[ HOMECOMING 1991 October 10-12

Reunions Registration • Classes o f 1951 and 1966 • Lobby ofBrantly Hall, 9 • School of Forestry: Classes of 1941, I960, 1961 a. m. to 4 p.m., Friday, and 1962 October 11 • Phi Delta Theta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Sigma Chi Homecoming • Alumni Band Headquarters • 1941 Football Team UM Alumni Office Brantly Hall Special Events 2nd Floor West • Singing on the Steps Missoula, MT59812-1313 • Crowning of King and Queen (406) 243-5211 • Distinguished Alumnus Awards • Homecoming Art Fair • Concert: String Orchestra of the Rockies • Parade • Symposium:— "Students as Athletes" • Tailgate Parties The University of • Football: Grizzlies vs. Boise State M ontana

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Alumni Office Director Bill Johnston 79 225 Brandy Hall The University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812-1313 (406) 243-5211 Alumni Association Board Bill Beaman ’67, 72, president, Helena 11-18 19-21 22-24 Frank Shaw ’64, president­ elect, Great Falls reatures Dorothy Pemberton Laird ’63, vice president, Whitefish 11 O ur Stream of Consciousness by David Purviance Dean Hellinger ’56, past president, Shelby Elaine Huber Adams ’60, 14 Stream side p h ilo so p h y by Janice Downey Lakewood, Colo. Lou O. Aleksich Jr. ’63, Billings 16 C hallenging th e G reat O utdoors indoors by Paddy O ’Connell MacDonald Jane Reed Benson '64, 78, Helena 18 At UM: ‘Out to lu n c h ’ m eans o u t to play by Gordon Opel Bill Brenner 79, Sidney Paul Caine ’56, Bonita, Calif. 19 A rc tic daydream s by Carol Susan Woodruff Joan Watts Datsopoulos '66, Missoula Qail Paige Good ’62, Fort 22 A Providential Life by Elizabeth Ichizawa Benton Bill Kearns ’61, Townsend Tom McElwain '68, Butte Marilyn Shope Peterson ’57 Departments______Seattle Karl Rogge 74, Miles City 2 L etters 3 Around the Oval Don Stanaway ’52, Billings Hal Woods ’63, Missoula Jim Wylder ’51, Great Falls 25 Class Notes 36 F orum

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I Special thanks to the staff at the Historical Museum M ontanan—The University of Montana magazine—is published three times a year I at Fort Missoula and Charles LeBer for the Class by the University for its alumni and friends. I Notes illustration. Publisher The University of Montana E ditor Janice Downey ft ^ ease help: If the person named on the C ontributing E ditor Terry Brenner ■ address label has moved, could whoever C ontributing W riters Paddy O ’Connell MacDonald, Kristin Rodine, Carol Susan Woodruff Photographer Howard Skaggs ■ aj* rece'vec* rh>s magazine send the B Alumni Office that person’s new address G raphics Neal Wiegert ■ and phone number? The Alumni address Editorial Offices B:is listed above. News and Publications, 321 Brantly Hall, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812-1301, (406) 243-2522 I Advertising Representative Joan Watts Datsopoulos ’66, (406) 243-2522 Letters

I read with interest the article on Mr. Ohkura’s fascination with the life of Jeannette Rankin and her stance regarding the entrance of the United States into World War I and II. This is a rather hurried letter, but I thought he might like to know (if he doesn’t already) that a professor in the history department interviewed Miss Rankin and, of course, asked her about her reasons for voting against our entrance into both world wars. Her comment, as best that I can recall, was that she felt that because of the few number of women in the Congress, she represented the women of our country, as well as the citizens of Montana, and that she knew they did not want their sons, husbands, etc. going to war and, therefore, she had to vote against our entrance. The day after “the blizzard of 1975” I was a secretary in the history Enclosed is a picture I took in the I address James D. Kriley in his department and typed the interview parking lot of Knowles Hall. It was the letter about our Montanan magazine’s \ from the tape-recorded session. The day after “The Blizzard of ’75” when it taking on a People magazine format. professor’s name was something like snowed 24 inches in 24 hours. The Sir, I don’t know you—but I believe Binghampton and the year was storm shut the city down for three the people you mentioned were U of ■ 1964-65. (It might have been 1961-62 days. M students at one time, perhaps most • since I worked for the chairman, Mr. I believe the University was also graduated from there and have Wren, several times.) He was a closed. Nobody moved. I think it was donated large sums of money to keep Western specialist and wrote several January? the U of M going. Many scholarships, books on the West as I recall. Michael Fiorito ’76 the new sports arena. Why didn’t you If I can be of further assistance, 8814 28th Ave., N.W. mention Mike Mansfield? Think about please let me know. Seattle, W A 98117 it. Marlene Murphy Gruner ’62 I thank you for sending me the 2608 West Bertona St. Montanan. It helps me keep in touch. ■ Seattle, W A 98199 I hope this donation helps defray Here is a small donation. your budget deficit. Please don’t stop Juanita M. Huschi ’80 Editor’s note: Mrs. Gruner’s letter publishing—you’re my only contact 467 Plat I Rd. was forwarded on to Mr. Ohkura in with a place I love (my family is Sutherland, OR 97479 Tokyo. She wrote a subsequent note to Montana first generation, having the Montanan saying it was either settled in the Bitterroot Valley in the Though not a UM grad, I receive “Binghamton” or the late K.Ross Toole, 1870s). Montanan because I contributed to for whom UM’s archives are named. The Montanan is 100 percent better Clancy Gordon’s Scholarship fund. (I History Professor Edwin Bingham, than the other alumni magazine I worked for him in fall 1970.) I am glad; recently retired from the University of receive. Keep up the good work. to get it; it reminds me of what is Oregon, was a visting instructor at UM Leslie Watson ’74 possible with inspiration and energy. I in 1964-65. In a telephone interview, he 234 Aldine St. showed my 10-year-old son the cover . suggested finding the tape (it’s not in Rochester, NY 14619 of the winter 1991 issue and said, archives) to find out who the interviewer “This is Montana,” and he said, is. He said he interviewed Jeannette’s “When do we leave?” Yes. sister Edna Rankin McKinnon and her Your magazine is a wonderful treat. Expecting to be the only flatland brother, Wellington, but not Jeannette. It takes me back more than 50 years recipient of Montanan, I was surprised | Professor Bingham also said: “I really to my college days. to find that a neighbor gets it also: enjoyed the year in Missoula. It’s a lovely Do publish the Schedule of Events Mike Guthrie, a second or third town. If I’d been a skier, hunter and each issue, and a year ahead is not too cousin of A.B. Jr.’s who grew up in fisherman, instead of a tennis player and far to plan a homecoming or Billings, a UM grad, now living on beach bum, I would’ve stayed.” He commencement return trip for us Race Street in Urbana, 111. Amazing. promised a return visit. distant alumni. Thanks again. Joe Clemow '40 Robert A. Herendeen 100 Buckland Ave. 311 W. High Rochester, N Y 14618 | Urbana, 1L 61801

2 Montanan AROUND t h e OVAL Mansfield Conference May 19*21 Mansfield to give keynote address

Ambassador Mike Mansfield will Montana in the Senate until 1976, return to his alma mater this spring to filling the job of Senate majority leader give the keynote address of the 1991 for 16 years. He then served as Mansfield Conference, which will be ambassador to Japan until 1988, after May 19-21 at The University of which he became an adviser for Far Montana. Eastern affairs at Goldman Sachs &. Mansfield will address the conference Co. in Washington, D.C. His honors theme, “Japan’s Emerging Role in the include the Presidential Medal of World,” drawing on his experience as Freedom Award—the nation’s highest student, professor, congressman, non-military honor. senator and ambassador. His speech This past Homecoming, the UM will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, in Alumni Association honored the the Harry Adams Field House. statesman and his wife, Maureen ’34, Also addressing the conference, as co-recipients of the Distinguished sponsored by the Maureen and Mike Alumni Award, the first time since the Mansfield Center at UM, will be U.S. DAA was established, in 1960, that a Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., who is husband and wife have won the chairman of the Senate Foreign award. Their visit this spring will mark Relations Committee; Professor Carol the first time in more than a decade

Gluck, who holds an endowed chair in that the Mansfields have been on the Howaid Skaggs modern Japanese history at Columbia University campus. Mike Mansfield University; Ambassador Kensuke A Burlington Northern Foundation be funded by the UM Foundation. All Yanagiya, president of the Japan grant funds the Mansfield Conference. lectures are free and open to the International Cooperation Agency and Mansfield’s own lecture this year will public. responsible for distribution of the world’s largest amount of foreign aid; UM’s Centennial coordinator named and Takako Doi, the most famous woman politician in Japan and one Annie Pontrelli will spearhead the journalism degree from the University who’s noted for her charisma and University’s Centennial celebration, of Oregon in 1983. concern for peace. which will culminate on Charter Day For the past two years, she was Mansfield, who grew up in Great 1993. marketing manager for Express Ser­ Falls, received two history degrees from A student at UM vices in Missoula and was also its coor­ UM: a bachelor’s in 1933 and master’s from 1979 to 1981, dinator for “Project: Child-safe.” in 1934. In 1956, the University she participated in Before that she was personnel manager awarded him an honorary doctor of campus activities for Western Distribution Services in laws degree. and served a the Seattle area. After teaching history at UM from summer internship As Centennial coordinator, she will 1933 to 1943, he served in the U.S. with the Alumni be responsible for promoting and House of Representatives for five Association in coordinating events and will be the terms. He went on to represent 1982. She earned a liaison between the University and Annie Pontrelli ' state. Spring 19 91 3 UM law students compete in London as national client-counseling champs Enrollment breaks Two UM law students represented In client-counseling competition, winter record the United States in London March each team has 30 minutes to establish UM enrollment continued at a 22 in the international client­ a relationship with a prospective client, record-setting pace winter quarter, counseling competition. analyze the problem, discuss the with 9,794 students—more than in Second-year law alternatives and plot a preliminary any winter quarter in UM history. students Tracey course of action. The new enrollment figure, up Morin of Arlee Morin and 319 from last winter, is UM’s and Jeremy Gersovitz won the second-highest enrollment, topped Gersovitz of regional competi­ only by the 10,055 students of fall Missoula had tion in Tempe, quarter 1990, Registrar Phil Bain already defeated 11 Ariz., in February, says. Winter quarter enrollment is other teams to win becoming the first generally lower than fall the national client­ UM team to go to Tracey Morin enrollment, he says. counseling title in the client-counsel­ UM President George Dennison Minneapolis March 9. It was the ing nationals. Jeremy Gersovitz says, “These numbers indicate the University’s first victory in national University continues to be The students’ success reflects the law law school competition since 1981, attractive to students, and the school’s emphasis on practical skills when a UM team claimed first place in faculty has continued to respond moot court competition, says Professor like interviewing clients, Burnham to the needs of the students.” says. Unlike most law schools, he says, Scott Burnham, faculty adviser for But, he adds, a growing student UM stresses interpersonal skills as part client counseling. body cannot be served adequately of its curriculum. “When I was recruiting students to without an increase in funding. participate in the competition, I would “We think it’s extremely important “We are now on the verge of jokingly say, ‘Win an all-expense-paid to teach (students) to deal with people having to reconsider our trip to London: Join the client­ and not just with books,” he says. “As commitment to assuring access in counseling competition,’ never you know, the legal profession is not the light of our funding needs and dreaming it would really happen,” he held in high esteem by the public, and the resolution (to reduce says. “This is just great.” often it’s simply because of problems of enrollments if budget needs aren’t Morin and Gersovitz were one of communication between lawyer and met) passed at a recent meeting of four teams in the London competition, client. So communication is absolutely the Board of Regents. Much will up against teams from England, crucial to effective practice and to the depend on the result of our Scotland and Canada, which won the image of lawyers.” request to the Legislature.” international competition.

L/M students, pictured in custom-made white sweat shirts displaying their support for the troops involved in Operation Desert Storm, were among about 300 people at a Feb. 23 rally for the allied forces in the Persian G ulf War. 4 Montanan University joins exchange program

Students’ opportunities to study abroad will increase dramatically at UM this year through its participation in an international exchange program that links 104 U.S. universities with 103 foreign institutions in 34 countries. As a new member of the International Student Exchange Program, UM will swap students with other ISEP institutions beginning next fall. International Programs Director Peter Koehn says the decision to join ISEP demonstrates UM President George Dennison’s commitment to expanding overseas exchange opportunities for the University’s students. Howard Skaggs “Promoting international student Guard Julie Epperly sets up a play against Iowa's Steph Forward Delvon Anderson gets by U N L V forward Stacy exchange is a vital part of preparing Schueler in a first-round NCAA game in Dahlberg Augmon in the Grizzlies’ first-round N C A A tournament students for the challenges of the 21st Arena. The Lady Grit lost to Iowa 64-53. game in Tucson, Ariz. The Griz lost 99-65 to the Rebels, century,” Dennison says. who had a 30-0 record going into the tournament. About 350,000 foreign citizens study in the U.S. each year while only about 50,000 U.S. students pursue studies History tidbits, old photos sought overseas, he says, and UM is joining other U.S. universities in an effort to as UM’s Centennial nears correct that imbalance. The University of Montana will a student. We’re looking for Before joining ISEP, UM offered celebrate its Centennial in 1993. To significant events, themes, direct student exchanges with China, commemorate the chartering of the controversies, recollections, humor. Japan and New Zealand. Now the University, the Montanan and UM’s If you have information we may use University can offer educational Campus Newsletter will carry special or if you can point us to a good opportunities in Argentina, Australia, articles, historical photographs and source, please let us know. Be sure Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, a schedule of Centennial events. to include your name, address and Costa Rica, Cote d’Ivoire, Cyprus, And we need your help. telephone number should we need Dominican Republic, Fiji, Finland, Several years ago countless old to write or call you. France, Germany, Honduras, Hong photos were thrown away. Do you We want you to be part of our Kong, Hungary, Italy, Kenya, Korea, have some photos from your college Centennial celebration, so send us Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, days that you’d be willing to lend your photos and remembrances Philippines, Spain, Sweden, or donate to UM? We’ll return any from UM’s first century. Our Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, on loan and will carefully preserve address is: Togo, United Kingdom, Uruguay and any gift photos. If possible, please Office of News and Publications, Zambia. Students can attend one of 45 identify people in your photos. 317 Brandy Hall, English-language institutions abroad or We also need your stories about The University of Montana, choose to immerse themselves in one campus life when you were Missoula, MT 59812. of 14 other languages.

UM professor developing ties with Japan agency UM’s director of International seminars and gave a lecture on “The I and nutrition, natural-resource Programs spent March 3-15 in Tokyo University of Montana’s Role in management and training of forming ties between UM and the International Development: Prospects government policy-makers.” Other major Japanese international for Cooperation With JICA” at the possibilities include JICA’s sponsoring development agency. agency’s Institute for International staff members’ or Third World Cooperation. students’ studies at UM. Political science Professor Peter Similar to the U.S. Agency for Koehn was the guest of the Japan Koehn says his visit “could International Development, JICA International Cooperation Agency ultimately lead to projects in which trains people in Third World countries (JICA) as part of its development UM faculty and JICA personnel tackle and recruits specialists for overseas specialist program. He participated in Third World problems such as health I technical assistance projects. Spring 1991 5 Anthropology department chairman dies Anthropology department Chairman I and historical sites in Montana, used Dee C. Taylor, 68, died March 6 of mainly by federal and state agencies cardiac arrest. He was in his 34th year when writing environmental impact of teaching at UM, his sixth year as statements. Although the Montana department chairman. Historical Society’s State Preservation Anthropology Associate Professor Office recently began funding the Tom Foor, who taught Taylor’s two inventory’s upkeep, Taylor did it gratis classes for the remainder of winter for more than 20 years, Foor says. quarter and assumed his duties as Taylor’s death came as a shock to all chairman, says Taylor “was just an who knew him. He rode his bicycle to excellent teacher. Everywhere we go in work, walked regularly and appeared the state, everyone who’s taken a to be in excellent health. course from him has only excellent Memorials may be sent to the UM things to say about him.” Foundation, department of Taylor also maintained for 30 years anthropology scholarship fund, P.O. an inventory of all the archaeological Box 7159, Missoula, MT 59807. UM Foundation names new director

Larry Morlan of Lawrence, Kansas, left the foundation last fall to become began this spring as the new executive vice president for development at Atar> Deroutette director of The University of Montana Lovelace Medical Foundation in UM business senior Mindy Bowman, left, and Karin Foundation. Albuquerque, N.M. Sharen Peters, the Brier '84 became instant millionaires this February when Morlan had been foundation’s director of operations and they hit the $7.36 million Lotto America jackpot. director of planned giving, served as acting corporate and executive director during the foundation support nationwide search. Alumna, student at the University of Morlan holds a bachelor’s degree Kansas since 1985. from McPherson College in win lottery In that position, he McPherson, Kan. He earned a master’s headed that degree in public administration from university’s $30 Larry Morlan the University of Kansas in 1979. Karin Brier ’84 and Mindy Bowman, million fund-raising Before his last position at that a graduating senior in business at the drive. university, he worked for the Kansas University, became instant millionaires “We feel fortunate to have someone Department of Transportation as chief in February when they won a $7.36 with Larry’s talents and experience of computer services, management and million Lotto America jackpot. working on the University’s behalf at budget. After federal taxes, each will receive the foundation,” UM President George The UM Foundation, an inde­ $147,200 annually for the next 20 Dennison says. “He has a proven track pendent, non-profit organization, is the years. record, and we are confident of his University’s official development office. Bowman, 27, a saleswoman at Sears, ability to assist The University of As executive director, Morlan will plans to share her wealth with her Montana as we become more supervise a staff of 16, direct the family. Brier, 29, a teacher at Clinton sophisticated in our institutional University’s fund-raising programs and Elementary School, plans to finish out development programs.” oversee management of $23 million in the school year teaching. They also Morlan succeeds William Zader, who foundation-held assets. plan to use some of the money for traveling. Brier is the daughter of the late New scholarships honor retired professor Warren J. Brier, former dean of the The PEMCO Financial Center has McGiffert, on UM’s journalism UM journalism school, and the late given $15,000 to The University of faculty since 1966, retired in June Genie Brier ’76. Bowman is the Montana to establish five scholarships 1990. City editor for 10 years at the daughter of Missoula residents Mike honoring journalism Professor Emeritus Easton Express in Pennsylvania, he and Rosemarie Bowman, an Bob McGiffert. edited at The Washington Post for 12 administrative officer for Campus The Robert C. summers and at the International Services. McGiffert Scholar­ Herald Tribune in Paris for two. He The women, who are housemates, ships, each worth also was a writing coach at the have played Lotto America $3,000, will go to Baltimore Evening Sun for four systematically together since the game freshman journalism summers and an editor there for one. came to Montana in November 1989: students chosen on He came to UM from Ohio State They’d buy 10 tickets on Wednesday the basis of University, where he taught for four and another 10 on Saturday. They scholarship and pro­ years and earned a master’s degree in bought their winning Lotto ticket at a fessional promise, Robert McGiffert journalism. He earned a bachelor’s Mini-Mart convenience store in says UM journalism degree in public and international Missoula and plan to continue playing. | school Dean Charles Hood. I affairs at Princeton University in 1943. 6 Montanan As guest clinician for UM projects UM 's Concert Band Festival, Tim Holtan, M .M .E . ’82, directs the win awards Superior ■ High School Two University of Montana projects band in February. A that spread word of UM throughout distinguished military the nation and to foreign lands won graduate of the Officers top awards in February from the Candidate School in Fort Benning, Ga., he Council for Advancement and Support received the Benjamin of Education (CASE). Harris Award for Alumni Association Program highest overall achieve­ Coordinator Betsy Holmquist *67, ment in his class. Lieu­ M.A. ’83, won a gold award in tenant Holtan is now regional CASE competition for an executive officer and alumni relations project that brought associate conductor of last fall’s Grizzly-Bobcat football game the United States Con­ tinental Army Band, one to alumni around the nation via of the major U.S. Army satellite television. And Media bands today. Programmer Gus Chambers of UM’s Telecommunications Center picked up a gold award for producing an international student recruitment Rural Institute puts down roots video. Holmquist’s winning project gathered An organization that’s been jumping to confuse everyone. IHR was the first alumni in 17 cities to watch the around in the pages of UM’s telephone name given to the umbrella Grizzlies on big-screen TV. From directory for the past 11 years has I organization uniting MUAP and the Santa Fe, N.M., to Anchorage, finally landed in the R’s as the Rural Research and Training Center on Alaska, sports bars became Grizzly Institute on Disabilities. That’s short Rural Rehabilitation Services—better territory while alumni cheered their for Montana University Affiliated known as RTC: Rural and listed, team to victory. Rural Institute on Disabilities. So it naturally, under the R’s. RTC: Rural Chambers’ award honors a should be in the M’s, right? Actually, came to UM three years ago when 14-minute video to interest that’s where it began in 1979 as the MUAP won a won a federal grant to international students and their Montana University Affiliated Program establish a center here. Last year IHR parents in UM. The video, featuring (MUAP). was changed to the Rural Institute on comments from a cross-section of UM’s Its most recent name replaces Disabilities to better reflect the international students, was distributed Institute for Human Resources, a institute’s mission. to U.S. embassies, schools and other short-lived choice that landed the Despite all this changing of names, educational agencies abroad. organization in the I’s just long enough the institute has remained clear about that mission: To improve the lives of Alum directs Human Development Center people with disabilities who live in rural areas, which, by federal Steve Dalin, a graduate of UM’s the campus and community, made him standards, include most of the state. discontinued communication sciences an excellent choice for the position, Funding comes largely from federal and disorders department, has Offner says. grants. But state, local and private returned to the former CSD clinic to Dalin earned a UM bachelor’s degree grants support many of the institute’s direct the new Human Development in communication sciences and projects. Center. disorders in 1979 and a master’s in Richard Offner directs the Rural The interdisci­ communicative disorders from the Institute, housed in Corbin Hall, and plinary clinic is University of Wisconsin at Stevens has watched it grow. jointly operated by Point in 1980. He is an accredited “When I came eight years ago, we UM’s Rural Insti­ speech pathologist and audiologist. had about eight staff and maybe a tute on Disabilities UM’s communication sciences and quarter of a million dollars in and Community disorders department was discontinued funding,” he says. “Now we have 45 to Medical Center’s last year, and the University and 50 staff and a funding level in grants rehabilitation Community Medical Center joined and contracts approaching $2 million.” center. Steve Dalin forces to convert the CSD clinic into The nstitute helped with a recent an interdisciplinary facility that will Missoula effort to provide seven group Formerly a senior developmental provide services to people with a wide homes for 52 adults with severe specialist at the state of Idaho’s St. variety of disabilities. disabilities. It also wrote the grant for Anthony Adult and Child The clinic will provide hands-on the state’s supported employment Development Center, Dalin has experience for UM students in demonstration project, which helps substantial experience directing pharmacy, social work, psychology, people with disabilities find and keep interdisciplinary clinical services, Rural I physical therapy and teacher jobs. Among many other projects, it Institute Director Rick Offner says. education, and for students in operates Computerized Books for the That experience, together with strong Montana State University’s nursing Blind and the Vietnam Vets’ interpersonal skills and familiarity with I program. Children’s Assistance Program.

Spring 1991 7 Griz win first championship since 1975 Thunder By Dave Guffey

For the Montana Grizzlies, March 1991 was a lot like that of 1975. Then their names were Ken McKenzie, Eric Hays, Michael Ray Richardson and Coach Jud Heathcote; now they’re Kevin Kearney, Del von Anderson, Gary Kane and Coach Stew Morrill. Both years they won the Big Sky Conference and advanced to the NCAA tournament. In 1975 Montana battled eventual national champion UCLA to a tough, three-point loss, 67-64; this season ended with a 99-65 loss to first-ranked Nevada-Las Vegas in a first round game in Tucson, Ariz. It was the 42nd straight win for UNLV, which entered the game with a 30-0 record. “It was a tough draw for us, but it can’t take away from winning the Big Sky’s regular season title,” Morrill says. “They put the finishing touch on by winning the tournament. It was just a great year with a great group of kids. It was a special year for all of us, plus 7bp left photo: Kevin Kearney tops the field. He was named tournament MVP. the players and coaches from the past who have helped to make our program Left photo: Assistant Coach Blaine so solid.” Taylor and Coach Stew Morrill give The Grizzlies led the Big Sky from different signals to their players. week one, fending off Nevada and Bottom photo: Lady Griz team members Idaho down the stretch and posting a spelled out support for the men's team 13-3 conference record. With the title during the tournament. Pictured from left came the host role for the Big Sky are Kelly Pilcher, Jill Frohlich, Patricia tourney. Olson, Kristy Langton and Joy Anderson. Senior Kearney, the Big Sky’s MVP, tied a tournament record with 34 points in Montana’s 109-97 semifinal win over Idaho State. Freshman Kane added 17 points while senior Eric Jordan scored a career-high 16 points under ISU’s full-court pressure. In Montana’s 76-68 championship win over Idaho, Kearney was named MVP and Daren Engellant set a tourney record with six blocked shots. Those two wins improved the Grizzlies’ record to 23-7—the second most victories in UM history, tying the 1983-84 mark. With a five-year record of 97-52, Morrill averages 19.2 wins per season during his tenure. Along with Kearney’s MVP award HomwtS Sk sg g t (continued on page 9) o Montanan Lady Griz win conference, in the Sky tourney title By Linda K. McCarthy

The Lady Griz basketball team will keep on rolling through the ’90s as it did through the ’80s. For the 11th year in a row, Montana produced another 20-win season, finishing 26-4. UM also went undefeated in the Big Sky, going 16-0 in regular season for the third straight year and winning the Big Sky tournament for the fourth straight. For the first time in school history, Dahlberg Arena was the site for both the men’s and women’s conference tournaments. Another first came when both teams advanced to the NCAA playoffs in the same season. In the Lady Griz’ seventh trip to the playoffs, Uz'Hdhn they lost to Iowa 64-53 in Missoula. Grizzly fans offer distracting dots as targets for an Idaho State free-throw shooter. Coach Robin Selvig completed his 13th season at Montana with a 312-75 record (.806) and was named the Big Sky Coach of the Year for the seventh time and the District 7 Coach of the Year for the sixth time. Junior Shannon Cate led the Big Sky in scoring and rebounding and won the Big Sky Athlete of the Week award an unprecedented five times. The Billings native became Montana’s all-time leading scorer with 1,589 career points in only three years. Cate was also named the Big Sky regular season and tournament MVP. Lady Griz teammates Julie Epperly and Marti Kinzler joined Cate on the all-conference team, and UM reserve Liz Hahn center Jodi Hinrichs earned Big Sky’s Disappointment shows in the face of M SI) center Debbie Cober. The Lady outstanding freshman award. Cats lost 77-49 in the championship The Lady Griz broke the season game. home attendance record this year with an average 3,229 fans per game and a Big Sky tournament attendance record, drawing 6,569 fans for the 77-49 championship win over Montana State.

(continued from page 8) and Anderson’s recognition as top newcomer came first-team All-Big Sky recognition for Kearney and Engellant and honorable-mention selections for Anderson and Roger Fasting. Kane Shannon Cate shows what earned her Big Sky MVP for the season and Lady Griz Coach Robin Selvig makes his was nominated for outstanding tournament. ou/n moves on the bench. freshman. Spring 1991 9 Sparking that sense of wonder Physics Demonstration Room makes fundamentals fun

By Kristin Rodine

ecently in UM’s Science Complex, children hud­ dled atop a homemade hovercraft while shrieks of pleasure R and murmurs of understanding mingled in the background. Playing their way to science knowledge, the kids—and assorted adults—sampled the wonders of the Physics Demonstration Room. Established by the physics department as a winter-quarter destination for school and club field trips, the demonstration room proved wildly successful, attracting an estimated 1,500 people by quarter’s end. Capacity open-house crowds and Howard Skaggs Jim Semmelroth demonstrates and explains the acceleration of a falling object to a group of eighth-grade students a near-constant stream of field-trippers from Bonner Elementary School. have given the room’s 40-odd displays vacuum cleaner’s exhaust through expects the demonstration room to an excellent chance of gaining a numerous holes in the bottom of the become a permanent fixture sometime permanent UM home next year. platform, the craft creates a thin layer next year. “It’s really taken off, a lot more than of air that allows it to glide across the The tremendous public response gave anybody had anticipated,” says Jim floor without any apparent friction, Semmelroth plenty of input to help Semmelroth, M.A. ’91, the lab even when several people are standing him fine-tune the displays for impact technician who presides over this on it. and durability. Nothing tests the “physics magic show” and built many Although the room’s varied displays sturdiness of an item like a crowd of of its displays. illustrate scientific principles in a clear, enthusiastic grade-schoolers, he says. “I’ve always thought stuff like this entertaining fashion, Semmelroth “I figure I need to build stuff durable was real interesting ... (but) I thought stresses that the demonstration room’s enough to survive kids,” he says, “so I it was sort of nerdlike behavior,” he primary mission is not to teach, but to don’t really do anything to cushion says, laughing. “I always knew it was spark the desire to learn. the blow; I just let them in and let fun. I didn’t know so many people “The idea is not so much to teach them play. I want to provide an agreed with me. It’s great to see.” them anything, but to initiate that environment where they’re free to go The do-it-yourself demonstrations of sense of wonder,” he says. “Kids will wherever their curiosity takes them.” physical principles allow visitors young get more interested if they can do Dealing with groups of children for and old to simulate an ice skater’s things for themselves. ... You can learn I as much as seven hours a day has also spin, crush a can without exerting any a lot just by playing.” proved a good test of Semmelroth’s force and test varied phenomena of The demonstration room’s winter energy. sound, light, motion and electricity. I quarters were cramped and temporary, “It’s extraordinary how exhausted I Perhaps the most popular display is the he says, so the physics department has get at the end of the day,” he says. 1 “hovercraft” Semmelroth fashioned set aside a larger space in the Science “It’s harder than I thought, but it’s a \ using plywood, plastic and a standard Complex basement. Some remodeling lot of fun, too. And at least it gets vacuum cleaner. By dispersing the I will be necessary, but Semmelroth I them thinking.” 10 Montanan Our Stream of consciousness By David Purviance

IniW lW ivers, like mountains, have an everlastingness I A about them: We don’t expect them to change Howard Skaggs John Duffield fly-fishes on the Clark Fork near campus. An economics professor at much in our lifetime. UM , he has conducted research on the uses of water, not only as a source for produc­ Take the Clark Fork, for instance. It’ll always be the ing energy or irrigating crops but also as a way for people “to produce themselves a same as it was when we were students at the University, good time.” right? remember when the river ran red,” Nielsen says. Wrong. While not much has changed in the river’s But the last 10 years have seen amazing changes in the winding course through Missoula, a great deal has river. No longer a moving sewer system, the Clark Fork is changed in the way people view the Clark Fork today. now a source of pride to Missoula and the University For the first 80 years of UM’s history, the river was one community. thing to students and quite another to the community. Missoula businesses are turning their faces toward the Thousands of UM students over the years probably river, Nielsen says. While in the ’40s and ’50s, Front crossed the railroad tracks and slipped down to the river Street stores faced the street, “Now you see awnings and to skip a stone or cuddle a beau, but until fairly recently, decks overlooking the river,” he says. not many ventured into the river. It just wasn’t a healthy The change is apparent all along the Clark Fork. A thing to do. waterfront park system exists with trails linking both sides Directly across from the campus was a garbage dump, of the river. On any spring afternoon you’re likely to see and refuse was continually pushed over the bank into the UM students rafting, kayaking, fishing or swimming. The river. A half mile downstream, where an elegant motel transformation is so complete that UM alumni who have now sits, stood an ice house with another dump adjacent not visited Missoula in the past decade will be amazed by to it. For 25 cents the proprietor would allow a truckload the turnaround. of garbage to be dumped into the river from his property. One of the primary architects of the Clark Fork’s Both the University and the local hospital discharged metamorphosis has been Geoff Badenoch ’77, M.A. ’82, untreated sewage into the river. director of the Missoula Redevelopment Agency. Standing And why not? Everyone knew that just 100 miles before a floor-to-ceiling aerial photograph of Missoula on upstream, Butte and Anaconda mining operations released his office wall, Badenoch talks excitedly about changes lethally toxic wastes into the headwaters of the Clark along the riverbank. Fork. Missoula’s contribution was small by comparison. “Caras Park underwent a major transformation in the According to Peter Nielsen, M.S. ’87, executive director ’80s,” he says. “Before that it was just basically a grass of the watchdog Clark Fork Coalition, much of the river park. The idea started as a kind of town-gown upstream from Missoula was a “biological desert.” Long relationship.” stretches had no fish, he says. For many years the University’s department of “People who went to school up until the ’70s will drama/dance held a Riverfront Summer Theatre under a Spring 1991 11 tent at Caras Park. When the venture became too costly Trails Project joined smoke jumpers from the Aerial Fire and the University abandoned the program, the Missoula Depot in building a new footpath that climbs the canyon Downtown Association decided to build on the tradition wall from the Kim Williams trail to the top of Mount begun by the summer theater. A new, colorful tent, brick Sentinel. The Lolo National Forest provided funding for walkways, landscaping and a 350-seat amphitheater now that project and has taken the lead in promoting a trail grace the grounds. network that connects Missoula with surrounding national Tucked between the Higgins Avenue Bridge and the forest lands. Wilma Theatre on land that was once riverbed, Caras Badenoch suggests that two things made all these Park has become a favorite summer mecca for Missoula developments possible: the community’s readiness for a residents and visitors. Each Wednesday from June through public riverfront and the demise of the Milwaukee August some 1,500 people go “Out to Lunch” at the park, Railroad. For many decades the railroad’s route along the enjoying local musical and theatrical groups while more south bank hindered access to the river. Badenoch than 20 vendors cater to their gustatory needs. Last year remembers that in the 70s those seeking access to the when the International Choral Festival was in town, a river’s footbridge funneled through a tunnel under the crowd of some 3,500 filled the park to hear songs from tracks. When the Milwaukee line abandoned its Missoula faraway lands. track, the railbed quickly became a walking and running path for the campus community. Because a series of parks already existed along the f Caras Park is the heart of the new riverfront abandoned rail line, the new pathway suggested a natural system, the riverbank trails are its arteries. An linking corridor. The path was padded with tree bark on almost-complete loop trail runs from the University the south bank, paved on the north. I along the south bank to McCormick Park near the The crowning touch was the addition of antique-style Orange Street Bridge. On the north side the trail is still lamps along the length of the path. Badenoch and Caras fragmented but connects the University with downtown Park designer Stan Zimet located a foundry in Anaconda Missoula. A proposed pedestrian bridge with an that agreed to make cast-iron street lamps patterned after observation deck in the middle of the river will connect lamps used in Helena and Anaconda in 1910. With the the north and south trails near Orange Street. placing of map signs at key intersections, the first phase of Plans call for extending the trails all the way along the the trail system was complete. river to Reserve Street several miles west of downtown Missoula. An effort is under way to attract a minor league baseball team to the city. If the effort succeeds, a new ut the story doesn’t end with an improved stadium could be built on the old Champion millsite near riverbank. The river itself has become the asset. the river. Increasing numbers of UM students, faculty and Missoula’s proximity to wild lands, giving ample staffB recreate on the river. What started as a series of opportunity for solitude and recreation, is often touted as impromptu rafting expeditions in the late ’60s became the a unique feature of the city. A new community group, Campus Recreation Outdoor Program in 1972. Today the Missoula Trails Project, envisions the riverfront trails as program offers guided float trips down the Blackfoot River the beginning of a much larger system that will connect and the raging white water of the Clark Fork’s Alberton the city to its surrounding woodlands. Gorge, teaches kayaking and canoeing, brings fly-fishing “What emerges is the possibility of a trail system that experts to campus for free workshops and rents everything reaches out from Missoula into the countryside,” Missoula from wet suits to expedition-size rafts. Mayor Dan Kemmis, J.D. 78, says. “But the hub of that Last year the Outdoor Program took more than 300 whole system is the riverfront trail. So I’ve put emphasis University people through the Alberton Gorge and on completing that system.” another 100 down the Blackfoot. Many times that number The Missoula City Council is buying property and rent equipment and run the rivers themselves. Dudley conservation easements along the Rattlesnake Creek Improta 78, M.S. *88, manager of the program, says he corridor. When the purchases are complete, the city will has taken each of the past three UM presidents down the install a trail system that connects the Clark Fork trail gorge and hasn’t lost a one. But his most interesting white with the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area and water trip was with a group of Japanese students from Wilderness four miles north of the University. Other plans Toyo University. None of his passengers could speak call for eventual linkage with trails in the Blue Mountain English; Improta spoke no Japanese. Somehow, with a lot Recreation Area west of town. of non-verbal communication, the group made it through, To the east of campus, beginning at the entrance to a little wet but without mishap. Hellgate Canyon near the new Washington-Grizzly As residents along the Clark Fork said “no” to further Stadium, runs the Kim Williams Nature Trail. Dedicated pollution and cleanup efforts started, the trout population in 1987, the trail follows the old Milwaukee Railroad line began a comeback in the late ’60s. Unlike nearby Rock along the north wall of Mount Sentinel. It’s a favorite of Creek, the river was never known as one of Montana’s students and townspeople for hiking, running and biking. top fishing streams, but today some anglers believe it’s one In fall 1990 a group of volunteers from the Missoula of the state’s best-kept secrets. It may not be a secret 12 Montanan Wading the Bitterroot

By Greg Pape

He stands ankle deep in the river watching three or four trout rising to some unseen insect on the bright surface. A mink swims toward him with shining black eyes, an urgent look as if she has some message, but stops midstream and turns back. The riffles sparkle and flash. The air is still, then suddenly filled with the wingbeats of fifty or more mergansers much longer. Gary LaFontaine x’69, a Deer Lodge fly- flying upstream low over the water. fisherman and author of several books on the sport, was the subject of a recent ESPN television program on fly­ They rise as one fishing the Clark Fork. over some invisible hump in the air, “We just caught fish—bang, bang, bang,” says some slight fear, LaFontaine. “The producer said it was one of the best then angle down close to the surface again. segments he’s ever done.” They turn as the river turns. LaFontaine got his start in fly-fishing while a student at He follows the last one around a bend of willows. UM in the 1960s. He recalls how he and fellow student Stan Bradshaw ’72, J.D. ’75, would slip down the railroad The river keeps coming tracks into Hellgate Canyon for a few hours of evening with its glitter and shine, nymphs struggling fishing. out of their skins, coming up “Missoula always had a cadre of fly-fishers,” says through the water toward the strong light, Bradshaw. “They met at the Turf Bar—old-timer types wings unfolding. who just did it. They didn’t promote it.” Rainbows and cutthroats flash beneath the surface LaFontaine and Bradshaw parlayed their love for fishing into a business. Along with Bradshaw’s wife, Glenda ’72, feeding on the small bodies. M.A. ’76, they formed a partnership called Greycliff The tricos are coming off now, rising and falling, Publishing Co., which produces LaFontaine’s books and hovering over the water audio tapes on fly-fishing. and along the willows in a growing cloud, They are not the only ones who have profited from the more and more rising in sunlight. river. Missoula now has three fly-fishing shops, several It’s like looking into an atom, he thinks, or seeing outdoor gear rental stores and many private fishing guides. But the real winner has been the town itself. a soul take shape. “The real engine behind Missoula’s economic resurgence This is it, he thinks, now, and a big is qualify of life,” says Mayor Kemmis, “... and that is orange-bellied sucker symbolized by the river.” swims slowly up unafraid into the shallows As Keith Glaes x’74, director of Campus Recreation, at his feet, looking for a place says, “It really is a focus for a lot of people. Maybe not every day, maybe not every week, but the river has an to die. His bright green fly line gone slack attraction. It’s one of the things that binds people to this along the edge of the current, campus.” he feels his ignorance and his knowledge And so it flows. like the clear cold of the water he stands in. He bows once to the living river then wades in deeper.

Greg Pape is an associate professor of English. “ Wading the Bitterroot ” is from a collection of his poems titled Sunflower Facing the Sun and is printed with permission. Spring 1991 13 Streamside philosophy

By Janice Downey

etired University of Montana philosophy Pro­ fessor Henry Bugbee will tellR you that fly-fishing, among other outdoor recreation opportunities, has landed a good many UM faculty. He felt the same tug when he interviewed for a teaching job at UM in 1956. “In fact, I didn’t dare look long at these hills or rivers for fear I’d be unduly influenced,” Bugbee recalls. “So I stuck strictly to the business ahead during that interview.” But he was already hooked. Although he grew up in New York City, he began fly-fishing at age six when his family came west to fish, hike and camp in the Beartooth Mountains. “Montana: I got the country in my blood from an early age,” Bugbee, 76, says. He went to graduate school at the University of California in Berkeley and became “thoroughly acquainted” with northern California’s waters. He hoped to settle in the West once he gained more experience in philosophy. While teaching at Chattam College in Pittsburgh in the mid-1950s, Bugbee met Professor Ed Marvin, the pioneer of philosophy at UM and also a fly- fisherman. From that meeting, then UM President Carl McFarland invited Bugbee to interview for a position in UM’s developing philosophy department. Because of a prior commitment, Bugbee worked in France for a year Hon e S U g g t and joined UM’s faculty in fall 1958. From daily hikes and occasional fishing trips in this area, Henry Bugbee finds his strength. 14 Montanan He became department chair the figured I could catch up on my “Fly-fishing’s an activity by which following year. Concerned about fishing,” he says, and he did. In 1978 you become integral with all that building the department, he resigned he took early retirement. surrounds you,” he says. “You become from UM when a new administration In recent years, he’s fished less often steeped in the surroundings, the flow didn’t favor the development pre­ and mostly for steelhead trout in of the water itself. viously agreed upon. He took a job at Idaho’s Clearwater and Salmon rivers. “It has a musical feel to it: that Penn State and a research assignment Still, he’s no less passionate about the sound of the moving water, and maybe at Harvard University. I sport “when I get around to it.” the trees flanking the water and the grasses, and maybe the sound of the “It has a musical feel to it: that sound of birds that like to be in that place, and the rhythm of casting. It’s possible to the moving water, and maybe the trees fish all day long and not catch a fish flanking the water and the grasses, and yet come away with a sense of fulfillment.” maybe the sound of the birds that like to Between fishing outings, Bugbee be in that place, and the rhythm of hikes a local mountain each day with his dog, Sioux. casting. It's possible to fish all day long “To this day, I find my strength in and not catch a fish yet come away with a this country,” he says. “Though I don’t fish as much, I climb every day. sense of fulfillment.” I don’t intend to grow old before my —Henry Bugbee time.”

“Yet it was like internal bleeding to Even as he talks about it, his eyes Other quoted be away from here,” he says, “and I sparkle—perhaps he even sees a fish realized I’d moved once too often.” rising in a riffle—and his arms cast angling philosophy Halfway through that year, he went about with a rod, angling in “I’d really rather be remembered as a on adjunct status with Penn State, midstream. And he’s got some stories really good fly-fisherman than a lot of finished the year and then returned to to tell, such as catching a steelhead other things.” Montana. “I came back, even though I with a size-10 black gnat or a —Paul Lauren, didn’t know how I was going to make 14-pound salmon with bare hands after director of Mansfield Center a living.” jumping off a bridge—honest! “The “I probably get as much enjoyment out Fortunately, a friend at salmon thus confronted raced athwart of tying flies as 1 do catching the fish. Massachusetts Institute of Technology the current and slithered out onto a Invariably your line will snag, but it suggested that Bugbee take his place as gravel bar,” he says. “The ‘why’ of this doesn’t bother me to cut off one I tied, as a visiting speaker on campuses around is another story.” it would one I paid $1.75 for. I just pop ’em off, tie on a new one and go on.” the country. The job lasted three years As for fly-fishing, he says, it’s as and took him to 55 colleges and —Jim Olomon natural as breathing. director of Institutional Research universities. Time on Western waters restored him—body and soul—after each nine-institution tour with this program, he says. Under a new administration, Bugbee returned to UM in 1967 and chaired the department during 1967-72. Eventually becoming 13-faculty strong, the department developed into what he calls “the strongest teaching department I’ve ever been privileged to work in.” There also developed “an acute interest in fly-fishing in the department” Bugbee says, with philosophy Professors Ray Lanfear, Tom Huff, Bryan Black and Albert Borgmann among the fellow anglers. In his teaching days, Bugbee spent early mornings preparing for class and Howard Skaggs often tutored students on weekends. “I Director of Institutional Research Jim Olomon '70 is an avid flytier. Spring 1991 15 Challenging the Great Outdoors indoors By Paddy O ’Connell MacDonald

mind if people ask me why I do things. the wall, traversing, they look like he climbing wall, located It makes me think.” seven Cary Grants in North by in the University’s Safety demands precision, which is Northwest. Recreation Annex, is a the operative word here. You don’t When it’s my turn to climb, I look huge, formidable mass of plywoodjust on tie a a knot; you tie a “figure eight at my partner skeptically. She’s a red- T steel frame with glinting, silver ringsfollow-through.” And you don’t just haired girl named Clara who must bolted to the top. Jutting, suspended drop the rope on the floor; you make weigh in at about 72 pounds. Stalling overhangs protrude at measured a “butterfly coil.” We practice knotting for time, I ask her why she’s taking intervals. Dotted all over the surface and coiling for a while. We are told to this class. “When I get out there in the are gray, geometrical hunks of resin “get comfortable” with our carabiners, canyons,” she says, “I want to know and little rectangles of wood. A 25-foot the steel, hinged rings that go through what I’m doing.” When asked if the ladder on wheels rigged up with ropes our harnesses. sport intimidates her at all, she smiles. and pulleys lurks nearby. The whole The students are very focused and “Once you learn to trust your setup looks like something out of a intense. No jocularity here. No bon equipment and your partner, it isn’t Ray Bradbury story—or purgatory. mots. To a person, they look healthy, frightening at all,” she answers, then Although my attitude about any clean-cut and outdoorsy. They also nods her head toward the wall. “Go activity that involves dangling from look vaguely related. Like second ahead and start.” ropes can only be described as craven, cousins, maybe. Randall asks for Wishing I had some of those funny­ I am here to attend UM’s rock- volunteers to climb the ladder and rig looking little boots I had been secretly climbing class to report on some of the the ropes. Several eager students step sniggering at earlier, I begin to climb, recreational instruction available to forward to do the job, and soon the struggling to wedge the toes of my students. wall is ready. Excitement mounts. thick, clumsy tennis shoes onto the A small woman walks briskly into Rock-climbing is a team sport. While geometrical shapes. About 20 feet into the room lugging a giant, evil-looking one person climbs, the other “belays,” the air, I make the mistake of looking length of chain one would normally that is, prepares to stop his partner’s down. Fighting off a vertiginous wave, associate with the Marquis de Sade. falls by using a specific technique to I fix my eyes on a ruddy-cheeked boy. This chain turns out to be two dozen hold the rope. Everyone pairs off, and “You’re doing great!” he yells. “Keep “carabiners,” hooked together. soon bodies are scuttling up and down on going!” Swell. After worming my Carabiners are but one item in the the climbing wall like spiders making way up another couple of inches, I staggering array of equipment available webs. look down at Clara, wondering how for rock-climbing. There are camming There is a precise verbal ritual before she can possibly suspend my chocks, gear slings, portaledges, pitons, a climber begins: considerably greater body weight when tape and tincture of benzoine. Several “On belay?” Julie asks, and Todd I let go. kinds of bags are available: chalkbags, checks the equipment and the knots. “Go ahead, I’m ready,” she says, and haulbags and sit bags. “Belay on,” he answers. I take a breath and fall back into my When the students—more than half “Climbing,” she says. harness, hoping I’m in good standing of whom are women—arrive, they “Climb on,” Todd answers, and Julie with the Big Fella. In one definitive, waste no time. Discarding jackets and starts up the wall, fingers and toes sang-froid move, Clara secures the rope sneakers, they don harnesses and searching tenuously for the grooves and breaks my fall. She lowers me funny little boots that look like slipper- and cracks that will help her ascend. gently to the floor, and I silently vow socks. The instructor, Randall Green, The students who aren’t on ropes to stay earthbound forever. This is talks as we gear up. Safety, he says, is are practicing “bouldering,” climbing only the second day of class! What of prime importance. “Don’t be afraid unprotected at a lower level of the delights are in store for qs a month to ask me questions,” he says. “I don’t wall. Flattened, spread-eagled against from now?

1 6 Montanan assortment of gear is impressive: Life chaos, everyone catches on. Students jackets, wet suits, dry suits. Helmets, of whiz up and down the pool, making course. Gaiters, gloves and booties— lightening-quick turns at each end, like again with the little boots! hyperactive fish in a too-small The people in this class are an aquarium. eclectic bunch. There are “non- This sport I can handle, I think. traditional,” that is, older students. A Until, that is, I am introduced to married couple. Several muscular, what is euphemistically referred to as healthy-looking kids. A 20-ish boy the “eskimo roll.” (I, for one, could with a large tattoo on his chest and a come up with a few harsher terms for long black braid hanging halfway it.) The first half of the “eskimo roll” down his back. Gathering closely is a cakewalk. One simply takes a deep I take a breath and fall back into my harness, hoping I’m in good standing with the Big Fella. around Hingle, they listen intently as breath, lists sideways into the water he stresses the need for caution, safety until, once again, he is hanging upside and respect for the sport and for the down, tethered to the kayak by the river. They love this. rubbery skirt attached to the seat. This All kayaks are not the same. Hingle bears a remarkable similarity to the shows us the differences in foot braces “wet exit.” The second half of the and bulkheads. Some boats have eskimo roll, though, is the tricky part. backstraps and some do not. Using the “paddle sweep” and the “hip Explaining why he prefers backstraps, snap,” one manipulates his way back Hingle uses a disturbing analogy. on top of the water, completing a Learning the ropes of mountaineering, Clara Hapner, a senior in English, and Charles Miller, a sophomore in “When I’ve been on the river and felt perfect circle. When the instructor premedical sciences, practice on the climbing wall. like I was in a toothpaste tube being does this, it looks effortless. He and These things, among others: squashed,” he says, “I was glad I had a the kayak are one, rolling over and rappelling—descending a face by means backstrap.” Toothpaste tube? over in the water like a huge, of a double rope secured above and Squashed? Huh? multicolored seal. around the body; crack- Hingle gets right down to business. After snapping and sweeping climbing—ascending by wedging one’s Before we do anything else, he says, frantically to no avail, I invent my hands and feet into fissures in the we’ve got to learn the “wet exit,” a own way of completing the eskimo rock; and a field trip so the students sort of baptism-by-fire-by-water. roll. It involves wiggling free of the can perform all these skills in the Demonstrating, he gets in his boat, rubber skirt and then thrashing, canyons surrounding Missoula. Oh, flips it over in the water and hangs choking and clawing my way to the my. there, submerged, for 10 seconds. surface, abandoning paddle and kayak This sport is extremely challenging Then with a yank on the cord, he en route. and requires a lot of trust. The frees his splash skirt from the kayak The married couple, Sally and Tom, fainthearted—and, regrettably, I’m and swims triumphantly to the surface. are having a blast. “I love the water,” among them—would be wise to pursue When he does this, he wears Sally says, when asked why she is some other activity. noseplugs. Noseplugs! A few students taking this class. “We scuba dive and Like, say, kayaking. run up to a desk and purchase some canoe, and we wanted to see if we’d from the lifeguard. I, being of tougher like kayaking.” And do they? “Oh, stock, stand there chortling softly, yes!” she says with a wide grin, then ersonally, I think any sport arms folded, eyes rolled ceilingward. looks at me quizzically. “Don’t you?” requiring the use of helmets Soon, however, I am upside down From a recreational standpoint, few is nothing less than dim- with water streaming into my nostrils, campuses surpass UM in the diversity P witted, but, having survived the thinking I’d trade my entire kingdom, of activities available. If students aren’t climbing wall, I decide to try this also. had I one, for noseplugs. of the kayaking or rock-climbing ilk, The first night of class, which is held The pool is now rife with kayaks, they can sign up for mountaineering, at Grizzly Pool, we’re outfitted with the students arduously practicing the ski-camping, telemarking, canoeing or kayaks, paddles and splash skirts. My paddle stroke. At first the entire pool whitewater rafting. There’s even an boat is bright yellow. Hmm. resembles a large tub of aquatic “avalanche short course” offered. The instructor, Paul Hingle, talks of bumper-cars. There are many Doesn’t that sound tempting! Well, the other equipment necessary for the collisions, and a lot of “excuse me”s have a ball, kids. sport. As with rock-climbing, the and “I’m sorry”s. But after the initial As for me: Tennis, anyone?

Spring 1991 1 7 M ia McCoy Mountain-bike riding is just one of many outdoor activities the campus community has to choose from. At UM: ‘Out to lunch’ means out to play

B;y Gordon Opel enjoying the out-of-doors has well beyond the heart and other distinguished the state as having one physical parameters. Activity has a f it’s the noon hour and you’re of the most physically active profound effect on mental health and looking for University of populations in the nation. And our the sense of well-being. A hike along Montana Controller Rosi Keller calorie-burning lifestyle has made the the Kim Williams Nature Trail can I ’84, don’t bother calling her office. state one of the country's leanest. dramatically reduce fatigue and Head for the trail to the “M” on Recent research shows just how our tension: Life looks better; personal Mount Sentinel. Chances are, you’ll active lifestyle promotes good health. problems seem less serious. find Keller striding along just ahead. For years, experts suggested that to Physical activity and recreation also From mid-March to November, benefit from exercise, one must engage combat the bad effects of stress. Keller includes this hike in her hectic in regular bouts of heart-thumping Research shows that we can control schedule at least three times a week. aerobic activities like jogging or the stress hormones released during Within minutes she escapes from the swimming laps. finals week or after a troublesome demands of her office into a world of Today, we know otherwise: Simply workday by simply going outside to scenic vistas and relative solitude. keeping active can produce most of the play. At UM, where access to Like many others who have elected benefits associated with exercise. recreation is so convenient, this comes to work and study at UM, Keller finds Walking through Greenough Park, easy. the active lifestyle associated with searching for huckleberries in Pattee Perhaps the most significant health J Montana and campus rejuvenating. Canyon or commuting to campus by benefit of our active lifestyle is its Where else can you cast for rainbow bike all help ensure good health. In contribution to a balanced life. The trout, stalk a herd of deer, practice other words, with other health University of Montana has become a your Eskimo roll on a nearby river or considerations being equal, people who mecca for people who appreciate the mountain bike along a forested trail— keep physically active by enjoying the need for linking professional or all within minutes of your office or out-of-doors around campus have odds academic pursuits with lifestyles that dorm room? against heart disease similar to those include having fun and staying This active lifestyle has many who vigorously train for the annual healthy. benefits, one being its contribution to Governor’s Cup Marathon. Gordon Opel, M.S. ’85, is director of UM ’s good health. Montanans’ bent for The benefits of our active lifestyle go I Wellness Program. 18 Montanan Arctic daydreams

By Carol Susan Woodruff

eth Kantner, a 25-year-old University of Montana senior, gives new meaning to the term “non-traditional student.” About 26 percent of UM’s undergraduates fall into that category:S at least 25 years old, entering college for the first time or returning after a break. Many are married or single parents. . But Kantner’s unusual background sets him far apart from other students given that tidy label. He grew up in the wilds of northwestern Alaska, about 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle, and has led the kind of life other UM students probably have only read about, dreamed of or glimpsed in movies. Like his fellow journalism majors, he struggles to learn his craft. But years of home schooling and living in extreme isolation have created a special challenge for him: learning to function in a society whose history and ways still baffle him. “Everything comes hard,” he says. “A lot of times, I get stumped on real general knowledge. It’s embarrassing when people mention someone everybody in the universe would know—even a 9-year-old kid—and I don’t have a clue what they’re talking about.” He’s most comfortable discussing his life in the Arctic, in wide-open, untamed territory as unfamiliar as a foreign country to residents of relatively cosmopolitan Alaskan cities like Juneau and Anchorage. Speaking quietly, matter-of-factly, he conjures up his family home—a sod igloo (“igloo” is Eskimo for “house”) often buried beneath snowdrifts. He tells of attacks on his family’s dog sled team by a rabid moose and starving brown bear. He fondly remembers the yearly return of the winter sun after a long hiatus that filled his mother with despair. Kantner, the son of Ohioans who forged a new life for themselves in Alaska, was born in a 14-by-14-foot sod igloo. For a time, the igloo housed four Kantners, another Seth Kantner is one of U M ’s most non-traditional non-traditional students. couple and more than a few mice and shrews. The Spring 1991 19 StacayOteMr In the Arctic, dogs like Kantner's Pepper are more than man’s best friend; they’re transportation. broadsaw-hewn, flat-roofed structure was dug into the The family learned to be self-sufficient, even when it earth for warmth and insulated with moss that dripped in came to medical matters. When Kantner was 4, his father spring and summer—hence the number of pots strategically accidentally ran over him with a dog sled heavily laden placed around the floor. An 8-foot-long tunnel covered at with camping supplies. With no doctor to treat him, he the end with caribou skins formed the entrance. Other crawled for four months until his injured leg mended skins softened Kantner’s dirt-ledge bed. itself. “I wanted to be native. I was like they were. When I’d see antner began home schooling in first grade, white people, I’d think, (What taught by his mother, who’d earned a biology degree at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. are they doing here?’ ” HeK skipped kindergarten because someone in Ambler had stolen his school supplies, sent by the state, and tossed —Seth Kantner them into the depths of an outhouse. He studied three hours a night by the dim light of a The environment was harsh. “We lived in a place kerosene lamp and read voraciously for pleasure. Eskimos and everyone talked about,” he says of home, 30 “Unfortunately, I read a lot of junk—adventures, thrillers,” miles down the Kobuk River from the Eskimo village of he says. “I didn’t read lots of classics.” He rarely laid eyes Ambler, population about 250. The bluff into which his on a newspaper, and the family’s battery-powered radio family carved two homes over the years lies in a four-mile- picked up only a North Pole station. wide swath of open land through which the wind howls By age 18, he’d been educated at home for all but part mercilessly and whips the snow into frozen waves. of two years. Because of family business, he spent some of Passersby—mainly hunters—are rare, he says. As third grade in a Fairbanks school and some of 10th in a children, he and his older brother yearned for Florida school. Daytona Beach was especially eye­ companionship. They’d dash barefoot into the snow, no opening—“unthrilling,” Kantner calls it. He learned he matter how bitter the cold, to greet friends and strangers couldn’t trust everyone the way he did back home. Naive alike. Sometimes the visitors would bring three or four about the ways of the world, he found himself making months’ worth of mail, other times ice cream or boxes of social gaffes. To his classmates’ amazement, he didn’t library books from Fairbanks. know who the Beatles were. To his own amazement, 2 0 Montanan for themselves. Some summers, they fished commercially for salmon in Kotzebue, about 200 miles west of home. It was hard being the only white family in the fishing camp; Eskimo corporation leaders finally made it clear they were unwelcome. “I wanted to be native,” he recalls. “I was like they were. When I’d see white people, I’d think, ‘What are they doing here?’ ” In 1983, Kantner enrolled at the University of Alaska- Fairbanks, mostly to meet women, he confides. ‘‘It didn’t work,” he says with a chuckle. After IV2 years, wanderlust set in. Money he’d made trapping and fishing paid for a four-month trip to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. By hitchhiking, working on a sheep station and sleeping under the trees, he managed to spend less than $1,000 after plane fare. He then re-entered school, bounced from one major to another and transferred to UM in 1988 under the Western University Exchange program. The program gives students a break on out-of-state tuition at participating schools.

e’s done well at the University. He carries a £ /m Kantnor 3.64 grade-point average and has won Smith Young Kantner, left, and an Eskimo friend boil water as part of the all-day ordeal Corona and Allied Daily Newspaper schol­ of washing laundry. H arships recognizing his writing skills. His free-lancing people chose to be in debt most of their lives to buy such efforts paid off recently when he had an anecdote about trappings of luxury as a nice house with a car out front. Ambler published in the January 1991 issue of Reader's Back home, where money usually was in short supply, Digest. luxury meant owning rifles, a snowmobile and a bearskin Kantner has found a niche as a journalism school couch. student and Montana Kaimin reporter and photographer. Kantner’s parents valued a good education but thought ‘‘Because I didn’t go to high school, I’ve always wanted to other activities were important as well. He learned early to be part of a group,” he says. “I really like the shovel out the entrance to the snow-buried igloo. Other camaraderie.” jobs included cutting wood for the barrel stove that Still, he feels different from other students. While his heated the igloo and hauling water from the river to be friends live on pizza, Coca-Cola and McDonald’s food, he boiled for laundry, dishwashing and baths. cooks a well-balanced meal every night. He even makes His father also taught him to build dog sleds, hunt, trap his own yogurt and beer. Out of habit, he goes around and fish. “We shot and ate just about everything that his rented house turning off lights left on by his moved,” Kantner says. They stored food in the snow or in roommate. “I don’t like to waste anything because we had caches—wooden sheds on stilts. Mainly the family lived on so many years of not having enough,” he says. caribou, as many as 10,000 of which grunted and shuffled The Arctic creeps into his thoughts every day. For one past the igloo during spring and fall migrations. Every fall, thing, he misses Alaskans’ informality and openness. ‘‘Up the Kantners traveled to Ambler by dog sled or North, if anybody stops by at dinner time or wants to snowmobile to order 50 pounds each of supplies like spend the night, you just set down another plate,” coffee, sugar, flour and powdered milk. Later, after moving Kantner says. ‘‘Here, there’s all that calling ahead. People into an 18-by-32-foot sod igloo farther up the bluff, they are busy, and they’re separate. I don’t find it to be nearly also grew vegetables. as comfortable.” Kantner became a resourceful cook, especially when it But there’s another kind of openness he misses more. came to lemon meringue pie. He needed eggs for the “What I miss most about Alaska is the freedom of being dessert but, naturally, couldn’t run to a convenience store surrounded by empty country,” he says. “You’re not to buy some. So, in the spring, he’d sneak up to the trespassing or stepping on anybody’s toes. Whatever floating nest of a grebe—a loon-like diving bird—and try pleases you, you do. I hate being separated from the land to snatch a few eggs. If the bird saw him coming, it would by society and money.” push the eggs into the water and retrieve them later. Kantner is unsure how he’ll use his journalism degree He trapped his first fox at age 8, progressing to lynxes, after graduating in June. But he does know he’ll return to wolverines, minks, martens, otters and beavers. He and Alaska, where being non-traditional is a tradition. his family caught whitefish for the dogs, sea-going trout

Spring 1991 21 n n wenty-two years ago John Wang set down his suitcases in Missoula and looked at the mountains rising up on every side. “It took me years to get used to those mountains,” he says. “I grew up on the North China Plain, where the land stretches flat as far as you can see.” Wang, a professor and priest, sits in his living room with its over-stuffed American furniture and Chinese wall hangings. When he’s reading or praying, he looks like a Buddhist monk: meditative and serene. But as he talks about his life in China, Europe and the United States, his face becomes crinkly and animated, and he laughs a lot. In 1967 Wang came to The University of Montana to teach Spanish. He ended up running the Chinese program. In June, -after more than two decades of service to UM, he will retire, ending another stage of a journey that began in his home village of Zhanhua, in the Shandong Province of North China. Wang’s father, a farmer and herbalist trained in the Confucian classics, hoped his son would become a scholar. His devoutly Catholic mother wanted him to be a priest. Wang became both, but by a route none of them had imagined. At age 10 he enrolled in a school run by American Franciscans for boys with a leaning toward the priesthood. There he received a solid grounding in English and Latin, languages that were to provide the foundation for his ability in Spanish, Italian, French and German. He also felt a growing sense of vocation. “My desire for the priesthood grew out of the atmosphere there,” he says. “It was a very happy time of my life.” Wang assumed he would complete his studies for the priesthood at the American school, be ordained and then assigned to a local parish. World War II and China’s Communist Revolution altered that plan; life as a village priest was not what providence apparently had in mind for John Wang. Professor and priest John Wang A Providential Life

By Elizabeth Ichizawa

22 Montanan After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the preparation for teaching Chinese literature and Japanese closed the American school and Wang culture courses. transferred to a German seminary. When According to Professor Maureen Cheney Communist revolutionaries began moving into Curnow ’60, who chairs UM’s foreign the area, Wang and his classmates again had to languages and literatures department, Wang transfer, this time to a seminary in south brought a high level of scholarship to his China. By 1949 the Red Army had swept classes, both Spanish and Chinese. through the south, forcing the seminarians to “The department has appreciated his flee China. extensive intellectual background an d ' “If I hadn’t escaped, I may have been versatility—both in his contributions to the imprisoned or killed, or maybe gone over to teaching of Spanish and more recently in his their side,” he says. “Many did.” strong leadership in the Chinese program,” she Wang continued his studies in Macao, a says. Portuguese colony. Six months later he was From the beginning, Chinese classes were sent to a seminary in Zaragoza, Spain, for more popular. Wang soon found himself teaching training in theology and philosophy. In 1954 three levels of the language, plus Chinese he was ordained there. He later received literature and culture courses. Being the sole doctorates in canon and civil law at the professor of Chinese tested his stamina: His Lateran University in Rome. teaching load averaged 18 credits a quarter for In 1960 Wang accepted a post to teach canon years. law, theology and philosophy at St. “Only recently have we realized the Leo’s College in Florida. “In many Chinese importance of the Far East,” he says. people’s minds America is the promised land,” “Americans have been Europe-oriented, Wang says. “So when they offered me this neglecting Asia. This is true in religion, position, I took it.” languages and culture. It’s gradually changing Wanting to pursue his love of Spanish now. They’re waking up.” literature, Wang moved to Washington, D.C., Helping Americans understand China has in 1964 and earned a doctorate in Spanish at been an important task for Wang. To that end the University of Maryland while teaching high he set up an exchange program with the school Latin to support himself. University of Hangzhou in 1985, and UM has In 1968 The University of Montana invited sent students to China every year since. Wang to interview for a vacancy in teaching Especially rewarding to Wang has been the Spanish language and literature. opportunity to lead tours to China for “I went for the interview, liked the people students, faculty and community members. “It’s and scenery and decided to stay,” Wang says. not a tourist trip but a cultural tour,” he says. “Besides, it was closer to the Far East, and that “When they go, they study China on the was a consideration.” spot.” After President Richard Nixon’s trip to On the first of his four tours, Wang’s China in 1972, relations between the United personal odyssey came full circle when he States and China thawed, and Americans suddenly became fascinated with China. UM students petitioned the University’s administration for a Chinese program, and Wang agreed to develop one.

he transition was not easy. Wang has native fluency in Spanish and an abiding love for the language, culture T and literature of Spain. ‘The new direction took me away completely from that which I loved and had devoted many years to,” he says. “For several years after that I was homesick for Spanish, but I had decided to devote myself totally to this new field.” This commitment required him to research extensively such topics as Chinese poetry and UzHahn folklore and East-West cultural relations in Although Professor John Wang is retiring this spring after 22 years at UM, he u/ill continue to teach a course each year in Chinese literature or culture.

Spring 1991 23 continued to minister as a priest. For 20 years he was affiliated with Christ the King Church “1 consider the and for the past four years has been assisting profession of at Pope John XXIII. He also functions as a legal consultant for the Helena Diocese and as an priest and “on-call” celebrant and preacher at churches professor to be throughout western Montana. He has done it all with a vigor testifying to connected. his sturdy peasant roots. Still, at age 62, Wang Teaching to me looks forward to retirement. His garden will be freer of weeds, and he will have more time for is not only parish work and his many friendships. “Pm a very social man,” he says. intellectual What he will relish most, however, is more instruction. I time to read classical literature, do research and write. He is writing a book, tentatively want to titled The Soul of New China, about presenting Christian ethics to Chinese intellectuals. influence people Rev. John Wang in 1961 at St. Leo School of Theology in Florida. “Christian beliefs are compatible with Chinese morally returned for a visit to his family for the first culture,” he says. time in 33 years. And because teaching has always been an and to “It was a great homecoming,” he says. “There important part of Wang’s vocation, he plans to educate in were lots of nieces and nephews to get to continue offering one course a year at UM in know.” As for changes he saw in his homeland Chinese literature or culture. a broad he says: “On the surface it has changed. The “I consider the profession of priest and sense.” surface is a communist society, highly professor to be connected,” he says. “Teaching organized. But in reality, Chinese society to me is not only intellectual instruction. I —John Wang remains very much traditional.” want to influence people morally and to Besides his work at the University, Wang has educate in a broad sense.”

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a George “Shorty" I ^ Huber ’29 was recently 9 I I ■ featured on the cover of ! I Helmsman, a magazine published monthly by the 41V V ^ United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

Hulda Miller Fields dies

Hulda Miller Fields ’27 died Feb. 19 at her home in Missoula at age 84 following an 11-year bout with Alzheimer’s disease. She was the mother of John Frederick Fields ’51 and Nancy Fields O’Connor ’51, wife of television actor Carroll O’Connor, M.A. ’56, who credits Hulda as a major inspiration Fields in his decision to persevere in a theatrical career. Among her five grandchildren is Jeffrey H. Fields ’83.

J.C. “Jim” Garlington, J.D. ’30, and his wife, ) Nancy Hammatt Gar­ lington ’32, were selected Southern California U M alumni and friends enjoy an as honorary co-chairs of evening at Carroll O ’Connor's Place, top photo. From the 23rd annual C.M. left at table: Gil Caruso ’53, Rosemary lmbert Cater- Russell Auction of Original Western Art in son ’44, Arlene Rees, Ralph Rees ’49, Ruth Bright, Anita 30s Phillips Murez ’50 and Margaret Caruso. Great Falls. The Garlingtons live in Missoula. Ralph W. Dilton ’36, M.A. ’38, and his George Montgomery x’40, left, and Carroll O ’Connor wife, Helen, live in San Luis Obispo, Calif. ’56, above, got together during the Southern California Among the guests at the alumni gathering were Presi­ Ralph, a former history professor at Califor­ alumni gathering in mid-February. dent George Dennison and his wife, Jane, pictured here nia Polytechnic State University, retired in w ith Nancy Fields O ’Connor ’51 and U M journalism 1973. school Dean Charles Hood. Spring 1991 25 Howard Skaggs Despite their 99-65 loss to the U N LV Rebels, the Grizzlies gave their fans at the N C AA playoff game a lot to cheer about.

A a Verna Green Smith a Ted Marchie ’50 receiv- Arthropod-borne Viruses. J A f ^ ’40, a 25-year member of ■ ed an honorary lifetime Marilyn Prideaux Porter ’54 has retired / I I Missouri Press Women, r ^ I ■ membership in the Mon- after 30 years with the federal government as ^ L l | m was honored as Com- ^ ^ 1 1^^ tana Association of a personnel staffing specialist. Her husband, f V l J municator of Achieve- m ^ Nurserymen at the recent Allan Porter ’54, previously was owner and ■ ^ ment by that organization Sm MAN convention in publisher of Alaska Industry Magazine. They live at its fall meeting in Columbia recently. Ver­ Billings. in Anchorage, Alaska. na, who lives in St. Louis, has “retired twice” Jeremy Thane, J.D. *51, was appointed by Murray Ehlers ’55 was appointed by Gov. but continues as a nearly full-time volunteer Gov. Stan Stephens to the Montana Board of Stan Stephens to the Montana Highway Com­ editorial director for OASIS (Older Adult Ser­ Health and Environmental Sciences. Jeremy mission. Murray, who lives in Billings, has been vice and Information System). and his wife, Ginny Knapp Thane ’47, live active in the Montana Senior Corps of Retired Judge James Browning, J.D. *41, of the 9th in Missoula, where he is president of the law Executives program since his retirement in Circuit Court of Appeals, has received the firm Worden, Thane and Haines, P.C. 1976. prestigious Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Ser­ Dick Cerino ’52 retired in December after Robert Gibson ’55 was elected a 1990 vice to Justice Award. The award will be 36 years as director of rehabilitation services Fellow of the Society of American Foresters in presented at the 1991 9th Circuit Judicial Con­ at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula. recognition of his outstanding service to ference in August in Maui, Hawaii. James and James Purcell ’52, J.D. ’58, is a district forestry and to the society. Robert, forest super­ his wife, Marie Rose Chapellu Browning judge in Butte. visor of the Gallatin National Forest, lives in ’41, live in Mill Valley, Calif. James remains Jean’ne Shreeve ’53, associate vice presi­ Bozeman. on the court as an active judge handling a full dent for research, dean of the graduate school J.D. Coleman ’56 is public affairs specialist caseload. Congratulations! and professor of chemistry at the University for the Flathead National Forest in Kalispell. Jean Casto Schoen ’43 and her husband, of Idaho, was re-elected to serve as director Bob Spiwak ’56, golf writer and William A. Schoen, live in St. Petersburg, Fla. from Region VI of the American Chemical photographer, is West Coast editor of a na­ She writes: “We enjoy our sunny beaches and Society. Jean’ne lives in Moscow. tional golf magazine. He also owns Whisper­ spend our free time volunteering in programs Paul Carpino ’54 was selected as the peace ing Rattlesnakes Golf Course in Winthrop, to help the poor.” and social justice activist from Montana to be Wash. “I left a lot of memories, fond ones, Ron Schulz ’43 and Ruth Mittelstaedt profiled in the 1991 peace calendar published behind” at the University, he writes. “I also Schulz ’45 live in Monte Vista, Colo., where by the War Resisters’ League. Paul lives in left behind a 1931 Model A Ford, in back of Ron is serving his eighth year as mayor and Ovando. Corbin Hall. It only ran on three cylinders. his 12th year on the City Council. He has serv­ Jack M. Do 1 lan ’54 received the Sustain­ Have you seen it?” ed as Rio Grande Land Use Administrator and ed Special Achievement Award by the Na­ Roger Baty ’58 is a professor of an­ recently was named Monte Vista man of the tional Park Service in recognition of his thropology and the Farquhar Professor of the year. He retired from the U.S. Forest Service outstanding performance as supervisor of Lake American Southwest at the University of the in 1979 after 35 years. McDonald Lodge in Glacier National Park. Redlands. He and his wife, Phebe, live in Justice John Sheehy, J.D. ’43, retired after Jack lives in Whitefish. Redlands, Calif. nearly 13 years on the Montana Supreme James L. Hardy ’54 is professor of medical Donald G. Stevenson ’58 has retired from Court. He and his wife, Rita Schlitz Sheehy virology at the University of California at the U.S. Forest Service after 35 years of ser­ ’43, live in Helena. They have 11 children and Berkeley. He was awarded the Richard Taylor vice. He and his wife live in Missoula. They 13 grandchildren. Medal by the American Committee on | have five children. 26 M ontanan Earl J. Barlow, M.Ed. ’59, is area director for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Min­ neapolis. Charlene Davis Collins ’59, an office careers professor at Red Rocks Community College in Lakewood, Colo., received a $500 grant from the Red Rocks Community Col­ lege Foundation. The grant is one of six award­ ed to Red Rocks faculty members for innovative instructional projects. Sam Ragland ’59 is vice president and Cleveland-area marketing director for Hun­ tington National Bank in Cleveland. » Richard W. Anderson 1 / ’60, J.D. ’62, a Billings at- j / I ■ ^ torney, was appointed as 1^^ a U.S. magistrate for ■ Montana. He and his wife, Cheri, have three children. Tom Kovalicky ’61 has retired after a 28-year career with the U.S. Forest Service, the last eight as supervisor on the Nez Perce Na­ tional Forest. Tom lives in Grangeville, Idaho. Arlen S. Roll ’61 has retired from the U.S. From left, Bob Kelly ’69, Dan Lambros ’53, J.D. ’58, and Alumni Association Director Bill Johnston ’79 spend Forest Service’s Northern Region after 30 years a moment together before the 1991 Charter Day convocation. Kelly received the Neil S. Bucklew Presidential Service and a total of 34 years of federal service. He Award, and Lambros received the Montana Alumni Award. Other Charter Day recipients were John Mudd, J.D. lives in Missoula. ’73, for the Robert T. Pantzer Award, and senior David Wojciechowski, for the Student Service Award. Robert W. Bosworth ’62 is a silviculturist Dick Ellis ’62, M.A. ’65, is region super­ Col. Dennis Kansala ’64, J.D. ’67, is staff with the Idaho Panhandle National Forest on visor for the Fish, Wildlife and Parks Depart­ judge advocate of the U.S. Central Command the Bonners Ferry Ranger District. Robert, ment in Miles City. Air Forces. Dennis has been in Saudi Arabia who lives in Bonners Ferry, recently wi~' Paul D. Miller *63, J.D. ’66, is an ad­ since mid-August. His office is heavily involv­ elected to the Society of American Foresters ministrative partner for the Billings law firm ed in international legal issues and operational Council. of Holland &. Hart. law including rules of engagement for U.S. and

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Robert L. Dick; Robert J. Fischer; Ar- Barnett Johanson; Bryan G. Johnson; We have lost touch with the people listed mund E. Foley; Marjorie Fay Fryberger; Dennis H. Johnson; Donald R. Johnson; below. Some have not been heard from since L. Neil Gilliam; Gurina Froiland Grann; Ken Johnson; Carol Christopher Jones; graduation; some have moved and not sent us j David R. Greeson; Mont H. Gutke; Lloyd Patricia Kemp; Donald R. Kendall; a forwarding address; some have married and I R. Henry; Ralph W. Julian; Angelo T. Lillian Kirkpatrick; Jon D. Korrison; changed their names; some may have died. If Kalaris; Russell L. Kurth; Earl J. Marietta Johnstone Lewis; Donald E. you know where any of these people are, please McGrath; Robert D. Moore; Joseph V. Loranger Jr.; John G. Lumb; Joseph D. drop a note to Records Department, UM Orrino; Harry C. Peters; Donald E. Malletta; James H. Mann; Donald Mark; Alumni Office, Brandy Hall, The University Peterson; Margaret Lampen Rice; Donald E. Mauer; Mary Canon McCor­ of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812-1313. Charles T. Saunders; Alton E. Simpson; mick; David F. McElroy; Jacquelyn Ann Dean A. Swanson; Walter J. Them; Den­ McElroy; Dennis E. Meyer; Sherry ’31 nis S. Weir; Robert C. Ziegler. Miner; Jean Baxendale Moffatt; Terry E. Albert Besancon Jr.; Louise Betzner; Ray Murray; Marguerite Ricketts Nelson; M. Birck; Nora Lowry Fleming; Avis William B. Nutter; Melvin L. O’Hara; Riggs Harmon; James Prendergast; Helen ’66 Joseph D. O’Leary; Theodore E. Olson; Vandenhook. Myma Campbell Balbi; Richard W. Ben­ William A. Pedersen; John A. Pickering; nett; Georgia Benton Tree; Edwin George R. Poertner; William J. Potts; Bishop; Robert P. Bishop; Ellis R. Boe; Pamela Price; Sarah Sullivan Readicker; ’41 David D. Carpita; Carolyn Hughes Car- I Michael A. Reese; Douglas L. Rives; Arthur E. Adami; Jean Loughran Braden; pita; Leslie Phelps Chumrau; Virginia Laird A. Robinson; Ronald L. Robinson; William S. Davidson; Louise Brummett Neal Clarke; Dan E. Cold; Paul F. Con­ English; Daphne Collins llleman; Alton John F. Robinson; Martha Gentry Robin­ nelly; Gerald C. Damm; Louis H. DeMers son; Robert I. Rose; Daniel L. L. Knutsen; Howard L. Koch; M. Baxter Jr.; Faye Hobbs DeSpain; Eugene R. Larson; Lloyd E. McDowell; Virgil Rothlisberger; Suzanne Wright Satterlee; Drager; J. David Ellen; Robin A. Field; Hans M. O. Schleindl; George E. McNabb; Jean Clendenan Murphy; Gene D. Fleming; Colleen McCarthy William B. Richter; Charles D. Slay; Schrimpf; Edmund P. Shoiel; Philip E. Flood; John M. Flynn; Joellen K. Foss; Shults; Susan Hoffeller Smelko; Charles Murray D. Syverud; Mabel Nutter Lawrence E. Fredrick; Robert D. Gale; Wilson. J. Stack; Harvey S. Stevens; Vera Stewart; Nancy Roberts Gale; Frederick W. Beverly J. Stocking; Warren G. Tanner; Gilliard Jr.; Donald D. Grotts; Kurt A. Thomas A. Ulberg; Robert C. Uthe; ’5 1 Hanson; Robert G. Hawe Jr.; Edwin C. Donald N. Vickers; J. Mersch Ward; Chesley W. Angle; Donna Burr Arnold; Hebner; William P. Henderson; Judith j John R. Ward; E. Bruce Watson Jr.; Henriette Zakos Arrington; Frank E. Rudin Herrod; Dennis H. Hierath; Ver­ j Kathryn Redman Watson; Karen Shen- Ashley; Robert J. Brazill; Ruth Heinrich na M. Hierath; James C. Higgins; Roger I num Webb; David J. Weinschrott; W. Clark; John R. Cole; Thomas J. Corbett E. Hill; Robert A. Hogg; Dennis L. Leighton Wessel; Mary Westphall Jr.; Famam T. Crawford; Ronald V. Cun­ Holman; Rudolf A. Honkala; Curtis E. Wolfe; Robert A. Worthington; David R. ningham; Bonnie Chapman Danielson; j Jackson; Russell W. Jennings; Terri I Yonce; Charles R. Young Jr. 2 8 Montanan Pam Burgess 70, M.Ed. 71, is pursuing her doc­ ) torate in clinical Reunion notice for psychology from the Wright Institute in former exchange students Berkeley, Calif. Also, she is women’s70s gymnastics coach for the Univer­ The National Student keep you informed about our sity of California at Berkeley. Exchange will mark its 25th plans to celebrate this event in Ken Dunham 70 is executive director of anniversary during the 1992-93 NSE’s history. the Montana Contractors Association in academic year. A focal point of Would you take a few Helena. our celebration will be in moments and send the following David Rye 70 and his wife, Gay Darken- Chicago at our annual information to the address wald Rye ’68, live in Billings, where David conference the second week of indicated below: 1) name, 2) owns Dave Rye Communications, an adver­ March 1993. Along with that home campus, 3) exchange tising firm. celebration, we will produce an campus(es), 4) exchange year, 5) “By the time this note reaches UM I will be anniversary publication citing current graduate school or in the Middle East with the Washington Air significant events in our history employment affiliation, 6) title, 7) National Guard,” writes Skip Sherwood 70. and recognizing some of the ways home address, 8) home phone “I am a navigator in the 141st Air Refueling Wing and have been called to duty for six number and 9) one paragraph NSE has contributed to the lives months. I am also a realtor/partner with Vern of nearly 30,000 exchange about your exchange experience Byrd and Associates in Spokane. My wife, students. and the impact it made on your Chris Ragen Sherwood x’70, and I have two We are trying to find former life. daughters.” exchange students to learn what Thank you in advance for John P. Tiskus 70 is an investment officer you are doing now and to solicit sending your response, by Oct. 1, for Dane Bosworth Inc. in Billings. comments on how the NSE to: Stanley R. Danielson 71 and his wife, experience has made an impact Bette Whorley, Executive Fay Allderdice Danielson 71, live at Scott on your life. We would like to Director, National Student Air Force Base, 111. “I am now the chief of flight use your comments, in whole or Exchange, 4656 W. Jefferson, safety for the Military Lift Command,” he in part, in the anniversary Suite 140, Fort Wayne, IN 46804. writes. publication. We also want to FAX: (219)436-5676. Bob Pyfer 71, J.D. 76, was elected Mon­ tana Credit Union Network employee of the quarter for the fourth quarter of 1990. Bob is

CLIP AND MAIL ^ I I # Flathead Lake Lodge I l U I H I Bigfork, Montana Yes, I want to attend Alum­ ■ W ■ 1 1 1 May 17-19, 1991 ni College! Enclosed is my deposit of $25 per person. (PLEASE PRINT) College’91 Name(s)______Open to all alumni and friends of The University of Montana Address______1991 ALUMNI COLLEGE FACULTY: President George M. Dennison Beverly A. Chin, Professor of English Home Phone:______Paul R. Larson, Associate Professor of Management Work:______Frank W. Clark, Professor of Social Work $180 per person. This includes room, board, and tuition. The weekend begins with a welcome party on Friday evening and ends with a farewell breakfast on Sunday morning.

Questions? Contact: The University of Montana Alumni Association AThe University of Montana c/o Paddy MacDonald Brandy Hall, 2nd Floor West a u j m n i Missoula, Montana 59812-1313 A S SOCIATION or call (406) 243-5211

Spring 1991 29 Some of UM ’s Stately faces

Sen. Esther Bengston x'49 talks with Senate page and Bigfork High School senior Michelle Ganiere on the Senate floor.

The 1991 Legislature passed the bill U M history Professor Harry Fritz introduced making Martin Luther King Jr.s birthday a state holiday. The holiday won’t cost the state extra money because the floating holiday, Heritage Day, will be exchanged for the King holiday, to be celebrated the third Monday in January.

Right: Rep. Vicki Cocchiarella ’79, M .A. '85, who’s also an administrative clerk in the UM Registrar’s Office, introduced a bill to increase state workers’ wages. Senate President Joe Mazurek ’70, J.D. ’75, left, and Democratic Floor Leader Fred Van Below: Education Valkenburg, J.D. ’73, talk over some legislative points during the 52nd session. Subcommittee Chair Ray Peck 4 discusses the '5 Fine Arts Dean Jim Kriley, left, day’s session with Sheila testifies before the Education Steams, vice president for Subcommittee. The Montana university relations. University System presented a Steams was part of the united front to the 1991 university system’s Legislature in lobbying for lobbying team. increased funding. By midsession the subcommittee recommended a 6.9 percent increase over the governor’s proposed budget to help pay for library acquisitions, faculty salaries and expenses because of enrollment increases. Photos by Howard. Skaggs

3 0 Montanan the network vice president for governmental affairs, and this is the second time he has received the award. Sandra L. Satre 71, M.Ed. 78, a teacher at Cheney Junior High School in Cheney, Wash., was named Eastern Washington University’s teacher of the month in October. Dan Severson 71 and his wife, Darlene Elespuru 77, own Valley Drug Store in Stevensville. Michael Coonrod 72 is chairman of the piano department at Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Mich. Lew Moore Jr 72 manages the Rose UM boosters from Hangzhou University give a Grizzly salute. Inspired from watching a video tape of the 1990 Theater in Glendive. Griz'Cat football game, the Hangzhou students created this banner, with E’s for l’s, saying “GO GREZ GO. Peggy Saurey 72 has retired after a 20-year 5 EN A ROW. BEAT THE BOBCATS!” teaching career. She lives in Columbia Falls. for the Frankfurt, Germany, Galaxies. An of­ Mark D. Safty 74, J.D. 77, is a partner Jim Walker 72, M.A. ’86, is serving with fensive and defensive line coach at UM dur­ in the Billings law firm of Holland &. Hart. He’s the Peace Corps in Czechoslovakia. ing 1985-89, he served as assistant football also the chairman of the board of the Farm Allan Fossen 73 and Pam coach during the 1989 and 1990 seasons. Good Credit Bank in Spokane. Reichenberger Fossen 78 own Westland luck, Coach Beers! Bess Snyder-Fredlund 74 is creator of Farm Mutual Hail Insurance Co. in Great A. Ray Hamilton, M.Ed. 74, won a i “How to Raise Your Kids,” a TV show that Falls. They divide their time between Great Presidential Award for Excellence in Science airs on Community TV 21 in Billings. Falls and Joplin, where A1 has an accounting and Math Teaching and was honored at a Mike “Philly” Pantalione 75 is athletic- practice. White House awards ceremony in October. HPER administrator and head soccer coach at Marc Jochim 73 works for T. Wayne Ray lives in Great Falls and teaches at Charles Yavapai College in Prescott, Ariz. Mike was Koepke, CPA, in Havre. M. Russell High School. the 1990 National Collegiate Soccer Coach of John Maynard 73, J.D. 78, practices law S. Kevin Howlett 74 is director of the In­ the Year after leading Yavapai to the 1990 with the firm of Browning, Kalzyc, Berry &. dian Health Service Unit in St. Ignatius. NJCAA national soccer championship. Since Hoven, P.C., in Helena. Steven Petersen 74 is an associate pro- j the program’s inception two years ago, his Deirdre McNamer 73, M.F.A. ’87, has fessor of neurology and neurological surgery team’s overall record is 36-1-2. had her first novel published by HarperCollins at Washington University in St. Louis. In Oc­ Merle A. Stover, M.Ed. 75, and his wife, Publishers. Rima in the Weeds is set on Mon­ tober he received the Young Investigator Lois, live in Bawlf, Alberta. He writes: “I have tana’s Hi-Line. Award from the Society of Neuroscience dur­ served as chief deputy superintendent of Robert Beers 74, member of the Grizzly ing the international convention of neuroscien­ schools with the county of Camrose since 1975, Football Hall of Fame, is offensive line coach tists held in St. Louis. becoming superintendent of schools in April

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MONTANAN Fall issue advertising deadline: June 21 For ad rates or more information, contact: Joan Watts Datsopoulos ’66 Office of News & Publications 317 Brandy Hall The University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812 New York con man and radio salesman Leon Schuab (Andy Taylor), center, makes a (406) 243-2522 deal with local story teller David Quinn (Tom Morris ’69) while one of the townswomen, Suzie (Kathy Danzer 76), looks on in rapt admiration. This winter the Montana Repertory Theatre performed “The Voice of the Prairie," with an original score composed by Rob Quist x70. Spring 1991 31 1987.” Jim Hughes 76 is an environmental Montana the special place it is today. Michael Deborah Pettis VandeVen 75, M.A. ’90, specialist in the Air Quality Bureau’s Billings lives in Missoula. is a counselor for Daly Elementary and Grants- office. Recently, he received the John W. Deborah Doyle dale Elementary schools in Hamilton. Bartlett Award from the state Department of McWhinney 77 is Larry D. Williams, M.F.A. 75, is Health and Environmental Sciences for his senior vice president of superintendent of schools in Great Falls. dedication to the ideals and goals of the depart­ Bank of America in John P. Elliott 76 is the USA correspon­ ment and its bureaus. Congratulations, Jim! San Francisco. She dent for the Evangelical Broadcast Dutch Janet Eisner Cornish x’77 operates J.C. lives in Tiburon. Television and Radio, two Dutch national dai­ Consultant Services in Butte. Robert D. Simon­ ly newspapers, and Internews, a European Michael Carl Haser 77 owns the Mon­ son 77 is branch news service. John, his wife, Elaine, and their tana Journal, a publication devoted to stories manager of the three children live near Washington, D.C. about the people, places and events that made Missoula office of Piper, Deborah Doyle Jaffray &. Hopwood McWhinney Inc., a Minneapolis-based investment firm. Steve Bentsen 78 is Region 18 supervisor for the Mini-Mart chain of convenience stores. He is responsible for eight stores in the Denver area. Barbara Ward Merchant 78 is director of human resources at the Visiting Nurse Association of South Connecticut. Barbara lives in Stratford. J.K. Simmons 78 lives in New York, where he recently performed in the broadway pro­ duction of A Few Good Men. Eric Vaughan, M.Ed. 78, is manager of the Butte Job Service. Diane M. Barlow 79, J.D. ’82, is a part­ ner in the Chicago law firm of Sidley and Austin. Joe Brabeck 79 and his wife, Rachel Grizzlies who once prowled Miles City attending the annual UM Alumni Charter Day Reception in San Diego. Front row: Charles Hood 61 '69, dean of UM’s journalism school; Mardi Milligan '69 '89, development officer for UM Foundation; Lynn Jelinek Schroeder Brabeck x79, live in Spokane, Reid x 55; Joyce Tooke Horton '66; Lou Griffe '57; back row: Bruce Jelinek '61, Paul Caine '56, President George Dennison '62 where Joe is a sales executive for a power com- '63 (associate degree earned at Miles Community College). Shelter GREAT 2 Bay GRIZZLY! On Flathead Lake 10 miles south of Lakeside, MT DEALS! LAKE FRONT AND VIEW LOTS Chevrolet * All Utilities to Lot Line Geo • Mazda * Dock and Tennis Court Audi • Volkswagen * Year-Round Access Jeep • Eagle * Good Terms and Times Subaru CALL Jerry Ford (406)721-5779 or Steve Baldock (72) Tomme Lu Worden (406)549-7676 Owner 1 -800-432-4595 Ext. 123 CASCADE Lambros Real Estate Missoula, MT

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3 2 Montanan pany. In August they had a daughter, Dulcey I Don Bennett ’80 is Anderson ZurMuehlen & Co., P.C., in Butte. Marie. w president of First Citizen’s Zachary J. Dugdale ’81 is director of Robert T. Bugni 79, an investment pro­ / I ■ Bank in Columbia Falls. operations for Wendy’s of Montana. He lives fessional in Helena, received the Chartered ^ ^ 1 1 ^ He is the 1991 president in Billings. Financial Analyst designation by the trustees I of the United Way of Tom B. Flowers ’81 and Lisa Blood of the Institute of Chartered Financial \ r ^ Flathead County. Flowers ’82 are living in Shelby, where Tom Analysts. Lewis K. Smith ’80, J.D. ’88, is an attorney is a game warden and Lisa is a substitute Mike Clairmont 79 received an outstan­ with the Smith Law Firm in Helena. teacher. They have a daughter, Anne Marie. ding service medal from the Indian Health Ser­ Mary Neiter ’80 married Eric Uecker in Jean McArthur Bowman ’82, J.D. ’85, is vice Red Lake Hospital in Red Lake, Minn. August. The Ueckers live in Sioux Falls, S.D., director of the Harrison Memorial Hospital Mike is a commissioned officer with the U.S. where Mary is an elementary school teacher. Foundation in Bremerton, Wash. Public Health Service and has been stationed Tami Bishop Rhodes ’80 is an employ­ Marcia Richard Clay ’82 works for at Red Lake for nine years. He and his wife, ment services specialist for the Butte Job Southwestern Indiana Medical Health Center Geri, have three children. Service. in Evansville. She was accepted into the The work of Gordon Ferguson 79, M.F.A. Rodney Austin ’81 is an assistant vice Academy of Certified Social Workers after suc­ ’81, was shown at the Missoula Museum of the president/commercial lender for Bank of cessfully completing the national examination. Arts in January. Montana-Missoul a. Jerry Lai ’82 is owner and chef at the Quik Tom Harvey 79 is a foreign correspondent Dan Brandborg ’81 and his wife, Becky, Grill Restaurant in Missoula. for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel in Florida. live in Hamilton, where he owns Sunelco, a Mike Larson ’82 is the executive director His job will take him to, among other places, company that designs photovoltaic systems. of the YMCA in Billings. Israel and Cuba. Bob Bristol ’81 is account manager for Patricia M. Mitchell ’82, a staff phar­ macist for Mitchell Drug in Dillon, was ap­ pointed by Gov. Stan Stephens to the five-member Montana Board of Pharmacists. Alums’ trust fund to provide Russell Porter ’82 is an executive of Moun­ tain Bank in Whitefish. This year he was prime minister of the 32nd annual Whitefish Winter scholarships, library support Carnival. Karen McGrath Sullivan ’82 is news Alums George and Peggy Sarsfield of director at radio stations KBOW and KOPR Butte want to give back something to in Butte. the University. Thomas K. Coston ’83 is marketing manager for Montana Rail Link in Missoula. Grateful for their education, college Tammara Feltham ’83, M.A. ’84, receiv­ experiences and long association with ed her doctoral degree from Queen’s Univer­ UM, they’ve made provisions through sity in Kingston, Ontario, in October. She estate planning to benefit their alma teaches at Wilfrid Laurier University in mater. Waterloo, Ontario. With a current estimated value at Gary Nichols ’83 is a financial consultant $122,000, the George P. and Margaret for Merrill Lynch in Billings. D. Sarsfield Charitable Remainder Richard T. Seitz, M.Ed. ’84, won a Trust will provide annual income to Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching and was honored the Sarsfields during their lifetimes and George and Peggy then to The University of Montana Sarsfield at a White House awards ceremony in Oc­ Foundation upon their deaths. The tober. Richard lives in Helena and teaches at income will support scholarships for he received the Distinguished Alumni Helena High School. physical education and law majors as Award in 1971 and in 1975 was the Navy Ensign Christina N. Wall ’84 has completed the Officer Indoctrination School well as the Mansfield Library. first recipient of the Robert Pantzer at the Naval Education and Training Center George Sarsfield ’50, J.D. ’50, has Award. in Newport, R.I. • practiced law for more than 40 years Peggy Sarsfield, a 1937 graduate in Mike Hamblock ’85 is a director of the in Montana. He is past president of physical education, taught at Girls’ Crest Rehabilitation Center in Butte. numerous organizations, including the Central High School in Butte, Helena Robert J. Long ’85, J.D. ’89, is deputy Montana Bar Association and the High School, Montana Tech and UM. county attorney for Blaine County. Robert, his Montana State Golf Association. He’s She was the first woman on the board wife, Arleen, and their three children live in considered to be the founder of the of Butte’s First National Bank and also Chinook. UM Alumni Association, stemming served on Norwest Bank’s board. Mary L. Mark ’85 is enrolled at Michigan from his term as president in 1969 She was president of the Montana College of Osteopathic Medicine in East Lan­ when he initiated an alumni PEO Sisterhood, vice president of sing. She recently presented a paper at the development fund for support of the health for the Montana State Board American Osteopathic Academy of Sports library. At that time, he said, “The Association and served on the Butte Medicine Clinical Conference in San Diego. University cannot fulfill its destiny as City Recreation Board. In honor of Pat McKenna ’85 is an investment representative for Waddell &. Reed Financial servant to the state and nation if it is her athletic achievements and golf Services in Missoula. Pat lives in Hamilton. limited solely to state tax support.” skills, she was recently inducted into Gene Allison ’86, J.D. ’90, is county pro­ He has held several posts as a Rotary Montana Tech’s Hall of Fame— secutor in Great Falls. ( International member. In 1990 he was another first for a woman. Joan Marie Breiner ’86 and James Hill ! inducted into the Butte Sports Hall of Those interested in setting up a Quirk were married Oct. 6 in Dallas. They live Fame for his lifetime achievement in charitable remainder trust may call in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where Joan works as i Rolf, including four state Sharen Peters at the UM Foundation a legal assistant. | championships. For his service to UM, at (406) 243-5110. Wilson Burnham ’86 is a park ranger at Spring 1991 33 Hubbell Trading Post NHS in Ariz. “The park Rick Thompson ’88 is sanitation trainee Hill Air Force Base in Ogden, Utah. is right in the heart of the Navajo Indian Reser­ for Ravalli County’s Planning and Sanitation Aaron Rudio ’90 is an underwriter/finan- vation, and Pm learning a lot about the Navajo Office in Hamilton. cial adviser in the public finance division of and their culture,” he writes. Wilson lives in 2nd Lt. Christopher J. Brewer ’89 has D.A. Davidson &. Co. in Great Falls. Ganado, Ariz. graduated from the officer rotary wing aviator Dean A. Stensland, J.D. ’90, practices law Paul Goebel ’86 is a director of the Crest course and received the silver wings of an Ar­ with the firm of Boone, Karlberg and Haddon Rehabilitation Center in Butte. my aviator at Fort Rucker in Daleville, Ala. in Missoula. Scott W. Herring ’86, J.D. ’90, is deputy Mark Downey ’89 is a reporter and Julia Louise Zachariasen ’90 teaches county attorney in Glendive. photographer for the Great Falls Tribune. seventh and eighth grade social studies at Big Carol Kruger ’86 is anchor reporter for K.C. McGowan ’89 is executive sales direc­ Piney Middle School in Big Piney, Wyo. KFBB Television in Great Falls. tor for Vitality Magazine, a health publication. Sandra Comes Burt ’87 works for T. Marie Owens ’89 is a certified public ac­ Wayne Koepke, CPA, in Havre. countant and president of Paladin Associates. Joseph Nemes ’87 lives in Budapest, Jill Lynn Puich ’89 teaches first grade in Hungary, where he is in his second year of San Bernadino, Calif. She is working on her Births study in the Medical College of Semnelweiss master’s degree and is engaged to be married. University. John Ramsbacher ’87 practices law with the firm of Owen G. Fiore in San Jose, Calif. Blaine Retford to Thomas Kirk Jr. ’70 and a Aaron Aylsworth’90 is Marla L. Kirk, June 21 in Salem, Ore. ■ ^ \ a legislative correspon- Paul Tuss ’87 is an aide to Montana Jordan Stephen to Jane Weaver Baldock 9 1 1 / l p dent for U. S. Sen. Con- ’72 and Stephen James Baldock ’72, Nov. Speaker of the House Hal Harper. His wife, \ « l 1^^ rad Burns in Washington, Pam Hillery, M.S. ’88, is community affairs 15 in Wenatchee, Wash. coordinator for the Environmental Protection Kynsee Amanda to Pam Reichenberger r Kevin M. Funyak, Fossen ’78 and Allan Fossen ’73, Oct. 9 in Agency. They live in Helena. J.D. ’90, is an attorney for the law firm of Ed­ Spec. Paul Neidhardt ’88 served with Havre. wards and Paoli in Billings. Angela Evans to Denise Evans Grills ’80 Operation Desert Storm. He plays the trumpet Gayle Hartung ’90 is a sales trainee for in the 1st Armored Division Band, which was and M. Tucker Grills, May 7 in Seattle. Computers Unlimited in Billings. Thomas Clark to Patty Galloway Cowan sent to the Middle East in December. Brooke Johnston ’90 is a sales associate Andrew P. Suenram, J.D. ’88, has become ’81 and Kirk Cowan, May 6 in Austin, Texas. for Coldwell Banker and Co. She lives in Connor Nicholas Howley to Susan Ham­ a partner in the law firm of Hansen &. Bigfork. Suenran, P.C., in Butte. Also, he is head of mer ’82 and Joseph Howley, Dec. 18 in Dan Keith, M.B.A. *90, is serving with the Voorhees, N.J. the Beaverhead County Chamber of Air National Guard in the Persian Gulf. Commerce. Rebecca Marie to Amy Heller ’82 and Lt. Les D. Long, J.D. ’90, is stationed at Mark Heller, Aug. 5 in Stevensville. iimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiimiiiMiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmimiiiimiiiiimiiimiiiiiiim Exclusive offer for I UM Alumni: The University of I Montana Alumni Association VISA i Credit Card no annual lee for the \ first six months! Every time you use this special VISA Credit Card, . . . .. The University of Montana apply directly: Alumni Association - Aa . . receives a participation fee HOCKy m o u n tain ancj a portion of the low 1 .The University of Montana BankCard System 9 annual Credit Card fee. A \ 1 ALUMNI attn. credit department 9reat waY to contribute to | = ASSOCIATION p.o. b o x 5890 the University without D e n v e r, co 80217 spending an extra dime! I ^illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllli=

3 4 Montanan In Memoriam

The Alumni Association extends sympathy to the families of the following alumni and friends: William H. Giltner ’36, Temple Hills, Md. Robert H. McCue ’51, Missoula Bertha Ries Sipple ’21, Roswell, N.M. Waldron W. Boger ’37, St. Helena, Calif. Patricia Solvie Specht ’51, Spokane Ruth Johnson Kramer ’22, Butte Lyle Haight ’37, Fargo, N.D. Juliet M. Gregory ’52, Missoula Neil D. McKain ’22, M.Ed. ’34, Encino, Arthur E. Kuilman ’37, Phoenix, Ariz. Phillip B. Marshall ’52, Lolo Calif. Robert R. Mountain ’38, Billings James P. Wright ’50, M.A. ’52, Bow, Wash. William McLeish ’26, Great Falls Carlton Murray Christensen x’39, Barry Trent x’54, Bigfork Miriam Whitham ’26, San Francisco Missoula Louise Cooper Frey ’56, Kalispell Margaret Sterling Brooke ’27, Ronan David J. Curdy x’39, Camas, Wash. Norris K. Peterson ’56, Seattle *Hulda Miller Fields ’27, Missoula Melvin P. Martinson ’39, Helena * Patricia Harstad Billings ’58, Chevy Frances Furry Jelley x’27, Oakland, Calif. Charles G. Mueller ’39, Billings Chase, Md. Greta Shriver Seibel ’27, Missoula Wallace N. Clark ’40, J.D. ’47, Missoula Helen Smith Gibson ’58, Missoula John F. Fenn x’28, Helena Glenn E. Livingston ’41, Cody, Wyo. Mary Ruth Larison Smith ’59, Missoula Edwin G. Koch ’28, Butte J. Kent Midgett, M.Ed. ’41, Missoula Maude B. Gendrow '60, Milltown Ruth Hughes McCracken ’28, Olympia, Conda “Betsy” Sloat Douglas ’42, Boise Peter P. Sigurnik ’60, Tacoma, Wash. Wash. Warren Monger ’42, Dillon Bernice F. Skaw ’65, Stevensville Fred G. Blaschke x’30, Phoenix, Ariz. Grace Mortensen, M.Ed. ’42, Billings Kenneth Kolstad ’66, Billings Katherine Smock Brooks x’30, St. Ignatius Betty McConaha Olsen ’42, Ashland, Ore. George Terhune, M.F.A. ’66, Winnebago, Roswell Leavitt ’30, Missoula Newell E. Wood ’43, Saratoga, Calif. Minn. Walter T. Burrell ’31, Odessa, Fla. Mary Ellen Gayman ’47, Denver Thomas Holter Clary ’68, J.D. ’72, Great Willetta Brien Matsen ’31, Forest Grove, L. Richard Mewaldt, M.A. ’48, San Jose, Falls Ore. Calif. Timothy J. Lacey ’69, Billings Michael “Mack” Monaco ’31, San Ernest K. Tallent ’48, Whittier, Calif. Andrea Holombo ’71, Carlsbad, Calif. Francisco Robert C. Boyd ’49, Great Falls Steve L. Rodgers ’71, Spokane Francis R. King x’32, Klamath Falls, Ore. Roger L. Fish ’49, Sedona, Ariz. Laura Baxter Gerhardt ’75, Seattle Margaret Lewis Maness ’33, Troy C. Merle Hofferber ’49, Portland, Ore. John Bevins ’80, Anchorage, Alaska Robert Thykeson ’33, Billings James M. Jeffries ’49, Bethel Island, Calif, j Monte C. Brecht ’85, Sapulpa, Okla. Beatrice Gibbs Jemison ’34, Medford, Ore. Hans Wischmann ’49, M.Ed. ’55, Circle * Memorials established with The University of Ronald J. LaForge x’34, Portland, Ore. Robert Gillespie ’50, Hayden Lake, Idaho Montana Foundation Joseph J. McCaffery ’34, Bigfork John F. Helding ’50, M.Ed. ’51, Sunriver, Frances Graves Hessel ’35, Cedaridge, Ore. | Colo. Robert R. LaBonta ’50, Waterville, Maine Alan Tevis Hoblitt ’35, Florence Herbert C. Boyd ’51, Brawley, Calif. Schedule of Events Ingrid Undem Willoughby x’35, Circle Helen Haftle Hawke ’51, Miles City For more information, call UM’s Alumni Office, (406) 243-5211, unless otherwise noted. New Life Members of A pril UM Alumni Association 27 Eastern and Central Pennsylvania Alumni Gathering—For more information, call Janet Dargitz at (814) 237-3584. Stuart A. Allison ’73, Atlanta Herbert H. James ’54, Anchorage, Alaska M ay Robert B. Anderson ’51, Cheney, Wash. Harold Jessup ’90, Kotzebue, Alaska 10-12 Parents’ Weekend Marjorie Jean Anderson ’51, Cheney, John A. Knoop ’52, Sidney 17- 19 Alumni College—Flathead Lake Wash. Debra Marie Kommers ’90, Missoula Lodge, Bigfork Jerry G. Arthur ’63, Palatine, 111. George Kraus ’51, Estacada, Calif. Jacob J. Braig ’60, Spokane Robert L. Leinart ’49, Fort Benton June Ken B. Carmichael ’85, Seattle Barbara VanHom Leinart ’47, Fort Benton 13-15 Commencement reunions for Douglas C. Chaffey ’63, Pittsburgh Mark R. Matsko ’80, Boise classes of 1931 and 1941 Ken F. Cooper ’62, Lakewood, Colo. Carrie Wylder Matsko ’80, Boise 22-29 “Alaskan Odyssey” alumni cruise Wayne K. Cumming ’51, Sidney Coris Carlson McMurray ’49, Fort Collins, Betty Young Cumming ’51, Sidney Colo. July Gerald V. Miller ’58, Lake Oswego, Ore. 2-15 “The Passage of Peter the Great” Paul E. Dennis ’80, Las Vegas, Nev. P. Scott Morton ’80, Campen, Calif. alumni tour of the Soviet Union George M. Dennison ’62, Missoula Lawrence K. Pettit ’59, Carbondale, 111. 15 Half-price Montana Night—Seattle Jane Dennison, Missoula David B. Prfimmer ’77, Fairbanks, Alaska Mariners vs. New York Yankees in Seattle Mae Nan Windham Ellingson ’70, H. Marshall Porter ’41, Colfax, Calif. 18- 28 “The Theater in London” alum­ Missoula Robert O. Rehfeld ’50, Clarkston, Wash. ni tour K. Allen Foucar ’57, Escondido, Calif. Cathy Teague Reitmeyer ’76, Phoenix, O ctober John M. Griffing ’67, Sacramento, Calif. Ariz. 10-12 Homecoming Mark L. Guenther ’74, Bozeman Ronald D. Rogers ’71, Beaverton, Ore. John B. Haley ’72, North Vancouver, B.C. Vincent P. Schile ’63, Vancouver, Wash. N ovem ber Elsie Macintosh Hanson ’37, Superior Gary M. Stevenson ’68, Hardin 16 Montana Black Tie Cowboy Ball, Sarah Waller Hatfield ’52, Kalispell Douglas W. Taylor ’64, Lake Elmo, Minn. jointly sponsored by UM and MSU—Old Barbara Pence Haynes ’53, Wilton, Conn. Trudy Wood-Foucar ’87, Albuquerque, Federal Reserve Bank Building at Embarcadero H. Burton Hoffman ’49, Billings N.M. Center in San Francisco. Music by UM alum­ Theodore Hulbert ’60, Malibu, Calif. Donald Wood-Foucar ’87, Albuquerque, ni Rob Quist, Jack Selway and Claudia Kenneth C. Hunt ’72, Dillon N.M. Revland. Spring 1991 35 Forum Gentle reader,

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