, Northwest Cable News in Boise and a.m., trucks rumble by outside in the dark; inside, i t ’s quiet and cold Seattle, WTIC-TV in Hartford, Conn., WWJ/WKBD-TV in Detroit, under a ceiling of blinding lights. With a producer and two cameramen and KGPE-TV in Fresno, Calif., where she was the 5, 6, and 11 p.m. in front o f her, Oliver sits at the news desk reading the morning news, weekday anchor. W hen she was named Up To The M inute anchor, she weather, and sports. had been serving as a freelance correspondent for CBS Newspath in I’m perched to the side in one of two wing chairs on a darkened set Washington, D.C. There she covered major news stories, including the decorated like a living room— coffee table, fireplace, oil painting over the nomination of Chief Justice John Roberts and President George B u sh ’s mantel— marveling at both how extraordinary and how ordinary is this 2006 State o f the Union address. world that Oliver inhabits. W hile her attractive face and neat summaries O liv e r ’s work has garnered numerous honors, including four of current events are broadcast to viewers around the world, I can see the Associated Press awards, two Society o f Professional Journalists awards, small electric heater tucked at her feet, the box o f Kleenex, and the tin of and eight Emmy nominations. Altoids just out of the ca m e ra ’s view. At 5 a.m., taping finished, Oliver scoops up her coat and purse and 3:15 A.M we head for the door. In the car, I ask if s h e ’s being groomed for a more Once taping wraps, Oliver and the Up To The M inute staff normally prominent news anchor position. She just says s h e ’s happy to love going order in grilled cheese sandwiches from the deli down the street, and she to work every day. | reads and prepares for the next day before heading home at 5 a.m . N ot “I feel so blessed,” she says. “This is my dream job. I just want to con­ : tonight, though. Since s h e ’s filling in for Susan McGinnis on the CBS tinue reporting and anchoring, and covering meaningful stories.” | Earb Show, i t ’s time for her to head across town to the studio on East [ 59th Street. Patia Stephens VO, is currently working on an MFA in the Walking quickly out to her waiting town car, Oliver says good- ^ Creative Writing Program with a non-fiction emphasis. She is an | oight to the men at the security desk and the door. Once in the car, she editor and Web content manager with University Relations and an inquires after her d r iv e r ’s new grandchild. He hands back a wallet pho- | award-winning writer for the Montanan.

PHOTO O f M EG OLIVER BY AND RE W MARKS MONTANAN SPRING 2007 15 M f T O i l E —

B S B 1 o 5 E S m i Missoula heart surgeon Matt Maxwell likes to tell a story about his work. It starts like this: “When I first met Barry Flamm, he was dead.” Flamm, a visiting professor at UM in the winter of 2002, had collapsed while seeing a student in his office. He was taken to the St. Patrick Hospital emergency room with a ruptured aorta. Maxwell was one of the car­ diac surgeons who fixed him up. Recently Maxwell received a postcard from Flamm, an internationally known natural resource consul­ tant. Flamm was working as a volunteer in the Philippines, helping build sewers where they were badly needed. “This is really why we do what we do,” Maxwell says. “I tell people* ‘Send me a postcard. Show me y o u ’re using it . ’” Maxwell might not be in Missoula if it w e re n ’t for Carlos Duran. And Duran, a Spanish-born, internationally praised cardiac surgeon, valve sur­ gery pioneer, and Renaissance man, tells his own story about how he landed in Montana to build and nurture the International Heart Institute of Montana. In 1995, Duran had just finished seven years as chair of the Cardiovascular Department at K ing Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. H e had become friends with fellow cardiac surgeon Jim Oury, who had moved to Missoula and had interests similar to Duran’s in the use o f natural tissues in heart valve surgery. Duran traveled to New York City for the annual meetings of the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, and expected to see Oury there. But when Oury invited him to com e up to a hospitality room at the convention, he didn’t expect to see the president o f The University of Montana, the president of St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center and one of Missoula’s most respected cardiologists. “Lo and behold, I opened the door, and there was George Dennison, Larry White, Stan Wilson, and Jim, saying, ‘Would you com e here?”’ Duran remembers today. “They had me against the wall.”

Dr. Carlos Duran (left) with his surgical team

MONTANAN SPRING 2007 17 “We talked about the possibility of an institute. In order to make it go, it was clear we had to have someone with real stature in the cardiovascular sciences.”

- PRESIDENT GEORGE DENNISON

Institute of Montana Foundation, also includes research that takes place • in U M ’s College of Health Professions and Biomedical Sciences. One of : Dr. Carlos Duran its scientists recently held more National Institutes of Health research visits with a colleague. dollars than any other scientist in the state. The work takes place at the experimental bench and also in a University surgical suite— complete with imaging devices— where researchers learn from procedures on sheep] and rabbits. What they wanted to build was what Duran, in retrospect, had been For many years, UM has been looked down on as not having working toward his whole career: a place where the p a tie n t’s bedside met research, being a small liberal arts university,” says Dave Forbes, who the scientist’s bench— an institute that brought together cardiac sur­ wears two hats as dean of the college and as a St. Patrick Hospital board , geons and cardiologists, who take care of patients, with the scientists on member for nine years. the front edge of cardiac research. That s not true any more, he says. The Skaggs School of Pharmacy They had the ingredients for a recipe that Duran had known for now ranks fifth in the nation in grant money per faculty member. And years would make the superlative situation. First, a smaller but commit­ it ’s seventh in the nation for total NIH grant money. ted hospital where everybody knew everybody else. Second, no medical It starts with Carlos’ vision, which permeates not only our Heart school, so no medical school politics. Third, a vibrant city small enough Institute but our Montana Neuroscience Institute and our Montana to be livable and big enough to bring in and accommodate heart special­ Cancer Center,” says Vernon Grund, chair of U M ’s Department of ists from around the world for workshops and seminars. And, the crucial Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences. “What it does is it gets our sci- piece, a university with a commitment to science and collaboration. entists into the hospital, and it gets the physicians into UM.” President Dennison smiles today at their method for recruiting The Foundation s Vascular Biology and Tissue Engineering Labs mean Duran. He, White, Oury, and Dave Forbes, dean of U M ’s College of active research goes on in the hospital itself. Health Professions and Biomedical Sciences, had brainstormed consider­ Every summer, more than 100 cardiac specialists travel to Missoula ably before making the approach. for the Rocky Mountain Valve Symposium and the Echo Montana con­ “We talked about the possibility of an institute,” Dennison recalls. ference. The Valve Symposium, affectionately called “Rocky” by the In order to make it go, it was clear we had to have someone with real specialists who have attended from thirty-five states and forty countries stature in the cardiovascular sciences. since its inception in 1989, looks at the latest problems and solutions He was going to be present at the thoracic surgeons’ meetings, so we in valve disease and repair. The distinguished faculty and visitors often thought w e’d gang up on him." include Sir Magdi Yacoub of London, who pioneered the heart-lung That night, they talked and talked, he remembers. They ate dinner at transplant, and British cardiac surgery pioneer Donald Ross, inventor of ] Sardis and talked some more. the complex Ross Procedure surgery used for failing aortic valves, which “They were very keen on it, both George and Larry,” Duran says he built on D u ra n ’s work. The symposium is hands-on: Heart Institute today. So it was, ‘Goodbye, Saudi.’ I was lucky to be in the right time and visiting surgeons work on cases in St. Pat's operating rooms, tele­ and place.” vised to the hospital conference center. Technology enables a lively dis­ cussion between the operating room and the auditorium. Hearty Success Five times a year, smaller groups of specialists come to Missoula for Today, as the Heart Institute marks its twelfth birthday, its accom­ workshops, where they share knowledge in three intense days led by plishments tell the story. Five cardiothoracic surgeons in Missoula and Duran. Kalispell perform more than 400 open-heart surgery procedures each “Dr. Duran is an icon,” Forbes says. “He ’s internationally known.” year. The Institutes Cath Lab is now three busy labs, where four on-site As president and CEO of the International Heart Institute of cardiologists perform 2,500 interventions each year. T h e y ’re in affiliated Montana Foundation and chair of Cardiovascular Sciences at UM, Duran I practice with three more cardiologists in rural areas, two at Western presides over it all. Degreed as an MD and a PhD, he is known for his Montana Clinic, and five through the CardioPulmonary Associates invention of the Duran Ring for mitral-valve reconstruction. His work o f Montana in Missoula. The International Heart Institute is known has led to 450 professional papers presented at scientific meetings, thir- ;• throughout the world for its expertise in heart-valve surgery. ty-three chapters in medical textbooks, and more than 300 peer-reviewed 1 The Institute’s umbrella organization, the International Heart publications.

8 SPRING 2007 MONTANAN “{Duran has} always been a champion o f learning,” says Jim Foster, England, the University o f Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, hired him to who retired as an executive after thirty years with Medtronic Inc., the start a cardiac surgery program in 1967. w o r ld ’s leading medical technology company and manufacturer of the “I had to organize the place and direct the colleagues and learn the Duran Ring. “Yo u ’re always learning. Never think you know everything. politics o f a university hospital,” he says. “Part o f it was learning to get T h e re ’s always something th a t’s going to surprise you. H e ’s always been people together to work toward a common goal. T h a t’s the main chal­ unique in a world filled with lots o f egos.” lenge— getting to work together with differences in training, differences In short, says Foster from his Minneapolis home, “He ’s the real deal.” in intelligence, and differences in temperament.” Duran deflects praise. H e ’s just the convener, he says. In 1974, Duran went to a similar challenge at a 2,000-bed hospital at “I’m a good surgeon. T h a t’s all.” the University of Cantabria in Santander, Spain. There, he started a heart transplant program and continued learning to get cardiologists and car­ Collaboration and Connection diac surgeons to work with each other while an active research program Among the first things Duran tells visiting specialists is that he wants also demanded his attention. them to question him. After General Francisco Franco died in 1975, hospitals came under “Repeat after me: I do not believe a word you say,” he tells them. the rule of the Communist Party. That eventually sent Duran looking for “Listen, but look, into it. If I get a guy who repeats what I say, what am I a new place to work. learning? W hy c a n ’t he have an idea better than mine? I just want to be “I d id n ’t like the system with the communists,” he says. “I disagreed in the right place so I can pinch your idea. Otherwise, i t ’s boring. with the way they were going.” “No one possesses the truth. I c a n ’t stand the person who possesses By then he had the idea o f an institute that brought together cardiol­ the truth.” ogists, surgeons, anesthesiologists, and scientists interested in the heart. The challenge, the intellectual jousting and sparring produce a whole “You put them all together, i t ’s very, very rich,” he says. “The link is th a t’s greater than the sum o f the pieces, he says. not your specialty, your training. The link is what y o u ’re interested in, “Creation is a fascinating topic,” he says. “How does that happen?” what y o u ’re good at.” Some of D u ra n ’s best ideas have ripened over informal coffee. Once, In 1988, the Saudis lured Duran to King F a isa l’s 650-bed hospital in he met an expert in ocean waves at a pub whose work illuminated a Riyadh with the request that had become the theme o f his career: make problem in the aortic valve. Duran was so excited he took the man back a single department out of disparate groups of surgeons, cardiologists, to the hospital lab to apply their thinking late into the night. intensivists, and other heart specialists. Money was no object. The sys­ “It was so fruitful— new vistas in something I’d been looking at for tem was authoritarian, so the things Duran needed were simply ordered years,” he says. “Th e r e ’s great intellectual pleasure in that sort o f clicking.” up. H e and his wife, Begonia Gometza, also a physician, lived in a villa One of the models for Duran are the twice-weekly case meetings of on the hospital grounds. They devoted themselves to work. It was, the cardiac surgeons at the Heart Institute. Every Monday at 7 a.m., Duran says, “Fantastic.” they meet to discuss the w e e k ’s cases. In this case, should you operate? Is But the work of creating collaboration has never been easy, he says. there something else to think of? O n Friday morning at seven, they meet “Physicians have been trained all over the world to make decisions again. What happened here? What did you learn? Sometimes the pas­ on their own, to be independent,” he says. “Initially, there is reluctance sionately defended position o f Monday morning has melted into another from the guy who has been all his life on his own. And t h e r e ’s a suspi­ view altogether. cion: What is this guy going to do? H ow much is he going to interfere “Little by little, the indications becom e homogenized,” Duran says. with my work? To get them all together requires a certain amount of “It ’s the mind o f everybody. N ot just one guy. I t ’s much better for the humility.” patient.” The research benefits too. It is translational, meaning it goes from the | science bench to the p a t ie n t ’s bed. In other places, that can take years. But in Missoula, the bench is very close to the bed— just across the Clark Fork River that winds through Missoula, past cam- | pus, and the hospital. “If the scientist is a long way from I the bed, i t ’s much more difficult,” Duran [ says. “You d o n ’t meet, you d o n ’t talk.” Duran began to see the need for

I collaboration in the cardiac world in Dr. Carlos Duran looks through a m icroscope I “*s first job. After he spent fourteen alongside Albert Grobe, w ho received his PhD | years in post-graduate training in Paris, from UM (above); Dr. Matt Maxwell speaks I Madrid, and at Oxford University in candidly with his colleague (right).

MONTANAN SPRING 2007 19 Among D u ran ’s long associations is his relationship with Medtronic. In the 1970s, when Duran began using the Duran Ring to repair mitral What does the International valves, nurses made the ring to order in the operating room. It worked, Heart Institute do? Plenty! but it took time in a stressful situation. D u ra n ’s friend Warren Hancock of Hancock Laboratories picked it up and started manufacturing it. wBf. Carlos Duran holds a Medtronic, founded by electrical engineer Earl Bakken, who invented HERE'S A SNAPSHOT: bovine arterial conduit that | the first wearable, transistorized pacemaker, wound up with the prod­ Founded: 1995 is used in place of human uct through acquisitions. Still the manufacturer of the Duran Ring, (issue in h$yftfeperations. Medtronic helps fund visits by cardiac specialists to Missoula. Best known for: heart-valve repair using natural tissues D u ran ’s collaborative model works for industry too, Foster says. “We can be a center of excellence by integrating across the boundar­ Number of open-heart surgeries Research fellows: Since 1995, the ies,” he says, “by involving ourselves with research and with clinicians.” performed per year: about 450 (80 International Heart Institute of Montana One of the Heart Institute’s ongoing projects recently brought in percent in Missoula, 20 percent in Foundation has hosted fifteen research Kalispell) fellows from eight countries. a $1.7 million federal grant. The money will fund testing of a sterile, freeze-dried replacement conduit developed in Heart Institute labora­ Number of patients in the Cardiac Surgeons from forty-seven countries tories and patented. The invention is revolutionary for use in difficult Catheterization Lab: more than 2,500 have attended the Heart Institute's per year trauma settings, such as combat, where an injured p a tie n t’s survival and sixteen annual Rocky Mountain Valve Symposiums. the recovery of arms and legs depend on restoring blood flow after vital Patients have com e from thirty- blood vessels are damaged. The tissue-engineered replacement conduits six states— including Alaska and will be easy to transport, store, and rehydrate. They will be made in a Hawaii— and three Canadian prov­ DID YOU KNOW? inces, Australia, Singapore, and variety of sizes and strengths. Tests with animals show that the p a tie n t’s Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of Honduras; 91 percent are from western own cells accept and grow around the grafts. women as well as men. M ore women and central Montana. die of heart disease than o f all cancers Continuing D u ra n ’s Legacy A ge of oldest patient: 94 combined. Today the Heart Institute and its Foundation face a new challenge: A ge of youngest patient: 1 O ne in four adults in the United States D u ra n ’s retirement. While he d o e sn ’t expect to leave all involvement has high blood pressure (hypertension).; with the Institute and his work, he will turn seventy-five on his next Patients are 74 percent male, 26 per­ O f these, only 27 percent are on ade­ birthday, and h e’d like time for other things. I t ’s time-consuming being cent female. quate therapy. Hypertension increases the workload of the heart and can a professor and chair of Cardiovascular Sciences at UM, medical director O f all surgeries, 63 percent are dam age other organs in the body. of the Heart Institute and a surgeon there, and president and CEO of the planned, and 27 percent are emergen­ International Heart Institute of Montana Foundation. cies for patients who need immediate People with diabetes are two to four surgeries for unstable angina, heart Duran and his wife have seven children who live around the world, times more likely to develop cardiovas­ attack, trauma, and other conditions. cular disease. and th ey ’d like to visit them. They are devoted sailors, and Duran wants to sail a trawler up the Inside Passage to Alaska. He wants to take time Percent mortality for isolated Coronary Since 1991, the prevalence of obesity over a Saturday-morning bagel and prosciutto, watch football, and Artery Bypass Graft procedures in am ong American adults has increased 2005: 0 marvel at the mountains while he fills his car with gas. The decision is 75 percent. made, he says. “I feel much more relaxed. I ’ve been telling the young Years St. Pat's rated as a Top 100 Nearly five million Americans currently people, ‘Hey, man, I’m not etern a l.’” Heart Hospital in the nation: 1999, live with congestive heart failure, with U M ’s $100 million Invest in Discovery campaign includes $2.5 2001, 2005, 2006 550,000 new cases diagnosed each year. million for an endowed chair in cardiovascular sciences to perpetuate Premier Award for Quality: 2005 for D u ra n ’s legacy. The Heart Institute Foundation is intimately involved in Acute Myocardial Infarction; 2006 for Source: International Heart Institute, 2007. the fundraising and the search, along with a committee of distinguished Coronary Artery Bypass Graft local residents. At the same time, the collaborators are working to recruit a new dans and scientists,” says Forbes. “We’ll need somebody who is able to senior scientist. operate on both sides of the river. Change is with us." “We’re in the middle of a very vigorous crusade,” Grund says. Duran, President Dennison says, w on ’t be distant. The person who sits in the endowed chair must be a convener, above all. I m hoping he 11 continue to provide advice and help with the But he or she will have to be thought of in a different way, says course, Dennison says. I m pretty much committed to making sure Maxwell. that happens.” “We have to say, ‘Look, w e’ll never have another Carlos. We will n ever,”’ he says. “All the elements to be something very special are still Ginny Merriam '86 is a freelance journalist who lives in here. We are going to have to do this in a different way. I t ’s going to Missoula. An award-winning reporter for the Missoulian fo r 20 have to be even more collaborative, less personality-based.” years, she currently is the communications director for the City of “It needs to be a person who is able to interact well with both clini- Missoula.

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FACULTY POSITIONS in front o f you,” Lindsey Chair in Cardiovascular Sciences • $8.8 said, describing the effect Chair in Neurosciences • John J. MILLION of finally being immersed Craighead Chair in Wildlife Biology • Kittredge Visiting Professorship in the culture she had been in Creative Writing • T. Anthony studying about for years. Pollner Distinguished Professorship • General Faculty Support Students in the study- abroad program stay with host families and are The cathedral in Salamanca is a popular tourist attraction. On their visit there, Lindsey Meyers (left) PROGRAM SUPPORT separated from each other so they have to rely and her friend and fellow UM senior, Erica Keetan, Academic Programming • on their own abilities. “I was with a family absorbed som e of the local history. Technology • Mansfield Library that did not speak English, so I had to speak Holdings • Professional Development • Outreach Efforts • Other UM Programs Spanish with them the whole time.” It was a challenge Lindsey was well prepared for, and

RENOVATED AND NEW FACILITIES it gave her a chance to put her knowledge to young people from at least thirteen countries. Alumni Development Center • work “and allow myself to really appreciate the "The only language that we all had in common Don Anderson Hall • Gilkey Center world outside of the classroom. The experience was Spanish, so w e ’re all speaking a second lan­ for Executive Education • Hall of Champions • Law Building Addition • was far beyond just speaking Spanish.” guage, com ing together from all different parts Montana Museum of Art & Culture • The program took Lindsey to the city of of the world, and w e ’re hanging out. It was Native American Center • Pharmacy Salamanca in western Spain, but she says, incredible.” Biomedical Addition • Phyllis J. Washington Education Center “I was also interacting on a daily basis with Lindsey also has traveled and studied in people from all over the world.” Recalling a Siberia and China, but Spain struck a nerve. night when a group of international students “I’d really like to go back. I t ’s like when you www.discoveryneverends.org gathered for a special dinner, she counted find the place that finally fits you— that was Spain.” Of her overall experience with the program and her occasional adventurous side FOUNDATION MOURNS LOSS OF PAUL WILLIAMS trips, she says, “It was educational, but it was also something that meant a lot to me, and the he trustees and staff of the UM Foundation are mourning the untimely death of board only reason it was really possible is because I Ttreasurer Paul Williams. Williams died at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula on January 15. received this scholarship.” He was seventy-two. Originally from the East Coast, Williams immersed Douglas ’64 and Dianne Taylor o f Tucson, himself in Montana, the University, and its academic and athletic programs Arizona, created this study abroad scholarship from the time he and his wife, Suzy, moved to Kalispell in 1998. as their campaign commitment. During his Williams was first elected to the Foundation board in 2002 and years as international manager for occupational became treasurer at the board meeting last fall. Prior to assuming the posi­ health and environmental safety products for tion of treasurer, he chaired the Investment Committee and led changes in the 3M Company, he saw firsthand what an the Foundation's investment policy. He is succeeded as treasurer by Chuck advantage it was in international business envi­ Bultmann, a 1966 graduate of the UM School of Business Administration. ronments to be fluent in the local language. Bultmann lives in Colleyville, Texas. L in d se y ’s experience fit their purpose exactly.

22 SPRING 2007 MONTANAN PHOTO OF YOUNG WOM EN IN SALAMANCA COURTESY OF LINDSEY MEYERS; PHOTO OF WILLIAMS BY TODD GOODRICH UM FOUNDATION

Charlie Oliver is 2007 Bucklew Awardee FROM THE CAMPAIGN CHAIR he momentum of UM's his­ ith the zeal of a convert, Charlie ments and its students’ and Ttoric $100 million campaign WOliver, the 2007 recipient of the Neil fa c u lty ’s successes. “We were continues to build. And student S. Bucklew Presidential Service Award, has absolutely astounded at what callers who work the phones for adopted Montana as home, embraced the UM had produced, com­ the Excellence Fund are a big University for its mission, achievements, and pared to what larger univer­ reason why. Stefanie Kiemele future, and h e ’s not shy about making his feel­ sities with greater resources says the alumni she speaks with ings known. had accomplished. The are "very interested in what's Deborah Doyle Since it was established in 1987, the bottom line for Montana is going on in Missoula right now." McWhinney Bucklew Award has acknowledged Montanans ‘with a little, you get a lo t , ”’ Oliver said. The senior in marketing says she who make extraordinary efforts to communi­ As he accepted the award from UM enjoys the interaction with former students. cate the University’s strengths and relay back Foundation President and CEO Laura Brehm She also has fun comparing notes with alum­ to UM the hopes and concerns Montana resi­ at the Charter Day observance in February, ni like John Frederikson '78 who says, "It's dents have for this institution. Oliver said it had been easy for him and great to hear that kids are still having some Oliver, who now lives in Hamilton with his Charlotte to get involved with the University. of the same positive experiences that I had wife, Charlotte, has lived and traveled all over “Over time, I have learned that the more you during my school days." the world and has seen— both in the United give, the more you get. We have gotten so Along with the other student States and abroad— that higher education is much from UM.” callers, Stefanie includes infor­ the key factor in economic success, politi­ Oliver, a trustee emeritus of the UM mation about UM's campaign in cal stability, and quality of life. When a UM Foundation and member of the four-per­ her conversations and lets people alum introduced Charlie and Charlotte to the son cabinet for the Invest in Discovery cam­ know how they can join more University during the Ensuring a Tradition of paign, designated the Davidson Honors than 25,000 others who have Stefanie Excellence campaign of the 1990s and they got College, where the couple also have a named already "invested in discovery." Kiemele to know more about it, they became believ­ Presidential Scholarship, as beneficiary of the John says, "It's important to ers and enormously proud of U M ’s achieve­ $1,500 Bucklew Award scholarship. know that my annual gift to the School of Education is also part of a larger effort." Gifts to the Excellence Fund count toward UM's cam­ Center Will House Innovations in Business paign and are integral to the school's and the University's vitality. wenty-first century ideas are best presented Northwest, he was taken with the idea of a I've always said, "It's all about the students," T in a twenty-first century environment. facility where students could develop entre­ and that "this campaign has a place for every­ Having an adequate facility to train business preneurial skills to build the economic base of one." Please follow John's example and recon­ leaders for today and tomorrow was a motivating the region. Harold Gilkey, Bill notes, is one of nect with a student to get a fresh perspective factor for William G. ’65 and Cheryl Saari Papesh those people— someone who has a good sense of on how you can help with UM's campaign and 66 of Spokane to make a campaign gift for the what it takes to promote and support a vibrant make tomorrow's discoveries possible. Gilkey Center for Executive Education in the business community. School of Business Administration. “Return on investment is what business Deborah Doyle McWhinney Bill has made his career in the invest­ people look for at the end of the day,” Bill National Campaign Chair ment and banking industry in Washington. said, “and this facility is a good investment. As someone closely connected with assisting The school, under Dean Larry Gianchetta’s small business and entrepreneurs in the Pacific leadership, and with the support of people like of global business leaders. Harold and Priscilla Gilkey, has a history of Investing in buildings where students and achievement. The business school already has faculty can thrive and expand their intellectual demonstrated its capabilities, and an enhanced horizons is important to the Papeshes. “While facility will make it even stronger.” it is very true that bricks and mortar alone do Need for the center was based not merely on not make an institution, it is absolutely essen­ a growing student population, but also on the tial for students to have facilities that encour­ importance of knowledge transfer in a mod­ age them to achieve,” Bill said. ern age. Designed for collaboration in modern For their gift to the campaign and the teaching and learning environments, the center Gilkey Center, the atrium in the center will be will be a training ground for a new generation named for Bill and Cheryl Papesh.

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CAMPUS OPENS TWO NE\\ The front of the new Skaggs Building addition (left); the interior of the Native American Journalism Center (middle); detail tilework along the base of the Skaggs addition (right).

chool of Journalism Dean Jerry Brown dresses like MOVING ON UP Sdeans are supposed to dress. His tweed jackets and The Skaggs Building addition is the second major construction project on the thin ties paired with sizable glasses and a bushy beard building in the twenty-first century. An addition was finished on the then- perfectly fit the academic stereotype. That is, until Pharmacy/Psychology Building in 2000, and planning for the next phase the last few years, when Brown got his hard hat. began almost immediately, says David Forbes, dean of the College o f Health Professions and Biomedical Sciences. The dean has been spotted more than a few times After the first addition, the building was renamed for drug-store-magnate- tooling around his current office— which h asn’t turned-philanthropist L.S. “Sam” Skaggs, whose ALSAM Foundation donated undergone construction for seventy years— in a white to the first and second construction projects. Other major private donors to the safety hat. H e ’s about to leave or just returning from new addition include the Jack Poe family. the controlled calamity of construction across campus The new section primarily will be lab space for faculty and graduate student at Don Anderson Hall, the massive project Brown has research, a burgeoning portion o f the s c h o o l’s raison d ’etr e . “If you want an overseen for the vast majority of his time at UM and active faculty with a productive scholarship program, part o f the equation is the new home of the journalism school. space,” Forbes says. Y ears of construction detours, noisy equipment, The research program has been so successful that in the 20 06 rankings for and muddy sidewalks on two parts of campus will total amounts of grants and contracts awarded, UM placed seventh among all pharmacy schools in the nation overall and fifth per capita. In both rankings UM was the highest-ranked program in states without medical schools. BUILDINGS THIS SPRING “Th a t’s tall cotton to be in,” Forbes says, cautioning that the new lab space w o n ’t mean a leap in ranking, but rather will keep UM on pace with much larger, better-funded institutions. “Everyone else is m oving up, too,” he says. But it would be hard to argue disappear all at once this spring, ushering in a new that anyone has moved up farther or faster than UM. look and a new era for two of U M ’s most well- Money for the addition is split down the middle, with $7 million coming respected and successful programs. from a federal grant and private donations and $7 million from general revenue The College of Health Professions and Biomedical bonds, meaning the school has to pay that money back over time. Sciences will unveil the new 60,000-square-foot Because of that, Forbes says the school is “not doubling in enrollment or addition to the Skaggs Building, and the School of anything,” but rather will be able to get researchers in more appropriate spaces Journalism will dedicate Don Anderson Hall, both and most likely will see an increase in productivity. during Commencement week. “It ’s a really fun thing to go to national meetings and talk to deans,” Forbes says. “We used to be the bottom of the barrel and had accreditation difficulties; The two buildings have been the centerpieces now we take a backseat to no one. I t ’s far better than I could have dreamed we of a campus construction boom. President George would be,” he says. Dennison frequently jokes in public that he has an edifice complex and that UM leaders a ren ’t happy NEW BUILDING, SAME VALUES unless at least one corner of campus is under con­ The day before the School of Journalism sets a new crop o f journalists upon struction at all times. the world at commencement, it will dedicate a new home in the massive Don Anderson Hall, situated across the Oval from the structure built to house the Don Anderson Hall: The ceiling of the Native American Journalism program in 1936. Center is adorned with a large circle o f wooden beam s radiating “I’m generally stunned by the beauty o f it,” Brown says. outward (top); leaf patterns decorate the opaque glass in the building Don Anderson, for whom the building is named, is best known for organiz­ (middle); the building's oriel sprouts seven posts, which represent the ing the Lee Enterprises’ purchase of a number of Montana newspapers from coming together of the Native people from the seven reservations in the Anaconda Copper Mining Company in 1959. Anderson, a Gallatin Valley Montana (bottom left); natural stonework decorates the floor of the native, spent his professional life in Wisconsin, but served as president o f Lee building's Native American Journalism Center (bottom right).

PHOT9 OF SK A G G S BY STEVE H O CK IN G ; AIL OTHER PH O T O S BY TO D D GO O D R IC H MONTANAN SPRING 2007 25 Newspapers in Montana until it was folded into the main company. His obituary in 1978 referred to him as the “Abraham Lincoln of Montana jour­ nalism” for his work in liberating Montana papers from their corporate stran­ glehold. The 57,000-square-foot building will bring the schools print, photo, and radio-television depart­ ments back under the same roof for the first time in thirty years, a cru­ cial move because of the increasingly multimedia nature of the industry, Brown says. Funds for the facility have come almost exclu­ An aerial photo shows the new addition to the sively from private donors, Skaggs Building (above); the southeast corner a feat that can in no small o f the Skaggs Building addition juts skyward. part be attributed to Researchers had a hand in the design of the new B row n ’s Mark Twain-type open lab space inside the structure (right). personality and tireless efforts, though he deflects much of the credit. “The timing was right,” he says. “As I look back over eight years, differ very little from its beginning in Army surplus tents almost one- i t ’s a moving and even miraculous coming together of many positive hundred years ago. forces. I just had the luck to be here when it all came together.” “The mission h asn ’t changed since 1914,” he says. “We d o n ’t want Or, in a sentiment more typical of the Alabama-born dean: “There to become a school of delivery systems; this is a place for journalists to were lots of ripe apples when I got here," he says. “I just shook the tree.” know their place in democracy.” A lot of apples, in fact. Brown says the donor list stands at about two Much of the s c h o o l’s illustrious history will make the cross-campus hundred, with significant contributions coming from A n d erso n ’s daugh­ trek. The horseshoe table, a centerpiece in the memories of many J-school ter and son-in-law, Sue and John Talbot of Missoula. John Talbot, former alums, will be in the new faculty conference room, albeit a few feet publisher of the M issoulian and longtime UM adjunct journalism faculty shorter. The enormous antique linotype machine and the friezes from the member, also was a Lee colleague of A nderson’s, as was Lloyd Schermer, d ea n ’s office also will adorn the new building. who along with his wife, Betty, also made a substantial contribution to The old Journalism Building will be a “swing space” for a few years to the building. Schermer is the former president of Lee Enterprises, which accommodate people displaced by other construction projects, says Bob also made a sizeable donation, as did the Howard Charitable Foundation Duringer, vice president for Administration and Finance. Eventually it, and philanthropist Margaret Tse. too, will be renovated. The Pollner family, known for supporting an endowed visiting But the students and faculty making the move remain the foundation professorship each year in honor of their late son, J-school graduate T. of the program. Brown says. Anthony Pollner, made a gift to fund a suite of offices for the Montana “People are aware of the connection between the mission of this school Kahn in in his memory. and the quality of publications,” he says. “I believe this school sets a Situated between Jeannette Rankin Hall and the Social Science model for what professional schools ought to be doing.” Building, Anderson Hall is in a perfect location for budding journalism professionals, Brown says. “Journalists are supposed to be at a crossroads where human interests and institutional interests intersect.” A lex Strickland '06 is a graduate o f the UM School o fJournalism. But multi-million dollar facility or not. Brown insists the school will He currently works as a news editor with University Relations.

26 SPRING MONTANAN AERIAL PHOTO BY STEVE HOCKING; SKAGGS PHOTO BY TOOD GOODRICH Ab Alumni ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

P re sid e n t Michael J. McDonough 72 Dallas

President-elect Marcia Ellen Holland 76 Missoula

Vice President Patrick M. Risken '81 Spokane, WA

Past President Robert J. Seim '59 Missoula

Board of Directors David H. Bjornson 79, '85 Missoula Sharilyn McGuire Campbell '87 Redmond, WA Craig W. Crawford 79 Darien, CT Thomas J. Dimmer '85 Williamston, MI Linda Phillips Knoblock '64 Helena Dawn Craven Lochridge '85 THE CLASS OF 1966 gathered at Homecoming last October. The Alumni Association honors returning fortieth-year Missoula members each year during Homecoming. This fall w e welcom e back members o f the Class o f 1967. Fiftieth and sixtieth Keli Wenz McQuiston '00 class reunions are held during Commencement in May. Members o f the Class of 1966 include from left to right front row: Missoula Marty Ueland, Chita W ine Miller, Kenneth A. Willett, Alene Hollingsworth Tunny, Kathy Rand Minster, Carolyn Dusek Jette, James A. Messina '93 Shari Livingston Dayton, Norma Sandberg Mason, Judy Rogers Papousek, Kaycee Clausen Schilke, Cheryl Hutchinson, Takoma Park, MD Tom Tutt, Berma Saxton, Bob Fulton, Peggy Rismon, Jim Christensen, Jack Noble. Lori Salo Morin 76, '81 Missoula Back row: Dan Gratton, Jocelyn J. Tyler, Dan Rothlisberger, Don Loranger, Louise Snyder Krumm, Carla Boettcher, Don Susan Pirrie-Munsinger '90 Krumm, Chuck Bultmann, Tom Huffer, Bill Ellison, Guy Hatlie, Jerry Slezak, Bob Green. Kalispell Geannine T. Rapp '92 Great Falls I Keep Us Posted! Send your news to University of Washington. “I remain Alumni Award in 1982.] Guy Wesley Rogers '81, '85 II Betsy Holmquist, The University o f vitally interested in everything, espe­ CECELIA MUELLER SOLICH ’40, Billings I: Montana Alumni Association, Brantly cially outer space exploration, and I received a degree in pharmacy from Robert D. Ross 71 I Hall, Missoula, M T 59812. Better forever continue to make suggestions UM, as did her daughter, SUSAN Salt Lake City e-mail your news to support@ for its improvements and interpreta­ SOLICH BOLTON 76. Susan’s daugh­ Bernd A. Schulte '65 I ' KlMontanaAlumni.org, fa x it to 406- tions,” he writes. Jay celebrates his ter, NICOLE SUZANNE BOLTON Ocean Ridge, FL 1243-4467, or call 1-877-UM-ALUMS ninety-third birthday this April. ’07, will receive her doctorate in Michael J. Sheldon '86 I (877-862-5867). Material in this issue pharmacy in December. Cecelia is a Los Angeles Zane G. Smith '55 I reached our office by February 15, 2007. retired pharmacist from the Veterans Springfield, OR Administration Hospital and lives ’40 s Gregory K. Stahl '82 VERNA GREEN SMITH ’40, writes, in Helena. Susan is a pharmacist at Missoula ribs “How I wish I could have been with Benefis Healthcare in Great Falls. Marcia Holmes Yury '62 JAY ELLIS RANSOM ’34, Prescott, you for Homecoming. Alas, I d on ’t Laguna Beach, CA Arizona, has published The Poets travel much anymore. However, if MILDRED SEMRUA GARRETT 46, d u b and My Life as a Free Lance I’m still around in 2010, I ’m going and BEV R. GARRETT '47, Houston, Alumni Office Anthropologist, which contain his to be there for my seventieth class Texas, write, “At eighty-one and Bill Johnston 79,'91 encounters with M ontana’s Flathead reunion! I was delighted that a St. eighty-six, we enjoy being near our Executive Director •Salish Indians. Born in Missoula, Louisan—Steve Petersen—was select­ daughter and her husband. We both ilay went on to receive advanced ed as a Distinguished Alumni. I have have very happy memories of ‘MSU,’ degrees in anthropology, psychol­ sent him a note of congratulations.” now The University of Montana. ALUMNI Iogy. and education at UCLA and the [Verna received a Distinguished Go Grizzlies!” The Garretts sent ASSOCIATION ^ ° T O BY TODD GO O D R IC H MONTANAN SPRING 2007 27 [TALUMNI an article from the University of is a past president of the Montana L’Ore a l in Chicago, Karen contacted We looked behind us and there was Delaware announcing the February Trial Lawyers Association and the fellow Miles City native BARRY Benny the Bull. He jumped over the 2006 retirement of TOM B. BRILL Yellowstone County Bar Association. ANDERSON— U M ’s former Monte, seats and grabbed and hugged me. ’66 , after thirty-five years with the KAREN TORGRIMSON PRINTZ now Benny the Bull, mascot for the Everyone around was going crazy U D ’s Department of Chemistry. [Bev ’66 , M.Ed. 74, Chicago Bulls. Karen dropped the wanting to get pictures. He obliged Garrett received his Ph.D. in chem- recently retired Miles City card and the fact that her everyone. Then he pulled out a ‘Red jistry from UD in 1959-} T om Brill business teacher at high school graphic design students Bulls 1’ shirt, teased the people was cited for his teaching, research, M isso u la ’s Sentinel had used the “Monte— Mascot of around us with it, then threw it to mentoring, publications, and for the High School, still the Year” poster as a design project. m e!” In a follow-up e-mail to Karen, research support he has brought UD. enjoys her home­ Karen also mentioned where sh e ’d be Barry wrote, “It ’s always great to see Tom has also climbed most of the town Miles City sitting at that e v e n in g ’s Bulls/Knicks some Montana visitors in the crowd. n a tio n ’s highest peaks— including connections. Last fall while visit­ game. “During the third quarter,” It reminds me of home.” K a ren ’s Mount Whitney and Mount Rainier. ing her daughter, CORRIN PRINTZ Karen said, “we were suddenly get­ planning to frame the shirt for her LIPINSKI '99, an account manager for ting squirted with that string stuff. new home office in Billings. ’50 s RICHARD D. WOODS ’56 , Chicago, sent Little Man on Campus, a book of cartoons by Richard N. Bibler, that appeared regularly in the Kaimin during the 1950s. Richard attended Homecoming 2006 and enjoyed a mini-fiftieth reunion with other members of CHARTER DAY his class. HANK SCHLUETER ’58 , and SUSAN issoulian Sharon Puckett Palmer (above left) received this year's Montana Alumni Award from the UM BLAKE SCHLUETER 56, were MAlumni Association at Charter Day ceremonies February 15— UM's 114th birthday celebration. married fifty years on November For the past eight years, Sharon has coordinated UM's Homecoming parade, and for twenty years she's 2, 2006. They met square danc­ judged parade entries. She knows Missoula's downtown streets like the back of her hand. She knows where ing with the Royaleers. Hank and to place marching bands, dancing divas, and prancing horses. Sharon knows when to be tough with an Sue celebrated their anniversary entry that doesn't quite want to follow the rules. And she always knows when to bring along a box of donuts with their children, grandchildren, as a thank you. and great-grandchildren at a sum­ A Great Falls native who attended UM in the early '70s, Sharon worked in the alumni office for five mer gathering at Fairmont Hot years, serving as office manager, program coordinator, and once as a tour guide to Ireland. Five years ago Springs. The Schlueters then enjoyed Sharon becam e a licensed real estate agent and today works for Lambros Realty. Her community volunteer a Russian cruise, traveling between hours are legend. She's a past president for the Friends to Youth board of directors. She currently serves on St. Petersburg and Moscow. They recently settled in Battle Ground, both the advisory board and the foundation board for Community Medical Center, as well as on the board Washington, to be near family. of directors for the Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce and the UM rodeo team. For twenty years Sharon has attended Sentinel Kiwanis meetings, serving as secretary, vice president, president, and lieutenant gov­ ernor. She's raised two daughters, Amanda Pesce Sentell and Courtney Pesce, who've both attended UM. ’60 s Two-year-old grandson TJ. Sentell is the newest Grizzly in the family. Sharon and her husband, Jim Palmer, The Class o f 1967 w ill celebrate its haven't missed a Grizzly football gam e in years, frequently traveling out of town to cheer on their team. fortieth class reunion at Homecoming Sharon's connections to UM and Missoula are as deep as her willingness to serve. Her smile is as huge as this September. Check our Web pages her heart. Thank you, Sharon, for all you've done for the Alumni Association, UM, and the Missoula commu­ fo r ticket and event information: wunv. nity. W e couldn't bring you enough donuts if we tried. UMontanaAlumni.org All recipients honored at Charter Day ceremonies are pictured in the photo above right: Harry Fritz, RICHARD W. ANDERSON '60, J.D. ’62 , Billings, retired after chair, UM Department of History, the Robert T. Pantzer Award; Sharon Palmer, Montana Alumni Award; sixteen years on the bench as U.S. David Sherman, associate professor, UM Department of Philosophy, the Dennison Faculty Award; Charlie Magistrate. Richard presided over the Oliver of Hamilton, trustee emeritus of the UM Foundation, the Neil S. Bucklew Presidential Service Award; high-profile Freemen cases, and more Karen "Kelly" Chadwick, gardener, University Center, the Dennison Staff Award; Kevin Flynn, UM senior recently, the coal-bed-methane devel­ majoring in Native American studies, the ASUM Student Service Award; and James Hirstein, research pro­ opment in southeastern Montana fessor, UM Department of Mathematics, the Montana Faculty Service Award. and northern Wyoming. Richard

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30 SPRING 2007 MONTANAN ALUMNI LETTER FROM THE ALUMNI DIRECTOR dean of educa- Great Falls Division of federal courts tion at Harrington of Montana. Keith has practiced at arly graduates had the vision to orga- I College of Design Dorsey and Whitney in Great Falls nize former students of The University E in Chicago, received since 1988. He and his wife, of Montana. The result was that in 1901 the 2006 Chapter Sjjja, JUDITH SEIDENSTICKER STRONG UM founded one of the first alumni asso­ Educator Medalist 70, have two children, Rikki, a ciations at a public university in the Pacific I Award from the junior at Harvard, and Zach, a first- Northwest. W e now celebrate this extraor- Illinois Chapter year law student at UM. dinary vision as we contemplate new chal- of the American Society of Interior TIM R. LINDSEY 75, principal lenges faced by the Alumni Association in Designers. Sue was noted for her of Lindsey Energy and Natural the twenty-first century. outstanding service to interior design Resources Consulting in Houston, Alumni are critical to the long-term education and to the profession of Texas, was appointed to the Daybreak success and growth of the University. In addition to planning interior design. A featured speaker Oil and Gas Inc., Board of Directors, for community and professional orga- Tim also is on the board of directors Homecoming (first held in 1919), the association organizes lectures, nizations, she writes, presents semi- for the Challenger Energy Corp. of class reunions, gatherings for UM alumni worldwide, Charter Day nars, and updates Web sites for the Calgary, Alberta. He has more than activities, satellite coverage of Griz-Cat football games, student design industry. thirty years of technical and executive scholarships and internships, and much more. W e also ask alumni, WILLIAM L. MCCHESNEY 70, Miles leadership in the energy business. delegates, and board members to advocate for education by City, represented House District JACK L. MATTINGLY 75, 76 writes, encouraging citizens and legislators to increase their level of com­ 40 in the Montana Legislature this “I am completing my thirty-first mitment to higher education. year. Bill retired from the Montana year of teaching special education in The most recent challenge University leaders and association Department of Transportation in the Chinook schools. The past six members have decided to tackle is building an Alumni Center. While 2003 as district administrator after a years I have also been pastor at the we are one of the oldest alumni associations in our area, we are also thirty-two-year career. His oldest son, Methodist churches in Chinook and Sean, is a freshman at UM. Harlem.” the only one that does not have an Alumni Center. Approved by the J. A. KENDALL “KEN” SNELL 70, PHILIP A. MAY Ph.D. 76, professor University, the center is officially part of the UM Capital Campaign, M.S. 79, Hillsboro, Oregon, was of sociology and family and corn- and our goal is to raise money for the building to allow us to be even promoted to fire and aviation director munity medicine at the University more successful in the future. The site selected for the center is the ten­ for the Pacific Northwest Division of New Mexico, again brought a nis quarters north of the University Center. While we are a ways from of the USDA Forest Service. Ken research project to Montana. In breaking ground, there will be an opportunity for each and every has worked for the Forest Service for January his researchers began screen- former student to help us reach our goal. thirty-seven years. ing parentally approved first-graders W e appreciate past support and look forward to future support. WARREN “BILL” in the Great Falls Public Schools for Stay tuned for further information on how you can get involved in WEED JR. 70 is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, this exciting project. a consulting util- J | R “Most schools are dealing with these ity forester with m .'i 1 issues and either d on ’t know it or NSTAR Electric d on ’t have verification of what th ey’re in Westwood, dealing with,” Phil said. Researchers Massachusetts. also will provide diagnostic services He enjoys writing short articles and make recommendations for chil- I Bill Johnston for publication and personal enjoy- dren with the disorder, Alumni Association Director ment, hunting, skiing, and observ- DAVID E. IRWIN 79 is the owner ing nature. A retired Peace Corps and manager of Scientia, LLC, a full- volunteer, Bill was responsible for service water, soil, and environmental a forest tree nursery project in the testing laboratory in Stevensville. 70s ROBERT E. BOEH I high altiplano region of central Peru The business also provides environ- I BRUCE BENNETTS 70, is the new 70, is senior during 1965-67. He was recently mental monitoring systems, research, I general manager/C.O.O. of the vice president of H ** f ^ ^ B f in Missoula for the hundredth and planning services, I Farms Golf Club resources at Riley / JBk birthday party for Grace Johnston, ANDREW R. at Rancho Santa Fe Creek Lumber “with whom I roomed during my MORK 79, ’83, near San Diego. For Company in University days on East Beckwith Boise, Idaho, was the past ten years Sandpoint, Idaho. Avenue,” he writes. “No plans for named to a five- Bruce was general Bob also serves in the Intermountain retiring anytime soon,” Bill con- year term on the I manager/C.E.O. of Forest Association, is a member eludes. “I am having too much fun Idaho State Board the Napa Valley and past president of the Montana working!” He and his wife, Debbie, of Professional Country Club. He Wood Products Association Board of also are enjoying their new grand- Geologists. An I has been in the hospitality and club Directors, and belongs to the Society daughter, Caroline Elizabeth Weed. employee at Kleinfelder, Inc., Andy E business in California since his UM of American Foresters, KEITH STRONG 71, J.D. 74, was has been a geologic consultant for fc graduation. SUSAN LARSON KIRKMAN 70, named U.S. Magistrate Judge for the more than eighteen years. He has an vice president of academics and

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32 SPRING 2007 MONTANAN ITALUMNI extensive background in drilling and Community College Players, organized retired from teaching middle school live in Bozeman. “I married an MSU i logging techniques in soil and hard the annual Miles Community College science, Katharine has begun a new grad,” Nick continues. “We watch rock, in surface and subsurface geo­ Constitution Day, and written A Long profession as coordinator of environ­ football games from different loca­ logic interpretation, and in geophysi­ Way From Anywhere— A History o fMiles mental education with the California tions.” cal well logging. City, M T— For Kids. Her latest publi­ Regional Environmental Education SHELLEY KENITZER QUINN '89 and cation, Common Ground, a curriculum Community. She and her husband, JOE QUINN ’90 opened Quinn’s and cultural activity book written as Ben, have two children, Lucas and Wrap Shack in Poison. Joe, Shelley, ’80 s part of Montana’s Indian Education Darcy. and their daughters, Jordan, twelve, LAURIE BLAUNER for All Act, will be in print this year. GARY A. CARMICHAEL ’89 was and Dylan, ten, have lived in Poison M.F.A. ’80 , Seattle, Robin received her CASE award at a named Montana’s 2007 Teacher of for eleven years. Joe also teaches and published her sec­ November reception in Washington, the Year by the Montana Professional coaches in Charlo. ond novel, Infinite D.C. Teaching Foundation. A history Kindness, abouc a CHRIS KENNEDY M.A. ’84 , associ­ teacher at Whitefish High School, ’90 s nurse practicing ate professor of communication, has Gary credits his mother’s taking him NANCY J. COTTER LYONS ’90 , euthanasia in 1867 been appointed chair of the humani­ to Montana ghost towns and histori­ Ph.D. ’99 , Ewa Beach, Hawaii, is London. In January ties division at Western Wyoming cal sites as triggering his love for his­ the author of An Unlikely Foe: Celiac Laurie read from the novel and from Community College in Rock Springs. tory. Along with the other recipients, Disease Exposed. Her book is a finalist her fifth book of poetry, A ll This LISA M. Gary will meet President Bush at a in the “Best Books 2006” (general Could Be Yours, at the Richard Hugo FRANSEEN White House ceremony this spring health category) by USABookNews. House in Seattle. ’85 , M.A. ’92 , and attend International Space Camp com, the online magazine and review RON GILLET ’81 , Tempe, Arizona, Ph.D. ’96 , Traverse in Alabama in the summer. Web site for mainstream and inde­ received the Hugh O ’Brian Youth City, Michigan, is NICK EHLI ’89 is the editor-in-chief pendent publishing houses. Leadership Volunteer of the Year one of forty-four of Montana Quarterly magazine, MARC A. TITUS Award in November. A volun­ women featured in recently selected by the Western ’91 , Sedro Woolley, teer for twenty years with HOBY, The Courage Code, a recent publication Publication Association as the Washington, is the Ron was chosen from among four on new ways of looking at power and best new magazine west of the local wildfire pre­ thousand HOBY volunteers. He is courage. Lisa is in private practice as Mississippi. The magazine can be vention coordinator vice president of underwriting for a psychologist and provides holistic viewed at www.themontanaquarterly. for the Washington G)untrywide Full Spectrum Lending and earth-based therapy for teens and com. “Thanks to all of you folks State Department of and vice chairman of the HOBY adults. She offers college courses, and who make the Montanan possible,” Natural Resources. Board of Trustees. workshops, and writes articles on the Nick writes. “It’s lovely, well-done, Marc recently received the national RAYMOND J. DAYTON J.D. ’82 interconnectedness and empowerment and consistently makes me long Firewise Leadership Award for was sworn in as judge for the of the earth. for my days on campus.” Nick, his promoting a cooperative approach Third Judiciary District Court in KATHARINE M. HAVERT ’86 lives wife, Crystal, children Bridger and to reducing the loss of lives, prop­ Anaconda in December. Ray and his in Yucaipa, California. Recently Mackenzie, and their “big hairy dog” erty, and resources in the northwest wife, Michele, have three children, Washington wildland/urban interface. Amanda, Jessica, and Michael. MICHAEL D. FISHER ’93 , New York, KENTON A. SMITH ’82 writes from is vice president of Entertainment Sydney, Australia, “I am a wildlife Marketing and Sales for the Time biology graduate from the School Inc. Corporate Sales and Marketing of Forestry. I married an Australian Group. Mike helps shape entertain­ and have lived in Sydney for the past ment strategy for Time Inc.’s maga­ three years. I work for IBM as the zines and Web sites. Asia Pacific leadership consultant. MICHAEL J. My time is split between consulting, BURKE ’94 was executive coaching, and facilitating visiting family in leadership programs-a far cry from Livingston when the flannel shirts and hiking boots he auditioned for going to school at UM all those years the musical com­ ago!” edy She Loves Me ROBIN DAVETTE GERBER ’84 , at the Firehouse 5 90, M.A. ’91 , a history, social Theatre. Mike soon found himself in sciences, and humanities instruc­ SEAN J. MCNAMARA ‘96 received che U.S. Air Forces-Europe 2006 Fred the lead role of Steven Kodaly and tor at Miles Community College, Coleman Pharmacist of the Year Award. Captain McNamara and his wife, sharing the stage with UM alum and was selected as the 2006 Montana Stephanie Mackey, have been stationed at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey since Livingston resident GARY FISH '62, Professor of the Year by the U.S. December 2005. A member of the 39th Air Base Wing, 39th Medical during the December run of the pro­ Council for Advancement and Support Group, Sean has one year left on his tour. His parents, Barry and Laura duction. of Education (CASE). A Miles City McNamara of Helena, met Sean and Stephanie last fall in Ireland, where MICHAEL H. HODGES ’94 is the I "alive, Robin has directed the Miles Sean and his mother ran the Dublin Marathon. account executive/sales manager

MONTANAN SPRING 2007 33 ALUMNI for The Big Fish, ROBERT G. PUTZKER ’95 , a physi­ SPENCER FREDERICK ’01 , Billings, WhitefishRadio. cal therapist at Benefis Healthcare former Kaimin reporter BRAD com, Montana’s in Great Falls, received certification WILLES FJELDHEIM ’05 , traveling first Internet radio in mechanical diagnosis and therapy in Argentina, and recent grad BLAKE station. Log on to for the spine through the McKenzie FJELDHEIM ’06 , Lewistown. www.whitefishra- Institute International. A former U.S. dio.com to enjoy Forest Service smoke jumper, Robert interactive radio. became interested in the spine after a ’00 s parachuting injury. APRIL alumni for the University of Great ANDREW J. VELKEY II M.A. ’95 , SCHOTTELKORB Falls. To see more wedding photos, e- mail Jacob and Kristi at sidorkristi@ ALUMNI EVENTS 2 0 0 7 Ph.D. ’97 , associate professor of M.Ed. ’02 received psychology at Christopher Newport the American hotmail.com. University in Newport News, Counseling OCEANE WELDELE LEVINE 04 and MAY Virginia, was elected associate direc­ Association’s 2007 JEFFREY J. LEVINE ’04 , Wheaton, 10-12 Reunions, Classes of 1937, tor of Sigma Xi, the international Ross Trust Graduate Scholarship, Illinois, were married June 7, 2006, 1947, 1957 honor society of science and engi­ recognizing her as one of the top five in Coeur 12 Commencement neering. Andrew teaches statistics, counseling education students at the d’Alene, 17 Alumni Event, Las Vegas psychological research, methods, and doctorate level in the nation. April Idaho. They 18, 19 UMAA Board of Directors animal learning at CNU. He works is a third-year doctoral student and are pictured meeting, Las Vegas with grad students studying ter­ assistant director of clinical services here with 27-6/6 International travel: ritorial and aggressive responding at the Child and Family Resource Chutney, Russia in Siamese fighting fish. Andrew is Center at the University of North their Shih also the primary facilitator for Cafe Texas. She and her husband, RYAN Tzu, who JUNE Scientifique, an informal gathering of JOHNSON 03, live in Roanoke, served as the 19-27 International travel: Tidewater area citizens and scientists Texas. ring bearer/flower girl at the wed­ Dalmatian Coast who discuss recent developments in KRISTIN JANET BOTT 03 com­ ding. Oceane works for Whole Foods science and technology. pleted her Master of Science degree Market and Jeff is finishing his third JULY LEIGH R DICKS ’97 , Seeley Lake, in fisheries and wildlife at Michigan year of medical school. 2 Homecoming football runs Big Sky Nanny Network, plac­ State University in LUCIA RYAN STEWART ’04 is the tickets go on sale, UMAA ing nannies from across the country December. Kristin’s Bozeman editor for NewWest.net 19 UM night with the with client families in Montana. thesis research used and serves as the productions director Missoula Osprey Leigh began baby-sitting at twelve population genetics for Porterhouse Production. “It has SEPTEMBER and worked as a nanny throughout to analyze habitat taken me a while to find a placement 21-29 International travel: college and for several years following use, harvest mortal­ in my career that Ireland graduation. ity, and recruitment challenges me while 27- 28 House of Delegates meeting COLIN MELOY '98, Portland, of lake sturgeon providing me with 28- 29 Homecoming, Missoula Oregon, is lead singer, songwriter, throughout Lake Michigan. the lifestyle I want,” 28 Class of 1967 Reunion, and front man for the Decemberists, DEREK DONALD CROSIER 03 played Lucia writes. Lucia DAA Awards, Singing on “one of indie rock’s big success bass trombone on the movie soundtrack previously taught the Steps stories,” according to Rolling Stone for The Last Winter. A UM honors grad experiential adven­ 29 Parade, Griz vs. Weber magazine. The Decemberists lat­ in trombone performance, Derek is a ture with Outward State football est hit album. The Crane Wife, is graduate student at the Mannes School Bound in Utah and Colorado and was 30-10/2 UMAA Board of Directors Colin’s interpretation of a famous of Music in New York. founding editor of Outside Missoula meeting, Missoula Japanese folk tale. The band is back ADAM DE YONG ’03 , Helena, Magazine. Log on to what’s new in in the states after touring Europe in is project director for Workforce the Northwest at www.NewWest.net OCTOBER February and March. Log onto its Innovations in Regional Economic SARA SUSAN FORTHOFER ’05 and 13 Tailgate, Sacramento, CA Website to hear and see more: www. Development (WIRED). Montana’s LOREN E. LINNELL ’05 are plan­ 27 Tailgate, Flagstaff, AZ decemberists.com. WIRED region encompasses thirty- ning a July wedding at Missoula’s St. SARA BETH FJELDHEIM FREDERICK two counties and six reservations in Francis Xavier Catholic Church. Sara

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36 SPRING 2007 MONTANAN ALUMNI months old. Felicia’s dad, Robert VIRGINIA FARNSWORTH MAHRT M.A. '58, Cullowhee, NC Foote, founded the two-day event in ’46 , Missoula WILLIAM K. “BILL” GOOD ’58 , 1982. Today the 197-mile course, BARB SCHERRER COLEMAN ’47 , Helena from Mount Hood though Portland Helena KATHLEEN HARRIS LEATHERS ’58 , and the Coastal Range Mountains to ROBERT C. LINE ’47 , Missoula Surprise, AZ the Pacific Ocean at Seaside, attracts HERBERT “ROY” MANLEY ’47 , JACK L. LAJOIE ’60 , Medford, OR a record number of applicants. In Butte MARCIA PETERSON VOLLMER ’60 , 2007, 1,000 teams of twelve runners JOHN G. “JACK” BARROW ’48 , Helena will participate; more than 1,000 Chinook HAROLD LEE SHARKEY ’62 , teams will be turned away. Felicia JOHN C. “JACK” BEQUETTE ’48 , Missoula has run the course four times, but Benton City, WA MACK FOSTER HAMLIN '63, Lake is attending this year as a race orga­ GORDON HOWARD MATHESON ’48. Oswego, OR nizer. Dad is stepping down, and Conrad CAROLYN M. FROJEN '65, Missoula Felicia’s stepping in. On August JO ANN RYAN MILLER ’48 , Great RICHARD H. BOSWELL, M.S. ’67 , 25 at this year’s finish line “90,000 Falls Loves Park, IL people will celebrate the race with HELENA KALLGREN STREIT ’48 , DAVID E. MALONE ’67 , Ashby, WV the largest beach party on the West Missoula MARGARET STERLING MOORE ’68, Coast,” Felicia promises. KENNETH BENNINGTON ’49 , M.Ed. ’90 , Plantation, FL NICHOLAS CHAD DALESSI 06 MARY DURNIN FIRTH M.F.A. 06, Portland, OR DEBORAH TRENERRY GREBE '69, has taken a position with the Missoula, had her film, The Giving, KENNETH E. HICKEL ’49 , Billings Bemidji, MN Napa Police Department in Napa, accepted for inclusion in the 2007 CLARK LEAPHART ’49 , Windsor, ROBERT JOSEPH ENGLE '70, California. Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. CA Medina, WA Done as a master's thesis, the film JAMES J. MCARDLE,J.D. ’49 , GEORGE C. LADANYE ’70 , Arlee SARAH JUSTISS CHANDLER '37, follows five Montana women who Issaquah, WA JO THOMPSON RAINBOLT 71, Anchorage, AK placed their children up for adop­ DONALD E. NORDSTROM ’49 , Red Missoula PAMELIA FERGUS PITTMAN ’37 , tion. The Giving received Best Lodge PHILLIP C. TOURANGEAU 71, Jonesport, ME Documentary by a first-time film­ MAGGIE MARTIN RAPP ’49 , Missoula FREDERICK GEORGE BRUCE ’38, maker at the Lakedance International Boonton, NJ KATHLEEN MARIE DWYER 72, Glasgow Film Festival last August. View a LUCILE LOFLAND BOYD Butte JOSEPHINE BUERGEY ANDERSON trailer at www.thegiving.info. STRAUSSER ’49 , Goldsboro, NC GARY RAY PAGNOTTA 72, ’39 , Ramona, CA DONALD M. DURLAND ’50 , St. Stevensville CATHERINE MADDEN ’39 , Helena IN MEMORIAM Regis RODNEY GUY HOLDEN 75, Las DONALD W. SHARP '39, Mesa, AZ To be included in In Mmoriam, the DAVID DEAN FREEMAN ’50 , King Vegas LUCILLE HELEAN WAMSLEY '39, Alumni Association requires a newspa­ of Prussia, PA MICHAEL A. MEWS 75, Ashland, Missoula per obituary or a letter o f notification DARREL G. MINIFIE ’50 , M.A. ’51 , OR MATHIAS “MATT” HIMSL ’40 , from the immediate family. We extend Austin, TX GAYLE STONE PFLUEGER, M.A. Kalispeli sympathy to the fam ilies o f the following BENEDICT W.”BEN” VICARS ’50, 75, Green Valley, AZ KAY YOUNG REDDISH alumni, faculty, andfriends. ’40 , Fort Roundup TOMMIE LEE BROWN 76, Browning Benton DALE COX ’51 , J.D. ’52 , Billings MARIAN THOMPSON MAAS 76, RAE C. GREENE ’41 , Surprise, AZ JENNIE C. HEBBARD HELLINGER WILLIAM A. JOHNSTONE, M.Ed. Laurel RUDYARD CLUNE JENNINGS '41, '27, Shelby ’51 , Bozeman JOHN MICHAEL LADANYA 78, ’83 , Missoula duke swindlehurst WOOD 28, BARBARA JEAN BANGEMAN Kalispeli H. KLEIS LARSEN, Billings M.Ed. ’41 , HAGLUND ’52 , Spokane, WA MARY FRANCES HARRINGTON MARY “BECCA” GRIERSON Grants Pass, OR THEODORE B. “TED” TRAFFORD 78, Butte MAE RUTH BRUCE IRLE ALMOND ’30 , Billings ’43 , HAZELBAKER '52, Dillon BRETT MICHAEL MCPHERSON 79, Glasgow DOROTHY SCHULTZ VAN ALSTINE ROBERT L. KIRK ’54 , Kalispeli Billings JOHN ADAMS “JACK” MORGAN 31, Missoula ROBERT HARRY WALKUP 54, Lake DANIEL “DANO” BOBOTH ’80 , ROBERT F. “BOB” COONEY ’32 , '43, Redding, CA Oswego, OR Seattle GWENDOLYN ANDERSON Helena JAMES MCLEAN ’56 , Anderson, CA GEORGE E. BARRETT ’83 , Reno, WALLACE '43, Flower Mound, TX m arie HELEAN JOHNSON '33, ADDISON LEE CARLSON ’57 , San NV CHARLOTTE TOELLE BARKEN Auburn, WA ’44 , Jose, CA PAUL T. PETERSON ’85 , Missoula C. EUGENE SUNDERLIN 33, Missoula ELMER “E.J.” CAROSONE ’57 , M.A. MARGARET MARONICK SAMPLE Washington, DC JOHN STEPHENSON GROENE ’45 , ’61 , Anaconda ’86 , Missoula LEE “BUZZ” THIBODEAU ’33 , Boca Raton, FL ROBERTA HOLGATE DEHART ’57 , VIVIAN EVENRUDE PETEK ’89 , Ripon, CA PATRICIA LAKE O ’LOUGHLIN '45, Boise, ID Boise, ID Helena VERLA MAE WOODARD WILLS ’35 , SYLVIA B. LILLEHAUGEN, M.Ed. ALISON STEWART SMITH'MOSER Potomac J.D. “JEFF” WHITMER ’45 , ’57 , Grand Forks, ND ’94 , Whitefish FRANCES COPELAND SCHILLING Bloomfield FRANK X. CREPEAU ’58 , New York ROBERT L. “BOB” TYLER ’95 , 36, Billings KENNETH NORMAN BOE ’46 , M.F. ALBERT FRANKLIN GILMAN HI Missoula ’48 , Areata, CA

MONTANAN SPRING 2007 37 I ALUMNI MEMORIAM continued, Paxon Revel Williams to MARJORIE NELSON DANA '37, JAMES A. LOCHRIDGE '85, Missoula. GENEVIEVE A. COOK ’96 and Portland, OR BYRON J. M CBRIDE, Billings Dawson Williams, November 7, HOLLY S. DI MEGLIO ’88 , CAROLE MCBRIDE, Billings CARRIE ELIZABETH BENEDICT, 2006, Bethel, Alaska Anchorage, AK W ILLIA M P. M O C K '67, Billings ’98 , M.A. ’05 , Hamilton TIMOTHY P. DONOVAN ’89 , ELAINE L. MORSE 79, Havre MORGAN ASHLEY VOTH, ’99 , Georgia Grace Smith and Finn Missoula STEPHANIE MURPHY, Dillon M .S.W ’04 , Missoula Thomas Smith to M ATTHEW JOLYN E. EGGART '94, J.D. ’99 , WILLIAM C. MURPHY ’59 , Dillon H ED V IG R A PPE'FLO W ERS, 00, Helena DONALD R. NORMAN ’50 , Laurel, Bozeman A. SM IT H '96 and Lori Smith, November 15, 2006, Alameda, JOAN K. ELLIOTT ’04 , Sammamish, MS JOSHUA SCOTT MESSERLE 03, California WA JERRY C. OHM AN '63, Turlock, CA Coos Bay, OR B R A D T. FA RN SW O R TH '80, J.D. PATRICIA L. OLSON 72, Dallas PAUL A. RAFTERY, J.D. ’06 , Helena Simon James Beery to D E R E K ’86 , Spokane, WA PATRICK C. OLSON 79, San Mateo, LAWRENCE “BEVO” BEAVER, BEERY M.A. ’98 and KATIE JOHN R. FIDLER 76, Missoula CA Renton, WA COLLINS BEERY '05 November 22, CHRISTINE A. FOSTER '85, Seattle LOVINIA M. PLIMPTON, M.A. ’94 , JEANNE CHIVERS BUSHNELL, GARY G. GALLAHER '63 Orinda, CA Ph.D. ’99 , Missoula Helena 2006, Missoula PETER G. GRAF 71, Missoula JAMES W. POWELL ’81 , Tampa, FL SHIRLEY BEAUCHAMP BUSTELL, JEANINE GAUTIER GREEN 72, TONYA M. RAWIE ’96 , Brookings, Billings Aluna Sabina to JASON GUTZMER ’98 and Penelope Banquero, January Whitefish OR GWINN DYRLAND CLAPP, Glendive 24, 2007, Missoula KENNETH H. GREEN 70, Whitefish BRITT REED '97, Welford, SC HOWARD BLAINE DROLLINGER, A M A N D A M. HA LV ERSON 00, R A Y M O N D M. R E N N IE 78, Pismo Westchester, CA Jacksonville, FL Beach, CA T H O M A S J. FITZPATRICK, Hudson, NEW LIFE MEMBERS JAMES T. HARRISON '61, J.D. ’64 , DENNIS K. ROBINSON 78, M.B.A. ;NH The following alumni and friends have Surprise, AZ ’83 , Idaho Falls, ID DONALD L. GILLESPIE, Butte made a commitment to the future o f the W IL L A R D I. H A R T '57, Sacramento, CAROLYN LAWS-ROOS, Ovando JONATHON PAUL KOVASH, Deer UM Alumni Association by becoming life CA PAUL S. ROOS, M.Ed. ’90j Ovando Lodge members. You can join them by calling PAMELA A. HILLERY 88, Havre SHELLY THOMPSON RUSH '84, LOIS SHATTUCK LARSEN, Glasgow 877-862-5867 or by visiting our Web L EW B. H IN ES '58, Billings Phoenix JOHN F. LAWRY, Palo Alto, CA site: www.UMontanaAlumni.org. The BRANDIE THEISEN HOFMEISTER JOHN C. SCHULTE, J.D. ’85 , JACQUELINE LEWIS, San Jose, CA Alumni Association thanks them for their ’95 , Anchorage, AK Missoula EDNA BEAVERS NEWGARD, support. JUSTIN M. H O K IN ’98 , Darien, CT PATTI SCHULTE, Missoula Missoula DAN R. HOWARD, J.D. 79, Y U SH-, M.B.A. ’92 , New York RICHARD R. SAYLER, Sun City, AZ CHERIE FEY ANDERSON ’58, Midland, MI JASON C. SHULL '96, Woodinville, MARY A. STRIPP, Billings Kalispell JEN IFER J. FA R E N G O H U G '83, WA CARMEN C. STUFFT, Kalispell LARRY C. ASHCRAFT '65, Bigfork Sparta, WI DAN E. SIECKMAN 79, M.A. ’02 , GEORGE E. THELEN, Seattle ERIC J. BALL '91, Helena JERRY L. H U G G IN S ’83 , Littleton, Missoula DAVE VAN DYCK, Hillsboro, OR MARY BALL, Helena CO JOHN E. SPENGLER ’00 , Seattle DRUE ALLAN VERSLAND, Billings W ILLIA M J. B E E C H E R ’63 , Great TRACY HUGGINS, Littleton, CO DANIELLE KASSNER STADING 05, A R T H U R C. W EBER, Great Falls Falls JEFF A. HUNNES '80, J.D. ’83 , Minneapolis JA CK W HITNEY, Bigfork MICHAEL G. BLACK '86, Clinton Billings BRYAN C. THORNTON, M issoula PAUL T. W ILLIAM S, Kalispell ROBERT R. BOAST '77, Saint Peters, ELIZABETH R. i k e d a 79, Missoula JILL THORNTON, Missoula MARILYN LOUQUET WINSHIP, MO DENNIS D. IVERSON '67, Helena North Bend, WA MEREDITH LEIGH TRAEHOU 06, CONNIE BOYD, Dixon M IC H A EL W. JO H N SO N '80, Fairfield Bismarck, ND DAVID W. B O Y D ’88 , Dixon BONNIE GILBERT JOSEPHSON 82, PAUL C. TUSS ’88 , Havre BETTY JO STOCKBURGER CAHILL Big Timber DAVID K. V O IG H T '68, W ash in gton , BIRTHS ’80 , Denver R. MARK JOSEPHSON ’84 , J.D. ’88 , DC Lilian Gray Burns to M ELISSE ROBIN SUMPTON CAMPBELL '82, Big Timber MONTE V. WHITE '86, Elk, WA POLLARD BURNS ’00 , M.A. ’03 , a n d M.B.A. '87, Lake Oswego, OR ELIZABETH MALONEY KALEVA '91, CHRIS R. ZEITNER 71 B, Herndon, BRYN C. BURNS ’99 , July 15, 2006, WAYNE R. CAMPBELL ’79 , Lake J.D. ’95 , Missoula VA Missoula Oswego, OR JOEL L. KALEVA, J.D. ’95 , Missoula M. JILL Z IG N E G O 78, Whitefish C O N N IE J. CARTER, Spokane Valley, WILFRED OTTO KNOTTNERUS ’82 , Padraig Joseph Partin to AN N E WA San Clemente, CA K. DU FFY 00 and Derral Partin, CYNTHIA SEITZ COLEMAN '89, D O U G L A S L. K O C H 74, Missoula Alumni Office October 2, 2006, Cedar Park, Texas Spokane, WA CIN DY L. K U N TZ 00, Fresno, CA Brandy Hall STEVEN R. 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