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Jule Banville joins full-time faculty, brings print, radio & online talents Jule Banville, the assistant managing editor at Washington City Paper in Wash­ ington, D.C., before becoming an adjunct instructor here at the Journalism School, is joining the full-time journalism faculty this fall as an assistant professor. Banville also served as editor of NewWest. Net, where she was in charge of all editorial duties for the Missoula-based website covering news and culture of the Rocky Mountain West. She also has worked in newsrooms in New York City and Erie, Pa. “Jule has had a highly successful career that reflects the changing news media industry,” said Dean Peggy Ruhr. “She chose New Assistant Professor Jule Banville a career path that many of our students will follow, from one media platform to another lenges I’ve faced,” she said. “I can’t wait to as the industry changed.” join the School of Journalism full-time.” Before moving to D.C., Banville worked as Ruhr pointed out that Banville has estab­ a daily reporter for the Erie Times-News. She lished a strong base of teaching as an adjunct has worked in radio production as associate instructor for the J-School, and she proposes producer at WNYC Public Radio in New an innovative and distinctive research agenda York City and freelanced as an independent looking at alternative news media. As a UM producer for nationally syndicated programs adjunct, Banville taught online news, news Marketplace, Weekend America and Splendid editing and an online class in feature writing. Table. This fall she will teach reporting and news Banville has an MS in Journalism from editing, and will develop the School’s high Columbia University in New York, and a BA school initiatives. in Political Journalism from Mercyhurst She is married to Lee Banville, who College in Erie, Pa. joined the faculty in fall 2009 as an assistant “Having the opportunity to teach professor. Previously, he was in charge of Montanas young, talented journalists as they the Online News Hour in Washington, D.C. try to figure out this constantly changing They have two girls, Rate, 2, and Maggie, 4 profession is one of the most exciting chal- months.

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► After three years of dedicated service ► Brady Moore is part of our J-tech ► The Master’s program, directed at the J-School, our intrepid deans team that keeps the school’s comput­ by Associate Professor Henriette office manager and ers tuned up and our temperamental Lowisch, graduated its first class of do-everything person, server in a good mood. He also makes students since it was relaunched in Emily Bulger, will videos that have inspired collegiate 2010 with a new focus on environ­ be moving on this bloggers to use his work as a how-to mental science and natural resource summer to begin a model for students everywhere. See journalism. master’s program in what they’re saying at: http://colleg- Five grad students completed archives and preser­ emediamatters.com/2012/04/02/10- the four-semester program to earn vation studies at The tips-for-a-great-video-journalism-pro- their M.A. degrees: Ann Fleischli, University of Texas at Austin. She will file-kaiminnews-bradymoore/. M ontana Hodges, Jason Belts be accepting SXSW festival visitors. Kauffman, Breeana Laughlin, and ► Alison M etzger-Jones is the new Kevin Radley. ► Alexandria Valdez, a freshman assistant director of development for Student master’s presentations used from Eaton, Colo., was selected to the J-School. She multiple media platforms to tell a wide participate in this summer’s New York joined us just in array of stories, all dealing with issues Times Student Journalism Institute time to attend the important to Montanans: conservation in New Orleans. During the 16-day Dean Stone Awards efforts on the Rocky Mountain Front, program, 24 students cover events in Lecture and Banquet fossil hunters, predator management the city and are supervised by report­ in late April, and to in Idaho and Montana, coming tribal ers and editors from The New York sit in on all kinds of ownership of Kerr Dam, and the coal Times and The Boston Globe. Alex, who classes during the mining conundrum in Roundup. was a sports reporter for the Kaimin last weeks of the semester. this year, covered sports during the in­ Previously, Alison was program ► Graduate student Apoorva Joshi stitute. Her dream is to be a NASCAR manager for the Montana Meth was selected for a 2012 South Asian reporter. Project. Before moving to Missoula Journalists As­ in 2011, she was assistant athletics sociation student director for ticketing and fan develop­ scholarship. She C o m m uniq ue ment at the University of California just completed Santa Barbara. her first year Volume 56,2012 Alison has experience in donor of the two-year relations, fund development, and Master’s program Published for Alumni and Friends volunteer coordination. She grew in Environmental up surrounded by journalism, as Science and Natu­ Editor/Designer both her parents were alums of ral Resource Journalism. Printer Bowler '63 the Washington State University Apoorva has an “externship” to communication/journalism program. work at The Hindu Business Line this UM School of Journalism © 2012 She received a BA in Sport Manage­ summer. She also is president of the Send news and Class Notes to: ment from WSU in 2003 and an MA South and Southeast Asian Students’ from Gonzaga University in 2007. Association at UM. C om m unique “Alison is a tremendous addition to Apoorva has an undergraduate UM School of Journalism the J-School family and she is joining degree in environmental science from Don Anderson Hall us at such an important time - just as Fergusson College in her hometown Missoula, MT 59812 we begin work toward celebrating our of Pune, located in the state of Maha­ 406.243.4001 Centennial in 2014,” said Dean Peggy rashtra near Bombay. She launched an email: [email protected] Kuhr. “Her aptitude, experience and organization in India called Wild on Visit us a t: www.jour.umt.edu enthusiasm in working with donors Wheels (W.O.W.), which helps under­ Facebook and Twitter (@umjschool) and fund development will help posi­ privileged children connect with the tion the J-School for a new century.” natural world. J-Wotu I New/

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► Adjunct Instructors John Twiggs ► Political journalists will have their and Alison Perkins completed their work cut out for them as they try to one-hour documentary about Arnold cover the influence of rising populist “Smoke” Elser, a retired wilderness movements sweeping the U.S., noted outfitter. “3 Miles an Hour” takes view­ political journalist Dante Chinni said ers on a back country trip into the during a panel discussion last fall. Bob Marshall Wilderness. The show It remains to be seen how great an premiered last fall on MontanaPBS. impact these movements will have on the nation’s electorate, said Chinni, ► Freelance journalist and 2011 author of Our Patchwork Nation and a Pollner Professor Karen Coates ’93 contributor to 1he Wall Street Journal and her husband, photojournalist and PBS Newshour. “What happens Jerry Redfern ’93, have finished the with the Tea Party and what happens manuscript for their book Eternal Har­ with whatever Occupy (Wall Street) vest: The Legacy of American Bombs in becomes?” he asked. “Does it spread Laos (forthcoming, ThingsAsian Press). to these smaller communities where They were selected last fall as senior people are really hurting?” fellows with the Schuster Institute for The Patchwork Nation project uses ► Thomas Nybo ’95, who has worked Investigative Journalism at Brandeis demographic, political and economic in more than 70 countries and now is University and received a grant from data to develop 12 different types based in Atlanta and Port-au-Prince, the Fund for Investigative Journalism of counties in the country. It is a Haiti, presented the annual Dean to work on the book. resource for reporting on a variety of Stone Lecture on “Danger Lessons: Eternal Harvest is about unexploded issues across the country. Chinni is How Embracing Risk Can Lead to Job ordnance in Laos where the United the director of Patchwork Nation, and Security and Personal Fulfillment.” States dumped 4 billion pounds of Assistant Professor Lee Banville is a “I’m a big fan of risk,” Nybo said. bombs from 1964 to 1973 - a third contributing editor. “Risk is much-maligned and misunder­ of which did not explode. As Pollner Chinni’s advice to students: “Get as stood. The best moments in my career professor, Karen spoke frequently on many skills as possible. I have no idea have all benefited from embracing risk, this issue. Karen and Jerry plan to what journalism is going to look like in whether it was spending a month in spend this summer in Southeast Asia 10 years.” the largest garbage dump in Central and be back in Boulder, Colo., by fall. America, filming a documentary about Next year Jerry will be a Ted Scripps ► Adjunct instructor Anne Medley a fearless girl who lived alone in a Fellow in Environmental Journalism at MA ’08 taught multimedia journalism refrigerator box, navigating Haiti on the University of Colorado. Karen was in Tunisia this spring as part of a a cheap motorcycle or exploring the a Scripps Fellow in 2010-11. citizen journalism training project she Darien Gap in a dugout canoe.” To view her Pollner lecture go to: helped develop called “Speak Out Nybo started his journalism career http://www.jour.umt.edu/2011- Tunisia.” The project aims to help build at the Choteau Acantha. Last summer, pollner-lecture-karen-coates a network of ethical, skilled journalists he was photographer for New York across Tunisia in the wake of the Times columnist Nicholas Kristof ► Adjunct Instructor Gita Saedi Kiely Tunisian revolution one year ago. The during a five-country tour of Africa for won a $5,000 Board of Humanities project has been featured on PBS a special report in the Times. Montana grant to help produce her MediaShift, Mashable, TV5 World and Nybo was an embedded CNN war documentary, “Mossadegh: The Story Tunisia-Live. All funding for the correspondent in Iraq and reported of Freedom in Iran.” Mossadegh had project was raised through Kickstarter. for CNN from Ground Zero during the been elected president of Iran and After Tunisia, Anne once again week of Sept. 11, 2001. He was one instituted a democratic government. traveled to the Democratic Republic of of the first CNN journalists to report, He was ousted by an American-led CIA Congo to teach multimedia journalism shoot and edit his own stories using covert operation in 1953. The film is in North Kivu province for the month lightweight digital video cameras and now in development. of May. laptop editing systems.♦

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He is himself to the end. In Kalispell Community Hospital a day M before he died, Nathaniel asks his friends to remove a pile of dirt he sees on his bed. We look, then tell him there is no dirt. He keeps e was the most brilliant newspaper mind I have ever asking. Someone gently suggests that he might be hallucinating. Hmet. And maybe the most brilliant mind in any field. After a short pause, he replies in a barely audible yet defiant voice: He was my advisor at UM and probably the most influ­ “You’re all hallucinating ential person in my whole career. When I was a freshman, he was pretty sure I wasn't gonna make it. By the end of any of the dictionary’s words for praise and disdain my sophomore year, all that had changed. My newspaper M have been used to describe Nathaniel B. Blumberg career has spanned over 40 years and I give him credit for during his multifarious career as a journalist, educator, WWII all that was good. I never stopped being intimidated by combat veteran, critic, author, publisher, media gadfly and him, and never stopped hanging on his every word. caring mentor to many of his former students. The world is a sadder (and much less accurate and When he died of a stroke on Valentine’s Day, sighs of relief precise) world without him. -Jack Tanner '72 & '83 arose from his favorite targets in the news media and enclaves of vested interests. Sighs of sadness arose from admirers "My father (a doctor) said, around the country who sensed a huge vacuum where their ’I can't stand this anymore/ friend and spirited ally once reigned. meaning the financial Nathaniel touched down in Denver on April 8,1922. He hardship of his patients. was working his way through the University of Colorado when He gathered up all the bills WWII began. He enlisted and became a forward observer owed him, put them into with Charlie Battery, 666th Field Artillery in the Battle of the an old wicker basket and Bulge. (He once said he hoped the “666” would throw fear into took them out into the “any God-fearing Lutherans who had joined the Nazi party.”) back yard, and then - with He returned to Colorado, won a Rhodes Scholarship and made all the kids and my mother his second Atlantic crossing to Oxford where he played on its watching - he burned first basketball team and got a doctorate in history. them." (ca. 1930) He started teaching at the University of Nebraska, then was From an interview with recruited in 1956 to become dean of the UM School of Jour­ Steve Devitt in Montana nalism. He retired as dean in 1968 after a bountiful tour (see Magazine (Jan-Feb 1985) photo cutline next page). He taught for 10 more years, gave a farewell address, then settled in to his home near Bigfork. Nathaniel’s “retirement” was his busiest time ever. For 10 63 years he published his popular newsletter, Treasure State Review, wherein he skewered icons like the Bush family and o one could ever walk away feeling indifferent after a Lee Newspapers, and encouraged his champions of journalism Nconversation with Nathaniel Blumberg. In the early and justice near and far. He wrote and self-published a 1980s, my teenage daughter Becky and I had problems getting along. We quarreled constantly, and I was at my controversial treatise on the Reagan assassination attempt by wits' end. We took a family vacation and decided to visit John Hinckley Jr. in his novel Ihe Afternoon of March 30. He Nathaniel who was living near Bigfork. When I told transformed his original unit history into a WWII memoir, Nathaniel how hard it was raising a teenage daughter, he Charlie of666. His website, nathanielblumberg.com, is still up. put his arm around Becky's shoulder, and they walked Then Nathaniel completely withdrew from the fray. After down to the lake and had a three-hour conversation. his wife, Barbara, died in 2007, he never quite recovered. He When they returned, Nathaniel said something like: You kept up with friends and enjoyed a steady stream of visitors. have a beautiful and bright daughter, but the schools in His later days allowed more time for naps under the apple tree, Billings are not teaching her much. tracking typos in newspapers and wondering anew at the It was a transformational moment. I look back on that world passing by. -Printer Bowler afternoon as the time my daughter and I began a much For complete obits, search "Blumberg" at Missoulian.com closer and healthier relationship. -Jim Oset '64 J-\X/opjj> New/ iium iiiiiiiliiiiiiillliiiiiiiim iilillililliillllilllllllll

Few of us will leave such a mark upon our students and profession. He gave our school a national reputation, and, even more important, a recognized and respected attitude. -Former Dean Jerry Brown

69 athaniel and Bob McGiffert trained a whole genera­ Ntion of Montana journalists, and it seems that now we are the seniors. My dad was killed before I went to J-School, and Nathaniel and Bob and my father-in-law took over as dads. I am now without any. It was remarkable to us how they trained us, launched us, then kept in close touch and friendship with us these decades, calling newsrooms and yelling at us, calling and sending notes to say we were wonderful. Ed Kemmick can recite with me the Nathanielisms: "WHEN does the punctuation go outside the quotation marks?! NEVER!" and "STARE at it! Stare at it NAKED!" -Ginny Merriam '86 69 'm late for class, jogging, short-cutting across a lawn in front of the School of Journalism. A window squeaks open and the unmistakable voice of the Dean, Nathan Blumberg, roars out a second story window: Shortly after he became the youngest journalism dean in the "BARBARIAN!" nation, Nathaniel, 34, established the Dean Stone Lecture series. Astonished, I plop down on the ground, speechless, (That's Dean Stone in the background.) During his term as dean chagrined, then leap up and disappear into class. It is the (1956-68), he founded the Radio-TV Dept., Montana Journalism early 1960s. The Dean is, at that time, a man who believes Review (nation's first), KUFM Radio, and the Montana Journalism that people should walk on the sidewalks at the University Hall of Fame. Under his direction, the J-School gained national of Montana. He sees a reason for rules, even as he openly prominence and was regarded by news media professionals and questions many of them .. . . scholars as one of the country's premier schools. A veteran of World War II, NBB wrote the story of his artillery unit going up against highly trained Nazi soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge. He honored that moment in 69 history, but he approved of the next generation's resistance to the war it had been handed: Vietnam. uring the half century that I knew Nathaniel, as a Although he was part of what Tom Brokaw called "the Dstudent and close friend, what kept rising to the top greatest generation," Nathaniel rejected that label. He was his simple, profound message: "Search relentlessly for preferred the 60s Generation, he told me, because "you did the truth, because that's the only real news there is." not accept the word of the government as truth." Nor did That can get you into big trouble in a world driven by we accept, he said, the word of big corporations. hidden agendas and well-fortified illusions. Anyone who Nathaniel supported anyone trying to create a world publicly calls out government & corporate disinformation based on love. -Wilbur Wood '64 and its propagation by compliant news media will likely be labeled a conspiracy theorist, a radical, an insurgent, a nut case or, in the ironic post-9/11 term, a "truther." Donations to the Blumberg Fund may be made by check or at: Nathaniel is proud to have been called all those names www.jour.umt.edu/former-dean-blumberg-dies-age-89. and more. With all his hits and misses, his notable virtues To view the J-SchooVs video tribute to Blumberg: and flaws, I proudly call him one of the most catalytic, www.jour.umt.edu/tribute-dean-nathaniel-blumberg. inspiring and honorable human beings I have ever known. Vaya con Dfos, Coach! -Printer Bowler '63 I M / CIHOOL ()| JOUIU'-I AU/M iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH iiiiiiiii!iiii)

Many owe their freedom to his work Clem to travel, carry on Innocence work his spring marked another milestone in J-School history: the retirement of Professor TClemens P. Work, who taught here for more than 20 years. Most alumni know him as the soft-spoken, longtime teacher of the schools media law course, but the public came to know him as an author, documentarian and vigorous defender of free speech at home and abroad. Clem will teach the media law course once more next year, and he will help the school make connections with journalists from around the world. An intrepid traveler, he has already forged relationships between Montana journalists and their counterparts in Nepal, Bhutan and Burma. Clem arrived in 1990 from a job as deputy business editor at U.S. The culmination of years of work by Professor Clem Work resulted in Gov. Schweitzer's News & World Report. Before that he posthumous pardons for 78 people convicted under Montana sedition laws during WWI. was deputy director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in included the descendants of many of Such lessons were not lost on Clem’s Washington, D.C. He began his career those who had been imprisoned. students, said alumnus Bill Heisel, working for newspapers in the late whose career as an investigative jour­ 1960s in California and in Denver, and n a letter to Clem, Gov. Schweitzer nalist includes work for the Los Angeles earned a law degree in 1975. wrote that this occasion marked Times and The Orange County Register. For 10 years Clem directed the Ione of his most memorable days. “I learned from every instructor at schools graduate program. He revived “The solace brought to those UM,” he wrote, “but Clem taught me the Montana Journalism Review and families that day was the direct result the most valuable lesson: that being a created both the Montana Freedom of of your remarkable project to docu­ good journalist was an extension of Information Hotline and the Montana ment this dark period in our history,” being a good citizen. And that being a Innocence Project. he wrote. “You not only gave these good citizen ... meant guarding But it was Clem’s research into families the gift of reconciliation, you against threats to those freedoms.” the struggle for free speech in the gave this Governor one of the most Clem and his wife, Lucia, will American West that caught the public’s meaningful experiences of his life.” continue to make Missoula their home, attention. His 2005 book, Darkest Clem’s book also became the basis but travel is on his agenda. Daughter Before Dawn, examined Montana’s for the documentary he and adjunct Cecily and two grand-daughters live in free speech fights and the hysteria instructor Gita Saedi Kiely produced: Pasadena. Daughter Alyssa is attending that led to Montana’s Sedition Act, “Jailed for their Words: When Free Yale Law School, and son Brendan is a which banned criticism of the nation’s Speech Died in Wartime America.” freelance journalist. -Dennis Swihold involvement in World War I. Clem and Professor Jeff Renz of UM s law school were inspired to seek “You gave this Governor one of the most posthumous pardons for 78 people convicted under the sedition law. Gov. Brian Schweitzer signed the pardons meaningful experiences of his life” in May 2006 before an audience that J'Woiuj: New iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 11 ii 111

Washington Post critic Hank Stuever is 2012 Pollner Professor

Washington Post popular culture He’s made numerous appearances critic Hank Stuever will be the T. on network television news and Anthony Pollner Professor at the talk programs and has contributed J-School this fall. commentaries on National Public Stuever will teach a course on pop Radio. culture coverage and will mentor “I’ve always secretly hoped I would students working at the Montana get a chance like this someday, to not Kaimin. only teach a class and share what I The Pollner professorship was know, but also learn from a group of created in 2000 to honor the memory committed students who care deeply of UM alumnus Anthony Pollner. It about journalism and writing,” Stuever brings to campus each fall a nationally said. “I’m thrilled to have been chosen. prominent journalist who teaches for And I’m impressed by what The the semester in the journalism school. University of Montana and the Pollner Stuever began his career at the Albu­ family have created with this unique querque Tribune, then spent three years position.” as a reporter for the Austin-American Carol Van Valkenburg, a professor Statesman before joining the Post in New Pollner Professor Hank Stuever emerita at the school who heads 1999. He was a feature writer for a the Pollner selection committee, decade before becoming the papers TV of two books, Off Ramp: Adventures said Stuever was selected from a critic in 2009. and Heartache in the American Else­ strong field of nearly 30 applicants, He was twice a Pulitzer finalist in where and Tinsel: A Search for America’s which included several Pulitzer Prize feature writing. Stuever is the author Christmas Present. winners.

Paddling 1,200 wilderness miles Intrepid voyager Nadia White embarks on marathon journey Two years ago, Associate Professor Nadia White rode her bicycle 2,300 miles from her great-grandmother Josie’s family homestead in Kenton, Okla., to Sumner, Wash. White faith­ fully followed Josie’s original trail on a strenuous peddle that took 42 days. Still on Josie’s trail, this summer she’s paddling her sea kayak 1,200 miles from Port Townsend, Wash., to Skagway, Alaska. Josephine White was a typesetter who married Elmer John “The Stroller” White. Looking for better times, they went to Alaska where he became an editor at the Skagway News. With their daughter in tow, they followed the miners down the Yukon River and landed a job at the Klondike Nugget. Nadia hopes to make Skagway in August and take a ferry back home. Nadia White spent a lot of time gearing up and practicing for her kayaking adventure. Here Follow her at: travelswithjosie.com. she is paddling across Flathead Lake on one of her many "warm-ups" for the trip. Native News reviews Footbridge Forum invites public career opportunities to discuss sexual assault issues in Indian Country Journalism students produced and This year’s Native News Honors hosted a series of live radio programs Project underwent some changes, with this spring, as the university faced a the retirement in December 2011 of series of investigations into sexual Professor Carol Van Valkenburg, who assaults and its handling of them. founded the course two decades ago. “Without Consent” aired on the Assistant Professor Jason Begay, independent student station, KBGA who twice worked on Native News as 89.9 FM. The program series was an undergraduate student, co-taught the most recent installment of The the class in spring semester for the Footbridge Forum, a project that first time. His partner was Associate aims to capture public deliberation over the airwaves. Students and their It’s not easy to talk about sexual assault. Professor Jeremy Lurgio who was in That’s why we're starting a simple, honest conversation his fifth year teaching the class. The instructor, Associate Professor Denise and broadcasting the whole thing LIVE. two were students in the class in 2000. Dowling, select a community topic in All that’s missing is your voice Lurgio and Begay mentored the news and then develop a series of loin the conversation on KBGA 89.9FM students this spring as they produced live radio programs featuring members the 21st edition, “Open for Business,” of the community and experts. The Listeners also heard from law which tackles the topic of careers and hope is to increase communication enforcement officials on challenges jobs throughout Montana’s Indian among stakeholders on campus and in that face victims and procedures Country. The issue was inserted in the the greater Missoula community. officers use to investigate cases. Missoulian and The Billings Gazette. It The spring Advanced Audio class Footbridge Forum has explored maybe seen online at: nativenews.jour. invited listeners to explore the reasons community issues since 2004, dealing umt.edu. behind sexual assault and work toward with topics from development of the South Campus to cheating in college. Last year’s Native News project - solutions to offer policymakers. “Native Lands, Natural Resources” - garnered several national awards, announced earlier this year: Greg Lindstrom placed seventh in the Hearst Multimedia Feature Competition for his project “Healing Blackfeet Nation.” Andy Ambelang placed second in the Hearst Multimedia News Competi­ tion for his multimedia project “Boom or Bust? Oil on the Fort Peck Reserva­ tion.” In the Region 11 Society of Profes­ sional Journalists awards, last year’s Native News also was recognized: Native Land, Natural Resources” won first place for best Independent Online Student Publication. Lily Rabil, won second place in Feature Writing with her entry, Failure & fortune on the frontier.” In this photo by senior Nick Gast, a Missoula Police officer places an evidence marker in a Heidi Groover, won second place shattered car window after sophomore Michael Ream accidentally fired a shotgun in the in In-depth Reporting with her “Pride Lommasson Center Parking lot on Aug. 29,2011. Nick's photo was a finalist in the national and poison.” SPJ competition's Breaking News category (see page 13). ■JSWould New/ iiiiumiiiiiiuiiiimiiiJuiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Energy exploration company softens impact with local gifts Editor’s Note: The oil boom in eastern Superintendent Dave Selvig broke the Montana and western North Dakota big news at a monthly staff meeting. - examined this year in the Montana The big news was about the big Journalism Review and R-TV student check, dated March 29, 2012, presented documentary - is edging into nearby by Shale Exploration to Scobey School towns like Scobey, Mont., 130 miles for the hugely sum of $130,000. The west of Williston, N.D. This small gift will go toward the purchase of farming community is bustling with Apple iPads for every student in the contractors buying oil leases from Scobey School system, K-12. hungry farmers. How noticeable is the “We want the people of Daniels change? Here’s just one example from County to know we’re serious about Issue 41 | Summer 2012 | University of Montano School of Journalism a recent front page of Scobey’s weekly, partnering with them, and where the Daniels County Leader: better to invest than in the children of Under the tutelage of Associate Shale Exploration this area, who are the most important Professor Henriette Lowisch and the resource,” said Sam Tallis, president of leadership of managing editor Billie Makes Big Donation Shale Exploration. Loewen, the Montana Journalism “We’re not visitors here, we’re Review staff gave the magazine a new To Scobey School neighbors,” he said. “We hope our look and widened scope. It was never officially recorded how actions will encourage other energy The 41st edition’s theme is “Boom,” many jaws dropped the morning of companies to make long-term commit­ focusing on a surge of global interest Friday, March 30, when Scobey School ments to our communities.” in Montana’s natural resources and how local and national journalists are covering the changes. Reporters Amy Sisk, Michael Beall and Dameon Matule traveled across the state to tell the story of the Bakken oil boom through the eyes of a young Sidney Herald reporter. Photo editor Nick Gast and grad student Emily Wendler reported on how residents of Hysham, an agricul­ tural town, must cross county lines to find food. In another story, copy editor Kellen Beck reveals how unexploded rounds left from military training in Helena are making for some explosive real estate. The first-ever MJR web edition went live three months before printing, to give viewers an insight into the production of a student magazine. Web editor Lizzy Duffy’s team used BOOM is a landmark achievement by Associate Professor Denise Dowling's senior docu­ blogs, contests, videos and social mentary class, now showing on PBS. Teams of students went to the Bakken oil fields of media to engage new audiences. eastern Montana and western North Dakota to record the rapidly changing culture and You can read and download the economy. The result is a revealing portrait of small rural towns facing a huge influx of job­ magazine at http://mjr.jour.umt.edu/. seekers, crumbling infrastructures, food shortages, water pollution and more.

9 Visiting Burmese students enjoy bustling J-School alum grand tour of UM and western Montana Jerry Holloron With the easing of U.S. economic Mark Muir and then Commissioner of sanctions against Myanmar in Higher Education Sheila Stearns. mid-May, most observers are taking They went on police ride-alongs, on Pulitzer team seriously that governments efforts at toured the county jail, learned about Jerry Holloron (BA ’64, MA ’65), reform, including censorship of the open records from County Clerk and a former journalism professor, is part press. That wasn’t the case last August, Recorder Vicki Zeier, and went to see of the team at The Seattle Times that when eight independent Burmese local non-profits such as the Poverello won a 2012 journalists arrived in Missoula for Center, the Missoula Food Bank, Pulitzer an intensive three-week reporting Missoula Jobs Service, St. Patrick Prize for workshop, thanks to the U.S. Embassy Hospital, the Montana Innocence investigative in Yangon and a grant from the U. S. Project and the Clark Fork Coalition. journalism. State Department. For four afternoons, the students Jerry served Professor Clem Work and 2011 were mentored by Missoulian editors, as desk editor Pollner Professor Karen Coates reporters and photographers, who for the Times’ put together the grant proposal the took them on assignments and three-part series, “Methadone and the previous year. They led the summer discussed the role of a free press. Politics of Pain,” about Washington workshop, along with 2002 Pollner In classroom sessions, trainers state’s practice of prescribing the Professor Tom Cheatham, who has Clem, Karen and Tom reviewed addictive pain drug for people on reported and written extensively from the levels of U.S. government, and state-subsidized health care. and about Myanmar. Joining them discussed photojournalism ethics, As a student, Holloron was on the road and in the classroom plagiarism, copyright and freedom of managing editor of the Montana was photo journalist Jerry Redfern, the press. Kaimin. He came back to the J-School Karen’s husband. He and Karen also They visited the Missoula County and joined the faculty in 1974. He have worked and traveled in Myanmar. Fair and rodeo, National Bison Range, quickly became one of its most The visiting students set out on an took a Missouri River boat ride and highly regarded teachers and received adventure-packed guided tour of the attended a powwow on the Blackfeet national teaching awards from the university and western Montana. Reservation. In Glacier National Park, American Society of Newspaper They met and interviewed many for the first time in their lives these Editors and the Poynter Institute. public officials including U.S. Sen. Jon Burmese could touch snow. Before he taught at UM, he worked Tester, Lt. Gov. John Bollinger, former Judging by their frequent Facebook as chief of the Lee Newspapers State U.S. Rep. Pat Williams, Missoula Mayor updates, our Burmese journalists are Bureau in Helena where he was widely John Engen, Missoula city council excited about their country emerging known and respected around the state and county commissioners, District from its repressive past, and are very as a trusted reporter and expert on Judge Dusty Deschamps, Police Chief busy reporting on developments. state and local government. He later returned to Missoula to work as city editor of the Missoulian. Burmese Holloron left UM in 1991 to return students to newspapers full time, working on enjoy a ride the copy desk of the Tacoma News- on Missoula's Tribune before joining The Seattle Times Carousel in 1999. He retired from the Times in during their 2008, but continues on-call editing three-week reporting work for the paper. workshop and Holloron also worked as an assis­ tour of UM tant director and local government and western research analyst of the Montana Montana. Constitutional Convention Commis­ sion and as research director of the Montana Legislative Council. ]■ W ould New/ U illlllU lilllllllllllM IIIIIM IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiw^

If I were to put a theme to this past year, I'd the man who made sure we were on the say it has been a year where we've looked back national map - when former Dean and so we can look forward. And that has played Professor Nathaniel Blumberg died in mid- out in several important and wonderful ways. February. And in a beautiful (to use a favorite word of his) development, we were able Our great, good news is that - just before the to establish a scholarship fund in his name. end of the school year - the national Accred­ Alum Rich Kaudy '76 endowed the fund in iting Council re-accredited our undergraduate December with a major gift. When I called to program. That's the final step in a process that tell Blumberg about the new fund in his name, started back in fall 2010, when we began to write our he was thrilled. "I seek no honors, but I welcome any to self-study - a comprehensive look back at every aspect come my way," he promptly said. of our program from 2005-06 on. Blumberg helped determine the fund should Why do we care? Well, we've been accredited since encourage students to do investigative reporting. Rich 1948, and I liken that to the Good Housekeeping Seal came to the Dean Stone Awards Banquet in April to of Approval, or getting a great check-up from your announce the first recipients of the fund (see page doc. Every six years an outside group of experts takes 14). Rich's wish to look back and remember his favorite a close look at us by reading the report we produce (and toughest) professor allows us to look forward to about ourselves and then by visiting the School. honoring Blumberg every year. The site team had some great comments about your Several other alums and friends of journalism school. Here's just one: "You have a clear focus and a made sure in previous years to remember the J-School clear mission, and you do it and you do it well." in their estates; and their generosity now will translate The team praised the students, the faculty and the into changing individual lives of journalism students, overall program. They determined we were in compli­ faculty and staff. We can make plans this next year for ance on all of the nine standards but one - diversity. For new scholarships and new projects because of them, that standard, they complimented our work with Native and so I'd like to remember: American coverage and Native American students and Dorothy "Marge" Thayer, a philanthropist, poet and urged us to expand our focus to other groups. career woman who wanted to honor her parents and We looked back when we celebrated the careers her father's newspaper career; and Hildie McGaugh, of two prominent faculty members who decided to whose husband was an executive with Hagadone retire. As many of you know, Carol Van Valkenburg Newspapers and who delighted in meeting J-School stepped away in December; and Clem Work followed, faculty and students. We also honor Ted Hilgenstuhler retiring in May. Between them, they had more than who supported this school, especially the staff and a half-century of teaching hundreds upon hundreds the dean's office; and Frank Milburn, who had an of students. And that's a big piece of the heart of the illustrious career as music administrator with the New J-School. York Philharmonic and who never forgot his J-School beginnings. Thankfully, both will still be active with the School. Carol will continue to oversee our Distinguished Pollner And, as a final note to all of you, I ask you to join us Professorship. Clem will teach media law next spring in looking forward to our centennial year, starting in fall and work to develop more international opportunities 2014. Plans are just getting started, so stay tuned and for students and faculty. We lost one of our most ardent supporters - and

11 Fraser tops list of Hearst competition winners Graduating senior and 2011-12 Montana Kaimin editor Jayme Fraser was selected as one of three Hearst Journalism Fellows, an opportunity that will have her working two nine-month stints at Hearst newspapers beginning in September. Fraser, a senior from Cody, Wyo., was one of seven finalists who traveled to Houston for interviews and tryouts. This summer, she is interning at The Seattle Times. She spent last summer at The Oregonian in Portland. Fraser said she was well-prepared for 2011-12 Kaimin Editor Jayme Fraser the competition, having taken a variety of courses in the School of Journalism in print Undergraduate Research. Her presentation, reporting, photography and multimedia. “Access to and Affordability of Transporta­ “I’m just coming out of the ‘pinch-me’ tion on the Fort Belknap Reservation and Its stage,” she said. “The other finalists were all Impacts on the Local Economy and Quality very talented. It could’ve been any of us, but of Life,” was based on a video and photo I’m honored they chose me.” project she finished spring semester with Fraser also recently received a first-place graduate student Emily Wendler for the award in the Humanities-Oral Presentations journalism school’s Native News Honors category at this year’s UM Conference on Project.

news and features category for his stories on More Hearst winners designer drugs and campus diversity issues. J-School students placed fifth overall Emily Foster, a senior from Whitehall, in the Hearst multimedia competition in earned ninth place in the television features accumulated student points, and sixth in the category with stories on topics ranging from broadcast competition this year. Individual the Undie Run charity event on campus to top winners were: the Brain Zone neuroscience learning center Andy Ambelang, a spring 2011 graduate, at SpectrUM Discovery Area. placed second nationally in the multimedia Foster’s stories originally aired on “UM news category with his story “Prize and News,” a weekly television news program Poison” about oil drilling on the Fort Peck produced by journalism students high­ Reservation. The story was part of the spring lighting happenings on the UM campus. The 2011 Native News Honors Project, where program airs on KPAX-TV in Missoula and students cover issues on all seven reserva­ other Montana News Station outlets. tions in Montana. • Clark Hodges, a senior from Billings, won third place and $3,000 in the Hearst Fox News winner Alexandra Schwier finals radio contest in San Francisco this also was awarded the inaugural Tricia Moen spring. He was one of five national finalists memorial scholarship from the NATAS - who competed in the category. Northwest Chapter. NATAS created this scholarship in memory of Tricia Moen, His topic was privacy in the digital age. He a young producer at KOMO television in reported about how phones contain private Seattle when she died of cancer in 2011. information and how losing your phone can Alex was the unanimous choice of the be as devastating as losing your wallet. panel of NATAS judges who interviewed ( Clark also earned third place in the radio scholarship finalists in May. A waud/ llllfItIflilJIUlllllllllIlIlllllllllllkllllKIIlIllllilllllllllllllllllllllflllIlllllllIIIIIIIIilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliliiiiliiiH llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltltllllll R-TV entries get the gold at NATAS Three SPJ finalists Radio-TV students won four first Wilson, Dizhi Ge, Katie Radford, place awards in the categories they Bernie Riggs - Denise Dowling and win at nationals were nominated for at the Northwest Ray Ekness, advisors. Three journalism students were National Academy of Television Arts & • CONNECTING THE (406): Cody named national winners and one a Sciences Awards for Excellence in Johnson, Tyler Velin, Alison Kilts, national finalist in the annual Society Seattle this June: Keith Hensley, Jake Stevenson, of Professional Journalists Mark of • BEST OF UM NEWS : Producers Erin Schermele, Emily Adamson, Excellence Awards. Elizabeth Beechie, Faith Cronin, Drew Stanley, Sheya Rivard, Dan In the Feature Writing category, Matthew DeBray, Adrienne Ells­ LaDue, Ava Shearer, Maegan junior Billie Loewen was a national worth, Emily Foster, Annemiek Simmons, Garrett Browne, Doug winner for “The girl I killed,” a piece Wilson, Dizhi Ge, Stephanie Davis, Shaun Rainey, Amy Quin- originally Hansen, Katherine Kettering, livan, Katie Mansfield, Seth Dahl, published in the Dustin Klemann, Tara Oster, Brad Scott Ranf - Gita Saedi Kiely and Montana Kaimin. Peers, Katie Radford, Scott Ranf, John Twiggs, advisors. She wrote a Bernie Riggs, Maegan Simmons - first-person • SPORTS : Emily Foster, Brad Denise Dowling, advisor. account about Peers, Elizabeth Beechie, Faith what happened • ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: Emily Cronin, Maegan Simmons, on a night in 2009 when a 15-year-old Foster, Matthew DeBray, Elizabeth Matthew DeBray - Denise Dowling girl was killed after running onto the Beechie, Scott Ranf, Annemiek and Ray Ekness, advisors. freeway in Washington. Loewen will serve as the 2012-13 Kaimin editor. Seniors Bernie Riggs and Emily Foster were named national winners in the Television Feature category for their coverage of a unique local compe­ tition: “Pumpkins Fly Through The Air At Punkin’ Chunkin’ Contest.” Their coverage depicted an event in which steel cannons shot frozen pumpkins almost a mile toward (and sometimes through) targets such as old minivans. In the Television Sports Photog­ raphy category, senior Maegan Simmons was a national winner for “2nd Annual Treasure State Shred Fest,” which covered a freestyle snow­ boarding event held in Caras Park. Alexandra Schwier (2nd left) and Kyle Schmauch (far right) pose with "Fox and Friends" at Senior Nick Gast was a national Fox News studios. The students won a $10,000 award and a matching gift for the J-School. finalist in the Breaking News Photography category for his photo, Students hosted at Fox News, win cash “Gunshot” (see page 8). Two broadcast journalism students Schwier and Schmauch, along with National Mark of Excellence Award are winners of the Fox News Channel Professor Ray Ekness, flew to New judges chose one winner and two College Challenge this spring. Alex­ York City and appeared on the “Fox finalists in each competition category. andra Schwier of Bozeman and Kyle and Friends” program April 27. At the regional level, UM School of Schmauch of Kalispell produced a For winning the College Challenge, Journalism students won 19 awards, television news story on Montanas Schwier and Schmauch split a $10,000 including 10 first-place finishes. controversial wolf hunt judged best in award. The R-TV Department received the country by Fox News Channel. a matching $10,000 gift. More awards news ►

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► Assistant Professor Jason Begay generate dialogue on the problem of second phase was to show recovery. continues work toward an MBA. He sexual assault. The Footbridge Forum’s Keith’s students are shooting many of also taught at the American Indian “Without Consent” aired live on KBGA those same locations and recording Journalism Institute at the University College Radio in the spring. She also how they changed in the past 75 years. of South Dakota, and was recruiting led R-TV seniors in making their and mentoring at the Native American documentary, “BOOM,” now on PBS. ► Associate Professor Henriette Journalists Association conference last Lowisch published the second edition summer. He has taken several work­ ► Professor Ray Ekness teaches a full of Joumalismus fur Dummies (Wiley- shops to strengthen Reznet, a project class load and supervises student proj­ VCH). She updated it to reflect the designed to mentor Native American ects, such as UM News and “Business: changes social media have brought students in the journalism field. Made in Montana.” He also produced, to the profession. It’s available only photographed and edited stories for in German. She also supervised a ► Assistant Professor Lee Banville the Emmy-nominated television series student team that produced the 2012 served as the moderator of a two-day Backroads of Montana that airs on edition of Montana Journalism Review. conference put on by the Burton K. MontanaPBS. He continues work on Wheeler Center about the future of “Building Bridges: Back to Ireland,” a ► Assistant Professor Jeremy Lurgio medical marijuana in Montana. He television program he developed on received a $5,000 grant from the board also authored a white paper on the sabbatical last year. Ekness also pro­ of Humanities Montana for his “Lost & subject that was distributed to the duced and directed a series of conver­ Found Montana,” a multimedia docu­ state legislature in hopes of informing sations with the J-School faculty that mentation of 18 towns near extinc­ efforts to regulate the substance. may be seen on the school’s website. tion. Lurgio will develop and publish a The university selected Banville to website to go live on Aug. 1, coinciding teach an inaugural Global Leadership ► Associate Professor Ray Fanning with an exhibit at the Rocky Mountain Initiative seminar, The Net Effect: introduced a News Literacy course this School of Photography where he will How the Internet Continues to Change year, designed to help students deal be teaching summer workshops. Everything. He also earned a Masters with the deluge of print, broadcast and degree in political science this year. Internet material, and how to distill ► Professor Dennis Swibold spent With MacNeil/Lehrer Produc­ actionable information from junk spring semester learning a depart­ tions, Lee is writing an e-textbook on news. His course was one of 10 fresh­ ment chair’s duties since Carol Van presidential debates based on their man seminars selected for UM’s new Valkenburg retired. He teaches inves­ documentary “Debating Our Destiny.” Global Leadership Initiative. tigative reporting and editing. During Fanning is working on an audio state legislative sessions, he oversees ► Associate Professor and R-TV depart­ project about wrongful convictions and student coverage of the lawmakers - a ment chair Denise Dowling attended Montana’s justice system. He’ll also popular service used extensively by a conference on curriculum at The write scripts for a radio project called state news media. Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fossil Stories, an educational show Last summer Swibold worked as a Fla. , in January and brought home about the Northwest’s natural history. reporter for a 50-state study of laws ideas for curriculum changes. and practices designed to prevent Denise chaired committees working ► Associate Professor Keith Graham corruption in state governments. The on the J-school curriculum and the is working on a project this summer report found that Montana and other five-year strategic plan. She also that has involved his documentary states lack the means to enforce their served on a faculty search committee, classes for two years. ethics laws. It also identified problems and worked with Missoula’s Sentinel The FSA Project, sponsored by the with access to public records and in High School to create Montana’s first U.S. government, hired six photo­ disclosure practices of lobbyists and college credit journalism course for graphers to roam Montana between public officials who control large high school journalists. 1936 and 1942 and gather images to amounts of public money. Denise’s advanced audio students show urban populations how badly the produced a series of radio programs to depression was hitting rural areas. Its Nadia White’s update is on p. 7 ♦ U M /C l IOOL or Joucnali/M ...... I...... Iliu m ...... iiiiiim ...... Iliu m ......

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▲ Virginia “Ginny” Ruth Archdale ’76, of Wibaux died He worked as a reporter for the Helena Record Herald Friday, April 13, 2012, at the age of 57. and married his high school sweetheart, Jeanne Schmidt, Bom in Dickinson, N.D., on Dec. 1,1954, Ginny Getz in 1941. He enlisted in the Navy Sea-bees and in 1944 and her family moved to Montana in 1956. he received a commission as a Naval officer, studied the In 1962, the family purchased a farm south of Whitehall Russian language, and was assigned to work in communica­ where Ginny’s mother, Ruth, taught her to respect the land, tions and intelligence until 1945. appreciate hard work and responsibility and to enjoy the After the war, Dan and Jeanne returned to Helena and sustaining power of laughter through good times and bad. his job at the Record Herald. They moved to Great Falls in Before the children could go swimming, they had to weed 1953 where he worked in various writing and editing posi­ two rows of the garden. tions at the Tribune. Don and Jeanne moved to Bozeman in She earned her BA in journalism from The University of 2003. Montana and went to work at the Bismarck (N.D.) Tribune He is survived by wife, Jeanne, son Jeff (Kathy) Bartsch, and the Glendive Ranger-Review, where she was promoted daughter Susan (Marvin) Backer, grandson Dan (Deena) from reporter to editor. A proponent of rural living, Ginny Bartsch and several great-grandchildren. wrote a regular column for Montana Magazine. In 1979 she met her future husband, Mike Archdale, A Joan (Engelking) Christensen ’47, died peacefully and on Sept. 2,1982, they were married in Miles City. They at her home on Flathead Lake on July 29, 2011, with her moved to Wibaux, where he worked for the Wibaux public daughter Margaret at her side. school system, and Ginny began her job at the Ranger She was bom on Oct. 28,1925, to Margery and Bob Review. In 1990, she became the town clerk for Wibaux. She Engelking. She and her sister Shirley spent their early years was elated at the prospect of eight-hour workdays, unlike moving around with their parents to various oil and gas the 14-hour days she put in on the Review. exploration sites where their father worked. She graduated She is survived by her husband, Mike; five brothers and from Oilmont High School in 1943, then attended The three sisters. University of Montana where she was a member of Alpha Phi sorority and earned a BA in journalism. A Thomas Cleary Ambrose ’52 passed away at his home She met Robert Henning Christensen, who had enrolled in Mount Vernon, Wash., on Sept. 22, 2011. He was 79. at UM following his service with the Navy during WWII. He was bom on March 6,1932, and attended school in They were married in Shelby in 1945 and soon moved to Kalispell. At age 19, he served as a second lieutenant in New York City where Bob was working on a master’s degree Korea with the 1st Cavalry Division. After military service, in physical therapy, and their son Dana was bom. They he returned to work as business editor at the Spokane moved to Billings where Bob began a physical therapy Chronicle. In 1965 he moved on to corporate communica­ practice and their daughter Margery was born in 1953. tions with the Weyerhaeuser Company where he retired After Bob died prematurely in 1983 at the age of 58, after 28 years. Joan returned to college and earned a BA in art from MSU- He is survived by Joyce Ambrose, his wife of 51 years; Eastem. When she was 72, she entered the Holy Order of sons Neal Ambrose of Bellingham and John Ambrose of the Diaconate of the Episcopal Church where, after three Montrea; and daughter Bridget Ambrose of Seattle. years of study, she was ordained as a deacon and served in that capacity until retirement in 2005. A Donald A rthur Bartsch ’40, former Great Falls Tribune Joan is survived by her son Dana and wife Stephanie; editor and Navy veteran, died of Alzheimer’s on June 24, daughter Margery and husband John; and several grand­ 2011. He was 92. children. Last year Dana, of Kalispell, was appointed U.S. Don was born in Great Falls on March 4,1919, to Arthur District Judge, replacing Judge Donald Molloy. and Marion Reiquam. Following his parents’ divorce in 1924 and his mother’s re-marriage, he was adopted by his A James Millison Edwards ’50 passed away from natural step-father, Albert Bartsch. He graduated from Great Falls causes at home in Billings on May 23, 2011, with his family High School in 1936 and attend The University of Montana. at his side. He was editor of the Kaimin, a member of Sigma Nu frater­ Jim was bom April 1,1925, and graduated from high nity and earned a BA in journalism in 1940. school in Missoula in 1943. He enlisted in the Navy in O ar/ iiiuiiiitiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiuiiuiuiiiiiiuiiiiiiiim

June 1943, and served on the USS Cecil, a troop transport was 22 and had just graduated with a BA in journalism. He involved in the assault on Iwo Jima. After his honorable planned to return to UM in the fall to finish work on his discharge from the Navy, he attended The University of second major in Japanese studies. Montana and earned his BA in journalism. During his Quin was a 2008 graduate of Valier High senior year he met and married Grace McCarten. School and his journalism career began as Jim worked at Ma Bell telephone company for the next a reporter, photographer and ad salesman 32 years. He and Grace lived in Butte from 1952 to 1959. for his school newspaper, The Valerian. As a Their last move was to Billings in 1963 where he retired UM journalism student, Quin was awarded from the phone company in 1987. the Albert Erickson scholarship and was He is preceded in death by his wife, Grace, and sons, one of nine college students in the nation to receive a Dow Kelly and Brian. Survivors include sons Mark, Kevin and Jones News Fund internship, which gave him a slot on the Brad and their families. sports copy desk of the Denver Post last summer. He was a copy editor for the Kaimin and active in the UM Japanese Jean Marie Bartley Freese ’48, died March 12, 2011, Student Association, Davidson Honors College, intramural at home in Miles City. She was 84. basketball and golf. She was born April 23,1926, in Miles City to William Quin twice traveled to Japan to continue his studies in Hickman and Mary Maitland Bartley. In 1933, the family Japanese and visit his girlfriend, Saya. He is survived by moved to Great Falls where she attended Great Falls High his mother, Lisa Loendorf of Valier; a brother, Vincent, of School. She graduated from the UM School of Journalism Great Falls; and Sayaka Tada of Tokyo, Japan. in 1948 and worked at the Great Falls Tribune as a reporter and photographer. She was editor of the Western Livestock Frank William Milburn Jr. ’55, passed away July 2, Reporter in Billings before she married Dr. Martin L. Freese 2011, at the age of 84. Frank was born Feb. 2,1927, in in Great Falls on March 10,1951. Missoula, son of the late General Frank W. Milburn and From 1952 to 1956, Jean worked in the newsroom at the Elizabeth Margaret Bamberger. Miles City Star. She left her job to raise their three children, He earned a BA in journalism at UM and degrees then returned to the Star until she retired in 1991. She also in piano and music history at the Salzburg (Austria) was active in the Bam Players Summer Theater, where she Mozarteum. Frank joined the New York Philharmonic appeared in more than 20 roles, in addition to directing, press department in 1959. He later became the Philhar­ building sets, handling publicity and programs. monic’s music administrator, a post created for him by Jean was preceded in death by her husband. She is conductor Leonard Bernstein. He was director of press survived by her children. for 17 years, and became a trusted advisor to Bernstein, George Szell, Pierre Boulez and Zubin Mehta. Lorraine E. Lindahl ’45 died on March 30 in Minneap­ Frank was known for his unique and detailed knowledge olis, Minn. She was born in 1921 to Ed and Emma Griffith of classical music. From Zubin Mehta’s autobiography, The in Williston, N.D. Score of My Life: “Frank Milburn was my right-hand man Shortly after WWII, Lorraine met and married Murlin and my musical consciousness when it came to program­ Lindahl. She worked for a brief time in public relations ming; he is an invaluable walking encyclopedia of music and at Pillsbury Mills in Minneapolis, then retired to have her a wonderful friend.” first child. While she was raising three children, Lorraine Frank retired from the Philharmonic in 1992. After was employed by Augsburg-Fortress Press as a manuscript moving to Sarasota, Fla., in 1998, Frank served as a director editor. She also served with Central Lutheran Church, both of the Sarasota Concert Association and as a director of Girl and Boy Scout troops and her school library. Highland Park Condominium Association. She is survived by her children, David, Marcia Lindahl Frank is survived by his brother-in-law, Oliver Griest, and Sandy Moir; several grandchildren and great-grandchil­ husband of his late sister Elizabeth Jane; and several nieces dren. and nephews. He was predeceased by his life partner, Raymond A. Ericson. Quin LaVern Loendorf ’ll , died Aug. 24, 2011, in a single-vehicle accident near his hometown of Valier. He Frank R. Norberg ’52 died from effects of Alzheimer’s U M /GHOOL OF JOUUnIAU/M IIIIIIIJlilllllllllllllllllllllllllllUIJJIllllllllUIMIJimilllllllllHIIIIIIMIIlIllllllllllllllllll disease on May 18, 2011, in Florence, Ky. He was bom in A Raymond E. Sorum ’52 died Nov. 24, 2004. He was Harlem, Mont., on Feb. 9,1928, the oldest of five children. born on Aug. 5,1923, in Palm Springs, Calif. He was raised and attended school in Chinook. He served with the Navy during WWII from 1942-46 Following two years of service with the Navy, he and returned to attend the UM School of Journalism. attended Northern Montana College in Havre and went Raymond’s first job was as assistant advertising manager on to graduate from UM with a BA in journalism. Frank for the Mercantile in Missoula. He then moved to Cali­ married Sharon Yeaman of Chinook in 1954. They raised six fornia and worked in advertising for Standard Oil Co. For children and were together 57 years. several years he was a reporter for the Appeal-Democrat in Frank worked on weekly and daily newspapers in Marysville, Calif., and did some freelance work. Montana, Idaho and Colorado before moving to Erlanger, His career work was with the California Office of Public Ky., in 1973 to become editor of the National Disabled Safety as state information officer, for which he received American Veterans magazine. He retired in 1990. the Governor’s Superior Achievement award. He is survived by his wife, Sharon; sons Jeff, Mark and Patrick; daughters Kay Lewis, Leslie Jennings and Susan A Lucille Fern Adamson-Donaldson ’43, died May 8, Navarro; and 14 grandchildren. 2011, in Rockville, Md. She was 90. Lucille was born Nov. 17,1920, in Vernon County, Mo. ▲ James E. Purcell ’52, former Butte Silver-Bow District She was a UM journalism graduate and a member of Theta Judge, died peacefully in Butte on Oct. 29, 2011, at the Sigma Phi journalism honorary. During college Lucille met age of 81. He was born Dec. 29,1929, to James T. and Ada Kenneth C. Donaldson and they married in 1943. Longpre Purcell. He graduated from Butte High School in Lucille worked for the Great Falls Tribune and was a 1947. He attended Montana Tech and graduated from UM columnist for the University of Michigan Daily. She was a in 1952 with a BA in journalism. Red Cross Volunteer at the National Naval Medical Center He served in the Navy from 1952 to 1954, then returned for 14 years and a member of the Chevy Chase Chapter of to attend UM Law School, graduating in 1958. He practiced the DAR and Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Bethesda, Md. law in Butte for 32 years. In 1990, Jim was appointed She is survived by her daughter Suzanne C. Preud- District Judge for Butte Silver Bow by Gov. Stan Stephens. homme, two grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He was re-elected twice and retired from the bench in 2000. She was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years. Jim was selected by the Montana Supreme Court to serve on the Commission on Practice. He served on the A Paul Verdon ’49, longtime Montana newspaper editor, Board of Directors of Our Lady of the Rockies and helped died Feb. 17 at St. Peter’s Hospital in Helena. He was 85 and develop the tram to the Lady. He enjoyed cheering for the had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Griz and attended games for 20 years in the “Butte Box.” Verdon was born on a homestead near Wolf Point on Jim married Mary Dawn Sampson on Oct. 11,1958. She March 2,1926. His mother died when he was two years survives, as do his daughters, Jamie Purcell of Belgrade and old and he went to live with family friends Alex and Mary Janell Robischon of Townsend and several grandchildren. Verdon in Poplar, who later officially adopted him. After he graduated from Poplar High School, Paul enlisted in the A Vernon Francis Reynolds ’43, famed member of “Tin Navy and entered the V-12 program that offered trainees Can Tune Twisters,” bid his final farewell on Oct. 26, 2011. a college education and pilot training. He attended Carroll Vem enrolled at UM to play football as a starting center College in Helena for two years and, following the war, he for the 1940-42 Grizzlies and get an education. He received went to UM and graduated with a degree in journalism. his BA in journalism with a minor in art. Vem enlisted in After working at the Phillips County News (Malta) and the Navy during WWII, went to Chicago for naval training Great Falls Tribune, Paul became editor and publisher of the where he and Eleta June High were married. After the war, Western News in Libby from 1960 to 1979. When he was Vem took his military construction skills to work with his in Malta, he met and married his wife, Elaine Hendrickson. father-in-law as the business manager of Western Montana During his tenure at the News, the paper was awarded the Electric. Vem later built a thriving decorative lighting busi­ state’s outstanding weekly three times by the Montana ness, Western Montana Lighting. Newspaper Association. Vem was a 10-year member of the school board, board He sold the paper in 1979 and became a legislative member of the Missoula Country Club, member and researcher in Helena. Gov. Stan Stephens appointed him to chairman of the Chamber of Commerce. He was an avid help fix the state Worker’s Compensation system. Grizzly supporter and Excellence Club member. He is survived by his wife, Elaine; a daughter, Lexie Vem is survived by his four remaining children, Sue (a J-School alum); sons Robert, Timothy, Kenneth and Flaig, Bob Reynolds, Debbie Mostek and Bill Reynolds. 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▲ John R. “Jack” HaUoweU ’42 He would spend much of his life trying to keep those died March 10 in Littleton, Colo. words alive. He was 91. A "Big Sky" idea Jack Hallowell holds a framed letter Once he returned home to Montana, Jack continued - dated March 31,1944 - he received to pound away on a typewriter as a sports reporter. He from noted war journalist Ernie Pyle soon met a copy editor named Elisabeth “Betsy” Skaar and shortly before Pyle left for England to married her in 1946. They had two children, Leslie and cover D-Day. {Denver Post file) Mike. [Leslie is a 1973 UM journalism graduate.] He left the newspaper to become advertising director for (The following is adapted from a the state. He met A.B. Guthrie Jr., author of the frontier Denver Post story by Jim Sheeler*) adventure novel The Big Sky. Hallowell asked if the state could use the book title in promotions, and Guthrie agreed. rom his perch at his regular table in the Red Robin “If you’re out of the state and you mention Montana, restaurant in Lakewood, the 85-year-old man noticed people say, ‘Oh, Big Sky Country.’ And it was Jack’s original Fa uniformed young Marine eating alone. As Jack idea,” said former Montana Gov. Tim Babcock, who later Hallowell finished his meal, he motioned to the bartender. hired Hallowell as an assistant and speechwriter. Td like to buy that gentlemans lunch,” Hallowell said. Hallowell moved to Washington, D.C., to continue The bartender wasn’t surprised. He had seen the older speechwriting, but when a public-affairs job opened in 1971 man at the table spark countless friendships with strangers. in the EPA’s Denver office, he went for it. He later took a The bartender walked over to the Marine: “That similar job at the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife. gentleman wants to buy you lunch, but before he does, let me tell you who he is.” Preserving memories During World War II, Jack had stormed bloody beach­ Despite the decades, Jack hadn’t forgotten the stories heads in Italy, then fought his way into France and he had written and those he kept to himself. He used a Germany, through a staggering 511 days of combat, German soldier’s spoon to eat his cereal in the morning. He documenting as much as he could on a Royal typewriter. He used a Nazi knife to dig up dandelions in his yard. walked through the gates of Dachau with the troops who Jack’s wife, Betsy, died in 2003, but he remained busy liberated the concentration camp and returned 60 years flipping through his massive Rolodex to catch up with later as survivors thanked him through tears. friends. He helped organize the most recent 157th reunion The bartender escorted the young Marine to the table. in October in Denver. “Sir, you shouldn’t have to buy my lunch,” the Marine In 2005, Hallowell traveled back to Dachau for a remem­ said. “I should be the one buying yours.” brance ceremony. “I didn’t think they could reach me after all these years, J-School to WWII to make me cry,” Hallowell said afterward. “These people ... Born in the tiny town of Wilsall, Mont., Jack spent much just stun you for how grateful they are.” of his childhood on an orchard helping his mother pick On Jan. 24, Hallowell slipped on a patch of ice and hit cherries and apples to keep the family afloat. His father his head. He was taken to the hospital and the word spread died when he was about 10. After an older brother found a fast. job in newspapers, Jack saw a way to meet people and tell Within days, the line of visitors stretching into the stories — something he would do for the rest of his life. hallway mirrored the disparate connections he had kept In 1942 he earned a journalism degree from the Univer­ throughout his life - military officers followed by friends he sity of Montana; that same month, he was headed for had known for decades and new ones including most of the WWII. wait staff of the Lakewood Red Robin restaurant. By 1943 he was with the 157th Infantry Division in the At his request, Jack’s body came home to Montana for battles for Sicily and Salerno, carrying a mortar cannon. burial at Montana State Veterans Cemetery, under “The Big That’s when a Royal typewriter probably saved his life. Sky.” His commanding officer saw that Hallowell had a jour­ nalism degree and figured someone needed to document *Jim Sheeler, a former reporter for The Denver Post and the unit’s history. Hallowell soon traded the sounds of Rocky Mountain News, teaches journalism at Case Western gunfire for the clacking of a typewriter as the 157th fought Reserve University in Cleveland. across Europe. After the horror of Dachau, he sat down with a few historians and continued to write the regimental For the complete story, search “John Hallowell” at www. history. denverpost.com. ♦ U M /CHOOL OF JOLHWAU/M liiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiniiJiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniuiinniiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiinifiiiiiiiiijinitiiiiiiiiuiifiiiiiiiiiiiHiiHiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiNiiniiiiiiMiii Class N otes busy as ever doing what he loves best, ing her career with the U.S. Army, she chasing a good story. rose to the rank of brigadier general, Find him at www. oldprowriterfor- and retired this spring. Most recently, 1050s hire.com. Colleen had been working at the Pentagon as director of manpower and Wilbur Wood ’64, a former editor of personnel, The Joint Staff. Members of the Class of 1957 are the Kaimin, taught creative writing at Colleen was a member of Delta planning a 55th reunion during Home­ Rocky Mountain College in Billings for Gamma when she was a student at coming weekend on Friday, Sept. 21, at several years. He’s now in his second UM. "I’m honored and excited to serve 3 p.m. in Don Anderson Hall. term on the Montana Arts Council, as the seventh Executive Director Those who have confirmed are re-appointed by the Governor. He and for Delta Gamma,” she said in a May John Bansch, of Indianapolis, former wife, Elizabeth, have lived in his 29 news release. "I look forward to sports editor for the Indianapolis Star; hometown of Roundup for several working with the leadership and Gary Sorensen of Missoula who decades. They are part of Red Truck members to build on Delta Gamma’s had a 30-year career with the U.S. Writers, a local group that meets successes and to give back to the Army in public affairs; Bob Gilluly, monthly. They remain active in the organization that instilled in me those of Anaconda, longtime writer for the Alternative Energy Resources Organi­ professional values and ideals that Great Falls Tribune; and Norma Ashby, zation (AERO) they helped established I’ve attributed to my own success. I of Great Falls, producer and host of the in the 1970s. feel as though I’m coming back home.” KRTV Today in Montana show. Others Wilbur regularly reports on energy Colleen is a 2010 recipient of UM’s in the class are being notified and are and environmental issues for the Bill­ Distinguished Alumni Award. asked to RSVP to Norma at ashby7@q. ings Outpost weekly paper and the San com or 406.453.7078. Francisco Bay Guardian. IQCOs IQCOs 1Q70s Ed Kemmick x’80, longtime Bill­ ings Gazette reporter and columnist, John Ellard Frook ’63 jumped into J-School alum Randy Rasmussen published a collection of columns, his journalism career as a reporter x’77 captured the dramatic moment essays and profiles about Montanans then bureau chief for when a police officer’s torrent of pep­ and Montana life, titled The Big Sky, Time/LIFE. He soon per spray hit an Occupy Portland pro­ By and By (Missouri Breaks Press). Its became LIFE maga­ tester squarely in the face from only subjects range from Dobro Dick, the zine’s entertainment a few feet away. The photo went viral, traveling troubadour from Livingston, editor and for years but Randy didn’t realize he’d captured to Maryona Johnson, a schoolteacher’s hobnobbed with a compelling image until a photo edi­ daughter who ran a Miles City brothel celebrities around tor was viewing his digital files. Randy for 17 years. the world - a long is a photographer for The Oregonian. Ed’s book is way overdue, writes way from his humble beginnings as a another J-alum, Nick Ehli, ’94, school principal in Gull Lake, Sask. The University of Utah Press recently managing editor of the Bozeman A prolific writer, he won two Emmys released Rainbow Bridge to Monument Daily Chronicle and editor-in-chief of for his work on CBS’s "The Kennedy Valley: Making the Modem Old West, Montana Quarterly magazine: "Ed’s Center Honors.” He also collaborated written by Thomas J. Harvey ’79. a bulldog of a reporter, a superlative on five PBS documentaries, two of columnist and a damn fine writer.” which won Academy Awards. John Colleen McGuire ’79 will become recently retired from teaching at the executive director of the Delta Gamma Sam Richards ’83 is an assistant University of Nevada (Reno), but he’s national organization in August. Dur- metro editor at the Contra Costa Times C l A//No ip iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu 11111iiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiinimu un i iiuiiii i ii 111 iiniiii iiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiii i iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiii based in Walnut Creek, Calif. Sam says He advises students to “Work as ment activities. After graduating from his reporters, who cover City Hall/lo- hard as you can to get as much prac­ the broadcast program, she worked in cal news beats, write both for the daily tical experience prior to graduation. television news in Spokane, Billings Times and for two local weeklies, the Also, don’t burn bridges. This industry and Houston. She has been a recruiter Walnut Creek Journal and Lamorinda is incredibly tight and what you do in for more than a dozen years. Sun, of which he is the editor. one market will follow you for the rest He reports: “I am quickly learning of your career.” Shanon Dell ’97 is a video editor and new ways to incorporate Twitter and Paul said he’s thankful for “my producer for msnbc.com. He edits Facebook into our reporting, and instructors and professors who still original reporting video packages for someone uttered the word ‘Pinterest’ provide sound advice and whose the website and encodes MSNBC and at a recent social media workshop. My friendship will always be treasured.” NBC News shows for the Internet. wife, Judith, an elementary school “I’ve watched ‘Nightly’ since I was a teacher, and I live in Martinez, CA with ABC News anchor and reporter Meg kid and to be working with them now our son Thomas, daughter Jillian and Oliver ’93 stopped by the J-School is really special,” he said. His favorite various tropical fish, newts, frogs and while she was here for a Journal­ memory at UM was filming Pearl Jam axolotls. I used to have hobbies ... and ism Advisory Council meeting. Meg at the Fieldhouse and shooting all the I used to have time for them!” worked with a group of R-TV seniors home games of the 1995 champion­ on their anchoring, reporting and writ­ ship football season. After nearly four years at KULR-TV in ing skills. She emphasized the impor­ His advice for students? “Work on Billings, Mont., Joel Lundstad ’84 tance of teamwork, preparedness and your writing and storytelling skills is now news director at KSAX-TV in communications. Meg fives in New now and throughout your career. Even Alexandria, Minn. York City where she and her husband if you are more focused on technical are raising three young children. Meg’s skills, good writing will help you in all Gus Chambers ’85 - MontanaPBS work can be seen on World News To­ aspects of any job you ever have.” producer, RTV alum and long-time night and Good Morning America. RTV adjunct instructor - received a Hollywood screenwriters Tom Mul­ Programming Excellence Award from William Heisel ’94, is assistant len ’98 and his brother Tim have been American Public Television for his director for external relations at the picked to write the script for an adap­ documentary “Glacier Parks Night of University of Washington’s Institute tation of Sullivans Sluggers, a horror the Grizzlies.” The film, co-produced for Health Metrics and Evaluation. A baseball graphic novel by James Stokoe with writer Paul Zalis, chronicles the former investigative reporter, he still and Mark Andrew Smith. The story harrowing night in 1967 when two writes about health issues on his blog about a dysfunctional minor league young Glacier Park employees were “Antidote,” featured on USC Annen- baseball team and shape-shifting mon­ killed in grizzly bear attacks while hik­ berg’s “Reporting on Health” site. sters is being billed as “Major League ing with friends in the park. meets Zombieland.” Gus also produces the popular Take Uda ’94 longtime design wizard MontanaPBS series “Backroads of at the Great Falls Tribune, has moved Montana” and currently is working on to Phoenix to be creative director a new documentary that follows six for Gannett’s regional design studio young Montana high school students there. He says he’s still learning the 2 0 0 0 5 through a year of 4-H activities. job (“so far no creativity or directing”) but eventually expects to help design Gannett newspapers throughout the M att Thompson ’00 is a newly minted region, including his old paper. officer in the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service. He was hired in No­ 1 Q Q C K Tomoko Otake ’95, is the mother of vember after three years with the now- an 11-year-old boy and a senior feature defunct King County Journal in Bel­ writer at The Japan Times. levue and two years in the Peace Corps Paul Bergen-Henengouwen ’93 is in Bulgaria. He also earned a master’s News Director at KBMT-TV in Beau­ Courtney Robles ’95 has been with degree in Russian, East European, and mont, Texas. He leads a news staff of Apple for more than two years, and Central Asia Studies from the Uni­ 30 “who excel in terms of content, pro­ works at Apple’s Austin campus. She versity of Washington and spent two duction value and growth in a competi­ reports that it’s home to roughly 3,500 years as director of football operations tive television news market.” people and she manages all recruit­ at Northern Arizona University.

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Matt quit that job last summer Last fall Nate talked with Carol Van he works as a freelance photogra­ and traveled to Tver, Russia, for three Valkenburg’s senior seminar class via pher, videographer, web designer and months of intensive language training. Skype about his experiences covering content manager. He can be reached at He’s headed for Matamoros, Mexico, to the Penn State story. [email protected]. work in the consulate. “I anticipate the experience and skills I learned from Jesse Zentz ’01 is editing the Helena Dan Boyce ’08 won three Northwest the J-School will come in handy as I Independent Recordps sports section Regional SPJ awards, including first deal with the local media and promote these days. He returned to Montana place in radio feature news reporting outreach programs in the community,” in February after six years as a sports on the 100th anniversary of the birth he says. reporter with the Idaho Statesman in of legendary Montana-born television Boise. He and his wife, Michelle, a broadcaster Chet Huntley. He is capi- Kevin Van Valkenburg ’00 left The former UM soccer player, have been tol bureau chief for Montana Public Baltimore Sun in January after more married for 12 years. They have two Radio in Helena. than 11 years to take a job as a staff daughters, Odessa, 8, and Leila, 5. Dan also received a first-place writer for ESPN The Magazine. He and sports reporting award for his story his wife, Jennifer McMenamin, also Holly Pickett ’02 was reporting from at KBZK-TV in Bozeman. “A Montana welcomed daughter Keegan in March, Libya when Muammar el-Qaddafi was Marlin,” chronicled Dan’s paddlefishing who joins her sister Molly, 2. Kevin shot and was the first journalist to see trip with his parents. He received a continues to live in Baltimore. him after his death. She was quoted on third place for stories during his 2011 CBS News online and interviewed on summer internship in Germany. Ann Williamson x’00 will mark her CBS Evening News. 10th year as a photographer at the R-TV grad Tyson Bierwag x’09 and Topeka Capital-Journal in October and Jessie McQuillan ’03 is hustling and Adjunct Instructor Kagan Yochim reports that she never imagined she bustling at the helm of the Montana are producing a recruitment video for would be anywhere this long. “For the Innocence Project, a nonprofit that the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office. past two years I’ve been writing stories uses DNA and other evidence to The video involves everything from as well as taking photos for the paper. exonerate the innocent and prevent working with the Explosives Disposal It has been quite the adjustment, wrongful convictions. Based at UM, Team, SWAT, Search and Rescue, traffic but I’m grateful that I took all of the MTIP brings together UM students control, 911 dispatch procedures, and reporting and feature writing classes at studying journalism, law, criminol­ constructing a simulated crime scene. UM,” she said. ogy and paralegal studies to work on Ann married Alex Wiebel, a Univer­ wrongful conviction cases statewide. Colter Nuanez ’09 was named sports- sity of Kansas journalism grad in July Her husband, Brendan McQuillan, is writer of the year by the Washington 2011; he recently was named sports the staff attorney for MTIP, and out of Newspaper Publisher’s Association and director of Kansas First News. the office the two are busy raising their also collected two reporting awards. toddler daughter, Molly. In the category for newspapers Katja Stromnes-Elias MA ’01, is a between 5,000 and 12,000 circula­ lead editor for E.L. Achieve, a company Jacob Baynham ’07 is headed back tion, Colter’s stories for the Ellensburg that creates educational material for to Montana, where he hopes to do Daily Record earned him a first place in students of English. She lives in Mis­ some freelancing and teaching as his sports personality profile and second soula with her husband and children. wife-to-be, attorney Hilly McGahan, place in sports features. For the sports- settles into her new job with a Poison writer of the year competition, Colter Nate Schweber x’01 spent a month law firm. The two plan to marry in was judged against entrants from 83 in 2011 reporting on the Penn State September. Since graduation, Jacob newspapers of all sizes in Washington. sexual abuse scandal for The New York has worked as a freelancer, including Colter joined the Ellensburg paper Times. One of his editors said this a year-long stint in Asia. He has also soon after graduation, then in June about him: “I had used Nate on any worked in university communications 2011 took a job as sportswriter with number of stories when I was Metro at UM and at Xavier University in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, where editor, from the serial killings of pros­ Cincinnati. he’s covering MSU football and other titutes in Atlantic City to the attempt­ activities. ed subway terror attack of 2009. He’ll Will Moss ’07 is now an Assistant Edi­ go anywhere, ask anything, and almost tor for NBC Olympics. He runs his own Rose Stepanek ’09 is a production as­ always come back with the goods.” enterprise, Moss Creative Lab, where sistant for the Minnesota Twins base- (.1 A//1 JO If-./ IllllllilIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfllllllllll

ball team. “We broadcast everything through the radio production booth at Inspired by journalism professors, students Target Field, so unfortunately there is raise funds for reporting trip to Nicaragua no travel for us, but we are involved in every game both home and away,” Rose J-School seniors Hannah Ryan and the idea to Mike. He was instantly said in a story this spring in the Willis- Michael Beall set off on a month-long hooked. ton (N.D.) Herald. “During the regular journey to Nicaragua during semester During the Pollner class, which season games we’ll be writing stories, break last winter. focused on practical freelancing skills gathering information and stats for The purpose of their holiday adven­ like securing funding for such things as the radio announcers and helping with ture was to investigate and report on international reporting, Hannah and the production.” the origins of that all-important early Mike developed a campaign to post on morning pick-me-up that so many Kickstarter, an online funding site for rely on to get the day started. From creative projects. the fields of one of Nicaragua’s most Their effort was rewarded with a 20105 important coffee-growing regions, $1,250 return. This was on top of a they wanted to track the raw beans to travel grant from the UM J-School’s their ultimate destination: Craven’s Joe Durso Jr. Professional Projects Adrienne Barnett MA ’10 just got Coffee roasters of Spokane, Wash. Fund. an adjunct teaching job at The Art After their plane landed in Their first Nicaragua story, “The Institute of San Antonio. She is teach­ Managua, they went right to work. Living Black Gold,” was published ing five classes: Photojournalism, “We jumped on a bus to Estell,” in the Kaimin on Feb. 9, featuring Advertising/Art Direction, Location Hannah said. “We were able to make Hannah’s writing and Mike’s photog­ Lighting, Advanced Lighting and Pho­ short trips out to local coffee farmers raphy. Another article by Hannah will tography for Graphic Designers. She and producers. It was following the be published in the Pacific Northwest also has started her freelance photo bean from the cup that we’re drinking Inlander in Spokane. business. back to its source.” (See Mike’s Nica­ Lowisch’s international reporting ragua photo on page 16.) class spurred Hannah’s desire to take a Bess Brownlee ’10 was hired by Craven’s is among a few coffee chance and try reporting from abroad. Africa Inland Mission as a multimedia roasters that source their beans “Henriette really got that spark going. journalist. She arrived in Kenya for her directly from the farmer, Hannah said. I think a lot of things in the journalism new job last fall. Their trip percolated out of an school feel hypothetical,” she said. “But international reporting class Hannah when your professor says, ‘this isn’t Greg Lindstrom ’l l won two first took from Associate Professor Henri- just for show, this is real, you can do place awards in Region 4 of the Na­ ette Lowisch last year. “That’s what this,’ that makes the difference.” tional Press Photographers Association started things clicking,” she said. They also praised the lessons they Quarterly Clip contest. He won first Internships kept her from pursuing learned in the Pollner class that made place in the Sports category for his the story over the summer break as the idea of a daunting international image “Game Winner.” Greg was an in­ she had originally planned. Then in the reporting trip seem possible. tern at the Concord Monitor in Concord, Pollner Seminar class taught last fall by N.H. , one of the best small newspapers freelance journalist and J-School alum (For full story by Jason D.B. Kauffman, in the country noted for its exceptional Karen Coates, Hannah mentioned search “Nicaragua" at www.jour.umt.edu.) photography. He is now working as a staff photographer at the Longmont (Colo.) Times-Call. You can read these J-School publications online:

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MORTAR BOARDS ALOFT! - Sixty-five former undergraduates and four Master's students celebrate their new degrees on May 11 following graduation ceremonies outside Don Anderson Hall.