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THE NEW MONTANA: Education, Populations and the A rts To protect Grizzlies in the Swan Valley, Lorin Hicks is helping to create FOUR NEW HIGHWAYS.

hey’re known as Conservation Agreement. M “Linkage Zones,” and It will coordinate road use, maintain they’ll help grizzlies protective cover, and set up a pattern cross the valley undis- of restrictions on turbed, so they can timber harvesting in forage and mate - areas used by bears. and survive. Plus, Plum Creek l l l l A ' r. \ > _ / The idea began will conduct Z/.y —' >* A with biologists at ongoing research - bk % / ; '.y \ ^ -v BSH k the U.S. Fish and and share the find­

/• ^ > '-sv. ,,^ ' Wildlife Service. ings - to make sure the Agreement is ^ , 'X^S Then, with the actually helping grizzlies to recover. ^ ^ V - help of Plum For Plum Creek, the Agreement and its Creek’s Wildlife Linkage Zones grow directly from our Biologist, Lorin philosophy of Environmental Forestry. 4 Hicks, the idea We’re finding scientifically sound ways to was implemented maintain both the productivity and the bv our foresters health of our forests - and the plants and their counterparts at the Forest and animals D eta ils o f t h e Ag r e e m e n t Service and the Montana Department that depend >-TheSwan Valley Grizzly Bear of State Lands. on them. Conservation Agreement creates They realized that even though four Uniage Zones, or “travel grizzlies are protected by the Endangered corridors, ” with optimal foraging Species Act, people are still their habitat and cover; where human greatest threat. disturbance can be minimized. What’s more, the Swan Valley is >-7hc Agreement is designed to avoid “geneticisolation’' by a patchwork of state, federal and allowing grizzlies in the Mission private ownership, with no way to Mountains to interbreed with manage human activity - or its effect bears crossing the valley from the on grizzlies. Bob Marshall Wilderness. So they took a new look at the valley, >■ The Agreement should help bears using advanced techniques like radio- extend their “home rangesm ale grizzlies cover as much as 500 tracking data and satellite imagery. The square miles before hibernating; result was the Swan Valley Grizzly Bear females, 50 square miles.

L orin H icks, PhD . is Plum Creek's Director of Fish and Wildlife Resources. P t u m C r e e k Aspa rtcfhis research, he uses | 9 C a radio telemetry receiverto Leaders in Environmental Forestry track wildlife. V o l u m e 14 Contents N u m b e r 3

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E d it o r Caroline Patterson, 10 2 M.FA. ’94 JOURNALISM, MONTANA STYLE AROUND THE by K r is t in R o d in e OVAL C ontributing The Student Documentary Unit produces another award-winning documentary. W r it e r s a n d E d it o r s 8 Terry Brenner 12 SPORTS Janelle Leader Lamb TEACHING OUR CHILDREN WELL Rita Munzenrider ’83 by Pa t r ic k H u t c h in s Becky Shay ‘96 Montana’s schools are running faster than ever to keep up with changes in education. 26 CLASS NOTES P hotographer 15 Todd Goodrich ’88 RURAL SCHOOL IN THE 1990S 32 La y o u t a n d by Jennifer O ’Loughlin ALUMNI G r a p h ic s Today’s one-room schoolhouse is surprising: Take Reichle School in Glen, Montana. NOTES Mike Egeler

A d v iso r y 16 34 B o a r d PARADISE FOUND OR LOST? CAMPAIGN Vivian Brooke by C o n s t a n c e P o t e n MOMENTUM Perry Brown Population growth in Montana: Where are people coming from? Where are they moving? William Farr Bob Frazier 18 William Johnston t h e a r t s i n M o n t a n a Annick Smith FROM WASTELAND TO MECCA: by M a r n ie P r a n g e Dennis Swibold John Talbot In the 1970s, Montana was dubbed a cultural wasteland. Today there is an explosion in activity. W hat happened? A d v e r t isin g R epresentive 21 Jackie Drews (406) 728-1573 POETS, PROSE AND MOONLIT SWIMS by A n n ic k S m ith E d it o r ia l The Yellow Bay Writers’ Workshop turns ten. O ffices University 22 Communications 323 Brandy Hall THE NEW FACE OF THE UNIVERSITY THEATRE by Rita M unzenrider The University of Montana- The University Theatre undergoes a desperately needed face lift. Missoula, MT 59812-1301 23 (406) 243-2522 A SPORTS ARENA FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Web site: by Rita M unzenrider h ttp :// www.umt.edu The Harry Adams Field House readies itself for a $23 million renovation. The Montanan is Coven Forever the published three times 24 Floating Home by Dana a year by The BOOK CHAT Boussard. Photo by University of by S u s a n n a S o n n e n b e r g Todd Goodrich. Montana-Missoula Poetry rich in feast and flesh, a rhapsodic wildflower guide, a masterful novel about a Inside photos by Todd for its alumni and Montana family and an anthology about Montana rivers. Goodrich, except as friends. noted.

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tudents and townspeople alike packed the University Center April 6, to eat Indian tandoori chicken, Russian pirozhki, SNepalese momos and Bulgarian tarator at “Voyage of the Senses,” the seventh annual International Festival and Food Bazaar, which kicked off International Month at The University of Montana- Missoula. Organized by UM’s International Student Association and Office of Foreign Student and Scholar Services, the festival highlight­ ed the foods, cultures and traditions of more than 400 foreign stu­ dents from fifty countries. The bazaar was dedicated to Alex Stepanzoff, who founded the ISA in 1924 with the motto: “Above all nations is humanity.” International Month continued through April and featured a Caribbean jazz concert, a Native American cultural awareness dinner and a model Arab league. Visiting scholars also lectured about cultural, economic and social issues in Japan, Russia, Africa and Asia.

Only 25 percent of students at the Indian School for the Blind are completely Mind. Others, such as Joel Grok (pictured), have vision impairments that prevent them from functioning in standard schools. This photo story was taken by Steven Adams, one of four Journalism students honored in the international Grllege Photographer of the Year competition.

Part of photo story depicting an afternoon bullfight in Nuevo Laredo. ^ Mexico, these two photographs were taken by Gregory Rec, a semifinalist in the national 1996-97 intercollegiate photojournalism competition spon­ sored by the WilHam Randolph Hearst Foundation. Student Brace Ely placed tenth in the competition’s second round.

2 S prin g 1997 MONTANAN UM News On Line ith our new e-mail newsletter, TGIF (Think Grizzly, It’s Friday), you can W keep tabs on the news at The University of Montana-Missoula from your home computer. To subscribe to the weekly publication, compiled by University Communications' News Bureau, send an e- mail message to: [email protected] and in the message type: sub­ scribe ucomm firstname last- 'iiu n i n Ej rn n i t» f t ro5 rrryiiTTiiM name. (Substitute your first and last name). Note: TGIF will publish two summer issues and resume k'y weekly publication University System saw a $47 million budget CNN, T h e N ew York Tim es and The in the fall. increase? But the final legislative action was Tim es o f London. Balch, UM’s resident positive for the University System. After vari­ expert on cults, had infiltrated the group in ous ups and downs in committees, the the mid-1970s—when it was known as a UFO Griz Earn Montana Legislature approved House Bill 2, cult—and had written several papers about it, appropriating $209.5 million in state funding including a chapter in the book, T h e Qods NCAA’s O K for the University System, approximately $6 Have Landed. Balch was surprised not only he academic success of student athletes million less than the system’s initial request by the media blitz but by the mass suicide as at UM helped intercollegiate athletics In other University-related action, legislators well, since it seemed inconsistent with the score its first-ever certification from approved building projects on UM’s Butte, group’s beliefs twenty years ago. theT National Collegiate Athletics Association. Missoula and Dillon campuses and appropri­ The classification means UM’s athletics pro­ ated funds for information technology and gram conforms with NCAA standards for research and development Attention academic and fiscal integrity, rules compli­ ance and equity. C ampus The certification was the result of a year­ long self-study by UM administrators, faculty, UM C ult S hoppers students and staff. UM received high marks tudents who want the most for their for its commitment to academic excellence, Expert Hits the money can find a good deal at UM, said Dean of Students Barbara Hollman, who edia according to The Student Q uide to chaired the self-study committee. The NCAA M S which A m erica’s 100 B est College Buys, review team noted that Grizzly student ath­ he day after the focuses on schools with the highest academic letes earn higher grade-point averages than news of ratings and lowest costs for the college year. the general student population. They also THeaven’s Gate, The authors researched almost 1,800 colleges stay in school and boast a higher graduation the high-tech for specific requirements including financial rate than nonathlete students. California cult that aid opportunities, a total cost below the committed mass sui­ national average, and a freshman class with a cide, sociology high grade-point average and SAT or ACT UM G oes to Professor Rob Balch’s scores above the national average. phone began to ring. Another good buy: In U.S. News and Helena And ring. And ring. W orld Report’s 1997 list of America’s best On Friday, March 28, graduate schools, UM’s graduate program in any Montana institutions probably Balch had 160 phone creative writing tied for tenth place with wish they were part of the messages from news University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Corrections System this year. After organizations includ­ University of Washington and Boston, all,M when was the last time the Montana ing Newsweek, Cornell and Washington universities.

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Court TV will televise the oral arguments April 27-29, in Philadelphia. While rubbing Law S chool: after the Supreme Court issues its decision. elbows with presidents from a higher office— Harrison provided an overview of the Clinton, Carter, Bush and Ford—Dennison Take O ne precedent-setting case of Qryczan v. State of picked up some pointers on community ser­ he cameras of Court TV focused on M ontana for Court TV cameras and several vice programs that will benefit children in Melissa Harrison, associate professor of hundred spectators who crowded into the Montana. As chair of the Governor’s Council Tlaw, and the Montana Supreme Court law school’s Castles Center. The case, brought on Community Service, Dennison was select­ during Law Week, April 7-11. The national by six homosexual Montanans in 1993, chal­ ed by Governor Marc Racicot to attend the cable station, based in New York City, was on lenges the state’s deviate sexual conduct law. summit designed to promote volunteerism in campus to tape the court’s hearing on the A District Court judge in Helena last year the United States. constitutional challenge of a Montana law declared the law unconstitutional, but the that makes consensual sexual relations Montana attorney general’s office appealed. between adults of the same sex a felony. W h a t ’s S wahili P residential for Rodeo? ppointment M’s “Backroads of Montana”—pro­ A duced by U M ’s Broadcast Media resident George Dennison found him­ Center and winner of three Program self taking orders from General Colin U of the Year awards from the Montana PPowell, former chairman of the Joint Broadcasters Association—will soon be mak­ Chiefs of Staff, at the highly publicized ing inroads on a more international set President’s Summit for America’s Future. Accepted for the HEARTLAND*USA Program Collection, the United States Public Television International Program Service, “Backroads” may soon be entertaining audi­ ences in the Third World with programs on Student Jeff Merrick traded places with people, places and events from around the President George Dennison when he won the Treasure State. HEARTLAND*USA is work­ Golden Key National Honor Society’s ing toward pilot distribution in South Africa fundraiser. Merrick took over the President’s this year and, if that’s successful, will market Office in Main Hall and Dennison attended the service to other international venues. Merrick’s classes and filled in at his campus fob as ASUM’s business manager. You can see the largest barn in the West, a cabin once occupied by Charlie Russell and the hay sculpture contest between Hobson and Utica on a visit to your local library. Amber Waves of Qrain, featuring the above, is the ninth installment of the documentary series and has been distributed to more than 140 city, county and college libraries through­ out the state. To order copies, call U M ’s Broadcast Media Center, (406) 2434101.

M ore S heep, A nyone? nen ocorasn scientists announced they had cloned an adult sheep, WUM biology Professor Walter Hill said science has reached a point where “pure fantasy is upon us.” Just a decade ago such advancement was considered impossible. Along with myriad research possibilities, Hill

4 Spring 1997 MONTANAN said the possibility of adult cloning has “Symposium on opened up “numerous and rampant” ethical Native American questions. He added that adult cloning, Religious and developing organisms that have DNA identi­ Cultural Freedoms: cal to another organism, takes society back to The National Park the question of what is life. It could also have Service and the profound impacts ranging from improving Preservation of food supplies to changing our understanding Native American of how cells differentiate. Hill said society Becky Powell’s llama. Fast Eddy, helped out during “A Clean Start,” April 19, by Cultural Resources in could even develop farms of clones that carrying heavy loads up Mount Sentinel. Students and townspeople worked the Twenty-First would be perfect genetic matches for organ together to dean up campus and dty neighborhoods. Century.” and tissue transplants. “Is the product worth the price?” Hill asked. “Is there anything that and failures of western revisionism, the rise would justify cloning people? My answer, of environmentalism, and western fiction and S pring is right now, is no.” films of the forties. Call (406) 243-7700 for more information. C oming B o o n e ’s Legacy Earlier? esearch Associate Professor he Center for the Rocky Mountain E xplorin g Ramakrishna Nemani basked in the West will sponsor a conference, “A.B. Tribal Issues at international limelight this spring Guthrie’s The Big Sky—After Fifty T whenR newspapers around the world—from Years,” September 12-14 at UM. Using U M ’s Law T h e N ew York T im es to the V ancouver Guthrie’s tragic story of the West as a spring- Sun —reported on an intensive study that ' board for discussion, authors, historians and S c h o o l shows the Earth is getting greener and film makers will offer their end-of-the-century M’s School of Law has been busy this warmer. Nemani’s study of satellite images perspectives on the myths of the West spring exploring many of the environ­ showed that spring is coming earlier than it Speakers including historian and Montana mental, legal and religious issues fac­ did a decade ago, particularly in the State University President Mike Malone, film U ing American Indians today. First there was Northern Hemisphere. curator James D’Arc and writers Bill Bevis the film festival, March 27-29, at the school’s Earlier snowmelt and higher temperatures, and James Welch will combine academic Casdes Center. The films covered the Indian- which are almost certainly the result of research and contemporary literature to cover led fight against Exxon’s proposed mine near human-caused increases in carbon dioxide in topics such as Guthrie’s career, the successes Wisconsin’s Wolf River, interviews with the air, account for longer growing seasons in Canadian Indian veterans of World War II, parts of the world. For years, indirect evidence the history of the Flathead Reservation and indicated that people are changing the world’s the story of a band of Cherokees fighting to basic biological rhythms, but Nemani and return to their ancestral home in Arkansas. researchers from NASA, Boston University Then, April 14-16, leading American and Scripps Institutions of Oceanography Indian thinkers from around the country finally offered scientific proof. took part in “Tribal Nation Building: Building Tribal Legal Infrastructure for Economic Prosperity.” Speakers including n the oad Professor Frank Pommersheim, Professor O R David Getches and Attorney General Joe to B uffalo Mazurek addressed issues such as tribal sov­ ereignty, tribal-bank relations and economic n April 10, academics and townspeo­ development The conference’s final day was ple alike gathered at U M ’s Law devoted to developing tribal Uniform Building to listen to Oregon- Oborn historian John C. Jackson’s accounts Commercial Codes. Finally, April 25, several nationally of the early North American fur trade. In known speakers were on hand to explore the his talk, “Travelers, Indian and White, On issue of Native Americans’ cultural and reli­ the Road to Buffalo, 1800-1900,” Jackson gious use of public land in areas such as talked about the Indian road through Devils Tower, Wyoming, during the Hellgate to the buffalo hunting grounds to the east, focusing on the association between the

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Safish tribe and the trappers who appeared in this area around 1800. Jackson’s two M ea C ulpa books on the fur trade, Shadow on the nder the painting, B ag Ladies and Tetons and Children of the Fur Trade, Blue Jeans on page 14 of the winter were published by Missoula’s Mountain M ontanan, we mistakenly identified Press and met an enthusiastic reception from U the artist as Dorothy Thomas 78. The artist historians around the country. was Donna Hashitani Thomas 78. Our apologies. O ne Hundred he irtual and Four Z oological T V niversity C andles C ollection U edicated urf the ’ne t and you’ll find UM courses he University of Montana celebrated its D everywhere. Nine courses—three in 104th birthday on February 20. After t age 82, Professor Emeritus Philip L gerontology and six in wilderness man­ an address by former U.S. Represen­ S T Wright has devoted most of his life to agement—are U M ’s first contributions to the tative Pat Williams, who joined U M ’s political Aestablishing one of the largest zoologi­ Western Governors’ University, which will science department in January 1997, the cal collections in the Northern Rocky get rolling next fall O f the nine virtual cours­ morning ceremony was given over to honor­ Mountain region. His colleagues in U M ’s bio­ es, the forestry school’s Management of ing five people who have made significant logical sciences division decided that it was Recreation Resources is the most sophisticat­ contributions to UM. An afternoon seminar only fitting that the collection of more than ed, offering students a chance to take a “vir­ focused on U M ’s future, showcasing technolo­ 40,000 preserved vertebrates—ranging from a tual” hike in Glacier National Park and to gy and learning. rhinoceros skull to penguins from develop a management scenario that depicts Native American Studies Director Bonnie Antarctica—be named in his honor. Located the same trail after being used by 500 people Heavy Runner Craig received the Robert T. in Health Sciences 211 and 212, the Philip L in 24 hours. Pantzer Award for making the University a Wright Zoological Museum contains bird and “The primary target is people who can’t more open and humane learning environ­ mammal specimens dating back as far as access traditional education because of time, ment Marlene Bachmann, professor of cur­ 1851 and a rare collection of mammals from place and other constraints,” said Sharon riculum and instruction, received the Russia and China. Alexander, dean of U M ’s Center for Montana Faculty Service Award. Other award winners were Missoula lawyer Thomas H. Boone, the Neil S. Bucklew Presidential Service Award; Umberto “Bert” Benedetti, the Montana Alumni Award; and Barbara O ’Leary, the ASUM Student Service Award.

Fifteen UM students gave up beach volleyball to m od on a Navajo Indian reservation as par­ ticipants in Break Away, an alterna­ tive spring break program, March 17- 21, designed to provide cultural experi­ ence through community service. Students dug holes for fight posts, started Ka community medicinal garden, laid concrete for a food storage shed and tutored elementary school children.

Spring 1997 MONTANAN Continuing Education. “The virtual universi­ One of the Big Sky Spirit ty is asynchronous—not time and site specific. Dancers, who took part in the The instructor and learner are never together second annual Feast of the but are linked by interactive technology.” Sunflower Planting Moon on April 24. Part of UM’s Native American cultural week, the feast takes its name from the C elebrating Hidatsu lunar cycle, Mapf-oce- midi, which means “sunflower Diversity planting moon.” n May 9, students, faculty and staff gathered on the mall between the minister of the Embassy of the Peoples provided from a nearly $500,000 grant to OUniversity Center and the Mansfield Republic of China in Washington, D.C.; and KUFM from the U.S. Department of Library to celebrate the rich diversity of the visiting Mansfield Professor Steven Levine, a Commerce, but KUFM is responsible for a UM community, which sports students from specialist on modern China from Duke “local match” of $175,000. To date, more more than sixty-two countries and virtually University. than $50,000 has been donated for the pro­ every continent Opening with a prayer by ject For more information, call (406) 243- Victoria Yazzie, a Navaho doctoral candidate, 4931 or (800) 325-1565. the Diversity Celebration swung into action KUFM: Loud with a song from Blackfeet Indian singer Jack Gladstone, progressive blues recording artist and C lear Andre Floyd and Mood Iguana and a perfor­ R eservations, uring KUFM’s public radio week in mance by the Deaf Moose Theatre, a deaf April, when a record $285,717 in nyone drama and comedy team. A ? donations was raised, more people lis­ The celebration was organized to promote D M’s Center at Salmon Lake, an execu­ tened to the station than at any other time of an appreciation of diversity and a sense of tive conference center on a small the year. With KUFM’s Montana Public understanding on campus, said coordinator island forty miles northeast of Radio Signal Extension Project, a one-time U Jon Stannard. Diversity is central to the Missoula, is now accepting reservations. fund-raising capital campaign, the station will University’s mission, added President George Geared toward executive and corporate soon be able to reach 102,000 new listeners Dennison. “We need more, not less, diversity groups, the luxurious first-class retreat fea­ throughout western and central Montana. to accomplish our mission to discover and dis­ tures a large conference room, four smaller The project will enable the station to convert seminate knowledge, and we can succeed in meeting rooms, eleven bedrooms and dining to satellite technology and install a new trans­ that mission only if we guard jealously and facilities for on-site catering, says Jane Fisher, lator in Dillon and full-power transmitters in zealously the basic freedoms of expression the new director of the center. For informa­ Kalispell, Butte, Helena and Hamilton. ’ and association,” he said. tion, call (406) 243-5556. M Construction begins this summer and should be complete by September 1997. U.S.-Chinese The bulk of the project funding will be Relations at UM ^ ^ ^ ro m p te d by a warming trend in rela- During UM’s May 9 Diversity Celebration, tions between Beijing and Brothers Billy and ■ Washington, D.C., speakers from Howie Seago of Deaf American institutions and China participated Moose Theatre per­ in a five-part public forum at UM in March form skits about and April, sponsored by the Mansfield issues faced by peo­ Center. In an effort to explore economic and ple with bearing political issues, the forum featured talks by impairments. Xiong Zhiyong, dean of the College of Foreign Affairs in Beijing; Qing Simei, profes­ sor of Chinese-American relations at i Michigan State University; Shao Wenguang,

Spring 1997 M O N T A N A N 7 A Fine S eason for the Lady G riz Concludes, Koss D eparts

by Rick Stern They traveled to Palo Alto, California, where More than her accomplishments, Koss will they faced a Texas Tech team that had won be remembered for the example she set hen you've built the sort of consis­ the 1993 NCAA championship after winning “Greta played every game hard, start to fin­ tently successful program that Lady the Women’s West Regional in Missoula. The ish, and that’s great leadership,” said Selvig. WGriz head coach Robin Selvig has at Lady Griz fell just short against the Lady “She had big games where she didn’t allow an Montana, your teams tend to be remembered Raiders—losing 4745 as Skyla Sisco barely off-shooting game to affect the rest of her not only for their victories, but also for the missed a scoop shot at the buzzer that would game.” few losses they’ve inevitably suffered. O f the have sent the game into overtime. Koss was instrumental in the few close twenty-five wins during the “Texas Tech is a very good team,” said games the Lady Griz had in conference play: Lady Griz’ 1996-97 season, Selvig. “I thought we played really, really well a 54-51 win over Montana State in Bozeman in that game. We didn’t need to make many & and a 78-72 overtime victory over Weber more shots, but we had to make a couple State in Ogden. She put forth the same effort more.” when the Lady Griz lost: 73-54 to Utah, 81- With their offense stifled by the Texas 70 to thirteenth-ranked Western Kentucky Tech defense, the Lady Griz could have lost and 72-70 to the University of Pordand. their composure, but they managed to stay in Because of her successful four years on the game by carrying with them the lessons the court for the Lady Griz, the departure of o f their previous game against Montana Koss may be Montana’s biggest loss of the ■ what State. season. “I don’t feel good about losing Greta M stands out is th e ^ ^ ^ ^ H In the second half of the Big Sky at all,” said Selvig. “She’s a great kid and a ■ heartbreaker the team’s Conference championship game against the really great person. W e’ll definitely miss just ■ NCAA tournament loss to ML Lady Cats, the Lady Griz had shooting diffi­ having her around.” M ■ Texas Tech that ended the ^ culties. The team started the second half B spectacular career of forward w with a furious run, extending a one-point ■ Greta Koss. half-time lead into an 18-point margin. Then The Lady Griz earned a trip they went cold. Montana State tied the ■ to the NCAA tournament by i game with a 21-3 run, until the Lady Griz ■winning all sixteen of their I salvaged a 5249 victory and earned a bid _ conference games ■ to the NCAA tournament “We just started missing shots and Montana they crept back in it,” said Koss. “ I thought we did a good job to pull it out Skyla hit some big free throws at the end.” U ‘“’“‘Si Sisco made the free throws to ice the Montana State game, and she could have or the second time in the last five years. The extended Montana’s season with a shot University o f Montana hosted the Women’s against Texas Tech. But when people reflect West Regional of the NCAA tournament in on the 1996-97 season, many of their memo­ 1997. The four best teams in the tournament’s western bracket—Stanford, Georgia, Virginia and ries will center around her fellow Malta Vanderbilt—cam e to Dahlberg Arena to compete native, Greta Koss. for the right to appear in the final four in “Greta will certainly be remembered as Cincinnati, Ohio. A total o f 12308 fans attend­ one of the best basketball players to ever play edF the regional’s two sessions on Saturday. Forward here,” said Selvig. The most dominant player March 22, and Monday, March 24-the highest Greta Koss of the fourteen Lady Griz, Koss led the team attendance off any of the four regional tourna­ i bolds up the in scoring, rebounds, blocked shots and ments. Stanford, with NCAA Player-of-the-Year Big Sky Kate Starbbd, defeated Virginia in the first K Conference steals, finishing second to Sisco in assists. round, while Georgia beat Vanderbilt. Stanford’s championship For the second year in a row, Koss was Lady Cardinals then defeated Georgia’s Lady | trophy for named Most Valuable Player of the Big Sky Bulldogs to advance to the final four, where 5 Lady Griz Conference tournament and received all-con­ they lost to Old Dominion in the semifinals. tens. ference honors.

8 Spring 1997 MONTANAN G rizzlies’ S eason Ends at NCAA

60-58. The Grizzlies survived probably the by Rick Stern longest road trip in Big Sky history to defeat ven though the Montana basketball Northridge 78-75, but lost again to Northern team ended the year with a 92-54 loss Arizona 72-69. Then Montana got well again. Eto the defending National Champion After beating the Sacramento State Hornets Kentucky Wildcats in the first round of the in Missoula 95-51, they finished conference NCAA’s “big dance,” the Grizzlies couldn’t play by beating Portland State 68-57, and have been happier with the season’s outcome. Eastern Washington 74-67. “I think making it to the NCAA made After a disappointing start, the Grizzlies the season a completely fulfilling and satisfy­ downed Montana State 6747 to capture sec­ ing experience,” said Grizzly head coach ond place in the Big Sky Conference, thereby Blaine Taylor, who led Montana to its fifth earning a first-round bye in the Big Sky tour­ twenty-win season and second NCAA nament, hosted by regular season champion appearance of his six-year tenure. Northern Arizona. Taylor was neither fulfilled nor satisfied Even more unlikely was Cal State when Montana began its season by losing Northridge’s victory over Northern Arizona— four of its first seven games. Predicted to win in Flagstaff—in the Big Sky tournament semi­ the Big Sky championship in preseason polls, finals. That occurred the same night as the Grizzlies limped home from Montana’s 81-56 victory over Weber State, their first weekend of confer­ setting the stage for a Grizzly-Matador ence play after road losses to ^ matchup to determine the Big S k y ’s represen­ Idaho State 82-73, and Weber tative to the NCAA tournament State 104-95. During the Northridge was extremely athletic and Idaho State game, the team led much of the game before the Grizzlies ral­ lost starting center Brent lied for an 82-79 win. Senior Chris Spoja Smith for the season and junior Ryan Dick were named to with a broken foot the all-tournament team, and Taylor Back home, the suggested that Dick was slighted Griz found them­ when Northridge’s Trenton Cross selves at 0-3 in the was named the tourney’s MVP. conference after los­ Montana couldn’t ing to Northern have succeeded without Arizona. After a win forwards Dick and over Cal State Spoja, all-league guards fraught with obstacles. And even though they Northridge 76-62, the ^ jj Kirk Walker and J.R. were being beaten by the obviously superior team hit the road for Camel and center Bob athletes of Kentucky, the Grizzlies loved every three games. The sea- Olson—who filled Smith’s minute of their chance to share in the nation­ s o n ’s low point came shoes admirably, if not surpris­ al limelight of the NCAA tournament when, down by 20 points ingly. “I’m proud of how much we were able to to league newcomer Nevertheless, it was not overcome this season,” said Taylor. “We lost a Pordand State, they faced the season where individual league MVP candidate. We dealt with deaths prospect of a 1-4 start in league accolades mattered as of family members. We had numerous differ­ play. Somehow, Montana rallied much to the Grizzlies ent starters with broken bones or other mal­ to win that game 69-68—the sec­ l as the success they adies. All of these things could have derailed ond of a five-game streak that earned had in pulling our season, but our kids just wouldn’t allow it the Griz a 5-3 record halfway through together to to happen.” M league play. overcome a Taylor and the Grizzlies had a much more season successful second half. After a second loss to Senior guard Kirk Walker Weber State 72-68, Montana avenged an earli­ helped steer the Grizzlies to an Rick Stem is a freelance writer living, er loss to Idaho State by downing the Bengals NCAA tournament appearance. working and playing in Missoula.

Spring 1997 M o n t a n a n 9 Jo u r n a l ism , MONTANA STYLE The Student Documentary Unit

by Kristin Rodine That approach works. Former students work in stations across the state and across the nation. A few success stories: Terry Meyers is tudents crowd into an one of two evening news producers for New editing room, watching York C it y ’s CBS station; James Rafferty cov­ rough footage on a small S ered last summer’s Olympics for a Wisconsin television screen while station; Chris Goode is a trainer for a compa­ three professors fire ny that makes weather graphics for Fox and questions at them. “Where’s your two-shot?” “What about that lip-flap?” The students are members of The University of Montana’s Student Documen­ “They end up with som e­ tary Unit, which has racked up an impressive array of awards while giving UM students thing with lasting value, something few schools offer the experience of producing an hourlong documentary for broadcast throughout the state. much more than the One by one, the teams play their footage for the faculty. Questions and comments are average minute-and-a-half tough, to the point, and from all directions. Students defend their choices and explore options. One student yields to the strain with story.” tears of frustration. I t ’s been a long semester, and in a matter of days these segments are scheduled to air in Montana. MSNBC; and Jeanelle Lamphier is a successful reporter and producer for a Billings TV sta­ The exchanges are frank, with professors tion. Several of the students who worked on addressing students as colleagues. That profes­ this y e a r ’s documentary have snared presti­ sional atmosphere is a key part of the process gious internships: Anna Kloss at National and a prime example of what radio-television Public Radio, Suzi Jewett at Fax Broadcasting’s Professor Bill Knowles calls the “Montana WFXT in Boston and Margrete Raugstad at method” of practical journalism training. A B C ’s “Good Morning, America.” U M ’s School of Journalism, of which the radio- television department is a part, focuses on practical skills and hands-on experience. Hands-on Journalism While many “J” schools emphasize commu­ For eleven years, the Student Documentary nication theory, Knowles says, UM strives to Umt has given UM broadcast journalism and give future professionals a running start “My radio-television production majors a rare view of my job is to make students employable opportunity to work on a long-form documen­ in the industry,” says Knowles, a former West tary. “Long-form training is very rare in jour­ Coast bureau chief for ABC News. nalism schools,” Knowles says, noting that UM is one of only two “They end up with schools in the nation something with last­ with a student docu­ ing value, much more mentary unit “This is than the average really a capstone minute-and-a-half experience for these story,” Knowles says. kids,” he says. “It takes away the With the help of ephemeral nature of U M ’s entire radio­ television.” television depart­ Over the years, ment—Knowles, Joe the documentaries Durso Jr. and depart­ have received a “ter­ ment Chair Greg rific response” from M acDonald —the Montanans, he says. u n it’s thirty-five stu­ Members o f the 1997 Student Documentary Unit at the premier showing o f Native America: Whose Land? Whose People tape them; dents handle all Law? at the Press Box. From left to right: Anna Rau, anchor; Kerry Anderson, director; Professor Greg MacDonald, people buy them. The aspects of the docu­ radio-television department chair; Suzi Jewett, producer; Sophie Curtis, reporter; Marilee McNaughton, school is still selling mentary, from bud­ researcher; Margrete Raugstad, associate producer. copies of past pro­ geting and travel ar­ grams. And the unit rangements to choosing music and graphics to and interviewing a wide range of native and has collected shelves full of accolades: regional accompany the segments. A $5,000 budget, non-native Montanans, from shopkeepers to Society of Professional Journalism honors ten courtesy of the Greater Montana Foundation the state attorney general. out of ten years, three national SPJ awards and and Montana Public Television, covers travel The process can be exhausting, with many numerous Rocky Mountain Emmies and and other expenses. late nights in the editing room and road trips Montana Broadcasters’ Association awards. “We take statewide issues, send the stu­ across the state, on top of other TV projects, dents out across the state to do strong seg­ including the weekly “College Beat” news “An Incredible Experience” ments and put together a program that studies break during local airings o f N B C ’s “Today” On top of being a recruiting asset for the the issue in depth,” Knowles says. show. Students sacrifice a lot during their SDU School o f Journalism, attracting aspiring The unit picks “the topics people are talk­ semester, Knowles says, noting that “December broadcast journalists from Canada, Norway ing about,” he says—sales tax, land develop­ can be a bit of a train wreck.” and twelve states, Native America research ment, the inability o f Montana students to The ultimate payoff is a program with a chief Mike Spurlock says the SDU is great tech­ find good jobs in their home state. This y ea r’s permanence that is rare in television news. nical and professional training. Unit members documentary, a one-hour, comprehensive look have individual responsibilities, but students at tribal sovereignty in Montana, is one of the must work together to make each segment fit SO U ’S most ambitious. “1 really salute the stu­ into the whole. And, Spurlock says, students dents for choosing this topic,” Knowles says. “We take statewide hone their journalistic instincts: “They learn This is a really difficult subject, very compre­ how to pick out the strengths and weaknesses hensive and incredibly important And I think of a story and how the individual stories relate they’ve done very well with it” issues, send the to the overall plan.” Native America: Whose Land? Whose Watching his classmates gathered in teams, Law? provides an overview o f the history of students out across sharing ideas and progress reports, Spurlock tribal sovereignty and details current issues says, “I’m sure some of these kids are going to involving gambling, taxes, land use, criminal be famous someday.” justice and the Indian Child Welfare Act the state to do Producer Jewett, who oversaw boiling “Every single one of them is a high-conflict down thirty-five hours of video into an hour- issue in Montana right now,” says the pro strong segments and long documentary, calls it an incredible experi­ : gram’s producer, Jewett “It’s exciting how ence. “Every time I’d walk into the editing stu­ timely this is.” Native America aired on dios and see the pieces coming together, it was Montana Public Television in mid-December put together a pro­ so exciting for me,” she says. “This is what I and again in March; it also was featured dur­ want to do with the rest of my life.” M ing the UM-hosted Native American Film gram that studies ; Festival this spring. Kristin Rodine is city news editor at the Students traveled the state for interviews Idaho Press Tribune in Nampa, Idaho. \ and footage, visiting three Indian reservations the issue in depth.”

S p rin g 1997 M o n t a n a n 1 1 On the Wlndowseat, an oil painting, is part of UM’s Museum o f Fine Arts Fra Dana collec­ tion. For other Dana paintings, see: http://www.unrt.edu/ partv/famus.

T eaching O ur C hildren Well M on tan a’s Schools Are Running Faster Than Ever to Keep Up by Patrick Hutchins

hen Ellen Riemer recalls her first teaching job from Scobie, 146 miles to the east in a one-room school north of Hinsdale, Yet M on tan a’s historically staunch support of public education faces Montana, it’s the community that stands out stiff challenges. The social, political and technological forces that have During the winter, one of the older boys reshaped America have left our schools struggling to keep up. would come in early to light the stove. It burned lignite,W the brown coal which the fathers dug out of the prairie Asking More of Our Public Schools and hauled to school. When the weather got really bad, the families Schools do a lot more today than they once did, says Jean Luckowski, went in on a load of hotter-burning bituminous from Roundup. Riemer, professor of curriculum and instruction at U M ’s School of Education. who later taught at Paxson School in Missoula for thirty-two years, “Children with special needs, the hard-toteach-kids, are no longer sim­ remembers the families of her sixteen students as fiercely dedicated to ply missing from schools,” she says. “And those few kids can absorb a lot educating their children, no matter how isolated they were. o f time and resources.” School sports programs must now, by federal That dedication persists today, though its form has changed and the mandate, include girls and young women. Many o f the sta te’s Catholic sense of community that underlay it has frayed. Today H in sd a le’s school schools have closed, leaving public schools to take up the slack. And on has its own home page on the Internet In Saco, where Riemer was the seven Indian reservations, native language and culture have been bom, the K-12 school is fully networked with eighty-five terminals and added to the regular curriculum. It all adds up to more responsibility for two computer labs, and it offers a Spanish language course originating the public school teacher and more demand for the public dollar.

12 S prin g 1997 MONTANAN State Superintendent o f Public Instruction “It’s not that Montanans d o n ’t believe in edu­ Dennison, who has chronicled the progress of Nancy Keenan, who grew up in Anaconda, cation,” Racicot says. “It’s that they are so the sta te ’s higher education, observed that the sees a different kind of student in the class­ strained by escalating property taxes and other low tuition created a “seemingly insatiable room than when she was a girl. “Th e y ’re more costs associated with local government that demand for higher education.” independent, more used to doing critical th e re ’s not a lot of room left for them without But who would pay for it? thinking,” Keenan says. “They also feel more being placed financially in harm ’s way.” disenfranchised. This is a mobile society th a t’s grown away from a sense of community, and The Montana Who Benefits? Who Pays? we see that as much in rural schools as we do To the question posed by educational econ­ in the cities.” Yet she is quick to credit University System omist Howard Bowen regarding public educa­ Montanans for their support: “Parents are con­ When environmental studies Professor tion, “Who benefits, and who pays?” cerned and involved,” she insists. “Ninety per­ Hank Harrington started teaching at UM in M on tan a’s policy makers once answered cent of our mill levies pass. Unfortunately, 10 1971, he says the University was a different— loudly and clearly: Society benefits most, percent of kids d o n ’t have involved parents, and better—place. “Classes were smaller,” he so society will pay m ost Over the and those kids are driving us crazy.” recalls, “and people were much more involved years, however, that response—in Keenan also worries about the unregulated in actual teaching than they are now . The stu- Montana and across America—has home schooling movement in Montana, and dent-to-faculty ratio has risen tremendously. been almost completely reversed. what she sees as a concerted effort by the reli­ W e’re way above where we should be to offer Students themselves now see gious right to dominate the agenda of school a compassionate education.” their education mainly in terms boards in small communities. She points to the Indeed, the easiest trend to spot in the last of personal economic bene­ recent move in Three Forks to ban Thoreau fifty years is the influx of additional students. fit. A recent study from the school libraries. “It’s an interesting Just before World War II, enrollment at UM conducted by the time for the public schools,” she says. “There hovered just below 2,000. After the war, the University of are lots of distractions from the real issues.” new GI Bill opened the gates of American col­ California at Los A n g e la and the leges and universities to a flood of returning American Council on Education found thaf5 soldiers. At UM, more than 3,250 students the top educational priority for entering fresh­ Montana’s Record of Success crowded the campus in fall 1946. The cost of men had changed in the past thirty years from Despite the distractions, M on ta n a ’s K-12 a year of college ranged from $477.50 to developing “a meaningful philosophy of life” to schools have notched an impressive record. $677.50, with Uncle Sam picking up most of becoming “very well-off financially.” The National Assessment for Educational the soldiers’ tabs. Accordingly, the tab for higher education has Progress recendy rated Montana first among As a nation and a state, we had decided to been shifted to the students. all states in math and reading. In college invest in public education. Tuition was kept Over the years, M on tan a’s legislators have I entrance tests, Montana students scored above low by state and federal subsidies, and between looked for ways to cover the growing gap the national average, with 70 percent of high 1950 and 1974 enrollment in the University between costs and the traditional funding school graduates going on to college. The System increased from 5,000 to more than sources—the General Fund, the six-mill levy sta te’s high school completion rate is the eighth 22,000 students. UM President George and tuition. Tuition was the wild card. I highest in the nation. Says Kathleen Miller, Students saw tuition rise 504 percent between who keeps an eye on the schools as associate Students gathered on UM’s Oval. 1974 and 1994. “By the latter date,” Dennison dean of U M ’s School of Education: “Given the wrote, “Montana ranked nearly dead last in I resources we have, w e’re doing a fine job.” support for higher education, but not because All of this may be threatened if current of a lack of public commitment The state sim­ trends in funding continue. When the 1993 ply did not have the resources.” legislature slashed $50 million from education, I per-student funding tumbled to levels that are lower today in real dollars than they were in Restructuring 1992. Today the number o f school districts Higher Education requesting deferrals to operate below accredi- Today, tuition increases have outpaced | tation standards is up. Indeed, funding is near­ inflation, and demand is at an all-time high. ly at the level that prompted several under­ With almost 12,000 students enrolled in UM funded school lawsuits in 1989. alone (and nearly 28,000 in the University M on tan a’s Governor, Marc Racicot, de­ System), Montana faces some tough choices. fends the sta te’s commitment, pointing out Richard Crofts, M on tan a’s commissioner of that 60 to 65 percent of the budget is spent on higher education, is one of the people making I education. He sees broad-based tax reform as those choices. His response has been to reduce I the best hope for education in the long run. or eliminate programs that served few stu-

[ S prin g 1997 MONTANAN 13 dents, to consolidate and strengthen the been in this business since 1956, and my part, that h a sn ’t happened.” remaining programs and to increase faculty own parents still d o n ’t understand what a long as students want to “productivity.” Nearly 100 programs have been 1 do,” says Dailey, chuckling. fearn directly from teachers, axed or consolidated statewide, including Even before the restructuring knd teachers want to be teachers, undergraduate programs in German at began, George Dennison noted that : just technicians running multi- Montana State University in Billings and in Montana faculty and staff carried a presentations, Farr believes agricultural economics at MSU-Bozeman; a “about once again the load of peers education will remain a face-to- master’s program in metallurgy at Montana elsewhere,” and that conditions had ace undertaking. Tech; and doctorate programs in zoology and “deteriorated to the extent that sociology at UM-Missoula. At UM-Missoula must occur or serious damage will result Facing the future alone, more than 1,500 seats were Ironically, the challenges facing Montana’s freed up in 1996 for courses in schools stem in part from a solid belief in the greater demand. Technology: benefits of education. That more students now The University System White Knight or want more education should be cause for hope also gave back nearly $1 Red Herring? as we approach the new millenium. Even as the million to the General Many are clearly looking for a technological state grapples with economic and social Fund in areas fix. The University System is counting on its changes that make supporting education more where projected new Information Technology Resource Center difficult, Farr sees first and foremost a “recur­ enrollments over­ to help bring its tradition-bound campuses into ring eternal” quality as each new freshman shot actual stu­ the cyber-century. In the not-too-distant future, class arrives with its youth, energy and hope. dents. Says Crofts, “In students may be able to earn degrees over the “Montana students have a wonderful willing­ terms of restructuring, the Internet without the expense o f moving to a ness to try things,” he says. “And th e y ’re deter­ [University] System and the state physical campus. Yet how these new teaching mined to get things done.” are significantly ahead of most other technologies will ultimately affect education’s Just how we will be able to provide Hank states. I t ’s a great bargain for the people of bottom line remains unclear. Harrington’s “compassionate education” to Montana.” The role emerging information technolo­ everyone and how we will ensure that it is of gies play may ultimately depend on how they the highest possible quality remains unclear. At What Price Productivity? make education more satisfying, not just more What is dear is that Montana will prosper only Not everyone is pleased with Crofts’ bar­ efficient “Some are suggesting that we will to the extent that its citizens have the know­ gain. Professors asked to squeeze an additional move from being ‘the sage on the stage to the ledge, skills and understanding to compete suc­ three-credit course into their already jammed guide at the s id e , ’” says William Farr, history cessfully in the world. teaching schedules may find that t h e r e ’s no professor and associate director of the Center When Ellen R ie m e r ’s first employers—a few longer time to help individual students or to for the Rocky Mountain West “There are lots hard-pressed farm families along the Hi-Line— further their own research. The issue o f how o f wonderful teaching materials out there right scraped together enough money to hire a to ensure quality, accessible education is still now—taped lectures from great scholars and so teacher for their kids, they were investing not being argued. forth—that we could be using. But for the most in some short-term gain, but in the world we Dick Dailey, UM live in. T o d a y ’s professor of manage­ Montanans face a ment and president of similar choice. The the University Teach­ decision we reach will ers* Union, believes be felt longer than t h e r e ’s a fundamental anyone can know. M misunderstanding among legislators and ► Patrick Hutchins is the public about what § a freelance uniter university teachers s living in Missoula, d a While critics, he § says, understand the s teaching, they d o n ’t | take into account the = enormous amount of ° Students at Red School, time spent in faculty | the first school hi governance, research f Sow ers, Montana, on and advising. “I’ve i February 4, 1904.

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1 jp ^ R by Jennifer O’Loughlin tion and lack of resources faced by rural school Across the hall, upper-grade students spend teachers, the center created a listing of rural more time on individual lessons because the alk into Reichle school teachers and their specialities. A com­ wide range of abilities can make traditional School in Glen, puter network provides teachers with new teaching difficult “You can have one seventh W Montana, north of teaching materials; a newsletter lists education­ grader with ninth-grade reading skills,” says Dillon, and you al events and resources such as the Museum of teacher Sue Webster, “and another with won't find the tradi­ the Rockies’ Star Lab, a portable planetarium fourth-grade skills.” Such disparities are most tional one-room classroom. The s c h o o l’s twen­ complete with astronomy lessons. apparent in spelling and math, so Webster ty-one students are divided into two class­ The center also modified W M C ’s teaching gives individual lessons in these subjects, but rooms. On a Friday before Christmas, kinder- curriculum to feature courses on teaching mul­ she teaches social studies and science to the gartners through fourth-graders hunch over tiple grades simultaneously, with an emphasis entire class. journals as their teacher moves table to table. on field experience. Rural schoolchildren The two biggest challenges facing Reichle Across the hall, fifth- through eighth-graders spend one day a week with W MC students, and other rural schools are direct results of the work on individual lessons, using stand-up who prepare lessons for several different grade schools’ best features. Almost half of R e ic h le ’s dividers for privacy. Two students work at a levels. Education majors must student-teach for students are special needs children from Dillon computer while another watches the teacher at least fifteen weeks before they can receive because the emphasis on individual attention correct his entry for the Daughters o f the their certificates. Students must also learn is well-suited for children with learning dis­ American Revolution essay contest about the communities they will enter. abilities. This can be particularly challenging Rural schools in Montana in the 1990s? “Teaching is not an isolated job in rural for a teacher, who must make sure that every­ Hailed as a breakthrough in larger elementary schools,” Johannes says. “You must have a one gets the attention he or she needs. schools, this “multi-age grouping” has been broad sense of the context of each child.” The school must also comply with new used in Montana for more than a century. Even though rural school teaching can be state mandates requiring public schools to have T o d a y ’s 284 rural schools are a fraction of the like “managing a three-ring circus,” according a librarian and counselor, and music, art and 820 schools operating in the 1950s, but they to Johannes, it has its compensations. The physical education instructors. “We’re squeak­ are vital to M o n ta n a ’s rural communities. And pupils are dedicated and work hard without ing by,” Hicks says. “I’ve got a minor in library as small towns evolve from agricultural com­ much supervision. They also compare favor­ science, and Sue has a degree in music Like munities to commercial centers, separated by ably to their urban counterparts. Reichle most rural schools, w e ’re operating with a vari­ vast tracts of land, these schools face chal­ School alone contributed four valedictorians to ance for some of these rules.” lenges unknown to their predecessors. Beaverhead County High School over the past Both Hicks and Webster are particularly On top of declining enrollments and rising fifteen years; three 1996 graduates are honor proud of the s c h o o l’s music program. “We’re costs, M o n ta n a ’s rural schools must offer stu­ students at the high school. the only rural school in this region with a dents a broader education than their predeces­ Classroom activities vary widely at Reichle. band,” Webster says, noting that last year's thir­ sors because many students will leave rural In one classroom, kindergartners draw scraggly teen-member band played in W M C ’s home­ America, according to Cheryl Johannes, trees while older students write Christmas tree coming parade. director of the Rural Education Center at stories, talking quiedy or raising a hand to call “We’ve only got two members this year,” Western Montana College o f The University the seventh-grade girl w h o ’s helping out At the she says, a bit wistfully, “so w e ’re playing a lot of Montana. “Rural school teachers must give s e s s io n ’s end, students read their stories and of duets.” M students a better understanding of what they'll display their art The shyer ones have the face when they get out of school,” she says. teacher, Linda Hicks, read their stories while Jennifer O ’Loughlin '73, M S. '80, is a Established in 1980 to overcome the isola­ the proud authors stand next to her. freelance uniter in Dillon.

Spring 1997 MONTANAN 15 ParadiseT ou n d t first it was a kick to be young, eighteen to thirty-four years old, being the destination and are largely moving to the area between A o f choice for the rich, OR , Helena and Butte, the Flathead Valley, famous and fanatic— Gallatin County and the scenic Beartooth Hoyt Axton, Margot area. The most people are moving into Ravalli Kidder, Ted Turner, even the Unabomber. We County from right down the road—Missoula. gloated over the media playing up M o n ta n a ’s “The single fastest growing area of the state is spaciousness, seclusion and wild and woolly LOST? the Bitterroot Valley, where Ravalli C o u n ty ’s critters, including us. We glowed about for­ by Constance Poten population mushroomed by 34.3 percent,” says saking money and fame ourselves for the Larry Swanson, an economist and associate healthy, rugged life of knapweed, cows and director for the Center for the Rocky snowplows. Now, for all that hubris, it seems as Population Growth Mountain West if that glory has turned right around and bit­ From 1990 to 1996, Montana ranks as one ten us back. o f the fastest growing states, fourteenth in the In a wink the Bitterroot Valley is becoming in Montana nation. The s t a t e ’s population has increased Levittown-with-a-view. by 10 percent, from 799,065 Bozeman’s foothills sprout to 879,320, according to the boxy dream houses. Ranch- U. S. Bureau of the Census. ettes fill the Helena Valley. UM geography Assistant Traffic jams Missoula streets. Professor Christiane von Taxes rise. Affordable housing Reichert notes, however, that is mosdy a memory, though a rush-in, rush-out pattern has no Montana city reaches characterized migration in 100,000 in population. M o n ta n a ’s past century. From In an effort to track 1985 to 1990, the state lost a migration patterns and find net 50,000 people. out if newcomers really are Even though it ’s rare to crowding out Montanans, find a parking space in University of Montana econo­ Missoula, the statewide popu­ mists and geographers con­ lation has mostly just shifted. ducted surveys and polls. The “The growth is very local­ findings are a shock: It ized,” says Sylvester. “The appears that our torment is state as a whole is relatively largely self-inflicted. flat” “Sixty percent of people Since 1990, the average moving to Montana from out annual growth has been a of state have previous ties or quiet 1.6 percent per year. So relatives here," says James if y o u ’re looking for an espres­ Sylvester, an economist at so-free lifestyle, head east to U M ’s Bureau for Business the agricultural counties and Economic Research. where deaths exceed births, “They fall in the forty-five to the median age is over forty- sixty-five age group and are five and people flee. “Cattle heading back mostly from prices are at historic lows, all California and Washington.” the oil has been found, the Not only that, but almost coal market is down,” says 40 percent o f migrants Sylvester. “Eastern Montana are simply moving within already is the Big Open, Montana. These people tend “Stacked Wagon Wheels," copyrighted by Richard S. Boswell o f Helena. informally.”

16 S prin g 1997 MONTANAN Counties with Growing Populations in Montana 1990 to 1996

Why Montana? Washington, where The most popular Boeing is expanding, region for all migrants and California, where is rural, western corporate downsizing Montana (including has stabilized. Missoula County), “The 6-percent which has seen a 17- growth rate o f the early 1 9 9 0s is not sus­ percent increase in just the last six years. tainable,” Sylvester W h a t’s the draw? After says. “Ravalli County connections, i t ’s quality was still high in 1996 of life that attracts 40 at 4 percent, but Missoula County was percent o f the newcomers and 16 percent of the tax structure are the biggest reasons for back down to 1.1 percent, a reasonable rate the returnees. bidding Montana sayonara, followed by a over a long period.” “Retirees can do better in Mineral and poor job market, harsh climate and concern Swanson notes, however, that accelerated Sanders Counties,” explains Swanson. “Th a t’s with crowding and overdevelopment growth is projected to continue. “Mon tan a’s why the population is growing in spite o f a M o n ta n a ’s most transient county is Gallatin. population will top one million by the year decline in the wood products industry. They 2005, an increase of nearly 16 percent concen­ very sensibly move where taxes are lower and trated in the western part of the state,” he says. they get more value for their money.” Who Are the Newcomers? Montanans’ fears that migrants are either The western half of the state is one of the Tied for second with lifestyle is employ­ rich Californians or highly educated operators n a tio n ’s fastest growing regions, in valleys con­ ment, a goal for 33 percent o f new migrants taking away work is unfounded, said von fined by mountains and public lands. In spite and 18 percent of those coming back to Reichert in a presentation for U M ’s Center for o f a tradition o f resistance to land-use plan­ Montana. the Rocky Mountain West. Cross-state ning, county officials now face the problems of What employment? you might ask. migrants do tend to be better educated, but being too popular. “It ’s under the radar,” says Sylvester. “We they a r e n ’t necessarily crowding residents out Because most miles are vertical, publicly d o n ’t have any idea. No industries are on the of the marketplace, according to von Reichert owned or bone dry, M o n ta n a ’s population den­ increase in western Montana to explain the Residents have a 5-percent unemployment rate sity is still a deceptively roomy 5.6 humans per growth w e ’re getting.” compared to 14 percent among recent square mile, third behind Alaska and Swanson points to a combination of fac­ migrants. Residents also make up a much larg­ Wyoming, wrote William Farr, UM professor tors directing population movement The er share of homeowners and buyers. More o f history and associate director of the Center increase in service jobs-induding health care, than half of all migrants rent housing. for the Rocky Mountain West, in the legal, business and financial services—and Von Reichert also discovered that more Montana Business Quarterly. In the last tourism, one of the w o r ld ’s largest industries, migrants are in the low-income categories— twenty-five years the state has puttered along influence migration patterns. But the aging under $10,000-$20,000. “That was a surprise at a 23-percent growth rate, below the 26 per­ population and the decline of economic seg­ to me,” she said. “ What happened to the rich cent national average. By comparison, Arizona ments like manufacturing are the biggest influ­ Californians living in the Bitterroot? We actu­ bulked up by 130 percent ences on where people live, he says, because ally had less than 2,000 wealthy migrants over As the Missoula rush subsides, housing people no longer have to live near the office. three years.” prices are dropping off. Still, subdivisions, strip “Today we are in the age of information Left out of the equation are all those vaca­ malls and highways proliferate. “If we continue technology, which is ubiquitous,” Swanson says. tion homes, says Swanson. “The statistics are to deny that these growth pressures exist, our “We have a ‘footloose economy’ that prospers understating what is happening,” he says. communities will increasingly be seen as in nice areas to live. Retirees are more pros­ “Sizable numbers o f people have second unattractive and poorly planned,” warns perous and their children more far flung. You homes, which accounts for much of the con­ Swanson. “The quality of living in these com­ could say western Montana is fast-growing sim­ struction boom around Flathead Lake, and munities and our future economic prosperity ply because it ’s an attractive place to live.” these people are not reflected in the numbers.” are at stake.” Tracking the data is difficult People in The challenge that remains for Montana is America d o n ’t need permits to move and fre­ one that writer Wallace Stegner said faces the quently d o n ’t license businesses. UM econo­ How to Handle the Boom? entire West: to build a civilization that match­ mists are refining their database to capture Migration into Montana may have peaked es our scenery. M trends, but i t ’s a restless era, and the popula­ in 1994-95, according to Sylvester. tion rolls back and forth for any number of rea­ “Immigration has slowed down,” he says, in Constance Poten is a uniter who lives in sons, induding a bad winter. Cost of living and part because of the growing economies in M issoula.

Spring 1997 M o n t a n a n 17 You might glimpse Montana Transport, The University o f M on tan a’s resident modem , , T FROM dance company, performing among an instal­ lation of sculpted hay bales. M on ta n a ’s art scene has come of age. And yet it was only two decades ago that asteland U.S. Senator Claiborne Fell, the driving force W behind the creation o f the National Endowment for the Arts, described Montana as a “cultural wasteland,” home to generic western literature and art “Hardly,” says UM English Professor and to M ecca writer William Kittredge. According to the ten G o v e rn o r’s Arts Awards recipients included in this article, the mid-seventies saw the cultural The A rts in Montana revolution in Montana at full boil—the news simply h a d n ’t percolated out to the rest of the by Mamie Prange world. Today, as government funds leverage pri­ vate support for the arts, M on tan a’s arts infra­ structure-museums, galleries and a wealth of new and restored theaters-contributes to a robust climate for the arts. “Th e re ’s been an explosion in activity,” notes Arlynn Fishbaugh, executive director of the Montana Arts Council.

o n ta n a ’s literary history is a history of the Munexpected: that U M ’s creative writing program, begun in the 1920s by H.G. Merriam, became the second writing program in the nation, after Harvard; that literary crit­ ic and former chair of U M ’s English depart­ ment Leslie Fiedler should cultivate a love of culture in the state; that poet Richard Hugo, hired in 1963 without teaching credentials, should become a major literary figure, drawing attention to Montana while influencing the lives of countless young writers. H u go ’s gift to novelist and alum James

Boulder River by ceramist Rudy Autio, 1995. Welch and other Montanans was the license to write about the contemporary West and the assurance that a story well told was worth isit a town of any size in Montana. O pen the telling. Welch traces his own evolution to a workshop with Hugo in the winter of 1966. local paper to the entertainment section and When Hugo asked Welch why he w asn ’t writ­ ing about what he knew—the Montana Hi- y o u ’ll likely find listings as eclectic as the land­ Line and the Blackfeet and Fort Belknap reser­ V vations—Welch responded “because nobody scape: readings, concerts, gallery and museum openings, the­ cares about northern Montana.” H u go ’s advice was “try it, and see if anybody cares.” Three ater, dance. And during the summer, when arts festivals blos­ decades later, Welch has an international audi­ ence for his work, and his books have been som, keep your eyes open as you drive from venue to venue. translated into twelve languages.

18 S prin g 1997 MONTANAN A scene from the Montana Repertory Theatre’s 1997 production o f To Kill A Mockingbird.

After H u go ’s hire, others followed in quick succession: James Crumley (who had the audacity to set detective novels in Montana), Earl Ganz, Madeline DeFrees, Rick de Marinis, James Lee Burke and Kittredge. “Those were exciting times,” Kittredge recalls. “Everybody was cooking.” Tom McGuane came to the Paradise Valley in the 1960s with an entourage of writer friends, including William Hjortsberg and James Harrison. | “Word began to seep out that Tley, th e re ’s 1 a whole colony of writers out h ere,”’ Kittredge s says. As well as the amenities of landscape and | cheap rent, it was the atmosphere o f people helping one another that drew other writers. U M ’s creative writing program also has People came and stayed. try ’s first ceramic programs, A u tio ’s graduate seen tremendous growth in student numbers And kept coming. students found positions at major universities and talent over the decades, and this February For Kittredge, a breakfast at H u go ’s house where they built their own programs. “It was a it was tied for tenth place in the in 1969 illustrates the then and now. “Hugo U.S. News marvelous time for a kid to find a job,” he says. list of A m erica ’s best had everybody who was worth a damn sitting and World Report’s These days, it ’s a lot tougher. Although stu­ graduate creative writing programs. Poet around one table—six or seven people who dents are better trained, because of their num­ Patricia Goedicke, who came to UM as a visit­ were actually publishing and doing work that bers it ’s harder for them to emerge from the ing professor in 1981, recalls Hugo handing conceivably could get published. T h a t’s multi­ pack and get into galleries, Autio says. Galleries her fifteen submissions and asking her to plied by ten now, or twenty, or thirty, God have proliferated in Montana over the past choose the six applicants she felt were “people knows. You co u ld n ’t have them for breakfast— decade, yet Autio finds them either “glutted ready to graduate.” This spring, Goedicke and you’d have to rent a tent” with good work” or tending “to lean a lot on five other members of the writing faculty read With the publication in 1988 of T h e Last the old heroes.” 300 applications from around the country, Best Place, an anthology of Montana writing New technology, such as clay machinery from which they would choose thirty. coedited by Kittredge and Annick Smith, east­ and computerized kilns, has brought a high- It has become difficult for “walk-ons”—the ern publishers, agents and editors “discovered” tech sensibility to some young ceramists’ work, locals who used to wedge their way into the contemporary western literature, Kittredge Autio says, but it easily coexists with the other writing program—and th a t’s unfortunate, says. “We printed 6,000 and thought that end of the spectrum—handbuilt vessels fired Kittredge says. Still the upside for students is a would be a lifetime supply. They came out in wood-stoked kilns. town th a t’s generous and full of writers, where about Thanksgiving, and by December tenth One of the visual artists grappling with the young writers rub elbows with published they were gone. We were just absolutely recent change is Choteau native and alum authors. T h a t’s where the real learning takes stunned.” Dana Boussard, who is vocal about the a r tist’s place, he maintains, through osmosis. role. Twenty years ago, with no contemporary The current literary scene in Montana, and art market in Montana, Boussard says the Recipients of in Missoula in particular, has been the subject focus was “to get work out..work for New Governor's Arts Awards include: of intense media focus. For Welch, the “scene” York.” “For a variety of reasons,” she says, has been blown out of proportion—a media • Mary Moore, Music “some of us had to start saying, “Wait a minute. • Wally McRae, Folk and Traditional feeding frenzy th a t’s led to unnatural growth. I need to be more introspective about myself Arts “A lot of people think we all get together and and about the art I’m producing. I’m produc­ • William Kittredge, Literature have a club meeting every month,” Welch says. ing art for a market I d o n ’t know, or d o n ’t live “They d o n ’t realize how individual we are.” • Thomas McGuane, Literature in, or d o n ’t share the values of.’” • James Welch, Literature Since rediscovering Montana, she and • Montana Repertory Theatre, Theater eramic artist and Professor Emeritus Rudy other artists have turned traditional western Autio, who came to UM in 1957, remem­ • Rudy Autio, Visual Arts C iconography on its head. The cowboys, bers those early years as heady. “It was a good • Dana Boussard, Visual Arts Indians, horses, bears and empty landscapes time here on campus,” says Autio, who, along • Arnie Malina, G o v e rn o r’s Award for are still there, but reinterpreted in individual with Peter Voulkos, helped found H elen a ’s the Presentation of the Arts visions. The market has responded, Boussard Archie Bray Foundation for the ceramic arts. • Robert Scriver, G o v e rn o r’s Award for says, and many artists are making money. “It’s “The world was your oyster, there w asn ’t any­ Lifetime Achievement, Visual Arts a hard thing to turn down,” she notes. thing you couldn ’t do.” From one of the coun­ But even this view of Montana may have

S prin g 1997 MONTANAN 19 F anfare by Rudy Autio, 1994. PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER AUTIO

run its course. Boussard worries artists may be the national tour was band would have been pos­ “trafficking” in images that promote a new extended for another sible twenty years ago. And myth of Montana—a version of reality that no year. Even the ' twenty years ago, “technolo­ longer exists. Now that Montana artists have Choteau Performing gy was not even in the captured the n a tio n ’s imagination, she says it is Arts L e a g u e ’s play telling cards.” time for artists “to pose the myth against what the story of their town is nowl ■ p ph onies have seen a steady we really see”—which means addressing the touring Kentucky. n, in budgets and attendance, Wal-Marts, mines and polluted rivers. The turnaround has been according to Mary Moore, past con­ phenomenal, says Greg ductor of the Symphonic Choir in o present the per­ Johnson, Montana R e p ’s artistic Great Falls. Currently the symphony fills Tforming arts, large director. Johnson met his former wife, a the 1,800-seat civic center; thirty years ago organizations such as Montana-born actress, in the m id - ’80 s while they would have been happy with an audience Helena Presents Inc. both were working on Broadway. When folks o f five hundred, she says. work hand-in-hand first heard she was from Montana, he says, Visiting artists “think Great Falls' is the with community arts “They were expecting to see cow manure first haystack this side of the Twin Cities,” organizations to at­ between her toes and hay in her hair. Moore laughs, adding that they c a n ’t believe tract touring compa­ “Now, when you mention Montana in New the facility, the size of the audience and the cal­ nies from around the York, people say, ‘Oh, I want to g o . ’” iber of the symphony. world. Nowadays it ’s Johnson concurs with Kittredge that the Until the recent influx of urban dwellers not uncommon for wasteland reputation was undeserved. and their expectations for cultural activity, H e le n a ’s Myrna Loy “Montana has always been and continues to be Montana has been on its own, Moore says, cre­ Center to be the anything but a cultural backwater,” Johnson ating an audience by supporting art and music whistle stop on a maintains. “It ’s the kind of place where people in the schools and by nurturing its native tour of major cities. come and work, a place where an artist is given artists. The current scene is every bit as home­ “Something will go to an incredible amount of free range to do what grown. “Everybody involved in the arts wants San Francisco, L A ., he wants to do.” to add and preserve beauty,” she says. “And Helena, Minneapolis, Dance Professor Juliette Crump, who came that explains why in difficult times the arts Philadelphia and on to to UM in 1974, says that interest in dance has seem to flourish.” New York,” says New fluctuated over the years, from the freewheel­ York native Arnie ing ’70 s, when money for dance was plentiful; olk, western, and Native American arts Malina, director of to the m id - ’80 s, when student enrollment Fthrive alongside contemporary art. Helena Presents and decreased “as if the students were under pres­ Rosebud rancher and cowboy poet Wally co-founder o f the sure from their parents to get business McRae serves on the board o f the National Montana Performing d e g r e e s ”; to the current popularity of dance as Endowment for the Arts. The Russell Auction, Arts Consortium. “It ’s a field of study. the largest western art oudet in the world, always kind of fun to Although the ground for dance is as fertile added fifty new artists this year to its juried see that happen now as it was two decades ago, dancers are less auction, which draws collectors from around In addition, sever­ free to experiment, Crump says. Because of the globe. al national shows competition for diminished funds, dancers Longtime cowboy artist and Browning have originated in must be affiliated with an organization to native Bob Scriver recalls the early days when Montana. Helena receive support, and organizations often exert “As far as I knew, there were only five artists Presents has helped control over creative endeavors. “People want in the whole damn state. Now there must be a create prominent na­ to be sure th e y ’re putting their money behind thousand of them, and everyone is selling tional commissions, the right thing. They d o n ’t want to invest in welLI d o n ’t even know them alL” Great Blue Heron such as the recent something that might not pay off for ten And even western artists, cowboy artists in by sculptor Bob Salver. collaboration between years,” she says. “If your work is n ’t appealing or particular, are moving away from generic west­ New Y o r k ’s Garth is controversial, you w o n ’t be funded. How are ern art and crossing over into landscape and Fagan Dance Company, jazz pianist Don Pullen we going to encourage visionaries?” wildlife. As Scriver says, “A horse can only and the Chief Cliff Singers o f the Tom Cook, chair of U M ’s Department of buck so many damn ways.” M Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The Music, points to the tremendous impact of show premiered in Helena and Poison, then technology in the creative process and the rise Poet M amie Prcmge writes features for performed at New Y ork ’s Lincoln Center. of community bands and orchestras as indica­ The Bitterroot Star. U M ’s Montana Repertory Theatre toured To tors of change. Cook, who directs a concert K ill A Mockingbird to such rave reviews that band of fifty musicians in Missoula, doubts his

20 S prin g 1997 MONTANAN by Annick Smith For a publishing panel, Yellow Bay has invited editors from major New York publish­ fas it poet Dick ers, small presses and such magazines as H u g o ’s idea to hold E squire and The Atlantic. We were even a writers’ workshop featured on National Public R a d io ’s at the Flathead Lake “Bookworm”—the only workshop in the Biological Station at country to be so honored. W Stories are what writers live for, and there 1 Yellow Bay—some vision of writers lolling on the beach? O r Lois W elch ’s, University of have been plenty. There was the day a magis­ Montana English professor and former cre­ terial elder poet stepped into a canoe with her ative writing director? O r mine? No matter. It equally distinguished husband. The canoe wob­ was a perfect use for an almost perfect place. bled and tipped. It turned 180 degrees and And this summer—after ten years—fifty stu- dumped the poet into the lake. Not missing a dents, four instructors, agents, editors and vis­ beat, the poet ascended from the water in her itors will gather again at the Yellow Bay purple jump suit, purple dye running down I Writers’ Workshop for six days and nights her arms and legs. Paying no attention to the devoted to the craft of writing literature. crowd gathered to help, she walked majestical­ Informality is key. Participants and faculty ly up the path, dripping purple all the way. are scattered in cabins on the pine-shaded There was the famous writer whose female peninsula that protrudes like a thumb, divid­ students got mad as killer bees when he was ing the calm waters of Yellow Bay from wave- discovered romancing another student, the tossed Flathead Lake. When everyone shares two of them nude as Greek gods on the warm bathhouses (his and hers) and eats meals on sands of a cove. O r the screenwriter who the commissary deck, when a discussion begins Poets, refused a lake cruise because he was fright­ in class, continues through cocktail hour and ened of boats, then appeared at the helm of a I into the night, ending in a moonlit swim— speedboat, ponytail flying, glass of chardonnay I th at’s how friendships begin. And th a t’s how a held high. There was the evening reading bunch of strangers becomes a community. Prose and when a thunderstorm knocked out the lights, Administered by U M ’s Center for and the writers had to continue by flashlight Continuing Education and Summer Programs, Some stories are darker: the stalker with a with scholarship help from Hellgate Writers wig who harassed a young girl into leaving; the and a faculty member from U M ’s creative writ­ Moon lit seminary student gone mad—walking, walking; ing program, the weeklong session offers the woman who got hives and locked herself morning workshops, afternoon lectures and in her room; the librarian who fainted in the evening readings. People ranging from their rain from a bleeding ulcer. twenties to their seventies come from as far Swims Writers are great gossips. They spread the away as Switzerland and as nearby as Bigfork word, and the word about Yellow Bay is good. for the natural beauty and the excellent facul­ The Yellow Bay Each year we have more inquiries. Even as ty. Not to mention the tasty food, the network workshops proliferate in ski resorts and college of friends, the shared wisdom, foolishness, gen- campuses from Maine to Oregon, we hold our ■ erosity and jokes. Writers’ Workshops place as one of the best summer retreats where Over the years, we have been graced with writers can study and have a swell time while some of the most sought-after writers in the th ey ’re at it country, including National Book Award win­ Ten years is a long stretch. Ten years of ner Andrea Barrett, Ron Hansen, Poet squalls and sunsets over Flathead Lake. At this Laureate Robert Hass, Marilynne Robinson rate, I’ll be there ten years from now, a bent and Pulitzer Prize winners Carolyn Kizer and The 1997 Yellow Bay Writers’ Workshop, August crone stumping from classrooms to dinners, James Tate. We have also featured M on tan a’s 10-16, will feature fiction writers Kevin Canty (UM) from readings to meditations in a wave-washed f own Mary Clear man Blew, James Crumley, and Jayne Anne Phillips, nonfiction writer David canoe. Every year I threaten to quit “This is James Duncan, poet Jane Hirshfieid, agent Heather Patricia Goedicke, Bill Kittredge, Tom the topper,” I say, “This is the best workshop Schroeder of International Creative Management w e’ve had.” And every year, I’m right M McGuane, Deirdre McNamer, Greg Pape and and editor Jordan Pavlin of Alfred A. Knopf. For | James Welch. Not to mention David Long, more information, send an e-mail m essage to Missoula uniter Annick Smith chooses | who first came to Yellow Bay as an emerging [email protected] or call (406) 243-2094. Yellow B a y ’s uniting faculty and directs the % voice on the Montana Writers Tour. creative uniting program on site.

S prin g 1997 M ONTANAN 21 i Campus

Before After

T h e N ew Fa ce O F T H E U n iversity T h ea tre by Rita Munzenrider square-foot rotunda will be built on the build­ bookstore in its basement and the campus ball­ ing's north side, ringed by columns that match room upstairs. Students voted for a $1 per or decades, the University those in the present lobby. quarter fee increase to pay for it When fund­ T h e a tr e ’s stage has been All are part of the $2 million renovation ing came up short, the building became the graced by some of the top project that began this spring on the 62-year- first in the country built on a college campus entertainers o f the day— old campus landmark. “This is going to be an under R oosevelt’s Works Progress Admin­ Joan Baez, Ray Charles, incredibly wonderful space,” says James Kriley, istration. Its Art Deco style was also the first Arlo Guthrie,F B.B. King, Pearl Jam—even dean of U M ’s School of Fine Arts. “People will on campus to deviate from the Renaissance though production crews had to haul per­ be amazed that it was done for that amount” Revival style. formers’ equipment up the building’s front The newly dressed theater was designed by The theater—for many years, the largest in steps and down the steep aisles to the stage. M is s o u la ’s Paradigm Architects. Realizing that Montana—has always been the most magnifi­ Patrons were jammed together in tattered, UM alumni hold “a warm spot in their hearts cent part of the building. “It ’s not going to be a squeaky seats and endured long lines for one for that space and the history it has on cam­ new theater,” Kriley says. “We’re redoing a of the building’s two toilets. pus,” architect Carl Posewitz says he carefully wonderful old place.” “Despite its state of dilapidation, we were created the t h e a te r ’s new design so its historic The $2 million, which will come from still able to get world-class talent,” says Tom charm remained intact Many remember hear­ bonds sold by the University in November Webster, a twelve-year veteran o f music pro­ ing K. Ross T o o le ’s eloquent Montana history 1996, w on’t cover everything. The UM motions (including University o f Montana lectures in the packed 1 ,4 0 0 -seat auditorium. Foundation has mounted campaigns to estab­ Productions), who now directs the University Actor Carroll O ’Co n n o r got his start on the lish a theater endowment and to raise Theatre. t h e a te r ’s stage playing Othello and the narra­ $ 5 9 0,000 for a new concert shell, rigging, light­ Last summer the curtain came down on tor in O ur Town. For years, Missoula audi­ ing and miscellaneous expenses, such as drapes the University Theatre when it closed for a ences gathered several Sundays a year to hear and building adornments. Patrons can “buy a season to undergo a desperately needed face the Missoula Symphony Orchestra. seat” to pay for the refurbishing. lift By next October, production crews will be Originally built in 1934-35 as the Student It will be W e b ste r ’s job to fill the theater by able to bad equipment into the back door and Union, the building once housed the campus bringing in world-class entertainment, indud- directly onto the ______ing Broadway shows stage. Patrons can on their way to stretch out comfort­ Spokane. “We’ve al­ ably in newly refur­ ways been successful bished seats with rilling seats in the refinished wooden past,” he says. “Once arms and elegant bur­ we make the theater gundy and gray more comfortable, it ’ll upholstery. At inter­ be another reason for mission, they can people to come.” M visit the expanded lobby and twenty-one new toilets. The drab auditorium walls will An architect’s rendering have a fresh coat of o f the redesigned paint, the floors new University Theatre, shov­ coverings. A 6,000- ing the new rotunda

22 Spring 1997 MONTANAN An architect’s rendering o f the redesigned Dahlberg Arena. A Sports A rena for the T wenty-first C entury

by Rita Munzenrider trade shows to religious programs and sports basketball games to large conventions. Initially contests. The remaining $7 million will come estimated at $25 million, the construction pro­ he biggest contests inside from private funding—the University is target­ ject doubled in cost as planning progressed, Dahlberg Arena these ing firms with an interest in western Montana and the University decided it c o u ld n ’t afford days are not between the and its future, Hogan says. to build the new center. Architects and engi­ Grizzlies and longstanding When the new events center opens in late neers went back to the drawing boards. rivals: they are among 1999, its interior will sport new scoreboards Renovating the existing facility became the Grizzly coaches volleying for practice space. and video systems, premium suites and more best option. T accessible restrooms and concessions booths. Gone are the days when basketball had full “During the last few years w e ’ve looked at reign over the court: to d a y ’s basketball teams And the seats—complete with back and arm the needs of the institution and the communi­ compete with volleyball, track, soccer and foot­ rests—will be designed for maximum comfort ty and how we can meet the challenges of con­ ball teams when poor weather drives practices and visibility, says Hogan, noting that no seat tinued growth,” says UM President George indoors. “Practice space is critical,” says athlet­ will be more than 110 feet from the floor. Dennison. “What we have here will serve the ic director Wayne Hogan. “We literally have Instead of adding more seats that would send athletic and cultural needs of the University, coaches fighting each other for space.” ticket holders to the rafters, he says, “We decid­ while also serving the community.” With the proposed $23 million renovation ed to create an intimate atmosphere.” of the Harry Adams Reid House, these space Student athletes will also benefit from a Down the Road Plans new weight room, training center and w o m e n ’s problems will be eliminated before the end of Construction will displace Grizzly basket­ locker room. “I’m excited that w e ’ll be getting the century. The addition of an auxiliary gym­ ball for the 1998-99 season. Most of the sea­ a first-class facility to recruit to and play in,” nasium will give coaches and teams an alterna­ s o n ’s games will be played at nearby Sentinel says Lady Griz head coach Robin Selvig. tive practice site and provide a permanent High School in Missoula, and plans for televis­ “When you look at the places we play, w e ’re home for Lady Griz volleyball. ing the games are in the works. Fans elsewhere behind many, if not most, o f the schools we The University will undertake its most in Montana can also see Grizzly hoopsters in compete against with regard to facilities.” ambitious remodeling project when construc­ action; plans call for playing pre-conference tion crews begin gutting the forty-four-year-old games in Butte, Great Falls and Billings. building next spring. O f the $23 million total, A Center for the Next Century When the new events center opens, Lady $16 million has been financed through the sale As the campus of the future began to take Griz point guard Megan Harrington looks for­ of revenue bonds, which will be repaid with shape in 1994, University leaders envisioned a ward to fewer scheduling conflicts for practice monies generated by the increased use of the special events center that would serve Missoula time in what will be her final season. “It will new events center. An estimated 340,000 in the coming millennium. Preliminary plans be a sacrifice for both the fans and the players,” patrons will pass through the facility annually, called for a new building that would seat up to she says o f the renovation project, “but it will attending events ranging from concerts and 13,000 and house events ranging from Grizzly be well worth it” M

S p rin g 1997 M O N T A N A N 23 C hAlT by Susanna Sonnenberg

Silver Dollar by CarolAnn Russell, M.F.A. *79. RusseU, winner of the Minnesota Art CounciVs Distinguished Artist Award, teaches at Bemidji State University. Albuquerque, New M exico: 1995. 57 pp. $8.95 paper.

n CarolAnn R u s s e ll’s poems of cars, dates, feast and flesh, the poet delighting in all stages relatives, youth and nostalgia, a complicat­ o f sexuality and its perik, in wise talk from ed America emerges that is filled with irre­ older women, in cocktail bars and missed I promkes. She has a gift for trenchant observa­ pressible energy. Russell, an adopted Ojibwa, has a way of living inside her words that tells tion, as in “Kindred Fireworks,” a long poem you s h e ’s giddy with life and what she has in which she beautifully paints the hot day of found in it Her intensity is hard to ignore. a local Fourth o f July parade With its While Silver Dollar feels at times some­ “thunk/and crack of fireworks splitting the what random, certain poems make heady dark, tom/prom dresses splayed across the Russell...has a way of impressions. Russell is particularly intrigued sky.” Certain images, however, are diluted by by body images; everything she sees has a phys­ repetition, such as wings and the silver dollar ical presence. In a puking, lusty poem called o f the tide that has the habit of a bad penny. living inside her words “Carnival,*’ she opens with the line, “Summer Her love and scorn for this land combust in opens her velour box,” and by the end of the short, hot bursts. “Common Wealth,” the col­ night, the “black sky lifts its skirt/to le c t io n ’s final poem, haunts the reader as a that tells you she’s giddy flash/star-studded thighs.” dirge. “This land, this longing/cannot be Russell is at her best when passionate, as in stolen/nor pried loose and sold/like missing with life.... “Changing Color in America,” which pounds silver/dollars along the bar.” with savvy and anger “Today I feel at home and The voice is sharp and direct, the reader am hereby notifying/all friends, family, and ene­ compelled to pay attention and to feel R u s s e ll’s mies/ that I am changing color.” vigor. Her raw energy is admirable. Taken individually, the poems are rich with

A Field Guide to Wildf lowers of the Rocky Mountains by Carl Schreier *79. Schreier has written several books on the natural his* tory of the Rocky Mountains. Moose, Wyoming: Homestead Publishing, 1996. 224 pp. $18.95 paper.

he Rocky Mountains sing spring songs Rub your palm with western meadowrue and surge with summer rhyme, this we and saliva, and you can make a woman fall in Tknow. And with Carl S c h r e ie r ’s exhaus­ love with you just by shaking her hand. Invite tive field guide in hand, we also learn the rhap­ her for lunch and slip watercress (a known sodic poetry blooming around us in the com­ aphrodisiac) into her salad. If she punches you mon names of the indigenous wildflowers. in the eye, apply trillium root to reduce the With this book as a guide, we can hike the swelling. hilk, crying out a Whitman-like exultation. “O If she retaliates by setting rats free in your purple saxifrage! O Lanceleaved stonecrop! house, you could kill them with the edible You, rosy pussytoes and you, leopard lily! The valerian root Or you might come together Schreier gives us a crested tongue penstemon and here: the many- some stormy night with cures for each o th e r ’s flowered stickseed and rabbit-foot crazyweed. earaches (oil of flannel mullein), unite (keep dictionary for beauty, Blazing start and fireweed, fairy slipper and the watercress handy), have a baby and treat its prairie smoke. O showy aster!” colic with curlycup gumweed. Schreier gives us a dictionary for beauty, This is the life of flowers, roots and vege­ sets order to nature’s sets order to n a tu r e ’s chaos. And inadvertent­ tation made explicit in S c h r e ie r ’s Field Quide ly tells a good story of American survival and to Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountains. history with his “facts and uses” section on Sing, heavenly m ule’s-ears! chaos. each flower.

24 S p rin g 1997 MONTANAN The Falling Boy by David Long, M.F.A. f74» Long lives in Kalispell, M ont. New York: Scribner, 1997. 288 pp. $22.00 hardcover.

n the first quick sentence of The Falling Sperry swells, vibrates and dries with time, the Boy, Mark Singer marries Olivia Stavros. seasons cut their notches in the years and are I By the end of this paragraph, h e ’s at work very much a part of how these people live. on a construction site, building in the post- Mark Singer marries one o f four lively World War II boom. M a rk ’s construction Greek sisters and finds himself, as years go by, work is a metaphor for the novel itself. As in an affair with another. The novel opens David Long carefully builds his story, each with him in 1952, but it does not belong to beam and plank bear weight; the larger shape Mark—twenty-two, in love, hesitant The book does not emerge until the frame has at last glides along among Mark, the sisters and their been filled in. First, says Long, the reader father until the connections between them must know each nail. emerge. In three sections that span nine years, Long gives gorgeous That sure and sharp economy with which one m a n ’s young life begins as a larger era Long dispatches the wedding is a sign: in his ends, and that shared rise and decline is haunt­ and intimate voices to lush first novel, he is concerned with moments ing—a sense o f melancholy shimmering at the o f being, the threads that stitch events togeth­ edge of the page. er. With tiny details like a door swinging on its like Virginia Woolf in To the Lighthouse, the unconscious silences. hinges, a lunch box, a shaft of streetlight, Long Long makes us see what we a r e n ’t used to gives gorgeous and intimate voices to the looking at A silent moment in Mark and unconscious silences. When Mark goes to O liv ia ’s marriage brisdes with feeling, captur­ church, he is “moved by the rolling mumble of ing how each person holds a mystery and is a voices, the stonework vaulting overhead, the mystery to the other. He narrates with a grandeur and confidence. Yet none of it con­ solemn grace that is shockingly beautiful for ferred the gift of faith, made of him a believer. capturing the simplest things: “At noon Mark He had to, he guessed, come down on the side slides down against a stud wall and hauls his o f things visible.” lunch box into his lap, enjoying as he always Masterful in its gauzy, golden telling, T h e does its gravity the moment before he cracks it Falling Boy portrays a family from the outside open.” The lunch b o x ’s familiarity gives way to in. Long employs quiet detail to serve epic something unexpected, and the novel moves themes and reaches out to grasp a culture in a this way too, leading us into an unknown manner reminiscent of Robert Penn Warren world even as Long charts the familiar. and John Steinbeck. He understands how, in The Falling Boy illustrates the undisturbed, Montana, the town, the weather and the light ordinary life, then seizes on its sudden, gener­ are all elements that unite these people and tell ous shifts, as Long, like a conjurer, balances our their stories. His northern Montana town of attention deftly until he decides we should fall

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he following is from Headwaters, a rivers, lakes and forests in response to the ambling fish concourse new anthology of stories, poems and s t a t e ’s recent mining controversies. Three o f gray, rust, botde green, essays by forty-nine Montana writers, thousand copies of the book were distributed the pines stood around above us compiledT by Annick Smith. The book throughout the state free of charge. until we were water-borne, the lift includes a number of alumni—rancher Ralph under the buttocks like a hand, airy Beer, novelist Deirdre McNamer, tree surgeon Along the Blackfoot (an excerpt) as clouds holding up the plane Fred Haefele and cowboy poet Paul ZarzyskL by Patricia Goedicke where you will sit tomorrow, flying Sponsored by Missoula literary center to your m o th e r ’s bedside and then back Hellgate Writers and funded by an anony­ At 9 Mile Prairie, on the banks once more to this quiet mous donor, the book celebrates M o n ta n a ’s o f the calm Blackfoot, clear liquid tw in ....

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Class Notes are compiled and edited by Faddy tional water science seminar in Rome. Band at Homecoming. It has been a wonderful experi­ O ’Connell MacDonald, M.A. ’81. If you would like to ence to rekindle friendships from 40 years ago. I ’ve J o e l R o t h ’51, J.D. ’57, writes: “I served as district submit information, please drop her a line at the judge in Great Falls for 18 years, retiring in 1994. I had the opportunity to play with my first music Alumni Association, Brandy Hall, The University of took my ‘dream trip’ this winter to Tahiti, five other teacher, D e a n Vin a l ’42, as well as G l e n n P a t t o n ’51, Montana, Missoula, M T 59812-0013. O r e-mail your Polynesian islands, the Fiji Islands, the C ook Islands who was band instructor when I graduated from high news to: [email protected] and New Zealand. school in Libby. “I’m currently president o f the Great Falls “I would like to encourage former UM band mem­ Friendship Force Club. O ur club is planning a trip to bers to join me and others for Homecoming ’97. Warsaw, Munich and Salzburg in July. I’m looking for­ Contact the UM music school for information. See you ward to being a grandfather in May.” in the fall!”

# ’30 s B il l S h r e e v e ’54, M.Ed. ’58, received the 1996 L a r r y N i t z ’58 o f Billings performs with J u u e J e r o m e C F r a n k e l '34 of Cleveland, Ohio, writes: Washington State Award for Excellence in Teacher BISHOP ’77 in the Repertoire Singers. Larry served on “At this tender age, 1 find it most beneficial to keep Preparation. The award was presented in Olympia, the board o f the Billings Symphony and chairs the mentally as well as physically active with the grand tide Wash., by the governor and the state superintendent of Messiah Festival o f part-time financial secretary to one o f our local public schools. Chairman of Eastern Washington school district’s recreation departments. 1 also volun­ University’s Department of Education for the past 24 teer one afternoon a week for the Cleveland Society years, Bill also received the President’s Medal from for the Blind. In my spare time 1 manage two or three Eastern Washington University. H e lives in Cheney. sessions o f tennis (doubles!). The fall M ontanan was D o n a l d N . E l l is t o n ’55 o f Wenatchee, Wash., ^ ’60 s most interesting, though in the early ’30 s there was retired as coow ner of Wenatchee Clinic Pharmacy. He D a v id E . P o n o n ’60 o f Grangeville, Idaho, retired not much ‘free’ cash available to indulge in much writes: “In my 37 years there, the pharmacy grew from from the U.S. Forest Service after 38 years. ‘night-life.’ The Forester’s Ball was our high event of a two-man operation to the second largest clinic phar­ the year.” R o n a l d B . C h a s e , M.A. ’61, PhD. ’68, is a geology macy in Washington state. 1 plan to remain active in professor at Western Michigan University in B e t t y E is e l e in W e t z e l ’37 and her husband, local UM alumni events, Rotary and various profes­ Kalamazoo. WINSTON, EdJD. ’64, live in Bigfork. Betty’s article, sional groups. My wife, Cathie Hurd Elliston, and I will “Near Eight y-and Tall in the Saddle,” about a pack spend our summers at our home in Lake Chelan.” R o b e r t M . Lu t z ’62 of Houston is director of trip into the Bob Marshall Wilderness was originally human resources for Texaco’s technology division. P a t s y A n d e r s o n B r o w n ’56 o f Missoula writes: published in T h e N ew York T im es travel section and K e n n e t h R o g e r N e il ’62, J.D. ’65, was named a dis­ “An alert to the class of ’57! I t ’s not too early to start has been included in a Seal Press anthology, S ea son of trict judge in Great Falls by Gov. Marc Racicot, J.D. ’73. making plans to attend Homecoming this fall and cel­ Adventure: Traveling Tales and Outdoor Journeys Ken replaced Bob Goff, J.D. ’71, who died in July. ebrate your 40 years since graduation. You d o n ’t need of Women over Fifty. Betty is listed in the 21st edi­ to be a graduate to attend. A special invitation is D a v e E a t ’63 lives in Rohert Park, Calif., and is a tion of Marquis W h o ’s W ho in American Women. issued to the Missoula folks, as many o f them were chemistry professor at Sonoma State University. missed last fall. T o m A n d e r s o n ’64, professor of medicine and chief “If the fun had by the class of 1956 last October was of hematology and oncology at the Medical College of any indication o f what to expect, the class o f '57 will Wisconsin, was recently honored with an American § ’40 s also be caught up in the spirit of renewing friendships Cancer Society professorship. Tom and his wife, Rita, and sharing life experiences with dassmates-some not live in Wauwatosa. They have two children. A r t h u r L M e l b y ’40 and his wife live in Ajijic, seen for years. We laughed, cried and remembered Jalisco, Mexico. Arthur retired after a career that To m C r o c t ’65 o f Bohemia, N.Y., is principal of what our carefree days at UM were like with the included owning businesses in Guatemala, San Slocum Elementary School. Tom, a former UM base­ “Bunny Hop,” Piggy and Hawaiian dances, the antics of Francisco and Carmel, Calif., and five years in the FBL ball standout, was inducted into the Long Island Arbor Day, painting the “M,” and the rest of our great He writes: “Ajijic is a Columbian fishing village on Amateur Softball Hall o f Fame. traditions. W e knew everyone on campus—and it was Lake Chapala. There are two or three thousand R a y m o n d G . D il l e y , M.A ’66, was appointed gen­ the same at Homecoming, the largest 40th reunion retirees and ex-patriots living here, mostly Americans, eral manager of WJHU-FM, a Baltimore radio station gathering in several years. but a large number of Canadians and a smattering of owned by Johns Hopkins University. Europeans. There is a frenetic social whirl-cocktail “Do n ’t miss it—memories will be created, former J o h n A l e x a n d e r '67, J.D. ’70, lives in Great Falls and dinner parties, which 1 avoid for the most part cronies will be reunited, and you’ll be glad you planned ahead to attend!” and is a partner in the law firm o f Alexander, My contribution to sociability is holding occasional Kuenning, Miller and Ugrin. H e is president-elect of Sunday afternoon classical music concerts in our C L A R K H a m o r ’58 writes from Ontario, Ore. (e-mail the Cascade County Bar Association. home. address [email protected]): “I retired after 36 D a v id G u k o ’67, J D . ’70, is city attorney in Great “We enjoy our life o f retirement in this isolated, years as a library/media specialist My first two years Falls and president of the Cascade County Bar peaceful corner of the earth. Our door is always open after graduation were spent at U M ’s library. In 1960,1 Association. to any of my classmates from the forestry school of so followed a former UM graduate and faculty member many years ago, and we hope that any o f them who to Livonia, Mich., where I was an elementary school S o n ja F ie l d W i l s o n ’67 was honored by the Shelby come down to these parts will drop in and see us. You librarian. During that time, I acquired a master's in Business and Professional Women and the Shelby will be most welcome.” library science from the University o f Michigan. The P rom oter during National Business Women’s Week. year 1966 found me in Oregon, where I worked in sev­ Sonja is president o f the Sherlock Motel. She and her eral school districts before retiring in June 1994. A husband, Mark, have two children, Tadd and Paige. sabbatical in the 1975-76 school year netted me a mas­ D a v e H o y e ’68 received the 1996-97 School Social t e r ’s in education. Worker o f the Year award for the state o f Iowa. He # ’50 s “My years in central Oregon got me back to fly fish­ works for Area Education Agency Four in Sioux City B il l B a r r y ’51, M A . ’55, EdJD. ’77, a retired biol­ ing. I ’ve been tying flies and building fly rods now for and lives in Everly with his wife, Cheri, and their ogy professor in Cusick, Wash., is a water quality and the past 30 years. I’d like to have former classmates daughters, Stephanie and Michelle. public health consultant and has written 25 research meet me sometime so I can show them some wonder­ Na v y C m d r . R o n a l d f. M a d e e n ’69 recently con­ ful scenery and great fly fishing. papers since he retired from teaching. Bill was recent­ cluded a tour as commanding officer of the VSS “The past two falls found me playing in the Alumni ly one of the featured speakers at a weeklong intema- Mahlon S. Tisdale, a San Diego-based frigate that

26 Spring 1997 M o n t a n a n Thomas L Valach 74 Deborah Doyle McWhinney 7 7 was decommissioned in September. Fele and Baladar. Coach of the Year.

Lin d a W il l ia m s 79 is a conference coordinator at G a r r y O y e '81 lives in Pleasant Hill, Calif., and is the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. the wilderness program leader for the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Southwest Region. He has a son, Brett. ^ ’70 s Garry writes: “I just returned from a 21-day kayak trip on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon!” B il l H o r a k 73 is chief of district water resources B r u c e W il l ia m s o n '81 is vice president o f finance operations for the U.S. Geological Survey, headquar­ ^ ’80 s for PanEnergy in Great Falls. tered in Lakewood, Colo. Na v y L t. C m d r . Ke l l y M . J o h n s o n ’80 reported for D a v id C u r t is ’82 and his wife, D e a n n a B o r n h o f t C f t is A n d e r s o n 74 and his wife, Kim, live in duty at the office of the chief of Naval Operations in C u r t is '84, live in Los Angeles, where David is founder Missoula. H e writes: “We are happy to say that Allyssa Washington, D.C. and director of the Tibetan Language Institute and Jeanne (another Daddy’s girl) has com e into our lives! M ik e M c I n a l l y ’80 lives in Missoula and is editor of Deanna is a graduate student at the University of She was born D e c 30, 1996, just in time for a nice tax the Missoulian. He a n d his wife, D ia n e H a d e l l a Southern California. They have a son, Henry. deduction. Shayne, our first, is already three feet tall, M c Jn a l l y ’79, M.BA. ’86, have two daughters, Shannon and I ’ve talked to Robin Selvig about coaching for a P a u l a R u b i n o D e l a n e y ’82 is a manager at and Samantha. few more years. I'm 6 7 ”, so who knows—the Lady Griz Hamilton Misfeldt and Co. in Great Falls. may have a center on the way!” T h o m a s N e w m a n ’80 is senior geologist for Holman K ristin Kuber Larsen '82,who lives in Belgium Inc., based in Fort Collins, Colo. with her husband, C r a i g x writes: “I’m teaching R a u l C a n o , Ph.D. 74, is a microbiology professor at ’83, California Polytechnic State University in San Luis J o s h R o b i n s o n ’80, M.Ed. ’82, and his wife, S h e l l e y school for the Department of Defense at the NATO Obispo. He received the American Academy of M o r t o n R o b i n s o n ’82, live in Hibbing, Minn. He is headquarters and Craig is director of community rela­ Microbiology’s 1997 Carski Foundation Distinguished director of special education for the Grand Rapids tions for the military bases. H e was deployed to Teaching Award. School District Josh lectures at state and regional con­ Hungary for four months this year in support of the ferences and consults in the areas of emotional and troops for Operation Joint Endeavor. We have two love­ S a n d r a H a r n e r -P e c k 74 lives in Vista, Calif., and behavioral disorders and learning disabilities. Shelley is ly daughters, Erika Faith and Kaitlin. They keep us is principal at E Hale Curran Elementary School in executive director of Range Center, an organization very busy.” Murrieta. which provides residential and vocational services to J o n P e il r s o n , M .S. ’82, is group leader of hepatitis Th o m a s L Va l a c h 74 lives in Minneapolis and is adults with developmental disabilities. S h e ’s also a product development at Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, a designer and production manager for the theater board member of the Association of Residential Johnson & Johnson company in Raritan, N.J. H e department at Anoka-Ramsey Community College In Resources of Minnesota and is active with the Iron earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Iowa State addition to designing scenery, lighting, costumes and Range Labor Management Association. The Robinsons University in 1990. Jon, his wife, Debbie, and their props for the college productions, Tom produces all the have two children, Panika and Wilson. three children live in Bethlehem, Penn., at the southern concerts and special events in the 350-seat proscenium. CYNTHIA A . Te n c ic k ’80 is district ranger for the edge of the Poconos. In his spare time, he works with the drama department Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Service in Wise H e writes: “I commute on a linear parking lot for two at Roseville area high school in S t Paul and plays bari­ River. hours each day, where the term ‘escape from New tone horn in the Minnesota Freedom Band. He has York’ is more reality than fiction. I work with people lived in the Twin Cities for 20 years. B a r t A n d r u s ’81 and his wife, Karen, live in Billings, where he is head football coach for the Rocky who have never been west o f the Delaware River, and J u l ie S t e w a r t B i s h o p 77 lives in Billings, where she Mountain Bears. H e was named NA1A Division I the first time they saw a deer was from the window of teaches voice and sings at civic and private functions. Recently she and L a r r y N i t z ’58 perform ed with Billings’ Repertoire Singers. Get a TEAMLINE Season Ticket and be at every Montana D e b o r a h D o y l e M c W h in n e y 77 is executive vice president of information for Visa International in Grizzlies game - even if you live 2,000 miles away! Poster City, Calif. She lives in Tiburon. No matter how far away you live from your favorite team, you can always hear the play-by-play over the U S . Na v y C m d r . D a v id R ic h a r d s o n 78 was com­ telephone by calling TEAMLINE. 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a biochem lab overlooking the park-like setting o f the District and is pursuing her master’s degree in educa­ a great time! It would have been even better if the Griz corporate campus. W hen I mention Montana, they tion. W e return to UM for Homecoming, where we had won, but there’s always next year!” enjoy cheering for the Griz!” think o f John Wayne, ‘Injuns,’ Unabombers and M ic h e l l e W i l u t s ’88 is entertainment section edi­ Freeman. N o real sense in enlightening them—some M a t t B i s h o p '84 teaches math and computer sci­ tor for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. things are best kept a secret.” ence at Poison Middle School. B o b B r o w n , M.Ed. ’88, is a lobbyist for US West D a l e H a n n o n ’83 is the librarian at Poison High Jo s e p h C h a s e ’84 earned a master’s o f divinity and lives in Whitefish. Recently, he was appointed to School. She and her husband, Christopher Frissell, degree from Fuller Theological Seminary and is a min­ the State Board o f Public Education. have a son. ister who has served churches in Helena, Kensington, Minn., and now Gresham, Ore. H e and his wife, JANE A n n ie P o n t r e l u x ’83, community relations and outreach coordinator at UM, was included in the 20th x ’81, have three children: Ben, Tim and Michelle edition of W h o ’s W h o of American Women. U n d a L a n g ’84, M.S. ’91, lives in Columbus, Ohio, and is staff planner for Stillwater County. & ’90 s D a n STKAKAL ’83 is assistant director for technical careers at the University of Notre Dame in Gary, Ind. B o b La t z ’85, o f Florence, Ky., is interim director P h il ip C Jo h n s o n ’90 is a sales associate for Johnson Hardware in Sidney. J e a n n in e M e e d s W il u s o n , M.A. ’83, is a licensed, of the physical therapy department at Marshall clinical professional counselor and lives in Conrad. University in Huntington, W.V. For whom did you D o u g N ic h o l s o n ’90 is a vice president at DA. cheer, Bob, during the championship football game Davidson and Co. in Great Falls. He and his wife, J o h n W . “Ja c k ” B e r r y ’84 and his wife, Le e A n n F. between the Griz and the Thundering Herd? P a ig e W i l s o n N ic h o l s o n ’89, have twin sons. B e a g l e s B e r r y ’85, live in Helena. Jack writes: “We are thrilled to announce the birth o f our daughter, Magen A n n e H e p b u r n O r e ’87 is co-owner of Magpie A n t h o n y J. O l s z a n s k i ’90 is a doctor at Dartmouth- Ann, on D e c 9, 1996. I am vice president o f Valley Books in Three Forks. Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, N.H.

Bank o f Helena. I’m also past president of the Helena M a r y S im l a R e h m ’88 o f Helena writes: “I got a D a n O s w a l t ’90 writes: “I am living in Seattle and Lions Club and a board member of Helena Food Share chuckle from the article ‘Bobcats and Grizzlies: A State working as food services coordinator at the Pacific and the Montana affiliate o f the American Diabetes Divided.’ I’m in one of those ‘mixed marriages,’ and it Science Center. G o Griz and go Mariners!” Association. When not involved with banking or civic can create a lot o f tension. Even though my husband, A a r o n R u d io ’90 is a vice president at D A duties, I can be found playing keyboard with a coun­ Brent, is a staunch Bobcat, as a Christmas gift last year Davidson and Co. in Great Falls. try band. I’m also enrolled in the M.BA. program at he bought m e my ticket to attend the championship UM. LeeAnn teaches first grade in the Helena School game against MarshalL My mother and I went and had C h r is t ia n A p p e l ’91 is a physical therapist at Bozeman Deaconess Hospital.

C h r a d e Yo u n k in ’91 is the youth choir director for Central Presbyterian Church in Des Moines, Iowa, and a voice instructor in the Des Moines area. Recently he was a guest singer at the Butte Symphony Orchestra’s Where Wall Street Christmas performance. M a t t h e w W . C o o p e r ’92, J.D. ’96, is an attorney with the law firm of Harris and Callaghan in Missoula.

Meets The K e n Ja s p e r ’92 and his wife. Barb, live in St Regis, where Ken is self-employed. Recently he was selected to join the community board of Norwest Bank in Rockies Superior. C a p t . M ic h a e l M a t h e w s ’92 and his wife, Carrie, live in Ansbach, Germany, where he is stationed with the U.S. Army.

N a v y P e t t y O f f ic e r 2 n d C l a s s S h a n n o n D . N o b l e x ’92 recently received the Navy-Marine Corps Achievement Medal and the Navy Good Conduct Medal while serving with Helicopter Anti-Submarine

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28 S prin g 1997 MONTANAN Squadron 43 Naval Air Station in San Diego. gram at Lane Community College in Eugene, Ore. E va M a s t a n d r e a , M.F.A. ’96, is assistant professor

S u s a n W e r n e r O 'L e a r y , M.S. ’92, a trauma nursing S a r a h A k h t a r x ’95 is a paralegal in the U.S. Legal o f art at Western Montana College-UM in Dillon. specialist, is project manager for the Critical Illness and Department of Microsoft Corp. in Seattle. S h e l u e N e l s o n ’96 is assistant news editor for the Trauma Foundation in Bozeman. D ia n a B u c k l e y ’95 is marketing director of Balboa M issou lian . She and her husband, Wayne, live near Turah. S h e n W h it e s id e *92 is a volunteer with the Peace Naval Hospital in San Diego, Calif. Corps, working in Turkmenistan, which borders the a n e e n t u l l iv a n M a j . B j o r n P . M o e n e , M.B.A. ’95, and his wife, Z K S , J.D. ’96, is an attorney in the Caspian Sea and Iran. Maj. Ka t h r y n H in n a l a n d M o e n e ’85, are stationed at law firm of Sullivan and Tabaracci in Missoula. R o b e r t Z e n k e r , J.D. ’92, is a Madison County Eglin Air Force Base in Valparaiso, Fla. attorney and lives in Silver Star, Mont., with his chil­ R a c h e l S c h u e l l e r ’95 of Mali, West Africa, writes: dren, Meghan and Shane, and his partner, P e g g y “Greetings from the heart of darkness! I realize I am a New A lumni P r o b a s c o , J.D. ’83. ways north o f the actual literary Conradian location, M a r in e 1 s t L t . D a n ie l P . C a r l s o n ’93, a Naval avi­ but it is entertaining to think of myself as a long-term Association Life ator, was presented with the “Wings o f Gold,” at the resident o f the H.O.D. And besides, I can buy love culmination o f his flight training at the Training Air potions made from lizards and black cats in my local Wing Two, Naval Air Station in Kingsville, Texas. market, and I’m not sure this is still possible in the Members modernized Congo region .. .It has taken me the past C u n a K u p c s C h a b e r e k , M.A. ’93, lives in Superior La r r y A l t e n b r u n , 72, M.Ed. 78, Missoula year to find a place for myself in the Peace C orps in and volunteers at the elementary schools and the R ic h a r d A n d r io l o ’61, J.D. ’63, Bozeman Mali, but now that I have done so, I am enjoying myself Community Food Bank; s h e ’s also vice president of the A l b e r t B in g h a m , J.D. *95, Las Vegas, Nev. here. My job is to teach environmental education to local chapter of the Women in Timber. teenagers at a school, but I also teach literacy to D a v id B j o r n s o n 79, J.D. ’85, Missoula Ka t h y K n u d s o n ’93 teaches fifth grade at Poison women in villages.” M ic h a e l B o e h m e 71, Salt Lake City, Utah Middle SchooL She and her husband, John, have four Tim o t h y B o u c h e r s P a t r ic ia S n y d e r ’95 is a reporter for the D a ily ’84, Seattle, Wash. children. C o u rier in Grants Pass, Ore. B e v e r l y S im p s o n B r a i g ’63, Kalispell R u s t y S u l l iv a n *93 lives in Superior, where he R o b e r t B r a i g ’65, Kalispell K e v in B r o w n , J.D. ’96, practices law with the firm owns Rodeo Sports Medicine, which provides acute o f Fred Paoli, Jr., in Livingston. C h a d C a n f ie l d ’96, Lake Oswego, Ore. and chronic emergency care for injured rodeo cow­ To m C a r k u u s ’52, Billings boys. Rusty also manages the Rock ‘n Rodeo, a restau­ F r a n c is D a v is , MA. ’96, is a sports reporter for the rant, bar and casino owned by his father. Ravalli Republic in Hamilton. S il v e r C h o r d 74, M.Ed. 75, Fairbanks, Alaska E d w a r d C o f f m a n 77, Missoula Je r r y C a m p b e l l , M.B.A. ’94, is an investment exec­ T im H a n s o n *96 lives in Sidney, where he is a phar­ utive at Piper Jaffray in Butte. macist at the Sidney Health Center. J o h n C o g h l e n ’65, Spokane, Wash. W e n d y B a r r C o g h l e n ’67, Spokane, Wash. P e t e C e d d e s ’94 is program director for the J .F . H e w it t t ’96 teaches music at Linderman and Foundation for Research on Economics and the Cherry Valley grade schools in Poison. D a w n D ’A n g e u l l o ’84, Warren, Va. P a t r ic ia Jo n e s E a s t m a n Environment and the Gallatin Institute in Bozeman. R o b e r t C L u k e s , J.D. ’96, is an associate at the law ’63, Billings His writings have appeared in the W all S treet firm of Garlington, Lohn and Robinson in Missoula. Wa l t e r H a m o r ’58, Ontario, O re

Journal, the Seattle Times and the B ozem a n S e a n H a r m o n D a n M a n s o n , J.D. ’96, is an attorney with the law ’94, Cape Elizabeth, Maine C hron icle. Pete and his wife, Julie, have three sons. firm o f Corette, Pohlman and Krebe in Butte. R o d g e r H u c k a b e e , M.Ed. ’87, Quilcene, Wash. C a r r ie S m o o t -Je n s e n '94, M.B.A. ’95, is a staff accountant for Hamilton and Misfeldt Co. in Great Rills.

Na v y P e t t y O f f ic e r 3 r d C l a s s S c o t t A . S q u il l a c e *4 graduated from the Navy’s Basic Nuclear Rower Be More Than a Fan ... School at the Naval Nuclear Rower Training Unit in Ballston Spa, N.Y.

B a r b a r a Th o r s o n ‘94 is program coordinator for Be a Booster!!! the Chemical Dependency Counselor Training pro-

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Jo h n Ja w o r 77, Chicago, I1L S t e p h e n J e n n in g s 72, M.Ed. ’80, Paradise, Calif. Births In Memoriam B r id g e t K il r o y ’80, M A ’88, Pittsburg, Pa. Allyssa Jeanne to Cuts A n d e r s o n 74 and Kim T he Alumni Office extends sympathy to the families Te d Lo v e c 73, Billings Anderson, D e c 30,19%, in Missoula. o f the following alumni, friends and faculty. Je a n e t t e S a y e r M c K e e ’69, Hamilton Isabella Gloria Paoli, b o m Nov. 12, 1995, in E u n ic e M o r r i s B r o w n , Missoula M ic h a e l M c Ke e ’67, Hamilton Medellin, Columbia, adopted July 29, 19%, by M o n ic a Je a n n e t t e G a r v e r ’25, Santa Barbara, Calif. S u s a n M o c a b e e '81, Kirkland, Wash. C o n r a d P a o u ’80 and D a v id P a o u ’82, J.D. ’86, in M a r y B . K ir k w o o d 76, Moscow, Idaho Je r o m e M o r a s k o ’83, Shelby Missoula. A n n N il s o n M c C u l l o c h ’26, Cambridge, Ontario Jo d i F l e m in g O b e r w e is e r ’86, Drummond Madeleine Rae Wiberg to La r r y S c h e n c k ’81 and H e l e n A ik e n N e w t o n 76, Newport Beach, Calif. C u f f o r d P a r s o n s ’50, Richmond, Va. Liza Wiberg, July 7, 19%, in Seattle, Wash. N o r a A r t h u r B a r r y 77, Phoenix, Ariz. D a w n G r a n t P e d e r s e n ’81, Mariposa, Calif. Cullen Barrett Williams to C H A R L E S ( D u s t y ) W IL L IA M S Ruth Davis B loom 77, Missoula R o m i e P e d e r s e n 78, Mariposa, Calif. ’81 and Bethanne Williams, Nov. 25, 19%, in New Danta C Hanson 77, Billings C a t h e r in e C a m p b e l l R b b e r ’88, Missoula Orleans, La. I v a n S . M e c h u n g x’27, Seattle, Wash. Ka r e n A n n R e y n e r 74, Missoula Henry David to D e a n n a B o r n h o f t C u r t is ’84 and W in if r e d C r a w f o r d Th o m a s ’27 , Alexandria, Va. S a m u e l S a r g e n t ’84, Washington, Ok. D a v id C u r t is ’82, Sept 12, 19%, in Santa Monica, Betty Baxter C oulter x7 8, Sun City, Ariz. D o r e S c h w in d e n ’81, W olf Point Calif. D a v id J . M a c u y 78, Missoula R a c h e l R ig d o n S m it h ’84, Sewanee, Ga. Magen Ann to Le e A n n F . B e a g l e s B e r r y ’85 and E a r l C B u n d l e x78, Duluth, Ga. Jo h n S t. P e t e r ’81, Brooklyn Park, Minn. Jo h n W . “Ja c k ” B e r r y ’84, D ec 9,19%, in Helena. F r e d a E l iz a b e t h M a h l s t e d t Jo n e s 79, M A ’65, W e n d y Le in e r S t . P e t e r ’83, Brooklyn Park, Minn. Brandon Willard to M a r y S l a m a R e h m ’88 and Brent Cascade Ja m e s Th o m a s 76, M B A ’81, Seattle, Wash. Rehm, Sept 9, 19%, in Helena. E s t h e r J u d g e E n d e r l o n '31, Hamilton Jil l D a n f o r t h T h o m p s o n ’80, Portland, Ore. Carsten Richard Boynton to B r e n t P e a s e ’90 and E l e a n o r Ka a t z L aF r a n c e ’32, Shelby G a r y Ve r h o f f ’93, Tempe, Ariz. Paula Pease, D e c 14, 19%, in Missoula. F r e d a V. M c C a ig ’32, San Francisco, Calif. W a r r e n W e e d 70, Danvers, Mass. M o l u e M a f f e i, Max Angelo to J.D. ’91, and Steve H a r o l d N . H a m m o n d x ’33, Anaconda R o n a l d W e s l e y W il l ia m s 70, Heisler, Alberta Wellman, July 7, 19%, in Butte H e r b La w r e n c e ’33, Beaverton, O r e

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30 Spring 1997 MONTANAN P h il ip P . M il l e r x ’33, San Anselmo, Calif. H e l e n K u l s t a d P e t e r s o n x ’42, Lake Stevens, Wash. E a r l E . W a l t o n ’54, Missoula H e l e n B . L a r s e n U n s e r ’33, Gainesville, Fla. M ir ia m M o o d y J o h n s o n ’46, Long Beach, Wash. R o b e r t J . E m m o n s , J.D. '56, Great Falls Es t h e r Le n t z C o r ie l l ’34, Medford, N.J. Jo h n W . K o e t t e r ’46, MJEd. ’63, Belt K a y L u n d C o u j n s ’58, Plentywood Ja m e s P a t r ic k M u r p h y x*35, Raison D o n a l d D . B l u r , MJEd. ’48, Billings Ve r n o n P a u l D a y , M.Ed. '58, Kalispell B or L “S q u in t ” P e d e n x ’35, Bozeman B . L E d m is t o n ’48, Lafayette, Calif. D o n a l d M a c M il l a n '58, M A ’67 , PhD. ’73, Helena C a l e J . C r o w l e y x ’36, Billings E u g e n e 0 . G il l e t t e ’48, Sidney E m m e t t P . O 'N e il l , J.D. ’59, Kalispell M e r t h F . Th o m p s o n x ’36, Lakeside A r t h u r E . S o u l s b y , M.Ed. ’48, Regina, Saskatchewan B l a in e A . C u m m in s ’60, Missoula B a r b a r a K e it h To o l e K r e s s x ’37, Missoula F l o r e n c e E n r i g h t B r o w n , MEd. ’49, Billings M a r y E l l e n M c A v o y A n d e r s o n ’61, Billings F l o r e n c e M . S c h m id t ’37, Alpine, Calif. Ja m e s H . C a r t y ’49, Montesano, Wash. S u s a n M cC a l l M o w b r a y ’62, Seattle R u t h B e r g a n R u d e r ’38, Kalispell R o b e r t V. P a r k e ’49, Fort Collins, C ola Ja m e s J . K e n n y , M.Ed. ’63, Helena Juuus S h in e r x ’39, Butte M a r ia n K o l p p a A r m s t r o n g ’50, Bellevue, Wash. O l iv e N o y e s K r b n ’64, S t Ignatius Wil l ia m V. B a k e r ’39, Parker, C o la M il a n B o r y a n x ’50, Arlington, Va. W il l ia m H . Lj d d ic o a t ’69, Seattle, W ash D o r ie Lo v e C o l v in x ’39, Great Bills Le E tta H a r p e r C a r v e r x ’50, Kalispell Ja m e s R . M a c L e a n ’70, Missoula Le o B . S k m a n '39, Billings Ja m e s P . G r a h a m ’50, Big Timber K e n n e t h W. G r a n t ’71, M.F.A ’77, Missoula No r v e n 0 . La n g a g e r ’40, Billings B a r b a r a Je a n H a r t in Kin c a id ’50, Spokane, Wash. M ic h a e l D . M o r r i s , M A 73, Missoula G u y C R o g e r s x ’40, Missoula D o n a l d C P h i l i p s ’51, Sweetgrass C a r l 5. N o r d b e r g ’80, Helena Ja m e s H . A t k in s o n x ’41, Jackson, Miss. G e o r g e A . U r b a c h ’52, Lajolla, Calif. K e n n e t h W. H e a r e ’81, Evaro Ma d g e C r o s s W il l ia m s x ’41, Libby G e o r g e Le v c h a k ’53, Minneapolis, Minn. D u n c a n “P o k e y ” A l l e n x ’82, Missoula Jo s e p h B . D u g a l x ’42, Missoula E d g a r A . M il l e r ’53, MEd. '63, Cobb, Calif. S h e r r y M a h o n F r a n c e t k h ’83, Lolo B e t t y R . M u l u k a n M it c h e l l ’42, El Centro, Calif. R o n a l d G . O s t e r h o l m ’54, Walnut Creek, Calif. C h a r l e s A . “B i l l ” B i s h o p , J.D. ’84, Poison Ja m e s R . P a u l ’42 , J.D. '47, Great Falls Ja m e s A . P f u s c h ’54, Whitefish

by Paddy MacDonald ate in spite o f Math 325, 441, 442, 443, 253 such as “Like a true n a tu r e ’s child, we were a n d 640!” Or “Montana Eddy,” who must have born to be wild.” There are drawings, such as 44 ob Schroeder ‘33.” "Bo Derick had a lot of time on his hands, because his a ball and chain and the ubiquitous 1 9 7 0s 4 / 1 9 / 8 3 .” “Kirt Walker is my name appears on at least thirty-five desks. “have a nice day” smiley faces. B ^ F h e ro .” “Andre, king o f Norway.” Many hearts are inscribed with names of cou­ Not all of the graffiti was authored by those What do these names have in common? ples and at least one such couple, Cyrus and to whom it is attributed. Some Montana Eddys T h e y ’re all carved into desks in campus class­ Anna, are still together. were forgeries, according to Myers, who says he rooms. Student graffiti, long the bane of school “People felt strong enough to put their can identify an authentic Montana Eddy. And administrators, has existed since the invention opinions on a desk instead of using other chan­ U do Fluck, a graduate student from of wooden desks and serves not only as evi­ nels, like letters to the editor, for example,” Wiesbaden, Germany, disavows any knowledge dence of rebellion, boredom or gratuitous van­ Myers says. From the “Kilroy was here” of of the campaign slogan, ”Ud o for King of dalism, but as an unofficial social history. WWD vintage to the ubiquitous peace sign Germany.” W e’re still looking for “Don Morris, “It ’s an expressive issue,” says Rob Myers, a during the Vietnam W ar, students have left Butte, MT,” “Robert Reevis 1994” and “Donna radio-television senior who has categorized legacies o f their political and philosophical Staley from Great Falls.” M graffiti from the Mansfield Library to Main leanings. There is the large, bold “NIXON HalL “Some students just want to leave their SUCKS” in the Performing Arts and Radio- E d it o r ’s Note: We dare the real Montana names; they want people who come later to Television Building. (Richard Nixon seems to Eddy to reveal himself in a dassnote. know th e y ’ve been here,” Like Dan, who “lived have provoked the most ire; Lyndon Johnson here the 1984-85 school year trying to gradu- runs a dose second.) There are song lyrics,

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD W elcome to our new office! P resident Dennis D. Iverson '67 he Alumni Association, always looking for ways to connect with former students and friends of The H e le n a University of Montana, announces the grand opening of @lumni online, our newly redesigned, user-friend­ P resident-elect ly website. Hop on the Internet at http://www.umt.edu/alumni/ and y o u ’ll find many options: Learn Gwen M cLain Childs ’63 T out about the association, its history and its mission; get the latest on Homecoming, Alumni Weekend, class Littleton, Colo. reunions, satellite TV parties and alumni travel. Have you moved? A few clicks on our homepage and you can pro- Vic e P resident vide us with your current address. Want to take a virtual tour of campus? Use our campus navigator. Looking for Patricia M cCallum Lamont ’65 Calgary, Alberta a long-lost former roommate? Try our alumni e-mail directory; your friend may be closer than you think. The @lumni online is also designed as a platform to share ideas, experiences and suggestions. Click on “Alumni Pa st P r esiden t Joan W atts D atsopoulos '66 Chat” and communicate with fellow alumni, students and friends of the University. Missoula Surfing the @lumni online website is easy; just remember to use the most current version of your web brows- R obert T. “Rob" B ell *90 ’93 ^ CHir Alumni Chat, you must have an IRGcompliant chat program or web browser plug-in. Missoula Please send us feedback! M arcia M eagher Bragg '63 ’74 C u t Bank Four Georges G len M. Cam pbell '85 ’87 Redmond, Wash. ◄ Pictured at the 1997 Palm Desert alumni recep­

Lauren Davidson Descam ps ’85 tion and dinner are four Georges. From left to right: San Rafael, Calif. George Vucanovidi x ’37 , President George Dennison

R. M acM illan “Mac" Fraser ’62 ’62 , ’63 , actor George Montgomery x ’40 and George Boulder, Colo. Papas, a friend of UM. Over 70 alumni and friends enjoyed a beautiful evening together at the annual W y ley P. G o o d ’63 Fort Benton March event If you are in the Palm Desert or Palm Springs area in March 1998 and you wish to be Robert W. “Bob* H oene 70 C la n cy included, please call the Alumni Office at (800) 862- 5862. Susan Foster Korkalo ’66 Livingston

Jeanette Sayer M cKee ’68 H a m ilton Sun Birds K itty VanVliet M eyer ’64 Alumni and friends gathered at the Mountain ► E ugene, O re. Shadow Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz., in March for a W ilm er “Bill" M itchell ’50 reception organized by the UM Alumni Office and M iles C ity hosted by the UM Foundation. Pictured left to right Donald E N icholson ’56 are Nancy Maurer ’76 , Gail Paige Good ’62 , Priscilla N orw ich , C on n . Pickard Gilkey ’62 and Doug Miller ’72 . More than Paige W ilson N icholson ’89 120 alumni and friends enjoyed the reception. Great Falls

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Ann Parke Ruegam er ’67 B illin gs R ic k F. S ch n e id e r 7 8 A lum Ski Bums, Colorado Style Edina, Minn. ◄ The UM Alumni Association, Colorado Branch, held its third annual ski trip on Kay LeFevre Stipe '59 Spokane, Wash. March 2, 1997. Twenty-six Montanans met to board the ski train to Winter Pwk at Denver’s Union Station. Nearly 700 travelers enjoyed the train ride and the Rick V. W eaver 75 excellent skiing. No driving up Icy mountain roads, parking, stopping for coffee, Havre breakfast, or ticket lines. Ail this and the Sunday paper too!

ALUMNI OFFICE Along for the ride were Gwen Childs (president-elect UMAA) and her husband Bill Johnston 79, M PA 91 Mitch, R. Mac Fraser (UMAA board) and his wife Sand, Jerry Jackson (UMAA T h e U n iv e r sity o f M on ta n a delegate), and UM and MSU alums from the ’50 s to th e ’80s. Everyone on this M issoula. M T 59812-0013 406-243-5211 trip is looking forward to next year-it is definitely an annual event 1-800862-5862 From left to right, front row: JeiTy Jackson and Mac Fraser alumniSsehvay.umLedu h ttp : / www.umi.edu/alumni Second row: Tucker GriBs, Kirk Mefts, Denice Grills, Mitch Childs, Given ChBds, Sandy Fraser, Lynn Hansen and Lisa Knrdziel 32 Spring 1997 MONTANAN Panama C ruise

Front row (L-R): Vickie Stevenson, Lucille Chilcote, Jane Dennison, Charles ’61 and Margaret Fudge, Mary Jo Peterson Connelly '52, Joan Blair Berg ’44 , Catherine Berg Thompson ’40 . Middle Row (L-R): Julia Neiss, Mary Kidd Moore ’48 , Jackie and James ’57 Scoville, June Bowman Johnson ’59 , Ben Berg ’38 , Helen McMillan, Phyllis Bellingham, John Ward Thompson. Back Row (L-R): Curtis Neiss ’59 , Cordell “Corky” Johnson ’56 , Dirk Chilcote ’46 , Wayne Mathis ’67 , William “Bill” Bellingham ’42 , Joyce Van Voast Jensen *67, Betty Leaphart Dratz ’43 , John Dratz ’42 .

Not pictured: Don Stevenson ’58 and Judy Mathis.

Upcoming UM Alumni Events 1997-98

June September 6 Griz/Cat Golf Tournament, Butte 9-20 Autumn in Burgundy and Provence Tour 7 Griz/Cat Golf Tournament, Seattle, WA 2 6 *2 7 HOMECOMING, Missoula 6 / 2 1 * 7 / 4 Path of die Phoenicians Tour, Rome to London (escorted by Jane and President October Dennison) 4 Griz vs. Wyoming, Laramie, W y o. 11 Griz vs. Idaho State, Pocatello, Idaho July 14*22 Alumni Campus Abroad, Ennis, Ireland 13 Alaska Kcnic, Anchorage, Alaska 25 Griz vs. Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Ariz. 28 Golf Tournament, Alberta Canada MauiOMlipr 7/30-8/10 Alumni Campus Abroad, Tuscany, Italy (escorted by Bill Johnston) 8 Griz v. Portland State, Portland, Ore. 22 Griz-Cat Game, Bozeman

AugUSt M ontana F lcn k Portland, O R JMMlTy 1998 17 Send-Off Party for new and returning UM 16-24 Caribbean Cruise from San Juan, Puerto Rico students from the area around Denver, C o lo .

For more information on these events, please call the UM Alumni Office at 1-800-862-5862

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O ver the G oal, the Campaign Marches O n “Pu t Your Name on the L ist” b y Ju n e 30 W i t h $ 5 2 . 5 m i l l i o n i n commitments , T h e

U n i v e r s i t y o f M o n t a n a C a p i t a l C a m p a i g n h a s June 30 will be the final day of counting gifts for The University of Montana Capital Cam­ ASSURED THAT THE UNIVERSITY’S TRADITION OF paign - Ensuring a Tradition of Excellence. The campaign expires on that day, the fifth anniver­ EXCELLENCE WILL CONTINUE INTO ITS SECOND sary of gift-counting. As she has said throughout the final phase of CENTURY AND BEYOND. the campaign, National Chairman Phyllis Washington said June 30 marks the final chance The campaign surpassed its original goal of $40 “to put your name on the list so your legacy million in mid-1996. Since then, additional property won’t be missed.” Washington has dedicated the gifts, estate distributions, Excellence Fund gifts, planned campaign’s final year to including as many gift commitments and cash contributions for campaign donors as possible in the largest campaign in priorities and other University needs pushed the total Montana higher education history. higher. Campaign leadership predicts the total will “People are very much interested in making exceed $55 million before its conclusion. “Early on, history at this University and creating a future many feared that $40 million for UM students,” Washington said. “While we have been delightfully overwhelmed by the was overly ambitious,” said The University of Larry Morlan, executive response of alumni and friends, I know there are director of the UM Founda­ M ontana still individuals who have put off making a tion, which is operating the Capital Campaign campaign commitment, but time to make a gift campaign. “Fortunately, our is now running short” volunteers—especially Chair­ After the campaign surpassed its $40 million man Phyllis Washington—and goal early in 1996, staff and volunteers concen­ University administrators trated on raising money for undersubscribed didn’t let doubts deter them. priorities and areas with funding deadlines. The personal commitments Projects facing deadlines include: retiring debt of these individuals and their on the William and Rosemary Gallagher Build­ diligence in convincing ing for the School of Business Administration others to join them in and the Davidson Honors College Building and campaign participation really meeting the National Endowment for the paid off.” Humanities challenge grant for the Center for Morlan added that the the Rocky Mountain West. To qualify for the campaign will not rest on its full $520,000 NEH grant, the UM Foundation laurels just yet. “We dedi­ must have this year’s share, $350,000, in hand cated ourselves to a five-year by July 31. One million dollars for the Center campaign and will continue Ensuring a has come from Carroll and Nancy O’Connor. serious efforts to seek Tradition of funding for its priorities until the very last day,” he said. Excellence

34 S p rin g 1997 MONTANAN Recent G ifts to the Capital Campaign

Burlington N orthern Santa Fe Foundation - $750,000 f o r th e I n fo r m a tio n T e c h n o l o g y R e s o u r c e C e n t e r A Time to Celebrate The University of Montana Capital Campaign will R u th M. F itz G e r a ld - $100,000 celebrate its success on the weekend of O ct 17-18. Mark f o r th e M a n sf ie l d L ib r a r y your calendar! On Friday, Oct. 17, there will be

W illia m J. G allagher Estate - $1.4 m ill ion a gala cocktail party, dinner

FOR SCHOLARSHIPS and star-studded concert for Leadership, Major and Special Gift donors and Hewlett-Packard Co. a n d M icrosoft Corporation a n d campaign volunteers. th e ir E m ployees - n ea rly $1 m ill ion in The following morning COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY FOR THE a tailgate party will

S c h o o l o f B u s in e s s A dministration precede the UM-Eastern Washington University football game to honor all Rose Southworth Megee - $30,000 f o r st u d y a b r o a d campaign donors.

Donald W. and Judy Strauss M olloy - $50,000

f o r Lin d a Wa r d W il l ia m s M em o r ia l S c h o l a r s h ip

f o r N a tiv e A m e r ic a n la w st u d e n t s S cholarship Founder Dies UM benefactor, Margaret ampaign eaches ew eights Childers Knimm, who was instru­ C R N H mental in formulating and establish­ ing the Grace Edith Metcalf Childers $52.5 miluon! and Albert Marion Childers Endow­ ment for Presidential Scholarships Endowments: Faculty P o sit io n s a n d S cholarships - $15.1 m ilu on with her son, Richard ‘60, died unexpectedly on March 10 in Scotch Program Enhancements: Innovative Learning Environments - Plains, N.J. Presidential Scholarships $8.7 MILUON is one of the campaign’s highest priorities. Mrs. Krumm had been a Capital Development: B uilding C onstruction a n d R enovation and charter member of the University’s Equipment - $15.6 m ilu on Heritage Society, the organization for individuals who commit planned gifts Current Challenges: M eeting I mmediate N e e d s - $13 m ilu on for the University.

Spring 1997 M ontanan 35 lights! Camera! Action/ HOMECOMING 1997 September 26 & 27

40th and 25th class reunions for the classes of 1957 a n d 1972

Singing On The Steps on Friday evening

Parade on Saturday m orning

Football game against Sacramento State Hornets

Other Reunions: Alpha Omicron Pi 100th Anniversary - contact Lori Webster (406) 721-7706 Spurs 30th Reunion for members of the Class of 1967 - contact Sheila Skemp (601) 234-3717 Bear Paw 30th Reunion for members of the Class of 1967 - contact Roger Barber (406) 265-6594

Please make reservations NOW!

For tickets to thefootball game 1-800-526-3400 or 1-406-243-4051. The University of For motel reservations, call 1-800-441-2286 or 1-406-549-2286. Montana

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Students Benefit From y o u r G enerosity n o w a n d in T he university's future • OUTREACH Privately funded lecture series such as Plum Creek Timber C o .’s for forestry and Judges Jones and Tamm Judicial Lecture Series expose campus and community to the views of recognized experts. • GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS New ones will support advanced study in business, creative writing, economics, education, forestry, history, journalism, mathematics and the physical sciences.

• Ne w Partnerships Through the UM/ATV Project, the School of Education writes curriculum for Achievement Television broadcasts. Three interactive programs with Western Montana schoolchildren and famous Americans have originated at UM. itSLrwSflm a Capital Campaign There's still time fo r you to he a part o f this historic campaign. Your gift w ill Ensure the Tradition o f Excellence Ensuring a Tradition of Excellence

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■ Center for the The University of ARocKv A C o n f e r e n c e Montana /Mountain S e p t e m b e r 12-14, **997 West Missoula, Montana A.B. Guthrie’s THE BIG SKY - After Fifty Years C a ll fo r Papers deadline is June i 5

In THE BIG SKY, A 3. Guthrie exposed our human tendency to destroy what we love best. At this conference the Center will revisit Guthrie's life and works, and explore som e of the cultural changes and environmental challenges that we in the West continue to impose upon ourselves. In conjunction with the conference a showing of four screen adaptations of Guthrie's work will include a critique of western film and fictions. Film showings will begin Thursday, September 11.

F o r f u r t h e r information c o n t a c t : William E. Farr, Associate Director — Center for the Rocky Mountain West The University o f Montana • Milwaukee Station, 2nd floor • Missoula, MT 59812-1205 Phone (406) 243-7700 • Fax 549-4977

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