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Volume 32 Missoula, Montana 59801 1975 Issue

Editorial Unit Reaccredited By J-Council The news-editorial sequence in the School of Journalism was reaccredited in April by the American Council on Education for Journalism. Provisional accreditation was granted to the radio-television (general) sequence. The school did not apply for reaccreditation of the advertising sequence. The journalism school is one of 65 schools and departments of journalism with accredited sequences and one of four schools with such sequences in the Pacific Northwest. A four-man accreditation team, which visited the school Nov. 21 and 22, 1974, comprised Thomas Cruise Palmer, ALINE MOSBY '43 took a leave from the UPI bureau in Paris, France, to teach the executive editor of the Kansas City Star International Communications course spring quarter. Among her guest lecturers was and Times; Robert Jones, director of the her former boss, Henry Shapiro, retired chief of the UPI bureau in Moscow, Russia. School of.Journalism at the University of Shapiro, who worked in the Moscow bureau for nearly 40 years, was known as the Minnesota; Bruce Linton, professor of dean of Moscow correspondents. He also addressed law students and a general journalism at the University of Kansas and session of journalism students in the Journalism Library. director of its radio-TV-film program; and Kenneth Rystrom, managing editor of the Vancouver (Wash.) Columbian and president of the National Conference of National Headliners Club Citation Editorial Writers. The team noted that the “central Earned by Two J-School Graduates administration regards the School of Journalism as a strong unit at the Charles E. Hood Jr. '61, M.A. '69 and the Lee Newspapers State Bureau Dec. 2, University of Montana.” Charles S. Johnson '70 won a National 1974. It praised the relationship between the Headliners Club Award in May for Both received the Headliners Club faculty and media professionals, the outstanding reporting for a series of Award—for outstanding reporting in Journalism Library, faculty morale and Missoulian articles about Montana newspapers up to 50,000 circulation—at a conformity of the curriculum to ACEJ lawyers and the legal profession in the banquet in Atlantic City. standards. state. The articles were reprinted as a It termed the school's quarters “in The series also received the Society for booklet. general, adequate” and noted that Professional Journalists’ public-affairs In 1969 Hood and Prof. Philip J. Hess faculty salaries in the associate and reporting award for the Inland Empire received a certificate of special assistant professor ranks are and a first-place award for the West com m en d a tion in the M edical “considerably below national averages in Central Region in a news-media Journalism Awards program of the the accredited schools.” competition sponsored by the American Medical Association for a 16- The team mentioned deficiencies in Association of Trial Lawyers of America. page Missoulian report entitled “Drugs the radio-television curriculum, Hood, an assistant professor at the in Missoula.” Both were working for the especially the need for additional journalism school, was working for the Missoulian during the summer vacation. instruction in radio-television news. (A Missoulian during the summer when the Johnson served as a Sears new radio-television news course has articles were written. Johnson, a political Congressional Intern in Washington, been developed and is awaiting Faculty and special-assignment reporter, joined D.C., in 1970. Senate approval.) WITH J-GRADS-TEENS, 20s, 30s, 40s

Ed Rosendorf ex-'18, retired sports Mary and Fremont have two John Willard '38 continues as regional editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, is a grandchildren. manager of public relations for reporter for the Inyo Register in Harry Billings '33, former editor of the Burlington Northern with offices in California. Ed, who worked for the People's Voice in Helena, was appointed Billings. Missoulian in 1918, visited the J-School in to the tax-appeals board in Sanders Duane W. (Doc) Bowler '39 continues September. County. as editorial-page editor of the Billings Clarence K. Streit '19 visited friends Margaret Raitt Gilfeather '33 was a Gazette. and relatives in Missoula in September. Democratic candidate for the Montana Dan Findell '39 retired from IBM in Clarence, president and founder of the House of Representatives. She has taken July, 1974. Dan and wife Gladys live in International Movement for Atlantic graduate courses in social work at Olympia, Wash. Union, was praised in a Missoulian Western Reserve and has been a social William H. Forbis '39 was a keynote editorial as a man " o f enorm ous worker in Cascade County. She also has speaker at the Northwest Regional Media dedication, charm and vision." been a teacher and vocational counselor. Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, in Margaret Coucher '21 is retired and Margaret and Patrick are the parents of October. residing in Missoula. three grown sons. Gilbert LeKander '39 is retired and Gladys Robinson Costello '22 is retired Louise Harden Brissenden '34 reports residing in Manassas, Va. His wife, Carol and residing in Malta. from Tegard, Ore., that she has retired Foster LeKander '40, died Nov. 14,1973. A. B. Guthrie Jr. '23 addressed an after 25 years as an advertising copy chief Gil writes that his son, John, 22, is a flying Environmental Reporting Seminar and a in Seattle and Spokane. Her last position instructor in Manassas. journalism class in December. He told was with Rhodes (now Liberty House) in William D. James '41, editor of the the class that Montana was being Portland, Ore. Great Falls Tribune, was elected destroyed by strip-mining, deforestation Jerry B. House '35 writes that he retired president of the Montana Associated and other kinds of exploitation. At the in 1970 as assistant superintendent of the Press Editors last August. seminar, sponsored by the Missoulian Sequoia National Park. He has 3216 years Ken Kizer '41, senior editor at the and the journalism school, he talked of federal service as an aide to former University News Service at Purdue, was about a compelling need to halt what he Montana Senators Burton K. Wheeler one of four staff members whose articles termed reckless progress. and Zales N. Ecton, postmaster of the U.S. earned an Award of Merit from the Harold Seipp '25, former editor of the Senate, and as a National Park Service Council for the Advancement and Billings Gazette, and wife Mary reside in employe. Jerry and wife Vi live in Support of Education. The national Billings. Harold became editor of the Medford, Ore. competition is sponsored by Newsweek. Gazette in 1947 and served as an editorial Georges LeRoux '35 writes that "after Ray Fenton '43 and Mary Bukvich writer from 1960 until his retirement in years of in and out of the media, I settled Fenton '43 have assumed sole ownership 1967. into secondary school teaching for the of Public Relations Associates in Great Lyle K. Williams '27, former publisher past 15 years and retired a year ago." H e's Falls. In Montana the Fentons are the of the Three Forks Herald, writes a now a part-time instructor in French at only accredited members of the Public column entitled "Historically Speaking" the Rogue Community College at Grants Relations Society of America. Mary was a for that newspaper. Pass, Ore. panelist at the annual program of the Jay K. (Jake) Miller '28 is retired and Jack R. Robinson '35 is retired and Association for the Gifted during the with wife Linda resides in La Jolla, Calif. residing in Phoenix, Ariz. national convention of the Council of He worked for the New York World- Armon Glenn '36 was promoted from Exceptional Children. The session was in Telegram, McCall Corp. and Fortune associate editor to news editor of April in Los Angeles. magazine. He subsequently was Barron's Weekly. Armon and wife Lucie Shirley Scott Gianelli '45 lives in Pebble publisher of the Castle Rock (Wash.) live in New City, N.Y. Beach, Calif., with husband William. She Cowlitz County Advocate and head of Robert O. Lodmell '37 writes that "I reports: "Bill and I enjoyed being guests production and assistant to the director 'retired' a couple of years back on selling at the dinner in New York in June of of the Stanford University Press. Jake the Lake Wales (Fla.) Daily and Sunday Governor Rockefeller for Secretary of recalls that he helped Dean Stone teach Highlander (Florida's first offset daily), State Kissinger." the Mechanics of Printing class. but am now back in harness publishing Ted Delaney '47 was elected president Blanche Coppo Lanstrum '30 is retired two weeklies—the Tampa Shopper and of the UM Alumni Association for the and residing in Billings. She worked as a TODAY & TONITE, a free circulation 1976-77 academic year. Ted is president reporter for the Billings Gazette, tabloid newspaper distributed to visitors of Delaney's Bureau of Printing in Missoulian, Kalispell Daily Inter Lake and to Disney World." Missoula. the Billings Times. Louise Eiselein Rasmussen '37, co ­ Patricia McCullough Shipman '47 and John K. Rankin '30 is retired and publisher of the Roundup Record- husband John own and operate residing in San Mateo, Calif. He worked Tribune, is in the 1975-76 edition of apartments in San Diego. She writes: "A for the Great American Insurance Co. for Who's Who of American Women. daughter, Mary C. Shipm an, is 30 years in San Francisco. John has three Mrs. Virginia Hamblet Scott '37 resides married—now Mrs. James Rowland." daughters and five grandchildren. in Seattle. Walter R. Larson '49, publisher of the Mary Aldula Wilson '31 is a public Nicholas M. Mariana Sr. '38 is editor of Cle Elum Tribune and the Odessa Record stenographer in Missoula. She writes that Environmental Impact Statements for the in Washington State, visited the J-School she types theses for graduate students Bonneville Power Administration in in August. and that both daughters are married. Portland, Ore. Donald H. Weston '49 received the most votes among 17 candidates for the Missoula City Study Commission in November. He led his nearest challenger by nearly 1,000 votes. Don, former news director at KGVO Radio and Television in 2— 1975 Issue Missoula, is in the rental-property COMMUNIQUE business. WITH MONTANA J-GRADS AFIELD—50s

Bill Farden '50, president of Outdoor Florida State University and Mark, 17, is a Muriel Anne Griffin Daniels '55 is Empire Publishers Inc. in Seattle, says he high school senior and plays varsity director of public relations for the is publishing eight weekly editions of football and basketball. Methodist Hospital at Dallas, Tex. She Fishing and Hunting News with a Wallace D. Hoffman '52 is an editorial teaches a public relations night course at circulation of 108,000. With a staff of 60, writer for the Salt Lake Tribune. Wallace the University of Texas—Arlington, and the firm also publishes handbooks for and wife Shirley have a son, Paul, 13, and last August she received a first-place outdoor-safety courses conducted in a daughter, Barbara, 10. citation for audio-visuals in the several states. Jewel Beck Lansing '52 was elected MacEachern Award competition Ward Sims '50 was working at the AP's auditor of Multnomah County, O re., in sponsored by the Academy of Hospital General Desk in New York City in late November. The county is the largest in Public Relations. Muriel is a member of October when the room was shaken by Oregon and includes Portland. Jewel and the board of the North Texas Chapter of bombs exploding in Rockefeller Center. husband Ron have three teen-agers. the Public Relations Society of America. The AP Log said Sims' "first instruction George Ostrom ex-'52 is publisher of Thomas R. Needham '55 is was for lowered blinds as a precaution the Kalispell News, which he bought in administrative manager for Xerox against flying glass if there were other 1974. In recent years, he has sold several Computer Graphics with headquarters in blasts." Ward has worked for the AP for articles to national magazines, written a Los Angeles. Tom and Arlene have four 25 years. column for the Columbia Falls Hungry teen-age daughters. He sings with the Len Derby '51 is director of information Horse News and won several Montana San Fernando Valley male chorus and and publications at Flathead Valley Press Association awards. plans to participate in the International Community College, Kalispell. Len, a Nathalie McGregor Pattison '52 Choral Festival in Wales. member of the Army Reserve and teaches political science and history at Robert W. Newlin '55 is assistant to the National Guard for 23 years, was Lodi High School, Lodi, Calif. Nathalie director. Office of Information Services, graduated in September from the Army and husband Richard have a daughter Atomic Energy Commission. He deals Command and General Staff College at and three sons, the eldest a sophomore at with the major news media and the White Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. the University of California at Davis. House staff and works closely with the Armund Foley '51 is director of Ray Sorum '52, director of public affairs chairman of the AEC. Robert and wife external relations for the College of for the California Office of Traffic Safety, Kay Wohlgenant Newlin live in Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. is the first California state information Damascus, Md. Art writes: "My wife, Louise Kirby of officer to receive the Governor's Charles A. Thompson '55 opened his Gillette, W yo., and I live at Hemlock Superior Achievement Award for own law office in Dallas, Tex., Aug. 15, Farms in the Pocono Mountains of "exceptionally meritorious service" by a 1974, after working 2V i years for an Pennsylvania near a city named Hawley. state employe. He was cited for his work investment real-estate company. W e'd always be glad to see any J-School with the state's traffic-safety program. Charles, a lieutenant colonel, was wanderers who get lost in the vicinity of Richard G. Wohlgenant '52 is a partner appointed inspector general of the newly our forest retreat." in the Denver law firm of Holme, Roberts formed 49th Armored Division of the George S. Friedman '51 is news- & Owen. He also serves on the firm's Texas National Guard. assignment manager for WLS-TV, an executive committee. Daniel R. Zenk '55 is the information ABC-owned station in Chicago. He is officer for the U.S. Army Fifth Corps in responsible for eight camera crews, eight Don Zupan '52 has completed his fifth Frankfurt, Germany. Dan, a lieutenant reporters and three news-assignment year as sports editor of the Contra Costa colonel, was assigned to his current post editors. Times at Walnut Creek, Calif. Don, a after serving as executive officer of the Clinton J. Hansen '51 is vice president former sports editor of the Missoulian, Third Brigade, First Infantry Division, in and chief counsel for the general mining travels with the Oakland Raiders and the Boeblingen, Germany. division of the Anaconda Company. He San Francisco 49ers. Don, wife Patricia, Virginia McBride Altman '56 is doing was elected a trustee of the Tucson Ted, 12, and Rebecca, 14, live in Pittsburg, editing and market research for Serata Medical Center in 1974. Clinton and wife Calif. Geomechanics in Berkeley. Elizabeth is Arietta live in Tucson. William E. Jones '54 was elected to the 10, Caroline 5. John Owen '51, sports editor of the board of directors of the Western Jo La Duke Haley '56 and husband Seattle Post-Intelligencer, is the author of Montana National Bank in Missoula. Bill, William live in Lake City, Fla., with Mary "Intermediate Eater," a 173-page book a graduate of the UM School of Law, is a Neil, 12, Meg, 10, Jimbo, 5, and Patti Jo, 3. containing his recipes printed in the P-I's general partner in the Missoula firm of Norma Beatty Ashby '57 has completed Northwest Magazine. Headings include Garlington, Lohn and Robinson. a three-year appointment as Montana Primaeval Leg of Lamb, Terminal Turkey Beverly H. (Beeper) Praetz Pietryga '54 representative on the Defense Advisory and Unreal Veal. reports from Michigan: "Just moved 50 Committee on Women in the Services. Burton (Buck) Warren '51 was miles out of the city into a big Cape Cod She attended a White House meeting of promoted from publications coordinator house in the woods on Dunham Lake. It's the organization in April, 1974. Norma to publications manager at the a long drive into Larry's Dearborn office, continues as producer of the Montana Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell but he seems to think the fresh air and Television Network show "Today in International. He has been with blue sky are worth it." Mike is 10, Mitty 8 Montana" originating in Great Falls. Rocketdyne for 18 years. Burton, wife and Matt 4. Emile DeVore Cowdery '57 and Evelyn and daughter Janelle, 18, live in Glenn M. Chaffin Jr. '55 is president of husband Richard moved to Portland, Northridge, Calif. the Willamette Association of Life O re., where he is director of construction Thomas E. Anderson '52 resides in Falls Underwriters. Glenn, who works for the and maintenance in the Northwest Church, Va. Tom, an Army colonel with Equitable Life Assurance Society, and Region for the Federal Highway 22 years service, was transferred from the wife Alice reside in Corvallis, Ore. Administration. Pentagon to Fort Belvoir, Va. Both Tom and wife Pat are real-estate representatives in Northern Virginia for Tatum Properties. Greg, 18, attends COMMUNIQUE 1975 Issue—3 New City Editors THE 50s, 60s Edwin L. (Ted) Neville '57 has moved from the Valley Department to the Sunday Department as assistant Sunday editor and Forum editor at the Fresno (Calif.) Bee, where he has worked since 1970. Clifford E. Hopkins '58 writes that he is "taking it easy in the California sun." He lives at Rancito LaCosta, Calif. John A. (Jack) Vogel '58 is manager of the news department at Pacific Power and Light C o., Portland, Ore. He says he encounters J-School graduates throughout Pacific's six state service area. Jack and wife Sharon live in Beaverton, Ore. Carl R. Hilliard '59 is the statehouse correspondent for the AP in Denver. He has been with the AP for 10 years. Son Bronson is 9, Brendan 4. Robert (Dutch) Mings '59 is on the sports staff of the Newport News (Va.) STEVE L. SMITH ’65, M .A. ’69 (left) was named city editor of the Missoulian and William Daily Press, where he covers the Virginia H. Walter ’65 was named city editor of the Butte Montana Standard in early 1975. Smith worked for the Bellingham (Wash.) Herald and taught journalism at the University of Squires of the American Basketball Alaska and at UM before joining the Missoulian in 1971. Walter joined the Montana Association, college baseball in the area and serves as backup man on Standard as a sports writer in 1969 after three years of Army service. professional baseball and NFL football. Ronald P. Richards '59 became director of the Montana Department of Forssen Retires Intergovernmental Relations in —Short Takes — September. Ron served for three years as For Second Time executive officer of the Montana Democratic party, then worked as the John A. Forssen '38 retired in May for KENTUCKY REUNION: Three J-School executive assistant to Gov. Forrest the second time. Anderson and Gov. Thomas L. Judge. Forssen worked for the Missoulian as a graduates played leading roles in a reporter and photographer for 25 years, summer writing workshop sponsored by Brinton B. Markle '60 resigned as then retired to become the journalism the University of Kentucky's Council on administrator of the Montana Board of teacher at Missoula Hellgate High and Aging. The workshop was organized by Crime Control and was appointed adviser to the Hellgate newspaper and Mrs. Genevieve Allen Murray '26. The program manager of the Montana yearbook. He had been at Hellgate for 11 director and teacher of fiction was A. B. Council on Criminal Justice Standards years. Guthrie Jr. '23. And the teacher of a New and Goals. A front-page article in the Hellgate Journalism course was Joe Ward '67, John Kavanagh '61, editor and Lance praised Forssen, who said: Bluegrass Bureau Chief for the Louisville publisher of the Shelby Promoter, was "Journalism is the most rewarding and Courier-Journal. Mrs. Murray worked for elected to the UM Alumni Association's enjoyable profession I know. It gives you the Missoulian and the Lexington (Ky.) House of Delegates. a chance to serve your community and Herald. Guthrie is a former reporter and Judith King Norgaard '61 writes that fellow man, which should be everyone’s editor at the Lexington Leader. Ward she is "busy at home doing craft and goal." wrote: "Since there will be only two needlework for sale and pleasure, being other teachers in the workshop, the publicity chairman for every students are bound to get a good dose of organization I belong to (so I'm still Montana-style instruction." getting in some writing), and caring for husband Roger (also a UM grad), son Steven, 11, and daughter Wendy, 9." The Flood Covered SIVILS HONORED: The School of Norgaards live in Missoula. Two graduates of the School of Journalism 's 27th G old Key for Journalism and a sophomore journalism distinguished service in Montana high Penelope Wagner Wilson '61, M.A. '67 major contributed most of the stories and school journalism was awarded to James was appointed a visiting fellow by the photos in an eight-page "Special Flood J. Sivils, journalism teacher and adviser at Battelle Research Institute to compile an Edition" of the Shelby Promoter June 20. Charlo High. During Sivils' tenure as oral history of the Municipality of They are Mary (Kathy) Froehlich '74, adviser, the Charlo Skyline has won 15 Metropolitan Seattle and co-author a reporter; John Kavanagh '61, editor and All-State ratings from the Montana book about METRO. She subsequently publisher; and Shelby Branch, who will Interscholastic Editorial Association and was promoted from manager of return to the J-School autumn quarter. the journalism school. community relations for METRO to assistant to the director. Patricia Shaw Donich '62 is corporate vice president of Temporaries, Inc., and Executive Secretaries, Inc., in Washington, D.C. She writes that she is 4-1 97 5 Issue COMMUNIQUE divorced and that Albee is 3 years old. MORE ABOUT J-GRADS OF THE 1960s

Lyle E. Harris '62, M.A. '67 was quoted editor, and Sunday editor. Both the in the January 20 Time in an article Courier and the Missoulian are owned by entitled “Economic Coverage: D as in Lee Enterprises, Inc. Dismal/' Lyle, director of the business- Jane Totman Lord '65, husband Dick journalism program at the University of and daughters Audra Irene and Erica Missouri, said business reporting was “a Evelyn moved in FebruaVy from Sula, great wasteland. The public doesn't Mont., to Manistee, Mich. Dick is a understand the stories, and the reporters timber assistant with pulpwood logging don't either." and reforestation in the Huron-Manistee Gerald R. Holiday '62 is an operations National Forest. research analyst for Potomac Research, Mary Ellen Myrene '65, newswoman in Inc., at McLean, Va. He headed two the New York AP Bureau, was mentioned major study contracts received by the in the January 6 AP Log for her role in firm last year. Gerald and wife Ann Louise reporting and writing the story about Wolford, a 1966 graduate of the Amy Vanderbilt's death. University of Washington School of John Edwards '66, an account executive Communications, live in Woodbridge, with William Kostra Associates in Denver, Va. was the U.S. press representative at the Douglas A. Kienitz '62, AP regional Norwegian Ski Championships and at the membership executive for Florida and World Ski Flying Championships in Georgia, is a lieutenant commander in Austria. He is completing work on an the Naval Air Reserve. He has logged M.A. in journalism at the University of 2,000 hours of flight time as a navigator. Colorado. Doug and wife Sandra reside in Tucker, Norma Sandberg Hober '66 and Ga. husband Terry were awarded a trip to Frank Walsh '62, M.A. '72 received his Acapulco, Mexico, because of the Juris Doctor degree from the UM School expansion of Terry's Security Mutual Life of Law in June. In September he will join Insurance Agency in Missoula. GARY SVEE ’67, a Billings Gazette the faculty at Ball State University at Patricia Kennedy '66 is an instructor in reporter, was co-winner of a $1,000 first Muncie, Ind., as an assistant professor of French and journalism at Centralia prize in the University of Missouri journalism. College in Washington State. She is competition recognizing excellence in Janet Trask Cox '63, president of the faculty adviser to the college student reporting the American economy. The Exclamation Point Advertising Agency in newspaper, the Oracle, and was elected award was for a special section entitled Billings, was named “Montana's secretary of the Pacific Northwest “King Coal," prepared by Svee and Outstanding Young Woman of 1974" in a Association of Journalism Educators. Pat Roger Clawson, a UM journalism student program sponsored by the General lives in Olympia. in 1964 and 1966. Federation of Women's Clubs. John G. Lumb '66 manages a theater in James R. McAllister R-TV '63 was Woodland Hills, Calif. p r o m o t e d t o pu b I ic - a f f a i rs William A. McGinley R-TV '66 was of a comprehensive examination. Fred representative for the western area of acting director of the Mass and Ellen -Broadus Caruso '71 live in Standard Oil Co. of Indiana with Communications Institute at Mankato Sterling, Va. headquarters in Overland Park, Kan. He State College during the 1974-75 Carl A. Gidlund '67, M.A. '67 is public- had been employed by Amoco Oil Co., academic year. Bill is affairs director of the Nevada the marketing subsidiary of Standard, telecommunications director at the Department of Human Resources. He is since 1963 and had held posts in Havre, college and an assistant professor. on loan from HEW to set up and run for Great Falls, Billings, Seattle and Salt Lake Roger Barber '67 joined the UM School two years the public-affairs program for City. of Business Administration faculty in Nevada's largest state agency. Carl and Joan Schmidt of Denver were wed in Eric J. Myhre ex-'63 was appointed a September as an assistant professor of December, 1973. Joan is the public- trustee of the Montana Historical Society management. information officer for the Toiyabe and by Gov. Thomas L. Judge. Eric is with Ronald D. Bradshaw R-TV '67 is owner Humboldt National Forests. Myhre Advertising in Great Falls. of RB Film Harmonics in Billings. The firm Mary Lou Collins Koessler '64 produces television commercials and Mark Miller '67 is a teaching assistant at continues to serve as a special industrial, educational and documentary Michigan State University, where he correspondent for newspapers and the films. Wife Jacqlin, a 1965 UM graduate, is expects to receive his Ph.D. in AP in El Salvador. In February she filed an a writer for the firm. September. exclusive story about an attempted Frederick C. Caruso ’67, director of Bill Schwanke '67 and Lynn Stetler takeover of the government. She went state legislative affairs for the Mobile Schwanke '68 moved from Missoula to directly to the President, who confirmed Homes Manufacturers Association, was Florence, Mont. Bill, a sports announcer the report. named a “Certified Association for KYLT in Missoula, was named Jim Oset '64 was promoted to chief of Executive" by the American Society of Montana Sportscaster of 1974 at the 16th the copy desk at the Billings Gazette. Association Executives. The title is given annual National Sportscaster and Larry T. Stidmon '64 is editor and for professionalism in association Sportswriters Awards Program in publisher of the Kalispell Livestock management and successful completion Salisbury, N.C. Weekly News. James D. Crane '65, city editor of the Missoulian, was named editor of the Ottumwa (Iowa) Courier in January. Jim, who joined the Missoulian in 1965, had 1975 Issue worked as a reporter, deskman, farm COMMUNIQUE —5 MONTANA J-GRADS AFIELD-60s, 70s Stanley Stohr '67 is a special assistant for Human Rights Bureau. Kathe was the Development Bureau for the State consumer affairs for Exxon in Houston, information officer for the Montana Department of Social and Rehabilitation Tex. Wife Pam is a speech therapist at the Board of Crime Control before her Services in Helena, is public information Houston Medical Center. Kristen was appointment as bureau chief July 22. officer for the State Department of born April 2, 1974. Health and Environmental Sciences. Paula Latham Wilmot '67 and husband Lana Brinkman Russ '69 has moved from copy editor to reporter at the Salem Kenneth Robertson '70 resigned as Richard announced the birth September press aide to Gov. Thomas L. Judge in 17 of Karalee Mikel, who joins Jennifer (Ore.) Capital Journal. Lana and husband Gordon have a 1-year-old daughter, November and returned to the Helena Lynn, 3. Paula is the city hall reporter for Independent Record where he was the Great Falls Tribune. Koren. Ronald J. Schleyer '69 plans to study for named managing editor. Janet Maurer Doty '68 writes that she Frank J. A. Greco Jr. '71 is a law student expects to receive an M.D. at the a master's degree in journalism at UM. He worked for the Lee Newspapers State at Cal Western. He and wife Janie live in University of Minnesota after three more San Diego. quarters. Bureau and as the environmental impact William E. Larson M.A. '71 is Chief of Rick Foote '68 and Nancy Marks Foote statement coordinator for the Environmental Quality Council in Section, Civilian Personnel Branch, '69 live in Butte, where Rick covers the Malmstrom Air Force Base, Great Falls. courthouse for the Montana Standard Helena. Howard Schwartz '69 is an instructor in Bill and wife Diana announced the birth and Nancy works as a tour promoter and of Erik John Sept. 7,1974. director at the Keith Travel Agency. journalism at the Department of Communications, Weber State College, Jack R. Lincke '71 moved his public- Gary Niles Kimble '68 joined the UM relations firm from Pasadena to Los faculty in September as an assistant Ogden, Utah. He worked for the Press and Publication Service of the U.S. Angeles with offices in the Hilton Office professor of Native American Studies. In Center. He writes that his book about the November Gary was elected to a second Information Agency in Washington, D.C., during the summer of 1974. Wright Brothers is finished and he nearly term in the Montana House of Nedra Bayne Carpel '70 resigned from has completed a draft of a novel based in Representatives. Alaska. the DISCOURSE public-relations firm in Theresa MacMillan Murphy '68 and Washington, D.C., to become managing Barbara Ehrlich Melichar '71 and her husband Michael moved in May from editor of City Partisan, a community husband moved from Tacoma, Wash., to Seattle to Honolulu, where he will serve newspaper for the Dupont Circle area in as minister of the Unity Church. Theresa Laramie, Wyo. She writes that they plan Washington. to move to New York City in August. resigned her post in the public- Jan K. Davis '70, education writer for information office of METRO Connie Revell '71 received her the Spokane Chronicle, received the (Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle). master's degree in communications at Washington Education Association's Boyd Vander Houwen '68 is Yakima Stanford University. She worked as a Better Understanding Award. She was Valley editor for the Tri City Herald in writer for Stanford and now is writing nominated for the award by the Mead Eastern Washington. He writes: "I've articles for the Upward Bound and Head Education Association for her coverage been Valley editor since September of a teachers' strike at Mead. Start programs. Connie lives in Mountain [1974], watching over a two-man staff and View, Calif. doing quite a bit of writing." Wife Loma is Kenneth D. Dunham R-TV '70 and a bi-lingual tutor in local schools, which Janelle K. Fallan '74 were married July 20, Jane Weaver Baldock R-TV '72 is have a large Chicano enrollment. The 1974. Janelle is director of information for working in the traffic department at Vander Houwens live in Sunnyside. the Great Falls Public School System. Ken, KNXT-TV, the CBS-owned station in Los Ed Chamberlain ex-'69 visited the news director at KFBB-TV in Great Falls, Angeles. She describes her work as journalism school in July. He is a reporter won the Idea of the Year in Montana "incredibly hectic." for the Omaha World-Herald. Broadcasting Award from the Greater David M. Doney R-TV '72 is a radio James Eggensperger R-TV '69 was Montana Foundation in 1974. producer and sound engineer for slide promoted Aug. 1,1974, from assistant city shows for Campus Crusade for Christ Lorraine Edmo '70 was appointed editor to city editor of the Pacific Daily International. He produces the executive director of the Idaho Inter- News, a Gannett newspaper at Agana, "Challenge for Today" and "Athletes in Tribal Policy Board, Inc., with Guam. Jim joined the News staff in 1972 Action" radio programs, broadcast on headquarters in Boise. She is co-editor of after receiving an M.S. in journalism from more than 180 stations. David lives in San Idaho's first state-wide Indian Columbia University. He visited the J- Bernardino, Calif. School in December. newspaper. The Native Gem. In addition, she is a member of the Idaho Human Marcia Eidel '72 is publications editor Pamela Patrick Langley '69 resigned as a Rights Commission and a member of the in the UM Office of Information Services. writer for Mountain Bell to accept a newly organized Northwest Indian journalism teaching job at Helena Senior Heidi Gasser '72 and David Charles Economic Development Advisory Board. High. She advises the school newspaper Thomas were married Aug. 3,1974. Heidi and yearbook. Robert Hoene R-TV '70 is president of is a Missoulian reporter. Barbara Richey Leland '69 and husband the Judge Advertising Agency in Helena. Joel P. Kleinman M.A. '72 is working Ron announced the birth of Mark Carmen Monaco '70 is director of with a computer program for a cancer- Christopher July 20, 1974. The Lelands marketing for Mervyns Department research project at the State University of live in Helena. Stores. He resides in Alameda, Calif. New York at Buffalo, where he received Kathe McGehee '69 resigned in his B.A. He reports "moderate success" December as chief of the Montana Mary Lou O'Neil Connor '70, former with his free-lancing. communication specialist with the Youth John M. Paxson '72 is head of the Voice of America's Midwest Bureau with headquarters in Chicago. John had served with the VOA's news division in 6— 1975 Issue Washington, D.C., from 1972 to August, COMMUNIQUE 1974. MORE ABOUT J-GRADS OF THE 1970s

Ken Shepherd R-TV '72 became Thomas J. Beausoleil '74 is news Lorna Thackeray '74 joined the staff of manager for Security Mutual Life director of KBLL Radio in Helena. the Hardin Herald in October as news Insurance Co. in Bozeman in July, 1973. Beverly Bilyeu '74 completed a editor. He was the company's "Montana Agent temporary assignment as a newswoman Shaun R. Thompson '74 is a student in of the Year" in 1972 and 1973. for the AP in Helena. the UM School of Law. Robin Brown Tawney '72 and husband Liann K. Bjelland '74 is a newscaster at Steven E. Triplett R-TV '74 joined the Phil plan to move from Helena to Ann KXLF-TV in Butte. news department of the mid-Oregon Arbor, where Phil will study for a master's Mary (Kathy) Froehlich '74 left the division of Pacific Power and Light Co. degree in the School of Natural Strub Publishing Co. in Seattle to become William R. (Dick) Crockford '75 is Resources at the University of Michigan. a reporter for the Shelby Promoter in editor of the Ronan Pioneer. They announced the arrival of Land January. Robert C. Gibson '75 is a reporter for Matthew on April 3,1975. Stephen R. Fullerton '74 is news the Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune. Diane Tipton R-TV '72 is assistant to the director of KLYQ Radio in Hamilton. Clarence C. McConnell '75 is a director of public relations at the Bureau Kevin Giles '74 is a reporter for the reporter and columnist for the Glendive of Library Extension in Boston. Courier-Mail in Brisbane, Australia. The Ranger-Review. Khelly Webb '72 resigned as assistant newspaper is the third largest in Stephen D. Shirley '75 is a reporter for director of marketing at the Santa Ana Australia. Wife Becky is a teacher in a the Missoulian. campus of Pepperdine University and is Brisbane suburb. Carmen Winslow '75 is a reporter for attending the University of Pasadena Bruce E. Hadella R-TV '74 is a video the Butte Montana Standard. School of Chiropractic. She is vice specialist for the Fire Training Program in Carey Matovich Yunker '75 will begin president of the Women in Management Great Falls. studies for an M.S. at the Graduate organization in California and a member Geoffrey Harp '74 worked on an School of Journalism, Columbia of the advertising staff of the Yoga Center archeological project last summer on the University, in September. of California. Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay. In May, Ronnene Anderson '73 was married Geoffrey and wife Cindy left for Alaska, August 3,1974, to Mark S. Peppier, a UM where he is working as foreman of an graduate and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford archeological-excavation crew along the University in England. Ronnene began pipeline route. work in September as a sub-editor at the Alan Higbee R-TV '74 and Helene Oxford Times. She is now editor of the Bourdon Higbee M.A. '75 traveled in Story Features Bicester Advertiser, one of several West Africa, Italy, Switzerland and France weeklies published by the Times. last summer, before settling in Spokane. Marjorie E. Bennetts '73 visited the J- They were married in Missoula in March, 1948 Graduate School last August. She resides in 1974. Helene's thesis was on the news Tiburon, a suburb of San Francisco. media in the Cameroon. Jean Roberts Packard '48 was featured Donald A. Bloom '73, assistant sports Kent Hugill '7 4 is news editor of the in a Washington Star-News article editor at the Missoulian, is completing his New Richmond News, the largest weekly entitled "Fairfax's Packard Is Given the work on a master's degree in literature at newspaper in Wisconsin. Word." UM. Linda Kaufman '74 joined the public- As chairman of the Fairfax County Woodeene Koenig Bricker '73, a relations staff of Montana Power as a (Virginia) Board of Supervisors, Jean and journalism graduate student at the writer and editor. other county executives from University of Oregon, visited the J- Dianne Lefrancois '74 traveled in throughout the nation met with School in November. Europe this year and at last report had President Gerald Ford in August, 1974. Thomas K. Cordingley '73 is assistant to visited 13 countries. Jean was the only Washington-area the general manager at the Great Falls Leon Lenz '74 is a reporter for KEIN representative at the Cabinet Room Tribune. Radio in Great Falls. meeting. George Guntermann '73 is associate From 1965 to 1972, Jean was a writer executive secretary of the Oregon Log Michael E. Moon '74 is an information and editor for the International Union for Truckers Association. George writes that assistant with the Department of Natural the Conservation of Nature and Natural he began as a writer for the association in Resources in Helena. He is helping to Resources. Earlier, she was administrative March, 1974. George, wife Randie and develop for the Energy Planning Division officer of the National School of Forestry their three children live in Salem, Ore. a public-involvement program for two and Conservation in Washington, D.C., proposed Colstrip generating units. Mike Deirdre McNamer '73 resides in and editor of three weekly newspapers in and wife Chara reside in Helena. Portland, O re., and continues as a Southwestern Ohio. Lynn Jo Morrison '74 is a sales-service newswoman for the Portland AP Bureau. representative for KGVO-TV in Missoula. Joan Melcher '73 worked on a Forest Seena M. Slaby '74 taught for a year at Service fire-fighting crew during the Chinook, then became public- WHOOPS: A Communique story last summer. She continues to write free­ information director at Northern year incorrectly said that William A. lance articles. Montana College in Havre. Barbour '48 was the ninth journalism Donna Syvertson '73 is a reporter for Thomas J. Steffes '74 owns and operates school graduate to receive an Alumni the Missoulian. The Big Cheese shop in the Holiday Distinguished Service Award from UM. Linda A. Winslow '73 is a reporter for Village shopping center in Missoula. He was the 10th. We failed to include in the Sanford (Maine) Tribune. She writes: David E. Stenerson '74 became editor the list the name of Ronald S. Kain '22 of "My duties include coverage of a major of the Sidney Herald in December. Washington, D.C. oil refinery proposal in the area. I encourage anyone coming to Maine to stop by my home a short distance from the turnpike." Linda resides in Kennebunk. COMMUNIQUE 1975 Issue— 7 Richard F. Crandell Jack Coulter — — Richard F. Crandell '48, former picture 30 Jack Coulter ’26, former owner of the editor of the New York Herald Tribune, Hamilton Ravalli Republican and the died Aug. 30, 1974, at St. Agnes Hospital in Stevensville Northwest Tribune, died in White Plains, N.Y. He was 72. Doris M. Dickman Phoenix Oct. 9, 1974, of a heart ailment. Mr. Crandell left the University in 1925, In February, 1973, Mr. Coulter became lacking three credits for a B.A. in Doris McCullough Dickman ’38, an editor the first person in the western United States journalism. The University awarded him the with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, with an atomic-powered pacemaker. degree in 1948 during the commencement died Oct. 12, 1974, of a cerebral Previously, a regular pacemaker had at which his son Keith received a B.A. hemorrhage while vacationing in Munich, regulated his heartbeat for 10 years. He was editor of the Kaimin in 1924-25. Germany. Mr. Coulter had worked for two Everett He is survived by his widow, Katherine, Mrs. Dickman, 56, resided in Beltsville, (Wash.) newspapers, the Daily News and two sons and a daughter. Md. the Daily Herald, and in 1928 became She did graduate work at the University of managing editor of the Wallace (Idaho) Maryland, then joined the Soil and Press-Times. Edgar H. Reeder Conservation Service in 1941. She later He bought the Ravalli Republican (now became a technical editor for the the Ravalli Daily Republic) in 1940, and he Edgar H. Reeder ex-’27, retired Naval Marketing Service and in 1964 became a sold it and the Stevensville weekly in 1963. Reserve rear admiral and former Butte technical editor for the research division of Survivors include his widow, Maud E. reporter and businessman, died May 27, the Department of Agriculture. Baxter ex-’28, and two daughters. 1975, at his Butte home after a long illness. Mrs. Dickman is survived by her husband, He was 71. Roland, two sons and a daughter. Clarence J. Powell He was editor of the Montana Kaimin in 1926-27 and went to Butte in 1927 as a Clarence J. Powell ’31 died March 17, newspaper reporter. After World War II, he 1970, in Boise, Idaho. owned a radio and television distributing Carol Foster LeKander firm in Butte. Carol Foster LeKander ’40 died Nov. 14, Ann Wilson Haynes Edward J. Heilman 1973. Mrs. LeKander is survived by her Ann Wilson Haynes ’22 died of cancer Edward J. Heilman ’28, former UP husband, Gil ’39, and a son, John, both of June 2, 1974, in Berkeley. She was 74. manager in Helena and Sacramento Bee Manassas, Va. Mrs. Haynes served from 1938 t o 1964 as copy editor, died Feb. 16,1975, at age 72 in chief of the Bureau of Health Education in Sacramento. the California Department of Health and as Before joining the Bee in 1943, Mr. Henry A. Blastic a faculty member in the School of Public Heilman was capital correspondent for the Health at the University of California at Great Falls Tribune. He also had been UP Henry A. Blastic ’36, an FBI agent from Berkeley. manager in Fresno and Phoenix. 1942 to his retirement in 1962, died May 8, After she retired, Mrs. Haynes was for A column by Alfred Allen in the Bee 1975, in Missoula at age 64. He was a three years a Ford Foundation called Mr. Heilman “a newspaperman’s resident of Missoula for 43 years. representative in New Delhi. She worked as newspaperman, that nonpareil of working In the 1930s, Mr. Blastic was a football and an adviser on family planning, training and newsmen—a great rewriteman.” basketball star at UM, and he subsequently education. He is survived by his widow, Andree played in Missoula baseball leagues. She held a m a ster’s degree in public McDonald Heilman, ex-’29, and a son, Survivors include his widow, Mary, one health from Yale. In the mid-1920s, she was Edward G., of Missoula. son and two daughters. a staff writer for the Great Falls Tribune.

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