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Will the polar bear survive the energy crisis?

by Ron Righter They flew each day, these men who study bears. Packed in a twin-engine Piper Navajo, they skimmed one hundred miles of floating ice and open water between the Norwegian island of Svalbard and Greenland. Bart O'Gara and his Danish and Norwegian companions scanned the ice below for polar bear tracks. They knew that the ice would drift south until it melted and they suspected that any bears still alive would be forced ashore and killed by Greenland's Eskimo hunters. The biologists had no hope of preventing bears from embarking on this dead-end drift of polar ice. Instead, they sought to discover the origin of the doomed bears. Did they come from the Soviet Arctic? Or did the pack ice carry some of them from as far away as Alaska, as some researchers speculate? These were—and still are—much more than purely academic questions. If polar resource managers are to maintain healthy populations of bears, they must Returning Golden Grizzlies•: (I) Margaret Booth (14) Lucille Rector Day; (15) Alice Van Pelt Turner; (32) M ae Campbell Peterson; (33) Isabel Laird; (2) Greta Shriver Seibel; (3) Dorothy Morrow unravel the patterns of the bear's Coleman; (16) Jack Ryan; (17) Wilfred Fehlhaber; Lentz.Staat; (34) Gertrude Dalke McCollum; (35) Gallagher; (4) Theodore E. Hodges; (5) W illiam T. movements throughout the Arctic. To (18) Roger M . Wyatt; (19) Harold £ . Blinn; (20) Margaret Sterling Brooke; (36) Margaret Maddock Hodges; (6) Heloise Vinal Wickes (Central Board George C. Floyd; (21) Addison Howard Overland; Anderson; (37) David ]. Maclay; (38) Dorothy help provide this vital information, UM Delegate); (7) Annabelle Desmond Cook (Secretary); (22) Robert E. Nofsinger; (23) Dorothy B. Taylor; Garey Wegner; (39) Herbert E. Robinson; (40) Edith professor O'Gara and his colleagues (8) Alex M . Stepanzoff; (9) Pauline Swartz Cogswell (24) Vernon C. Hollingsworth; (25) Betty Miller Dawes Lewis; (41) Maureen Desmond Flilner; (42) (Vice President); (10) Malcolm C. Morrow plan to continue their investigation into Hollingsworth; (26) Otho McLean; (27) Helen W. Stella Skulason Moe; (43) Hulda M iller Fields; (44) (President); (11) Sarah Mershon Neumann; (12) polar bear ecology. Zeh; (28) Betty Johnson Colby; (29) Lester A . Colby; Boynton G. Paige; (45) Andrew C. Cogswell; (46) William E. White; (13) Marie Neeley Reifenralh; (30) Earl L Anglemyer; (31) Hildegarde Weisberg Ivan S. Mechling. They aren't alone in their pursuit of knowledge of the polar bear. The bear ranges through the territories of the The class of ’27, 50 years later... five circumpolar nations—Canada, the by Lisa Walser USSR, Norway, the US and Denmark The rest of Homecoming weekend "We used to sing 'Old College Chums' (Greenland)1. Biologists from all five When 50 members of the Class of '27 brought them even closer together. At slowly and then walk away humming it. countries are tracking the bear across gathered at the University last month the Alumni Awards Dinner they sat It was very impressive." the polar ice and untangling its for Homecoming, they found that the with each other, forming wave upon "I was in Brantly Hall when it was relationships with other members of the campus wasn't the only thing that had wave of gray hair. When they were new. Today they still have some of the Arctic community. changed in 50 years—so had their presented their Golden Grizzly same dressers I had!" classmates. A sense of urgency drives these Certificates, given to all alums who "He certainly has aged." researchers. They know that the polar All Friday morning "Golden return to UM during their 50-year "It's been a good life. A lot of fun. I sea is no longer the sanctuary for the Grizzlies" trickled into the Alumni Homecoming, they rose ever so slowly couldn't have asked for more—^-except to bear it once was. New eyes are turning Center to register for Homecoming from their seats. That was the only sign have had my Phil with me longer." to the Arctic Ocean; eyes that hunger activities and pick up the large name tags of their age all weekend. "Remember when we put those old for the oil and gas buried beneath its icy they had requested. The 50-year class is Later that evening they watched the rags in the Phi Delts' beds? Boy were waters. While men prepare the honored each year during Homecoming, lighting of the "M" and listened and sang they mad!" armaments of exploitation, biologists but never before had the Goldens been with the University Choir on the steps so well represented. "Young people are the same always, such as O'Gara, who is also acting leader of Main Hall. After that, they broke off but there is a change today—a much of the Montana Cooperative Wildlife At two that afternoon the Golden into small groups to hear medieval freer life. There are many fine young Research Unit, ponder the bear's future. Grizzlies met on the Main Hall steps for music at the John Biggs Consort, to have people and I think there always will be." "Until now the bears have been safe," a group picture. It had threatened to rain wine at a wine-tasting party at the "Even though I knew some of my all day so no one was surprised when O'Gara said, "J>ut with all these people President's home or to visit with old classmates really well in college I would heading north for the oil and gas we're raindrops forced a retreat into the Main friends. On Saturday the Homecoming , not have recognized them without their finding we just don't know enough Hall foyer. Caught in a crowd of Parade, the Grizzly football game and name tags." about the bears." unfamiliar faces, the Golden Grizzlies the Glenn Miller Orchestra Dance filled were like strangers, until one man Even some of the old buildings have No one knows how long the polar bear their schedule. changed." has lived in the Arctic. Man, his only peered closely at another's name tag. His If you listened closely throughout the "He used to have more hair." competitor, first reached the shores of eyes lit up with recognition as he weekend, you could overhear some of the polar sea between ten and fifteen pointed his finger at his classmate's "Spooning Rock? Why that's the rock the stories and traditions that the years in the Oval where we used to, you know, thousand years ago. During most of that chest. "You're the one who played that could not tarnish and you could get a make out." time the bear weathered well the storm trick on me in '26," he said. That started glimpse of the world they lived in, a "1927 was a very quiet year." of man's presence. The Eskimo's it. The old college buddies, many who world very different from today: primitive weapons—spear, and bow and had not seen each other in 50 years, When it was over, when they went back to their private lives, they knew arrow—were inadequate against its size started to rework the old stories and tell and ferocity. Although a few Eskimos some new ones. And from then on, the that physically they had changed, but inside, they were still Old College hunted the bear, most simply learned to Golden Grizzlies were never quiet Chums. live with it. again. continued on p. 4 right—marginal, but all right. Carol was androgynous in velvet Lord Fauntleroy wearing Marie Antoinette milkmaid, suits, were also his. but with her usual infallible chic, had Martha recited a passage on marriage embellished it with her trademark "from the Spanish poet Federico Garcia jewelry: an authentic squash-blossom Lorca." Last time she was married, she'd necklace, three free-form rings bought said "Frederico." Kate thought the fact from a creative artisan at the Mill Valley that Martha had got it right this time Art Festival on her right hand, and her was a good sign; and she adored the old high school charm bracelet updated Lorca. with the addition of a tiny silver coke When Bill recited in turn, he was spoon. almost inaudible, but.Kate thought she Reverend Spike Thurston, minister of recognized The Prophet, which was not a the Radical Unitarian Church in Terra good sign. She dug her fingernails into Linda and active in the Marin Sexual Harvey again; he was shifting his feet Freedom League, was presiding. Kate restlessly. This wasn't a sign of was thrilled as the ceremony began and anything, necessarily, since Harvey Thurston raised a solemn, liturgical simply couldn't get used to his new hand; she really got off on weddings. Roots, but it was best to be safe. "Fellow beings," Thurston began, "Hey, listen," she whispered to Carol, smiling, "I'm not here today as a who had wiggled her way through the minister but as a member of the crowd and was now at her side. "It's community. Not just the community of terrific, isn't it?" soul$ gathered here, not just the "Really," Carol whispered back. "He community of Mill Valley, but the larger looks good. He's an architect that does human community which is the cosmos. mini-parks. She met him at her creative "I'm not going to solemnize this divorce group." marriage in the usual sense of the word. Kate leaned across her to take in the I'm not going to pronounce it as existing crowd. She thought she recognized from this day forward. Because nobody Mimi Farina. She also noticed Larry, her can do that except Martha and"—he shampoo person from Rape of the held a quick, worried conference with Locks, who always ran her through the somebody behind him—"and Bill." soul handshake when she came in for a Harvey was already restless. "Do we cut and blow-dry. She hoped she have to go to a reception after this wouldn't have to shake hands with thing?" he asked too loudly. Larry, at the reception, since she never "Organic/' Kate whispered, digging got the scissors/paper/rock maneuvers her fingernails into his wrist. "At of the soul handshake just right and Davood's." since she was pretty sure that Larry kept Harvey looked dismayed. changing it on her, probably out of "These children have decided to recite repressed racial animosity. Cyra McFadden their own vows," Thurston continued. Thurston, after a few remarks about Kate thought "children" was overdoing the ecology, had just pronounced it a little; Martha was at least forty, Martha and her new husband man and although everybody knew chronological woman. Kate felt warmly sentimental as age didh't matter these days. "They're the bride and bridegroom kissed The funjiy lady of Marin not going to recite something after me, passionately, and loosened her grip on because this is a real wedding—the Harvey's wrist. She noticed that the fog wedding of two separatenesses, two was beginning to lift slightly and gazed ('This is where it's at, you know?') solitarinesses, under the sky." off into the distance. Thurston pointed out the sky and "Hey, look," she said to Harvey paused while a jet thundered across it. excitedly. "Isn't that the ocean?" After 39 years of anonymity, Cyra McFadden Kate thought he looked incredibly "The Pacific," Harvey replied tersely. is hot news not only in her own territory—Marin Hip wedding handsome with his head thrown back "Believed to be the largest on the West County, Calif.—hut across the country. Her first and his purple Marvin Gaye T-shirt Coast. It's part of the cosmos." book, "The Serial," a biting spoof of life amid the at Mount Tam emblazoned with "Let's Get It On" Kate felt put down. Harvey was human potential movement, '“Marinsdominant stretched tightly across his chest. becoming increasingly uptight these light industry," is in its seventh printing, is in the by Cyra McFadden "Martha," he said, "will you tell us days, and remarks like this one were third position on the New York Times "trade As she got ready for Martha's what's in your heart?" more frequent. Look at the way he'd paperback" bestseller list and has sold 116,000 wedding, Kate reflected happily that one Standing on tiptoe, Kate could just baited her TA instructor at the copies. great thing about living in Marin was catch a glimpse of the bride; slightly to Brennans' the other night. "You are not "The Serial" chronicles a year in the life of the that your friends were always growing the right of her, she spotted Martha's O.K.," he had told him loudly, lurching fictional Holroyds—Kate and Harvey—who and changing. She couldn't remember, ex-husband-once-removed with his slightly in his Roots. "I could give you a strive to "stay mellow at all costs" while living in for example, how many times Martha spacy new old lady, who, Kate thought, lot of reasons; but take my word for it— their tract house in Marin. The book originally had been married before. looked like Martha. She tried to you are not O.K." ran as a weekly column in the Pacific Sun, a She wondered if she ought to call her remember which of Martha's children, Yes, Kate was going to have to do weekly paper, that "oddly enough caters to the friend Carol and ask what to wear. all present and looking oddly something about Harvey. . . . Kates and Harveys of Marin," Cyra said. Martha had said "dress down," but that "There was much pro- and anli-Serial fervor all could mean anything from Marie the time it ran and a furious debate in the letters to Antoinette milkmaid from The Electric the editor column." Poppy to bias-cut denims from Moody Cyra grew up in Missoula and attended the Blues. Kate didn't have any bias-cut University one year before marrying and moving denims, because she'd been waiting to to Oregon. After that marriage, broke up, she see how long they'd stay in, but she supported herself and daughter Carrie in San . could borrow her adolescent daughter's. Francisco, remarried and received her B.A. and They wore the same clothes all the time. M.A. degrees in English literature at San Her husband, Harvey, was already in Francisco State University. She taught in the the shower, so Kate decided on her English department at State for five years and has Renaissance Faire costume. She always published fiction and articles in The Nation, felt mildly ridiculous in it, but it wasn't The New Leader and McCalls. so bad without the conical hat and it was She says her plans are to enjoy the luxury of definitely Mount Tam wedding. Now writing full-time, "rather than putting in an the problem was Harvey, who hour in the middle of the night when Td finish absolutely refused to go to Mount Tam reading and grading freshman English essays." weddings in the French jeans Kate had She also has sold movie, paperback and bought him for his birthday. She knew syndication rights to "The Serial." The following excerpt from her book appears he'd wear his Pierre Cardin suit, which was fine two years ago but which was with permission from Knopf publishers. now establishment; and when he came out of the shower, her fears were from "The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County" confirmed. ®Cyra McFadden Since they were already late, though, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1977, $4.95 there was no point in trying to do something about Harvey. They drove up Panoramic to the mountain meadow trying to remember what Martha's bridegroom's name was this time (Harvey thought it was Bill again, but Profiles Kate was reasonably sure it wasn't) and November 1977 made it to the ceremony just as the Vol. 10. No. 1 recorder player, a bare-chested young Published every January. March. May. July. August. man perched faunlike on a rock above September and November by Information Services. the assembled guests, began to Music professor John Ellis fills the air with the thanks to about $21,500 of repair work donated University of Montana. Missoula, Mont. improvise variations on the latest Pink Second-class postage paid at Missoula. M ont. 59812 sweet sound of the University's carillon, which is by the Oakley Coffee Family, Foundation trustee Floyd. again in working order. The carillon, which is Bill Gallagher and several other donors, Ellis Editor ______Judy Hensel Right away, Kate spotted Carol and situated in the belltower of Main Hall, hasn't plays the bells during the noon hour and at special Photographer______Gordon Lemon knew her Renaissance dress was all been played regularly for about 10 years. Now, occasions. 2 Profiles Ask a linguist about 'uncola/ Sak's, Eskimos and proper grammar by Judy Hensel All dialects use only a small number of Remember the first time you heard sounds, Hausmann explained, although "uncola"? You probably stopped what humans are capable of producing many you were doing and took a mental step more. Three sounds—ee, oo and ah— backward. Uncola? Even now, after are used in almost every human hearing it many times, you may still language. And "languages that seem cringe when you hear the familiar soft- unalike are the same in ways not drink jingle. expected. All have subjects, objects and Your ear tells you the word doesn't fit verbs." in English, and the reason you For example, the English say "The subconsciously "know" that it's wrong man whom you met yesterday is my interests people who call themselves friend." The Japanese version uses the linguists. Their speciality is language, same parts of speech but mixes their our means of communicating, of order: "The whom you met yesterday learning, of expressing affection and man my friend is." perhaps even of thinking. "Uncola" These similarities mean human sounds strange because the prefix "un" languages are related, Hausmann said; is used before verbs and adjectives, not no language scholar will dispute it. But nouns. Although very few of us have there's no agreement why. Some been taught such laws of English, we all support the "Tower of Bable" theory Bob Hausmann know when something "sounds funny." that all human languages have a Linguists want to know why. common beginning, that every dialect words around words, as seems logical, a Instead, she believes, we should Bob Hausmann, an English professor branched off from one language. child knows that verbs are moved recognize that all languages change and at the University, has helped keep UM's Most believe, however, that around subjects. Therefore he can that deviation from Latin is not wrong. informal linguistics program alive for something in the constitution of the change the sentence "The blue bird has For example, hardly anyone knocking on several years. He thinks it's about time brain dictates human language. But the flown away" to a question: "Has the blue a friend's door says "It is I." Almost we began studying one of the most human brain-^that unmatched bird flown away?" He naturally knows everyone says "It's me." So many people important parts of our life—our speech. mystery—is still so little understood. the difference between a subject and an use the second form, that it's recognized We acquire language as a child and use it The most we can do is study behavior object. as acceptable. everyday for the rest of our lives. It can and hypothesize. Another clue to what the brain knows Grammar used to be taught reveal our social standing and is believed For instance, a linguist is interested in about language is our ability to pick up prescriptively and still is in many places, to influence how we think. We couldn't how children learn language and how similarities in language and to ignore Hausmann explained. Students have function without it, yet we know almost they can turn mountains of differences. If your sister calls on the been taught that certain usages are nothing about its workings. We misinformation into coherent language phone, you recognize her greeting from "right" or "wrong." But students should shamelessly take it for granted. (adults using baby talk, for example). a world of hellos. You also can identify be taught that street language—which One of the questions foremost in a A child also hears hundreds of short the range of her greeting, because every they hear every day—is inappropriate linquist's mind is how language is sentences that can be changed to time she calls, she says "hello" for writing, not w rpng. "It's like going to a acquired. Are children born knowing questions by switching the first two differently. dinner party underdressed," he said. innately how speech is structured? If words: "She has come here" and "Has Also, something in the human brain Hosford agrees: "Teachers must be they do, does that explain why all she come here?" But instead of believing tells us how to create new sentences taught not to condemn socially languages resemble each other? that questions can be made by moving every time we speak. Ninety percent of disadvantaged languages (ghetto talk)." sentences uttered have never been said Instead they can compare the dialect before, by anyone, Hausmann said. with traditional English and point out Linguistics is much more, however, that although street grammar is than language acquisition; many simpler, English has other rules. disciplines are involved. And that "English has goofy spellings because we diversity is represented by the faculty still spell Old English pronounciations," members who are part of the UM she said. If students understand that, program. Professors from they'll be more willing to learn. anthropology, English, communication "Grammar is a valuable crutch," sciences and disorders, foreign Hosford believes, "a communication languages, interpersonal system to simplify language, not communication, religious studies and something you study as such." sociology teach linguistics to about 400 students a year. Many department require their students to take at least one linguistics course. The reason is obvious: people need to know about their language. The sociologist wants to know if there's a correlation between social class and language. One researcher studied the accents of floorwalkers and clerks in three New York department stores: Saks, Macy's and E. J. Corette. He found that directions to find something on the Wes Shellen fourth floor were pronounced differently in each store. The elite Saks The psycholinguist and his black box hires people who speak one way; the middle-class Macy's expects its You can understand the sentence: controls all processes that produce personnel to speak another, and the "The girl the boy kissed cried." And language. Unfortunately, dissectingHhe people who sell E. J. Corette's discount "The boy the mailman hated kissed the brain tells us little about how and why it items speak still another way. girl" isn't hard to comprehend. But a works. Therefore, Shellen explained, we Anthropologists find that the third sentence constructed the same must study the brain as if it were a black structure of a culture often corresponds way makes no sense: "The girl the boy box whose contents are a mystery. A with the structure of the language. the mailman hated kissed cried." few wires protrude from the Eskimos have eight or nine words to The third sentence is grammatically hypothetical box, and they are our only describe snow. Americans describe the Helga Hosford correct, yet the human mind can't means of testing what is inside. automobile many ways. interpret it. Why? Ask a psycholinguist, So it is with the brain, Shellen said, And the English teacher perhaps Many people disagree with Hosford's a person who studies how speech is language and how we use it are the needs to know more than anyone about and Hausmann's ideas about teaching performed. Hell tell you that the third protruding wires of the mind. That's the language's nature. Both Hausmann grammar. But it must be understood sentence stretches the limit of the short­ why the psycholinguist studies how a and Helga Hosford, a German professor that linguists don't want teachers to term memory. person hears and immitates a spoken who also teaches linguistics, believe if stop teaching proper grammar. They Wes Shellen, a professor of sentence and how he accepts it as a English teachers know how language - merely want students not to feel interpersonal communication and a sentence, interprets its meaning, works, they can do a better job of threatened by it, not to tune out the psycholinguist, can tell you that the understands it and believes it. teaching how to read and write. teacher who says to use whom instead three examples are "nesting" sentences. Imagine the practicalities of It's time we understood English, of who when the distinction is seldom That is, each has a second short sentence understanding that process, of grasping Hosford believes, and quit trying to made in everyday speech. within it (the mailman hated nests in the boy how the brain produces language. It squeeze it into the Latin tradition. Above all, Hosford, Hausmann and kissed the girl). As long as there is only one would mean treatment of language "Latin terminology and dissection of other linguists want to learn about ■embedding, the mind can remember the disorders such as stammering and words is inappropriate for English," she language and to teach others how it first part of the original sentence. But aphasia. We could discover more said. "We're tried to stick English into works. As Hosford said: "If we humans the third example has two nestings and effective ways of teaching reading and the straight jacket of Latin. But Latin are defined as capable of speech, then it the brain's short-term memory can't writing or second languages. The doesn't explain a thing and bores is very bad that so few people know how handle the overload. possibilities are endless, but above all, students spitless." language functions. People know the The brain is the center of study for the we could gain insight into ourselves, the least about the most important things in psycholinguist because the cerrebrum animal that speaks, and perhaps better their lives." understand what it means to be human.

November 1977 3 energy prices, they nurse a technology polar bear conservation. Their biologists designed to penetrate the thickest ice will pinpoint areas of critical importance and the harshest weather. In shallow to the bear—feeding and denning waters (30 feet or less), crews will drill locations for example—areas which from man-made islands. Where hopefully will be protected from buckling and shifting of ice is not a development. They'll examine the problem, they'll construct drilling effects of crude oil on the polar bear and platforms on the ice itself. And in still the pyramid of life of which it is a other areas drilling ships will drop member. Eventually they hope to anchor, stabilize their position by radio understand the patterns of polar bear and pierce the sea floor. Underwater ecology well enough to insure that man pipelines, laid hundreds of feet below and bear will continue to coexist in the the water's surface to escape the Arctic. scraping keels of icebergs, will siphon Unfortunately, there isn't much time the oil and gas ashore. Icebreakers will to fill in these patterns. Little more than plow open new shipping lanes so that a decade ago perhaps the most the fuels can be shipped south. impressive fact about the polar bear was This invasion of the ice by a small man's ignorance of it. Only the army unsettles biologists. Will the scribblings of naturalists, the lore and drilling stations become the graveyards wisdom of the Eskimo and the reports of of curious, garbage-seeking bears, shot a few biologists provided insight about by helicopter-borne gunmen? All five the bear. governments are considering strict Researchers today are much better regulations on garbage disposal and use equipped than their forerunners to flesh of firearms and an outright ban on out this old skeleton of knowledge. harrassment of bears. In spite of this, a Men's attitudes toward the Arctic and basic question remains—can the polar bear have grown from mere government officials enforce these curiosity to something approaching restrictions on the cold, wind-swept respect. And with respect has come This photo of a partially tranquilized polar bear and Pierce of the National Film Board, money to pay for helicopters, her cubs was taken in Churchill, Manitoba, by Terry polar sea? Yet these are old problems—as old as tranquilizing drugs and laboratory man's presence in the Arctic. Biologists equipment. Today's polar bear biologist Will the polar bear have dealt with them before, and at least has a tremendous advantage over his have some idea what to do. predecessor of 10 short years ago. And survive the energy crisis? The oil itself may inflict the greatest his work shows it. continued from p. 1 toll on the polar bear. Although drilling For instance, give him a (nap of the Then, in the mid-nineteenth century, these practices, although all but Norway crews might guide their probes with a Arctic and he will show you what he a new element entered the Eskimo's and the USSR still allow some form of fine eye and shipmasters nudge their oil­ knows. He will point to nearly 20 areas culture. White traders brought firearms hunting. One technological innovation laden charges with a delicate hand, an oil sprinkled around the polar sea where to the north and used them for barter. is still perfectly legal—the snowmobile. spill seems inevitable. And although large numbers of female bears move off They found rifles and ammunition By allowing native hunters to travel scientists don't fully understand how the ice, dig winter dens and give birth to cheap offering in exchange for the greater distances than by the traditional crude oil effects life in the Arctic Ocean, their cubs; his finger will trace the fine valuable pelts the Eskimo trapped each dogsled, it has expanded and intensified they do know that oil retains its toxicity venation of open water leads on the pack winter. The new weapon served the the Eskimo's impact on the bear. much longer in cold water than in ice where bears gather to stalk the hunter well. He no longer had to Yet the polar bear has survived the warmer seas. ringed seal, their staple food; and his approach to spear-thrust or arrow-shot increasing pressure. Man and bear Some researchers speculate that oil hands will weave as he explains the way range; he could kill from afar. And the continue to share the Arctic as they have trapped under the ice will, over a period in which the rotation of the pack ice repeating rifle allowed him to deal with a in the past. Numbers fluctuate, behavior of several years, work its way to the about the pole effects the bear. wounded, charging bear without the changes; yet each endures. In the surface. The blackened ice will melt over But even today, the polar bear time-consuming process of reloading. biologist's vernacular, man and bear are large areas and alter the relationships remains hidden in a shroud of mystery, The rifle wasn't the last of the white codominant in the Arctic ecosystem) between sea ice and open water, which in a land locked in ice and snow and man's weapons against the polar bear. This testy relationship may not last determines so much of polar bear enormous distance. Settlements are Norwegians used the set gun, a box-like long. The polar sea is a magnet to an ecology. often hundreds of miles apart, and even affair consisting of bait tied to the energy-hungry world. More than one- Cleaning up Oil will be difficult if not in summer a sudden storm can turn trigger of a rifle. Bear tugged on bait and third of its surface overlies the impossible when it's covered by 12, feet clear skied gray with fury. Knowledge got bullet between eyes. Passengers of continental shelves of Eurasia, Green­ of frozen, water. And a bloWnout, comes slowy here and at great risk. Danish cruise ships steaming along the land and North America. There the burning well build on the ice may melt In spite of these hazards, biologists Greenland coast hunted bears from water is shallow enough to bring oil and its own platform and gush for as much such at O'Gara will continue their onboard. Americans brought the gas reserves within striking distance of as a year until crews can halt the flow. research. If the bear is to survive, if it is airplane to the sport of bear hunting, man's technology. Recognizing that^ the polar bear is to be something other than a relic of a chasing down and shooting animals While diplomats haggle over division soon to face dangers it has never known, forgotten world, another victim of without even landing. Fortunately, all of the polar basin, energy companies the governments of the five circumpolar technological tyranny, they have no five polar bear nations have outlawed prepare to invade. Inspired by rising nations recently signed an agreement on choice.

managed and held high administrative Rorvik, who received his B.A. degree positions in several steel companies and in journalism in 1966, was awarded the supervised construction of several new master of science degree in journalism Five alums receive recognition plants and a research laboratory. from Columbia University, New York Lommasson received her B.A. and City, in 1967. After graduation from M.A. degrees in mathematics in 1929 Columbia!, Rorvik, who had been Among Homecoming festivities every Robert T. Pantzer, Santa Rosa, Calif., and 1939 and was employed by the recruited as Time magazine's first year is the Alumni Association's who was UM president from 1966-74. University from 1937 to 1977. Since science reporter, received the Pulitzer recognition of alumni excellence. This The recipients of the Young Alumni 1946 she served as assistant registrar Traveling Fellowship to travel year five alums were chosen to receive Award are David M. Rorvik, Whitefish, and associate director of admissions and throughout Africa for six months. He awards for their outstanding records a former editor of the Montana Kaimin records. has written seven books and has had and service to the University, and two of who is a free-lance writer and author, articles appear in several national them received a newly created award, and Dale Schwanke, an attorney from Pantzer received his B.A. in business magazines. which recognizes the accomplishments Gfeat Falls. administration in 1940 and his J. D. in Schwanke, who is affiliated with the of young alums. The awards are granted to alumni and 1$47. During his years on campus he Great Falls law firm of Jardine, The three who received the former students who have served the was financial vice president, professor Stephenson, Blewett & Weaver, Distinguished Alumnus Award are University, state or nation in a of business administration, president of received his B.S. in business George C. Floyd, Girard, Ohio, who was distinguished manner and have brought the Alumni Association, president of the administration in 1965 and his J.D. in vice president and assistant to the honor to the University and themselves. law school alumni association and 1968. He is actively involved in president of the Sharon Steel Corp. in Floyd, a native of Butte, who received president of the University. He attracting new students to the Pennsylvania; Emma Bravo his B.A. in chemistry in 1927, is currently lives in southern California, University knd is working to establish Lommasson, former associate director considered one of the early pioneers in where he serves as business additional UM scholarships for the of admissions and records at UM, and the metallurgy of stainless steel. He has administrator of a law firm. Great Falls area.

Emma Lommasson David Rorvik Dale Schwanke George Floyd Robert Pantzer the A lu m n i Alumni profile The McGahans: it’s a sim ple life by Marcia Eidel As an undergraduate at the The road zig-zags through the pow University of Montana in the early 60s, wow grounds of Arlee and drops sharply Jerry worked with John Craighead, a toward the river bottom. The McGahan nationally known biologist and former place stands in a clearing off the road—a UM professor, studying golden eagles. two-story log house reminiscent of McGahan's interest in birds germinated another era. and he continued the eagle studies as a Inside, warmed by the pot-belly stove, graduate student. After earning his Jerry McGahan finishes some paper master's degree from UM in 1966, Jerry work before leaving to see to the family began doctoral studies in zoology at the bee business. Three^year-old Jordy University of Wisconsin. discusses with Zeke, the black lab, the By then ornithology had enchanted pros and cons of dressing yourself. Her him, and in 1968, he and Libby, a former older brother Jay has already left for liberal arts student at UM, set out for second grade and Mom's gone too— South America to study the Andean she drives the school bus. condor. Sponsored by a National Science A rustic life in the country might not Foundation Grant, they spent two years be what you'd expect of a former studying the natural habits of the Danforth Fellow with his Ph.D. But it's a endangered bird, which is one of the few simple life. And that's just how UM natural links to the Pleistocene Age. alums Jerry and Libby McGahan want it. With Craighead's help, the McGahans In fact, they've worked very hard to get also attracted the National Geographic it. Society to their project. Libby shot the Most of us choose a career, job or still photography for an article that profession and wrap our lives around it. appeared in Geographic magazine in The McGahans chose a way of life and May, 1971, and Jerry recorded the study built from there. Jerry and Libby, both on film. The McGahan place, reminiscent of another era. native Montanans, wanted to live near When they returned to the U.S., Jerry the land and avoid the complications of began distributing his movie through the city. So they began "Old World the Audobon Society. He hoped to raise an important Peruvian industry, Jerry every day. It's beyond the imagination Honey" five years ago, hoping that money to set aside protected areas for thinks the situation may do more than the amount of life that is there with no eventually the business would support the condors in South America. anything for the bird's welfare. people." the family without diffusing it. Unfortunately the condor's plight is not It was the McGahans second South Each morning, Jerry and Libby But nurturing a business doesn't top priority with the Peruvian American study site, where they were separated to look for condors. They come easy, and along the way, outside government, and Jerry is discouraged. totally isolated from people, that spent their days in the dry, windy jobs helped supplement the family "It's hard to be up here trying to do triggered their commitment to a quiet solitude of the desert and returned to income. Jerry taught high school at St. something down there. I just don't have life. They spent a year on the northern camp in the afternoon to share Ignatius and worked odd jobs as a the energy and stamina to bang away at Atacama Desert near the Paracas experiences of the day. carpenter. He also filled in one quarter bureaucracy." Peninsula of Peru. Seven years later and thousands of for a zoology professor at the University But McGahan's film also was picked There coastal winds provide habitat miles away, Jerry and Libby still and still works part-time as a bee disease up by the British Broadcasting for’ condors, and the peninsula's rich remember the simplicity of those days. inspector for the state. Company and has been aired on anchovie population attracts thousands It's one of the things they wanted from Now the hard work is beginning to television in. Sweden, Japan, Italy and of other birds—gulls, cormorants, their bee business. And they seem to pay off. With 250 hives at sites from Belgium. It has piqued the interest of ' gannets and pelicans. "It's an have found it with their life near Arlee, Thompson Falls to Rock Creek, the many tourists who ask to see the condor extraordinary place to live," according to because the McGahans have settled in McGahans harvest between six and ten when visiting Peru. Because tourism is Jerry. "You see birds every moment of and plan to stay. tons of honey a year. During the winter Jerry builds frames for the 50 new hives that are added each year. Jerry and Libby process the crop, which they harvest in August and September, in the honey house behind their home. They extract the honey by running the combs through a centrifuge. Nothing is wasted. Even the bees wax is saved to trade for materials to build more hives. The McGahan spread emits the charm of an early homestead, but the main house has a special presence. And somehow, it seems natural that the family is building it themselves. The log structure is fashioned from two abandoned cabins the McGahans bought and moved to their land in pieces. They've expanded on the design of the original buildings and are still working. Their current project is a combination back porch and greenhouse, which also will house the 30 canaries that now share Jordy's bedroom. If you didn't know better you might tag the McGahans "back-to-nature" folks. But there's nothing trendy about these people, and they're hardly recent converts. Nature has always been important to the McGahans. Ubby McGahan and three-year-old Jordy. Jerry McGahan and his son Jay in the "honey house," where the McGahans extract honey from the combs. November 1977 5 Classnotes Freeman memorial to be established 30S Although Edmund Freeman died a year ago, his memory is not one to be forgotten. In WILLIAM ANDREWS '39 was presented response to suggestions from many of his with the degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Proposed law school wing friends, a memorial is being established in his Causa, by Carroll College during honor. commencement exercises there. Andrews H. G. Merriam, a friend of Freeman's for was cited for "long years of outstanding 57 years, is directing a committee that is service to the Helena community." soliciting contributions. The memorial ELOISE BROWN WAITE '39 has been Law school seeks new wing probably will be an annual series of lectures appointed, vice president of the American in Edmund's name and a scholarship for Red Cross. She has served with that students in the names of Edmund and his organization since 1945. The law school has launched a major traning center, expanded library space, wife Mary. So far, the committee has money CARL TURNQUIST '39 retired recently campaign to raise $400,000 for a new student study space, small research and pledges for about $16,000. after 38 years of service to Exxon Co. Freeman, professor emeritus of English at wing for the law school building. offices for users of the library and space .the time of his death, began teaching at the Robert Sullivan, dean of the school, for future computerized legal research. University in 1919 and retired in 1962. But said that a recent study by the Every lawyer in Montana will be even after his retirement he was active in accreditation committee of the contacted personally during the campus politics and intellectual pursuits. American Bar Assn, found the present campaign, which will end Dec. 15. Ward Memorials can be sent to the University 4-OS building, law library and study areas Shanahan, a Helena attorney and Foundation, University of Montana, TED JAMES J.D.'43 and ORVILLE GRAY inadequate for present law school chairman of the fund campaign, said: Missoula 59812. '45, LL.B. '46 are associated in the practice of enrollment, "We hope all Montana lawyers will law with the firm of James, Gray and "The 1977 state legislature respond generously to this challenge. It McCafferty in Billings. authorized construction of an addition is a particular responsibility of the legal JAMES ROSS '47 was promoted in June to to the building or $1.3 million, but did profession in Montana to see that the Scholarship to honor the office of president of Amoco Europe Inc. not appropriate money for planning for UM law school is maintained at a high NEIL O'DONNELL '49 is employed by Wick Const. Co. of Seattle, Wash. construction," Sullivan said. And level of excellence." Mary Pat Mahoney i although a federal grant from the Further information about tax- Economic Development Administration deductible contributions and special A memorial fund in the namepf Mary Pat contributed $900,000, an additional memorial gifts can be obtained by Mahoney is being established by faculty, $400,000 needs to be raised. writing to Sullivan at the Law School, staff and students of the social work 724 Eddy Ave. in Missoula, 59812. The department. Mary Pat was killed by a grizzly The new wing, to be added to the bear last year jn Glacier National Park. 50S north and east of the existing building, new wing is expected to be completed An annual scholarship of $225 will be set J. L. HOTVEDT '50 received a $500 dollar will provide a legal research and clinical and in operation for the 1978-79 school up and additional money will be given to local award from the Burroughs Pharmacy year. agencies involved in women's issues or in Education Program. He is employed by serving the developmentally disabled. Gillette Pharmacy in Wolf Point. The scholarship will be awarded to K. M. BRIDENSTINE LL. B. '51 was deserving or needy social work majors. recently appointed Public Defender of Lake T agging up with our Mahoney, who was going to be a senior in County. He had previously served with the social work, was a native of Highwood, 111., Montana State Highway Dept. and had worked at the Boulder River School CLINTON HANSEN '51,'55 J.D. '56 has 19th Rhodes Scholar and Hospital, assisting the mentally been named manager of state and local handicapped. Contributions to the fund may governmental relations by the Anaconda Co. About every four years the University from the will of Sir Cecil Rhodes, a be sent to the Department of Social Work or His office will be in Denver, Colo. produces a Rhodes Scholar who packs South African industrialist in 1899. the University Foundation, University of Col. RAYMOND BERG '52 has been off to England for three or more years of Outstanding young people are chosen Montana, Missoula, 59812. assigned to Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. He intensive study at Oxford University. from the United States and the British had previously been assigned at Offutt AFB, Two months ago, Mark Peppier, UM's colonies to study at Oxford and travel Neb. 19th Rhodes Scholar, came home. throughout Europe. ROBERT MUSBERGER x'52 is now While America endured Watergate, Robinson donates assistant professor, department of But besides the prestigous degree and communication studies at the University of Mark and his wife Ronnene Anderson, a the chance to travel Europe, the Rhodes 160 Missouri, Kansas City branch. graduate in journalism, shared with the scholarship provides an opportunity of a -acre ranch PAUL WOLD '52 has been appointed vice English the hardships caused by a lifetime: to see your native country Herbert E. Robinson, a 50-year alumnus president and controller of Wendy's of devalued pound and scarce energy though another people's eyes. and long-time Swift & Co. official, has Montana. He has previously been supplies. In the process, Mark earned a "Everyone should live abroad some donated the 160-acre Rogers' Ranch to the assistant vice president of First North­ D.Pnil. degree (equivalent of an time in his life," Mark said. "Your University Foundation in memory of three of western National Bank of Billings. American Ph.D.) in medical perceptions of the United States change, his relatives, who were Montana pioneers. HOWARD AUSTIN '53 has opened a microbiology, and Ronnene worked as a and you learn tolerance for other Robinson, who received his B.A. in mortgage loan office in Kalispell. He sub (editor) of an English paper. cultures." chemistry in 192^ and an honorary doctor of formerly was executive vice president at the They were in Missoula only three What happens after-the fellowship is science degree in 1969, was honored during Bank of Columbia Falls. weeks before moving to Washington, over? Well, that depends. "We'd love to Homecoming as a Golden Grizzly from the DALE SCHNEIDMILLER '56 has been D.C., where Mark has a post-doctoral class of '27. appointed senior sales assistant in the come back to the University or Nashville office of Bethlehem Steel Corp. fellowship from the National Institutes He gave the Rogers' Ranch in memory of somewhere in Montana," Mark said. Herbert Rogers, his uncle, who came to JAMES GRAFF '57 was elected to the of Health. Mark found the job himself But he says he's remaining flexible Montana in 1880; Ada Rogers Robinson, his Public Relations Society of America. He is and will work there for two years, doing about what he'll do—maybe mother, who was born in Pony, Mont., in president of West Advertising of Billings. research in natural immunity. He'll be government, maybe teaching. "And it 1884, and Charles Curtis Robison, his father, SHEILA McDORNEY SAXBY '57 has looking for alternatives to antibiotic depends on what Ronnene can find. Her who came to Montana about 1892. The been appointed assistant to the secretary of therapy, he explained, trying to find career is important too." ranch is two miles north of Saltese, Mont. the Regents of the University of California. ways of using the body's natural defense Robinson was employed by Swift & Co. for KONNILYN FEIG '58, M.A. '63 is vice system. more than 40 years and retired as corporate president for administration at San Francisco Working for the Institutes, which are vice president for research and development State University. She formerly was dean of under the Federal Food and Drug in 1972. the college of arts and sciences at the Administration, is an opportunity, Mark University of Maine. believes, to meet people who can help JAY KRAMMES '58, M.S. '63 is the new assistant director for research planning and him fund future research projects. He application at the Forest Service's Rocky also needs to start publishing his Mountain Forest and Range Experiment research and hopes to do a lot of it in Recyclables sought station on Ft. Collins, Colo. Washington. EDWIN JASMIN '59 has been appointed Twenty UM students have won Recyclable materials—bottles, newspapers executive vice president of the Rhodes scholarships since 1904, and and aluminum beer cans, tv-dinner trays Northwestern Bank of Helena. He was that's quite an accomplishment if you and pie plates—are being sought by the formerly president of Northwestern Union consider that only 17 schools in the Epilepsy Information Center in Missoula. Trust Co. in Helena. nation have produced more. Only 32 Michael McCarthy, an alumnus who has scholars are chosen from the U.S. each served for several years as president of year, and at most, 200 of 2,400 the Western Montana Epilepsy Assn., is head of the drive. Funds obtained from the institutions of higher education have recyclables will be used to purchase had Rhodes Scholars. brochures and pamphlets for the Center. Competition is keen for the Recyclable materials may be brought to 561 scholarships, which were established Mark Peppier S. 5th E. or to the Missoula Recycling Center. 6 Profiles THOMAS RAINVILLE '59 was elected MICHAEL WOOD '69 was named DONALD LOVETT '75 has taken an MOLLY MUFICH '71 to Lawrence Jones. chief executive officer of the Bank of Everett, classified advertising manager of the Daily assignment with the Smithsonian-Peace CAROL NEILL '*77 to CHARLES Everett, Wash' Inter Lake in Kalispell. Previously he had Corps in Malaysia, monitoring marine water DEARDEN '74. worked on the advertising staff in Coeur quality and determining environmental LOUISE OLSON x'77 to Ernest Marquez d'Alene, Idaho, and as ad manager of the effects on fisheries. Jr- Pullman Herald, Pullman, Wash. JAMES PARKER '75 is office director and Anne Wolf to RICK OPP '75. clinician at Thompson Falls for the Western KAREN OSTROM '77 to DOUGLAS Montana Regional Community Mental MARTIN x'78. Health Center. JANET PERKINS '73 to RICHARD 60S MICHAEL LAWLER '76 is attending the MARKLE '71. University of Colorado Medital School in ANTONETTE PETROVICH '73 to ROBERT JOHNSON '60 has been Denver. JAMES SVALDI '77. appointed executive director of the 2nd Lt. NEAL LUTKE '76 has been PAMELA PFAU '77 to BILL HIGGINS architectural and transportation barriers 70S graduated from U.S. Air Force navigator x'76. compliance board. He was formerly director training at Mather AFB, Calif. He will JANIE PHAIR '77 to TOM HURLY '77. of the manpower office in the department of remain at Mather for advanced training. PEARL POHLMAN '62 to Philip Symonds. HEW. SUSAN HILLEBOE '70, M.A. '71 has been JAY TOMSHECK '76 was awarded the CHARLOTTE RANBERG '77 to Michael WILLIAM BOETTCHER '63 has been appointed director of education at the degree of Master of International Morris. appointed risk manager for the Santa Ana Mountain View School in Helena. She has Management from American Graduate DANETTE REARDON '76 to TIMOTHY Unified School District. He is living in Irvine, been employed at the school for the past five School of International Management in RECTOR x'77. Calif. years. Glendale, Ariz. Mary Lesch to TOM REDFERN '73. LARRY CHRISTOPHERSON '64 was BRUCE MOREY '70 and his wife, SYLVIA PATRICK DOLEZAL '77 is attending the kRISTINE ROBERTS '73 to DARRELL named associate professor and music REMICK MOREY '69, reside in Orem, Utah, University of Arizona for graduate study and PETERSON '76. education coordinator at Capitol University, where Bruce is a forester for Rocky internship in athletic traning. He also will be Lynn Parker to JACK ROBERTS '74. Columbus, Ohio. VIRGINIA JOHNSON Mountain Helicopters of Provo, Utah. athletic trainer at Catalina High School in CATHERINE RUSSELL '76 to Alan CHRISTOPHERSON '64 is director of the SARAH STEBBINS '70 has been named an Tuscon, Ariz. Stanbery. preparatory division at the same school. instructor in recreation at the University of MICHELLE SULLIVAN '77 recently PEGGY SCHEIBE '77 to Bart Braxton. LIEF ERICKSON '64, J.D. '67 has been the Pacific, Stockton, Calif. She had joined Montana Power Co. as an assistant JANE BOESPFLUG x'81 to JAY appointed notary public for the state of previously served as program services auditor. SCHIMKE M.A. '77. Montana in Whitefish. director with a Girl Scout Council in Tuscon, DALE ROMINGER x'79 has joined the MARTHA SHIFFMAN M.A. '72 to Roger KENT WEBSTER '64 has been transferred Ariz. faculty of Rocky Mountain College in Street. to Tokyo for two years. He is employed by LARRY STEWART '70 is business Billings as an instructor in anthropology. Elaine Samuel to NICHOLAS SPIKA J.D. the firm of Coopers and Lybrand. manager and part owner of the R.D. Leary While at UM he was involved in archaelogical '77. Capt. JEAN EVANSKAAS received an M. Const. Co. in Seattle. research for the Forest Service. Danette O'Gara to GARY STAUDINGER S. in systems management from the G. ROBERT BLAIR '71 was recently '73. «j University of Southern California. She is promoted to systems and programming J. LASHELLE TERRY '77 to ROBERT presently assigned as executive officer for manager for Central Telephone and Utilities McCULLUM x'73. Air Staff Directorate at the Pentagon. in Lincoln, Neb. LAUREL SUMMERSIDE MARGARET TONON J.D. '74 to Warren JACK KENDRICK '65 has been elected BLAIR '71 is a part-time instructor in the Neyenhuis. vice president for finance of the Bunker Hill college of home economics at the University JUDY VASICHEK '71 to Steven Co., Kellogg, Idaho. He had previously been of Nebraska-Lincoln. Births McCraney. vice president, finance of Lithium Corp. of JOHN FAUGHN '71 is teaching fourth LINDA WALBY '74 to KENNETH America. grade and serving assistant basketball coach Erik Quinn to JOEL '76 and LINDA KIEMELE '76. MARY MYRENE '65 is associate editor of in Richey, Mont. CAMPEN NELSON '71. Michelle Wheeler to PETER WILKINS the Spokane Magazine for the Spokane JANET RHEIN '71 is teaching school in Sarah Elizabeth to WILLIAM '71 and x'81. Spokesman-Review. Lanarks, Scotland. ELIZABETH CURDIS STERRETT '71. Doris Jensen to STEVEN WILSON '76. FRANCIS RICCI '65, M.B.A. '67 has been ROBERT SWAN '71, M.A. '72 was Jessica Gail to CHARLES '70 and admitted as a member of the firm of Haskin recently awarded the Ed.D. in adult and CATHERINE BEALL THORNE '71, M.A. and Sells, CPA's. He is living in Denver, higher education administration by the '73. Colo. University of South Dakota. He had Kristen Marie to STEVEN '73 and RAYMOND DOMINICK '66 operates previously served in various management RAELENE KEASTER WILSON '73. Reeder's Gallery, an historic art and specialty positions at UM. Ryan Alden to Elizabeth and MICHAEL shopping center in Helena. Capt. JA|MES FOLZ M.B.A. '73 has WOOD '69. Deaths DENNIS GREENE M.A. '67, Ph.D. '75 is received the Meritorious Service Medal at the director of the South Kenai Peninsula Shaw AFB, S.C. He was cited for outstanding ROBERT BLUMFIELD x'41 died in Mental Health Program in Homer, Alaska. duty as assistant director of professional Shelby. He had operated Blumfield Electric LESLIE GRIFFIN '67 has been appointed military education at Headquarters, Air until his retirement a year ago. He was 61. director of the Office of Student Life at the University, Maxwell AFB, Ala. NORMAN CONN '74 died in Kalispell at University of California, Santa Barbara. She Maj. ROBERT HOOD MB.A. '73 arrived age 27. He was doing post-graduate work at will also be advisor to Associated Students for duty at Ellsworth AFB, S.D. He had Marriages UM at the time of his death. and the student legislative council. previously served with a unit of the Strategic JAMES GARDNER M.A.E. '46 died at age ERIC LA POINTE '67, M.A. '72 has been Air Command at Maxwell AFB, Ala. JOLYN BEGGER '74 to Greg Evertz. 75 in Anaconda. He had worked in school awarded an Ed.D. by the University of South Capt. DOUGLAS ROBERTS '73 was JILL BELDEN '75 to Brian Aman. teaching and administration from 1929 until Dakota, Vermillion. promoted to his present rank by the U.S. Air PAMELA BRAGG '77 to PATRICK his retirement in 1971. ROBIN MC CANN TURNER '67 and Force. He is serving at Hanscom AFB, Mass. SMITH '77. CHARLES GUTHRIE '25, former husband Charles are residing in London, NAN BRANDENBERGER '77 to Mark Minneapolis Tribune columnist and brother England, where she is a third year student in PARK ROBINSON '73 is currently Payne. of Montana novelist A.B. Guthrie Jr., died child psycho-analysis at Hampstead Clinic. engaged in a management course with the KERRY CALLAHAN x'77 to ROBERT in Minneapolis, Minn., at the age of 74. GARY FUNK '68 has been named to the Bank of Nova Scotia. He is residing in GENEVIEVE GREEN HARTMAN '61 Calgary, Alta. BRONSON '77. faculty of the music department of Northern Jean Grander to DAVID CAMPANA '74. died at age 62 in Missoula. She had been a Montana College. He had been choir director LOUIS HEADLEY '74 was awarded an SUZANNE CLINKER '68 to Timothy teacher at Franklin School in Missoula for 22 at Gresham, Ore., Union High School. M.A. in educational administration by the Driscoll. years. JERRY LOOMIS '68, a pharmacist at University of South Dakota. Trade Heminger to ROGER COLLINS ROBERT JOHNSON '41 died July 15 in Warm Springs State Hospital, has won JAN HILL '74 is employed as a home '77.' Missoula. He had worked as a CPA for 25 $500 in the Burroughs Pharmacy economist with the Homemakers Schools, an Bonnie Meyer to GREGG DOERFLER years. He was 65. Education Program. The award money will organization based in Middleton, Wis. She x'78. MARY GRANT LORANG '70 died Sept. 5 go to establish a revolving loan fund previously taught in the Hamilton junior and in a car accident south of Calgary, Alta. senior high schools. JANICE DOLEZAL '70 to R. Darby for pharmacy students at UM. O'Brien Jr. While at UM she had been a member of FRED THOMSON '68 has become Capt. HAROLD HOWELL M^B.A. '74 is PATRICIA DOSTAL '76 to JAY EKLUND Alpha Phi Sorority. She was 29. affiliated with the staff of Parade of serving as a space surveillance officer at '76. SUSAN WILEY MILLER '54 died Aug. 10 Properties Realty. He formerly taught. Shemya AFB, Alaska. He had previously Catherine Level to DANIEL DUBOIS '77. in Butte. She had taught school at Helena German at UM and at Hellgate High School been assigned at Mill Valley AF Station, MARGARET ENGEL '77 to WALTER and Bonners Ferry, Idaho. She was 45. in Missoula. Calif. PARKER '76. JOSEPH MJOLSNESS '32 died July 26 in Capt. JAMES CRUMP has been assigned JEFF KOONS '74, M.A. '76 has joined the Janet Culver to GREG FROST '75. Alpine, Tex., at the age of 71. He had served to duty at Mildenhall RAF Station, England. staff of the Central Montana Health District ALEXANDRA GEORGE '75 to Loren as registrar, director of admissions and He had previously been assigned at Grissom as an environmental health technician. He Burton. assistant ’professor of psychology at AFB, Ind. will be doing water quality analysis for the MARY GOODELL '77 to GREGORY Mankato (Minn.) State College prior to his JOAN KYLE '69 received a masters degree area. JOHNSON '77. retirement in 1970. in Public Administration from Seattle Maj. JAMES MILLER J.D. '74 recently Jennifer Fidler to GARY GRIFFITH '72. CECIL MOORE '22 died on June 2 at his University. arrived for duty at Ramstein AB, Germany. Patricia Lange to HOWARD JdALL '74. home in Sumner, Wash. MARY FAY LARANGO '69 was He had previously served as assistant judge Glenda Paine to JOHN HAWKER '70. A. VERN PLUMLEY '50 died at age 51 in appointed business manager for Young advocate at Lowry AFB, Colo. Alice Doyle to ELMER ISAKSON Jr. x'77. Mount Clemens, Mich. He was comptroller Audiences of Western Montana in Missoula. RANDALL ROSE M.A. '74 has been Debra Shy to ROBERT JACOBS '73. and vice president for finance at Michigan ROBERT PLUHAR '69 won $500 in the named assistant professor in communication CHRISTINE JAKSHA '77 to JAMES Bell Telephone Co. until his death. Burroughs Wellcome Pharmacy Education arts at the University of the Pacific, OLSON x'79. ISABEL RONAN x'09 died July 26 in Program. The award was made at the Stockton, Calif. KAREN KING '76 to Barry Chandler. Helena. A daughter of a pioneer Montana national convention of the Association of Capt. LARRY ROWLAND M.B.A. '74 Kathleen Woy to JOSEPH KISSOCK Jr. family, she worked for the U.S. Postal Retail Druggists. received his third award of the U.S. Air Force x'73. Service for 40 yearq before her retirement. PETER RICE '69 has announced the Commendation Medal. He was cited for KAREN KOUGIOULIS '75 to Joe She was 90. expansion of his firm. Rice Motors, in Great meritorious service while at Malmstrom Donahue. WALLACE SCOTT M.A. '49 died July 24 Falls. DAN RICE J.D. '76 is vice president of AFB. Elaine Sponberg to MORRIS LARSON in Bismarck, N.D. He had been active in the company. CONNIE SNYDER '74 is now a '73. teaching for 46 years. He was 74. ROGER ROCK '69 has joined the staff of dancer and instructor in New York City. KAREN LINDEN '75 to BILL NEBEL x'73. ABBIE LUCY SWIFT 'll died at age 87 in the Glascow Courier as a reporter. He had She helped form danceMontana, a Linda LeFavour to LAWRENCE LUSSY Missoula. While at UM she belonged to formerly taught English at Brockton High modern dance group based in Missoula. '76. Kappa Kappa Gamma, the first sorority at School. TIMOTHY TAYNE '74 is a medical Ramona Kienas to GEORGE MAHONEY UM. technician at Bay City Hospital, Coos Bay, '74. WALTER TRUCKNER M.E. '50 died July Ore. He interned at Midland Community LEANN MARSHALL '75 to Larry 11 in Missoula. He had taught and served as Hospital, Midland, Tex. Murphy. superintendent in several Montana schools. It's not too early to start making He was 75. plans for Homecoming 1978. Mark CARL WALLILA '74, a pharmacist at Patricia Conlon to LAWRENCE Western Drug 7 in Laurel, has won $500 in M cC arthy '75. ROY WHITE Ed. D. '67 died Aug. 3. He Oct. 12, 13 and 14 on your 1978 the Burroughs Wellcome Pharmacy was an associate professor of environmental calendars as a time to visit the Education Program. education at UM. He was 43. campus and meet old friends. The DEBORAH CUNNINGHAM '74 joined Grizzly football team will meet the the consumer services department of the University of Idaho that weekend. Montana Power Co. as a Coordinator of home economics and consumer affairs.

November 1977 7 Hypnosis: dialogue with the subconscious

by Kerry Leichtman Besides a natural hypnobility, a At the UM Center for Student to approach problems, and sometimes Before the main attraction, Joe trusting doctor-patient relationship is Development hypnosis often is used to Romeo does. But no matter whose idea Starry-Eyes walks onto the stage. He is important to make the most of hypnosis help students recall an early experience it is, the students want to completely tall, good looking and slim. He looks out therapy. Unlike the stage hypnotist, a in life that may be contributing to a understand the process before they into the audience. He smiles as the clinical practitioner carefully guides his particular problem. Students also use expose themselves to it. This usually spotlight singles him out in the patient through the hypnotic state, hypnosis to cut down on smoking, loose extends the therapy into more sessions darkened theater. His teeth sparkle and being careful only to help the patient weight, deal with fears, relax and study then might be needed, but Romeo isn't the audience notices the youthful smile- achieve a goal and not program him to better. complaining. He feels the questioning caused crows feet on the outside corners do so. UM has three separate facilities and skeptical attitude is healthy. of his eyes. Before he has said a word Hypnosis is not a cure-all. It is a where a student can go for psychiatric Hypnosis' credibility among scientists they trust him. And he knows it. 1 clinical tool used to help get to the root help'. The Student Health Service, the is slowly growing. Each year more "Thank you for coming, and one-two- of a problem and is a method of Clinical Psych Center (headed by articles and books are published. And three-four will you please step onto the suggesting to a person's subconscious Watkins) and the Center for Student more uses are found for it. Both Watkins stage? Thank you." He has picked out how to realize its goals. Boxer Ken Development (staffed by Romeo and and Romeo stress that hypnosis is a the four people who noticed his smile Norton used hypnosis to help him train two other psychologists). The presence valuable tool for psychiatric treatment first. These people want this nice man, for his first fight against Muhammad of these three services does not reflect a and not a cure-all. Joe Starry-Eyes, to do well. In ten Ali. He won the fight and broke Ali's mentally sick student body. The When dealing with a concern, seconds they will be hypnotized and jaw. The hypnosis did not make him University atmosphere is one of whether it be as small as cutting down Joe Starry-Eyes, the nice man, will physically stronger, but helped him questioning and learning. Besides on smoking or as major as a deep-seeded make them act like fools in front of 2,000 focus his concentration towards his exploring English lit and wildlife problem, it is important to make sure people. goal. Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Bert biology, students are eager to explore the psychologist is reputable. Romeo Number one thinks she is Judy Hooton used hypnosis for the same themselves. advises that a person "stick with an Garland. She smiles coyly and sings reason. The result was a marked There is usually no fee for student use established university or clinic or "Over the Rainbow" one last time. improvement in his pitching game. of the University's psychiatric services. hQspital. Get to know the person and Number two is the president of the Many times hypnosis can help to This makes the college years a good time check on the person's reputation. Be United States waiting for the crowd to overcome physical problems when to take care of minor problems (i.e. careful not to subject your mind, soul quiet down so he can make his speech. medical help has failed. Some physical nervousness) and major ones as well. and body to indiscriminate He is smiling and waving two victory illnesses are caused by a fear or tension Although students are casual about suggestability from someone who is not signs high over his head. Number three in the mind. By relaxing the tension, or seeking psychiatric help, they are by no credible." And most importantly, 9tay is Anita Bryant, and number four alleviating the fear, the mind will cure means ready to give themselves up to away from Joe Starry-Eyes. Truman Capote. the physical problems. Hypnosis has the psychologists. Romeo explained that John Watkins, director of doctoral been successful with many physical students generally are more skeptical training in clinical psychology at the ailments. Among them are colitis, than clients he has worked with in the University of Montana, compares menstrual pain, insomnia and asthma. outside community. Sometimes the Starry-Eyes' misuse of hypnosis to a student will suggest hypnosis as the way doctor injecting someone's arm full of drugs for the pleasure of an audience. Such abuse of hypnosis may be why it is so little understood, although it's been around about 5,000 years. During that time its use has been both highly praised and immensely distrusted, perhaps because no one knows exactly what the hypnotic trance is. There are many theories. And there are scientists who say there is no such thing as a hypnotic state. William Romeo, UM counseling psychologist, believes there is a commonality in hypnosis, zen, transcendental meditation and prayer. They all allow a "time out" from life's normal fast pace. Hypnosis alters the brain pattern. People breath slower (much like sleep) and are more easily able to concentrate their thoughts. It helps people relax. According to Romeo, hypnosis is, "a heightened state of awareness, relaxation and suggestability. It reduces, or eliminates, many conscious defenses so that one can deal more or less directly with the unconscious, the same part of the mind that comes to light when people dream." This allows the psychologist to "work with the unconscious part of the mind, which theoretically, and practically, * contain most of the motivation within a person." In short, hypnosis allows the psychologist to bypass a person's natural psychological defenses. Not only do people come in different shapes and sizes, but we have varying degrees of suggestability of hypnobility. Some people are more suggestable than others. A trained hypnotist can tell hypnobility, for example, by the way people raise their hands, or sit down or close their eyes when asked. A common myth about people who are most susceptible to hypnosis is that they are dumb and gullible. The contrary is true. Intelligent people with the ability to concentrate generally are easier to hypnotize.