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When your goal is a healthy timber business. a healthy forest only makes sense.

H EALTHY FORESTS, streams and on what we leave and less on what we take. The result was wildlife aren’t just good for the environment. They’re a set of Environmental Principles which guide Plum Creek also good for the timber business. land management decisions. These principles cover every­ At Plum Creek, our goal is to be a lasting, vital thing from “enhancing ecological and structural diversity” part of the local economies. And, frankly, if the timber to “cooperating with neighboring land owners.” disappears, so will we. In these ways and others, we’re working to That’s why, in 1990, we maintain a healthy forest and sustainable resource. began looking at new ways of It’s good stewardship. And good business. managing land and harvesting timber. Our aim was to create ■ To receive a copy o f Plum Creek’s forestry practices that would I Environmental Principles, write: Director o f I Corporate Affairs, Plum Creek Timber Co., provide us with a sustainable timber I Box 1990, Columbia Falls, M T59912. resource, while minimizing long­ Professionals like Frank Cuff, term impact on the environment the 1996 Montana Society o fAmerican Foresters In essence, we began to focus more "Forester o fthe Year ensure P C I P I u m Creek n n b e r Company Leaders in Environmental Forestry environmental harvesting methods are implemented on Plum Creek lands. VOLUME 16 (intents N u m b e r 1

STAFF FEATURES DEPARTMENTS

E d i t o r Caroline Patterson ’94 2 AROUND THE C ontributing 10 W r i t e r s a n d EIGHT AND A HALF WAYS TO SKIN A HIPPOPOTAMUS OVAL E d i t o r s By Patrick H utchins Terry Brenner Rhea Ashmore and Rick van den Pol weigh in on the debate about teaching reading. 8 Joyce Brusin ’85 SPORTS janelle Leader Lamb ’98 12 Rita Munzenrider ’83 Cary Shitnek THE BEAST IN THE BOX 25 By Megan McN amer CLASS NOTES P hotographer Rita and John Sommers-Flanagan discuss the effects of television on children. Todd Goodrich ’88 32 La y o u t a n d 14 ALUMNI G r a p h i c s ANGRY, HAPPY, SCARED, SAD Mike Egeler By Kim A nderson NOTES Paul Silverman studies how parental conflict affects children. A d v i s o r y B o a r d 34 Vivian Brooke 16 FUND RAISING Perry Brown MOTHERING WITHOUT WORDS MOMENTUM William Farr By T erry Brenner Bob Frazier How hearing mothers and deaf babies communicate, according to Lynne Koester. Bill Johnston Annick Smith Wendy Smith 18 Dennis Swibold THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA GREEN BOAT John Talbot By Susanna Sonnenberg Marcia Dunn and KUFM’s ever-popular children’s radio program. A d v e r t i s i n g R epresentative 2 0 * 2 1 Jackie Drews (406) 728-1573 R e f l e c t io n s :

E d i t o r i a l THE PARENT DANCE O f f i c e s By Kate Gadbow University Relations 323 Brandy Hall STRONG HEART The University of By G reg Pape Montana A personal essay and a poem about the challenges and rewards of parenting. Missoula, MT 59812-1301 (406) 243-2522 22 Web site: BOOK CHAT h ttp :/''www.umt.edu By Susanna Sonnenberg Children’s books about wolves, owls, pioneer women and brightly colored animals. The Montanan is published three Cover photo by tim es a year by 24 Lucy Capehart The University of WRITING DOWN THE DECADES Inside photos by Todd Montana-Missoula By Sharon Barrett Goodrich, except as for its alumni and A profile of alum Barbara Corcoran, author of seventy-two children’s books. noted. friends.

Fall 1998 M o n t a n a n 1 R K THE OVAL

M eloy Collection at UM he art holdings at The University of Montana tripled in June with the perma­ Tnent loan of the Henry Meloy Collection—almost the entire life’s work of the artist—to the Museum of Fine Arts. Meloy, a Townsend native, was educated at the Art Institute of Chicago and taught at Columbia University. W hen he died in 1951 at age forty-nine, his family gathered the contents of his studio and brought them home to Montana, where they sold some of his work to provide scholarships for Montana visual arts students. During Homecoming 1998, an inaugural exhibit will be held at UM’s Paxson Gallery, which will be renamed the Henry Meloy Gallery. UM will curate, exhibit, travel and sell portions of the Meloy collection to benefit the Henry Meloy Educational Trust and the Museum of Fine Arts. “We are honored to include such a remarkable array of the life work of a major Montana artist in our holdings,” says James Kriley, former dean of the School of Fine Arts, which oversees UM’s permanent collection. “These sorts of transactions are very rare. We thank the Meloy family for this wonderful opportunity.”

This self portrait (above) of Meloy is an oH painting. The watercolor (below) represents the view from Tarrytown, New York, across the Hudson River.

2 Fall 1998 Montanan findings fron "PnsUeni

M his summer I attended the Governors’ Summit on Youth: attract attention. Educators have reported ^ f Montana’s Promise—an outgrowth of the 1997 Presidents’ over and over that children respond to a Summit: America’s Promise. As both gatherings focused on expectations, and perform and learn in / finding ways to make a difference in children’s lives, we reconsid­ almost direct relation to those expecta­ ered what we thought we knew about the relationship between educa­ tions. Certainly we have learned enough tion and healthy societies. As you read this Montanan, I hope you too to recognize the tremendous cost of will reconsider this dynamic relationship. depriving our young of the nurturing and We human beings have some remarkable characteristics, perhaps education that will help them become most significantly the relatively slow, but critically interactive, matura­ healthy adults. But we have yet to act as a tion of our young ones. For that process to succeed, children need a society that provides its children all that healthy start, a relationship with a caring adult, a safe place to grow, a we know they need. meaningful eduction and an opportunity to give back to their com­ As you read this issue, I hope you will consider how we as a soci­ munities through public service. In my view, a meaningful education ety can better serve our children. The nearly 1,500 people who ranks first among those five resources. attended the Governor’s Summit reaffirmed their commitment to pro­ The more we learn about the way human beings grow and devel­ viding these essential resources to an additional 30,000 Montana chil­ op, the more it becomes apparent that education is vital to that dren by the year 2000. We will need your help to succeed. growth and development Failing to take an active interest or to stimu­ late curiosity in babies, for example, undoubtedly hinders their intel­ lectual and emotional development Children deprived of interaction George M. Dennison with another person will resort to increasingly extreme behavior to President

The S ix Mill Levy very ten years, Montanans Supporting A Half The levy was last approved in 1988 have a chance to profoundly by a majority of nearly two to one. affect the future of higher edu­ Century of Education A broad cross section of E Montanans support the six mill levy. cation when they go to the polls. On November 3, 1998, Montanans will in M ontana These supporters include Montana’s congressional delegation and all of once again have that chance when Montana’s living governors— they vote on Referendum 113. The Governor Marc Racicot and former referendum asks Montana citizens to Governors Stan Stephens, Ted support the Montana University Schwinden, Tom Judge and Tim System by continuing the current levy Babcock. The levy is also backed by a on property at the rate of six mills. wide array of grassroots groups and The levy contributes $14 million per organizations in the state including year or 14 percent of state support the Montana Chamber of toward Montana’s six four-year col­ Commerce, the Montana State AFL- leges and universities and five col­ CIO, the Montana Farm Bureau Federation and the Republican and leges of technology, which educate Democratic parties. about 35,000 students. On a “Our parents and grandparents statewide basis, the levy represents enacted the six-mill levy and kept it about 1.5 percent of a property in effect to provide vital support for owner’s taxes. Owners of a home higher education for our generation,” worth $100,000, for example, would says former legislator Bob Brown, pay $23. director of the 1998 six mill levy A tax levy to support higher edu­ campaign. “Now we have the oppor­ cation is not new. In 1923 Montanans tunity to renew that same support first approved a statewide tax levy of for for the next generation of one and a half mills to support higher Montanans, who are our children education. It was increased to three and grandchildren. The six-mill levy mills in 1929 and to three and a half has been there for us. Let’s renew it mills in 1940. In 1948 the levy was for the future.” increased to six mills, and it has been As of press time, the staff at the approved at that same six mills by Montanan was unable to find orga­ large majorities of voters ever since. nized opposition to the six mill levy.

Fall 1998 M ontanan 3 ^^ROUND THE OVAL The ribbon-cutting cere­ mony for the new build­ ing for Printing and Graphic Services and Continuing Education.

from Brian Ah Yat, one of the leading quar­ QAC, Take T hree terbacks in Division I-AA. P rinting and he third Quality... Access ... Cost confer­ Continuing Ed Tence on the future of public higher educa­ T he La st Best tion in the West was held in Missoula June 7- Find N ew H ome 9 and was hosted by Montana Governor Road T r ip? Marc Racicot, UM President George fter twelve months of construction and a Dennison and Montana Commissioner of ost Montanans feel tourism is good for Afew seconds of ribbon-cutting on May 15, Higher Education Richard Crofts. Business, Mthe state, according to a survey of 378 the $4.4 million James E Todd Building government and university leaders discussed Montana households conducted last fall and opened on the east side of the University the hows, wheres and whats of public higher published by UM’s Institute for Tourism and Center. Named for the retired vice president, education in the future. Recreation Research. Montanans feel tourism the building*s lower level houses Printing and has helped the economy, cultural and histori­ Graphic Services, which is decorated with cal preservation, parks and recreation, but it refurbished furniture. The main and upper N ew Student A id has had a negative impact on the natural floors are home to Continuing Education and environment, highways and roads. Summer Programs and include conference xcess interest earnings of about $100,000 And where do Montanans go when they areas, distance-learning facilities and a tech­ will be transformed into application-free, E pack their bags? To Washington more than nology center. repayment-free grants for some UM students, any state according to another ITRR report creating the first new state financial aid pro­ that is part of a larger study about how, why, gram in more than twenty years. Eligible stu­ where, when and who travels in America. G rizzly Edibles dents at UM and its sister campuses— W hen they*re not headed to the Evergreen Montana Tech, Western Montana College State, they’re off to Idaho, Wyoming and and Helena College of Technology—will North Dakota. The most frequent visitors to receive grants of up to $500 for the 1998-99 Montana are—you guessed it—Californians, academic year through the Montana Tuition followed by Washington residents. Assistance Program. Students who are Montana residents will be selected from the existing applicant pool, based on their need. Boosting ontana s xports Grizzly Encounters M ' E ontana now ranks forty-ninth among lo, not the furry kind. In M the states in international trade. I fact when the Montana Montana’s new Export Assistance Center Grizzlies officially at UM, the first in state history, hopes to kicked off the 1998 move Montana up in that ranking. football season on Established by the U.S. Department of | August 23 with their Commerce in August, the center is third annual Great housed with the Montana World Griz Encounter, there Trade Center. It will help small- and wasn’t a can of pepper medium-sized Montana companies ecord numbers of Grizzly fans quenched spray in sight The free enter the international market, their thirst with bottles of UM spring | event featured the usual R offer export counseling and trade water last year, placing UM fifth among col­ i crowd please rs—a chance to finance services, and provide leges in sales nationwide. Now a line of 1 horse around on the turf j access to Commerce Department Grizzly snack foods is hitting Montana gro­ at Washington-Grizzly resources, including economic cery store shelves just in time for the tailgate Stadium and get autographs, data from 130 countries around season. Foods such as bear-shaped pasta, prizes and Grizzly posters. the world. Staffed by Mark Peters, a maroon tortilla chips and gummy bears will New this year were free representative of the Commerce carry the Montana Grizzlies label and sell at samples of UM’s new line Department’s Commercial Service, prices ranging from $2.49 to $3.99. Governor of “Grizzly Edibles” food the center also will work to increase Marc Racicot, J.D., a UM law school alumnus, products. Also new: a awareness of international trade helped his alma mater introduce the new chance tor kids to feel what it’s like to opportunities among American Indians product line to the public during a reception be a Grizzly receiver and catch a pass and companies in rural areas. on campus September 11.

4 F a ll 1 9 9 8 Montanan Edmonton university is similar a broadcast journalist in Chicago, New York Touch that D ial to the one forged between UM and Washington, D.C. He came to UM in his year Grizzly fans across Montana and the University of Calgary in 1984, where he chaired the radio-television Tcan track Grizzly football and basketball February. department until 1993. Over the years he and Lady Griz basketball by turning their taught reporting, writing and broadcast news, and advised the award-winning Student radio dial to the Grizzly Sports Network. The ppeals at network will broadcast football and basketball A UM Documentary Unit and UM’s Rodeo Club games during the 1998-99 seasons on KGHL hree judges from the U.S. Court of (see page 8). Durso co-authored two books, a AM, Billings; KOPR-FM, Butte; KXGN-AM, TAppeals for the Ninth Circuit—the second forthcoming book on writing broadcast news Glendive; KMON-AM, Great Falls; KLYQ- highest court in the nation—heard two crimi­ with Mervin Block and a biography Growing AM, Hamilton; KPQX-FM, Havre; KCAP- nal and two civil cases at UM’s law school on Up Western. AM, Helena; KOFI-AM, Kalispell; KXLO-AM, May 21. The Ninth Circuit Court comprises Carol Van Valkenburg will succeed Durso Lewistown; KPRK-AM, Livingston; KMTA- twenty-eight judges and hears all cases in pan­ as interim journalism dean for 1998-99. AM and KKRY-FM, Miles City; KGVO-AM, els of three judges, typically in Seatde, Missoula; KATQ-FM, Plentywood; KCGM- Portland, San Francisco and Pasadena. The FM, Scobey; and KSEN-AM, Shelby. The court session was held in Missoula by special broadcast by the Grizzlies’ flagship radio sta­ arrangement The three judges—Harry tion, KGVO in Missoula will also include Pregerson, A. Wallace Tashima and Sidney R. half-time shows featuring UM faculty and Thomas, J.D. ’78, of Billings—also attended the administrators on campus. law school’s annual hooding ceremony.

Oh Canada! Farewell to a n May UM President Dennison crossed the Friend border again to sign a long-term agreement I oe Durso, Jr., professor and interim dean The with University of Alberta President Rod Wilderness and of the journalism school, died of a heart Fraser that fosters collaborative research and J Civilization Program’s spring course, promotes international student exchange. attack on July 24, at fifty-two. Durso was to “Drawing from Place” was designed to help students The alliance will emphasize sharing expertise serve as interim dean for the second consecu­ assimilate their environment through art. Twenty-four in natural resources, forestry and environ­ tive year, while a nationwide search for a per­ undergraduates, under art Associate Professor Mary manent dean was conducted. With a master’s Ann Bonjomi’s tutelage, created notebooks contain­ mental studies, since Alberta and Montana ing artwork and journals about a particular area. share a common ecosystem—the Northern from Columbia University Graduate School Senior Heather Higinbotham chose a favorite child­ Rocky Mountains. The alliance with the of Journalism, Durso spent fourteen years as hood haunt—Missoula’s Playfair Park.

Earth to V enus cientists are studying the effects of greenhouse gases on the site for UM research. David Opitz, a computer science assistant SEarth’s atmosphere by using flux towers, nearly seventy of professor, is working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to them, which monitor local CO2 and develop software that will classify and water changes around the globe. Steve map volcanoes and other features on Running, a UM forestry professor and the surface of Venus. Researchers esti­ leading expert on biospheric climate mate that there are a million active vol­ change, began collaborating such inter­ canoes dotting the surface of Venus, national information by organizing a but it would take ten to twenty years to FLUXNET meeting in Poison in June. find them among the 30,000 images of Along with seventy global-warming Venus taken by the Magellan spacecraft experts from thirteen countries, in the early 1990s. Opitz, who special­ Running created a blueprint for the izes in machine learning, envisions FLUXNET system—a worldwide crafting software that would allow exchange of information about green­ human operators to give suggestions house gases and global warming. and modify the learning algorithms as One planet away, Venus is another Aerial view of Venus' Tick Volcano. the program examines the Venus data.

Fall 1998 M o n t a n a n 5 A ROUND THE OVAL

Missoula, a cornerstone of Missoula’s Open Fort M issoula: Space System, was listed on the 1995 open U M ’s New space bond ballot as a potential purchase. T he Park About $1.5 million now remains in the open Vice President new chapter in the development of Fort space bond fund, which also helped pay for . Scott Cole replaced James Todd as AMissoula began on August 18 with the Mount Jumbo and North Hills land purchases. UM’s vice president for Administration transfer of about 100 acres of land from UM and Finance on August 24. Cole came from to the city of Missoula. UM President George Arizona State University at Tempe where he Dennison and Missoula Mayor Mike Kadas Campus Cutbacks V was chief planning signed a contract sealing the $689,290 land M has waived plans to build a $12.5 mil­ officer since 1996. sale during a noontime celebration at Fort Ulion parking structure west of Harry While at ASU, Cole Missoula. The state Board of Regents and the Adams Events Center. The two-story parking developed a $234 state Land Board approved the sale. garage would have helped alleviate the cam­ million, five-year capi­ In accepting the city’s bid to purchase the pus parking problem by providing about 870 tal improvement plan land at the appraised price of $7,000 an acre, additional spaces, but the $14,368-per-space for the university sys­ Dennison said the city’s proposal to preserve price tag was just too high. tem campuses, the land for open space and public recreation The structure was part of a Series E bond including $100 mil­ best suits UM’s goals for the property. “The issue. UM cut its initial bond request from lion for ASU. Cole will serve as chief fiscal city intends to use this land to serve the com­ about $48 million to $10.1 million. Some of and administrative officer for UM’s four cam­ munity while also respecting the views of a the projects cut include a $2.3 million child puses and will oversee Facilities Services, majority of the residents,” he said. UM care facility on campus and a new family Human Resource Services, the Budget Office, received two bids for the land—the city’s and housing project at Montana Tech. Left in the Business Services, the Office of Campus one from Billings-based JTL Construction, loop were a $3.6 million enhancement of the Security and the Center at Salmon Lake. which proposed using the land to mine gravel University Center and a $2 million one-stop James Todd retired effective July 1. The acquisition of land at Fort Missoula center for academic and career services called Known as “James Bond,” Todd led bonding provides a site for Missoula’s first regional the Center for Student Success. projects for campus buildings totaling $150 park, and Dennison presented Kadas with a million during his seven-year tenure at UM $1,000 check to launch the fund raising for the regional recreation complex. Fort

Third Time’s a Jam For the third time in six years Pearl Jam—a Seattle grange-rock band considered ooe of the decade’s hottest groups-came to UM. With songs such as “Alive,” “Do the Evolution" and “Given to Fly” the group delighted 22,000 fans from as far away as Amsterdam and Africa. The concert was the largest event ever to take place in the Washington-Grizzly Stadium. The sdd-out concert was Pearl Jam’s kick­ off for its 1998 North American tour. Jeff Ament, the band’s bass guitarist, is a native of Big Sandy. Montana, and attended UM for a time.

6 F a ll 1 9 9 8 Montanan D istinguished A lumni Awards

John J. “ Jack” Cloherty, Jr. Felicia Hardison Londre Donna A. Hoover Metcalf John 0 . “ Jack” Mudd Anne M. Sullivan Lee A. Woodward

documentary producer, a theater profes­ University of Missouri in Kansas City and Anne M. Sullivan 70, who taught English, Asor, a retired state advocate, a lawyer, an an accomplished author, performer and speech and debate at Bozeman High School English teacher and a geology professor will director. for twenty-six years, coached ten state be honored as outstanding alumni during the Donna A. Hoover Metcalf ’35, Senator Lee championship speech teams and seventeen 1998 Homecoming festivities. Metcalfs widow and closest adviser, orga­ state champions. nized the Forever Wild Endowment and Lee A. W oodward ’53, ’58, M.S. ’59, a geol­ John J. “Jack” Cloherty, Jr. 72, the served as trustee to the Ruth Mott Fund. ogy professor at the University of New Washington, D.C.-based senior producer of John O. “Jack” Mudd, J.D. 73, a partner Mexico for more than thirty years, was NBC’s “Dateline,” has garnered awards for with Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, was a instrumental in establishing the Rio investigative reporting on politics, com­ professor and dean at UM’s law school Grande Rift as a major tectonic feature. merce and social services. from 1979 to 1988, where he made Felicia H ardison Londre ’62, M.A. ’65, changes in the curriculum that influenced Ph.D. ’69, is a theater professor at the legal education nationwide.

Commencement 1 0 1 n May 16, students—2,562 of them—went through commencement and listened to an Oaddress by George McGovern, former U.S. senator and 1972 Democratic nominee for president who is now the U.S. ambassador to the United Nation’s Food and Agricultural agen­ cies in Rome. Honorary Doctor of Letters degrees were awarded to journalist Mel Ruder, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Montana’s 1964 floods, and historian Stephen R Ambrose, whose book, Undaunted Courage, about the Lewis and Clark expedition won inter­ national acclaim and will become an ABC mini-series.

Fall 1998 M o n t a n a n 7 U M S pring S ports R o undup by Zach Dundas Durso, a longtime broadcasting professor “I think, all in all, it was a great season for who’d agreed to serve a second consecutive both our teams,” Nord says. “We’re at the Rodeo year as interim dean of UM’s School of Journ­ point now that I think we can go down and he cowboys and cowgirls of The alism, left behind an abiding rodeo legacy. compete on any given weekend and maybe TUniversity of Montana rodeo club are In the last several years, the team he win the championship if we come up with used to wrangling challenges most athletes brought together made numerous strong good tennis. We are just as good as any team can’t imagine, according to Shanda Detton, showings in the Big Sky region and at the in the Big Sky.” the women’s rodeo captain. The men’s and women’s teams advanced Wrestling hundreds of pounds of pulsat­ to the Big Sky semifinals and lost to the even­ ing, obstinate animal flesh? No problem. tual champions, Sacramento State’s men and Rebuilding a team purged of starters by Northern Arizona’s women, a testament to graduation 1997? A walk in the park. the teams’ competitiveness. The lady ’Jacks Facing schools bent on knocking the shut Montana out, but Nord says his men’s Montana greenhorns down a peg at this 4-1 loss was a much tighter contest than it spring’s College National Rodeo Finals? Piece might appear. of cake. Before the league tournament, the season But all those athletic batdes pale in com- included some crushing decisions over the ^ ^ ^ to a riso n to the sadness and loss likes of Lewis and Clark College, Gonzaga inflicted on UM’s rodeo and Eastern Washington University, as well team by the sudden heart as splits in nip-and-tuck battles with MSU. v N U u I attack that claimed Joe The Grizzly men, paced by the wicked dou­ J Durso’s life on July 24. national level. Despite the roster’s youth this bles and singles play of sophomore David ^ H w i l /That tragedy, with the spring, the men’s team beat out six schools to Froschauer, finished 9-9. The women tipped I > ^ m / j j t i peed and force of light- win the Big Sky region; the women’s team the scales the right way with a final tally of \ 4 J P*ng, denied Montana finished a respectable third. Sophomore eleven wins, six losses. , 0 - ^ rodeo its mentor, Bryant Mikkelson was named all-around Big Nord points with special pride to players tL- «§, \ head coach and Sky cowboy and junior Amanda Fox took sec­ like junior Jen Canuso, who returned from a driving force. ond in goat-tying at the College National devastating knee injury to put together a m W m Detton, Rodeo Finals in Rapid City, South Dakota. solid campaign. “It probably wasn’t the sort of I ____ Detton credits this success to team forti­ season she’s used to,” Nord says. “But coming tude built on years of adversity—hard times off a complete rebuild of the knee and a that now seem minor-league in the wake of whole summer and fall of not playing, it was Durso’s death. That toughness, though, a great performance.” serve them well as the club searches for a new coach and the team picks up the Soccer pieces, financial and emotional. In four years spent in Grizzly soccer “Of all the teams in our region,” Detton shirts, seniors Lisa Oyen and Railene alongwittwier 1 says, “it seems like this team has been Thorson did a lot of pioneering. Together teammates,.feces tested over and over again. I think it they threw up an iron defensive wall behind a yeff’with a hole brings us together and tries our strength. the first-ever UM women’s soccer team, the in the middle. “Joe We’ve had to struggle with every other team first successful season and, finally, the inau­ was just instru­ watching us, and I think that's made us a gural Big Sky championship. better team.” mental, for me per­ And, this spring, with their eligibility sonally as well as for spent, Oyen and Thorson were able to make the whole program,” Tennis news that outweighed anything their old team she says. “He was the Head coach Kris Nord, a sixteen-year did in the exhibition season. In May, the pair head coach, and he veteran at UM, faced a season with a signed contracts that took them into a brave took care of a lot of young team and tough competition from new world—semi-pro, big-city soccer in a the financial work, handling scholarships and some of the Big Sky’s Sun Belt schools. Still, brand-new American league. so forth. Now we’re in the middle of a big he squeezed plenty of on-court moxie out of Thorson, a towering goalkeeper who reconstruction.” his squads and feels pleased with the results. owned the penalty box for UM, now wears

8 Fall 1998 Montanan ^ Sophomore goal­ Junior Darcy Lewis keeper Natalie Hiller, holds off a Portland the first Missoula native State runner during a to play for the Lady ▼ 1500-meter race. Griz.

when Calvin Coleman made the record women’s, but each team scored twenty more books. In a dual meet with the Bobcats of points than in previous years. Seventeen of Montana State University, the freshman from thirty-two athletes were freshmen, so we’re Niceville, Florida, shattered a thirteen-year-old excited for the team’s potential in the upcom­ Griz long jump mark with a leap of 24 feet, ing year.” M 10 inches. Coleman’s other life as a corner- back in Mick Dennehy’s football army will Zach Dundas is a reporter for the Missoula probably bring him 10,000 times the public Independent kudos, but his jump was 5 feet 2 inches short of a first down, folks. Some of Coleman’s teammates likewise spiced up a season in which the men’s and women’s teams finished seventh in indoor and outdoor Big Sky Conference cham ps the traditional number one shirt for the onships. Troy McDonough mastered Denver Diamonds of the four-year-old W- the ten-headed, leg-racking beast League, a nationwide circuit hoping to lay the also known as the decathlon. groundwork for a major league following the McDonough chalked up 7,473 1999 Women’s World Cup. points at the Big Sky “I got a little bit of parental pressure to go Championship meet to claim with Denver,” says Thorson, a Seattle native. UM’s lone men’s title and set “Also, I chose them because of their coaches the standard for every Griz and their plans for the future.” who faces this form of torture Oyen headed to the other side of the con­ from now on. tinent The hardy defender who frequently Brooke Stinson, a junior launched attacks out of the back for Montana from Ontario, took the women’s now plies her trade on Miami Beach, for the 200-meter Big Sky tide, posting W-League’s Gliders. school record time of 23.63, While Thorson went through tryouts with which means she cranked a number of league clubs before landing with it up to about 20 the Diamonds, the Gliders signed Oyen sight miles per hour. unseen. In each case, though, it would seem UM also sent a the right choice was made: Both Denver and pair of delegates to Miami are on top of their W-League divisions the National Junior at this writing. Championships in Illinois in June. Track and Field Freshman vaulter You could say they sweat in the shadows. Nicole Zeller finished Grizzly track and field—a venerable athletic thirteenth overall, and institution, Montana’s contribution to the old­ freshman runner Kyle est form of competition on earth-doesn’t Wies advanced grab a lot of public glory. No one’s ever through preliminary rounds of the 800- scrambled to publish cash-in books about meter before falling great UM track seasons, as some did after the in the semifinals. 1995 football championship. No hard-core “It was a good fans salute great runs, jumps or throws with year,” says head the shouts of “ole” that greet soccer goals. coach Tom Raunig, But that can’t erase the accomplishments who just complet­ of a few Montana tracksters. The Grizzlies’ ed his second UM own versions of citius, altius and fortius season. “We fin­ (swifter, higher, stronger) live on—sometimes ished seventh in with a vengeance. the Big Sky in Take the time this spring, for instance, men’s and EIGHT AND A HALF WAYS T T TO SKIN A Hi] The debate about teaching reading by Patrick Hutchins

Education—Ashmore in literacy studies and van den Pol in special education. Van den Pol also directs UM’s CO-TEACH/Division of Educational Research and Service, which assists children with disabili­ ties. Under a grant from the federal Office of Special Education Programs, they have been working with four other university professors and six public school teachers to discover how best to teach reading. Their research has given them insights into the skills-based versus whole language debate. On one side are the worksheets and drills that use repetition to ingrain grammar, syntax and rules: i before e except after c or when sounding like a as in neighbor or weigh. We’ve all used these easy-to- remember references that we learned by rote as kids. That’s skills-based literacy, and it’s a highly effective way to learn for most people some of the time, and some people most of the time. Rhea Ashmore and Rick van den Pol, who study On the whole language side of the debate are all the books that were how to best teach read­ read to us as children. Beloved books like The Cat in th e H at and Good ing, indulge in some Dr. N ight M oon were teaching us about language at the same time they Suess. were delighting us. Just as listening to music is a good way to start think­ ing about notes, keys and chords, so hearing a story that uses grammar, syntax and other language components imaginatively is a good way to t Mabel B. Wesley Elementary School in begin understanding how language works. Ashmore says this is the Houston, Texas, the debate about the best way to beauty of using literature to teach reading: “Say you’re reading a book teach children to read is over. A recent about a hippopotamus. Hippopotamus. What a great word to let you Associated Press story in the M issoulian talk about syllables, nouns and vowels. It doesn’t come from a work­ described a typical classroom in the poor, most­ sheet; it comes from reading. And it’s fun.” ly black schoolA Students sit alerdy, "hands on the table, feet on the floor, eyes on the teacher or board” and recite in unison—vowel sounds, Lessons from China prepositions, sentences. This direct instruction, as it is known, has brought the barbed-wire-encircled school to national prominence To see how an eclectic philosophy—which combines skills-based and because of its efficacy in raising test scores. First graders at Mabel B. whole language approaches to reading—works in practice, Ashmore and Wesley ranked in the top thirteen of Houston’s 182 schools in reading van den Pol have turned to China, Korea and Japan, where early liter­ the other twelve schools were all from the well-heeled parts of town. acy can mean the difference between a good job or a lifetime of This would seem to be irrefutable proof of the superiority of “skills- drudgery. Van den Pol points to an openness in Asian educators: “They based” reading techniques and a call to arms for the “Readin’, ’Ritin’ aren’t hung up on one way being better than another. They use a holis­ and ’Rithmetic” crowd. On the flipside are the “whole language” advo­ tic approach that lets kids know there’s something fun about this stuff.” cates who argue that only a reading curriculum based in literature can Ashmore concurs. “Play is considered the basic method for achieving teach children the love for learning necessary for a well-rounded edu­ curricular content.” cation. According to two University of Montana literacy specialists, Chinese education policy favors using literature in teaching lan­ both sides have it wrong. And right guage. “According to the Chinese, if a child can memorize 300 poems from the Tang Dynasty, she or he is considered very clever,” Ashmore Learning to Read from a Hippopotamus observes. “One of my Chinese graduate students testified that, indeed, many children between the ages of three and ten can perform this feat" Rhea Ashmore and Rick van den Pol are professors in the School of Yet children also are drilled in vocabulary and other “skills-based”

10 fall 1998 Montanan POPOTAMUS modalities. In other words, for the Chinese there is no debate about which way is superior, both have their applications. Reading Begins in the Womb Children in Asian countries also tend to start school two to three For parents trying to make sense of the literacy debate, Ashmore years earlier than in the United States. Due to the fierce competition for offers this advice: “Start reading to them in the womb, and don’t stop.” prized spots in the higher education system, children are ushered into She says evidence suggests that children who have been read to before school programs at age three by parents who look upon them as a kind they could speak or understand the language had an easier time learn­ of social security: The more successful the kids are, the more comfort­ ing it later on. Another piece of advice: Limit children’s exposure to tele­ able the parents’ retirement will b e Although less-than-altruistic, this vision; it robs them of time better spent exploring the real world that motivation gives children exposure to education at a time when they are surrounds them. Preschools and other settings where three-, four- and naturally open to receiving it Physiologically, socially and developmen- five-year-olds are exposed to quality books and appropri­ tally, children from three to six years are like thirsty sponges ready and ate language skills also will give them a valuable eager to learn. Ironically, these are precisely the years when many head start American kids are home in front of the television. W hat kids will experience in the classroom will depend on the approach that is favored by The Trouble with TV their school. For the most part, though, as teachers return to UM to renew their certifi­ Television, even quality children’s programs, is worrisome for edu­ cates and get exposed to the latest thinking cators like Ashmore and van den Pol because television is essentially a in literacy studies, Montana’s schools have passive process, denying children the opportunity to test, experiment adopted an eclectic philosophy toward teaching and make connections on their own. “Television,” Ashmore says, “is reading. According to Ashmore and van essentially brainwashing.” Moreover it fails to provide kids with crucial den Pol, that’s all to the good. Because, skills—such as the coordination between hand, eye and brain needed for from spelling drills to story time, writing. Reading to children, on the other hand, stimulates their imagi­ there’s more than one way to skin a nations while allowing them to ask questions and relate the story to hippopotamus. M their own experience. Patrick Hutchins ’87 is a free-lano Eight and a Half Kinds of Intelligence writer in Missoula. Another reason Ashmore and van den Pol favor an eclectic approach to literacy is because, as any parent of more than one child knows, what works for one often doesn’t work for another. Ashmore cites the work of Howard Gardner, an educational psychologist who f spoke at UM’s 1996 Genesis Conference. Gardner has identified eight- and-a-half different kinds of intelligence, each occupying its own sepa­ rate niche in the spectrum from left to right brain. Each kind of intelli­ gence responds to its own particular teaching method—some children respond more to verbal stimuli, others to visual, for example. Given this diversity of children in the same classroom, a wide range of teaching techniques would seem to make sense. How then does one explain the startling results from Mabel B. Wesley Elementary School? Obviously skills-based techniques work, but the final results of a program relying solely on them may still be unclear. One study found increased behavioral problems later on in chil­ dren who have taken part in similar programs. Ashmore also suspects that this direct instruction is not as one-sided as it appears in the news dips. Books and literature, she notes, are probably still part of the curriculum, even if they don’t receive the press attention. 'TVB THEeast in the / /

Boxby Megan McNamer

hen my boys were two and five, they loved watching Disney’s Beauty and th e Beast I approved of this because not only is the heroine famous for her brains, but the Beast, you might recall, has to undergo the kind of substantive transformation usually reserved for sleeping princesses or mermaids. He loses his fur and fangs and turns into a friendly, civilized prince withW a soft upper lip and a shag haircut Then he and Belle live happily ever after. My little boys, however, much preferred the Beast as beast At the final scene, when Belle and the prince dance hand in hand in a peaceful, redemptive, soaring waltz, they’d hit the “off” button. They seemed to want to keep the penultimate scene, the Big Fight, fresh in their minds. Why did they like the Beast so much? Why does there always have to be a Big Fight? Are little girls generally so fixated? I was hoping for at least a few neat answers to my questions about chil­ dren, violence and the media from John and Rita Sommers-Flanagan, both clinical psychologists with substantial counseling experience. Rita Sommers-Flanagan, an associate professor at The University of Montana, teaches in UM’s counselor education program. Her husband, John, is an adjunct faculty member in the same pro­ gram, and he directs Families First, a resource for parent education in Missoula. They are also co- ’ authors of Tough Kids, Cool Counseling, a guide for counselors working with troubled and aggres­ sive young people. The Media and Violence: The Chicken or the Egg? The more I talked with the Sommers-Flanagans about correlations between video or TV view Rita and John Sommers-Flanagan counsel troubled ing and violence in children, the more I realized the complicated nature of this topic There’s a cer- _ young people. tain ambivalence, it seems to me, surrounding the questions we parents pose about media violence. ^ 12 F a ll 1 9 9 8 Montanan M This illustration from Going to the Zoo, published by Morrow Junior Books, is used by permission of artist Janet Lee Schmidt

Didn’t we watch plenty of westerns when we were young and didn’t we over and over as a means of getting what you want,” Rita adds. “We turn out okay? Sometimes our questions can seem overwrought, even need programming that shows alternative behaviors and honors those ridiculous: Are Ninja turtles good role models? Is it okay to watch that are peaceful.” pirates? While overtly violent acts may not direcdy follow the viewing of tele­ But we know, I think, that the answers matter because bad things vised violence, neither psychologist downplays the enormous effect the can happen in the world of children. The influence of television “has constant bombardment of televised images can have on shaping a young never gone backward,’’ John says, “and I don’t think it ever will.” And person’s vision of the world. In a 1993 study of Music Television (MTV), the statistics are sobering. According to a 1986 study by the American for example, the Sommers-Flanagans found that males were featured Psychological nearly twice as often as females. These were young, white men, and they Association cited in were portrayed as powerful, aggressive and hostile. Apart from other Big World, Small themes scrutinized by the study—including dominance and subservience, Screen: aggression, sex and objectification—their presence may say less about the By the time demographics and nature of MTV viewers than about the demograph­ the average ics and nature of power in this country. child gradu­ “Perhaps the most salient MTV message is, whether you are male or ates from ele- female, act sexual,” the Sommers-Flanagan study reports. “Viewers are mentary clearly given the message that romance, sexual attraction and sexually school, she or suggestive activity are central human activities.” he will have The Sommers-Flanagans’ MTV study focuses on what is on the screen; it doesn’t attempt to link television viewing and social behavior. But similar studies dealing specifically with aggression show that heavy viewers of television in general behave more aggressively than light viewers. And, regardless of education, social class, attitudes, parental behavior and sex-role identity, those viewers who watch a lot of aggres­ sive TV programs tend to favor the use of aggression to solve conflicts. And when it comes to those TV westerns many of us viewed as chil­ dren, Rita is not especially sanguine. “They didn’t make me go out and kill Indians, no,” she says, “but the continuous images of the easy loss of Indians’ lives had to have devalued their life for me.”

witnessed at least 8,000 murders and more than 100,000 Television: Kill it or Curb it? other assorted acts of violence [on television]. Depending on Selling your television at a garage sale is one approach to managing the amount of television viewed, our youngsters could see its effects, and the Sommers-Flanagans list it as a possible solution. But more than 200,000 violent acts before they hit the schools and it might be a stopgap measure. So the Sommers-Flanagans have come up streets of our nation as teenagers. with some more pragmatic guidelines for parents, including these: Do these figures include, I wondered, the murder of Gaston—the Watch television with your child and discuss what you see. testosterone-burdened bad guy in Beauty and the Beast who fights the Recognize and control the addictive powers of television by Beast and is sent accidentally-on-purpose plummeting to his death? instigating television-free periods. Even if the multiple deaths of such characters as the indomitable Coyote Set clear limits on the amount of viewing. in the Road Runner cartoons aren’t counted (reducing the above sta­ Don’t allow a child to have a television in his or her own room. tistics by several thousand), that still leaves thousands of murders to Teach children to be smart about the persuasive behold. With such a steady diet of mayhem, is it any wonder young peo­ effects of advertising. ple in this country seem prone to aggression? Be stronger and more interesting than television. It seems such a straightforward question. But when I asked the Sommers-Flanagans to cite causes of aggressive behavior in young peo­ The last on the list seems the most challenging. Being stronger and ple, they listed, first, real-life factors such as poverty, abuse, alcoholism more interesting than television could mean learning to understand in parents, overcrowded schools and stressful environments. some complex combination of the prince, the Beast, Which is not to say that TV violence doesn’t count Beauty and embracing those alternative visions “Television doesn’t cause violence in children; it contributes to °f the world. A harder job to accomplish, I imag- it," John says. “Violence on television causes violence in V \ *ne> than simply living happily ever after. M children only when other factors make them vul- ve­ nerable to it" Megan McNamer 7 7 has published essays “One problem with violence on .,- ^ >«r in Child, Northern Lights, Sports Illustrated and television is that it is featured y* \ W ^ fjL . Tropic.

l F a ll 1 9 9 8 Montanan 13 by Kim Anderson

s it good for children to see their parents fight? Ask any parent and the knee-jerk response is no. But is it healthy for children never to witness conflict? W hat do I children actually feel when their parents argue with them or with each other? How do children explain and deal with those feelings? These are questions that Paul Silverman, professor of developmen­ tal psychology at The University of Montana, is attempting to answer in a new study on how parental conflict affects a child’s understanding of emotions and how this understanding affects his or her psychological ANGRY, adjustment W hen Silverman’s study is completed about a year from now, he hopes to have information that could result in new models of parent training and family and individual psychotherapy. “There’s been a good deal of study on the development of children’s emotional understanding and how this interacts with their psychologi­ cal adjustment,” Silverman says. “But there’s been very little research on Happy, the relationship between aspects of family life-like arguing—and the child’s emotional understanding and coping.” Silverman’s background has uniquely prepared him for this kind of research. After working as a developmental psychologist, doing research and teaching, Silverman retrained as a clinical child psychologist cared “I’m interested in the normal developmental processes—the area S , developmental psychologists primarily study-but also in children’s individual psychological adjustments,” Silverman says. “In the past fif­ teen years there’s been a confluence in these areas of thinking, and that’s the area I’m interested in working in.” Sad Measuring Emotions Silverman and his assistants plan to interview about 100 families. How Parental Conflict Affects Each interview includes a self-reporting form that asks parents about their child’s overall psychological adjustment and their income, educa­ Children’s Emotions tion and children’s birth order. Parents also are asked to describe the frequency and intensity of their discussions and rate the intensity of their expressed emotions. Children are given a brief questionnaire ask­ ing them how they perceive their parents’ relationship and a vocabulary test designed to indicate IQ. But the interviews with the six- and seven-year-old children are the crux of the study. “Children’s understanding of emotions changes with age,” Silverman says. “A very young child is capable of feeling many emo­ tions but does not have the equipment to understand those feelings. The reason we’re concentrating on six- and seven-year-olds is that, at this age, children begin to have an understanding of their emotions and can be aware of having several different emotions at once.” In the interviews Silverman relies on several handy low-tech tools and storytelling. Silverman tells a child a story about a family conflict involving parents and a child. “In these stories the child is in triangula­ tion with the parents and there are conflicting emotions,” Silverman explains. “A typical story might involve a seven-year-old girl who wants candy before dinner. Dad says no. Mom says ‘Oh, a little candy won’t hurt you. Maybe if we ask Daddy nicely he’ll change his mind.’ Then Dad expresses anger at Mom.” The children in Silverman's study use these rubber dolls to tefl stories. Silverman asks the child to use the feelings frame—a homemade

14 Fall 1998 Montanan This picture was drawn by the author’s ten- year-old daugher, Isabelle.

wooden abacus-like structure which features beads with faces looking The Envelope Please mad, happy, sad, scared and loving— Results from the first fifty inter­ to describe the feelings of the boy or views support Silverman’s hypothe­ girl in the story. “The child can use the feelings frame to move the ses that the kind and degree of emotional conflict within families affects faces,” Silverman says. “Let’s say the happy face is moved halfway up the a child’s emotional understanding and psychological adjustment scale and maybe the scared face is moved up as well. We also ask the “We’re finding that children who are depressed and anxious are kids, W hat happens next?’ in an effort to determine the child’s under­ influenced by the frequency with which their parents discuss issues. standing and coping levels. And we ask the children if these things hap­ These children also perceive a threat from parental discord,” Silverman pen in their family.” says. “These variables generally predict adjustment problems.” Another handy tool in the interviews is a set of small rubber dolls Initial results indicate that a child’s understanding of conflicting feel­ that represent a nuclear family straight out of Dick and Jane—mom, dad, ings can moderate anxiety and mitigate the negative effects of discord. brother and sister. Silverman uses the dolls as he tells his stories and the The frequency with which parents argue also contributes to the child’s children can manipulate them as they tell their own stories. understanding of conflicting emotion. Children who witness some W e’re particularly looking for stories that contain conflicting feel­ parental discord are more sophisticated about handling conflicting emo­ ings,” Silverman says. “We ask children to tell us about a time when they tions, and, conversely, children who have a better understanding of con­ felt happy and sad at the same time. We talk about how it feels to have flicting emotions are better able to handle parental disagreement. more than one feeling at a time and what an outcome might be. We ask Silverman cautions, however, that the families in the study so far them, Does one feeling change the other feeling?’” experience low to moderate levels of conflict “W hat we predict, but Once the data is collected, the parent and child responses are don’t know, is that children who are exposed to high levels of parental coded—a laborious process—and then entered into a computer, which conflict experience adjustment problems and decreased levels of under­ spots patterns in stories. “This sort of research was impossible to do as standing,” he says. recently as ten years ago because of the hours involved,” Silverman says. Silverman says he is planning to collect additional information on “Now it takes months to collect the data, weeks to enter it into the com­ families that experience a much higher level of conflict Bast research puter and then minutes to get the analysis.” has shown, he says, that when the emotions of adults and children are highly aroused, their ability to process information is compromised. Is Conflict Healthy or Harmful? “We expect that the children who are frequendy exposed to high levels of parental conflict experience high arousal levels and can’t really fig­ Silverman doesn’t believe that all family conflict is detrimental to ure out what’s happening at an emotional level.” children. Instead he suspects that some family discord can contribute, in a healthy way, to a child’s psychological development Analysis of the The Next Step data collected and entered so far seems to bear this out “Some degree of conflict can be healthy in that it helps children rec­ If future research confirms Silverman’s initial findings, he believes ognize and understand angry emotions,” Silverman says. “That’s how that several new therapeutic approaches might be developed to help we model working out problems. But what happens to a child’s psycho­ children and their families. One approach would be to work with logical development when the arousal level gets too high for their cop­ families, especially parents, to reduce parental strife in high-conflict ing skills?” Other research has shown, he says, that “hot” or intense families. Another would be to teach children directly about conflicting emotional climates within families emotions, because their understanding acts as a buffer to the effects of and lots of parent-parent and par­ family conflict ent-child conflict can play impor­ This work is exciting to me on many levels,” tant roles in the development of Silverman says. “And I believe that psychological disorders in chil- , what we’ll learn will be valuable dren. I and useful. All families argue. If The nature of the conflict I I can contribute to an under­ also makes a difference. “When standing of what that arguing parents argue about the child in does to children’s emotional front of the child, that can be understanding and psychological damaging,” Silverman says. f adjustment, I’ll be happy.” M “When parents argue in ways that are demeaning and pur­ Kim Anderson is the administra­ posefully hurtful, that cer­ tor for the Missoula Writing tainly will have a different i Collaborative.

effect than calmer, more I Children interviewed by Silverman use the impersonal disagreements.” L feelings frame (left) to describe their emo­ tions.

F a ll 1 9 9 8 Montanan 15 Mothering W ithout Words How Hearing Mothers and Deaf Infants Communicate by Terry Brenner

Cheryl Casa no signs to her daughter, Shayla Haddock.

hen her daughter Sally was bom, Marianne And at eighteen months, when other children were learning new words was ecstatic She’d been waiting for years to by the day, Sally didn’t speak at alL W hen Marianne mentioned her con­ have a child and at last, here she was—pink, cerns to her pediatrician, he told her not to worry—she was simply being wriggly, cooing, everything Marianne had over-protective. hoped for, from the fuzzy blonde hair to the Then, when Sally was two, Marianne took her to a parade. As the gummy smile.W But in the first several months, something began to nag marching band came toward them with shrieking horns and thumping Marianne. W hen she made clucking or cooing sounds to Sally, she did­ drums, Marianne looked down at her daughter. She was calmly staring n’t respond. She didn’t utter a first word when she was a one-year-old. back at her, not blinking, not turning her head right or left It was then

16 F all 1 9 9 8 Montanan Marianne knew: Her daughter was deaf. Marianne was devastated. Communicating by Touch The anecdote above is fictitious, but it reflects th In her observations of hearing and deaf mothers with their surprise and bewilderment many bearing parents feel deaf infants, she’s noted one important difference: the use of touching. when they discover their child is deaf. Ninety percent of deaf babies are Although deaf mothers tend to touch their infants more often, the bom to hearing parents, most of whom never have had to communicate biggest difference between them and hearing mothers was in the inten­ with a deaf person. And because infant deafness has been a neglected sity of touch they used, Koester says. Deaf mothers touched their babies area in disability research, little is known about ways to help those par­ more vigorously, presumably because these mothers are well-attuned to ents learn to interact with their infants. their babies’ need for sensory compensation. And while vigorous con­ Lynne Koester, a psychology professor at UM, is working to change tact may be overwhelming for some babies, she says, “it appears to be that For the past ten years Koester has been studying interactions of appropriate and highly pleasurable for many deaf babies.” hearing mothers with their deaf babies. She’s been looking also at deaf “Touch is a means of compensating for an infant’s hearing loss. For mothers’ interactions with their infants, hoping to understand the kinds deaf parents, it also plays an important role in getting the visual atten­ of communication strategies that could help hearing parents. tion of the deaf child,...who needs to look at you during communica­ tion.” For those infants, breaking visual contact risks severing commu­ nication. But the parent must not be so intrusive that the baby can’t turn Diagnosing Deafness away or participate at his or her own pace. To most parents, a deaf infant at first appears to be no different “The baby needs to develop the sense of participating in the inter­ from any other baby. “Deaf babies vocalize and sound very much like action,” she says. “Otherwise the baby will turn away to protect itself hearing babies,” Koester says. “Often it’s not until the baby fails to devel­ from over-stimulation. The deaf parent will allow the child to look away, op spoken language that deafness is diagnosed.” but will tap the child to get its attention.” Koester calls this the In the past, deaf babies often weren’t diagnosed until they were two “tap/sign” strategy. It’s usually a brief tapping, most often on the arms or three years of age, she says. Because the earliest interactions between or legs, as if to alert the baby to forthcoming sign input parent and infant are critical in the child’s socio-emotional development, Deaf babies can begin to sign before hearing babies normally learn she says delayed diagnosis could harm the infant in important ways. “If to speak, Koester says, which is why she believes the parents and fami­ a child doesn’t have reciprocal interactions with the important care­ lies of deaf babies should learn to sign, even though it’s difficult givers in its life at an early age,...that can hinder emotional attachments “It gives the child a way to communicate desires, needs, thoughts and later on,” she says. feelings at an early age,” she says. While delayed diagnosis can harm the deaf child, getting the diag­ nosis also can be very distressing for the hearing parents, and that in Hexing and Stretching turn may affect the child. Most surprising to Koester as she observed deaf babies was that they “Mothers initially may be depressed about their infant’s deafness,” engage in more rhythmic physical activity than hearing babies do-activ­ she says, “and this can have a negative impact on interactions until the ities such as flexing and stretching their hands, legs and feet back and mother adjusts.” Depressed mothers often use little touching or facial forth. “Nothing in the literature led me to expect that,” she says, noting animation in their interactions, both of which are important ways of that watching mothers’ responses to these activities was interesting and “talking” to babies. These mothers need help in learning to communi­ revealing. “Deaf mothers will pick up on some of these hand movements cate with their babies, Koester says, and a crucial factor is the amount as if they were preliminary signing...just as when hearing babies babble, of support they get from family, friends, professionals, support groups hearing mothers pick up on the babble as if it were the beginnings of and the community. speech.” Koester’s work is geared toward professionals in the field of early On the other hand, she says, when hearing mothers see deaf babies intervention who work with parents and who develop programs for engage in this rhythmic activity, they perceive their babies as hyperac­ those parents. Using videos she made while on the faculty at Gallaudet tive. “The explanation that’s been proposed that’s most convincing to University for the Deaf in Washington, D.C., Koester has observed me is that the movement is a natural channeling of the infant’s innate infants at six months and nine months in face-to-face interactions with need to communicate. We can help hearing mothers learn to read the their mothers. No toys are present child’s body language so that perhaps they won’t have a negative per­ “The videos let us look a number of times at the dynamics of the ception of this behavior.” interactions,” she says. As she and her graduate students watch and code Deaf babies have the potential to be as smart, emotionally secure, cre­ these interactions, she says, they “can observe such things as the ways ative and well-adjusted as any child, Koester says. “If we give them oppor­ deaf mothers use visual animation, gestures and sign language and how tunity to have an effective communication system,” she says, “we can hearing mothers with deaf babies also seem to intuitively augment their almost ensure that will happen” normal communication with more facial expression, more gestures and Koester saw tremendous changes in the way parents interacted with more animation.” One of her goals is to help parents become aware of their infants once the parents got beyond the shock of the diagnosis. “It’s the things they do naturally and let them see the effectiveness of what remarkable how adaptive and resourceful human parents can be and they’re doing, she says. how much joy they can derive from any child in their life,” she says. 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ithout warning, I am holding a book called 112 Cat and DogJokes. Marcia Dunn—a few hours ago only a voice-beams as she turns the from KUFM’s control board, pushes over the mike and asks me to tell her a joke. I read,W “W hat kind of dog eats twice as much as any other dog?” Marcia raises her eyebrows and ponders the question aloud. Finally, she gives up. “What kind?” “A chow chow,” I say. pea She laughs enthusiastically and means it The fact that Marcia—it is Radio host impossible to call her anything more formal—has transformed her shy­ Marcia Dunn ness about being interviewed into a dog joke is typical. On the air since 1979 at The University of Montana’s public radio station, she has, in her words, “tried everything but mimes” on the open-ended format of reen “The Pea Green Boat” Trained by years of innovation with virtually no budget, Marcia knows intimately and intuitively what will work on KUFM’s hugely popular afternoon children’s show that is named after the boat in Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussycat and is the longest- running children’s program in the nation. With warmth, humor and a pleasure unnervingly genuine, she conveys the sense that even her daily §o a t walk to work can be fun for those who listen. by Susanna Sonnenberg The program, honored by organizations ranging from Family Circle magazine to the Bahai, features a fanciful mix of songs and stories, guests who specialize in bats and bunnies, guests who are wolves or lla­ mas, bad jokes and good recipes, and frequent air time for the song “Little Potato,” which is a chart-buster by children’s broadcasting stan­ dards. But it is Marcia herself who transforms the show into something more than background radio. She wears bright, comfortable clothes and silver earrings shaped like moose. Her hair is clipped stylishly close to her head, and her laugh is generous. She easily disarms me, “the pro­ fessional,” by teasing herself. “Raquel Welch and 1 used to be the same age,” she says. “Now she’s four years younger.” It’s ten minutes past four on a summer afternoon. I have stepped into the special world that is broadcast daily into my living room. Entertainment as Education “Marcia knows there’s nothing wrong with living in a child’s world for an hour a day,” says Missoula bookseller Barbara Theroux. “She’s very much at ease with herself.” This level of comfort defines Marcia’s on-air persona, which in its candor and warmth closely resembles her real self. “To be on the air is a performance of sorts,” says William Marcus, a twenty-year KUFM vet­ eran who directs UM’s Broadcast Media Center. “But the really suc­ cessful radio personalities don’t let their radio personalities become something that they aren’t.” Marcia gives entertainment priority over “education” in her pro­ gramming because pleasure, she believes, penetrates deeper than a ser- m u

18 Fall 1998 Montanan mon. On one afternoon, she weaves an entire Two Generations of Listeners broadcast of songs and stories prompted by one listener’s request for “a why song.” “I know the Children around western Montana have material and I can get my hands on it,” Marcia grown up with Marcia’s gentle, encouraging explains. "I think of a child asking that ques­ voice. Although KUFM does not do listener tion, ‘Why?’ and it just tickles me that I can do surveys, Kay Wilson, the station’s director of this. I can indulge the child and not everybody development, says the show is one of the top in every job can.” money-makers during Public Radio Week. “In order to have a program on the air for From Fish Jokes to two decades and for it still to be the success that it is—and we’re moving into a second gen­ Family Stories eration of listeners—there has to be a real con­ Marcia presented herself to Station nection between the radio personality and the Manager Terry Conrad in 1979 after her son listeners,” Marcus says. “She has that direct alle­ Christopher, then six, heard that “The Pea giance like no one else here.” Green Boat” needed a new host (“Now he Children often stop by KUFM to tell her dunks I owe him big time,” she laughs.) She about a new pet or ballet slippers or they bring had studied children’s literature, had taught in a decorated square for one of the quilts she fourth grade in Chicago and had told stories on pieces together every year. “This is a great joy the Missoula Public Library bookmobile, but Marcia had no experience to me,” Marcia says of her interaction with the audience. “The people I in broadcasting. have met that I would never have met, the stories and jokes I hear—these “I had the good fortune to say yes when she wanted to work here,” are the nicest things about the job.” Conrad says. “She’s been a joy to have on the air. She does children’s “Marcia is many things to many people, depending on their age and programming exceptionally well because she’s exceptionally talented. state of mind,” Theroux says. “To youngsters, she introduces wonderful She has a way of treating the children with a genuine concern for the new words and songs and discussions. And she takes adults down mem­ kind of lives they’re having. She talks to kids as people.” ory lane.” Listeners stay in touch from far away, calling in to announce Marcia took over the show from Germaine Conrad, who left to run a good grade in high school or the birth of a new baby. for public office. At that time the show was composed of half an hour For the listeners of “The Pea Green Boat,” Marcia is public radio. She of “The Spider’s Web,” a children’s show from Boston, and half an hour is the voice that seeps into the room, the welcome guest in late after­ of songs and stories. “When we lost “The Spider’s Web,’ I saw it as a big noon that setdes comfortably each day on the living room couch. opening,” Marcia says. Gradually she began incorporating different fea­ Shordy after the birth of my son, I made my first call and requested Burl tures into the programming—visits from naturalists, poetry readings, Ives’ version of “The Fox.” Marcia’s voice rose with happy recognition. even contests. “With my contests,” she says, “anyone who enters gets “I think I can find that!” she said. Within minutes, she had a worn and something because I can’t bear for a child not to win.” scratchy recording on the air. The connection was instantaneous, the When asked about any major on-air faux pas, she admits comfort enormous. M that she once “gave up the goods on the tooth fairy.” Susanna Sonnenberg and her one and a But Marcia’s favorite subject is family stories. “I’m always half year old son are devoted listeners to looking for new ones, or new versions of old ones,” she “The Pea Green Boat ” says. “They have to be jewels.” She recendy presented her eighty-three-year-old father—who raised Marcia and her brother in Chicago—with a tape recorder so that he could record family stories. “My mother died when I was seven, and he’s the only one left in my life who knows anything about her,” she says. “I remember she sewed all my clothes, and she was an excellent seamstress and cook. I 1 remember her getting sick and getting her last rites. “Recendy I was looking at a portrait of me and my mother, taken when I was about five, and I realized I this was a time in my life when I was like all other children: I had a mother and a father. I wasn’t the girl without a mother, the one with a housekeeper, the one with the new stepmother. I was just an ordinary little kid.”

Squares for this quilt were sent in by “Pea Green Boat" listener ■ R eflections

T he Parent Dance by Kate Gadbow These are the kinds of questions I discuss with the graduate students I advise, who have hen I think of par­ left comfortable careers to push against the dif­ enting 1 tend to pic­ ficult crafts of poetry and fiction in a world ture hands. I think that places increasingly less value on either. many of us do, But my children too, whose inclinations lie in because they’re the arts, are trying hard to figure out how to embeddedW in the language of parenting: I can’t pursue what they love while finding ways to handle this child; I favor a hands-on approach. support themselves. But my image of parenting is a particular one: With both my children and graduate stu­ two hands, palms spread wide, the child dents, I try to give “I messages.” I tell them all between, but not held by, those outstretched I know is that I have found in my own life A younger Kate Gadbow and her two children, All, palms. This palms-out, ready-but-not-touching three, and Grady, five. that—regardless of the outcome or reward—I gesture is the one parents naturally assume am most happy and fully alive when I’m creat­ doubts. This summer, my son turned twenty- when their children take their first steps. ing something. In most cases that is a piece of one, and I’m not sure I know much at alL My I like to think my images are original, but writing, but there have been other things as children have grown into beautiful, interesting it’s possible I stole them from the popular well—a solution to a problem, a garden, an espe­ young adults, but—and I’m not trying to be coy songs that rattle around in my brain, especial­ —I’m honestly not sure how they got that way. cially tricky dessert But in order to create, you ly those involving paradoxes. You remember have to trust yourself enough to head out into the old Linda Ronstadt tune: “Love is a rose Was it because of me and my husband, or in spite of us? The only thing I know is that par­ unknown territory. And to do that, you have and you’d better not pick it, only grows when enting is a complicated dance, done in the to believe in yourself, and in life. it’s on the vine.” O r the more recent Paul dark. So if there’s any advice I now feel I can give Simon lyric about “the open palm of These days, for us, that daily dance is over. other parents, it is that our main job is to help desire...The strength to let you go.” I think What used to be constant negotiations—the children believe in themselves in an increas­ both songs refer to romantic love, but it seems ingly complex and often frightening world. As car, the curfews—have evolved into occasional to me they could apply to parental love as well conversations, ranging from the mundane to most parents know, this requires uncondition­ I know my biggest screw-ups as a parent have the philosophical In that elevated region, the al love and strategic support—different kinds at occurred when I could no longer keep those talk seems to revolve around such questions as: different times. But it also involves a third ele­ guiding hands open. Instead, I clenched. 1 How do you know what you should study? ment, one I was lucky enough to get from my stopped trusting myself, or the child, and tried How do you keep creativity alive? How do you own amazing parents and have been taught— to force something that could never work. take healthy risks-in your work, in your life— sometimes the hard way-by my children: the 1 wasn’t always so humble. Had somebody when the odds are stacked against you ability to see, really see, our children as asked me to write about parenting when my and the rewards unsure? ■__ unique people and to acknowledge that first child was six months old, it would have from the time they get their little feet been a snap because I knew everything. I had under them and start dashing for the this cheerful, easy-going baby boy street, they are themselves—not reflec­ who always slept through the tions on, extensions of or validations of night The reason he was such a their parents. jewel, I was certain, was that I was And with that I guess I’m back to a perfect parent I was so sure of the pop songs. As Linda Ronstadt this, in fact, that I never hesitated to [told us years ago: “Lose your love dispense advice to others, especially when you say the word mine.” M to the seemingly clueless parents of unruly two-year-olds. Kate Gadbow *74, M.FA. *86, Two years later, when that first directs UM *s creative writing pro­ child regularly escaped into the street gram . and his infant sister had yet to give us a good night’s sleep, I developed a few Drawing by AH Gadbow at age fow.

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Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George. Illustrated by John Schoenherr. New York: Harper Trophy, 1972. 170 pp. $4.95.

iyax, the protagonist of Jean Craighead the author, have vivid personalities. Miyax MGeorge’s Newbery Medal-winning novel makes herself part of their family, first by Julie of the Wolves, is an irresistible heroine. learning their code of ears, tails, yips and Resourceful, independent, self-reliant and intel­ growls. She practices the rules of survival that ligent, the thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl escapes have been honed and handed down by her from a fourteen-year-old husband and unloving ancestors, and best of all, she is fearless-even in-laws across the Arctic tundra to become when faced with the loneliness of the tundra. part of a wolf pack, at first for survival and George wrote the book nearly three then for comfort and friendship. The story is a decades ago, but it is a timeless tale about com­ gripping, well-paced and honest account of ing of age and inner strength that will excite Arctic survival, and the descriptions of animal childhood readers, wrapping them in the bliss­ behavior educate along the way. ful oblivion of good fiction. The wolves, rendered in sparkling detail by

O w ls: Whoo are they? by Kila Jarvis and Denver W. Holt. Illustrated by Leslie Leroux and Courtney Couch. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1996. 60 pp. $12 paperback.

andsome and utterly delightful, Owls O w ls is the rare science book that is as live­ H makes the world of this bird clear and ly as a good story because the authors and simple. The text is printed in large, bold type illustrators, working in perfect collaboration, and has a straightforward brightness to it The make a good story out of owls—by turns funny, illustrations nearly swoop from the page in educational and just plain cool. The pages of their spry evocation of owls. Short sections text are illuminated by Ed Jenne’s whimsical focus on subjects such as the owl’s tufts, ears, “owlphabet,” and the book’s oversized format mating habits, rearing of young and hunting makes it a pleasure to hold and spread open— techniques. Descriptions are dear and spiced its large pages are filled with startling, vivid with fun questions. As the reader learns, for owl eyes. The language of the book is respect­ example, how an owl hears, she is invited to ful towards its youngest readers and lively consider her own ears. enough to keep parents interested.

T ip s for C hoosing C hildren’s B ooks hoosing a good book for your child can should be a little ahead—in reading and social While it’s great for a child to investigate all Cbe daunting, but Carolyn Lott, UM asso­ development—of the child so that it is rele­ the works of Roald Dahl’s work if she likes ciate professor of education, offers six basic vant yet challenging. one book, it is also important that she “bal­ qualifications that may help. Here’s what to Relevance—The book should meet the ances her diet” to keep her mind flexible. look for: needs and interests of the child. For example, Reader participation—Any children’s Literary quality—Books should have a book pertaining to getting a new sibling or book should encourage active reading—by good plots, strong characters and exciting starting school would be great for children in eliciting a response from the reader. Books conflicts. those situations. should be shelved together, without distinc­ Quality of art—Look for the art and the Balance and variety—A child’s library tion, so that children can choose what they text to complement, supplement and support should reflect balance among genres, subjects, like. Use any book to discuss literary devices, one another. authors and cultures and offer a variety that such as foreshadowing, point o f view or Age appropriateness—The material is constantly interesting to the reading palate. dialect

22 F a ll 1 9 9 8 M o n t a n a n Bold and Bright, Black-and-white Animals by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent Illustrated by Kendahl Jan Jubb. New York: Walker and Company, 1998. 32 pp. $15.95 hardcover.

In her 100th book for children, Dorothy sky above, and fish can’t see them. Hinshaw Patent explores zebras, penguins, Kendahl Jan Jubb’s illustrations throb with skunks, pandas, pelicans and ruffed lemurs, as color around the black-and-white subjects. The Iwell as other mammals, fish and reptiles—all skunk slithers in a mass of tulips, and the united by their high-contrast coloring. Each striped sea snake wriggles amidst glowing fish. double page contains a brief, simple descrip­ She paints her creatures close up, filling the tion of the animal and an explanation of its page with giant eyes and paws. And to the markings. Zebras, for example, dizzy their delight of any child, Jubb has tucked other ani­ predators as a giant mass of stripes. As they mals into the periphery. They peek out from hunt, penguins are obscured in the water leaves and trees, waiting to be discovered. because their white bellies blend with the light

More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Montana Women by Gayle C. Shirley. Helena, Montana: Falcon Publishing Inc., 1995. 142 pp. $8.95.

he first woman to practice law in Montana Indians, the former slave girl turned wealthy Twas Ella Knowles Haskell. She earned her landowner and the notable artists, doctors and debut client by collecting his “bad debts”: two politicians. Photographer Evelyn Cameron and umbrellas that had been borrowed and never peace activist Jeannette Rankin are perhaps returned. Haskell wrote, in what would the best known of Shirley’s subjects, but she become a common refrain for all working has gathered a fascinating and diverse collec­ women, that the businessmen of the day “did tion of women here for the junior reader. She not receive me well. They didn’t take kindly to also has conveyed a sense that these women the idea of a woman ‘doing a man’s work.”’ mattered not just to their time, but to all time. Gayle C. Shirley’s slim and readable collec­ Clearly and crisply told, the chapters are tion More Than Petticoats: Remarkable wonderful to read aloud—they are adventure Montana Women is filled with stories of stories, one woman at a time, complete with women who pioneered not just the unforgiv­ the muslin-lined log cabins, dead babies, failing ing terrain of Montana in the nineteenth cen­ health and diptheria that defined the hard, tury but forged new roles—besides daughter, new life on the plains and in the mountains. wife and mother—for themselves. Many of While illuminating these antique portraits, these stories are remarkable for what the Shirley also is careful to sketch the commonal­ women accomplished, in spite of marital or ities between these historic lives and the lives family obligations or suspicious societies of modem children—the ballgames, dolls, tricks around them. and heart-fluttering crushes—so that even as There is the woman who brought an orga­ she writes of homesteading and raising buffalo, nized school system to the territories, the nun her subjects are accessible. with a life's dream of working among the

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Writing Down the Decades by Sharon Barrett The English department faculty included M y Friend. That book is a perennial favorite of Walter Van Tillburg Clark, “the author of one young readers. t was 1974 and Barbara of my favorite novels, The Ox-Bow Incident ” Another favorite is Sam, Corcoran’s first Corcoran was in Kansas meet­ Corcoran recalls. “Walter Clark was a wonder­ novel, which was published in 1967. She had ing a group of children who ful teacher, and the classes 1 took with him ini­ intended this coming-of-age novel for adults, were fans of her many books tiated the change in my writing that steered but an editor at Atheneum thought it was per­ for young readers. One of the things she vividly remembers fromme that toward meet­ some success at last” fect for children. So Sam became what I Corcoran’s recollections of the controver­ Corcoran calls her “accidental entry” into writ­ ing is this: “A pigtailed girl ran up to me and said chal- sial critic and essayist Leslie Fiedler, who ing and was followed by a long list of titles. lengingly, ‘You an author?’” replaced Merriam as department chair, are not Sam, which depicts the Flathead Lake area, “I admitted that I was.” quite as pleasant For her thesis, she wrote “a is one of many books whose settings were “1 don’t believe it,’ the girl replied.” giddy little comedy about faculty life called inspired by Corcoran’s love of Montana. Don't “Why not?” Two-thirds o f a Ghost” It was performed on Slam the Door When You Go, for example, is “‘Cause,’ she said with complete certainty. campus and “everyone loved it, including Mrs. set in a Montana ghost town modeled after ‘Authors are dead.’” Fiedler”-everyone except “Dr. Fiedler, who Garnet A Horse Named Sky centers on Lolo, Move ahead twenty-four years to June never gave us a smile.” She then submitted the and her most recent book, W olf at the Door, 1998. Corcoran, now eighty-seven, is a fea­ play to a national contest at the Samuel French published in 1993, takes place near Flathead tured participant on “A Quality of Life’s End,” Play Co., where it won second place and $350. Lake. a weeklong series on Montana Public Radio, Years later, Corcoran says she tried to cap­ Corcoran says she enjoys writing for young not because of her ture this 1953 campus in a book called Sasha, adults because, as an author, “you have a clos­ age, but because er relationship with your readers. Their she is very much response is immediate.” It is also an interesting A sampler of awards for Barbara an author and very age, she says, because young adults are dealing Corcoran’s books: much alive. Every with lots of conflicts about their families and day of the series, • A Western Writers of America award their futures—conflicts that have not really her work can be fo r Wolf at the Door. changed over the years. heard on KUFM’s • The Child Study Association’s Book of W hat has changed are the kids. “I have children’s radio the Year Award for The Long Journey. written for two generations now,” Corcoran program, “The Pea • The William Allen W hite Children’s says, “and anyone who speaks disparagingly of Green Boat” The Book Award for Sasha, My Friend. today’s kids has me to battle. They are in my story called “Jordan” is one that she adapted at • A Pacific Northwest Booksellers award opinion smarter, more receptive to ideas, more the request of the series director from her for general excellence. responsible than the average group of children young adult novel, May I Cross Your Golden • A National Science Teachers Assoc­ in my generation ever was.” R iver1 iation award for Summer of the White Corcoran’s prolific outpouring of work— That novel, which deals with a sixteen-year- Coat and The Young Grizzly. which includes books translated into German, old boy dying of Lou Gehrig’s disease, is one of Spanish, Swedish and a variety of other lan­ seventy-two novels—yes, seventy-two—for mid­ guages—has earned her a variety of regional dle-grade to high-school readers Corcoran has and national awards (see box). In 1992, written since she received a master’s degree in Corcoran received UM’s Merriam English in 1953 from The University of Award, named for die man who nearly Montana. four decades earlier had believed it was Originally from Massachusetts and a not “absurd” for a middle-aged woman to Wellesley graduate, Corcoran spent a number enroll in graduate schooL of years pursuing, without much success, her As for authors, living or dead, first loves—theater and playwriting. Corcoran, who is at work on her memoirs, Then on a later visit to Montana, she WS& says, “My own opinion is that an author isn’t met with H.G. Merriam, head of the dead as long as one child reads one book of University’s English department “I wanted hers. O r remembers one little insight from to know if it would be absurd for a forty-two that book.” M year-old woman to enroll in the graduate school,” she says. Sharon Barrett is a professor o fjournalism. Roger Stromberg ’62 Boh Dickey ’66

Class Notes were compiled by Joyce H. Brusin, M.F.A. Alex McDonald x ’55 retired from the Missoula UM degree, an M.F.A. in 1991. He lives on the west ’85. If you would like to submit information, please drop Fire Department and lives in Hamilton. He volun­ shore of Flathead Lake and teaches Spanish at Ronan a line to the Alumni Association, Brandy Hall, The teered his time by carving on A Carousel for Missoula High School and remains active in its care University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812-0013. O r Roger Stromberg ’62 and his wife, Ann, live in e-mail your news to: [email protected] Kathy Ljndeman Bremicker '56 retired as a psychi­ Missoula, where Roger has established an independent atric social worker at the Mental Health Institute in investment firm. Corporate Securities Group, Inc. is Cherokee, Iowa. affiliated with J.W. Charles, and member NASD & SIPC. Roger also serves as alumni chapter adviser for She and her husband, Gilbert T. Bremicker ’56, have Phi Delta Theta. ^ ’40s two children and five grandchildren. Gilbert retired in ’63 retired in June 1997 after 30 Helen McDonald Pickering ’48 lives in Spokane, December 1997 after 21 years as Cherokee’s city Jim Johnston years of teaching and coaching at Orofino High School Wash., and is retired from Kaiser Aluminum. administrator. Gilbert spent a total of 33 years in the city management profession, with positions in in Orofino, Idaho. He often travels to Troy, Mont, Normandy Park, Wash., and Bloomington and Blaine, where he was raised. He farms, hunts, fishes and trav­ Minn. He earlier worked as a methods analyst for the els to see his two children and two grandchildren. He’s Boeing Company in Seattle and Renton, Wash. quick to reassure his classmates about where his loyal­ ty lies. “Throughout my Career in Idaho,” he writes, “I ^ ’50s ’59 retired from Syntex Ralph DeLange have remained a true Grizzly. I have won my share of Corporation. He and his wife live in San Jose, Calif., Joel G. Roth ’51, LLB. ’57, a retired state district bets on Montana-Idaho games.” judge in Great Falls, has made many overseas friends and welcome visitors. Julia Ginaway Bondanella ’65 teaches French and while traveling with the Friendship Force. He has been Lawrence K. “Larry” Pettit ’59 was chosen an Italian at Indiana University— Bloomington. Her pub­ to Warsaw, Poland; Munich, Germany; Salzburg, outstanding alumnus by the Beta Delta Chapter of lications, with Peter Bondanella, of Renaissance clas­ Austria; South Africa; Japan; and Bavaria. A trip to Sigma Chi fraternity at UM last winter. Larry has sics include translations of Vasari’s The Lives o f the England is coming in September. "If overseas travel is been president of Indiana University of Pennsylvania A r tists and Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy. She co­ on your agenda,” he writes, “you should know about in Indiana, Pa. since 1992. the opportunities available through the Friendship edited the Dictionary o f Italian Literature and T h e Italian Renaissance Reader. Force.” Pat MacDonald Donun x ’52 retired from Boeing Michael Oke ’65, M.A. ’70, is vice principal of Computer Services after 26 years. She lives in # ’60s Vallivue High School in Caldwell, Idaho. Kirkland, Wash., and spends late fall in Maui, Hawaii. Boh Dickey ’66 has been named “Alumnus of the She was president of Seattle Co-Arts and remains M lCHK) K it a h a r a ’61 writes from Sweden that he Year” by his former employer, the Seattle office of active in Quilceda Carvers and the National Wood has completed his trilogy about the present and future Deloitte & Touche, who selected him for his profes­ Carvers Association. states of Western civilization. The triology consists of sional success and long-standing commitment to the The Tragedy o f Evolution (1991), The Entangled community. Now president and chief operating officer Donald C Oruch ’53, Ed. D . ’63, teaches at Civilization (1995), and The African Revenge (1997). of SAFECO Corp., Boh is active in several nonprofit Washington State University in Pullman. The fifth organizations, including the Accounting Career edition of his book, Teaching Strategies: A Guide to David Dale ’62 was pleased to see his name in the Awareness Program for minority high school students, Better Instruction, has been published by Houghton Winter 1998 Class Notes but called to correct his 1969 Mifflin and includes an instructor’s resource manual. graduate degree to an M.A. and to add his most recent Junior Achievement, the Pacific Science Center and United Way of King County. Jim Schaefer ’66 represents New York’s MISSOULA'S Schenectady County on the Mohawk Valley Heritage Corridor Commission, where he works on economic revitalization and tourism development issues for the area along the Erie Canal. Jim also teaches anthropolo­ ft * gy at Union College and has consulting grants and con­ tracts for drunk driving prevention and to study young adult gambling behaviors. Berl E. “Butch” Stallard ’66 retired from the Air Force in 1987 to become a school counselor. He is now EXPRESS* in Tacoma, Wash., where he teaches science at Jason Lee Middle School. Butch accompanied his eighth grade class on a field trip to Costa Rica in May. “My Welcomes Alumni & Sports Fans! wife, Carol, and I love the Pacific Northwest,” he writes, “and travel extensively in Central America, Within walking distance of UM • Free breakfast bar • Fitness Center Mexico and the Caribbean every year.” Non smoking and handicap rooms • Meeting room • Free local calk David G. “Dave” Armstrong, M.A. ’67, enjoys read­ ing Class Notes to find out what people he hasn't seen Riverview from every room • Easy access to and from 1*90 for years are doing. “I thought I’d send along a contri­ bution of my own," he writes. “I taught in Spokane for Mention this ad to receive our special University rate!* five years, headed to the coast and completed a Ph.D. *Based on avaihbXty at the University of Washington in 1973.1 worked for Western Washington University for two years, then headed to Texas A & M University in 1975.” Dave was FOR RHSFIRVATIONS PHONE: 406 549-7600 a professor and administrator there until 1997, when he became dean of the School of Education at the 1021 Hast Broadway • Missoula, MI o9802 University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 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married to Nancy Halvorson Armstrong x’65 who coast and Hawaii from his base in Los Angeles. He was Francisco Bay area. teaches English as a second language. “We enjoy this hired by United in 1979, after 10 years in the Air Deborah Doyle McWhinney 77 has been elected to area,” he writes, “particularly the easy five-hour drive Force “We still make a trip to Poison and Great Falls to a three-year term on the Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s to Washington, D.C, where our son, Tim, is an attor­ see relatives each year.” board of trustees in Berkeley, Calif. Deborah is execu­ ney.” Bruce A. Sneddon 7 3, J.D. ’96, retired in 1993 as tive vice president of business planning and strategy for George H. Peck ’68 is director of public affairs for a lieutenant colonel from the Army Infantry, after more Visa International and also serves on the UM the Medical Center of Aurora in Colorado. He is than 20 years of service. He is a self-employed legal Foundation’s board of trustees. responsible for community relations and internal com­ research attorney and this summer will move his prac­ Larry M. Elkin 78 spent eight years with the munications and serves as senior spokesman. He was tice to Whitefisb. Associated Press before becoming a certified public formerly director of community relations at Mark Swanson 7 3, M.S. 76, says reading Class accountant and financial planner in the New York sub­ Presbyterian/St Luke’s Medical Center in Denver. Notes gives him a chuckle. “Some of those back room urbs. In 1995 Doubleday published his book, Financial Diana L Barrett Moon ’69 left her job as an ele­ brawlers and ne’er do wells seem to have come Self-Defense for Unmarried Couples. Larry publishes mentary school principal in Spokane, Wash., in 1994 around,” he writes. Mark lives among the Great Lakes his own financial newsletter, S en tin el, which is named to pursue a position as assistant superintendent for in coastal Manistee, Mich., where he is employed as for the mountain in Missoula. instruction in Rio Rancho, N.M. In 1996 she joined county recreation director. He and his wife, Julie, are William Finnegan, M.EA. 7 8, lives in New York Apple Computer, Inc as its educational development expecting their third child in September. City, where he is a staff writer for The New Yorker. executive for the mountain states. This year she moved Debra Diederichs 7 5 has been promoted to assis­ His fourth book, Cold New World: Growing Up in a to Apple’s Chicago offices, where she directs strategic tant vice president of OLDE Discount Corporation, a Harder Country, was published in May. relations for the central United States. discount stock brokerage firm with headquarters in Kent A. Borglum 7 9 has been a certified public Detroit, Mich. Her primary job responsibilities are bro­ accountant since 1980. He is president and general ker and street-side commissions. Debra is active in the manager of American Benefits Consulting Group, the group “Montanans in Michigan,” organized to celebrate largest independent third-party employee benefits Montana and raise funds for various Montana projects. 70s administration firm in Montana that serves the mid- Michael J. Ober '70, M.A. ’73, will serve a four-year L Thomas Winfree Jr., Ph. D. 7 6, just published western and western United States from Great Falls. term on the board of directors of the Montana his fourth book, Contemporary Corrections. He has Kent recently received the Qualified Pension Committee for the Humanities. He teaches Montana authored over 60 research articles and book chapters. Administrator designation from the American Society history and directs library services at Flathead Valley He is currently working on a study of the New Zealand of Pension Actuaries. Community College in KalispelL He, his wife, Alanna, police, based on his 1996 sabbatical leave there. He and their two teenage boys, spend summers at Glacier lives in Las Cruces, N.M., with his wife, Eileen, and National Park, where Michael has worked as a season­ teaches at New Mexico State University, where he is al law enforcement ranger for more than 30 years. academic department head for the criminal justice departm ent # ’80s B. Tim Stark '70 writes, “Just a short note to let you ’83 completed his MS. in know I finally made captain at United Airlines.” He Susan Bayne Coyle Churchill 77 founded ACC Dean S. Gettinger resource education and tourism at the University of still lives in Tacoma, Wash., with his wife, Nancy Fleet Environmental Consultants, Inc in 1986. This year the Idaho and has gone to work for the Bureau of Land Stark ’70. Tim captains the Boeing 767 to the east San Francisco Business Times included it in the “Top 100 Women-Owned Businesses” in the greater San Management’s Idaho state office in Boise. Steven Majstorovjc ’85, M A. ’87, teaches political science at Duguesne University in Pittsburgh. JON S. McCarty ’86, J.D. ’90, became a partner in the Great Falls firm of Scott, Tokerud & McCarty, where he has worked for more than five years. He spe­ cializes in estate planning, real estate and elder law. Douglas James DiRe ’87, J.D. ’93, joined the Dayton Law Firm in Anaconda. CLASS REUNIONS Ann K. Gilkey, M A , J.D. ’87, accepted a position with the Montana Supreme Court’s Court Assessment Program, where she’ll work to improve protective ser­ vices for children and families. - 1 9 3 9 & 1 9 4 9 4 William F. “Bill” Borchers ’88 of Poison worked this past winter with his wife, Teri, at Ross Medical University on the island of Dominica in the West Indies. “We are administrators for a medical test review Flan Now To A ttend program for graduates that assists them in passing the U.S. Medical Boards,” he writes. “A fun gig that keeps Y o u r Class Reunion! us out of the cold.” Todd Kelly ’88 is an assistant professor of jazz stud­ ies and trumpet at Bradley University in Peoria, I1L He May 13-15,1999 and his wife, Kirsten, expect a second child in October to join their son, Connor. The University of Montana Alumni Association Mary Thea “Tiki” Stringfellow Levinson ’88 writes For further details Brantly Hall, Missoula, MT 59312-0013 from Naknek, Alaska, “I was chosen as the 1998 call or write: School Librarian of the Year for the state of Alaska. 406-243-5211 or 1-300-362-5362 Thanks UM for preparing me for success. Geneva Vin

26 Fall 1998 Montanan Trad Stromberg Beighle ’93

Home taught me nearly everything 1 know!" Thomas B. Merritt ’91 has been commissioned a ing positions for fall 1998 at the American School of- second lieutenant in the Marine Corps, following his Doha in Doha, Qatar (a small country north of the Patricia Parobeck ’88 obtained her master’s in spe­ graduation from Officer Candidate School in United Arab Emirates on the Arabian peninsula). ASD cial education from Hunter College in New York City. Quantico, Va. is an international school with a diverse English-speak­ Paul Tuss ’88 lives in Cut Bank, where he is exec­ ing population, and we are very excited! Craig will Brian Bizzano ’92 e-mailed from Washington, D.C., utive director of Glacier Action & Involvement Now, teach elementary physical education, and I’ll teach first where he is enrolled in the Georgetown University Inc (GAIN), Glacier County’s local economic develop­ grade. I’ve spent the last two years teaching at an inner- M.B.A. program. “My summer internship is in project ment organization. He also serves on the executive city school in Fresno, Calif., while my husband worked development at the U.S. Generating Company in board of the Montana Economic Developers for and received his master’s degree from Fresno State. Bethesda, Md. I graduated from UM in finance and Association. His wife, We have a daughter, Jaden, and a son, Tucker. We miss went on active duty in the Marine Corps prior to com­ Montana and plan to spend the summer at Flathead Pam Hillery, M.S. ’88, works as the public affairs ing to Georgetown." specialist for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Lake before we go overseas.” Traci Stromberg Beighle ’93 recently completed Superfund Program in Montana. She and Paul have M.S. ’97, lives in Duluth, Minn., requirements for licensing in the securities industry. Bridget Grosser, one son, Dolan. She is an investment executive with her father, ROGER where she is an assistant managing editor of N e w Moon: The Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams and Leslie Lucas ’89 transferred from Long Island, Stromberg ’62, for Corporate Securities Group, Inc. a contributing editor to New Moon Network: For N.Y., to Palo Alto, Calif., where she manages the new Traci and her husband, JACKSON K. Beighle ’94, live in Adults Who Care About Girls. Crate & Barrel Furniture store at Stanford. Missoula. Steve Nemeth ’89 received a master’s in athletic Casey J. Fatz ’94 received his M.D. in May from the administration from Idaho State University in Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He will Pocatello and is now assistant director of campus recre­ serve a transitional residency in the University of I n M emoriam ation there. He has been a women’s basketball assistant Texas at Houston program. for the Bengals for the past two seasons. The Alumni Office extends sympathy to the families Christina M. “Tina” Parrott ’94 writes after com­ of the following alumni, friends and faculty. pleting her stint with the Peace Corps in Botswana, in south central Africa, “My assignment as a development Margaret T. Reaber ’21, Seattle officer for the Department of Wildlife and National # ’90s Parks was rewarding and frustrating. After two years Alice Gonser ’27, S t Helena, Calif. of Peace Corps, I was ready for a break and packed a Claudine Christy Bernard ’28, Seatde Angela R. Horejsi ’90 writes, "I live in Salt Lake backpack for five months of traveling in Africa Isabel Brown Gans ’29, Lewistown City and am the travel coordinator for the top 10 tele­ (Zimbabwe to Ethiopia and back). I returned home vision show, “Touched By An Angel,” on CBS. I have briefly and am returning to Africa for more travels and Jennings L Mayland ’30, MA. ’33, Albuquerque, N.M been working on the show for two years.” in search of work. Having fun and enjoying life for Thomas R. Midtlyng x’31, Missoula Suzanne Lindsay ’90 is a group service representa­ now!” Glen P. Johannes ’32, Denver tive for the Mutual of Omaha insurance company in Dawn Barron Walle ’95 noticed the M ontanan cov­ Minneapolis. ering UM at home with and exploring the world. She Adelaide K. Stansberry ’33, Missoula SHAWN 0. Henry, M.S. ’91, teaches exercise physiol­ wrote with some international news of her own. “My Kenneth W. Hufford ’34, Walnut Creek, Calif. ogy at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Ore. husband, Craig, and I recently accepted overseas teach­ Leslie P. Mouser King ’91 completed her hospital pharmacy residence at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., and worked as a staff pharmacist at a Kennewick, Wash., hospital. She is now working on her retail pharmacy skills with Wal-Mart Leslie is going on two years with them in Omak, Wash., six years with j- y , C / TT her husband, Steve, and seven years with her cat, Alley. Rhonda Malek McCarty, MJEd. ’91, is principal at bach year at Homecomings Valley View School in Great Falls. The University of Montana Alumni Association honors outstanding Alumni. Recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Awards are individuals who have distinguished themselves in a particular field and who have brought honor to the University, the state Missoula. or the n a tio n .^ m The focus of this award is career Lovely Homes. Quiet Streets. / t m m achievement and/or service to For Sale or Rent. W c C r # u f l& s The University of Montana. Up to six awards can be given annually. All University 24 HR./ 7 DAY TOLL-FREE alumni and friends are invited to nominate a graduate or former 1-888-923-3698 student for this award. Please call the Alumni Office at PRESS 1, THEN 92018 406-243-5211 or 800-862-5862, ^ * to request a nomination form. / - / * * l y y / t / V p C la rk F ork R e a lly Nominations must be W c / t c / Better Howes & Gardens submitted by April 9, 1999. 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Mark Edward Lawrence ’34, Medford, O re Elle n o r e M . B r id e n s t in e ’48, ’50, Penny Farms, Fla. A. L ee O v er felt, J.D. ’51, Billings

Flora Horsky W ertz ’34, Missoula A n to n A . B r yan t '48, Gladstone, Ore. D a l l a s J . R eed ’51, M A ’55, Poison

Robert E. Haugen ’35, Missoula A n th o n y G . D i R e '48, M.A. ’55, Redmond, Wash. William Lloyd Donally ’52, Missoula

Frances Smith Moodie ’35, Pullman, Wash. W a l l a c e J . H en n essy ’49, M.Ed. ’51, Castro Valley, Ju n e M. D u tt o n ’52, Missoula Calif. Nicholas Miloglav ’37, Bellevue, Neb. L eo C G r a y b ill, J.D. ’52, Great Falls Jo h n R . K e lle y ’49, Seattle Vincent F. B erg quist, LLB. ’38, Columbus, Ga. Joanne Angstman Hildenbrand ’52, Calgary, Alberta G eo r g e G . K o vacich '49, Stevensville Dayl B. Graves ’38, Walla Walla, Wash. Ja m e s A. R e id ’52, Pasco, Wash. Ro b e r t H. B erg e ’50, MJEd. ’53, Billings Marie E. Green ’38, Kalispell W il l ia m S . B l a c k ’53, Spokane, Wash. M a r ia n J . Ch a lle n d e r x’50, Bozeman Clarence E. Lee, M. Ed. ’38, Scottsdale, Ariz. R o b R. W il s o n '53, Great Falls W il l ia m E . F r a z ie r ’50, Lebanon, Ore. Betty Sherman Harris x’39, Somers M o r r is A. M y x t e r , M A ’54, Great Falls Je an n e Ta ylo r K n u tzen ’50, Chico, Calif. Florence J. Kolar ’39, Geyser W il l ia m N . D eho n ’56, MA. ’64, Albuquerque, N.M. Jo h n F. L a n z ’50, Ukiah, Calif. Robert E. Jones ’40, Missoula L aw ren ce D . K a r t a k '57, Fort Worth, Texas K a t h e r in e E . M e llm e r ’50, Roseville, Calif. Cyrus E. Bock ’41, Nyssa, O re P e ter L Ra p k o c h , JD. ’57, Lewistown Ro b e r t P. Pa l m e r ’50, Tacoma, Wash. Esther Stufft x’41, Cut Bank M ar y fr a n c e s S h r eeve ’57, M.Ed. ’63, Moscow, Idaho Ja c k D . P e t e u n ’50, Hardin Paul A. Jordan ’42, Burlingame, Calif. Darlene Glantz Skees ’58, Great Falls F r a n k R . W e s k a m p ’50, Rio Rancho, N.M. Robert P. Langen ’42, M.M. ’49, Fresno, Calif. Agnes H. Koorenny Jakes ’59, Ronan Jo seph C Z a c e k ’50, Amherst, Mass. Waldo Spangello ’42, J.D. ’48, Havre Clarence R. Johnson '59, Miles City R o y H. BUCHMEIER ’51, Lander, Wyo. Mary M. “Peggy” Mast ’43, Fairfield Essie McDonald Seibert '60, Ronan D o n a l d E . D e la n e y ’51, M £. ’54, Missoula Michael D. O’Connell Jr. ’43, Butte B ruc e H . Fr a n k ’65, Roundup Ro b e r t L K r am er ’51, El Cerrito, Calif. Lucille Mannix Hall ’47, Bonner Memory Robertson Ogden ’65, Bellevue, Wash. Mona Kay Larsen Ward ’65, Roseburg, Ore. Clarke E. Richter ’66, Mesa, Ariz. Grizzly Hackle's H ouse on Butler C reek. T o m L Ea s t m a n , M A. ’69, Tacoma, Wash. Robert C Jeniker ’69, Seattle So comfortable, Morris E. Prunty '69, Golden, 111: m any of Moira R. Staunton ’70, Arvada, Cola William M. Lowden 72, Missoula O u r G u e s t s John Anthony Dostal 75, Billings never make it Kevin M. Jenkins 76, Great Falls to the river. James W. Sfangelo 76, Havre Joseph R. Hunt 77, Shelby Designed as a retreat for fly fishers, Don A. Barrier V 4 , ’96, Cut Bank the House on Buder Creek is a five- S c o tt F r iz z e l l M.B.A. ’97, Billings bedroom, cedar hideaway 15 minutes Pa u l B o y la n , Bozeman from Missoula. This lodge features gourmet meals, great views, and warm, country charm. It’s available year around for vacations, weekend jaunts, weddings, reunions and, if you can pull yourself away, the pursuit of trout.

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Ed w ar d Esc h ler , Helena N ew A lumni Benefactors M a r jo r ie K . F is h b a u g h , Great Falls A ssociation Life Society M a r y L o u is e Ha r t w ig , M is s o u la The following are members who joined after pub­ G eorge W il u a m H e n ke, Post Falls, Idaho M embers lication of the fall 1997 Montanan. L R. JOURDONNAIS, Missoula B r a d l e y G r a n t , J.D. ’79, Honolulu Platinum Level ($1,000,000 or more) W il u a m M . K ir k p a t r ic k , Missoula K r is t in e O a k l a n d H o u to n en ’73, Great Falls Estate of Marty Arkwright Jo h n S . W e n d i A n n M il e s , Missoula Sa n d r a P r a m e n k o K r a v ik ’69, Hayden Lake, Idaho ’45 and Elena Groene

B e tt y M . R id n o u r , Poison M ic h a e l J . M c D e r m id ’69, Kelso, Wash. Gold Level ($500,000^999,999) John D. and M artha Bryan Je ss ic a S t r a t t o n , M is s o u la L a r r y M o r l a n , Missoula

B ro m W e ber , M is s o u la D a v id N . O t t o u n o ’73, M .B A ’97, Butte Silver Level ($250,00045499,999) Ea r l '43 and Helen Christensen Eu g ene W e ig e l, Victoria, British Columbia Lois Ha z e l b a k e r R o g ers ’48, Phoenix Estate of Jo h n A . H it z e m a n ’52 M a r k T h a n e ’80, M.Ed. ’85, Missoula Hewlett-Packard Company M a r y H e n s le ig h T h a n e ’86, ’89, Missoula Copper Level ($100,000^249,999) Births D a v id V ic k ’90, Great Falls Jo h n J . ’52 and N a n c y Ca lv e r t B u r k e '52 G eo r g e ’46 and L o u is e M a c k e n z ie Ca r a s '47 Samuel Thomas and Katherine Ruby Marie to SUSAN Na ta le e V ic k ’88, Great Falls R ic h a r d Le e M e r r it t '48 D . R e ber O r r ’80 and T h o m a s C O r r , J.D. ’90, June 26, Ginger K. Renner 1995 and Sept 22,1997, respectively, in Missoula. Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation Tobin Matthew Haefele to F r e d e r ic k M . Ha e f e l e , Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation M FA ’81, and Ca r o u n e E . Pa tte r s o n , M .FA ’94, June Alfred and Loralee West 1, 1998, in Missoula.

Hallie Frances to D e n is e Ja n s s en A yles w o r th ’84 and Terrence Aylesworth, O c t 4, 1997, in Algonquin, 111.

Elias Jacob to K r is t in e Jo h n so n -H ir s c h '85 and Gregory Hirsch, Feb. 4, 1998, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Ulyan J o t o S u sa n U n g em ach F e ebac k ’88 and D e r ek Fe ebac k ’88, MS. ’97, Dec 31,1997, in Libby.

John Jiang Lin to H o n g L in , MS. ’89, and W u Jiang, Jan. 6, 1998, in South Plainfield, N.J. A new day Shay Matthew to D a r c y A n n e F ie l d D a n t r ic ’91 and M a tt h e w Cr a ig D a n t r ic ’91, June 14, 1998, in Billings.

Kyla Christina to W ILLIAM ROBERT “ Bo b ” BOUCHEE for IRAs. ’92 and T in a L a n o u e B o u c h e e ’95, June 5, 1998, in Missoula.

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U M G r a d S h o o t s t o t h e T o p by Joyce H. Brusin six finalists competing in this year’s William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s National ruce Ely ’97 was only a junior at UM Photojournalism Championships. In May, Bwhen his photojournalism skills first after a long weekend of on-the-spot assign­ came to national attention. His photos cap­ ments in San Francisco, Ely emerged as the turing the arrest of Unabomber Ted top college photojournalist in the United Kaczynski were fea­ States. tured with the “I was pretty excited about winning the cover story in award,” he said, “but the best part was the News week’s April experience of taking part in the competition.” 15,1996 issue. The rules allowed Ely only ten rolls of film to A photo of chil­ cover three different stories: life on the San dren on a trampo­ Francisco waterfront, 70,000 costume-clad after Ely spent two weeks as an intern for line appeared in the runners in the Bay to Breakers footrace and a Indiana’s Evansville Courier, the paper hired spring 1998 natural-gas explosion he heard about from a him as a staff photographer. M ontanan, along­ San Francisco cab driver. Ely is pleased that his first-place finish will side the announce­ Ely was introduced to photography while bring national attention to UM’s School of ment that Ely growing up in Spokane, Wash. “It was a Journalism. “It’s a good reflection of what’s would be one of hobby of my father’s,” he said. This summer, being done here,” he said. The University of Montana f ~ Students, Faculty, Staff and Alumni - You're Invited to The 5th Annual 6ETTIN6 WILD WITH WILD CAME COOKINC SHOW 6:30 pm, Thursday December 3,1998 University Center Ballroom $5/person*

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30 F all 1 9 9 8 Montanan Garfield County Attorney Profiled for Courage by Joyce H. Brusin Georgia school superintendent, several | U. S. Congressmen, an Alabama circuit hen Garfield County Attorney = judge and two governors. WNicholas C. Mumion, J.D. 78, 1 In accepting the award, Murnion, stepped up to the podium at the John F. s who has served as Garfield County Kennedy Library in Boston on May 29, Attorney since 1979, said, “I am not sure his entire family and eleven of his clos­ I did anything in this situation that any est friends watched as Caroline Kennedy other prosecutor in America wouldn’t presented him with the 1998 Profile in Left to right at the Kennedy Library: LeAnn and Nickolas Mumion, Senator have done. Every day all across the coun­ Courage Award. Murnion, who serves Edward M. Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy Lawford and John F. try men and women in law enforcement the 1,450 people who populate the Kennedy, Jr. put their lives on the line to enforce the 5,000-square-mile Garfield County, was honored for his work uphold­ law to that the rest of us can live in peace. They are the true unsung ing the law in the face of death threats and encroachment by the anti- heroes.” Murnion’s acceptance speech was later entered into the government Freemen who had taken up residence there Congressional Record by Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Named for President Kennedy’s 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Massachusetts. Profiles in Courage, the award was established in 1989 by the Kennedy Murnion noted that, unlike many of the heroes in Kennedy’s book Library Foundation to honor elected officers who make decisions who became isolated after performing acts of heroism, Murnion said, based on principle and the national good, despite opposition from spe­ “I was never alone. In my community I had my own support group cial-interest groups or adversaries. Previous winners have included a the whole time.”

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD UM and Yates—Chemically Bonded The University of Montana Alumni Association welcomes by Joyce H. Brusin new officers and new board members* to its 1998 board. eland M. Yates ’38, MA.’40, had a surprise waiting for him when he took time away from his sixtieth class ■ reunion festivities this spring to attend the dedication of UM’s new chemical storage building. During his thir­ P re s id e n t L Michael J. O ’Neill ’80 ty-one years as as a chemistry professor at UM, Leland’s duties included looking after the vast store of chemicals Butte needed by the department The storage was never what Leland and his colleagues would have wished. His wife, President-elect Leola Cote Yates, remembers Leland using pulleys to hoist chemicals up to attics. Twenty years after his retirement, Rick F. Schneider ’78 ______Leland witnessed the construction of a 3300-foot, Edina, Minn. single-story building for the safe and accessible stor­ Vice President age of chemicals. Leland and Leola stood side by side Donald R Nicholson ’56 Norwich, Conn. on May 15 as chemistry department chair George Woodbury surprised him with the dedication of the Past President Gwen McLain Childs '63 Leland M. Yates Chemistry Stores Building. Big Timber When his faculty colleagues petitioned the Board

Board of Directors of Regents to name one of UM’s newest buildings for Leland, they noted his devoted service to students, Robert T. “Rob” Bell *90, *93 Missoula his interest in developing a better chemistry curricu­ Marcia Meagher Bragg ’63, '74 lum and his long career teaching at a variety of levels. Bozeman One of Leland’s former students, Jean’ne M. * Janece Welton Connor ’58 Shreeve ’53—vice president for research and graduate Spokane, Wash. studies at the University of Idaho, a former member R. MacMillan “Mac” Fraser '62 Boulder, Colo. of the board of the American Chemical Society and Leland and Leola Yates at the dedication of the newly erected past president of the UM Alumni Association— Wyley P. Good '63 Chemistry Stores Building. Fort Benton remembers how Leland helped his students acquire Robert W. “Bob* Hoene ’70 the lab techniques necessary for accurate and precise results. “There were a whole bunch of us who wouldn’t have Bigfbrk made it through a degree in chemistry if it hadn’t been for Lee,” she says. In a letter to support the naming of the * James K. Liles '69 new chemistry facility in his honor, she wrote: “He was as cheerful and helpful to the most obtuse freshman chem­ Miles City istry student as he was to the most distinguished person on campus. He is a very bright, yet unassuming and hum­ William “Bill* W. Mercer ’86 Missoula ble, human being whose loyalty and service to his alma mater have been outstanding. And, he has the most won­ Paige Wilson Nicholson '89 derful giggle!” Great Falls Now a professor emeritus, Leland volunteers his time with Missoula’s Meals on Wheels program and bowls Byron L Robb ’54, ’56 weekly in the UM league. All four of the Yates children graduated from UM: Lee and Patricia in ’64, Daniel in 72 Livingston and Janice in ’89. Perhaps some of the twelve grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren will do the same! * John Walker Ross '66, '69 Billings * Daniel D. Short 7 8 Kalis pell Rachel Sprunk Smith ’84 O n the T rail of M ontana Eddy Suwanee, Ga. by Joyce H. Brusin years. Montana Eddy was not just a typical student but Daniel J. Sullivan 77 a very diverse and inquisitive individual as witnessed by B utte addy MacDonald issued a challenge in the spring the number of buildings that bear the signature.” Geoffrey J. Sutton 75 1997 M ontanan to the real Montana Eddy, author Eddy goes cm to speculate about the campus graffiti- Missoula P * Mary Ellen Cawley Turmell '64 of historic UM classroom graffiti, to reveal his or her make that “signature”—for which he is famous, then he Rolling Hills Estates, Calif. identity in a Class Note. Montana Eddy has chosen to gets sentimental again. “The years spent at UM, moving John C Wertz '61 peek around the comer at us, but continues to keep hid­ through the academic maze and new-found interests, Arlington, Va. den. In a March 1998 letter—postmarked Missoula— continue to be an asset to draw upon in life,” he writes. * Joseph Robert Whittinghill *89 Montana Eddy wrote to Alumni Association Director Eddy follows those compliments with various Freeland, Wash. Bill Johnston. He merely hinted at his identity and then demands. Montana Eddy knows what they are. We ALUMNI OFFICE issued a list of demands! haven’t responded to him earlier because he gave no Bill Johnston 7 9 , *91 “Hello U of M!” Eddy writes, “I hear that there are a return address, and his letter arrived just after the dead­ The University of Montana Missoula, M ont 59612-0013 couple of questions surrounding the who, what, and the line for the spring M ontanan. So, Montana Eddy, if 406-243-5211 five Ys of Montana Eddy. Well, there is a Montana you’re reading this, let Bill hear from you again. So he 1-800662-5862 [email protected] .e d u Eddy, and that person did graduate from UM, not so can be certain of your identity, repeat your demands. http://www.umt.edu/alumni long ago in terms of memories, but maybe long ago in

Fall 1998 Montanas A Letter from O ur N ew P resident

A Butte native, M ike O ’Neill is a 1975graduate o f Butte Central High School and a like to deviate slightly from this practice. Being from Butte, I am 1980 graduate o f UM’s School o f Business Administration. He was a delegate to the allowed—if not expected—to do the unexpected. Alum ni Association’s House o f Delegates; president and director o f the Butte/Silver Bow chapter o f the Grizzly Athletic Association; state representative on the Grizzly Athletic I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank Association’s board o f directors; and co-founder o f Butte’s annual G riz/C at golf tourna­ the highly dedicated and professional UMAA staff. If not for their m ent M ike has been employed by Montana Power Company for more than seventeen efforts, UM would be a little less special for all of us. I believe that years and is currently director o f asset management for Continental Energy Services, a most alumni are aware of the involvement of UMAA staff in major Montana Power Company affiliate. M ike writes: campus events, such as Homecoming, Commencement and Charter am truly honored and privileged to serve as president of The Day. I would venture a bet (See, I told you I was from Butte!) that University of Montana Alumni Association during its ninety-sev­ most of us do not realize the extent of their efforts, however, or recog­ enth year. I appreciate the fine work that has been accomplished by my nize the magnitude of their contributions in less visible areas. Pm I predecessors and will do my very thinking of data-base management, satellite TV parties, alumni gather­ best to continue the high stan­ ings around the country, work with the UM Foundation and athletics, dards that the association has as well as special projects with various UM schools and organizations. established in serving the needs While one would expect that a paid staff would perform its work in a of the University, its alumni, stu­ professional and competent manner, our UMAA staff has a love for dents and friends. the University and its alumni that goes far beyond what could be Each year in the fall issue of expected of anyone. the M ontanan, the incoming In today’s hectic world it is easy to forget to say “thank you” to President of UMAA is given the those who make subtle, yet profound, differences in our lives. Bill opportunity to share a message Johnston and his staff, both present and past, have made a difference with alumni. Over the past sever­ in my life. I am taking this opportunity to say thank you to them on al years these messages have behalf of the many thousands of UM alumni in whose lives they have been very informative, even also made a difference. I encourage those alumni to express their Mike O’Neill ’80 inspirational, in nature. I would appreciation to Bill and his staff at the earliest opportunity.

A lum ni Events September 1 6 - 2 4 Alumni Campus Abroad — Stirling, Scotland 2 6 Tailgate* Weber State, Ogden, Utah October 2-3 Homecoming

Left to right on the front porch of the Maple Street Inn: John Lynch, Barbara Tascher 10 Tailgate* Cal State Northridge, Northridge, Calif. Lynch ’57, Jim Uglum ’55, and Marlene Gaugler Uglum x’56. 24 Tailgate* Eastern Washington University, AIbi Stadium, Spokane, Wash. Reunion Over B reakfast November T he following was submitted by Barbara Tascher Lynch 157 14 Tailgate* Cal State Sacramento, Sacramento, Calif. y husband, John, and I took a trip this spring to visit our daugh­ 15 Alumni Gathering, Atlanta. Ga. M ter, who is a school teacher in Carrollton, Georgia, near Atlanta. 2 1 Griz-Cat game, Missoula She made reservations for us at the Maple Street Inn—a bed and 2 1 Griz-Cat satellite parties — see our ad for locations breakfast a few blocks from where she lives. The inn, built in 1910, is or access http://www.umLedu/alumni a lovely old home on the historic register. We discovered, much to our * Tailgates begin two hours before kickoff time. amazement, that its owners are Jim and Marlene Uglum, who also hail from Montana and were at UM the same time I was! We had a For more information on these events, call the UM Alumni wonderful visit with them, especially when Jim brought out the old Office at 1-800-862-5862. yearbooks! We knew lots of people in common, although we hadn’t known one another.

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Response W as W orth a Sweatshirt Evelyn Heald Bostwick of Corvallis, Ore., won the UM L a t e r t h is fall,, th e Foundation drawing for a Grizzly sweatshirt by responding to a call F o u n d a tio n w ill for information in the 1997 Honor Roll of Donors. The honor roll contained an envelope to be used for address UNVEIL A NEW PLAN updates to add business information and to help maintain accurate TO BETTER RECOGNIZE donor/alumni records. OUR DONORS. Bostwick, who earned her English degree at UM in 1941, retired from Oregon State University where she was a librarian. W a t c h f o r exc itin g Five other names were drawn from the respondents: Don Cullen CHANGES IN THE ’52 of Helena; Susan Cannon DiLenge ’65 of Eagle, Idaho; William GIFT CLUBS! Frandsen ’89 of Missoula; James Grutkowski 77 of San Diego, and William D. ’41 and Loretto Charlotte James ’42 of Great Falls. They all received UM Foundation pens.

Ceremony Signals Construction Start

Thanks to $5.7 million from The ALSAM Foundation, $2.5 Montana University System; Steve Mannschreck, chief human million from American Stores Co., $2 million from the state and resources officer for American Stores Co.; William J. Fitzgerald, many smaller gifts, construction of an addition to the cochairman of the alumni fund raising effort, and pharmacy Pharmacy/Psychology Building for the School of Pharmacy and student Danielle Dauenhauer. Allied Health Sciences is now under way. The 70,000-square-foot addition for the school’s pharmacy and Ceremonial groundbreaking on June 9 preceded the actual physical therapy programs will add classrooms, laboratories, beginning of construction by only a few days. General contractor conference rooms and offices on the north side of the Pharmacy/ is Swank Enterprises Inc of Kalispell, which expects to complete Psychology Building. the project in about 16 months. Nearly 100 donors, alumni and campus representatives watched as the first shovelfuls of dirt were turned by ceremony speakers: President George Dennison; Dean Dave Forbes of the School of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences; Sharen Peters, interim executive director of the UM Foundation; Edwin H. Jasmin, representing the Board of Regents of the

Getting things started for the general contractor, President Dennison, Dean Forbes, Steve Mannschreck, Danielle Dauenhauer, Sharen Peters and the program’s MC Jack Armstrong ceremonially began construction of the building addition for the school of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences.

34 Fall 1998 Montanan Some Gifts Qualify for M ontana Tax Credit As the Foundation aims to raise its endowment to $100 million, the University got some help from the 1997 Montana Legislature. Enactment of HB434 provides state income tax credit for certain irrevocable contributions by individuals, corporations and estates to permanent endowment funds, but only until Dec. 31, 2001. To qualify for the credit, individuals must make a planned gift, such as a charitable remainder trust or gift annuity, designated for an endowed fund. The individual taxpayer is allowed a credit of 50 percent of the present value of the charitable gift portion of such a planned gift Corporations and estates may make outright gifts to a qualified endowed fund and receive a credit equal to 50 percent of the gift The maximum credit is $10,000 and must be applied in the tax year in which the contribution is made; there is no carryback Plate Sales Bring In or carry forward. Sharen Peters and Karen Sitte in the Foundation’s planned 443,844 fo r giving office can provide more information or specific examples. $ Call them at 243-2593. Scholarships Montanans who coughed up an extra $22.50 to put The University of Montana on their license Foundation Unveils plates have enriched the University’s scholarship fund by $443,844. New Logo Each commemorative plate sold since January 1991 is worth $20 for scholarships. Vehicle Foundation publications will have a new and more consistent owners may designate any higher education look now that a logo has been developed specifically for The institution in the state, including private, University of Montana Foundation. community and tribal controlled colleges, as well Designed by Roger Parchen ’82, it incorporates the University’s as units of the Montana University System, as standard typeface with a simplified version of the art used recipient of their donation. throughout the Capital Campaign - Ensuring a Tradition o f From regular contributions and earnings in the Excellence. Unlike the campaign logo, this one can be reproduced fund, license plates will provide $47,150 for UM in one, two or all three of the University’s colors. students in 1998-99. Thirty-six students, designated UM License Plate Scholars, will receive awards ranging from $750 to $1,500. Additionally, license plate revenue is being used The University of Montana this year to supplement 10 Presidential Foundation Scholarships.

Fall 1998 Montanan 35 The University of Montana Alumni Association presents the 1998 Saturday, November 21,1998 Gri^Catcbtdl ite Parties! Kickoff 12:05 p.m . MST* ALASKA SAN RAFAEL LEWISTON NEBRASKA BEND WASHINGTON ANCHORAGE San Rafael Joe's Casa de Oro OMAHA Bend's Best Bet BELUNGHAH The Peanut farm 931 4th Street 504 Hain Scorecard 744 NW Bond Street Stanello’s S227 Old Seward Highway 415-456-2425 208-798-8681 636 N. 114th Street 541-382-1392 Fairhaven District 907-S63-3283 COSTA HESA Patrick Shannon 402-498-8855 Jim ft Joan Hinds 360-676-1304 Elinor Greenfield/Hitch Palmer 541-317-5972 Rich Owens Legend's Sports Grill 509-758-2948 907-248-9104 /402-895-5785 _ __ JJv 580 Anton Bhrd. IDAHO FALLS O H IO Chipper s FAIRBANKS 714-966-5338 Press Box NEVADA CINCINNATI 539 Occidental Ave. South Gold Rush Saloon Kent HcKay 1551 W. Broadway LAS VEGAS Brian Qipson 206-654-8070 3399 Peger Road 949-770-6173 208-523-8413 Torrey Pines Pub 513-779-1610 Dean O’Neill 907-456-6410 RIVERSIDE Hariaine Devine/Terry Belnap 6374 West Lake Head Bhrd Location: TBA 206-706-8679 Dick Morris Stewart Anderson’s Black Angus 208-524-4253/208-524-2046 702-648-7775 COUIMBUS SPOKANE 907-479-6608 3610 Park Sierra ILLINOIS Al Bingham Alumni Club Finnerty’s Red Lion Sport JUNEAU 909-687-9190 CHICAGO 702-436-3457 Stoneridge Plaza Bar and Barbecue Viking Lounge Karen A Christopher Roholt Scott Soehrmann RENO (Hone ft Hamilton) 126 N. Division 907-586-2159 909-369-7180 603-620-5028 Darolyn Skelton Bob Hudson/Stan Danielsen 509-624-1934 Roy Kyle SAN DIEGO Location: TBA 702-831-5011 740-397-5893/614-478-3198 Kon Gleason 907-789-9101 Location: TBA 509-921-9521 Hoose HcGillycuddy’s LOUISIANA TENNESSEE ARIZONA 535 5th Avenue NEW ORLEANS NEW M EXIC O NASHVILLE TRI CITIES PHOENIX/TEHPE 619-702-5595 Fourth Quarter ALBUQUERQUE HcGiBicuddy's Baron’$ M 4 Brew Patrick Hartin/Paul Caine Doc A Eddy's 309 Decauter Street Sidelines Sports Grill 7648 Highway 70 South ^ ^ e 909 E. Hinton 6 19-238-1900/619-236-1980 504-525-7529 9211 Coon Bhrd 615-662-7474 509-946-5500 602-831-0635 COLORADO Joe Leimkuhler 505-897-4633 David Revel! Do" 4 Pal CamPM I Doug Hiller DENVER 504-674-0116 Marita Brooks/Philip Hay 615-333-8976 509-5824924 602-971-1107 Brooklyn's 505-7684117/505-2664781 1B(AS YAKIMA KANSAS 2644 W. Colfax ARKANSAS KANSAS CITY NEW YORK DALLAS w l u j n a LITTLE ROCK 303-572-3999 Johnny's Tavern NEW YORK CITY The Fox and the Hound , . t J J : Embassy Suites Athletic Club John Niemi/Albee Donkh 6765 W. 119th The Sporting Club 18918 Midway L#Cat,#n: Willett 11301 Financial Center Pkwy. 913-451-4542 99 Hudson Street 972-7324804 WASHINGTON, DC 303-771-7422/303-744-2237 501-312-9000 Bruce Johnson 212-2194900 Chuck Bultmann Chatter’s at Bethesda AHen Davis GRAND JUNCTION 913-780-6021 RSVP to JF Purcell 817-2834303 Ramada Inn 501-223-0812 Wrigley Field 516-764-7068 HOUSTON 8400 Wisconsin Ave 1810 North Avenue MASSACHUSETTS CAUFORNIA DENHAH NORTH CAROUNA Two Brewery PALM DESERT/LA QUINTA 970-245-9010 CHARLOTTE 2400 University Blvd-Suite 200 l,re8 fin* Ellen Hiller Four Courts Sports Beerhunter Pkasso’s Spom Cafe 713-529-2739 202-544-3507 970-241-3442 350 Washington St 78-483 Hiway III 781-326-9000 1004 S. Kings Drive Jelflcenhower WYOMING 760-564-7442 FLORIDA Kevin Eames 704-333-2255 281-578-5897 SHERIDAN Lew Hoore/Lee Hackney PENSACOLA Anne Hdntosh UTAH The Pony Bar and Grid 909-845-7921 Sevill Quarter MICHIGAN DETROIT 704496-3488 j^ T LAKE CITY 3 South Gould SACRAHENTO 130 E. Government Street Hoops Sports A Spirits NORTH DAKOTA Port 0>CaJI 307474-7000 McGee's 850-434-6211 2705 Lapeer Road BISMARCK NE comer of 400 S and Ann Bf0wn 5623 Sunrise Bhrd Rowland Throssell 248-373-4744 Lp Spom to Wlamp., 3.74724005 916-966-1364 850-455-2246 John Thompson 300 South 5th Street 801-5214589 Hike Raemaeker GEORGIA 248-682-7847 701-223-1520 J®*1" * Mary Lou Hauck 916-972-1363 ATLANTA Amv ft Paul Hoofauf 801-943-5624 MINNESOTA SANTA BARBARA Rachel Smith, Kevin Smith 701-663-8907 State and A Bar and Grill 770-623-9701/770-271-1617 HINNEAPOUS 1201 State Street Location: TBA Gabby's Sports Bar OKLAHOMA Can't 805-966-1010 1900 NE Marshall Street LAWTON/FT. SILL Patty Hammel/ IDAHO 612-788-8239 Hike's Sport Grill Russ Hanhberger BOISE Jeff HcNaught SI7 E. Gore Characters Sports Bar- 612-377-5209 580-357-3080 Wait? 805-884-1158/805-687-8793 Doubletree Downtown Leonard ft Holly Swan SAN FRANCISCO 1800 Fairview Avenue MISSOURI 580-355-4560 Ricky’s Sports Bar 208-344-7691 ST. LOUIS 15028 Hesperian Bhrd Don ferron Ozzie's Restaurant & Sports Bar OREGON 510-352-0200 208-345-3293 645 Westport Plaza PORTLAND Dick Ford 314-434-1000 A A L Sports Bar 925-933-4940 Kent Vesser 5933 NE GGsan 314-822-0099 503-234-7607 Brandon Byars 'Kickoff time subject to change-check our website http://www.umt.edu/alumnl 503-235-1556 for update. Questions? Call 1-800-862-5862

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