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EDITORIAL OFFICES University Relations 325 Brandy Hall The University of Montana Peace Corps volunteer Danny Lovell and his host mother, Lydia Missoula, MT 59812-7642 Babayan, drink Armenian coffee over breakfast at Babayan's 406-243-2488 VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTION: $ 15 house in Verin Getashen, Armenia, in March 2010. The photo,
WEBSITE: www.umt.edu/montanan taken by Emily Haas '08, won second place in the Peace Corps Fiftieth E-MAIL [email protected] Anniversary Photo Contest. "The picture really shows Armenian culture, UM WEBSITE: www.umt.edu Haas says. "You can't walk down the street in Armenia and not get invited The Montanan is produced by University Relations. It is published three times a into someone's house for coffee. It's a ritualistic part of the day, and thats year by The University of Montana for its something Danny and Lydia did together every morning." Read more about alumni and friends. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: 877-UM-ALUMS Haas and other UM grads in About Alumni, starting on page 33. or [email protected] Please allow eight weeks fo r mailings to PLEASE RECYCLE YOUR reflect changes. MONTANAN ts FEATURES 16 Team Chemistry By Ginny M erriam ’86 Rivertop Renewables, a progressive chemical company born o f research done by retired UM Professor
V 4(H -i D on Kiely, aims to replace oil-based chemicals in ’v .-MB:: everyday items with green chemicals made from plants. W ith a boost from UM, the company is poised to share its environmentally friendly products with the world.
22 A Quest for Conservation By Erin P. Billings, M.A. ’95 Renowned scientist John Seidensticker ’66 , M.S. ’68 , has traveled the globe in the name o f tiger conservation. W hat he learned while studying at U M still guides his scientific approach today.
26 Green Pastures By Chad Dundas ’02 , M .EA. '06 U M ’s burgeoning Irish Studies 26 program offers students
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NEW FLAG HONORS GRIZ TRADITION IT'S A NUMBER THAT and Engineers in Missoula. Nevada-Las RESONATES THROUGHOUT "I thought, 'Why don't we Vegas, began GRIZ NATION. raise a thirty-seven flag in the jersey It's been on the jersey of a tribute to the fans and all the tradition in Former standout Griz select group of Grizzly football outstanding players who have 1983 with Shann Schillinger, now greats. Players like Kraig played for the Griz?'" the idea that a member of the NFL's Paulson, Tim Hauck, Todd UM was on board, and it would be Atlanta Falcons, raises the Ericson, Jason Crebo, and aw ay they went. passed on new flag at Washington- Ciche Pitcher. Just after the team captains to a younger Grizzly Stadium. It's the number thirty-seven. are announced, a maroon and player who "I believe it7s one of the silver flag with "Montana" and hails from greatest traditions that Grizzly "37" stitched on it is run up Montana. football has," UM Director of the pole, which sits atop the He gave it to Athletics Jim O'Day says. north end zone bleachers. The Big Timber's Now the tradition is flag flies just a bit higher than Hauck, who celebrated not only on the the others representing Big Sky passed it jersey of a player, but also Conference schools. on to Butte's with a new flag-raising UM senior Ryan Fetherston Ericson. The ceremony held during wore the famed jersey this tradition pregame festivities at home season, and his parents were continued. football games. the first to raise the flag. "It was Rupert hopes to have all UM alum Randy Rupert Pitcher, who donned the jersey special when it was given of the past players who wore came to Grizzly Athletics from 2001 to 2003, had to me," Pitcher says. "When the number raise the flag, with the idea, which is a play the honor of raising the flag you grow up in Montana, you but since there are only nine, on what the NFL's Seattle during Homecoming. value that tradition and you others will be sought. Seahawks do when they "It was a really cool look up to the guys who wore "Seeing the crowd respond raise a number twelve flag, experience," says Pitcher, it. Not just because they were to something new like this is honoring the fans, or the an Anaconda native. "I got successful, but their approach exciting," Rupert says. "And "twelfth man." to watch the game from the to playing football. They were having the flag flying up there, "That twelfth-man flag sidelines and see some of my talented, hard-working, smart knowing that it's honoring a really gets the crowd going old teammates. It was fun." players—the kind of player I in Seattle," says Rupert, Paulson, now the defensive wanted to be. It was great to long-standing tradition unique who works at CTA Architects coordinator at the University of have that honor." to the Griz, means a lot."
I K L jk 's soccer team won the 2011 Big Sky Conference ■ ▼ ■ title, outlasting W eber State during a November shootout at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. UM, led by first-year head coach Mark Plakorus, beat tournament host UNC in the semifinal round, also in a shootout. The Grizzlies advanced to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2000. They drew top-ranked Stanford in the first round and fell 3-0. The Cardinal went on to win the national championship.
The Montana Grizzlies reclaimed the Great Divide Trophy by drubbing the Montana State University Bobcats, 36-10, in November. It was UM's twenty-second win in the past twenty-six games against the rival Bobcats, who were the top-ranked team in the country coming into the contest. The win also gave the Griz a share of the Big Sky Conference title and the league's automatic bid in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs. The Griz have won or shared thirteen of the past fourteen league championships.
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Flathead Lake Biological ^KsisKmt Professor Station Lands $1 Million Bonnie Ellis at the Flathead Challenge Gift Lake Biological Station nown for its pristine waters that reflect the Rocky Mountains, Flathead Lake is one o f Montanas most continuous but focused on a single mid-lake sampling site. In Ktreasured natural assets. Preservation o f this asset just addition to taking measurements more frequendy and at greater received a significant boost: a $ 1 million challenge gift for UM s depths, the gift will allow the program to continue without Flathead Lake Biological Station. interruption and cover a larger area of Flathead Lake. The funding is from a donor who wishes to remain The long-term data and interpretations compiled by UM anonymous. Scientists will use the additional resources for water- researchers help citizens, managers, and governments evaluate quality monitoring and limnological research, which focuses on their actions and conserve the clarity and cleanliness o f the the study of inland freshwater. The anonymous donor will match lake. The research activities also provide training for the next contributions dollar-for-dollar up to $1 million. generation o f water-quality managers and educators. “We are grateful for this expression o f support for one o f The “We are thrilled to receive this generous gift,” says Bonnie University of Montanas premier research programs, the Flathead Ellis, FLBS research assistant professor. “With community Lake Biological Station,” UM President Royce Engstrom says. support, we can raise the matching funds to meet the $1 million “The gift will make a significant impact on UM s efforts to help challenge and double our efforts to help protect the Flathead Lake preserve our natural resources.” ecosystem for years to come.” FLBS researchers began lake monitoring in the 1890s through To contribute and help double the impact o f this gift, call Ellis periodic studies. Since 1977 the measurements have been at 406-982-3301 ext. 239 or e-mail [email protected].
ODYSSEY OF THE STARS HONORS WEST T H E UM degree in drama from UM, West quickly Clearing, Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, and COLLEGE OF established himself in the competitive world Robert Downey Jr. in A Scanner Darkly, VISUAL AND o f independent filmmaking. Requiem for and Ryan Gosling, D on Cheadle, and PERFORMING a Dream , his second film, was a critical Kevin Spacey in The United States ofLeland. ARTS will and commercial success and garnered In addition to producing films, West pay tribute to 2001 Golden Globe and Academy Award and his partner, Jonah Smith, launched Palmer West nominations for Ellen Burstyn in the Best an apparel line in 2009. Aether Apparel ’98 , producer Actress category. It won a variety of awards provides clothing for outdoor enthusiasts o f acclaimed from the Boston Society of Film Critics, who want modern, sophisticated style. The independent films such as Requiem fo r a Chicago Film Critics Association, Las Vegas apparel line is another example o f Wests D ream , during its twelfth annual Odyssey o f Film Critics Society, and the National commitment to excellence and represents the Stars—A Celebration o f Artistic Journeys. Board o f Review. the artistic spirit and strong work ethic that This years show, In the Mom ent, will The team West put together for the film lie at the heart of the College of Visual and stan at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 24, in also included director Darren Aronofsky (a Performing Arts’ mission. the University Theatre. It features UM 2010 Academy Award nominee for directing Odyssey o f the Stars, an evening of students, faculty, and West as the guest Black Swan) and Jennifer Connelly (a 2002 entertainment spodighting students from artist and honoree. Odyssey o f the Stars pays Best Supporting Actress Academy Award the schools o f Music, Theatre & Dance, tribute to UM performing and visual arts winner for A Beautiful Mind). Media Arts, and Art, benefits the College alumni and tells the story of their artistic West has worked with an impressive o f Visual and Performing Arts Scholarship journeys, showcasing the many different list o f actors and directors on his many Fund. For ticket and sponsorship roads to success that an artist can travel. successful films, including Robert Redford, information, call 406-243-4970 or e-mail Two years after graduating with a Helen Mirren, and Willem Dafoe in The [email protected].
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WINTER 2012 M O N T A N A N UM Researcher Named Regents Professor I tLMk Professor Richard scholarship, and service, as ■ ▼ ■ Bridges joined an well as distinctive impact UM President elite group in November when through their work. The Royce Engstrom the state Board o f Regents rank is awarded by the toasts Emma unanimously voted to name Board o f Regents upon the Lommasson on her him Regents Professor of recommendation o f the 100th birthday. Pharmacology and Toxicology. University president. Regents Professor is the top “Professor Bridges joins rank awarded to the ranks o f EMMA’S B IG DAY faculty members individuals who UM Gathers to Celebrate Emma Lommasson's 100th Birthday in the Montana exemplify the H U N D RED S O F PEOPLE recendy crowded into the University University spirit o f the Center Ballroom to celebrate the 100th birthday of one o f UM s System. Bridges faculty at UM,” greatest treasures. is only the President Royce O n December 10, 2011, the University community came ninth UM Engstrom says. together to wish Emma Lommasson a happy birthday, as scores o f professor to earn “We are proud the tide since to recognize former students, co-workers, and friends gathered for her special the policy of him not just for day. The catering staff had to open the other half of the ballroom naming Regents his outstanding to accommodate all 400 o f her well-wishers. Professors started accomplishments, As servers passed around cake and champagne, distinguished in 1991. but his distinction as a guests spoke kind words about Lommasson. She even received “This is really a University citizen.” a birthday card from President Barack and First Lady Michelle tremendous honor considering Bridges has chaired U M ’s Obama. Missoula Mayor John Engen declared the date Emma B. not only the many Department of Biomedical Lommasson Day. accomplishments of the other and Pharmaceutical Sciences “Here at the University we talk about building the Regents Professors, but also since 2008. That department University for the next century,” UM President Royce Engstrom all the high-quality faculty is part of the Skaggs School says. “We just finished building the University for the Emma in our programs and centers o f Pharmacy in UM s College Lommasson century.” who I have the pleasure o f o f Health Professions and “Her lifetime association with the University has become the working with every day,” Biomedical Sciences. stuff of legends,” says former UM President George Dennison. Bridges says. “What means “Professor Bridges Lommasson spent fifty-eight years at UM either as a student, the most to me is that this really deserves this honor undergraduate adviser, teacher, staff member, or registrar. She appointment recognizes that because he is an outstanding enrolled as a mathematics student in 1929 and graduated in 1933. teaching and research are researcher,” says Dave She went back to her hometown of Sand Coulee to teach for six essenually inseparable and that Forbes, dean o f the college. years before returning to UM to earn her masters degree and the two must be increasingly “He also uses his excellent becoming a staff member. In 2002 the student services building was combined to properly prepare problem-solving skills to named in her honor. She has known all but four UM presidents. our students to compete and deftly communicate complex “Its far more appropriate and revealing to say, all but four succeed.” biomedical concepts to the presidents knew Emma,” Dennison says. Regents Professors schools health professional — Alyse Backus must demonstrate unusual students using innovative excellence in instruction, computer technology.”
The famous Big Sky Little League All-Star baseball team from Billings was honored at the Grizzlies' hom eopening football gam e this past fall. In August the squad became the first from Montana to advance to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Penn., where they went on an incredible run to the United States championship game, which aired live on national TV. Unfortunately, they fell 11-2 to California, a team they beat a few days prior.
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UM School of Low Celebrates Centennial UM School of Low Dean U M ’S S C H O O L OF LAW CELEBRATED A Irma Russell and past MAJOR M ILESTON E IN 2011, as the school deans J. Martin Burke, turned 100 years old. Its official birthday is left, John 0. (Jack) February 17, but the school took the opportunity Mudd, and E. Edwin Eck to celebrate all year long, culminating in an alumni Notable law school alumni include celebrate the school's 100th anniversary. reunion and gala dinner on campus in early September. numerous members of the judiciary More than 400 law school alumni gathered for the celebration, such as William J. Jameson, former I which included panel discussions and a tailgate party before the U.S. District Court judge and president o f the American Bar Griz football game against Cal Poly. During the dinner, short Association; James R. Browning, former chief judge o f the Ninth videos played depicting the schools rich history. U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and clerk of the U.S. Supreme “The event was wonderful and well-received,” law school Court; Judge Sydney R. Thomas o f the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court Dean Irma Russell says. “We heard superlatives about everything. o f Appeals; and many current members o f the federal and state Everyone said it was over-the-top and a great event.” judiciary in Montana. U.S. Senator Max Baucus attended, as did UM President Royce Former U.S. Senator Lee Metcalf, former Montana Governors Engstrom. Missoula Mayor John Engen emceed the gala. Marc Racicot and Donald Nutter, former Montana Attorneys A hundred years ago, the school welcomed in its first class General Joseph Mazurek and Michael Greely, and current o f seventeen students. Today, more than 250 are enrolled in the Superintendent o f Public Instruction Denise Juneau also are schools programs. graduates o f the school.
UM Lands $9.9 Million Research Grant U M RECENTLY The centers faculty are from the Department of Chemistry RECEIVED A and Biochemistry, the Division o f Biological Sciences, and the $9.9 M ILLION Department o f Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences. G R A N T TO FUN D Research funded by the grant will delve into new therapeutic RESEARCH AT approaches to drug resistance, heart disease, behavioral disorders, ITS C E N T E R FO R and viral diseases, says Stephen Sprang, UM program director of BIOMOLECULAR the N IH C O B R E grant. STR U CTU R E It will fond specific research o f four faculty members. A N D DYNAMICS. Erica Woodahl will use biochemical and spectroscopic The center will methods to understand how certain transporter proteins alter the use the resources to therapeutic effect o f drugs. She hopes this information will be study physiological used to improve drug development. In summer 2010, Woodahl processes and diseases started a five-year study to determine how a persons individual from a perspective genes affect the success o f the cancer-fighting drug tamoxifen. concentrated on “The funding will provide money for personnel and laboratory atomic structure, supplies to complete experiments,” Woodahl says. “It will be able chemistry, and to support the research I am doing for the next three years.” physics. The grant also earns the center designation as a National Klara Briknarova will work with advanced spectroscopic Institutes of Health Center of Biomedical Research Excellence methods to understand how viruses employ specialized proteins [COBRE], one o f only four in the nation in 2011. to invade human cells. By using quantum mechanical methods, “This award increases the opportunity for research and training Xi Chu is learning how physiologically critical enzymes use metal at UM by providing salaries for junior investigators and their ions to catalyze reactions. Valeriy Smirnov uses state-of-the-art support staff, as well as funds for essential cutting-edge technology,” biochemical methods to understand the catalytic mechanism o f says Dr. Barbara Alving, director of the National Center for an enzyme that uses iron to convert the com m on amino acid Research Resources, the NIH entity that awarded the grant. tryptophan into serotonin, an important neurotransmitter.
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Hi 1 Meet Grizwald, UM's cartoon bear. In frequent issues of the M ontanan, w e provide a drawing of Kale Davis of Raptors of Grizwald that needs a creative, original the Rockies shows Erick caption. It's up to you, our readers, to Greene a great homed provide it. The winning contestant will owl, one of the chickadee's receive a Griz stadium blanket. Send Bird Songs top predators. submissions to [email protected]. * Music, Biology Combine to Create Chickadee Symphony
lassical music often finds its inspirations from the songs o f birds. By listening closely to the sounds o f a symphony, playful songbirds are heard in the high pitch Co f a flute, and the eerie hoot o f a great horned owl resides in the deep resonation o f a tuba. Is this how biology and art blend? Thanks to the collaboration among a biologist, a composer, and the UM Symphonic Wind Ensemble, the answer is yes. UM Professor Erick Greene and composer Craig Naylor have two things in common: music and biology. Greene originally started as a jazz musician who then switched to biology. Naylor went the other way— his first love was wildlife biology, but music became his ultimate passion. By combining forces, these two created a musical sensation based on pure science. WHERE'S YOUR GRIZ BEEN? j “I really wanted to combine my passion for acoustics with biology,” Greene says. g g jo r t s his Griz “This is a neat mixture o f art and sciences.” gear outside Baejarins Beztu Pylsyr, one The two paired up and spent more than a year researching and breaking down black- of the most famous hot dog stands in the capped chickadee vocalizations, with a majority o f the work conducted at UM. The world. It's located in Reykjavik, Iceland. project culminated with Chickadee Symphony, which was performed in O ctober in the |?| put together a rugby tour to Iceland, University Theatre. which included Kventy-two players and Before playing the symphony in its entirety, Greene, Naylor, and renowned UM twelve supporters,* Hamilton says. His conductor James Smart presented a short lecture. Greene played authentic chickadee calls team played two matches against the as he explained the biology behind the unique acoustics. Naylor broke down the musical Reykjavik Raiders and visited sites such composition o f the calls before Smart had his student musicians play the melodious as the Gullfass waterfall, Geysir, the Blue tagoon geothermal spa, and Thingvellir, version o f the vocalizations. the site of the worlds first parliament more The first movement in the piece illustrated the beauty o f the world waking up. Naylor than 1,000 years ago. drew chuckles from the audience when he joked about how chickadees awake with one thing in mind: sex. That familiar “chick-a-dee-dee-dee” call is essentially a mating call. “Its wonderfully evocative when the world is waking up,” Greene says. Do you have a photo ot youfselr wearing A later movement in the piece called D anger reflected the threats chickadees face. your Griz gear in an amazing place or “Chickadees are like potato chips,” Naylor says. “Who can eat just one?” while on an incredible adventure? If so, Two predators, a great horned owl and a northern pygmy owl— apdy named iPod— send it along with a brief were escorted into the hall. These predators may not seem vicious, but their ability to inflict terror on chickadees is not to be underestimated. “People were really enthusiastic about the piece,” says Greene. “Its a pretty rare thing to have that cross-fertilization between the arts and science. Craig Naylor has done some really neat, innovative things with sound in general. I would love to do something with him again.” — Alyse Backus
12 I WINTER 2012 MONTANAN Photo touilcsy of Emily von Jentzen I their families. their I was ber Septem past this Chelan Lake at swim hour i high-risk stage-four fought six, Roker,age I four-year- a Flanagan, Karmyn resident Missoula I | been into causes and fundraising. There There fundraising. and into causes been | I achievements. Von Jentzen, a Flathead County County Flathead a Von Jentzen, achievements. individual about I weren't however, The swims, I j one family.if one are, my Basically,thoughts j on impact big a have to really wanted I UMT. MONTANAN A N A T N O /M U D .E T M .U W W W Why do you do those swims? swims? those do Why you do swam the thirty-mile length o f Flathead Lake in Lake Flathead f o length thirty-mile the swam Jentzen von In 2010 lives. their fighting of girls battle little the two for swam attorney, deputy swim the length o f Lake Chelan in Washington. Chelan Lake f o length the swim the swim to UM'swoman f first o the e Law becam graduate of 2009 the School impossible: considered $17,000 to alleviate expenses for the girls and and girls the for expenses than ore m $17,000alleviate to raised her. swims The to dedicated thirty-six- nearly fifty-mile, The neuroblastoma. Katelyn resident Kalispell leukemia. battling old for minutes twenty-six and hours eighteen are lots of organizations thata help lots are organizations of length of Flathead Lake and the first person to to person first the and Lake Flathead of length many what accomplished has Jentzen Emily von you can use something you love to help help to love you something use you can University] and my coaching knowledge. University] my coaching and What toll do tho swims tako on your body? your on tako swims tho What do toll swimming prettymy collegiate used much I thistraining of magnitude. for swims isn'tproper on out there information much swims? the for train Howyou do was really weird. I have never had that had I never really weird. have was lot of families but can't give as much. I much. as lot but can't families of give of swimming, but I I swimming, of still So to work. had oen le h olntyudoit? o d wouldn't you why else, someone background [at Central Washington [at Washington Central background During the last Iswim, which hallucinated, Chelan was a lot colder than people told thanpeople lot colder a was Chelan or hypothermia. I hypothermia. or justfinish; I to knew had really had to make training sessions count. sessions training make really to had lot Itplan. a builtI my own basically was I wasn't getting back on the boat. Lake the boat. Ion back wasn't getting happen before. I'm if before. not shock itsure as happen w was hard to to hard overcome. was really difficult. The sheer exhaustion also really also difficult. exhaustion The sheer was the temperature So me it be. would EMILY V O N JENTZEN, JENTZEN, N O V EMILY FACETIME: I have always I always have There There
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A BRIGHT SOOTHING NOISE By Peter Brown University of North Texas Press, 2010, 212 Pages, $14.95
Peter Brown studied with the UM creative writing greats o f the early 1980s and graduated with a double major in liberal arts and creative writing. This collection o f stories won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. His former Professor William Kittredge calls the work “a compelling if sometimes unsettling book of stories.” Brown can write o f the wounded pride and sweetness o f despair in the eyes o f a farm pig, as well as the terrible consequences for a London man gone wrong with a fifteen-year-old girl. EXTREMOPHILIA By Fred Haefele Bangtail Press, 2011, 145 pages, $16.95
L.A. MENTAL Fred Haefele takes the term “extremophile,” By N eil McMahon an organism able to thrive in hostile and Harper/HarperCollins Publishers, 2011, 304 pages, $24.99 unlikely environments, and uses it as a lens to unite his seventeen essays. Each portrays Neil McMahon is the author o f six novels and has people who live and work in Montana plenty of experience giving his readers the creeps. and the West, and each conveys Haefele’s Master o f the psychological thriller, McMahon twists admiration for his nonfiction characters. his stories tightly, not letting go o f the reader until The book is filled with adventures the final page. L.A. M ental starts with a judge going involving rafting, motorcycles, hunting, berserk and takes its protagonist into the world o f the Unabomber, firefighting and, o f course, nanotechnology in search of answers to save his writing. Haefele earned his M.F.A. in brother. The story is set inside the Los Angeles movie creative writing at UM and is the author of making culture. McMahon earned his M.F.A. in a memoir, Rebuilding the Indian. creative writing at UM and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
LIBERTY LANES By Robin Troy University of Nevada Press, 2011, AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF 182 pages, $22 DESPERATION: EXPLORING THE DONNER PARTY'S ALDER CREEK CAMP Robin T r o y ’s novel began Edited by Kelly J. D ixon, Julie M. when she was working as a Schablitsky, and Shannon A. Novak staff writer for the M issoula University of Oklahoma Press, 2011, Independent and was 384 pages, $34.95 desperate for a Christmas- season story. Missoula UM Associate Professor of resident Norm Laughlin, a Anthropology Kelly J. Dixon and seasonal Santa whom she met on a barstool at the VFW Post, two other editors put together a new invited her to his weekly senior bowling game at the old look at the infamous Donner Party. The story o f eighty-some Liberty Lanes. Troy discovered that the hundreds o f bowlers people stranded in the Sierra Nevada in the winter o f 1846-47 in their seventies, eighties, and nineties drink, dance, and has been the subject o f more than 300 books, histories, and date more than she does, and they stay up later, too. Her films, and is known for the survivors’ resorting to cannibalism. fiction-writer’s sensibility took o ff into a novel that explores Com bining history, ethnohistory, archaeology, bioarchaeology, the differing perspectives o f age. Troy earned her M.F.A. in and social anthropology, the editors use the archaeological creative writing at UM and teaches at Southern Connecticut investigations o f the summers o f 2003 and 2004 to question old State University, where she directs the M.F.A. Program in suppositions and add new dimensions to the story. Creative Writing.
14 I WINTER 2012 M O N T A N A N RAPTORS OF THE WEST: GEOLOGY UNDERFOOT IN YELLOWSTONE COUNTRY CAPTURED IN PHOTOGRAPHS By M arc S. H endrix By K ate D av is, w ith Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2011,312 pages, $24 photographs by Kate Davis, Rob Palmer, and Nick Dunlop UM geology Professor Marc Hendrix explains the powerful Mountain Press Publishing Company, forces that made the greater Yellowstone National Park 2011,242 pages, $30 area look and smell as it does today. He looks at the Madison Kate Davis earned her degree in limestone formations and sees zoology at UM and has gone on the shallow seas that covered the to delight and inform thousands landscape six times in the past of people about raptors with 500 million years, and he recalls her ambassador birds and her nonprofit Raptors o f the Rockies. the ancient glaciers whose work This collection o f more than 400 photographs o f the forty-five is visible along the Beartooth different birds o f prey that fly over the American West takes the Highway. The book is a roadside reader from Arctic tundra to the Southwest. The big round eyes o f guide, with “Getting There” boxes the tiny northern saw-whet owl and the direct gaze o f the imposing directing the reader to the features gyrfalcon are among the remarkable images. Hendrix illuminates.
51 By Paul Zarzyski Bangtail Press, 2011, 249 pages, $19.95
Paul Zarzyski, a 1951-model poet who transplanted from Hurley, Wis., to Montana and never looked back, earned his M.EA. in creative writing at UM under the guiding hand o f poet Richard Hugo. He rodeoed as a bareback bronc rider as passionately as he writes and performs poems. Last year marked his twenty-fifth at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nev. Here he gives us thirty poems, twenty song lyrics, and WHERE ELK ROAM: one self-interview, where he shows us how h e ’s put CONSERVATION AND BIOPOUTICS OF OUR NATIONAL ELK HERD together and what keeps him going. By Bruce L. Smith Lyons Press, 2011, 266 pages, $18.95 LAUGHTER BEFORE SLEEP By Robert Pack Bruce Smith earned bachelors and The University of Chicago Press, 2011, 141 pages, $18 masters degrees at UM, studying the winter ecology of mountain goats in Robert Pack, who teaches in the Davidson Honors the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. He College at UM and is known as an eminent American went on to spend twenty-two years nature poet, looks at some o f his perennial themes o f his thirty-year career managing the through the eyes and sensibility o f maturity. P a ck ’s wildlife on the National Elk Refuge poetry takes his readers with him on a journey toward in Wyoming. In his book, Smith tells the end o f life. In “Blindness,” Pack writes o f his the history of the National Elk Refuge mother, who lost her sight at ninety-nine. In “Pain,” he from its founding in the valley of looks at the transformation o f the mind and emotions Jackson Hole in 1912 and also looks by pain o f the body. P a ck ’s poetic look through a at its future. Should wildlife managers lifetime rounds out eighteen books o f poems. continue to winter-feed 25,000 elk despite the risks o f disease and habitat If y ou a re a UM alum with a recent book release, don't forget about your alma mater. To be damage at the feeding grounds? Could considered for Bookshelf, you must send a copy of the book, along with any press materials and hunting have a place in a national contact information, to: Montanan, University Relations, 325 Brantly Hall, Missoula, MT 59812. park and wildlife refuge? Submission o f materials does not guarantee that your work will be featured. Ginny M erriam lives in Missoula.
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16 I WINTER 2012 M O N T A N A N e m is t r y Born of UM Research, Rivertop Renewables Aims to Change Chemical Industry
ere Kolstad likes to say that after forty years, D on Kiely is about to become an overnight success. Kiely likes to say h e ’s just a chemist with an idea based on decades o f research: Instead o f making so many of the things we use in everyday life out of petrochemicals made o f oil or mined minerals like phosphates, lets make them out of green chemicals made from plants. They do the same work, then they break down and disappear once their jobs are done.
“You wear a diaper for three hours, and professional jobs for fourteen people who its in the landfill for 500 years,” Kolstad says. might otherwise have left Missoula for Seatde « T J » Its crazy. or other cities known for their startup- Erik Johnston, who graduated Kiely is founder and chairman and company environments. from UM in spring 2011, Kolstad is president and chief financial T h a t’s the blessing and the continued observes the residue officer of Rivertop Renewables, a four-year- challenge, says Mike Kadas, Rivertop’s dishwasher detergents old progressive chemical company based in director of special projects. leave on glasses. Rivertop Missoula. The company has taken K ie ly ’s “The complexity of the detergent industry, Renewables is working on chemistry and is poised to share it with the what goes on, is remarkable,” he says. “You environmentally friendly ways world— in dishwasher detergents, water to improve detergents. need top-level people. We have to convince systems, and road deicers. investors you d o n ’t have to be in the Bay Area Along the way to that “overnight” success, to do this. And you have to attract Ph.D.- The University of Montana has nurtured level scientists.” and incubated the research and the company. Private investors and grants have kept But first, the chemistry. Rivertop growing, and a team o f professionals Kiely, w h o ’s now proudly seventy-four has taken it from the scientists’ bench toward years old, became a leader in carbohydrate the global market. Today, it provides exciting chemistry during his twenty-nine years on
WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN M O N T A N A N WINTER 2012 I 17 the faculty at the University of Alabama Ik | ext, the at Birmingham. In 1997 he joined UM '■ | business. as professor and director of the Shafizadeh M I Kiely knew that they were Center for Wood and Carbohydrate a l°n g way from making Chemistry, where he stayed until 2008. glucaric acid in small The holder of twelve patents on his work, quantities on the laboratory bench to Kiely studied glucose, the fundamental producing it wholesale in quantities o f building block of up to 70 percent of all thousands of pounds at a time, but he plant material. Its readily available in the thought it could be done. H e ’s a chemist, corn-refining industry. not a business entrepreneur, and he wanted “When you talk about renewable his ideas to be preserved and used. Five resources, the most dominant one is years ago, with the help o f U M ’s Office glucose,” Kiely says. “Its converted into o f Technology Transfer, he registered a different products that people are interested company with the state o f Montana. The in. Its available, its cheap, and the whole company, which he first called Montana infrastructure to use it is there.” Renewable Alternatives, licensed the Kiely s research applies to glucose simple intellectual property Kiely developed at the chemistry th a t’s more than 100 years old but UM lab. has never been tamed or developed. It creates Enter Don K ie ly ’s son, Jason Kiely. glucaric acid. Glucaric acid can become the Jason, w h o ’s thirty-nine, grew up listening building blocks in long chains o f molecules to his d a d ’s chemistry and understood its called polymers that are used to make things. promise. He was working in environmental Think of pearls in a necklace, Kiely explains. organizing in Missoula. “What glucaric “At that point, acid did was it 41 What glucaric add did Jason came to my provided me with assistance,” Don a way to make a was it provided me with says. “He was whole range of new the key person to polymers which were a way to make a whole connect the science, Don Kiely, far right, new and different .the University, range of new polymers founder and chairman from anything done and the business of Riverfop, inside the before,” Kiely says. which were new and community.” company's labs The chemical different from anything Jason joined business today— up and is now worth $2 trillion a done before. * * vice president o f year worldwide— marketing and “They like the idea that we want to do bases the polymers used to make plastics, administration. With a small team, they something big in Missoula,” Jason says. “The pharmaceuticals, polyesters, and other launched Rivertop Renewables— the name thing about Montana is i t ’s a great state to products on petroleum. That includes, refers to its position at the headwaters o f grow in because i t ’s big enough, but i t ’s small for instance, disposable diapers, polyester renewable chemistry— in 2 0 0 8 . They wrote enough that you know everybody.” blouses, nylon book bags, polyethylene the business plan at Break Espresso in The team grew. Kadas, a former Missoula trash bags, Capilene long underwear, downtown Missoula and spent hundreds o f mayor w h o ’s a UM-trained economist, plastic botdes, and polystyrene cups. hours developing the vision. connected Rivertop with a home at the Other products, such as flame retardants “Jason is the behind-the-scenes glue,” his business and technology incubator MonTEC, and anticorrosive agents, are based father says. “He ’s the one who holds all the the Montana Technology Enterprise Center, on phosphate mined from the Earth. pieces together.” on East Broadway in Missoula. He also Phosphates have long been an ingredient Among J a so n ’s early charges is raising recendy assisted the University in securing in dishwasher detergents, but th e y ’re money for the capital-intensive business, a U.S. Commerce Department Economic being banned state by state, including in and he found financial friends for Rivertop Development Administration grant, with the Montana, to protect watersheds. in Montana. help of U.S. Senator Max Baucus. The EDA Products made from glucaric acid can “There are very few venture capital firms grant was matched by UM to total more do the same jobs without polluting and here,” Jason says. “But there are people who than $3.5 million. without the complexities o f the oil market. want to invest in the right idea.” Kolstad came along by accident. Based in And glucarate is identified by the U.S. Investors like the idea of a Missoula- Seatde, he had just finished a startup software Department of Energy as one of the top based company that helps employ educated company that sold and was on his way to twelve renewable chemical building blocks, Montanans, and they like supporting the Glasgow to Stan a wind farm on his fa m ily ’s showing vast economic promise. development of green chemistry. land. He stopped in Missoula to visit a
18 I WINTER 2012 M O N T A N A N This chart breaks down Rivertop's process from beginning to end.
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Detergent Concrete Corrosion Builders Plasticizers Inhibitors Milling Sugars Organic Acids Renewable Resources Rivertop’s ► Polymers Green Chemistry
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WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN M O N T A N A N WINTER 2012 I 19 friend from school who knew the Kielys. MonTEC Helps Nurture Fledgling Companies Kolstad was “completely sidetracked.” It ivertop Renewables is the MonTEC has nurtured businesses was clear to him that all the ideas needed perfect example of what's such as Alter Enterprise, which was someone with the ability to execute possible at the Montana developed tools and equipment for them. With seventeen years o f experience ^Technology Enterprise Center, watching and studying wildlife, and in startups and a strong financial Missoula's business and technology Purity Systems, which pioneered a background, he joined up, too. incubator known as MonTEC. method of extracting metals from “You know they say, ‘Success O nce the renewable chemical industrial waste for reuse. has 1,000 fathers, and failure is an company reached a certain phase in , Today, with the recent dissolution of orphan,’” the Glasgow native says. its development, it needed a protected J MAEDC, MonTEC has its own nonprofit “Doing something great, something place where it had shared support status, and UM has stepped into the environmentally great, i t ’s a cool place staff and affordable rent. N ow it needs£*£ management role of the incubator. A to be.” to expand, and MonTEC is making new five-member board is in place, D on Kiely also brought along the that possible. In January construction with representation from UM, Missoula fir m ’s first three chemist employees, all w as scheduled to start at the MonTEC County, and the Missoula Economic from UM. building on East Broadway that will Partnership, and plans to continue its “They all worked with me for a place Rivertop as the anchor tenant and vital role nurturing great-fit enterprises. number of years,” he says. “These people allow it to create a pilot plant. MonTEC's existence keeps the company in Missoula, says Joe Fanguy, UM's director of technology transfer. A federal economic development grant— secured with help from U.S. Senator Max Baucus—with a match from UM pushed expansion into the real world. "I was excited, they were excited, everybody was so excited, but where were they going to go?" Fanguy says. "How were they going to expand? This has allowed them to stay here." UM began the MonTEC enterprise in 2002 in partnership with the Missoula Area Economic Development Corporation. MAEDC managed MonTEC for its first decade of existence, with a specific purpose of transferring UM's intellectual property to the private sector. Marcy Allen, executive director of the three-county, federally designated BitterRoot Economic Development District Inc., thinks of MonTEC as the Researcii chemist pathway from the research lab to Kylie Pista commercialized ideas. "It's connecting companies to the MonTEC proves that companies can were engaged from the time they walked resources they need to grow," she says. capitalize on the Montana University in the door. Before there was a door to It also helps young companies System's brain power to develop walk in.” connect with one another, creating professional jobs that keep Montanans Research chemist Kylie Presta never specialty clusters that enhance one here and contribute to a high-level thought s h e ’d be knee-deep in concrete another's work and attract attention from economy, Allen says. and road salt, but she's now the lab venture capital firms and angel investors. "One of the opportunities we have manager at Rivertop. Clean technology business shows special in Montana is the quality of life this “I’m interested in what this company promise for Montana, she says. place offers," she says. "W e don't have represents— greener living and keeping In Rivertop's new position as to be in Seattle. W e can do business toxic products out of the home,” she says. anchor tenant. Alien sees the anywhere. O ne of the great things about “It ’s good to support that and work in it” com pany a s a mentor to spin-off and MonTEC is it can capitalize on that." Ph.D. chemist Tyler Smith came to smaller com panies. —Ginny Merriam Missoula by chance, fleeing a doctoral
20 I WINTER 2 012 MONTANAN program at the University o f Texas that was too big and impersonal for him. A meeting with UM Department o f Chemistry Chairman Ed Rosenberg during a visit to Missoula reeled him in. He wound up working for Don Kiely at UM and earning his doctorate. H e believed in Kielys ideas o f short-life chemicals and loved studying in a department where education is still the foundation, he says. “I had a wonderful experience at The University of Montana,” he says. “The chemistry program is very tight-knit. And .0S the faculty really cares about the students and Jason Kiely, left, ^ | • about turning out the best chemists possible.” Don Kiely, and Jere Kolstad Smith, now Rivertop’s director o f research and development, is still royalty bearing, and when Rivertop turns a Two significant events this past fall astonished at the opportunity to be in on profit, UM will get a piece back. have further brightened R iv e r t o p ’s future. an innovative company Rivertop also is Cultivian Ventures, an Indiana-based venture from the beginning. I t I’m interested in poised to embark on capital fund focused on high-technology “I believe in Don an expansion that will opportunities in food and agriculture, and what h e ’s doing,” he what this company remodel the M onT EC invested $1.5 million in Rivertop in says. “I love Missoula. I building and establish November. Along with the investment love the outdoors, and represents-greener the company as the came Cultivian co-founder and principal Missoula is an amazing Living and keeping anchor tenant. The Ron Meeusen, who joined the Rivertop place to raise children.” EDA grant funds will board and brings more than thirty years o f And, he says, i t ’s easier toxic products out be used to renovate the experience in taking new technologies and to work in a field that of the home. 11 business incubator and products to market. helps preserve the natural construct a shell for a “Th e y ’re a really good fit for us at this world when the mountains surrounding the pilot plant, called semi-works, which will point in our development,” Jason Kiely says. Missoula Valley are right out the window. be funded by Rivertop. The remodel will “It ’s a big validation in the finance world. Without Rivertop, he likely would have cover the east half of the building, where And i t ’s validation for potential customers.” had to leave Montana for a postdoctoral space opened recently following the move Also in November, Rivertop connected position in a larger city. o f Missoula’s convention and visitors bureau with one o f those customers, contracting “Th a t’s pan o f what Rivertop represents to downtown. with the Montana Department of in my mind from an economic development Construction will start in January with Transportation to supply 110,000 gallons point of view— fourteen employees now, a wrap-up date set for July. An atrium with o f bio-based corrosion inhibitor for use the potential for twenty-five more,” says Joe skylights will bring light into the labs and with liquid deicers on M o n ta n a ’s roads Fanguy, director of technology transfer at take chemists’ offices out of them. Now, for this winter. The corrosion inhibitor works UM. “That represents jobs that would not instance, desks share the area where a bank to protect infrastructure, such as bridges, be here otherwise.” o f three dishwashers tests detergents’ ability from damage by road salts and also offers R iv e r t o p ’s principals all say, “Without to prevent spots on glassware. protection for vehicles. UM, we w o u ld n ’t be here.” But the company The pilot plant is key to taking The contract is exciting because it gets is equally valuable to UM, the managing production from the lab to the large scale, a foot in the market for the Rivertop crew, force behind MonTEC. says Kadas. giving them market experience while they “They will continue to do a lot of “We have to build a model and see how formulate a related chemical. research in partnership with UM as the it works,” he says. “A commercial plant is a “I’m always optimistic,” says Smith, “even c o m p a n y ’s Missoula operation grows,” $20- to $30-million item. You c a n ’t just go though there are a lot of challenges. T h a t’s Fanguy says. “Th a t’s an enhancement for the straight from the bench to that.” exciting to me. And every d a y ’s a different University’s research enterprise.” In addition, Rivertop has found a day here.” All The company will continue to provide contract manufacturer in Danville, V a., that Ginny Merriam is a education for UM students through has the equipment and the proximity to raw graduate o f The University internships and eventual employment. And materials to start making R iv e r t o p ’s products. o f Montana School o f it 11 bring investment dollars to Missoula. R iv e r t o p ’s natural chemicals will first show Journalism and worked as an Those are all things that w e ’d like to up as anticorrosion products for road deicers award-winning reporter at continue to duplicate,” Fanguy says. and water-cooling tanks. Then i t ’s on to the Missoulian newspaper. The patents on Kielys chemistry are dishwasher soaps and concretes. She writes from Missoula.
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STORY BY ERIN P. BIUINGS PHOTO BY DOUG GRAHAM
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Conservation ^ H B Biology Institute in ^ Washington, D.C. 1 conservationRenowned Scientist John Seidensticker Dedicates Career to Saving Tigers
22 VyiNIEft 20(2' fr o w ^ v ‘> here's not much about John Seidensticker that doesn't have to do with cats. Big cats, specifically. Peppering the walls of hisofficeattheSmithsonian Conservation Biology Institute at the National Zoo are drawings, sketches, photos, and paintings of cats. His bookshelves are flush with books about them; the table that cuts his office in half is piled high with papers, documents, and writings on them.
Maybe th a t’s w h y h e’s seen as the dean of tiger biology. the plight of the grizzly bear in Yeflowstone National Sfeidensticker, a conservation scientist, has com e a long Park. T h e Craighead brothers spent more than a decade way from growing up and working summers on his fa m ily ’s researching the imperiled grizzlies.. cattle ranch near■ Twin Bridges. H e ’s traveled a good part At nineteen, Seidensticker was determined to work o f the globe— crossing the Pacific four times last year and with Craighead. seven' times in 2010— in the name o f saving tigers. He recalls waiting in C raigh ead’s U M office— saying, ;; “It was a big deal for me to leave Montana,”.says “I got to know his office and his secretary pretty w e ll”— Seidensticker, sixty-seven, from his cluttered office near until “finally J o h n ’s secretary fit me into his schedule.” >■ the Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington, D.C. In spring 1964 Craighead offered him a job, but “It was a big deal for m e to say I w a sn ’t going to become Seidensticker had already accepted a position at the Bureau a rancher.. My family, being ranchers o f course, they were o f Land Management.. So it w a sn ’t until the fall that he great hunters; m y grandfather and my father hunted and joined Craighead at the Montana Cooperative Wildlife fished all over the world; I guess I always thought there Unit ax a research assistant.' In the.next field season, ought to be something more than just shooting things.” Seidensticker joined the unit as an assistant studying the Seidensticker’s mother.was a homemaker and his lather ecology of the grizzly bear. ■. a medical doctor who spent his spare time on the ranch. Craighead would go on to serve as an adviser for As it turned out, none o f the Seidensticker children-— there Seidensticker as he earned his masters, but he turned into were six— pursued a career in ranching or medicine. Three much more than that. He also was a mentor. - ; became teachers, one entered pharmacy, and one became a “John gave me five big points in life,” Seidensticker says. . librarian. Seidensticker chose science. ... -V- “Number one; d o n ’t be afraid to take on big challenges. His father was demanding with high standards. Still, . Two, get your science right— get your baselines right; . Seidensticker says his dad was extraordinarily supportive o f . Three, focus on the apex predators and the landscapes they his children doing what they wanted to do. need to support them. Four, communicate widely what you find. And the final thing was to have fun doing it. Seidensticker didn't seem to struggle with a “Th a t’s what I took away from my four years under career choice. He enrolled as a zoology student at UM John. T h a t’s what he did and th a t’s what I ’ve been doing.” in 1963 with an eye toward conservation. It was a horizon- " Seidensticker d id n ’t stick with grizzlies. Traveling west to broadening time. Idaho for his doctorate, his dissertation focused on mountain “Catching my first tiger was pretty wild.”
“At the University you met people who had been lions. As he was finishing up in 1973, he secured a grant, places,” says Seidensticker, who earned a B A in zoology somewhat by happenstance, from the World Wildlife Fund in 1 9 6 6 and an M.S. in zoology in 1 9 6 8. “I was pretty through the Smithsonian to study tigers in Nepal. Tigers had parochial. I used to joke that I h a d n ’t been east of Hardin just been declared endangered the year before, until I went tp Asia- I t ’s been more than thirty years, but Seidensticker’s face “What you got from the professors at The University still lights up when he talks about the Smithsonian Nepal o f Montana was this flavor that there were all these Tiger Ecology Project. Being in Nepal, he says, “was like opportunities out there, that people could actually make a being in a candy store— there were all these big mammals.” living being a wildlife biologist. That was a big discovery.” It was very much new ground. For the first time ever, An avid reader of National Geographic, Seidensticker says Seidensticker worked to catch tigers and leopards and he knew in high school that he wanted the opportunity put radio transmitters on them. “It was just a terrific . to work with then-Professor John Craighead after reading experience,” he says. “Th a t’s where we started, an article Craighead wrote with his brother, Frank, on “Catching my first tiger was pretty wild.”
M O N TA N AN WINTER 2012j J> • 2 3. “I’m hoping that Jerry Seidensticker, J o h n ’s younger brother by eleven years, traveled tb Nepal on that first study. Just eighteen at the time, he in twenfy-five remembers it as a orice-in-a-lffetiirie experience, even though he admits he did get a little homesick. He recalls being amazed by his or thirty years, brothers ability to communicate and work effectively in such a new and unfamiliar culture. John is known “One o f the things John taught me, and it still sticks with me, is how to be patient,” says Jerry Seidensticker, principal at as one of the Rattlesnake Elementary School in Missoula. “I probably could people that . still use some of that. I ’ve always been impressed with his ability to sit back and listen to other p e o p le ’s ideas. Tn third world really helped to countries, things move-very slowly. H e knew that already and had an acceptance o f that.” save tigprs^i^ At that rime, Just one other scientific study had been conducted on tigers, so there was much that was unknown: how much area would it take to support a Viable tiger population, how large was a t ig e r ’s home range, how many animals did a tiger kill each month to survive. “Nearly everything we knew about the natural history of tigers had been learned down the sights o f a rifle,” Seidensticker says. “This was all- new stuff—the fact you could patch them and follow them around and figure out what they were doing.”
Seidensticker struggles to give just one explanation fo r w h y h e ' s drawn to tigers. In part, he says i t ’s because he comes from a long line of conservationists: His grandfather was very active in ensuring the reintroduction o f white-tailed deer, bighorn sheep, and turkeys. But moreover, he says h e ’s intrigued by how such a powerful and large animal— he recalls tracking a male tiger that was more than 500 pounds— Could be so vulnerable to.the threats o f the human-dominated landscape that surround the few patches of natural habitat where they still live. A curious young So h e ’s dedicated a large portion o f his career to their male tiger, protection. While at the Smithsonian— his employer for almost Ranthambore his entire professional life - — h e ’s written scores o f research papers, Tiger Reserve, studies, and' books on the subject. H e ’s by every measure prolific, central India, even though he struggles with dyslexia. He thanks the spell-check 2003 on his computer for helping him deal with his disability. Those who know him admire his tenacity and patience in a career that can challenge both. “H e ’s Zen-like,” says Eric Dinerstein, chief scientist and vice president at the World Wildlife Fund, who has known Seidensticker since 1980; : “H e ’s very quiet; he just sits back and absorbs it all,” Dinerstein says. “Often, you will be sitting in a meeting, and he w o n ’t say anything, at all. Then, later, after h e ’s assessed it all, h e ’ll say something and very often i t ’s' something that stops everyone in their tracks and they say, ‘Yes, th a t’s what we should d o . ’” Joel Berger, now the.Jphn J . Craighead Chair o f Wildlife Biology at UM, first met Seidensticker in 1 9 7 9 while Berger was doing his postdoctorate work at the Smithsonian. He says Seidensticker's studies aren't limited to tigers. In that as a “young and impressionable scientist,^ he looked up to 2003 he and his Indian colleagues conducted a Seidensticker. broad study of sloth bear ecology and behavior in “I thought,‘Oh yeah, Seidensticker, he does some cool stuff in a the Panna Tiger Reserve. It was the first such study lot o f .exciting places,” Berger says. “H e ’s somebody I think I could of the ant- and termite-eating bear undertaken in learn fr o m . ’” ’ India's seasonal dry forests.
24 , MONTANAN- launched in 2 0 0 8 to save tigers from extinction. At a summit a year-ago in St. Petersburg, Russia, participants set an ambitious goal re double the worlds wild tiger population from'3^200 to 6 ,4 0 0 in a dozen years. Seidensticker serves as ail independent adviser to the World Bank for the initiative, lyhile Lumpkin is a consultant, fo the World Bank for the project. The^World Bank - lelped start the effort and funds the Global Tiger Initiatives secretariat. Seidensticker'qaljs being involved with -- I the’Global Tiger Initiative rare of the most challenging times,of his career. - ... "Most peopie.hit sixtyrfive and they are ready; to retire” he says. “Th isis the most intense , learning curve I ’ve ever been on.” Scott Derrickson, who is deputy director of- the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front RoyalsVa., and overset the research centers at the National Zoo, including Seidenstickers, „• says if the GlobalTiger Initiativexlpesht work, nothing will. Buthis hope Is that it doesj^nd/rkar ultimately it will define Seidenstickers legacyT'^- “fm hoping that in twenty-five or thirty years, John is known as^one of the people that really helped to save tigers,” says Derrickson. Lumpkin d o e s n ’t pause,when she talks about Seidenstickers passion for and success at conservation biology. He is tireless, tolerant, and 'has an uncanny sense of landscape, which she jl attributes to his having grown up in Montana. m “Com ing from Montana is a really powerful• ', Berger callsSeidensticker a “mtiddy boots-type guy” who part o f Johns being,” she says* can see both sides o f the conservation equation: the animal . I t ’s been forty years since Seidensticker left Montana. H e and perspective and the human perspective. And, Berger says, he has Lumpkin, a Michigan native, make it a point towisit, bur they / “a beautiful calmness.” never really entertained moving back for good. ‘He d o e s n ’t have to be the^uy out at the front, chest beating”. | Susan and 1 joke tKat'dnce you get warm, youcant get cold Berger sa y s.- “H e has amazing patience and internal confidence.” again,” he says; . . For all the^accolades, Seidensticker is quick to credit his wife o f T h e r e ’s no doubt Seidensticker is both comfortable and twenty-nine yfctrs, Supan Lumpkin, with whom , he has partnered on challenged at the Smithsonian-Conservation Biology Institute, numerous projects and wpttenafid edited ten books. In many ways, and he d o e s n ’t seem/to, have plans' rp- go elsewhere. Besides, he ^ they both admit,-they have shared a career. They met at the zoo admits, hestill has much more work to do to meet the goals .of when Lumpkin was a postdoctorate fellow three decades ago. the Global Tiger Initiative. “Sh e ’s the voice. S h e ’s the writer. She writes the poetry,” Whatever lies ahead, -Seidensticker is already viewed as. ^Seidensticker says. ‘ having played a critical,- if not unmatched, foie in preserving Lumpkin recalls meeting John and says even though it took and enhancing the world s tiger population. But d o n ’t try to give them a year or two to com e together, it was “love at first sight.” him the credit. /•’ It was heffirst job interview at the zoo, and afterward, “There are a lot of champions,” h e - sa y s’. “I’m just one of die v* Seidensticker offered to walk.her back to Connecticut Avenue, players.” lUt a major thoroughfare in D.C^ Lumpkin remembers how Seidensticker took her, all dressed up and wearing heels, on a trek Erin P. Billings is afreelance writer and public over a hill and through some woods .to get to her destination. Since relations consultant living inWashington, P.CfShe ^then, she says: “We’ve spen tm ostpfou r lives going up and down spent more than fifteen years working ds"an editor and mountains together.” - reporter in Montana arid P^C. : She earned her master', •'. They both are involved in the Global Tiger Initiative, an alliance degree from : U M ’s School offoumalutn in 1995. o f governments, conservationists, and international organizations
O J * B p p STORY BY CHAD DUNDAS
After a Successful Start, UM's Irish Studies Program Looks to Stay Ahead of the Competition
30*3 ^ONTANi^S That distinctive feel gives the Irish Studies program almost rowing up in Seattle, unmatched potential for growth, O Riordain says. It is currently £ Constance Shepardson never gave a second the only program o f its kind west o f the Mississippi and— along thought to The University o f Montana. with the University o f Notre Dame— one o f just two nationally When she imagined herself getting a that offers students a minor with an emphasis on the Irish degree, it was always from a cozy, private language. U M ’s program also is the only one in the country located U liberal arts school like Reed in Portland, at a state school. Ore., Whitman in her home state of “It ’ll cost you fifty grand a year to go to Notre Dame,” O Riordain Washington, or Io w a ’s Cornell College. She says. “It ’ll cost you fifteen here. This makes our program relevant on already knew her ultimate goal was to attend a national basis because if Mary up in Philadelphia wants to study graduate school in library science, and Shepardson was looking for the the sciences or business but wants to pursue her passion for Irish undergraduate experience that would best prepare her for that future. language, literature, music, and dance, well, w h e r e ’s she going to do “Honestly, when I first started looking I had no interest in going that? T h e r e ’s only one university where she can do it at an affordable to a big state school,” she says. “I wanted the small, private, heavy- rate, and th a t’d be The University o f Montana.” duty four years to set me up for grad school.” The p r o g r a m ’s uniqueness is not just limited to the classroom, While casting around for an institution that would accept the either. W ith a close relationship to college credit s h e ’d earned in high school, community groups such as the Friends o f however, she unexpectedly found herself Traolach Irish Studies, the Irish Studies program perusing U M ’s course catalog. There, the O Riordain, UM's director regularly sponsors public arts events like fourth-generation Irish American made of Irish studies, dance recitals, concerts, theater productions, a discovery that would significantly alter and his daughter, and lectures by guest speakers. In 2008 it also her plans. Roisin-Marie. - began a partnership with the federal court in “When I saw that Montana offered Missoula, offering an exchange program that Irish Studies, it was a game-changer,” gives Irish law students the opportunity to says Shepardson, who explains that pride not only study our legal system on American in their heritage has always been strong soil, but to actually intern in a working in her family. “When I realized it was courthouse. As far as O Riordain knows, a full-fledged minor with the language that exchange is the only one o f its kind in fully integrated and an emphasis both on the nation. the history and the modern, I was just All o f this comes together to make the blown away. H ow did I not realize this University’s Irish Studies program distinctly existed before?” different, and that, 0 Riordain says, could She d id n ’t realize it because even make it a powerful tool in attracting students today, U M ’s young— but rapidly who might not otherwise have considered growing— Irish Studies program is one o f U M as an option. the s c h o o l’s best-kept secrets. Students like Constance Shepardson. What began with one instructor teaching the Irish language to thirteen pupils in 2 0 0 6 has grown to include "...This makes our program around 200 students. About fifty of those relevant on a national basis Deep Roots are pursuing the full-scale eighteen-credit because if Mary up in At forty-seven years old, (3 Riordain is a big minor, which folds classes on language, man, with a thick shock o f black hair and history, literature, music, and dance into a Philadelphia wants to study the an even thicker Irish brogue. His knowledge cohesive field that organizers say make it a sciences or business but wants and energy make him a charismatic speaker, one-of-a-kind experience for scholars. and dual degrees in literature and language There are very few universities that to pursue her passion for Irish make him a formidable academic. He quotes teach the Irish language,” says Traolach language, literature, music, and Gaelic poetry and song in conversation, and 0 Riordain, U M ’s director o f Irish Studies. dance, well, wheres she going ask him one question about Irish Studies and You have kind o f a unique program here he might talk for twenty minutes without because it embraces all elements o f the Irish to do that? There's only one interruption. In short, h e ’s about as effective culture. You have the Gaelic culture and university where she can do it a spokesman for the fledgling program as you have the Anglo culture o f Ireland. You UM could hope to have. have the music and you have the dance, at an affordable rate, and “H e ’s an extremely bright kid,” says Pat so you have the performing arts involved that'd be The University Byrne, a Missoula Realtor and member o f as well. That sets us apart as unique in a the Friends o f Irish Studies, who (!) Riordain of Montana." national context.” calls “Uncle P” and describes as instrumental
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in getting the program off the ground. “I think he oftentimes World War II, and with the invention o f open-pit mining during takes on more than he can chew, but h e ’s moving this program the 1950s, many o f the old ethnic neighborhoods in Butte were ahead very rapidly. His knowledge o f Irish history and literature is lost. When the Irish decamped from those traditional cultural just outstanding. We are very, very, very lucky to have him here.” strongholds, they spread their influence to towns such as Great A native o f Cork City near Ir e la n d ’s southwestern coast, Falls, Helena, and Missoula. O Riordain spent time teaching and studying in better-known Then in the 1990s, Professor David Emmons put UM on the Irish-American hotbeds such as Boston and San Francisco before Irish studies map when he published his seminal book The Butte coming to Missoula. He now says Irish and began th e r e ’s something Eamon de teaching classes on distinctive about the Valera, center, Irish history. The spirit o f the Montana president of Montana Gaelic Irish— who flocked the Provisional Cultural Society to cities such as Government was founded in Butte and Anaconda of the Irish 1 9 9 7 , and the during the hard-rock Republic, success o f its Irish visited Butte mining heydays of the language, music, in 1919 to late 1800s and early and dance classes encourage 1900s— which makes over the next decade support for the state perfectly Ireland's prompted Byrne suited to host a fight for and other members comprehensive Irish independence. to approach the Studies program. University about “The narrative that underpins the possibility of the Irish in Montana is a pretty creating an Irish
cohesive one,” O Riordain says. Studies program. Afdnu Publk Bow Butte-Stiver o! towtesy i Archives Public Bow Butte-Silvef of courtesy Photo I “Th e r e ’s certain things about the UM officials Montana identity, about Montana "There's certain things about the Montana identity, were interested, and culture. You have this shared B y r n e ’s connections heritage— a kind o f very unifying and about Montana culture. You have this shared heritage within the Irish uniform historical narrative— and it — a kind of very unifying and uniform historical government made has a very strong Gaelic component.” narrative— and it has a very strong it possible for The mining industry in Butte several dignitaries and Anaconda began its decline after Gaelic component." to visit Montana
28 I WINTER 2012 MONTANAN Irish dancer during the next few Brian Cunningham College. Now she plans to years. All o f them performs at the make good on her dream were excited about the University Theatre. o f going to grad school in idea o f establishing library science. an Irish Studies “W h a t’s really important program on campus. about the [Irish Studies] The University then program is that it is so struck up an exchange universal,” she says. “There program with Ir e la n d ’s is so much potential in the University College program with the language Cork, and in May and the culture that exists | 200 6 Irish President in Montana. The people 3 Mary McAleese visited who are in the program are | UM to help announce always really excited about it, the official launch o f always giving 110 percent.” the program. "That's one of the things about studying an entire culture. So far the program has Her endorsement You start to realize there are so many things you want exceeded all expectations, came along with a O Rfordain says, and the to learn about it and there are so many different aspects $ 4 0 ,0 0 0 grant from the next few years will be critical Irish government, and of it. Its not just literature, and its not just to ensuring it stays that way. soon after Friends o f Irish history. Its a living, breathing culture." To this point, the program’s Studies was incorporated biggest strength has been to help fund the its uniqueness, but that will program. During its first change as more universities five years Irish Studies has hatched classes on a bevy o f subjects, begin to recognize UM s success and follow suit. such as English, history, and foreign language, as well as the “W e ’re ahead o f the posse now,” O Rfordain says. “But two schools o f Music and Theatre & Dance. So fa r , attracting students years from now, will we still be ahead o f the posse? Unless we to fill those classrooms has not been a problem. get the word out there and get ourselves established in the pole “We got it going, and now I believe its one o f the fastest position pretty soon, w e ’re going to have challengers.” growing, if not the fastest growing, programs on campus,” Byrne For one thing, O Rfordain would like to see the Irish Studies says. “It just seems to be mushrooming.” minor expanded into a full-blown major. To do that, U M will need to expand its offerings to include more Irish-centric classes in more disciplines. O Rfordain says he would also like to do more € yes on tbe Juturc outreach to Montana high school students, in addition to the Irish Four years after beginning her search for the right school, language classes the program currently offers online through the Shepardson is now a senior at UM, preparing to receive her degree Montana Digital Academy. in English literature with a minor in Irish Studies. She may not Accomplishing any or all o f that will take funding, obviously, have gotten the small, private-school feel she was looking for in her something that is always a challenge. I t ’ll also take more college experience, but wound up with something that might be community outreach, more marketing, and a concerted effort to even more important to keep U M ’s program a step ahead o f the competition. Bagpipers her: the chance to study her “Hopefully when everything gets done, what w e ’d entertain Irish heritage as completely the crowd like to see here is a national center o f Irish and Irish and comprehensively as gathered Gaelic studies,” O Rfordain says, “so that anybody * perhaps any undergraduate for the who wants to learn the Irish language can com e to i in the country. St. Patrick's Montana. When they want to study Irish music, they 1 "I think infectious is Day parade can come to Montana. When they want to study | the best word for it,” she in Butte. Irish dance, literature, or history, they can com e to I says. “Th a t’s one o f the Montana. We could provide it all.” things about studying an For more information or to get involved in the Irish entire culture. You start to realize there are so many things you Studies program, go online to unvw.cas.umt.edu/irishstudies or want to learn about it and there are so many different aspects wivw.friendsofirishstudies.org. M o f it. I t ’s not just literature, and i t ’s not just history. I t ’s a living, breathing culture.” A native Montanan, Chad Dundas earned a After starting out intending to focus her studies only on bachelor’s degree in journalism in 2002 and an language and literature, Shepardson says she branched out to M.F.A. in English-creative writing in 2006, history and even some music and dance. In January she took part both from UM. He covers mixed martial arts for in a two-week tour o f Ireland organized by U M ’s Davidson Honors ESPN.com and lives in Missoula with his wife.
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MORA PAYNE, UM alumna and supporter, takes Winston Churchill's famous words to heart: "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." That's why, over the years, Mora has established numerous planned gifts at The University of Montana Foundation. She has included the Foundation in her will to support the Mora Skari Payne Scholarship in Violin and the Carman Skari Scholarship Fund in history. Mora also has created a charitable gift annuity, where she receives life income, to ultimately support the Payne Faculty Development Endowment in political science. And most recently, Mora has supported UM with an IRA Rollover. "When I came to Missoula as an 18-year-old,* Mora says, "I received a $75 violin performance scholarship. That $75 changed my life." Mora's planned gifts will change lives for UM students— while keeping Mora connected to the school she fell in love with as a young woman visiting from Butte. "I graduated from the School of Music, and I've been involved ever since. I go to concerts. I stay in touch. It all goes back to that first time I visited, when I instantly knew this was where I had to be."
To follow Mora's lead and to develop your own planned gifts, contact Theresa Boyer, director of gift planning, at 406.243.2593 or [email protected].
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Culture o f Giving Puts UM on the Map
A isk Tara Udall to identify the fundraising efforts will support. Seniors who was one way for me to give something back, moment when she felt she was a part give before the end o f April are recognized to really leave my mark.” o f something bigger, and s h e ’ll tell you in the s e m e s t e r ’s final K aim in issue and on Becca Millsap, chair o f this y e a r ’s Senior that moment was riding a rhino up the UM Foundations website. Donors also Challenge committee, agrees. Mount Sentinel to the famous receive a special tassel “You go into this, calling seniors and Above: UM students Katie M overlooking The University of charm to wear during asking them to commit to $20.12— for the Corwin, Ashley Glover, Montana campus. Commencement. Class o f 2012— and you think y o u ’re going and Becca Millsap, (left But not that kind o f rhino. M ost importandy, to right) members of the to hear everyone say, ‘I have loans to pay The “rhino” in question was a Senior Challenge 2012 these seniors have off,’ or something similar. But w h a t’s really Yamaha ATV, and Udall s memory committee, and lara the opportunity to surprising is how many people are excited was tied to the Senior Challenge Udall, UM Foundation contribute to about it and how they realize this truly project becom ing a reality. staff member and UM s legacy. does mean something. I t ’s just the spirit “I remember riding to the M Senior Challenge 2011 Each class answers o f giving, and every $20 is the start o f a with the facilities crew, looking committee member, the challenge in relationship. These are people who may give over the city, and this time celebrate the unveiling of new and interesting large gifts later and may have stadiums or a campus map at the M. Missoula looked different,” Udall ways. For the Class buildings named after them at some point.” says. “Seeing the map physically r o f 2011, it was the The Senior Challenge fits into the installed made it real. Until then, all o f it map at the M. The Class o f 2010 planted overall culture o f philanthropy among UM had just been drawings and ideas.” new trees on the Oval, and the Class o f alumni and supporters. Major projects The project, spearheaded by Udall 2 0 0 9 installed a bike rack. And the Senior bear the names o f people who have strong and the Senior Challenge committee, Challenge d o e s n ’t just fund individual continued on page 32 was the Class o f 2011 s gift to the projects; all donations and pledges that University: an illustrated map detailing a r e n ’t specifically used for the project go all the buildings on cam pus installed at direcdy to scholarships. the M on Mount Sentinel. “When y o u ’re a student, you d o n ’t The Senior Challenge is a student- always think about where the buildings run fundraising campaign to educate and facilities com e from,” Udall says. “But graduating seniors about the importance o f when you get ready to leave, you begin niversity philanthropy. Participating seniors choose to see the bigger picture. The University U ^ Montana F O U N D / A T ‘ I O N die programs or area on campus their gave me a world-class education, and this
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ties to the University and Missoula. T h a t’s why the Senior The Gallagher Business Building. Challenge, and giving in general, The Payne Family Native American focuses on participation more Center. Washington-Grizzly than a dollar amount— every Stadium. The Davidson Honors gift, no matter the size, really is a College. D on Anderson Hall. The major gift. list goes on. Senior Challenge is a “Most students d o n ’t realize first step on that road to giving. those scholarships are made “Its not just about taking your possible by alumni who are diploma and never looking back,” Udall says. simply being kind, giving back to the University, giving to them,” If it all sounds like an effort to create connections with Millsap says. “They d o n ’t think about how many individual graduating seniors, it is. The Senior Challenge encourages the contributors give to their scholarships. But when they start making graduating class to identify needs, o f course. But more than that, those calls, they get it. And i t ’s pretty powerful when they realize it.” its a powerful way to transition from UM students to UM alumni. The experience is com ing in handy for Millsap now that her T h a t’s important, because the relationships can be powerful and Senior Challenge committee is starting to call on fellow seniors. enduring, says Millsap. The past four years, s h e ’s participated in the “I really do want to get the whole senior class involved this Excellence Fund phonathon, talking to alumni across the world. year,” she says. “I want it to be their campaign, and I want it “For many people, w e ’re their only access to the University,” she to be their gift— something that represents our University, and says. “Maybe i t ’s a forestry grad who loves to talk about Foresters’ represents our class as a whole.” She pauses. “Ten years from now, Ball. O r maybe i t ’s a music major who asks about Odyssey o f the w e ’ll be able to look at something we did, point to it, and say we Stars or the jazz festival. You get a sense o f that com m on bond, o f were a part o f it.” what it means to be a University o f Montana student and alum.” I t ’s a feeling shared by the thousands o f alumni who give The importance o f giving and what it means is vividly each year. And that, after all, is the whole mission o f the Senior displayed for Millsap at the beginning o f each phonathon drive. Challenge: to create a sense o f shared identity and shared giving. “We gather all of our callers, and we start by asking who is the Seeing how UM graduates are rising to the Senior Challenge, recipient of a scholarship,” Millsap says. “Almost every hand goes up.” i t ’s safe to say: Mission accomplished. lU
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I Eric D. Bocterbusch '87 I Everett, W A 1 1>*MJ
I Paul Tuss '88 I Havre
I Thomas j. Dimmer'85 I Wjlliamsfon, Ml
I Alina Alvarez '99 I Denver I Leon G. Billings '59 I Bethany Beach, DE I Brandon Byars '93 . I Portland, OR I Susan C. English '72 6 0 s Missoula IN 1967, The University of Montana Alison Fuller '05 Jubileers, a select grou p o f the University's best singers and one of its most beloved . Dawn Houle'94 Gaithersburg, M D traditions, were selected by the USO to Barrett Kaiser'99 entertain men an d w om en serving in the Billings U.S. military a cross the Asian Pacific. Little Jim Kolokotrones '81, '86 did the Jubileers know that the ten-week Daly City, C A tour w ould turn out to b e o n e o f the most Karin Larson-Pollock'93 m em orable ex p erien ces o f their lives. M ercer Island, W A They perform ed a total o f fifty-nine sh ow s | n Ken Lawrence'63 in Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Guam, >' San Antonio an d Hawaii. Forty-four years later, all g Allan Murphy '65 fourteen Jubileers turned out to attend the Bend, OR group's reunion this past August in Bigfork. Mamie McMeel Prigge'73 % "Flathead Lake provided a beautiful setting ABOVE: Tour director Joseph Mussulman for a re-gathering of the group once billed as Rachel Schneller'95 (front, center), led UM's finest voices off Washington, D C. 'Montana's Finest Voices,"' writes DENNIS to visit military hospitals and entertain Greg Stahl, '82 BURNS ' 6 9 , who helped organize the reunion. troops across the Pacific in 1967. M issoula "All in the grou p have en h an ced the vocal music Greg Sundberg '01, '03 t o p P H O T O : No other USO troop is known Missoula climate of many parts of the nation, with several to have gathered for a reunion like the Ed Tinsley'92,'07 having been professional, full-time musicians one held in August 2011 in Bigfork. since leaving the UM School of Music." One Front row: Dennis Bums '69, Nancy Senechal Schulze '69, Joseph Mussulman, Patrick Weasel Head *71, '73 : attendee drove from Florida while others ca m e Carol Ash Wyard '70, Doug Dunnell '67, M issoula from a s far a w a y a s N ew York and Hawaii. Pat Weber'73 and Diane Morrow Hammock '67. Yordley, PA "The get-together was scheduled for one day, Back row , left to right: Susan Emrick '68, but most spent four days catching up on the last Jim Selway '68, Gary Guthrie '68, Edd four decades and singing," writes Dennis. "Some Blackler '70, Greg Devlin '71, Judy Stowe Colbo '68, Don Collins '68, Ruth Silvius Bill Johnston.'79, '91 even w ore their signature red dresses that w ere Dobson '68, and Marcia Olson Cobb '69. made for the USO show in 1967. The group Except for Jim Selway and Gary Guthrie, 406-243-5211 gathered around the piano and sang many of the who are reversed, each Jubileer assumed 877-UM-ALUMS numbers perform ed in the overseas show s." the same position as in the 1967 photo. www.GrizAlum.com
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MONTANAN WINTER 2012 I about alumni Washington Education as executive editor of the LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR Center offers training Tri-City Herald in July. for new and veteran Ken held the position for teachers, administrators, twenty of the thirty-five Grateful Campus and counselors in current years he worked at the technologies and distance paper. “We ca n ’t thank he University o f Montana, through the T learning. him enough for his service I Office o f Alumni Relations, held its and leadership over the first-ever Military Reunion November years,” says Bob Weil, vice 3-6, 2011. The most senior of the alumni president of operations for who attended the reunion was a veteran the McClatchy Co., the o f World War II. What an honor it was to H eralds owner. “Ken is the welcome back these individuals who not only embodiment of that most represented our campus, but also served our fundamental McClatchy country with distinction. How impressive it value: quality journalism.” was to see a major general, along with several brigadier generals and naval The H erald w o n ’t have to captains, come together with enlisted personnel to celebrate their service do without a Grizzly at the helm for long. City editor to the United States and their education from The University o f Montana. Everyone agreed that regular reunions would be a great idea. RICH MOY ’66 , M A 72, Additionally, UM alumnus David Bell, co-founder of Grateful Nation Helena, was appointed by Montana [www.gratefulnationmontana.coml decided to hold the unveiling President Barack Obama o f the Fallen Soldier Memorial on Friday during the reunion. The memorial, to serve as one of three which honors the forty Montanans who gave their lives during the wars in U.S. representatives on the Iraq and Afghanistan, was a gift from supporters o f the Grateful Nation six-member International Montana program. More than 800 people attended both the formal Joint Commission. The commission works ceremony held in the Montana Theatre and the unveiling of the monument to uphold the 1909 on Memorial Row. A cold rain turned to sleet and then snow as the military Boundary Waters Treaty parachute used as the veil for the memorial was removed by UM R O TC between the United cadets. People stayed well into the night to see the memorial. It was a very States and Canada, which moving ceremony and experience. In a short span o f time the memorial has was enacted to prevent established itself as a place to reflect and contemplate. international disputes over Thank you to all our alumni and friends who serve our University and lakes and rivers that cross country in many different ways. We are a grateful campus. the border. MICHAEL DWYER ’67 , 76, Missoula, inirially earned a degree in sociology BILL JOHNSTON 79, M.P.A. ’91 from UM and went on to serve aboard two D irector, Alumni Relations U.S. Navy destroyers, Presiden t a n d CEO, UM Alum ni Associa tion Boyd and Chevalier, as a and assistant managing signalman 2. After two editor LAURIE WILLIAMS deployments to Vietnam, Texas, received the 2011 Dennis Washington. A ’89 will succeed Ken. he returned to UM and Grapevine Heritage former teacher, Phyllis Laurie started at the Herald ' 6 0 s earned an additional SALLY CARROLL Foundation Restoradon commented to Forbes as a reporter in 1984. Weil bachelor’s in social work. BULTMANN 64 and Award from the Grapevine magazine in September noted how that length of In 2007 Michael retired CHUCK BULTMANN 66, City Council. The about the importance time reflects Laurie’s roots after thirty years as a state M .BA ’85, Colleyville, award recognized Sally o f parent-teacher in the community and at social worker for adults and Chucks accurate collaboradon in education. the paper, and continued, with developmental restoradon of the J.E. Foust “The responsibility of “In Laurie, we get a next- disabilities. He remains Building. Built in 1889, learning falls equally generation McClatchy acrive in several veterans the building is located in on both parents and editor, a newsroom leader groups, including Vietnam the Grapevine Historic teachers,” she tells Forbes. hard at work transitioning Veterans of America Township and is home to “Teaching is a team effort, our business and our Bitterroot Chapter, as well Chuck and Sally’s store, especially today with so public service mission for as the associations of both Good Things for All many divided homes.” the digital age, serving ships he served aboard. Seasons. Financed by a generous readers on multiple PHYLLIS J. WASHINGTON gift from the Phyllis platforms and in multiple ’64 , Missoula, is married and Dennis Washington ' 7 0 s formats.” to Montana industrialist Foundarion and opened KEN ROBERTSON 70, ROBERT JOHNSON 71, and philanthropist in 2009, UM s Phyllis J. Kennewick, Wash., retired Olympia, Wash., is chief
3 4 I WINTER 2012 M O N T A N A N about alumni resort and includes 200 setdes in on the island, in the public affairs firm year career, Sherry served vintage photographs. we can expect Richard to California Strategies, as U.S. Attorney for DOROTHY BRINKEL enjoy a few of his favorite LLC, regularly publishes Montana from 1993 to JOHNSON, Ph.D. ’73 , pastimes, which include posts on current events on 2001. Since leaving office, Olympia, Wash., is hiking, woodworking, bow Politico’s The Arena blog. she has devoted much of enjoying her recent hunting, and fly fishing. DOUG BETTERS 78, her time to advising and retirement from the ED SMITH 76, Helena, Whitefish, believes that consulting with the Crow Washington State Attorney received the J.O. Sentell “When Y ou ’re a Griz, Tribe and currently serves General’s office. Award from the National Y ou ’re a Griz for Life.” as legal adviser to the Conference of Appellate In that spirit, the former tribal court. Court Clerks during executive officer and Miami Dolphin and SHELLEY GEORGE VAN its August meeting in president of PRN Services member of the Grizzly ATTA 79, Billings, received Inc., which provides Annapolis, Md. The award Sports Hall o f Fame is the organization’s highest relief pharmacy services created “Griz Life” vinyl honor and recognizes throughout southwest decals suitable for display exemplary service to Washington. on everything from cars the profession and the ! THOMAS BROWN, M.A. and trucks to boats and conference. Clerk of the ’71, Queenstown, New boards. A portion of the Montana Supreme Court Zealand, went on to the. sales will help fund new since 1988, Ed served Louvre Museum in Paris” and improved facilities for as official host for the to study the meticulous UM student athletes. MICHAEL LEIB, M A 74, conference’s 2010 Annual art of copying paintings. BUTCH LARCOMBE 78, West Bloomfield, Mich., Meeting in Whitefish. The experience served him Helena, has been named the Billings Outstanding was recognized for his well this past fall when he managing editor of the Volunteer Fundraiser work in bankruptcy law created a series of original Helena Independent Award from the Montana by his fellow lawyers paintings commemorating Record. He will continue chapter of the American and named to the 2012 New Zealand’s hosting of to oversee content of Association o f Fundraising edition of Best Lawyers in the Rugby World Cup. On Montana Magazine, Professionals. America. display at the BON Z art published by Lee DOUG NISSEN 75, gallery in the Queenstown Enterprises. Evanston, Wyo., was Mall, the paintings reflect SHERRY SCHEEL 8 0 s appointed president of New Zealand’s nearly MATTEUCCI, J.D. 79, ROBERT T. ISHAM, J.D. 1st Bank, a subsidiary of religious fervor for the Billings, received the ’82 , Lake Bluff, 111., was Glacier Bancorp. He will game. One depicts team Montana State B a r’s elected to the Baytree oversee eleven 1st Bank captain Richie McCaw highest honor in October. National Bank & Trust branches throughout GARRY SOUTH 76, Santa as a Greco-Roman god The William J. Jameson Company’s board of Wyoming. Monica, Calif., was surrounded by adoring Award is presented each directors. A practicing RICHARD B. MCMASTER named one of the top fifty toga-wearing fans. year to an attorney whose attorney in Lake Bluff, 76, Lewistown, is moving most influential political DON WETZEL, SR. ’72, career has exemplified Robert previously worked to Klawok, Alaska, on players in California M . E d. ’81, Statesville, the highest level of in merchant banking Prince of Wales Island, by the journal Capitol N. C., was inducted into professionalism and ethics. in Chicago and served to start an eye clinic. Weekly. Garry, a partner the Montana Indian During her thirty-two- as general counsel to Working with the Athletic Hall of Fame in Billing Services Group, a Southeast Alaska Regional July in Billings. A former telephone billing company Health Consortium, Griz player, basketball with operations in Texas, Richard has begun making coach, and educator, Germany, and England. one-week visits to the Don established the hall DONNA L MILLER ’82, island every month or in 2007 in honor of his M A ’93 , Chinook, so while he waits to sell late father WALTER S. earned her Ph.D. his All Family Vision ! "BLACKIE" WETZEL ’38, in curriculum and Care optometry practice also a UM athlete. instruction with an in Lewistown. Residents DAVID H. EUJS, Ph.D. emphasis in English o f Prince of Wales 73, and his wife, Cathy, education from Arizona Island previously had Oracle, Ariz., have State University-Tempe. an optometrist available published Steamboat Donna has taught in the only two months out of FRED WOODY, M.A. '78, Austin, Texas, recently Springs, the new volume teacher training programs the year. In an interview retired from the Department of Art and Art in Arcadia Publishing’s at both UM and ASU, with Alaska Native News, History at the University of Texas. During his Images of America series. and currendy teaches in Richard called the new thirty-two-year career, Fred w as twice named The book tells the history the Elementary Education eye clinic “a great addition "Art Educator of the Year" by the Texas Art of the Colorado town and Early Childhood to the Prince of Wales Education Association and in 2010 was from early setdement to its Development departments community.” After he inducted as a Distinguished Fellow. current fame as a winter at Fort Belknap College.
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36 I WINTER 2012 MONTANAN about alumni help improve the financial Bozeman Daily Chronicle ability of millions of and editor-in-chief of people worldwide.” Montana Quarterly ELMOS KONIS ’86 , magazine. M .B.A.’89, Nicosia, Cyprus, published his novel Magnette: A Cyprus 9 0 s Odyssey in 2010 fro m MOLLY GALUSHA ’90, Missoula, has opened the Buttercup Market and Cafe at 1221 Helen Avenue, just west of the UM campus. Housed ROSS HOLTER *83, Kalispell, is the energy services supervisor for Flathead in a historic University- Electric Cooperative. One of his duties in 2009 was to coordinate and oversee district building, the cafe the development of the cooperatives Landfill-Gas-to-Energy plant, the first offers a Montana-grown and only one in Montana. The plant burns methane gas collected from the grocery selection, fresh- la n d fill’s decaying trash and continually generates just under one megawatt of baked goods, juices, and a electricity. When it came to having the new up-and-running plant painted, selection o f freshly brewed Ross was faced with"choosing a roofing color that would go with the gray Armida Publications. The coffees. cinder block walls. “It was a no-brainer,” says Ross. “Obviously it would have novel centers on a professor SHANE VANNATTA ’90, to be maroon.” The choice has been a point of contention with some of R o ss’s who unexpectedly begins J.D. ’93 , Missoula, was Montana State University alumni co-workers. “Actually we have had a lot of driving a secretive elderly inducted as the president fun with it,” says Ross. “They are quick to point out that even though the man around the island o f the Montana State Bar Griz colors are on the outside, there is plenty of blue and gold represented on o f Cyprus in his coveted Association in September. the inside. Regardless I was pretty stoked to be able to make the decision to vintage automobile. Elmos promote the Griz colors on such a great renewable energy project.” Ross and himself is an assistant his wife JANET MORRIS HOLTER ’83 , have been married for thirty years and professor at the European have two sons. University-Cyprus and was once the proud owner of a JUU ECKMANN ’83, San Financial Advisors is now Daniel hopes to return 1962 MG Midget MK1. Diego, is a flight attendant represented in seventeen to Kenya and follow JAMES SHEA ’88 , J.D. ’91, and operates her own states and specializes in through on what he has Helena, will serve a second small real estate business. meeting the needs of high- learned. “I appreciate the term as Montana state ROBERT "BOB" KEANE, net-worth clients. struggles of the farmers workers’ compensation M.S. ’84 , Missoula, a DANIEL SHANEYFELT 85 in developing nations like judge. research ecologist with lives in Nicaragua but Kenya and am proud to PAUL TUSS ’88 , Havre, was A Bainville native, Shane the USDA Forest Service traveled to Kenya this past be a part of a USA effort appointed by Governor was instrumental in Rocky Mountain Research June through a farmer-to- to assist such deserving Brian Schweitzer to serve starting the Western Station, was named to farmer program funded people around the world,” on the Montana Board of Montana Bar Association’s a three-year term on by the United States he says. “Sending experts Regents. pro bono program and American Forests’ new Agency for International from the USA to such NICK EHU ’89, Bozeman, recently finished a seven- Science Advisory board. Development. He shared areas is a powerful tool to is managing editor of the year term as its chair. American Forests is twenty-five years of the oldest conservation management and strategic SUE HABBE 85, Missoula, took top honors among nonprofit in the United planning experience with women forty-five to forty-nine years old in the States and the only one Kenyan rice producers, international Reebok CrossFit gam es in August. to focus exclusively on helping them learn how A worldwide event gaining in popularity, the protecting and restoring to overcome market gam es attracted a large crowd at the Home forests. barriers caused by growing Depot Center in Los Angeles and were covered BARTON YOUNG ’84 , Vero competition. Daniel used live on ESPN3.com. Over the three days of Beach, Fla., is president his own market plan- competition, Sue completed five multi-faceted and chief executive officer development manual to workouts involving rowing, running, lifting, of Barton Young & assist a 4,500-member and other high-intensity tests of strength and Associates. His company farmers’ cooperative. conditioning. Named most inspirational player received the 2011 Rising He also spent three during her days with Lady Griz basketball, Sue Star Award from Raymond weeks investigating credits her trainers and CrossFit enthusiasts for James Financial Services, market conditions, local preparing her mentally and physically for the grueling competition. "I really Inc. in recognition o f the resources, and consumer love the atmosphere and camaraderie when I'm training here in Missoula," fir m ’s outstanding growth preferences, as well as Sue tells the Missoulian. 'The people at CrossFit Montana I consider my ■n revenues. Barton marketing opportunities brothers and sisters. N o one there will settle for a second-rate effort." Young & Associates and potential strategies.
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The University of J y M o n t a n a about alumni BRIAN TOVSON ’94 , MICHAEL TREVATHAN Henry,” and “O Susanna,” Great Falls, was recendy ’99 , Monroe, La., is the not to mention “My chosen from among fifty new executive director H o m e ’s in Montana.” In candidates to become one o f auxiliary enterprise addition to their children’s o f three new Great Falls administration at the material, Eve and William 26 U to You Lecture Series, Great Falls police officers. University of Louisiana at perform other music 9 U to You Lecture Series, Great Falls CHRISTOPHER "KIT" DAVIS Monroe. Mike remained around Pordand under the 16 Charter Day: U M s 119th birthday ’96 , J.D. ’00 , Libby, in Monroe after earning name Floating Pointe. 23 U to You Lecture Series, Great Falls served as a prosecutor in his M.B.A. from ULM JENNIFER MARIE COOPER San Bernardino County, with a concentration ’01 , ’06 , Portland, Ore., 8 U to You Lecture Series, Great Falls Calif., for seven years. in hospital and health earned her master’s degree Now an infantry officer care administration. A 3-11 Travel Program: River Life along the in health and human in the U.S. Army, he former All-American Waterways o f Holland-Belgium development from deployed to eastern wide receiver, he hasn’t 15-23 Travel Program: European Coastal Montana State University Afghanistan in September forgotten his days as a Civilizations— Portugal, Spain, and in 2009. She has started as the mortar platoon Grizzly. Every year at Griz- France an individual counseling leader for 2-5 Infantry Cat football time, Mike practice and uses sliding- 25- Travel Program: Historic Reflections BN, 31BCT, 1AD. hosts a satellite tailgate scale fees to accommodate June 5 Luxury Cruise JACQUELINE WILLIAMS party for fellow fens. clients with limited means. ’98 , Baltimore, received KENT HANSEN, M.S. For more details, call The Office o fAlum ni Relations, a Ph.D. in medical ’01 , Forest City, Iowa, 877-(JM-ALUMS, or visit wunv.GrizAlum.com. /O O s has joined the faculty WILLIAM P. JAMES ’00 and o f Waldorf College as DEANNA TIERNEY ’92, Michael, to their family. his wife, EVE LLEWELLYN an assistant professor of Clancy, has been promoted TRACEY L HAYES, M.S. JAMES ’01 , Pordand, wellness. “From a teaching to private banker at Wells ’94 , Aurora, Colo., Ore., have joined with point of view, I like the Fargo in Helena and attained the rank of another singer to release smallness o f the class size Missoula. She specializes colonel in the U.S. Air the children’s CD, and the intimate teaching in assisting high-net- Force in August. She is coloring book, and song environment at Waldorf worth customers with stationed at Buckley Air reader A ll Aboard the Zoo College,” says Kent. “I their current and future Force Base, where she is Train. Calling themselves like personally interacting financial service needs. vice commander of the Uncle-B, Auntie-E, with the students.” Kent BOB CLARK ’93 and 460th Space Wing. family therapy from East and J-Dog, the trio previously worked for Sue Fletcher Clark, MARK HEINTZELMAN Carolina University in recorded classics such as five years as a research Frenchtown, celebrated ’94 , Carlisle, Penn., is May. “Camptown Races,” “John scientist in geriatrics at the their twenty-fifth wedding the new publisher of the MARK MEREDITH, Ph.D. anniversary in July with The Sentinel newspaper. ’99 , Montana City, a barbecue and reception Previously a controller at received the Montana at their home. Bob the Daily Herald in Provo, Pharmacy Association’s serves as vice president of Utah, the mathematics Fitzgerald Pharmacist of Clark Fork Valley Bank. graduate is looking the Year Award. Sue works as a business forward to interacting WILL SCHAREN ’99, management bureau chief more with businesses, Boulder, Colo., is for the forestry division community leaders, principal trombone with | of the Department of and organizations in his both the Bozeman and I Natural Resources and new home. “Being able Wyoming Symphony Conservation. Their to make where you live orchestras. In demand as daughter, ERIN CLARK a better place is not a a freelance musician, he MAGGIE PIEROSE GLEASON ’02 , AUSON FISKER ’02 , ’10 performed as a thing to be taken lightly,” plays regularly with other MELISSA PRYOR KUCHYNKA ’02 , a n d JACQUELINE standout track athlete for says Mark. “You need to orchestras, including the GUEST CASELTON ’02 , ail members of the Delta I the Grizzlies while earning embrace that opportunity.’ Boulder Philharmonic, Gamma pledge class of 1998, enjoy the UM 'I degrees in marketing and JAMES KING ’94, the Colorado Springs chapters centennial celebration held in Missoula management. Shoreline, Wash., is Philharmonic, and the during Homecoming weekend this past fall. Nearly DAVID LOGERSTEDT the new director of the Fort Collins Symphony. 500 people attended the celebration, which was J 93, Ambler, Penn., Bellingham Parks and PAUL STRASKO ’99, themed Sweet Home Montana: 100 years o f Delta j recently received his Recreation Department. Geneva, Switzerland, was Gamma. Festivities included a welcoming reception j Ph.D. in biomechanics James tells the Bellingham ordained as a rabbi in at the Missoula Childrens Theatre, brunch at the : and movement science H erald that he wants Bamberg, Germany, in Delta Gamma house, the football game, and a gala i from the University of to make sure the c it y ’s November. He will serve at the Hilton Garden Inn. Seven decades of DGs Delaware. David, his wife, well-established system as assistant rabbi at the were represented, and a donation was given to the j Kristen, and their son o f parks and greenways Communautl Israelite chapter for much-needed house repairs and updates. ' | Matthew have welcomed keeps up with community Liberate de Genfcve. 1 a new Grizzly, Patrick expansion and growth.
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Through chosen from among fifty failed to come up with his firm, Bosque Wildlife candidates to become one acceptable answers to his EMILY HAAS '08/ Portland, Ore., took second and Habitat, he conducts o f three new Great Falls own health problems, he place for a picture she entered in the Peace studies and inventories police officers. began investigating natural Corps Fiftieth Anniversary Photo Contest. The for national forests and HEATHER SCHMIDT ’04 , medicine as an alternative. photo, which is featured on the contents page conservation groups. Eagleville, Penn., is in sales After completing the four- of this Montanan, was taken in 2010 during Quentin and his wife, for Reynolds America, and year training program Emily's Peace Corps assignment in Armenia. Germaine Joseph-Hays, " recendy was promoted to to become a licensed More than 3,700 photos were submitted to the are expecting their first a Sales Territory Manager acupuncturist, Michael contest, and she placed second in the Sharing child in February. II within the Philadelphia opened Missoula’s first Overseas Culture with America category. "I've ANDREA "ANDY" sales region. community acupuncture seen a lot of Peace Corps photos in magazines ; 6ARREFFA ORIZOTTI PATRICK FOX, J.D. ’05, clinic. Treating up to four and brochures and a lot of them com e from people at a time under the vivid, beautiful places," Emily says. "I didn't community clinic model know if the drab Armenian concrete and gray keeps costs down. “My landscape would compete. I was happy a goal for this clinic is not to cultural moment like that was chosen." charge people more than I could afford myself,” says CIERRA PARKER 06, Publishing Chapbook Michael. Washington, D.C., Competition. ALEX BURRESON ’06 and completed a Doctor of ABBY LAUTT ’07 , a Hardin KOLLEEN LOZAR ’06, Physical Therapy degree native, is one o f the Renton, Wash., were at the MGH Institute producers of the National married August 27 in o f Health Professions in Geographic Channel’s Whitefish in front of Boston. series Frontier Force, which offers a peek at the HOU.Y PICKETT 02, ’05, day-to-day lives o f law Cairo, Egypt, was working enforcement officers across as a freelance photojournalist Montana. “This sh o w ’s near Sirte, Libya, on October just about law enforcement 20. While shooting photos for a feature story on in rural places,” Abby ambulance crews caring for wounded fighters in the tells the Billings Gazette. civil war, she encountered the ambulance carrying Abby says she thought she mortally wounded Libyan dictator Muammar “knew everything about el-Qaddafi; “We chased the ambulance with our Montana” before coming ambulance,” the Butte native tells the Montana on to produce the show, Standard. “They drove us back to the field hospital, but the experience proved family and friends. They where wounded and dead fighters had been brought MEGAN BOEHNKE 07, her wrong. “I’ve been to may have gone on to for the past several weeks in the batde for Sirte. The Missoula, received a the Bucking Horse Sale honeymoon in Bora Bora, doors of the ambulance were open, and everyone Global Master of Arts in just as someone who but they never forgot they was chasing it on foot. People were screaming; a few international relations attends, which is fun,” she were Grizzlies. fired their weapons in the air. They were hugging from Webster University. says. “But I had no idea ANNA USA D. CHALFOUN, each other.” Holly obtained photos o f Q a d d a fi’s NICHOLAS GUUG 07, what was going on behind Ph.D.’06, Moose, body through the open doors of the ambulance, is living in Bangkok, the scenes, especially for Wyo., has accepted becoming one of the first journalists in the world to Thailand, as a Fulbright law enforcement.” Filmed an appointment as document his passing. Holly’s work has previously Scholar and studying during the course of a year, assistant professor in the appeared in The New York Times, Time, and other contemporary southeast the series followed Billings, Department of Zoology national publications. A full account of Holly’s Asian poetry. 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42 I WINTER 2012 MONTANAN about alumni officers, various agencies in Outside, Bozeman in Glendive, and the Tributary, ESPN.com and Custer, Gallatin, Missoula, other publications. Flathead, and Roosevelt STUART WING ’08 and county sheriff offices. MAKENZIE BOWEN ’06, AARON SCHULTZ ’08, Lake Oswego, Ore., were a published author married in December in and photographer, has the bride’s hometown responded to the “Great o f Gig Harbor, Wash. Recession” he faced after Stuart is branch manager graduation by compiling for a global sourcing and original equipment manufacturing firm based in Pordand, Ore. Makenzie was recendy promoted to business development manager of western MARK CHAMBERS ’09 , Detroit, is now an inside sales account executive with the operations for Missoula- National Hockey League’s Detroit Red Wings. How he got there is quite a story. based Envirocon, Inc. In a letter to former professors and mentors at UM, Mark credits the internships and field experience programs offered by the School of Business Administration with showing him the way. While working at Paws Up Resort outside Missoula a photo book, Montana— ' 1 0 s in summer 2010, Mark had a chance conversation with Cleveland Cavaliers New York: Perspective, ORSON DWAYNE owner and Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert. “He asked me about my work Form, and Volume. “It is a AGUE ’ 10, Bigfork, has history, education, and career goals,” writes Mark. “I was prepared. I told him comparison,” writes Aaron, completed his twelfth about UM, my marketing degree, and goal to work in professional sports. He “through photographs, of season as stage manager asked my name, contact info, and if I had a resume. I sure did— I had a great how two very different, with the Bigfork Summer resume to give him.” Mark landed his first job with Quicken Loans in Michigan yet iconic, American Playhouse. Orson has a few months later, but he d id n ’t give up on his dream o f working in professional places have shaped our been with the theater sports. “I was determined to get there. I knew that being prepared, fostering country’s identity and company in some capacity contacts, networking, and hard work would pay off. And it did.” mythos.” Compiling since 1977, when he the book, writes Aaron, began as a performer. to understand and deal the company offered him Young Explorer. While gave him hope “while During the offseason, with people,” Orson a full-time paid position at there, h e ’ll participate wading through tar Orson ran restaurants, tells the Bigfork Eagle. Walt Disney World Resort in a collaborative effort from unemployed nightclubs, and sports bars “It helps a lot with stage to help organize special between the Denver to underemployed.” in Pordand, Ore., and management, because you events with community- Zoological Foundation, Aarons photography Seattle for thirty years. have to deal with all kinds partner organizations. “I the Mongolian Academy has previously appeared “That’s where I learned o f people.” Orson became am indebted to all my o f Sciences, and the a year-round Bigfork leaders and educators,” Argali Research Center to NEW LIFETIME MEMBERS resident in 2010. “It ’s the writes Kevin, who preserve Mongolia’s argali The fallowing alumni andfriends have made a place I love to be,” he says. credits the School of sheep. The world’s largest commitment to the future o f the UM Alumni Association “Besides the community Business Entertainment wild sheep, the argali by becoming lifetime members. You can jo in them by and the landscape, this Management Program are nearing extinction calling 877-862-5867 or by visiting our website: wunv. theater keeps me here.” with polishing his event because of unrestricted GrizAlum.com. The Alumni Association thanks them fo r TRECIA CAMPBELL TO and professionalism. hunting and increased their support. This list includes all new lifetime members Brad Barfknecht, Great SIOBHAN KIRKPATRICK grazing competition through September 2011. Falls, were married July 30 ’ll, Colfax, Wash., with domestic livestock. at Camp Paxson in Seeley married Tyler Strom on Wesley and his colleagues F. LYNN an d S. PAULETTE BATES, Victor Lake. June 16 at the Gibson will work on mapping MARK COUNTERMAN, M.S. 92, Broomfield, CO KEVIN HARDING TO, Mansion in Missoula. and characterizing the BONNIE P. DALTON 58, M.S.W, Moffett Field, CA Orlando, Fla., completed Siobhan began studies this landscape, building RICHARD ENGEL 72, Jacksonville, AR student internships at past fall at the College local grazing capacity, JOSEPH D. MCCAFFERY 98, M.B.A.’Ol, Fremont, CA Missoula’s Hilton Garden o f Veterinary Medicine monitoring argali and F. BRUCE POSEY 77, Billings Inn and Hawthorn at Washington State livestock movement, and Suites by Wyndham JOHN R. STARK 74 an d 1RISH STARK 74, Billings University in Pullman. involving local residents in while earning his WESLEY SARMENTO TOM STOCKBURGER 74 and conservation efforts. communication studies LUCY REYNOLDS STOCKBURGER 75, Littleton, C O ’ll, Lakewood, Colo., VICTORIA ZIMMER ’ll, degree. After graduation, graduated in wildlife MICHAEL A. STONE '80, Bigfork Kalispell, is the manager he moved to Florida to biology this past May and ANNE TORREY 81, MA.83, Excelsior, M N o f Second Helpings, a new accept a third internship now finds himself on his thrift store where sales WILLIAM D. WALTERS, JR., J.D. 77, Williston, N D with Walt Disney Parks way to Mongolia to work benefit the Flathead Food WENDY WINSOR 87, Mukilteo, WA and Resorts. In October as a National Geographic Bank.
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CUMMINGS '02, B elt obituary or a letter o fnotification from the ENID MAY BOWMAN ROXTON 57, S an ta TERESA RAYE VELTKAMP ’02, H elen a im m ediatefam ily. Barbara, CA GRACE ADETOMILOLA ADEOGUN 04 Lagos, Nigeria JOHN LYLE HANSEN 59, P oison M aterial on this page reached our office by O ct 31, 2011. '1 Os JUNE BOWMAN JOHNSON 59, H elen a SHAMUS MICHAEL MCCARTHY '10, M issou la LAURENCE A. TROMLY 59, Pensacola, FL '30s DELL E. TYLER 59, M issoula FRIENDS THOMAS F. WIMETT 32, Santa Fe, N M THOMAS "TIM" MARION ARNOT, C on ra d LOIS BLANCHE GEORGE RIMEL 36, Cut Bank '6 0 s JUDITH HELEN BEERS, M issou la KATHERINE MARY BACKES SHEVUN 38, H elen a ALEXANDER A. GEORGE '60, J.D . '62, M issou la MARY LOU LEPIANE BEHNER, M issou la JULIA LEONA PRINTZ BLACKBURN 39, M issoula ROBERT JAMES THOMAS '61, Stevensville DARLENE VIOLA PETERSON BUTCHER, L ew istow n FRANK C. CLAPP 39, Lafayette, CA CORDELIA CARUSLE SLATER '62, M .A .’88, WILLIAM PRESTON "BILL" CHILCOTE, JR., ALFRED R. 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MEREDITH 67, Leavenworth, WA MAYHEW "M.Y." FOSTER, Vancouver, WA JACQUEUNE DESCHAMPS KENNEDY 41, THOMAS EDWARD SNELLMAN 67, Billings ADRIENNE I. WOUPIO FRAZIER, M issou la Issaquah, WA NADIA NADINE BREUE 68, Pueblo, C O ELMER GENTRY, K ailua, H I ELIZABETH MARIE "BETTY" RATCUFF LARUE 42, NICHOLAS H. BROWNING III 6 8 , FRANCIS H. "FRANK" GREAVES, H udson, O H Hot Springs M arina del Ray, CA PAUUNE HAWLEY HAFFEY, M issou la JAMES "HAROLD" LARUE 42, H ot Springs DUANE W. LEITZKE 68, M oses Lake, WA DORIS ANNE MUDD HAGGARTY, M issou la COUN OSCAR "SCOTTY" MACLEOD 43, Billings RICHARD STANLEY GIBBON 69, Post Falls, ID MARSHA COTTON HALL, B illin g s CHESTER B. "CHET" SCHENDEL 43, Bozeman MICHAEL EDWIN HOLLENBECK, B utte ELDEN HARRY SAUERS 45, Palm Desert, CA '7 0 s LOUIS S. HOLUER, B ozem an DOROTHY LEE PRESTON 70, P oison JOAN ENGELKING CHRISTENSEN 47, P oison EUZABETH "BETTY" GRAY IRVINE, Stevensville MARIAN AVIS LACKLEN 47, Billings ORVILLE EUGENE GETZ 71, M issoula JAMES P. 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Over the next Rex Boiler, also a Beta Delta Sig, remembers twenty-three years, when he first saw the bell. Sigma Chi brothers, Boiler, who spearheaded the efforts hell-bent on finding for the bell’s most recent return, knew the treasured bell, the Lambda Chis still had it, despite followed all sorts o f rumors that it was sunk to the bottom leads in search o f o f Flathead Lake or melted down. After it, but to no avail. years of negotiations, it took the threat of Then in early 1978, a lawsuit to finally get it back. The bell rumor had it that was returned to the Sigma Chis, as long the bell was in the as it was put on display in a public place. backyard o f a rival “We got it back just in time for fraternity at Montana H om ecom ing in 1998,” says Boiler. State University in “And let me tell you, it was gratifying Bozeman. to finally see it. It was on a trailer, and a bunch o f the brothers rode with it in the Don Bennett remembers parade. There was a lot of excitement the first time he saw that day.” THE SAGA OF THE the bell in person, too. “We heard it was in Alumni Director Bill Johnston undoubtedly SIGMA CHI BELL Bozeman behind the remembers the first time he saw the bell. Lambda Chi house, He was a neutral party who helped The Sigma remember the first time I saw the so a group o f us went to check it out,” broker the deal, and he also was charged Chi Bell recalls Bennett, a Beta Delta Sig. “It was has been Sigma Chi Bell. It was sitting in the with driving the white pickup to displayed in I bed of a white pickup truck in front winter, and there was about two feet o f Bozeman to retrieve the ringer. the Aaams o f Brandy Hall on a banner fall day snow on the ground. We drove by the “It was great to be the person driving Center since in 1998. It was impressive. And it was house, and, sure enough, there it was. It 2000. it back,” Johnston says. “I’d just heard huge. Looking back, I’m not sure how about the bell, the trucks rear axle didn’t snap under "The bell's been hidden longer but I’d never the weight. seen it before. But there it was, the legendary Sigma than it's been on display. It's much I knew what Chi Bell, back in Missoula for the first better now that people can see it.' it meant to time in two decades. the guys at the Being a member of the Sigma Chi was encased in ice, but I could see the house, and it sure was fun to deliver it. fraternity myself, I knew a lot about ‘USS Montana 1908’ engraving on it, so Which is where this story began. the bell. It originally hung on the USS I knew it was the correct bell.” Montana, a battleship built in the early Aided by a bit o f liquid courage, The bell has been safely displayed in the 1900s that saw action in World War the crew snatched the bell in the dead lobby of the Adams Center since 2000. I. The ship was decommissioned in o f night, hoisted it into the back of I t ’s on an oak pedestal topped with a 1920 and renamed the USS Missoula. Bennett’s 1972 International pickup, marble slab etched with the fraternity’s It was scrapped in 1930, and Professor and returned to Missoula. motto, “In H oc Signo Vinces” (In this Frederick C. Scheuch, a past acting UM Bennett says the bell was painted an sign, you shall conquer). president and founder of U M ’s Beta ugly shade o f purple, and it was dinged “Even talking about it now gives me Delta chapter of Sigma Chi, requested up. Apparently the Lambda Chis rang goose bumps,” says Bennett, president of the small dinner bell from the ship as the bell at football games to celebrate Freedom Bank in Columbia Falls. “The a souvenir. Instead, the ships one-ton Bobcat touchdowns. Bennett cleaned b e ll’s been hidden longer than i t ’s been bronze bell arrived, a gift from General the bell and built a tower for it, which on display. 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