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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. symptoms.” She went on to describe the transformation of “ I think it’s selling very well,” she said, chin to chest and her body as though, naturalist that she is, she were identify­ looking out the tops of her glasses, “considering it’s not a ing poison sumac. serious book. I mean I’m giving everyone advice, but no­ “ I wasn’t in pain, it just happened that after a while I body’s taking it.” started looking as though I were seven months pregnant, Letterman had her back a second time to talk about her which is one of the signs.... And all of a sudden I couldn’t experimental cooking with worms. She boils them up for Mel, sleep, I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t breathe, and something had to her husband of 34 years. They’re pure protein, she says, but be done quickly, and quickly it was done.” kind of tough. A recipe in one of her cookbooks is for “chili • • • con wormie.” 1986 had been a big year for Williams. She published her Beneath the folksy humor was a message of greater import. fourth book, “ Kim Williams’ Book of Uncommon Sense, a “I’m very serious about the fact we have to change our way Practical Guide With 10 Rules for Nearly Everything,” and the of living in order to live a more gentle way with the Earth,” publisher, HP Books, sent her on her first national author’s she told an interviewer. "I’m very serious about the Earth and tour. our environment.” 3 Kim Williams Kim Williams was born on a farm in upstate New York to long as I can.”) Hungarian immigrant parents. She attended Cornell University There was no avoiding, however, the subject of her com­ where she received a degree in home economics in 1944. mentary. She was not going to duck the issue. Stamberg After graduation she worked for a variety of publications, in­ asked her, almost as a therapist might, what she was saying cluding a brief stint as a copy girl for the Los Angeles Exam­ to herself these days. iner, and in New York at Flower Grower magazine. “Well,” Williams said, “ I am saying to myself it is time to While in New York she acted in off-Broadway theater, in­ move on. That’s what it is, it’s time to move on.” Ironically, a cluding the role of the Grand Duchess Olga Katrina in “You chapter in her book had been devoted to dying. She talked Can’t Take It With You,” where she got to say the line, "Ahh, about it on the air. "Most people know when they are going how we haff leeved.” to die,” she said, “and they evade it with this empire of medi­ She also met and married Mel Williams in 1951. His career cine that we have around us. In primitive societies, everybody as a mining engineer took them to Santiago, Chile, where knew when everybody was dying, unless they were eaten by they lived for 20 years. After his retirement they returned to a lion, and it was something people talked about. Nowadays his native state of Montana and Kim decided to return to ... instead of saying, ‘How are you dying, are you coming school for a master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies at the along?,’ (people) say ‘What treatment are you getting?’ ... As University of Montana. A radio/TV class project evolved into a long as you’re getting a treatment, you can’t be dying.” local radio show on plants. This, in turn, led to her commen­ Williams has joined a hospice, has told her doctors she i taries for NPR. doesn’t care for any extraordinary measures to prolong her For city dwellers fortunate enough to be within earshot of life, she is ready to die. She is living out the line in her book, her radio spots, she painted word pictures of the world “ I wish to die in peace, not in pieces.” beyond the freeways. We could see the mountains and the • • • meadow and smell the first grass of spring, the lambs-quarter There was nothing morbid about this final dispatch from and the late summer mint when she spoke. Missoula. Williams even got in a laugh. When Stamberg She was out there picking huckleberries and raspberries asked how listeners could get in touch with her there was a and canning them for winter, the last woman on earth with long pause and she asked, "You mean when I have passed the time to do it and with a gift for telling us how it was on to the next dimension?” Stamberg’s reply was, “ No done. To hear her for the last time was at once tragic and ma’am, this minute.” somehow appropriate. It was a fitting cap to her broadcasting Williams asked that people not send anything lest it get career. “like Grand Central Station around here and I can’t rest or do • • • my thinking or my writing. Send your thoughts by another The usual exuberance in her voice had been turned down a dimension,” she said. few notches for her farewell. At least one regular listener “ It’s amazing,” she went on, “ how many letters I’ve already wished the conversation could somehow segue into a typical had ... from people who say they are going to climb a moun­ Williams list of things to do, like “Ten Ways to Hold Onto tain or walk along a river or on a city street and they will Summer” or “Coming to Terms With Fall” (“ Of course it may send their thoughts and energies and they will think that they be my imagination, but asters and goldenrod seem to me to will meet mine.” have a poignant smell. Hold on to every day, they say, sum­ “I believe that,” Stamberg said. mer is at its height. Fall is just a breath away. Every year I “ I do too,” Williams said. And with that the two women said avoid speaking the word aster and the word goldenrod as goodbye. Williams Fellowship Established

Photo by Bob Cushman

T^ ^ .h e School of Journalism and KUFM/KGPR have estab­ lished a scholarship in honor of Kim Williams. The Kim Wil­ liams Graduate Fellowship will provide support each year for a student in the journalism master’s program who has a spe­ cial interest in environmental studies. Those who wish to contribute to the fund should send their checks to the Kim Williams Graduate Fellowship, University of Montana, Missoula, Mt. 59812, or make a pledge on the alumni cards inserted in this issue of Communique. Kim donated about $10,000 worth of mining stock to the fund. Noting that mining has caused environmental damage, she thought it appropriate that the stock be used to promote a better understanding of environmental problems. Though Kim completed her interdisciplinary master’s pro­ gram in journalism and other studies at the University of David Rorvik ‘66, a freelance writer based in Canby, Ore., Montana in 1980, she continued to be a familiar figure in the encouraged Kim to write the book, and — as her agent — Journalism Building. A regular user of the Journalism Library, found a publisher. she had stopped in to check out her usual stack of maga­ Kim credited Phil Hess, one of her journalism instructors, zines only a few days before her death. with encouraging her to do the radio commentaries that even­ The acknowledgment page of her recent book — “ Kim Wil­ tually became a regular part of NPR programming. liams’ Book of Uncommon Sense” — offers thanks for the The impetus for the scholarship came from Deborah Frand- very considerable aid and encouragement” she received sen, marketing director of KUFM/KGPR, who said the station rom several journalism faculty members and from “the Jour- was flooded by calls after Kim was interviewed on National na ism School Typing Room,” in which she hammered out the Public Radio's “All Things Considered" about her terminal ill­ ook on one of the 20 aging manual typewriters. She said ness. s e iked the feeling of that unpretentious second-floor room Ted Clark, the executive producer of “All Things Consid­ whose large windows are dominated by the boughs of a tow­ ered,” said the response to Kim’s July 16 farewell had been ering maple tree. "among the biggest ever received for anything we’ve done.”

4 Wall Street Journal, NBC, UPI veterans cited 3 more J~grads honored

Sterling Soderlind Don Oliver Aline Mosby

terling E. “Jim” Soderlind ’50, vice president for million. He was named vice president for planning for Dow planning for Dow Jones & Company, is the most re­ Jones in November 1977. cent journalism alumnus to be honored by the Uni­ versity of Montana. As a Dow Jones executive, Soderlind has concentrated on acquisitions and what he calls new internal ventures, such as SSoderlind, former managing editor of the Wall Street Jour­ the Wall Street Journal/Europe, started Jan. 31, 1983, and nal, a Dow publication, will receive a Distinguished Alumnus the Asian Wall Street Journal, begun in 1976 and published Award at Homecoming ceremonies in October. His selection in Hong Kong and Singapore. brings the number of J-School distinguished alumni to 25, more than any other academic unit. Oliver grew up in Billings. After graduating from the UM J- School in 1958, he began his news career at small radio and Don Oliver ‘58, NBC correspondent in Los Angeles, re­ television stations in Montana, Idaho and Washington, then ceived a Distinguished Alumnus Award last fall, and Aline won an RCA-NBC Godwin Fellowship to the Columbia Gradu­ Mosby ‘43, former Paris correspondent for United Press Inter­ ate School of Journalism, from which he was graduated cum national, received an honorary doctor of letters degree at the laude in June 1962. 1985 commencement ceremonies. Another former Kaimin staff member, actor Carroll O’Connor, received his honorary doc­ Following television news assignments in Sacramento and torate on the same occasion. Spokane, Oliver joined NBC News in 1966. He since has cov­ ered major stories all over the globe, has been a key mem­ Born in Rapelje, Soderlind graduated from high school in ber of the NBC political team and has acquired a reputation, Billings in 1944. He joined the Navy during World War II, according to a fellow reporter from another network, as “an serving as an electrician’s mate on the aircraft carrier Wasp absolutely first-rate writer, producer, interviewer and broad­ from 1944 to 1946. After briefly attending Eastern Montana caster.” College, he entered the UM School of Journalism, where as an undergraduate he worked part time as a correspondent Mosby, a Missoula native, worked for Mademoiselle and for the Spokane Spokesman-Review. He received his B.A. in Time magazines and was the first woman to work for the journalism and history with honors in 1950, then attended Ox­ Seattle bureau of UPI. She was a Hollywood reporter for 13 ford University from 1950 to 1952 as a Rhodes Scholar. years before joining United Press International as a foreign Soderlind became a reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune in correspondent in 1958. 1952 and contributed business and financial news stories Her book, “The View from Number 13 People’s Street,” re­ from the Twin Cities area to the Wall Street Journal. He counts her experiences in Moscow. joined the Journal full time as a reporter in its Chicago bureau in May 1955, became manager of the Southeastern In addition to the Soviet Union, she had UPI assignments in Bureau in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1956, and moved to New York Holland, Britain, France and China before returning to the City in 1957 as a member of the front-page staff. He became Paris bureau. In 1979 Mosby transferred from the Paris UPI a special writer for the front-page staff in 1959, was ap­ bureau to the newly opened Peking bureau and in 1980 was pointed assistant managing editor in 1965 and managing edi­ awarded the International Bernard J. Cabanes Prize for Jour­ nalism for her reporting in China. She later returned to the tor in 1969. Paris UPI bureau where she worked until her recent retire­ Under Soderlind’s leadership, the Journal became the na­ ment. She continues to reside in Paris, where she is a string­ tion’s largest daily newspaper with a circulation exceeding 2 er for the New York Times.

5 ^Faculty and Staff

Hess retires; to work part time as health permits

hilip J. Hess, chairman of the radio-television de­ Hess was the subject of a Missoulian profile last spring, partment for 22 years and an instrumental figure in which detailed his contributions to the development of KUFM the development of that department and the univer­ and his role in encouraging naturalist Kim Williams to do a sity’s public radio station, KUFM/KGPR, retired from local radio commentary that eventually developed into one of Pthe journalism faculty in June. the most popular programs on National Public Radio. A victim of multiple sclerosis, Professor Hess will continue Professor Hess received his professional experience at to take on part-time post-retirement faculty assignments as radio stations in Chicago and Iowa City, Iowa, television sta­ his health allows. He has been confined to a wheelchair since tions in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Portland, Ore., and at the 1984. Missoulian, where he worked six summers as a reporter and The 50-year-old Chicago native joined the UM journalism desk editor and earned national recognition from the Ameri­ faculty in 1962. He supervised both the radio-television de­ can Medical Association for a series of articles on illegal partment and KUFM, which went on the air in 1965, without drug use. Before coming to Montana, he taught journalism at the assistance of another full-time faculty member until 1974. the University of South Dakota. NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw In the last few years he stepped down from both supervisory was one of his students. positions, but continued to teach. While on a leave of absence from UM in 1979-80, he As President Neil Bucklew stated at the dedication of the served a year in New York City as a national consultant for new Performing Arts and Radio-Television Building last fall, radio information services with the American Foundation for Hess took over a radio station “whose signal could barely be the Blind. heard beyond Arthur Avenue,” and built it into the popular He received a B.A. in radio-television and an M.A. in mass public radio station that now reaches more than half of the communications from the University of Iowa. listening audience of Montana. His wife, Mary Lou, is admissions and placement officer at During "the difficult early years,” said Dean Charles Hood the UM School of Law. The Hesses have three grown chil­ on the same occasion, “ Phil nurtured his fledgling station as dren and one grandchild. if it were his baby, which — in a very real sense — it was.”

John Talbot Charles Hood Sharon Barrett, was one of 12 journalism professors was one of 20 journalism educators who was promoted last year to associate chosen by the Poynter Institute for Mass chosen to attend the second leadership professor, was on leave last fall quarter Media Studies to attend its first media institute of the Gannett Center for Mass to pursue several writing projects. In ad­ management workshop for journalism Media Studies at Columbia University in dition to teaching, she continues to write educators in St. Petersburg, Fla., in July. New York last June. His article, “The book reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times Last year, John attended a Minneapolis China Hands in Perspective: Journalists and fills many of her spare moments media management seminar sponsored and Diplomats,” will be included in a serving on the Faculty Senate, the Uni­ by the School of Journalism and Mass book based on the proceedings from the versity Planning Council and the univer­ Communication at the University of Min­ first conference of the Maureen and sity’s Task Force on Writing. nesota. Mike Mansfield Center. Joe Durso Jr. Jerry Holloron Warren Brier is the co-author of an article about fly fishing in the August issue of Field & crankily returned to teaching last fall taught the Magazine Article Writing class Stream magazine. When he wasn’t prac­ after spending the 1984-85 academic during the summer session and, with ticing his casts along the Bitterroot River year on leave as a copy editor and local- Patty Reksten, conducted a week-long during the summer, he got to know the government reporter for the Missoulian. workshop for high school journalism state a bit better by visiting student in­ He returned to the Missoulian for sum­ teachers and students in August. His ar­ terns at radio and television stations mer work in June after attending the In­ ticle about the late Dorothy M. Johnson around Montana. Joe narrated and vestigative Reporters and Editors conven- appeared in a booklet published by the helped produce a television documentary ion in Portland, Ore. He was promoted last year to full professor UM Archives. He also spoke at the cere­ on the second Mansfield Center confer­ mony opening the Dorothy M. Johnson ence, whose principal speaker was for­ Collection at the Mansfield Library. mer President Jimmy Carter.

6 Carol Van Valkenburg Greg MacDonald Jack Schommer, completed her first year as the first paid is taking a one-year leave to work on a production director of KPAX-TV in Mis­ adviser to the Montana Kaimin. Carol ap­ textbook about television news and a soula, taught a basic television produc­ peared before the Board of Regents last screenplay. He’ll be in Washington, D.C., tion course last year. Jack, a graduate of fall to argue successfully against a pro­ the Montana State University film and TV posal that would have permitted influ­ where his wife, Suzanne Lagoni, has joined the staff of Sen. Max Baucus. department, will replace Greg MacDonald ence by university administrations in the for a year while Greg is on leave. operations of student newspapers. She Greg was promoted to full professor last attended a National Press Foundation year. seminar on business and economic re­ Nathaniel Blumberg, porting last fall in Oakland, and is still professor emeritus and former dean, had wondering why she was chosen to be on a reunion in Montana this summer with a panel discussing "The Image of Arro­ his three daughters and their children. gance” at a journalism conference in Nathaniel, who continues to live near Great Falls. Bigfork on Flathead Lake, is working on Patty Reksten several writing projects. He and his wife, taught one-day writing, photography and Barbara, enjoyed a visit to the Oregon layout workshops in Butte, Great Falls coast earlier this year. and Missoula during March and April. She and Warren Brier conducted work­ Millie Dunn shops for high school journalism teach­ and Beryl Seljak ers and students both this summer and continued to bring their energy, compe­ last. When she wasn’t teaching photo­ tence and good cheer to the Journalism journalism, she worked on her master’s Library, where they helped out as mem­ thesis — a biography of Mel Ruder, the bers of the Retired Senior Volunteer Pro­ Pulitzer Prize winning Montana editor. gram. Patty and her husband, Jim Dopp, be­ came the parents last year of their sec­ Kay James ond child, Devin. is moving with her boss, radio-TV chair­ Bob Cushman, man Joe Durso, to the Performing Arts with Patty Reksten, helped plan two /Radio-Television Center this fall. She major remodeling projects in the Jour­ and her husband, David, are the parents nalism Building — the construction of a of a three-year-old boy, Cody. photography studio, graphics lab and darkroom on the third floor, and the ren­ Karen Kaley ovation of the photography lab on the is compiling the massive statistics re­ first floor. He continues to do freelance quired of the J-School for its accredita­ photography. tion visit next February. She packs her Andrew Cogswell, Edward B. Dugan, considerable responsibities as journalism professor emeritus, joined the journalism secretary into a six-hour day to permit professor emeritus and former dean of -her to spend more time with her three- students at UM, attended Dean Stone faculty at its fall retreat at Lost Trail year-old son, Sammy. Night with his wife Pauline last spring. Lodge south of Missoula. Telecommunications Center

It has been a busy year for Telecommunications as the staff Returning to his old job as assistant news director at settled into its new home in the Performing Arts and Radio- KUFM/KGPR was Jace Laakso. He previously was the pro­ Television Building. Here are some of the exploits that kept ducer of Montana Gallery, a radio magazine about the arts them so busy: and cultural heritage of Montana. Ken Fielding, director of telecommunications, attended the Claudia Johnson joined the Telecommunications Center last advanced executive management training project of the Cor­ year as a television producer and director. She previously poration for Public Broadcasting at the University of Pennsyl­ had been a producer-director for the Indiana University News vania in August. Ken teaches a television production course Bureau in Bloomington. Claudia also teaches television pro­ for the radio-television department. duction. Darrell Luebbe was assistant news director for KUFM/KG- William Marcus, production director of KUFM/KGPR, PR. Darrell, who previously worked in Colorado, broadcast helped put together a week-long summer workshop for high- the morning newscast, Montana Morning Edition. school students interested in radio and television. He and col­ KUFM’s Jyl Hoyt came up a winner this year when her league Jyl Hoyt won a Champion-Tuck award for a "Reflec­ “Reflections in Montana” radio documentary on Montana min­ tions in Montana” radio program. ing won a $5,000 Champion-Tuck award for “outstanding re­ Terry Conrad, programming director of KUFM/KGPR, at­ porting that improved the public’s understanding of business tended the annual National Public Radio conference in San and economic issues.” William Marcus of KUFM/KGPR and Diego last April. Howard Berkus of National Public Radio, who assisted Jyl in Another new addition to Telecommunications is Gus Cham­ preparing the program, shared in the award. bers, who joined the staff last year as a television producer/ Sally Mauk, news director at KUFM/KGPR, worked with her director. Gus produces “ Sports Week,” the Grizzly sports staff and a team of radio-television student interns to produce highlight program, and teaches a television production two daily half-hour broadcasts of local and state news. She course. also covered Doth the regular and special sessions of the Charles Lubrecht, technical director of KUFM/KGPR, took Montana Legislature. a leave of absence earlier this year after completing the in­ A welcome addition to the staff is Deborah Talbot Frand- stallation of the sophisticated electronic equipment in the Per­ sen, who joined the Telecommunications Center in early 1985 forming Arts and Radio-Television Building. as marketing director. Her responsibilities include fund-rais­ Conrad Agte joined the Telecommunications Center last ing, publicity and public relations for KUFM/KGPR. Deborah year as an assistant technical director. returned to Missoula after three years in California as the Barbara “ Bobby” Schurlan is the new administrative assis­ production manager with the Orange County Pacific Sympho­ tant at the Telecommunications Center. ny.

7 N ew " era begins with dedication of radio-TV center

rominent broadcast news professionals from throughf out the nation helped the School of Journalism dedi cate the Performing Arts and Radio-Television Cente,' during Homecoming Week last October. POn hand were Van Gordon Sauter, then executive vice president of the CBS Broadcast Group and now president o^ CBS News; Art Silverman, producer of National Public Radios news program, “All Things Considered”; David Fitzpatrick, CBS News national editor; Don Oliver ‘58, NBC News corre spondent and 1985 recipient of a Distinguished Alumnul Award; Kay Wight, vice president of CBS Sports; John Bennitjj ‘59, director of Associated Press broadcast services, and Bil* Swing, regional director of the Radio-Television News Direc tors Association. Swing and Joe Durso Jr., chairman of the radio-televisiorf

Co-anchorman Sven Christiansen, above, a junior in 3 radio-television, prepares to cue the control room during the nightly newscast of KUFM/KGPR, the university’s public radio station. At right, broadcast students videota­ pe a panel discussion during the dedication week.

8 Radio-TV Chairman Joe Durso, left, and Dean Charles Hood show off the $8.6 million Per­ forming Arts/Radio-TV Center, which houses the J-School’s department of radio-television, the university’s public radio sta­ tion, the Telecommunications Center and the department of drama/dance. Below, CBS News executive Van Gordon Sauter discusses television during an interview in the Journalism Library.

department, organized the first regional meeting of the news directors’ group in Montana. The meeting, held in conjunction with the dedication activities, drew more than 50 broadcast professionals from throughout the Northwest. The dedication included an open house and an address from President Neil Bucklew, who reviewed the strides taken by the Department of Radio-Television since its inception in 1958. Both Bucklew and Dean Charles Hood singled out Pro­ fessor Phil Hess for contributions to the development of the | broadcast program and KUFM/KGPR, the campus public radio station. Professional broadcasters and journalism educators from the region were among those given guided tours through the Telecommunications Center, where the $600,000 worth of new television and radio equipment was displayed and demon­ strated.

9 DM] Fund continues to receive donations Former ABC bureau chief The Dorothy M. Johnson fund, estab­ joins journalism faculty lished in 1984 only a few months before her death, continues to be an important ABC Evening News. During his years at ABC, he traveled ] source of support for the School of Jour­ extensively with presidents Nixon and j nalism. Miss Johnson, the author of 17 books Ford and was coordinating producer for 1 ABC’s coverage of the 1982 Falklands - and more than 100 short stories, was a illiam Know­ m war, the 1979 Cuban boatlift, the 1984 1 journalism faculty member from 1953 to les, former West 1967. Mel Ruder, retired editor and pub­ Coast bureau chief massacre at McDonald’s restaurant in lisher of the Hungry Horse News in of ABC News, has San Diego and the Jesse Jackson head- ] Columbia Falls, and his wife Ruth, a UM joined the journal­ quarters during the 1984 Democratic Na- \ graduate, established the fund, which ism faculty as an tional Convention. He was videotape pro- 3 continues to receive donations from assistant professor. ducer for the first space shuttle liftoff in j alumni and friends. The 51-year-old newsman, who re­ 1981 and coordinated coverage of the I The fund’s purpose is to enhance UM signed from ABC News last year after 20 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. journalism education generally, with par­ years with that network, taught television A Los Angeles native, Knowles was \ ticular attention given to library needs. news production at the UM J-school ear­ graduated in journalism from San Jose | Last year DMJ funds purchased maga­ lier this year as a visiting lecturer. His State College and did graduate work in zines and books otherwise unattainable selection for a permanent faculty position telecommunications at the University of owing to limited state funds. came after a national search headed by Southern California. He started his career Joe Durso Jr., chairman of the Depart­ as a reporter for the Daily Review in ment of Radio-Television. Hayward, Calif., and served a stint in the Dorothy M. Johnson Fund The new position was recommended U.S. Army teaching journalism and devis­ Margaret Adair Vic Reinemer by the University Planning Council and ing the Army’s newspaper style guide. Gertrude Bassett Mel Ruder Last spring, Knowles was executive Umberto Benedetti Stephen Shirley authorized by President Neil Bucklew two Dorothy Brading Daniel Slothower years ago, but a previous national search producer of the UM Telecommunications Tom Brown Jeanne Stearns Center’s television coverage of the J Frederick Caruso Jr. Gary Svee had been unsuccessful. Cowles Media Company Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center Joy Toppin Before moving to Los Angeles as Robert Gilluly Mary Vanderslice conference, whose keynote speaker was Charles Hood Mrs. Houston Waring ABC’s West Coast bureau chief, Knowles Cheryl Hutchinson Betty Wetzel had headed the network’s news bureaus former President Jimmy Carter. The re­ William James Helen Wigal sulting videotapes were shown on the Charles Johnson Mary Wilson in Washington and Atlanta, and had Donald Oliver Steve and Lexie Verdon Barr national public-affairs channel, C-Span. Vivian Paladin John Scott Twaddell served as operations producer for the Robert Pantzer Rich Landers

Other Gifts

Verna Green Smith Angus McDougall Sasser to head accrediting team Randolph Jacobs J. Bart and Mary Kay Rayniak Emery L. “ Pete” Sasser, chairman of Other team members are Janet Brandt, i Lana Jean Russ Charles Thompson the Department of Mass Communications managing editor of the Bellevue, Wash., ] Carmen E. Winslow at the University of South Florida, will be Journal-American, and Robert K. Tie- John and Teresa Kafentzis Mel Ruder chairman of the accreditation team as­ mens, chairman of the Department of Hilda and John McGaugh Lucille Limpus Clark signed to visit the School of Journalism Communications at the University of Reader's Digest Feb. 17-20, 1987. Utah. William Randolph Hearst Foundation Michael and Lee Ann Zanon Joan F. Shirley (in memory of George and Emma Lagersquist) J-School Briefs D.J. Shults dent who displays “a high degree of en­ Faculty judge media terprise and shows the promise to be an Myre-McGaugh fund — Warren Brier and Carol Van Valken- exceptional member of our profession." burg judged print and broadcast news In his column, “ Elevation and Winda­ doubles in size entries for the Association for Conserva­ ge,” Alan wrote: tion Information National Awards Com­ “The University’s School of Journalism The $5,000 Myre-McGaugh journalism petition. is a very special place. It remains one of scholarship fund doubled in size this — Broadcasting professors judged the the best in the West in its demand for year with an additional $5,000 contribu­ radio-television entries of the Alaska excellence. When I went to the university, tion from the original donors, John and Press Association’s 1986 awards com­ a ‘B’ grade in some courses was some­ Hilda McGaugh of Kalispell. The Mc- petition. thing you shrugged off. It was almost ex­ pected and in some cases, to get any Gaughs established the scholarship in — Radio-TV chairman Joe Durso Jr. lesser grade would take extraordinary ef­ honor of Hilda’s parents, Mary Jane and served for the second consecutive year fort. But at the UM journalism school, a Peter Myre. John is a retired newspaper as a judge in the Golden Mike broad­ publisher. ‘C’ grade was something you earned and casting awards competition in Los Ange­ a ‘B’ or ‘A’ was something worthy of les. Baltimore editor visits — Dean Charles Hood and Carol Van pride.” Valkenburg helped the Montana Press ABC’s Caras speaks John Lemmon, managing editor of the Association evaluate Utah Press Associa­ Evening Sun in Baltimore, visited the tion newspaper entries. Roger Caras, ABC News correspondent School of Journalism in May as part of who specializes in wildlife and environ­ the Editor-in-Residence program of the Scholarship established mental issues, discussed “ How the Na­ American Society of Newspaper Editors. tional Media Cover Wildlife” at the first He spoke to reporting, editing and mass Alan Johnson, editor-publisher of the Wildlife Writer’s Conference, sponsored media law classes and took part in a Liberty County Times in Chester, has es­ jointly by the International Wildlife Film faculty critique session with the Montana tablished the New Northwest Award, a Festival and the UM School of Journal­ Kaimin staff. $100 scholarship to a UM journalism stu­ ism.

IO Clarence Streit, Atlantic Union crusader, dies

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Clarence K. Streit ’19, who for more than a half century worked to strengthen world democracies by uniting them under one government, died of kidney failure July 6 in Washington, D.C. He was 90 years old. The former foreign correspondent for the New York Times had retained close ties with the School of Journalism. He donated newspapers, books, clippings, articles and other materials to the school, and each August for the past several years he visited the dean to dis­ cuss matters ranging from international crises to the state of the school and the university. Mr. Streit became involved with jour­ nalism as a paperboy for the Missoulian. In 1913 he founded the Missoula County ATLANTIC UNION’S STREIT High School newspaper, the Konah. Nationalism is the poison. He served as associate editor and managing editor of the Montana Kaimin and in 1916-17 as editor. He continued his education as a His goal was to foster economic stabil­ dents Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He ity among democratic nations and mar­ Nixon and Ford; foreign leaders such as was the first University of Montana stu­ shal a united front against totalitarianism. Winston Churchill and Willy Brandt; and dent to be selected for that honor. To promote his idea, he established other prominent persons like H.L. Mr. Streit served in France in World Federal Union, Inc., and Freedom & Mencken, Mike Mansfield, John Foster War I as a private in the Corps of Engi­ Union Magazine. Dulles, Henry Kissinger, Henry Luce, Lee neers. He subsequently was a sergeant His dream was that in time human be­ Metcalf, Nelson Rockefeller, Adlai working in counter-espionage intelli­ ings would emerge from “the dark womb Stevenson, Arnold Toynbee and Robert gence. After the war he was a member of nationalism” and cooperate with each Kennedy. of President Wilson’s delegation to the other on a world level. In 1939 the University of Montana international peace conference. In 1983 Mr. Streit said a revised pro­ awarded him an honorary doctor of laws Mr. Streit achieved international recog­ posal would urge the formation of sev­ degree. nition in 1939 with publication of his eral federations of democratic nations— In his advancing years, Mr. Streit main­ book "Union Now,” in which he proposed in Latin America, Asia, Africa and the tained a soldierly bearing. He walked a federation of industrial democracies Northern Atlantic countries — all even­ briskly and stood erect. He loved to talk modeled after the states in America. He tually joining in a “super union.” intensely with friends. envisioned a union of 15 Atlantic democ­ He knew that world unity would not Mr. Streit never lost his enthusiasm for racies under one elected government. happen soon. an Atlantic Union, though in the 1970s Each nation, while governing its internal “ Like democracy,” he said, “the idea of he complained of news-media indiffer­ affairs, would defer to a common gov­ a global federation requires sublime faith ence toward his vision. ernment in matters of defense, citizen­ in yourself and other persons.” “We’ll get there,” he said in 1977, “ but ship, trade and currency. His proposal was supported by Presi­ in the Lord’s own time.”

II Ann Clements Conger Leslie D. Dana------Leslie D. Dana '37, retired editor and Returning to his Portland job after the Ann Clements Conger ’43, former Hel­ publisher of the Daily Shipping News in war, he soon became editor of the Daily ena newswoman and information director Portland, Ore., died of leukemia Aug. 6 Shipping News. Nearly two decades later at the College of Great Falls, died June in Portland. He was 72. he became publisher and owner as well, 24, 1984, in a Great Falls hospital after Mr. Dana retired in 1985 after a career acquiring the publication in 1964 after suffering a heart attack in her home. She of more than four decades with the Dqjly the death of its founder. was 62. Shipping News. Earlier this year he was Mr. Dana is survived by his wife, From 1966 to 1972 Mrs. Conger honored by the Port of Portland, whose Marge Nelson Dana, formerly of Great worked as a reporter, acting assistant president lauded the Daily Shipping Falls and also a 1937 UM journalism news editor and women’s page editor at News for its reliability and accuracy in school graduate, and two daughters. the Helena Independent Record. In 1972 reporting news of the maritime industry and 1973 she was assistant supervisor in in the region. Leah Noel the Office of the Superintendent of Pub­ A Florence native, Mr. Dana was grad­ Leah Orvis Noel ’36, a UM employee lic Instruction in Helena. She joined the uated from high school in Pony and later for 35 years, died Aug. T9 of leukemia at staff at the College of Great Falls on lived in Deer Lodge. After being gradu­ Jan. 6, 1977, and resigned in 1979. her Missoula home. She was 73. ated from the UM School of Journalism, Mrs. Noel retired in 1982 as the direc­ Mrs. Conger founded the New Mexico he became a reporter for the Daily Ship­ tor of conference scheduling at the Uni­ Press Women’s Association and was ping News at its Seattle branch, then president of the Last Chance Press Club versity Center. She also had worked in moved to the Portland branch in 1941. the UM Lodge as a secretary at the main in Helena. She was a member of several He left civilian life to become a naval desk. civic groups. officer during World War II, and served She is survived by two daughters, Lisa Mrs. Noel attended schools in Glasgow. as commanding officer of two mine­ She is survived by two sons. Eagle of Minneapolis and Joan Conger sweepers. of Seattle. D.J. Shults------The town of Hettinger honored Mr. Melvin Hedine Dosia J. Shults ’33, who as publisher Melvin A. (Dutch) Hedine ’47, a techni­ of the Hettinger (N.D.) Adams County Shults each August 25 on what was offi­ cially proclaimed D.J. Shults Day. cal photographer who worked on U.S. Record called himself “a little country He taught journalism briefly at UM space missions, died May 7, 1982, in Es­ editor,” died of cancer July 15, 1985, in condido, Calif. He was 71. Hettinger. He was 82. after he was graduated. Mr. Hedine studied under the first In 1938 Mr. Shults served as president Mr. Shults had been editor and pub­ dean of the journalism school, Arthur L. of the North Dakota Press Association. lisher of the Record since 1928 and at Stone, and was forced to leave school During World War II he rose to the rank one time owned seven weekly news­ during the Depression. of lieutenant commander as a public re­ papers in North Dakota. He was an Army photographer during lations officer with the Navy’s 7th Fleet. World War II, covering the D-day landing In 1984 he gave the UM Foundation His obituary in the Bismarck Tribune and participating in 20 photographic mis­ $3,500 to establish a journalism scholar­ noted that he handed out more than sions over enemy nations. He received ship. On Oct. 25, 1980, he was honored 4,000 pieces of bubble gum annually to five battle stars and the Purple Heart. by UM as a Distinguished Alumnus and Hettinger children who visited his office. Following graduation, Mr. Hedine at­ spoke to students in the Journalism Li­ One resident was quoted as saying, tended the Art Center School in Los An­ brary. “ He’s held Hettinger together.” geles, then worked until 1952 as an ad­ vertising photographer. He subsequently Clyde Reichelt worked for Lockheed Aircraft, Miller Dial, Albert J. Partoll Hoffman Electronics and the Northrop Albert J. Partoll '29, the first editor of Clyde Reichelt ’47, a former reporter Corp., participating in the work on space Montana — The Magazine of Western and photographer for the Great Falls missions such as Surveyor, Ranger, Pio­ History and the Missoula County public Tribune, died Dec. 30, 1984, in Manteca, neer, Apollo and Skylab. administrator from 1947 to 1975, died of Calif., after a long battle with cancer. He He retired from Northrop in 1972. natural causes April 16, 1985, in Missou­ was 63. Mr. Hedine is survived by his widow, la. He was 80 years old. Reichelt, a Big Sandy native, joined the Gertrude. Mr. Partoll also earned a master’s de­ Tribune in the 1950s after working for gree in history from the University of newspapers in Iowa, Utah, California and Ralph E. Evans Montana. Idaho. He left the Tribune in 1966 after He had worked as a correspondent for 10 years to become a reporter for the Ralph E. Evans ’48, news editor of the the Great Falls Tribune and as an at­ Stockton (Calif.) Record. Great Falls Leader from 1960 to 1966, tache for the Legislature for two ses­ He retired in 1984 because of poor died Oct. 20, 1985, in a Kenosha, Wis., sions. health. hospital. He was 60 years old. Mr. Partoll was a member of the Mon­ Mr. Reichelt was honored by the Asso­ Mr. Evans retired last year as manag­ tana Historical Society Board for 21 ciated Press in 1959 for his coverage of ing editor of the Kenosha News. He years and an authority on the Salish In­ the State Prison riot in Deer Lodge. The joined that newspaper in 1966 and was dian tribe. AP also nominated him for a Pulitzer named managing editor in 1976. He served for 15 years as a member Prize in 1960 for his coverage of the riot. He was a former executive secretary of of the Missoula City-County Library In August 1959, Mr. Reichelt was the Montana Farm Bureau Federation. Board, 12 as chairman. When he retired among the first reporters on the scene at Later he worked for the weekly Bozeman from the board in 1975, the library rec­ the Madison Valley earthquake. Courier, Radio KBMN in Bozeman, and ognized him as "a man who perhaps has He served in the Army in Europe in he served as deputy clerk of Gallatin unselfishly devoted more time to the li­ World War II. County District Court from 1953 to 1956. brary and the preservation of Montana Mr. Reichelt was a past president of From 1956 to 1960 he worked for the history than any other individual.” the Newspaper Guild in Great Falls and Bozeman Daily Chronicle, becoming Mr. Partoll was an Army veteran of Stockton. news editor. World War II. Survivors include his widow, a daugh­ Survivors include his wife, Corrie- a He is survived by a niece and a ter, four stepdaughters and his mother. son, and two daughters. nephew.

12 Delaney Fund Promotes Writing A fund designed to improve writing will be supplemented substantially ficient size will permit the journalism competency in journalism has been es­ through additional private contributions school to sponsor writing symposiums tablished by the University of Montana and a journalism school fund-raising ef­ and workshops for both professional Foundation in memory of Theodore Dela­ fort. journalists and students, and to bring na­ ney, Missoula businessman and 1947 Mary Jean Maclay Delaney, a 1948 UM tionally prominent writing and language graduate of the School of Journalism. graduate, said her husband, Ted, “loved experts to campus as lecturers Delaney, president of Delaney’s Office good writing and maintained a lifetime The fund has already been used to es­ Products, died of leukemia July 29, 1985. interest in and admiration for people who tablish the Delaney Teaching Fellowships, He was a former president of the UM could communicate effectively.” He was which provide support for graduate Alumni Association. concerned, she said, about the deteriora­ teaching assistants whose addition to the The Delaney family established the tion of language skills in recent decades. J-School will mean more individual writ­ fund with a $10,000 gift, which they hope Dean Charles Hood said a fund of suf­ ing instruction. Ted Delaney Lloyd Theodore ‘Ted’ Delaney ’47, president of Dela­ ney’s Office Prod­ ucts in Missoula from 1965 until May 1985, died July 29, 1985, of leukemia. He was 63. His fam­ ily subsequently gave UM a $10,0 0 0 endowment in his honor “ to heighten public appreciation of language skills and to improve writing competency.” The endowment is being supplemented through other contributions and fund­ raising efforts. Mr. Delaney compiled a long record of public service. He served as president of the Missoula Chamber of Commerce and later as a director. He also had served as president of the Missoula Advertising Club, the UM Alumni Association, Mis­ soula’s Reserve Officers Association and the Montana Corporation, a holding com­ Deirdre McNamer Tom Laceky pany. In 1952, he was chairman of UM’s Homecoming celebration. McNamer new Delaney Fellow Mr. Delaney was a member of the Mis­ Deirdre McNamer, former Missoulian where she was a reporter, feature writer soula Lions Club and Rotary International and Associated Press reporter, has been and film reviewer. During the summer of and was active in fund raising for the named the 1986-87 Delaney Teaching 1986, she worked as a feature writer for Red Cross, Community Chest and Ameri­ Fellow at the University of Montana the Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard. As an can Cancer Society. School of Journalism. AP reporter she won a national award A long-time friend, Missoula attorney She succeeds Tom Laceky, an Associ­ for broadcast writing. Jeremy Thane, said: “ He was remarka­ ated Press newsman from Helena who Before transferring to the Helena ble, because in spite of his difficulties filled the assignment during the 1985-86 bureau, Laceky worked for the AP in and the certain knowledge of the out­ academic year. Laceky will continue as a Oklahoma City and for newpapers in come of his illness, he maintained an at­ teaching assistant while he finishes his Oklahoma and Texas. He is chairman of titude that was next to unbelievable.” master’s degree in journalism. the Freedom of Information Committee of Mr. Delaney is survived by his wife, McNamer ’73 was an AP reporter in the Montana Society for Professional Mary Jean; a daughter, Anne Ranf; and Portland before coming to Missoula, Journalists. a son, Ted.

Pat Goodover June Lubrecht Robert Rowe Ted Delaney Fund Carrie Grether L.L. Mack John Ruffatto David Grether Holmes Maclay Tim Ryan Olive Haugen Clarke McCarthy Garvin Shallenberger Paul Cutler Earl Sherron Jr. Gretchen Abbott Robert Hawkins John McCulley William Anderson Hubert Dahl Hippy Moms Timothy Meagher Ellsworth Skeie Eugene Davis Atlantic Richfield Company H.L. Holman James Meyers John Stewart Douglas Delaney Harold Hovet Missoulian Caryl Sullivan K.J. Bailey M.J. Delaney Robert Sullivan Dallas Beaman Nuel Hulett James Moose John Delano Robert Bennetts C. Warren Jacobsen Richard Morrison David Tawney Jr. Nathaniel Blumberg James Dew Ward Junkermier Mountain Bell Company Jeremy Thane Lee Bradeen David Diggs KGVO Radio Richard O'Loughlin Earle Thompson Albert Dismore Frank Brutto Betty Kahl Johanna Olsen Willis Thornton Jack Doty Charles Keim Robert Pantzer Donald Tomlinson John Burgess Charles Eiseman Jr. John Burke Richard Kern Arlene Parks John Toole First National Montana Bank, Missoula Walter King Luella Pope Charles Walter Irma Caulklns Percy Frazier Jr. Champion International Lendal Kotschevar Katherine Reardon Western Stationers Research Group Selden Frisbee Claire Kowalski Ralph Rees Frank Whetstone Patricia Chapman James Garlington William Coldlron Daniel Lambros William Reynolds Eddie Williams Patricia Gastineau Lane Wilson Bryce Colwell George Lambros Louis Rivera Joan Gillespie Robert Lichteheld Robert Robinson Mary Wilson Commission on Practice of the Montana Carma Gilligan Supreme Court Earl Lindberg Jack Roemer Courtney Winniford Roy Golder Henry Worden Ernest Corrick Sherman Lohn John Roemer

13 14 OB McGIFFERT He's the filet mignon of professors, partly because he's a ham

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o illustrate the issue of national security versus the Before muscle complications in his legs forced him to stop public’s right to know, he belts out the patriotic war­ running competitively three years ago, McGiffert also had time ditty “ Keep Mum, Chum.” made a name for himself as a distance runner. To demonstrate the difference between “ lie” and At the age of 55, McGiffert ran three marathons, a 15-kilo­ "lay,” he reclines on a table in front of an astonished class. meter cross country race and a couple of half-marathons. In To get Senior Seminar students into the mood to discuss the summer of 1978, he captured the national AAU 15-kilo­ Charles Lindbergh’s flight, he dons flying helmet, goggles and meter cross-country championship for runners 55 and older. scarf to sing “ Lindbergh: The Eagle of the U.S.A.,” with elab­ “ I’m sure everybody knows I was the national AAU geri­ orate choreography. atrics champion that year,” he says, laughing. To punctuate a point about the news media’s obsession McGiffert also was his age group’s winner in a 1978 seven- with President Ford’s clumsiness, he crashes headlong to the mile race in Missoula. He now runs about two miles a day. floor in a pratfall that Chaplin would have admired. McGiffert felt the tug of journalism early in life, when he To celebrate the Christmas season, he stands solemnly be­ was growing up in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. fore his editing class and barks — yes, barks — “Jingle "Like most journalists I liked to write when I was a kid,” he Bells” in the manner of a “singing” dog he once owned. said. “ I liked to do that more than anything else.” Such performances suggest why Robert C. McGiffert is one McGiffert worked on his high school paper after receiving of the most popular professors at the University of Montana. encouragement from a history professor. What his vaudevillian antics may not suggest is that McGif­ After high school he enrolled at Princeton University, where fert also is one of the most demanding teachers and tough­ he majored in public and international affairs and worked as est graders on a journalism faculty that prides itself on those a stringer for the New York Times, the Philadelphia Record qualities. and United Press. He is, quite simply, “an incredibly challenging teacher,” After serving as an Army officer in the Pacific Theater dur­ says Lexie Verdon 77, assistant metro editor at the Washing­ ton Post. ing World War II, he began a full time news career with the Easton Daily Express in Pennsylvania. He stayed there more Reporting and editing students learn quickly that the vaun­ than 16 years, first as a reporter, then as an editor. ted McGiffert red pen is swift, slashing and merciless. And He left the Express to teach at Ohio State University’s jour­ those who are not prepared for his midterm essay exams in nalism program, where he also picked up a master’s degree. journalism law learn that bluffing only works in poker. In 1966 he accepted Dean Nathaniel Blumberg’s invitation to Yet his toughness does not mean that he is uncompassion­ become a visiting lecturer at the UM J-School, and he has ate. Verdon says McGiffert’s concern for students is one of been there ever since. the reasons he’s such a good teacher. McGiffert said he has been “tempted, but not very “ He helped point me in the right direction more than once,” strongly,” to go back to the newspaper business full time, but she said. he enjoys being where he is. McGiffert’s performance in the classroom was officially rec­ “ I have liked my colleagues very much,” he said. "They’re ognized in 1982, when the University of Montana cited him newspaper people turned teachers. I feel very comfortable during Commencement ceremonies for distinguished teach­ ing. with them.” Someday McGiffert would like to rewrite the novel he wrote His reputation as an editor is equally impressive. During the while in Paris on sabbatical several years ago. Though he summers of 1985 and 1986, he served as the writing coach approached many publishers he wasn’t able to sell the book. of the Evening Sun in Baltimore. He has also worked 11 “ I think it was kind of dull,” he said. summers for the Washington Post, mostly on the foreign The novel is about “journalists, politicians and sex-crazed desk, and served a couple of editing stints with the Interna­ professors,” and the characters are based on people he has tional Herald Tribune in Paris. known. John Lemmon, managing editor of the Evening Sun, says “The hero of it was a guy I almost fired,” he said. McGiffert has been “a real hit” as writing coach. Reporters and editors have taken to calling him “coach,” a gesture of McGiffert’s textbook, “The Art of Editing the News,” was both affection and respect. Last summer they asked that Mc­ published by Chilton, but he says he won’t assign it to his Giffert’s weekly critiques, modeled after the New York Times’ editing students because it would simply repeat what he “Winners & Sinners” be incorporated into a newsroom teaches in class. manual. At 63 he is at the age where he can enjoy watching his Lemmon, who taught at Ohio State University with McGiffert grown children establish careers of their own. Last spring he in the early 1960s, appreciates Bob’s “waspish sense of traveled to Seattle to watch his daughter Sarah get her law humor” and considers him “one of the best editors I’ve ever degree from the University of Puget Sound. His son Brian is known.” a design engineer for a California electronics firm. Howard Simons, who was McGiffert’s managing editor at He has no serious thoughts about retirement. the Washington Post, agrees. "He’s a terrific editor,” says “ I don’t feel 63 years old," he said, adding that being Simons, who now directs the Nieman Fellowship program at around college students and being interested in his work Harvard. “ In addition to that he is a lovely person.” keep him stimulated. “I want to work as long as I can.”

15 Twidwell directs Kaimin 40 interns placed Some 40 UM journalism students have worked as interns for newspapers, maga­ zines and radio and television stations since the last Communique was pub­ lished. Students worked for the Missoulian, the Montana Standard in Butte, the Fairfield Times, the Lewistown News- Argus, the Big Timber Pioneer, the Miles City Star, the Helena Independent Re­ cord, the High Country News in Paonia, Colo., the Fishing and Hunting News in Seattle, the Spokesman-Review in Spo­ kane and the Vineland (N.J.) Times Jour­ nal. Magazine interns worked for Pacific Northwest magazine in Seattle, Western Wildlands magazine in Missoula, The Montanan (the UM alumni magazine) and Communique. Radio interns worked for KYSS, KGVO Kevin Twidwell, a senior from Butte, is and KUFM in Missoula and KEIN in editor of the Montana Kaimin for the Great Falls. Television interns were 1986-87 academic year. Kevin, who inter­ placed at KECI and KPAX in Missoula, ned during the summer of 1985 with the KFBB in Great Falls, KCFW in Kalispell, Montana Standard in Butte, succeeds KTVG in Helena and 2100 Productions in Tim Huneck, a senior from Columbus, Madison, Wis. Ohio, who was graduated in June. One student was placed in Boston Uni­ versity’s London Journalism Internship Devitt is Morton pick Program. Steve Devitt, a graduate student from Butte, was one of 13 UM graduate stu­ Tollefson OWAA winner Kind gets Allied award dents to be awarded a $1,000 Bertha Greg Tollefson, a graduate student Morton scholarship for the 1986-87 aca­ from Missoula, was one of eight students Stephanie Kind, a junior from Faiijj banks, Alaska, has won a $1,500 schoj demic year. The scholarships recognize nationally to win a $1,400 scholarship arship from Allied Daily Newspapers. A ! outstanding scholarly performance. Steve from the Outdoor Writers Association of was in Mexico during the summer of America for the 1986-87 academic year. double major in journalism and psycho 1986, working on a master’s thesis about ogy, Stephanie will be the editor of th^ dissident newspaper editors of the Mexi­ University of Montana’s student year can revolution. Students win book, which is to be revived after mor' than a decade. Bates 'Most Inspirational’ news awards even University of Montana jour­ John Bates, a senior from Corvallis, nalism students — five print ma­ Press women pick Lindgrei Ore., was voted Most Inspirational Player jors and two broadcast majors — of the 1985-86 season by his teammates Adina Lindgren, a freshman from Si; won awards this spring in the Re­ perior, is the 1986 recipient of the Mor on the University of Montana basketball gion 10 competition of the Society of team. John, a 6-7 forward, was an im­ S tana Press Women’s scholarship. Adin Professional Journalists. portant figure in the Grizzlies’ fourth was a staff reporter for the Montana Kai UM students won more awards in the min last year, an unusual accomplish straight 20-win season. His deftly thrown newspaper category than did students ment for a first-year student. lob passes to his All-American team­ from all but one of the eight other mate, Larry Krystkowiak, repeatedly pro­ schools entered. duced spectacular slam dunks. John will The competition drew entries from the Lowary manages Kaimin be an editor for the Kaimin this fall. universities of Alaska, Oregon, Washing­ ton, Idaho and Montana, Western Wash­ Todd Lowary, a junior from Columbu: ington University, Washington State Uni­ was named Kaimin business manage versity, Oregon State University and succeeding Brian Mellstead, a senic Whatcom Community College. from Detroit who took a circulation jo: Jim Hall and Carol Kruger, UM radio­ with the Missoulian. television students, shared a first-place for a spot news story carried on KUFM. Montana students who won awards in Getter legislative intern the newspaper competition all worked on the Kaimin. They are: Lori Getter, a junior in radio-television] Nick Ehli, second place, spot news. was the first KUFM legislative intern; James Conwell, third place, spot news. helping KUFM News Director Sally Maul; Tim Huneck, second place, editorial cover the special session of the Montana writing. Legislature last spring. Thanks to a gran Sean Tureck, second place, feature from the Greater Montana Foundation, photography. other broadcast news students will Interi Faith Conroy, third place (tie), in-depth in Helena during the next regular sessior reporting. this winter. Photo by Howard Skaggs

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The four UM journalism school seniors who beamed for the birdie just before the June 1985 commencement ceremonies are now working professionals. From left, Susan Forman of Seattle is a public relations officer for St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula; Julie Sullivan of Butte is a reporter for the Wasilla, Alaska, Frontiersman; Car­ los Pedraza of Arvada, Colo, is a reporter in the Seat­ tle bureau of the Associated Press, and Shannon Hinds of Fairfax, Va., is assistant marketing director at the Southgate Mall in Missoula. Earlier this year Shannon married a journalism classmate, Gary Jahrig of Calgary, Alta., who is now a reporter for the Missoulian.

Kustudia wins Hearst award Conroy honored Remodeling Michael Kustudia, a senior from Thou­ sand Oaks, Calif., placed fourth national­ improves Kaimin, ly in the editorial-writing competition sponsored by the William Randolph photo facilities Hearst Foundation. The $500 award was for a Montana Kaimin editorial about the Remodeling projects on all three floors announcement that UM would name its of the Journalism Building are improving new football stadium after any donor photojournalism and graphics facilities and who would contribute $1 million. the offices of the Montana Kaimin. Before his graduation in June, Mike in­ The $98,000 third-floor renovation, which terned at the High Country News in Pao- was authorized by the 1985 Montana Leg­ nia, Colo. He now is a reporter and pho­ islature, will transform the old KUFM stu­ tographer with the Hungry Horse News in dios into a photography studio, a publica­ Columbia Falls. tions design lab and darkroom. The televi­ sion studio has become a lecture hall and the old radio-television engineering area Israel awarded travel grant will become a graduate student study Lynn Israel, a graduate student from area. Bozeman, attended the 38th Japan- A $28,000 Student Building Fee grant America Student Conference during the will permit the remodeling of the first-floor summer of 1986 on a grant provided by photography lab. Centrally located sinks the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foun­ and additional enlarger stations will make dation. Lynn, a former photojournalist for the printing room more efficient and ac­ the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, is combin­ Faith Conroy, a senior from West cessible to more photojournalism students. ing journalism and Asian studies at UM. Orange, N.J., was one of 10 journalism Another grant — this one for $25,000 — The student conference took him to Chicago, students in the nation to be honored in permitted the first renovation of Montana Detroit, Boston and New York. the Roy W. Howard national writing com­ Kaimin offices since the Journalism Build­ petition in public affairs reporting spon­ ing was built in 1936. The student daily sored by the the Scripps Howard Foun­ now has new lights and carpeting, lower Radio reporters train dation and the Indiana University School ceilings, separate suites for the editorial of Journalism. She won a $1,000 scholar­ and business staffs, and a refurbished UM broadcasting students are earning conference room. Another grant will per­ academic credit and picking up practical ship and an all-expenses-paid trip to a public affairs reporting seminar at Indi­ mit additional renovations this summer. experience working for KUFM news as The 20-member editorial staff began reporters and co-anchors. Joe Durso Jr., ana University. Faith is an editor for the Montana Kai­ using a newly installed electronic editing chairman of the Department of Radio- and typesetting system earlier this spring. Television and a former CBS radio news­ min and has contributed articles to Newsweek on Campus magazine. Her in- Leased from the Missoulian, the eight-ter­ man, teaches the new class. The stu­ minal system permits the Kaimin staff and dents also work under the supervision of depth writing entry placed 17th nationally in the Hearst reporting competition. other journalism students to produce cam­ Sally Mauk, the station’s news director, era-ready layouts.

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Virginia Vickers Braun Greg Gadberry M.A. ’84 reviewed the book “What News ’82 left the Anchorage Daily News to be­ 80s come a reporter for the Colorado from the Pleiades?” by Sallie Sinclair Maclay ’29, in Montana—The Magazine of Springs Gazette Telegraph. While at the James Dunn the University of Montana. Virginia con­ Daily News, Greg won a C.B. Blethen cludes that readers will enjoy the book and Debby Lowman Memorial Award for ’85 and Deborah Corn UM ’85 were mar­ of poems and that the late Prof. H.G. excellence in journalism. The award is ried June 16, 1985, in Missoula. Merriam, to whom the book is dedicated, sponsored by the Seattle Times and the Allied Daily Newspaper Foundation. would have been proud of it. Susan Forman ’85 joined the public relations and devel­ Alexis Miller James G. Morehouse opment staff at St. Patrick Hospital in ex-’84 worked as an intern for the quar­ R-TV ’82 is an Army captain. James, wife Missoula. She has worked as an intern Alice and their three daughters live in for both KING-TV in Seattle and the Mis- terly Alaska Public Affairs Journal issued by the University of Alaska, Juneau. Olympia, Wash. soulian. Jeannie Munch Brett French Gary Wiens ’82 taught at Loyola Sacred Heart High ex-’85 is a reporter-photographer for the ’84 is managing editor of the Hamilton in Missoula and advised the student Hamilton Ravalli Republic. Ravalli Republic. He was a general as­ newspaper and yearbook. signment and government reporter for Ann Joyce Geranios the newspaper. Doug O’Harra ’85 is a reporter for City News Service in Renata Birkenbuel ’82 is studying for a master’s degree in Chicago. Her husband, Nick, works for creative writing at UM. the AP in Chicago. ’83 returned to UM to study for her teaching credentials. She works part time Natalie Phillips as a sportswriter at the Missoulian. She Laura Harrawood has worked for the Anaconda Leader ’82 is the police reporter for the Colora­ '85 traveled in Europe with the Missoula and the Great Falls Tribune. do Springs Gazette Telegraph. Mendelssohn Club and wrote an article about the tour for the Missoulian. Michael Kellogg Dan DeWeese Julie Heath ’83 works for the Fairchild Camera & In­ ’82 works for Tack ’n’ Togs Magazine in strument Corp. in Milpitas, Calif. He lives Minneapolis. It is a trade publication ’85 is editor of the Whitehall Ledger. in Campbell, Calif. specializing in Western apparel.

Marlee Miller Gary Moseman Tim Rogers '85 is publications director and office ’83 is associate editor of the Great Falls ’82 is an advertising salesman for KCEZ manager for the Colorado Public Interest Tribune. Radio in Butte. He had worked as a Research Group, which has 30,000 mem­ salesman for KANA in Anaconda. bers. She lives in Denver. Jim Peterson Jim Bruggers Melinda Sinistro ’83 and his family were transferred to ’81 is working on a master’s degree in Flagstaff, Ariz., where he continues to ’85 is director of the AUTOLINE program environmental studies at UM. He is also work as a utility-inspection specialist with of the Youngstown, Ohio, Better Business a correspondent for the Great Falls Trib­ the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Bureau. She writes, “ My journalistic une. Insurance Co. He reports that much of background has given me excellent skills for my position.” his work involves writing and editing re­ ports. Rich Stripp Julie Sullivan ex-’82 left the Hardin Herald to become editor of the Flathead Courier at Poison. 85 is a reporter for the Frontiersman in Laurie Williams Wasilla, Alaska. ’83 is president of the Tri-Cities, Wash., chapter of the Society of Professional Clark Fair Kyle Albert Journalists. Laurie is a reporter for the ’82 left the Peninsula Clarion at Kenai, Tri-City Herald. M.A. ’84 is an account executive and wri- Alaska, to study for a teaching certificate ter/producer with ADTEK Design Inc., an at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. advertising agency in Colorado Springs, He is working part time for the Anchor­ Colo. He describes the agency as "small Peggy Worden age Times and strings for the Clarion. but mighty." One of Clark’s columns at the Clarion R-TV ’83 left KOMO-TV in Seattle to be­ placed first in the Northwest Excellence come national sales manager for KIEM- in Journalism Competition for news­ Bill Miller TV, an NBC affiliate, in Eureka, Calif. papers with circulations of fewer than ’84 is a staff writer for the Sherr 16,000. (Texas) Democrat. Recent articles by appeared in Montana Magazine Ed Bender ’82 joined the Great Falls Tribune in late Bob Phillips of°MontanThe Magazine of the Unlvei 1984 as a copy editor. ’81 is editor of the Ronan Pioneer.

18 John Pearson Kurt Wilson Jill Thompson M.A. ’82 left the Colorado Springs Gazet­ ex-’81 was named Missoulian photo edi­ ex-’80 left the Great Falls Tribune to be­ te Telegraph. He plans to find a job in tor. Kurt was a photographer at the come editorial-page editor of the Walla music management. Longview (Wash.) Daily News for three Walla (Wash.) Union-Bulletin, where she years, then joined the Missoulian as a joined Joan Mengel 75 and Joan David Townsend photographer in March 1985. French 79. In Walla Walla she placed second in editorial writing in a competi­ ex-’81 left the Spearfish (S.D.) Star to tion sponsored by the Inland Empire So­ become public relations director of the Dan “Boomer” Slothower ciety of Professional Journalists. High Plains Heritage Society in Spearfish. ’81 continues as managing editor of He writes that the society is developing a Commercial West — The Magazine of Steve Van Dyke museum-archive complex to preserve the Banking and Finance, with offices in ’80 is a writer in the corporate communi­ economic history of the region compris­ Eden Prairie, Minn. Boomer visited the J- ing the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming and cations department of MDU Resources School in June after covering a confer­ Group, Inc., in Bismarck, N.D. Steven Nebraska. ence in Kalispell. and his wife visited the J-School last summer. They live in Mandan. Toni Volk Pat Sullivan ’81 lives in Acapulco, Mexico, where she has a Hemingway Scholarship to write a '81, editor of the Adams County Journal Jim O’Day in Ritzville, Wash., won the first-, second- book. and third-place awards in photography ’80, managing editor of the Cut Bank and feature writing in a contest spon­ Western Breeze, and wife Kathryn Clark Steve Stuebner sored by the Washington Newspaper O’Day are the parents of Christopher '81 is a reporter for the Colorado Publishers Association. Pat has received James, born in December 1984. Jim is a Springs Sun. He is married to Amy Stahl 12 awards from the association in three former sports editor at the Kalispell Inter ’82. years. Lake.

Larry Elkin Vicki Johnson Hyatt 78, AP newsman in the New York 76 is editor of the Stillwater Sun at 70s Bureau, was nominated for a sto|7-of- Columbus. Vicki and husband Rich are the-month award by the Associated the parents of Shay Frederick, born in Frank Boyett Press Managing Editors for his coverage February 1985. of the settlement of the Westmoreland- ex-’79 left the Cody Enterprise to be­ come editor of the Ronan Pioneer, then CBS trial and for his exclusive with ex­ Susan Parkes left the Pioneer to become lead reporter cerpts from the diary of one of the and Sunday managing editor of the daily jurors. 76 is an advertising supervisor with the Gleaner In Henderson, Ky. McDonald’s Corp. in the New Orleans William David Little area. She writes that she worked in Chi­ Vernyce Dannells 78 was appointed director of public rela­ cago for eight years, five with Leo Bur­ tions for the University of Montana Foun­ nett Advertising. Susan lives in Kenner, R-TV 79 is art and culture editor in the dation. La. news bureau at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Barry Noreen Bob Anez Paul Lloyd-Davies ex-’78 is a general-assignment reporter 75, newsman with the AP in Helena, is for the Colorado Springs Gazette Tel­ secretary of the Montana Chapter of the R-TV 79 was named Cheyenne bureau egraph. Society of Professional Journalists. manager and Wyoming state editor for UPI. Paul joined UPI in 1981 in Helena and moved to Cheyenne in 1982. Robert C. Gibson 75 is regional editor of the Billings Ga­ Jeffrey S. McDowell zette. Bob joined the Gazette staff in 1979 as a reporter in the Cody, Wyo., 79 joined Ribi ImmunoChem Research bureau and was promoted to assistant Inc. in Hamilton as corporate information regional editor in February 1985. manager. Addison Double Steve Helmbrecht 76 is an energy counselor with the 75 continues as owner of Helmbrecht Sunar Corp. in Seattle. Photography in Havre and serves on the board of directors of the Montana Pro­ fessional Photographers Association. Nicole Flemming Gordon Dillow 78 received a $500 grant from the UM 77 won an award in the 1986 National staff-development program to attend a Society of Newspaper Columnists com­ Rich Landers three-day Step-by-Step Design workshop. petition. A thrice-weekly columnist for the 75, outdoors editor for the Spokesman- She is the graphics/publications coor­ Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Gordon Review, was named Far West regional dinator in the Bureau of Business and won first prize in the humor category for editor for Field & Stream magazine. It is Economic Research at the University of newspapers of more than 65,000 circula­ a free-lance position, and he will remain Montana. tion. at the Spokesman-Review.

19 Krim’s team wins Pulitzer Jonathan Krim, a former Montana Kai- money from the Philippines into American real estate. min editor and 1977 honors graduate of When the news of the Pulitzer award reached the Mercury the School of Journalism, directed the News newsroom, Krim and his reporters were doused with San Jose Mercury News investigative champagne, then thrown by their colleagues into a waist- team that won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for deep reflecting pool at the building’s entrance. international reporting. Besides the Pulitzer, the series won the George Polk Award Krim’s three-reporter team — Lewis for international reporting and an award from the Investigative Simons, Pete Carey and Katherine Elli­ Reporters and Editors association. son — produced “ Hidden Billions: The Krim and his reporters traveled to New York for the Pulitzer Draining of the Philippines,” a series of and Polk banquets and to Portland for the IRE awards pre­ articles detailing the transferral of wealth sentation. Asked whether he was disappointed that, as the out of the Philippines by former President Ferdinand E. supervising editor, his name was not on any of the awards Marcos and his associates. certificates, Krim shrugged. “ Editors have to live vicariously sometimes,” he said. The articles, published June 23-25, 1985, were judged by Krim is the fifth UM journalism graduate to play a major the Pulitzer board to have “ had a direct impact on the subse­ role in winning a Pulitzer. Robert F. Alkire ’53, Ken Kizer ’41 quent political developments in the Philippines and the United and Bob Blair ’46 helped win the deadline news prize for the States.” Salt Lake City Tribune for its coverage of the collision of two The idea for the series grew out of conversations between airliners over the Grand Canyon in 1956. Alkire was an AP Krim, then assistant national/foreign editor, and Simons, the reporter, while Kizer and Blair were Tribune editors. A.B. Mercury News’ Tokyo correspondent who had been covering Guthrie Jr. ’23 won the 1950 prize for fiction for his novel the Philippines. In a subsequent memo to his supervisors in “The Way West.” November 1984, Krim proposed that the Mercury News deter­ mine the accuracy of the persistent rumors that vast sums of The 31-year-old Krim has since been promoted to city edi­ money were hidden in the United States and elsewhere by tor of the Mercury News. Before coming to the Mercury News three years ago, he worked for the Washington, D.C., Times, Philippine leaders. the Arizona Republic in Phoenix and for the Missoulian. By examining tax rolls, court documents and real estate Krim grew up in New York City and attended two colleges records, the reporters were able to document the flow of in the East before transferring to the University of Montana.

Ralph Wanamaker Richard Bangs M.A. ’78 is an assistant professor of 73 resigned as day news editor of the journalism at Mankato State University in Rocky Mountain News in Denver to take Minnesota. Previously he had worked for a position on the news desk of the Flor­ the Spokane Chronicle and served as an ida Times-Union in Jacksonville. instructor in journalism at Spokane Falls Community College. Woodeene Koenig Wally Parker Bricker 76 reports that he is in his third year as 73 is a free-lance writer in Eugene, Ore., a medical writer for the St. Paul (Minn.) and continues to work as a stringer for a Pioneer Press and Dispatch. Next fall he weekly newspaper. She writes: “ Recently will begin teaching a course in interpre­ had an article in McCall’s. I’m collaborat­ tive science reporting at the University of ing with a physician on a series of arti­ Minnesota. Wally and wife Peggy have cles on child care.” Woodeene’s hus­ two children. band, John, earned an M.A. in forestry at UM in 1972. Larry Winslow 76 is managing editor of Creation maga­ Donald E. Larson zine, published in Oakland, Calif. 73 lost his bid for the Democratic nomi­ nation for the District 65 seat in the Carmen Winslow Kevin Giles Montana House. He operates a bar and restaurant at Seeley Lake. 75 was promoted to lifestyles editor at 74, features/photo editor at the Bis­ the Butte Montana Standard. She had marck Tribune since 1983, was promoted Michael Pane been assistant copy editor and a feature to managing editor in June 1985. writer. 72, former managing editor of the Amer­ ican Hunter magazine, is a free-lance Michael Roney Steve Fullerton writer in Kalispell and a columnist for the Whitefish Pilot. 75 is a computer book editor at Bantam 74 left as managing editor of the Hamil­ Books in New York City. He’s living in ton Ravalli Republic to become opera­ John Paxson Fair Lawn, N.J., and says he frequently tions manager of KLYQ Radio in Hamil­ crosses paths with Steve Forbis ex-’75. ton. 72 was promoted from assignment edi­ tor to night news manager for CBS News in New York. Lynne M. Fleming Don Bloom 5dt(/ 4 's Proc*uction manager 73 is chairman of the English depart­ Robin Brown Tawney KRTV in Great Falls. She worked for t€ ment and an associate professor at 72 is the author of “Young People’s evision stations in Seattle for four year Lynne has a son, Kyle Wayne. Davis and Elkins College in West Vir­ Guide to Yellowstone Park,” published in ginia. 1985 by Stoneydale Publishing Co., Stevensville. 20 T.J. Gilles Charles S. Johnson ex-71, agriculture editor of the Great 70, chief of the Great Falls Tribune Cap­ Falls Tribune, and wife Margarita an­ ital Bureau, placed first for business writ­ nounced the birth of their second child, ing in a contest sponsored by the Pacific Jimi Hendrix, Aug. 29, 1985. T.J. placed Northwest Society of Professional Jour­ first in feature writing in a contest spon­ nalists. sored by the Newspaper Farm Editors of America and was one of four finalists for Carmen Monaco “Farm Editor of the Year.” He also won the Tribune Publisher’s Award and 70 moved from San Francisco to Dallas, placed second in general column writing where he is vice president of advertising in the competition sponsored by the Pa­ and marketing for the south-central divi­ cific Northwest Society of Professional Ken Dunham sion of Mervyn’s Department Store. Journalists. R-TV 70 and wife Janelle K. Fallan 74 Marilyn Pelo Louise Fenner continue to live in Helena where Ken is president of Dunham Advertising and Ja­ 70 returned to the New York Times 70 left the U.S. Food and Drug Admin­ nelle is executive director of the Montana Magazine after two years as a free-lance istration to work as a journalist for the Petroleum Association. Ken was elected writer and editor. She is an editor in the United States Information Agency. She the 100th president of the Montana Club, special issues department. Marilyn and accompanied Secretary of State George the state’s oldest private social institu­ her husband, Dennis Gibbons, live in Shultz on his trip to Latin America. tion. Manhattan.

Julie Parker Huntington Bill Schwanke '69 and husband Gene reside in Helena. ’67 returned to KYLT Radio as the 60s “Voice of the Grizzlies,” an assignment Katherine Harstad he had from 1971 to 1983. He had been Nancy Marks Foote Urbanec program director of KDXT Radio. ‘69, earned the designation of certified travel counselor from the National Insti­ ’68 left as director of admissions and Raymond Dominick public relations for Dawson Community tute of Certified Travel Agents. An 11- College in Glendive to become Missoula- ’66 is manager of the Radio Shack Com­ year veteran of the travel industry, Nancy area coordinator for the Ponderosa puter Center in Helena. is a travel agent for Big Sky Travel in Dillon. She has been a manager of and Council of Camp Fire Inc. She is working consultant to new agencies in Butte, on a master’s degree in interpersonal Cheryl Hutchinson communication at UM. Bozeman, Helena and Dillon. She is mar­ ’66, local-government liaison in the lieu­ ried to Rick Foote, editor of the Montana tenant governor’s office, is coordinating Standard. They have a two-year-old son, Rosdahl awaits plans for Montana’s Centennial activities Ryland. in 1989. She works with a Centennial censorship ruling Commission authorized by the legisla­ ture. A feature story about Cheryl and Rick Foote A ruling is expected soon on a her assignment appeared in the Nov. 4, grievance filed by Nils Rosdahl ‘67 1985, Missoulian. ’68, was named editor of the Montana against North Idaho College in Standard in Butte. He joined the Stan­ Coeur d’Alene. He claims the dis­ dard in 1970 as a reporter and became pute arose over attempted censor­ Emily Melton managing editor in October of 1984. ship of the student newspaper by ’65 is executive secretary of the new the college president. Westin Hotel in Washington, D.C. Rosdahl filed the grievance last Gary Langley March when he was not rehired as a journalism instructor and adviser Don Kinney ’69, executive director of the Montana to the school newspaper, the Sen­ R-TV ’64, president of Rocky Mountain Mining Association, boxed three rounds tinel. He contends he was not of­ Reflections in Lakewood, Colo., visited with a lobbyist for the Montana Environ­ fered another contract because he the J-School last summer. His firm does mental Information Center to raise had refused to censor the Sentinel, production work for the Public Broad­ money to restore the ghost town of Gar­ which had criticized the college casting System. net. An estimated $2,500 was raised by president, Barry Schuler. the Helena event, which ended in a Schuler resigned, effective Jan. 1, draw. Gary also was elected president of 1987, after an 80 to 12 faculty vote Edward C. Nicholls the Montana Society of Association Exec­ of no confidence. ’64 left the AP after 17 years to become utives. A hearing on the grievance was president of the Nebraska Credit Union held in early July. An “ impartial League, Inc. (NCUL Services Corp.). He Lesley Maynard fact finder” at the hearing will for­ is treasurer of the Nebraska Corporate ward his ruling as a recommenda­ Central Federal Credit Union and a di­ ’69 was assistant producer of “ Motown tion to the college’s Board of Trus­ rector of the Credit Union National Asso­ Returns to the Apollo,” which won the tees. ciation. Edward and wife Maries Larson 1985 Emmy Award for the Outstanding Rosdahl said in a phone interview Nicholls '64 live in Omaha. Variety or Event Program. Producer Don that his grievance was endorsed by Mischer mentioned Lesley’s contributions the Pacific Northwest Journalism Judith Franklin to the program when he accepted the Educators Association. award. Lesley has worked in entertain­ He has worked for the Great Falls Spannagel ment television since she was graduated Tribune, Kent (Wash.) News-Journal ’63 is copy director and a creative con­ from UM. She will be associate director and the Coeur d’Alene Press. sultant for Joan Biags & Associates, a for the next show by Don Mischer Pro­ public relations ana advertising firm in ductions. Lesley lives in Van Nuys, Calif. Portland, Ore.

21 Scott Sorensen ’63 resigned as vice president of retailing services of General Growth Companies to open Scott Sorensen Resources, Inc., which specializes in retail consulting work for shopping centers around the world. He will continue to be based in Des Moines, Iowa. Scott and wife Joanie have two teenage sons, Scott Jr. and Shawn.

Janet Trask Cox ’63, owner of Exclamation Point Advertis­ ing & Public Relations in Billings, re­ ceived the American Advertising Federa­ tion’s Silver Medal Award for her creativ­ ity and contributions to her agency, ad­ vertising and her community.

Doug Kienitz ’62, AP broadcast executive in Dallas, helped with coverage of the crash of Penelope Wagner Peabody Delta Flight 191 on Aug. 2, 1985. Ac­ cording to the AP Log, he volunteered to ’61, M.A. '67 was named the first execu- ter’s degrees in journalism from the Uni- help at the Delta offices in Dallas. tive director of the new Seattle-King versity of Montana, and has worked as a County Economic Development Council, reporter and editor in Montana and The council is charged with attracting Washington before turning toward a ca- Frank Walsh new businesses to the area and with as- reer as an administrator. She has taught ’62, M.A. 72 continues as an associate sisting businesses already there. as a visiting lecturer in the communica- professor of journalism at the University Previously Penny was executive direc- tions program at the University of Wash- of Texas at Austin. He took a partial tor of Seattle Metro, the 2,300-employee ington. leave to set up public relations and re­ public transportation and water pollution Penny is married and has two step- search divisions for an Austin marketing control utility. daughters. She and her husband live on firm. A second textbook, “ Public Rela­ She earned both bachelor’s and mas- Mercer Island. tions Writer in the Computer Age,” was published in December. John F. Kavanagh Zena Beth McGlashan Patti Jo Shaw Wright ’61, a journalism faculty member at the ’61 and Patricia R. Christofferson were University of North Dakota, spoke Feb. ’62 is sales manager for the Sheraton married Feb. 2, 1985, in Missoula. John 22 at the West Coast Journalism History Missoula. She previously had been ad­ owns the Shelby Promoter, Cutbank Pio­ Conference in San Francisco. Her topic: vertising manager of the Hungry Horse neer Press and the Browning Glacier Re­ “ Women Witness the Russian Revolution: News in Columbia Falls. porter. Analyzing Ways of Seeing.”

Kim Forman Ray Moholt ’56 is director of employee communica­ ’55 has formed Moholt & Associates, a James R. Graff tions for Burlington Northern, with offices marketing communications and associa­ in Fort Worth, Texas. He is responsible tion management consulting firm, in ’57, president of Sage Advertising in Bill­ for a monthly, full-color magazine, a Portland, Ore. Ray had been a member ings, reports that his firm moved to a management newsletter and a video of the marketing staff of the Western suite in the First Interstate Center. news program for the 25-state Burlington Wood Products Association since 1970. Northern system. Son John was gradu­ Gary A. Sorensen ated from the University of Washington in communications, daughter Betsy from Tom Needham ’57, an Army colonel, was presented the Montana State University in nursing, and ’55 was married Nov. 10, 1984, to Clara Legion of Merit, the Army’s second high­ daughter Susan from the University of Barnes in San Diego, where they reside. est peacetime award. Gary was honored Montana in journalism. Tom is the communications marketing for his service as public affairs officer for executive for the San Diego/Las Vegas the First Army at Fort Meade, Md., from district of the Xerox Corporation. He September 1980 to July 1984. Gary and Jo Ann LaDuke Haley writes that he would enjoy hearing from wife Juliann live in Annandale, Va. UM graduates in the San Diego area. '56 is the county service coordinator for W.D. (Bill) Thompson the Child Abuse Prevention Program funded by the University of Florida Pedi­ William Evan Jones ’56 is manager of corporate communica­ atrics Department. Jo Ann and husband tions for Placer Development Ltd. in William live in Lake City with their two ’54 was one of eight Montana lawyers Vancouver, B.C. He writes: "On the children who are still at home. Meg is in accepted by the American College of bright side survived the 1982 recession the College of Journalism at the Univer­ Trial Lawyers, which limits its member­ which hit resource companies hard.” Bill sity of Florida, and Mary Nell is on the ship to 1 percent of practicing lawyers in and wife Maren live in West Vancouver. staff of U.S. Sen. Paula Hawkins. the state. Bill was the editor of the Kai- min in 1954.

22 Del M ulkey photo Mulkey photos on permanent display The skiing photographs of Del Mulkey Mulkey had to complete nearly three '54, a freelance sports photojournalist weeks of approach work and climbing to based near Paris, constitute the first per­ reach the ridge with Saudan. Here is manent exhibit of the newly established how the photographer described his pre­ School of Journalism Photojournalism carious photographic perch: Collection. "Imagine standing sideways with skis The collection will include invited con­ on a slope so steep that your upper tributions from alumni and friends who knee is about level with your chest, the have distinguished themselves in photo­ slope dropping away for three thousand journalism. feet straight below, knowing that one Mulkey’s contributions include a 1980 error in edging would send you skittering SKI magazine cover shot of French skier downward with no possibility of stopping. Patrick Vallencant on a steep slope at Don’t feel ashamed if your palms are Chamonix, France, and a dramatic photo sweating.” of Swiss skier Sylvain Saudan on the summit ridge of 23,400-foot Nun Kun Mulkey has covered several Winter Peak in the northern Himalayas of India, Olympics and collaborated with Olympic on June 26, 1977. Saudan’s subsequent gold-medalist Jean-Claude Killy on a descent was the first complete ski run book about skiing. Del grew up in from a 7,000-meter peak. Aberdeen, Wash. Patrick Vallencant

Lewis P. Keim Richard G. Wohlgenant Margery Hunter Brown ’50 was acting dean of the University of ’53 joined the Gates Corporation as di­ ’52 is a partner in the law firm of Holme, Montana School of Law in 1985-86 while rector of corporate public relations. He Roberts and Owen in Denver. Richard Dean John Mudd was on sabbatical. She had been a senior consultant to Burson- joined the 80-member firm after being teaches courses in Indian law and Marsteller, an international public rela­ graduated from the Harvard Law School. public-land law. tions agency. The Gates Corporation, with headquarters in Denver, is a private­ ly owned international firm with nine sub­ Armund (Art) Foley sidiary companies. ’51 is a partner in Armes de Chasse, an importer and distributor of German, Ital­ Patrick J. Graham ian and Spanish high-grade shotguns. Art and wife Louise Kirby Foley live in ’52, publisher of the Colville (Wash.) King of Prussia, Penn. Statesman-Examiner, was appointed to the State Gambling Commission by Gov. Booth Gardner. Pat writes that last Octo­ ber the Statesman-Examiner celebrated H. Burton “Buck” Warren its 100th anniversary with a special edi­ ’51 writes that after five years with the tion and an open house. Miles City Star and 29 years with the Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell Interna­ William Heintz tional, “ retirement is not far off.” Buck ex-’57 drew national publicity last year and wife Evelyn live in Northridge, Calif. Ward T. Sims when he said wine could have helped He is publications coordinator with the douse the 1906 San Francisco fire. Rocketdyne Documentation Group at Ca- ’50, who joined the Associated Press in 1950, retired in 1984. Ward is a former Heintz, who is writing a history of the noga Park. Buck says he is a USC chief of the Alaska AP Bureau. He and Napa Valley, said wine stored in vats as sports fan but still follows the games wife Virginia live in Sitka, Alaska. Ward large as 20,000 gallons could have been played by the Grizzlies. He also notes was hired by Morris Communications as sprayed on the fire. The city’s water that he helped put out the 1951 Commu­ the writing coach at the Juneau Empire. mains were ruptured by an earthquake. nique. O’Connor labeled “ university funds.” was Kaimin editor Student newspapers are learning tools and should not be controlled or censor­ Carroll O’Connor, television’s Archie ed, O'Connor said, but he added that Bunker, was an associate editor and col­ freedom should never be abused by irre­ umnist for the Kaimin during his under­ sponsible editors. graduate days at the University of Mon­ O’Connor majored successively in jour­ tana in 1948-49. nalism and English as an undergraduate, Last year the university conferred on then returned to campus to complete a him an honorary doctorate of humane master’s degree in speech in 1956. letters, citing his long and distinguished acting career. Interviewed by telephone from his Los George O’Connell Angeles home, O’Connor told journalism student Verina Palmer that he and editor ’47 is coauthor with George Gallup Jr. of Bill Smurr resigned their Kaimin posi­ the book “Who Do Americans Say That I tions in protest when the university cen­ Am?” subtitled “What Christians Can sored an issue containing an editorial Learn from Opinion Polls.” George is a cartoon depicting the Board of Regents free-lance writer and consultant based in as a group of rats, eating bags of meal White Plains, N.Y.

23 Ray Fenton Sea immediately behind the Italian cruise correspondent for the Portland Oregoni­ ship Achille Lauro when it was hijacked. an. ’43 presented a day-long workshop on Dorothy interviewed the Stella Solaris’ written and oral communications Feb. 22, captain, who kept his ship at sea and R.D. Peterson 1986, in Missoula. It was sponsored by bypassed Alexandria, Egypt, where the ’41, a retired Marine colonel, lives above the Missoula Advertising and Marketing terrorists had seized the Achille Lauro. Federation. Ray continues to reside in Finley Point near Flathead Lake. He Helena. writes that Col. George Ryffel and Ruth Betty Bloomsburg Hugos Ryffel, both UM graduates, visited Dorothy Rochon Butler McCleary him in August 1985. Powers ’42 writes that she is semi-retired after Donald A. Bartsch ’43 associate editor of the Spokane 20 years with the Daily World in Aber­ ’40 completed 32 years with the Great Spokesman-Review and Chronicle, wrote deen, Wash. She retains the titles of arts Falls Tribune, retiring as associate editor. two columns about her experiences editor and special features writer. Betty He spent much of last summer in Alas­ aboard the Greek cruise ship Stella also edits a small paper in Westport, ka, then returned to his home along the Solaris, which was in the Mediterranean Wash., where she lives, and serves as a Missouri River south of Great Falls.

hired by the Montana Commissioner of three correspondents shown in a photo Higher Education. His assignment: To in the May 1985 AP Cleartime. The work with alumni and foundation organi­ three were the first journalists to enter 30s zations to help provide information about Tokyo after World War II, and the picture future tax issues. shows them at that time jauntily posing John W. “Jocko” Shenk for the photographer. The March 1985 Celia Caffin Risen AP Cleartime carried Dick’s article pay­ '36 is self-employed as an oriental-rug ing tribute to the late Vern Haugland ’31, dealer and art-gallery operator in Florida. ’35 says she is semi-retired but still retired aviation and space editor for the He retired in 1977 from the AVCO Corp. teaches English in high school and at AP. after 21 years with the firm. Jocko and home to speakers of other languages. wife Fernande live in Dundine. Celia and husband Isadore live in Be- thesda, Md. Geraldine Wilson Hal Stearns McCarthy Dick O’Malley ’36, former Harlowton Times publisher, ’30 is retired and lives with husband donned yet another hat when he was ex-’32, retired AP newsman, was one of Thomas in Paradise Valley, Ariz.

Martha Dunlap-Moore Robert MacHatton ’28 visited Russia and the Dominican Re­ ’22 writes that he is retired and has nine 20s public. In late January 1986 she took a grandchildren and two great-grandchil­ Frank Brutto Sitmar cruise through the Panama Canal. dren. Bob says he has lunch every two or three weeks with Ronald S. Kain ’22 '29, retired AP newsman, was described A.B. Guthrie Jr. and talks occasionally by phone with in the March 1985 AP Cleartime as ’23 is the author of “ Playing Catch-Up," Elaine Bates Donlan ’21. “busy with community affairs in the little a western mystery novel, published in town of Hamilton in the beautiful Bitter 1985 by Houghton Mifflin Co. He con­ Root Valley of Western Montana.” Just tinues to live near Choteau with his wife, Vera Knowles Sager as busy is his wife, Sallie Maclay Brutto Carol. ’29. Agnes Boyd Troeger ’21 is retired and lives in Laguna Hills, Dorothy Elliott Hopkins Calif., with husband Norbert (UM ’22). ’23 writes that she is retired and living in She writes that they have one son, six ’29 retired as a teacher and editor in Milwaukee, Wis., with husband Werner. grandchildren and five great grandchil­ Ventura, Calif. She serves as a volunteer She has completed a history of St. dren. Their daughter died at age 38. teacher at the Ventura County Historical Paul’s Episcopal Church, which was or­ Museum. ganized as a parish in 1838.

Suzanne Lagoni 78 has taken a media Kenneth F. Rystrom, a visiting lecturer Briefs position with Sen. Max Baucus’ office in during fall quarter 1976, heads the De­ Washington, D.C. She spent the 1985-86 partment of Communications at Virginia T w o former University of Montana academic year at the University of Michi­ Polytechnic Institute and State University, journalism professors have been gan on a professional journalism fellow­ Blacksburg, Va. His book, "The Why, named deans of major journalism ship sponsored by the National Endow­ Who and How of the Editorial Page,” programs. ment for the Humanities. Frederick T.C. Yu, who taught at UM was published in 1983. He earned a T Ph.D. from the University of Southern from 1955 to 1962, was named acting Dean Rea, a J-faculty member from California. dean of the Columbia Graduate School 1963 to 1966, won $500 and second in June. He will fill the post being vacat­ place in the lifestyle page category of the ed by Osborn Elliott, who resigned. A 1985 Penney-University of Missouri news­ Ken Kizer ’41 retired August 1 as senior specialist in international communica­ paper awards competition. Rea is an edi­ editor at the Purdue University News tions, Yu has been a member of the tor at the Eugene, Ore., Register-Guard, Service. In recognition of his long service Columbia journalism faculty since 1962. which competed in the 25,000-to-100,- to Purdue, the university established the Joseph W. Shoquist, who taught at UM 000-circulation category. Kenneth B. Kizer Award in Scientific and 111 *2?1. and 1952, was named dean of Technical Writing for a student in the the College of Journalism at the Univer­ Ken Brusic, a member of the journal­ Department of Communication. The Kiz- sity of South Carolina last November. He ism faculty from 1979 to 1981, is special ers plan to move to the Puget Sound resigned as editor of the Milwaukee projects editor for the Quincy, Mass., Pa­ area. Journal to take the job. triot Ledger.

24 Photo by Jeff Gerrlsh Photo by Janice Downey of prominent news media figures: media news prominent of and columnist, The New York Times. NewYork The columnist, and NewYork. News,CBS number a included 1986 and 1985 in ism fGnetC. Rsln Va. Rosslyn, Co., Gannett of h Clmi Gaut Sho o Jour­ of School Graduate Columbia the fie o Le nepie, Davenport, Enterprises, Lee of officer aim n fre B Nw president. News CBS former and nalism Iowa. vnn Sn Baltimore. Evening Sun, — Sidney Schanberg, former reporter reporter former Schanberg, of Sidney — president Sauter, Gordon Van — Journal­ of School UM the to Visitors Lod . cemr cif executive chief Schermer, G. Lloyd — officer executive chief Curley, John — Jh Lmo, aaig dtr the editor, managing Lemmon, John — of emeritus professor Friendly, Fred — rdcrPu LowenwarterPaulProducer dtrJms Wall James Editor Author EdwardAbbey Author e rnh ag” n ohr books. other and Gang,” Wrench key Broadcast Press D.C. Washington, Services, Associated projects, rm tte nvriyo Missouri. of University the at pro­ gram photojournalism the heads now who o, D.C. ton, the of founder and correspondent Times Chicago. WBBM, photojournal­ Missouri of University the orsodn wo o srns o the for strings now who correspondent Angeles. Los ent, York. New Sports, and graphics director, Seattle Times, Times, Seattle director, graphics and ahntn DC, Times. D.C., Washington, Drooram. ism e ok ie i Paris. in Times York New York. New News, Evening CBS Public National Considered,” Things “All mit Chicago. umnist, Washing­ Union, Atlantic for movement ai, ahntn D.C. Washington, Radio, News, New York. NewNews, uy aaie Chicago. magazine, tury Minutes.” “Sixty — Bill Kuykendall, former photography photography former Kuykendall, Bill — Ewr Aby ato o “h Mon­ “The of author Abbey, Edward — special of director Bennitt, John — — Aline Mosby, former UPI foreign foreign UPI former Mosby, Aline — correspond­ News NBC Oliver, Don — editor, national CBS Fitzpatrick, Dave president, — vice Wight, Kay — producer, executive Silverman, Art — ABC correspondent, Caras, Roger — An eaio, oit eotr the reporter, society Geracimos, Ann — col­ political and author Wills, Garry — York New former Streit, Clarence — manager, general Peterson, Gregg — of head former McDougall, Angus — Jms al eio, hita Cen­ Christian editor, Wall, James — producer, former Lowenwarter, Paul — Visits from pros pros from Visits enliven ]~classes enliven 25

Photo by Wendy Norgaard UM's Sears success: caring I ince the program was inaugurated in 1970, more Sears help prepare public affairs reporting students to become ac­ Congressional Interns have come from the University of quainted with both government and the news media in the Montana School of Journalism than from any other nation’s capital. Fenner’s group, for example, attended weekly journalism program. seminars about covering the White House, Congress, the Su­ preme Court, the State Department and the Pentagon. Speak­ SEven before Tamara Mohawk was selected in June as UM’s 1987 ers included David Broder of the Washington Post, Lyle Den- intern, Montana led the field with 20, followed by Indiana University niston of the Baltimore Sun, columnist Jack Anderson, Eric with 17, the University of Kansas with 16, Ohio State University with Sevareid of CBS News and White House press spokesman 14, and Michigan State University and the University of Tennessee Larry Speakes. with 13 each. Students from 89 journalism programs have applied Some of the Montana interns stayed on in Washington, or for the internships over the years. returned there. Jim Grady of Shelby was an investigative re­ Why has the Montana J-school fared so well? Professor porter for Jack Anderson before devoting full time to his ca­ Warren J. Brier, who was dean when the program was inau­ reer as a novelist; Nedra Bayne Carpel of Spokane became a gurated, believes the answer is that the journalism school farm policy columnist in Washington; Jack Cloherty of Chica­ recognized the value of the program early and has made a go worked for Anderson, wrote a syndicated column and then special effort to encourage its best students to apply. became an investigative reporter for WRC-TV in Washington; The consistently laudatory evaluations of UM interns by the Suzanne Lagoni of Missoula went to work as a press officer congressmen and senators with whom they served supports for Sen. Max Baucus; Lexie Verdon of Libby became an edi­ Brier’s assertion. A promotional videotape prepared by the tor for the Washington Post; Shirley Hodgson of Eureka Sears internship program features a 1984 Montana intern, worked as a legislative aide. Bethany Redlin, and includes an enthusiastic testimonial from Many Montana Sears interns returned to Montana, however. her boss, Sen. Alan J. Dixon. Beth’s office supervisor com­ Peter Johnson and Richard Ecke, both of Helena, are re­ mented: “Beth was a superb addi­ porters for the Great Falls Tribune, while Charles Johnson, tion to our office staff. Surely she Helena, is chief of the Tribune’s Capital Bureau; Steve Shirley ranked In the top 5 percent of of Eureka heads the Lee Newspapers State Bureau in Helena; more than 100 interns we have em­ Beth Redlin of Sidney is a reporter-editor for the Sidney ployed since 1980.” Herald; Kathleen Crump of St. Ignatius is a free-lance writer UM’s 1986 Sears intern, David based in her home town; and, until she resigned last year, Fenner of Helena, won high praise Paula Walker of Glen Ellyn, III., was press secretary to Gov. from Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s office. Ted Schwinden. “David was an excellent intern — Other Montana Sears alums are more widely scattered. hard-working, reliable and intelli­ Ronnene Anderson of Missoula was a reporter for the Oxford, gent,” wrote the evaluator. “He han­ England, Times before settling as a free-lance writer in Ed­ dled major writing jobs for us most monton, Alta.; Bill Murphy of Lovettsville, Va., went to Maine satisfactorily and was a fine asset as a reporter for the Bangor Daily News; and Patricia Elich of to our organization. Send us an­ Roundup became a reporter for a daily in Florida. other just like him any time.” Two UM Sears interns became lawyers. Jeanne Young of The internship is much more than an opportunity to work Troy practices in Great Falls and Brad Newman of Helena is for a congressman or senator. The program Is designed to a law clerk for a U.S. district court judge in Butte.

Missoulian photo by Kurt Wilson Curley, Schermer Lee’s Schermer

Dean Stone speakers Gannett’s Curley

The chief executive officers of two major newspaper groups Richard Shirley Award — Roger Maier, Missoula, $150; — Gannett Co. and Lee Enterprises — were the speakers at Janice Downey, Butte, $300. the most recent Dean Stone Night journalism awards ban­ Blanche Coppo Lanstrum-Dean Stone Award — Judi; quets. Thompson, Butte, $100; Julie Sullivan, Butte, $300. John Curley of Gannett addressed the 1985 banquet, and Outstanding Senior Woman Award, $100 — Ginny Merriam, Lloyd G. Schermer of Lee Enterprises spoke at the 1986 Bigfork; Nola Gerth, Butte. gathering. Both executives also visited journalism classes. Last Chance Press Club Award, $100 — Ken Pekoe, Sid­ Curley, who heads the nation’s largest newspaper group ney; Kevin Twidwell, Butte. and was the first editor of the national newspaper USA New Northwest Award-Liberty County Times, $100 — Kenj Today, spoke about “ Freedom and Responsibility of the Pekoe. Mary Decker Memorial Award, $100 — Karen Buchanan,: Schermer, whose Iowa-based media group owns 18 daily Missoula; Kathie Horejsi, Missoula. newspapers, including four in Montana, spoke about “Ameri­ Great Falls Newspaper Guild Award, $200 — Adina Lind-j can Newspapers: Today and Tomorrow.” Schermer is a for­ gren, Superior; John Engen, Missoula. mer publisher of the Missoulian. Montana Stockgrowers’ Association Award — Janice Zabel, j Some $11,000 in awards and scholarships were presented Grass Range, $500; Jamie McCann, Wolf Point, $300. at the 1985 banquet, and more than $13,000 at the 1986 af­ fair. Robert L. Wolfe Photography Award, $100 — Nicole Messa,1! Doylestown, Pa.; Brett French, Bozeman. The Dean Stone Night awards and the recipients were: Norman Johnson Memorial Award, $300 — Erika Colness, |

26 enough to send the best

Tammy Mohawk, a senior in journalism for the internships. from Libby, is one of 20 students nation­ Tammy, who transferred to Montana wide to receive a three-month Sears from the University of Arkansas, has Congressional Internship in Washington, worked as a reporter and editor for the D.C. The internship will begin in Febru­ Montana Kaimin while maintaining a 3.7 ary 1987. grade-point average out of a possible The Sears program gives outstanding 4.0. She helps pay for her own education junior and senior journalism students the by working as a waitress. Mohawk 21 st UM Sears intern opportunity to work in the nation’s capi­ She is the recipient of Buttrey and tal on the staff of a U.S. senator or rep­ Scripps-Howard scholarships and was resentative. given a Dean Stone Award by the School Tammy is the 21st University of Mon­ of Journalism last spring for academic tana journalism student to be so hon­ performance and professional promise. ored. The UM J-School ranks first Earlier this year Montana’s 20th Sears in­ among all journalism schools In the na­ tern, David Fenner, completed his internship Tammy Mohawk tion in the number of students selected in Washington. Novelist Grady is Sears alum------One of the best-known UM Sears ficial photographer,” and took the photo I interns is James Grady, whose best-sell- James Grady that appears with this article. 1, ing 1974 spy novel, “Six Days of the Before devoting full time to fiction writ­ | Condor,” became a film starring Robert ing, Grady worked for years as an inves­ I Redford and Faye Dunaway. tigative reporter for columnist Jack An­ ‘ Grady 72, is the author of two novels derson. He previously worked as a re­ 1 published in 1985 — “ Hard Bargains” search analyst with the Montana Con­ I (MacMillan) and “ Razor Game,” a paper- stitutional Convention and as a technical ' back original (Bantam). writer for an HEW project in Helena. | Another Bantam paperback, “Just a He was awarded a Sears Congression­ ' Shot Away,” will be published this year. bury and Miami Vice,” he says. al Internship in 1971 and was Sen. Lee • Grady learned recently that CBS Tele- Grady, a Shelby native, continues to Metcalf’s Montana congressional intern in vision will produce his dramatic pilot, a live in Washington. He was married 1974. ‘ detective show whose leading characters March 31, 1985, to Bonnie Goldstein and His other novels include "Shadow of 1 are “reporters and cops” in Washington, is enjoying being a father to his 13-year- the Condor,” "Catch the Wind” and ) D.C. “It’ll be a cross between Doones- old stepdaughter, Rachel, who is his “of- “ Runner in the Street.”

Boise, Idaho; Marlee Miller, Eugene, Ore. Engen, Missoula. Grace Crane Newman Award, $200 — Kay Johnston, Mis- Society of Newspaper Design Award, $100 — Tim Huneck, | soula; Sue Forman, Seattle. Columbus, Ohio. Art Jette Memorial Award, $125 — Kevin Twidwell, Butte; Butte Press Club Award, $350 — Michelle Troxel, Hamilton. f Gary Jahrig, Calgary, Alberta. Don Anderson Award, $1,000 — Faith Conroy, West Lee Newspapers Award, $500 — Kevin Twidwell and Gary Orange, N.J. I Jahrig. Olaf J. Bue Scholarship, $100 — Faith Conroy. Guy Mooney Award, $250 — Michael Kustudia, Thousand Great Falls Tribune Award, $1,000 — James Conwell, Red Oaks, Calif.; Carlos Pedraza, Arvada, Colo. Lodge. Montana Press Association Dean Stone Award, $300 — Ta- Great Falls Tribune Award, $500 — Kevin McRae, Kalispell; | mara Mohawk, Libby; Angela Astle, Whitefish; Tim Huneck, Melody Perkins, Bynum. | Columbus, Ohio; Eric Troyer, Cooper Landing, Alaska. Dean’s Service Award, $100 — Mike Olinger, San Diego, 1986 Ronald E. Miller Awards, $150 — Brian Justice, Ekala- Calif. l ka; Stephanie Kind, Fairbanks, Alaska; Deirdre Hathhorn, An­ D.J. Shults Journalism Scholarship, $300 — Shane Bishop, chorage, Alaska; Michelle Willits, Great Falls; Patricia Phillips, Conrad. | Whitefish; Gordon Pace, Helena; Verina Palmer, Missoula; Scripps-Howard Scholarship, $500 — Suedee Galle, Havre; > Nate Williams, Thompson Falls; Kathryn Ann McCartney, Chi- James Hall, Allison Park, Pa. r nook. Myre-McGaugh Journalism Scholarship, $400 — Nick Ehli, 1985 Ronald E. Miller Awards, $100 — Shannon Hinds, Billings. ; Fairfax, Va.; Tammy Mohawk, Libby; Steve Devitt, Butte; Brian Connie Craney Scholarship, $900 — Mitch Tropila, Great Mellstead, Florence; Butch Larcombe, Missoula; Steve Dodrill, Falls. [ Omaha, Neb.; Kay Johnston, Missoula; Julie Heath, Moore; David Rorvik Award, $600 — Lance Grider, Billings. , Bart Freese, Miles City. Sam and Nellie Maclay Book Award, $75 — Heidi Steen- Melvin and Myrtle Lord Awards, $100 — Sven Christiansen, bock, Coos Bay, Ore. ; Missoula; Christopher Pulis, Florence; Lori Getter, Missoula; Donald Durgin Memorial Award, $200 — Cynthia Astle, Darrel Palmer, Lead, S.D.; Philip Torres, Helena; Scott More- Whitefish. land> Helena; Eric Troyer, Cooper Landing, Alaska; John McLean Clark Award, $300 — Carol Kruger, Sun River.

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