Fare thee well, McGif Going grandkidding One of the J-School's After 30 great years, all-time favorite profs Carol Van Valkenburg accepts new position plans to golf, fish and in celestial news slot. play with grandkids. Freelance alum Karen Coates named 2011 Pollner Professor

Freelance journalist Karen Coates, a 1993 J-School graduate, was chosen from dozens of applicants to be the 11th T. Anthony Pollner Distinguished Professor this fall semester. Coates has spent much of the last 12 years writing from Southeast Asia. She will teach a seminar called “The Savvy Journalist: A 21st Century Survival Guide.” Coates plans to help students learn how to secure funding to pursue stories, find outlets for publication, and negotiate the business aspects of freelance jour­ nalism. She’ll also mentor the Kaimin staff. Coates has authored five books, two of which will be published later this year. Eternal Harvest: The Legacy of American Bombs in Laos looks at Laotian life amid unexploded Fall 2011 Pollner Professor, Karen Coates ordnance. The Way More Better is a collection of essays compiled during 10 years of travel along reporting for the Livingston Award, which Asia’s back roads. recognizes the best journalists in America Her reporting has appeared in dozens of under age 35. magazines and newspapers worldwide. She was The Pollner professorship brings journalists Asia correspondent for Gourmet magazine until with national reputations to UM for a semester. its closure in 2009. This past year she was a Ted The professorship was created by the friends Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at and family of T. Anthony Pollner, a UM jour­ the University of Colorado. nalism school graduate who died in 2001. She has won a number of awards for her work and was a finalist in international [See page 13 for photos of Karen Coates.]

Covering lawmakers National J-awards Students provide full Students bring home coverage of legislative big winnings from session, earn respect nationwide SPJ and of state news media. Hearst competitions.

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► Ihe Alderson Family Foundation ► NewWest.net highlighted the work of correspondent and as managing editor recently donated $5,000 to the Jim Assistant Professor Lee Banville’s Fall of The Wall Street Journal where Brauchli Murray Memorial Foundation, a na­ 2010 Online News class in a four-part, was a colleague of Jeff Cole ’80, a distin­ tional non-profit that raises money for multimedia report on food and agri­ guished UM journalism alum. journalism scholarships. Three former culture issues in the Rocky Mountain Cole was aeronautics editor at the J-students—Peter Bulger, Bill Oram West. The series explored issues affecting Journal when he was killed in a plane and Tyson Alger—have won the $5,000 farmers, local food processors, and those crash while on assignment in January award, based on scholastic merit and a living in so-called “food deserts” as well 2001. Ten years ago Cole’s widow, Maria, written essay. On July 29, a four-person as how high-end stores market the idea established the Jeff Cole Legacy Fund, scramble golf tournament to benefit the of organic food. which sponsors the lecture, provides the JMMF fund will be held at the Missoula The series was reported and written by annual Jeff Cole Memorial Scholarship Country Club. Entry deadline is July 21. J-School students who, with the help of and hosts a dinner for the Kaimin staff. (to register, call: Skip Koprivica at MCC, American Public Media’s Public Insight 406.251.2751). Network, looked into the local food ► The University of Montana’s mascot is Jim Alderson sent this note along movement and agricultural shifts shap­ on Wikipedia thanks to Associate Profes­ with the donation: “My great grandfa­ ing the West. Journalism student Heidi sor Henriette Lowisch’s News Editing ther was the owner/publisher/editor of Groover served as lead editor for this class. “Monte,” the Montana Kaimin the Avant Courier in Bozeman from 1873 series. and other UM icons were researched until 1910. My dad studied journalism Banville’s spring 2011 Online News by Lowisch’s students, who were as­ at UM in the 1920s. My daughter class worked with New West on a series signed to investigate the inner workings Jennifer graduated from UM in 1994 about energy issues in the West. of the popular but often questioned and played on the 1994 womens golf web encyclopedia. Wikipedia’s vari­ team the first year it was brought back. ► The Montana Innocence Project, ous editors-at-large soon critiqued the In spite of my being Bobcat Blue, we do whose board includes Professors Dennis students’ choices of articles, sources and have family ties to journalism and the Swibold and Clem Work, recently filed style, often in what seemed a capricious University of Montana.” a court petition to overturn the 2002 manner. conviction of a Missoula man charged “Accuracy didn’t seem to be the main with jailhouse rape. The petition, based concern of the Wikipedia community,” on a written recantation by the alleged Lowisch said. “As journalism educa­ C. 0 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 IIC victim, was prepared with staff attor­ tors, we constantly try to discourage Volume 55,2011 neys using material gathered by interns, students from using Wikipedia as including J-School students. Students their sole source. I figured a first-hand Published for Alumni and Friends in Swibold’s Investigations class have experience would enable them to judge worked on several other cases. by themselves how reliable the people’s Editor/Designer MTIP’s executive director, J-School encyclopedia is.” Printer Bowler '63 alumna Jessie McQuillan '03, worked ► The Montana Journalism Review UM School of Journalism © 2011 as a lobbyist in the 2011 legislature for better laws to preserve DNA evidence. this year takes a comprehensive look Send news and Class Notes to: MTIP contends that Montana’s policy of at the perks and perils of international preserving DNA evidence for three years reporting. It features articles submitted C o m m u niq u e is not long enough, for either defendants by several veteran reporters working in UM School of Journalism or prosecutors. MTIP’s goal is to exon­ China, Southeast Asia, the Middle East Don Anderson Hall erate innocent Montana inmates and to and North Africa. Missoula, MT 59812 prevent wrongful convictions. MJR is a journalism course for upper- 406.243.4001 level students who gather stories, edit email: [email protected] ► Marcus Brauchli, executive editor of and design the four-color magazine. Visit us a t: www.jour.umt.edu, The Washington Post, delivered the Jeff Professor Clem Work is their adviser. Facebook and Twitter (@umjschool) Cole Distinguished Lecture on March 18. You can view the magazine and extended Brauchli previously worked as a foreign stories online at mjr.org.

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► Brigadier General Colleen McGuire ’79 is one of four 2010 UM Distin­ guished Alumni Award recipients. She was honored as part of the 2010 Home­ coming festivities last October. McGuire is the first Montana woman to achieve the rank of brigadier general and the first woman ever to become provost marshal general of the U.S. Army and commanding general of the Army Criminal Investigation Command. She is the Army's top law enforcement officer. She was a UM broadcast journalism major, ROTC member and Grizzly cheerleader. McGuire has served nearly 30 years of military duty in Germany, Somalia, Iraq and the United States. When she retires, she plans to come home to Montana.

► Assistant Professor Jeremy Lurgio ► Associate Professor Denise Dowling ► Jim Messina, deputy White House will spend much of the summer travel­ served as interim chair of the Radio- chief of staff for the past two years, has ing the state of Montana documenting Television Department while Professor moved to Chicago where he is managing stories for his project “Lost and Found Ekness was on sabbatical. She has been President Obama’s re-election campaign. Montana.” The project will examine 18 appointed permanent chair beginning Messina, a UM journalism graduate, last towns on the edge of extinction. He also in the fall of 2011. Dowling will offi­ visited the J-School in October 2010, plans to finish editing and production on cially receive tenure this fall based on a when he spoke to a reporting class and a short adventure film. He will be teach­ strong record of scholarship, service and a Public Leadership Seminar political ing a summer workshop at the Rocky teaching. She continued her professional science class. Mountain School of Photography about radio work in 2010-2011, reporting for photographing people. National Native News and Montana Public ► Melody Perkins-Martinsen ’87 Jeremy and Denise Dowling partici­ Radio. Students in her courses have and her husband, Jeff, received the pated in the Missoula’s gifted education earned top honors in state and national Master Editor/Publisher Award at the conference presenting workshops for journalism competitions. Montana Newspaper Association’s gifted students from the region. annual convention in Lewistown, June ► Anne Medley, M.A. '08, a Missoula- 10-12. The Martinsens have owned the ► Professor Ray Ekness spent the based photojournalist, spent three weekly Choteau Acantha since July 1, 2010-2011 academic year on sabbati­ months in eastern Congo in 2010 teach­ 1990, and have never missed an issue. cal. He and adjunct instructor John ing multimedia journalism to university The award program noted that “They Twiggs traveled to Ireland in October to students in the city of Beni. Her visit was transformed the Acantha from a sleepy shoot video footage and interviews for part of “Congo in Focus,” an education little bulletin board to a vibrant, aggres­ an update on people Ekness profiled in project she developed. sive newspaper with a county-wide news 1997 in the television program “Building Medley collected $8,000 in donated focus.” The Martinsens have diversified Bridges.” Ekness also worked on produc­ digital cameras, audio recorders and their business to include a website ing the popular MontanaPBS television video cameras to take to the Universite updated daily and separate community series “Backroads of Montana” along Chretienne Bilingue du Congo (UCBC) web pages for each of the smaller towns with Twiggs, Gus Chambers and Wil­ where she taught photojournalism, audio in their coverage area. liam Marcus. The program celebrated recording, videography and multimedia The Acantha has consistently been its 20th anniversary in May. production. among Montana’s highest rated papers.

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Robert Carnahan McGiffert, a papers than they did, using his red distinguished journalist, award­ pen to make the incomprehensible winning teacher, respected copy editor publishable. As state bureau and relentless defender of factual reporter Chuck Johnson remarked reporting, did not accurately report his years ago, “When he handed back own death. your papers it looked like the McGiffert, who died on Saturday Crimean War had been fought on [Christmas Day, 2010], was not, as he them.” wrote in his own obituary several years Bob’s editing expertise was ago, taken by slimy flux, a disease admired at the highest levels of common to the horse chestnut trees of the business and he spent many his native New Jersey. summers at The Washington Post. An editor there, writing about his work, A sudden onset of pneumonia Bob McGiffert, 1922-2010 caused McGiffert’s death. He was 88, and said: “One of his greatest strengths is had recently returned from California to have talked to over the years, decided to his love of words — a passion in sad celebrate the holiday season with his many become a journalist because of him. decline these days. He has made many When I was an undergraduate the a bumbling reporter comprehensible Missoula friends and family before the students published a critique of all the and many a good one sound brilliant illness sent him to St. Patrick Hospital... professors and, as you might imagine, by supplying the mot juste for a mala- -Quoted from a Missoulian story by Bob was one of the campus favorites. propism or an off-key verb.” Betsy Cohen. He’d liven up lectures with songs like, Goodbye Mama, I’m Off to Yokahama, or ob liked to use humor in almost Keep Mum Chum, or at fall quarter’s end any situation, not just to teach The following are excerpts from Professor he would bark Jingle Bells. B or to tell stories on himself, but Carol Van Valkenburg’s eulogy for Bob In that published critique, one even at the most unexpected times. at his memorial service Jan. 1, 2011, in student’s answer to the question of He found a unique way of warding off the UM Music Recital Hall: “What could the professor do to improve telemarketers in the time when dinner the class?” was a single word: Costumes. or a peaceful evening was likely to be 7 ou have reached the number Not one to pass on a great idea, Bob interrupted by their incessant calls. After Y you’ve called. If it’s not the donned a long coat, aviator cap and the usual, “How are you tonight, Bob,” he JL number you want, press or goggles and when the senior seminar learned to answer, “Not so good.” Trying say 2, hang up and try again. If it IS the class studied press coverage of major to sound interested, the caller would number you want, press or shout 4, leave events of the 1920s Bob burst through usually reply, “Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. a message for Bob and hope for the best.” the door to belt out several choruses of What’s the problem?” “I have cancer of I m sure that’s a familiar greeting to “Lindbergh, Eagle of the USA.” It proved the balls,” he’d answer. He knew they any of you who phoned Bob when he so popular that he reprised it every year had no retort for that in their scripts and wasn t home. If we could leave a message and even well into his retirement. they would quickly end the call. I think for him today it would be, “Thanks, Bob, Some professors are more about it put Bob on the telemarketers’ “Do Not for being a friend, a teacher, a writer, style than substance, but that wasn’t Call” list before there was one that put us editor, singer, storyteller, and First Bob McGiffert. He taught us to write off limits for the solicitors. Amendment advocate.” with precision and clarity and to avoid I had the good fortune to visit Bob I first knew Bob as a teacher, the 50-cent words when a 25-cent one would many times in Washington, the first best I ever had. I, like so many others I do. He spent more time on students’ time in the summer of 1974 when he

We are the Journalistic Children of Bob McGiffert. We had our first classes with him in the 1960s or ’70s or ’80s or ’90s. From the beginning, we knew he’d be tough. A t the end, we loved him. One former student said this week, “I’ve worked at various newspapers for 40 years, and I wouldn’t have lasted 40 minutes without everything McGiffert taught me. He was simply the best.” I think we all feel that way. -From a tribute by Ginny Merriam ’86 at the memorial service.

4 J-\X/orld |\|ews ...... gave me and my husband Fred a tour of moment of my life, up to that time. ob’s kindnesses extended to the newsroom during the Watergate Whether the terror was greater minutes others dear to him, including my affair, and walked us past Bob Woodward later, when Sarah’s friend Julie had Bown children. A few nights ago I and Carl Bernstein as they worked the disappeared in a similar fashion and my pulled out “The Trumpet of the Swan,” phones, feet up on their desks. own time had come, I’m unable to say. If by E. B. White. Bob gave that book to When I was working summers in there are degrees of monstrous fright - my son, Kevin, in 1985, the Christmas Philadelphia, he’d invite me down for terror plus and terror minus - they Kevin was 8. Inside he had written: “For weekends to stay at his sister Barbara’s average out to terror, and ... whatever I my friend Kevin Van Valkenburg. This house. How lucky I was to sit back and was feeling, while our cheery young book is mainly for kids, Kevin, but if hear the hilarious banter between two of jumpmaster checked my death suit for you like a good story, enjoy fine writing, the smartest, wittiest and most engaged the last time, the setting had been spun and have ever been to Billings, it doesn’t siblings you could ever meet. I know her to maximum.” matter how old you are to read it. Love,” death several years ago left a hole in Bob made the jump, but not before then he changed to a red pen to write - Bob’s heart. edging out the door and doing every­ “Merry Christmas” before he signed his thing wrong. Fortunately, he floated to a name. e loved his family, though he soft landing. Oddly enough, despite that There was another part of Bob that admitted he wasn’t always as abject terror, he did it twice more after played a big role in his life. Bob was Hattentive to them in his working he turned 70. an alcoholic. He wasn’t one of those years as he knew they deserved. Dear Abby kind - you know, Bob tried to make it up as where you read the list of 10 he grew older, and one such Bob's famous $2 poem graced the back page behaviors and if you answer gesture had him skydiving of the 1975 edition of Montana Journalism Review: yes to more than two then you with his daughter Sarah about might have a problem. Bob was a “hide the bottle in the park the time of his 69th birthday. $2 Poem* I treasure his published story on a morning jog” kind, so that about that, not just for what it As any reader knows, a source can when he was making a loop he showed about what a splendid charge, declare, affirm, relate, could swing by his stash and writer he was, and how much have a swig. He wasn’t proud recall, aver, reiterate,, he loved Sarah, but how he had of it, but he wasn’t ashamed the gumption to meet head on allege, conclude, explain, point out, to say he was a recovering one of his greatest fears. answer, note, retort or shout, alcoholic. He was proud that he Bob was afraid of heights, spent the last 26 years without rejoin, demand, repeat, reply, once freezing on a Glacier trail a drink and that his disease and having to be talked down. ask, expostulate or sigh, led to friendships with a wide But he was determined to make blurt, suggest, report or mumble, circle of people he might not this jump. He later wrote about otherwise have come to know the adventure in a newspaper add, shoot back, burst out or grumble, and love. feature story: whisper, call, assert or state, I want to end with a quote “It was a bit dispiriting to vouchsafe, cry, asseverate, from the Irish writer James watch my daughter squeeze Joyce, not because he was one through the door of the snort, recount^ harrumph, opine, of Bob’s favorites - 1 don’t airplane, work her hands slowly whimper, simper, wheedle, whine, think Bob could abide the lack out and up the diagonal strut, of punctuation - but because mutter, murmur, bellow, bray, dangle there for a couple of I know it’s what he’d want for seconds and then let go, a mile whinny or . . . let's see now all of us: above the Arizona desert. For . . . SAY! “Were we to brood upon nearly 34 years this woman had them always, we could not find -Robert C. McGiffert been a source of love and joy the heart to go on.” and pride to me, the younger We - your many friends - half of my fragile link to *So entitled because Professor McGiffert, a member of will go on Bob, but our world immortality, and now in an the faculty of the Montana School of Journalism, received will be the poorer without you eyeblink, she was gone - zapt, $2 from Editor & Publisher when it published the poem in in it, yet rich beyond measure 1964. vanished, like a blip from a for your having been a part of radar screen. It was the worst it. We love you, Bob. A

5 U M ychool of Journalism iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Adios after 30 years of teaching­ arol Van Valkenburg plans to retire Dec. 30 time for more golf and grandkids Cafter three decades at the School of Journalism. by Sharon Barrett the prudish sensibilities of a UM law Carol was hired in January professor who wanted to censor the 1982 to replace Sharon Barrett A well-established fact of Carol Van Kaimin. But Carol advised the staff about during winter and spring Valkenburg’s nearly 30 years of their rights, and they held fast, as they have done time and again. quarters while Sharon was in teaching journalism is that disgruntled students have been a rarity. Sometimes defense of free speech Mexico. Subsequently, Carol But over the years there have been a actually gets as far as a court case, but filled a number of jobs at the few, and one, early in Carol’s career at more often a sticky situation is settled J-School, including adviser to UM, took to referring to her as Carol Van low key, with Carol talking - explaining the Montana Kaimin beginning Talkingbird. to a displeased reader why it’s not in 1983. She was hired for a Now, close to three decades later, a libelous for a Kaimin reporter to have tenure-track position in 1989. couple of things can be said about that. said that the Dining Services soup Carol served as interim dean One, the student is watery. Or that contrary to the belief of the school in 1998-1999 obviously was not all that unhappy, given of a former provost, after the death of Joe Durso that a more depre­ mendacity is not part and became chair of the print cating moniker could of the job description and photojournalism depart­ have been bestowed. of a journalist. ment when that position was Two, it appears, And over the years, created by Dean Jerry Brown. on the eve of Carol’s there have been all She decided it was time to retirement, that the kinds of other talking: retire when she began teaching student’s choice of > talking to name - Van Talk­ children of students she'd students about why ingbird - was both taught in the 1980s. Her major they should give prescient and compli­ further - not farther motivation is to get more time mentary. - thought to their to see her two grandchildren. Consider the careers; Her son, Kevin, who is a 2000 evidence: > talking to graduate of the J-School and Eleven years ago, university committees about all the a reporter at the Baltimore Carol was one of three journalism profes­ Asphalt-to-Zen things those committees Sun, and his wife, Jen, have a sors nationwide to receive a “Teacher talk talk talk about; 20-month-old daughter, Molly of the Year” award from the Freedom Sofia. Her daughter, Kristin, an Forum. > talking to alumni about how much urban planner in the Denver The Freedom Forum was estab­ the journalism school could use some of lished in 1991, as a “foundation that their money; area, and Kristin's husband, champions the First Amendment as a Terence, have a 28-month-old > talking about - bragging, and with cornerstone of democracy.” Carol won son, Eamon. good reason - all the awards UM jour­ the award and continues to deserve nalism students have won over the years Carol will continue as it because she has spent her career (but not talking about the hand she had adviser to the Kaimin for the speaking out for freedom of speech. in making those awards happen). rest of the academic year and Perhaps nowhere has her defense When Carol retires at the end of fall will also continue to oversee of the First Amendment been more constant than in her role as Kaimin semester 2011, she should be proud of recruitment and selection of adviser - a position she has held so that affectionate, long-ago christening: theT. Anthony Pollner Distin­ long that who can remember there ever Van Talkingbird. guished Professor. Now and having been a predecessor? Since she plans to stay on for awhile then she hopes to fit in some Defending the Kaimin staff isn’t as Kaimin adviser, the J-School can be golf and flyfishing. ▲ always a lofty pursuit. Consider the 2009 happy that retirement won’t shut her up. dust-up over a sex column that offended -3 0 -

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Early on, I thought I had missed out on the Carol Van perspective on your latest story. People listened to what Valkenburg of legend. Certainly, she was still quick to Carol said, and in many ways she became larger than life. condemn dangling participles and overwritten ledes. The Carol rarely stormed into the newsroom to criticize, but Carol I heard about before I joined the Kaimin was a fire­ I’ll never forget the time she ran in, out of breath, and breathing lion, but the woman I encountered was bluntly gasped, “This is the best story the Kaimin has ever done.” delicate, impossibly kind, and an annoyingly good bowler. (That was editor Roman Stubbs’ prize-winning story on Carol was the toughest and best editor I’ve had, always troubled Griz football star Jimmy Wilson.) insisting on another level of “why” whether we were Thoughtful and caring, intelligent and passionate. That’s investigating a football scandal or ASUM’s latest foray into the Carol Van Valkenburg of legend. absurdity. Friday Kaimin meetings were either the most -Bill Oram ’09, former Kaimin editor, fun event of the week or the worst, depending on Carol’s covers sports at The Salt Lake Tribune

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Dear Friends, ♦ “We will always need and depend on a professional core When Judy Woodruff reached the end of her remarks for of people . . . who believe research is important, who this year’s Dean Stone Lecture, she turned her attention to can back up their reporting and know that they need to the J-School and read our mission statement out loud: do that.. . . We can’t function as a democracy without a strong press and we can’t function as a strong press without “The mission of The University of Montana School people who are devoted to the craft - the profession.” of Journalism is to provide students with a professional - Judy Woodruff, PBS NewsHour co-anchor and senior education in journalism; to teach them to think critically, act correspondent ethically, and communicate effectively; to help them under­ ♦ “We don’t need more journalists who write without re­ stand the challenges and changes in the news media; and to porting or who guess at what people see or think or experi­ inspire them to use their talents to improve journalism and ence. What we need are meaningful stories about people enhance a diverse and democratic society.” and their lives, empathetic narratives that make the readers Woodruff, who’s a co-anchor at PBS NewsHour, told feel.” - Eli Saslow, 2010 T. Anthony Pollner Distinguished the overflow crowd that our mission statement is “a gem to Professor and reporter with The Washington Post be appreciated.” ♦ “Take as many writing classes as you can. Learn how to You can’t ask for higher praise. craft a sentence.” - Brent Musburger, ESPN sports announcer And it’s this mission that faculty keep top of mind as we redesign courses to reflect the changing news media envi­ ♦ “Try to expand the picture of how we portray aboriginal ronment and as we work to recruit students for this new people.... Understand the power the media has to share era of journalism. We ask ourselves: What do journalism stories, to further emotions and conversation.” - Duncan students need to learn today? What kinds of jobs will they McCue, journalist for CBC-7V in Vancouver, B.C., who is be able to find? Anishinaabe (Anishinaabe are members of the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation, in southern Ontario) In 2010-11 we invited some of the top journalists in the country to spend time at the J-School and on our campus. ♦ “Never before have journalism skills been more relevant. We asked them the same questions. Here’s what some of . . . If you like the idea of being on the frontier and changing our noteworthy guests told students, faculty and staff: the world, this is a pretty good time to do journalism.” - Marcus Brauchli, executive editor of The Washington Post ♦ “There are going to be expanded opportunities [for jobs]. People don’t lose the appetite for information, the need for We couldn’t say it better ourselves! Enjoy this year’s information that they need to make decisions in their lives... Communique. Thank you for ail your support and encour­ The best advice I can give: You need to learn to write.” — •/ agement this past year. Please do stay in touch with your Tom Brokaw, author and former NBC Nightly News anchor J-School family. - p e d d y Ku h r

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around 1920, came of age in the Great Depression, fought in World War II and rebuilt the postwar world. In his UM speech, he referred to those Americans: “There are people in these stands today who came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice. When the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to have been washed away. “Instead that generation found common cause, first in their economic struggle, and then in their call to arms, World War II, the greatest event in the history of mankind. “When it was over, it would have been easy enough for them to come home and say T’ve done my share,’ put down Tom Brokaw, former NBC News anchor and Montana rancher, delivered UM's 2011 their arms and retreat to their families Commencement Address. He was awarded the University's Honorary Doctor of Humane or their communities and never lift Letters. another finger to help society. But they didn’t do that. They went to college in roadcaster and author Tom believe anyone who told them they were record numbers, got married in record Brokaw brought a powerful about to enter “the real world.” numbers, gave us new industries, built Bmessage to Montana for all “I have news for you,” he said, “The states like Montana and institutions like generations when he delivered the real world was junior high. You will be the university. university’s 2011 Commencement astonished by how much of the rest of “It was a time of sacrifice, but it was Address on May 14. your lives will be consumed by the same also a time of public service, of stepping He reminded graduating students petty jealousies you encountered in forward.” about the power and limitations of junior high, the same irrational juvenile Brokaw received an Honorary Doctor technology. “You have an assortment of behavior. You will leave here with a of Humane Letters degree during the nimble and powerful tools that can assist degree, but it does not confirm maturity commencement ceremony. NBC journal­ you - the Internet with its vast universe or judgment.” ists and J-School alums Don Oliver of information and capacity for research In 2004, Brokaw stepped down after ’58 and Shane Bishop '86 helped us ^ d communication played out on ever 21 years as the anchor and managing nominate Brokaw for the honor. smaller devices across an ever wider editor of NBC Nightly News. He Tom and his wife, Meredith, now spectrum of choices,” he said. continues to work as a special correspon­ spend some of the year at their ranch in But those are tools, not oracles; they dent for NBC News. Montana. They have supported the complement your mind and your heart. Brokaw has written several best- Journalism School, particularly its They do not replace them.” sellers, including “The Greatest Genera­ Native News Honors Project and Don Brokaw also warned graduates not to tion,” about Americans who were bom Anderson Hall. A

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Two University of Montana jour­ nalism students got to spend some face time with PBS NewsHour co-anchor Judy Woodruff after her visit here to deliver the 54th Annual Dean Stone Lecture on April 26. Senior Radio-Television student Erin Schermele and junior Emily Creasia were Students Erin Schermele and Emily Creasia jet-set with PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff. invited to ride along on a private jet to her next stop in Billings. Even today, Woodruff told them, there are not enough women in news Grad students tour VN, study climate management. Schermele said Woodruff Editors note: We’ve just finished the students and two professors engaged in inspired her to pursue such a career. first year of our new Master’s degree an exchange between Can Tho Univer­ “It’s especially great to get Judy’s in Environmental Science and Natural sity and UM’s College of Forestry and insight on where she thinks television Resource Journalism. Director Henriette Conservation. is going and what young professionals Lowisch led this year’s class of seven grad The program included tours of the can do to produce new and fresh ideas,” students through a new curriculum that Delta’s coastal fishing communities, Schermele said. sends them out across campus to work with aquaculture and rice cultivations. Schermele got hands-on experience in scientists, learn about research, and cover Through lectures from Can Tho Univer­ news management during the 2010-11 complex topics for a general audience. Two sity faculty and field meetings with the school year as KBGA College Radio’s of those students traveled to Vietnam to Delta’s farmers, government officials and News Director. conduct a special research project. natural resource managers, the students For Creasia, Woodruff motivated her studied how the Vietnamese people are to be ambitious and unafraid of failure. Kevin Radley and Montana Hodges adapting to the coming changes in their Woodruff, who has covered national spent Wintersession 2011 in the environment. politics for NBC, CNN and PBS, didn’t Mekong Delta, studying the effects of Hodges and Radley edited the group’s study journalism in college. She began as climate change on Vietnam’s society, daily blog, “Deep in the Delta: Stories a secretary at a television station in economy and environment. from Vietnam,” and provided photos and Atlanta. When Woodruff told her boss They were part of a group of nine UM stories for climatecentral.org. A she wanted to be a reporter, he told her they already had their woman reporter. “You really are always having to prove yourself,” Woodruff told the students. Woodruff’s Dean Stone lecture to a packed University Center auditorium emphasized social media’s impact on traditional news media, young voters and the presidential election. She said that more research-based reporting and critical thinking would serve the public better than the media’s fascination with personality issues. We will always depend on a profes­ sional core of people who believe research is important,” she said. A Montana Hodges and Kevin Radley relax a moment during their visit to Vietnam.

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Tenth session for Community News Service J-School coverage of 2011 Legislature in high demand with state news media

arlier this year, Steve Newman, Cody transmitted a weekly package of But it wasn’t easy, Cody recalled two longtime editor of the Tobacco legislative reports to dozens of Montana weeks after adjournment: Valley News in Eureka, Mont., newspapers, mostly weeklies and a few E I remember running everywhere made the kind of mistake that wakes small dailies, via the school’s Community you in the middle of the night with your News Service. Brittany filed several almost the entire first month. I felt that if I didn't know what was happening in heart pounding. Legislative News Updates each day of the every corner of the building, I'd miss He realized that in the crush of session to a network of radio stations. something that every other reporter had. putting out that week’s paper he had Both also contributed to the project’s The first month was a long one. forgotten to jump two stories: a local website: www.sessionll.org. One morning in feature and the weekly J-student legisla­ For the students, the experience was those first few weeks, tive report from Helena. both exhilarating and exhausting as they Chuck Johnson, of the “I was inundated with calls the rest of raced to keep track of 150 legislators, Lee State Bureau, told the week,” he confessed. “Folks wanted dozens of committees and more than me that it was going - demanded - to know the rest of the 1,100 pieces of legislation. to be a long haul, and story. I’ve never had so many calls at one The issues, ranging from medical not to worry about time about anything. My readers wanted marijuana to adequate funding for social catching everything to read the report. I ran it every week in services and education, were complex as right off the bat Cody Bloomsburg the same spot on page 1.” always, but the session’s politics proved because there would be plenty of The Community News Service feeds especially tricky. Republicans controlled chances. dozens of Montana newspapers and both chambers and were intent on After the halfway mark everything sort radio stations with continuous coverage cutting government spending and of fell into place in my head. I dropped of the state’s biennial legislative session. authority, but a Democratic governor the constant scramble because I finally CNS is the brainchild of Professor stood in their way. Clashes were knew my way around the process well Dennis Swibold. He and Assistant inevitable, and the job of explaining the enough to focus my efforts - sort of. Professor Ray Fanning supervised the potential consequences required wit and It was then I learned that scramble is student reporters who resided in Helena skill. just part of the process in Montana. The during the 2011 session. By session’s end, Brittany and Cody trick is knowing when it's real and when Second-year graduate student Cody and the other students filed more than it's show. Much of what happens during Bloomsburg, of Lewiston, Idaho, and 400 stories with newspapers and radio a session's first 40 days is probably show. After that, you have to trust your guts and senior Brittany Wooley of Boise, Idaho, stations statewide and on the website. not let complete physical and mental were the latest in a long string of student With encouragement and advice from burnout talk you out of doing the job. legislative reporters that stretches UM alums such as Marnee Banks ’09, Chuck gave me a lift home on one back 10 sessions. Four other students Emilie Ritter ’07, Chuck Johnson ’70 - Jamie Bedwell, Miranda Dalpiaz, of the last days of the session. We and Mike Dennison ’81, the two earned were talking about when we thought Jayme Fraser and Dan Viehland - also the respect of sources and their peers in the leaders would adjourn, about how contributed their journalism and social the Capitol press corps. neither of us felt like we had gotten a networking skills to the effort. The two also emerged with fat contact decent night's sleep for the past four The work was supported financially lists and a valuable understanding of months, and about how there were only by the Montana Newspaper Association, state and regional issues. Both landed so many times a person can write about the Greater Montana Foundation and jobs immediately after the session: Cody medical marijuana. by scholarships, including the school’s with Idaho’s Lewiston Tribune, and As I got out of his car he said, "I told biennial Fred Martin Fellowship. Brittany with KTVQ in Billings. you it was a long haul." ►

By the session's end, Brittany and Cody and the other students filed more than 400 stories with state newspapers, radio stations and the CNS website, Session ll.org.

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Brittany is taking plenty of hard- 7was inundated with calls the rest of the week. Folks wanted earned expertise to her new job: - demanded - to know the rest of the story. Yve never had so Overall, my experience covering the Legislature was incredible. I can't many calls at one time about anything. My readers wanted to truly describe it in a read the report. I ran it every week in the same spot on page 1.” few paragraphs, or a novel for that matter. -Steve Newman, editor of the Tobacco Valley News, Eureka, Mont., describing I grew more as both a his readers' reaction one week when he forgot to jump the rest of the student reporter and a person legislative report. during those four months than I ever thought possible. I am The 25th annual R-TV student T he University o f Montana School o f Journalism Brittany Wooley so grateful I was given presents documentary project this year is titled the opportunity, and I wouldn't change it “Connecting the 406” in reference to for the world. Montana’s 406 area code. My four months covering the Legisla­ The documentary takes a look at ture were in many ways not exactly what Montana through the eyes of internet I expected. I went into the experience ranchers, online daters and gateway thinking I had a fairly good grasp of the guardians, uncovering a subtle yet legislative process, but I quickly learned powerful web of people and enterprises otherwise. that connect Big Sky Country. Experiencing firsthand how a bill The class project was produced and becomes a law is so much different directed by Tyler Velin and Alison from reading about it. I got to see the Kilts (photo below). lobbying, deal-making and drawn-out The program premiered May 13 in debates. Sometimes issues I thought the University Center Theater and was would receive no attention ended up featured May 24 on MontanaPBS. taking up the entire floor debate. The Last year’s student documentary, distinction between the freshman and “Cannabusiness,” was produced before seasoned lawmakers was clear. the 2011 Legislature nullfied the state I also found myself working long referendum allowing medical marijuana hours trying to comprehend and summa­ rize complex issues in a very limited to be legally prescribed in Montana. ▲ amount of time. I produced more in a day than I often did during a week at the University. That was probably the most valuable skill I took from my internship. I understand most of the issues facing Montana, and if I come across one I don't, I know how to figure it out and figure it out quickly. I have worked at my new job for three weeks now, and the work I am doing is extremely easy because of my time in Helena. The contacts I made are also invalu­ able. I got to meet the state's leaders, the lobbyists, and the people behind the scenes. I know I will use those as I continue on with my career. I would like to have done more in-depth stories on issues rather than produce a lot of very basic material on a daily basis, but because I was the only broadcast reporter, I had to work on the stories the stations needed. ▲ Tyler Velin and Alison Kilts are shown here practicing their connecting techniques.

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Broadcast alum Norma Ashby named to MBA Hall of Fame

Norma Ashby ’57 was and guests she hosted on her inducted into the Montana show. She has produced more A youthful Norma interviews Broadcasters Association Hall than 20 television documen­ Norma takes a turn as inter­ President John F. Kennedy on of Fame at the annual MBA taries, including “The Great viewee on her home station of his visit to Montana. Hall of Fame ceremony in June Falls Story: A Tribute to 125 26 years, KRTV-Great Falls. 2010 in Whitefish. Years.” A native of Helena, Ashby received a B.A. in Journalism Ashby also gave back to her community of Great Falls and from The University of Montana. She was on the air at KRTV Montana over the years. She co-hosted the Childrens Miracle in Great Falls for 26 years. “Today in Montana” was the place Network telethon for many years with long-time broadcaster for community members, honored guests, politicians and and MBA Hall of Famer Dan Snyder. visiting celebrities to be seen and heard by people across She is the ultimate cheerleader for Great Falls and was once Montana via the MTN Network. Among those she interviewed named the city’s most influential woman. She’s an honorary were Johnny Cash, Evel Knievel, Bob Hope and Presidents member of the Blackfeet Tribe and was given the Distin­ John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. guished Alumni Award from the University of Montana. Ashby won the 1985 Broadcaster of the Year Award from Ashby continues to serve the journalism profession. She is the Greater Montana Foundation and Montana Broadcasters a trustee for the Greater Montana Foundation, an organiza­ Association. tion that encourages communication with an emphasis on After retiring in 1988, Ashby wrote Movie Stars and electronic media, on issues, trends, and values of importance Rattlesnakes, a book that chronicles her years in television to current and future generations of Montanans. ▲

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Overworked, Karen Coates: not your average reporter underpaid: our The new Pollner professor completely immerses herself in the cultures she covers as a freelancer reporter. She relies mainly on her adaptability, willingness to go valiant J-Staff where few have gone, and a low-tech approach: “You’ll notice I still take notes with pen and notebook - I can’t believe how many reporters no longer do!” These are the unsung heroes who keep our wheels turning and all our bits and pieces glued together, day after day. We’re proud to introduce you to:

Kathleen Whetzel, Assistant to the Dean, deftly processes every­ thing moving through the Dean’s office: re­ ports, financial, faculty and student activity; i.e. the entire J-School.

Emily Bulger, Office Manager, handles all inquiries & scheduling, writes newsletters, runs the website, and copyedits everything. She’s the hub, keeping us on track every day. ABOVE - A Khmer medicine man uses his breath to drive bad spirits out of Karen Coates' ears. This was part of her story research on the spirit world in everyday Cambodian life. Peet McKinney ’0 1 is BELOW - Karen interviews Jim Harris, the only American working to clear unexploded our IT Director. Peet U.S. bombs dropped on Laos in the Vietnam War. A construction crew found this designed and built 250-pound bomb while digging 15 feet below the surface. Clearance teams were not our IT infrastructure equipped to move or destroy the bomb, so there it stayed. Search teams located and and for 10 years has detonated a 750-pound bomb in another area. The explosion was powerful enough to kept faculty, staff and shake the ground and rain shrapnel over a one-mile radius. An unknown number of live students networked bombs remain buried in the countrysides of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam - most are and “on the air.” found only by accident. -Jerry Redfernphotos

Diego Baccino, a UM College of Technology graduate, assists Peet and oversees a team of J-techs in the Help Desk office. He’s the guy you call to come and fix everything.

Wanda LaCroix is the admin associate for the departments. She runs the office, maintains student records, grants and does whatever is necessary to keep the wheels turning.

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Students bring home several wins from national Hearst competition

The Hearst Journalism Awards are known as the Pulitzer Prizes of college journalism. Among entrants from more than 100 accred­ ited journalism schools in the country, The University of Montana’s school received an overall ninth place in the national standings. This year’s winners at the Hearst Awards national competition are: • Greg Lindstrom, 4th place, photojournalism • Justin Franz, 4th, personal profile writing • Alisia Duganz, 5th, multimedia feature • Jake Stevenson, 7th, radio feature • Steve Miller, 7th, personality profile writing • Troy Warzocha, 10th, sports writing • Emily Creasia, 18th, radio feature • Kimball Bennion, 19th, feature writing

Two Native News projects placed high in the Hearst Multimedia categories. This photo of a kayaker coming up for air is one Alisia Duganz’s piece, “Tobacco Roulette,” of Greg Lindstrom's four winning entries. Greg placed fifth in the the Hearst Multimedia walked away with two $1,000 scholarships. Features Visual Story Telling category. She received a $1,000 scholarship. There were 68 entrants in this category from 40 journalism programs across the country. Alisia graduated Students and faculty in spring 2011 with a B.A. in Photojournalism. Greta Rybus ’10 placed seventh in the score at BEA awards Hearst Multimedia News category with “Not a The Broadcast Education Association awards Drop to Drink.” honor work produced by college students and Both pieces were part of the 2010 Native professors from around the globe. News Project: Living Sicker, Dying Younger, R-TV professor and department chair Ray examining health issues on the Rocky Boy and Ekness won an Award of Excellence for “Senior other Indian reservations in Montana. Weightlifter Harold Smith,” a video profile he produced for “Backroads of Montana” which airs on MontanaPBS. The 2010 Student Documentary “Canna- business” earned an honorable mention in the long-form documentary category. It examines Montana’s medical marijuana business and aired on MontanaPBS last summer. Seniors Dan LaDue and Jake Stevenson took honors in the Sports Reporting category. Their piece, “When Griz Fly,” profiled UM’s snowboard team. Alisia Duganz took this photo of Helen Stamper Graduate student Gillette Vaira took second Windy Boy of Rocky Boy Reservation who was place in the TV News Anchor category for her diagnosed with lung cancer in 2009. work with MontanaPBS and UM News.

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INDIANAPOLIS - The PROFESSIONAL Living Sicker, Dying Younger is a JOURNALISTS Society of Professional 40-page print and online publication by Journalists National students in the Native News Honors Mark of Excellence Project that focuses on Indian health Award winners include care issues. It was an online publication UM students who took finalist. (View at http://nativenews.jour. top honors in TV Sports Photography umt.edu/archives/nativenews2010.) and national finalist recognition in four other categories. WASHINGTON - R-TV students won Devin Wagner accepts the $10,000 Taylor R-TV seniors Cody Johnson and three Emmy Awards in public affairs, Family Award for the Sioux Falls Argus Kaelyn Kelly won top place for their cultural affairs and sports categories Leader from Bob Giles, representing the Harvard Nieman Foundation. TV sports photography entry, “Frontier at the northwest regional ceremony at States Wrestling” (see below). They Snoqualmie Casino 8c Resort. profiled a wrestling school in Missoula Kaelyn Kelly of Helena and Dan J-alum produces that turns out top-notch competitors. LaDue of Bozeman won in public affairs R-TV junior Emily Creasia of Helena for their story, “Interpreting Education.” winning series won national runner-up in Radio Sports The story focused on hearing-impaired Reporting for her story on the Hellgate students at UM and their sign language Rollergirls. The piece aired on KUFM- interpreters. on reservations Montana Public Radio where she is a Kelly and Cody Johnson of Missoula J-School alumnus Devin Wagner led co-anchor of Montana Evening Edition. earned the Emmy in sports reporting a Sioux Falls Argus Leader team that won Recent graduate Vince Bagby ’10 of that highlighted Missoula’s Frontier Kalispell was a national finalist in the the $10,000 Taylor Family Award, which States professional wrestling school. Television Feature Photography category is administered by the Nieman Founda­ Gillette Vaira of Lambert, Mont, for his work on mountain biking. Bagby tion for Journalism at Harvard. won the cultural now works as a sports reporter and affairs category with The award was given to the Argus anchor at KECI-TV in Missoula. her story, “Film­ Leader for its eight-part series “Growing Jayme Fraser’s story, “Missoula maker,” that profiles Up Indian,” which examined the chal­ shaken baby conviction relied on science, a UM Media Arts lenges faced by children on South Dakota expert,” was a finalist for general news student’s masters reservations. Devin photographed and reporting. She is the new Kaimin editor. degree project film. produced the multimedia series. Other finalists for the award were The Washington Post for “Paths to Jihad,” which explored choices made by young Muslims in the post-9/11 era, and The Sacramento Bee for its series “Who Killed Amariana?” about the state’s responsi­ bility for the death of a 4-year-old child in foster care. The award was created by the family that operated The Boston Globe to recognize and encourage fairness in news coverage. Devin and his colleagues were awarded the prize at a ceremony at the Neiman Foundation on March 10 in Cambridge, Mass. Devin is a 2008 graduate from Billings who is of Crow heritage. Photo clip from Cody Johnson and Kaelyn Kelly's video that won Emmy and SPJ awards.

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William C. Bequette, 93, long-time editor of the Tri-City up in Libby, Mont., where many of the men who worked in the (Wash.) Herald, died in his sleep at home April 24, 2011, after mines—including her father—died with vermiculite ore dust a three-year illness. A UM J-School graduate from Hardin, he in their lungs. served as a combat veteran in the South Pacific during WWII Over a decades-spanning career in the Portland radio and was awarded a Bronze Star and Purple Heart. Bill got his industry, Heidi worked for stations across the radio dial, first post-war job reporting for UPI in Helena. including KPAM, KINK, KEX, KPOJ and, most recently, as a “In the early ’60s, he forced an end to local boosterism and fill-in announcer with a regular Friday evening shift on OPB. instilled an ethic of honest reporting that continues today,” Lynne Clendenin, OPB’s Vice President of Radio Programming, said Jack Briggs, retired Herald publisher. “He molded not just said she hired Esping in 2009 because of her warm tone and the Tri-City Herald but the Tri-Cities with his forceful edito­ news savvy. “I thought she was wonderful on the air,” Clen­ rials that stressed not just economic stability and diversifica­ denin said. “She was welcoming always in her manner. You tion but also quality of life. He was gruff and tough . . . and he could hear her smiling.” forced reporters to write stories they didn’t want to write but The first time Tauber interviewed for a radio or TV job in eventually won them journalism prizes.” Montana, the general manager, sales manager, news director “Bill was the first to argue that women reporters and and announcer told her, “There are no broads in broadcasting.” editors should be paid the same as men,” said Herald Executive She persevered and landed a job as weather girl in Redding, Editor Ken Robertson. Calif.—“Do you know how hard it is to do weather in Redding? Bequette’s wife, Neva, died in 1998. He is survived by his It’s going to be hot today.”—and the news producer/anchor for daughter, Gail. a Yakima television station. She beat out 95 other applicants for the chance to partner with Jeff Clark on afternoon drive­ Elizabeth “Betty” P. Crookes died in the presence of her time at KINK. “That was my boyfriend’s name in college,” she family Dec. 21, 2009, at Rosario Assisted Living in Anacortes, says. It was meant to be. Wash. She was born and raised in Bozeman where her father Noel D. Furlong, 84, died on Valentine’s Day, 2011, after a was an entomologist at Montana State College. Her mother sudden illness. He earned a B.A. in Journalism at The Univer­ died when Betty was 10. She majored in journalism at The sity of Montana in 1951. He was born on Feb. 14,1927, the University of Montana. After a year in San Francisco, she eighth of 10 children to Ina and Edward Furlong in Chester, became secretary to the headmaster at Lakeside School for Mont. Boys in Seattle, where she met Spencer Crookes. They married Noel left for the Army the day after his high school gradu­ December 26,1939 in Cleveland, Ohio. ation in 1945. He was the fifth and youngest brother to serve Betty finally began her journalism career when she was during World War II. Except for his military service in Nurem­ employed as a feature writer in Chcago for Pioneer Press, a berg, Germany, he was a lifelong Montana resident. division of Time-Life Corporation. She interviewed Lillian He married Louise Franz, a fellow UM graduate, in 1951. Gish, Donald Rumsfeld, and phoned Arthur Nielson, TV They taught in Alberton for three years before Noel was hired pollster, to ask him what he liked to watch on television. She at Flathead County High School in 1954, where he taught won the Best Feature Story in Illinois award one year. American history, journalism, economics, and drivers’ training She was preceded in death by her husband. for 34 years. As a member of the Montana Education Associa­ tion, he was the state president from 1973-1974, and was a David Dennis died at home on Jan. 14, 2011. He earned a BA delegate to the NEA Constitutional Convention of 1972. Noel in Journalism (R-TV) at The University of Montana in 1993. also served on the Kalispell City Council and was a delegate to David was bom on Sept. 27,1960, in Alhambra, Calif. the Montana Constitutional Convention in 1972. He later moved to Sidney, Mont. Survivors include his wife, He was preceded in death by infant daughter Susan Marie Jolynn, and two children, Kyla and Paul. A memorial service and his wife, Louise. He is survived by his five children: was held Jan. 20, at St. Anthony Church in Missoula. Laurie, Mark, Brian, Judy and Michael.

Heidi Tauber Esping died in a head-on collision on 1-405 in Kerry (Thomson) Henrickson, 41, died of cancer Jan. 26, Portland, Ore., last March. She was a 1970s J-School graduate 2011, at her home in Flagstaff, Ariz. She earned an M.A. in and a longtime Portland-area radio news announcer. She grew Journalism at The University of Montana in 2001.

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She was born in Kalispell on Nov. 19,1969, and lived with Ted was a lifelong friend of the J-School and made dona­ her parents Bob and Jan Thomson in Great Falls where she tions over the past 15 years to meet the School’s greatest graduated from C.M. Russell High School in 1988. She gradu­ needs, and to support staff, faculty and students. ated in 1992 from The University of Montana with degrees in zoology, Spanish and chemistry. She was a Smithsonian Lewis (Lew) Keim, a 1953 graduate of the UM School of Fellow. She attended UC Berkeley, where she earned a master’s Journalism, died at his residence in Whitefish on April 22, degree in Integrative Biology and was also the captain of its 2011. He was 80 years old. NCAA national champion TaeKwonDo team. At UM he was a Sigma Nu, editor of the Montana Kaimin, She taught science writing at UM, and later taught biology and a member of Silent Sentinel. He was a lifetime member at community colleges in Oregon and California. She was the of the Alum Association, a trustee of the UM Foundation, a Science Department chair at Cochise College, Sierra Vista, member of President’s Advisory Council and a director of the Ariz. She earned her Ph.D. in science education from Capella Grizzly Riders. University in 2007, and the following year became a faculty Lew retired from Gates Corp. as a vice president of corpo­ member of Northern Arizona University, where she taught rate public relations in 1996. He and his wife Carol moved to physiology and pathology. Whitefish where he received a governor’s appointment to the Kerry married Dr. Jim Henrickson on May 18, 2003. She is Montana Department of Environmental Quality’s Advisory survived by her husband Jim and her pets, Otter, Dandy and Council. He was also director of the Flathead Lakers, a director Rascal, at the family home in Flagstaff and by her parents, Jan of St. Matthew’s Parish Capital Campaign and raised funds for and Bob Thomson of Great Falls. Flathead Regional Medical Center’s Alert helicopter. Lew was a member of the national Association of Manufacturers, the Ted Hilgenstuhler, who spent his professional life writing American Arbitration Association and Trout Unlimited. for magazines and newspapers in California, died March 15 in Lew is survived by his wife Carol; daughters, Kelly Keim Simi Valley, Calif. A 1950 graduate, he was 85. of Stanford, Kathlyn Keim-Robinson and Jennifer Fortson of Ted was born July 9,1925, in Brooklyn, N.Y., where his Portland, Ore., Mary Frame of Mount Pleasant, Mich., Karin parents ran a confectionary. He graduated from Erasmus High Padalino of Centennial, Colo, and 10 grandchildren. School in 1943, having earned letters in football, basketball and baseball. Two days after graduation he enlisted in the U.S. Betty Ellen McGuin died at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula Navy and served on ships in Southeast Asia. After the war on April 25. She was bom on Sept. 14,1918, in Kansas City, he enrolled at UM to study journalism and to play baseball, Mo. earning the role of team captain. Her childhood was spent with her mother and stepfather, After graduation he began work at the Missoulian, though Marguerite and Bill AlfF, and her sister Emily. They moved to he left after a short time to study in England. In 1951 he Missoula in the 1930s where Betty graduated from what was began work at TV-Radio Life magazine and also wrote televi­ then Montana State University with a bachelor’s degree in sion scripts and biographies of celebrities. He wrote more than journalism. 120 scripts for the TV series “Wanderlust” and its syndicated Betty married James David Ellen on Christmas Day 1942 version, “Vagabond.” at the First Baptist Church in Missoula. They moved to Butte His most notable books were biographies of Tennessee where Jim was the Marine Corps recruiter, then to Cherry Ernie Ford and Lawrence Welk. In 1958 he became a writer Point, N.C., where their son David and daughter Marguerite for the Los Angeles Herald-Express and later the Los Angeles were born. Following Jim’s honorable discharge from the Herald-Examiner, when those morning and afternoon papers Marines, they moved to Missoula, where their son William and merged in 1962. He later worked for the Southern California daughter Kimberly were born. Edison Co. as editor of its in-house publication. He compiled Betty and Jim owned the General Appliance Store in down­ a collection of his interviews in a book and CD called “Just town Missoula for many years. They sold it to their employee, Between Us.” Pete Vann, who turned it into the current Vann’s Appliance In 1999 the Los Angeles Times recounted how Ted was the store. Betty and Jim’s next business was the Missoula Benefit first reporter to reveal how Joe DiMaggio ordered that red Society, which they ran for more than 20 years. They retired roses be delivered three times a week to Marilyn Monroe’s in 1985 and spent 10 years moving with the seasons between grave. He came upon the story accidentally while covering the Flathead Lake and Florida. Jim died in 1995. funeral of an actress who was buried near Monroe’s grave. He In 1997, Betty remarried an old college friend, Jack noticed the roses and asked the groundskeeper about them McGuin. Betty and Jack lived for 10 years in San Diego, and was told of DiMaggio’s standing order. The resultant and returned to Missoula in 2008. Jack died in 2009. She publicity from Ted’s story caused such a commotion that is survived by her sons, David and William, and daughters, DiMaggio stopped the practice in 1982. Marguerite Ardito and Kimberly Dredger and their families. ►

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Dawson N. Oppenheimer, 87, passed away on June 6, 2010. farming village of 650 persons. He attended the University of He was born on June 5,1923, in Butte and spent most of his Iowa, but his education was interrupted for a year of service life working as a journalist. He spent his last 10 years working in the Army in World War II. He was graduated from Iowa as a Press Deputy for Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike An­ in 1948 with a degree in journalism. In 1952, he worked as tonovich, a job he loved and never considered work. He served a reporter and copy editor for the Great Falls Tribune. He in the U.S. Army/Air Corps during WWII. moved to Milwaukee in 1954 where he spent the next 18 years Dawson is predeceased by his wife, Audrey. He is survived working for the Milwaukee Sentinel and later the Journal. He by his children: Charynn Marshall, Preston Oppenheimer, and left the Journal in 1986 and became dean of journalism at Laurel Rebenstock; and a sister, Jeanette Tabak. South Carolina until his retirement in 1991. He was predeceased by his wife, Dorothy. He is survived by James Robert “Jim” Peterson died Nov. 16, 2010, at his son, Paul Shoquist, and daughter, Sally Shoquist, both of Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. A UM graduate, he Jackson, Wyo. received a B.A. in Journalism in 1983. Jim was born April 12,1948, in Janesville, Wis. He joined Joan (Harbolt) Stremcha, a 1955 graduate of the Journal­ the U. S. Navy in 1968 and was a scuba diver and instructor ism School, died on May 5, 2011, at Northern Montana Care in nuclear submarine prototypes. After his discharge, he went Center in Havre. She was 80 years old. to work for Hartford Steam Boiler where he remained for 23 Joan was bom and raised in Chinook, Mont. She married years. He went on to operate his own consulting company and Fred Stremcha in 1956. They lived in Havre, where Joan most recently was employed with AEGIS Insurance Services of worked at the Havre Daily News for four years. Joan and Fred New Jersey. raised three sons. In 1980 he married Katherine Marie “Kathy” Zinn in Great Joan later worked for the U. S. Border Patrol as an adminis­ Falls. In 1992 they moved to Idaho Falls where Jim started a trative assistant until she retired. Joan also was part owner of loss-control engineering consulting company. Stremcha Electric with her husband, and a devoted member of James is survived by his wife, Kathy; two brothers, Dennis Van Orsdel United Methodist Church. and John; three sisters, Mary Kris Fleming, Karie Cowdenand She is survived by her husband of 55 years; her sons Gary and Kathrin Mueller. (Havre), Paul (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Dan (Billings); two Jim was buried at sea with military honors near the Naval brothers and four grandchildren. Base at Bremerton, Wash. Melissa Hart Weaver died in a plane crash over the National Joseph A. Renders, Jr. ’50, died May 3 at home in West Bison Range near St. Ignatius, Mont., on June 27, 2010, while Stockbridge, Mass. He was born in California and later moved on a sightseeing trip with friends. She to Montana after military service in World War II. He earned graduated cum laude in 2009 with B.A. a degree in journalism at The University of Montana where he degrees in Journalism and Psychology. met and married a fellow student, Tempie Daigle, of Missoula. Melissa was born on March 21,1987, Joe was a reporter and editor for several newspapers before in Rochester, Minn. She moved with her he established Public Relations Associates with Ray ’43 and parents to Arizona and New Jersey before Mary Fenton. Joe was a political advisor and speechwriter for settling in Billings in 1992. She attended US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and other Montana Poly Drive Elementary, Lewis and Clark political figures. He was Vice President of Montana Legal Middle School and Billings Senior High School, graduating Services, a member of the Montana Citizens Commission on with honors in 2005. State Legislature, and a government consultant. Melissa was a University Scholar with distinction through In the early 80s, Joe was involved in business ventures to the UM Davidson Honors College. In December 2009, she develop alternative energy sources and with nature conserva­ began work as a reporter for the Daily Interlake in Kalispell. tion. He was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed fishing and Melissa is remembered by her friends and family as an hiking at his mountain retreat on the Rocky Mountain. intelligent, energetic young woman who loved to ski, travel, He is survived by five children: Arlana Renders (Hawaii), write and explore the great outdoors. She shared her mothers Marsha Vernon (Wash.), Robin Renders (Mass.), Cheryl Philips love of cooking and her kitchen was always stocked with deli­ (Mont.), and Jeff Renders (Ore.), other family members, and cious, fresh-baked goods. by his devoted caregiver Helen Depuy. Melissa is survived by her parents, Dan and Kathy; sisters Sarah and Emily; brother Joseph and numerous relatives. She Joseph William Shoquist, 84, retired newspaper editor who was preceded in death by her grandfather, Carl Bell. taught at the UM Journalism School for a short time, died Melissa was remembered by her teachers and classmates February 27, 2010. during a brief memorial at the Dean Stone Awards Banquet He was bom November 30,1925, in Lone Tree, Iowa, a this year. ▲

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famous, along with those whose lives had between the Old Irish culture and the cul­ been forgotten. McGlashan, who grew up ture of the Crow Indians of Montana, have in Butte, worked on newspapers around been well received. She and her husband, the west before earning a masters degree Bob Fusie, live in Helena. Bob was a pub­ and then a Ph.D. from universities in Cali­ lisher with Lee Enterprises in Helena and fornia and Iowa. She taught journalism at Rapid City, South Dakota. Don Graff1050 ’50, and his wife, Peggy,s are re­ various universities before returning to her tired and live in Fairfax, Va., on the Wash­ hometown, where she is a freelance writer/ Nils Rosdahl ’67 retired in December after ington beltway. They have two sons and a editor. You can purchase the book online 25-plus years of teaching journalism at grandson. Don was editor of the Kaimin at: http://www.oldbutte.com/zb. North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene. He’s and earned a Master’s degree in History pleased to report that his students won the and Political Science. He began an editorial Jack Counihan ’62 retired as Promotion top prizes in national competitions with career with UPI and worked several years Director of Newsweek eight years ago after the Society of Professional Journalists and as an editor with Radio Free Europe in Mu­ a “checkered” career in marketing and the Associated Collegiate Press. He was nich, Stockholm and Vienna. Don married promotion (“Yes, I sold out,” he says) at nominated for SPJ’s journalism instructor and returned to the states as an editor and a variety of publications (including LIFE, award for this year. For years he has writ­ news manager for the Newspaper Editorial Sports Illustrated, Field & Stream, The Wall ten a business column for The Spokesman- Association (NEA) in Cleveland and New Street Journal, etc.), to freelance and toss Review that now runs in the Coeur d’Alene York City. Frisbees to his berserk border collie in Press on Sundays. He plans to write several Garrison, NY. He also holds down the fort short stories and maybe a few books. Glenn Chaffin ’55 is at home in Corval­ while his wife, Ellen, still commutes to her lis, Ore., after his 13th winter in Southern job in the city. California. He’s looking forward to his annual trip to Montana and the J-School Tom Flaherty ’62 moved back to Red this summer as well as his 60th reunion in Lodge, his hometown, after retiring from 19705 2015. He has this message for other alums: the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in 2000. “If you are reading this and you are a J- Although concentrating on his guitar and School grad, plan to be there.” working on the model railroad empire Louise Fenner ’70 is a writer for the U.S. in his basement, he has been writing a State Department and is married to film Don’s brother, Jim Graff ’57, reports, monthly column called “You Can Go Home editor David Minckler. She is sick of hear­ “Since selling my Public Relations & Again” for the Carbon County News. He ing about social media. Marketing firm in 2000 and closing out my hopes to have it published in book form in journalism career as chairman of Gard & the near future. Ken Robertson ‘70, executive editor at Graff, I have enjoyed semi-retirement as a the Tri-City Herald in Kennewick, Wash., consultant to my earlier employer, Kamp- Jim Oset ’65 retired from The Billings marks 35 years at the paper in June and grounds of America (KOA) in Billings. I Gazette in 2005 and lives in Billings with 20 years as its top editor. He reports, “We continue to downhill ski, slay trout with a his wife, Karen. In 2007, Jim, Karen and continue to do pretty well as a newspaper, dry fly, golf poorly, and try to keep up with son Jonathan visited Slovenia, where Jim’s winning four C.B. Blethen Awards last fall, six grandkids.” mother was bom and grew up, coming to including three first places. The feature America in 1938. They traveled more than that won the Blethen Award also won a 3,000 miles in that tiny country, a part of national SPJ award for feature writing.” the former Yugoslavia. Jim continues to The Herald is down in staff numbers, like stay in touch with relatives there via Skype. many other papers, he said, “But today, 1900s Since retirement, Jim has kept busy with a the sun is shining, we’re supposed to see little writing, woodworking and trying to 70 degrees and so I’ll focus on enjoying improve his cooking skills. that. I look out my office window and it Zena Beth McGlashan ’61 has written reminds me of sitting on the second-floor a book about the stories she unearthed Lorretta Lynde ’67, M.A. ’79 has pub­ window ledge of the Kaimin offices in the through research on Butte’s cemeteries. lished four novels in the Magpie Odyssey old J-school and enjoying a warm spring Buried in Butte was published in spring series and is currently writing the fifth. afternoon, though the UM campus is pret­ 2010, and has stories of the rich and These books, which draw on the parallels tier and Mount Sentinel much closer.”

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John Paxson ’72 retired in 2006 from for the Montana Department of Natural pers State Bureau offer right out of college CBS News where he was a vice president Resources and Conservation (DNRC). He because Helena is a great community and London bureau chief. He’d been with says that he found his journalism degree and the Capitol is an interesting place. CBS for 24 years, working through radio to be invaluable to his career. He retired in Kevin is still in Helena, now the Associate and the TV assignment desk in New York Helena three years ago. Commissioner of Higher Education for and then stints as deputy bureau chief communications and human resources. He in Los Angeles and producer in Dallas. Daniel Struckman ’78 is retired and manages governmental affairs, public rela­ Paxson took the London post in 1995 living in Billings. He is writing a book tions, human resources, and labor relations and managed many major stories, includ­ about his uncle from Kalispell, former UM for the Board of Regents of the Montana ing the wars in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghani­ student Carl R. Bonde, Jr., killed in the University System. Kevin’s wife, Beth stan and Iraq, the deaths of Mother Teresa English Channel on Christmas Eve 1944 by McLaughlin ’90, is the Director of Court and Princess Diana, and more. a U-Boat torpedo. Bonde was aboard the Services for the state judicial branch. The In 2006, he tried retirement but it ill-fated SS Leopoldville troop ship. former Kaimin staffers have two daughters, didn’t work. Early in 2011, he became news Clara and Eliza, who enjoy their occasional director for the public radio and television visits to the hat and shirt department of stations of the Murrow College of Commu­ the UM Bookstore. nication at Washington State University in Pullman. IQCOs Michele Troxel ’88 is show producer for John reports, “So I’m back in the North­ KING-TV’s news program “Evening Maga­ west and only one minor mountain range zine.” She just celebrated her 15th year at away from my old school. It’s good to be Susan (Back) Sharon ’84 is the deputy KING-5. Michelle has also just opened her (almost) home.” news director for Maine Public Broadcast­ own media consulting business. “I visit ing Network. Montana often as my family is still there. Joe Frank ‘J.F.’ Purcell ’72 has been I also try to get home for a few Griz games working at PRI Communications in Rock­ Kathleen E. McLaughlin ’84 is now a each year,” she said. ville Centre, Long Island, where he helped senior correspondent for the online news launch a new publication for affluent outlet Global Post (www.globalpost.com), Kate Ripley '89 recently earned an M.A. homeowners, Today’s Renovation. Joe’s also living in Beijing and covering China. in Northern Studies at the University of selling advertising for WildBird magazine. Alaska Fairbanks. Since 2004 Kate has He said he’s “glad I could stay in publishing Bill Miller ’84 became the editor of Lone been public affairs director for the Univer­ sales, rather than taking a job at Staples.” Star Outdoor News last year after 25 years sity of Alaska System, following a career reporting for daily newspapers. Miller and in journalism in Alaska. She and husband Jack Tanner ’72 is presentation desk edi­ his wife, Samantha, help manage her fam­ Brian O’Donoghue, a journalism professor tor at the Naples Daily News in Naples, Fla. ily’s ranch in DeWitt County, Texas. She’s at UAF, have two teenage sons, Rory and He is married to Ellen Tanner. senior director of development for Trinity Robin, and a 7-year-old daughter, Rachel. Area Habitat for Humanity. Larry Bruce ’73 retired in January from a 36-year career at the rural electric co­ Judi Blaze ’87 is now writing full time as op (McCone Electric) in Circle, Mont. He a novelist and nonfiction writer after many writes that he can now pursue some writ- journalism jobs reporting and editing. She 1 0 0 0 s ing projects he’s had in mind. has written five novels, a book of short sto­ ries, and is now working on a memoir, Rid­ Dale Faulken ’75 retired seven years ago ing in the Backseat with my Brother, about Tracy Johnke ’91 works as a reporter and after working as a correspondent and edi­ growing up Gypsy. She can be reached at: anchor for MarketWatch Radio Network in tor at Reuters in London. He and his wife [email protected]. Washington, D.C. spent last year on their olive farm near Ronda in the mountains of southern Anda- Janie Sullivan ’87 is the Director for the Kerri Lee O’Farrell ’91 is the owner/ luda, Spain. They are now back in England Center for Writing Excellence (http:// Executive Producer of Tacoma-based Two where they’ve lived for the past 33 years. janiewrites.com), where she offers writing Dogs Barking Productions. She writes she’s Dale says he still follows Griz basketball services and blogs on writing skills. She busy producing/writing when the mood and football via the Internet. also produces and publishes a monthly e- strikes, but would rather be sitting in her newsletter, runs a creative writing contest, front yard, Puget Sound. Tim D. Hall ’76, J.D. ’79 was a law clerk and teaches writing classes. for federal district judges in Billings for Roger Renville '92 is in his second year as a year. After 25 years of specializing in Professor Jerry Holloron ’64 encouraged an attorney for the Crow Tribe in SE Mon­ water law, he became Chief Legal Counsel Kevin McRae ’88 to grab a Lee Newspa­ tana. He left Montana for three years to

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He lives in Vancou­ an assistant editor and then staff editor at to which he contributed during his days at ver, British Columbia. a production house. Now he’s a freelance the J-School. editor for a number of studios and adver­ Kim Skornogoski ’98 started a new job tising agencies specializing in advertising Carey Eyer ’95 will report on his activities April 1 as marketing director for United and corporate marketing media. Recently in next year’s Communique. At press time, Way of Cascade County. She previously he was editing short, documentary-style he was waiting for his wife to give birth to worked for 12 years at the Great Falls videos on the U.S. Woman’s Soccer Team their second child. Tribune. that will be featured on Nike Soccer’s website as the lead up to the World Cup in Courtney Peck Robles ’95 is the staffing David Bowles '99 lives in Brooklyn, Germany. manager for Apple in Austin, Texas. She’s N.Y., and has been working with Leftfield married and has two young children. Pictures, the company that produces “Pawn Elgin Smith ’00 and his wife moved back Stars.” He has directed the first two sea­ to Missoula last year to start their own Michael Jordan ’96 is director of opera­ sons of “Oddities” on the Science Channel. production company BACKTRACK Films. tions at Mad Dog Video Services, a crew He married his wife, Amanda, in 2009. Working through Storyville Films, Elgin broker for commercial broadcasting and has edited two programs that will appear industrial field production in North Hol­ Cari (Cast) Hawthorne ’99 was an editor, on Bloomberg Television later this year. lywood, Calif. He’s been married to his producer, reporter and anchor at eight dif­ They have also produced a number of local wife, Jenny, for eight years. They have a ferent television stations before she went commercials, promotional videos, narra­ six-year-old girl. Michael also volunteers to law school. She just graduated from tive films and documentaries. at his church in West Hills, Calif. the University of Hawaii School of Law in Honolulu where she lives with her husband Larissa Smith-Stewart ’00 works for a Sonja (Ammondt) Puhala M.A. ’96 and U.S. Army Captain Patrick Hawthorne. lawyer in Olympia, Wash. She says, “I find her husband, Jeffrey, have a baby daughter “I had the opportunity to merge my my journalism background has helped me Stella, bom July 2, 2010. They reside in journalism degree and law studies creat­ through the years in communicating both Bellefonte, Pa. ing social media policy for the Governor in writing and in person.” of Hawaii,” she reports. Cari will take the She is married to her college sweet­ Cory Myers ’97 is Digital Media Manager bar exam this summer before she and her heart, Steve. They have two boys, Corbin for Argus Leader Media in Sioux Falls, S.D. husband head out around the world for his 12 and Parker 7. “I still occasionally and serves on the Editorial Board. He has Army training and deployment. find myself directing from the couch as I been with the company for nearly six years, watch the local news,” she says. and says, “It’s a blast; something new every day.” His wife, Megan, an Iowa State Karl Vester ’00 is a writer/editor and pub­ University journalism grad, is the Director lic affairs specialist for the Forest Service of Communications for the South Dakota 2 0 0 0 5 Blue Mountains Forest Plan Revision Team State Medical Association. They have two in Baker City, Ore. He also photographs Italian Greyhounds, Pepper and Liwi. rodeos, cowboys and cowgirls and other U.S. Marine Corps Captain Mandy equestrian subjects for his sideline inter­ Danielle (Smith) Ness ’97 has been Halverson '00 was Officer in Charge of est, Buckaroo Photography (www.bucka- living in Seattle for the past 10 years. Instruction in the Academics Section of roophoto.com). Karl retired Jan. 1, 2010, After college, Danielle spent a year living Officer Candidate School in Quantico, Va., from the Air Force Reserve where he was a in Caracas, Venezuela, working for The last summer. She married Ryan Brannon, public affairs specialist. Daily Journal, the city’s English language also a Marine Corps officer, in Missoula newspaper. She then moved to Seattle last year. They honeymooned in Spain and Krystal Spring Steinmetz ’01 lives in where she spent several years working for a France. Havre where she is a community planner weekly business journal and later Micro­ at a non-profit economic and community soft. Three years ago, she and her husband Hilary Hutcheson ’00 is the owner and development organization. She and her started their own graphic design business, public relations director of Outside Media husband welcomed Moriah Grace to the Crossroads Creative. and can be seen regionally on “Trout TV,” family on May 27, 2010.

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Josh Carstens ’02 worked with National Lindsey Lear Chapman ’03 lives in Katie, in September. He spent the last year Geographic shooting freelance documen­ Bozeman and works at home as a freelance in Boulder, Colo., playing music and skiing taries and is now completing a Master’s in writer with web research and publishing while helping to develop the ColdAvenger education in Illinois. He’s working as a bar companies in Colorado, Texas and North line of facemasks. He continues to run manager and firefighter and hopes to teach Carolina. She and her husband are the the “Soul in Missoula” (misSOULa) line of in Chicago when he completes his degree. parents of two boys. merchandising and will be launching a line of wines this summer. Carl Hennell ’02 and Olivia (Parker) Hen- Bryan Haines ’03 and his wife Tricia (UM nell welcomed Gwynavere Kiera Hennell ’04) moved back to Montana last summer Mike Sternoff ’04 teaches in the graduate into the world on St. Paddy’s Day in White- after six years in Las Vegas. Bryan is cur­ school at Northwestern University. He’s fish. Gwyn joined her 2-year-old sister, rently the Political Affairs Coordinator for also working at ABC 7 Chicago on Windy Danica Brook. the Montana Association of REALTORS® City Live as a shooter/editor. He owns a Carl is finishing his first year as a high in Helena. They have a three-year old son, production company, Sticks and Stones school teacher and journalism adviser at Connor. Media, which works mainly on corporate Flathead High School in Kalispell. Liv will online videos. Mike’s first documentary return to work as a registered nurse at the Lance Johnson ’03 is the topical promo­ film aired on PBS stations in Illinois, Montana Veterans Home in Columbia Falls tion producer at WHNT-TV in Huntsville, Wisconsin and Minnesota and won two after maternity leave. Ala. He married the morning anchor at Emmys. His second doc, “Kindred,” is in the station last summer. They met while post and should be done this summer. Jasper Hiatt ’02 is the multimedia pro­ working at KTVI-TV in Boise, Idaho. ducer for Duarte Design in Mountain View, Ashley Terry ’04 got married in 2008, Calif. The agency specializes in helping Abdullah Al-Matrook ’04 leads the traveled the globe, moved to Corvallis, clients, such as Qualcomm, Nokia, Citrix, marketing department of Jazeera Airways, Ore., in 2009, had a baby in 2010 and Cisco, and TED connect with their audi­ Kuwait’s first low-cost airline. He’s played bought a house in 2011. She reports she’s ences. He says, “I couldn’t imagine a better an integral part of many milestones at the working at a nursing home, freelancing for company or more interesting and challeng­ company including their recent launch into weddings and the city, and working on her ing projects.” Jasper is married and lives in Cairo, Egypt. He says, “Being single allows documentary “WWOOF! The Movie” (due Santa Clara, Calif. me to travel to any of our 17 destinations this summer). Busy, busy! for business and pleasure.” Leilah Langley ’02 was promoted to As­ Dax VanFossen ’04 says he’s the Flat- sistant News Director at KREM television Steve Dent ’04 serves in the 4th Brigade head Valley Multi Tasker. “I work at KOFI/ in Spokane, Wash. Leilah has welcomed First Armored Division and will be deploy­ KZMN radio as the news director, but also fellow R-TV grads to the KREM family ing to Iraq this summer. His army unit will for KPAX/KAJ television in Kalispell. So recently including Ashley Korslien ’10, be the last division in Iraq, helping with if you missed me on the radio at 5 you can Marianne McCormick ’10, and Jordan the withdrawal of forces and Iraqi security. catch my stories on TV at 5:30.” Treece ’09. Tyler Henehry ’04 is the Research Direc­ Dustin Blanchet ’05 lives in Tulsa, Okla., Freelance photojoumalist Holly Pickett tor for KOMO-TV and KUNS-TV, the ABC where he started Lightshed Productions. 02 has been based in Cairo, Egypt, for and Univision affiliates in Seattle. Tyler Dustin’s work on rodeo, bull-riding and the past three years. She photographed lives in Redmond, Wash., with his wife, women’s billiards has been seen on GAC, the uprising in Tunisia for The New York Blaire, who is also a UM grad. Versus and ESPN. He and his wife, Leslie, Times and the uprisings in Egypt and Libya have adopted two dogs, Jordy LaForge and for American photography agency Redux In March, Katherine (Forest) Neill ’04 Willie (Wilbo) Baggins. Pictures. and her husband, Brandon Neill ’04, Her freelance career also has taken her recently welcomed Reagan, their first child Mollie Bond ’05 received her MBA from to Yemen, Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan. and future Grizzly. They live in Seattle. Kansas Wesleyan University on May 7. Her work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, She’s now looking for work. Stem, NPR.org, The (London) Times, Evan Soderquist ’04 is an account execu­ and The Los Angeles Times, among other tive for DataSphere Technologies partner­ Aaron Carothers ’05 is working for Mag­ publications. ing with news websites around the country num Global Media in Corvallis, Mont. He to facilitate the launches of their com­ says he’s an editor extraordinaire without Ananna Robinson ’02 works as a bilin­ munity websites. He’s married and lives in the extraordinaire. But we think Aaron is gual social worker in the Phoenix, Ariz. Seattle. extraordinary and then some! area. She recently bought a condo. “I’m surprised I enjoy the desert as much as I Phil Stempin ’04 plans to return to Mis­ Christine Tutty Johnson ’05 was named do,” she reports. soula this summer and marry his fiance, the 2011 Small Business Administration’s

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Women in Business Champion of the Year tracking and advocacy efforts. Paola had Tiffany Toepper ’06 produces the 10 for Montana. She owns Clover Creative, been working at KHQ-TV in Spokane. She’s p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts for WFTV in a grant writing and business marketing living in Colbert, Wash. Orlando, Fla. Her husband also works as consulting business based in Missoula. the station videographer and storm chaser. She's president of the Missoula Business­ Michael Emery ’06 works for Barrett Pro­ “All I can say is, I would never have excelled women’s Network. She lives in Huson with ductions in Missoula as a cameraman for and been so successful if it wasn’t for the her husband and three dogs. outdoor television programs. Mike spends J-School team,” Tiffany reports. most of his time on the road and only uses Gus Laursen '05 works as an audiovi­ Missoula as a place to store his stuff. Danny Davis ’07 is a high school sports sual technician for Compass Group on reporter at the Austin American-Statesman. the Microsoft campus in Bellevue, Wash. Elyse Hughes ’06 works in Digital Media Since February 2008, he has also held a He handles all aspects of setting up and Services as a Digital Librarian for FOX decent batting average with the Ball Bustas managing all AV equipment in the area. He News and Fox Business Network. She lives intramural softball franchise. lives in West Seattle. in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan. Sara Gale ’07 joined the Peace Corps Katherine Sather '05 is a digital market­ Brianne Burrowes ’06 is a digital strate­ and left for El Salvador early this year. In ing specialist for The Nature Conservancy, gist at Wong, Doody, Crandall, Wiener ad March, during a swearing-in ceremony, where she says she puts her journalism agency in Los Angeles. (“No, that’s not an she officially became a “voluntaria” and is skills to use trying to save the planet. She SNL parody of a law firm, it’s a real agency working in a small community as a rural also serves on the board of directors for with a client roster that includes ESPN, Ce- health facilitator. Her blog, “On My Way,” the Amazon Partnerships Foundation, a dars-Sinai, T-Mobile and others!” she says). can be found at: http://saragaleblogs. nonprofit that works with indigenous peo­ She’s been there for a year after leaving her wordpress.com/ ple in the Ecuadorian Amazon. She lives in post as editor-in-chief of the Montanan, Seattle with her husband, Joe Basirico. UM’s alumni magazine. She writes the blog Amber Kuehn ’08 and Karl Krempel ’08 “I Want Her Job.” will be married this summer. Amber is a Andy Atkins ’06 moved from Orlando, sportswriter for the Helena Independent Fla. to West Michigan where he is the David Erickson ’06 is a photojournalist Record. Director of Digital Media Services at RC and reporter for the Ravalli Republic. His Productions. Andy runs the video/multi- work has been published in MSNBC.com Heather Hintze ’07 is a photographer for media production arm of an established and The New York Daily News. His photo of KEZI-TV in Eugene, Ore. She’ll be report­ ad agency on the lakeshore. He does it all, a man looking for work was used as a back­ ing from India this summer. from writing, producing, shooting editing, drop for a speech by Sen. Jon Tester on the sales and client interactions to purchasing Senate floor in 2009 and broadcast live on Becca Sayre '07 works as a web designer/ and maintaining the HD equipment. C-SPAN. David has won several first-place developer for Windfall Technologies in awards from the Montana Newspaper As­ Missoula with a focus primarily on Mon­ Eli Bierwag ‘06 is working as a finish sociation for writing and photography. tana tourism. Becca is also revamping her editor at Barrett Productions in Missoula. website and working on a number of short He’s married and has two kids, the latest Stan “Stanimal” Pillman ’06 recently documentary, film and animation projects. addition being daughter Ruby who was started a new job as digital managing edi­ born last July. He says, “Life is still great.” tor for radio stations WLS-AM and WLS- Cortney (Fawthrop) See ’07 lives in FM in Chicago. Stan says he loves the new Great Falls and works for MSU-Great Falls Courtney (Hanson) Carlmark ’06 re­ job and loves being home in Chicago! College of Technology. She graduated ports for the KOLD-TV News 13 morning in April 2011 with a Masters of Science show in Tucson. “Executions, homicides, Carey Proctor ’06 is the morning pro­ in Public Relations from Montana State fires-you name it, I’ve covered it,” she says. ducer for Northwest Cable News in Seattle. University-Billings. In November, she “It’s been great experience going live all Carey says she is living on a little sleep and will move with her husband and son to morning long.” Courtney’s husband works a lot of caffeine. Ramstein AFB, Germany, to start their at KPNX in Phoenix so she’s commuting next adventure with the U.S. Air Force. there for weekends. Scott Poniewaz ’06 left his job as Director of India operations and northeast sales for Dan Boyce ’08 is a reporter at KBZK-TV in Paola Cherzad ’06 is the communica­ Rustic Pathways to become the co-founder Bozeman. “I was fortunate enough to snag tions and development coordinator for of Dibs Inc. The company runs Campus- an appearance on the CBS Evening News the Community Health Association of Dibs.com, the top daily deal site and he discussing how communities around Yel­ Spokane. She coordinates advertising, recently launched Dibsie.com, a self-pub­ lowstone National Park would be affected media relations, marketing, fundraising, lishing deal platform for businesses and by a potential government shutdown,” special events, assists with public policy individuals. He lives in New York, NY. he says. Dan was chosen for a fellowship

23 U A A /ch oo l o f journalism iiiim iiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii through the International Center for the mountains, but living near the beach is Liam Scholey ’09 works in Los Angeles as Journalists. He will be a radio reporter in a close second!” she reports. an assistant to the president of Original Germany from August through October Productions, producer of programs such 2011 before returning to Bozeman. After spending a year and a half covering as Deadliest Catch, Ax Men and Inspector prep and college sports in McMinnville, America. He had been at William Morris Maritsa Georgiou ’08 and her husband Ore., Whitney Bermes ’09 returned home Endeavor. moved back to Missoula from Whitefish. to western Montana in December. She is She’s the weekend anchor at KECI, and the part of a five-person newsroom at the Jordan Treece ’09 recently moved from two are expecting their first child, a son Ravalli Republic in Hamilton, where she KECI in Missoula to KREM-TV in Spokane. due Homecoming weekend. covers county and city government. Jordan will be a one-person reporter/pho- tographer/editor at the CBS affiliate in the Nikki (Todd) Gregory M.A. ’08 is enjoy­ Paige Browning ’09 finished traveling Lilac City. ing life as a stay-at-home mom in Minne­ this spring as an international consultant apolis. for Delta Gamma sorority. After explor­ Allyson Weller ’09 works full time at ing Mediterranean Europe for one month, KPAX-TV in Missoula as a reporter. She Allison Kwesell ’08 left the Chattanooga she’s excited to once again search for a job says she’s still learning something new Times Free Press in October after her third in TV or film production. every day. trip to Haiti for the newspaper. She has been working in India, reporting on the Amanda Ferrucci ’09 works at KING 5 eradication of polio campaign for Rotarian news in Seattle as prompter operator and Magazine, and on a six-month consul­ assistant assignment editor. She is also tancy for an organization called Youreka, shooting the Seattle Mariner games for the 20105 redesigning backcountry trips for Indian big screen. youth. Alii received a Rotary World Peace Fel­ Kaydee Mallory ’09 works as a produc­ Vince Bagby ’10 is the weekend sports lowship that covers a two-year Master’s de­ tion assistant/editor at PSG Films in anchor and weekday sports reporter for gree in public policy and conflict resolution Seattle, Washington. She had previously KECI-TV in Missoula. He says he’s “loving at the International Christian University in worked at KIRO-TV as an editor in the my job most days; covering sports teams, Tokyo. Alh is one of 50 fellows worldwide. creative services department. The big news players, events, and stories around West­ is that she’s getting married on July 9. ern Montana.” Kerry McKay ’08 works in the Media De­ partment for Swirl Integrated Marketing Natalie Neumann '09 lives in the Wash­ Grant Beaudette ’10 is trying to break in San Francisco, Calif. She was working on ington, D.C., metropolitan area. She’s into the production business in Los Ange­ the San Francisco Giants account last year doing contract work (producing videos, les. He’s now compositing on a short film. when they won the World Series. “I feel like creating PowerPoint presentations and I played a small role in their winning the writing case studies and other articles) for Jaime Berg ’10 is the producer of the 6 championship,” she says. Kerry will visit the National Association for Environmen­ a.m. news show at KHQ-TV in Spokane, the Czech Republic and Holland this fall. tal Management. Wash. She also produces a weekly business show called “Invest Northwest.” Cody Munson ’08 works as a mentor at Bill Oram ’09 lives in Salt Lake City where Hellgate Elementary School in Missoula. he covers high school sports and the Uni­ Eric Connolly ’10 is the Multimedia He plans to return to UM to get his teach­ versity of Utah men’s basketball team for Specialist for the Diocese of Helena and ing degree and hopes to become a second- The Salt Lake Tribune. recently made a trip to Guatemala to pro­ grade teacher. duce a multimedia piece on the Diocese’s After graduating, Nate Rott ’09 spent two mission school and clinic. The project Megan Taylor ’08 graduated from the months wandering Nicaragua, another is up at http://www.diocesehelena.org/ Cambridge School of Culinary Arts in zigzagging across the U.S. and a summer resources/multimedia/behind-the-story/ Boston in January. She’s back in Missoula fighting forest fires. He was awarded the guatemala-2011.html. working as a line cook at the Ranch Club first Stone 8c Holt Weeks Fellowship — a Golf Club. two-part, six-month fellowship at The Sarah Grant ’10 interned last summer Washington Post and National Public Radio at Chisel Industries in Bozeman. She was Lindsay Alvestad ’09 left KRCG-TV in in Washington, D.C. He’s now at NPR, offered a job there, but declined to pursue Jefferson City, Mo., to take a new job in working as a production assistant for the her passion: graphic and web design. She the Florida market. She lives in St. Peters­ Investigations Unit. He plans to spend the started her own business in Bozeman burg, Fla., where she’s a producer for Bay summer doing the same with “All Things where she lives with her boyfriend Christo­ News 9 (local 24-hour cable news). “I miss Considered” pher and her cat Crookshanks.

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Katy Harris ’10 is a full-time reporter at techniques to at-risk youth. The students He’s also working on a master’s degree in KAJ-TV in Kalispell, Mont. She’s says she’s she works with will write, record, and Sport and Recreation Management. getting back into horses and loves being produce radio plays and interviews for use around her family. on the station. Khushnuda Shukarova ’l l just finished her internship with the National Geo­ Katrina Heser ’10 moved back to Billings Dan Ryan ’10 lives in Las Vegas working graphic Society. She will begin graduate from KHQ-TV in Spokane and is now pro­ as a graduate assistant strength and condi­ school in Media Studies at The New School ducing at KTVQ and loving it. tioning coach for the UNLV football team. in New York City this fall. A

Mike Houchin ’10 worked for UM Produc­ Share your news with Communique readers! Send to: [email protected] tions for the past two years. He’s moving to San Diego this summer and will attend law school at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, looking to focus on media and enter­ Past and Present Deans’ Corner tainment law. Nathaniel later sent this note on the occasion: Melissa (Drysdale) Jensen B.S. ’98/M.A. “Did I tell you when I fell in love '10 earned her master’s in Interdisciplinary Studies at UM, had her second child and with Jerry? It was awhile ago, at moved to Helena last year. She is the 6 and the Mountain Lake Lodge, we were 10 p.m. anchor at KTVH. Her promotion having breakfast and at one point to News Director is scheduled for July. I quoted from A. E. Housman’s poem, T o an athlete dying young’: Ashley Korslien ’09 recently moved from Now you will not swell the rout KRTV in Great Falls to KREM in Spokane, Of lads that wore their honours Wash., where she is a general assignment o u t... reporter. She had the lead story her first week on the air at KREM when a pig went “Then I sit there in awe as Jerry on a rampage and was shot and killed by jumps right up and recites the en­ police. Erin Schermele ’l l went immedi­ tire poem on the spot! Marvelous, ately from graduation to take Ashley’s spot just marvelous. He was brilliant in at KRTV. literature as well as journalism.”

Laura Lundquist M.A. ’10 was health and A friend sent the plaudit to Jerry, environmental reporter for the Twin Falls who responded: Times-News (Idaho) until this spring, when “That Nathaniel is sui generis. she signed on as crime reporter for the (Housman taught classical lan­ Ravalli Republic. She took second place for guages.) As you know, it was pure Rookie of the Year in the Idaho Press Club coincidence that he hit on a poem 2010 Awards. Former Dean Nathaniel B. Blumberg I knew by heart. Thank God for and Dean Peggy Kuhr catching up in those old teachers who made us Kristina Matsalak ’10 is working as a re­ Bigfork. Nathaniel will be 90 next April. memorize. I use that one in par­ porter/anchor at the number one channel He reports, "I’m slowing down a bit, ticular to keep me awake when I’m in Kazakhstan. She says she is very thank­ but doing just fine." ful to all of her J-School professors who driving at night. Usually, I will miss taught her the real world of journalism. Two A. E. Housman a word and have to quarrel with “Everything that I have learned during myself. Yeats said that rhetoric is four years of long hours at the J-School is fans recite farewells arguing with others, and poetry is arguing with yourself. If that is true, extremely helpful now in my career path!” Just before former Dean Jerry She hopes to visit the J-School this year. Brown retired and moved with his I am a jackleg poet arguing with the real stuff. wife, Libby, to their new home in In July, Amanda Opitz ’10 will join the North Carolina, he drove up to say “And the name died before the staff at Montana Public Radio in Missoula man. . . . One will never say that as an AmeriCorps Vista volunteer. She will goodbye to Nathaniel Blumberg in work with the Director of Children’s Bigfork. about Nathaniel.” -JEB Programming to teach audio recording

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Craig & Diana Brown Gertrude Downey Thankyou for your generosity and support of the J-School! Cynthia R. Woods Gordon & Judith Hunt Damian & Pamela Conrad Gordon & Lana Russ Working with our partners at The University of Montana Dan McIntyre Graham Anderson & Shannon Billings Foundation, we developed this Donor Roll for gifts and Dana Smith Daniel & Penny Struckman Greater Montana Foundation pledges received May 1, 2010 through May 15, 2011. Darrel & Esther Mast Gregg & Beverly Peterson David & Darcy Crum Gregory & Debra Peterson We made every effort to assure the list is complete David & Leona Olsen Gregory & Kirsten Staffileno and accurate, but if you find an error or omission, David & Traci Weaver Gregory Munro & Barbara Mitzkus David Carkhuff Halfdan & Lori Forseth please let us know by calling 406.243.4370. David Fenner & Nikki Walter John Bruton David Glass Edward Harrington Dawson Oppenheimer Estate Heidi Buck Acantha Foundation/Jeff & Melody Allison Squires Dean Baker Henriette Lowisch Perkins Martinsen Amy Faxon Deloitte Foundation Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Agatha Madison Andrew Astleford Dennis & Julie Swibold Herb & Virginia Reese Alex V. Levin Ann Fleischli Dennis & Peggy Dietz Hoover Ogata Alice Thorpe Anonymous Donor Diana Dowling Isadore & Celia Risen Allie Harrison Anonymous Donor Diane Fischer J. & Linda Priddy Allison Maier Ashley Korslien Diane jaskot J.F. & Francine Purcell Barrett Productions Dirk & Kate Whitney Jack & Barbara Cloherty Ben Pollner Don & Shirley Oliver Jack Seigle & Margaret Vallejo Ashley Korslien graduated with Benjamen Long & Karen Nichols Donald & Cheryl Harris Seigle a degree in Broadcast Journal­ Berma Saxton Donald & Jane MacCarter James & Amy Joyner ism in December 2009 and Billings Clinic Surgical Center Donald J. Peretti James & Kathryn O’Day immediately began giving back to Billings Gazette Douglas & Patsi Morton James & Kerry Vincent her school. When Ashley was a Bob & Marge Hoene Edward & Debra Fischer James & Margaret Good senior, Dean Bozeman Daily Chronicle Edward & Lisa Pollner James & Pamela LaCorte Peggy Ruhr Brad & Jody McCormick Edward & Stephanie McLoughlin James & Patricia Rawlings asked her to Brett & Stacie French Edward Burnett Jan Weiner create a video Brian & Marianne Forbes Edward King Jane L. Reger Trust of students Brian McGiffert Emile Cowdery Janie Sullivan talking about Bruce & Cecilia Moats Emily Adamson Jay Womeldorf the J-School. Bruce & Karen Cheesen Emma Schmautz Jeffrey & Susan Stevens (You can see Butte Press Club Eric T royer Jeffrey & Wanda Hert the video on the school’s website.) C. & Cynthia DeShields Erin Billings Jeremy Sauter & Rebecca jasmine Ashley did a wonderful job, and Carl & Sally Gidlund Eugene & Julie Huntington Jerry & Libby Brown the dean sent her a $100 check. Carla Beck First State Bank of Shelby Jerry Hayes Instead of spending that Carlos Pedraza Francine Lange Jerry Holloron money on herself, Ashley decided Cassandra Eliasson Frank Dugan & Tanya Reid Jill Thompson Black to ask family and friends to pitch Charles & Kathleen Aragon Frank Kamlowsky Jim & Leslie McCormick in to create a scholarship. As a Charles & Peggy Bloom Frank Milburn Joan Bell student at UM, she’d noticed that Charles Bergstrom Fred & Carol Van Valkenburg Joan Murray most journalism scholarships Charles Wittnam & Patricia Payne Fred & Shirlee Martin Joe Howry went to students entering their Charlie & Jana Hood senior year. Frederick & Margaret Caruso Joel & Jayne Kleinman Chase Doak Gannett Foundation Joel & Patricia Vail Ashley wanted her scholar­ Chris & Karen Kaley Gary & Hazel Sorensen John & Ellen Counihan ship to be used to acknowledge Chris Johnson & Denise Dowling Gary & Katherine Nygaard John & Kay Shlaes promising broadcast students Chris Peck Gary & Susan Cuff John & Lisa Firehammer just entering the professional Christopher Dawson program. Gary Graham John & Lorie Stucke Chuck Johnson & Patricia Hunt Geoffrey Pinnock & Gina Boysun John & Susan Talbot She has given back to the Claire Oravsky George & Barbara Peck school for two years now and John & Teresa Kafentzis Clary Kaufman Cory George & Janet Schemm John Bansch vows to continue the “Profes­ Colleen Christian Georgianna Taylor John Burbidge sional Promise” award into the Tom & Lisa Cordingley future. Gerald & Genell Subak-Sharpe John Fairhall Courtney Robles Gerald & Penelope Peabody John Hallowell

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John Pearson Marie Brazier John Plunkett & Barbara Jo Kuhr Marjorie Bennetts We re also proud to note that 12 people donated John Shook Mark & Barbara Thompson to the Jeff Cole Memorial Fund. John Smillie & Margaret Mark & Jacquelin Stenehjem MacDonald Marlee Miller Please consider a gift to the School this next year. John Twaddell Martin & Barbara Williams Perry Jon & Pam Ness Mary DeNevi Jon Salmonson Mary Snyder Robert & Kay Newlin Verna Kessner Jonathan Krim Matt & Kathleen Whetzel Robert & Margaret Henderson Victor & Marilyn Bjornberg Jonni Fischer Matt Gibson Robert Holter Walt & Joann Weaver Joseph Sample Meredith LaCorte Robert Lazich Walter & Margaret Parker Joyce Lobeck Michael & Betsy Wood Robert Templeton Westchester Community Julia Patterson Michael & Cori Wellenstein Rocky Mountain Eye Center, PC Foundation Kate Medley Michael & Gay Peterson Roger & Susan Santala William (Bill) Phippen Kate Ripley Michael &Joan Bjarko Ronald & Jewel Lansing William & Beverly Ryan Katherine Sather Michael & Leslie Faxon Roy & Mary Cottor William & Cathleen Lynch Kay Morton Ellerhoff Michael & Susan O’Leary Rubin Consulting, LTD William & Diane Lundgren Keith & Carol Wallace Michael Bartiss Russell & Marlene Feist William D’Alton Keith Schafer Michael Dahl Ruth Johnson William Randolph Hearst Kelly Buechler Michael Downs & Sheri Venema Sage Accounting/Bob Kennedy Foundation Ken Abbott Michael Thompson Sam DeWitt Wordz & Ink Publishing Ken Dunham & Janelle Fallan Mike & Dawn Lopach Sarah McGiffert Kenneth High & Jennifer Milo Moucha Scott Dahmer & Susan English O’Loughlin Montana Broadcasters Association Scott Evans Penny Peabody '61, M.A. ’67, Kenneth Robertson Montana Newspaper Foundation Sean Breslin chair of the Journalism Advisory Kent & Deborah Brown Monty & Dona Cranston Shear Prophesy Hair Design Council, sent this note along with Kevin & Rebecca Giles Nathalie Pattison Sheila Gary her recent donation: Kevin Glanz Nedra Bayne Shirley McKown “I’ve given to the Journalism Kevin McRae & Bethany McLaughlin Neil & Judith Morgan Shirley Twillman School in the Kim Lucostic Nicholas Lockridge Silicon Valley Community past because Kimberly Weaver Oreste & Shirley DeForth Foundation I believe that Kristen Inbody Lucchesi Sonya Goeke the inspira­ Kristin Knight Pamelia Newbern Stephen & Gayle Shirley tion and Kurt & Karen Wilson Patricia Murdo Stephen Fullerton education I Kyra Gaskill Patrick Graham Stephen Reznicek received from Larry & Anne David Paul & Teresa Billings Sterling Soderlind those dedi­ Larry & Linda Elkin Paul Christman Steve & Lexie Barr cated professors were very instru­ Larry & Lysandra Bruce Paul Grmoljez & Alice Gordon Steven Coffel mental in whatever successes I’ve Larry Peterman & Lisa Walser Peter Flintoft Steven Lehman enjoyed in the past 50 years. It Laura Bianco-Adams & Max Peter Johnson Steven Miller was my way of giving back. Adams Pierre & JoAnn Bacheller Sue Britton “I give to the Journalism Law Office of Bruce T. Moats PC Ralph & Anna Wanamaker Summer Goddard School because I am so impressed LeMerle Allen Ray Fanning Susan McKinley with the accomplishments of the Leon & Cherry Billings Raymond Dominick Suzanne Ives faculty and staff in preparing Leon Lenz Ricardo Duran & Ann Hennessey Teddy & Marcie Roe today’s students for the dynamic Leslie & Janet Cox Richard & Barbara Warden Theodore R. & Marjorie Jacobs nature of the profession as it Linda Lynch Richard & Joan Wohlgenant Thomas & Carolyn Flaherty morphs through a sequence of Lindsay & Susan McNay Richard & Maria Stanich Thomas & Neva Cotter media in these times that are Lindsay Alvestad Richard & Paula Wilmot Thomas & Ruth Towe exploding with change. Lisa Lombardy Richard & Susan Blaskovich Thomas Foor & Peggy Kuhr “The School of Journalism Lorna Motl Richard & Laure Pengelly Drake Thomas Mendel teaches students the skills they Lyle Harris Richard Gallagher Tim Kryzer will require in all of the media, Lynn Ingham Richard Laws Timothy & Phyllis Vanek and endows them with high Marci Cook Richard McGonigle & Rebecca Tony & Pat Florio professional standards and devo­ Marci Krivonen Adams Torry Bishop tion to excellence as evidenced by Margaret Dolan Robert & Antonia Dean T racy Johnke the many awards and accolades Maria Cole Robert & Carol Hurd Tyson Alger they bring to Montana.”

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Seventy undergraduates and seven Master's students received their degrees on May 14 in ceremonies first in Washington-Grizzly Stadium, where they heard Tom Brokaw's address, and then outside Don Anderson Hall.