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it.” A GU is the T he Sky's the Lim it largest earth science . 3 orestry Professor Steve Running and his research society in NASA-affiliated Numerical the world, with more 1 Terradynamic Simulation Group have than 38,000 members hadF two things to crow about in the last few in 117 countries. months. Aqua, a satellite carrying UM- The Aqua satel­ designed software, was launched into orbit in lite, which carries May. A month later Running was inducted as software developed a fellow of the American Geophysical by Running’s UM The Aqua satellite (im a g e COURTESY OF NASA) Union, an honor bestowed on preeminent group, joins the Terra scientists from around the world. spacecraft launched in December 1999. Just Running was one of forty-one scientists as Terra was designed to measure Earth’s soil, selected for the honor this year. “These vegetation, and related indicators, Aqua environment. awards normally go to scientists at the big measures rainfall, snow, sea ice, temperature, Running research universities like Princeton, Stanford, humidity, vegetation, soil moisture, and reports that and Berkeley,” Running says. “This honor clouds. The size of a small bus, the Aqua the satellites does show that we can do world-class satellite is bundled with six instruments, one will orbit the s » « *"""'■>« research here at UM and be recognized for of them the Moderate Resolution Imaging Earth at different times, providing different Spectroradiometer, software designed in types of data to researchers at NASA and his Running’s lab and used in different configura­ UM lab. Aura, the third major Earth tions in both satellites. Terra and Aqua are Observing System satellite, is scheduled to s w part of NASA’s long-term coordinated study launch in 2004. . i R i v e r

H o m e s t e a d Producer Gus Chambers was honored A DOCUMENTARY BY MAQQIE CAREY H igh Honors again for his public service announcement M’s Broadcast Media Center is on a created as a response to September 11. The roll, with staff members winning thirty-second television spot, titled A several awards in regional and University Stands, extolls a university’s role in national broadcast competitions this spring,troubed times. Chambers won a national gold Uchief among them graduate Maggie Careyaward for from the Council for the Advance­ her documentary Sun River Homestead. The ment and Support of Education. Chambers program, produced for KUFM-TV, won an also won a gold award for the spot from the Emmy Award in the cultural/historical cate­ national Admissions Marketing Report. gory for the Northwest Region. The award Public Radio producers Sally Mauk and was bestowed at a June ceremony in Seattle. Edward O ’Brien were honored for coverage Sun River Homestead traces the lives of of the September 11 tragedy and for other three sisters who came to Montana in the stories. The Backroads of Montana television early 1900s and lived in the Sun River program won the Montana Broadcasters Valley. Media center producer John Twiggs Association E.B. Craney Award for Non­ and UM radio-TV Assistant Professor Ray commercial Television Program of the Year Ekness contributed to the documentary. for a second consecutive year.

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n this issue of the Montanan, you will discover a captivating counterparts would have anticipated a combination of features designed to inform and entertain. time when students would have very Missoula has changed wonderfully since the latter part of the nice housing adjacent to a golf course. nineteenth century when the M ontana Legislature chartered Yet that is the case today. Moreover, The University of Montana as a “seminary of higher learning.” the University has in the planning In a survey of readers, we found that many alumni wanted to phase another attractive student hous­ know about changes in the Missoula community. This issue is a ing project that will enable us to serve response to that interest. Change undoubtedly came at a much more students while also responding to more rapid rate after the middle of the twentieth century than dur­ the changing needs of the Missoula ing the early years. As the community has changed, so has the community. We have long recognized University. the imperative to work collaboratively to the benefit of the entire The University has prided itself on its involvement in and with community. the larger Missoula community. I think you will find that the case Finally, this issue—as those that follow—offers a special feature as you read this informative issue. Change frequently puts us off, on one of our alumni. We have heard from the readers that the since we rarely find it comfortable to adjust to new arrangements alumni focus has become one of the most attractive of the maga­ and requirements. Creatures of habit, we react negatively when zine’s new initiatives. It certainly makes good sense to inform as pressed to accommodate unwanted intrusions upon our familiar many readers as possible about the accomplishments of people who spaces. One feature story offers a more humorous look at the typi­ began their illustrious and interesting careers with us here at UM. cal responses to these sometimes daunting challenges. Surely we all For every University is its faculty, staff, and graduates. benefit from a perspective that allows us to enjoy a hearty laugh at our own expense. As Missoula develops in response to the new influences of the twenty-first century, so will the University. During my days here as George M. Dennison ’62 a nontraditional student in the early 1960s, I doubt that any of my President

The cou­ oodbye to a riend ity. In fact, they rarely allowed publicity for G F ple made sub­ their contributions. osemary Gallagher, a friend to UM as stantial gifts “Rosemary—as well as Bill—loved life, well as to countless individuals and to Missoula’s enjoyed it to the fullest and had a deep and organizations in western Montana, Community abiding interest in people. Always feisty and diedR July 6 in her Missoula home. Her hus­ Medical deeply committed in terms of her values, band William preceded her in death in 1995. Center, Rosemary invested much of her energy and For many years the Gallaghers owned the United Way, resources to assist young people. The prosperous Westmont Tractor business, the and local Gallaghers, as a couple, exemplified the Caterpillar dealership for western Montana schools and meaning of abiding by the ‘habits of the and eastern Idaho. A firm belief in civic youth organi­ heart’ to create a decent society.” responsibility propelled them into charitable zations. The Business School Dean Larry Gianchetta giving on a large scale. Gallagher remembers his weekly Saturday meeting with Western Rosemary: “We would go for a long ride in The couple will be best remembered at Rosemary Gallagher UM through the William and Rosemary Montana my car. We would begin and end our drive by Gallagher Building for the School of Business Charitable Foundation, directed by a board of going around the Gallagher Building. She Administration that bears their names. They community leaders, will continue their chari­ loved the building and the learning environ­ provided a $1 million donation through table largess. ment it provides to students. Every February UM’s 1993 Capital Campaign to jump-start “Rosemary and Bill Gallagher took a fourteenth, we would bring Rosemary into construction of the $15 million building. strong supporting, but usually private, role in the building to observe and visit with stu­ William was a 1925 graduate of UM’s busi­ virtually every beneficial organization in dents, faculty, and staff. We all looked for­ ness school and Rosemary, the daughter of a Missoula during the past fifty years,” says UM ward to Valentine’s Day as we knew we banker, had business in her blood. President George Dennison. “They made would be blessed with a visit from the sweet­ The Gallaghers provided other donations to contributions of their time, energy, and heart of the business school—Rosemary UM and started several scholarships for students. resources because they cared—not for public­ Gallagher.”

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donating the work. UM's 'Dead Sea Scrolls' Dennison, himself a long-lost manuscript of UM history historian, encour­ has been recovered and donated to aged Hagens to Athe Maureen and Mike Mansfield contact the cam­ Library. For UM history buffs and archive pus library. The librarians, the emergence of this never-pub- rest is, as they say, lished history is something like finding the history. Dead Sea Scrolls. Mary Clapp writer. Narrative of Montana State University, grew up in the She published a 1893'1935 was written by Mary Brennan prairie town of book of original Clapp, a longtime UM faculty member and Devils Lake, poetry, and a Montana poetry contest was wife of President Charles Clapp, who led UM North Dakota, named in her honor. Clapp certainly wasn’t from 1921 to 1935, dying in office at the age and earned a mas­ afraid of using language with a certain flair. of 51. (UM was known as Montana State ter’s degree from For example, when describing the Missoula University from 1935 to 1965.) the University of the first UM president encountered in'1895, she wrote, “It has pretty good board walks— “Researchers have been looking for this North Dakota in Mary Clapp, 1940 work for years,” says UM archivist Jodi Grand Forks, though their square nails are slightly sprung Allison-Bunnell. “We knew it had been writ­ where she taught in the English department. in places and often catch on the finishing ten, but we never knew what happened to it She moved with her husband to Missoula in braid of the long skirts of the ladies.” A pas- until recently.” 1921 when he was named UM president. sage about the land chosen for the University The manuscript covers UM’s beginnings President Clapp helped guide UM describes the UM campus in winter as “the and the terms of its first five presidents. Two through the lean Depression years—at one playground for Hellgate blizzards.” copies of the work—each about 450 pages on point taking a 20 percent pay cut along with The manuscript is rife with interesting onion skin paper—were supplied to UM by the faculty even after his own budget com­ tidbits. Clapp writes how the home of Judge Clapp’s descendants. Mary’s handwritten mittee suggested he be exempt. His untimely Hiram Knowles was remembered for its beau- notes are still legible in the margins, and one death in 1935—there were no pensions in tiful parties and that Mark Twain had been a version is marked “corrected copy.” Both are those days—left his wife alone with eight guest there. She mentions how the first UM copies of an original manuscript that has dis­ children. So she moved from the president’s students only had to be fourteen years old appeared. house into a home on Eddy Avenue and and that the average weight for players on Clapp’s grandson, John Hagens, an econo­ went back to work, joining UM’s English fac­ the first football team was 151 pounds. A tale mist living in West Chester, Pennsylvania, ulty until the mid-1950s. is told about how on April 29,1907, in the came across the manuscript last January Clapp worked on her campus history for middle of the night, “marauders” bound a while visiting his mother (Clapp’s daughter), more than a decade after UM President security guard and stole the hands from the Lucie Hagens, in Los Angeles. “There were James McCain (1945-50) asked her to pre­ Main Hall clock. The hands were later two manuscripts that surfaced,” he says. pare it. But, according to Allison-Bunnell, “brought back in a wagon by a driver who “They had been in my mother’s and aunt’s when Clapp finished the history around gave no name and waited for no thanks.” (Peggy Smurr of Turlock, California) closets 1961, she was told there was no money avail­ Clapp didn’t shy from controversy. She for close to forty years. It was very interesting able to print it; the work was unpublished writes how the first president, Oscar Craig to me: A lot of the University’s problems when she died in 1965. Her manuscript was (1895-1908), didn’t get along with Professor back then weren’t dissimilar from the ones largely forgotten after another work, The Morton J. Elrod, the founder of the Rathead today, and there was a lot to be learned. University of Montana: A History by H.G. Lake Biological Station, and didn’t recom­ Returning this to the University seemed like Merriam, was published in 1969. Merriam’s mend him for re-employment. Craig’s succes­ the right thing to do.” book deals in a much briefer fashion with the sor, Clyde Duniway (1908-12), later decided So Hagens, who worked in the Carter years 1893 to 1935, the years Clapp concen­ the dismissal was “cold blooded and even White House during the late 1970s, e-mailed trated on. scandalous” and rehired Elrod, who is known UM President George Dennison about Hagens said his grandmother was a fine as a beloved professor and one of the most

4 Fall 2002 Montanan prominent figures in UM’s history. Clapp His academic freedom trampled upon, Levine and various departments. He didn’t want to writes that Duniway himself was fired later by was later reinstated with back pay after an “spend the best years of his life on a grum­ the state Board of Education, probably investigation. bling volcano,” she wrote. It seems he was because of a flap over the hiring of law school O f course the most detailed section of able to bring the factions together. Clapp faculty. Clapp’s history is devoted to her husband’s stayed on as president until his death thirteen She devotes a large section to economics years as president. She tells how, because of years later and holds the record as UM’s Professor Louis Levine, who was suspended deep-rooted antagonisms that had developed longest-serving president. President Dennison by the state education chancellor in 1919 for at UM, her husband delayed his inauguration is closing in on that record, with his twelve- publishing a study that concluded the mining for a year, hoping he could foster some sort of year rein. History in the making. industry wasn’t paying its fair share of taxes. harmony among the faculty, administration, - Cary Shimek

N o t a Lot of H ot A ir n June Montana’s Rathead Lake and warming firsthand in Glacier National Park Charles Keeling of the Scripps Institution of Glacier National Park became the set­ on Going-to-the-Sun Road. “We were given Oceanography, Tom Wigley of the U.S. ting for high-level discussions of global a very graphic presentation about how National Center for Atmospheric Research, warming. Fifty scientists and dignitaries much the glaciers have shrunk,” says Joanna and UM’s Steve Running, whose depart­ I Shelton, interim director of the UM center. ment has designed software for NASA envi­ “Climate change affects everyone on Earth. ronmental monitoring satellites. It’s hard to imagine a more important Other speakers hailed from government topic.” There also was time for a little fun. agencies, environmental groups, and the She said that at the top of the pass some of forest-products industry. Informal debate the Asian guests did what many people do was encouraged between presentations, when they first encounter snow—they had a with headsets used to provide language snowball fight. “The retreat went very well,” translation. Participants mulled over a she says. “We had overwhelmingly positive variety of possible strategies to reduce ^ feedback from the participants, with many greenhouse-gas emissions. Phil West, UM Mansfield Professor of Modern saying they learned a lot.” Gordon Rake, executive director of the Asian Affairs, chats with Yang Jiechi, Chinese The high-profile guests included the Washington, D.C. Mansfield' Center, said ambassador to the United States. Chinese and Korean ambassadors to the the clear air of western Montana fostersiclear from China, Korea, Japan, and the United United States, as well as Jiang Zehui, the thoughts. “There’s a real advantage to hav­ States gathered to tackle the hot topic dur­ president of the Chinese Academy of ing diplomatic meetings outside of Wash­ ing UM’s Fifth Mansfield Pacific Retreat, Forestry, and the sister of Chinese President ington, Tokyo, Beijing, and the capitals : Melting Mountains: Climate Change in the Jiang Zemin. Those attending witnessed because it removes a lot of the distractions Asia-Pacific Region. presentations by some of the world’s pio­ that are present in those cities. It also helps Held at venues in and around Bigfork neering global-change scientists, such as people get away from the national-interest and Glacier, the event allowed attendees type of thinking, and helps people come up to learn about and discuss the contentious with ideas of more mutual interest.” international issue in a relaxed, informal The 1996 and 1998 Mansfield Retreats setting. The retreat was organized by UM’s also were held in western Montana. The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center and 1997 retreat was in Beijing, and the 2000 the Washington, D.C.-based Mansfield event took place in Kumamoto Prefecture, Center for Pacific Affairs, which work to Japan. The 2003 retreat, tentatively Improve relations between Asia and planned to address the topic of economics America. and the environment, will be held in Participants saw the effects of global Korea. - Cary Shimek

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entinel student annuals cover two shelves in the Mansfield Library’s Sarchives and Special Collections read- ing room, their colorful covers sandwiching pages of black and white photographs, draw­ ings, names, poetry—and memories—of gen­ erations of UM students. Want to find photographs of students, fac­ Puntney feels that the decline is over and produce the CD-ROM as an accessory to a ulty, buildings on campus, programs, UM tra­ that yearbooks are coming back. The tragedy paper annual. CD-ROMs may be cheaper to ditions, important events? If you want that of September 11, in particular, has revived produce, but it’s unlikely that we’ll be able to information for the years 1905 to 1972 or interest in traditions such as yearbooks. She read them as easily as we read the first 1987 tol989, you’re in luck—it’s in the adds that interest in yearbooks tends to be Sentinel 98 years later. Technology changes annuals. The volumes from the 1910s and cyclical. rapidly, and it’s a rare individual who main­ 1920s are thin, filled with detailed articles, According to Gary Lundgren, marketing tains old machines and software to read old : quotes, and photos from each class member, manager at Jostens, overall yearbook sales media. even details about the growing faculty. The remain steady at college and university cam­ Memories of the recent past at UM may ones from the 1950s and 1960s are fat, filled puses, although many schools are no longer remain locked in hearts and minds, shared in with photographs of dances and producing them. “Yearbooks on college cam­ fleeting moments at reunions and other occa­ Homecoming royalty, hopeful young faces puses really need a champion,” says Mark sions, but not neatly bound between book framed by neat haircuts. Cassutt, manager of corporate communica­ covers. Or perhaps the yearbook will rise Need information for other years? Tough tions for Jostens, the country’s leading pub­ again, ready to hold memories for the future. luck. N o annuals were published for 1973 to lisher of high school, college, and university - Jodi AUison-Bunnell, UM archivist 1986 or since 1990. Thousands of students, yearbooks. The campuses who still have an hundreds of faculty, and uncountable events, annual yearbook tend to have an adviser or Admirable Alums transitions, and traditions are recorded in permanent staff member who provides conti­ other places—university publications and nuity and keeps the interest high, Cassutt ix Distinguished Alumni Awards will be office records, the Montana Kaimin—but not says. presented at the 2002 Homecoming in the easily searched yearbook. A vital Putting together a yearbook that truly SSinging on the Steps September 20. storehouse of campus memory has gone by represents all parts of a campus is a big job, Recipients are: Monsignor Anthony M. the wayside. even at a medium-sized campus like UM. It’s Brown, Ed.D. ’58, Butte; John W. Jutila ’53, UM isn’t alone in this trend. A t college a challenge to track down all of the students M.A. ’54, Bozeman; Nancy Fields O ’Connor and university campuses across the country, for portraits—not to mention all the student ’51, Malibu, California; William G. “Bill” yearbooks are disappearing in the face of ris­ organizations, stage productions, sports teams, Papesh ’65, Spokane, Washington; Marilyn ing costs, declining sales, and decreased stu­ and the like. And if the University can get Shope Peterson ’57, Seeley Lake; and Robert dent interest. There’s also the opposite those pictures, a good part of the cost to pro­ J. Swan 71, M .A .’72, Box Elder. *5^ trend. Linda Puntney, the yearbook adviser duce the yearbook won’t be covered by sales at Kansas State University and executive and advertisements. Clarification: A story on UM’s new Fitness director of the National Journalism Some campuses have gone to CD-ROM and Recreation Center in the Spring 2002 Education Association, says that many or video annuals that are cheaper and less Montanan erroneously stated alumni receive a schools are calling and e-mailing her for time-consuming to produce. Marquette discounted fee. Only faculty and staff receive a advice on how to resurrect their annuals. University, for instance, last published a discount. The fee for an alumni user is $45 a Calls have come in from large schools, as paper annual in 1996, then went to a CD- month; memberships are available only to well as smaller campuses. ROM multimedia yearbook. Other campuses UM faculty, staff, and alumni.

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lere did you find that clay?” 2001. The girls long for cosmetics, the parents for privacy, the children a the newly arrived teacher for Hershey bars and friends. Kids from one family barely speak to those asked when she first encoun­ in the other and they do not even sit together during lunch the first tered Aine and Tracey Clune, week at school. W itheir bodies painted with red Enter Judy Hove Harding ’63, schoolteacher extraordinaire. clay, their homestead clothes ripped into more revealing attire. These Retired from a teaching career that spanned nearly thirty years, Judy rebellious teenage cousins, along with four other children living the received a phone call at her Helena home in April 2001. New York’s lives of 1883 homesteaders, were about to experience a teacher they’ll public television station WNET Channel 13 was in Montana, ready to never forget. film Frontier House. Education was required by law in Montana Viewers of the widely popular PBS series Frontier House have to Territory in 1883, and Frontier House needed a schoolteacher. Would watch carefully to catch the body paint and tom prairie garments. But Judy consider? Certainly, she replied. four months into the series, when Mrs. Judy Harding rings the bell for Judy sent her resume-letter to Simon Shaw, the award-winning pro­ the first day of school, viewers are well aware of the sadness and nega­ ducer of the hit British PBS series 1900 House, Frontier House’s prede­ tivity the pupils bring into the schoolhouse. It hasn’t been easy living cessor. In it she lists teaching French, Spanish, English, music, library, in 1883. guitar, and art in K-12, college, and adult education classrooms; receiv­ A $3 million, six-hour production, Frontier House follows the lives ing a Teacher of the Year award; a listing in Who’s Who in American of three families who live for five months as Montana homesteaders. Education; international travel and study; and a co-starring role in a Much in their lives is at the breaking point when Judy first meets Aine state-sponsored film of Lewis and Clark’s travels across Montana for the and Tracey. Even the stunning Montana surroundings—an undisclosed nation’s 1976 bicentennial. Her bachelor’s degree from UM was in valley in the Absaiokee Mountains—offer little compensation for the French, with Spanish as a minor. She earned master’s and doctorate backbreaking and tedious work, the isolation, the erratic weather, and degrees in education at Montana State University, writing her doctor­ the memories of creature comforts that exist for the rest of the world in al thesis on the relationship of music to teaching.

Fall 2002 Montanan 7 4 Outside the school house are bottom row, left to right: Erinn Patton, Logan Patton, and Conor Clune. Top row: Tracey Clune, Aine Clune, Judy Harding, and Justin Clune.

together at lunch. When they’d moved together, she brought out a cake. The children ate together every day thereafter. Another unifying device Judy used was music. She’s renowned for her workshops on teaching guitar, especially to people who don’t read music. Judy soon had all the children playing chords on guitars, singing, and writing their own songs. “Music was the biggest challenge and the biggest reward,” she explains. “Polly Wolly Doodle” didn’t grab the children’s attention, but they grew to love many other folk songs that taught them history at the same time. Judy ends her letter by describing how as a small child she attended Judy took issue with the series’ narrative that describes the frontier a one-room country school near Ray, North Dakota. “That short time teacher as frequently an uneducated girl, often as young as fifteen. Her has lived in my memories as an all-time favorite,” she writes. “I have research uncovered a different story, particularly in Montana. “In often thought I’d like to teach in such a school sometime. (I have also 1846,” she explains, “the National Board of Popular Education set out rather wondered how we all survived drinking from the same dipper out to educate the frontier. This program took only single, young women, of one pail.)” Shaw hired Judy immediately and she set out to learn all trained them for two years—primarily in Boston—and only then sent she could about teaching and education in Montana Territory in 1883. them out to teach.” In 1846 the “frontier” was Ohio, but as the coun­ Helena is the perfect city for historical research and Judy was try became more settled, teachers traveled further and further west. By thrilled with the wealth of materials available. By the time she met with the 1880s, Montana Territory had 203 common schools, most with the frontier families to discuss schooling, she knew every historical well-qualified teachers. “Montanans were willing to tax their citizens option available to set up and finance their school. The families decid­ one of the highest rates in the country to guarantee good public educa­ ed on a subscription school, paying for the teacher’s salary themselves— tion,” Judy continues. “And every county in the Montana Territory had $1.42 per child, rounded up to about $2 to include supplies. Then they a superintendent of education.” converted an abandoned sheep shed into the schoolhouse. Judy’s favorite story of a qualified Montana schoolteacher is Olive Judy’s research revealed that frontier teachers taught whatever sub­ Pickering, a single, young, educated woman who traveled in 1878 by jects and skills they knew and used whatever materials they had avail­ rail and stagecoach to teach in Montana. Although her marriage to able. Many schoolteachers knew how to sew and quilt, so their students John Rankin ended her professional teaching career, Olive’s love for learned to sew and quilt. “Everything around you was educational,” education definitely helped shape the lives of the Judy explains. So when the two rebellious girls arrived that day wearing Rankins’ six children. All graduated from UM, with body paint, Harding immediately thought of another daughter Jeannette Rankin going on to receive thing she could teach the students. international acclaim as the first woman elected to Harding has been a potter for years, taking the U.S. Congress. Another Rankin daughter, workshops at Helena’s Archie Bray Foundation Harriet, was dean of women at UM from 1920 to 1935. and sharing a studio with other Helena potters A son, Wellington, was the first UM graduate to attend Aine and Tracey Clune showed Judy the Oxford University in England. pond where they’d found their red clay, The date for the Frontier House series was chosen to coincide and she soon had all the students making the year that the east and west tracks of the Northern Pacific their own clay slip from the mud. Many Railway met in Montana Territory. A transcontinental railroad meant pottery pieces they made became more supplies available for Montana homesteaders and, of course, more important implements in the home­ contact with the outside world. Judy used this historical event as the steaders’ cabins. basis for songs and a play the students wrote describing the people who “My number one goal was to get helped bring the railroad to Montana. these kids together,” Judy says, A n unforgettable television moment occurs when Judy presents the reflecting on the clannish behavior students with three oranges—their first fresh fruit in months—to cele­ then evident in the children. brate the driving of the transcontinental spike. “These oranges would “Luckily, Logan Patton had a now be available to the homesteaders,” she explains to the children, birthday coming.” O n his birthday, “but they would be very expensive, and that’s why we have to share." Judy insisted all the children sit The children smell and rub the carefully peeled rinds, slowly lick the

PHOTO COURTESY Of AUDREY HALL/THIRTEEN/WNET O Fall 2002 Montanan juice from between their fin­ sawdust floor to take the over- gers, and savor each slice like | flow of people. The kids played none they’ve eaten before. | the guitars, and we all just had “There were afternoons in | the nicest time.” that sheep shed [schoolhouse] = The students played and that were so hot we would | sang a song about friendship practically drain the entire © that Judy had written for the crock of drinking water and | recitation program marking sometimes we’d retreat to the S the end of the school year. shade of the trees to continue | Viewers don’t hear the words, our studies,” Judy recalls. “A Errin and Logan Patton “carpo°r t0 schooL but they do see smiles on the couple of days were so cold and the children so wet that we hardly left faces and tears in the eyes of nearly everyone present. the tin square that surrounded the woodstove. One day it was too dark The students dream of someday returning to Montana and seeing to read, so we had to work on everything orally. We munched on slices Mrs. Harding again. “If we could have one day together what would you of raw potato browned on top of the stove, told stories, practiced like to do?” she asked them. They all agreed that the perfect day would Spanish, recited poems, and made up songs. Every day the dust from the be, “at your house, playing guitar, and making pottery. . . all day long.” sawdust floor burned my eyes, nose, and throat, but these things were Logan Patton admits on camera that the Frontier House school “turned truly a small price to pay for the joy of working with those children.” out to be the funnest thing in life!” Judy’s students shared a water dipper as she had in her own one-room Last December Judy sent each student, now back in twenty-first schoolhouse many years before. However, Frontier House children then century life, a special gift—a Christmas ornament in the shape of a poured their water into individual cups—a concession to modem day frontier horse. She’d made them herself... out of red clay. health practice. The children missed nearly two months of actual school while mak­ Betsy Holmquist ‘67, M.A. ‘83, writes the Alumni Association newslet­ ing Frontier House. It was up to Judy to keep them current in their reg­ ter and Class Notes for the Montanan. A sixteen-year veteran of the Alumni ular studies as well as provide their 1883 education. (During filming, Association, Betsy works just around the comer from her freshman dorm the kids’ 2001 textbooks were kept hidden in their desks.) “I had to room. study every night myself, to keep up with their studies,” she admits. Judy relied on the one-room schoolhouse technique of having older students Modern Media teach and tutor the younger ones. Kristen Brooks, the newly married mithsonian magazine was scheduled to visit Frontier House the Frontier House participant, also helped tutor. “It does take a village, week of September 11th to research and photograph a story Judy says, “for students and adults to receive the finest education.” S about the schoolhouse. With planes canceled and timetables shift­ As the school term ended and the series wound to its close, Judy’s ed, the school had closed by the time the magazine crew arrived. calming and enriching presence became evident throughout the com­ Judy wrote a letter to Smithsonian in response to their query: “How munity. Kristen often came to school, assisting Judy and participating did you teach history while you were living history?” Her letter in the art projects. “W hen she saw the kids learning guitar, she was so arrived too late for the article, however—the anthrax scare held excited and wanted to learn too,” Judy says. “Kristen wanted to play back all the mail going to the nation’s capital. guitar so she could sing ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ and she wanted to leam A Frontier House article did appear in the April 2002 issue of how to speak Spanish. She fit right into our curriculum.” Smithsonian; Seventeen magazine featured Aine and Tracey Clune in “All of the adults were so supportive of the school, of me, and of my its January 2002 issue; Better Homes and Gardens did a series in the projects. They wanted to leam guitar and make pots too, and I would April, May, and June 2002 issues; and wrote about loved to have taught them. I had thought we might be able to do an American Girl Erinn Patton in its February 2002 issue. evening class or two for them, but we all found out there was just not For more information on the series and when it will be shown time. We did have a potluck supper at the end of the term. It was very again where you live, log onto: www.PBS.org/wnet/ffontierhouse. nice weather but then immediately turned very cold. We all moved To view photos of the Frontier House Museum at Nevada City, inside, lit up the potbelly, and had our dinner and a great time inside Montana, go to www.ffontierhousemuseum.com. the school. Gordon [Clune] had brought some hooch to put in the cider and heated that on the potbelly for the adults. I spread my quilt on the

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hen I think about Missoula I think in but he missed them too much and realized his credibility as a business­ images: the long-haired, baggy-pantsed man was better if he had a family with him. “I am delighted with kid on a skateboard sidewalk-sailing Missoula,” he wrote in his formal script May 11,1900, “even if it seems across the Madison Street Bridge, fac­ as if all the nice pleasant sociable fellows I meet go to cockfights, etc.” B ing down a logging truck, with its shag­ It was in this house that I grew up, amid a jumble of family history: gy load of Doug fir. Or I think of the evening my family and I were sepia-toned photographs of my great-grandmother next to my brother’s walking along the Kim Williams Trail that threads into Hellgate swimming ribbons, old sermons in elegant script written by some great- Canyon between the UM campus and the Clark Fork River, known to great-grandfather next to Time-Life paperbacks, an old Paxson painting the Salish as In mis sou let ka or River of Awe. We listened while the next to a color photograph of our dog surrounded by chickens. Growing steady throbbing of drums from Jacob’s Island dueled with high female up, I could hear from this house the clatter of freight trains from the voices echoing from a cheerleading camp at Washington-Grizzly Milwaukee rail yards, now the domain of lank-tongued dogs and jog­ Stadium. I think about A1 and Vic’s, a smoky, dimly lit downtown bar gers. It is from this house that we explored the dangers of the ditch, where older men gather for their nightly “poison,” ignoring the fresh- faced, floppy-haired university students who prop their elbows on the bar and drink microbrews. These are contrasts we Missoulians love about ourselves. We love to think of ourselves as driving a pickup to the symphony, as river-rafting aesthetes, as diamonds in the rough, even though others might just think of us as rough. “ This is the place for the But the contrast I love best is that of my great-grandfather, whole crowd to come and who boarded a train in Chicago to come west to find a healthier cut out all worrying. ” place for his family to live. He - John Patterson, June 1900 decided against Butte, because — |------the country was too forlorn and the air too smoky, and settled instead on Missoula. “Missoula is the place you can expect to settle,” he wrote back to my great-grandmoth­ er in Chicago on May 6,1900, of the town that grew up around a flour mill in 1863, the hub of five mountain valleys drunk with rivers—the Blackfoot, the Clark Fork and the Bitterroot, the Rattlesnake. The town he encountered was bustling, the rawness of frontier settlement rapidly being replaced by the settling types—homeowners, entrepre­ WWW.MONTANASTOCK.COM neurs, churchgoers—and the fledgling state university. “Missoula is a beautiful town,” he wrote. “The business portion is very well built, sev­ eral nice four-story brick buildings with elevators, steam heat, etc., and the residences are pretty.... There are plenty of lovely drives along the PHOTO BY PATRICK CLAIK/ PATRICK BY PHOTO river for us and Johnnie and waa [their nickname for the child my great- grandmother was carrying].” where people tossed old refrigerators and stoves and bedsprings. The image I love is this: this stolid, Scots-American man, with his W hen I was growing up, Missoula was still a small town, population portly carriage and wool suits and round-rimmed glasses, heading west about 30,000, and the town belonged to children. We walked every­ for the adventure of his life, then settling in the brown, prairie-style where—downtown, to school, even to kindergarten—which is some­ house he built in 1903 on the banks of the Clark Fork River, recreating thing I wouldn’t dream of letting my children do. My parents weren’t the solid, respectable middle class life that he had before. Originally, he permissive—the area around the rail yard, a haven for hobos and mys- was going to live in Missoula a year before he moved his family west, terious-goings-on was forbidden, but likely as not if we were lost, some- Fall 2002 Montanan 11 of Missoula), a hallway that seemed a passageway into Ali Baba’s trea­ sure—books upon books with their black-taped spines and titles writ­ ten in shivery white ink. Downtown was still a place where, if you went shopping, you dressed up, although not in the gloves and hats of the 1950s. Downtown was a very different place in the mid-1970s, when I was an undergraduate at UM. It was a place to drink, to snake your way from the Stockman’s Bar to the Top Hat, to the Flame, walking through alleys, older, wilder, and certainly drunker, but still with that same sense of ownership we had as children. But the downtown proper was dying. The Mercantile had become the Bon Marche, but what was most prevalent were empty storefronts, for-rent signs, litter, and the hol- lowed-out, empty feeling of better days gone by. A transient we knew only as Sandra often stood on the street comer holding up a Barbie doll with a sign that said, “Jesus loves Barbie.” one would know our par­ John Patterson (left) and the Today, on any morning in late spring and summer, downtown is ents and would send us home he built humming. River-sandaled feet run or pedal bicycles down the streets or The author’s par­ home. We feared the the trails lining both sides of the Clark Fork River on the site of the ents now live in mythical stranger offering the Patterson Milwaukee Railroad’s abandoned beds. Strains of “Puff the Magic candy, of course, but, in family home on Dragon” rise from the organ at Caras Park’s hand-carved carousel and Fifth Street fact, there weren’t many mingle with shouts of children running, sliding or swinging across the strangers in our town. Today, as a parent, I always fear strangers. monkey bars at Dragon Hollow or the music rising above the throngs “My dear boy,” my great-grandfather wrote his son on June 28,1900, at Caras Park’s summer Out to Lunch program. The storefronts are “right near where you are going to live when you come is a nice river. full—boutique stores feature displays of bath soaps, dresses, artwork, Won’t we have fun fishing, though? And we can throw stones in the custom light switches, books and juice made with ice and fruit. Nearby, water, and when we get tired doing that, we will hitch up the horse and at the $6 million theater that was once an inner-city school, kids take a buggy ride.” rehearse the Missoula Children’s Theatre’s latest musical. We’d cross the Clark Fork River on the Higgins Bridge to go down­ The Missoula community was responsible for the transformation, town to visit the Missoula Mercantile, where the buyers knew my great- says Daniel Kemmis, Missoula mayor from 1990 to 1996 and author of grandmother and my grand­ The Good City and the Good Life. Take a cosmopolitan populace, mother and would keep them “I am delighted with Kemmis says, put it in a in mind on their buying trips, remote place, and stir in eco­ where the children’s depart­ Missoula, even i f it seems nomic despair and what you ment had swivel racks that get is a city that is self-deter­ as i fall the nice pleasant lifted and turned to reveal, mining. People realized that magically it seemed to me if they wanted jobs, if they sociable fellows I meet go then, another row of dazzling wanted culture, they had to new dresses, where the man in create their own. And they to cockfights, etc.yi the hardware department had have. In the past twenty- the largest ears I had ever seven years, Missoula citizens - John Patterson, May 1900 seen. Downtown we exchang­ have established Caras Park ed empty pop bottles for nick­ and Pavillion, the Missoula els to buy ice cream cones at a bowling alley, or, when I was older, my Farmers’ Market, the girlfriends and I would steal Evening in Paris cologne from Missoula Children’s Theatre, Woolworth’s. a Carousel for Missoula, and Downtown was where we’d enter the dank hallway of the basement Dragon Hollow playground. children’s section of the Missoula Public Library (now the Art Museum They’ve funded trails along

12 Fall 2002 Montanan Out to Lunch at the Caras Park Pavillion PHOTO BY PATRICK CL ARK/WWW.MONTANASTOCK.COM the Clark Fork River and purchased Mount Jumbo—the 4,768-foot city. Its population is now nearly 60,000 and it serves a county popula­ mountain that forms the town’s eastern edge—as open space. tion o f96,000. Those pretty residences, such as the one my great-grand­ Missoula town has changed drastically since my childhood, from the father built, are now expensive real estate, worth up to $350,000. smoky, small mill town where every year we measured winter by the Working men—the loggers, mill workers, and ranch hands that drank soot layers in the snow, where my father was out­ side by side in the bars with the more novel univer­ sity students or professionals—have become novel­ raged the first time he was asked for identification “We all value countryside, when paying by check, where my great-grandfa­ ties themselves as the natural resources industries ther was giddy with the promise of the place, the but we cant all live in it have declined. possibilities of abundance, comfort, clean living. “We are struggling with how to put ourselves “My darling wife and boy,” he wrote June 4,1900. and expect it to survive. ” together in a city way,” says Mike Kadas, Missoula’s “There are great opportunities here for raising mayor since 1996. “We all value countryside, but we Missoula Mayor Mike Kadas, 2002 fruit, principally apples.... A person for $1,500 can’t all live in it and expect it to survive. We have can put out an orchard that in six years will begin to build sidewalks, short blocks, parks, trails.” Today, to pay from $2,000 a year. To tell you what apples and pears will do, instead of visiting in neighborhood markets or churches as my great- you’d think I was daffy.” In a later letter, he drew a sketch of where the grandparents did, we gather in masses: at the thirty-year-old formers’ apple trees would be planted on the planned house site in what is now market, at Out to Lunch, on the river trails, on the hiking trails that Orchard Homes. He wrote that he would plant potatoes in between to lace the face of Mount Jumbo where ancient shorelines—forty of bring in even more money. He was a city boy. “I’ll make enough money them—are mementoes of Lake Missoula’s Ice Age. here in a few years so both of you and Grandma and Kate and Abby will “We need to create a good, high-density design that is a catalyst for have more than they no (sic) how to spend, “ he wrote. “This is the social and cultural interaction and opportunity,” Kadas says. “If we place for the whole crowd to come and cut out all worrying.” My great­ don’t do it well, Missoula will be unlivable.” In other words, we must grandmother nixed the whole plan for a house in town. build places for people to get out of their cars to walk as my great-grand­ Now, nearly a century later, Missoula is on the verge of becoming a parents and grandparents did. They built their houses in order to be

Fall 2002 M o n ta n a n 13 an urban behavior. Now, instead of the claustro­ phobia I used to feel as a teenager whenever I went to the grocery store or the mall, I find myself look­ ing for people I know, wanting, in some way, to reassure myself that this is still my town. I know fewer and fewer feces. It is Saturday morning in downtown Missoula, a light drizzle graying the lush green mountains cir­ cling the town, the river rolling and high with snow melt. And, in spite of the rain, there is a sea of umbrellas headed north on Higgins: students with empty plastic bags, older women with their smart woven baskets, drippy bicyclists with empty panniers, families with small children skirting their sides. All are headed toward the farmers' market, at the former Northern Pacific Railroad station. O n their way, they pass the old Missoulian building, now a hive of offices, the old Hamburger Ace, now a smart new brew pub. On the comer, a A Carousel for Missoula saxophonist plays, the notes rising, winsome, interrupted by the ranting features hand-carved of the street-comer preacher who has been at it for so many years that wooden horses crafted by volunteers and donated his sermon is pure sound, a wordless rant. by local organizations. I park the car and join the streams of people heading toward the market. Under the chartreuse locust trees, shimmery in rain, this is the place, as Kemmis notes, where democracy begins. Where old-time Missoulians mingle with the newly arrived, where old mix with young, close to things. They were city people huddling together for warmth. where fifth-generation Bitterrooters are elbow to elbow with shaggy- My grandparents built their house and never left town—never went on haired organic farmers doing a brisk business in morel mushrooms. And vacation, never felt the need to for their lives, as I imagine them, were then there are the Hmong families, some of them now in their second slow-paced, quiet, the covers of my great-grandmother’s editions of generation at the market, families who came here after Vietnam fell to Dickens worn threadbare. Today we want getaway homes to restore the Communists in May 1975. Originally about 1,000 families resettled some kind of peace in our lives, we want vacations to escape the noise, in Missoula from the mountains of Laos, but the climate, the job mar- the phone, the hurly-burly that is Missoula, that is our modem lives. In other words, we want to build a place that makes us feel, in some way, that we’re still in a small town because everyplace, everywhere, there are reminders that we are not. There is Reserve Street, which I knew as a child as some dusty road in the country, now a stretch of nameless, faceless stores that offer choice upon choice, deal upon deal, that I have to fight through the traffic to reach. There is Grant Creek with its high-priced real estate where I used to go horseback riding. There is Miller Creek, where we used to listen to music in a beer-soaked haze during Aber Day, now a platted, developed subdivision. There is even road rage. I remember how shocked I was the first time someone flipped me off because I’d turned in front of them. Shocked and hurt. This was my town. I remember clearly the Saturday I decided not to shop at a nursery because it would be too crowded—realizing, with a shock, that this was Mayor Mike Kadas paraglides in tandem over Missoula.

1 4 Fall 2002 Montanan ket and the racism some encountered sent them to larger Hmong com- munities on the coast. The older Hmong women and the children sit patiently under their umbrellas behind tables of bright red radishes, let' tuce, round orange carrots, and green onions. Nearby, an older Belarussian couple sits behind an offering of thick green cucumbers—the Belarussian’s specialty crop. About sixty fami­ lies, or 250 refugees, arrived in 1989 from the low farmlands of Belarus, as part of the Evangelski Khristiane, an evangelist sect whose members were persecuted under the U.S.S.R.’s Communist regime. Children were shunned in school; one man, I heard, was raising bumper crops of strawberries in Belarus until the local authorities learned of his success and smashed all of the greenhouses he had built. They have made lives for themselves here—landscaping, fixing cars, cleaning houses—doing work that many Americans shun. I wonder how this town looks to them, pioneers from another country, like my great-grandfather, but in another century. I long to see the town through their eyes—to see it as someone newly arrived, someone who doesn’t see a place in layers of history, but as itself, at that moment. I wonder what hopes they have, what prayers they make and how they describe the place when they write letters home. I find all of this heady, sweet, cheering—this rain-driven pursuit of fresh fruits and vegetables, this mix of saxophone music and sermon, of Hmong and old Missoula hippies, of Belarussians and society matrons. But I have to admit this: I rarely go to the Saturday farmers’ market. I applaud its vibrant presence each Saturday, but there is something so relentless about the sociability and the throng, that it’s too overwhelm­ ing for me to face every Saturday. I, like many old-time Missoulians, I shop the quieter Tuesday evening market. There is something about the calmer, more everyday interaction I miss in Missoula these days—something I miss about the spontaneity of meeting in the course of a life rather than in the course of yet another entertainment. Whether I’m joining the lines of cars on Reserve or the streams of people heading toward the Saturday market, it is the noise and busy-ness that I tire of. I don’t want to go back to the old Missoula—to the smokiness, the claustrophobia, the xenophobia all the phobias of my childhood. I don’t think it was necessarily a better place. But it was a quieter place. markets, at the playground, in the churches. A place where, as my While I hate nostalgia, while 1 think Missoula is lucky to have had great-grandfather wrote his son in May 1900, excitements were small, such forward-thinking mayors and community-spirited people who cre­ spontaneous. “There is a whole island in the river,” he wrote his son in ate things like the children’s theatre and the carousel, I sometimes May 1900 from his office in the Horence Building, “and the deer was shrink from the relentless civic-mindedness. Even though I think my on the island eating grass. A lot of men and boys tried to catch and lasso children are growing up in a place that has more opportunities than the it and nearly did, but it got away from them by swimming down the Missoula where I grew up, in a place that will show them more about river.” # the world than I learned as a child in this smoky valley town, I wish, too, that they could experience a bit more of the dreamy, child-dnven Caroline Patterson, former editor of the Montanan, is now a freelance days I knew, where social interaction wasn’t a phrase I knew or some­ magazine writer. She is raising her two children in Missoula where she hopes thing that was engineered—it just happened all the time in the super­ they’ll have fond memories of their own.

Fall 2002 M o n ta n a n 15 Being a rambling meditation in three parts on the nature of mutability, with particular attention paid to those manifestations— actual and perceived— as do apply to a certain Montana municipality close to the hearts and minds of many readers of this journal.

BY BRYAN D I SALVATORE

I. A Humorous Anecdote—General Remarks and Observations

One Saturday evening not all that long ago, a running buddy and I found ourselves weekend bachelors with time on our hands and a party to attend. The gathering, at a home in Missoula’s slant-street dis­ trict, was being held in honor of a famous and sensitive vis­ iting poet. We didn’t attend her on-campus reading, which preceded the soiree, preferring to reminisce about the glory days over a schooner or two at the Missoula Club. Today's patrons of Charlie B's enjoy a chat under adaimed portraits by the late Missoula Soon enough, we arrived at the house, a pair of harm­ photographer Lee Nye. First hung in Eddy’s Gub in the 1960s and 70s, the portraits made their way to several Missoula establishments over the years, but are now back in Charlie less, lovable old dogs wearing Levis, boots, and woolen B's, the former location of Eddy’s Club. shirts. Our perfectly affable hostess—rather more formally 16 Fall 2002 Montanan dressed than we (I recall a string of pearls)—met us, took our house pre­ II. In Which We Consider the Trees sent (a twelve-pack of domestic beer), and deposited it, unceremoni­ Missoula was half the size it is now. ously, in the mud room. Missoula is twice the size it was then. Her smile well-practiced, she asked us to remove our shoes, remind­ There was no traffic. ed us the house was smoke-free, and directed us to a table busy with soft Traffic is a word hissed by every Missoulian every day. cheeses, delicate pastries, and expensive wines from other continents. People’s first question upon meeting a stranger was “So, where you We two were veterans of the Garden City’s literary scene and had, from originally?” between us, logged more than a half-century as residents there, attend­ People’s first question upon meeting a stranger is “So, where you from ed scores of post-reading parties. We knew the drill, may have, in fact, originally?” invented some of it: cigarette smoke, beer, whiskey, loud voices, disar­ Missoula’s sky was often corrupt and redolent, its river’s water metal­ ray, good gossip, tall—very tall—tales and, with any luck at all, indis­ lic. The nation was at war; the town was seriously divided in its attitude creet behavior on somebody-or-other’s part. In other words, an atmos­ toward the conflict. Walk into the wrong place, say the wrong thing in phere of lusty, well-cultivated irreverence and buckaroo bohemianism. the right place, you could find yourself in a world of serious hurt. Instead, we stood, polite and politely ignored, as a coterie of admir­ Missoula’s air is quantitatively cleaner, brighter; the river water is still ers listened to the poet expound with hushed, precise importance on metallic. The nation is at war. People agree to disagree, enroll in anger man­ Eastern European postmodernist literature. After a time, suddenly, agement therapy. rudely—How dare it!— a large spider emerged from behind a flagon of The saddest paper was Monday’s, with its reports of post-closing- Chilean white. Seizing the moment, my friend grabbed a napkin to time fatal accidents, stupid ends to ordinary lives. crush the ugly bugger into eternity. The saddest paper is Monday’s, for the same reason. “NO!” cried our shocked hostess. Downtown—this was before most Montanans could spell “mall”— “NO!” cried the sensitive poet. “It’s. A. Living. Thing!” was bustling, proud, unimaginative, generic. The southern reaches of The execution halted, we made hasty apologies, assured the hostess Highway 93 were mostly vacant, home to a mill, a roadhouse, fields. we could see our own way out—she didn’t argue—grabbed our dis­ Reserve Street split farmland. graceful beer, and drove away in silence. Downtown is now bustling, proud and unique—spicy, even. Highway 93 As I got out of the car at my house, I said, “Uh, any clue what hap­ and Reserve Street are bustling, unimaginative, generic—the former a down- pened back there?” in-the-heels strip, the latter a line of huge retail boxes. Look hard for a farm “Near as I can tell,” my friend said, “we brought old Missoula sensi­ out Reserve way, you might find one. bilities to a new Missoula party.” Then, passenger trains ran and, for a song, you could take one to We had, in fact, been made to feel like a pair of oversized brigands Butte to see a nurse from Plentywood you were dating. misdirected to a cotillion. But was that party, in fact, a metaphor, a sig- Now, planes fly, and you can’t take one to Butte to see a nurse from nifier, for some irrevocable societal shift in old Missoula town? Plentywood for much less than an opera. I first fetched up in Missoula about thirty years ago, a long-haired, Basketball ruled. Grizzlies were reared in Montana, mostly. bachelor blade who could fit all his belongings in the trunk of a ’63 Ford Football rules. Grizzlies grow up in all sorts of places. Fairlane. I was full of my own half-baked self and ready to tell you all You could smoke anywhere but the altar rail and the ICU. about it. Now I’m married, a fifty-three-year-old butter knife with a You need two forms of identification to buy an ashtray. home and a storage shed who almost knows how little he knows. In Cops patrolled the weekend downtown streets on foot, emptied short, I see things differently. I am different. And so is my town. I loved open-containers, and sent you home. the old place. I love the new place. Cops patrol in cars and pour pepper spray on fans who dare to pull down Take it to the bank: Nothing doesn’t never change. Not a granite goal posts after the Grizzlies win again. outcropping on a distant peak; not the air we breathe; not the face star­ Students had too many dogs. Never bothered with leashes. Lived in ing back in the mirror, and certainly not Missoula. over-priced rentals. Dressed frightfully. Didn’t mow or water the lawn. And whether you think this change or that good or bad is entirely Played their music too loud too late. Had too much time on their hands your business. But— trust me here— an education, at least a true and and were prima facie evidence pointing to the collapse of Western civ­ lasting one, the kind we received at UM if we were paying attention, ilization. does nothing if not help us balance the imbalanceable. Forge an alloy Students have too many dogs. Don’t bother with leashes. Live in over­ made of bedrock and quicksilver. Accept the contradictory. priced rentals. Dress frightfully. Never mow or water the lawn. Play their See the forest and the trees. music too loud too late. Have too much time on their hands and are prima

Fall 2002 M o n ta n a n 17 Depot. That old brownfield? A new city park. The | hipster reeking of patchouli oil next to you in f Psychology 101 ? A Methodist minister in Billings. The I two-bedroom with an enclosed yard close to downtown going for $150 a month? A two-bedroom with an enclosed yard close to downtown going for $1,500 a month. Three a.m. Sunday morning at the Oxford? Three a.m. Sunday morning at the Oxford.

III. In Which We Consider the Forest Missoula was a working class town when working class meant swing shift at the mill, long days in the forest, 2 a.m. Bryan Di Salvatore calls for an eastbound freight. Missoula is still a working class town, and facie evidence pointing to the collapse of Western civilization. people still work at the mill, in the forest, on the railroad, but,-lurking Half the vehicles were pickup trucks with gun racks. Half the vehi­ in the shadows these days is a sort of ill-defined shame associated with cles had cracked windshields. Half the vehicles had one working head­ the old ways—the roll-up-your-sleeves, greasy-elbow, skinned-knuckle light. Half the vehicles needed new rings, a new muffler, new tires. ways. Half the vehicles are SUVs with cell phones. Half the vehicles have I remember many drifters, old-timers—grizzled, sad-eyed, broken, cracked windshields. Half the vehicles have one working headlight. Half the perhaps, by a hard life, an accident, a war, heartbreak. They were not vehicles need new rings, a new muffler, new tires. always savory characters, but they were part of life, left alone, under­ You might have driven a Chevy on Saturday; put the feedbag on for stood. Us. steak. Many of the old-timers are gone, or in homes. The drifters are still You might drive a Saab on Sunday; put the feedbag on for sushi. here—still grizzled, sad-eyed, broken and not always savory. Now, There was no speed limit so as you’d notice. though, good citizens and city fathers consider them embarrassments. There is no speed limit so as you’d notice. Liabilities to commerce. Out of place in Pleasantville. They are not left There were a lot of poor people. alone, not understood, not Us. There are a lot of poor people. Our once-quiet summers—broken only by the mighty fun of the Californians were evil, treacherous invaders not much good for any­ fair—have become hysterical, a pounding surf of various wholesome thing but raising house prices beyond reach. festivals. We are on every other “Best Small Town” list in the country Californians are evil, treacherous invaders not much good for anything and hungry to be on more, which means we are spending our days end­ but raising house prices beyond reach. lessly changing the sheets, dusting the mantel, preparing for the next If you didn’t like it, why didn’t you go back to where you came from? wave of guests. If you don’t like it, why don’t you go back to where you came from? Missoula has become terminally self-conscious. Amateur strip shows. Hubba-hubba. Missoula used to be along the highway. Now it is on the map. And A gay bar. Big deal. it will never again not be on the map. Got your elk yet? And yet, these yearly, seasonal, daily inpourings—sweet and other­ Got your elk yet? wise—keep us from stagnation, on our toes. Teach us the ways of the Coffee so weak it would have fallen over without a cup. rest of the world—for better or worse. Deliver the new; help us appre­ Coffee so strong the second cup turns you into Reddy Kilowatt. ciate the old. A vegetarian anti-nuclear kegger on the North Side. These days the forest is wider, the trees taller. That’s all. A vegetarian ana-hate-cnme kegger on the North Side. Missoula is dead. That greasy spoon—you remember the one—has become an Long live Missoula. upscale bistro. The stately house at the end of the block? A rundown rental. That eyesore at the other end of the block? A renovated show­ Bryan Di Salvatore, MFA ’76, is the author of A Clever Base-Ballist, piece. Those quivering pheasant fields? Parking lots for Target, Home a biography of John Montgomery Ward.

18 Fall 2002 M o n ta n a n G reeriough Park celebrated an ^ GjISS anniversary in June, marking a century since Tennessee and T.L. Greenough donated the land to the tity, asking only .that/‘the, .. land forever be used as a park and foi’^ark.pufpQses to wnich ^ e , - people of Mjdftula may during digJfeg^lJaysof ^tfrtfrfier, thelbeau^1 I tiful days^uMumn<*md the balmy days of spring find a comfortable, romantic airon^j§ ^ ^ treat«,rf pfh%^^^^^rT»L^preenou^ ^ o t^ ^ etter^ ^ to the Missoulian, parjc remaiti native state as A:volunteercqmi^^ hy.|h^^ park h^tfied tp honor Greenough’s wishes as i^Jt^ds reifert*ation £ u o ^ hi^s6hdbl k u d ? ^ :fq retired U M ^ ^ H professonr^We ^ ^ e d <^b ^ am tr^ tn^e bidm ^^f'Jfie ^arjk. Three w ater crossings h'aVe'heert e re c t^ Jn lre ^ fl^ re'HitTilTff^ i * nel in 199.7 (the resiifi ofa htij|fiJunbfi ffijM noticeable'i^ the landsdipingtpfrtirtwe^ park ^long^Mbnroe,Street. * &;J <$ *’f\ £ Most UM! students had samfcsbA

M o r a BY PATRICK CLARK/WWWJHONTANASTOCK.COM. fall 2002 MOnianan 19 Breaking Clean b y J u d y B lu n t *91, M .F .A . ’9 4 Blunt is a UM visiting assistant professor of English. New York: A Borzoi Book: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002, 303 pp., $24

udy Blunt spent the first thirty she resisted many of its demands, Blunt carved a place for herself in years of her life an hour south of this world. Into it she bore three children, the fourth generation of a Malta, Montana, and a shorter Montana ranching family. Her legacy to them includes the fact that ride north of the Missouri River she eventually left the land on which she and they were bom. Her JBreaks. There, on cattle and wheat legacy to the rest of us is the sense of awe with which she remembers ranches that belonged first to her the years she remained there: father and then to her husband, she “Spring happened overnight that year, and the coyotes couldn’t get fashioned a childhood and an ado­ enough of it. Calls shot up from shale banks and bloomed over the lescence, a marriage, and a family. barnyard, sharp yaps and strings of eee’s that met the icy pulse of Her story lies in the details: how she began her days and ended her northern lights overhead. Walking to the calving shed for the three nights; the siblings and friends who attended one-room schools with o’clock check, I had to remind myself and the chickenhearted bird her; her move to Malta to attend high school with her older brother. dog bumping against my heels that they were farther away than they And how, as a fifteen-year-old, she first dated the twenty-seven-year- sounded. Everything seemed closer and sharper those first few weeks old bachelor who became her husband. when snowdrifts drew back in clean lines and the land rose through. Here she recounts costly and tragic blizzards, spirited horses, year­ Even the breeze seemed urgent with the smell of wet prairie and new ling steers she learned to ride, and fires she longed to fight. Though sage, the swollen rumble of the creek. Or maybe it was me.”

Perma Red b y D e b ra M a g p ie E a rlin g Earling is a member of the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes and a UM associate professor o f English. New York: Blue Hen Books: Penguin Putnam, Inc., 2002, 296 pp., $24-95

here are times, it is said, when Charlie Kicking Woman, a tribal police officer, secretly loves the worlds of the living and Louise and considers himself to be her personal guardian. Not only is the dead mingle. Times when he caught between his regard for his wife and his love for Louise, he is Twe the living hear the thoughts, feel caught between the white and Indian worlds he must serve, caught the touch, and know the presence of between the beauty of the native oral tradition he loves and the those who have lived before us. untold stories of poverty he witnesses daily on the reservation. Such a confluence powers Debra Harvey Stoner is a local white man who can buy what he cannot Magpie Earling’s first novel. possess. Stoner takes Louise to a dance bar in Wallace, Idaho. “She Perma Red is the derogatory loved the dark silky wood of the club. The bar shined with glasses and nickname given the young Louise White Elk, a woman who beautiful bottles of booze. The soft lights were crystal. There were no since her girlhood has sought power and escape in the reactions men beer sausages or pickled eggs, no pigs’ feet, no peanut shells, no stench have to her stunning looks and flaming hair. Louise lives with her sis­ of ammonia and urine__ When she looked at Harvey Stoner he was ter and their grandmother in a cabin on Montana’s Flathead Indian smoking a cigar. He lifted his glass of bourbon to her and for a crazy Reservation. It is the 1940s. Young Indian women are told outright to moment she thought she should duck. But he toasted her.” marry a white man and escape. One night she goes to a place where a loved one has died. “Winter had Three men occupy Louise’s thoughts. Baptiste Yellow Knife, a boy laced the trees along the riverline. Snow snaked the road__ The closer as stubborn and proud as Louise, possesses more unexplained powers you are to life, the closer you are to death, her grandmother had told her.” than material goods; his disheveled appearance at the Ursuline school Earling based her novel on the life and tragic death of a long-lost aunt. On prompts the nuns to recall “John the Baptist” in the wilderness. He these pages, Louise White Elk, guarded by spirits of the living and the alone will marry Louise. dead, is reborn from what had seemed to be certain destruction.

20 Fall 2002 M o n ta n a n Blood Double by Neil McMahon, M.F.A. ’79 New York: HarperCoUms, 2002, 230 pp., $22.95

n Blood Double, computer company intrigue and cutting-edge who have come to him confessing a genetic research collide on the doorstep of Dr. Carroll Monks, a change of heart won’t be violently San Francisco emergency room physician, who probes more than cut down. medical mysteries during his lengthy shifts. W hen a mysterious young As he follows his instincts along drug addict appears in the ER one evening and turns out to be a bil­ the roadways and across the bridges lionaire computer wunderkind, Monks is forewarned that theft and of the northern California coast, murder may be found as easily in the city’s mega-affluent skyscrapers Monks is reassured by the weather as in the alleys that unfurl from their guarded lobbies. and landscape he sees around him: The crimes Monks investigates seem to emerge out of today’s “Traffic was light. Monks settled into the warm comfort of the old headlines, but he understands they are rooted in much older human truck, feeling the city around him in a way that was usually lost in proclivities and needs. As his investigation draws out frightened and tension and haste. San Francisco was one of the world’s most beautiful nearly silenced “whistle blowers,” Monks is reminded of the Catholic places, its Mediterranean profile, in clear weather, breathtakingly confessionals of his youth. sharp against the blue Pacific sky. But Monks loved it like it was In an era when genetic research promises to crown corporate heads tonight, softened by the mist, lights blurred, outlines indistinct.” The with enormous wealth and power, Monks must bet his life that those promise of what the fog might conceal keeps Monks driving on.

Yosemite: The Grace and Grandeur BOOKS IN BRIEF by George Wuerthner ’82 Stillwater, Minnesota: Voyageur Press, 2002, 144 pp., $29.95 Flames in Our Forest: Disaster or Renewal? This pictorial tribute to Yosemite National Park presents the reader with by Stephen F. Amo, Ph.D. ’70, and Steven Allison-Bunnell a lush view of the park, including backcountry areas; the author’s captions Washington, D .C.: Island Press, 2002, 245 pp., $45 cloth, $19.95 paper provide background information on the park’s geology and natural history. A collaboration between research forester A m o and science writer Allison-Bunnell has produced an engaging discussion of the role of fire in Wings Across the Desert the maintenance of forests. by David H. Ellis, Ph.D. ’73 Surrey, British Columbia, Canada: Hancock House, 2002,181 pp., $17.95 god won’t overlook us This engaging account by a research zoologist documents a quest to Poems by Michael Poage, M .F.A. ’73 determine if a flock of cranes could be trained to follow a truck on a long­ Laurence, Kansas: Penthe Publishing, 2 0 0 1 ,6 3 pp., $12 distance migration and arrive wild enough to survive after release. Former UM Professor Madeline DeFrees describes these poems as “terri­ Whisk, Lyric, Logic fyingly honest” and “full of surprises generated by the simplest of everyday occurrences.” Poems by Shaun Gant, M.F.A. ’84 Helena: Touch of Light Press: Historic Montana Publishing, 2002, 42 pp., $14.95 Organic Gardening in Cold Climates G ant read these spirited, whimsically earthy poems in her garden to by Sandra Perrin ’86 illustrator Sheila Miles, who created the accompanying art. Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing, 2002, revised edition, 142 pp., $12 No Place Distant Perrin draws from thirty years of gardening experience in M ontana to share her hard-won knowledge—from composting to winter storage—with by David G . Havlick, M S. ’92 recipes for harvested vegetables thrown in for good measure. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2002, 297pp., $40 cloth, $18.95 paper This books presents an examination of the more than 550,000 miles of Robert’s Rules of Order, Simplified and Applied roads that crisscross our national lands, considering how they came to be; Second Edition their ecological, financial, and societal costs; and what can be done to ensure by Robert McConnell, M .A. '66 that these roads are as environmentally benign and cost-effective as possible. Gig Harbor, Washington: Robert McConnell Productions, 2001,407 pp., $10.99 Editor’s Note: O ur apologies for failing to include the graduating year of George This tome is designed to help the reader apply the rules of parliamen­ V enn, M.F.A. ’70, in our lost book section. tary procedure as presented in Robert’s Rules of Order.

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Class Notes are compiled by Betsy Holmquist '67, Jack adds, “A good many years ago the Washington M.A. ’83. Submit news to the UM Alumni Associa­ Post ran a story about ‘Texas, Land of the Big Sky.’ tion, Brantly Hall, Missoula, MT 59812. You may Longtime friend Jim Patten corrected that with a fax your news to (406) 243-4467 or e-mail it to letter to the editor published in a later issue of the [email protected]. Material in this issue Post. ‘Montana is the Land of the Big Sky,’ Patten reached our office by June 1, 2002. Please contact wrote. ‘Texas has medium sky.’” UMAA with all name and address updates at the above address or phone 1-877-UM-ALUMS. # ’50s The Intercollegiate Knights are looking for Margery D. Eliason ’51, a retired Billings school alumni of their Bear Paw Chapter, founded on Browning, now a resident of Mill Valley, Calif.: “He teacher and counselor, now teaches and facilitates UM’s campus in 1922. IK alums are asked to was serving as Clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court for the Parenting Program at the Montana State contact James Williams, former National when he had the honor of holding the Bible while Women’s Prison. “The prison currently serves 90 Executive Secretary, at 504 N. 7th St., JFK was sworn in as president in 1961.” women,” Margery writes. “With its new addition it Temple, Texas 76501; phone (254) 771- will serve more than 200.” Thomas G. Turner, M.F.A. ’60, pianist and com­ 2577; or visit the IK Alum web site: poser, retired after more than 30 years teaching on http://inman.sumameweb.org/IK/index.html Jack E. Coster ’58 retired two years ago after 20 music faculties at major state universities. A resident years at West Virginia University. At that time he of Matthews, N.C., Thomas has performed in was associate director of the W.V. Agricultural and London’s Wigmore Hall, New York’s Lincoln Forestry Experiment Station. “I recently did some Center for the Performing Arts and Toronto’s St. forestry and agriculture-related work in northern Lawrence Center. Mongolia for the Christian and Missionary V ’30s Alliance,” Jack writes from Morgantown, W.V. Carl H. Cain ’62 and Christine Holliday were George J. “Bud” Grover ’30 and Hazel Mumm married March 9th. Carl is a civil engineer for the Grover ’30 moved from Hamilton to La Grande, U.S. Forest Service Regional Office in Missoula. Ore., in November 1999. “Now at 95 and 94,” Hazel Louise Synder Krumm ’66 retired from George­ writes, “we’re still in our own home. Our son, C # ’60s town University where she had worked for 27 years, Joseph Grover ’63, is an oral surgeon in La Grande.” Joseph F. Govednik ’60, Orinda, Calif., received most recently as director of the Intensive English Donald K. Vaupel '38, Havre, was recognized at an alumni sweatshirt for identifying the recipients of Program, to become Peace Corps Country Director in Togo, West Africa. Louise and her husband, the 2002 Montana Pharmacy Association conven­ the Order of the Grizzly Award pictured in the Donald M. Krumm tion as the oldest registered pharmacist practicing in spring M ontanan: James R. Browning, J.D. ’41; ’65, moved to Africa in April, Montana. In honor and thanks to Don, the conven­ George H. Boldt '25, J.D. ’26, (whose son, George, where Don works on humanitarian and post conflict tion was dedicated to him. T he Bowl of Hygeia provided the photo); Carroll O’Connor, M.A. ’56; and transition concerns for the U.S. Agency for Award was presented to Frank F. Orlando '48, co- William M. Allen ’22. Joe attended the award cere­ International Development, Office of Foreign owner for more than 50 years with Don, of Don’s mony at Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco in 1973 Disaster Assistance. “A real stretch,” Louise writes, about their life change. “But that’s about my one Pharmacy in Harlem. Frank is Don’s fourth former where the photo was taken. In his contest-winning employee to receive this national pharmacy award- letter, Joe mentions another famous photo of Judge piece of advice for aging. Keep stretching!” for community service. ------—— The University of Montana-Missoula ______^ ’40s C Louise Jarussi Cross '41, Glendive, received a Trustees Award from the Montana Historical reunion revelry CLASSESr i ASSES OF 1942 & 1952 I W m . . . / Society in October 2001. Louise was honored for her fear UMAA, 0 decades of leading “the eastern Montana effort to 1 gather, preserve and interpret the Montana story.” nostafrcl!eX ndfni lhe beau,iful An addition completed in 2001 to Glendive’s Frontier Gateway Museum was named the Louise Cross Room in honor of its curator. Louise writes, “My years at UM were fine ones, and I feel that they I gave me the tools to have a full and varied life, t Three of my sue children are graduates of the University—Melvin 70, Justin ’83 and Mark ’83. All are successful.” John R. Hallowell '42, Longmont, Colo., attend­ 1933,1943 & 1953 ed his 60th class reunion in May. In a letter thank­ Class Reunions ing the Alumni Association, Jack describes his lega­ cy to the state of Montana. He writes, “As state May 15,16 & 17,2003 advertising director promoting tourism in 1961, 1 n o w ^o'V MOnt mom oiW / approached Bud Guthrie in Choteau about using his book title ‘The Big Sky’ as the theme for that year’s advertising campaign. *Go ahead,' he said. So we For more information call the Alumni Association , did. Forty-one years later we still are Big Sky 877.UM ALUMS or visit our website www.umt.edu/alumni ; Country and we still have a Big Sky Conference.”

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Elizabeth, John '66 Sally Daer ’6 8 John M. Hanley ’72 Thomas R. Lincoln ’79 Karyl ’80 and and Hillary Ross Daniel oO Goldsmith John W. Ross ’66, J.D. ’69, and his twin daugh­ John M. Hanley, M.A. ’72, chair of the ters, Elizabeth and Hillary, drove from Billings to Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at Sacramento to watch the Grizzlies play Oregon in Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, received the NCAA basketball tournament. “The UM band that university’s 2001 Distinguished Service Award. ’80s and Monte put on a real show,” John writes. “Some Mick was honored for his administrative abilities, Karyl Neuwerth Goldsmith ’80, an 18-year teach­ USC fans asked Elizabeth and Hillary if our bear was enthusiasm, research, professional involvement and ing veteran in Sedona, Ariz., was chosen teacher of always that entertaining. Again, it was one of those service. A faculty member at W MU since 1980, he the year, won first place in a statewide teachers’ times we were proud and happy to be Grizzlies and is an authority on stuttering and fluency disorders in poetry contest and was published in “Bearing University of Montana alumni.” children. Witness,” a poetry anthology. Karyl teaches human­ Berma M. Saxton ’66, Helena, is a retired English Thomas H. Pelletier 76 owns and manages ities, senior literature and advanced placement teacher and part-time employee of MHA, an associ­ Missoula’s Glacier Gallery and Custom Framing English at Sedona Red Rock High School. Daniel ation of Montana Health Care Providers. Berma Shop. The gallery specializes in Montana, western Goldsmith '80 is a family practice physician in edited “Senior Reflections: Montana’s Unclaimed and wildlife art; books, gifts and framing; and Lewis Sedona and a mentor for the University of Arizona Treasure,” an anthology of memoirs and poetry from and Clark’s experiences in Montana. in Tucson, training medical students in rural family practice. “We both miss Montana very much,” Karyl residents in Montana’s assisted-living and extended- Garry South 76, Los Angeles, was featured in a writes, “but the weather IS lovely in Sedona.” care facilities. March 18, Newsweek profile. Tagged a “cheerfully The Goldsmiths have two high school-aged children, Sally Berg Daer, M.Ed. '68, received the Machiavellian shark,” a, “one-man brain trust,” and Hannah and Ben. Maryfrances Shreeve Award for Teaching a, “consultant more colorfully quotable than the Excellence at the 13 th annual UM Education candidate.” Gary is directing the re-election cam­ Robert C. Nylund ’80 and Sandra J. Nylund '97 Reception in February. A fourth-grade teacher now paign of California Governor Gray Davis. “Keep up reside near Ulm and work for Benefis Healthcare in at Missoula’s Paxson School, Sally was honored for the good work,” Gary writes. “ I enjoy staying abreast Great Falls. Sandy is a program coordinator for the 37 years of dedication, effectiveness and zest for of the exploits of former classmates through Class neuro-science department and Rob is a biomedical teaching. The award was presented by Jean’ne M. Notes.” electronics technician. Their daughter, Annie, is a recent grad of MSU’s School of Nursing; their son, Shreeve ’53, Ph.D. ’82, daughter of Maryfrances Bruce R. Shinn 77, a master craftsman and artist Shreeve ’57, M.Ed.’ 63, who died in March 1998. from Plains, was featured in a February HGTV Clay, plans to enroll at UM this fall. Donald A. Gatzke, M.Ed. ’68, Kalispell, is the new “Modem Masters” program. The segment focused on Marvin R. Ventrell ’82, J.D. ’85, Littleton, Colo., district governor for Montana’s Rotary Clubs. A Bruce’s custom-designed kitchen appliance panels, received the American Bar Association’s 2002 Child member of Rotary since 1975, Don is also a director crafted from birdseye maple and kawazinga (figured Advocacy Award for his service to abused, neglected for Rotary’s Waterton-Glacier International Peace bubinga) with ebony inlay. Bruce also is a private and delinquent children in the legal system. Marvin Park Association. He and his wife, Mary Jewell forestry consultant specializing in landowner assis­ is executive director of the Denver-based National Gatzke, ’71, ’72, M.Ed. ’86, are emeriti members of tance. Association of Counsel for Children, the nation’s the UMAA’s House of Delegates. Thomas R. Lincoln, M.A. 79, is a federal preser­ only membership association of children’s attorneys. James R. Rolando '68, Missoula, retired after a vation officer for the Bureau of Reclamation. Tom George K. Wuerthner ’82 wrote and pho­ 31-year career with the State of Montana. He and oversees and develops policy on archeology, history, tographed “Yosemite: The Grace & Grandeur.” (See his wife, Martina, are building a new home outside museum property, paleontology, heritage education page 23). A resident of Eugene, Ore., George is a Missoula at Rock Creek. and Native American issues. He and his wife, freelance writer, photographer, ecologist and lead Theresa, and son, Jackson, live in Evergreen, Colo. biologist in a conservation-planning project for the # ’70s Melvin L Cross ’70, a member of the economics faculty at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, was a visiting faculty member at the University of Sydney, Australia, for six months ear­ lier this year. His wife, Carmelita, and sons, Nathan m l r D Distinguishedistinguished AlumniAlumni AAwardswards and Thomas, accompanied him to Sydney. Gerald L Hunter, M.Ed. ’70, retired in June 2001, Each year at Homecoming, The University of Montana Alumni Association from Mount Baker School District in Washington, honors outstanding alumni. Recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Awards after a career in public education that began in 1963 with teaching science in Hingham. The Hunters are individuals who have distinguished themselves in a particular field moved to Washington in 1972 where Jerry served as superintendent in three districts. In 2001 he and who have brought honor to the University, the state or the nation. received Western Washington University’s Award The focus of this award is career achievement and/or service to for Professional Excellence. Jerry and his wife, Jan, reside in rural Whatcom County east of Bellingham. The University of Montana. Up to six awards can be given annually. He credits Dr. Linus Carleton with being a great advisor and superb educator. All University alumni and friends are invited to nominate Russell T. Graham ’72, a research scientist for the U.S. Forest Service in Moscow, Idaho, received the a graduate or former student for this award. Please call 2002 Celebration of Natural Resources Award from the Alumni Office at 406.243.5211 or 1.800.862.5862, the University of Idaho College of Natural Resources. Russell earned his masters and doctorate to request a nomination form. Nominations must be degrees from UI and was honored for making signif­ submitted by April 1st icant contributions to integrated natural resource management. Fall 2002 Montanan 25 cL A S S N O T E S

George Wuerthner ’82 Marlee Miller ’85 Indy Amber Baldwin ’94

Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. He has written 23 a position he has held the past five years. Jennifer is from maternity leave. Despite everything, we love books, including wilderness guides, regional over­ a volunteer coordinator for the equestrian competi­ .living in New York, and having our family together, views and natural history guides to national parks. tion segment of Special Olympics Idaho. happy and healthy.” His photographs have appeared in National Geo­ Jean Kaylie Steele, M.A. ’92, an English and graphic, Arizona Highways, calendars and books, drama teacher at Hamilton High School, enlisted and at the Smithsonian and the National Museum the help of Indy, a UM educator of the canine vari­ of Natural History. # ’90s ety, in her school’s spring production of “A Marlee Miller ’85 is senior vice president for the Tad D. Smith '91, a partner and brand account Midsummer’s Night Dream.” Indy has helped teach Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, oversee­ supervisor at J. Walter Thompson Advertising in courses with UM professors Erick Greene and Dick ing its membership, communications, human Detroit, currently works on the firm’s Mustang and Hutto and traveled thousands of miles, along with resources and administration. Marlee previously Thunderbird accounts. A charter member of Phi his wolf buddy, Koani, and owners, Patricia A. worked for the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber Gamma Delta fraternity and a former member of Tucker, M.S. ’91, and Bruce C Weide, M.F.A. '88, of Commerce and the Greater Houston Partnership. UM’s Advertising Club, Tad would like to hear from taking Wild Sentry wolf education programs Laurie Sichveland Falise '87 received the Teacher members of the ’91 Regional Championship throughout the nation. Pat and Bruce, authors of of the Year Award from the French Ford Middle Advertising team. He and his wife, Dianne, have three books—“There’s a Wolf in the Classroom,” School in Winnemucca, Nev., and the Humboldt two children, Devin, 4, and Hailey, 1. “Still living in ‘Tales of Two Canines,” and “Can You Turn a Wolf County Teacher of the Year Award. Laurie team Livonia, Mich., where everyone thinks UM is the into a Dog?”—wrote of Indy’s acting debut: “He teaches sixth grade math and reading and is head University of Michigan,” Tad writes. “I love telling played a dog and stayed in character the whole coach for the girls’ JV fast pitch softball team at people I went to UM. They ask if I’m a big time.” Lowry High School in Winnemucca. Wolverine fan, and I tell them, ‘No, actually, I’m a Julie Johnston Brewer '93, M.P.A. ’99, is senior Grizzly fan.’ The Griz are so much better!” Roger Glenn Lockwood '87 teaches special edu­ domestic policy analyst for Bread for the World, a cation in Naknek, Alaska. Elizabeth Burton Barth '92 writes from Scarsdale, Washington, D.C.-based, Christian citizens’ move­ N.Y., where she lives with her husband, David, and ment that addresses hunger throughout the world. Kenneth C Petterson ’89 and his wife, Jennifer, children, Perry and Harrison: “I work in the World announce the birth of the first child, Aiden Charles Amber Baldwin '94 began working at UMAA as Financial Center, just two buildings over from the Petterson, on February 2, 2002. The Pettersons live a student employee in 1993. She continued working World Trade Center. I was downtown during the in Meridian, Idaho, where Ken is director of devel­ full-time in die Alumni Office following graduation disaster and only recently decided to return to work opment and marketing for Special Olympics Idaho, and in 1996 became data base manager. This spring

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Amber took a position with Blackfoot Telephone in Shannon M. Moran ’96, Pueblo, Colo., won a Missoula. She has a three-year old daughter, Allie. Royal Caribbean four-night Bahamas cruise offered through UMAA and zGrizzlies.com. Shannon # ’00s Sarah Pease Dalton, M.P.A. ’94, Issaquah, Wash., is director of flight operations technology writes of unforgettable times touring and shopping Garrison K. Courtney ’00 is the Seattle District development for Alaska Airlines. She previously in Nassau and Key West, snorkeling in Coco Cay, public affairs director and regional spokesperson for worked for the Port of Seattle and for 14 years with where, “no amount of sunscreen will keep you safe the Immigration and Naturalization Service for the Federal Aviation Administration. while snorkeling all day,” and of great meals and Northern Idaho, Washington and British Columbia. entertainment on board The Majesty of the Seas. Beth A. Hubble '95 is executive director of the Erin F. Craney *01, is senior field instructor and Shannon’s entry was chosen from thousands sub­ geologist at the Old Trail Museum in Choteau. This | Marcus Daly Mansion in Hamilton. “It’s my dream mitted to zGrizzles.com by university students and job,” Beth said, “to do something with history and to summer Erin helped teach basic paleontology and alumni users worldwide. stay in Montana.” Beth has undergraduate degrees dinosaur excavation to the 36 winners of ABC’s Christa Ritter Turner ’96 and Jeff A. Turner ’96 in history and French and is completing her Ph.D. “Dino Dig Sweepstakes,” a spin-off from their popu­ | in medieval French literature from the University of live in Gilbert, Ariz., with their sons Nathan and lar “Dinotopia” TV miniseries and James Gurney’s Noah. Jeff is director of social services for SunBridge Michigan. She and her husband, Sean M. Morris, novels. Coronado Care Center in Phoenix. Christa ’J.D. 79, reside in Missoula, where Sean is an asso­ received a Master of Social Work degree from ciate with Worden, Thane and Haines. Arizona State University, Tempe, just four days after Robert Waarvlck '95, served as the NATO air the May 6 birth of Noah Benjamin Turner. “We N ew Life M embers traffic control commander for the air space over barely made it to the hospital in time to deliver Jerry Huhn Cunningham ’53, Englewood, Colo. Bosnia and Herzegovina during the summer of2001. N oah on Monday,” Christa writes. “O n Friday we Scott A. Cunningham ’53, Englewood, Colo. He led a team of officers and enlisted controllers made it as a family of four—joined by many relatives Jerry R. Norskog 73, Bigfork from the U.S., England, Canada, Greece and Spain. from M ontana—to graduation ceremonies at 8 a.m. Tracy L Reich '86, Spokane, Wash. Commissioned in January 1996, Captain Waarvick It was an amazing week!” currently is stationed at Tyndall A ir Force Base in Elaine Johnston Sitter, Helena Scot A. Engler '97 is a baseball scout for the Florida with his wife, Jill, and sons, Christian and Florida Marlins. He and his wife, Tam! Miller Engler Marsha J. McElwain Vick 70, M.Ed. 77, Poison | Jonathan. ’94, and son, Dylan, reside in Naperville, II. Robert E. Vick ’68, M.Ed. 79, Poison

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Fern A. Cameron Haines '29, Bigfork Ralph E. Undberg ’41, Great Falls Life M embership Frederick F. “Andy” Staat ’29, Salem, Ore. Betty Rickert Sauers ’41, Sun Lakes, Ariz. Virginia Schwin Brophy '30, Lake Havasu City, Ariz. William Edward Adam ’42, Grants Pass, Ore. Renewals Lawson Benjamin Swlhart '30, Tucson, Ariz. William H. Bellingham '42, J.D. ’48, Billings Dorothy Bell McCall '33, Missoula Harold B. Cole ’42, Missoula The following alumni, who joined the association Sara Miles Borchers '34, Portland, Ore. James G. Haviland '42, Deer Lodge as life members more than 18 years ago, have John Wilson Chapman, LL.B. ’34, Everett, Wash. Lucy Leet Skemp '42, Conrad renewed their life membership at current rates or Betty Nofsinger Dixon ’34, Missoula Harry A. Tranmer, M.Ed. ’42, Napa, Calif. made a $2,500 contribution to the Alumni Association Endowment Fund during the past two Raymond P. Rimel '35, M.Ed. ’50, Cut Bank Harold H. Duke ’43, Billings years. Tad Sanders, j.D. ’35, Kansas City, Mo. Vivian Hilden Paladin ’43, Helena Elizabeth Atwater Blehl '36, M.A. ’37, Lewistown George D. Anderson '44, Helena Helen Merrill Fox ’51, Naples, Fla. Maxine Janes Dahl ’36, Richmond, Calif. Paul LaRoy Burke '44, Medford, Ore. George J. Grover ’30, La Grande, Ore. Wood W. Goble '36, Phoenix Lutle M. Weedman Strand '45, Big Timber Hazel Mumm Grover '31, La Grande, Ore. Clifford L Haugland ’36, Billings Eugene Herman Clawson '46, Missoula Donald E. Nicholson ’56, Missoula Barbara Jean Hays Pendleton ’36, Coffeyville, Kan. Mark B. Usterud ’46, Wolf Point Kathryn Albert Ogren 70, Missoula Lillian Fullerton Peterson ’36, Hamilton Trygve Brensdal '47, Columbus Richard A. Shadoan '53, ’54, San Francisco Dorothy LaCasse Sheffield '36, Cut Bank Janice J. Smith Carrington '47, Missoula Frank J. Wlllig 36, Lansdale, Pa. Archie D. Craft ’47, Tijeras, N.M. Winona GHchel Graesser '37, Missoula Emllie N. Goris ’47, Gilroy, Calif. I n M emoriam Florian Joseph Kuhry '38, Bozeman Robert C. Wylder '47, M.A. ’49, Long Beach, Calif. To be included in In Memoriam, the Alumni Thomas B. LaJeunesse '38, Tucson, Ariz. James W. Henry, Jr. ’48, Seattle Association requires a newspaper obituary or a letter Violet M. “Vi" Thomson '38, Missoula Bertha M. Heinemeyer ’49, Helena of notification from the immediate family. We John Stanley Graves '39, Roundup Fletcher Eugene Newby ’49, Hamilton extend sympathy to the families of the following Norman F. Iverson, M.Ed. ’39, Dickinson, N.D. Robert E. “Bud” Paulsen ’49, Irving, Texas alumni, faculty and friends. Dorothy Jane Cooney Lynch ’39, Seattle C. Kenneth Folkestad ’50, Portland, Ore. Mabel Smith Mason ’39, Washington, D.C. William C Marquis, J.D. ’50, Danville, Calif. Gertrude Gillis Arnold ’23, Poison Louise lone Lepper-Barsness '40, Laurel Robert H. Memovich, J.D. ’50, Tigard, Ore. Irma Stark Caulkins '23, Missoula John C. “Jack” Lynch ’40, Seattle Leo Clyde Musburger '50, M.Ed. '58, Missoula Ruth Peters Fowler ’23, Gig Harbor, Wash. Margaret Love Talbott '40, Whitefish John D. “Jack” Woods ’50, Billings Ruth MacFariane Wood ’24, M.Ed. ’25, Saint Helens, John Evans Wilson ’40, Missoula Donald Kenneth Berard ’51, Charlo Ore. Kenneth William Bangs '41, Stevensville Donald B. Kingery ’51, Helena Cathryn McRae Van Meter ’25, M.Ed. ’48, Ogden, Utah Carlobell Button Allen ’41, Buena Park, Calif. Elaine Orvis Llewelyn '51, Maple Valley, Wash. Sammie Graham Boadway ’27, Dover Foxcroft, Carey H. Gordon '41, Poison Evelyn May Poll Robb ’51, Missoula Maine Frances O’Connell Ingalls 41, Helena Pelham Massey Turner '51, Missoula Elmer S. “Buck" Haines ’29, Missoula M. Baxter Larson, J.D. ’41, Billings Charles H. Caraway ’52, Alta Loma, Calif. William L Keogh ’52, Buchanan, Mich. Lynn S. Stein, M.Ed. ’52, Tacoma, Wash. Joyce Siperiy Carr ’53, Arlington, Va. Kaye Millons Doherty ’53, Great Falls Delos M. Dutton ’53, Tigard, Ore. Henry Lawrence Henline '53, Gilbert, Ariz. Tradition! Dwight S. Stockstad, M.S. ’53, Charlo L Thomas Eaton, M.A. ’54, Nye We’re Part of it! John G. Miller, M.A. ’54, Springfield, 111.

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Michael Eugene Webster 77, J.D. ’80, Billings G o ld L evel ($500,000 or more) Jack Robert Ragen 79, San Antonio Births Charles Engelhard Foundation June Schmautz Estate Janies Allen Moulds, M.Ed. ’80, Kalispell Nicolas Novo Mirich to Missy and Kyle Mirlch William Everett Burt ’81, Centralia, Wash. ’92, September 24,2001, Las Vegas Silver Level ($250,000 or more) Unda Hybner Schweitzer ’83, Billings Jake Ross Brown to Roxanne and Rick R. Brown John S. and James L Knight Foundation Matthew F. Thomas '85, M.S. ’93, Missoula ’90, January 11,2002, Hayden Lake, Idaho Germaine Merrilees Timothy E. Johnson '86, Fairview Neptune Aviation Services, Inc. Rhianna Lynnae Robertson to Candice and Barbara Ann McCafferty Brown ’89, Wendover, Nev. Wiancko Family Fund Matthew S. Robertson '90, J.D. ’93, March 4, 2002, David Waldrup ’89, Missoula Helena Copper Level ($100,000 or more) Atsushi Kuba '90, Okinawa Everett Walker Miceli and Grayson Crain Miceli Ford and Marfys Nelson Barrett '62 Robert Todd Logan '90, Missoula to Heather and Steven Michael Miceli ’99, March 19, Douglas P. Beighle '54, J.D. ’58 Teri Rae Gestring ’92, Three Forks 2002, Chicago Phyllis and William A. Bellingham ’42, J.D. ’48 Reid Poinier Sanders '93, West Yellowstone Adam Sebastian Kolokotrones to Norma and The Bookstore at UM Garrett James Grothen '95, Florence James Peter Kolokotrones '81, MBA ’86, April 28, Audra Browman Justin Allen Ebd, Pharm.D. ’99, Browning 2002, Daly City, Calif. Chip Davis Bea Bergum, Helena William Elmore Estate Bruce Christensen, Missoula Greater M ontana Foundation Everett T. Crumley, Cut Bank enefactors Harold P. Hanson '59 Estate William H. Fisher, Missoula B Frank F. Jestrab '36, J.D. ’38 Les Gilfillan. Missoula Society of the U M Richard E. Juday Richard E. Juday, Missoula Matthew Levitan 7 2 and Gail Singer Thomas S. McIntyre, Whitefish Elizabeth Maxwell Estate P resident’s Club Deborah Doyle McWhinney 77 Jack 0 . Moore, Missoula Avis and Wilmer A. Mitchell '50 Barrying H. Morrison, Missoula New members of the Benefactors Society of the UM President’s Club, whose lifetime giving reached St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center Joseph F. Paquet, Portland, Ore. the $100,000 level since the Fall 2001 edition of the Seneca Jones Timber Co. Richard A. Seaman, Missoula M ontanan, are Everit A. Sitter ’66 and Nkhali Paulsrud Sitter '65 Ellis Leigh Waldron, Verona, Wis. Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. P latinum Level ($1 million or more) Peter Bonhomme Estate

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Please thank Mr. Edwards for sharing this fraternity brothers there in Evanston and at story. I have been in contact with other par­ medical school in Chicago the words to Up ents who are dealing with this disease and all withMontana. They’d stick with me until it of our children have a wonderful I-will-get- came to “the squeal of the pig will float on better-and-run-and-play-again attitude. I the air, from the tummy of the grizzly bear.” think this disease pushes them toward what A t that point, those idiots would all have a they are destined for. After a year of therapy big laugh and go their way, never having that we have done together, my son is play­ learned a single verse. I could only surmise ing baseball! that they had no musical talent. Go Griz, Rachel Bevins L.M. Baskett, M.D. Livingston Just thought you might I did not realize that over all these last want to know who the several years I should be paying for a [volun­ Just a note to tell all of you who work on young Griz fans on your tary] subscription to your magazine. I thought the Montanan what a great job you are doing. [last] cover are. They are Brennan it was because I used to have two sons The articles are so diverse, interesting, and Teeters (left) and Nate Suckow. They have attending school there and that I paid all informative and transmit the energy and been avid Gr^jafns since the day they were their bills, including checks made out to The excitement of the campus. Some of my bom and have attended coundess games Stockman. They assured me this was a high- friends just returned from their fiftieth col­ through the years. They are the son (Nate) class restaurant. My sister, Elaine Baskett lege reunion in Missoula and they are singing and nephew( Brennan) of Geri Lincoln ’88 Mueller, also graduated there in ’39. While the praises of the experience as much as I did and the grandsons of Rex Lincoln ’61. The Elaine was going to school there, I was in nine years ago. I’m looking forward to the Lincoln family owns the 10,000 Silver Dollar high school in Big Timber and became a sixtieth next year. UM is “unbeatable.” I Bar in Haugan and has occupied the same - confirmed Griz fan. That was the era of wouldn’t trade my experiences there-vand seats on the west 50-yard-line since the stadi- another very successful team. Heroes of that the preparation for life—for anything. My um opened. Every home game there are three time were Popovich and Lazetich. W hen I best to all of you! generations of Lincoln Griz fans gathered went to college at Northwestern University, I Patricia Ann Wood ’43 had an impossible task trying to teach my Seattle, Washington f there. We were all thrilled to see their smil­ ing faces on the cover. Geri Lincoln Haugan, Montana M O NTANA com [Editor's Note: We tried to track down who Bringing Big Sky Country Home the two boys were on our last cover, but a print deadline caught up with us. Thanks so much, Geri, for solving the puzzle. - JMJ ► 1 am sending this message to thank you I for the story about A. Clifford Edwards. I had / tears in my eyes as I read his story (Winter 2001 Montanan). My seven-year-old son was diagnosed with Legg Perthes* disease a year ago. The first doctors who recognized what was wrong with my son told us not to let him I walk, for how long they didn’t know, and that there was really no treatment for it. I was devastated. My son is very active and a straight-A student. I had a pity party for a I while and then learned that physical therapy can improve the symptoms of this disease. I worked my son’s butt off. He was great Montana Websites, allin one place through all the stretching and no-impact www.onlinemontmnm.com strengthening exercises I learned about Fall 2002 Montanan 31 v ±

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD Greetings From Our New President OF DIRECTORS Billings native, Joe Whittinghill is a Think about the people you met at The University of Montana Alumni Association welcomes new board 1984 graduate of Billings Central UM who helped you get to where you members.* High School and a 1989 graduate in are today. I think of faculty who taught President A me how to think creatively and seek political science from UM where he was a Joseph R. Whittinghill ’89 Seattle member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. understanding, of staff members who President-elect Following graduation, Joe worked for UM as went the extra mile to get me into a R. Michael W. Higgs ’76 class or handle a housing issue, and of Eagan, Minn. a student recruiter, then as associate executive Vice President director of development for the UM fellow students who shared their class Mary Ellen Cawley Turmell ’64 notes with me on days when the river Rolling Hills Estates, Calif. Foundation. He left the University in 1995 to Past President attend business school and joined a manage' called more strongly than the Liberal John C. Wertz ’61 Arts Building. Keeping in touch with Arlington, Va. ment'Consulting firm. Joe now lives in Seattle Board of Directors and is the director of Microsoft’s Management these folks keeps these connections Dick W. Barr ’66 Development Group. Joe Whittinghill alive. One way to do this is through the Ennis Robert M. Carlson ’76, ’79 I am honored to serve as president of The University Alumni Association. If you aren’t already a dues-paying Butte of Montana Alumni Association as we continue our sec­ member of UMAA, become one. The more members, Lisette E Carter ’90 Spokane, Wash. ond century of service to UM. I am excited about our the more the association can do. Janet Fowler Dargitz ’57 association and its volunteers—-whether they serve on My hope is that you make time this year to participate State College, Pa. in an alumni activity. These events are a fun way to recon­ Leif Bart Erickson ’64, ’67 the board, in the House of Delegates, as satellite TV Missoula party hosts, or as local representatives working with the nect with people who shared the UM experience. Whether Russell M. Hatch ’79 in the 1920s or the 1990s, stories about freshman year Mobridge, S.D. great UMAA staff. We are holding more events, helping * David T. Kearns ’68, ’74 recruit students, participating in legislative affairs and dorm life have a familiar ring. Share your opinion and Las Vegas supporting more student services like Ask-an-Alum and time, whether directly as a volunteer or by sending an e- •Donald W. Kinney ’64 Lakewood, Colo. Griz Grad Send-Off than ever before. These programs mail to a board member or directly to UM. The more you Donalee Beaty LaBar ’65 focus on carrying out the association’s mission of identi­ are involved in our University the stronger it becomes. Great Falls A favorite Irish quote speaks of the need to roll up our Tiffany Gribble Madden ’86 fying and serving the needs of the University, its alumni, Billings students and friends. sleeves to get the job done: Nodding the head does not row ’Michael J. McDonough ’72 the boat. I ask you—whether alumna, alumnus, friend, sup­ Dallas UM has played a significant role in my life and pre­ ♦Mora MacKinnon Payne '54 pared me well—both professionally and personally. No porter, student, staff, faculty or administrator—to find Missoula matter where I travel, I meet alumni and friends of UM ways to make the University and the Alumni Association •Duncan A. Peete ’91 Billings and an instant connection occurs. While we may venture even better. UM is a treasure. Let’s work to keep it that Barbara Lee Pollem '61 far from Missoula, our hearts remain there. way. Get Involved...Stay Involved. El Cajon, Calif. •Colleen M. Schwanke ’94 Bozeman Robert J. Seim ’59 Missoula ______A lu m n i Events______Jason Thielman ’98 Helena September 2002 11 Alumni Event Kuala 16 Griz vs Eastern Wash., Emily Hazeiton Wells ’91 House off Delegates Lumpur, Malaysia Tailgate, Spokane Portland, Ore. 19- 20 ALUMNI OFFICE M eeting, M is s o u la 12 Griz vs Weber State, 23 Griz-Cat Football, M issoula; Bill Johnston ’79, '91 20- 21 Homecoming Griz vs. Tailgate, Ogden, Utah Satellite TV Gatherings Executive Director Idaho State; 1962 Class Reunion 26 Griz vs Portland State, 28 Great Alaska Shootout, Brandy Hall The University of Montana October 2002 Tailgate, Portland Anchorage Missoula, MT 59812-7920 406- 243-5211 5 G riz VS U . o f Idaho, T a ilg a te , November 2002 For more inform ation call the UM 877-UM-ALUMS alumniOselway.umt.edu Moscow, Idaho 10 Alumni Event Chicago Alumni Association: 1-877-UM ALUMS www.umt.edu/alumni

32 Fall 2002 Montanan A nnual R eport

he UM Alumni Association has as its ing alumni base. This increased level of than $300,000 at the beginning of the mission statement “to identify and activity—at the regional, national and inter­ 2002/2003 fiscal year. Part of this budget sup­ meet the needs of the University, its national levels—influences all our funding. ports alumni recognition programs such as alumni,T students and friends.” The associa- The directors continue to look at all appro­ Distinguished Alumni Awards, Montana | tion has been doing just that since its found- priate revenue-generating activities, includ­ Alumni Awards and Community Service [ ing in 1901. The association’s board of ing increasing the alumni endowment fund. Awards. The accompanying charts indicate directors made the strategic decision to As a consequence, the association’s budget revenue raised and corresponding expendi­ increase outreach programming to the grow­ has grown from $40,000 in 1989 to more tures in fiscal year 2001/2002.

Expense Summary Income Summary

A lert R eader Scores on Birthday Gift By Betsy Holmquist

emember the time you received the Fred’s mother had bought him a class ring “We’ll get it there,” Bill promised and off perfect birthday gift? The gift you as a graduation gift in 1994. Within a month, went the ring. thought you’d never, ever get? however, the ring was lost. By the end of “Fred kept swearing that he had his name R that year, Fred and Mary had gotten married engraved inside,” Mary continued, “but we Remember the “Found UM Class Ring” item in the last Montanan1. and moved from Charleston to James Island. decided something may have rubbed it out. W hen Fred G. McDaniel ’94, Camden, In 1995, a workman at the McDaniels’ for­ The next morning I remembered we still had South Carolina, mer home found the ring in a pile of building the original receipt filed away. I dug it out turned thirty-one materials near the driveway. and sure enough, it did say that he’d had his last May, the first He gave it to his wife, who put the ring in name engraved. We took the ring into the birthday gift his her jewelry box for safekeeping. Fred, mean­ bright light of a window and there it was. wife, Mary while, tried reordering a replacement—no You can very faintly make out his name. Kuhlmann luck—and found it difficult to admit to his That made it all even more surreal to him. McDaniel ’93, had mother why he wasn’t wearing her gradua­ It’s been a great story to tell and thanks for him open was a small package from the UM tion gift. getting it sent overnight. Fred says it’s one of Alumni Office. “He just looked at it,” Mary Late last year, Eva Tobias, the woman the coolest surprises he’s ever gotten!” wrote, “then at me with the funniest look on with the ring, returned it to the UM Alumni Fred, director of assessment for the his face. Is this mine?” Fred asked. “I didn’t Office and we ran the story. O n Friday, May Richland School District, and Mary have I say anything,” Mary continued, “and had 10, Mary McDaniel called our office after two children, daughter Zoe, two, and newly him look further into the box—at the note reading the item in the spring 2002 arrived son, Zane, bom, June 26—another [from Alumni Director Bill Johnston] and Montanan. She identified the ring and men­ delightful gift for the McDaniels family this the found-ring story.” tioned Fred’s birthday, the following Monday. year.

Fall 2002 M o n ta n a n 33 Davidsons Given Highest UM Honor

an ’53 and Nancy ’58 Davidson were inducted into the Order of the Grizzly at a ceremony in Great Falk on April 27.

I The Order of the Grizzly, the University’s most prestigious honor, was established by the UM Foundation in 1965 to honor Montanans or others with Montana roots whose accomplishments have earned them national or international reputations. Ian is chair­ man of the investment firm D.A. Davidson and was chairman of the National Association of Securities Dealers, which controk Nasdaq. At the induction ceremony, University President George Denni­ son made Ian and Nancy Davidson the thirtieth and thirty-first indi- viduak to receive the select award and presented them a bronze cast­ ing of the University’s mascot, the grizzly bear, sculptured by UM art Professor Emeritus Rudy Autio. Additional tributes came from Great Falk Mayor Randy Gray and Penny Peabody, chair of the UM Foundation Board of Trustees. About 150 friends and family attended the ceremony. Ian and Nancy Davidson gave $1.1 million in 1992 to elevate the University’s honors program to college status and to construct the Davidson Honors College Building just southwest of Main Hall. The University had started honors education in 1979 as an experi­ the only couple elected to its presidency, Ian in 1972 and Nancy in mental program to offer classes with small enrollment, innovative 1996. Together they chaired the Six-Mill Levy for the Montana teaching and learning strategies, and more personal advising for University System in 1989 and each served on governor-appointed promising students. Impressed with the program as a means to attract higher education committees for the state of Montana. The Order of Montana’s most talented students to the University and ultimately to the Grizzly has been awarded on a very-selective basis to men and keep them in the state where they had been educated, the Davidsons women whose philanthropic and civic accomplishments have made their gift. They say their involvement with the honors college changed the face of The University of Montana. Among past recipi­ and its students “has given us more satisfaction than any other non­ ents are statesman Mike Mansfield, Nobel laureate Harold Urey, actor family event thus far in our lives.” Carroll O’Connor, and newsman Chet Huntley. Both have served on the UM Foundation board of trustees and are

Bonhomme Estate Substantially Enriches Scholarship P rogram

raditionally when an individual leaves an received specifically for a scholarship fund, The Bonhommes’ wealth came from their entire estate to a university, it is because according to Sharen Peters, president of the ranching operation in the Shields Valley near The or she attended that institution. UM Foundation. UM’s share was placed in an Livingston. After Peter Bonhomme’s death in Not the case for Peter Bonhomme. His endowed fund expected to generate about October of 2000, the ranch was sold to an estate, valued at more than $8 million, was $200,000 for scholarships each year. The fund anonymous Texas buyer who also purchased split between UM and Montana State Uni­ should substantially impact the University’s adjoining properties to create a new cattle versity to provide scholarships for students at scholarship program, which had to turn down ranch that stretches from the Yellowstone the two schook. Neither he nor his wife, Elvi, forty-two percent of last year’s applicants. River near Springdale to the southern end of are alumni of either institution. UM sophomores, juniors, and seniors in any the Crazy Mountains. Their gift is the largest UM has ever discipline may apply for the scholarships.

3 4 Fall 2002 M ontanan Even Easier Than W riting a Check . . .

wo new programs make giving to 2010. To make an online gift, just go to ing a habit of giving because donors can UM easier than ever. the UM Foundation’s website, continue their giving program for any peri­ www.umt.edu/umf/ and click on the “give od they choose,” says Kathy Schaub, direc­ In addition to the traditional online” button. Donors may be confident tor of annual giving. “Our student callers method of writing a check, UM now offers of the privacy of their credit card numbers always ask alumni and friends they call an■ electronic fund transfer (EFT) program because this is a secure website. Once a gift during the phonathons if they prefer EFT and Internet giving. Both are fast, easy, made is made online it is confirmed by the to receiving pledge reminders and then and allow donors to determine timing of UM Foundation. writing checks.” their gifts. A donor may request EFT forms from Despite these technological advances, W ith two million new users going on­ the Foundation to authorize his or her most gifts still come to UM the old-fash­ line every month, the Internet is fast bank to automatically withdraw a specified ioned way. “We’ll always welcome a check becoming the communication tool of amount from either a checking or savings from those who want to support programs choice of half the U.S. population, and it account each month. “Like a payroll to help UM students,” Schaub adds. is predicted that 65 percent of all transac­ deduction plan, EFT encourages develop­ tions will be conducted electronically by

W hen Y ou License Y our Car, Drive W ith T he University hen Derek Bunnell graduated from UM in 1995, he bought him­ self a graduation present — a UM licenseW plate. He’s had UM plates ever since. “And so do most of my friends,” he says. “It’s a great way to show support for the University. I encourage everybody to buy the license plates.” Each Montana county treasurer’s office has the commemorative plates available for a $22.50 annual fee. Montanans have been eager participants in the program at UM as well as at all the state’s other public, private, and tribally controlled colleges; each has its own distinctive plate. Since the program began in 1992, more man 4,000 Montana automobiles have been $53,000 a year in general and Presidential elementary education major from Hardin, who licensed with UM plates. In its first year, the Leadership Scholarships for students. is pleased to have the scholarship. “Not only charge added to motor vehicle registration “The license plate program is a truly sig­ does it help financially so I don’t need so many generated about $26,000. The license plate nificant component of the University’s schol­ loans, but it’s also a reward for my hard work to program has grown in popularity; ten years arship program,” says Sharen Peters. “It’s pro­ this point,” she says. after its inception it brings in nearly vided more than $250,000 for UM students Bunnell intends to continue to participate $140,000 a year from both new and renew- during the last ten years.” in the program, especially after hearing about ln€ plate holders. The endowment created This academic year, sixty-one students were the quarter-million dollars in scholarship sup­ from those proceeds is currently in excess of awarded License Plate Scholarships ranging port the fund has provided. $1 million. Its earnings provide more than from $750 to $1,250. One is Heidi Warren, an

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