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K im WILLIAMS A woman of uncommon sense 1923-1986 Photo by Bob Cushman W C to QJ Q REPORT It is impossible to report honestly ment: about the University of Montana — During Homecoming week, we dedi­ School of Journalism without men­ cated the new $8.6 Performing Arts/Ra- tioning that the university is in deep dio-Television Building and its splendid financial trouble. Because anticipatedbroadcasting facilities in grand style, with I Van Gordon Sauter of CBS News on state revenues have not materialized, an already grim budget picture has grown hand to give his blessing. dramatically worse. UM sustained a five — The Montana Kaimin offices were percent budget cut for next year and remodeled for the first time since the more cuts are almost certainly coming. Journalism Building was built in 1936. Faculty salaries — already near the bot­ — The school’s first-floor photography tom on the national scale — have been lab is undergoing a $28,000 renovation frozen by the state legislature. There project. may be layoffs. — A $98,000 third-floor renovation All this comes at a time when the project will permit construction of a pho­ School of Journalism needs to add a tography studio, publications design lab, Dean position in photojournalism and graphics, darkroom, a graduate student study area the absence of which was noted in the and lecture hall. Charles last assessment of our program by the But the best news has not been about Hood Accrediting Council on Education in bricks and mortar, but people: Journalism and Mass Communications. — Jonathan Krim 77 directed the in­ The next accreditation visit will be in vestigative team whose series of articles Howard National Writing Competition. February 1987. for the San Jose Mercury News won the — Michael Kustudia ‘86 placed fourth In the face of this grim news, it may Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. in the editorial writing division of the Wil­ sound strange that we continue to look —Sterling Soderlind ‘50, Wall Street liam Randolph Hearst competition. to the future with confidence, that our Journal executive, and Don Oliver ’57, We’re proud that we have such en­ morale is high and that we can look NBC News correspondent, were selected couraging news to report during such back on the past 18 months with real as distinguished alumni. dismal economic times. And we’re grati­ pride. That this is true is, in large part, — Aline Mosby ’41, the just-retired fied that you’ve seen fit to help us out your doing. Contributions from alumni United Press International foreign corre­ through financial contributions and other and friends have mitigated the worst re- spondent, received an honorary doctor- support. Poverty and progress suits of the journalism budget cuts, and ate from the University of Montana. You’ll notice that this issue of the in a few cases have permitted us to try — Carol Van Valkenburg 72 became Communique includes cards that make it new ideas and projects. the first full-time paid adviser to the convenient for you to contribute to the J- We are not playing Pollyanna here — Montana Kaimin. School in any of several categories. any foolish optimism is quickly dispelled — Bill Knowles, former ABC News Among those are the Delaney Fund for by the daily pinch of the purse, which West Coast bureau chief, joined the jour­ Writing Excellence, which will support keeps us from enhancing our journalism nalism faculty. writing workshops for professionals and library, from bringing back the Montana — John Talbot was one of 12 journal­ enhance undergraduate writing instruc­ Journalism Review, from offering suffi­ ism professors to be selected for a tion, and the Kim Williams Graduate Fel­ cient scholarships and teaching assistant- media management seminar at the Poyn- lowship, which will support journalism ships, and from sending our faculty to ter Institute for Mass Media Studies. master’s students with a special interest conferences and seminars that would as­ — David Fenner, a senior from Helena, in the environment. You’ll find more sist them in staying abreast of the rap­ and Tammy Mohawk, a senior from about those funds elsewhere in this idly changing world of professional jour­ Libby, were selected to receive Sears issue. If you can help us out, we’d ap­ nalism. Congressional Internships in Washington, preciate it. Yet we can’t look back at the past year D.C. without a sense of accomplishment. — Faith Conroy, a senior from West Some of that accomplishment can be Orange, N.J., was one of 10 journalism M o o u ---------- measured in new facilities and equip- students to be honored in the Roy W. C j EL ^ Communique The 1986 Communique was produced Charles Hood also worked on the publi­ by an honors class in advanced design, cation, which was produced on an elec­ taught by Patty Reksten. tronic editing system in the Journalism Students included Jackie Amsden, Building. It was printed by UM Printing Broadus; Verina Palmer, Missoula; Eric Services. Troyer, Cooper Landing, Alaska; Wendy Norgaard, Missoula; Brett French, Boze­ The Communique is an occasional man, and Jean Lints, Lewistown. publication of the University of Montana Faculty members Warren Brier, Carol School of Journalism. It is distributed to Van Valkenburg, Bob Cushman and alumni and friends. 2 im Williams’ last summer: m a lesson in dying with dignity Kim Williams — naturalist, writer and radio commentator who earned an interdisciplinary master’s degree in journalism and environmental studies from UM in 1980 S died August 6 of cancer at her home in Missoula. She was 62 years old. Her husband Mel told Missoulian reporter Mea Andrews that Ms. Williams died in her sleep, “with a smile on her face.” Her passing was noted in Time magazine and was the lead obituary in the August 7 issue of the New York Times. About a week before her death, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner carried the following story, which is reprinted by permission: By Nancy Spiller Los Angeles Herald Examiner _I^orF the past 10 years Kim Williams of Missoula, Mont., has delivered her folksy advice and herbalist observations of the world outside her kitchen window to listeners of National Public Radio. She didn’t hesitate to tell people what they should do. As she told a New Yorker reporter who came to call in her daffodil yellow kitchen last spring, “there are certain things that you just should do. In the spring, you should eat a dan­ delion salad. You should climb Mount Sentinel in May and see the yellow-flowered arrow-leaf balsam root in bloom. In June, you have to go to Lolo Pass and see the blue camas lilies. You have to do these things or the year won’t progress. And starting in July, you have to have huckleberry days. I dearly love huckleberries and all the plants that go with them — the prince’s pine, the fireweed, the baneberry, with its bright-red berries and its lacy leaves, the purple asters, the pearly everlasting. With huckleberries, you always have a mountainside and the wind making a soughing sound and an evening that lasts forever. Late-afternoon huckleberrying is a grand thing to do.” This July, while the huckleberries hung heavy and ripe on the bush waiting to be plucked and boiled and poured into her rummage sale collection of canning jars, Kim Williams said farewell to her NPR listeners in an interview with “All Things Considered” host Susan Stamberg. It may be remem­ Photo by Bob Cushman bered as one of the most extraordinary pieces ever heard on Kim Williams washing clothes in her back yard radio. Stamberg asked Williams in the July 16 interview what she The book is a wide-ranging assortment of her thoughts, had heard from her doctor, and in her high-pitched New York poems and personal anecdotes on everything from health and accent that has been tempered to a woodsy cadence by her diet to money, nature and religion with such pithy chapter years in Montana, Williams answered, “ I have terminal can­ headings as “ If It Has More Than 10 Ingredients, Throw it cer.” Out,” “Low-Cost(?) Wart Removal” and “ 10 Rules for Mar­ She went on in a typically straightforward fashion. “ It riage.” started out as ovarian cancer and then I guess it turned into To promote it, the 62-year-old naturalist, hiker, lecturer, general cancer of the abdomen, and they took out some and writer and radio personality appeared on the David Letterman they left some in and so I am getting ready to move on to show wearing a white knit hat (“Wear a hat,” one piece of new dimensions, you might say.” advice goes. “ I am a babushka, I wear a hat winter and sum­ She had a month, she felt. It was “sort of a surprise ... mer”), blue windbreaker and red pants. Letterman asked her ovarian cancer is one of the things that don’t give you many if the book was selling well.