Communique, Winter 1962

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Winter 1962

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This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the Journalism at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Communique, 1953-2020 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM COMMUNIQUE Vol. 19, No. 2 MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY Winter,1962 Olaf J. Bue., 60, Dies at Home After Long Illness The Montana School of Jour nalism and journalism education lost one of its most popular and respected teachers on March 7 with the death at home of Olaf J. Bue, 60, after a long illness. Mr. Bue began teaching at MSU in 1943 and was acting dean from 1954 to 1956. He had been on leave of absence at home, although he taught during the 1961 summer session and had helped with fall quarter registra tion. The body was sent to Spokane for cremation after funeral chapel ser vices on March 9. He is survived by his widow, Mar jorie, and two daughters, Margaret and Janet, at 115 East Kent Ave.; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Amund Bue of Kalispell; a sister, Mrs. Allen Thompson of Friday Island, Wash.; and a brother, Carl, of Kalispell. Although Mr. Bue taught reporting, photography and other news and edi torial courses, he also was widely known for his activity in education for radio journalism. He founded “Static,” bulletin of the Council on Radio-Television Journalism, a n d was chairman of the Council for the 1959 convention of the Association for Education in Journalism. He also edited the Summer, 1957, issue of Journalism Quarterly, a special issue devoted to “Trends in the Field of Electronic Journalism.” He gave years of service to the Western Montana Press-Radio Club, of which he was president in 1949, Before returning to MSU in 1943 at Flathead County High School in and to the annual shepherding of as an associate professor, he also Kalispell, and his comments as judge several hundred MSU seniors through worked on the Kalispell News and the of high school newspapers and year their colorful graduation program as Red Lodge Picket Journal, taught at books were written in rich and oc chairman of the Commencement Ohio University, and was director of casionally deflating prose. He had a Committee. information for the Office of Censor similar capacity to appraise the prod Mr. Bue was born in Rollo, N.D., in ship at San Antonio, Tex. ucts of J-School reporters, copy- 1901, was graduated from the MSU He was equally at home with high readers and photographers. School of Journalism in 1923 and re school students and teachers. To the Mr. Bue was a member of Sigma ceived his master’s degree from semi-annual meetings of MIEA he Delta Chi and Kappa Tau Alpha and Northwestern in 1941. He liked to brought counsel based on five years of Sigma Phi Epsilon. reminisce with colleagues at conven tions on the years they worked to gether on the Chicago Daily News Fund for Bue Reporting Award Established and the Chicago Tribune and when Plans are under way to establish an Olaf J. Bue memorial award for out with nine other professors he covered standing reporting by an undergraduate journalism student. This is what we the 1952 political conventions for think Ole would have liked. Tributes may be sent to the School of Journalism. NBC-TV. The Twenties . . . Ann, son Paul B., 4, and daughter Janet Lynn, 2) have their home above Maibelle Mohrherr Christy (Mrs. the main lodge. Chris) ’25, secretary to the dean of With Grads Ann Davey Condeff (Mrs. William education of the Chicago Institute for R.) ’49, although kept busy by Rich Psychoanalysis, is the grandmother of Afield.., ard, James, Catherine and Sarah, is Ann Louise Christy, now 2. trying to publish a children’s book ment prizes in the Lee Newspapers of Vivian D. Corbly ’25 has been own which her husband is illustrating. er and operator of the Mission Valley Montana contest for 1961, including three firsts. Guest Ranch on State Route 46, New . . . Braunfels, Tex., since his “retire Everton Conger ’42 and Ann Clem The Fifties ment” as editor of the Disabled ents Conger ’43 are in Pacific Pali John W. Smurr ’50 left the MSU American Veterans semi-monthly in sades, Calif., where Everton is an history department and moved to 1958. editor in the systems operation de Moorhead, Minn., with Peggy and Jack E. Coulter ’26, publisher of partment of the RAND Corp. in their three sons. Bill has moved up the daily Ravalli Republican in Ham Santa Monica. to associate professor and acting chairman of the department of social ilton and the weekly Northwest W. H. Bellingham ’42 is a partner studies at Moorhead State College. Tribune in Stevensville, is district in the law firm of Cooke, Moulton, Stan Ronnie ’51, is an instructor in deputy grand exalted ruled, Montana Bellingham and Longo in Billings. contemporary problems and world West, of the Elks Lodge. Jack didn’t John R. (Jack) Hallowell ’42 be history and handling public relations lose a day away from work after his came executive secretary for Gov. for J. M. Weatherwax High School in car collided with another one at an Tim Babcock following the death of Aberdeen, Wash. He traveled to intersection in Hamilton Jan. 2. He Gov. Donald Nutter in a plane crash required 12 stitches for scalp lacera Jan. 25. Greece, Austria, Germany and other tions and suffered severe bruises on parts of Europe, making 32 countries Clary Kaufman Cory (Mrs. Harlan shoulder, arm and knee. he has visited. T.) ’43, housewife in Great Falls, is Donald F. Graff ’51 and Margaret a YWCA board member, handling E. Huffman were married Nov. 6 in The Thirties . . . publicity. Stockholm, Sweden. Don has been Marvin L. Bidstrup ’31 has shown Ralph Craig ’47 is executive direc that they do come back. After 20 transferred from Scandinavian bu tor of the American Red Cross Mis reau chief of Radio Free Europe to years of farming in Washington, he soula-Mineral Counties chapter in has become business editor of the bureau chief of RFE in Vienna, Aus Missoula. tria. Yakima Daily Republican and the Lois (Pat) Nelson ’47 became sec Yakima Morning Herald. Albert C. Cochrane Jr. ’51 was retary to Judge James R. Browning Lewis R. Cobb ’31, director of the transferred to the Pentagon in Wash of the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Colorado State Advertising and Pub ington, D.C., where he works in the Francisco on Jan. 11. plans branch of the Office of Infor licity Dept, in Denver since 1946, Tom Bogardus ’47, classified adver reports “nothing too exciting re mation under the Secretary of the tising manager of the Palo Alto cently.” Air Force. The captain and his wife (Calif.) Times, is past president of are living in Springfield, Va. Gerald C. Alquist ’32 is still typing the California Classified Managers them up for the Daily Missoulian and Fritz Steppat, who spent the 1951- Assn, and is on the board of directors 52 year in the J-School under a spe Sentinel. of the Better Business Bureau. Karen Donald Aldrich ’35, electrician for cial State Department program for is 12, Peter 10, Bonnie 7. German newspapermen, refers to that the Montana Power Co., is immediate Ralph Kirby Davidson (ex-’48 who experience as “one of the most pleas past president of the Western Mon left the J-School after eight quarters ant years of my life.” He received a tana Fish and Game Assn. to study as a Rhodes Scholar at Ox Ph.D. (summa cum laude) in Islamic Patricia Brennan Taylor (Mrs. Fred ford University) and family are Studies in Berlin and from 1955 to H.) ’38 is “wife, mother, purchasing headed for Kampala, Uganda, East agent, chef (pastry cook divine), pearl 1959 headed the mission of German Africa, where he will advise on the teachers introducing the German diver, seamstress, chauffeur, house economics curriculum of Makerer language in Egyptian schools. He keeper (of sorts), laundromat, club College until Jan. 1, 1963. now teaches Arabic to Germans at woman, churchwoman, recreation William A. Barbour ’48 has been the Free University of Berlin. program assistant, (specializing in 1 named publisher and editor of “Prod to 7-year-olds), etc.” in Casper, Wyo., uct Design and Development,” a Robert F. Alkire ’53 has been trans with her husband and son James monthly business publication with ferred from the Salt Lake City bu Patrick Brennan Taylor, 8. 52,000 subscribers in the design engi reau of the Associated Press to the Duane W. Bowler ’39, managing neering field. The magazine is one Boston bureau, and promoted to as editor of the Billings Gazette, reports of 20 published by Chilton Co. of sistant chief. “beaucoup etcetera,” which is a eu Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Barbour Shirley DeForth ’55 was married to phemism for the work he has done and their two children live in Moores- O. J. Lucchesi on June 19 in Glendive revitalizing that newspaper. town, N.J. and is now teaching at J. Sterling Paul A. Hawkins ’49, who couldn’t Morton High School and Junior Col The Forties . . . get Montana out of his mind through lege in Berwyn-Cicero, 111. She is John A. Forssen *42, reporter-pho all the years of public relations, has adviser to the junior college news tographer for the Missoulian-Sentinel, built the 15-unit Vagabond Lodge in paper and teaches a journalism class won five of the 33 editorial depart- Anaconda. He and his family (wife in addition to three history classes. Page Two COMMUNIQU Winter, 1962 SDX, ©S Hold Joint Banquet ...More Grads Afield Mrs. Dorothy Rochon (Bunky) The Fifties . . . The Sixties . . . Powers was the featured speaker at Glenn M. Chaffin Jr. ’55, manager Judith Blakely ’60 is back on the a combined Sigma Delta Chi-Theta of the Chamber of Commerce in Al Tulsa World after almost a year in Sigma Phi banquet following sepa bany, Ore., says that the Chaffins Buenos Aires and throughout South rate initiation ceremonies by the two have bought a house and plan on America on an Inter-American Press organizations Feb. 22. staying in Albany for a few years. Assn, scholarship. The Dean Stone visiting lecturer Ken Byerly Jr. ’56 is back as editor Vera Swanson ’60 is on the staff of described some of the highlights and KTEE in Idaho Falls, Idaho. lowlights of her reporting career and co-publisher of Tidewater News in Franklin, Va., and correspondent Jim Berry ’60 left the Missoulian since going out into the hard world in January to join the copy desk of in 1943. She was preceded by some for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and News-Leader. He spent a year the Tucson (Ariz.) Citizen. prepared and unprepared speeches by on the Washington Post, during which Pat Ashall Vail (Mrs. Joel) ’60 is undergraduates. he “followed Hurricane Donna up the in advertising and public relations SDX initiated 13 men and the coast” and had several banner head for R. J. Reynolds in Billings. Theta Sigs took in two women earlier Robert Amick ’61, editor of the in the day. The banquet was held line stories on the front page, before returning to his home grounds. Choteau Acantha, and Nikki Elise at the Happy Bungalow, sufficiently Richard Harris ’56 has been named Farrell of Billings were married in far enough out of Missoula to lend January. a special flavor to the occasion. photo co-ordinator for the Seattle W orld ’s Fair. John Honey ’61 is in public rela tions for the American Oil Co. in Virginia McBride ’56 left the Ladies Billings. The New Open Look Home Journal to become a research Zena Beth McGlashan Guenin The Montana Kaimin news room assistant at New York University. (Mrs. Gaylord) ’61 moved with Gay has taken on a new look. Carole Lee (Mrs. Ray H.) ’56 an lord from the Kalispell Daily Inter Partitions separating the editor and nounces from Eatontown, N.J., the Lake to Missoula, where Gaylord is news editor from the rest of the staff birth of David Charles on Feb. 12. on the Missoulian staff and finishing have been removed. The new “open Norma Beatty ’57, back home after work on his journalism degree. newsroom” provides more space and four years in New York, is now with natural light for the Kaimin editorial KRTV in Great Falls. staff. Tom O ’Hanlon ’57, is an English New Style Guide The business office, of course, re teacher at Malta High School. mains segregated in separate but Robert Gilluly ’57, Great Falls equal quarters. Rolls Off Press Tribune sports columnist, on Jan. 21 The new School of Journalism published Vol. 1, No. 1 of “The Fam Style Guide is off the press. ily Gazette” which bannered: “Stran The 8%-by-11 booklet offers guide ger Seen Entering Home of Local Kaimin Go-Go-Go lines for preparation of copy, capital Couple.” Turned out to be Thomas ization, abbreviations and titles, On G len n ’s Orbits Samuel Gilluly, 7 lbs. punctuation, numerals, headlines, by The Kaimin staff published three Emile (Lee) De Vore Cowdery editions on Feb. 20 to record the lines, datelines, cutlines, copy editing (Mrs. Richard C.) ’57 quit her job in historic flight of Astronaut John A. and proofreading. Although devel June as an information specialist with Glenn Jr. oped primarily for University jour the U.S. Department of Agriculture The first edition hit distribution nalism classes and the Kaimin, it also to become a full-time housewife. She points at 9:11 a.m. and the second could be adapted for use by any and her husband (from Denver) both edition went out at 11 a.m. The final newspaper. hope to “work out a scheme to get edition was placed in boxes around An original typographical design back to the glorious West.” and format have been used in the the campus shortly after 3 p.m. Anne Thomas David (Mrs. Larry) Claud Lord and the printing de ninth edition of the guide, which was ’58 is editor of Flare, a magazine for partment staff went out of their way published by the Bureau of Press and officers’ wives at McGuire Air Force to make the operation successful. Broadcasting Research. Base, N.J., where her husband is The Style Guide may be obtained stationed. from the School of Journalism. Prices Large Map Donated to SDX Jewel Moore ’58 is in the public are $1 for a single copy, $2 for four A large relief map of the world relations department of the American copies, $3 for 10 copies, and $5 for has been installed on the wall of the Baptist Foreign Mission Society in 20 copies. .journalism office, a gift to the Sigma New York City. Delta Chi Chapter and the J-School. Jerry Strauss ’58, after covering The map was donated by Mrs. A. 7,700 miles in a rented car in 12 Coe Lends Hand to Class S. Mackenzie of Lewistown in mem countries of Europe last summer, has Donald Coe ’47 was host to several ory of her father, Louis F. Grill, joined the copy desk of the Pacific members of Dr. Frederick Y u ’s public veteran editor of the Miles City Daily Coast edition of the Wall Street Jour opinion class who went to Plains Star. nal. Saturday, Feb. 17, to conduct a poll. Winter, 1962 COMMUNIQUE Page Three Mrs. Powers, Price of Oregon, Here for Term Mrs. Dorothy Rochon Powers, Warren C. Price, professor of feature writer and columnist for journalism at the University of the Spokane Spokesman-Review Oregon, will join the staff of the and winner of many professional MSU School of Journalism for and civic awards, is the Dean the spring term. Stone Visiting Lecturer in Jour He was awarded a bachelor of arts nalism for the winter term. degree in 1929 and a master of arts Mrs. Powers is teaching three writ degree in journalism in 1938 by the ing and editing courses and delivering University of Wisconsin. He has been special lectures in other courses. a member of the University of Ore She was graduated with honors gon faculty since 1942 and also has from the MSU School of Journalism taught at the University of Wiscon in 1943. She has been a member of sin, the University of Texas and the the Spokesman-Review staff since Universtiy of Minnesota. that time, with the exception of a He was a reporter and copy editor year with newspapers in Tennessee. on the Milwaukee Journal for six In 1959 Mrs. Powers was the first years and a copy editor on the Daily woman to receive the Ernie Pyle Oklahoman in Oklahoma City for Memorial Award of $1,000 for out MRS. DOROTHY POWERS four years before joining the staff standing reporting. She was the 1958 of the Des Moines Register and Trib winner of the National Headliners une for two years. He also has served Award for general excellence in fea as a summer desk editor on the Buf ture writing and was named “Na falo Evening News, Chicago Daily tional Headliner” by Theta Sigma Phi News and the Washington Post and in addition to many other national Times-Herald, and has been news and regional journalistic awards. editor for the Sunday edition of the Other honors include the Montana Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard for 15 State University Alumni Distin years. guished Service Award in 1960 and Price received the national awards the Washington Mental Health Bell for research in journalism in 1960 Award for “outstanding service in from both Sigma Delta Chi, profes the fight against mental illness” in sional journalistic society, and Kap 1959. She was named the “Woman pa Tau Alpha, national journalism of Achievement” in Spokane by the scholarship honorary. The awards Spokane Business and Professional were made for his book, “The Liter Women in 1959 and is a past presi ature of Journalism: An Annotated dent of the Spokane Zonta Club for Bibliography,” published in 1959 by executive women in the professions. the University of Minnesota Press. She was the first woman to be He will be the sixth Dean Stone elected president of the Spokane Visiting Lecturer in Journalism at Press Club in its 22-year history. WARREN C. PRICE MSU.

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