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Six men and a woman will receive UM Alumni awards

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SIX MEN AND A WOMAN WILL RECEIVE UM ALUMNI AWARDS MISSOULA— The University of Montana Alumni Association's most prestigious awards will be given during Homecoming, October 23 and 24, to six men and a woman,

association executive director Deanna W. Sheriff announced.

The Distinguished Alumnus Award will be given to Olwen "Wini" Jones,

Seattle, Wash., a fashion designer, inventor and author; Forrest J. Gerard,

Washington, D.C., assistant secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; lawyers Robert D. Corette, Butte, a national business leader, and R.H. "Ty" Robinson, Missoula, a prime mover in community and state affairs; and Albert

Spaulding, an anthropologist whose contributions in his field were the subject of an entire July 1977 issue of the American Antiquity, the journal of the for American .

Chosen to receive the Young Alumnus Award honoring alumni 35 or younger

are Daniel 0. Kemmis, Missoula lawyer and 1981 minority leader of the Montana House of Representatives, and Gregory L. Hanson, legal counsel to the UM Founda­ tion and a Missoula civic leader.

UM President Neil S. Bucklew will present the awards at a banquet scheduled Friday, October 23, at 7:30 p.m. at the Village Red Lion Motor Inn.

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Corette, a 1934 law graduate, is a senior partner in the Butte law

firm of Corette, Smith, Pohlman and Allen and was 1980-81 president of

the State Bar of Montana. He is a Fellow of the American College of Probate

Counsel and of the American College of Trial Lawyers and has served on the latter's board of regents.

He is a director of the Montana Power Company, Western Energy Company,

Western Gas Company and Atlanta Exploration Company, all based in Butte, and the Ray Foundation of Montana, headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz. He is a past director of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and a former president of the Butte and Montana chambers.

Corette initiated the Boys' State program in Montana. He is a charter member of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, Okla.

Corette, a Butte native, and his wife, Lorrie, have four children, all

UM graduates.

Gerard, who was born near Browning, is a 1949 graduate in business admin­

istration. In 1977, he became assistant secretary of the Interior for Indian

Affairs, reporting directly to the secretary and participating in policy making.

Prior to his appointment, Indian affairs were in charge of a commissioner, who served under an assistant secretary.

Gerard's public service career in Washington, D.C., has included administra­ tive posts in the U.S. Public Health Service; the Civil Service Commission, as an

American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow; the Department of the Interior; and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, where he was the first director of HEW's Office of Indian Affairs. In 1976-77, he served on the staff of the Senate Subcommittee on Indian Affairs.

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Gerard grew up on a ranch on the Blackfeet Reservation, where his mother, 93, still lives. He is married to the former Kaura Pugh, an enrolled member of the Ogala Sioux Tribe. They have five children.

Jones, a native of Calgary, Alta., earned B.A. degrees in French and home economics, specializing in clothing and textiles, in 1965.

Following graduation she completed, in two years, the five-year program of the Modeschule in Der Stadt Wien, a fashion design school in Vienna,

Austria. Now director of design and advertising for Roffe, Inc., of Seattle, a sportswear manufacturer, she was instrumental in the development of stretch fabric and stretch insulations in skiwear and in the use of stretch material in down ski parkas. She is regional director of The Fashion Group, Inc., and a member of the Marketing Committee of Ski Industries of America and of American Women for International Understanding. Before joining Roffe 13 years ago, she was a ski instructor in Innsbruck,

Austria, and Zermatt, Switzerland. Robinson, a partner in the Missoula law firm of Garlington, Lohn and Robinson, is a 1948 law graduate and a past president of the law school alumni. lie was a member of the 1972 Montana Constitutional Convention Commission, chairman of the Missoula County Air Pollution Study, charter chairman of the Missoula Civic Symphony, and a trustee of Missoula Community Hospital. He is a trustee of Immanuel Lutheran Hospital, Kalispell, and the Montana Bar Associa­

tion, and a past president of the Montana Chamber of Commerce.

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He is a director of Montana Tower, Atlanta Exploration and Western

Energy Companies and a member of the Glasgow Valley Industrial lark Advisory Board, the Montana Council of Boy Scouts Executive Board and the

Governor’s Mansion Restoration Committee. Robinson was born in Columbia Falls. Me and his wife, dean, aie the parents of two sons. Spaulding, a Choteau native and a graduate of Missoula County High

School, is a 1935 economics graduate. He earned a master's degree in at the and a doctorate at Columbia. According to Antiquity, he is "one of the great pioneers in the applica

tion of quantitative methods in archaeology. His concise and thoughtful essays on the principles behind contemporary archaeologv tom part ot the

basic canon of our discipline." Carling I. Malouf, UM professor of anthropology, says, "There is no question that Albert Spaulding has become our most outstanding alumnus in the field of anthropology, and especially in the sub-field, archaeolog). Earlier this year, Spaulding received the Distinguished Service Awaid

of the American Anthropological Association. Spaulding's father, the late Thomas Spaulding, was dean of the School

of Forestry during the '40s and '50s. His mother lives in Missoula. Hanson and Kemmis, who will receive the Young Alumni Award, are both attorneys and active in the Montana Bar Association and other professional

. Hanson, a partner in the Missoula law firm of Garlington, Lohn and Robinson, received the J.D. degree, with honors, in 1971. He is also an honor graduate of the UM business school and a certified public accountant.

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His service to the University began while he was in law school and

served part-time as an administrative assistant to President Robert 1.

Pantzer. He was a member of the law school's Educational Development

Committee in 1980-81, and he has served on the board of directors of the

UM Century Club and as a lecturer in the School of Business Administration.

His community involvement includes stints on the board of directors of the Missoula Area Arts Council and the board of trustees of Missoula

School District 1. He was chairman of the Missoula County Commissioners’

Park Feasibility Committee in 1974-75. Hanson, who was born in Reno, Nev., and his wife, Helen, a UM alumna, are the parents of two children.

Kemmis was born in Fairview. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard

in 1968 and, with honors, from the UM law school in 1978. Before earning his

law degree he served two terms in the Montana Legislature, where he gained

a reputation for fairness and integrity and became known as an articulate

speaker and forceful writer. Before the 1981 legislative session, in which he was House minority leader he worked on behalf of UM and the Montana University System, speaking throughou

the state. His articles have been published by the Montana Law Review and the Hammond

Fund in the UM Foundation. He practices with the Missoula firm of Kemmis and Jonkel, specializing in

environmental, labor and general law. His wife, Jean Kcster is also a UM law

graduate and a practicing attorney. They have three children.