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22 16 Welcome to Dharavi By Erika Fredrickson ’99, M .S. 109 Casey Kriley '93 laughs Three artists entrenched during a photo shoot at her themselves for four months home in Los Angeles. in Dharavi, a massive slum in Mumbai, India, with the goal of engaging its people through ’HP**' i art. W hat they discovered was a 116 strong sense of community and a true joy for life.
22 A Family Production By Nate Schweber VI Emmy Award-winner Casey Kriley ’93 has produced some o f the most-watched reality television shows today, including Top C h e f and Project Runway. H er path to Hollywood began at UM, but m long before she was a student here.
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ANOTHER JUBILANT FEELING I was pleased to read Jurine Landoes letter in the spring 2011 issue about her years as a Jubileer at UM with Jerry Nordstrom. I, too, sang with Jurine and Jerry in the renowned Jubileers. What terrific years those were with “Montana’s Finest Voices.” During spring breaks we toured sections of Montana, performing at many high schools and being University ambassadors. When I was a junior in high school, the Jubileers performed in Red Lodge, and I decided then that I would attend UM and Megan Fisher stands strive to be a Jubileer. on the Van Buren Street Footbridge In those years and somewhat earlier, my near campus. home town of Red Lodge produced several young men who were honored to sing with the Jubileers. O f course, Jerry Nordstrom "W ords fail me when I. try to express how was one, as was my brother Cedric Colness, proud I am of her, and tears of joy fill my Larry Nitz, and Jim Beadle. Bob Higham eyes when I see her now. She is my hero also was a Jubileer at that time. He was from Belfry, just twelve miles from Red and my hearf;" Lodge. Sara A. Fisher There must have been something in the Beartooth mountain air that produced ONE PROUD MOTHER these singing young men. I want to thank you for putting my out bridge was recovered and pulled Jerry Colness '62 daughter [Megan Fisher] on the cover of the upstream to a place where it could cross the Aurora, Colo. spring 2011 issue of the M o n ta n a n . Words river. It lasted as a driving bridge into the rail me when I try to express how proud I 1970s, before becoming pedestrian-only. am of her, and tears of joy fill my eyes when It’s proof that rejuvenation can work and VJU A 11T E I t • |T h e Montanan I see her now. She is my hero and my heart. can last a very long time. WANTED. I welcomes letters Thanks to all who have helped her make I was raised on Madison Street in to the editor. a a ■ ■■ ■ ^ ■■ ^ I Please sign and her way toward her dreams, Missoula, and our house and the Rankin OPINIONS I nclude your i Sara A. Fisher home were torn down to construct the graduating year Cofresi, Dominican Republic Madison Street Bridge, which leads into or years of attendance, home address, the University area. We climbed over the and phone number or e-mail address. trestles many times, and they held us OK, BRIDGING THE GAP Send them to: Montanan Editor, The photo of Megan Fisher [spring but it always upset our folks. 325 Brantly Hall, Missoula, MT 59812 2011 M o n ta n a n ] standing on the Van I hope Megan’s desire to succeed lasts as or [email protected]. long as that bridge. And good luck to her Buren Street Footbridge near UM’s Because of space limitations, we are not able campus brought back some memories in her quest for the Paralympics. to include all letters sent to us. Letters may be for me. Most folks wouldn’t realize she is Bob Kern '52 edited for length or clarity. W hile universities standing on a rejuvenated bridge, on her B o zem a n are places of discussion where good people do not always agree, letters deemed potentially own rejuvenated leg. The footbridge was libelous or that malign a person or group originally a section of the Higgins Avenue E ditor's note: The Van Buren Street Footbridge w ill not be published. Opinions expressed Bridge. It was washed out in the spring underwent a $400,000 renovation during the in the Montanan do not necessarily reflect flood of 1908, leaving Missoula without summer o f2004, including a new wooden deck, those of The University of Montana. any bridge at all. A section of the washed- reinforced steel supports, lights, and railings.
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For more information about the Grizzly Scholarship Association and Grizzly events please visit WWW.gogriZ.COm . Photos by Todd Goodrich | Internet. But they But Internet. | UMTE MONT N A N TA N O /M U T.ED M .U W W W Y Adventures of the Mind Mind the Adventuresof entrepreneur, and a guy a and entrepreneur, Yorker New Summit ind M the of Adventures for UM at Gather Achievers Great A S P I R I N GM I N D S at UM: a neuroscientist, a UM: at 23-26 held June summit, the of morning firstthe during spoke who those than young achieversyoung in cat photos on the the on catphotos funny famousfor your passion, and and passion,your Find attendance: 170 message the for same the all had followit. change jobs five times, you’re five times, change jobs entrepreneur Dick Heckmann Heckmann Dick entrepreneur ideas,” your change to going your life until something really something lifeuntil your country. acrossthe from minds aspiring of group the told turns you on, and you’ll know you’llknow and on, you turns “You’rethrough go to going tell you. You’lltell you. and home go to have to it—nobody’sgoing “You’reto going around bunch of presenters of bunch eclectic more a find to ou’dhard-pressed be cartoonist, serial cartoonist, OALS PEIETS ESETV I H BTO LN I FACETIME I LINE BOTTOM THE I PERSPECTIVE PRESIDENT'S I NOTABLES through your life until life your through something really turns you you turns really something go to going "You're what I want to do.'" to Iwant what that's 'Wow, say, and home go You'll to you. tell have to going it— nobody's know you'll and on, say, ‘Wow, that’s what I want say, want I ‘Wow, that’s what Wang, cartoonist Roz Chast, Chast, Roz cartoonist Wang, to do.’” to and media entrepreneur Ben entrepreneur media and Sam neuroscientist included presenters of group first the and achievers sent to inspire this inspire to achievers sent and minds great of dozens the of sampling that’sa just And Huh. Victoria Gray coordinated with with coordinated Gray Victoria Founder Summit winners. achievers, and thinkers great to authors and Nobel Prize Nobel and authors to scholars activists and from 2011 summit to UM. to summit 2011 the bring to Phyllis Washington and Dennis sponsors major your passion resonated with resonated passion your In addition to Heckmann, Heckmann, to addition In The message of following message of The year’sparticipants. years,Adventures school students students school high exceptional together brings Mind the of exploration with with exploration and mentoring daysof four for Every two t oval e th she had planned to study study to planned had she says Nguyen Calif. San Jose, from seventeen-year-old a Nguyen, Mymy including participants, summit many presenters, she already wasshe already presenters, morning’s the hearing after But do.” should “feltshe like she wassomething it because fall the in Califomia-Davis of University the at neuroscience reconsidering. she says. “I’m interested in in says.“I’mshe interested to have I think I passion, students during a session. a students during sitssummit, with the sponsorof major center, Phyllisa Washington, doing in the future.” the in doing seemyself can I something it’s not but neuroscience, really like,” I something find “ After all that talk about about talk “Afterthat all One of the summit’s most summit’s the of One
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UM President Royce Engstrom acknowledges the audience at his Inauguration ceremony at the University Theatre in May. His wife, Mary, right, looks on.
n front of a standing-room-only audience at the University Theatre, Royce C. Engstrom was inaugurated I May 2 as the seventeenth president of UM. Commissioner of Higher Education Sheila Stearns presided over the installation ceremony. Distinguished guests included Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, Missoula Mayor John Engen, Montana State University President Waded Cruzado, and University of South Dakota President James W. Abbott. Engstrom worked twenty-eight years at Engstrom and his wife chat USD before coming to UM in 2007. with Montana Board of Regents Chair Clayton Christian conducted Governor Brian the investiture. Engstrom was presented the UM medallion, Schweitzer. which is passed on to each president; the first UM graduate thesis, written in 1899 by Earl Douglass; and a velvet tarn. The Bible used in the ceremony was the one given to Engstrom in the third grade. His family tree is recorded in it. A Flag Song, Stearns noted that the U.S. flag atop the Capitol in Victory Song, Washington, D.C., on that day was flown in honor of the and Honor Song inauguration. were performed A luncheon followed at the Adams Center, and the by Kevin Kicking day concluded with a forum and panel discussions in the Woman, center, Robert Hunter, University Center Theater focused on the inauguration and Kyle theme, Building a University for the Global Century. Felsman.
6 I FALL 2011 MONTANAN 0 Pfaoln by Todd Goodrich on May 14 at Washington-Grizzly Stadium. 14Washington-Grizzly at May on even incorporated the blustery conditions conditions blustery the evenincorporated A into his remarks:his into say to those historians, come to Missoula to come historians, those say to Isense. metaphorical a in change of winds Commencement day.” Commencement on change of real winds feel the and the about talk They change. of winds the UMTE MONT N A N TA N O /M U T.EO M .U W W W was presented an Honorary Doctor of of Doctor Honorary wasan presented Osher, founder and treasurer of the Bernard the treasurer of and founder Osher, Lettersdegree, as wasBernard Humane respected journalism, broadcast figuresin support of higher education and and education higher of support lifethrough of improve quality to seeks which Foundation, Osher the arts.the degree candidates, and thousands thousands degreeand candidates, more than 3,000 graduates and and graduates 3,000 than more the stadium were treated to an to weretreated stadium the westfilled sideof the more who Tom Brokaw Washington-Grizzly Commencement at during 2011 of Class the speaksto Stadium in May. in Stadium Commencement speaker Tom Brokaw speaker Tom Commencement “By the way, historians like to talk about about talk to like “By way,the historians Brokaw, one of the most trusted and and trusted most Brokaw,the of one The ceremony celebratedceremony The journalism students in theNorthwest Regional olg tdn sAad fEclec JmyWlo nte21 NLDat akdfrit ntento I ranked fortiethnation in the Jimmy Wilson NFLin the2011 Draft College Students Awards Excellenceof Emmy greeted all who gathered for UM’sfor gathered all greeted who Canyon Hellgate of stiff breezeout 114th Commencement ceremony ceremony Commencement 114th wrswnb Mbodat Pickused by theMiamiDolphins to i j T J T m ^ | Awards won by UM broadcast
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Project Osprey Offers Unique View of Missoula Raptors eople across the globe now are able to view live video of two osprey nests on the Clark Fork and Bitterroot rivers. PHosted by UM s Department of Geosciences, the A mother osprey descends into her video is online at www.umt.edu/geosciences/faculty/ nest near Riverside Health Care langner/Osprey. The Project Osprey team studies the day- Center in Missoula. The camera on to-day lives of the birds through the video, which also the left records the happenings ir streams live in the lobby of the Riverside Health Care the nest, and the video streams live Center, just across the Clark Fork River from campus. Rockies upgraded the online and in Riverside's lobby. Heiko Langner, director of UMs Environmental health care centers lobby • Biogeochemistry Laboratory, asked last year if he could set up laptop to a large high-definition screen, where people watch the a camera near one of the osprey nests at Riverside to help study birds throughout the day. how mercury moves through the food chain in the greater Clark But residents’ interests go beyond merely viewing the birds. Fork River basin. The health care center gladly accepted, and the “They help collect data for research,” says researcher Erick research team set up the first camera, donated by the nonprofit Greene, a Project Osprey team member with UMs Division of organization Raptors of the Rockies, near the river. Biological Sciences and Wildlife Biology Program. “They take “It was a great success for our scientific purpose,” Langner says. notes on when the ospreys eat and what type of fish they bring Their studies reveal mercury is a top contaminant affecting back to the nest. They even have names for them.” wildlife in the Clark Fork River basin. The research shows the Students from the Montana Natural History Center summer largest source of mercury in the watershed is Flint Creek, which camp, along with a number of residents, staff, and spectators, enters the Clark Fork near Drummond. recendy watched the scientists band the leg of a six-week-old While the scientific benefits are important, the main goal of osprey chick at Riverside. With its mother nervously soaring in Project Osprey is public outreach. More than 1,000 kids have circles around Hellgate Canyon, those gathered got an up-close attended presentations by the team, and the residents at Riverside view of the chick and learned lessons no textbook could teach. also have taken a keen interest in the birds. “Education is a huge part of what the project is about,” In 2007 the Riverside nest was relocated from a power pole to a Greene says. platform atop a freestanding pole Northwestern Energy installed on Another webcam is set up on a nest at the Dunrovin Guest the health care centers grounds. The new pole is dedicated to Mary Ranch on the Bitterroot River near Lolo, and live video from both Torgrimson Olson, a former resident at Riverside who was a nurse cameras can be watched online. for fourteen years at UMs Curry Health Center. Her daughter, Project Osprey monitors nearly 200 nests throughout an area Karen Wagner, was instrumental in the relocation process. that stretches from Missoula to Butte. It is directed by Langner, Residents enjoy the streaming video so much that Riverside Greene, and Rob Domenech, executive director of Raptor View donated a new camera to improve the imagery. Raptors of the Research Institute.
UM GOES TOBACCO-FREE THIS FAIL WITH THE START OF AUTUMN SEMESTER, UM IS A TOBACCO-FREE CAMPUS. UM strives to promote health and safety for all its students and employees, and the new policy demonstrates an ongoing commitment to healthy lifestyles. More than 240 universities around the country have adopted similar policies. The policy prohibits the use of tobacco in any form on campus. Tobacco use will be allowed in designated zones on the outskirts of campus, and receptacles will be provided for disposal of tobacco products. UM started educating the campus community on the tobacco-free policy this past spring. It was implemented for three main reasons: to create a healthier environment for employees, students, and visitors; to support quitters; and to reduce the number of new smokers.
8 I FALL 2011 MONTANAN The President’s Perspective
N o table Welcome to another ^^CLYld m m edition of the WW W M / ontanan\ which Q u o tab le is a primary tool used by The University of Montana to stay jjjj) The UM School off Law has celebrated its 100th connected with our far-flung anniversary throughout the year, culminating with reunions alumni and friends. It is always and a gala dinner the weekend of September 8-11 in gratifying to highlight the Missoula. During UM's Charter Day activities in 1911, the wonderful accomplishments of our Missoula legislative delegation telegrammed then-president students, employees, and alumni Clyde Augustus Duniway to inform him that Governor within these pages. The M ontanan Edwin L. Norris had signed the bill creating the School of reaches more than 90,000 households, making it the highest- Law, which has become "part of the fabric of Montana," circulation magazine produced in Montana. Dean Irma Russell says. I’m excited to begin my first full academic year as UM’s (ihv I j il UM hired Jim Burchffiold as the new dean of the seventeenth president. Last year the campus focused on crafting College of Forestry and Conservation. Burchfield replaces our strategic plan, U M 2020: Building a University for the Perry Brown, who was named UM interim provost and vice Global Century, which gives direction to the University during president for academic affairs. Burchfield has worked on the coming decade. Much of last year was spent forging goals campus fifteen years. "It's a great honor to be selected as for this great institution, and during 2011-12 we will begin dean of the College of Forestry and Conservation, as its implementing the ideas oudined in our strategic plan. I invite outstanding record of research and innovative instruction everyone to read the plan (http://issuu.com/umontana/docs/ have made it one of the nation's finest academic programs um2020) and provide input as to how we can accomplish this in conservation and the sustainable management of our ambitious agenda together. shared natural heritage," Burchfield says. Universities are inherendy optimistic places because they equip people with tools needed to achieve dreams, *£i UM Dining Services broke ground on a sustainable whether that means starting a business, writing a novel, or garden project, located on the southeast side of the Emma exploring the world. Places such as UM don’t just help people B. Lommasson Center on campus. Crops will grow in prepare for jobs—they help individuals launch exciting and raised wooden beds, and seeds will be heirloom varieties productive lives. selected for their productivity. Compost from postconsumer The feature stories in this issue illustrate that idea well. One waste generated by the Food Zoo will be used to help article tells how alum Casey Kriley, a self-described “drama grow the crops, which then will be served in the Food Zoo, brat” whose father was a longtime UM drama faculty member, completing the food cycle. I used her education to become a successful Hollywood television i Pi Chapter off Delta Gamma will celebrate its producer. She won an Emmy for producing the reality show Top 100th anniversary at UM during Homecoming weekend. C hefm 2010. A meet-and-greet is set for Friday, September 30, and the The cover story describes UM alum and photographer centennial celebration concludes Saturday with a gala Casey Nolan, who set out to document a massive slum in event at the Hilton Garden Inn. Pi Chapter was installed at India with a project called Artefacting Mumbai. The endeavor UM on September 7, 1911. For more information e-mail helped Nolan discover beauty, art, and culture in one of the [email protected]. poorest places on earth. ||U \ The achievements of our graduates are amazing. I like to UM recently joined the likes of Duke, Penn State, think our alums take a bit of UM with them on whatever Purdue, and Pepperdine as winners of a 2011 Campus roads they travel, whether they stay in Big Sky Country or live Technology Innovators award. UM's Academic Planner, halfway around the world. I hope that together we can create a a homegrown Web application that helps students plot stronger institution that will propel many more students toward course schedules and develop academic strategies, was fulfilling their dreams. deemed one of the ten best innovations in higher education out of 393 nominees. The awards are presented annually by Campus Technology magazine, a monthly publication I focused on the use of technology in higher education. Royce C. Engstrom President Academic Planner provides advanced search tools to help I students sift through hundreds of University course offerings and create primary and alternative course schedules.
WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN MONTANAN FALL 2011 around th e oval UM Launches Peace Corps Prep Program UM HAS PARTNERED WITH THE agreed to award the “generalist” PCPP certificate to any UM PEACE CORPS to offer the first Peace student who successfully completes requirements for the twenty- Corps Preparatory Program at any one-credit minor. More than 200 UM students from twenty-plus public university in the country. majors have elected to pursue the interdisciplinary minor during Implemented this past spring, its six years of existence. all UM students now have the Peter Koehn, founding director of UM’s IDS program, has opportunity to earn a Peace Corps long advised students committed to sustainable international Prep Program certificate, which development and has taught a foundation course in development will help them gain an advantage in administration at UM and several African universities. the Peace Corps’ highly competitive “What was lacking at UM for decades was a full and application process. The program is coherent curriculum and formal recognition of our students’ designed to increase volunteer effectiveness and undergraduate academic preparation,” Koehn says. better equip students interested in serving low-income countries. Now, with the IDS minor and the new Peace Corps Prep The idea to start the Peace Corps Preparatory Program at certification options, Koehn anticipates that UM undergrads UM originated in the School of Business Administration, with opting for one or both will be “academically prepared and Professors David Firth and Cameron Lawrence. Within the competitive for challenging overseas assignments with the Peace management information systems major, there are various tracks Corps or other development agencies.” students can take, such as consulting, marketing, development, or The Peace Corps agreed that UM’s existing IDS program entrepreneurship. The professors wanted to offer another option. provided an ideal administrative home for the prep program. The “We knew the Peace Corps needs people who understand IDS steering committee, in consultation with faculty who teach business, particularly information systems and technology,” says appropriate courses in each area, and Tenly Snow, the campus Firth. “So we thought if there was a specific track for that, we Peace Corps representative, established seven tracks for students could help more business students achieve what they want to do.” interested in earning a “specialist” certificate that parallels the Firth contacted the Peace Corps about the idea, and officials Peace Corps’ primary recruiting areas. The seven tracks are: there were excited. The University spent nine months developing agriculture and forestry; business and information technology; the program, which caters to students across campus, not just in education; environment; health; youth and community the business school. development; and civic engagement. “It’s a fantastic opportunity for UM students,” Firth says. “I Students must complete twelve credits to qualify for each don’t think there is any better way to spend the time when you specialist certificate. UM faculty, including Firth and returned are twenty-one or twenty-two than in the service of others. The Peace Corps volunteers Teresa Sobieszczyk and Curtis Noonan, program gives students an avenue to serve other people and, in will serve as track advisers to guide students in course selection the process of that, find out who they are.” and confirm that they merit award of the specialist certification. UM has a long-standing relationship with the Peace Corps, The prep program is off to a fast start. About half a dozen having produced 765 Peace Corps volunteers, including thirty- graduating IDS students received the generalist certification this three Griz alums currently serving. Additionally, per capita, past spring, and Koehn anticipates the first specialist certificates Missoula ranks first in the nation among metropolitan areas in will be awarded this academic year. producing Peace Corps volunteers, making UM a natural choice “Given our unique position as the first public university to offer for the preparatory program. the Peace Corps Prep Program certification, the array of academic UM’s bid to be the first public university to offer PCPP options we now have available, the quality of the academic gained traction when its popular international development preparation we provide, and the outstanding faculty who are studies minor was linked to Firth’s initiative. involved in teaching our development-focused courses,” Koehn says, Recognizing the academic quality of the IDS curriculum and “I fully expect UM to be a national draw for students interested in the expertise and experience of its core faculty, the Peace Corps international development and Peace Corps experience.”
Grizwald at the Meet Grizwald, The University of Montana's cartoon bear. In the spring 2011 issue of the computer desk: Montanan, we asked readers to submit captions interpreting "I wonder i f this Grizwald's actions in a humorous way. This issue's winning tomxl by Hml Wwqtit Hml tomxlby caption was sent in by CORINNE CRAIGHEAD BUTCHER '8 0 . mouse prefers Congratulations, Corinne, you've won a Griz stadium blanket. imported or Stay tuned! In an upcoming issue of the Montanan, a new cartoon featuring Grizwald will need a caption. You could be domestic cheese." the next winner!
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Reunion, New Memorial Honor Montana Soldiers UM alums from Montana who served their country in Montana soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. The memorial will the armed services will be honored at a reunion and feature five bronze statues created by Montana native Rick Rowley. memorial dedication this fall on campus. “This will be a fitting tribute to the sacrifice Montana The UM Military Reunion will be held the weekend of soldiers have made for our country,” UM President Royce Nov. 3-5> sponsored by the UM Presidents Office and Engstrom says. “In addition, it will the Office of Alumni Relations. The event is held in illustrate the responsibility to ensure conjunction with Military Appreciation Day at the Griz "This will be a the fallen soldiers’ children enjoy the football game. opportunities provided by a college The reunion will include opportunities to visit with fitting tribute education.” other alumni who are veterans, campus and city tours, a David Bell, a 1996 UM graduate, tailgate party, and recognition during the game. to the sacrifice and New York attorney John One of the highlights of the reunion will be the McCarrick founded Grateful Nation dedication of a new memorial on campus honoring M ontana soldiers in 2007. Montana soldiers who have died while on active duty in For information about the reunion, Iraq and Afghanistan. visit www.grizalum.org/events/ The memorial is a joint project between UM have made for MilitaryReunion.aspx. To contribute to and Grateful Nation Montana, Inc., which provides the memorial or the scholarship funds, scholarships, tutoring, and mentoring for the children of our country." visit www.gratefulnationmontana.com.
'HERE'S YOUR GRIZ BEEN? •^jlports her Griz gear at Iguazu Falls in Argentina in fNovember 2010. "I had to travel twenty hours on a bus from Buenos Aires to see Iguazu Falls, and it was truly breathtaking," Montgomery says. She spent two months in South, America working for World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms [WWOOF], The organization links volunteers with organic farmers and helps people share more sustainable ways of jiving. "WWOOF-ing was really an incredible way to travel all over South America," she says.
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GRIZ TO GET BOOST THROUGH ATHLETIC FACILITIES UPGRADES
hen it comes to Washington-Grizzly Stadium and Dahlberg Arena, there’s no doubt UM’s athletic facilities are the envy of the Big Sky Conference. W Cwxtplual drm ingAnhilKls byCIA But the behind-the-scenes facilities—the academic center, the weight room, and locker rooms where student-athletes log A new academic center is planned for UM's student-athletes. coundess hours—are sub-par when compared to other schools around the league. The space is extremely cramped, poorly level and the opportunities for interaction with the community ventilated, and the roof leaks, which allows mildew and mold through Grizzly athletics is important.” to thrive, putting athletes’ health and safety in jeopardy. In fact, Engstrom says the new academic center has the highest when coaches bring potential recruits to campus for official visits, priority. It will be constructed in the space between the Adams those areas are avoided. Center and the Fitness and Recreation Center and will be nearly That’s about to change. 2,200 square feet. The current academic center is roughly one- A construction project is in the works, which will add a new third that size and can accommodate only fifteen of the more than academic center, renovate the locker rooms, and expand the 300 student-athletes at a time. Despite the small work space, ten weight room. Permanent lights for Washington-Grizzly Stadium of the fourteen sports programs at UM had a combined grade- also are being added. point average higher than 3.0 during spring semester 2011. “We are thrilled this project is taking shape,” UM Athletic “Our coaches and staff have done a tremendous job stressing Director Jim O’Day says. “It’s been a long time coming. The academics,” says UM men’s basketball head coach Wayne Tinkle. upgrades we’ve done recently are great from a fan’s perspective, “Yet we feel like we’re armed with a peashooter, so to speak, when but this will benefit our student-athletes direcdy.” it comes to an academic center. With the upgrade, the potential The project aligns with President Royce Engstrom’s strategic for what we can do with our student-athletes is even greater.” plan for UM, tided UM 2020: Building a University for the Global A new Art Annex is planned for the east side of campus near Century. The upgrades are a strong component of two initiatives the Physical Plant. The current Art Annex is adjacent to the in particular: partnering for student success and providing a Adams Center, so once the new annex is completed, that space dynamic learning environment. will be converted into a 12,000-square-foot weight room. “We want to make sure student-athletes have what they need “We have an awesome staff and nice equipment,” Griz to succeed both on the field and in the classroom,” Engstrom linebacker Jordan Tripp says of the current weight room. “But it is says. “These upgrades will improve and enhance the opportunities so compact in there it isn’t conducive to team lifts. It’s spread out for success for the student-athletes who are so important to The over three areas, which makes it hard for coaches to keep an eye University of Montana. on everyone, so it’s also a safety issue. A new weight room would “Secondly, it contributes greatly to creating a dynamic learning definitely help the team train and get better as a unit, which is a environment on campus,” he says. “The excitement around good thing for the Griz.” Grizzly athletics is tremendous and something were proud of. With the weight room and academic center relocated, that Improving our facilities so we can continue raising the excitement space will be used to expand the locker rooms. cont. on page 13 UM Claims Second Presidents' Cup ith strong finishes in both with GPAs of at least 3.0 to determine the annual winner. athletics and academics, UM has finished in the top three the past five years, claiming the Cup in 2C06-07 and posting a pair of runner-up finishes. W UM won the Big Sky UM won just one of the Big Sky's fourteen league titles in Conference Sterling Savings Bank 2010-11—women's cross country this past October—but the Presidents' Cup. Grizzlies had eight top-three finishes, and ten of UM's sports UM edged Montana State University teams finished in the top half of the conference standings. for the Cup, followed by Northern UM's teams had a combined GPA of 3.13 during 2010-11. Arizona University and Sacramento State University. Ten of its fourteen programs had team GPAs of 3.0 or better for Now in its ninth year, the Presidents' Cup reinforces the Big the academic year. Thirty-one of the Grizzlies' all-conference Sky Conference's dedication to both athletic and academic performers in 2010-11 had a GPA of at least 3.0, and Montana performance. Overall athletic success is combined with team grade- studenkjthletes had a graduation rate of 75 percent. point averages, graduation rates, and allconference performers 2011 MONTANAN “The infrastructure in the athletic department isn’t obsolete UM Honors Top Alumni for 2011 by any means, but it’s antiquated,” Tinkle says. wildlife biologist, a Court of Montana in Billings. actors. He began his acting “If we want to continue judge, an actor, and He was nominated to the seat career in musical theater roles to raise the bar on the an economist have by President George H.W. Bush with the Missoula Children’s A in February 1990, confirmed Theatre and the Bigfork people we bring in and been recognized for their remain competitive in outstanding accomplishments by the U.S. Senate that May, Summer Playhouse. After the Big Sky Conference with the University’s working in Seattle and and beyond, this project 2011 Distinguished New York, he landed is necessary. When you Alumni Award. the long-running role combine it with our Thomas Dahmer of Dr. Emil Skoda, academics, the 73 , M.S. 78; Jack psychiatrist on the education our students Shanstrom ’36, series Law & Order. get, and the people, it ’57, J.D. ’57; J.K. Simmons has appeared completes the puzzle.” Simmons 78; and in dozens of TV O ’Day estimates the Brian Wesbury shows, commercials, upgrades will cost $12 ’82 will receive and films, including million to $13 million their awards and Oz, Spider-Man, and and will be completed participate in a Juno. He currendy over the next three to panel discussion portrays Assistant five years. The project at a September 30 Police Chief Will Pope will be funded mainly by ceremony during in The Closer on TNT. private dollars, but Homecoming. He also is the voice of Engstrom says UM will The Distinguished the yellow M&M in make some contributions Alumni Award is the candy commercials through normal the highest honor and plays the teacher University channels. presented by in University of Although Tripp, a the UM Alumni Farmers Insurance ads. junior, will have Association. WESBURY is chief concluded his college DAHMER is a economist at First career by the time the wildlife biologist Trust Advisors L.P., project is completed, he with more a financial services says he’d love to see a than twenty-eight years of and served as chief judge from firm based in Wheaton, 111., new facility. experience, including twenty- 1996 to 2001, when he assumed and one of the nation’s top “I, for one, have seen five spent in Asia. He is founder senior status. He earned three economic forecasters. He is firsthand how much and managing director of degrees from UM: a B A in a frequent contributor to the time you actually spend Ecosystems Ltd., an ecological law in 1956, an LL.B [now a editorial page of The Wall Street there,” Tripp says. consulting firm that helps guide J.D.] and a BA. in business Journal and economics editor “Honestly, it’s like our conservation and development administration, both in 1957. of The American Spectator. He home. No one wants a in a number of countries, He then served three years as a regularly appears as a guest on moldy, stuffy house that including China, Taiwan, first lieutenant in the U.S. Air Fox, Bloomberg, CNBC, and can potentially make Vietnam, and Indonesia. He Force JAG Corps and began BNN Canada Television and you sick. You don’t need recendy co-wrote The Am ur- his legal career in Livingston in contributes to Barron’s, Investors a palace, but just a nice Heilong River Basin Reader, 1960. He has served as chair of Business Daily, Forbes, and U.S. place to stay. It’s the a book about conservation the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of News and World Report. He was same idea with this in northern China, and has Appeals magistrate division, and ranked the nation’s number one project.” published more than thirty in 2002 received the UM School U.S. economic forecaster by For more information research articles. A U.S. citizen of Law Distinguished Alumni The Wall Street Journal in 2001 or to contribute, please with permanent residency in Award. and one of the nation’s top ten contact Associate Athletic Hong Kong, Dahmer speaks SIMMONS earned a music forecasters by USA Today in Director far Development Mandarin Chinese and Nepali. degree at UM and went on to 2004. He has written two books: Kent Haslam at SHANSTROM is a federal become one of today’s most The Era o f New Wealth and It’s 406-243-6294. judge with the U.S. District recognizable television and film N ot as Bad as You Think.
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here was a moment on the morning of July 29 when Ani Haas thought: “This is it. This is how I am going to go.” TThat moment came fourteen miles into a sixteen-mile trail run when Haas suddenly found herself in the worst of places: between a mother black bear and her two cubs in the Pattee Canyon Recreation Area of Mount Sentinel. As the bear charged, then attacked, Haas’ mortal thoughts were quickly replaced by an adrenaline-fueled will to survive. “That [survival] instinct in her was just as strong in me,” she says. “I had this sense of power coming out of me. I still don’t know where it came from.” Haas tried to outrun the bear but quickly realized that wasn’t going to work. She turned to face the bruin and was soon engaged UM student Ani Haas in hand-to-claw combat. As the animal raked her chest and her left runs along a path near shoulder with its claws, Haas punched the bear in the head and the Crazy Canyon threw rocks at it. trailhead io the-Pqttee Canyon Recreation “Every time she struck me, I Area in Missoula. kept thinking, ‘If I am bigger and scarier than she is, maybe she’ll leave me alone.’” It was a message that resounded with several viewers who later Eventually, the tactic worked. reached out to Haas on Facebook, thanking her for sharing her The mother bear backed down, message. collected her cubs, and retreated “That’s why I did it,” Haas says. “The aftermath has been the into the Ponderosa pines. Haas best part.” made her own hasty retreat. As Haas also said she’s heard from many local residents who have she covered the final two miles now educated themselves on how to react if they encounter a wild back to her car, she didn’t take the animal. That’s crucial knowledge for all who recreate in western time to assess her injuries. Montana, Haas says. “I didn’t even look down to see “If you put yourself in this environment, you need to be how bad it was,” Haas says. “I was educated on how to act,” she says. Thanks to a media company in Taiwan, viewers around the just focused on getting to the car.” world are learning that same lesson. The week after the attack, The Missoula native is no Next Media Animation—known for its humorous animated videos stranger to grueling physical feats. depicting recent news events—created a short video about the Haas describes her A lifelong athlete and former attack tided “How to Fend Off Black Bear.” encounter with the member of the U.S. Ski Team, In the animated short, Haas is shown walking through the forest black bear. Haas set her sights on competing wearing jeans and a tank top when she encounters a massive bear in the Olympics before a knee and the two begin fighting. She sends the bear reeling with two injury in 2009 derailed those plans. In 2010 Haas returned to right hooks to the jaw, then hits it squarely in the face with a rock Missoula and turned her focus to education. She’s currendy a before the bear gives up. sophomore at UM studying exercise science. Haas said she’s only seen it once, and that aside from the outfit Local media reported the bear attack the day it happened, and she’s wearing in the video, the animated version is “spot on.” the story spread quickly. Haas didn’t have much time to recover Haas hasn’t let the bear attack deter her from trail running. before the NBC morning show Today came calling with an offer to Today she runs with others and hauls a can of bear spray just in fly Haas and her mom to New York City for an interview. case she encounters another wild animal. It can be awkward to Barely seventy-two hours after taking on the bear, Haas sat carry, but Haas doesn’t want to take on a bear with her bare hands on the Today set with host Ann Curry, describing the attack and ever again. showing her still-fresh wounds. Given the chance to offer advice to “I just don’t want to be like that guy who got struck by lightning a national television audience, Haas urged young people to believe seven times,” she says. in themselves when they face any type of challenge. —-Jennifer Sauer
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he massive slum—one of the largest in Asia— is sandwiched Tbetween Mahim and Sion in the heart of Mumbai, India. It — supports a million people on less than a square mile. Brick- in urban planning. While working on an Wants to Be a Millionaire, garnered critical and-tin shanties and crumbling apartment urban planning project in Brooklyn, N.Y., praise. But the truth is, in the wake of the buildings are slung with a rainbow of Mazzarella—a visual artist— came across fairytale hype that surrounded Slumdog laundry hung out to dry. The aroma of rich, Dharavi. He was intrigued. He called up Millionaire, the real Dharavi was forgotten. spicy foods mixes with the stench of sewage Nolan in Portland and proposed a four- “There is a lot of resentment in and garbage. month cultural exchange. The place would the neighborhood about how that was “In India it’s sensory overload no matter serve as inspiration for Mazzarella’s art, handled,” says Nolan. “It was people where you go,” says Nolan, who got his and Nolan could capture the behind-the- coming in with cameras, producing things, undergraduate degree in 2002 from UM ’s scenes, real lives of Dharavi residents. They and then leaving and really never being Environmental Studies Program. “There’s recruited de Knegt, a photographer from heard from again. We didn’t want to set so much color and so many smells and Holland, and spent all of 2010 fundraising. that same tone.” languages. And Dharavi is the recycling In November they gathered their gear and The first few weeks the artists rarely district, so on top of the dense population set off for Mumbai. used their cameras. Walking through it’s highly congested with trash and “We went there with this idea of almost the neighborhoods, they often were met industrial pollution.” being like anthropologists, but using art to with skeptical looks. Nolan recalls one In November 2010, Nolan set out document the strength of the community— businessman asking them point blank why with painter Alex White Mazzarella its social wealth,” Nolan says. they were there. After all, people don’t and photographer Arne de Knegt to “We didn’t understand the reality of vacation in Dharavi; if you go at all, you document Dharavi with an art project Dharavi until we got there.” take a picture and leave quickly. they call Artefacting Mumbai. The idea ______“And its not was to explore an unexpected aspect of just Westerners,” the slum: Despite its lot in life where “We went there with this idea of almost says Nolan. “A 80 percent of the city’s garbage goes, it lot of people who harbors a strong community. being like anthropologists, but using were born and It’s also in danger of extinction. raised in Mumbai Dharavi is surrounded by Mumbai’s art to document the strength of the have never been to growing business center—and it is prime community—its social wealth.” the slum because real estate. Investors want to bulldoze they were either the slum and turn it into a mixed- fearful of it or they saw no reason to go.” use commercial and residential center. Nolan describes the first week as Artefacting Mumbai was a way to dig deeper Earning trust “relatively uncomfortable.” The extreme into the culture of those whose livelihoods It was in Dharavi that the 2008 Academy poverty was difficult to witness. And Nolan are on the line. Award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire says he initially mistook Dharavi for a Mazzarella and Nolan met in 2004 at was shot. The movie, about a boy from the dangerous place. Pordand State University in Oregon, where Dharavi streets who ends up on the Indian “I was co ns tan dy making sure I had my they both were taking graduate courses version of the television game show W ho wallet,” he says. “I was watching my camera
18 I FAU 2011 MONTANAN ■ m . Sorab is one of the chicken butchers in Dharavi's Thirteenth Compound who captured The ACORN office and community center, the team's attention ^ where the team set up a studio and held art with his beaming smile. classes, was the site of the first public mural. "He radiated a joy for life that transcended his gruesome job at a gloomy work space," extra carefully, and my backpack with my Nolan says. electronic equipment was always close and tight to my body.” Language was a barrier even with interpreters. The artists’ original intent to do an in-depth analysis of the Dharavi Mazzarella made paintings based on that this is my community right now. For all community was proving difficult. But Sorab, and Nolan took photographs of him. three of us, Dharavi became home.” there was hope. One thing they had going “He became an icon for the joy of life for them was their art. The trio taught art that we found there,” says Nolan. classes to children at a community center The artists were still constantly being donated by the ACORN Foundation of watched, but more and more in a positive The exhibit India—a Mumbai nonprofit that advocates way. Every night they’d head back to their All the discussion about recycling, for the people of the recycling district by apartment just across the railroad tracks to consumerism, and globalization that fostering a sense of community and giving catalog photographs, post on their blog, Nolan engaged in during his years in them a voice. They also created public and regroup. About two months in, Nolan UM’s Environmental Studies Program sculptures and murals. “People would stop noticed a change in himself. He no longer took on a whole new dimension in and stare,” says Nolan. “We were very worried about danger. Instead, he setded Dharavi. He watched people sorting novel—like a circus show. We decided we in, eating at his favorite restaurants and through plastic, cleaning it, and making could embrace that and do more public art.” stopping in for tea with new friends. “It’s it into pellets, and then selling it back Within a few weeks, some people in such a nonaggressive society,” he says. “I to toy and toothbrush companies for a Dharavi started warming to the strangers. never felt threatened. I never felt concerned cheap price. It provided jobs for people Ashish, an eighteen-year-old who took art for my or my project partners’ personal well with few options, but the conditions classes, inspired the artists with his energy. being. I remember walking around thinking were far from ideal. A ham in front of the camera, Ashish would dance and make a heart shape out of his hands, put it in front of his chest and move his fingers up and down so that the heart would beat. Ashish’s gesture ended up being a colorful image they painted as a mural on the community center. Casey Nolan is The artists also were inspired by the local covered in wax chicken butcher, Sorab, whose shop they after helping facilitate an art passed on a daily basis. experience with “The shop almost looks like something the Dharavi kids. out of a horror movie when you’re just Photo by Arne de observing it,” says Nolan. “There’s a lot Knegt of metal and wood and blood spatters. But Sorab has this most contagious smile. Every time we’d walk by he’d have this ear- to-ear grin with these bright white teeth smiling at us and these big, oversized, inviting eyes.”
WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN NAN FALL 2011 I 19 a Families that live along the Tulsi Pipes, which are municipal water sculptures they’d created. The art pipes, consist prim arily of people in was mostly produced by the three Dharavi's recycling industry. artists, but people in Dharavi who had become friends of the trio and muses for their work “I struggled with it,” he says. “I was recycle back into their own art pieces. facilitated the exhibit. seeing the full circle of whats necessary to “The kids got to see the exhibit and then It was a walking gallery that took place in make a consumer lifestyle possible.” they got to do their own expression of it sixteen spaces around Dharavi, including at Because it’s a recycling district, all kinds with the red wax by throwing it against a people’s homes and businesses. Hundreds of of curious discarded objects end up there. white wall,” says Nolan. people from outside Dharavi made their way One day the artists attended an exhibit During the final month of their stay, into the slum where, among the rust and outside of Dharavi by famous Indian artist Nolan, Mazzarella, and de Knegt put metal of the industrial area, they were greeted Anish Kapoor. In the exhibit, red wax was together an exhibit—a culmination of all with a welcome mural. Down a serpentine shot from a cannon onto a giant white wall. the video footage, photos, paintings, and road, several workshops and warehouses The canisters that housed the wax ended displayed photo up in a recycling warehouse in Dharavi exhibits and film a few days later. The artists happened “So many people were really stunned at projections the to stumble upon them and recognized artists had created, them immediately from the exhibit. what they saw. They expected it to be a inspired by They couldn’t believe it. Dharavi. A three- “It was obvious there was a story scary, uncomfortable place. Instead, they story building there,” says Nolan. “These pieces that hosted paintings came from the most influential artist in saw the friendliness and the humanity and experimental India in one sector of society ended up and the iov for life that exists there.” films. in this sector of society that is mosdy ignored, with the people that clean up the waste of everyone else.” The artists bought forty of the canisters from the recycling warehouse. With permission from Kapoor’s manager, they took kids from Dharavi to Kapoor’s art show so they, too, could witness the cannon shoot red wax. Later Nolan and the others met with Kapoor, who donated materials from his exhibit to the Dharavi kids to
Dharavi resident Laxmi, left, her daughter Sheetal, and a neighbor sit inside the Beehive installation. Beehive w as built entirely from recycled materials found in Dharavi and featured an audio track of bees buzzing mixed with recorded industrial sounds of Hems being recycled.
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Nolan works on building the Bottle House installation (or an exhibition in Dharavi. Photo by Arne de Knegt
“These people are doing jobs that none of us want With Kapoors canisters the artists to do. Those are the cards they’ve been dealt, and built a six-foot-tall and six-foot- diameter walk-in structure, which they they make the most out of it With very little they called Beehive. Nolan had created a soundtrack that visitors could listen find a lot of happiness in their lives. That alone to inside the hive. It was the sound of bees buzzing combined with the sounds was one of the most powerful lessons.” of Dharavi: metal splitting, pounding, plastic being ground down. People talking. tentative plans to go back to Dharavi to look A man singing. The aftermath at opening an official art center for children. “We recorded peoples reactions that day,” In July 2011, less than six months after the Mazzarella recendy returned from Europe, says Nolan. “So many people were really artists departed Dharavi, a small section where he led shorter A ttracting workshops stunned at what they saw. They expected it of slum was leveled. Warnings of more for marginalized communities in Rome and to be a scary, uncomfortable place. Instead, bulldozing have been issued. Nolan says the Oslo, Norway. A six-week project in Detroit they saw the friendliness and the humanity media haven’t been allowed into the slum, is planned for this fall. and the joy for life that exists there.” and, with little technology to communicate, But nothing will be quite like Dharavi. Some locals brought out their own the artists haven’t been able to reach their “These people are doing jobs that none art pieces to show, and one man made friends who live there. of us want to do,” says Nolan. “Those are newspaper hats for the children. Many “It’s still really hard to say whether this the cards they’ve been dealt, and they make Dharavi people continued their work of is the start of a larger demolition or not,” the most out of it. With very little they find recycling throughout the day, but they also says Nolan. a lot of happiness in their lives. That alone stopped to watch the spectacle as people If it’s demolished, the two other was one of the most powerful lessons.” lUl who had never set foot in the slum explored canister beehives, which were built on For more information on the project, go to the streets. rooftops, and four murals will most likely www. artefacting, com. “It could have been almost artificial but it be destroyed along with Dharavi’s hard- felt organic,” says Mazzarella. “People from built homes and businesses. Erika Fredrickson is the all over Mumbai went into this slum in the For now at least, the slum’s future hangs in arts editor at the Missoula name of an art exhibition. But, in the end, the balance. Meanwhile, Nolan and the others Independent. She graduated what really happened is they saw the reality of continue to advocate for Dharavi through from UMs Creative Writing people here. And what they saw broke down art. The Dharavi exhibit is now booked Program in 1999 and their preconceived notions of the slum. For a for galleries in Boston, New York City, and received a master’s degree in day it made the gap a litde bit smaller.” Portland, Ore. Mazzarella and de Knegt have environmental studies in 2009.
WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN MONTANAN FALL 2011 I 21 alumni p r o file fmnrijs~-are a Big to-do in STORY BY NATE SCHWEBER PHOTOS BY DAVID SAVINSKI (ffollgwood, a town o f Big to-dos. fftte n d in g means spending pours getting fe makeup pefect and fe fair just so. asey Kriley, who was raised in the theater at The University of Montana, goes Cto the gala every year. The limousine ride and red-carpet walk are mosdy just a de-rigueur part of her job as a successful television producer; a fancy one- night break from the grueling hours she puts in working for a booming company that creates some of the most-watched reality-competition shows on TV. Still, she always tries to make the Emmy party special. She invites her mother to leave the family home tucked beneath the saddle of Mount Jumbo in Missoula’s tranquil Ratdesnake Valley and fly to “Hollyweird” for a night of glitz and glamour. After all, it’s not every Garden City mom whose daughter helps produce Top Chef, which has been nominated for an Emmy five years in a row. Kriley didn’t expect to win in 2010. The Amazing Race had 22 FAU. 2011 MONTANAN Production « \ 'UM Drama Brat' Casey Kriley '93 Keeps Dad's Legacy Alive Casey Kriley, a reality television show producer in Hollywood, Calif., won an Emmy Award for Top Chef. MONTANAN FALL 2011 I 23 dominated the category seven-years, running. Then one momenta “She is verylftiuch like him L ipsitz says. “She is very creative, and she heard actress Keri Russell say, “And the winner is,” ancTithe next she can be a force to be reckoned with.” moment Krileys mother was on her feet, fist in the air, and screaming. Randy Bolton, a colleague of James Kriley’s and one of Casey “I cheered like I was at a Grizzly football game,” says Mary Kay Kriley’s professors, also sees the ways they are alike. Kriley, Caseys mom. “Casey and Jim both have an untiring tenacity—never letting Casey’s jaw dropped. Her eyes welled. She felt exultation, surprise!, go—getting it done completely and thoroughly,” he says. “She is a joy, and triumph. Even today she says the win was “a complete shock.” direct reflection of her dad.” There was just one thing missing from that moment: her father, When it came time to choose a college, UM was obvious. By James Kriley. the time Casey graduated from Hellgate High School, her mother He had been gone almost two years, found dead on Flathead was teaching math and finance at UM. James was the dean of the Lake the day after his beloved sailboat mysteriously washed ashore School of Fine Arts, and on Sundays after church he would take his empty. He was the one who introduced Casey to the performing arts family through his biggest production yet, the under-construction as a child. She remembers him as passionate, tireless, and hysterical; Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center. a lover of gin and tonics, the f-word, and sailing. At Griz football “It was an exciting time,” Casey says. games she would watch his eyes overflow when the home team Caseys sisters went to UM too, but they deviated slighdy from scored a key touchdown. their fathers career path. Meegan, the oldest, studied political science. “He was one of those people who cried from joy,” she says. “It Colleen, the youngest, studied technical theater and went on to work says a lot about his heart.” lights on soap opera sets in L.A. When he died, she didn’t just lose a father, “We got our love of theater from our she lost a mentor and an adviser. Kriley at dad,” Colleen says. “But Casey always Standing onstage at the Nokia Theatre in the Magical seemed to be the most into it.” Los Angeles, Emmy statue in hand, Casey Elves office Casey showed nerve by deciding held proof that she had truly taken her fathers to study acting at UM. Not only did legacy and run with it. it set her up for a life of husding in a notoriously tough field, but it also meant or James Kriley every she had to take classes from one of the Saturday was take-your-kids- most challenging professors on campus: to-work day. He moved his wife her dad. and three daughters from Seatde Casey once stormed into her fathers to Missoula in the mid-1970s office, furious after not being cast in yet Fto teach drama at UM. For him the dual another play. She announced she was commitments of raising a family and putting leaving the program. He didn’t try to on shows were done simultaneously, under the stop her. same roof. Casey, the middle daughter, says “He said, ‘If you want to quit, go her earliest memory is spending a Saturday ahead and do it,’” she says. “I was afternoon at UM watching her father direct surprised, but looking back I see that the Mark Medoff play When You Comiri he knew surviving in the arts is really Back, Red Ryder. James was quick to integrate difficult financially, so there was a part of his daughters into the productions. Some him who, as a concerned parent, didn’t days they sewed costumes; other days they want me to pursue the arts.” hammered props or painted sets. The move was quintessentially James “You know how kids in military families Kriley: blunt, but motivated by love. He are nicknamed Army brats?’” Casey says. “Well, we were ‘University didn’t give his daughter an answer; he pushed her to find her own. of Montana drama brats.’” Rather than walking away, she instead doubled-down on her work and Other faculty members nicknamed the trio of girls “The Krilettes.” went on to star in many plays. “It was really a special time,” Mary Kay says. “UM was like an During, her final semester at UM, she took a directing class from extension of our home.” her father. It inspired her to spend the next three years earning a By the time Casey was seven, she had her first starring role-playing graduate degree in writing and directing from the California Institute Tiny Tim in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. of the A r ts / “Everyone said how cute my parents’ son was,” she remembers Casey recalls how focused and commanding her father was during aving absorbed her father’s lessons, her formative years. She watched the way he emoted and bore down itwas time for her to strike out on her own. on his actors and crew for ten-hour days. The lessons she absorbed from him would serve her well in her work in television. Jane Lipsitz, who co-fbunded the production company Casey has worked for in LA. for the past ten years, says she sees uncanny H Graduate degree in hand and Southern California similarities between father and daughter. zip code on her mail, Casey’s showbiz path followed a familiar script: She waited tables for a year. 24 I FALL 2 0 1 1 M O N T A N A N Then in 2001 she interviewed with a young production company called Magical Elves, which worked in the burgeoning genre of reality Kriley, who keeps a grueling schedule, often works from her home. TV. Casey landed a job as a producer and immediately sensed a familiar connection with the company’s founders, Lipsitz and Dan Cutforth. “You know how when you leave Montana and you meet a fellow Montanan you just kind of click with them?” Casey says. “I instandy clicked with Dan and Jane. They’ve essentially become my second family down here.” Cutforth says he admires the fact that Casey has a “hunger” to “make every show as good as it can be.” He also appreciates her the house, and spend friendship. his mornings drinking “The great "&jeel Jy fjave fja lf my mom s Srain and fjafr coffee and perusing the friend part is tides at the bookstore. perhaps the most m y d a d ^fra in .jffn d tide yin andyang, (javing Then the important of all, unthinkable happened. because when you S o t7 fjas (jelped mq succeed in wfjat do." On August 18, 2008, spend as much James Kriley’s empty time together as we all d WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN MONTANAN FALL 2011 I 25 As high-school valedictorian and new addition to the Lady Griz basketball tradition, Jordan Sullivan embodies what it means to be a true student-athlete. After receiving a University Honors Scholarship, Jordan now can spend more time studying and practicing and less time worrying about how to fund her college education. More than 900 donors directly impact the lives of more than 1,600 TXr UNIVERSITY^ MONTANA students each year by contributing to scholarships. To be a part of the community f o u n d /a T I O N of donors who support students like Jordan, please consider making a gift today. For more information please contact Ric Thomas, vice president of development, at 406.243.2593 or 800.443.2593 or visit www.SupportUM.org. 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Last fall, the , community of assistant professor of faculty, alumni, sociology got a chance and friends of the to try this approach University will when she led a foster quality, freshman seminar relevant research called “Hunger and and scholarship,” Homelessness in a Engstrom says. Land of Plenty.” “We will rely on “I connected with close partnerships students in a class of to make the Global twenty-two instead Leadership Initiative of teaching in a big successful.” lecture hall,” Rooks Alumni and friends says. “We went on A group of students from will be asked to speak field trips to local the UM Department of ______at seminars and service providers and Anthropology [above] retreats. You also can had guest speakers from a variety joined faculty members them, and prepare get involved by making a donation to help Garry Kerr [below] and of community organizations visit them to lead.” cover the costs of delivering this innovative Kelly Dixon on a trip to the class. Some students were The Global program. A fund to help students pay for lanzania. motivated enough to travel to Leadership Initiative their travel will be created. Donations also j Los Angeles over winter break for is one outcome of a will help pay for leadership retreats and j a service-learning trip organized new strategic plan provide a pool for students to cover expenses by UM’s Office for Civic UM adopted shordy related to their capstone projects. The Engagement.” after President Royce University also plans to pay for a passport for Rooks is co-chair of a Engstrom took office each fellow who studies abroad. committee focused on delivering last fall. The plan’s goals Contact Ric Thomas at The University o f a new program at UM called include partnering for Montana Foundation at 406-243-2593 or the Global Leadership Initiative. student success and 800-443-2593 to learn more, or designate Two-hundred freshmen will offering an educational your annual gift to the Global Leadership participate as Global Leadership experience that provides Initiative Fund at www.SupportUM.org. Fellows this year. These students students at all levels will engage in seminars like the with the foundation to one Rooks taught last fall. They’ll also make a positive impact on the world. learn from out-of-classroom experiences As Global Leadership Fellows, students crafted to prepare them to lead on the will connect with alumni who are leaders global stage. in their fields at campus events and TXe- “We will begin by strengthening weekend retreats. 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Peckers Wing Shack 4001 Palmer Lane Buffalo Wild Wings Bar 304-598-9698 FLORIDA The Winner’s Circle 10403 E Park Rd | 512-835-0010 & Grille Scott Schield '97/ 304-842-6061 PENSACOLA T i l l Elm St (Rte 110) i 704-541-4113 Ken '63 & Dianne '65 Lawrence 1317 S Yuma Palms Pkwy Seville Quarter 978-462-8994 Justin Severely ‘99 210493-7936 908- 373-2300 WISCONSIN 130 E Government St Kevin Eames *86 / 603-929-2190 704-577-1917 ‘ Anne Duffy / 512-7364867 Mary Blair / 406-360-7089 MADISON 850-434-6211 DALLAS / RICHARDSON Pooley’s 'UU coordinator n e e d e d MICHIGAN NORTH DAKOTA ARKANSAS The Fox & Hound 5441 High Crossing Rd DETROIT/ANN ARBOR BISMARCK / MANDAN LITTLE ROCK 112 West Campbell Road 608-242-1888 WILDWOOD Dave & Buster’s of Detroit Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar Embassy Suites Athletic Club 9724374225 Michelle Cunningham '88 Beef O'Brady's 45511 ParkAve, 586-930-1515 218 S 3rd S t 701-323-9464 11301 Financial Ctr Pkwy Jim Salvo 6 8 / 214-823-7148 608-719-9256 840 Main St / 352-689-0048 Roger Bonderud 74 Mike Scott '82 / 701-391-4479 501-312-9000 & Mike McDonough 7 2 Jaion Grass '05/907-242-9606 734-332-1627 MILWAUKEE Allen Davis '89 / 501-804-7987 I FARGO 214-521-8650 Henry's Tavern GEORGIA Side Street Grill & Pub CALIFORNIA MINNESOTA HOUSTON 2523 E Belleview ATLANTA /ALPHARETTA MINNEAPOLIS/MENDOTA Howard Johnson Inn FRESNO The Fox & Hound 414-332-2772 Montana’s Sports Bar & Grill Lucky's 13 Pub 301 3rd Ave N / 701-232-8850 Silver Dollar Hofbrau 11470 Westheimer "Justin Farrell 9 8 13695 Highway 9, Alpharetta 1352 Sibley Memorial Hwy George Weatherston '58 333 East Shaw Ave 218-589-2122 225-650-0985 678-366-8928 651-452-1311 701-232-8796 559-227-6000 Jim '92 & Nikki Costelloe '92 DJ Colter 00 / 701-367-9191 Suzanne '98 & Jesse Kropp Marty Ueiand 6 6 / 559-438-7825 Michael Higgs 76 281-385-9692 WYOMING 770-945-9868 651-688-8670 OHIO CASPER LA QUINTA / PALM DESERT UTAH Sidelines Sports Bar HAWAII MISSOURI CINCINNATI AREA Beerhunter. 78-483 Hwy 111 HONOLULU / OAHU Willie's Sports Cafe SALT LAKE CITY 1121 Wilkins Circle 760-564-7442 ST. LOUIS 307-234-9444 Legends Sports Bar 8188 Princeton-Glendaie Rd G rade’s Lee Hackney 70/951-845-7921 Buffalo Wild Wings Ron Kay *96 & '00 411 Nahua St, Honolulu (Star Route 747) West Chester 326 SW Temple. 801-819-7565 Don Stanaway 52/760-772-5251 12653 Olive Blvd, 314-579-9464 Kevin Dunne 91 / 801-5024915 307-277-1512 808-922-7486 Kent Vesser ‘93/314-822-0099 513-860-4243 LOS ANGELES/CULVER CITY Kaipoiani Wallwork Fake Brian CSpson '81/513-779-1610 WASHINGTON SHERIDAN 808-741-7664 Joxer Daly's NEBRASKA BELLINGHAM Ole’s Pizza & Spaghetti House, 11168 Washington Blvd OMAHA OKLAHOMA 927 CoffeenAve OKLAHOMA CITY Extremes Sports Grill & 310-838-3745 IDAHO DJ’s Dugout 307-672-3636 The Fox & Hound Pizzeria, 4156 Meridian St Kim Larsen Santini '85 BOISE 636 N 114th St /402-498-8855 Tim Thomas '91 Crescent No Lawyers’ Bar & 3031 W Memorial Rd 360-647-7066 310-422-5792 Jennifer Hay Guenlhner *96 Anne Freeman Rasmussen *98 307-751-8833 / 307-672-7418 Grill. 5500 W Franklin Ave 402-203-1987 405-751-7243 ORANGE COUNTY 208-322-9856 'UU coordinator naadad 360-319-9219 GILLETTE Daily's Sports Grill Jon Mathews '84/208-395-5472 Mingles. 2209 S Douglas Hwy 29881 Aventura / 949-858-5788 307-686-1222 IM f coordinator naadad John Chopping / 307-689-2884 SACRAMENTO Kick-off for the 111tfl meeting is 12:05 p.m . MST (Time subject to change). Check our website for up-to- ROCK SPRINGS Player's Sports Pub & Grille date information. Sites and coordinators may change. WWW.GrizAllim.com OF call 1 -877-UM-ALUMS Bomber's Sports Bar 4060 Sunrise Blvd To help defray the cost of the satellite transmission, there will be a $5 broadcast fee per attendee. 1549 Elk S t 307-382-6400 916-967-8492 Daryl Fellbaum Malt Brown *02 / 918-220-7715 Fees may vary at individual locations. about alum ni ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Eric D. Botterbusch '87 : Everett, WA Paul Tuss '88 Havre Thomas J. Dimmer '85 Williomslon, Ml Alina Alvarez '99 Denver. Leon Billings '59 Bethany Beach, DE Brandon Byars'93 Susan C. English '72 '40s Alison Fuller'05 STEWART BRANDBORG New York '48, Hon. Ph.D. '10, Dawn Houle '94 Hamilton, and his father, the Gaithersburg, MD late GUY "BRANDY" M. Barrett Kaiser '99 BRANDBORG ' 18, have Billings received some well-deserved Jim Kolokotrones '81, '86 attention for their conservation Daly City, CA efforts. Stewart, now eighty- Karin Larson-Pollock'93 _. four, was honored with Mercer Island, WA . the Lifetime Conservation Achievement Award by the Conservation Top: Stewart Ken Lawrence'63 San Antonio Roundtable, which has found only four such worthy recipients for Brandborg, center, Allan Murphy '65 the award in its twenty-five years. Stewart is a retired director of the Honorar Doctor Bend, OR Wilderness Society and helped create the 1964 National Wilderness . nce Mamie McMeel Prigge'73 Preservation Act. He also founded the Friends of the Bitterroot and has jn 2010. been active in Bitterrooters for Responsible Government and Wilderness Above: Stewart Rachel Schneller '95 . Watch. He is married to ANNA VEE MATHER an(j his father, Washington, D.C. BRANDBORG '4 7 . Stewart takes after his Guy Brandborg, Greg Sundberg '01, '03 Missoula father, who is the subject of a new book, The in the 1970s. Ed Tinsley '92, '07 Bitterroot and Air. Brandborg: Clearcutting H elena \ and the Struggle for Sustainable Forestry in the Northern Rockies, by Patrick Weasel Head'71,73 3 k v \ author Frederick H. Swanson. The elder Brandborg had a forty-year Missoula The Bitteiioots ^ B ia iio ig career with the U.S. Forest Service and was supervisor of the Bitterroot Pat Weber 73 National Forest for two decades starting in 1935. His efforts helped Yordley, PA shape national Forest Service policy. Swanson's well-researched biography earned the 2010 Wallace Stegner Prize in Environmental Bill Johnston '79, '91 "CiL, and American Western History. PRESIDENT AND CEO 406-243-5211 877-UM-ALUMS www.GrizAlum.com Keep Us Posted. Send your news to The University o f Montana Alumni Association, Brantly Hall, Missoula, M T 59812. Go to www.GrizAlum.com VIRGINIA SPECK ’33, M.A. ’46, and click on “Class Notes, "fax your news to 406-243-4467, or call Missoula, celebrated her 100th I-877-UM-ALUMS (877-862-5867). Material in this issue reached our birthday May 21 with friends, office by July 11, 2011. Note: The year immediately fallowing an alums family, and former students at a name indicates either an undergraduate degree year or attendance at UM. reception in her honor. Virginia was Graduate degrees from UM are indicated by initials. born in Whitehall and taught math Snowbirds/Sunbirds—Anyone! Whenever you change your mailing for twenty-seven years at Missoula address, please contact the alumni office. Let us know where you are and 7»T»•»*•**«> of.Mpmln, County High School and Sentinel when. Thank you. High School. She retired in 1973. about alum ni inspections, writes '50s stewardship plans, and GLENN PATTON ’51, executes them with his M.A. *55, Eugene, Ore., son Sam, also a forester. led nearly ninety of his Jerry has three other former music students in children with his wife of | a concert for the Sheldon fifty-two years, Glenna, High School Choirs who passed away in April. Reunion in June. Now DICKIE LEWIS ’65, J.D. eighty-five, Glenn was ’68, Clifton, Colo., closed choir director at Sheldon his solo law practice after High in the 1970s and forty years. Dickie intends j ’80s. He retired in 1986 to spend his retirement but kept in touch with floating rivers and rapids. He has rafted more than I many of his former TOMME LU MIDDLETON WORDEN '5 1, Missoula, sent in a photo of a 10,000 miles—including students, who helped gathering of old friends in Elgin, Ariz. From left to right: J . RUKIN JELKS '52; the Grand Canyon six organize the reunion and BARBARA GALEN STEWART '5 1; GORDON STEWART '5 1 ■ TOMME LU; times—since becoming rehearsals via Facebook. R.H. "TY" ROBINSON '40, J.D. '48; CAROLYN GILLETT JELKS '52. One former student told a licensed whitewater the Eugene Register-Guard, rafting guide in Utah. “The bottom line is we Tony retired in 1999 have to give back.” His ROMIE DESCHAMPS ’66, want to honor Glenn after thirty-two years next goal is to persuade Palmer, Alaska, is the Patton. No other teacher as a teacher, coach, and President Barack Obama recipient of the Alaska has had [such] impact counselor with Spokane to declare a national Pharmacists Association’s on my life—and I know Public Schools, but at age Random Acts of Kindness 2011 Bowl of Hygeia every one of his students seventy-four continues to Week. Award for outstanding feels the same way.” They be an engaged volunteer GERALD MAGERA 63, community service. The performed ten selections, for organizations such as Enterprise, Ore., retired award is sponsored by the including “Over the Big Brothers Big Sisters. from the U.S. Forest American Pharmacists Rainbow” and “The Star- He describes himself as Service in 1994 but, at Association Foundation Spangled Banner.” a “fanatic” for helping age eighty-one, still works and the National Alliance people. “Life is tough,” as a forest manager for of State Pharmacy Tony says. “We have private property owners. Associations. While award for exceptional to understand that we Jerry does property practicing pharmacy in community spirit and volunteerism includes a custom-fitted Stetson. '60s ANTHONY J. ANTONUCCI ’61, Spokane, Wash., successfully lobbied his mayor and state governor to designate May 2-8, ROBERT G . NICHOLSON 2011, as Random Acts of ’52, Helena, spent thirty- Kindness Week. Tony, a five years as an executive 1974 UM Distinguished in the Boy Scouts of Alumni Award recipient, America professional was raised by relatives service. He attended in Brooklyn, N.Y., UM after serving as a after being orphaned ball turret gunner on a at a young age. A high B-17 in World War II, school football standout, flying thirty missions he received five college TIMOTHY CONVER ’66, Chatsworth, Calif., holds a “Nano Hummingbird,” over Germany. He is a scholarship offers. He told a miniature robotic plane developed by his company to spy in the skies over recipient of the Silent the Spokesman-Review, war zones such as Afghanistan. Tim is chair and CEO of AeroVironment, Sentinel Award. “I got the map out and Inc., a Southern California technology company whose innovations include JERRY MURPHY 53, said I want to get as electric vehicle charging systems and remote-control reconnaissance aircraft. Bigfork, received the far away as I can, so I About 80 percent of AeroVironment s work is done for the U.S. Department Big Hat Award from the picked The University of of Defense. See video of the Nano Hummingbird hovering and flying at Community Foundation Montana. I loved, loved, www.avinc.com/ nano. j for a Better Bigfork. The loved being out there.” 3 0 I FALL 2 0 1 1 MONTANAN about alum ni | Present Crisis, and Vision far the Future. Stan is a Distinguished Research Professor in the geological sciences department at East Carolina University. ROBERT SEMRAD ’67, Brookings, S.D., isn’t one to rest on his laurels. Since majoring in forestry at UM, Bob has gone on to earn certificates and degrees in Bible, guidance and counseling, divinity and Christian education and, most recently, a Alaska for thirty-four 2011 bachelor of arts in years, Romie also has visual arts from South MARTIN MELOSI ’69, M A ’71, Houston, published sponsored exchange Dakota State University. students through Rotary, Precious Commodity: Providing Water fo r America’s He’s also an ordained and CitieSy a book of essays about water use and manage been a smokejumper, retired minister, as well as volunteered his time, ment. Martin is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen a retired Air Force colonel Professor of History and director of the Center for and donated his art to and chaplain. Bob and his AkPhA and retirement Public History at the University of Houston in Texas. His new book is based on wife of forty-five years, forty years of extensive research and offers a historical perspective on water sup centers. Romie enjoys Jeanne, have two grown painting, hunting, fishing, ply and wastewater systems in urban America. Martin is the author of eighteen children. books and more than eighty-five articles. He received the Distinguished Service and other activities with KAREN DAVIDSON family and friends. Award from the American Society for Environmental History in 2009 and WOODRUFF ’68, ANN CORDWELL HALLER UH s highest faculty honor, the Esther Farfel Award, in 2005. He is married to Oswaldtwisde, Lancashire, CAROLYN RONCHETTO MELOSI 71. *66, Pinehurst, Idaho, moved from Hardin to retired after thirty-one England in 2003 and years of teaching biology, published a book about whitening in exchange enrolled in The University CARL RUMMEL 7 6 was anatomy, and physiology her experience in 2009. for donations. The of Montana journalism re-elected board chair of at Kellogg High School. To England With Love tells program has raised more school, the most wild-eyed Missoula Federal Credit Ann earned national the story of meeting her than $100,000 for local thinkers were imagining Union. Carl recently recognition in 2003, future husband, Mick, children’s charities. technology eventually gave a presentation when she was named on the Internet through a would evolve to send the titled Motivating Board Outstanding Biology shared interest in music, day’s news to readers via Volunteers and Bringing Teacher in Idaho. She is as well as the often '70s printers that were part of Fun to the Boardroom at married to FREDERICK R. humorous challenges AMARETTA "A M Y " JONES the television sets found a National Asociation j HALLER ’66. of adapting to a new ONSTAD 7 0 and her in most families’ living of Federal Credit Unions | WILLIAM J . BEAMAN '67, country. husband, GEORGE "BUD" rooms. They sort of had conference in Savannah, Ga. M.A. ’72, has joined RODGER D. YOUNG L ONSTAD 71, are retired the right idea.” SANDRIA CUNNINGHAM the Helena Independent ’68, Southfield, Mich., and living in Rockdale BEN CLEVELAND 72 77, Sandpoint, Idaho, Record editorial board as accepted an invitation to County, Ga., after long became manager of is a cardiac ultrasound one of two community serve as one of thirteen careers as Lutheran the Washington State technologist at Bonner representatives, global ambassadors for ministers. A recent Department of Natural General Hospital. j STANLEY R. RIGGS, Ph.D. Susan G. Komen for the newspaper article in the Resources Northwest JACK POTTER 77, ’67, Greenville, S.C., is Cure. The foundation is a Rockdale Citizen profiled Region, headquartered in Columbia Falls, retired in co-author of The Battle leader in the fight against Bud’s extensive service as Sedro-Woolley, Wash. May after forty-one years for North Carolina's Coast: I breast cancer. a pastor in the U.S. Amy, BRUCE NELSON 73, in Glacier National Park. Evolutionary History, TERRY ZAHN, M.S. ’68, where he served during Bozeman, was appointed Jack came west in 1969 recendy retired after forty Vietnam, Korea, Panama, administrator of the years in dental practice and Desert Storm. U.S. Department of in Missoula. Terry, whose KEN ROBERTSON 70, Agriculture’s Farm Service last name means “tooth” Kennewick, Wash., Agency by the Obama in German, partnered recendy marked thirty- administration in July. with Sentinel Kiwanis five years at the Tri-City Bruce had served as in 2001 to create Smiles Herald, the last twenty acdng administrator since for Missoula’s Kids, a as its top editor. In an May and previously as fundraiser that offers editorial, Ken wrote: “In state executive director of professional teeth- the late 1960s when I was the Montana FSA. WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN MONTANAN FAIL 2011 I 31 rnr-p iff -s^ §?5 r.u.??? W f& o J o j r }i|oe|saO UM Homecoming 2011 pe|es3c ' “ ■rodzina M f a m i l y eu;zpoj sinh vat hoc September 25 - October 1 o i K O Y £ V £ i a aniiiiei aip OOJX Homecoming Kick-Off Celebration Class of 1971 Reunion Luncheon Distinguished Alumni Awards dzlvnieku ° 6 m i$ a mup* Pep Rally j Lighting of the M D I 3 A 3 A o > H O family | All-Alumni Social and Dance S^«2|S#(H|A1 jl 4jjLi Homecoming Parade TV Tailgate WE ARE w FAMILY Griz vs. Northern Colorado MONTANA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION TheUniversity of Montane For more info call 877-UM-ALUMS and for detailed montana homecoming 2011 Homecoming schedule visit: www.GrizAlum.com A tradition worth passing on The UM family knows how to keep a great tradition alive. Take the way we support our students. For generations, alumni and friends have made a gift each year through The University of Montana Foundation. Today, 11,000 individuals and businesses support UM each year with $3 million in gifts. Because of this great tradition, UM is able to help more students pursue their dreams. The annual fall phone appeal begins soon. When you get a call from a student, say "Yes, I want to support UM." Or give online today at www.SupportUM.org. UN IVE RSITY tfT MONTAN A F O U N d / a T I O N "I cannot tell you the impact this award has had on my life and the many different ways it will help me pursue my educational and professional goals. I am deeply thankful." - Joseph Redfem, UM student and recipient o f the Alva C. Baird Scholarship. 32 FALL 2011 MONTANAN about alum ni ► to work as a bus boy in coordinator for the Lewis the Swiftcurrent Motor and Clark City-County Inn Coffee Shop and Health Department. retired as chief of science AUDREY REMEDIOS 79 is and resources management a veterinarian specializing with the National Park in surgery at the Western Service. Along the way, Veterinary Specialist and he earned a degree in Emergency Centre in forestry from UM; Calgary, Canada. married RACHEL W OOD POTTER ’83; logged more than 25,000 miles in the '80s park on foot, horseback, JO H N MARZLUFF ’80, and skis; and became Snohomish, Wash., known as the “go-to- published his third book, guy” for information Dog Days, Raven Nights, about Glacier. Jack has about conducting, with received numerous honors, his wife, Colleen, a three- including the Department year winter study of the of the Interiors Superior common raven in Maine. KURT WILSON '83, Missoula, won first place for his photography portfolio Service Award in 2007 and John is a wildlife biology in the 2010 Society of Professional Journalists Northwest Excellence the NPS Intermountain professor at the University in Journalism contest. The top honor was based on a collection of ten Region Directors Award of Washington. His images. Kurt also won third place in news photography for his photo of for Excellence in Natural previous books include In a tranquilized black bear falling from a tree in downtown Missoula. The Resource Management in the Company o f Crows and bear was relocated to Lolo Pass. 2003. Ravens. her second book, Angry JO H N HINES ’83, hopefully can contribute Fat Girls: 5 Women, M.A. ’85, Helena, a Montana public 500 Pounds and a Year was promoted to vice school perspective,” o f Losing I t ... Again. president of supply at Mike says. For more The book is a follow-up Northwestern Energy. He information, visit www. to her acclaimed 2004 and his wife, SIOBHAN educationnorthwest.org. memoir, Passing fo r Thin: HATHHORN HINES ’84, DAVID L. MASTERS ’83, Losing H alf My Weight have two children. J.D. ’86, Montrose, Colo., and Finding Myself. The BOWEN LARSEN ’83 was elected to a one-year new book explores the is the new public term as president of the struggle to not just lose information manager of Colorado Bar Association. weight, but keep it off. In Peoria, Ariz. Bo oversees MICHAEL RADEMAKER ’83, ' MICHEAL RAY RICHARD KIRK ’81 and its preview of the book, the city’s Office of has joined the Nevada ! RICHARDSON 78, LOUANN STUFF KIRK Publishers Weekly wrote, Communications. County (Mo.) Country Englewood, N.J., was *81, Snohomish, Wash., MICHAEL A. MAGONE Club as its golf pro and interviewed by the Good traveled to Argentina, ’83, J.D. ’88, Ed.D. ’07, general manager. He Men Project online where their daughter is Missoula, was named to previously managed golf magazine about his studying. During an April the Education Northwest courses in Tacoma, Wash. experiences being the outing in the Andes, Board of Directors. Mike RICHARD ROLSTON ’83 only black player on the they wore UM maroon is superintendent of the is the new president and Griz basketball team to Mount Aconcagua, Lolo School District CEO of Alegent Health and the fourth pick in the highest peak in the and an adjunct professor Clinic in Omaha, Neb. the 1978 NBA draft. Western Hemisphere at in UM’s Phyllis J. Since earning his medical “Sugar” also discussed nearly 23,000 feet. “Just Washington College of degree at the University kicking drugs, coaching, wanted to share a picture Education and Human and being a sensitive guy. to show that Griz Nation Sciences. He also chairs He says playing for UM is everywhere,” LouAnn uAngry Fat Girls grew out the Missoula Area was “nice. It was a lot writes. of a blog she wrote with Curriculum Consortium. of snow, but it was nice. BRUCE WILLIAMSON 81 four other women in the Education Northwest is The people were good. It is the new president and same situation. The tide a nonprofit organization was great.” CEO of Cleco Corp., a may be sassy, and Kuffel that works to transform GAYLE SHIRLEY 78, regional energy company does have a witty way with teaching and learning in Helena, is the new in Louisiana. words, but the text itself is the region. “I am honored I communications FRANCES KUFFEL ’82, moving and honest.” Visit to serve on the Education I and special projects Brooklyn, N.Y., published www. franceskuffel. net. Northwest board and WWW.UMT.EOU/MON1ANAN MONTANAN FALL 2011 33 I'LL BET THE UM FOUNDATION DIDN'T PLAN ON THIS PARTY WHEN THEY SET UP MY GIFT ANNUITY! You can secure fixed annual payments by making a contribution to support The University of Montana. The UM Foundation has several giving vehicles that can provide you lifetime income; one is a charitable gift annuity (CGA). 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NELSON, M.P.A. familiar with The University of Montana. Because for those ’84, retired in June after ofT us fortunate enough to have spent time at UM, a return trip to eighteen years as the city manager of Corvallis, campus always feels like returning home. Ore., where he oversaw On my most recent visit to campus, I had the opportunity four city departments, to attend the inauguration of Royce Engstrom, the University’s 400 employees and seventeenth president. Much like every time I’m back, the moment I the creation of new stepped on campus I immediately felt at home, similar to the feeling parks, fire stations, and I get while pulling into our driveway after an extended trip away. infrastructure projects. And while the scenic beauty of campus is in small part responsible Jon was known for for that feeling, it is due primarily to the people— faculty, staff, his quiet, low-key administration, and alumni—who embrace the University and management style and support its mission. sense of humor. He is President Engstrom recently announced the new strategic plan for The ERIC BOTTERBUSCH married to PRISCILLA '87 earned a NELSON, M.B.A. ’83, and University of Montana called UM 2020: Building a University for the Global bachelor's degree they have three children. Century. While I encourage you to learn more about the plan, it essentially in economics with KATHRYN WILLEMS states that UM’s new role must be the preparation of students to meet the RUE ’84 has joined the complex opportunities and challenges that await them in our global society. minors in history accounting team at Great Intrinsic to that mission are the underlying values of leadership, engagement, and political science West Engineering in diversity, and sustainability. from UM. He is a Helena. I encourage you, as friends and alumni of our great University, to lend registered securities WILLIAM KUNTZ ’83, your support to that mission. If you are not already, consider becoming more principal with Redding, Calif., received actively engaged and involved. Your reward will be the satisfaction of helping Allstate Financial a 2011 Legends Award turn UM from a great University into a cutting-edge, leading University, one Services, LLC, in from the American that is fully prepared to meet the challenges and opportunities of the next Bothell, Wash. Recreation Coalition Originally from during Great Outdoors century. Helena, he lives in Week in June. The awards And as we enter that global century, it is certainly comforting to know Everett, Wash., with recognize the outstanding that, unlike Mr. Wolfe, you can indeed go home again simply by returning to work of federal managers The University of Montana. I encourage you to do so often. his wife of ten years, to improve outdoor We look forward to seeing you pull into the driveway. Carol Anderson. recreation opportunities Up with Montana! They are Montana across the nation. Bill Grizzlies north end supervises the Recreation President Engstrom's UM 2020: Building a University for the Global Century zone season-ticket and Engineering Program may be viewed at http://issuu.com/umontana/docs/um2020. holders. for the Bureau of Land Managements Redding field office. He has been Los Angeles with a goal their bacon.” Barbara five northern Montana with the BLM for twenty- of raising $1 million in says, “No matter what counties. Paul also is the five years. pledges. His hope is that you think, there’s always new vice chair of the UM STEPHEN T. MILLHOUSE individuals will pledge something good in each Alumni Association Board ’83, Missoula, embarked $14.60—one penny for kid. Sometimes it takes of Directors. He has been on his “One-Man March each of the 1,460 miles a little digging to find married to PAM HILLERY, j | Against Homelessness” he intends to travel. it, but it’s fun to dig.” M.S. ’88, for twenty-two I in August. He plans to Learn more at www. Barbara also chairs the years. They have a son i walk from Missoula to myonemanmarch.org. Lake County Festival of and a daughter. BARBARA MONACO ’86, Trees to raise funds for MARCELLE COMPTON Poison, is the senior-most the local youth home and QUIST, J.D . ’88, Southern chief juvenile probation founded the Mick Holien recognized as one of Pines, N.C., is an officer in the state of CASA Golf Scramble the highest-performing, attorney with the U.S. Montana, working in to benefit the county’s federally recognized Department of the Lake and Sanders counties Court-Appointed Special economic development Army at Fort Bragg since 1986. Poisons Advocates program. districts in the nauon. and an accomplished district judge told the PAUL TUSS ’88, Havre, Bear Paw coordinates horsewoman. Marcie and Missoulian that local is executive director of public and private her horse Halstead’s Shale youth are lucky to have Bear Paw Development, financing for business and [“Hal”] earned the tide Barbara: “She really saves which recendy was infrastructure projects in of F&teration Equestre WWW.UMT.EOU/MONTANAN MONTANAN FALL 2011 I 35 U M O n l i n e BETTER THAN EVER O Better functionality O Better support O Better quality Check us out at umonline.umt.edu TheMontana University of about alumni I Internationale Level BRIAN MCINERNEY, M.S. Single Horse National ’90, Park City, Utah, S3 Ben Conard Champion at the Live has been a hydrologist leaches kids Oak International with the National about bears Combined Driving Weather Service in Salt during a Event in March. She also Lake City since 1989. Field trip to was named to the U.S. As the resident water his office in Equestrian Federation expert, Brian monitors Ereston. 2011 Driver Training and predicts flooding Long List. Marcie and other events, while owns two other horses: working to inform Halstead by Legacy officials and the public. [“Lucy”] and Montana DAVID CARKHUFF 92 was Light [“Monty”]. promoted to editor of the Portland Daily Sun in Portland, Maine. David is a longtime reporter and has been with the free newspaper since its first issue in 2009. CHRISTOPHER QUEEN ’92, Powell, Wyo., was named the 2010 Shikar Safari Wildlife Officer of the Year, one of the highest BENJAMIN CONARD ’91, M.S. ’00, Whitefish, is a wildlife biologist with the honors for U.S. wildlife U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Creston Fish and Wildlife Center, where law enforcement officials. his work focuses on endangered species management. Ben also has volunteered extensively with the Boy Scouts as a scoutmaster. He is married to Melissa and SUSAN BEAMIS REMPE Chris is a game warden in ’89, Albuquerque, N.M., the Powell district of the has a stepson, Brandon, who is serving in the Air Force. won an R&D Magazine Wyoming Game and Fish 100 Award for her work Department. in developing a water- ELIZABETH ROOSA MILLAR Seth writes, “I have my conducting the interviews, had two exhibits of her purification method ’93 is the new director of education at UM (and transcribing and paintings— Way W ill Open using biomimetic the University Center at primarily the French translating the interviews, and The Zoology—at membranes. Susan is a UM. Liz previously served faculty) to thank for all etc.” See more at www. Helenas Holter Museum research scientist at Sandia as the UC’s associate the skills that went into absinthefilm.com. of Art in 2011. Pictured: National Laboratories. director and as interim my role in the film— STEPHANIE FROSTAD, Confirmation, 2009, The new process she director following the researching the subject, M.F.A. ’94, Missoula, oil on canvas, 40x30 [ helped develop has the retirement of CANDY inches. See more at www. Frostad's Confirmation potential to improve HOLT, M.P.A. ’90. stephaniefrostad.com. access to clean water WILLIAM T. NORTHEY around the world. R&D ’94, M.B.A. ’04, awards, called the “Nobel Helena, lectured about I prizes of technology,” the current state of the recognize innovations financial markets during with practical impact. the Carroll College Business Department Lecture Series. He is '90s managing director and ANDREW T. CHERULLO senior portfolio manager ’90, Olympia, Wash., is of the U.S. Bank Asset the new chief financial Management Group. officer in the Health He als6 serves on the St. Care Authority and SETH BUDDY ’94, M.A. Peter’s 'Hospital finance ! Medicaid Purchasing ’97, co-produced committee and as a board Administration of a feature-length member and president | the Washington State documentary film. of the Helena Exchange i Department of Social Absinthe, about the Club. j and Health Services. He mythic green beverage. JULIET JIVANTI 95 is previously was with the The film, directed by a health practitioner Massachusetts School Seth’s brother, was in Bellingham, Wash., Building Authority. released by Cinetic Media. where she founded WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN MONTANAN FALL 2011 I 37 D o w n t o w n 1 Where Missoula Uvesi The future of Caras Park is bright, but this special place needs continued improve ment and investment. The white canopy has a finite lifespan, the structure needs a fresh coat of paint, and the brick sur face needs attention. A new performance I P x i # canopy, stage, and electrical system are necessary to accommodate continued use of the facilities, and improved landscaping and irrigation are also needed. All told, the needed improvements to be implemented Downtown’s in the next three years will cost approxi mately half a million dollars. N e w e s t Shopping Experience! October 21-30, 2011 Today, the Missoula Downtown Association is requesting the community’s commitment Missoula Osprey Merchandise to improving Missoula’s Town Square by She fttfves eM« making a significant capital contribution. Griz Merchandise The MDA has pledged $25,000 for the next December 2-11, 2011 three years-a total of $75,000-to kick off Made In Montana Products the campaign. All park users-event plan Missoula & Montana Gifts ners, attendees, performers, vendors, and more-are asked to contribute whatever Community Event Box Office amount is comfortable. Pledges are pay Visitor Information Center able to the Missoula Downtown Foundation, created to help generate long-term funding and tax incentives for implementation of 406.543.3300 January 20-29, 2012 the Downtown Master Plan. 140 N. 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She largest humanitarian aid S.D., recently published business affairs at Seattle also is involved in several and relief organizations. South Dakota’s First University. H e earned small, independent film FALLOU NGOM , M .A . ’97 , Century o f Flight, a a doctorate in higher projects, including The was selected for a 2011 education administration Bag, currently making the Guggenheim Fellowship fro m U I. the Ayurvedic Health film festival rounds. to continue his research MARTY WHEELER ’9 7 Center in 2006. She SUSAN NICOSIA, M.P.A. into Ajami literature is working as a digital recendy released a DVD, *96, is interim city and the Africanization sketcher for the M ontana Ayurvedic Yoga: Yoga for manager for Columbia of Islam in Senegambia. Department of Revenue Your Body Type. Falls. A native of Senegal, in Kalispell. H e converts PATRICIA SNYDER ’95, TAMARA DRISCOLL/ J .D . Fallou currendy is house and building Grants Pass, Ore., is *97, Seattle, is the new associate professor of diagrams from paper to electronic drawings. For more details, call the Office oj SARA LATRIELLE 9 8 a n d her husband, BENJAMIN ALUMNI EVENTS 2011 877-umalums, or visit www.(jrizAlum.com. picture history of aviation MARSH ’99, are living in in the state. The book Bangladesh. Sara is the 8-11 School of Law centennial celebration and reunion, features the beginnings of program coordinator for www. um t. edu/law the U.S. space program the Infectious Disease and 16-26 International Travel: Danube River— cruise from with Stratobowl flights Vaccine Science Centre at Vienna to Istanbul over the Black Hills, the International Centre 25 Homecoming 2011 (Sept. 25-Oct. 1) development of the for Diarrhoeal Disease 25 Homecoming kickoff celebration, 1 -3 p.m., Southgate Mall modern hot-air balloon, Research, and Ben is a 28 UM dorm and office decorating contests, 2:30 p.m. air mail and airline middle-school principal at 29 House of Delegates annual meeting, all day service, aerial firefighting, the American International Homecoming buffet dinner, 5 p.m., Food Zoo and military aviation. School of Dhaka. They 30 Class of 1971 reunion luncheon, 11 a.m. Norma has more than previously lived in House of Delegates breakfast and wrap-up, 8 a.m., Holiday Inn thirty-five years of flying Portland, Ore., and the Downtown at the Park experience, including Kingdom of Lesotho in Hello Walk, 1 p.m. building her own plane southern Africa. Distinguished Alumni Awards ceremony and reception, 5:30 p.m. from blueprints. COUN MELOY ’98, Pep Rally, 8 p.m. DONALD MAGGI ’97 is the Portland, Ore., has All-Alumni Social and Dance new head football coach written a book, Wildwood, 30 Davidson Honors College all-class reunion, all day at Green River High for middle-grade readers. 30 Delta Gamma Sorority Pi Chapter 100th anniversary meet School in Wyoming. The book, illustrated by and greet, 6 p.m., Missoula Childrens Theatre Don, his wife, Kristine, his wife, Carson Ellis, is and their two young the first in a trilogy. sons moved from Casper, 1 Homecoming Hustle— 5K Race, 9:45 a.m., Higgins where he was offensive and Broadway coordinator for Natrona Homecoming Parade, 10 a.m., Higgins and University avenues County High School. Homecoming TV Tailgate, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., East Auxiliary LYNN REPOLA-TROY Gym, Adams Center ’97 is a naturopathic M ontana Grizzlies vs. University of Northern Colorado, doctor working in 1:05 p.m., W ashington-Grizzly Stadium private practice in 1 Delta Gamma Sorority Pi Chapter 100th anniversary gala, Columbia Falls, as 6 p.m., Hilton Garden Inn. well as in Kalispell 2-15 International Travel: M editerranean Pearls, cruise from Regional Hospital’s Venice to Istanbul Northwest Oncology and Hematology office. Lynn earned a doctorate 3-5 UM military reunion and Grateful Nation Memorial unveiling in naturopathic medicine KEVIN RHOADES, M JL (in conjunction with UM Athletics’ M ilitary Appreciation Day) from Bastyr University in ’98, Missoula, is author 19 111th “Brawl of the W ild,” Grizzlies vs. Bobcats, noon, 2 0 0 4 . o f a new biography, B o zem an RONALD E. SMITH, Wildlife Stalker: Days M.B.A. *97, Payette, in the Life o f Filmmaker WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN MONTANAN FALL 2011 I 39 OnepTMontanans tN aiufal lyydnuers^ Still home to Montana s largest selection of locally produced natural, organic and bulk foods. GOOD www.goodfoodstore.com 1600 S. 3rd St. West 406-541-3663 | 7am to 10pm, Every Day BUY GENUINE M ON^^ www.MadelnMontanallSA.com about alumni Officer Candidate School at Fort Rucker, Ala. MATT BALDWIN ’03, is the new editor of the Whitefish Pilot newspaper, where he has worked since 2009. He new head preparator at writes of transferring from the Sperone Westwater Montana State University Gallery in New York. to UM in 2000: “I Walsh earned a master quickly learned that the of fine arts degree in superior colors of Big sculpture from Temple Sky Country are Grizzly University in 2007. silver and maroon. Sorry Cat readers, but I’m only speaking the truth.” UM's director of Disability Services for Students, Mary Lee Vance, visited BRENDEN ESCHER KENDALL ’03, Clemson, South Korea in March to give a presentation at Seoul National University. S.C., earned a master’s While in Seoul, Mary Lee also co-hosted a dinner for five Korean UM alumni degree in 2006 and a with forestry Associate Professor Woody Chung, currently on sabbatical in doctorate in May, both Korea. 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Insurance is Missoula, MT 59801 one less thing to worry about.' - Jason and Am y Rolls Helena, Montana A A A F or L ife Members Since 2004_____ about alumni archival materials, and and video published recently declassified on the PBS NewsHour national security website at www.pbs.org. documents to examine JOA N N A EVAL ’06 is an the movement to ban animal care technician at environmental destruction Oatland Island Wildlife as a tactic of war. David Center in Savannah, is a historian for the U.S. Ga., where she feeds and Department of State. tends mountain lions, JEFFREY WINDMUELLER wolves, bison, and other ’05 is the new business mammals. Read more and reporter at the Helena watch a video interview Independent Record. Jeff by searching “eval” at also recendy completed www.savannahnow.com. basic training for the KATHERINE GEORGER ’06, Montana Army National Boise, won the womens W eaver Jj Guard and is attending division of the Missoula officer candidate Marathon in July with a MATTHEW WEAVER ’07, right, issues his first salute as a commissioned officer upon completing Officer Candidate School at M arine Corps Base Quantico, Va. school. He and SARAH time of three hours, ten Matthew, a second lieutenant, graduated second in his class. A dual American WINDMUELLER ’07 have minutes. and British citizen, he previously completed the Potential Royal M arine a two-year-old son, DEL POST, J.D. ’06, is Caderyn. the new deputy manager Commando Course in England. HAINES EASON ’06 is of Mar ana, Ariz., his an English instructor at hometown near Tucson. fiancee, Real Housewives o f Center for Legal and the Mary Institute and Del previously was an Atlanta star Kim Zolciak. Judicial Studies. Saint Louis Country attorney in Missoula. Baby Kroy, born May 31, CHRISTA THOMAS Day School in St. Louis. KROY BIERMANN ’07 is joins Kim’s two daughters ’07, Cramerton, Haines also had a poem, father of a baby boy, Kroy from a previous marriage. N.C., has become a Paper Kisses, Paper Moon, Jagger Biermann, with his Kroy, a former Grizzly successful NASCAR football standout, now photographer, with plays defensive end for her work published NEW LIFETIME MEMBERS the NFL’s Adanta Falcons. by Sports Illustrated The following alumni andfriends have made a The couple met at a and USA Today, commitment to the future o f the UM Alumni Association charity fundraiser. among others. I by becoming lifetime members. You can join them by ROBERT J. BIZJAK BRANDON FISHER calling 877-862-5867 or by visiting our website: www. ’07 earned a master’s ’09 joined the GrizAlum.com. The Alumni Association thanks them for degree in curriculum NFL’s Detroit Lions their support. This list includes all new lifetime members and instruction from defensive coaching I through July 13, 2011. Concordia University in staff as an assistant SALLY BARDSLEY, E.D.D. JO, Butte Portland, Ore. in May. Brandon leaving the Montana JOHN BENNETT ’88, J.D. ’96, Missoula AUTUMN LEVA ’07 earned played for the Montana Grizzlies, Jordan has WAYNE CAMPBELL ’68, Vista, CA a degree from Regent Grizzlies football team for played professionally in UNDEN DUFFIN 66, Chester University School of five years. Switzerland and Cyprus. DOUGLAS FAWCETT ’89, Plentywood Law in Virginia in CARMINE LEIGHTON HARRY FUHS 53, Spokane, WA 2010 and became TO, Livingston, JELEEN GUTTENBERG ’88, Redmond, WA a staff assistant to premiered her film, Girl PAUL GUTTENBERG 79, Redmond, WA U.S. Representative to Girl: Missoula to Accra, JAY HESS 63, Boise, ID Doug Lamborn of during Lunafest at the JILL HESS ‘87, Englewood, CO Colorado in February. Wilma Theatre. The KATHLEEN MCAUUFFE 72, Portland, OR Autumn works in documentary explores the JUUANN MCCARTHY, M. Ed. '83, Peoria, A Z the representative’s experiences of adolescent ROBERT OSBURN 10, Dallas, TX Washington, D.C., girls in Missoula and CHRISTOPHER PETERSON '05, Seattle, WA office, where she helps Ghana, Africa, where CHARLES ROSS 79, Des Moines, WA represent her home Carmine conducted MICHELEYN ROSS 78, Des Moines, WA district of Salida, Colo. interviews in 2009. ROBERTA SMITH-KOSIN ’41, Seattle, WA A member of the Lunafest is a nationally MICHAEL STEINHOFF ’ll . University Place, WA Virginia bar, Autumn touring festival featuring MARCY STENNES 71, Burke, WA studied international short films about women. JEAN STOLLE 75, Vancouver, WA human rights law in JORDAN HASQUET ASHLEEN WILLIAMS MARTHA THAYER 79, Missoula Strasbourg, France, and ’09 signed to play for a *11, received a Fulbright RUSSELL THAYER, Missoula spent a summer at the German basketball team, scholarship to spend a JOHN THIEBES 70, J.D. *81, Kdlispell Heritage Foundation’s Phoenix Hagen. Since year in Bahrain. MONTANAN FALL 2011 I 43 WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN about alumni JOSEPH V. ORRINO 51, Anaconda IN MEMORIAM CHARLES MORRIS STEWART 51, Fort Benton To be included in “In Memoriam, * the UM Office o f Alumni Relations requires a newspaper STEPHEN CARLYLE WAY, J.D . 51, Salem, OR obituary or a letter o f notification from the immediate family. We extend sympathy to the DONALD DUANE GROSSER 52, Dillon families o f the following alumni, faculty, andfriends. Names without class or degree years j a n e HANNAH DELANEY 52, Enumclaw, WA include U M alumni, employees, and friends. FRANK R. NORBERG 52, Florence, K Y M aterial on this page reached our office byJtdy 7,2011. PATRICIA J . EVANS THOMAS 52, Bozeman KATHERINE L SIM TITUS 52, Helena '3 0 s BERNICE HANSEN MANNIX ZOSEL 44, LEWIS P. KEIM 53, Whitefish JOSEPHINE BARBARA SWARTZ HIRST 30, Deer Lodge HAROLD A. "BU D " BELUS 54, Aurora, CO M.Ed. ’63, Missoula AUCIA NELL ARCHER KUBESH 45, Glendive GERALD M . EDMONDS 54, Billing HAZEL MARGARET MUMM GROVER 31, VIVIAN MANNING LASALLE 45, Hamilton ARNOLD HUPPERT JR„ J.D. 54, Livington La Grande, OR HUGH F. MCNAMER 46, Missoula CLARE EDWARD "BU D " JOHNSTON 54, PAULINE KEATING LARSEN 33, JOHN JAY OTTMAN SR. 46, Missoula Manteca, CA Saint Charles, IL LILA LEE LISTER UNCOLN 47, Sacramento, CA MERLE JANICE NELSON 54, West Covina, CA KENNETH A. MORTAG 33, Great Falls AUSTIN TINGSTAD LUNDGREN 47, RAYMOND L PECK 54, Helena EUDORA PIERCY FULKERSON 35, Tacoma, WA Fullerton, CA HARVEY LEE SCHUEMAN,/D . 54, ETHEL A . CHESTERMAN FLEMING 37, Huntley DELFORD R. STAMY 47, Helena Golden, CO MARY ANNE CHRISTENSEN HAMILTON 38, WINIFRED "ELAINE" JOHNSON ECK 48, HOWARD ALLEN SCOTT, M .S. 54, Prescott, A Z Helena Fayetteville, AR GRACE V. HAIGHT PETERSON 38, Helena JEAN MARIE BARTLEY FREESE 48, Miles City WILLIAM c. SMART 54, Tucson, A Z ROBERT PETER MCIVER 48, Bend, OR ARNOLD VANE CARRUTHERS 55, '4 0 s MARIE ANTOINETTE "TO N I" FRASER ROSELL Spokane, WA ROBERT FORD BURDICK 40, Portland, OR 48, Billing DONALD OSCAR ENEBO 55, Bakersfield, CA GERTRUDE A. DAVIS ’40, Batavia, N Y GRACE E. PIERCE WARNKE 48, Butte WILLIAM ROSS MCNAMER, J.D. 55, Billing ROBERT W . GOFFENA 40, Roundup AUDREY JO FIALKA O'NEILL COOPER 49, JO A N HARBOLT STREMCHA 55, Havre VICTOR R. HABURCHAK 40, Nyssa, OR Spokane, WA MORRIS HARVEY BRYSON 56, DONALD CURTIS ALLEN ’41, Buena Park, CA BARBARA KITT DOUGHERTY 49, Walnut Creek, CA WILLIAM C. BEQUETTE 41, Kennewick, WA Anchorage, AK MARY SHANAHAN HASKINS 5 6 Littleton, CO CATHERINE MCLAUGHLIN BROCK 41, VANCE HERBERT FALLON 49, Superior JON WESTON RHODES 56, Stevensville Bossier City, LA WILLIAM CLYDE GRATER 49, Athens, TN DONALD LEROY FLOHR 57, Estes Park, CO MARTHA JEAN HALVERSON HEAD 4 l, EUGENE KRAMER 49, Washingon, DC Tacoma, WA WILLIAM HAVENS DRUM 57, Billing ALTON LEONARD KNUTSON 4 l, Shelby '5 0 s WILLIAM A . JONES 57, Poison PATTI HIGH MEYERS HELEN LUNDEEN LANE ’4l, Billing JAMES MILLISON EDWARDS ’50, Billing 57, Missoula JOHN A. POWELL 57, Collingutood, O N GERALDINE L HAUCK SCHMIDT 41, Bozeman THEODORE H. HILGENSTUHLER 50, VERLE QUENTIN "BRUCE" QUIGLEY 41, Sim i Valley, CA GERARD F. RUTAN 57, M.A. 58, Bellingham, WA Port Angeles, WA DAVID THOMAS HUGHES 50, Butte BEVERLY A N N ARNESS TUMULTY 57, Seattle RUTH HARRISON RICHEY 4 l, Helena ROLF c. JO H N SO N 50, M.Ed. ‘53, Bozeman FRED ROGER YALE 57, Corinth, TX MARCIA LOGEE ESTERLY 42, Westlake, O H GEORGE DANIEL LEWIS 50, M.A. 52, LELAND DUANE BUMMER 58, Missoula BETTY ELLEN ALFF MCGUIN 42, Missoula Missoula DOUGLAS G . LEBRUN 58, Helena LEWIS W . MOORE 42, Missoula ORVIS C. LOVELY 50, Billing KATHLEEN R. BELEY EBELT 59, Cut Bank JOYCE N . DAGGETT OLSON 42, Kalispell WILBERT TOBIAS MILLER 50, Chester, CA EDWARD THOMAS LAHEY 59, M .A ’67, JOSEPH A . RENDERS JR. 50, Stockbridge, MA PAUUNE BRYAN WILD POORE 42, Butte Missoula VERNON EUGENE SYLVESTER 50, Stevensville SHIRLEY E. SANDERS BJERKE 42, Las Vegas WILLIAM G . MCCULLOUGH JR. 59, Kent, WA DONALD J. CAMPBELL 51, Kennewick, WA EUGENIE A. LEBEL VANDERPAN 42, Scobey MARIUS GLEN PEACOCK 59, M.S. ’61, JEAN C. NEWQUIST WADELL 42, Tucson, A Z GEORGE B. CHAFFEE 51, 52, Helena Hamilton CHARLES KREST CYR, J.D . ’44, LEVONNE NORTH CLAPPER 51, Billing ROBERT N . POST 59, Helena I Cocoa Beach, FL ANN E. EVANS KALLGREN 51, Albany, OR GARY WARREN ROGERS 59, M.Ed ’63, B illing ARDATH H. "ALVA" GIFFIN 44, ROBERT DONALD MOORE 51, J.D. 56 Port Ludlow, WA Scottsdale, A Z JOANNE C. PUTNAM SHAW 59, Newton, IA 4 4 I FALL 2011 MONTANAN about alumni '6 0 s PATRICIA COUGHLIN PAGE 75, 92, FRIENDS Chelan, WA ROBERT CONKUN ARNOT 60, Conrad TREVER S C O n ANDERSON, Missoula PATRICK J. SWEENEY 75, Anaconda ALVIN ROY SPERRY ’60, Cumming, GA MARTIN KURJIAN BAKER, Missoula WYDONNA AVIS PATTON DAWSON 76, ROXANNE BENAY SHELTON ’61, KIRBY DALE BALLARD, Helena Plains Wheat Ridge, CO ROBERT FOREST BAUER, Whittier, CA WILUAM C. GREELY JR. 76, Missoula WILLIAM R. CARR 61, M.S. 62, Missoula ROBERT "M ARC" BIELENBERG, KAREN A. PRONOVOST BLEIBTREY 77, Victor Bigfork MARY ANN TAYLOR ARNOT 62, Conrad MARGARET ANN ROTHACKER YOBST 77, RAY GEORGE BILUE, Kalispell JOHN MICHAEL GOOD 62, Chula Vista, CA Missoula RUTH EUZABETH COLE BOE, Big Timber ROBERT T. BERGLAND 63, Winthrop, WA TIM PATRICK KAMLA 78, Gallup, NM JUDITH F. PEARSON BOHRNSEN, Great Falls LARRY LR. LUKE 63, Albuquerque, NM PATRICIA LYNN STANBERY 78, Missoula ALAN RAYMOND BRAULT, Missoula JERRY LEE MCARTHUR 63, Surprise, AZ JAMES HARVE WOLFE 78, 79, Dillon WARREN NEAL BROWN, Santa Maria, CA BETTE JEAN SCOTT REID 64, Poplar RAE CLABBY BROW NING, Anaconda DALE W. AMUNDSON, M.Ed. 65, '8 0 s Cumberland, WI KENNETH RALPH CAMPBELL, Dana Point, CA JONATHAN DANIEL HOFFMAN, M .S. ’80, RAYMOND "MANCH" DEAN CORREIA 65, Oakland, CA JAMES DONALD COATES, Canby, OR Missoula GARY D. MILLER, M.S. ’80, Albuquerque, NM FRAN CONTE, Kettering, OH DENNIS W . HOSTETLER 65, Collinsville, IL COLLEEN JOYCE HOUSEL ODEGARD ’83, RONALD MARTIN COOPER II, Butte STEPHANIE A N N FUNK MURPHY 65, Missoula Sun River GERALD HENDERSON DOTY, Missoula LAVERN BERTON "BUD" RICHARD, M.Ed. 65, BURT A. WHIRRY ’83, Las Cruces, N M HEIDI M. TAUBER ESPING, Portland Hamilton MARK JO H N WHITE ’86, Libby DENNIS E. HELMBRECHT, Havre GARY LYNN D A V IS,/.D . 6 6 , THORNTON O. "TOBY" BEAZELL,/D. ’87, MICHAEL CLYDE HIUJARD, Clinton Albuquerque, N.M. Fort Myers, FL WALTER TEN HAM 66, Missoula CHARLES H. "CHUCK" HOLLEY, Clarkston, WA ERIC R. BRAUN ’89, Missoula GLADYS MARIE PEARSON PETERSON, LINDA RUTH TAYLOR HOPPER, Anchorage, A K M.Ed. SARAH LITTLEJOHN SCHUMACHER, M.Ed. ’89, 69, Sedona, A Z Hamilton DONALD AMES HOVDE, Melrose, N.M . SALUE r o u l a n d ROBINSON 69, Great Falls LAWRENCE VERNE JANES, Corvallis '9 0 s ROBERT CLARENCE JO H N SO N , Whitefish '70s JAMES E. MAY ’90, Butte CRAIG ALLAN JO H N STO N , Glendale, A Z LARRY J. b ic h a 70, Sherwood, OR AUDRA LORRAINE MORGER-BONILLA 91, PATRICIA ANN WATSON JON ES, Missoula BRONSON CLARK "BUSTER" LAMOURE 70, Helena ROBERT S. MATTHEW, Missoula Salmon, ID UNDIE RAE TANNER VANEK ’93, JOHN "JACK" MCGHEE, Sequim, WA JAMES M. TIBBS, M.A. 70, Hayden, ID, and Prior Lake, M N i Mesa, A Z GENEVIEVE "G IN G ER" RENNER, Hon. Ph.D. TED R. 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On smuggled paper and at the urging of other prisoners, Ben began drawing r J -I I L J I -H ' J i l l scenes from the death march and camp life—images that would find their way in the years to come into a collection ithat has toured the nation and now resides permanently at October 9, 1940, an almost twenty-three-year- UM. In a 2010 interview with Barbara Koostra, director ^Bold Benjamin Charles Steele traveled to Missoula of < the Montana Museum of Art & Culture, Ben readily and took the oath to defend his country as a acknowledges the primitive nature of these first drawings. ! newly enlisted member of the United States Army Air “I was an amateur,” he says. “I didn’t have any Corps. Up to that point, Ben had spent most of his years technique. I didn’t have any style. I had a story to tell, and tending sheep and cattle near the Bull Mountains in eastern I put it down the best I could.” Montana. Hands familiar with ropes, tractors, sheep, and Following the war, Ben earned degrees from the horses knew nothing of the brushes, pens, and charcoal that Cleveland < Institute of Art, Kent State University, and the would become his ultimate tools to fame—instruments that University of Denver. In the fall of 1959, he began his provided the world its major visual images of the Bataan esteemed < twenty-three-year career teaching art at Eastern Death March and life in Japanese prisoner of war camps. Montana College, now called Montana State University- Steeles story now spans ninety-three years and is Billings. To this day, Ben regards his interactions with beautifully and powerfully told in Michael and Elizabeth students ; among his most meaningful experiences. Normans 2009 New York Times best-seller Tears in the The admiration is mutual. Darkness: The Story o f the Bataan Death March and its In a letter to the Billings Gazette several years ago, a Afiermath. And, on Friday, September 23, Bens entire woman from Plentywood wrote: “I was blessed to be in an collection of eleven oil paintings and seventy-eight drawings ;art class taught by Ben Steele. He will always be ‘Gentle depicting this critical period Ben.’ He exhibited a great love of art, as well as a great art "I didn't have any technique, i didn't of World War II history will talent. His classes were calming yet inspiring, and he shared have any style. I had a story to tell, be unveiled at the Montana his passion for art with us all.” Museum of Art & Culture. Thomas Brown, M.F.A. ’71, Queenstown, New and I put it down the best I could." The exhibition coincides Zealand, received his bachelor’s degree at Eastern and took with the thirty-eighth annual Montana History Conference many classes from Steele. at UM titled No Ordinary Time: War, Resistance, and the “Ben Steele was one of those super instructors,” Brown Montana Experience. Later this fall Ben, his wife, Shirley, and says. “One of the few who would let you struggle and then, the Normans will be on campus to celebrate his generous without words, take over and illustrate with the minimalist gift of the collection to The University of Montana. of lines the corrections, which, like magic, became obvious. Captured just months after arriving in the Philippines, He could share his talent.” Ben was tortured, starved, and pierced with a bayonet Just as he shared his rations, his spirit, and his talent, during the ensuing forty-one months. Calling on his Steele continues to share his story of World War II with Montana memories and years of hard physical labor, countless generations to come. 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