Communique, 1969-1970

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UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM Vol. 27, No. 1 Missoula| Montana 1969-70 Issue ■ ■ ■ Three appointed New peak in awards to school faculty Two graduates of the School of Journalism and the editorial page given to 15 students editor of the Missoulian will join the journalism faculty in September on Scholarships and awards amounting Robin Brown Tawney, Missoula, Luke one-year appointments. to a record $3,100 were presented to W right M emorial Award, $100. Stephen L. Smith, who earned a 15 journalism and radio-television James T. Grady, Shelby, Guy B.A. in 1965 and an M.A. in 1969, will students at the 14th annual Dean Mooney Award, $250; Gary D. Guc- serve as a visiting assistant professor, Stone Night in the University Center. cione, Great Falls, Lee Newspapers of replacing Charles E. Hood Jr., who Speaker at the banquet was Ira B. Montana Award, $300; Connie Cathe will enter the Ph.D. program in Harkey Jr., who won a Pulitzer Prize rine Revell, Terry, Melvin and Myrtle American Studies at Washington for editorial writing while editor of Lord Award, $300; Frank J. Greco Jr., State University. Smith was an as the Pascagoula (Miss.) Chronicle. His Spokane, Minneapolis Tribune Award, sistant professor of journalism at the address has been published in the 1970 $400. University of Alaska in 1969-70. edition of the Montana Journalism Henry Bird, Dublin, Ireland, Bill Penny Wagner Wilson, who re Review, available on request. ings Advertising and Sales Associa ceived a B.A. in 1961 and an M.A. in Recipients of awards for outstand tion Award, $450; Marcia Marie Her 1967, will serve as a part-time in ing performance and potential were: rin, Helena, Montana Journalism structor. She will teach one journal Diane Marie Tipton, Helena, Cable Faculty Award, $150; Edward A. Mat ism class and one radio-television Television Educational TV Award, ter Jr., Havre, Donald R. Durgin class each quarter. $250; Carolee June Haas, Great Falls, Memorial Award. Sam Reynolds, editorial page editor Olaf J. Bue Memorial Award, $100; Initiated into Kappa Tau Alpha of the Missoulian, will be a visiting Christine R. Coburn, Twin Bridges, were Nedra Anne Bayne, Spokane; lecturer. Montana Stockgrowers Association A new graduate assistant will be Award, $100. Jan Davis, Missoula; Louise Fenner Frank Walsh ’62, who will be work Ronnene A. Anderson, Missoula, and Charles S. Johnson, Helena, and Marilyn Kay Pelo, Lakewood, Colo. ing on a master’s degree in journal and Stuart J. Johnston, Cut Bank, ism. Holdover graduate assistants are MPA Dean Stone Awards, $150 each; Nancy Chapman and Tom Wendel- Deborah Jill Andrews, Fairfield, burg. Montana Broadcasters Award, $300; Radio-TV made new department A Department of Radio and Tele vision within the School of Journal ism was established by President Robert Pantzer, effective July 1, 1970. Philip J. Hess, associate professor of journalism and since 1962 director of the Radio-Television Studios, was named chairman. Chief engineer is W. D. Kinghorn. The move reflects steady growth of the broadcast curriculum at UM, to which the late Prof. Olaf J. Bue con tributed so much. The completely equipped radio studios were opened Feb. 27, 1958, replacing the museum in the Journalism Building. KUFM went on air in February, 1965. The original television studio was located in the former Women’s Gym in April, 1959. The new television studio, replacing the Journalism Aud itorium, was opened in March, 1969. (Rhoto left.) WITH GRADS AFIELD—20s, 30s — 30 — Lawrence L. Higbee ’22 retired in the First State Bank of Missoula, Clarence E. Coyle 1963 after 29 years with General Tire serves on the Missoula County Air and Rubber Co. at Akron, Ohio. He port Commission and St. Patrick Clarence E. Coyle ’28 died May 31, and Katherine have two sons and live Hospital Board. He and Florence 1970, in Missoula. He was 68. An all- time great among UM athletes, he in Roseville, Calif. have three grandchildren. Miles Romney Jr. ’22, publisher of won letters in football, basketball, Ed Erlandson ’38, executive editor baseball and track. He owned and the Western News in Hamilton, cele of the Missoulian who has been play brated the 80th birthday of the paper operated the Missoula County Ab ing tennis since 1933, finally won a stract Co. until his retirement from in September. “Being old in itself is state tennis title this year at age 52. no virtue, but it does provide the op business, and then served two terms He paired with Phil Garlington, a ’37 as Hellgate Township constable. He portunity for looking back to analyze grad from San Mateo, Calif., to win mistakes,” he said. is survived by his wife, Dorothy, a the men’s 45 doubles crown in the brother and a sister. A. B. Guthrie Jr. ’23 of Missoula Montana Open Tennis Championships. married Carol B. Bischman on April Jerry B. House ’35 is assistant 3, 1969. Bud wrote the introduction superintendent of the Sequoia and Cameron MacDonald to “American Odyssey: The Journey Kings Canyon National Parks in Cali of Lewis & Clark,” a photographic Cameron MacDonald ’28 died June fornia. He and Vi live in Three essay by Ingvard Henry Eide, pub 18, 1969, in Spokane of emphysema at Rivers. lished last year. the age of 68. He was a reporter for Fred Martin ’25 has been named Wesley W. Scott ’36, adm inistrative Dun and Bradstreet until his retire editor of the Livingston Enterprise officer for the NASA office at Mc ment in 1966. He is survived by a and the Park County News. The two Donnell Douglas Co. in Huntington cousin, Eugene Deagle of Vancouver, newspapers were purchased by the Beach, Calif., had “some small part B.C. Star Printing Co. of Miles City. Mar in the development and production of tin had been editor and publisher of the S-IV B (third) stage of Saturn V the Park County News, which he and that culminated in the moon shot.” Richard F. West wife Dorothy purchased in 1946. He and Betty said they plan to retire Richard F. West ’31, a rancher in Wilfred (Flip) Fehlhaber ’27 is in Montana this year. the Rock Creek area near Clinton for “living the bluegrass life of a retiree Robert O. Lodmell ’37 and wife more than 40 years, died Dec. 25,1969, (AP), free of deadlines, schedules and Julia Ann visited the J-School in in Missoula at the age of 63. He is alarm clock” with wife Martha in October. Robert still publishes The survived by his wife, Amanda. Denver. Shopper in Lake Wales, Fla. William (Bill) Garver ’27 is direc John Willard ’38 of Helena, director Radcliffe S. Maxey tor of speech and dramatics at River of the Montana Railroad Assn., has Radcliffe S. (Rad) Maxey ’32 died side Military Academy in Gainesville, been named regional public relations July 26, 1968, in Helena at the age of Ga., and Hollywood, Fla. He visited director of the Burlington Northern, 59. He was advertising salesman for 11 states and eight European countries Inc. The region includes portions of the Independent Record before his re on a recent vacation. Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, tirement Jan. 1, 1968. He worked for Walter Nelson ’27 closed a 42-year Wyoming and the southern half of the Chamber of Commerce in Helena journalism career as editorial page M ontana. editor of the Montana Standard when and Red Lodge and later was state Philip W. Payne ’39 is editor of The advertising director. From 1949 to he retired last September. He and Swing Era, Time-Life Records. Margaret continue to make their 1961 he operated his own advertising home in Butte. Lucile Thurston Robinson ’39, for agency in Helena. He is survived by Lyle Williams ’27, publisher of the mer primary teacher in Colton, Calif., his wife, Patricia, and a brother, Cur Three Forks Herald for 42 years, sold is general consultant in the Ontario-? tis Maxey of Kalispell. the paper and the Manhattan Inter- Montclair School District in Ontario, M ountain Press in June, 1969. Calif. She is completing requirements Douglass H. Thomas ’29, M ountain for a Ph.D. at Claremont Graduate Richard K. Brome Bell personnel supervisor for Montana School. Richard K. Brome ’38, news mana at Helena, has been honored in recog ger of the Ottawa bureau of U.S. nition of 40 years of service with the News & World Report and former firm. Ottawa bureau chief for UPI, died in Harry Billings ’33, form er editor of Jim Ford authors Ottawa on July 11, 1969, after a 36- the People’s Voice, is a field auditor book on magazines hour illness. He was 52. He is sur for the State Liquor Control Board in vived by his wife, Toni, and three James L. C. Ford, professor of western Montana, working out of children. journalism at Southern Illinois Uni Thompson Falls where he and Gretchen live.

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