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Communique, Fall 1962

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This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the Journalism at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Communique, 1953-2020 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ARCHIVES SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM Fall Enrollment C O M M UNIQUE Goes Up Again Enrollment in the School of Jour­ Vol. 20, No. 1 MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY Fall, 1962nalism went up again this fall, the sixth consecutive year in which en­ rollment held firm or increased. A total of 133 students were en­ Four Join Journalism Faculty rolled in the undergraduate, graduate and radio-television programs on Four men have been added to the staff of the School of Journalism for Oct. 1. Registering were 30 fresh­ the 1962-63 year. men, 34 sophomores, 22 juniors, 16 They are Warren J. Brier, associate professor of journalism; William J. seniors, 7 graduate students and 24 Mullendore, assistant professor of journalism; Philip J. Hess, assistant profes­ radio-television majors for whom the sor of journalism and acting director of the Radio-Television Studios, and Ron J-School is administratively respon­ Richards, assistant in journalism. sible. • Brier received his Ph.D. in mass communications at the State Univer­ The belief held by some educators sity of Iowa in 1957 after completing work on a bachelor’s degree at the that enrollment in journalism would University of Washington in 1953 and on a master’s degree in journalism fall off sharply when the foreign at Columbia University in 1954. He came to Montana with his wife, Genie, language requirement was adopted and daughters Lynn, 5, and Karin, 1, after two years on the journalism five years ago has not been realized. faculty of the University of Southern California. He taught at San Diego State The J-School is the only professional College for the 1959-60 year and has worked on the Seattle Times, Seattle school which in 1957 joined the Col­ Post-Intelligencer and Los Angeles Times, and for the Associated Press in lege of Arts and Sciences in requir­ Seattle and Los Angeles. ing a foreign language for gradua­ tion. • Mullendore received a bachelor of arts degree at the University of Michigan in 1946 and a master of science degree in journalism at Columbia University the following year. He was named Pulitzer Traveling Fellow and traveled in Latin America. He served for 15 years on the Ann Arbor (Mich.) News as reporter, city editor and news editor. He was a visiting lecturer in journalism at the University of Michigan for one semester. He Frederick J. Steiner and his wife, Vivian, have two daughters, Mary, 10, and Linda, 7. Frederick J. Steiner ’32, editor of • Hess was awarded a bachelor’s degree in 1956 and a master’s degree three West Coast maritime publica­ in 1960 at the State University of Iowa. He was the director of KUSD-TV tions, died March 6, 1962, in San and an instructor in speech for two years at the University of South Dakota Francisco. He was 53. He is sur­ before joining the MSU staff. He also has worked as television director vived by his wife, Francis Bruyn of KOIN-TV in Portland, Ore., and KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He Steiner; his father and mother, Mr. brought his wife, Mary Lou, and Heidi, 4%, Stephen, 3, and Todd, 1, to and Mrs. Fred V. Steiner of Clyde Missoula. Park, Mont.; a brother and a sister. • Richards, a 1959 MSU J-School graduate, is instructing primarily in radio-television and photography classes. Before returning to the University Ellsworth C. Mosby as a technical assistant in the Radio-Television Studios last year, he worked for KFBB in Great Falls, KGVO and KMSO-TV in Missoula and KREM Word of the death of Ellsworth AM-FM-TV in Spokane. In addition, he has been a regional correspondent C. (Eck) Mosby ’21 in Fortuna, Calif., for CBS, AP, UPI and Newsweek. He and his wife, Annabelle, have two sons, has been received. He is survived by Kent, 3, and Brent, 1, and a daughter, Lisa, born Oct. 17. his wife and four children.

J-SCHOOL FACULTY Rallied ’round the table and Nathan B. Blumberg, Edward B. Dugan, William J. Mul- ready for the 1962-63 year are (left to right, naturally) lendore and Warren J. Brier. (Photo by Bruce Mc- Ronald P. Richards, Philip J. Hess, Dorothy M. Johnson, Gowan ’65) The 20s and 30s . . . Floyd Larson ’50 left the Ronan Pioneer to join the news desk of the A. A. Applegate ’23, in his second Kalispell Daily Inter Lake. year of teaching at Hillsdale College With Grads in Michigan, also is serving as ad­ Sterling E. Soderlind ’50, news edi­ viser to student publications. When tor for the Wall Street Journal, has he received the offer to “come down Afield o . . been put in charge of the front page to Hillsdale and teach these kids how department. He and his wife and to write,” he says he “struck like a son, Steven 1, live in Brooklyn, N.Y. —the James J. Strebig trophy, offered hungry trout.” He also writes: “It by Trans World Airlines in memory John T. Suchy ’50, handling public has been a long time since I left the of another AP aviation writer, for re­ information in the laboratory direc­ Shack in 1925, but the happy mem­ porting of commercial aviation; the t o r ’s office of the Argonne National ories remain.” Medal of Valor from the Headliners Laboratory in Argonne, 111., is the Jack Coulter ’26 is back home in Club; a citation from the Air Force writer of a series of 13 half-hour Hamilton after a heart operation in Association as the outstanding man programs to be shown on educational Seattle. He is able to carry on normal of letters in his field. . . .” television stations in all parts of the activity with only slight restrictions. country this fall and winter. The Henry A. Blastic ’36 retired from Wilfred (Flip) Fehlhaber ’27 series is titled “Challenge.” the FBI after more than 20 years and stopped by the Journalism office is now employed at the Associated Art Foley ’51, formerly vice presi­ while away from his duties in the Students Store at the University. dent for advertising, publicity and Kansas City bureau of Associated promotion of Televenture, Inc., has Press. been appointed director of public in­ Zelma Hay Schroeder (Mrs. George The 40s and 50s . . . formation for the New York City L.) ’28, vice president and account Cancer Committee of the American executive at Wendt Advertising John T. Campbell ’40, Missoula Cancer Society. sports writer and member of the Agency in Great Falls, received a Marvin McArthur ’51, in the adver­ Montana Athletic Commission since special certificate of merit for her tising department of Permanente work on the 1962 Great Falls Brew­ 1956, has been reappointed to a three- year term on the Commission. Cement Company in Oakland, Calif., eries’ annual report at the Los came to the J-School for a brief visit. Angeles “Women in Advertising Kenneth B. Kizer ’41 has joined Ross Hagen ’52, has been trans­ Show.” RCA’s astro-electronics division as ferred to the Birmingham, Ala., AP administrator of public-customer re­ Frank Brutto ’29, veteran Asso­ bureau as a correspondent. ciated Press foreign correspondent, lations in Princeton, N.J. Henry J. Pratt ’52 has been pro­ has been appointed chief of bureau at Dorothy Rochon Powers (Mrs. E. moted and transferred to the National Rio de Janeiro and will direct all AP E.) ’43 won six awards for reporting, Park Service office in Washington, operations in Brazil. Dean of the features and columns in the Theta D.C., where he will work in per­ Vatican press corps, he had served Sigma Phi 1962 Inland Empire Press- sonnel classification and wage ad­ on the Rome staff of AP since 1940 Radio-TV competition. She’s still ministration. with the exception of the war years, swinging for the Spokesman-Review. 1941-45, when he was in Bern, George O’Connell ’47, director of George F. Scotten ’52 has joined Switzerland. the News Service at Dartmouth Col­ the Moon Insurance Agency in Great Albert J. Partoll ’29, Missoula lege, recently was elected news chair­ Falls. County public administrator, has been man of the Ivy League Public Rela­ Robert F. Alkire ’53, formerly with re-elected vice president of the Mon­ tions Committee, composed of public the Boston AP bureau, has joined the tana Historical Society. relations representatives of the eight public relations staff of the Utah Vern Haugland ’31, A P ’s aviation Ivy League schools. Copper Division of the Kennecott Cop­ specialist since 1951, had this said Judson N. Moore ’48 has joined the per Co., in Salt Lake City. about him in the AP Weekly Log last U.S. Forest Service information and John R. (Dick) Harris ’56 stayed summer: “Vein Haugland went to education staff in Missoula. to the end of the Seattle World’s Fair Virginia this week to report a con­ Don Weston ’49, news director for as photo co-ordinator in the public ference on moon exploration. It was KG VO in Missoula, was named “Out­ relations department. a prime bet for headlines in view of standing Radio Reporter” in the 1962 Richard D. Warden ’57 is back on the Russian space flights, but Vern Inland Empire awards sponsored by the Great Falls Tribune after a year does not need special impetus to get Theta Sigma Phi. The citation was in Washington under a grant by the his stories into the papers. His copy for outstanding news reporting dur­ American Political Science Assn. has the merit to win play any time ing the past year and included the Farrell Coffman Stewart (Mrs. .... His experience with flying be­ four-state area of Montana, Idaho, Robert B.) *57 is the mother of Jen­ gan in World War II when he re­ Washington and Oregon. He also nifer Lynn, born in August in Billings. ported Air Force campaigns in the spoke at the National Radio-Televi­ Jerry Hayes ’57 has moved from the South Pacific. In 1942 he bailed out sion News Directors convention in Billings Gazette to the Helena In­ of a bomber lost in a storm and spent San Francisco in September. dependent Record as classified ad­ 43 days fighting for survival in the Ray M. Loman ’49, publisher of the vertising manager. New Guinea jungles—an exploit for Ronan Pioneer and St. Ignatius Post, Kay Blaszek Boll (Mrs. Louis A.) which he was awarded the Army’s was elected president of the Montana ’57 is “in retirement taking care of Silver Star by Gen. Douglas Mac- State Press Assn. He did not choose year-old daughter Terri Lynn,” in Arthur, an unprecedented award for to run for re-election to the Montana Price, Utah, where her husband is a civilian .... He has other awards House of Representatives. assistant district manager of the Bureau of Land Management. Last 2 F a l1 1962 year she helped out on the society paRe COMMUNIQUE desk of the Idaho Falls Post-Register. Kain Receives . . . More Grads Afield Alumni Award James Graff ’57 is an account newspaper El Diario Illustrado. It Ronald S. Kain ’22, director of the executive for Sage Advertising in is the only English publication in International Survey of the Office of Helena. Chile providing daily coverage of the Secretary of the Department of world events. A photo of her and Health, Education and Welfare, was Teddy Roe ’59 has joined the staff of Senate Majority Leader Mike a girl friend appeared on the front one of five MSU graduates to re­ page of Clarin, afternoon Communist ceive the Distinguished Service Mansfield. He had worked with Sen. Mansfield and his staff for several tabloid in Santiago, with the follow­ Alumni Award at Homecoming cere­ ing caption: “Two pretty ones, who monies. months under the American Political Science Fellowship Program. are the littlest doves of journalism, He served overseas with the OWI place themselves comfortably in the during World War II and later was Richard W. Edgerton ’59 has been appointed assistant director of pub­ Park to take photos of the sailors. press officer with the Allied Military The Naval marchers gathered moun­ Mission to the Netherlands. In 1949 lic relations for Marine Studios in Marineland, Fla. He and his wife tains of applauses. And the little he joined the State Department as a girls, whistles (from the sailors) at foreign affairs researcher and in and two children will reside in Crescent Beach. the best.” Judy remains unperturbed 1961 he took his present post with under Red attack. HEW. Kain also worked on Montana and Zena Beth McGlashan Guenin (Mrs. New York newspapers and with an ’60 and ’61 . . . Gaylord) ’61 is the new w o m e n ’s edi­ tor of the Missoulian. eastern publishing firm. He is the Patricia Ashall Vail (Mrs. Joel R.) author of “Europe: Versailles to War­ ’60 announces the arrival of Julie saw,” and is now working on a book Ann on July 28. Pat resigned from And the Class of ’62 . . . on the Indonesian revolution. R. J. Reynolds to assume full-time housewife-and-mother duties, but Tom Flaherty, who was married to her husband has joined R. J. Reynolds Carolyn Lehr on July 28, is on the Blumberg Elected with headquarters in Bremerton, news staff of the Montana Standard- Butte Daily Post. Marie Stephenson Wash. To National Post is a reporter on the same paper. Brinton Markle ’60 has enrolled in Dean Nathan B. Blumberg of the Patti Jo Shaw finished her sum­ the MSU law school. Montana State University School of mer stint with the AP in Helena and Journalism has been elected vice Keith Wood ’60 left the Wolf Point is now w o m e n ’s editor of the An­ president of the American Associa­ Herald-News to become a reporter chorage (Alaska) Times. Gaylord tion of Schools and Departments of for the Livingston Enterprise. Guenin is a reporter on the Mis­ Journalism. Vern Nelson ’61 has moved to soulian. Roy Cottor is news editor The election took place at the KIRO-Radio-TV in Seattle as a news of the Western News in Libby. national convention of the AASDJ, an writer. John Schulz is with UPI in San organization of the nation’s 48 ac­ Gale Brammer ’61, after serving Francisco and Lyle Harris, after a credited schools and departments of as shop foreman for the Butte Post- summer with UPI in Helena, was journalism, in Chapel Hill, N.C. Montana Standard and a compositor transferred to the U P I’s Salt Lake Dean Blumberg will continue to for the Helena Independent Record, City bureau. serve on the association’s six-man has returned to the Townsend Star. A. P. Madison continues to work executive committee, to which he was Floyd W. (Bill) Howell ’61 is doing in the University Printing Depart­ elected last year. graduate work and serving as univer­ ment and Jack Gilluly stays on as sity photographer at Washington sports news editor of the University Marquette Names Price State University in Pullman. News Service. Owen T. Ditchfield ’61, self-styled Ed Sibbald, after a summer as tour To First Nieman Chair “leader of men” in the U. S. Army, escort for Grayline Tours in Banff, Warren C. Price, professor of jour­ has been assigned to Fort Hood, Tex., Alherta, has joined the promotion nalism at the University of Oregon as a mechanized infantry platoon department of the Toronto Globe and and Dean Stone Visiting Lecturer in leader. Mail. the MSU School of Journalism last Rolf Y. H. Olson ’61 stopped by the Jane Wynn Allen (Mrs. Daryl) was spring term, has been appointed to the J-School on his way from the An­ married during the summer and is Lucius W. Nieman chair of journal­ chorage Times, where he was reporter living in Missoula. ism at Marquette University for next for a year, to Bangor Theological spring term. Seminary in Maine. Gerald Holiday, a second lieuten­ He will be the first occupant of Judith King Norgaard (Mrs. Roger ant in the Marines, is in Quantico, the Nieman chair recently established D.) ’61, after 10 months on the Helena Va., and Douglas Kienitz is stationed in the Marquette College of Jour­ Independent Record, was married on at the Naval Air Station in Pensa­ nalism. June 23 and is now employed in the cola, Fla. MSU Registrar’s Office. Judith Rollins and Ray S. Maid- Judy McVey ’61 and another Inter- ment Jr. are graduate assistants in the R-TV Assistant Appointed American Press Association scholar­ School of Journalism. Frank Walsh Raymond G. Dilley, who is working ship winner have started an English is working toward an M. A. in his­ toward a master of arts degree in news section in the Santiago morning tory at MSU. journalism, has been appointed half­ time technical assistant in the Radio- Television Studios. He came from Fa.. i962 COMM UNIQUE the University of Vermont. 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Homecoming Draws Journalism Grads Among those back on campus for the 1962 Homecoming (and the Griz­ zlies’ 22-16 victory over Idaho) were Robert Lodmell ’37, publisher of the Lake Wales (Fla.) Daily Highlander and the Sun of Florida; Owen Grinde ’38, director of advertising and pub­ licity for the Montana Power Com­ pany; Tom Mather ’41, manager and secretary-treasurer of Moon Realty Company, Great Falls, Mont.; Richard (Shag) Miller ’47, co-owner of KBOW in Butte; Paul Hawkins ’49, owner of the Vagabond Lodge in Anaconda; George Kraus ’51, in charge of pub­ lic relations for Southern Pacific Company in San Francisco; Bill Jones ’54, associate in the law firm of Gar- lington, Lohn and Robinson in Mis­ soula, who served on the Homecoming committee; Murdo Campbell ’55, sales representative for the Gillette Safety —Photo by Bruce McGowan ’65 Razor Company in Great Falls; Kim READY TO ROLL—Out in the first floor hall is the Washington Hand Forman ’56 of Helena AP; Norma Press which has been hidden away in the J-School since 1939. Putting on Beatty ’57, television personality for the pressure are Mrs. Howard Lipke, bright-eyed Journalism secretary, and KRTV in Great Falls; Lou Pangle ’59, Maries Larson, junior from Laurel. . . . AND T H A T ’S NOT ALL—The entire medical representative for Mead- interior of the Journalism Building has been repainted; a new display case Johnson Laboratories in Colorado for the Montana Newspaper Hall of Fame has been installed on a wall outside Springs; Robert Templeton ’62, who the office on the second floor; a large new bulletin board, including space for drove over from Washington; and late wire news, has been installed on the second floor; and the offices in the Roy Cottor ’62, news editor of the Kaimin news room have been removed and a large combination partition and Western News in Libby. bulletin board has been placed between the e d it o r ’s desk and the city room. COMMUNIQUE

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