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Business and Residential Smoke free and Spotless Passenger pick-up and delivery John Kelly - Owner/Oriver f t - i ’U ij) J U l Volume 20 N u m b e r 1 7 10 16 Publisher DEPARTMENTS Rita Munzenrider '83 FEATURES Editor 2 Joan Melcher 73 7 AROUND Contributing A TEACHER THEY’LL NEVER FORGET THE OVAL Writers and Editors by Betsy H olmquist Brenda Day ’95 Helena’s Judy Harding hones her history and teaching skills for Frontier 20 Betsy Holmquist ’67 House students and brings families together in the process. BOOKS Kathie Nygaard ’68, ’87 Cary Shimek 10 Patia Stephens ’00 25 Photographer ON THE BANKS OF THE RIVER OF AWE CLASS NOTES Todd Goodrich ’88 by C aroline Patterson Designer This writer’s great-grandfather described Missoula in 1900 as a 31 Mike Egeler “place for the whole crowd to come and cut out all worrying.” LETTERS Advisory Board Is it still? Caroline Patterson takes readers through Sharon Barrett decades of growth and change. Vivian Brooke 32 Perry Brown 16 ALUMNI NOTES Bob Frazier Bill Johnston MISSOULA NOW AND THEN Dennis Swibold by Bryan di Salvatore 34 John Talbot The more things change, the more they stay the same. FOUNDATION Editorial Bryan di Salvatore does a little meditation on the forest and the trees, the Offices now and then of Missoula, and finds he can see the forest and the trees University Relations from his vantage point of thirty years. 315 Brantly Hall The University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812-7642 Voluntary Subscription: $15 (406) 243-2522 Web site: www.umt.edu Advertising Representative Lowell Hanson (406) 728-3951 The Montanan is published three times a year by T he University of Montana for its alumni and friends. George G ogas, A Retrospective, including “Judith Basin” (above), is showing Cover photo by Patrick through September 30 in the Montana Museum of Art and Culture’s exhibit rooms Clark. Change of address: in the Performing Arts and Radio/TV Building. Silent Frontier: Icons o f Early Interior photos by Todd 1-877-UM ALUMS Montana Settlement, new photographs by Dr. Richard Buswell, Goodrich, except as [email protected] will be shown October 4 through November 29. noted. Fall 2002 Montanan 1 mjr r J p 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. 2 Fall 2002 Montanan (greetings from the f*resident 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.