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P u blisher DEPARTMENTS Rita Munzenrider ’83 FEATURES E ditor 2 Joan Melcher 73 8 LETTERS Contributing POLITICS AS UNUSUAL W riters ana by Joan Melcher E ditors 3 Betsy Holmquist ’67 Garry South, a UM student body president in the 70s, tells how h e ’s A R O U N D Kathie Nygaard '68, ’87 used his education to becom e one o f the nation’s top political strategists. T H E O V A L Cary Shimek Patia Stephens ’00 Paddy MacDonald, M.A.’81 24 Photographer 14 BOOKS Todd Goodrich ’88 BREATHLESS DREAMING D esign er by T om Lutey 26 Jennifer Paul C L A S S N O T E S Advisory Board A true adventure story, complete with near misses and Sharon Barrett high drama, that peaks with a UM freshman becom ing the youngest Vivian Brooke American to scale Mount Everest. 36 Perry Brown ALUMNI NOTES Bob Frazier Bill Johnston Dennis Swibold 19 38 John Talbot CLEARING THE AIR FOUNDATION Editorial by D aniel Berger O ffices University Relations A reporter and photographer visit Libby, Montana, to learn how 315 Brantly Hall its residents are coping with the fallout of a corporate coverup The University of and how UM is helping in the recovery. Montana Missoula, MT 59812-7642 Voluntary Subscription: $15 (406) 243-2522 Web site: www.umt.edu

Advertising Representative Lowell Hanson Cover photo by John (406) 728-3951 Roskelley The Montanan Jess Roskelley at 27,200 is published three times feet, with Mount Everest in a year by the background. The Uni versity of Montana for its Interior photos by Todd alumni and friends. Goodrich, except as noted. Change of address: 1'877-UM ALUM S [email protected]

Fall 2003 Montanan 1 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The following letter was written in response F o rg e t M e N o t degree in education in 1967. During the to a letter to the editor in the Spring 2003 The article regarding “Generations” is a years I lived in Missoula, I often climbed to Montanan wherein three of Great Falls’ civic fine idea. But I want to call to your attention the big “M” on Mount Sentinel. When I leaders wrote to contest an article titled The Core the lack of listing data regarding James returned to Missoula after many years’ of Discovery by Professor Harry Fritz, chair of Macintosh. You didn’t list that I had graduat­ absence to attend my 40th high school The University of Montana's history depart- ed in 1946 in business administration, that I reunion in 1998,1 made the climb again and ment. It seems that we could have a rumble was president of Bear Paws, that I played on was surprised to find that the M now is made going here. The editor of this magazine would the “Grizzlies,” that I was on the boxing of concrete, not of white-washed stones. like readers to know the opinions expressed in the team. And I am hurt by your lack of research Since that trip, I have wondered about article and in letters to the editor are those of the regarding my enrollment at UM. 1 loved my how loads of concrete sufficient to make the writers involved and we can't be held responsible time at the University and hate being so bla­ entire M were hauled up the mountain. for anything. - JM tantly ignored. James Macintosh, ’46 (Maybe helicopters carried it) San Marino, California As I recall, some university organizations Debating the Discovery (perhaps athletic teams) used to have the The truth must hurt. It takes three flat- Editor’s Note: We regret not including Mr. responsibility for hiking up the mountain to landers to hurl unhistorical canards at the Macintosh’s graduation year in the Generations put new coats of whitewash on the stones. Garden City. Do they really believe that feature of the Spring 2003 Montanan. Obviously, that tradition has gone by the Lewis and Clark enjoyed their summer month Information supplied us did not include the year wayside. in Great Falls? Second prize was two months. and alumni records showed no graduating infor­ Best wishes. Thanks for the great work on I know, it’s painful to be on the fringes of mation. We were told that some of the records the Montanan. Even though I now live in prominence. Let’s have it out. I challenge all from that long ago may be lacking information. North Carolina, 1 like to maintain at least a three to a debate on the true Core of We also apologize here for any other errors of psychological connection to the University Discovery. Location is their choice. Lincoln? omission that may have occurred in the last issue. and to the old hometown. Baker? I offer the Grizzly Bar in Roscoe. It was difficult to gather all of the correct infor­ David Armstrong, M.A. ’67 The Great Falls area has one thing going mation and we did what we could within the time for it. A bear chased Meriwether Lewis into constraints. - JM Editor’s Note: We did a little research on the the middle of the Missouri River. Standing M and have a few answers for David. It has there, waist-deep in the Big Muddy, he first been a Missoula landmark since 1908, when uttered the immortal words, Go Griz- Harry Fritz, M.A. ’62 M on ta n a n C h a t R o o m Forestry Club members lugged stones up the Missoula (the Core), Montana The following letter was posted to our switch-backed trail they’d made. Stones gave Montanan Chat room, which we instituted with way to wood, then bigger, better stones. In the last issue of the Montanan. Readers can log Another Monte Weighs In 1968, the structure was removed and replaced on with opinions about stories, memories of their “F The article that Tom Lutey wrote about with concrete. Gerald renchie” Michaud, time at UM, or just to make a connection with Monte was great. It sure was a trip down assistant director of Custodial Grounds and other alumni. We will take postings from the memory lane for me as I remember having so Labor, remembers that the concrete was hauled Montanan Chat to include in our Letters section much fun in that costume. I think the things up Mount Sentinel in cement trucks via the fire as trine and space allow. Go to www.umt.edu/ that Monte said about how he sees the char­ road that cross-hatches the mountain, then comm and tell us what you drink. acter’s personality were just exactly as I wheel-borrowed down to the site. Using buckets, remember telling interviewers back from the crew poured the permanent M, which we see I grew up in Missoula. After completing a 1993 to 1998 when I was having so much today. Volunteers from UM fraternities and bachelor’s degree elsewhere and completing a fun. Great piece of work. sororities give the M a fresh coat of whitewash Scott Stiegler ’98 tour of duty in the military, I enrolled at UM each spring as part of the annual campus cleanup Florence, Montana in 1966 and completed a Master of Arts (formerly known as Aber Day).

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Forest Stump oggers, environmentalists, firefight­ ers, and government officials gath­ Lered this June in Missoula for the Western Montana Governors’ Association forest health summit. Four hundred people from twenty-two states, including Secretary o f Interior Gale Norton and U.S. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth, convened at the Holiday Inn Parkside. They were wel­ comed by Montana Governor Judy Martz, saying she believed westerners are ready to sit down and work out their long-standing disagreements over how the national forests should be managed. The second day found summit-goers taking a bus tour of the fuel-reduction work at U M ’s Lubrecht Experimental Forest, the Big Larch Campground at Seeley Lake, and the Clearwater Stewardship Project twelve miles north of Seeley Lake. During his presentation, UM Forestry Dean Perry Brown said one side of the ongoing debate about forest management offers overly simplified solutions to the wildfire problem: “Let’s just go in there and Take the Scenic Route thin all the forests.” The other side, he con­ n your way to a Griz game this fall, take a detour and check out the artifacts, tinued, focuses on the “perceived evils of trophies, photos, and other memorabilia in U M ’s new Hall of Champions, big industry and government agencies.” He O located near the entrance of the John Hoyt Complex in the Adams Center. hoped the summit would “give people some Ribbon cutting for the project is scheduled for Saturday, September 27, before the UM- examples that go beyond the rhetoric.” Idaho football game. After hours of presentations and a day The Hall of Champions project is spearheaded by the National Advisory Board for spent in the field, summit Grizzly Athletics, a group formed last fall by Wayne Hogan, U M ’s director of athletics. It attendees broke up into aims to tell more than 100 years of Griz history— from the 1995 and 2001 Division I-AA smaller groups and draft­ national championship football teams to Fred Stetson’s 1966 swim team, which captured ed a list of recommen­ the first of nine consecutive Big Sky titles. Display cases, graphics, and videos highlight dations to the gover­ the achievements of former Grizzly athletes and teams from several different sports, includ­ nors— suggestions for ing those no longer sponsored by the University. improving fire preven­ “We’re going to recognize all sports, past and present,” says Brad Kliber, chairman of tion and suppression, reduc­ NABGA. “It ’s going to be something all Grizzly fans will enjoy.” ing hazardous fuels, restoring And th e r e ’s more yet to come. According to Jim O ’Day, director of development for healthy forests, improving collaboration UM athletics, the p r o je c t ’s next phase will be interactive video, where a visitor can push a and stabilizing communities. These will be button and watch highlights of past games. Now w e’re talking. considered at the association’s annual G o Griz! meeting this September at Big Sky.

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'She is a Sister To Me' eet Patrick Calf and ill to maintain his one for their patient. They were right. Looking, class of community college teach­ After a lengthy recovery, Patrick M2003. Father of ing job; his marriage fell returned home to Browning. One day, while four. Master’s degree candi­ apart; and his sister Cassie visiting his sister’s grave, Patrick decided to date. Cancer survivor. In the was diagnosed with the turn his life in a new direction. With the audience as Patrick steps up same disease— against all encouragement of Penny Kukuk, his former to receive his diploma at medical odds, since AML UM adviser, he enrolled in U M ’s graduate UM ’s commencement cere­ is not a genetic disease. biology program. He and Deb were now mony are a dozen or two “My faith was shaken,” communicating regularly by e-mail and tele­ family members, including says Patrick, remembering phone, but h a d n ’t met face-to-face. his children, quietly proud the calamities that befell Then Patrick’s graduation announce­ parents, fist-pumping him. His cancer came ment arrived in D e b ’s mailbox. “I knew I Patrick Calf Looking and Deb White cousins, and teary-eyed sib­ back. Then Cassie died at had to go,” says Deb, who flew to Missoula lings. Perhaps, though, the heartiest cheers the University of Washington Medical with her husband and daughter in time for in the Calf Looking bloc come from Deb Center— where Patrick also was a an emotional reunion with Patrick and his White, a California woman who, until patient— weeks after receiving a bone mar­ family before the weekend began. “I felt so graduation weekend, was a complete row transplant. But Patrick’s luck was about honored that he would want to know me, stranger to the family that surrounds her. to change, because of Deb, who had been take me into his family....” But Deb has a connection to the Calf on the National Marrow Donor Program’s His tassel turned and diploma in hand, Lookings that surpasses conventional ones. donor list for several years. Patrick saves the biggest hug for his new She saved Patrick’s life. “I thought if I have something that can blood relative. And as the ceremony winds Patrick’s youngest child, nine-year-old help others, I should give,” Deb says of her down, the family re-groups to drive to Nigel, says it best: “My dad wouldn’t be decision to join the program. Browning, where the Calf Lookings plan to here if it wasn’t for her.” Shortly before Cassie died, the marrow honor Deb and her family with a feast of Patrick’s journey began with a cough. donor program determined that Deb and roast buffalo. Then unexplained bruises. Finally, the dev­ Patrick were a perfect match. Deb was noti­ And t h e r e ’s more. A n adopted child, astating news that Patrick, at thirty-six, suf­ fied in California and her blood was drawn Deb was always curious about whose blood fered from acute myelogenous leukemia. The and shipped to the medical center, where she shared. With P a t r ic k ’s encouragement, diagnosis was made in spring 1998. In short arrangements had been made for Patrick to Deb successfully located her birth mother order, the ensuing chemotherapy and radia­ undergo a stem cell transplant, a procedure and, during an emotionally charged tion treatments rendered Patrick too weak the doctors had determined was the best reunion, learned about her Spanish and American Indian ancestry. “The donor pro­ gram gave me and my daughter our her­ Leader of the Pack itage,” Deb says. M President George Dennison recently was elected to lead the Inland “Look what I ’ve gotten back as a donor Northwest Research Alliance, a consortium of eight research universities in ... all these wonderful people,” Deb says, Uthe Northwest. INRA is a nonprofit, scientific and education organization her dark eyes shining with emotion. formed to promote science and engineering research. The organization focuses on “What Deborah has done for me and research studies likely to result in practical applications, such as water treatments, my family, words cannot express,” says soil remediation, and forest fire prevention. Patrick, who plans to return to the INRA was formed in 1999 by presidents of the eight universities. Since then the Blackfeet reservation and continue research organization has garnered more than $10 million in research funding. he began while in graduate school. “She is a sister to me.” - Paddy MacDonald

4 Fall 2003 Montanan (jreetings from the f*resident

rivial pursuit continues as a popular pastime in some cir- about Frank’s father, Charles, who set cles. What do Jess Roskelley, Garry South, and Sheila the record as the longest serving presi­ Steams have in common? They all attended UM but dent, just short of fourteen years. They have distinguished themselves in very different ways. This provided encouragement for me to try issue of the Montanan features these three alums and their for the new record. I intend to do so. accomplishments. In a sense, they serve as exemplars of a long The Clapps and I think it right and line of people who have made the most of all that the proper that a graduate of the institution University offers. Every university thrives on the reputation of will have the new record. its alumni, and this University has prospered because of the ded­ With best wishes and appreciation, ication and commitment of those who succumb to its allure. As an alumnus, I take great pride in the tradition of excel­ lence represented by Roskelley, South, and Steams. In addition, I continue to believe— as I tell students from time to time— there is nothing like changing your status from student to presi­ George M. Dennison ’62 dent. This com ing year will mark fourteen years for me in that President role. I recently visited with Frank and Ada Clapp in California

G lobal G rowth The article states that the changes have o f short-term climate cycles or longer-term, f you’re growing tomatoes the size of bas­ provided extra doses of water, heat, and global climate changes. ketballs, or if the fig tree in your living sunlight in areas where one or more of “Systematic observation of global vegeta­ Iroom ate your dog, it could be the result those ingredients may have been lacking. tion is being continued by NASA’s Earth- of plant-friendly, global climate changes In regions where temperatures restricted observing satellites,” says Steve Running, a that have been occurring over the last plant growth it became warmer. Where co-author and director of the simulation twenty years, concludes a NA SA and sunlight was needed, clouds dissipated. And group. “Earth-observing satellites are paving Department of Energy study. in drier areas, it rained more. In the the way to find out if these biospheric According to Ramakrishna Nemani, Amazon, where cloud cover blocked sun­ responses are going to hold for the future.” associate director of UM ’s Numerical Terra- light, the skies have become less cloudy. In - Paddy MacDonald dynamic Simulation Group and lead author India, where a billion people depend on of the study that appeared recently in rain, the monsoons were more dependable. UM's Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group's Science magazine, climactic changes are a But the study cautions that no one knows map o f changes in rainfall, temperature, and sun­ leading cause for increases in plant growth. whether these positive impacts are because light betw een 1982 and 1999; productivity increases are shown in green, decreases in brown.

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A dvocate for 2003 Griz Greats Native A mericans M’s Alumni Association has announced this year’s Distinguished Alumni Award recipients, the association’s highest honor. Gary L. Graham, Phillip J. M alumna Thelma Stiffarm Janik, James D. Keyser, and Nelson “Jerry” Weller will receive their awards at ’70 recently was appointed U the 2003 Homecoming celebration October 3. assistant administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s GARY L. GR A H A M , J.D. ’69 JAMES D. KEYSER, B.A. A N TH R O POLO G Y Office of Native American Affairs. Graham is a fellow ’72; M.A. A N T H R O P O L O G Y ’74 Stiffarm financed her college educa­ of the American A regional archaeol­ tion by working as a stylist in beauty College of Trial ogist for the Pacific salons, where she learned firsthand the Lawyers, a member Northwest region of challenges of keeping a small business of the American the U.S. Forest alive. She reports that four decades Board of Trial Service, Keyser is later she will use that knowledge to Advocates and the recognized interna­ help similar small businesses. She also Montana Pattern tionally as the pre­ plans to engage tribal colleges and Jury Instruction eminent expert on tribal leaders in her efforts. Commission, a recipient of the North American Previously, Stiffarm was program Distinguished Attorney award from the prehistoric rock art, archeology, and cultur­ administrator of the Tribal Western Montana Bar Association, a lawyer al history. He has made groundbreaking Government Program in the representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial studies on bison jumps and the ledger art, Customer Liaison Office at the U.S. Conference, and a volunteer at UM School ceramic chronologies, and long-term occu­ Census Bureau in Washington, D.C., o f Law and the YWCA’s battered women pation sites of the Plains Indians. Current and before that, executive director of and children programs. He has practiced interests include French cave art and the Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders law for more than thirty years with Italian rock art. Keyser lives in Portland, Council in Billings. A n attorney, she Garlington, Lohn & Robinson in Missoula. Oregon. taught Native American Studies at Montana State University-Billings PHILLIP J. JANIK, B.S. FORESTRY ’67 NELSON S. WELLER, B.A. ECO N O M IC S ’58 and owned Thomas Management and Janik spent thirty- A member of Sigma Training, a business that specialized in five years in feder­ Nu fraternity while providing legal seminars to tribal gov­ al service helping at UM, Weller went ernments and federal agencies. set national policy on to a career in “We are very fortunate to have direction for the equity research, Thelma Stiffarm on our team as an Forest Service. As money manage­ advocate for Native Americans across the Alaska ment, and invest­ the country,” SBA Administrator Regional Forester, ment banking. Hector Barreto wrote in a news release he updated a forest Weller has served as announcing her appointment. “With plan for the Tongass National Forest. He a trustee for the UM Foundation and is her long history of dedication to the was a naval officer for twelve years, seven currently on the advisory board for UM ’s interests of the Native American com ­ o f those on active duty. Janik is a member Davidson Honors College. He has been munity, I know she will bring a strong o f the UM Ask-an-Alum program. Now president of the Commonwealth Club of sense of purpose to the job.” retired, he lives with his wife, Pat, in California and the Security Analysts of San A member of the Gros Ventre Vancouver, Washington. They have three Francisco. He and his wife, Jane, own tribe, Stiffarm grew up in Box Elder. grown children, Kim, Scott and Mike, and Longview Vineyards in the Alexander a foster son, Sinh, a Vietnamese refugee Valley, near Healdsburg, California, where who lived with the family for five years. they live.

6 Fall 2003 Montarum Bookworms Unite N ew VPs undreds of literary-minded folks across M welcome*' the state are reading, discussing, and two new maybe arguing about Winter Wheat, the U vice presi­ 1944H novel penned by Mildred Walker and dents over the sum­ chosen by the Montana Center for the Book as mer: Teresa Branch i; its inaugural One Book Montana selection. the University’s new “We wanted something that was about vice president for Montana that would speak to people about the student affairs and past and the present,” says Marie Sherouse, Daniel J. Dwyer director of the Montana Center for the Book. “I takes the helm as Teresa Branch think it speaks to a reality th a t’s still with us.” vice president for Winter Wheat, a coming-of-age story set in research and devel­ M o n ta n a ’s dryland wheat country near the opment. dawn of the Second World W ar, tells the tough, hard­ Branch comes to scrabble truth about wheat ranching and what the spirit needs to withstand the physi­ Missoula from cal and emotional vagaries it can involve. Ames, Iowa, where Montana Public Radio and Yellowstone Radio, co-sponsors of the program, have she was associate been featuring on-air readings and call-in discussions of the book. In addition, there vice president for

are statewide book activities, study questions, and a reading guide, all listed in the pro­ student affairs at Daniel Dwyer gra m ’s Web site. Ripley Schemm Hugo, the w r ite r ’s daughter and an author herself, Iowa State will participate in special events featuring Winter Wheat during the Montana Festival University. She replaces Barbara of the Book in Missoula this September. Hollmann, who retired from UM after One of Montana Center for the B o o k ’s core beliefs is that literature “brings us clos­ twenty-three years of service. er together and gives us deeper understanding of each other,” says Kim Anderson, pro­ D w y er’s most recent position was vice gram coordinator. “We believe the One Book program can be a valuable part of that provost for research at New Mexico State process. Winter Wheat touches on aspects of the western experience that ring a chord University in Las Cruces. He replaces T. in many of us.” Lloyd Chesnut, who left UM to assume a Visit www.montanabook.org/onebook.htm for a closer look at w h a t’s sweeping similar position at the University of North Montana. - Paddy MacDonald Texas in Denton.

degrees at UM-Missoula. “Steams brings the needed experience Stearns Returns After working as a librari­ and knowledge to the position at this crit­ ^ ^ ^ i t i n g her proven track record an in the Missoula Public ical juncture for public education in I in Montana, the state Board School system, Steams Montana,” says Board of Regents ^ ^ ^ o f Regents unanimously held positions as U M ’s Chairman Ed Jasmin. “Sh e ’s had extensive approved the appointment in June of director of Alumni legislative experience in Montana. She Sheila M. Steams as M o n ta n a ’s next Relations and vice presi­ knows the system.” commissioner of higher education, dent of University Steams, who says her longtime love of filling the position vacated by Sheila Stearns Relations before becoming her home state prompted her to apply for Richard Crofts, who retired in chancellor at UM- the sta te ’s top higher education position, February. Westem, a position she held from 1993 t o hopes to use her communication and diplo­ Steams was raised in Glendive and 1999. Most recently, Steams served as pres­ macy skills to build a bridge between the earned her b a ch elor’s, m aster’s and doctoral ident of Wayne State College in Nebraska. legislature and the University system.

Fall 2003 Montanan 7 GARRY SOUTH: POLITICAL PUGILIST rouncsis UNUSUAL

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arry South has a gift for gab, no doubt about it Along with many other gifts, not least among them aston­ ishing recall. At the end o f a five-hour interview, I find my jaw sagging, perhaps from exhaustion, but also because he has just rattled off the names of all the stateG officeholders in Montana in 1974, as well as the makeup of the state legislature. I’m afraid if I let him go on h e ’ll list all who served in those bodies as well. Illustration by Bob Zingmark In the last few years South has emerged as one of the top political operatives in the country, up there near Karl Rove and James Carville. His latest achievement is getting Gray Davis re-elected governor of California in 2002— w h ile Republicans were winning almost every place else. When the idea of doing an article on South had been floated for the Montanan, I jumped at the chance. And, being the editor of the maga­ zine, I d id n ’t have to get by too many bodies to do it. I knew Garry years ago. In the self-indulgent, high-octane decade of the ’70s, we both were making our opinions known, I in editorials for the Montana Katmin, he as a flamboyant UM student body president. I flew to Los Angeles, wanting to see just how much he really knew thirty years later. Turns out, quite a lo t Those hours of discussion ranged from growing up in Miles City to a detailed description of the

Fall 2003 M on ta n a n 9 “The proper metaphor for a campaign is more like a boxing match where two people are up there in the ring, only one is going to come out the winner...”

Garry is dressed in corduroy pants and a soccer shirt. I’m wearing a business suit. He is vibrant and healthy at fifty-one, surprisingly com­ fortable, graceful even, in his lanky frame. I tell him that lunch is on us and he quips, in that case, maybe we should have gone someplace more expensive. Garry seems singularly proud to be living in a place where we can have lunch outside in February. H e ’s explaining his love for California, beginning with trips his family took to the state when he was a kid. This is the typical story of the naive small-town kid from the north who dis­ covers the winter warmth, sunshine, and flowers of California. And the story of a man who is still somewhat surprised by— and definitely proud of—his rise from a modest childhood in eastern Montana to being a player in “Never Never Land.” Garry remembers his family leaving Miles City in a blizzard, heading to L.A. for Christmas and how he found the blooming flowers and warm temperatures magical and “mes­ merizing.” I moved to California in 1982 and left in 1994.1 may have found it mesmerizing for a few months. It took him a while to get here. Garry grew up in a political family. His father, Vernon, a carpenter, served on the Miles City City Council for years, a seat his older brother Carroll filled when Vernon retired. Garry was active in politics at UM, but took time out to run a couple of campaigns, graduating in 1976 with a b a c h e lo r ’s degree in political sci­ ence and history after six years of undergraduate school. I graduated 1998 California primary campaign for governor to G a rry ’s latest brouha­ Kappa Tau Alpha in four years. ha with Arnold Schwarzenegger. I’m engaged, entertained, educated, He ran C a r r o ll’s winning campaign for the Montana Legislature in and— if it w eren ’t for the exhaustion—game to go a few more hours. 1974 and worked on other state campaigns, including Pat Williams’ loss It only makes it more intriguing when he tells me he learned just in the democratic primary for Congress in 1974.1 worked for Pat as well, about everything he knows about politics while student body president but on his winning campaign in 1978. at UM. Garry picked Jimmy Carter as a long shot in the 1975 presidential The other thing that is interesting is how much we have in common. We're primary, leading the effort to get him on the ballot in Montana. When the same age, grew up m eastern Montana in small towns along the Yellowstone Carter won the primary, Garry was asked to run his presidential cam­ River a scant forty-five miles from each other, hid beef we didn't want to eat at paign in the state. From there his life careened from a regional post for the dinner table to get rid of when our parents weren’t looking, and have poli­ the Democratic National Committee, to advance man for a Secretary of tics in the blood. The mam difference I see is that he’s risen to the top of his field Agriculture, to a Senate campaign in Illinois, to democratic operative and is making six figures, easily, while I’m editing U M ’s magazine part-time for the National Association of Realtors, to communications director for peanuts. for Ohio Governor Richard Celeste. W e re at a sidewalk cafe near his home in Brentwood having lunch. In 1991, with a small savings account and $8,000 cashed out from

10 Fall 2003 Momonan his Ohio state pension fund, Garry landed in Los Angeles. “I came here in ’91, hoping to get away from politics,” he tells me. “That was my intent. I had no idea what I was going to do. I wanted to write screenplays and I had a couple of friends who were out here that were actually involved in the entertainment industry.” Garry never wrote a screenplay. He took rock-drumming lessons instead and layed on the roof of his apartment building, getting a tan. I did write several screenplays, none of which saw the light of day. After eighteen years of dra­ matic writing, one of my plays is being produced. “I never quite mastered it [drumming], but I had wanted to plunk on the drums since I was a little kid,” Garry is saying. “My grandmoth­ er bought me a little toy drum kit for one Christmas and I beat the hell out of it, I mean, literally. By the time I was done not only were every­ body’s ears filled with all this, but literally I broke it apart—pounded on it until all the things came off the drums, then the sticks broke. My parents threw it away and never wanted to get another one.” Uh-huh. Garry did a few radio spots and wrote short articles for a Glendale newspaper—“for $60 a pop.” Then came a call from a friend in The primary left Garry with a bleeding ulcer that required five days Sacramento he knew from past political battles. The friend said there of hospitalization, but when it was over he and Davis had pulled off a was a woman running for Los Angeles County Supervisor who “seems surprise win over multi-millionaire Al Cheche and Jane Harmon. pretty sharp.” Maybe he should meet her. At that point Garry had no Davis handily won the general election in 1998 and Garry was named clue about Los Angeles politics, but his money was running out. And Campaign Manager of the Year by the American Association of he liked Gordana Swanson right away. She was a Republican and a Political Consultants. In 2002, with Davis heading the ticket, Serb who had survived a concentration camp, “a very interesting Democrats took all statewide offices, regained control of the state woman.” Garry became her campaign manager. Swanson made it into Senate and Assembly, and dominated California’s congressional dele­ a runoff, but lost the general election. “They threw everything at her,” gation, the nation’s largest. he remembers, “but it got me into the L.A. press corps.” Like Al Pacino I t ’s clear Garry could describe down-to-the-minute details of those in The Godfather, just when he thought he was out, they pulled him campaigns, but there are only so many hours in a day. Today he has left back in again. his lucrative job as Davis’ senior political adviser (paid for by the state The next stop was Michael W oo’s primary bid for mayor o f Los Democratic party) and is on his own again. He has his sights set on the Angeles in 1993, another loss, but memorable to Garry because it was next presidential election and h e ’s been talking to potential candi­ during this campaign that he met his wife, Christine. They were mar­ dates. His main mission is “to get Bush,” he says. (In July he signed on ried in 1995. as senior political adviser with the Joe Lieberman campaign.) He also met Gray Davis in 1993 and they formed a strong bond. Garry is one of those rare people who not only has politics in the Davis, the quiet, under-sung California controller, was looking for a blood, he eats, sleeps, dreams, and, well... you know .... Many of us are James Carville type to lead his campaign for lieutenant governor in interested in politics, dabble in it, become involved in various cam­ 1994. Gray couldn’t remember Carville’s name, calling him “that bald paigns, even run for office. But there are only a few, like Garry, who guy Clinton has” but Garry knew what he meant and he was ready. play it to the bone. And that intensity, along with back-to-back wins Other staff members and potential campaign workers weren’t so in California, are what have placed him on the short list when the big ready when Lieutenant Governor Davis decided to run for governor in races come up. But i t ’s time to get back to what I came here for. I final­ I 1997. Davis was known as a policy wonk in California and the word ly get to ask a question: “What do you remember from your days at The boring often was attached to him. Garry stayed with Davis while thir­ University of Montana?” teen staff members jumped ship over the course of the primary. “There Here we go ... were literally days when it was just him and me, plus a couple of peo­ “I have some of the fondest memories of my time at The University ple to answer the phones,” he says. of Montana of anything I ’ve ever done in my life, which was the rea-

Fall 2003 M on ta n an 11 son I stayed there so long. I would have never left if I h a d n ’t run out of eligibility for student loans. I did go to Eastern [Montana College] my first year, but that w asn ’t the same kind of student body that you find at The University of Montana, which was very diverse, with kids from all over the world. “I got involved in student politics there, which I would have to tell you was really the training ground for everything I’ve done subsequent- ly in politics because student politics at a campus— and I think other people will tell you this who have been involved in it— is the most elbow-throwing, no-holds-barred, vicious political environment that you will ever be involved in— for a couple of reasons. “Number one, when you think about it, these kids are only here for a very limited period o f time. I t ’s not like they have sixteen years to make their mark. I was there for six, but most people are only there for four, some of them for only three and a half. And then th e y ’re gone. So if y o u ’re going to do anything in student politics, y o u ’ve got to do it now. You d o n ’t have forever. And the second reason is you know you d o n ’t have to live with the consequences of your actions because y o u ’re going Garry and his wife, Christine Wei-ii Lee to be gone. I t ’s not like y o u ’re on the City Council of some small town and you have to face these people every day down at the drugstore. “The things that happened there in student politics... stuff that lit­ “And so, basically, what we did was we cut off part of that money erally would get you charged with a felony if you did it in real politics. going to the athletic department, and they went bananas. Jack And I was guilty of it to be honest with you. And I’m not even going to Swarthout, who was the football coach, was just livid about the whole tell you what I did. I’m not proud of it. I w ou ld n ’t do it again.” thing and came to central board and berated everybody and had his big I have to laugh: This guy who has been labeled ruthless, brash, “a football players in there. My feeling was we have duly elected represen­ nice pit bull” in stories found in the California and national press, this tatives. D o n ’t come in and tell us how to spend our money.” guy who “talks in paragraphs,” not sentences, this spin doctor who Garry also accomplished two other things while president that were described the California energy market in 2000 as comparable to a perhaps more significant and lasting: under his leadership, a student Turkish rug bazaar, this guy who had a sign on his door that said, representative was given a permanent seat on the state Board of Regents “Whatever d o e sn ’t convict me makes me stronger,” says he was a and twenty-four-hour dorm access was instituted. But today it ’s the stu­ tougher player running for office at UM. dent fee controversy th a t’s on his mind. “Are you saying y o u ’re actually softer now?” I ask. “It was really vicious,” he continues. “Both me and the editor of “It’s hard to believe, but I am.” the student newspaper at that point—Conrad Yonker—got anony­ Garry was president of the UM student body in the 1973-74 school mous death threats in the mail and his actually mentioned his wife. year. He dressed in three-piece suits and had Kennedy hair. I wore We kind of laughed it off when we got it but we turned it over to cam­ patched bell bottoms and tried to crimp my long, straight hair to have that pus security and they called the FBI and they came in and moved me kinky hippie look. He was known for a few things, chief among them for to a safe house. being the guy who got in the face of the athletics department. ‘That really was the training ground for politics. Every place I’ve “We had a student activity fee of I believe $15 a quarter,” Garry ever been, whether it was Washington, Illinois, Ohio, California, there remembers. “Just like a governor, I proposed a budget to the central are things I can look back on in terms of my involvement in student board. There was usually a separate athletic fee and then this other stu­ politics that have played a significant role in how I approach politics. As dent activity fee that funded everything from the band to the student I say, I was more over the top then than I am now , although it would sur­ yearbook, to the twirlers club, drama club— everything under the sun. prise some people. It’s the only time I’ve ever got a death threat, I ’ll tell Prior to my getting there, these fees were collapsed into one fee and it you that. I’ve been threatened to be sued by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s was assumed that the same revenue stream would keep going to athlet­ lawyer, but th a t’s it.” I recently was threatened with death by a disgruntled ics department. Well, I said screw that, they can come in and fight for young woman motorist I cut off on Orange Street. their money like the parachute club and everybody else. The Schwarzenegger story fits in with G arry’s general philosophy

12 Fall 2003 M on tan an about politics: i t ’s a blood sport, not a race. “The proper metaphor for a We arrive, having had a very nice drive in his new Mercedes (I drive campaign is more like a boxing match where two people are up there in a 1990 Saab 900, a classic), enter his gated condo, and meet his wife, the ring,” he says. “Only one is going to come out the winner, either by Christine, who Garry is proud to announce has journalism degrees from knockout or by points. And for someone to watch a campaign and say, UCLA and Columbia. He notes more than once over the course of the ‘Why are these two people criticizing each other?’ is about as insane as next few hours that Christine loves beef. someone going to a boxing match and saying, ‘why are these guys hit­ Ah, the ironies of life. ting each other?.’ Your job in a campaign is to point out the differences I t ’s obvious h e ’s very close to his family, which includes three older and the contrasts between you and your opponent.” brothers; his mother died in 2002. Last summer he arranged for a Lear Garry also compares politics to a chess game: “I like to match wits with jet to pick up his father and fly him to a nearby airport, saying it was somebody—play on that big chessboard of politics, try to outsmart peo­ hard for a ninety-two-year-old man to make the drive from Miles City ple....” Part of that strategy is to do something to unsettle the opponent, to Billings and then fly commercially to L.A. hoping he will react and expose a weakness. Smiling poses of Garry and Christine are Garry has been goading Schwarzenegger in “I have some of the scattered throughout the entryway and living the press and in person for months since the room, most o f them with Gray Davis and his Terminator indicated his interest in running for fondest memories of wife or with former President Clinton and governor of California. He does it to get a reac­ other national leaders. He pulls out photos and tion out of the big guy as much as anything. my time at The mementos from his time at UM, then snapshots Garry notes that many wealthy people don’t University of Montana of vestments he designed. Yes. Along with col­ understand the “fight” in politics. He does an lecting glass buffalo, gourmet cooking, and faux eerie imitation o f Arnold asking a reporter of anything I’ve ever done painting, this is one of his hobbies. I have dogs to “Why does this guy have it in for me?” Garry walk and an unruly yard. laughs, adding, “He doesn’t get it.” Meanwhile in my life, which was He designs vestments for Episcopal priests, Garry gets the good press, one newspaper calling the reason in fact designed the vestment worn by the priest him the real Terminator. I stayed when he and Christine were married. Garry After a few hours at the cafe, i t ’s time to there so lon g.... (it) explains that he grew up in a fundamentalist head over to Garry’s place. O n the way he Pentecostal church. When he found the Greek answers an earlier question in more depth: really was my training Orthodox Episcopal church as a student at UM, why, after running for office in college, has he the symbolism and accouterments of the chosen to be the “back” man, not the candi­ ground for politics.” church fascinated him. He sees the hobby as a date. Earlier he explained that he thought “fusion of my interest in religious history and art politicians had to have more patience in dealing with people and pol­ and design.” I’m slightly aghast. I look to Christine for some sort of icy than he had, that he was more in it for the fight. But in the car I explanation and she mouths to me, “Weird.” learn something new. He says, actually he owes that to my father, He says other reporters have been as surprised as I am by it, telling John Melcher. me they have written about the duality of Garry South: the pious and My dad had been elected to United States Congress in 1969 and to the profane. the Senate in 1976. He practiced veterinary medicine for twenty years Indeed. before being elected to Congress and so it was just a typo that resulted After more jawboning about Montana, UM, and national politics, in a story that claimed he was the only vegetarian serving in that august i t ’s time for me to go. I say goodbye and head out to face the L.A. traf­ body. Dad, a carnivore of high standing, thought the whole thing was fic. I’m exhausted, but the subject of my interview no doubt is thinking funny and used it to get national attention, staging a press conference about what to do with the rest of the day. wherein he ate a rare steak to prove the point. In the car I realize that Garry has probably lost nearly as many races But the effect on Garry was something different. He was horrified. as h e ’s won. In fact, some Californians are trying to undo the 2002 win He noted the Montana Stock Growers yelling that it had better not be through a recall of Governor Davis. A day before we went to press true and he realized that he could never run for office in Montana. He Schwarzenegger announced he would be a candidate in the recall elec­ hated beef, had since his childhood. I’m still not crazy about steak or pot tion. But, like the pugilist, Garry’s still standing. 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ess Roskelley had forgotten about the Cave Man, the lost Italian J climber who in 1997 had simply lay down on the trail and died. He had heard you literally had to step over the fallen climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest from the Tibetan side. Jess straddled the lost c lim b e r ’s ankles and paused for a moment to study the man, named because the narrow ledge on which he rests is partially protected by an overhang. “He just looked like he sat down to take a nap,” Jess says. “It was still dark out. There were old oxygen bottles around him. I saw a foot and then feet. I stepped over him and kept going.” The Death Zone, the top 4,000 feet of Mount Everest, is littered with the frozen bodies of nearly 120 climbers who d id n ’t keep going. Nearly fifty others who died trying were carted down. One climber is dead for every eight that make the summit. The air is so thin it dulls the brain at the very time that every step can be a life or death decision. Roskelley, a UM freshman, moved beyond the m o u n ta in ’s dark statis­ tics May 21,2003. At the age of twenty he became the youngest American to conquer the 29,038-foot peak. And he did it in a two-month climb with his fifty-four-year-old father John Roskelley, a seasoned climber with four Everest attempts in his career. Only a handful of father-son teams have ever made it to the top. It was a strange trip, punctuated by bad food, government bribes, and a harrowing detour down the mountain for emergency medical care. Their bodies wore down like bald tires on an Alaskan road. Jess lost 15 pounds 1 I k \ ^ 9 Fall 2003 Montanan 15 from his already lean 170-pound frame. John Roskelley lost 12 pounds “What a thrill to be on the North Col with my son,” the father from a wiry build that didn’t have any fat to spare. shared in the group’s online journal just days before Jess’s health soured. “The mountain was not so technical up high, a lot easier than I “To be given this once-in-a-lifetime experience with him is a summit expected,” says Jess, who weeks after his return was heading to within itself. Our kids disappear from home too fast after high school. Washington’s Mount Rainier to work as a construction laborer and Too often, we only get a snippet of their lives from then on.” part-time mountain guide. “The key to climbing Everest is knowing There would be other chances for Jess, but John Roskelley, a how to be miserable for a while and staying healthy,” he adds. Spokane county commissioner, had few opportunities left to climb to The environmental studies student didn’t need to find misery on the the top of the world, let alone with his son. John had been challenging mountain; he brought it with him. The Roskelleys were part of the mountain since 1981, the year before Jess was bom. His previous “Generations on Everest,” a group that included seventy-three-year-old attempts had been thwarted by health and weather problems. Dick Bass, a Dallas businessman, and sixty-two-year-old Jim Wickwire, Now, less than a d a y ’s hike from the Death Zone— where oxygen- a Seattle attorney. They were poised to set several Everest records: Bass starved brains swell and bodies naturally start breaking down—Jess the mountain’s oldest conqueror, Jess the youngest American, and the was falling apart. The lymph nodes at the base of his skull were hard rare father-son duo— all scheduled for the climb on the fiftieth anniver­ and swollen. His headaches were excruciating and he had run out of sary year of Sir Edmund Hillary’s ascent, the first ever. antibiotics. Being the oldest man to summit seemed like the most improbable The Roskelleys got out their satellite phone and contacted Jess’s feat, but it was Jess who unraveled first. At 23,000 feet, a medical emer­ dentist, who feared the abscess would spread to the young climber’s gency forced him from the mountain. A dentist in Jess’s hometown, brain if he kept climbing. The closest dentist was several days away and Spokane, Washington, had pulled his wisdom teeth over Christmas 18,000 feet down at Katmandu. break, and Jess had been fighting an infection ever since. Antibiotics and Expeditions are a lot like animal herds; their weak get left behind. a youthful immune system seemed to be prevailing. Until the abscess. Jess had a decision to make: go on and risk his health, possibly his life, or go back for medical attention. “I probably should have just kept going,” Jess says. “My dad spent a lot of money on the trip. I asked the doctor about the infection and she said as long as the infection didn’t go to the ear, I might be okay. I think I would have made it,” he says with the clarity of hindsight. But not making it on Everest means death for many climbers, a price heavily weighed against the cost of a two-month expedition, about $40,000 for each climber. Dick Bass was a little more attuned to his mortality than young Roskelley. A Texas oil and catde baron, as well as the founder of Utah’s Snowbird ski resort, Bass had paid $5,800 to keep a Toyota Landcruiser on standby at 17,000 feet, in case he needed to be evacuated. Take the Landcruiser, Bass advised Jess, reasoning that if the young climber could race down to Katmandu for medical attention, he would be able to rejoin the group. John Roskelley would have to continue on to the 25,000-foot level without his son, though the split would be crushing. Wearing little more than a polar fleece jacket and denim jeans, Jess started the trek down. He had $500 in his pocket and a mini disc player. The Landcruiser wasn’t there. The Tibetans paid by Bass to keep the vehicle had left. The Tibetan Mountain Authority on hand to police the climbing community denied any knowledge of such an agreement. Jess would have to pay $700 to

le s s reads e-mail at base camp (upper left); and gives a thumb's up in bad weather at 25,000 feet (upper right); advanced base camp (bettnm).

16 Fall 2003 Montanan "IT WAS STILL DARK OUT.THERE WERE OLD his body was already acclimated. But the antibiotics he received in Katmandu were making him vomit. OXYGEN BOTTLES AROU ND HIM. I SAW A “Jess ended up hugging the porcelain pony, as his stomach turned FOOT AN D THEN FEET. I STEPPED OVER HIM inside out,” John Roskelley e-mailed the folks back home. “I’m sure, AND KEPT GO IN G ." though, as a college student at The University of Montana, which isn ’t exactly a “dry” campus, being violently sick w asn’t an unusual experience.” Actually, his father was closer to the truth than he realized. When hitch a ride with the TM A in their jeep, about $1 a kilometer. The Jess learned he was a lock for the trip last November, he started a train­ Generations g ro u p ’s travel agent agreed to cover the cost of the jeep, ing regimen that included running up the north face of Mount Sentinel which the Tibetans stuffed with three injured Romanians before starting every day, including mornings after he contracted the brown bottle flu the trip down. Jess was a little put out about sharing his ride considering in some of M isso u la ’s downtown pubs. the high cab fare, but the Romanians turned out to be good travel com- Now hiking at 19,000 feet, Jess stumbled onto the base camp of a panions, club owners who used their profits to fund high-altitude climbs. Chinese expedition. There, a doctor traded with Jess for different med­ Down at 5,000 feet in Katmandu, Jess hooked up with a dentist from icine. He carried on, hiking with Pasang Sherpa through heavy snow­ Whitefish, Montana, of all places, and a doctor from Australia. storms. Almost a week after trekking back to Katmandu, Jess caught up “Katmandu,” Jess says, “is a very hip place.” with his father in a tent at a 21,000-foot advanced base camp. John While the rest of the Generations crew hauled supplies to the Death Roskelley was sick. His throat had swollen with infection and he co u ld n ’t Zone, Jess feasted on spaghetti and watched a little TV at a metropoli­ get enough oxygen. Jim Wickwire was further down the mountain bat­ tan hotel. But he w asn ’t out of the woods yet. The Chinese revoked his tling a sinus infection. Dick Bass was fighting back problems. In days, passport and demanded a bribe of more than $1,000 before they would health problems would reduce the foursome to a father-son duo. let Jess cross the Tibetan border. Again, the Roskelleys’ travel agent The weather, too, was ill. Winds gusting fifty-five miles per hour covered the costs. rolled up the North Col scattering tents like tumbleweeds. A Russian Jess’s climb back to 23,000 feet was faster the second time because tent ripped from the ground and crashed down on a tent used days ear-

Fall 2003 Montanan 17 lier by the Roskelleys. An ice axe of more than 100 people. J e s s ’s father was caught in the tumbling nylon bag convinced they would not be able to splayed the Roskelleys* tent and summit if the slow moving Chinese group snapped its fiberglass frame. went first. The climbers could lose fingers Further up the mountain, at a and toes, or worse, to frostbite if they 23,000-foot camp set up by the father became stuck behind the Chinese on the and son, another tent was being swept razor-thin trail. off the mountain, this time with most of John Roskelley suggested the group John Roskelley’s gear inside. Luckily, set out at 11 p.m., hiking in darkness. the tent landed in a crevasse. It had By the time the Roskelleys and their been reduced to a broken sack, but it two Sherpas got going, the Chinese Jess and John are greeted by friends and supporters at the still contained the elder Roskelley’s were about ready to climb. Spokane airport on their return. down sleeping bag. There are myriad ropes on Everest “We were blasted by winds on the already laid out for the trip to the top, way up to 26,000 feet, sixty- to eighty-mile-per-hour winds,” Jess says. Jess says. Left behind by previous climbers, some of the ropes are rotten; “When we got to 25,000 feet, our Sherpas said they couldn’t keep any some look good but a r e n ’t set up well. Picking the right ones is crucial tents down.” because one is never enough. The Roskelleys picked theirs in the dark. The father and son hunkered down in their tents for six days, wait­ Jess would learn the consequences of picking the wrong rope second ing for the winds to stop. Cooking was nearly impossible. In the days hand on the way back down. A rope snapped, sending two British leading up to the final push to the summit, Jess lay in his tent eating climbers tumbling at 28,000 feet The Brits struck a New Zealand Jelly Bellys and the occasional Snickers bar. He slept, but in air one- climber, breaking his leg. The ridge trail was too narrow for anyone to third as rich in oxygen as air at sea level, the body forgets to breathe. A help. The two Brits continued down the mountain, but the New person wakes up gasping, like a swimmer emerging from a dangerously Zealander had to crawl to a wider area where he could be carried down. deep dive. The mind d o e s n ’t work properly. He would reach sparingly Later, at base camp, Jess ran into the injured climber and learned the for the bottled oxygen that fills a climber like heavy cream after a skim- m a n ’s broken bone was poking through his leg during his entire descent. milk diet. He should have been the next Cave Man. The oxygen-starved air, author John Krakauer once wrote, leaves The sun had been up for only a few hours when the Roskelleys climbers “with the mental capacity of a slow child.” reached the summit. It was 7:30 a.m. John Roskelley handed his camera “When you put that oxygen mask on, y o u ’re a lot more clear think­ to Pemba Sherpa and posed with Jess for a photo. ing,” Jess says. “And when I took it off I was not clear. I was almost At that point, Jess says the trip seemed like a fantasy, the final push falling asleep. Y ou ’re not aware. I w a sn ’t careful.” something like a theme park ride. Before Pemba Sherpa clicked the John Roskelley decided the group should push to the summit on shutter, the young Roskelley pulled his oxygen mask off. The clouds May 20, shortly after they made it to 27,000 feet. They had spent days below were so thick you c o u ld n ’t tell if they were on Mount Everest or hauling their gear up to the final camp, each using a bottle of precious Mount Sentinel. oxygen with every trip. What did he think of the summit? Jess was so euphoric about mak­ There was supposed to be a small break in the weather and the remain­ ing it to the top of the world that he d id n ’t notice the drain of the thin ing Generations group was being pressured by a large Chinese expedition air on his body. Now he admits his memory of his ten minutes at 29,038 feet is faint. It was as if he lay down on the mountainside and dreamed the whole thing. HIGHER LEARNING “I’ve been thinking about what I’m going to do next since I got Jess Roskelley climbed M ount Everest without ever back,” Jess says. “I want more. This is my staging area.” leaving school. The environmental studies major is writing a report about trash on the mountain and the Tom Lutey ’95 is an award-umrung writer for the Montanan and a reporter effects of more than 1 ,0 0 0 climbers a year on the for the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington. w o r ld ’s highest peak. The report is good for six credits. Photography courtesy of Hamilton Studio, Spokane.

18 F all 2003 M on ta n an Photos by Todd Goodrich

Poisoned by its livelihood, Libby, Montana has shown the nation how to fight back.

artier this sunime^at a community meeting in S Libby, Montana, an audience member asked the! H | | two D M medical researchers presenting their I / work-if they would please tell.'-Senator M a x i ■ H H Baucus what they knew about ashestos-rebted m diseases. Baucus needs to understand exactly how unique the^ asbestos problem in Libby is^ the member reaswied^ so he can help draft legislation that will ensure sick residents receive ade* quate compensation! This kind ok community discussion—toQe&hat com-; •fortably slips back and forth between eongfesaonm.pbti^ tics and biomedical research— is characteristic o f small towns like A locked gate guards Libby's defunct vermiculite mine, now only accessible by Libby that have fallen prey to the worst type of corporate abuse, the ERA workers in full haz-mat gear. kind that sickens a whole community. Kalispell Daily Inter Lake. A few days later, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer By now, the tale of Libby is well known: A nearby vermiculite mine published its expose on Libby, adding new stories daily. And in another operated first by the Zonolite Company and then by W.R. Grace and few days, the students’ work appeared in the Missoulian. Within a cou­ Company for nearly seventy years poisoned not only employees of the ple of weeks, the Libby story was picked up nationwide. mine and the processing plants, but hundreds of people in and around When the story broke, the Environmental Protection Agency dis­ town. The vermiculite was interlaced with an unusually dangerous form patched emergency crews to test the air and ground in Libby and to of asbestos, called tremolite, which flaked off and floated through the air begin cleanups. The agency quickly blew its budget as the depth of the like pollen, covering trees, sidewalks, windowsills— everything that had problem became apparent. Not only were an untold number of residents a surface. Miners and mill workers, who at one point had some of the sick, but nearly every building, along with the ball fields, playgrounds, best paying jobs in town, brought it into their homes on their clothes, and vacant lots, was contaminated with high levels of the asbestos. Still, shoes, and hair. Kids wrote their names in it on car windows. For years, it took two years and much wrangling with Governor Judy Martz to if you lived, worked in, or even visited Libby, you inhaled an unknown have the town designated a Superfund site. amount of these fibers, which very often can cause cancer or a variety of other lung, heart, and stomach diseases. ob Dedrick is sev­ W.R. Grace closed the mine in 1990, bu t by th e m id ’90s, more than enty-three, has a 200 former mill workers had filed lawsuits in state district court against medium build, and the company. W.R. Grace settled these cases out of court and quietly B a thick head o f steel-wool paid off the plaintiffs, handing each a gag order along with a hastily writ­ hair. He is one o f roughly ten and very minimal check. Since no one was allowed to talk, the law­ 1,200 people in or near Libby suits remained hidden in the roll books; no class action suit arose and with an asbestos-related dis­ none of the cases were transferred out of the county. ease. Dedrick and his wife In fall 1999, UM Journalism Professor Dennis Swibold was tipped off Carrie, who also has asbesto- to the lawsuits. He handed the story to three graduate students who sis and can hardly talk at immediately began scanning the county logs. They found the long list of times, lived a block away from suits against W.R. Grace, visited with doctors who had treated the sick, one of W.R. G race’s process­ and met state officials who claimed to know very little about any of it ing plants for years. Neither According to one o f the former students, Ericka Schenck Smith, one ever worked at the mine now a reporter for the Missoulian, as they investigated, they remained or at any o f the plants. In one step behind a reporter from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, who also 1998, D edrick’s cousin, who had received a tip. The P-I reporter was more experienced and orga­ also lived in town, died at age nized, she says, and they knew he was going to scoop them. But then a short article on the lawsuits appeared in another nearby paper, the Bob Dedrick

20 Fall 2003 Montanan fifty-two from mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer caused by exposure lung diseases are started and how they propagate. Elizabeth Putnam, to asbestos. Others in town had been sick, too, with what the locals another of four CEHS researchers focused on Libby, is studying toxi- called “Libby lung.” cogenomics, or “how the genetic makeup of an organism determines In summer 1999, just a few months before the story broke nationally, how it responds to a toxic exposure.” An associate professor of pharma­ Dedrick and a handful of residents started looking for help, hoping ceutical sciences, Putnam is studying the variation in p e o p le ’s reactions someone would listen. They created an alliance, developed a set of to asbestos based on their genetic makeup and is trying to determine if goals, and began a long and arduous fight against W.R. Grace. Internal anything in our genetic code makes us more susceptible to environ­ documents show that the company knew about the asbestos risks for mental exposures, such as asbestos. years but had chosen not to take them seriously. It is also clear in hind­ Holian and Putnam were instrumental in the New Directions and sight that the company relied on its stronghold within the community Needs in Asbestos Research conference hosted by CEHS and held at UM to hide its demons. in June 2002. The conference brought together leading experts on Many of the folks from D e d r ick ’s loose-knit alliance were asked by asbestos-related illnesses to discuss new avenues of research that would the EPA to join the a g e n cy ’s Community Advisory Group (CAG). most benefit exposed populations such as, but not limited to, the one CAG was instrumental in getting the Agency for Toxic Substances and in Libby. Disease Registry (ASTDR) to screen all area residents for asbestos-related Plants that processed Libby vermiculite were located around the lung problems. (According to the a g e n cy ’s medical report, nearly 18 country and employed thousands of people, potentially exposing thou­ percent of those screened, or more than 1,000 people, had some lung sands more who lived in close proximity. The sickness may yet explode damage due to asbestos exposure.) CA G mem­ in places like Minneapolis, Minnesota, bers are given the EPA’s most current informa­ Trenton, New Jersey, Dallas, Texas, and tion and have been involved in the EPA’s Newark, California, all o f which had plants decision-making processes. It was at a C A G that operated for twenty-five years or more. meeting that the concerned audience member In New York City, hundreds of thousands of pleaded with the two UM researchers, pounds o f asbestos-laced vermiculite from Pharmaceutical Sciences Professor Andrij Libby were encased in the walls of the World Holian and Pharmaceutical Sciences Assistant Trade Center. Professor Jean Pfau, to contact the senator. The challenge to doctors and health care Ever since the three enterprising UM jour­ officials is that asbestos can remain embed­ nalism students set out to investigate what was ded in the body for as long as forty years happening in Libby, UM staff, students, and before signs of sickness appear. T h a t’s because faculty have taken a leadership role in provid­ tremolite fibers are long and skinny, like nee­ ing necessary social services along with dles, and slowly bore through lung tissue. The research and education for all those affected or fibers also have been known to make their interested in the plight of L ib b y ’s residents. The way into the stomach, where they work work ranges from independent research by stu­ through the stomach lining and cause anoth­ dents and faculty in the environmental studies er set of debilitating problems. and communications programs to multi mil- The most common asbestos-related dis­ lion-dollar biomedical, sociological, and psy­ ease is asbestosis, which is what happens chological research in other departments. when the fibers that bore into the outer lin­ “We’re the primary research center in the ing of the lungs scrape and scar. That outer country for asbestos-related diseases,” says Elizabeth Putnam lining, which once expanded with inhalation Holian, referring to U M ’s Center for like a balloon, now resembles a thick, leathery Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS), of orange peel, unable to stretch. Often the which he is the director. “We have a number of very committed inves­ lungs themselves are fine; they just d o n ’t have the room to pull in air. tigators here that are pooling efforts so we can better understand these Without supplemental oxygen, asbestosis victims can suffocate. chronic lung diseases.” Mesothelioma is one of the more debilitating and painful of the H o lia n ’s research hypothesizes that asbestosis-related diseases are asbestos-related diseases. With mesothelioma, the cells that make up mostly immunological and his work is trying to determine how chronic the membrane lining the chest and abdominal cavity become abnormal

Fall 2003 M on ta n a n 21 and divide uncontrollably and continuously, growing into a tumor than can cover the entire abdominal area. Nationwide, cases of mesothelioma have risen dramatically in recent years; asbestos is has begun to Tanis Lincoln (left) and Laura Sedler appear in places like Minneapolis. “Doctors a ren ’t going to and questioned and cross-examined. One of the class modules devel­ think of asbestos-related dis­ oped, she added, teaches kids how to make a documentary film. “The eases unless they are made idea,” says McLaughlin, “is to empower students— to have them aware o f them,” Holian behind the camera, have them ask the questions— instead o f always says. Which is one reason Dixie McLaughlin putting them under the microscope.” why the research at UM is so important. oday, Libby is safe. The ball fields, schools, hospitals, offices, Additionally, asbestos companies are now clamoring for Congress to stores, and nearly 300 houses have been cleaned. The mill is pass compensation legislation that explicitly details who is eligible for T closed off and the processing plants all have been razed and benefits and who is not. cleared, though there is still plenty of cleaning left to do. L ib b y ’s ambi­ Medically speaking, asbestos-related diseases in Libby are different: ent air count for asbestos fibers, which was once many times higher than the asbestos fibers from Libby are sharper and more deadly than those any safe level, is lower here than in many U.S. towns. And for the most found many other places, the time between exposure and when symp­ part, the townsfolk have been pleased with the EPA’s efforts. But many toms can arise is longer, the illness is more widespread in the community, o f those left sick ca n ’t afford proper care. and sickness is more likely to lead to death. According to Laura Sedler, more than 50 percent of those affected “We need to define the disease,” says Putnam, “and get it accepted so are either not insured or d o n ’t have enough insurance. Sedler is one of that victims d o n ’t become ineligible for funding or benefits through leg­ two social workers with St. J oh n ’s Hospital in Libby who provides social islation.” L ib b y ’s particular brand of disease, with its long latency period services to affected residents and family members. She says that finding and uniquely shaped fibers, could make it easy for industry-friendly law­ the money to fund healthcare is the biggest (but by no means the only) makers to craft legislation that d o e sn ’t include Libby victims. challenge facing victims. The National Rural Bioethics Project, working through UM's psy­ The median family income in Lincoln County is $29,615 and unem­ chology department, is helping L ib b y ’s asbestos victims not only cope, ployment is 17.2 percent. And that was before 300 workers were laid off but gain some control over their lives. Dixie McLaughlin is the project when the Stimson lumber mill closed its Libby operation in January manager for the Libby program. She coordinates a $1 million grant that provides funding for research on ethical and social issues o f asbestos- Libby’s new community arts center. related health problems. The grant also provides resources to translate scientific findings and legal and legislative issues into accessible and objective language for the residents of Libby by way o f an extensive Web site. The five-year grant, awarded in September 2002, was fully funded by the National Institute for Environmental Health Services. “From surveys we did, we found that the Internet is something peo­ ple in Libby felt comfortable using,” says McLaughlin. The site includes information about asbestos, asbestos is, and other related illnesses, links to all of ASTDR s reports and to legislative issues concerning asbestos- related claims around the country, and an original educational curricu­ lum designed for students in Libby. Libby kids, McLaughlin says, are sick of being tested and prodded

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i 2003. By many estimates, it costs a Libby asbestos victim half a million dollars to die, which most of them c a n ’t afford. W.R. Grace has instituted a voluntary medical plan, meaning com­ pany leaders— not government officials or insurance agents— decide who is and is n ’t eligible, and the company can pull the plug on the whole thing at any time. “They have no one overseeing them,” says social worker Tanis Lincoln, S e d le r ’s partner at the hospital. “They can change your plan overnight and rtot even tell you.” The likelihood of that happening has increased dramatically since the company filed for bankruptcy last year, removing itself from any financial or other obligations to the victims or to the town. In meetings with the CAG, Dedrick has voiced this very concern. “We know where the asbestos came from, what it does, and who done it. But we (the CAG) have never gotten any money from Grace for the victims.” Sick residents, many o f whom d o n ’t have adequate health insurance coverage, have nowhere to turn for help other than to state and federal officials. Without research and education, litigation and leg­ islation likely w o n ’t help.

ne day last spring, snow glistened atop the green peaks of the Cabinet Mountains west of Libby. The air smelled pure and sweet as Dedrick weeded his vegetable garden. Dedrick says O learn something from it. We need that clinic here.” Getting some sort he and his wife have decent health care coverage, but h e ’s concerned about his friends and neighbors who don ’t. H e d oesn ’t want to see the of clinic, Dedrick says, will keep money and attention focused on the attention once given to his town fade, as hard as that may be to avoid. town, which could help some of his friends and neighbors. With the departure, for the moment, of extraction industries, resi­ The University, on the other hand, is equipped with $2 million in facilities, plus trained faculty. I t ’s growing as a regional center for bio­ dents can now pursue a better, healthier future. The old high school gym medical research and is poised for this kind o f a research project. has undergone a $2 million renovation and is now a fully equipped com­ munity arts center. The real estate market is rebounding as retirees— What will likely happen, Professor Holian says, is that clinical research will be conducted in Libby, while the regular research takes looking for a pretty, quiet town—discover Libby. Enrollment at local place at the University. community colleges is up, although so is the average age of students. “We ’re losing our younger families, and that changes the whole feel N o doubt research facilities will increase and improve in both Libby and Missoula; innovation and research tend to follow tragedy. of the community,” says Mayor Anthony Berget. “This part of the world Situations like what happened in Libby often have been the impetus for is becoming the wealthy m a n ’s playground.” major medical discoveries. Libby residents a r e n ’t necessarily willing to stand by and let their town turn into a retirement or resort community. They are looking for The good-natured, hard-working, creative, and charming people of Libby endure. Their town is growing, not shrinking, and becoming more other ways to spur the economy. Many are pushing for a medical educated, affluent, and culturally rich. But when the next corporation research center in Libby. Dedrick believes that Libby is the best comes driving into the Kootenai Valley looking for a place to set up shop, place for a research center because that is where the problem is. He sees a need to coordinate data that already has been collected. you can bet that the residents of Libby w o n ’t just roll over like submissive puppies. T h a t’s not going to happen again, at least not in Libby. “The CARD (Center for Asbestos-Related Diseases) has data, so do the docs, and so does the FOR MORE INFORMATION ON LIBBY, GO TO CHC—the Community http^/www.epa.gov/regk)n8/siq)eifund/liU}y/ Health Center. We need it Daniel Berger, M S. ’02, wrote his master’s thesis on the mystery and http://ww'w.umt.edu/libhyhealth/ all in one place, in the science of Glacial Lake Missoula. He currendy works as a freelance writer http://www.umt.edu/cehs/ same format, so we can in Missoula.

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The Snowman’s Children by Glen Hirshberg, M.F.A *91 New York, New York: C arroll & G ra f Publishers, 2002, 324 pp., $24

e t r o it ’s gritty, brutal winters, fear or something, and then slid away, quick as a shadow.” At other and industrial blight dominate times th ey ’re downright creepy: “His skull shone like the hood of a car Dthe landscape of this coming- .. .and his eyes .. .metallic gray .. .looked screwed into their sockets.” of-age novel, H irsh berg’s first. Most of The story centers around Mattie, Spencer, and Theresa, each of the action takes place in 1976, when whom carries burdens. Mattie, undersized, realizes early on that the people in Mattie R h o d e s’s memory “smallness and feeling alone isn ’t something you grow out of.” wade through “snow, hip deep, as Spencer, a black, inner-city student bused to a wealthier school by though the clouds had snagged them­ way of Operation Salvage, feels his own brand of aloneness. And selves on the earth and unraveled.” Theresa, brilliant and precociously savvy, struggles the hardest—for Among them, unseen, a killer drifts. intelligence guarantees neither stability nor happiness. The murderer, nicknamed the “Snowman” by local press, picks off By his very existence, the Snowman generates fear and irrational random children with no discemable pattern and in the process actions among the three, and each is irrevocably altered during that destroys any sense of safety, freedom, or innocence for Mattie and his school year. friends. But the Snowman isn ’t the only disturbance. In the murky Twenty years later, Mattie returns to his hometown to reconnect atmosphere, parents are pitted against children; the inner city against with his friends and to try to make sense of his past. But Mattie finds the suburbs; rational thought against insanity. that events were not quite as he remembered and for him, the ulti­ The n o v e l’s adults, emotionally unreliable, are often difficult to mate truth may be that “childhood becomes myth for every single per­ draw a bead on: “An expression flickered across his face, surprise or son who survives it.”

First, a Little Chee-Chee by Bill Vaughn ’73 Missoula: Arrow Graphics, 2002, 200 pp., $20

his eclectic collection of Or, as Vaughn refers to it, “wilderness golf.” Other adventures include yams, spun with relish, aims rail sailing, sport feuding, and mudwalking. Tto spit in the eye of conven­ But Vaughn, who admits to being a self-indulgent man, also does tion and make a time-wasting goof- the occasional odd job— like cadging a magazine assignment to fly to ball out of anyone with the slightest Borneo to report on the Survivor television show. propensity. V augh n ’s road to Nirvana is not without its potholes. There is the The first essay sets a zany, hare­ wanton annihilation of his Meg Ryan worship precipitated by a catty brained tone as Vaughn recounts his frie n d ’s unsolicited observation that Ms. R yan ’s feet are— well—gun­ invention of the Amazing and boats. M eg’s fall from grace is immediate and irreversible. Versatile Food Suit, designed to enable The above-mentioned catty friend, by the way, is female. And diehard baseball fans to turn into snug and perfectly self-contained females in this collection are to be reckoned with— not the least of units, complete with Hot and Cold Pockets, a Condiment Dispenser, whom is V augh n ’s wife, Kitty. She shows, on a daily basis, uncanny and a Brew Bladder. The patent, Vaugn tells us, is pending. restraint in situations that would cause women of lesser character to When Vaughn decides to reinvent the game of golf, the term pound their mates senseless. Like when Kitty asks Vaughn when he “playing through” takes on a whole new meaning. The golf course— if expects to return from a fishing trip and he replies, “This fall. Or you can call it that—stretches from Highwood Creek, Montana, to maybe next.” St. Charles, Mississippi, a kind of reverse Lewis and Clark expedition.

24 Fall 2003 Montanan Sleep Toward Heaven by Amanda Eyre Ward, M.F.A. ’97 San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2003, 295 pp., $24

motional disorder is the linchpin that binds three women in In New York, Franny, a doctor, this disturbing tale, set in Texas and Manhattan during a drinks too much Scotch and scorcher of a summer ... “wet thighs, pulsing pavement, heat smokes cigarettes as she mourns E the death of a young patient and that grabs you by the throat.” Karen, a convicted serial murderer dying of AIDS, faces her looming execution alone, betrayed and abandoned tries to make sense of her upcom­ by her lesbian girlfriend, and with no clear understanding of how pas­ ing marriage to Ned, a man for sion, neediness, and abysmal self-esteem led her to Death Row. The whom her feelings have grown one sure thing Karen knows is what she will ask for on her last day: a tepid. What Franny wants is to peach. “She thinks about it sometimes, the way the ripe flesh will run: “Escape, the faint hope give, spilling juice on her tongue. The first bite of a sweet peach: the that the next place would be closest Karen will come to love.” better, was her only comfort.” When In nearby Austin lives Celia, the widow of K aren ’s last victim, who her Uncle Jack dies suddenly, Franny flees to her Texas hometown sleepwalks through her days, unable to crawl her way past grief, and and takes over her u n c le ’s job as physician at Gatestown Prison. There whose only coping mechanism for her “anger issues” is to order a new she encounters Karen, and investing herself in K aren ’s care, Franny bikini from the J. Crew catalogue. Celia can only take solace with struggles to buy her patient more time, even in the face of K aren ’s what she h a sn ’t done: smacked anyone, taken drugs, or tried to drown imminent death by injection. herself in a bathtub. Meanwhile, she waits for K aren ’s execution. “I The oppressive Texas heat pounds like a closed fist as Karen, Celia, suppose I was waiting for the sadness to end. But sadness isn ’t some­ and Franny make their way toward a night when all three lives con­ thing that ends, it just becomes less hard. It melts into an ache that is verge and each finds resolution— if not salvation— in her own way. a part of you.”

The one sure thing Karen knows is what she will ask for on her last day: a peach. “She thinks about

it sometimes, the way the ripe flesh will give, spilling juice on her tongue. The first bite o f a sweet peach: the closest Karen will come to love.”

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Class Notes are compiled by Betsy Holmquist ’67, teaching in the San Diego area, Pat now enjoys time in Sharon, Conn. A certified high school/college M.A. ’83. Submit news to the UM Alumni with her daughters and their families in Bigfork and soccer and lacrosse official for the past 30 years, Jack Association, Brandy Hall, Missoula, MT 59812. You Helena and at her own summer home on Swan Lake. was honored at retirement with the establishment of may fax your news to (406) 243-4467 or e-mail it to Barbara A. Matteson ’59 is vice president of the the Jack “COM PO” Comporesi Sportsmanship Award to be presented annually to a graduating boy [email protected]. Material in this issue National Education Association-Retired. She and reached our office by May 30, 2003. Please contact her husband, John, live in Tucson, Ariz. and girl who exhibit leadership, cooperation and UM AA with all name and address updates at the good sportsmanship. Jack and his wife, Hayat, have above address or phone 1-877-UM-ALUMS. The 50th reunion for the class of 1954 will be held two children, Michele and Joseph. on campus, May 13-15, 2004- Hana Terry Soules Steel '64 is recycling coordina­ tor for the County of Maui, Hawaii. “Behavior mod­ ification— changing the daily habits of 120,000 peo­ * ’30 s ple— is at the heart o f what I do,” she explains. “Missoula’s Eko-Compost has a contract to co-com- Philip C. Gariington ’37 and his wife, Ellis, recent­ post biosolids and yard trimmings on Maui, and ly established the Philip and Ellis Gariington *}p ’60 s every bit of compost made on Maui is sold,” she Presidential Scholarship at Skyline College in San Martha J. Speelmon '61 recently retired from the adds. Terry and her husband, Wayne, have three Mateo, Calif. As founding president of the Skyline Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in Long Beach, children— Angie, Johanna and Jeremy. President’s Council and the “first lady” o f Skyline, Calif., where she was a medical records administra- Pat Connors '65, senior vice president, financial Phil and Ellis are known on campus as “The tor/medical staff coordinator. Darlingtons” for their support o f the school’s pro­ consultant and branch manager for D.A. Davidson John J. Schulz '62 assumed the post of dean of grams and students. In the 1930s Phil sold The & Co., Butte, has had an award created in his honor. Boston University’s College of Communications on Saturday Evening Post on U M ’s campus. Not The Patrick J. Connors Production Achievement August 1. John has served as professor of interna­ allowed into the women’s dorm, he remembers “giv­ Award will honor the firm’s top annual retail pro­ tional communication and persuasion and public ing candy bars to a woman friend in Brandy Hall ducer. Pat has been with D.A. Davidson & Co. for opinion and directs the Boston University Graduate who would sell the magazine to the coeds for me on 33 years. He was the firm’s top retail producer for 14 Mass Communication and Internship Summer all three floors. I knew Mrs. Brandy [the house­ consecutive years. Program in London where he taught this summer. In mother] very well,” he laughs. Gerard D. Hertel ’65 writes that he is “teaching the 1995 John received U M ’s Distinguished Alumni Bible as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, getting to know Award. my wife of 33 years, Bobbie, a little better, enjoying John H. Knight ’63 retired from teaching philoso­ my four granddaughters, and teaching and doing phy for the last 34 years at the University of research as an adjunct professor in the Department # ’40 s Wisconsin-Waukesha. A renowned badminton play­ Edward J. Herda '41 and Dorothy Mitchell Herda o f Biology at West Chester [Pa.] University.” Retired er, John plans to keep working in the garden, read­ '43, of Sun City, Ariz., write, “Nine members of our after 35 years with the USDA Forest Service, ing, traveling and perhaps returning to co-teach. He combined families are UM grads.” Their daughter, Gerard works on African violet habitat descriptions and his wife, Lynn, have two sons, JT, and TJ. Bonnie Herda Hogan. ’69, M.A. ’73, is special assis­ and forest health monitoring. tant to the deputy director of the Bureau o f Land John J. Comporesi ’64 retired after 36 years of Dennis Hostetler ’65, professor of public adminis- Management in Washington, D.C. Bonnie’s sister, teaching— the last 34 as a physical education teacher Candy Herda-Scott, ’80, teaches music in the Fairbanks Northstar Borough Sch ool District, Fairbanks, Alaska. Candy’s husband, Timothy Scott, ’80, a brigadier general select, was recently named M O N TA N A com Air Commander for the Alaskan Air National Bringing Big Sky Country Home Guard. In February Tim was on special assignment as wing commander of the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing in Qatar, Persian Gulf. William W. Hom e ’48 and his wife, Nancy, live in Bradenton, Fla. Bill has supervised a Court Watchers program, is active in local veterans groups and enjoys kayaking and fishing in Sarasota Bay. He celebrated his 79th bithday in February.

Th e 60th reunion for the class of 1944 will be Held! on campus, May 13-15,2004. ^ ’50 s Kay Crook Smith ’58 retired after 19 years of teach­ ing at Uintah Basin Applied Technology College in Roosevelt, Utah. Kay and her husband, Jim, have three children and five grandchildren. Pat Shaffer Ponich '58 was guest director for the Montana Websites, all in one place Whitefish Theatre Company’s March production of www.onlinemontmna.com “Six Women with Brain Death.” Retired from

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Dennis Hostetler ’65 Khelly Webb ’72

tration and policy analysis at Southern Illinois Montanan, received a phone call from former J- in adventures chronicled in the Corps of Discovery University at Edwardsville, received a 2003 School Dean Nathaniel Blumberg soon after the journals, won them the 2003 “Take Pride in Idaho” Teaching Excellence Award, the highest honor issue appeared. “He accused me of ‘conflation,’” Ken award for Outstanding Cultural Tourism. Frances given an SIUE faculty member. Dennis was noted said, “a term I quickly looked up in my dictionary.” and Dennis own and operate Dog Bark Park, a for his introduction and dissemination of technolo­ Sure enough, Nathaniel was correct David Howett, chainsaw carving studio and gift shop, and the Dog gies to aid student learning inside and outside the not David Rorvik, was the Rhodes scholar referred Bark Park Inn in Cottonwood, Idaho. classroom. He has been on the faculty since 1975. to in K e n ’s article. Ken was guilty of conflation. Joan Mekher 7 3, editor of the Montanan, reports David A. Overcast '65 and Nona Graybeal Overcast Thelma J. Stiffarm 70 is assistant administrator of her one-act play, “The D og Confessor,” was staged ’68 live in Monument, Colo. Dave retired from the the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of in New York City in July by Love Creek Productions U.S. Air Force in 1986 and recently retired as a cap­ Native American Affairs in the Washington, D.C. at the John Houseman Theatre. tain with American Airlines. Nona is a broker with See story on page 6. David Barthdmess, M.M.Ed. 74, choir teacher at Prudential Professional Realtors in Colorado Springs. Khelly S. J. W ebb 72 spotted her brother, Craig, Will C. W ood High School in Vacaville, Calif., Mark Lewing ’68 retired in May after 29 years as on the cover of the Spring 2003 Montanan and received the Vaca Arts Council’s foremost honor, Hamilton Unit Manager for the Montana wrote that he “eventually became manager of the the Marianna Pokomy Award, for his support, par­ Department of Natural Resources and Conservation Vail/Beaver Creek Ski School, where, after 28 years ticipation and promotion of art activities that bene­ and 31 years as a state employee. Mark received the he retired to the easy life of ski instructor and finish fit the city’s youth. A music teacher in public Governor’s Award for Excellence in Job contractor in south central Colorado.” A physician, schools for 26 years, David recently guided his stu­ Performance in 2001. His retirement plans call for motivational speaker and workshop facilitator, dents’ staging of “Les Miserabies.” spending more with his wife, Pamela, their seven Khelly is director of the LA Sport & Spine in Los Ken Curtis, M.Ed. 75 has taken a position at children and 11 grandchildren. Alamitos, Calif. Kaua’i Community College at Lihue, Hawaii. Ken Frances Conklin 73 and her husband, Dennis previously worked for career services at Embry- Sullivan, debuted their chainsaw-carved exhibit, Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz., “Seaman, Corps of Discovery Dog,” at the following retirement as marketing instructor at # ’70 s Jefferson’s West Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Sentinel High School in Missoula. Commemoration in Charlottesville, Va., in January. Ken Robertson 70 who wrote “Looking Back” on Constance Worley Baker 76 was one o f four The display, which consists of 12 Seaman figurines his years as a UM journalist for the Spring California recipients of the 2002 American Literacy guidance

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Award for excellence in teaching reading. time for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game as Constance is a fourth grade teacher at Garin coordinator and wildlife educator for Project WILD. Elementary School in Brentwood, Calif. She and her husband, Todd, have two daughters, John L Smith, M.S. 77, was named Michigan Kolbie, 4, and Jacey, 2. State University’s 23rd head football coach in April. Timothy John Laskowski, M.A. ’88, M.F.A. ’88, John came to Michigan State following five seasons has written “Every G ood Boy Does Fine,” a novel at the University of Louisville with a 110-60 record narrated by a thirty-five-year-old man suffering irre­ as a college coach. versible brain damage. Tim lives in Missoula and is a case manager for physically disabled people. David M. Reese ’88 is business and outdoors editor for the Daily InterLake in Kalispell. ’80 s Donald N. Hames '89 went from teaching eighth- William J. Keis ’81, St. Paul, Minn., is project grade earth science in Teslaco, Texas, to active ser­ manager for Pinnacle Engineering, where he spe­ vice with the Army Reserve in 1991. Currently an cializes in subsurface investigation, environmental automation officer for the 377th Theater Support permitting and environmental reviews. In 1995 Bill Command based in New Orleans, LTC Hames is SIGMA NU earned a Masters of Science degree in environmen­ deployed to Southwest Asia. “I miss Missoula and tal science and regional planning from Washington Montana!” he writes. 100th Anniversary State University. He hopes eventually to return to (1904-2004) the Pacific Northwest, where his two teenage daughters live. Homecoming Weekend Glsde E. Magnuson ’81 and Richard S. Olsen were # ’90 s Friday, October 8, 2004 6p.m. married on January 1, 2003. They live in Harrison, Amber Underhill Beckner '90 is assistant news edi­ Idaho. tor at the Great Falls Tribune, where she has worked Hilton Doubletree Inn • Missoula, MT Brian J. Lannan '82 is marketing manager for KDG as a designer/copy editor since 1990. Amber and her Development and Construction Consulting in Las husband, Larry, also run a commercial photography Vegas. Previously with PMA Consultants LLC in business in Great Falls. They have two sons— Program Phoenix, Brian and his wife, Alexis, live in Justice, 7, and Duncan, 5— and a daughter, Annika Master of Ceremonies Henderson, Nev. Lee, bom November 18, 2002. Donald M. Jones '85, Troy, whose photographs Suzanne L Lindsay ’90 is an account executive for Jam es P. Lucas, have been featured on the covers of 276 magazines, James Bissonnette & Associates, an employee bene­ pin no. 558 has published his first book of wildlife photography, fits consulting firm in Minneapolis. “Montana Wildlife Portfolio,” his first book of Invocation Christopher McRoberts, M.S. ’90, associate profes­ Rev. B. K im Form an, wildlife photography. “Don’t do this for money,” sor of geology at SUNY in Cortland, N.Y., received pin no. 832 Don advises would be career wildlife photographers. an American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Lisa Robinson Kelly ’85, business sales manager for Fund award in honor of his research and scholarship CenturyTel in Kalispell, received an award as the relating to his study, “Integrated Biochronology and Keynote Speaker company’s second highest sales performer for 2002 Paleoecology o f the Late Triassic Bivalve Halobia R. Reid Collins at a recent ceremony in Kaco, Costa Rica. from Western North America.” Jeremy Blanchard '86 and Frances Mardnkowski Douglas M. Nicholson '90 received the Bragg pin no. 677 Blanchard ’87 live in Kennewick, Wash. Jeremy is Lewis Knutson Community Service Award present­ co-director of the critical care unit of the Kadlec ed annually to a Davidson Companies associate. Reflections from Medical Center in nearby Richland. Vice president and assistant controller for Davidson Companies in Great Falls, Doug was recognized for seven decades Lori Phillips Adams ’87, Boise, Idaho, works part- his exemplary community service, as had been his # father, Stu Nicholson. ’59 in 1998. Christy Andersen Mitchell '92 and Will Mitchell T h e 3 0 ’s T h e 70% *92, Spokane, Wash., announce the birth o f their Robert T. Pantzer Gregory J. Ondrak daughter, Clara Jean Mitchell, on April 14, 2003. pin no. 400 pin no. 1364 Will is a manager o f the in-patient pharmacy for Sacred Heart Medical Center. Christy worked for an The 40* The 80* OB-Gyn office and will begin private practice in Ralph R. Rees Jon P. Turner family medicine this fall. pin no. 590 pin no. 1626 Christina Jamison YaJko '92 announces the arrival of daughter Allison Jo Jamison Yajko on May 16, The 50* The 90* 2002, joining brother Travis, 4. Chris job-shares at Vancouver, Washington’s Discovery Middle School, William H. Drum William A. Clawson T-Shirts & Beer Stuff from teaching writing to 7th and 8th graders. Her hus­ pin no. 871 P'n no. 1653 Moose's Saloon in Montana! band, John, teaches high school. Chris has met sev­ FREE color brochure available eral UM alums at swim meets and on neighborhood The 60s remarks'" 8 streets. “I usually see the Montana sweatshirt and Moostly Mooses , PO Box 668. Kalispell. Montana 59903 Bruce D. Tate, Warren L. 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Fall 2003 Montanan 31 Raymond A. Berg ’52, Colorado Springs, Colo. l u m n i v e n t s Laurel Koefod Holloway ’52, Gilbert, Ariz. A E Joe Sanford Wolff, M.A. ’52, Great Falls Carol Flightier Howard '53, Corvallis September 2003 James Ray Myers, M.Ed. ’53, Kalispell 30-10/8 International Travel Kenneth A. Nash '53, Milford, Conn. Loire Valley □more Som ers Smith, M.Ed. ’53, Poison Dennis Duane Swift ’53, Bigfork October 2003 John Lars Britton ’54, M.Ed. ’59, Ridgecrest, Calif. 2 , 3 House of Delegates Wilbur E. “Bill” Hainline ’54, Missoula Donald Willis Brant ’56, Glendive 3 ,4 Homecoming Marion Shephard Gebhart '56, M.Ed. 70, Stevensville 6 , 7 UMAA Board of Directors Ron Owens *92, a technical sergeant with the Air Ralph H. McCracken ’56, San Diego National Guard and a devoted Griz fan, took this Yellow Bay WaRer Max Gerson ’57, M.A. ’58, Salem, Ore. photo of his military sleeping quarters while serv­ ing near Iraq this past March. Ron lives in SL Robert L Miller '57, Lakewood, Colo. 7 -1 7 International Travel Leonard, Maryland, with his wife, Nancy, and New England Fall Tour Sandra S tad helm Christensen ’58, Colorado Springs, daughter, Naomi. Colo. 18 Griz vs. Idaho State Robert S. Lix ’58, San Andreas, Calif. Pocatello, ID - Tailgate Delsena Peterson Frank ’59, Billings Molly Ann O’Connell 71, Gig Harbor, Wash. November 2003 Lois K. DeTonancour Freter ’59, Dillon Vivian Bradshaw Parr 71, Grantsdale 1 Griz vs. Northern Arizona Donn R. Walker, M.Ed. ’60, Poison Frederick T. Poole 71, Mill Creek, Wash. Flagstaff, AZ • Tailgate Leonilla Snow Meyer ’62, Missoula Leonard L Yeats 71, Whitefish Shari Ann Estill-Hopperstad, M.A. ’63, Great Falls Dennis David Kendall 72, Cluny, Alberta 7 -1 6 International Travel Charles P. Brooke, J.D. ’64, Missoula Randall P. Ward 72, Okemos, Mich. Galapagos Joseph Patrick Geraghty '64, Butte Donald L Romo 73, Lewistown 8 Griz vs. Sacramento State Blanche Lykins Hull '64, Missoula Gwen Kamps Schwab 73, Fountain Hills, Ariz. Sacramento, CA • Tailgate Douglas Mead James '64, Libby James J. Foster 76, Billings John A. March '64, Albuquerque, N.M. Mary M dnem ey Krinsky, J.D. 77, North Haven, 22 Griz/Cat Football Steven K. Barron '65, Great Falls Conn. Bozeman Katherine Harper Bostw kk ’66, Missoula Philip Wayne Crouse 79, Kalispell Satellite TV Gatherings, nationwide Douglas M. McDonald ’67, Portland, Ore. Darryl L Aaberg '84, Vancouver, Wash. Bart W. O’Gara, Ph.D. ’68, Lolo Deborah Hamman Bennett ’86, Great Falls Rosalyn Oreskovich 70, 74, M.A. 74, Seattle For more information on these events, call the Marilyn Cavanaugh Freebourn '86, Butte Lynn Myrdal W olfe 70, Stevensville UM Alumni Association: 877 UM ALUMS or Susan Lane ’91, Richmond, Va. Oiaf R. Hedstrom 71, Corvallis, Ore. visit our Website: www.umt.edu/aluinni Thomas S. Winsor. J.D. *94, Helena

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32 F a ll 2003 Montanan Susan Hardy Price ’96, Lone Rock Gold Level ($500,000 or more) Diane Tintzman Hewitt ’97, Missoula B e n e f a c t o r s John A. and Nora Staael Evert Elizabeth R. “Liz” Hilde ’98, Missoula National Institutes of Health Timothy R. Krahl ’98, Missoula S o c i e t y o f t h e u m Silver Level ($250,000 or more) Laura Meade Moody ’03, Missoula p r e s id e n t ’s c l u b Jeanne B. O ’Malley Betty Ann Anderson, Missoula Copper Level ($100,000 or more) New members of the Benefactors Society of the Walter Lee Brown, Missoula UM President’s Club, whose lifetime giving reached Dwight and Ruth Carlson Estate Ernest R. Cotten, Florence the $100,000 level since the Fall 2002 edition of the First Security Bank Anne Capron Robbins Dufresne, Rollins M ontanan was published, are: Louise Voorhees Hoback ’38 Ward H. Powell Nora Staael Evert, Missoula Platinum Level ($1 million or more) Earl F. Sherron ’62 and Donna Sherron Palmer Joyce McAiear Halverson, Missoula Louis V. Dubay Estate Thomas 0. Kirkpatrick, Missoula ’97 and Alison MacDonald ’97 West Helen Hanzel Peterson, Salmon, Idaho Marian Stewart Potts, Missoula Edwin C Russ, Missoula Dorothy Schramm Santa, Kalispell William Stark, Oconomowoc, Wis. Alfred Victor Swanberg, Lakeside Allen Newton W lseley III, Sun City, Ariz. EVENTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE Keith D. Wright, Poison AUGUST 2003 30 Griz vs. University of Maine, Orono, ME - Tailgate w ill begin at 4:00 local time in parking area north of stadium. Look for Griz colors. B ir t h s OCTOBER 2003 Harper Lauryn Hargis to Emily Naylor Hargis '98 18 Griz vs. Idaho State, Pocatello, ID - Tailgate w ill begin at and Chris Hargis, August 16, 2002, Helena noon local time across from the stadium in Bonneville Park. Benjamin Mangel to Mindy MacCarter Mangel ’93 NOVEMBER 2003 and Zac C Mangel ’94, November 16, 2002, - Tailgate w ill Minneapolis I Griz vs. Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ begin at 4:00 local time in the parking lot adjacent to the stadium. Jacob Lee Fagan to Sherry Nauman Fagan, J.D. ’97 Look for Griz colors. and Gerry P. Fagan, J.D. *98, March 20,2003, Billings Jacob Nets Stiegler to John Scott Stiegler ’98 and 8 Griz vs. Sacramento State, Sacramento, CA - Tailgate Melissa Merrick Stiegler '00, March 20, 2003, will begin at 4:00 local time in the Alumni Center parking lot. Missoula 22 Griz vs. Cats, Bozeman, MT - Event(s) prior to game TBA. Sophia Hope Flores to THo Flores ’95 and Michelle E. Fiores ’96, April 17, 2003, Pittsburgh QUESTIONS? Contact UMMA Office 877.UMALUMS or e-mail [email protected]

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The University of Montana Alum ni our New President Association welcomes new board members* Montanan, please give dues-paying P resident A Washington, D.C., native, Michael R. M ichael W. Higgs 76 Higgs '76 is an independent marketing membership your serious considera­ Eagan, Minn. consultant in Eagan, Minnesota, tion, if you are not already a dues- President-elect payer. Your dues are the lifeblood of M ary E lle n C a w le y T u rm ell ’64 where he lives with his wife, Tamara, Rolling Hills Estates, Calif. and their son, Mike. Their daughter, the organization, our capabilities, and V ice P resident our future. R obert J. Seim ’59 Kim, attends college in Duluth. Missoula UMAA has completed a very solid Michael has a degree in political science P ast President year. We strengthened our outreach Joseph R. W hittinghill ’89 and was a member of Phi Delta Theta. to young alumni, extended our Seattle He also was a member of UM AA’s Board o f D irectors Community Lecture Series program, L isette F. C arter ’90 House of Delegates before joining the continued to have the University sys­ Spokane, Wash. board of directors. •Frank G . D ’An gelo ’90 tem heard by the sta te ’s legislators, M issoula and stretched ourselves to faraway • Philip C . D o ty ’64 , 7 4 Fairfield, Calif. ore than honored, I am Malaysia to support and bolster one of R u sse ll M . H a tch 7 8 privileged to serve as our international constituencies. Mobridge, S.D. president of the UM •Marcia E. H o lla n d 7 6 M Great things are about to happen Alumni Association. When I Fairbanks, Alaska with a new alumni Web site that will D a v id T . K earn s ’68 , 7 4 stepped onto the tarmac at provide significant benefits to our Townsend Johnson Bell Field on a sunny Donald W. K inney ’64 members. Lakewood, Colo. September afternoon thirty-one D o n a le e B ea ry L aB ar ’65 years ago, I never dreamed I’d be writing a message like Keep in mind our desire to hear from you. Let your Great Falls this. But I knew then I wanted to belong to Montana, to UMAA board members or House of Delegates represen­ T iffa n y G r ib b le M adden ’86 Billings this University and to all it encompassed. The Alumni tatives know your thoughts. Send us or UM AA an e- Michael J. M cDonough 72 Association has strengthened those ties, brought new mail. We want to keep you interested and w e’ll work hard Dallas friendships and connections, and renewed the passion to make your investment of time, treasure, and talent in M ora M acK in n on P a y n e ’54 Missoula that brought me to UM, site unseen, so long ago. My UM AA worthwhile. D u n ca n A . P e e te ’91 hope is for that passion to bum in you for the University Get Involved...Stay involved Billings and the association. As you read through this issue of the B arbara L ee P o llem ’61 El Cajon, Calif. •Patrick M. R isken ’81 Spokane, Wash. •Bemd A. Schulte ’65 Ocean Ridge, Fla. Alumni Director Receives CASE Award C olleen M. Schwanke ’94 Bozeman •Zane G . Sm ith ’55 Alumni Director Bill Johnston was honored at the Council for Springfield, Ore. Jason Thielm an ’98 Advancement and Support of Education’s District VIII conference in Helena Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, in March with the CASE Distinguished A lunni O ffice A Service Award. Bill, alumni director since 1988, has been active with CASE at B ill Johnston 79, ’91 both district and international levels, serving as Distinct VIII president-elect Executive Director and treasurer. As a member of its International Committee on Alumni Brandy Hall The University of Montana Relations, Bill was junior and senior chair of the alumni sessions at CASE Missoula, Mont. 59812-7920 International Assembly in San Francisco in 2001 and in Chicago in 2002. 406.243.5211 1-877-UM-ALUMS [email protected] www.umr.edu/alumni

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B y B e t s y H o l m q u i s t U M ’s School of Forestry. ne Saturday last September while “Having Dad at a race many o f us took in a garage sale, is a huge deal,” Ted At the 82-mile point he ate some noodles, football game, or raked the yard, says, then quickly credits his beloved dog, O changed batteries, enjoyed the fire for a few twenty-eigfit-year-old Missoulian Ted Izzy, w h o ’s also there but cannot take part Schuster ’98 headed out for a footrace. AU in the race. “Sh e ’s run every training run moments, then took off along the ridgeline. that day and night and on into the next while with me. One o f the weirdest parts of a With morning light, he shed his tights and we golfed, put away the lawn furniture, or race is that Iz z y ’s not there at heel.” Ted went into “full finish mode. ” Ted remembers maybe went for a short hike, Ted was still runs in a baseball cap and wears a fanny yelling out his race number at the 93-mile running—hooked on the extreme sport of pack h e ’s sure has at least 2,500 miles on mark. H e ’d have to finish by noon to meet ultramarathons. That weekend it was the it. It holds two bottles of water, elec­ his goal. His body numb, Ted crossed the fin­ Bear 100 M ile Endurance Run— 17,000 trolyte capsules and a 98-cent poncho, ish line in twenty-eight hours, 40.34 min­ feet of climb in the Wasatch/Bear River but no power bars or Gatorade. Even at utes. The only Montanan in the race, he Range of the Utah/Idaho border. If he the aid stations, Ted drinks only water. placed ninth overall. H e ’d won his grizzly could complete the race in less than thir- buckle. ty hours h e ’d win the buckle— the grizzly “At mile 16.4 I w a sn ’t feeling great. By W hen asked why he runs, Ted recalls bear buckle. The one h e ’d missed by two Beaver Creek (28) I was really hurting.” a losing Little League baseball game h e ’d hours and ten minutes the year before. Stomach problems and the need to “regroup” Ultrarunners, like rodeo contestants, kept him at the next aid station for fifteen pitched many years ago. “I cried when compete for specially designed buckles, minutes. After about ten more miles, “my our team shook hands with the winning and this UM alum was after his griz. body took a turn for the better . . . I started team, and Dad really yelled at me for cry­ T ed ’s alarm sounded flying . . . passed some [other ing. In running, every time you cross the at 4:55 a.m. He began runners]. . . We all had a finish line, y o u ’re winning an emotional taping his feet and toes, nice chunk of miles under our battle with yourself.” Ted d o e s n ’t want to taking special care belts.” Ted beat his dad to the lose those kinds of battles ever again. around the ankle h e’d aid station at mile 50, waited Chances are he w o n ’t. H e is extremely broken a couple years ten minutes for him to appear, fit. Disciplined. Competitive. In February earlier. His big toes then, “grabbed my headlamp he ran the Rocky Raccoon 100 Mile Run are huge— perma­ and took off.” Night was on in Huntsville State Park, Texas. Again nently swollen from its way. the only Montanan in the race, he ran it the thousands of “Everything was unevent­ in 22:54.22, twenty-second out of 104 miles th e y ’ve dug into ful until the section between starters. his running shoes. miles 66 and 74. This is the A nd then t h e r e ’s pizza. Ted readily Blisters are a constant Ted and Izzy section I had had trouble with admits he took up distance running so he worry. Once, an last year, and it ate me up could keep up his pizza habit. In high unchanged sock so coated a blister that again this year.” Trail markers can be diffi­ school h e ’d run cross country and played his sock became the bandage itself, result­ cult to spot even during the day and at soccer and tennis. A t UM, and not ing in a painful removal. H e has four pairs night runners lose valuable time if they engaged in team sports, he needed a calo­ o f socks ready for this race. Last night h e ’d wander off course. Ted counted only rie-burning activity to balance his pizza trimmed his toenails— two days after their twelve glow sticks during this eight-mile intake. Soon he was running marathons last trimming. Ritual dominates almost stretch. “One could never have too many and a triathlon; he was hooked. Now every step of the race process. markers,” he muses, recalling the time he when h e ’s not racing, or training for one, At six a.m. the runners were off. “1 felt lost the trail at checkpoint 80 in the Ted works as a support consultant for great as the race started,” he recalls. At day­ Cascade Crest 100-miler in Easton, M is so u la ’s Edulog. H e also hunts, fishes, break Ted dropped off his headlamp with his Washington, and never completed the cheers on the Atlanta Braves, and enjoys dad, Erv Schuster, a former instructor at race. the Missoula scene— especially its pizza.

Fall 2003 M on ta n an 37 Foundation Selects Laura Brehm as President aura Brehm, formerly vice presi­ alumni relations at the Haas School of dent and national director of devel­ Business at the University of California, Lopment for the Trust for Public Berkeley. Brehm was involved in several Land headquartered in San Francisco, is large capital campaigns at UC, the last one the new UM Foundation president and a $75 million effort for the business s c h o o l’s CEO. endowment, faculty support, and programs. Selected through a national search, she Brehm enjoys her new position and called joined the Foundation August 1, succeeding coming to UM “an exceptional opportunity Sharen Peters, who retired after twenty years to build on the accomplishments of the on the UM Foundation staff. Foundation staff led by Sharen Peters and to Brehm has spent her entire thirty-year work with the Foundation’s board of trustees, Laura Brehm career in advancement, almost exclusively President George Dennison, and U M ’s facul­ in higher education, except for her recent ty, alumni, and campus community to further Excellence in Management Award in 1999 position at TPL. At TPL last year, she and the mission of this great University,” she says. and the Berkeley Citation in 2000. It is the her team raised $29.3 million. Before that An anthropology graduate of UC, university’s highest award for achievement she was assistant dean for development and Berkeley, Brehm received the Chancellor’s and service.

G r a d H e a d s E x c e l l e n c e F u n d B u s in e s s D r iv e

imothy J. Hubbard, a 1968 business had a dual purpose: gamering financial sup­ where the university is not such a highly f graduate, will head this y ea r’s port for the University, and cementing rela­ valued part of the community.” Missoula Business Drive for the tionships between “town and gown.” An UM is a major economic player in Missoula. Excellence Fund. added benefit of the fund-raising effort has Statistics from U M ’s Bureau of Business and The drive is an annual peer-to-peer vol­ been the volunteers’ sharing of a common Economic Research show that University- unteer solicitation of the local business and Missoula cause and creating networking related expenditures add nearly $234 million professional community and the UM campus. opportunities for the business and campus to local business and professional coffers. Last fall, nearly $307,000 was raised through community. Hubbard, who succeeds 2002 chair Paul the drive for academic programs. As a com­ The Missoula Drive model is somewhat Sepp, is joined on the Business Drive ponent of the Excellence Fund, it is a major unique among fund-raising efforts around Steering Committee by Phil Barney ’60, source of money for current spending. the country because of its concentration on George Boifeuillet ’55, Bob Burke ’54, Bob Excellence Fund gifts are not saved for future the local community and its spirit of coop­ Bums ’96 , Gary Chumrau 77, Patricia projects, but are spent in the year th e y ’re eration. “Other annual fund programs are Collins 77, Clancy Cone ’65 , Ernie Corrick received on programs that directly benefit intrigued— and envious of—our success,” ’48 , Pat Dodson ’68, Jerry Esmay ’84, Karen students, such as scholarships, faculty and says Kathy Schaub, director of annual giv­ Jones, Barry Kenfield 70, Susan Liane, Tim staff development, travel to professional ing and UM Foundation staff member in Mellgren 77, Max Murphy 74, Laurie meetings, and for campus outreach. charge of the drive, “but this is something Palmer, Jan Parks ’82 , Brian Salonen ’85, Bob Since its founding in 1978 by five local that is very special to Missoula and not a Seim ’59 , Monte T urner, Carol S. Williams businessmen, the Missoula Business Drive has program that can be duplicated in a town ’66, and Kevin Winter ’65.

38 Fall 2003 Montanan Business S chool G ets First Endowed P rofessorship

he first professorship in the School of Practice in 1996, and is highly sought as a r Business Administration memorializes conference presenter. As the Byrnes a distinguished business graduate, Professor, Vinso will teach, assist with devel­ Donald Byrnes ’49. opment of the finance curriculum, and His widow, Carol Jean, of Tampa, Florida, arrange for guest lecturers in the business has created a professorship in the school. Department of Accounting and Finance that Guest lecturers that Vinso may engage will help take the department to a new level will include people of the stature of Don of national prestige, according to Dean Larry Byrnes. On several occasions Byrnes had Gianchetta. The professorship had long been lectured in the UM business school, citing a goal of her husband, Carol Jean said. “He personal experiences with leveraged buyouts. and Dean Gianchetta had talked about a fac­ Gianchetta reports that students were fasci­ ulty position, something lasting, and I know nated and inspired by the acumen and suc­ this is something he would have wanted me cess of a former UM business student. They to do.” enjoyed the opportunity to interact with him during his visits to the campus. At the time of his sudden death in 1995, Byrnes was CEO of Spalding and Evenflo Cos., manufacturer of sporting goods and infant products, and Pueblo Xtra International Inc., a chain of supermarkets and video stores in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Carol Jean and Don Byrnes Islands, and South Florida. Shortly after Byrnes’ death, Carol Jean established a memorial scholarship for upper- scape. Classroom 123 was named for Don and

Joseph D. Vinso division undergraduates or graduate business Carol Jean in honor of their contribution to students. The University of Montana Capital I Competition for business professors is This y ea r’s Byrnes Scholarship recipients Campaign—Ensuring a Tradition of Excellence. . fierce, according to Gianchetta, and having are Henry LaFever and Nathan Lopuch. In Don Byrnes had served on the campaign such a position allows the UM school to addition to the Byrnes Professorship and Executive Board. He was also a member of recruit a top practitioner such as Joseph D. Scholarship in the business school, the Byrnes the UM Foundation Board of Trustees and • Vinso, who will become the first Byrnes name is part of the Gallagher Building land- was the b o a rd ’s vice chairman in 1995. Professor of Finance this fall. In addition to his career as an academician at UM, the University of Southern California, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, U M Exempt from “Do Not Call” Laws and the University of Michigan, Vinso has headed Financial Resources Management ie new state and federal “Do N ot Call” laws do not affect the fund-raising i Inc., a business valuation and financial con­ Trctivities of The University of Montana Foundation. sulting firm. Business valuations procedures Our student callers will be telephoning alumni, parents, and friends during the fall and appraising are his academic specialties. phonathon, September 15 through December 4. We ask you to continue to be generous Vinso has published extensively, including in your support of academic programs at UM. the book Business Valuations: Theory and

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