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Visit our Web Site at www.plumcreek.com V o l u m e 18 Gwitents N u m b e r 1 10 14 i s Publisher DEPARTMENTS David Purviance ’90 FEATURES Editor Joan Melcher 73 2 Contributing 8 A R O U N D Writers and NOTES FROM WALL STREET T H E O V A L Editors by James “B utch” Larcombe Terry Brenner 6 Betsy HolmQuist ’67 A prize-winning journalist talks about SPORTS Rita Munzenrider ’83 his move from ink to cyberspace. Cary Shimek Patia Stephens ’00 13 Photographer FACES OF UM Todd Goodrich *88 10 Layout and START-UP SAVVY 22 ALUMNI NOTES Graphics by K en P ic a r d Mike Egeler Montana has been slow out of the gate in high-tech endeavors, Advisory Board but a few UM alumni are trying to reverse that trend. 25 Sharon Barrett CLASS NOTES Vivian Brooke Perry Brown William Farr 34 Bob Frazier 14 FOUNDATION Bill Johnston SAVING VIRGINIA CITY Wendy Smith by Jo a n M elcher Dennis Swibold John Talbot The past and the present share the stage in Virginia City. Advertising Representative Lowell Hanson 18 (406) 728-3951 Editorial CAMPUS CLUES Offices UM’s campus holds many architectural delights: University Relations Can you identify them? 315 Brandy Hall The University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812-7642 (406) 243-2522 Website: www.umt.edu The Montanan Cover photo by is published three Todd Goodrich. times a year by The University of Interior photos by Todd Montana for its Goodrich, except as alumni and friends. noted. Fall 2000 M ontanan 1 y J^ROUND THE OVAL Honoring M aureen & M ike he Mansfields became a permanent fixture on the UM campus in education (‘35 and ‘41) and in May, with the dedication of a life-size statue. The revered Velma Clark Aasheim earned a Tstatesman and the woman he credits for his success were hon­ bachelor’s degree in 1936. ored in the statue sculpted by artist Terry Murphy, a Helena native. “The University takes great The statue took a place of honor on the mall between the pride in the Mansfields and all University Center and the Mansfield Library. The mall has been that they have done for Montana, renamed the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Mall. the United States and the world,” Magnus and Velma Aasheim of Mesa, Arizona, and Antelope, said UM President George Montana, commissioned the work. Magnus Aasheim, a retired ranch­ Dennison at the dedication. er, educator and legislator, earned UM bachelor’s and master’s degrees Mike Mansfield earned a bachelor’s degree from UM in The Mansfield ► 1933 and a master’s degree in his­ statue, sculpted tory in 1934. He stayed on at the by Montana native Terry University, working in administra­ A dancer performs ^ Murphy. tion and teaching Latin American with the Fort Peck Oyate Singers at the and Far Eastern history until Missoula international 1942. He has remained a history Choral Festival 2000. professor on permanent tenure at UM for more than five decades. First elected to the U.S. Congress in 1942, Mansfield served five terms as a representative and four terms in the U.S. Senate, where he was majority leader from 1961 to 1976. He was Ambassador to Japan from 1976 to 1988 and currently is an adviser to American and Asian leaders on issues affecting the Pacific Rim and American-Asian rela­ tions. Native Voices P * , 'w ^ merican Indian voices sented as part of the American contin­ ^^^w ere heard for the gency. They traveled to the Fort Belknap first time at the and Fort Peck reservations and “beat the ; Missoula International Choral drum” for singers. The Fort Peck Oyate '$ Festival 2000 in July. Singers emerged from the efforts of the Organized every three or professors, and this year, for the first time, four years, the festival brings American Indian voices were represented singers from around the world to Missoula at the international event. for a week of performances. This year A resounding success, the festival cul­ fourteen choirs from seven countries per­ minated with 800 voices joining in a formed in various venues around town finale for a packed Adams Center. The and campus. final performance featured a composition After the last festival, UM philosophy by composer and conductor Bill Professor D ick Walton and UM Associate McGlaughlin, with lyrics drawn from Professor Jr music G at^j^nk decided that Walt Whitman—“I hear America AmericanrI ndian singers should be repre- singing.” 2 :• 2000 \M n u m (greetings from the f*resident he advent of the Information Age presents challenges in an order the more pragmatic and productive goal of of magnitude greater for the current and coming generations. As “carrying people to a place for a purpose.” the articles in this issue of the M ontanan indicate, new tech­ He aims specifically at providing the Inology brings with it wonderful opportunities as well as chal­ spaces designed for the manufacture of lenges. Someone reported recently the existence of six million dot­ products from new fabrication materials, a com companies in North America! I find it pleasing to learn that process possible only in “microgravity.” graduates of The University of Montana have made their presence The University will strive to remain felt among this burgeoning wave of entrepreneurs. Without a doubt, abreast of these developments and to pro­ we have yet to experience the full effect of this technology. vide opportunities for the faculty, staff and In terms of its impact, the revolution has just begun. The dot-coms students to compete in this rapidly chang­ bring us into new terrain in a business sense, but the marvels of map­ ing world. To return to my opening obser­ ping the genome and developing nanoscience make it clear that the vation, the next generation will have great opportunities to match world has indeed shifted. Medicine will change dramatically as a the challenges if we in higher education prepare the way. result of enhanced understanding of genetic functioning. Nanoscience refers to the possibilities of using Quasi-genetic code to fabricate minute machines to accomplish designated tasks that we never dreamed possible. I recently met with an entrepreneur who visited campus to discuss his plans to develop vehicles for commercial travel George M. Dennison in space, beginning with tourism and fun but getting very Quickly to President Biologists Forever N ew Faces on M became the world’s epicenter for ampus conservation biologists in June, with C more than 1,300 professionals from M has two new administrators this throughout the United States and twenty- foil—a provost and a dean of the five countries gathering on campus for the UCollege of Arts and Sciences. fourteenth meeting of the Society for Lois Muir became UM’s provost and vice Conservation Biology. The event included president for academic affairs in July, assum­ about 400 papers, 60 symposium talks and ing the No. 2 administrative position at UM 190 poster presentations on conservation- and becoming the highest-ranking woman in related research from around the world. Field the University’s history. Muir replaced Robert trips were conducted for participants to habi­ L. Kindrick, who left UM for a similar posi­ tats such as Glacier National Park, tion at Wichita State University in Kansas. Yellowstone National Park and the Lee “We had an incredibly strong pool of can­ Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge. didates,” UM President George Dennison said. “We’re fortunate to have someone as accomplished and experienced as Lois Muir to fill the position.” Muir’s mother grew up and taught school Jffil in Montana. “I was raised with her stories of childhood in Montana,” Muir said. “As an adult, she taught school in a one-room schoolhouse that still is in use in eastern Georgia, Indiana University, Rutgers Montana. She longed to return to Montana University and the University of Wisconsin but was never able to do so. In a sense, I am in La Crosse. returning in her place to the home she Thomas A. Storch replaces College of loved.” Arts and Sciences Dean James Flightner, who Muir was associate provost and professor retired after serving more than a decade as of educational psychology at Ohio’s Kent dean. Storch comes from Marshall University State University from 1996 until taking the in Huntington, West Virginia, where he was UM position. Before that she held several dean of the College of Science since 1994. UM researcher Scott Mills Mortifies plant species on tfc* forest floor while giving Science News writer positions at Kent State and served on the fac­ He brings to UM more than thirty years of fo**n Milius a tow of Lnbredrt Experimental Forest ulty at Kennesaw State University in academic experience, including research, Fall 2000 M ontanan 3 y^ROUND THE OVAL teaching, public service, fund raising and mission this fall is to raise money and public National Lewis and Clark Education Center.