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! i t ] a i l i I sailC l V i a IK 1 M IT O SPRING 2012 VOLUME 29 NUMBER 2 contec PUBLISHER I James P. Foley
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14 The Bakken Boom Steven Rinella, By E d Kemmick M I J right, bowfishes for The Bakken, a vast oil formation pacu, a herbivorous that sits below parts o f eastern piranha, in GuyanaVremote Montana, western North Dakota, Rewa River with a member of and two Canadian provinces, the Makushi tribe. is putting thousands o f people I WA I to work, including many UM graduates.
20 Call of the Wild By Nate Schweber VI Steven Rinella, M.EA. ’00 , is a modern-day hunter-gatherer who turned his passion for the outdoors into an adventurous career. H is time spent in U M s Creative Writing 20 Program helped make it happen. 4 Learning Locally, Thinking Globally By Erika Fredrickson 99, M.S. V9 U M s new Global Leadership Initiative is an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to preparing students for an increasingly interconnected global society.
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Left: Griz coach W ayne Tinkle cuts down the net after the Griz won the Big Sky Conference Tournament championship at fDAN£E FEVER Dahlberg Arena in March. Griz Earn Second NCAA Tournament B e lo w : Senior Derek Selvig shoots over Wisconsin's Jared Berggren in the second round of the NCAA Berth in Three Seasons tournament in Albuquerque, N.M.
here came a point It was the te a m ’s fourteenth Though they were during the Big Sky straight win, a school record. competitive for a while, the Conference Tournament That streak also was tied for the Griz were outmatched by the Tchampionship game when longest in the nation heading Badgers, who won, 73-49. Wayne Tinkle just sat back, into the Big Dance. The Griz “The guys d id n ’t show as well crossed his legs, and enjoyed the went 15-1 during Big Sky play, as they wanted to,” Tinkle says. show put on by his Grizzlies. including a 7-1 mark on the “But the loss will hopefully add “The guys were in a flow,” road, both school records. The some fuel to the fire to get back Tinkle says of that moment, title was the program’s eighth, there next season.” which came in the midst of equaling Weber S ta te ’s mark Tinkle, named Big Sky what he calls the best half of for most league championships, Conference Coach o f the Year, hoops h e ’s seen in his six years and UM won twenty-five will have three starters returning, as UM m e n ’s basketball head games, the second-best mark in The Griz, who made the including the starting backcourt coach. “All the hard work and school history. program’s ninth trip to the tandem o f Mid-Major All- effort the group had put in was It was the first time since NCAA Tournament, received American and Big Sky Defensive culminating right there. And to 2000 that UM hosted the Big a thirteen seed and drew the Player of the Year Will Cherry be able to witness that front and Sky Tournament and the first fourth-seeded University and Big Sky Tournament MVP center was a thrill.” time in twenty years the team o f Wisconsin Badgers in Kareem Jamar. Forward Mathias The Grizzlies trounced won the tide at home. The Albuquerque, N.M. The game Ward, the te a m ’s third leading Weber State University, 85-66, Griz earned the right to host was played in The Pit, a historic scorer, also will be back. in front of more than 7,000 by claiming the regular-season venue on the University of New Before his thoughts totally fans squeezed into Dahlberg championship with a win over Mexico campus. shifted to next season, Tinkle Arena. The Griz trailed by the same Wildcats a week prior. Tinkle liked the seed but took time to reflect on what an five points at halftime, but “Having the tournament knew his squad was in for a incredible run his team had. outscored NBA-bound Damian back in Missoula and cutting challenge with the Badgers o f “Looking back and having Lillard and the Wildcats 54-30 the nets down in front of our the Big Ten Conference. digested it,” Tinkle says, “it ’s in the second half. The victory home faithful was probably our “A lot of people really liked amazing. When you look at all punched the Grizzlies’ ticket proudest moment,” Tinkle says. our draw, thinking it was better the records we set, it obviously to the NCAA Tournament “To do that in front of a packed than playing teams like Baylor rings out that it was pretty and put an exclamation point house and for our campus and or Missouri,” Tinkle says. “But remarkable. I t ’s just a real feeling on one of the best seasons in community brought us a great I knew Wisconsin was a pretty o f joy for all the effort that we program history. sense o f pride.” dam good team.” put in and where it led.”
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Griz Play Spring Game Under the New Lights Left: Permanent lights shine on Washington-Grizzly Stadium.
B e lo w : Interim head coach Mick Delaney talks to defensive end Josh Harris.
riz football fans dad in maroon and silver migrated across campus toward Washington-Grizzly Stadium. Youngsters scurried around as their parents made their way to their seats. It looked like any other fall Saturday when the Griz play at home,G except it was April 14, and this w a sn ’t a typical home game. The crowd— 8,731, to be exact— turned out for the annual spring game, marking the first time the Grizzlies took the turf under the new permanent lights that surround the stadium. Usually the Griz play the spring scrimmage on the road to show appreciation to fans around the state, but this year the Grizzly Scholarship Association wanted to do things a little differendy. With the addition o f the lights, it felt like time to bring the scrimmage home. “First of all, i t ’s been over a decade since the scrimmage has been played in Missoula,” says BY THE Greg Sundberg, GSA executive director. “It ’s a great opportunity to bring a piece o f the fall back to the spring. It gets that football fever going, and i t ’s a great way to get people back into the stadium.” NUMBERS The scrimmage resembled a home game as close as possible, including a tunnel run, 1 3 : Number of consecutive announcer, and, o f course, Monte and Mo. The GSA sponsored a full tailgate party that featured music, food, and games for kids hosted by student-athletes. semesters UM student-athletes Eric Schindler, a season-ticket holder, traveled from Helena to watch the Griz play. have maintained an average “I think this is a great idea to have the game under the lights,” Schindler says. “I have cumulative GPA above 3.0 traveled to Butte for the scrimmage and watched it in Helena, but this is a great crowd.” All proceeds from the scrimmage benefit UM athletic facilities projects. 3 . 0 6 : Cumulative GPA of The game came less than a month after President Royce Engstrom chose not to renew the UM's 272 student-athletes, contracts o f head coach Robin Pflugrad and Director of Athletics Jim O ’ Day. Mick Delaney, compared to 2.91, the cumulative a UM assistant coach since 2008, will be the interim head coach through the 2012 season, while Senior Associate Athletic Director Jean Gee will serve as interim AD. Engstrom plans to GPA of UM's general student have a permanent athletic director in place by autumn semester 2012 and a permanent head population coach in time for the 2013 season. 3 * 6 9 : Cumulative GPA of the Even with the change in leadership, the team shined under the bright lights. The offense played sharp, scoring fifty-two points and amassing 545 total yards. Four quarterbacks women's cross country team, the combined to throw for 390 yards and four touchdowns. highest of UM's sports teams Its good to see the strength, pride, and tradition o f the Montana Grizzlies carry on 3 0 . 5 : Percentage of student- through the adversity they face right now,” says former kicker Brody McKnight. The Griz open the season at home September 1 against the University of South Dakota athletes on the autumn semester Coyotes, who are led by former UM coach Joe Glenn. dean's list — Alyse Backus
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Green Thumbs Students Reap Benefits of M em orial Greenhouse Renovation
disarray o f storage bins, discarded junk, and various odds and ends.
A Until recendy, th a t ’s what took up most o f the space in U M s Memorial Greenhouse.
Today the greenhouse no longer serves as a was modified into 2 ,5 0 0 square feet storage unit. Its a bustling hub o f research that o f bays for potting, sowing, fertilizing, benefits students in the College o f Forestry and Conservation. and irrigating seedlings. The greenhouse now supports a seedling Where dust once accumulated, students now watch over tiny nursery program and houses 2 0 ,0 0 0 seedlings o f about fifteen seedlings, which will be harvested and used in reforestation efforts. different plant species. Students sell some o f the seedlings to Thanks to a recent and ongoing renovation, the greenhouse, which conservation partners, which generates revenue that goes direcdy sits next to the Forestry Building, provides students with hands-on back into the seedling nursery. U M ’s Wildland Restoration learning opportunities that d id n ’t exist before. Program also uses the greenhouse to grow plants. In addition, the Decades ago, the Memorial Greenhouse was the answer to the greenhouse hosts elementary school classes and other community University’s concerns that graduate-level forestry students c o u ld n ’t groups to teach about the process o f growing the seedlings. complete the needed greenhouse studies. Montana’s inclement Chris Keyes, the director of U M ’s Applied Forest Management weather conditions made year-round fieldwork impossible, and program and one of the key players in the renovation, says the professors actually began discouraging students from pursuing the seedling nursery relies heavily on student greenhouse volunteers and m a ste r ’s program in forestry because of the lack of greenhouse space. a growing number of community members. Plans for a new greenhouse were taking shape when tragedy “The vision is to teach not only the University, but bring in the struck Montana. In 1949, the Mann Gulch wildfire claimed the community as well,” Keyes says. lives o f thirteen smokejumpers in the Helena National Forest. Six Another goal o f the nursery is to turn out UM graduates o f those firefighters were UM students, three o f whom belonged who have experience in forest regeneration. Keyes says there are to the School o f Forestry. In 1950, the University dedicated the more disturbed forests worldwide, and the demand for workers greenhouse to those whose lives were lost. When the building well-versed in reforestation is rising. Many different majors, from opened its doors in 1951, it became the only structure in the state wildland restoration to international conservation, can benefit from specifically dedicated to the victims o f the Mann Gulch tragedy. greenhouse experience. While the greenhouse always remained partly functional, its “It ’s not just about growing seedlings,” Keyes says. “It ’s about technology fell behind and lacked modern means to really provide problem solving to go out there and do it. Students should be the forestry program with what it needed. involved every step o f the w a y .” In 2011, after three decades o f limited use and with three — Alyse Backus Dumpsters full o f junk removed from the interior, the greenhouse
WHERE'S YOUR GRIZ BEEN? Andrew stockw ell oi dons his Griz football jersey on top of Uhuru Peak, the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. It was taken the morning of February 10. At 19,340 feet, Mount Kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain in Africa. "My father and I traveled to Tanzania to. climb the mountain as a way to celebrate his sixtieth birthday," Stockwell says. This was a return trip. W e first climbed Kilimanjaro together in February 1992 to celebrate my thirteenth birthday and his fortieth." Congratulations, Andrew. You have won a $50 gift card to The Bookstore at UM. Do you have a photo of yourself wearing your Griz gear in an amazing place or while on an incredible adventure? If so, send it along with a brief description to [email protected]. Winners will see their photo published in the Montanan and will receive a $50 gift card to The Bookstore at UM. lo be considered, photos must be in focus with the UM or Griz logo clearly visible.
8 I SPRING 2012 MONTANAN The President’s Perspective
Greetings: UM PROFESSOR'S COMPANY EARNS elcome to the spring 2012 issue o f the I $2.5 MILLION CONTRACT M ontanan. This is an issue that highlights so many of the wonderful accomplishments o f he National Science W our students, graduates, and faculty. The people who are Foundation has awarded associated with The University of Montana are what make TSunburst Sensors a $2.5 it a great institution, and I take tremendous pride in what million contract to provide those individuals and groups have accomplished and what instruments for its studies. they contribute to the University, to Montana, to our Sunburst Sensors is owned by nation, and beyond. Mike DeGrandpre, a chemistry The past several months have presented an especially professor at UM, and Jim Beck, the challenging time for the University. Unfortunately, like company president. Z college and university campuses across the country, we have DeGrandpre invented Sunburst's experienced a surge in reports o f sexual assault and related matters. Those of you who Submersible Autonomous Moored have followed the news media know that we have been dealing with this matter in an Instruments [SAMIs]. The instruments ongoing and high-profile way. We have taken as proactive o f an approach as possible, measure pH and the amount with our goals being to bring a halt to sexual assault on our campus, to care for those of dissolved carbon dioxide in who have been assaulted, and to rid our learning environment of those who commit bodies of water. More than 100 of assault. Many people have poured their hearts into this effort. We have made tough these oceanic instruments will be decisions, and we are emerging from this episode as a stronger, safer, and smarter campus. manufactured in Missoula. Along the way we have kept our nose to the grindstone; we have kept our focus on DeGrandpre developed Sunburst our strategic directions oudined in U M 2020: Building a University fo r the Global Century. Sensors in 1999 as a way to bridge O ur vision is to be one o f the nations leading institutions, with a globally focused his research to the private sector. approach to education, research and creative scholarship, and outreach. I am proud to say Beck, a mechanical engineer, joined we have taken many important steps toward fulfilling that vision. the company in 2005 to diversify For example, we recendy launched the Global Leadership Initiative, a program for and improve Sunburst7s product undergraduate students that runs parallel to their coursework and activity associated with line. The company employs a lab their major field of study. The first class of GLI Fellows, selected from the incoming technician, two engineers, a research freshman cohort, embarked upon its examination o f the “big questions” through special scientist, and an accountant. interdisciplinary small seminar courses. In subsequent years, the Fellows will participate in DeGrandpre and his company a Models of Leadership program, a major experience beyond the classroom such as study will work with the Consortium for abroad, and a capstone course in which they work with one another to design, research, Ocean Leadership, a nonprofit and propose a solution to a significant problem or opportunity with global implications. organization that represents ninety- O ur GLI kick-off event occurred just weeks ago, and you can read about it in this issue of nine leading public and private the Montanan. ocean research and educational W e strengthened our portfolio o f graduate research programming through the institutions. Its mission is to advance addition o f a new Ph.D. program in systems ecology, an interdisciplinary approach to research and education to promote the study of ecosystems on a scale from molecules to mountain ranges. The first group o f effective ocean policies. students has already enrolled. Supporting that effort was the establishment o f an Institute "Awarding the O cean on Ecosystems in cooperation with other institutions in the state. Observatories Initiative contract to Another exciting new program is the addition o f a minor in Arabic studies. At Sunburst Sensors is affirmation of the strong encouragement of our students, faculty members designed and received the quality of our technology and approval for the program, and some students will graduate this May having fulfilled is a credit to the hard work by my the requirements for the minor. Our Mansfield Center has operated a highly successful business partner, Jim Beck, and the Defense Critical Language and Culture Training Program for the past few years, and I employees at Sunburst Sensors," recendy had the opportunity to see firsthand students immersed in the study of Pashto. DeGrandpre says. "Through this The University of Montana is moving forward into the future, focusing on educational contract, Sunburst Sensors will opportunities for students that will position them to be the leaders o f our state and become a leading contributor to our nation. I hope you enjoy reading about their success in these pages. Thank you for your understanding of the ocean carbon interest and support! cycle and ocean acidification." Sunburst Sensors got its start in UM's MonTEC business incubator R oyce C. Engsfrrom and now has an office located on President West Broadway in Missoula.
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NEW DIGS VETS Office Helps Student-Veterans
Transition to College Life UM student-veterans Nick Jones, front right, a senior in finance, and Daniel Buchholtz, ntil this past autumn semester, only when they needed their money, and a sophom ore in marketing, relax in the new student-veterans at UM had one now I see them all the time. They actually VETS office before class. Uplace on campus to call their com e in and talk now.” own: a desk in the back o f a cramped College is different for vets. They go The goal is to give vets some breathing room in the Emma Lommasson Center. from a world o f intense structure to total room away from the husde and bustle of This is where they would go to check on freedom. The transition from starched campus. Oversized couches line the walls, their education benefits and report any uniforms, rigid daily schedules, and the and flat screen TVs often play movies while difficulties. The desk, piled high with stress o f war to textbooks and college a warm pot o f chili simmers in the kitchen. paperwork, and the harsh light from football games can be difficult. Many The VETS office runs under Raap overhead fluorescent bulbs d id n ’t make for are still transitioning back to civilian life with the help o f six work-study students, a very welcoming environment, especially and can feel a loss o f the camaraderie including Goidich. for those com ing back from a war zone. they experienced in the military. Raap, a “We really care about being here,” The new Veterans Education and veteran himself, envisioned a place that Goidich says. “Justin has taken people and Transition Services [VETS] office, alleviated that sense o f loss and addressed given them lives again. I had nothing when however, has changed all that. The office student-veterans’ roles at the University. I came out here, and he gave me support.” is a converted house that sits on the “Vets are a very distinct subculture,” In addition to providing assistance southeast edge o f campus, serving as a Raap says. “We definitely have a series o f with administrative needs, a computer lab one-stop shop for administrative tasks shared experiences that gready differs from is available for student-veterans to print, dealing with student-veterans’ education a standard student. I t ’s going from making copy, and fax for free. The center regularly benefits, as well as a place to decompress no decisions to doing whatever you want. hosts cookouts, military celebrations, and and transition into the college lifestyle. I get a lot o f deer-in-headlights expressions get-togethers for UM veterans and their “I tried to make my old office as on that one. Freedom o f choice is a families, as well as providing a space just inviting as possible, but it just c o u ld n ’t be completely foreign concept.” to talk. done,” VETS Director Justin Raap says. For Chris Goidich, a first-year UM Raap hopes to extend the offices “There was no privacy. I used to see vets student who came to Missoula after services to include more peer-to-peer serving more than twenty years in the mentoring and programs focused on Navy and Army, the VETS office is a student retention. safety zone. “I really want to be able to pull back “This gives vets a place to go to be a and let vets find answers themselves,” says unit again and have a home,” Goidich Raap. “Th a t’s what they are used to doing.” says. It is a feeling o f belonging again.” — Alyse Backus
"Dang! This Meet Grizwald, The University of Montana's cartoon fish is really bear. In the winter 2012 issue o f the M ontanan, w e asked readers to submit captions interpreting Grizwald's actions in a humorous way. This issue's taking me winning caption w as sent in by JIM DALBEC of Great Falls. Congratulations, to school!" Jim, you've won a G riz stadium blanket. Stay tuned! In an upcoming issue of the M ontanan, a new cartoon featuring Grizwald will need a caption. You could be the next winner!
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Notable ___and m _ _ Quotable (/iu The Montana Board of Regents recently approved a new minor in Arabic studies at UM. Coursework in the minor is designed to help students achieve an advanced level in Arabic based on standards of foreign language proficiency established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. The content of the Arabic studies minor includes linguistic and cultural components such as the orthographic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and sociolinguistic systems of the Arabic language; and the literature, history, politics, geography, religions, UM COT Team Competes economy, and cultures of the Arab world. in Shell Eco Marathon The regents also approved a new interdisciplinary minor team o f students and instructors The team, from loft. in at UM. Coursework will emphasize a global public health with the UM College of Assistant Professor global perspective on issues of public health policy and science Technology tested the limits o f an Brad Layton, and applications to international and domestic situations. Students A Jeremy Manning, energy-efficient vehicle they spent several will learn about public health challenges, such as parasitic and Kelsey Malsam, months building when they traveled to a Shaun Raunig, vector-borne diseases, HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, national competition this spring. Grant Myhre, tuberculosis, climate change impacts, trauma and violence, avian The team— led by Brad Layton, Andrew Machain, influenza, obesity, and the role of indigenous healers. Courses director o f the C O T s Energy Technology Jessie Sedler, will use insights from disciplinary approaches that include Program, and energy tech student Grant and Michael Eidum. epidemiology, anthropology, biology, political science, community Myhre— brought its aluminum-framed, solar-powered car to health planning, communication studies, and ethics. , 12 SPRING 2012 M O N T A N A N FACETIME: CLAYTON CHRISTIAN '96 Clayton Christian didn't take the traditional route extremely rewarding when it came to college. He bounced in and out of to help set policy for school for ten years before completing his degree the state and help the in business management and finance at UM. The 48,000 students in the Montana native left college twice to take ranch system. management positions in Hawaii and Montana. When the search Before graduating from college, he bought his began for the next first business, Stewart Title-of Missoula County, Inc. commissioner of higher Christian values higher education, in part education, you were because he took a different route to earn his surprised to hear about degree. He recently assumed his new role as your nomination. What Montana's commissioner of higher education after was that like for you? i serving six years on the Board of Regents, four of I was thrilled to be il those years in the chairman or vice chairman role. chair of the Board of New Montana Commissioner .& Christian has three children. His daughter I Regents and really of Higher Education Lauren is a UM senior. Lyndsey, his youngest liked working at that I Clayton Christian daughter, is a freshman at Montana State level. My family has been very supportive University, and his son, Colter, is an eighth-grader of the work I have done on the board. I regents' priorities and the direction they in Missoula. His wife, Dawn, completed her spent time with my family in discussion want to go. It7s mostly what you would doctoral degree in physical therapy at UM. about the job of commissioner. They know expect. For example, support for faculty Why did you return to school? W e moved I find it really valuable, and that it has and staff, need-based aid for students, back to Missoula when my wife enrolled becom e a passion for me to invest myself graduate education and research, and in physical therapy school. I went back in higher education. But the commissioner an integrated information system. The to school at that time. It always felt like nomination took me by surprise. integrated-systems approach is something I would finish. It was just a matter of What are you looking forward to as you I have a real interest in because I think it blending it in with life. From the day I left, take ovor the role of commissioner? I would improve the experience for students. I assumed I would return and finish my have worked closely with [outgoing] It allows students to move more freely degree, and I got the opportunity to come Commissioner Sheila Stearns. I think we between universities. From a student's back and finish at UM. have an excellent system, and w e are perspective, instead of having to choose between fourteen different institutions, they What was it like to bo a nontraditional moving in a g oo d direction. I am not can choose the MUS. student at UM? At the time, I was working looking to change directions. I feel I can full-time and had a family. In a lot of bring some continuity and keep moving What do you think aro tho strengths of ways, it really helped me focus on what down the same path. Our focus is access, the MUS? The overriding strength is we was important. As an older student, you affordability, and efficiency. My priorities have been able to attract an unbelievable are on a different track. I was there to get for the past six years as a board member amount of talent in our faculty, staff, and it done. I took a lot of credits and it took will be my priorities as commissioner. administrators. That's our greatest strength me a couple of years to finish. What hava you loarnod from Commissioner and greatest challenge. We have to figure out how we can retain that high-quality What was your experience like on tho Stearns? I have learned a lot from Sheila. The most important concept is that we are talent. Board of Regents? Like any new board member, you have a sense of what you in public education and we are publicly What wore some of your favorite (lassos at funded. Sheila had an incredible ability to are getting into, but really don't know UM? I really enjoyed the business classes until the work begins. It really became a reach out to Montanans and policymakers that I took. But roadside geology is one passion for me. I've always appreciated across the state and disseminate the that sticks in my mind as one of the best higher education. I feel like it's the driver message of what higher education can do classes, which is the great thing about a behind not only personal success but also for individuals and the state. college education. It provides a broad set economic success for the state. It creates What aro your goals for tho Montana of opportunities out there, in and out of opportunities for individuals, states, and Unlvorsity Systom? As the board's CEO, your major. countries. As a board member, I felt it was it was important for me to understand the — Interview by Alyse Backus WWW.UMT.EOU/MONTANAN M O N T A N A N SPRING 2012 13 STORY BY ED KEMMICK John Olson has lived in Sidney for forty-eight years, so he's seen oil booms. But he's never seen anything like the Bakken boom now rolling across eastern Montana and western North Dakota. 14 I SPRING 2012 M O N TA N A N A truck hauls oil away from a rig near Sidney WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN M O N T A N A N SPRIN G 2 0 1 2 15 ge: Sidney has seen a significant increase in traffic on its main streets. ■ju: A flare burns off gases near an oil rig in Richland County. idney, whose population was pegged at 5,100 in the 2010 census, is expected to gain another 6 ,0 0 0 t o 9 ,0 0 0 residents in the next few years. Three newS motels are expected to open this spring, and their 225 beds will double the number available in Sidney. Apartments that rented for $ 3 0 0 a month barely a year ago are now going for $1,500 or even $ 2 ,0 0 0 a month. There are obvious benefits for business people like Olson, who graduated from The University of Montana with a bachelors degree in education in 1 9 6 2. He is the president and owner of Blue Rock Products, seeing it for yourself. O n a recent trip there, on whose land the formation was discovered. which distributes soft drinks and wholesale he says, he counted thirty-one semi-trucks Vertical wells have been tapping the Bakken beer and wine in eastern Montana and lined up at one intersection, trying to turn since the 1950s, but it would take another western North Dakota. onto Highway 2. forty years for the right combination of “Our sales have gone right through the Tom Richmond, administrator of technology to make it possible to really roof,” he says. “I guess were the number one the Montana Board of Oil and Gas capitalize on the vast reserves o f oil. Pepsi plant in the country right now, so were Conservation, was exaggerating, but not That combination involves horizontal enjoying some notoriety.” by much, when he described the housing drilling and hydraulic fracturing— the The downside is that office assistants who situation in the Williston area. forcing of sand, water, and a mix of made $11 to $13 an hour a year or two ago “Those chicken coops are starting to look chemicals under tremendous pressure now command $17 to $21 an hour. Truckers pretty valuable,” he says. “The chickens are through perforated steel pipes thousands of with a commercial driver s license can make going to have to find another place.” feet underground. The “fracking,” as it is $ 8 0 ,0 0 0 to $110,000 a year in the oil fields, known, creates fissures in the rock, through with overtime. which crude oil trapped in the formation “It ’s pretty hard to compete with that slowly seeps out, ready to be drawn to the kind o f situation,” Olson says. surface. Fracking is controversial in many And Sidney is not the epicenter of the parts o f the country, but Richmond says Bakken boom. That would be Williston, in the Bakken, the deepest reservoirs of just over the border in North Dakota. Its The Bakken is an oil-bearing freshwater sit 7 ,0 0 0 feet above the layers population has doubled since the 2010 census formation that stretches beneath 2 0 0 ,0 0 0 where the fracking takes place. to reach 2 5 ,0 0 0 , and projections are that it square miles o f Montana, North Dakota, In any case, if you combine the new might hit 6 0 ,0 0 0 in three to five years. and two Canadian provinces. It was named technology with high oil prices— they In early March, North Dakota officially for Henry Bakken, the Williston-area former were hovering around $105 a barrel in late became the third-highest oil- M arch— you’ve got the Bakken boom. The producing state in the country, U.S. Geological Survey estimates there are behind Texas and Alaska, and it is about four billion barrels o f recoverable oil expected to overtake Alaska within using existing technology in Montana and a year. North Dakota had 6 ,6 0 0 North Dakota. wells producing oil in January, and Those kinds o f numbers keep a lot of the state has been flooded with job people busy, including many UM graduates. seekers from all over the country and beyond. In January, North Dakota Layaka Mann, who earned bachelors had the lowest unemployment and masters degrees in geology from UM, rate— 3.2 percent— in the country. loves the excitement o f the oil business. In second-place Nebraska, the rate “Anytime th e r e ’s a new, big thing, I want was 4 percent. to be the first one there,” she says. Olson says the scale of activity in Mann says she stayed at UM to earn Williston is hard to describe without her masters because she wanted to study 16 I SPRING 2012 MONTANAN Another UM graduate with a degree in geology, Patrick Montalban ’81 , put "Anytime there's himself through college by working as a roughneck during the summers. His father, a new, big thing, Joseph, started as a roughneck in Alberta, Canada, and went on to establish several oil companies. P a tr ic k ’s son, also Joseph, a I want to be the 2 0 0 9 UM graduate with a degree in business marketing, was the one who pushed Patrick first one there" toward the Bakken. Patrick spent so many years drilling for oil under geology Professor James Sears. It in Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and Texas, he was Sears who suggested in 2 0 0 4 that she Layaka Mann never thought h e ’d get back to Montana and apply to work for Sunburst Consulting in North Dakota. His company, headquartered Billings. She was the c o m p a n y ’s eighth hire, in Cut Bank, now has an interest in seven and she spent her early years with Sunburst wells in Sheridan and Roosevelt counties as a field geologist in North Dakota. She in northeastern Montana and two counties worked long hours many days in a row, and over the state line in North Dakota. The she was the consulting geologist on one o f company also has acquired 2 4 ,0 0 0 acres in the first exploration wells in the new phase Sheridan County. o f the Bakken boom. It was a dry hole, A friend of M ontalban’s and a fellow ’81 unfortunately, but she got her opportunity graduate o f UM, Carter Stewart, played a to be the first one there.” big role in discovering the western end o f the Drilling in the Bakken is enormously F rom left: Carter ^ Elm Coulee oil field in Richland County, complicated, and M a n n ’s job when she started Stewart, Joseph where virtually all o f the Bakken activity in was to interpret a steady flow of information Montalban, and *'I Montana is centered. coming up from underground and make sure Patrick Montalbanr the drill bit was staying on track. When y o u ’re going two miles Mann is now a partner in Sunburst, horizontally, two miles underground, you which employs 125 full-time and contract have to use a lot o f data,” she says. “You workers. Sunburst also has nineteen have to make sure all the trends y o u ’re seeing UM-trained geologists on the payroll. Mann make sense. But by the time we get the spends most of her time in the Billings office Though the Elm Coulee is not as big as information, the bit might be 100 feet ahead these days, but she knows s h e ’ll get back in the plays in North Dakota, most o f the 700 o f the information y o u ’re getting.” the field again. active wells in Montana are there, and some She likened her job to driving down the “I’m waiting for that special project to industry observers expect increased activity interstate looking in the rearview mirror com e up that I c a n ’t stand not doing myself,” in Montana. As it is, taxes on oil and gas while trying to stay between the lines. she says. production in Montana brought in about WWW.UMT.EDU/MONIANAN MONTANAN SPRING 2012 I 17 One indicator o f the size of the boom, : These man camps are set up Barkey says, is a comparison o f wage and near Trenton, N.D. salary disbursements across the state. The The cam ps dot the bureau tracks those figures in the seven countryside around largest cities in Montana, and in the rest the Bakken. o f the state separately. Last year, nearly Steve Ruffatto, all the major cities performed below the left, and John Lee state average, mostly because the oil- and are attorneys at gas-producing counties are doing so well. Crowley Fleck in A growth rate o f 4 percent a year would Billings w ho work put a county in the top quartile statewide, on oil and gas Barkey says, and from the second quarter projects. o f 2010 to the second quarter o f 2011, wages and salaries grew 1 6 .2 percent in Richland County and 11.9 percent in $2 billion for local and state I Fallon County. government from 2 0 0 0 to 2011 "It's just like migrant The Bakken boom has workers County >n in had a big ripple effect on the particular, economy, creating opportunities working in Dubai. They're working Barkey says, for hundreds o f other businesses “this has not and dozens of trades and and shipping their money home" been kind of professions. That was brought a one-quarter home to Billings Area Chamber In addition, Brewer says, an engineering wonder here. This has clearly taken off.” o f Commerce President John Brewer on company in Billings is working on a 3 ,0 0 0 - Barkey acknowledged that high gas a recent trip to Williston. Brewer says home subdivision in Williston. Pardy prices, while good for the oil-producing Target Logistics is the biggest operator of because of the housing shortage, many counties, can put a drag on other sectors “man camps” in the Bakken. The company Montanans, from Billings and all over o f the economy. But higher energy prices provides more than 3 ,0 0 0 rooms for oil the state, commute to the Bakken, often are still a net benefit for Montana because field workers and has a staff of 350— chefs, working for two weeks and then returning energy production is such a large part of housekeepers, builders, and maintenance home for a w e e k . the economy, he says. people— to meet their needs. Target “Its just like migrant workers working in Barkey says the Bakken boom appears Logistics serves 9 ,0 0 0 meals a day. Brewer Dubai,” says Patrick Barkey, director of the to have some staying power, mainly says, and he learned that most of those Bureau o f Business and Economic Research because emerging economies around the meals are provided by Sysco Food Services at UM. “They’re working and shipping world are adding great numbers o f people in Billings. their money home.” to the middle class, creating an enormous 18 I SPRING 2012 MONTANAN An oil drilling rig near Trenton, N.D. demand for natural resources o f all kinds. th e on e w ho’s saying, ‘This will pass.’ I t ’s a She is now an agricultural and business Steve Ruffatto, an attorney with the cyclical business.” banker for Wells Fargo in Sidney and, as Crowley Fleck law firm in Billings, says the o f January, president o f the Sidney Area Bakken boom does appear to be different Chamber of Commerce. from booms in the past, m osdy because it is Skinner says the population o f Sidney driven as much by advances in technology is still given as 5 ,0 0 0 , but if you add the as by the price of oil. people living in R V s, nearby man camps, But Ruffatto, a UM law school grad Over In Sidney, few people are trying motels, and trailers, the population has who focuses on natural resources and has to figure out how long the boom will been estimated at anywhere between 6 ,0 0 0 been with Crowley Fleck since 1 9 7 6 , says last. I t ’s all they can do to deal with its a n d 9 ,0 0 0 . he probably is more cautious than most everyday effects. Despite all the impacts on Sidney, people, having been through a couple of Olson, the owner of Blue Rock Skinner says “in many regards, daily booms. Crowley Fleck, the biggest law firm Products, mentioned “the horrendous life seems very much the same,” while in Montana and North Dakota, has been increase in traffic,” new demands on law “every business, for the m ost part, is enforcement and schools, and the never- hiring in recent years at a time when many seeing growth.” firms scaled back, and it now has thirty- ending need for new roads and increased The school district is trying hard to five attorneys doing work in oil and gas water and sewer capacity. keep up with the growth, and it is working development matters. All the heavy truck traffic is crumbling with the city and county to accommodate John Lee, chairman o f Crowleys energy roads in the county, Olson says, which takes all the growing pains, Skinner says, “but I department, remembers doing tide work on a toll on his fleet of delivery trucks. And i t ’s d o n ’t know if you can ever get ahead o f the what turned out to be the discovery well for so hard to find a mechanic in Sidney that he curve were in right n o w .” the Elm Coulee field. It was also the first sometimes has to have his trucks towed 270 In a part o f the state that has horizontal well in Richland County. miles to Billings for repairs. struggled for decades with periodic “It basically kind o f snowballed as the “The list goes on and on,” he says. drought, wild swings in agricultural technology evolved,” Lee says. Cami Skinner can sympathize com m odity prices, and the persistent Despite the continuing boom, Ruffatto with Olson. A native o f Dagmar in feeling that its needs are ignored by the says he c a n ’t help but be wary. “I just northeastern Montana, Skinner earned powers that be in Helena, m ost people expect that circumstances will develop that a business administration degree from are unabashedly thrilled with the boom. will cause it to diminish,” he says. “I’m UM in 2 0 0 3 and an M.B.A. in 2 0 0 6 . You can put Mann, the consulting geologist, in that category. E d Kemmick studied journalism at U M in the 1970s an d has worked fo r “I c a n ’t tell you how wonderful newspapers in Minnesota and Montana fo r more than thirty years. He is now i t ’s been,” she says. “It ’s given me the a reporter and columnist far the Billings Gazette. His work has appeared in opportunity to stay in the place I love. Montana Quarterly, Parade Magazine, Skeptical Inquirer, and the recently published anthology West o f 98. The Big Sky, By and By, a collection o f his And now I have the opportunity to offer stories, columns, and essays, was published last year. other people that chance.” lU WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN M O N T A N A N SPRING 2012 I 19 Modern-Day Hunter-Gatherer Steven Rinella 00 Turns Passion for Outdoors into Adventurous Career. a t . ! ••••-' * : 2 0 ; SPR1N(3 20-12 MONTANAN alumni profile STORY BY NATE SCHWEBER 4 4 a l It's part of author and journalist Deirdre McNamer's job to hear wild stories. After all, she teaches creative writing at The University of Montana. One story she overheard in the late 1990s still stands out. A charismatic student who regularly brought her “little bloody packets o f deer meat for my freezer,” a guy who wrote a memorable essay for class about once expecting to die after eating a mess o f mountain mushrooms, said he had a big snapping turtle that he planned to make into soup. O p p o s it e p a g e : Steven Rineila glasses “He was a big hunter, forager, and gatherer,” McNamer says. “He had a fervent and detailed for blacktail deer on interest in where food comes from and the outdoors, and he had just fallen in love with Montana.” Prince of Wales Island The student was Steven Rineila, author of two books and host o f The Sportsman Channel in southeast Alaska. television show MeatEater. Rineila is a Michigan native, who now finds himself living in New York City, whose zest for the outdoors met its perfect match in Montanas wilderness. While This p a g e : earning his Master o f Fine Arts degree in U M ’s Creative Writing Program, Rineila made the Rineila rafts out a outdoors his second classroom. His adventures under the Big Sky were the template for a career load of moose meat in spent circling the globe, writing about hunting and advocating for the habitat that wild food the Alaska Range. needs to grow. “Th e r e ’s an energy and urgency to his writing th a t’s almost as if there w o u ld n ’t be anything for dinner if he d id n ’t get it done,” says best-selling author Ian Frazier, one o f R in e lla ’s early mentors. R in e lla ’s exploits have taken him from an unexplored river in the Philippines on assignment for Outside magazine; to South America, Vietnam, and Hawaii to film TV episodes; to the Alaska wilderness for a bison hunt that became the hook for his second book, American Buffalo: In Search o f a Lost Icon. His career trajectory was set, says his brother Matt Rineila, by his move from the Midwest to Montana. “Ste v e ’s interests were pretty much galvanized by the time he was twelve,” says Matt Rineila, a U.S. Department of Agriculture scientist in Miles City. “And he came to Montana because it seemed like the ideal place to chase those pursuits.” WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN M O N T A N A N SPRING 2012 21 “THERE’S AN ENERGY AND URGENCY TO HIS WRITING THAT'S ALMOST AS If Grand Valley State University, the price o f muskrat pelts nosedived. Rinella thought he might try his luck writing. He road tripped to Montana, and it set his mind reeling. He remembers gazing from Interstate 90 out at mountains bigger than any h e ’d yet seen and wondering, “What is the delivery mechanism by which you go from being on the road to being on the top o f those things?” He fished Rock Creek one d a y , and at night he and his brother caroused downtown Missoula, ate a MacKenzie River pizza, and shut down Charlie B ’s, that quintessential North Higgins Avenue dive. The next morning, on a whim, Rinella walked over to the UM creative writing department, took an application from program director Kate Gadbow, and applied. Gadbow says Rinella, who was in the program from 199 7 through 2 0 0 0 , proved to be a great student because o f his gunscope focus. He just wanted to write magazine articles about the outdoors, not fiction, not poetry. Rinella helped revitalize the p r o g r a m ’s nonfiction curriculum, which had atrophied some since the recent retirement o f heralded professor and Montana wordsmith William Kittredge, Gadbow says. f|l actually wanted to be a professional “Steven had a real directed idea o f what he wanted to do,” she jj&pper until about the time I was twenty,” Steven Rinella says, says. “He was really helpful in nurturing the idea that nonfiction leaning back on a furry couch cushion made from the pelt of could be a separate part o f the Creative Writing Program, and a rtgjbeaver he caught in Wyoming. Its unusual decor to see, and valid one.” an awfully unusual statement to hear, in New York City. The For Rinella, the classroom came second to that big Montana traffic route to R in e lla ’s fashionable Fort Greene neighborhood in wild. He set about trying to walk every game trail in the state. Brooklyn courses through the boroughs gritty, urban downtown, His partner in exploration was his brother Matt, then a student at where the only trace o f R in e lla ’s writing subjects is a storefront Montana State University in Bozeman. chicken shop called Buffalo Boss. He lives on the ground floor of “We lived in the mountains,” Rinella says. “We hit it so hard a handsome brownstone building that is far more C liff Huxtable that by the time I finished grad school, I knew that state better than, sa y , Jack London. than a lot o f guys who grew up there.” And street parking? Fuhgeddaboudit. Rinella hunted black bear near Thom pson Falls and scoured The irony is n ’t lost on Rinella. the Sapphire Mountains and the Lee Metcalf Wilderness Area “My l if e ’s goal was to spend time in wild places. I t ’s been the for elk. He picked morel mushrooms by the North Fork o f the guiding principle of my life, so i t ’s perplexing to Flathead River and thought he me how the achievement o f that, the fulfillment might die by an Idaho riverbank o f that, is to live here,” says Rinella, age thirty- after eating seven different species eight. “I spend more time outdoors than o f wild fungus. He ate sushi anyone I know.” made o f Flathead Lake mackinaw. R in e lla ’s conversation is like his prose: Fatefully, in September 1 9 9 9 , he open, autobiographical, and filled with funny found an old bison skull deep in the anecdotes. Dressed in L e v i’s and an untucked Madison Mountains, kickstarting an button-down shirt, Rinella poured rum and obsession with that animal. coconut water over ice and cooked snook that “Steve was a guy that you he caught two days earlier on a fishing trip could always have a great outdoor with his brother in Belize. Less than a week adventure with,” says Ben Bloch, earlier, h e ’d given a speech in Missoula. a Madison Valley artist who was He was born and raised in rural Michigan, Above: Rinella and friendly with Rinella when they both where he figured out early that selling two muskrat pelts paid better the buffalo skull that lived in Missoula. “And he carved out a than mowing a lawn. inspired his second pretty interesting niche for himself as an book, A m erican “He was always just real comfortable outside, very gung-ho honorable sportsman.” Buffalo: In Search of about it,” says his brother Dan Rinella, a freshwater ecologist at the a L ost Icon One d a y , working as a range picker at University o f Alaska. the University Golf Course for extra money, Top: Rinella surfcasts While his brothers opted for careers studying ecology and Rinella says he had “a nervous breakdown,” for striped bass biology, Rinella felt he d id n ’t share their aptitude for science. After and bluefish on Fire driving inside a cage, getting pelted by little he earned his undergraduate degree in English from M ic h ig a n ’s Island, N.Y. white balls. He suddenly was struck by the 22 I SPRING 2012 MONTANAN THERE WOULDN’T BE ANYTHING FOR DINNER IF HE DION7 GET IT DONE*1 * notion that modem American society had “traded the fecundity of writer or did something lucky just happen?” he says. “Looking the wild for pleated pants and manicured greens.” back I’m astonished at how accidental it was.” He quit, rode his bike to his girlfriend’s apartment in the A few years later, he had another funny, lucky break. Rinella Wilma building, sat down and typed the first article he ever sold, wound up on TV in New York City. this one to a trapping magazine. With guidance from Frazier, whom he recently had taken mule deer hunting in a canoe along u Around the time Amelia's first book the Missouri River Breaks, Rinella sold his next story to O utside m magazine for a considerable hike in p a y . Soon, that magazine senfiQ came out, he met in New York with his publicist, a fellow him to Montauk, N.Y., to write about a shark fishing tournamedtj/ l^fifchigan native named Katie Finch. The idea o f him starring on and then to the Island o f Luzon in the Philippines to raft the j p f W m e up. mysterious Chaco River. A ^^Tcm em ber thinking, no way, h e ’s too rough around the edges,” With his magazine career gaining speed, his first book project |»^3pnch, who married Rinella in 2 0 0 8 . Together they have a sparked when he invited McNamer and some classmates to hisfig n||fS® ar-old son named James. Ratdesnake neighborhood apartment to eat that snapping tu rd p p i :0&iX Rinella moved into F in c h ’s Brooklyn apartment around 2 0 0 6 and finished his buffalo book, TV producers started calling. He hosted a show called The W ild W ithin on Travel Channel in 2010. In 2011, he shot episodes for MeatEater, and the show premiered on -• rowbufitf g for elk in southwetf 2 The Sportsman Channel in January. Director Morgan | i Montana's Lee MeltC|If Fallon says R in e lla ’s energy and enthusiasm make the ; ' W ilderness Area.* ‘ 7* show compelling. “We get moments o f absolute magic,” Fallon says. From his metropolitan home, Rinella says he is amused by the funny paradox by which living in the city allows him to spend more time in the wilderness. “As much as I like to hunt and fish, I work in the entertainment business,” he says. “And there are certain benefits to being in New York if y o u ’re in the entertainment business.” He says he just finished edits on his third book, a hunting memoir that will soon take its place on the bookshelf in his dining room that also holds volumes with titles such as The Roadside History o f Montana and Visions o f the B ig Sky, plus that Escoffier cookbook from McNamer. McNamer gave him her copy of Georges Auguste Escoffiers Le Between the books sits a Montana black bear Guide Culinaire, a collection o f gourmet French recipes from the skull and that storied bison skull from the Madisons. His other turn o f the twentieth century. One was for turtle soup. Rinella used bison skull, a porcelain Alaskan trophy, hangs in the living room. that text as a muse for his first book, The Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Beneath it lies a toy train that belongs to his son, w h o ’s sleeping in Cuisine, where he chronicled his quest to harvest ingredients for a a back room not far from the closet with the extra freezer where forty-five-course Thanksgiving feast using only Escoffiers recipes. Rinella stores meat from his hunts. In the mid-2000s, Rinella entered an Alaskan lottery for a Wait, an extra freezer? license to hunt a buffalo in a remote river valley that held a small It doesn't stop here I For wild meat? In New herd descended from overflow stock introduced from Montanas Visit www.umt.edu/montanon York City? National Bison Range in 1928. Though his odds were less than to read a W eb exclusive “Well, yeah,” Rinella 2 percent, Rinella scored one o f the coveted tags and set forth to Q & A with Steven Rinella. explains. “I give a lot of it complete a story arc that began when he found that old Montana away to friends.” buffalo skull in the Madison Mountains. You can take Steven Rinella out o f Montana, but you c a n ’t take His books were heralded by critics, teachers, friends, and family. Montana out o f Steven Rinella. Ut Frazier described Rinella as “the best writing student I ever had.” His brothers both complimented his grasp o f science and his Nate Schweber is a freelance journalist who graduatedfrom ability to write about ecology. I U M ’s School o f Journalism in 2001. H is work has appeared Looking back, Rinella described his journey as “luck journalism.” in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Time magazine. He reflected on the odds o f his drawing that bison tag. Budget Travel, and The Village Voice. He lives in New “If something happens th a t’s too lucky, i t ’s like, are you a good York City an d sings in a band called the New Heathens. WWWUMT.EDU/MONTANAN MONTANAN SPRING 2012 I 23 STORY BY ERIKA FREDRICKSON PHOTO S BY TODD GOODRICH Learning Locally, UM'S NEW GLOBAL That experiment, a donor-funded pilot program called the Global Leadership Initiative, LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE launched this past fall. About 150 students were selected— not just honors students, but students CHALLENGES who reflect UM in its variety o f majors and backgrounds. Those select freshmen, or “Fellows,” began attending seminars, such as “Doing the Right Thing: A Global Strategy for Good Business,” which teaches ways companies can make a positive global impact STUDENTS TO through ethical corporate citizenship, and “Issues in Global Public Health,” which discusses policies that address current and future challenges to global health. TACKLE BIG Each year, GLI Fellows will move on to another phase. The second-year component, Models o f Leadership, includes off- campus retreats and engagement with national and international QUESTIONS leaders in business, la w , science, the arts, humanities, social sciences, and public service. Arlene Walker-Andrews, associate provost and GLI committee co-chair, says this component will Three years ago, University of Montana President help students see leaders as people, just like them, who took steps Royce Engstrom, then provost, asked a group of to go on to greater things. “Students can meet people who are successful and who can faculty members to come together and brainstorm talk about what they do and how they do it,” she says. “It helps about how a UM education could change the world. them understand that were not all born with a silver spoon in our “I asked them where education should go in this Global mouth and just got to our positions by luck. And I think it helps Century,” he says. “I asked them what kind o f students see that you can be a banker making money experiences we should be giving our students a n d be doing volunteer work in Africa. You can be the and what kinds o f topics and conversations we head o f an N G O and help people, but you can also be should try to enable for them.” a pharmacist and help in the community.” But the undergraduate years can be a In the third year, Fellows get a passport paid for challenging time as it is. Students often see through GLI fundraising. They can use the passport general education requirements as something to study abroad, but they also have other options: they just have to survive. Even when those regional and local internships, service-learning courses are compelling, students still end up coursework and research, or creative scholarship, all of wading through— sometimes aimlessly— the which can be potentially donor-funded. sea of introductory courses, taking notes, and In their final GLI year, Fellows work in small groups sweating exams, without quite knowing how o f students from diverse majors to actually tackle any of it will apply to their futures. a global problem with a specific project. Successful Engstrom and the faculty talked about Fellows are awarded a certificate at graduation. ways in which an undergraduate education could be designed by “This initiative focuses on all kinds o f areas,” Walker- students in a more deliberate and interdisciplinary w a y . I f, from Andrews says. “There are classes on global public health. Gender Day One, students were engaged in coursework that interacted issues in the world. Mortality. I always laugh when I say that with global issues, they might better understand how their general one only because a faculty member in the humanities rightly education could make an impact. And w o u ld n ’t that make them says that we c a n ’t forget the enduring questions, you know, what better citizens and leaders? makes us human. So, mortality! These may not be the questions “So, out of that first discussion group,” says Engstrom, “came that students stick with the whole time, but w e ’re asking them to an experiment.” think big.” 2 4 I SPRING 2012 MONTANAN Thinking Globally WWW.UMT.EOU/MONTANAN M O N T A N A N SPRING 2012 I 25 Rising Tides they a r e n ’t actually. And if they are, w e ’ll try to promote them to the “Truthiness” means preferring facts one wishes to be true, rather University. We want to see if it would save money in the end and if than facts known to be true. O r as satirist Stephen Colbert, who it would be greener.” coined the term, says, truthiness is “truth that comes from the The class, which counts as an introductory natural sciences gut, not books.” Journalism Associate Professor Ray Fanning has requirement, is taught by biology scientist Art Woods. Like all the taken this humorous, pop-culture idea and applied it to his GLI GLI seminars, the class is small— only nine students— providing freshman seminar, “News Literacy: Truth v. Truthiness.” an intimate environment. The students learn about ocean rise and “Stephen Colbert defined it on his show,” Fanning says, acidification and the causes and effects o f carbon emissions into the laughing. “And there is a lot o f truthiness going on atmosphere. They discuss climate change models and in the world. Particularly in journalism t h e r e ’s this the effect o f climate change on certain populations, blurring between news and opinion, and sometimes and they analyze current policy. i t ’s hard to tell which one y o u ’re getting.” “The class is structured so w e ’re doing a mix of In his class, students study the way news is basic science,” says Woods. “W h a t’s the science that gathered. They deconstruct articles to seek out when contributes to the understanding of global climate journalists are using direct or indirect evidence. They change? What sorts o f effects do we think are going examine article sources and discuss whether that to happen in the next fifty or one hundred years? source is informed and authoritative, and in what And then how are they going to affect our world? As ways that source also may be self-interested. Critical part o f the class, I charge all students with developing thinking, like being able to dissect the news, fits the their own project. And that project has to involve purpose o f the GLI program perfecdy. I t ’s not just “This class is doing something about climate change and taking a about being able to sort the truth from the truthiness, universally public stand.” i t ’s knowing how to take that knowledge as a leader With the idea of taking action in mind, the already important. We all in the global economy and use it to solve problems. small class works in even smaller groups on projects. “All majors need this skill o f critical thinking,” have to be citizens, They rarely take notes, but they read a lot and everyone Fanning says. “This class is universally important. and hopefully participates in discussion. UM Regents Professor of We all have to be citizens, and hopefully were w e ’re exercising Ecology and climate scientist Steve Running, climate exercising our rights as citizens by being informed our rights as ethics expert Dane Scott, and Clark Fork River and then being able to act upon that.” citizens by being Coalition scientist Chris Brick all have visited the In another seminar, “Global Climate Change: informed and then classroom as guest speakers. Experiments like the power Science, Society, and Ethics,” students also learn being able to act strip one give students a hands-on project that engages how to think critically and take action. Homework upon that.” them in climate change solutions. for freshmen Hailey Michelson, Emmitt Stangel, “It ’s an informal atmosphere,” says Woods, Rebecca Singleton, and Colin Soos, for instance, requires plugging “almost like y o u ’re sitting around a kitchen table talking about these power strips into outlets to compare green and conventional things. I t ’s amazing what the students know and think and can sa y , technologies, then calculating the watts to see which ones conserve and often that gets buried when th e y ’re in a class o f fifty or one the most energy. When th e y ’ve gathered their evidence, the students hundred, and they never get a chance to speak up. I’m impressed will publish the results in a campuswide report. with them.” “We want to see, first of all, if they are really effective,” says The students are across the board: different majors, backgrounds, Michelson. “There are a lot of products that say th e y ’re green, but and abilities, which contributes to the GLI philosophy, says Woods, GU Fellows, from loft, Riley Acker, Kotie Stevens, Tyler Trucco, Elizabeth Schmidt/ Rachel Reynolds, \ Danielle Howlett, Hunter Pauli, **and Taylor Preston that rising tides can lift all boats. Stangel is a baseball player studying sociology. He heard about the program and saw it as an opportunity to be part of a new way o f learning. “I thought it was a really cool idea,” he says. “I liked everything about it. Its cool to be the first class here to ever do it, and I’m interested to see how later down the road it can help me in life.” Michelson, w h o ’s thinking about majoring in journalism, is enrolled in two seminars. Besides the climate change course, s h e ’s taking “The Net Effect,” a class about how the Internet is changing the Fellows take part in UM Professor Lee Banville's GU world. Some students are studying how social media seminar titled 'The Net Effect7' in Don Anderson H all.^fl| interacted with the Arab Spring. Because o f her potential major, s h e ’s also exploring how the Internet Leadership component of the program. The first day is changing journalism. began with a panel on human rights and ended with “Th a t’s what drew me to the program,” she says. a talk from Priya Jaisinghani o f the U.S. Agency “I felt like I had an opportunity to take relevant for International Development, who spoke about classes about things that are going on now. You can mobile banking and its role in building economies experiment in different fields, and i t ’s not just glazed- in places like India. over, huge classes and lecture. I t ’s recent stuff. I t ’s more The following day brought in a large spectrum hands-on. I t ’s relevant.” o f leaders speaking about international business She laughs. and global citizenry, including Montana Governor “I’ve said that twenty million times,” Michelson Brian Schweitzer. The range o f speakers and issues says. “But everything does seem more relevant when “I felt like I had illustrates something else that the GLI promotes: y o u ’re in these kinds of classes.” an opportunity the idea that you can be a banker or pharmacist or Relevancy is exacdy what Woods is going for. to take relevant writer, you can be politically conservative or liberal, “The whole idea of the GLI program is to raise the and you can still think globally. In fact, i t ’s exacdy classes about bar for undergraduate education. And to have small that variety, says Walker-Andrews, that we need to groups of incoming students grapple with really big things that are solve the big issues. questions,” he says. “Solving problems associated with going on now. You “Th a t’s why we say this is an education for climate change is going to need engineers, i t ’s going can experiment the Global Century. I t ’s about using your general to need philosophers, i t ’s going to need biologists. I t ’s in different fields, education and major to address these big problems. going to need all these different kinds of people working and i t ’s not just And i t ’s this need to collaborate— because I d o n ’t on different angles. I think i t ’s really going to help them glazed-over, huge think any one o f us is likely to eradicate malaria in to have some awareness of that interconnection.” classes and lecture. Africa by ourselves.” I t ’s recent stuff. The freshmen who were the first o f the GLI Measuring an Education I t ’s more hands-on. experiment are almost ready to move onto this next Walker-Andrews believes there are three reasons young I t ’s relevant.” phase, and the GLI committee is preparing to invite people go to college: their parents tell them to, they 200 incoming freshmen to com e on board. want a job, and they want to change the world. And This is the kind o f education Walker-Andrews that big challenge— wanting to change the world— is the one she hopes will define UM as the GLI continues and expands. Not too believes is foremost on the minds o f incoming freshmen. And, she long ago, UM graduate surveys tried to measure the s c h o o l’s success says, th a t’s the perfect time for it to happen. by asking alumni three questions: “Do you have a job?” “Is it in “Th a t’s when you have the energy and ideas,” she says. “And we your area of study?” and “How much money do you make?” probably should bank on that if we want the world to change.” “I think th a t’s a pretty crass set o f questions,” Walker-Andrews In late March, GLI students, faculty, and community says. “So we decided to change it.” The questionnaire now asks participants assembled on campus to kick off the Models o f about the more nuanced terms of success, trying to find out if they learned the types o f world-leader skills that GLI strives for. “We decided to make it useful,” she says, “in the sense that this GET INVOLVED is an accredited institution where we claim that we teach students UM is working toward a goal of securing three years of funding to support 600 Fellows. This goal totals $3 million. Philanthropic gifts for the GU will assist with to think critically, to do quantitative analysis, to do X, Y, and Z, advising and mentoring for Fellows; stipends for faculty who lead seminars; and so we need to be accountable to that.” lU scholarships and passports for experiences beyond the classroom; Models of leadership retreats; and capstone projects. Erika Fredrickson is the arts editor at the Missoula You are invited to support innovation at UM by making a gift to the GU Fund. Independent. She graduated from U M ’s Creative CoH Ric Thomas, senior vice president for development at the UM Foundation, at Writing Program in 199 9 and received a m a ste r’s degree 406-243-2598, to learn more obout how to become involved. in environmental studies in 2009. WWW.UMT.EOU/MON1ANAN MONTANAN SPRING 2012 I 27 BEN REACHED F O R M E ilA R S A N D m BECAME O N E . ^ CONGRATULATIONS TO BEN MURPHY for receiving first place in this year's young artist division of the Music Teachers National Association composition competition, en, a senior from Barrington, III., is recognized for his creativity and self-expression in his composition. This is one of the most prestigious music awards for university students, and we are proud to congratulate Ben— as well as all of our UM Stars. Gifts to The University of Montana Foundation Excellence Fund help support Odyssey of the Stars scholarship recipients. The partnership between the University and its supporters enriches the student experience and fosters student success. T K r / For more information about a gift to the Excellence Fund, please contact: University ^M ontana F O U N d / a T I O N Lauren Clark, Director of Annual Giving - External Campaigns The University of Montana Foundation 800.443.2593 or 406.243.2593 [email protected] SvpportUM.org | Facebook.com/UMFoundation Raising Montana That immediate connection with Dr. Cathy Capps is students is what drew Capps into so many recognized for her volunteer efforts in the first place. Years work in strengthening ago, her voice teacher, Esther England, the bond between UM introduced her to faculty and students and the community. in U M ’s School o f Music. Some o f the students she met needed to get to Spokane, Wash., for auditions, but had no way of getting there. “They d id n ’t have snow tires or a good car,” Capps says. “They d id n ’t have money to stay anywhere decent. O ne kid, I remember thinking, he cant go up on stage in those old shoes? Seizing an opportunity, as well as the steering wheel o f her four-wheel-drive vehicle equipped with snow tires, she began driving students herself, buying them food, lodging, and yes, even shoes. Dr. Capps Receives Capps shrugs o ff those efforts, and all o f her volunteer efforts. “It starts with little things— being nice for All She Gives to people, passing along whatever breaks people gave you to get ahead,” she says. isten to Dr. Cathy Capps’ stories served as co-president, treasurer, and She obviously puts those words into about her life, and you may jum p at current scholarship chair for the Missoula action, and she believes strongly that others your next chance to volunteer. Symphony Guild. She and her husband, should as well. L Dr. Tom Rickard, funded many vocal and “When people hear the word giving, Capps extolled the benefits o f giving and receiving at this y e a r ’s Charter Day instrumental scholarship endowments. they automatically think about money. I t ’s Awards ceremony, where she received They also support the Buddy DeFranco not just about money,” Capps says. “Get the Neil S. Bucklew Presidential Service Jazz Festival, Montana Rep Colony, and involved, even if you a r e n ’t personally Award. The University o f Montana other arts activities. O n top o f that, for the giving money. I ’ve sat in a ticket booth Foundation presents the Bucklew past twelve years, s h e ’s served on the D e a n ’s selling tickets for a Jazz Fest fundraiser. Award each year to a Montanan who Advisory Council for the College o f Visual That d id n ’t cost me any money. has enhanced the bonds among the and Performing Arts, most recently as the “People d o n ’t think giving to UM is a community, state, and University. council president. reciprocal relationship, but it is. I get to Capps, an orthopedic surgeon, moved At the awards ceremony, she encouraged see things, to be involved— I get so much to Missoula twenty years ago. Since then, others to become involved with their out o f it.” She pauses, then adds a closing she has thrust her heart and soul into communities. She summed up her thinking thought: “Just as with anything in life, supporting the arts, both in the community by paraphrasing a quote from Shakespeare’s y o u ’ll get out o f it what you put into it. If and at UM. M erchant o f Venice, saying, “Service, like you d o n ’t put effort into anything, y o u ’ll “You get out o f life what you put into mercy, is twice blessed. It blesses he who get nothing back.” it,” Capps says. “I’ve been part o f so many gives and he who receives.” Words worthy of Shakespeare. exciting things because o f my involvement Capps speaks fondly of her involvement Congratulations, and thanks, to Dr. Cathy in local arts. I recendy had a role in a with UM. Capps for putting effort into helping movie produced for a s t u d e n t ’s Master of “I think UM is so respectful o f your coundess UM students. Fine Arts project, for instance. And I go wishes— they’ll ask you where you want to local performances, and know so many the money to go, then actually follow o f the kids performing. That makes it so through with it. T h e y ’ll work with you much more fim when you know people to make it happen. Plus, you get to see personally. In so many ways, i t ’s like having the immediate results o f where your a group o f friends.” money goes. You meet the kids who r£ - Capps, a longtime board member have been helped, who are grateful for UNIVERSITY^ Mo n t a n a (and occasional cast member) for the the opportunity. I t ’s just so personal and Missoula C h ild r e n ’s Theatre, also has so meaningful.” Make a gift online at www.SupportUM.org WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN MONTANAN SPRING 2012 I 29 Guaranteed to make you smile. UM Homecoming^^^H MONTANA S ep tem b er 1 6 - 2 2 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION T h e University of Montana W h o’s t h e lucky follt^v? Tell us the name of the gentleman pictured above and you'll be entered into a contest to win a pair of tickets to the 2012 Homecoming football game. See contest details at www.grizalum.com about alumni STEPHEN T. MILLHOUSE '85, Missoula, completed a 1,460-mile walk from the Poverello Center in Missoula to the Hospitality Kitchen in Los Angeles in a campaign to raise awareness Barrett Kaiser '99 and money for the homeless and the hungry. The Billings distance was based on Stephen's calculation of TOP: Stephen, left, chats with G regg .1 r -i ,1 L I Jim Kolokotrones '81, '86 ^ r . . . . . the number ot miles the average homeless person DesElms, an advocate for homeless „ i i “ Daly City, CA veterans in the Vallejo, Calif., area. waiks in one year. It took Stephen—a Marine Karin Larson-Pollock'93 above: Stephen pauses in front of a Corps veteran—five months to complete the Mercer Island, WA mountain range in Idaho, about three journey, which he called "My One Man March." Ken Lawrence'63 . w eeks into his five-month journey to Stephen faced many challenges along the way, j; San Antonio • Los Angeles. both physically and mentally. When he began to Allan Murphy'65 feel pain in his left foot, he stopped at a VA clinic in Twin Falls, Idaho, where he was Bend, OR diagnosed with a stress fracture. Although the doctor advised him to stop the march so Mamie McMeel Prigge'73 , his broken foot could heal, he pressed on after resting for only a few days. Rachel Schneller '95 When he wasn't walking, Stephen volunteered at homeless shelters and food pantries. Washington, D.C. "In many communities, food pantries are the basic safety net keeping people out of Greg Stahl, '82 Missoula homelessness," he says. Greg Sundberg '01, '03 The experience was eye-opening. Stephen was shocked by the prevalence of hunger Missoula and poverty in America, especially in rural areas. Ed Tinsley '92, '07 "I was humbled by the response I got," he says. "I met so many people of so many I Helena different stripes that believed in the need to help homeless people." Patrick Weasel Head'71, '73 §fj He finally arrived in L.A. at the beginning of January, elated, exhausted, and thirty | Missoula pounds lighter than he was when he began his march in August. Pat Weber'73 I Yordley, PA "It wasn't until the very last block came into view that it hit me that I was about to finish," he says. "It was an overwhelming moment, and I just let the tears fall." Stephen, who will donate the funds he raised to programs in the four states through I Bill Johnston '79, '91 which he traveled, sees his effort as a way to pay it forward to all those who helped I PRESIDENT AND CE O him during his own period of living as a homeless person in both Missoula and I 406-243-5211 California. But even though the walk has ended, Stephen's journey is far from complete. I 877-UM-ALUMS "I am in the process of putting together a PowerPoint presentation that I can take on I www.grizalum.com the road," he says. "I have walked the walk, and now I want to talk the talk." Keep Us Posted. Send your news to The University o f Montana Alumni Association, Brantly H all Missoula, M T 59812. Go to www.grizalum.com and click on “Submit a Class Note, "faxyour news to 406-243-4467, or call 1-877-UM-ALUMS (877-862-5867). Material in this issue reached our office by February 28 2 0 1 2 Note: The year immediately follow ing an alums name indicates either an undergraduate degree year or attendance Snowbirds/Sunbirds—Anyone! Whenever you change your mailing address, please contact the alumni office. M O N T A N A N SPRING 2012 I 31 ► [about alumni with the team. He and M M CAROL WELLS COON EY ’35 , his wife, Patcee, plan to celebrated her 100th birthday serve on a church mission in February at the Bee Hive retirement home together. in Choteau. Sixteen family members and three friends surprised Carol with a party on her special day. A lifelong Griz fan, Carol still tunes '7 0 s in to cheer her beloved Grizzlies to victory MAE NAN ELUNGSON whenever she has the chance. She also remains in ’70 , J.D. ’76 , retired contact with EMMA LOM M ASSON ’33 , M.S. ’39 , from legal practice after spending the last twenty- a dear friend from her college days in Missoula, Acantho Thornlon/Choleou byNancy photoCooney who also recently celebrated her 100th birthday. eight years as a public Carols family has kept the UM tradition finance lawyer for Dorsey alive, with two o f her children and one of her & Whitney in Missoula. grandchildren graduating from the University. Over the course of her career, Mae Nan has had a hand in several landmark their days hunting and Homer, Alaska, received a projects, including the '5 0 s fishing as their families masters degree in poetry introduction o f open IVAN O'NEIL ’50, face the challenges of from Pacific Lutheran space bonds in Missoula Kalispell, was the subject tight budgets. University this past and the establishment of o f a recent feature story CLAIT E. BRAUN, M.S. August. Her poetry has the c it y ’s first easement in the Flathead Beacon. *65, Tucson, Ariz., appeared in Bloodroot on Mount Sentinel. She An original founder of recently received the Literary Magazine, Rock also was the youngest Kalmont Distributors and Gunnison Sage Grouse & Slin g and Cirque. She delegate to attend the Western Building Center, Stewardship Award. and her husband own and Montana Constitutional Ivan still enjoys frequent Clait is a co-discoverer operate a glass shop in Convention in 1971 hikes and ski trips despite o f the Gunnison species Alaska. and 1972, when she was being legally blind. He signature Twenty-Six o f sage grouse. He TIM POWERS ’68 , Provo, twenty-four years old. also continues to help Theory. DeLynn has won currently operates Grouse Utah, will retire from MARGARET JOHNSON manage Western Building the national cribbage Inc., a consulting firm his position as the head ’71 , Missoula, recently Center, which owns ten championship four times specializing in grouse swimming and diving published her second retail supply stores across and is currently the top- issues in the western part coach at Brigham Young book. The Drama Montana. “Th e r e ’s no ranked lifetime player in o f North America. University at the end of T e a ch e r’s Survival Guide quit in him,” current the American Cribbage LINDA MARTIN ’67, his thirty-seventh season #2: Activities, exercises general manager Doug Congress. Shanks tells the Beacon. “He ’s been very successful and th e r e ’s so many '6 0 s things that h e ’s done that THOMAS BULLOCK ’61 , he d o e s n ’t talk about or West Covina, Calif., beat his chest about. H e ’s published Montana just an amazing guy. We Memories, an e-book all look up to him.” containing a series of GARY JYSTAD ’56, recollections o f his Rollins, received a experiences growing up certificate of distinction in Montana during the from the Montana middle of the twentieth Medical Association in century. The stories recall recognition o f his fifty the childhood adventures years o f service as a o f young boys who spend medical doctor. He and his wife, MARY ELLEN ERICKSON JYSTAD ’56, have three children and Ch r is t e n s e n , j .d . '7 6 , Kalispell, becam e U.S. District Judge Dana seven grandchildren. the seventeenth U.S. District Court judge for Christensen is helped into DELYNN COLVERT 57, Montana following unanimous approval by the his robe by his son, Ben, M .F.A. ’58, Missoula, U.S. Senate. He has worked as a partner at the and daughter, Cassidy, recendy published the law firm Christensen, Moore, Cockrell, Cummings after his swearing-in at fourth ediuon o f his book & Axelberg PC since 1996 and has tried more the Russell Smith Federal P la y Winning Cribbage, than fifty trials in his thirty-five-year legal career. Courthouse in Missoula. in which he explains his 32 I SPRING 2012 M O N T A N A N about alumni company, Tim spent thirty which chronicles a night superior courts across the years working for the in 1967 in which separate state. Gould has been a Office of the Comptroller grizzly bear attacks in member of the Yuma o f the Currency in Glacier National Park left County Superior Court Washington, D.C. two women dead. The since his appointment in film was the highest-rated 2001. local program in the PAM USCHUK ’ 86, '8 0 s history of MontanaPBS Bayfield, Colo., published KELLY MILLER ’83 , when it premiered in May her fifth poetry collection, Asheville, N.C., was 2011. Gus is a producer titled Wild in the Plaza o f named president and at U M ’s Broadcast Media Memory. j and techniques fo r the chief executive officer of Center and MontanaPBS. theatre classroom. Margaret Tampa Bay & Company, D O U G DECKER 85, 8 3 0 ,0 0 0 acres o f state ; retired from the classroom a tourism and economic Portland, Ore., was land and the coordination j after teaching drama at promotion organization selected as O r e g o n ’s o f fire protection on Sentinel High School in based out of Hillsborough new state forester by the about sixteen million ! Missoula for thirty-seven County, Fla. Oregon Department of acres o f private, state, and years, but she remains " GINGER ALLEN ’84, Forestry. In his new role, federal land. | active with the Missoula Cranesville, P a., owns Doug, who joined the ANDREW GOULD ’86, Community Theatre. Crowleys Restaurant agency as a public affairs Yuma, Ariz., was TERI WHEELER WAHL & Irish Pub with her specialist in 1987, will appointed to serve on the RAPPE 71, Wenatchee, husband, Charles. When be responsible for the Arizona Court of Appeals, I Wash., is celebrating her they find time to sneak management o f about which reviews cases from fiftieth year of teaching away from the restaurant, ! music. She has taught they can be found fly classroom piano at fishing on local rivers. Wenatchee Valley College Ginger learned how to for twenty-six years and tie flies when she was a was a church organist and student at UM, and she 2 Senior Send-Off, 4-6 p .m ., U C Ballroom pianist for forty-four years. spent several years as a fly- 10-12 Commencement reunions, classes of 1942, 1952, 1962, campus ARLYNN FISHBAUGH tying instructor. 25-JUNE 5 International travel: Historic Reflections Luxury Cruise 74, Helena, was elected ROBERT KEANE, M.S. j president of the board ’84 , was appointed to 5-18 International travel: British Isles Odyssey Luxury Cruise o f directors of the American Forests’ new 14 Alumni event, Denver National Assembly of Science Advisory Board, 14-16 UMAA Board of Directors meeting, Denver State Art Agencies. As the which will help create and executive director of the evaluate the organizations 19 Alumni event, Flathead Valley Montana Arts Council, forest restoration projects she hopes her service on and public policy 1 UMAA-sponsored Out to Lunch, Caras Park, Missoula the national board will initiatives. Robert is a 10-21 International travel: Baltic Treasures Luxury Cruise benefit Montana arts. research ecologist with 16 Eighth annual UM Alumni Night with the Missoula Osprey “Representing NASAA the USDA Forest Service allows Montana to have Rocky Mountain Research 16 Homecoming 2012 (Sept. 16-22) unique visibility with Station at the Fire 16 Homecoming kickoff celebration, Southgate Mall other funders that could Sciences Laboratory in 19 UM dorm and office decorating contests i be of benefit to NASAA Missoula. and a state like Montana,” 20 House o f Delegates annual meeting, all day j GU S CHAMBERS ’85 , Homecoming buffet dinner, Food Zoo I she says. Missoula, received a HUGH SOAPE, 21 Davidson Honors College all-class reunion, all day M.B.A. 74, was Hello Walk hired by Texas UM department open houses and receptions Agrilife Extension Distinguished Alumni Awards ceremony and reception Service as an Pep Rally extension agent in All-Alumni Social and Dance Gregg County, Tex. 22 Homecoming Husde — 5K race TIM LONG 78, Homecoming Parade joined the New York Homecoming TV Tailgate office of Protiviti, Programming Excellence Homecoming football game: Montana Grizzlies vs. a global consulting firm, Award from American Northern Arizona University as a managing director Public Television for his specializing in the U.S. documentary Glacier Parks 17 112th Griz-Cat football game, Missoula financial services practice. 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Once there, you can learn more about the credit card program and also choose from a variety of designs to show off your passion and support for UM. Credit approval required. Terms and conditions apply. Offered by Capital One, N.A. © 2012 Capital One®. CapitalQne about alumni KATHY DUNNEHOFF ’87 , media. Carin has worked Unit o f the state office, addition to $15,000 for Ravalli Republic, both Lee M.F.A. *91, Kalispell, in the broadcast field for also in Missoula. their affiliated school or Enterprises newspapers. published three e-books more than twenty years JEFFERY WEHR ’92 , ’96, institution, recipients are Jim originally joined since starting her and is currently an on-air Odessa, Wash., was one given the opportunity to the M issoulian staff as a own small publishing announcer and producer o f three educators in participate in a summer digital director in 2002. company last year. Kathy, for Cherry Creek Radio the nation to receive the research immersion JAMES E. BROWN ’94 , who also works as an in Butte. 2011 Siemens Founders program at Oak Ridge Helena, was selected instructor at Flathead KURT WILSON ’89 and Award. The annual honor National Laboratories in to be the executive Valley Community reporter Vince Devlin recognizes individuals or Tennessee, which Jeffery director o f the College, hopes to earned a 2011 Lee schools for encouraging plans to attend. Montana Independent eventually publish hard Enterprises Presidents JOE JOH N STON Bankers Association. copies o f her books. Award for excellence in ’93 , Missoula, James, who has six E. SCOTT MCGHEE ’87 , news for their coverage in completed his first years o f congressional Clarkton, N.C., earned the M issoulian o f Marine season as a football staff experience in his American Bladesmith and Ronan native Tomy official in the Pac- Washington, D.C., Society Journeyman Parker during Parker’s 12 Conference this spent the past five years Smith Certification at the. recovery from the loss past fall. Joe, who working for the law All Forged Blade Expo in o f his legs and most of is originally from firm of Doney Crowley San Antonio, Tex. There one hand in Afghanistan. Butte, has been Bloomquist Payne. are fewer than 175 ABS The awards are handed officiating football BRIAN TOV SO N ’94 Journeyman Smiths in the out yearly to recognize games for more recendy graduated world. outstanding efforts in than twenty years, from the Montana Law LORI HARPER SUEK ’88 , journalism. Kurt is the eight o f which were Enforcement Academy. J.D. ’91 , Billings, was Missouliaris photography spent in the Big Upon graduation, he one of 163 members of editor. This is his fifth Sky Conference. He received the Alex F. the U.S. Department President’s Award in students to participate and his wife, Kory, have Mavity Outstanding of Justice recognized eleven years. in math, science, or two children: seven-year- Student Award, which at the twenty-eighth technology research old daughter Jayden and is given to the highest- annual Directors programs and working eleven-year-old son Jack. performing student in Awards Ceremony in '90s to enhance math and JIM M CG OW A N ’93 each graduating class. Washington, D.C. Lori, BRENT PEASE ’90 is the science education in was named publisher of Brian works as a police who is an assistant U.S. new offensive coordinator American high schools. In the M issoulian and the officer in Great Falls. attorney for the District and quarterbacks coach o f Montana, was honored for the University of Florida Gators. A former for her outstanding ARIC SCHNELLER '90, Schneller Mr efforts in promoting Grizzly quarterback who Huntsville, Tex., directed justice in Indian Country. had a brief NFL playing the Sam Houston State CARIN SULLIVAN ’88 career in the late 1980s, University Bearkat M arching received the 2011 E.B. Brent coached several B a n d w h e n it p la y e d Craney Award for radio college teams over the the national anthem station promotion o f the course o f his career, most prior to SHSU's Football year. Presented by the recently serving as the offensive coordinator for Championship Subdivision the Boise State University semifinal gam e against ill Broncos. the M ontana G rizzlies in KATHLEEN JENKS, J.D. December. Aric, w hose ’92 , was appointed as fa th er LEWIS SCHNELLER '67, head judge for Missoula M .E d . '7 5 , w as a lineman Municipal Court for the Grizzlies, has been following the retirement th e d ir e c t o r o f th e J a z z o f JUDGE DONALD Studies program at SHSU LOUDEN ’77 , J.D. ’80 . since 2008. "I've gotten Kathleen, who currently som e friendly jabs from studies psychology people in M ontana," Aric at UM, is a former to ld th e M is s o u lia n b e f o r e Montana Broadcasters general prosecutor for the game. "A couple have Association, the awards the Missoula bureau o f suggested they sacrifice me the Montana Attorney honor the memory of on the fifty-yard line before General’s Office. Before Montana broadcasting the game, or maybe hang pioneer Ed Craney by that, she worked as the me from the goal post, like recognizing excellence in supervising attorney for a sacrificial lamb." all aspects o f electronic the Child Protection fACtsSfcK 'P M VWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN MONTANAN SPRING 2012 35 The University of Montana Enroll at The University Or, Consider of Montana for Summer Extended Courses Semester 2012 The University of Montana partners Enjoy summer in beautiful Missoula with sponsoring agencies to offer this year, or take UM classes online a select group of short courses and to find a study schedule that workshops, designed specifically suits your summer travel plans. for teacher recertification, Hundreds of course offerings provide professional development, outdoor opportunities to fulfill a general learning experiences and personal education or a degree requirement, enrichment. Formal admission to or explore a new area of interest. the university is not required for these courses, and non-residents Visit our website for more pay the same fees as residents. information about available courses, admission, and registration. For information, visit: montanasummer.umt.edu umt.edu/xls/pds School of Extended and lifelong Learning f^m crly^Com inuin&Educaiioh about alum ni ^ by trade, Clayton was accepting the position, he RANDY RUPERT '93, M isso u la , appointed to the state was the dean and chief published a children's book, Board of Regents in 2006 executive officer of the A Dog-Gone Tale, which tells the and served as its chairman Montana State University- sto ry o f th ree p u p p ie s w h o m ust for more than two years. Great Falls College of find their w ay back to their parents He succeeds SHEILA Technology. after w andering off in the park. The STEARNS ’68, M A ’69, SAMUEL FREDERICK book is based on a bedtime story Ph.D. ’83 , Helena, who ’99 , Mason, Mich., Randy created to teach his young will retire in June. was elected as a new RYAN SCRENAR son the importance of staying with 96, shareholder for the Helena, was appointed to law firm Foster Swift his parents in a w ay he would represent the St. Peter’s Collins and Smith, understand. Inspired by his son's Hospital Foundation on PC. Sam specializes in love of the story and aided by the the St. Peter’s Hospital the areas o f intellectual e n c o u r a g e m e n t o f h is w ife, board of directors. property protection and C ory ll, R a n d y s e t o u t to A certified public information technology, re-create the tale in-print. accountant, Ryan is specifically in trademarks, A marketing professional senior vice president and by trade, Randy hopes his audit director for Glacier first e ffort a s a ch ild ren 's Bancorp Inc., where he has a u th o r w ill h e lp o th e r worked since May 2000. parents teach a valuable DAVID ROBERTS, M.A. lesson while having fun ’98 , Seatde, served as a with their children. panelist at the American Philosophical Association’s annual conference in ! SHEL HANSER ’95 , M.Ed. ERIC SCHUCK, M.A. responsible for providing Washington, D.C. The ’03, Billings, received The ’95 , McMinnville, Ore., security coverage for discussion panel was titled University of Montana spent eleven months as a vessels entering and “From Philosophical Educational Leadership naval reservist in Kuwait, exiting ports. Eric Training to Professional Excellence Award, given where he participated currently is an economics Blogging.” He currently out each year by the in both Operation Iraqi professor at Linfield works as a blogger and trade secrets, copyrights, University to an alum Freedom and Operation College. writer for Grist magazine. and software licensing. working in education. New Dawn. As a logistics CLAYTON CHRISTIAN JOE SCHAFFER ’98 , Ed.D. SUE MALEK, M.A. ’99 , department leader, ’96 , Missoula, is the new ’10, is the president Missoula, was one of Eric oversaw supply commissioner of higher o f Laramie County forty-eight state leaders engineering and boat education for the state of Community College in across the nation selected maintenance. He also was Montana. A businessman Cheyenne, Wyo. Before for the prestigious Toll Fellowship Program sponsored by the Council o f State Governments. Sue, who is serving her second term as a representative in the Montana Legislature, attended the weeklong seminar this past fall. The award recognizes J the recipients significant contributions to education I through their vision and action. Shel has been the principal at Billings Central High School KEITH A NDERSON '98, W o o d s t o c k , Va., is th e v ic e Keith, far Wt, since 2002. During his president of marketing at ibex Outdoor Clothing, ancj ranchers | tun as the longest-tenured which recently expanded its wool source to the Bob and Ben principal in the school’s Lehfeldt family sheep ranch in Lavina, Mont. The Lehfeldt stand j history, he has seen com pany will use the w ool for its line of Shak Lite near a sheep- ■ standardized test scores garments, produced with 100 percent U.S. resources. herding wagon. consistently exceed state I and national averages. WWW.UMT.EDU/MONlANAN MONTANAN SPRING 2012 I 37 GENEROUS G 1 CREATE LA S TIN ^^H bonRS J A gift from Dick Morrison helped Chery Sobol attend UM, where she earned her creative writing degree with high honors. But for Chery, an even higher honor was Dick's interest in her studies. "Dick initiated a personal correspondence with me," she says. "I can't express how meaningful it was to m e that a stranger would support and encourage my education the way he did." Dick went even further and made an additional commitment to support the scholarship through an estate gift. Like Dick, you can support the University in your will, or through another type o f planned gift such as a trust, gift annuity, life insurance policy or other asset by contacting Theresa Boyer, t£ - / director of gift planning, at 406.243.2593 or [email protected]. Un iv e r s it y ^ M o n t a n a F O U N I^A T I O N SupportUM.org/PiannedGiying I Facebook.com/UMFoundation about alumni MARY ANN MCCRACKIN, Ph.D. ’99 , joined the faculty at Virginia Tech as the university veterinarian and director o f the Office of Animal Resources. She previously was the DAVID PELLERIN '98 and his wife, BRANDI PELLERIN '99, New London, N.H., director of laboratory have found success on a national level with Indikoi Sinks, a small business animal resources at UM they started together in 2010. After getting a lot of attention for the hand and an adjunct professor crafted ceramic sinks he sold at craft fairs, David, who also runs a pottery o f small animal medicine school called Wellhouse Farm Pottery, decided to create an entire line of at the University of sinks. Over the past two years, the pair have worked side-by-side to grow Georgia. their company, which now offers thirty-six different sinks and has more than fifty showroom accounts across the U.S. David makes each sink from start to finish, and Brandi handles sales, marketing, and bookkeeping while caring for their children, three-year-old Remster and newborn twins Jarvis and 'OOs Magnolia. Even back when they were both fine art students at UM, Brandi and David knew they BILLIE JO KIPP, M.A. ’00 , eventually wanted to start their own business. "I will never forget when Professor Catherine Mallory said Ph.D. ’05 , is the new in my senior thesis class that you are not going to find a job in the paper for an artist. You have to take president o f Blackfeet something you are passionate about, like art, and figure out a way to make a living at it," Brandi says. Community College in Browning. Billie, who dropped out of college JESSICA NOYOLA '04, San Diego, Calif., placed tenth overall in once before going on to the female pro division of the 2011 XTERRA World Championship earn an advanced degree, triathlon. Originally from Whitefish, Jessica discovered her hidden hopes her achievements will help inspire talent for endurance sports while finishing her master's degree in struggling students. She exercise physiology at San Diego State. At the request of one of her plans to add more four- professors, she completed a bicycle fitness test. Her performance year college programs and w as so impressive that she decided to give competitive mountain job-training courses to the biking a whirl. Eventually, she began racing XTERRA triathlons, school’s curriculum, which include swimming, biking, and running segments. When she's i HUGH POWELL, M.S. ’00 , not busy training or racing, she runs her own Ithaca, N.Y., is a science chef and catering business, Fit Food by Jess, I editor at the Cornell which has becom e popular among competitive Lab o f Ornithology and athletes. Her most recent catering gigs have a contributor to Woods been with triathlon and cycling camps, I Hole Oceanographic including The Cycling House in Tucson, Ariz. Institution’s O cean u s and She attributes her success in both business and other publications. As an athletics to her fearless attitude. "If I didn't like I environmental journalist, to d o things that scared me, I'd never be in this | Hugh tries to connect his position," she tells the Missoulian. "My advice | readers with the issues he is find something you're passionate about and I reports on. “It can be easy commit to it. Don't be afraid of failing." I to think that by providing i the right set o f statistics— J number of acres tells Mongabay.com. “But on that those characters He also is active in his Missoula, won the Rock remaining or tons released people read stories to find are real.” community, donating ‘n’ Roll Arizona Marathon into the environment— out what happens to the CASEY CONNORS 02, his time as a YMCA in Phoenix in January | readers will become as main characters, so I Helena, was promoted to basketball coach and a with a career-best time of i passionate about the topic need to make sure people commercial loan officer Head Start volunteer. 2 hours, 49 minutes, and as your sources are,” he have enough detail to go at Mountain West Bank. TRISHA MILUR 02, 12 seconds. Trisha, who WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN M O N T A N A N SPRING 2012 I 39 ^ ______— — — MBB Join The University of Montana Alumni Association today and learn what it means to be a Griz for life. 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Paige ’09 , Great Falls, received the short film O K Breathe previously served as a disc the Great Falls Area I Auralee, which was jockey for UM s radio Chamber of Commerce’s screened at the Sundance station, KBGA 89.9 FM, Ambassador o f the Year Film Festival in January. Award. Tim served on the The movie tells the story selection committee for of an Inuit woman who is Habitat for Humanity for desperate to have a baby. the past four years, is a Kendra and her husband, partner in the Great Falls ERIC TOLLEFSON '06, Juneau, A laska, r e le a se d TYLER POTTER ’02 , live in Workforce Development his s e c o n d album , T he P o la r Ends, early this New York City. Initiative, is the chairman spring. Eric gained local recognition and JOSEPH DUSATKO ’04 - o f the Missouri River notoriety fo llo w in g the 2 0 0 8 r e le a se o f his first recently graduated Community Management from the Montana Law C D , The Sum o f Parts, which he recorded while Team, and is on the Enforcement Academy living in Bend, Ore. He believes his second Job Service Employer and became an officer effort— which blends rock, soul, blues, and folk— Committee. He works as is even better than his debut, telling the J u n ea u for the Great Falls Police Browning the manager of the Great Department. Before E m pire, "Everything I c o u ld h a v e put into this, ll|l Falls Job Service. that, he specialized as did...it took a lot of work, two and a half years, and helped produce and an aircraft and avionics e v e r y day." direct four shows for technician for the U.S. MontanaPBS. '1 Os Navy. Moscow, Idaho. She is the SHANNON KUHN ’09 , BRIDGET DAVIS ’ 10, ALAN PANEBAKER 05, director of the twenty- Anchorage, Alaska, is the Richey, is in her second I Montpelier, Vt., is the first annual Zimbabwean founder o f Anchorage year as the K-12 music first full-time reporter for Music Festival, to be Food Mosaic, a popular teacher in the Richey J the growing online news held in Moscow in blog and Facebook School District. A former source VTDigger.org, a early August. The event community dedicated Grizzly Marching Band | Vermont-based website features workshops to promoting culinary saxophonist, Bridget says dedicated to coverage of and concerts by a wide diversity and the use of her goal as an educator is state politics, consumer array of performers and fresh ingredients. to broaden her students’ i affairs, business, and teachers. COLTER NUANEZ 09, experience with music. j public policy. He covers CAITUN COPPLE, Bozeman, was named Last year, she took M.A. ’07 , became Sports Writer of the them to Missoula to see the first openly gay Year by the Washington U M ’s world percussion councilmember to be Newspaper Publishers ensemble in concert. elected to the Missoula RACHEL C O O K 08, Association for his She hopes to organize City Council last Bakersfield, Calif., is reporting work with the a student drumline November. Caitlin, who a breaking news and Ellensburg Daily Record to perform at school received her master’s nighttime general in Washington. He was basketball games. degree in journalism, says assignment reporter at the selected from a pool of JASPER MILLER TO her interest in politics Bakersfield Californian. portfolio entries from and FENN NELSON TO developed after she came coun scon more than eighty daily are the owners o f one out and became an active ’08 , Whitefish, is a newspapers. He joined the o f Montana’s newest member of the LGBT member of Literacy staff at the Bozeman Daily microbreweries: movement. Volunteers o f Flathead Higherground Brewing LUCY BEARD ’08 received County, an organization Company in Hamilton. the United States that provides assistance to Jasper and Fenn, who health care and energy Eventing Association’s those who are struggling grew up together in the issues for the publication, Christine E. Stafford with literacy problems Bitterroot Valley, are j which is a project of Groom o f the Year Award or learning English as both twenty-four years the Vermont Journalism for 2011. A former a second language. He old, making them the Trust. member of the UM currendy is working youngest brewers in the JACQUELINE FALLON ’06 , Equestrian Team, Lucy toward a Fulbright state. Cle Elum, Wash., plays now works at Jarba Farms Scholarship that would SARAH RED-LAIRD TO, flute and marimba in in Kalispell as a horse allow him to spend a Ashland, Ore., is the the Chiroto Marimba trainer, groomer, and year teaching English in founder of the nonprofit Ensemble, based in competitive rider. Croatia. organization Bee Girl, WWW.UMT.EOU/MONTANAN M O N T A N A N SPRING 2012 I 41 GOOD FOOD O R J 4 M www.goodfoodstore.com 1600 S. 3 rd S t. W e s t Missoula 406.541.3663 7am to 10pm Every Day www.MadelnMontanaUSA.com 42 I SPRING 2012 M O N TA N A N about alumni competitions through the descriptions o f a slow- 2016 Olympics in Rio de moving Alaskan ferry Janeiro. with scenes from a KEEMA WATERFIELD, divided family. Keema, M.F.A. ’ll, was awarded who splits her time a $ 1,000 prize from the between Missoula and online literary journal rural Alaska, is currendy Masons Road for her working on a collection creative nonfiction o f essays about growing piece, “Inside Passage.” up in southeast Alaska. The memoir integrates NEW LIFETIME MEMBERS The follow ing alumni andfriends made a commitment to the future o f the UM Alumni Association by becoming lifetime members. You can join them by calling 877-862-5867 or b y visiting MIKE HAUGE '11, Edina, Minn., com pleted the 2011 Northshore Inline our website: www.grizalum.com . The Alumni Marathon on behalf of First Descents, an organization that offers cancer fighters and survivors a free w eeklong adventure experience designed to Association thanks them fo r their support. This list help them reclaim their lives as they conquer the great outdoors. includes all new lifetime members through February Mike, w ho w as diagnosed with Stage III testicular cancer during his 29, 2 0 1 2 . sophom ore year of college, participated in First Descents after his cancer SUMMERFIELD BALDRIDGE 7 8 and JULIE MARTIN went into remission following several surgeries and chemotherapy BALDRIDGE 7 9 , Whitefish treatments. He and fifteen other young cancer survivors traveled to North DAVID BELL 96 and BRITTANY BELL 98, Sandys, Carolina for a weeklong whitewater kayaking excursion. Inspired by the Bermuda experience, he decided to com pete in the long-distance inline skating event CHAD BURCHARD 93, Spokane, WA to raise m oney for the program. The day before the race, a final push of d o n a tio n s p u t him o v e r h is g o a l o f $ 1,0 0 0 — th e a m o u n t it ta k e s t o g i v e o n e PAUL CALLAHAN, M.S. 96, and LYNN DANKOW SKI cancer survivor the chance to participate in First Descents. "The race itself 90, J.D. 96, Missoula w as a struggle, as I did not have the top-of-the-line equipm ent that som e of TERRY CARTER 70, Liberty Lake, WA the veterans had," he says. "However, anytime I w as going up a hill and ALEXANDER CARTWRIGHT 78, Lake T apps, WA thought my legs w ere goin g to give out, thinking of all the survivors I met w ho have been fighting their w hole life kept me goin g through the finish JOH N CLOTFELTER 7 6 and DEBRA CLOTFELTER, line." Mike plans to raise more m oney for the program by com peting in a Yorktown, VA triathlon sometime this year. H e currently works as a financial representative SCOTT EAMES ’87, Purdys, N Y at Northwestern Mutual. KELLEY KOSTELECKY 96, Coeur dAlene, ID TIMOTHY LONG 78, Arlington, VA which seeks to educate graduated from Billings native Canada and is MARK MCCUE 98, Denver, C O hobbyist beekeepers West in 2006 and went expected to represent her about strategies for on to play quarterback country at international ROBERT MCCUE ’83 , Missoula promoting the health for the Grizzlies, also SYDNEY MCCUE, M issoula and survival o f their bees. teaches algebra and TIM MCCUE 95, Seattle, WA Although the insects and geometry at his alma their byproducts provide mater. BILL MUSE an d MARY MUSE, M issoula numerous health benefits JOHN MACK, M.B.A. ’ll, BRIAN OEVERMANN 92, Issaquah, WA to humans, Sarah says recendy joined the Great many people do not Falls Police Department. KARIN LARSON-POLLOCK 93, Mercer Island, WA know how to properly JAIMIE THIBEAULT ’ll TERI WHEELER WAHL RAPPE 71, Wenatchee, WA care for their hives. signed a contract to play CARL RUMMEL 76 an d ANNETTE RUMMEL, Missoula I t ’s important to baby professional volleyball your bees,” she tells the for the Lavoro D oc LARRY RYAN 72, Lenexa, KS Ashland Daily Tidings. Pontecagnano club in BARBARA SHONKWILER 72 and THOM AS LEE, ANDREW SELLE 10, Italy. The former Griz Kalispell Billings, coaches volleyball star and quarterbacks for the three-time first-team MARTHA SPOH N 74, Worthington, O H football program at All-Big Sky Conference MARY GAIL SULLIVAN 79, M.B.A. ’00, Butte Billings West High selection also made the ASHLEEN WILLIAMS ’ll , Snohomish, WA School. Andrew, who national team in her WWW.UMT.EDU/MONlANAN M O N T A N A N SPRING 2012 I 43 When John Mattelin graduated from UM in 2008, one of the m ost important lessons he'd learned actually came from his grandparents: the importance of giving back. He established the Mattelin-Weeks Scholarship in honor of his grandparents— as a way of paying tribute to them, and as a way of paying forward som e of the same opportunities he had as a scholarship recipient. m r UN IVE RSITY MONTANA F O U N CyA T I O N Like John, you can becom e part of the President's Club with a gift of $1,000 or more. To find out how, contact Lauren Clark, Director o f Annual Giving - External Cam paigns at 406.243.2456 Give now at SupportUM .org/PresidentsClub or [email protected] . W SHOW YOUR N5 TRUE COLORS! Become a donor and show your support for the Montanan. 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I Order greeting cards and campus photos at http://umt.edu/urelations/maricet or phone orders will be taken at 406-243-2522. l MONTANAN I 51 BY JO H N HEANEY 02 o f Missoula’s quality of life. Students would research the topic, design a questionnaire, go door-to-door to conduct the survey, and finally analyze the data. The results would sometimes generate articles Wicks published in peer- reviewed journals. While the course content was valuable in itself, the practical lessons Wicks taught beyond economics is where he was most impactful. One of his famous lessons was that of the Seven Ps: Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance. “I still use the Seven Ps today,” Wesbury says. In fact, he mentions them in his most recent book, which acknowledges the role Wicks played in his career. Wicks also had a unique method for honing students’ public speaking skills. “He would ‘ding’ parenthetical you knows,’” says Andrew Pryor, a seminar veteran from the early 2000s. “Every time someone said you know,’ he would say ‘ding.’ And he expected ■k dI I11 B =1i f jJ J L31 I you to keep going and not break youir 1 % concentration. It really helped students’ speech patterns, whether you liked it or not.” AND OTHER LESSONS Wicks also was known for his notorious ts Chicago in the early 1980s. The economy has tanked Pitkin Premium homebrew, affectionately known among and jobs are scarce, especially in the financial industry. veterans as PP. The beverage was concocted in a plastic Brian Wesbury, fresh out o f UM with an economics garbage can in Wicks’ kitchen. degree,I is competing against people with masters degrees “We were welcome to have a glass if we wanted,” McCue and extensive resumes for the few jobs that are available. His recalls. “Some did actually like it, and some said they did to immediate future looks a bit uncertain. kiss up to John.” Unbeknownst to him, however, Wesbury possesses one Pryor, who lovingly describes PP as an “almost distinct advantage: He happens to be a veteran o f UM nonalcoholic beer that had different flavors and consistencies economics Professor John Wicks’ empirical research design each time it was brewed,” was lucky enough to be entrusted seminar. The experience gained in that class, Wesbury has with the secret recipe. since been told, is one o f the key reasons he landed his first It w a sn ’t a special type of hops or flavoring or brewing job in the storied economic department at Harris Bank. technique. Ever the economist, Wicks’ secret was using the “That’s what started off my career,” says Wesbury, who is most inexpensive ingredients available. now considered one o f the top economic forecasters in the “I’m sure he had measurements for the yeast and sugar A b o v e : Wicks7 alter United States. and other ingredients,” Pryor says. “But they had to be the ego, The Great Wesbury is just one of thousands o f “seminar veterans,” absolute cheapest possible price you could find. That was which is what Wicks called students who successfully the secret to the success o f PP.” Halloween fixture completed his legendary class. The final seminar Wicks taught was spring 2011. He at Shakey's Pizza “You wear that name like a badge of honor,” says Bob died February 25, 2012, at age seventy-five. Missoula. The McCue, a seminar veteran from the late seventies. His legend, however, lives on. Missoulian featured Wicks started teaching the class shortly after he arrived at “His students loved him,” UM economics Professor The Great Pumpkin UM in 1964. It was open to UM students in most majors, D oug Dalenberg says. “John was a bit o f a character. He but it took more than just signing up for the class to enroll. was old school but generated lots o f lasting relationships A new student needed a recommendation from a veteran, with students.” T op: An avid and he or she also had to sit for an interview with Wicks. Wesbury and a group o f veterans started a fund in The class, which typically had ten to twenty students, Wicks enjoyed the economics department in Wicks’ honor. He hopes gathered once a week on couches and chairs in the living to perpetuate the seminar because “it really does provide room of Wicks’ home on South Higgins Avenue, just across undergrads with things that they d o n ’t get at other schools. from Dornblaser Field. Each student also was required to Many veterans gathered in April for a celebration they meet with him once a week at his office on campus. dubbed “The Final Seminar” at the Doubletree in Missoula. Every semester the class tackled a different project, “He still had about six cases of Pitkin Premium left, exploring economic issues ranging from finding the variables M cCue says. “So we passed out a litde bit to everyone and that make it more likely for a person to steal music off the toasted John one last time. And that was the end of the PE Internet to local food production to determining the value And the end of an era, too. U 52 I SPRING 2012 MONTANAN Th J T J - J r Free season golf pass with the purchase of a Meadow or Estate homesite/ Who would have thought everyday inspiration is just 10 minutes from downtown Missoula, Montana? Rolling mountains, 18 holes of golf, 270 homesites, and the famous Clark Fork River - all in one special place. 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