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PUBLISHER I Rita Munzenrider '83

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14 Steeped In Symbolism By Jacob Baynham '07 The new Payne Family Native American Center is the first building o f its kind at any American university.

18 All Roads Lead To Montana 14 Com piled by Brianne Burrowes '07 Montana and UM connections reach around the world, as demonstrated by this collection o f essays shared by alums and University employees.

22 The Design O f Success By Nate Schweber '01 John Shaffner ’74 , w hose production design credits include 18 F rien d s, George Lopez, and m any others, shares why wanting more is his key to success.

26 Finding The Flow By D avid Allan Cates '79, M.F.A. '92 David Cates shares how attending UM s Creative Writing Program was pivotal for him in discovering his path to publishing success. ^ 6 DEPARTMENTS O N THE COVER: 3 Letters Located near the southwest side of the 5 Around The Oval Oval, The Payne Family 29 Bookshelf Native American Center, set for 31 Raising Montana completion February 1, 33 About Alumni is the newest building 52 Artifacts on the UM campus.

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M k fter watching the Football receiver Jabin Sambrano on a 53-yard behind to win an astounding eleven times. Championship Subdivision title scoring strike. But the ensuing on-side They tallied only the fifth perfect regular ^ ^ ^ ^ k g a m e on television, I had this kick didn’t work, and the Wildcats ran out season in Griz history. They became Big thought: Few college gridiron fans ever the clock. The end. The final score made Sky Conference champions, extending have the privilege to feel the exquisite pain a botched Griz field goal attempt on their U M ’s record o f winning at least part o f o f watching their beloved team lose two first drive more poignant. that title to twelve and extending our national championships in a row. division record o f FCS playoff berths to That’s what happened to Griz How could viewers turn away from seventeen in a row. Nation. After leading 14-9 at halftime, two great football teams duking it The ride was made more thrilling by UM wound up losing to the Villanova all the close calls: the overtime win against out under the lights in a Montana Wildcats 23-21 on December 18 in rainy Northern Arizona, the high-scoring Chattanooga, Tenn. Some guy with an snowstorm while ecstatic, shirtless shootout versus Eastern Washington, and unspellable last name that is somehow fans danced to "Cotton-Eye Joe?" the inexplicable near-loss against winless pronounced “Caesar” ran wild against our Idaho State com e to mind. The Griz team in the second half. I t ’s a downer because this article was also beat cross-state rival Montana State There were bright spots. Griz senior supposed to be titled something like “Best. University for the fourth straight year in wide receiver Marc Mariani was brilliant Season. Ever.” (My apologies to the 1995 the 109th Brawl o f the Wild. (The start o f in the first half with 178 receiving yards. and 2001 championship teams.) Because another long streak?) Junior quarterback Andrew Selle threw for for fourteen and a half games, the 2009 The Griz roared into the playoffs as three touchdowns and a career-best 351 Grizzlies were perfect. They and their the No. 1 seed, and all the postseason yards against a stout defense. coaches won with toughness, tenacity, games at Washington-Grizzly Stadium The drama amped up with 1:07 left intelligence, and a little luck. They were were classics. First the South Dakota State in the game, when Selle hit sophomore down but never out. They came from Jackrabbits came to town and took a cont. on page 8

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Bobby Houck I The Road to Chattanooga Griz vs. South Dakota State, 61-48 Griz vs. Stephen F. Austin, 51-0 Griz vs. Appalachian State, 24-17 Griz vs. Villanova, 21-23

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6 I WINTER 2010 M O N T A N A N The President’s Corner

his issue o f the M ontanan brings to Connecting With Students, YouTube Style your attention the construction o f Ta facility on campus that visibly— UM is one of only two universities in the country thanks to Daniel Glenns wonderful to create and launch a Web-only video series design— recognizes its historic location for students with its president. within Indian Country. The Salish and Pend The new series, titled YouChat With President d’Orielle tribes inhabited and made good Dennison, launched in October on UM's official use o f this land long before later migrants YouTube channel. began to contemplate the establishment The videos are o f institutions o f higher education. aimed at UM's Nonetheless, I think it fortuitous that the YouChat student body and founders o f The University of Montana with u- give UM President decided to locate it in Indian Country. G eorge Dennison The completion o f this new and wonderful an opportunity to facility underscores our commitment to address students assure that the University is of, not just in, Indian Country. Because o f directly about the support o f generous donors, including individuals as well as groups, issues and decisions made at the administrative foundations, and tribes, Montanas “first peoples” now have appropriate level on current topics relevant to their college recognition as principal stakeholders in The University of Montana. We experience. plan to dedicate The Payne Family Native American Center in conjunction "It's not atypical for university presidents with Commencement in May 2010.1 invite one and all to join us for this to address students, staff, faculty, and the special event. public through yearly 'State of the University' O n behalf of the entire campus community, I want to express our addresses," says Montanan editor-in-chief collective appreciation to Terry and Patt Payne, whose major donation and Brianne Burrowes, the host and co-executive relentless leadership assured the success o f the project. In addition, the producer of the series. "But we want to provide willingness o f the students and the Board o f Regents to authorize the use a way for students to better connect with o f University funds to complete the construction merits mention. In my President Dennison beyond listening to a typical view, the contributions from so many different sources indicate that we have speech. So w e decided to pivot off President entered upon a new era o f cooperation and collaboration, an era when we Barack Obama's weekly YouTube addresses can with confidence look toward broadening the services provided to all and speak to our students through a medium of Montanans. growing relevance to them—the Web." Between the covers o f this issue, you also will have the chance to see that, The videos discuss a variety of topics, from indeed, “All Roads Lead to Montana.” This special section offers interesting the H1N1 epidemic reaching UM and the need and often inspiring accounts o f alumni encounters. As we have come to for more parking on campus to the growing expect, the bond between the University and its alumni grows stronger with demand for new buildings at UM's C ollege of time, building upon the relationships and welcoming support our alumni Technology. have with one another and with Montanans in general. You cannot read At the end of each video, Dennison these accounts without feeling a strong sense o f pride and belonging. encourages students to respond on UM's In the 1990s, Professor Bob Putnam o f Harvard University warned YouTube channel with a comment or video Americans o f the decay of the social bonds holding communities together. response. Many commentators denied Putnams conclusions, noting the emergence "This video series allows me to address o f new social networks and organizations to replace those that disappeared. issues of importance to students in a new way," However, Putnams major thesis reflected his awareness o f an American Dennison says. "I think it's goo d to capitalize on penchant for reinvention and renewal, so evident it seems to me in what meeting our students where they already spend we now observe in American society. Clearly, we Americans have important an abundant amount of time— on the Web. I work to do to return our society to its former vibrancy. As we do so, I hope students will enjoy these videos and take have no doubt we will rediscover the necessity of bringing our colleges and the opportunity to leave me a comment or video universities to bear on the challenges before us. As we o f The University of response. This series is about not just talking to Montana plan and implement our responses, we can and will proceed under students, but engaging in dialogue with them." the mandate to assure that all Montanans benefit. As of press time the videos in season one of YouChat with President Dennison were viewed nearly 3,000 times. 62 UM's official YouTube channel can be found at G eorge M. Dennison/ ' , '63 President and Professor of History www.youtube.com/UniversityOfMontana.

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27-point lead with 5:40 left in the third quarter. You could have heard crickets in the North End Zone. Then the Griz somehow rallied for a 61-48 victory, scoring 40 unanswered points while posting the largest comeback in UM playoff history. It was pure magic. Stephen E Austin arrived next, sporting the nations No. 1 offense. They left sporting ten turnovers and a 51-0 shutout. This set the stage for the arrival o f the Appalachian State Mountaineers and their superman quarterback Armanti Edwards, who threw for 353 yards and ran for another 60. The Griz countered with junior running back Chase Reynolds, who rumbled for 193 yards and two touchdowns. UM s Sambrano made a miracle touchdown catch with 1:31 left to take the lead, and the game ended with Edwards making a desperate throw into the end zone . . . and a drop. UM held on to win 24-17. That final matchup before Chattanooga was the most-watched FCS football game in ESPN history. H ow could viewers turn away from two great football teams duking it out under the lights in a snowstorm while ecstatic, shirtless fans danced to “Cotton-Eye Joe”? At one point, when the flurries really started com ing down, the stadium Visit www.umt.edu/montanan announcer said, “Welcome to Montana football!” And I looked around at that for a w e b exclu siv e v id eo Q & A with Susan Gibson. stoked stadium and thought, “Yeah, this is perfect.” — Cary Shimek v______J

Odyssey o f the Stars Celebrates Ten In 2010 Odyssey o f the Stars— A Celebration remodeled bookstore space in UM s Student Union Building. In o f Artistic Journeys reaches a 1960, he opened the Bigfork Summer Playhouse with his wife, milestone this year when it honors UM law Professor Margery Hunter Brown. They ran the theater Firman H. (Bo) Brown ’49 , M.A. ’53 , for eight years. at its tenth anniversary production In addition to establishing M.A. and M.F.A. degree programs Saturday, April 10. The celebration, at UM, Brown launched the inaugural season o f the Montana featuring UM students, faculty, and Repertory Theatre in 1967, with an ambitious statewide tour alumni, begins at 7:30 p.m. in the featuring three plays. He wrote a weekly art column for the University Theatre. This years M issoulian and was a founding member o f the Montana Arts production is tided O pening Council in the days when the National Endowment for the Arts D oors in honor of Brown, was just beginning. A b o v e : who has dedicated his life to Brown went on to teach, direct, and work as an administrator Bo Brown opening doors for students in at Ithaca College in New York, Rollins College in Florida, and in 1949; the theater arts, not only at O hio State University. From 1987 to 1990, he served as president R ight: UM, but across the nation, as o f the University/Resident Theatre Association, a national Brown today well. organization o f forty major theater departments and regional While a student at UM, theater companies. From 1990 to 1993, he was president of the Brown appeared on stage in several productions. He spent his National Association o f Schools o f Theatre, the accrediting body undergraduate days in theater and journalism, but his career soon for theater programs in American higher education. turned to educational theater. After working and teaching at Brown returned to Montana in 2006. In 2008, UM awarded then-Northern Montana College in Havre and undertaking Brown an Honorary Doctor o f Fine Arts degree in recognition doctoral studies in speech and theater at the University of o f a lifetime dedicated to teaching, scholarship, and service to Wisconsin-Madison, Brown returned to UM, where he served as educational theater. chair of the drama department from 1956 to 1969. For Odyssey o f the Stars ticket and sponsorship information, call Brown established the Masquer Summer Theatre in 1958 in a the College o f Visual and Performing Arts at 406-243-4971.

t h s ^ TheNovember ranking o f The U n i v e r s i t y o f ^ n u m b e r of students attending UM BOTTOM M ' f J Montana-Western by US. Hews for colleges j H j FJ I ] wM I during fall semester 2009, which beat the ■ m ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ J o f f e r i n g the best small classes on a budget previous record set last fall by 714 students

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‘db Local educators and political leaders gathered in UM's new Phyllis J. Washington Education Center in November and developed a specific plan of action to cultivate and UM-Westem Professor Named improve K-20 education and strengthen ties Outstanding Baccalaureate Colleges between higher education and K-l 2 in the Missoula area. Keynote speaker Craig Barrett, Professor Of The Year retired CEO and chair of the board of Intel Corp., addressed Missoula Area Education I ROB THOMAS, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES PROFESSOR at The Summit attendees, emphasizing the need to University of Montana-Western, was named Outstanding Baccalaureate Colleges improve secondary and higher education in Professor o f the Year by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching America, which he says has failed to keep pace and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. with other countries in the past several decades. The two groups chose Thomas as the recipient o f the prestigious award ,|iV\ from a field o f more than 300 professors representing baccalaureate colleges and w t UM's School of Journalism will start fulfilling universities across the United States. what it calls a growing need for "versatile Judges selected national winners based on four criteria: impact on and storytellers knowledgeable about energy involvement with undergraduate students; scholarly approach to teaching and policy, climate change, and conservation learning; contributions to undergraduate education in the institution, community, issues" when classes begin this fall for its new and profession; and support from colleagues and current and former graduate degree in environmental science undergraduate students. and natural resource journalism. Students will “I can think of only a select few faculty members I have known in my four prepare for careers through practical training decades in higher education on several campuses who have had the kind o f impact in print, photo, broadcast, and online media, Professor Rob Thomas has had on undergraduate teaching,” says UM President and by taking courses in hard sciences, ethics, George Dennison. “He has set the bar very high for his colleagues in the state and law, and more. "W e don't have any numbers the nation. It bears noting that no other Montana faculty member has earned this on applications yet," says program director award during its existence.” Henriette Lowisch. "But, based on the inquiries Thomas has been a faculty member at UM-Western for sixteen years. In that I've fielded, I expect we'll have more excellent time he helped transform the institution into the first and only public university applicants with strong backgrounds in writing or in the United States to offer block scheduling— called X I, or Experience One. the hard sciences than we'll be able to accept." Under the scheduling system, students take one class at a time, three hours per day ,ii\\ for eighteen days, earning the same credits over a year as students do in traditional Two scientists in UM's Department of multiple-course scheduling models. Physics and Astronomy, Paul Janzen and Dan . For Thomas, the award is as much about the entire university’s innovations as Reisenfeld, are part of a NASA team that in it is one professors accomplishments. October detected a vast ribbon of energized “The facts are impressive,” Thomas says. “This university had two degrees and particles surrounding most of the solar system. was dying. A small group o f committed, visionary people turned this campus The discovery resulted from data obtained i around. The award itself is recognition o f what we have done to make this campus by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer one o f the most unique undergraduate experiences in the country. If this award is spacecraft launched in October 2008. The being given to me in any way, shape, or form because o f my role with X I , my role results were first published in the online version was one of many important roles to make this happen. This happened because of the prestigious journal Science and also o f the courage o f the faculty to change everything they know about how to teach appeared as a cover story in the print edition's undergraduate students.” November issue.

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Cats Oil Campus— Professor Bobby Tilton in UM's School o f Art shares a philosophy with her students. "You would never tell your students, 'I can't spell,' so w e teach them never to say, 'I can't d o art,"' she says. That's exactly what she set out to accomplish when she instructed her Art 314 class to create large installation art cats in the vein of artist Sandy Skoglund last summer. Approximately eighteen cats were formed and placed in site-specific locations such as the M adison Street Bridge (a b o v e ), President George Dennison's office (le ft), and along the Clark Fork River.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE: UM Regents Professor Helps Create Worldwide Climate Change Index . ;x

ince being awarded a share o f the “Some people still Running was among a core group 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, U M ’s Steve question whether the o f eight who developed the idea. SRunning has only turned up the Earths climate is Running says the index gives heat in the batde against climate change. changing as rapidly an annual snapshot of how the The Regents Professor of Ecology was and profoundly planets complex systems— the a key player in creating a new worldwide as the majority of ice, the oceans, the land surface, climate change index unveiled in December climate scientists and the atmosphere— are at the United Nations Climate Change suggest,” Running says. responding to changing climate. Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. “I think this index will The index rises steadily from The new index distills the complexity of help nonscientists understand 1980, the earliest date the index has the Earths climate down to one number, why people in my line o f work are so been calculated, dipping only in 1982, much like the D ow Jones industrial concerned about the major planetary-scale 1992, and 1996— years when the world average condenses volumes o f data from changes taking place.” experienced major volcanic eruptions. the business world into a single figure. The The index was produced by a He says the index provides an excellent index uses key indicators o f global climate group Running is affiliated with, the visual tool that shows how external events change— carbon dioxide, temperature, sea International Geosphere-Biosphere can have rapid planetary-scale effects. The level, and sea ice— to obtain its results. Programme, which studies the climbing cumulative index also highlights climate change phenomenon. IGBP is the extent human activities are affecting the headquartered with the Royal Swedish planets climate system. Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, and Running is a professor in UM s College o f Forestry and Conservation and directs the University’s Numerical Terradynamic Meet Grizwald, Simulation Group, which has written UM's cartoon bear. In frequent issues of software for NASA environmental the Montanan, we provide a drawing satellites. He was a lead author for the featuring Grizwald in need of a caption. North American section o f the 2007 Then it's up to you, our readers, to send Intergovernmental Panel on Climate in your most original and creative ideas. Change Report, and his IP C C committee The winning contestant will receive a shared a Nobel Peace Prize with A1 Gore Griz stadium blanket. Send submissions that year. to: [email protected].

WINTER 2010 MONTANAN FACETIME: MARIO SCHULZKE 02 As founder of ldeaMensch.com and current economic situation, I feel good ScrappyMarketing.com, publisher of about that accomplishment. Also our a parent company, WONGDOODY, the book How to Complain for Fun and Profit, and an avid triathlete— and we was selected as the second-best place haven't even gotten to his day job—Mario to work in Los Angeles. Schulzke is an alum who capitalizes 4. Do you think the advertising world is on bringing ideas to fruition. He also dying or evolving? is the co-founder o f Quillion, a digital It's evolving. Fast. Companies are performance marketing company ba sed in always going to need help promoting Los Angeles. . their products and services. They're 1. How did you get your start in the always going to come to somebody advertising industry? and say, “I have this product, and I I graduated college and got a job at an need to sell this many units. What do ad agency in Missoula. While it was a w e do?" Instead of creating a print ad, a 7. You published a book on how to write great experience, I didn't really feel like I billboard, and a TV spot like agencies have complaint letters. How did that come about? was good at my job, and I wasn't learning done in the past, we've had to reinvent Bruce Silverman, my old boss at anything that made me better. So, I quit my ourselves. W e still consider ourselves an ad WONGDOODY, had a Word document full-time position and moved to Seattle to find agency, but it's not just advertising anymore. with complaint letters on his computer that a great company that would let me work We're optimizing W eb sites, running always got e-mailed around the office. The directly for a senior executive. It wasn't about Twitter channels, building iPhone apps, letters were really, really good. I had the making money, but rather about learning as and whatever it takes to make our clients idea of turning that Word document into much as I could. My assumption was that successful. The tactics are changing, and they a book, which I published for him. It was I would learn more from being the intern are changing rapidly. featured on a 2 0 / 2 0 segment earlier last year. That's the crazy thing. In no other time of a president than an account coordinator 5. What do you fool is the future of would that be possible. If I can publish supporting a junior account executive. I advertising and marketing? a book and get if featured on national crashed on this lady's floor for four months, It's not that optimizing W eb sites or building television, then anybody can. My next and I earned free rent in exchange for iPhone apps is the future of marketing. publishing venture is a book on how to fight helping her write a business plan. My first The fundamental idea behind marketing parking tickets. job was with WONGDOODY, an ad is understanding your consumer, and then agency, where I started as an unpaid intern giving them what they need or want. Right 8. How did your education at UM help you in reporting directly to the agency's founder. now it's social media and search engine your career? Since that day, I have never reported to marketing and all these buzz words. Five I came to the U.S. at sixteen as an anyone other than the CEO of a company. years from now it will be something different. exchange student from Germany. My 2. What makes Quillion unique to your The future of marketing is, and remains to be, English was bad, I dressed goofy, and all clients compared to traditional advertising to understand the consumer. It has to start and I thought of was soccer and girls. So a lot agencies? end with the consumer. of things I learned about life I learned at UM. Spending my freshman year cleaning Quillion is a performance marketing 6. How did you come up with the concept for toilets at Aber Hall was a wake-up call. It agency. Everything we do gets measured your Web site ldeaMensch.com? taught me a thing or two about hard work by performance. W e only do work that gets I have always been fascinated by two and makes me appreciate how I earn my measured by quantifiable business objectives. things—people and ideas. More people living these days. I also learned how to fly Like a cost per lead, sale, or new customer. than ever are working on some amazing fish, which I love and is something that I can Then we build digital marketing campaigns ideas—not just CEOs of large organizations, brag about to the ladies in California. that focus entirely around achieving our but people within the ranks and garage clients' business objectives. Everything gets entrepreneurs from all over the world. I want 9. What advice do you have for people on measured, and if our clients don't make ldeaAAensch.com to be the place where I following their dreams? money, then we don't either. feature people from around the Internet who Life and business is all about relationships. Be 3. What is Quillion's biggest success story are coming up with interesting ideas and nice to people, remember their names, and so far? bringing them to life—everybody from a UM help whenever you can. And always make W e started Quillion last year and achieved college dropout turned entrepreneur to the the time to go fishing. Life is too short not to. profitability in that first year. Considering the founder and CEO of The Sharper Image. —Interview by Brianne Burrowes

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hen his classmates ask if h e ’s Mo, the pint- sized latest addition to U M ’s mascot family, the elementary-aged gymnast who suits up in the mini bear costume plays it cool. “I say that th e y ’d know it was me because I’d totally UM mascots Monte, Mo, tell,” says Mo, who, like his grown-up counterpart, and Rocky wear pink for Monte, must remain anonymous. “Sometimes i t ’s really Team Up Montana's Breast hard not to tell my best friends and brag about it.” Cancer Awareness Day at The idea for the bright-eyed and lovable sidekick, the October 17 football who first bounded out of Monte’s trademark Corvette gam e against Eastern before the October 17 football game against Eastern Washington. UM, St. Washington, came from M o ’s mom, a Missoula resident Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center, St. Joseph and 1993 UM alum. Her kids grew up attending Griz Though she may be a bit biased, the Medical Center in Poison, football and basketball games, laughing with delight | mascot’s m om c a n ’t think of a more perfect Safeway, the Missoulian, whenever the mischievous Monte pulled off a series o f KPAX-TV, and the St. I kid for the job. back flips or ran full-speed into the goal post. They’d Patrick Hospital and Health “We just always thought he had the often head down to the field post-game and practice Foundation developed I right attitude,” she says. “H e ’s funny, and he Monte’s moves. Team Up Montana to |has a lot o f energy.” When Brent Reser, UM Athletics’ mascot raise cancer awareness Besides showing off his tumbling coordinator, graduated in spring 2009 and started and funding for Western I moves— and receiving the undivided working in the marketing department, M o ’s mom Montana communities. I adoration o f U M ’s Cheer Squad— one of brought the mini-mascot idea to him, and the bear cub f M o ’s favorite parts of the gig is hanging out was born. with his hero, Monte, a role he hopes to play some day. “Since I was new, I wanted to bring something new to the job, M o ’s mom hopes he getsThe part, too— he’ll be a strong and this seemed like a great idea,” Reser says. “We’ve had nothing contender with the resume h e ’s building now— but s h e ’s also glad but positive feedback. People call all the time requesting M o for he looks up to a character that does so much for the community. public appearances.” “One o f the neat things is getting to know Monte and seeing Mo, who only works at sporting events for now, says he gets all he does outside of the games,” she says. “I want him to see a kick out o f performing tricks in front of thousands o f fans, and that and know i t ’s important to give back.” h e ’s getting better at landing flips in the bear suit, though he can As for adding more costumed characters to the lineup— a barely see out of it most of the time. He also enjoys being able to girlfriend for Monte, perhaps?— Reser says there’s nothing “run around without getting into trouble,” he says. currendy in the works. “You can go up to someone and take their hat, and instead of “We’re pretty content with the number of mascots we have getting mad, they’re just like, ‘oh, look, i t ’s M o ! ’” now.” — Allison Squires

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bolismIn f a l l 2 0 0 4 , a rch ite ct D a n iel G len n WAS CAUGHT IN A CONUNDRUM. A MEMBER OF THE CROW TRIBE, GLENN WAS HIRED TO DESIGN T h e PAYNE Family N ative Am erican C en ter at The U niversity of M ontana. The CENTER WOULD BE BUILT NEAR THE OVAL, ADJACENT TO THE NEOCLASSICAL BUILDINGS OF THE CELEBRATED ARCHITECT A.J. GlBSON.

Glenn knew his design would go nowhere blend into a historical campus? Glenn found if it didn’t fit in with the surrounding historical his answer one day while looking through old structures. His drawings, after all, would have photographs. He came across a photo o f a Salish to pass the scrutiny of the Missoula Historic family standing outside their teepee at the foot Preservation Commission. o f Mount Sentinel in the late 1800s. They were So one fall day, Glenn walked through campus standing on the very ground o f today’s campus. with a group o f tribal elders to solicit their The teepees in the picture were the original opinions on its Western European architecture. architecture o f the Missoula valley, Glenn thought, He explained to them that the center would need predating the UM campus, A.J. Gibson, and to echo this style. neoclassicism itself. When he showed the photo to “They explicidy reacted against that idea,” the Missoula Historic Preservation Commission, Glenn says. “Many people would consider them Glenn received the go-ahead to start drawing. quite beautiful buildings, but to many of the “That photograph,” Glenn says, “became the elders they reminded them o f the Indian schools heart o f our design.” to which they were sent as children.” Glenn understood. His grandfather and great­ he $8.6 million, 30,000-square-foot Architect Daniel grandmother were sent to oppressive boarding Payne Family Native American Center Glenn stands schools where Native American children were will be completed in the beginning in front of the new Payne stripped o f their culture and taught the ways o f February. It is the first building o f Family Native 1 o f the white man. To them, the red brick and itsT kind at any American university, and when it f American ■* columns o f the schools’ buildings inspired fear, opens at spring Commencement, it will house Center. f not charm. U M ’s Native American Studies department, t The elders said they wanted a design that was American Indian Student Services, and related I “boldly Native American.” But how would that campus programming. I t ’s also the first | Left; Fredrika building in the | Hunter, director Montana University I of American System certified by the i Indian Student | Services, stands Leadership in Energy [ inside the lobby and Environmental 1 of the new Design (LEED) I building; Right: Green Building | The historic Rating System. Glenn S photo that expects that when all | inspired the the points are tallied, * center's design.

WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN MONTANAN WINTER 2010 I 15 the center will achieve the rank o f LEED Indian dwelling places. Native grasses and Reservation Gold— the second-highest designation. LEED plants will fill the grounds around the center. certification was important for the building, Outreach Glenn says, as it reflects Native Americans’ he building is steeped in symbolism, respect for Mother Earth. but i t ’s no museum. Just ask Kevin Krebsbach, UM associate director Wendy Running Crane, a Blackfeet Key To A o f Planning and Construction, has overseen graduate student from Browning. campus building for twenty-three years. He RunningT Crane and her friends are excited Stronger UM says the Native American center will be one about the new center’s size and amenities. While The Payne Family Native o f his most memorable projects. “We re really She says the current Native American Studies American Center was under proud o f that building,” he says, adding that all Building, a small house sandwiched between construction on campus, top UM UM s future buildings will be required to attain a dormitory and Arthur Avenue, is too small administrators traveled the state to at least a LEED Silver rating. “I think it is an to accommodate increasing Native American spread the word. In the past eighteen outstanding achievement that The University enrollments. months, delegations led by UM o f Montana will have completed the first green Running Crane first came to study at UM President George Dennison have visited building in the Montana University System,” in 1989. She was eighteen years old and had all seven Montana Indian reservations. he says. three daughters. Like many Native students, "We are engaged in recruiting she found the transition from reservation Native Americans, the first Montanans, he centers main entrance faces to campus difficult. She lasted a year before to the University," says UM Assistant east— keeping with Native American moving back to Browning. Less than 14 Vice President for Enrollment Jed Liston, tradition— and opens to a tall percent of Native students graduate within who traveled to the Blackfeet, Fort rotunda of canted, transparent walls. four years. Running Crane, who returned to Belknap, and Rocky Boy's reservations AT long skylight is cut into the roof overhead, UM in 2006 with her mother and daughters, last year. recalling the slit of a teepees smoke hole. explains that Native students drop out for Liston says the purpose of the trips Above the rotunda is a mezzanine level, many reasons. was to talk about the new center, supported by twelve pine logs dredged up “I think they feel really intimidated, | visit Native students, strengthen from the bottom o f the Blackfoot River when because college is just a lot different than relationships with tribal colleges, Milltown Dam was removed in 2008. The the reservation,” she says. “Were used to and reconnect with alumni. Native poles represent the twelve tribes o f Montana having extended families to go to if we need enrollment at UM has grown steadily and form a structure emblematic of a Sun something. In college we d o n ’t have that.” over the years, from just 239 students Dance lodge, com m on to many tribes. Beneath It doesn’t help, Running Crane says, that in 1990 to 545 in 2008. Dennison the poles, twelve parfleche patterns are etched the various programs designed to help Native would like to enroll 1,000 Native into the floor— one from each Montana tribe. students finish their degrees are currendy students or more, so the University's This circular area is student population will better reflect the Glenns favorite part o f An example of I demographics of the state. the building and will the parfleche Dennison's presence on these be used as a gathering designs that line outreach trips was invaluable, Liston space. H e hopes it will B the second floor says. He fielded questions and listened draw Native Americans of the gathering to concerns from communities on the from around the V w w ce . reservations while taking the time to nation to meet and meet with prospective students. In discuss their future. Browning on the Blackfeet Reservation, The seals o f Dennison visited an elementary school Montanas seven to read a book about Monte to the reservations and o f the students. landless Little Shell "His interaction with a classroom of Chippewa Tribe are first-graders when he read that Monte carved into the exterior book will be firmly etched in my mind walls alongside quotes from UM President housed in different buildings around campus. as one of his greatest legacies," Liston George Dennison and Native American elders The new center will be a one-stop hub for says. 'That group of kids started off such as Earl Barlow and Joseph Medicine students’ needs. Running Crane thinks it will sitting on the floor, and as he was Crow. Eight flagpoles stand nearby. Seven attract and retain more Native students. reading they crept closer and closer native plant and herb gardens surround the “It ’s really important to have a place where until they were touching his arm, and building, symbolizing the states reservations we can develop our extended families away soon we couldn't see him. There were and the seven stars o f the Big Dipper, known from home,” she says. “Once we get to know kids completely surrounding him. All to the Crow and Sioux as the Seven Buffalo each other, then we do the same things for each we heard was his voice underneath, Brothers. An oval storytelling area represents other as we do at home.” and he was laughing." a traditional sweat lodge, and a shade arbor Running Crane also hopes the new rounds out the necessary elements o f Plains center will expand the Department o f Native

16 I WINTER 2010 MONTANAN really nice to see that the University has com e a long way.” “Most of the* The center, in her mind, is tangible proof. “What it says to Native communities here in Montana is that we truly do value youc j contributions and that you are a valued member o f The Universit§|! students I talk o f Montana.”

to, their whole lenty o f times, it seemed the center would never be built. Gerry Fetz was dean o f U M ’s College o f Arts and reason jp r Sciences (which includes the Department o f Native American Studies) from 2003 to 2008. Together with Julia Horn,P then C A S ’s development director, he traveled the country cording to looking for donors, which were generous but few. When the UM Foundation launched a fundraising campaign, Fetz and Horn asked ■ college & that that a Native American center be included as a priority building project. Terry Payne, a Missoula-based insurance executive and 1963 U M they wan^to go graduate, was on the Foundation’s fundraising committee. He noted the particular importance o f this project, for which he saw plenty*”* home and makatheir a o f intellectual and emotional support, but insufficient financial backing. The time was ripe to start building, he thought. Payne wrote a check and became the center’s major donor. reservation^ betterplace.t “It was just a matter o f stepping up to a project that I felt was so meaningful to the Native American people and to the University, the state, and the country,” he says. “This is a unique opportunity to American Studies. She says Indian reservations A b o v e : Wendy support a project that means so much to so many. Native Americans are unique places with very particular Running Crane, certainly deserve something that recognizes their place in society and circumstances. It can be hard to learn from a a Blackfeet the University.” general education everything necessary to go graduate student Payne says the project is exceeding his expectations. He hopes back and work on a reservation, she says. h°m Browning the center will be more than just an academic facility, by providing “Most o f the students I talk to, their whole a cultural education as well. “I hope it can be a conduit for learning^ reason for coming to college is that they want to go home and make and communication for the entire University,” he says. their reservation a better place,” Running Crane says. “Its not even Tony Incashola, director o f the Salish-Pend d’Oreille Culture really about them. They’re here for their community.” Committee, hopes the center will remind the University community o f the original inhabitants o f the campus area. Incashola knows from redricka Hunter, director o f American Indian Student elders’ stories that long before the M was set into Mount Sentinel, Services at UM, is looking forward to moving out o f her before the first bricks o f campus were laid, and before Lewis and tiny Lommasson Center office and into the new building. Clark arrived on their fateful march west, the Missoula Valley was F Hunter says the size o f the center will allow her to called “Nemisoolatakoo,” and it was the aboriginal territory and plan more student activities, such as a lecture series. “Our biggest winter campgrounds o f the Salish and Pend d’Oreille tribes. obstacle right now is a lack of space,” she says. “The new building is “When the white setders started moving in, that changed the a place to bring all the students together, and w e ’ll be able to serve way of life considerably for Native people in this area,” Incashola them under one roof.” says. “They were forced out o f their aboriginal land, the food­ AISS tries to prevent Native students from falling through the gathering places, hunting places, camping areas. That was a burden^ j. cracks. If students can make it through their first year, Hunter says, it was a big change.” the following years will be easier. The students who need the most Incashola says he hopes U M ’s new Native American center will I attention are those who are transferring from a community college be a place for Native students to educate themselves to be a part of or are the first from their families to attend a university. society while retaining their culture. “Many know very little about the financial aid process,” Hunter In April 2008, Incashola took part in a ceremony to bless the says. “Most o f these students wait until the very last minute to land on which the center would be built. He prayed that the apply to school, which causes a delay in their financial aid. We work building would be a place for Native and non-Native people to learn closely with these students to help them navigate this process.” about one another. Students already are asking Hunter when they can move into the “To me, once people start to understand one another, that fear o f new center. “People feel a sense o f pride and excitement,” she says. each other disappears,” he says. M There’s more o f an invested interest in the building now. They realize they’re going to be the first occupants o f the building. There Jacob Baynham graduated from the UM School of is a sense o f ownership there. That really is our building.” Journalism in 2007. He is a freelance journalist in Hunter graduated from UM in 1993 and has watched the Cincinnati. His stories and photos have appeared in University steadily expand its programming for Native students. “I the San Francisco Chronicle, the Toronto Star, didn’t have half the support that the students do now,” she says. “It ’s the San Antonio Express-News, and Newsweek.

WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN MONTANAN WINTER 2010 I 17 n the summer of 2006, I had just moved to a major city for the first time in my life. Born and raised in Montana, I quickly realized that New York City was a different kind of beast. I was accustomed to walking across the UM campus and saying "hello" to or smiling at nearly everyone I met.

I soon realized that while it was ensued that I have never forgotten. “Le t’s easy for me to make friends through play a game,” he said. “Pick a town in * • • if my internship at Seventeen magazine or Montana, and I will tell you who I know through social gatherings and friends-of- and you can tell me who you know.” So, there are friends, I missed Montana— my real home. we started with Whitefish and discovered During this homesick phase, I received a we knew quite a few people in common two people call from my dad that perked me up right aside from the obvious UM connections. away. “I’ve found throughout m y life that who claim Dad called to say his friends girlfriend, if there are two people who claim th e y ’re Marie, was com ing to New York City. from Montana, and if you c a n ’t find within th e y ’re from Coincidentally, Maries boss was a UM three names someone in com m on that alum, and because any daughter o f her you know, then one o f you is n ’t telling Montana, boyfriend’s friend was instant family, she the truth,” he said. This sounded like a invited me to accompany her to dinner grandiose declaration at the time, but and you with her boss. I was instructed to wear a because we had just learned that we knew black dress. so many people in common, I believed c a n ’t find At dinner, I had the privilege of him. Since becom ing M ontanan editor and meeting Harold Gilkey ’62 , at that time hearing others’ stories, I ’ve realized how chairman and C E O o f Sterling Financial true it is, and I hope you do, too. within three Corporation. As soon as I heard his name, The intent o f this feature, “All Roads I knew who Harold was. He and his wife, Lead To Montana,” is to spark that names Priscilla, had just donated a naming gift to Montana connection in your life. Maybe break ground on the Harold and Priscilla you have a story of a time you ran into someone Gilkey Executive Education Center at UM. another Montanan in a foreign country, And here I was, a twenty-two-year-old like Charles Pickard ’71 . Maybe your Griz in common journalism student from UM, dining with gear has elicited a cheer o f “Go Griz” from Harold; Marie Mahugh, my family friend a passing stranger, as is a regular occurrence that you and Harold’s associate; and John Duffy, for UM Executive Vice President Jim C E O o f Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (a Foley. O r maybe your Montana and UM know, then financial services firm based in the city)— connection led you to fall in love, like at the upscale Lever House. I d id n ’t speak Verna B. Krout ’05 . one o f you much during that dinner. Regardless, I hope you make Montana Later that evening, I accompanied and UM connections wherever you are. Just is n ’t telling Harold and Marie back to their hotel for a keep in mind, all roads lead to Montana. post-dinner drink. I had the opportunity Brianne Burrowes '07 the tru th .’’ to pick Harold’s brain, and a discussion Editor-in-Chief, Montanan

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Montana On My Mind (And My Head!) D U RIN G MY LIFE I HAVE H A D TH E PLEASURE and the spectators. O f course, I opportunity to work on Capitol Hill with both the U.S. House of was running and could Representatives and the U.S. Senate before I had the privilege o f not respond, but it gave coming to work at UM. W orking in politics was a great rearview- me that extra boost to mirror experience. During those fifteen years, UM and Griz Nation push through the last were a frequent topic o f conversation on the Hill. As I am sure few miles. many folks can relate, in the many times I came back and forth Montana and UM from Washington, D.C., to Montana, a simple T-shirt or hat are special places bearing the Griz paw always prompted someone to say “Go Griz” with special people across airport corridors. Folks always would strike up conversations and special programs. about the campus and the many memories they have about their People often talk about the Montana “family.” This family extends connection to UM. But no “Go Griz” was quite like the one I from coast to coast and around the world. Once you become part received during a trip to New York. o f UM, you become part o f this extended family, and you will have In 1999,1 entered the New York City Marathon. I wore my more than 80,000 relatives all over the world— ready to welcome Griz hat proudly as I ran the 26.2 miles through all five boroughs you with a hearty “Go Griz.” And you never know when you might along with more than 33,000 other participants. I was running hear i t . . . through the Central Park portion o f the race focusing on keeping Jim Foley my pace, when all o f a sudden I heard shouts o f “Go Griz” from the Executive Vice President, The University o f Montana

AS A TEENAGE COMBAT to the interrogation deciding I needed to offer How Are The INFANTRYMAN in the European Theatre something. Fortunately, the next question was, Grizzlies Doing? in World War II in the winter o f 1944-45,1 “Tell us where you came from in the States.” I was captured by a German tank unit near the croaked out a feeble “Missoula, Montana.” French-German border. With that harmless information, the burly Following that very traumatic event, I sergeant smiled and said in perfect American was subjected to a lengthy interrogation English: “HOW ARE TH E GRIZZLIES along with other American captives they had D O IN G ?” To say that the atmosphere changed gathered together in a village in the area. The is an understatement! I was informed that I interrogation team consisted o f a very proper was dismissed. I then asked my new friend Oxford English-speaking German captain and how he knew the Griz. He had come to Seatde a very intimidating sergeant with a Luger pistol in the 1930s to find work. He ended up lying on the table in front o f him. H e did not with a job there for seven years and became say a word but instead scowled and picked up a fan o f American football— particularly the the pistol frequently. Washington Huskies, who played the Griz as The Geneva Conventions required only part o f the old Pacific Coast Conference. He revealing ones name, rank, and serial number returned to Germany just before the war to see to the enemy if captured. After several refusals his ailing mother and was conscripted into the on my part to offer other information such German army because o f his language skill. as unit, numbers, etc., and being banished to Howie Hunter '49 stand outside in a blizzard for hours, I returned Fircrest, Wash.

WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN MONTANAN WINTER 2010 I 19 A Chance Meeting Rivalry, Friendship Span Continents IN MAY 1968,1 had just returned to Da IN O C T O B E R 2009,1 traveled to a number o f universities in Europe to establish Nang, South Vietnam, from a five-day new agreements for student and faculty exchanges or to renew existing agreements R & R to Taipei, Taiwan. The previous and find ways to make them work more effectively. As it happened, I anticipated six months, I had been in near-constant and very much enjoyed the opportunity to meet and talk with about a dozen UM combat attached to the 3rd Bataliion, 4th students studying in various fields at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland. Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Divisiop g University President Michael Murphy arranged my schedule so I met the UM in the Con Thien and Khe Sahn areas o f I students, as well as the faculty and administrators o f the programs hosting the Corp. I was a medical corpsman attacheadly students. In addition, I had a wonderful tour o f the campus and the community, to a front-line maneuver battalion. which helped me understand why students love the Cork experience. Much o f my time was spent on the hills For the last evening o f the visit. President Murphy invited a number of surrounding Khe Sahn?*Combat Base, people from the campus and the community to an elegant dinner in the historic which was primarily the responsibility of Presidents House on campus. Presidents no longer reside in the house but use the 26th Marine Regiment. it for special and ceremonial purposes— a venue most presidents would love to I had just stepped off one o f many have. Imagine my surprise to learn when I arrived that the president had invited transports 1 had been using in an effort another special guest following a conversation that afternoon, indicating that this to fly back north to the Khe Sahn area, guest knew me well. I had not a clue who had followed me all the way across the when I felt a tap on my shoulder. As I Atlantic and Europe to Ireland. turned around, 1 came face-to-face with Indeed, however, I did know Shane Colvin well, a young man who grew up Ed Herber, who was wearing a Marine in Bigfork and chose to attend Montana State University in Bozeman. I came to uniform. Ed had been a Griz football know and admire him by observing his leadership skills as he represented students player and a Phi Delt brother. H e was exceedingly well during 2008-09 as president o f the Associated Students o f MSU. four or five years older than I was and considered a legend at the Phi Delta Theta house at 500 University Avenue. Ed and I talked a hundred miles an hour in an effort to get as much in as we could before we had to depart. Ed was attached to the 26th Marine Regiment existing inside Khe Sahn Combat Base. I was existing on the many hills . surrounding Khe Sahn. I only knew it was 'him because o f his distinct voice. How he recognized me with my weight loss o f 60 pounds baffled me. I guess Ed was more observant than I gave him credit for, Michael Murphy, president because his reason for picking me out was o f University College Cork P^^Hieiecogiiize^o^^^^m i^^H (left), gives a tour of his Irish campus to UM President in spite o f the 60-pound weight loss! E o ^ George Dennison. survived the Vietnam War. I enrolled at UM in 1970 to finish my However, certainly the most memorable image o f Shane occurred when he had to degree. After getting married in 1971,1 sing “Up With Montana”—the unforgettable Grizzly fight song— for the Board was hired by 3M and niovjd to Billings.' o f Regents and all in attendance at the meeting in March 2009, after the Griz My wife and 1 were out 0,1 A c town one defeated the Cats in the football game in November 2008. weekend when we ran into EcnHerber. The recipient o f a Mitchell Scholarship— the U.S.-Ireland Alliance awards W e sat and talked o f the odds involved twelve annually to support outstanding students for a year o f postgraduate study in living meters from each other in what in an Irish university— Shane opted to study music therapy at Limerick, a short turned out to be one of the biggest battles trip from Cork. Following his year in Ireland, he will attend medical school. He of the Vietnam War and not knowing it. and some new Irish friends had com e to enjoy the jazz festival held annually Then, the odds o f our chance meeting in Cork. After a delightful but unexpectedly brief conversation, Shane excused in Da Nang.' Both Montanans anfl both himself from dinner to return to the festival, undoubtedly on the assumption that Griz. he would benefit more in his studies by doing so rather than frittering away the Ed Herber is now deceased. I will never evening in conversation and good food. It does, indeed, appear that all roads lead forget that Griz! to Montana. Charles D. Pickard '71 G eorge M. Dennison, '62, '63 Billings President and Professor o f History, The University o f Montana

20 I WINTER 2010 MONTANAN Meet Me In Montana MY BEST MONTANA CONNECTION happened during Freshman Week at UM in 1942— although I d id n ’t know it at the time! In those years, it was still the tradition o f the freshman men to paint the M on Mount Sentinel. This meant trudging up the hill, carrying bags o f lime and buckets o f water to slosh on the big white rocks. Meanwhile, the freshmen women were delegated to prepare a lunch table with hot dogs and lemonade for the perspiring men. As the men started through the line to collect their food, I was behind the table, doling out hot dogs and lemonade. One particular young man received his bun and hot dog and held it out for me to put mustard on. I figured he could do that himself and progressed no further than handholding. Fast-forward to December said so, thinking no more about it. 8, 1942. Jack enlisted in the Army Air Corps and departed. The A short while later, I settled down on a nearby rock to consume hometown boyfriend enlisted in the Army and departed soon my own lunch when the aforementioned student came by and after. Jack wrote almost every day and finally two years later, after dropped some ice cubes down my neck. It was hardly a good way completing pilots training, we rekindled the spark. to start an acquaintance. It d id n ’t happen overnight, but on April 24, 1945, we were I shrugged that off with a somewhat pained laugh and forgot married. I was no longer a junior at UM, but an Air Force wife. about it until that evening, which was the occasion o f a freshmen The Montana connection was now permanent. mixer-dance at the Student Union. During the following year, when we could not be together, Another male student, Duane, assisted me with my coat, I managed to complete all but a few credits toward graduation. pocketed the ticket, and asked me to dance. Then, who arrives But in the fall o f 1946,1 was shipped o ff to Japan to be with my and strikes up a conversation with me but my ice cube nemesis, husband, who was then in the occupying Air Force contingents at Jack. There was a thaw, and he asked if he could see me back to Itazuki Air Force Base in Kyushu. Jack completed almost thirty-two the dorm after the dance. The only problem? The coat check ticket years in the Air Force in 1974. As o f April 2008, we completed belonged to Duane. But Jack managed to con Duane out o f that, sixty-four years o f marriage, and in 2005 I received my bachelor’s and a friendship began between us. degree in journalism from UM— completing my goal set in 1942. There were movie dates and other activities with Jack that Verna B. Krout '05 fall, but I was semi-engaged to someone back home, so intimacy Petaluma, Calif. "You see, my friend from Montana thinks he knows everyone who lives in the state.

Guessing Game Gone Right Tell Us— What's your favorite I WAS SKIING IN CALIFORNIA with a professional friend from Kentucky. All morning long I told my friend how small Montana is. We story of a Montana all know everyone, I repeated over and over. Finally he had enough. While connection? standing in line at the chairlift for a return trip up the mountain, my E-mail all essays friend looked over at two ladies standing near us. to themontanan@ “Do you know anyone in Montana?” he asked them. “You see, my umontana.edu. The friend from Montana thinks he knows everyone who lives in the state.” best submissions will The two ladies exchanged glances and then said they only knew one be considered for person— a friend from California named Gina who met her husband-to-be publication in an at a wedding and then eventually moved to Montana when they married. upcoming issue of the I quickly told the ladies that G in a ’s husband’s name is Steve and that Montanan. All entries they live in Libby. The two ladies were stunned and replied that I was correct. My friend was, to say must be fewer than the least, more than frustrated by this revelation. I simply said the only Gina from California I knew 5 0 0 words, include who met her husband in a wedding and then moved to Montana was my parents’ neighbor in Libby. the writers name Coincidental? No, Montana is a small state after all. and, if applicable, Bill Johnston '79, M.P.A. '91 graduation year. Director, Office o f Alumni Relations and Alumni Association

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he scene opens with a skinny young man in a rickety gold 1963 Corvair convertible zoom ing down from his fa m ily ’s home in Pattee Canyon to the auditorium at Sentinel High School. There he meets a woman, not quite old enough to be his mother, who through her zest and dedication to her art helps set the course o f his life. The young man is played by John Shaffner ’74 , one o f television’s most successful and celebrated production designers. His work on thousands o f shows has touched millions o f lives. The woman is played by Margaret Johnson, a theater teacher o f such stature that today her name adorns the same auditorium where she first met Shaffner. She instilled in him. lessons that, when combined with his talent, catapulted him to the pinnacle o f his field. “I have a deep love for theater, and I would not accept anything less than the very best,” Johnson says. “Whatever show we put on, we would do the very best we could do or we John Shaffner stands w o u ld n ’t do it.” on the set of Two and Shaffner, who calls Johnson his “inspiration,” a Half Men. took her lessons to heart.

22 .-WJNTER 2 0 1 0 MONTANAN WWW.UMT.EOU/MON1ANAN MONTANAN WINTER 2010 2 3 THERE'S NO Many a public school student BUSINESS LIKE in Missoula has been blessed with SHOW BUSINESS an arts teacher whose vitality and selflessness made them both a The list o f programs for hero and a role model. Whether which John Shaffner worked this phenomenon happens more as production designer reads in the shadow of Mount Sentinel like a Netflix queue: Friends, than in other American towns is Dharma and Greg, Two a n d a hard to gauge. But because it is n ’t H alf Men, The Drew Carey rare in Missoula, does that make Show, and George Lopez. He it any less special? set the stage for talk shows Shaffner began his studies in hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, theater at Johnson’s alma mater, Conan O ’Brien, Rachel Ray, Macalester College in St. Paul, and Dr. Phil. He worked Minn. Though homesick for with David Copperfleld and Montana, he was eager to expand Jerry Lewis, and he named his horizons. the proto-American Id o l show “For many young people, Star Search. He even built Montana gives you a good the backdrops for the last background,” Shaffner says. “But three Republican National you have to go out and explore Conventions. the world a little bit.” And th a t ’s his abbreviated He d id n ’t miss Montana long. resume. Finances prompted his return “I’m a person who uses the to Missoula for his sophomore word ‘more’ as a life goal,” through senior years. In the early Shaffner says from his Los 1970s, he studied with Bill Raoul, Angeles office. Shaffner poses in front of an oversized Emmy statue at the who taught scene design at UM H e is renowned for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in North Hollywood, Calif. for more than a quarter-century. quality o f his work. - 1 * r - George Lopez says o f “He just gravitated toward the // technical side o f theater,” Raoul the set Shaffner built for his says. “John is one o f the rare show, “John created a home that we lived in for six years. "I I S i i WITH IV IS 1 GLOOD people who makes a good living at it, and th a t ’s just from sheer I have better memories in this hom e than hard work and pluck and luck.” the one I grew up in.” WHERE EVERYBODY Shaffner also worked with the up-and- The resdessness that makes Shaffner KNOWS YOUR NAME com ing Missoula Children’s Theatre and the take on ever-new projects has been with Shaffner was born in Missoula in 1952, Bigfork Summer Playhouse. him since childhood. His professionalism followed two years later by his brother, “He just got things done,” says D on was something both innate to him and Geoff. His father, Dean, was in the Thomson, a producer at the playhouse honed through experience with Montana propane and appliance business and his educators. mother, Eloise, had worked for a Cleveland who worked with Shaffner in the 1970s. “He stepped up and made sure that things “He had a great spirit. H e would say, television station in the 1940s. looked the way they should.” ‘Le t’s get it done,’ and h e ’d find a way to do “I was born with TV in my blood,” In all his jobs, Shaffner relished the it,” says Jim Caron, founder o f the Missoula Shaffner says. opportunity to stretch his imagination and Children’s Theatre, who worked with S h a ffn e r ’s introduction to the theater productivity. Shaffner in the early 1970s. came early in high school, when he “If you showed up to paint the set, guess Perhaps Montana’s most lasting imprint marched into drama teacher Johnsons on Shaffner is in his imagination, which classroom and volunteered to do any job what? You could choose the color to paint it,” those close to him say was incubated in the for any production. He was soon enthralled Shaffner says. “If you were willing to do the Five Valleys. with theater, spending numerous late nights work, you could have the responsibility as well.” “People ask me, ‘What does a and weekends working. He also was dazzled Shaffner was primed when he left production designer d o ? ”’ Shaffner says. by his t e a c h e r ’s vivacity. Missoula for the second time. This lasting “A production designer is the lucky person H e called her “a force o f nature” and absence took him from graduate school at who gets to read the script just about before described her as “a woman o f incredible Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, everybody else does and imagine what i t ’s passion for teaching and for teaching in the to New York City, to Los Angeles, and to supposed to look like.” theater.” coundess points in between.

“2 4 WINTER 2010 M O N T A N A N ' IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE the position o f helping decide who else gets money for scholarships. Shaffner also was 2002 Six Emmys and three decades since he was the gold statue. a recipient o f the award in and serves a UM student, the hit shows that run like “I’ve had the good fortune to work on on the college’s advisory council. threads through Shaffner’s career are too T V shows seen by lots o f people,” he says. Stewart had never been to Missoula numerous to list. The stories are copious H e ’s also had front-row seats to events before he met Shaffner. N ow he calls it a also, but a few stick out. that affect even more people than television. second home. He also gleaned an important For example, in the early 1990s, Shaffner He and his partner, Joe Stewart, designed insight. skipped a cruise h e ’d paid for because o f the sets for the 2000, 2 0 0 4 , and 2008 “Something about the beauty of this a special feeling he got from a new script. Republican National Conventions, but he city offered John something that was very He was to design the set for a comedy is quick to point out that they worked two special growing up— the ability to imagine,” about six friends living in New York City. shows broadcast from the Kennedy Center Stewart says. “And this business is all about His inspiration was his own sixth-floor when Bill Clinton was president, too. “We ’re being able to imagine.” walkup apartment that he lived in on West equal opportunity workers,” he says. Stewart adds, “He was also fortunate to Fourteenth Street in Manhattan in the late It was illusionist David Copperfield who have wonderful, wonderful teachers.” 1970s. Set before the cameras, it became prompted Shaffner and Stewart in 1989 Monica and R a c h e l’s place. to turn their personal partnership into a TW O FOR THE ROAD There was one big difference between professional one. Since graduate school, The scene closes on a December day in the apartment on the Friends set and his, Shaffner had lived with Joe Stewart, who the Missoula Valley. Shaffner and Stewart however. The bathroom on set was across also studied stage design. When Copperfield wind their way up Pattee Canyon in a the living room from the bedroom rather needed a set designed for a show, Shaffner gold Mercedes toward their lodgy getaway than beside it. This was intentional. was too busy to do it all himself. He agreed home nesded on 55 acres not far from the “As soon as we saw who was cast we to take on the Copperfield project on the modest house where Shaffner grew up. said, ‘These women are Soon they will host a holiday gorgeous, i t ’s going to be party. Shaffner’s old teacher fun to watch them run turned dear friend, Margaret across the room in their Johnson, will be there. underwear,”’ he says. Behind them the c it y ’s (Millions o f young lights burn hot orange men worldwide salute beneath snow-dusted you, John Shaffner.) mountains. In the distance In the early 1980s, icy peaks have turned pink Shaffner was tasked with in the sunset. I t ’s not a bad creating a logo for a production design for the show that Ed McMahon story o f a life. In fact, the set would host in which is so good it could almost singers could compete. have been designed by John He would go on to Shaffner. work for this show for “It took me the first a dozen years. At first twenty-one years to scratch the program’s pilot was my way out o f Missoula,” he called Talent Challenge. says. “And the next thirty- Shaffner came up with Shaffner with his partner, Joe Stewart, at their Laurel Canyon home studio. two to scratch my way back.” a name he liked far Shaffner points at a model of the 2009 American Music Awards stage. Aft better— Star Search. condition that Joe be hired as co-designer. It doesn't stop here! “It ’s my itty-bitty contribution to Visit www.umt.edu/montanan I t ’s not hyperbole to say that their popular culture,” he says. Ito read a W eb ex clu siv e That garish couch on The Golden Girls? partnership has worked out magically. Q & A with John Shaffner. Shaffner accepts full responsibility. “We are ourselves very surprised at what “The sofa fabric was my fault,” he says. a smooth collaboration it is,” says Stewart, Nate Schweber is a freelance The nicest celebrity h e ’s ever worked who has lived with Shaffner for thirty-five journalist who graduated from with? Tom Selleck. The craziest? Kirstie years. “We just seem to have a very good, U M ’s School o f Journalism in Alley. The classiest? Meryl Streep. long conversation.” 2001. H is work has appeared in Thanks to his lengthy resume, Shaffner Today Shaffner and Stewart sponsor The New York Times, Rolling is beginning his second term as C E O and U M ’s Odyssey o f the Stars, an annual gala Stone, Budget Travel, an d The chairman o f the Academy o f Television Arts event that celebrates College o f Visual Village Voice. He lives in New York City and and Sciences, putting the Emmy winner in and Performing Arts alumni and raises sings in a band called the New Heathens.

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|BY5YTHE TH E FALL O F 1989,1989. ten years teOCheS WNterS hOW tO IjVe out o f college and reading and writing like a madman for all o f them, I had a novel manuscript that O ne or the other, I thought, H had been rejected by thirty-some would be a very fin$ thing. publishers, just four published short So even though I had no money* * stories, and a family farm I’d been no job, and onlj^a hole in my heart slowly driving into the ground with where the form usecrro be, I did neglect. It was time to swallow failure have one good question whenT and make room for my brother and came to grad school. Eager for an his family. Tim e for my wife, two answer, I signed up to have part of daughters, and me to drive past our my novel workshopped pn the fjr$t barn for the last time, wind through a day o f class. The adjunct instructor foggy hollow and out o f our beloved was Leonard Robinson. Fie was in Wisconsin hills. Time to head west his seventies and many years before in an overpacked truck pulling an had published lots pf stories, poems, overpacked trailer. Like Okies o r ^ l and a couple o f novels. H e w a sn ’t1 1§| homesteaders— but not quite. We 'ram cl^Tlis career had com e ancT crossed the plains and the mountains gone. But more than a writer, h e ’d to Missoula so I could attend been an editor in New York and it graduate school in creative writing at was people like him, the gatekeepers, The University o f Montana. who seemed to know something I A friend once told me that did not. literature was like the Great Pyramid, I sat through a class discussion o f a 3,000-year-old astoundingly ? my novelVchapters. The variety of beautiful human creation, and my my classmates’ opinions astounded *£ only job as a writer was to haul my . and confused me. I thought they , |gg own pretty litde stone up there onto were idiots. O r else I must be. I the pile. really h a d n ’t a due. I d o n ’t remember Well, I’d tried. I’d been patient. what was said. I only knew I’d come I’d worked obsessively hard— once I for a simple answerbm S^kjass had spent almost a year writing nothing done was magnify my conrasiorre but paragraphs— but the only thing Leonard was a short mam I I felt I’d learned writing on my to remember his feet not touching own was that I c o u ld n ’t trust my the floor as he sat in his chair at th e^ judgment anymore. I seemed to front o f that Liberal Arts Building have forgotten what was good. If I classroom, but I think th a t’s probably was going to haul my little stone up not true. Despite what ^considered onto the Great Pyramid, I was going an old-fashioned formality in to need help, and the first help I running the workshop, he had a BY DAVID ALLAN CATES needed was simple: I either wanted playful mind and endearing eyes. som ebody to tell me I was talentless After class, he raised a finger and and deluded— and should give it all called me up to his desk. up— or I wanted somebody to tell “Com e with me to my office,” me I had what it took he said.

26 I WINTER 2010 MONTANAS t I followed. We went in and he But I resented any time spent working closed the door, and I sat down, and he on anything that w a sn ’t my novel. So if looked at me carefully. I was a nervous I had an academic paper due, I severely wreck. I thought I might crack open limited the time I spent on it. In fact, and start leaking onto the floor. When whatever I could write in two hours is I think about the weight I was going what I turned in— then I went back to put on whatever he told me— and to novel writing. I h a d n ’t come to grad when I think about my unrealistic school to get As on my report card. expectations— I mean, the question By spring I’d finished the rewrite. I was trying to answer— I still c a n ’t The novel, Hunger In America, is the Yet there is believe what happened. As if Leonard story of the last night in the life o f a cab could see past me to the monster of driver in Kodiak, Alaska, the story of a something else self-doubt hanging over my shoulder young man far from home. It is not an I found here ready to devour my pitiful flesh, he autobiographical story, but novels come said, “D o n ’t listen to what anybody said from some place deep and mysterious in Missoula in that workshop. Y o u ’re more talented in the writer, and I can see now it that helped. than even you can imagine.” addressed the big fears and shames o f Aaaaaahhhh. my life— what happens if I d o n ’t love Something True or false, who cared? What as I should the ones I am supposed to that was even mattered was how Leonard dispatched love? What happens if it all ends before the monster with one rock from his I have a chance to do something good? bigger than sling. I think I must have floated away. I sent the manuscript to Kittredge. what the late, Up out o f that building and past Main He sent it to his agent, who gave it to Hall, over the still-green Oval and a colleague— and by mid-summer s h e ’d great Leonard streets lined with shocking gold maples, sold it to Simon & Schuster. Robinson gave and higher still into a Missoula sky so A success story, sure— and just blue it hurt my eyes. the kind the folks in the Master o f me, something Somehow I made it down Maurice Fine Arts program like to tell. But life that has lasted. Avenue to our family housing is long, and publishing success is a apartment, our crowded new home, mist. It burns o ff or blows away. O r where I began to surrender to a voice sometimes never rises at all. Over the I’d been resisting for years. The voice next fifteen years, I’d write five more A M B K I « A had been telling me that the novel full-length fiction manuscripts— three I’d been working on was not a happy novels and two books o f short stories— story but a sad, three-act tragedy. I had that would be rejected by well over to stretch to let that idea in— I d id n ’t a hundred publishers before I’d sell a want to write a tragedy. But the book second novel. had become something on its own, So the demon o f self-doubt is never something I had not intended, and it dispatched for good. He only hides for was clear now that my job was to get • AVID C A T ■ * a little while. Yet there is something else on that horse and ride. Leonard had I found here in Missoula that helped. A b o v e : Cates' first given me the courage to try. Something that was even bigger than novel. Hunger Over the winter I rewrote the novel what the late, great Leonard Robinson In America, again— a fifth time, I think. My desk gave me, something that has lasted. which he rewrote was wedged against the foot o f our Other schools might have star while he was a bed, and I’d start working early in the writers— and The University of graduate student morning before my wife was awake. Montana certainly has its share. But it at UM. I’d asked William Kittredge, another w a sn ’t the stars who taught me what teacher, to read the manuscript, and I ’ve needed during the hard years. It when I turned my head to watch my w a sn ’t the classes, and it had nothing to wife sleep, I’d think o f what he told do with the esteem o f the program. It me: Ease back, tell the story. was the way the program opened doors In addition to rewriting my novel, that allowed me to meet other writers I had a part-time job by then and a who lived in this small city. I met full load o f credits, which included them at readings or parties. Saw them literature classes. I loved reading the at the grocery store or grade school or books and listening to my professors. church. Played softball at the Northside

MONTANAN WINTER 2010 I 27 L eft: David Cates before he WHERE THE BIG FISH LIE came to graduate school at UM UM's Creative Writing Program among the country's elite in 1989; B e lo w : The Cates family farm in Wisconsin. WHEN HAROLD GUY "K G ." MERRIAM ESTABLISHED THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANAS UNDERGRADUATE CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM IN 1919, it was only the second such program in the country, after Harvard's. Ninety years later, Merriam's legacy is a rich cultural diaspora of writers and writing that starts in Missoula and flows across the state and beyond like ripples on the Clark Fork River. In a recent book of critical essays about Montana literature, All Our Stories Are Here, past program director Lois Welch writes: "The University of Montana's Creative Writing Program is now and has been since its inception a complex positive influence on both the University and the state, providing a welcoming community for writers and one of several cultural bridges between Montanans and their University, itself part of national intellectual field. Met at Charlie B’s or at Snowbowl culture." or a UM basketball game. Saw each other In 1965, UM's Creative Writing Program joined the ranks of about a dozen walking over the Higgins Avenue Bridge or in the country offering a Master of Fine Arts degree. Initially directed by John standing on the sidelines at Fort Missoula Hermann and Earl Ganz, the program grew to national prominence under while our kids played soccer. poet Richard Hugo, who taught at UM from 1964 until his death in 1982, as Because what any o f us needs to well as faculty members such as James Crumley, James Lee Burke, and William know— more than technique or how to Kittredge. Kittredge directed the program for a time, as did Welch, Kate publish— is how to live. H ow to keep G adbow and, currently, Prageeta Sharma. working, how to grow, to move, to risk. The UM Creative Writing Program earned a huge honor in 1997, when H ow to keep our hearts open and stare U.S. News and World Report ranked it in the top ten programs of its kind. (The down the monster of self-doubt day after magazine has since stopped ranking creative writing programs.) More recently, lonely day. All this while trying to do Poets & Writers m agazine ranked UM sixteenth in its guide to "The Top Fifty the work of adulthood— buy groceries, M.F.A. Programs in the United States." According to the article, there are now raise children, stay sane— things that 140 full-residency creative writing programs in the country. unfortunately d o n ’t always go hand in hand The highly competitive UM program receives more than 400 applications with the work of being a writer. each year for twenty spaces. At any given time the program has forty to fifty So although I met plenty of classmates first- and second-year students in poetry, prose, and nonfiction emphases. Its most who w e r e n ’t idiots after all— students and recognizable alumni include James Welch (Fools Crow), Sandra Alcosser (first teachers just as ragged and tottering as I, Montana state poet laureate), Kim Barnes [Into the Wilderness), Andrew Sean friends I still rely on as readers o f early Greer [The Confessions o f Max Tivoli), Aryn Kyle [The G o d of Animals), Colin drafts— my grad school experience was Meloy (lead singer, The Decemberists), and Melissa Kwasny [Reading Novalis in made deep and rich and long-lasting by Montana). writers I met out of the program, writers in Current creative writing faculty are Sharma, Judy Blunt, Debra M agpie this place, writers in the world. Most were Earling, Deidre McNamer, Kevin Canty, Joanna Klink, G reg Pape, and Karen neither famous nor rich. In fact, the less Volkman. Recent and upcoming visiting faculty/writers include Rick Bass, Brian famous, the more inspirational. They were Blanchfield, Elizabeth Willis, Peter Richards, Robert Boswell, Peter Filkins, Annie neighbors, though, and all in their turn, Finch, Peter Gizzi, Eileen Myles, Peter Orner, and Michael Perry. they extended a hand to me. The program has produced several literary journals over the years. The first W e’re all crazy here, they said. W e’re all w as founded in 1920 by Merriam and called The Montanan, although the name struggling with our pretty stones toward was soon changed to Frontier. The current incarnation is the long-lived CutBank the Great Pyramid. Join us. Welcome. IU magazine, started in 1973 by Kittredge, then a faculty adviser. N ow in its thirty- seventh year and seventy-first edition, the m agazine publishes poetry, fiction, David Allan Cates 7 9 , M .F .A . and creative nonfiction from established and unknown writers. Contributors have ’92 , is the author o f three novels. included Wendell Berry, Louise Erdrich, Chris Offutt, and Aimee Bender. Hunger in America, X Out CutBank's founding slogan is "W here the big fish lie," referring to the o f Wonderland, an d most shadows in both the river and the, human psyche, where the best stories com e recently, Freeman Walker. H is from. It's an opt slogan for UM's Creative Writing Program, as well. short fiction has appeared in —Patia Stephens numerous small magazines and his travel uniting in Outside magazine. He lives in Missoula and is the executive director o f Missoula Medical Aid, www. missoulamedicalaid. net.

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WHERE THE MONEY WENT MOONLIGHT IN ODESSA By Kevin Canty By Janet Skeslien Charles Random House, 2009, 191 pages, $25

Bloomsbury, 2009, 342 pages, $25 Kevin C a n t y ’s characters deliver familiar UM graduate and Shelby native Janet Skeslien pains and com m on longings that can bring Charles has lived since 1999 in Paris, where inadvertent sharp breaths and squirms from she teaches writing classes at the Parisian his readers. Canty writes about love, money, bookstore Shakespeare & Co. There she and work from a m a n ’s point o f view, often in wrote her first novel, a darkly humorous post­ the first person. In his short stories, he d o e s n ’t communism story set in Odessa, Ukraine. Her get sidetracked; he drives straight down the character Daria moonlights as an interpreter at middle. The title story in this book, his third a matchmaking agency called Soviet Unions. collection o f stories, shows in only four pages I t ’s an e-mail bride service that connects lonely the disillusioned American men with Odessan women who are despair o f a man desperate in the face of limited opportunity. bankrupted by Charles has three more literary projects in the works, she said in a recent divorce. interview, and then hopes to focus her writing on life in Montana. Canty teaches in U M ’s Creative Writing Program and also is the author o f three novels. LOVE STORIES IN THIS TOWN By Amanda Eyre Ward Ballantine Books, 2009, 184 pages, $14

Amanda Ward studied fiction writing with William Kittredge, Deirdre McNamer, Kevin Canty, and Debra Magpie Earling on her way to an M.F.A. in creative writing at UM. She penned three novels before writing this book o f twelve short stories about love. Like all o f us, W a rd ’s characters look for the places they belong— a suburban New Yorker tackles dating after losing her husband, and a small-town librarian NINE TEN AGAIN struggles to choose between home and a new life. W a rd ’s combination By P h il C o n d on o f humor and insight brought this from Publisher’s Weekly. “The way Elixir Press, 2009, 186 pages, $17 Ward balances ruefulness and hope is singularly impressive.” Ward lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Tip Meckel, who Phil Condon’s fourth book was earned a master’s degree in geology at UM. Her work has been widely the winner o f the Elixir Press reviewed in major publications around the country. 2 0 0 8 Fiction Award. Contest judge RT Smith described the book o f ten stories as THE SW ORD OF MEDINA “a spellbinding gathering o f By Sherry Jones narratives in which people in Beaufort Books, 2009, 258 pages, $24.95 difficult circumstances face moments o f decision and When Random House reneged on its plan to publish journalist revelation.” A troubled Vietnam and UM graduate Sherry Jones’ first novel, The Jewel o f Medina, veteran eats a yellow ribbon in 2 0 0 8 after speculation that it might incite violence from left on his mailbox, section by the Muslim radical fringe, Jones grew more tenacious and kept section. A man who encounters writing. Beaufort Books picked up the novel, and now is releasing an opossum in his house during a Jones’ sequel, The Sword o f Medina. Jones’ heroine, a fictionalized storm is unexpectedly unnerved. version o f Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, wields her sword in a Condon earned an M.F.A. war to preserve their faith and their people. in creative writing and taught Jones, who is based in Spokane, Wash, worked as a reporter writing through the 1990s for twenty years in Montana and now freelances nationally. at UM. H e now teaches in the Environmental Studies If y o u a r e a UM a lu m with a recent book release, don't forget about your alma mater. To be Program, where he directs the considered for Bookshelf, you must send a copy of the book, along with any press materials and contact information, to: Montanan, University Relations, 325 Brantly Hall, Missoula, MT 59812. Submission o f Environmental Writing Institute. materials d oes not guarantee that your work will be featured.

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I n 2003, when U M Professor when it reached $25,000. Esther England received a It will provide assistance Michelle Berger settlement check from the to U M students for years performs at this auto accident that had stolen her to come. Six students fall's Esther England Concert Series at UM. magnificent singing voice, she already have received Left: Esther England quietly used the money to start a $1,200 Excellence in who have scholarship fund. Voice Scholarships. won England England, who began teaching A second fund was started scholarships, Berger gave a in U M s Department o f Music in England’s name last fall with rousing two-hour concert in 1969 and retired in 2005, gifts from former students. accompanied by local musician continued making donations to The Esther England Vocal Jodi Marshall on piano. Berger the fund over the years. She also Enrichment Fund will pay was delighted to kick off the named the UM Foundation the for one-time expenses such Esther England Concert Series. beneficiary of her retirement as student travel to auditions “I said yes immediately,” account. and bringing guest musicians says Berger, who has performed “This University has been my to campus. The fund quickly in opera productions across life,” England says. “Its a legacy became endowed at $20,000. the United States and Europe. that I will treasure until I die.” The two funds, along with “There was no question that W hen one o f England’s the Esther England Concert I’d do it. [England] was a huge former students, Sue Stanaway, Series, were inaugurated at influence on me as a singer.” heard about her efforts, she took an October 9 reception. The W hile on campus, Berger Gifts in Esther England's honor charge. series will bring accomplished presented a master class to music can be made to the England “Esther said, ‘When I die, I performers to campus for students and recalled her own Excellence in Voice Scholarship want to do this,’” Stanaway says. master classes and concerts days at UM. or the England Vocal Enrichment “And I said, ‘No, we’re going to whose proceeds will benefit the “Esther had a big voice,” Fund in care of the UM do it now!’” funds. The first concert in the Berger says. “She scared the heck Foundation, P.0. Box 7159, Last summer, Stanaway series, Gershwin a n d Friends, out o f me on a daily basis. She Missoula, MT 59807-7159. asked two o f England’s most was performed that evening taught me that you have to grow The Foundation also is prominent former students— by another England protegee, a tough skin. She taught me self- seeking contact information for actor J.K. Simmons (.Spiderman, professional mezzo soprano confidence.” England's former students. Send Law & Order) and opera singer Michelle Berger. Berger is happy to be able addresses, phone numbers, and Pamela South {La Boheme, II In a quiet moment between to pass those lessons on— and e-mail addresses to the attention Pagliacci)— to chair it. They the well-attended reception and to give something back to the of Vickie Mikelsons at the above agreed without hesitation. concert, England confesses she’s University and her mentor. address or mikelsonsvs@mso. “This lady gave her life for “embarrassed by all the fuss. I “It feels great,” she says. “I umt.edu. us— thirty-seven years,” says was just doing this little thing find that when you give, there Stanaway, a vice president in and [Sue] ran with it.” are blessings that will com e back Billings with the investment firm England has always been the to you.” Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. type to minimize her own gifts, “The things you learn in Esther’s first as a singer and studio carry over for a lifetime. teacher and now as a You learn who you are. You donor. discover your soul.” In the Music The Esther England Recital Hall where a TKr new plaque lists the Excellence in Voice Scholarship n iv e r sit y o n t a n a became endowed last August names o f students U ^ M F O U N D/A T I O N

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T V I __OO about alumni UM tailgating crowd at the Griz-Sac State game '5 0 s October 24. “Their Two The sixtieth reunion fo r the Dot Alumni Band plays Get Connected... class o f 1950 w ill be held for all the Griz-California I May 13-15, 2010. You football and basketball can see photos and watch Stay Connected games,” says Bill Johnston, i a video from the 2009 I housands o f volunteers and UMAA director. “The 1 class reunions by logging donors throughout the years crowd loves ’em .” on to our Web site, www. T have stepped up to give \x;grizalum. com, and fol- their time, talents, or treasures I lowing the “Events/Class '6 0 s to support our University, its Reunion” links. The fiftieth reunion fo r the students, and employees. | | WILLIAM D. HUMMON ’55, class o f 1960 w ill be held Often we hear o f financial gifts ’60 , M.Ed. ’61 , Athens, M ay 13-15, 2010. You given in support o f the University. Ohio, retired as professor can see photos and watch This support is very important and ; of marine biology from a video from the 2009 appreciated. Many others donate Ohio University after thir­ class reunions by logging ty-seven years o f teaching on to our Web site, www. their time and talent through such and research. A Fellow of grizalum.com, andfol­ programs as the UM Alumni Association’s House o f Delegates, another the American Association low ing the “Events/Class important way to support your University. Reunion” links. House o f Delegate members may choose to help by recruiting new MAURICE HORNOCKER students in partnership with U M ’s Enrollment and New Student Services. ’60 , M.S. ’62 , is one Alumni may help by organizing TV parties to view the Griz-Cat football o f twenty-nine animal game. Others may help by hosting faculty lectures and lecture series. conservationists nomi­ As we begin our new calendar year, I ask you to think about how you 2010 nated to receive the can help your University. Your Alumni Association is here to help make it Indianapolis Prize, the happen. Please let us know what we can do to make it a reality. world’s leading award Thank you for your past support. Thank you for what is yet to be. for animal conservation. Founder and president Thank you on behalf of the students, faculty, and staff of The University o f the Selway Institute, ojl f iviuiiiaiia.Montana. a nonprofit research and o f Science, Bill was education organization in i a Fulbright Research Bellevue, Idaho, Maurice ; Scholar to Egypt in 1994. was noted for “devoting BUI Johnston 79, M.P.A. ’91

He has done research on his career to studying D i r e c t o r , O f f i c e o f A l u m n i R e l a t i o n s a n d A l u m n i A s s o i c a t i o n I tiny, sand-dwelling marine wild cats and advocating I organisms throughout for the conservation of I the coastal United States, large carnivores, includ­ his fifteen-year studies Milpitas, Calif., has pub­ the northeast Atlantic, ing the first-ever field o f cougar-wolf relation­ lished Ward o f the State, a I and the Mediterranean investigation o f cougars.” ships in Glacier and novel about a young man I and Red seas and remains His most recent book, Yellowstone national growing up in Montana. I active in the field. Cougar: Ecology and parks, is scheduled for Milo writes, “Anyone [ BILL TODD ’57 , San Jose, Conservation, was pub­ publication in late 2010. interested in reading the I I Calif., on drum, and lished in December by JEAN ROBINSON POWELL first three chapters o f the I WAYNE LESLIE ’62, the University of Chicago ’60 , Bozeman, is founder I Lincoln, Calif., on Press. A second book, and executive director of I trumpet, played for the which deals with the Montana Celiac the Wes Lowe Memorial Society. A writer/publisher, Award from the Idaho Jean has produced three High School Activities books, numerous journals, Association. Following his and brochures, and writes semi-retirement in 1998, a quarterly newsletter Bud was a bus driver about the complexities of and volunteer at local celiac disease. Learn more high school games. In at www.Montana 2006 Bud was inducted CeliacSociety.com. into the Northern Idaho WAYNE H. "BUD" KOSKI Officiating Association book can access my Web ’61 , Mullan, Idaho, a Hall o f Fame, commemo­ site at http://kaptinknine. basketball, football, and rating his forty years of us and click on the chap­ track coach and officiator officiating football. ter listings at the top of for forty years, received MILO D. LARSEN ’61 , the home page.”

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After Ypulse, a media platform leaving Pricewaterhouse Lynda Tipp, a member o f DG, remem­ for youth and media Coopers LLP in 2000,1 bers seeing Bob around the sorority marketing profession­ have worked with a private house and campus. They had mutual als. Mikes selection was philanthropic/ investment friends, but never dated, and went their based on his integration firm, Arbor Investments separate ways after graduation in 1985. of technology into his Group LLC, as a tax and Lynda taught school for several years and seventh- and eighth-grade transactions specialist. then moved to Seattle. She attended law classrooms and advocacy Although I have a law school there and later went into prac­ of technology with the degree from the University tice. Bob moved to Everett, Wash., and school board and fellow o f Michigan, I always worked for Boeing. Neither knew the teachers. Mike began his mean Montana when I say other was in the city, even though they teaching career in Alaska ‘I went to U M .’” had lived just four blocks apart in Bellevue, Wash., at one point. in 1982 and spent twenty DAWN GRANT PEDERSEN years teaching in the ’81 , a history teacher at This was all before Griz-Cat Saturday, November 2, 1991. Lynda had Alaskan bush before mov­ Mariposa Middle School planned to fly home to Missoula, but a switched trial date kept her in the ing to Bigfork. He and in Mariposa, Calif., city. Shellie Pinsoneault, a D G sister also living in Seattle, invited Lynda his wife, Janice, have two received the Mariposa to go watch the game at FX McRory’s. Among the hundreds o f fans pack­ sons— Matthew, a 2009 Teacher of the Year ing the Pioneer Square bar was Bob, who also was celebrating his twenty- UM grad, and Owen. ninth birthday. He slipped into a nearby empty chair. “As soon as I saw SUZANNE CHAMBERUN him I told myself, ‘take it slow,”’ Lynda laughs. Bob called her the next WARD 75 writes, “I day, and they had their first date the following evening. graduated from the Three months later during Griz-Cat basketball on February 22, Mennonite Brethren 1992, the couple headed to a Seattle sports bar to catch the game on TV. Biblical Seminary in May with a masters degree Following a Griz win, UM alum Tyler Delaney ’83 , took to the stage with in divinity. I was then his band. In the middle o f “When a Man Loves a Woman,” Tyler stopped ordained a priest in the the music, took the mic, and asked if a Bob Butler was in the crowd. Episcopal Church. I In front o f hundreds o f Griz fans, Bob proposed to Lynda. (A fraternity currently serve as priest- brother o f Tyler’s, Bob also had arranged for a video o f the proposal.) in-charge o f a church in Lynda accepted. That September Lynda and Bob were married, hosting a Visalia, Calif.” wedding and reception in Missoula that was a college reunion in itself. Award. Her husband, Fast forward six years to the Griz-Cat game, November 21, 1998. The ROMIE PEDERSEN 78, Butlers have moved to Missoula with their daughters, Elle and Madalyn. builds furniture with '8 0 s Great Griz fans, they’d never missed a game until that day, when exactly reclaimed wood. The CHRISTINE BRUMMER 81 at kickoff, Lynda gave birth to their son, Wade. is pictured at the 2009 Pedersens celebrated This year Wade turned eleven. N o question as to his birthday theme. Orvis Cup in New York twenty-five years o f mar­ Total Griz. His birthday, November 21, 2009, was again a Griz-Cat where she won “High riage in June with a tour Saturday— a day all the Butlers and Griz fans celebrated for all the Lady” at the Side by Side o f the South. shooting event. “The JOHN E. TUBBS right reasons. Stephen Grant sidelever ’83 , M.A. ’91 , formerly o f Helena, is a deputy illustrated have called assistant secretary for The Indians Iowa home water and science with o f Iowa, pub- from prehistory the Interior Department lished by the to the present. in Washington, D.C. A University of A member longtime natural resources Iowa Press, o f the Ioway administrator, John His book cov- Tribe of Kansas worked in state govern- ers the arche- and Nebraska, ment for twenty-three ology, history, Lance has years. and culture of been director LANCE M. FOSTER ’84 , all the native in the Native Helena, has written and nations that Rights, Land

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T h is « not legal or financial advice. Please seek the advice o f a qualified estate and/or tax professional to determ ine the benefits and consequences o f using a planned giving vehicle. about alumni ■ BIRTHS Cole Jacob Wallace to REBECCA CHASE WALLACE ’00 and KURTIS M. WALLACE ’00 , August 26, 2009, Lolo Avery Louise Wright to ELIZABETH WERTZ-WRIGHT ’04 and RYAN T. WRIGHT ’99 , M.B.A. ’01 , October 3, 2009, San Francisco and Culture division for tal and sport studies, Amy the Office of Hawaiian was cited for “constant Affairs; a historical land­ availability, patient listen­ scape architect for the ing, and invaluable guid­ National Park Service; ance” in her commitment and the artist-in-residence to students. at the Lewis and Clark County Historical Society in Helena. He currently '9 0 s teaches at the UM Helena BRIAN D. MORGAN ’96, College of Technology. M.A. ’97 , Missoula, is one GARET HILL ’84 West Islip, o f five builders of “dream JOHN PIERCE ’97, Nashville, Tenn., had a love for outdoor activities that helped N.Y., is the founder of the companies” pictured on him land his first job as a professional fly-fishing guide in Montana. His passion National Kidney Registry, the cover and featured for writing and performing music, however, ultimately took him to Nashville to a registry of potential kid­ in the July/August issue pursue a career in music. ney donors and recipients. o f Inc. Magazine. Brian’s From 1993 to 1997 John attended business school at UM and took classes in Sixty-seven life-saving international travel busi­ the Department of Music. His UM memories help drive his songwriting, John transplants have resulted ness, Adventure Life, says, his favorite being the semester he spent in Vienna, Austria, as part of the from the registry, and takes small groups of Vienna Experience. “There is no better education than stepping outside of your this past March the NKR people to South and comfort zone and letting the globe grow smaller,” he says. organized the first-ever Central America; his John also remembers a late-night sneak-in into the University Theatre to per­ multicenter six-way kid­ Adventure Life Voyages form a solo concert. “I played for hours to an empty house,”he says. “The acous­ ney swap. This fall the offers small-ship des­ tics were amazing.” Manhattan Institute for tination trips around Shortly after making the move to Nashville, John was signed exclusively with Policy Research awarded the world. One of his Warner Chappell Music, the music publishing arm of Warner Music Group. As the NKR one of its five company’s Peru trips was a recording artist, he also has worked with Sony BMG and is in discussions for a Social Entrepreneurship featured in the November new label deal. awards o f $25,000. Find issue o f N ational “I am currently working on a new record 100 percent hand-built,” John says. out more at www. kidney Geographic Adventures “I have written all of the tunes and am currently working on the production at registry.org. 25 Best New Trips in the home and in the studio. I am trying to get an honest, under-produced sound. I AMY BRAITHWAITE World, and a story about think for a songwriter sometimes the feel of the craft and the lyric can become MOUTOR, M.S. ’89 , Ph.D. Brian’s personal fitness lost in loud guitars and mass production.” ’95, Walla Walla, Wash., regime appeared in the In his spring 2010 tour of the Northwest, John will stop in Missoula, received the Suzanne November issue o f M ens Bozeman, and Billings. For more information about his tour and how to down­ L. Martin Award for Fitness. Adventure Life load his songs on iTunes, visit www.facebook.com/PierceMusic. Excellence in Mentoring is one of the top places from Whitman College in in the nation to work June. An adjunct assistant according to the May Brian’s sixteen employees more at www. adventure KRISTIN M. TOVSON professor of environmen­ issue of Outside Magazine. would agree. Find out life.com. ’98 earned an M.F.A. MARK C. MCCUE ’98, in dance performance/ Denver, is director of choreography in May at Donor and Alumni Arizona State University, Communications for where she had been a the Department of teaching assistant in Communication and the Department of Design in the Office of Dance from 2006 to University Relations at 2009. Kristin received a Regis University. Mark Fulbright U.S. Student previously served as assis­ Scholarship in dance tant director of University and is currently study­ Services and as an admis­ ing at the Contemporary sions counselor/online Dance Pilot Programme program representative at at Universitat der Kiinste Regis University. in Berlin, Germany, and

WVVW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN M O N T A N A N WINTER 2 0 1 0 I 41 ►| about alumni collaborating with con­ Fairfield, Calif., Daily temporary dance artist Republic. The featured Thomas Lehman. photographer for the ANDREA GREENE inaugural issue o f The I MONTAG ’99 received a Flyfish Journal, Mike juris doctor­ ate from the Northwestern School o f Law o f Lewis and Clark College. She is cur- rendy a law clerk in the Portland office o f Hobbs, Straus, Dean recently published a and Walker, LLP. Andrea travel photography book, Shopping for Dynamite; A Brotherly Adventure to South America. Mike was HAINES EASON ’06 won the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship the official photographer for A History o f Waves. His fellowship includes a cash honorarium, reading and assistant filmmaker with the other winners and judges in New York this April, and the opportuni­ for the 2005 Angling ty to teach a poetry workshop at Purchase College. Haines is currently work­ Exploration Group fly­ ing on his M.F.A. in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis. He writes, fishing expedition to New “I plan someday to enter the creative writing job market (want to teach at the Zealand, where he helped college level), but the market is so saturated, and you need to have at least create their feature film one full-length book out in the world to be considered, so I think I'll first go Trout Bum Diaries Volume for a creative dissertation Ph.D. My first longer manuscript is finished but not 2: Kiwi Camo. View his yet published; I'm currently sending it out to presses.” work at www.mikegreener. com. and her husband, Michael ADAM HERTZ ’08, Montag, live in Pordand Missoula, is a loan with their dog, Dana, and assistant at American cat, Angus. Mortgage o f Montana, where he is working 21 U to You Lecture Series, Great Falls toward becoming a certi­ ' 0 0 fied mortgage lender. 25-26 U M A A Board o f Directors M eeting, B illings 26 Alumni Event, Billings RYAN KURT WITTMAN 03 Previously, he worked as married Jill Lang on May 9, 2009. Ryan is an asso­ 4 U to You Lecture Series, G reat Falls ciate adviser at Strategic 5 A lum ni Event, Seattle Retirement Plans, and Jill 16, 23 Community Lecture Series, Campus is the sales coordinator at 18 Charter Day, Campus Montana Peterbilt. The 18 U to You Lecture Series, Great Falls couple resides in Billings. 2, 9, 16, 23 Community Lecture Series, Campus MIKE GREENER ’06 is a photojournalist for the 4 U to You Lecture Series, Great Falls 7-18 International Travel: C am bo d ia and Vietnam 15 Alumni Event, Palm Desert

29-5/1 UMAA Board o f Directors Meeting, Washington, D.C. a client associate in global 29 Alumni Event, Washington, D.C. wealth management at a major investment bank TEA A lum ni Event, N ew York and at a leading northwest 5 G riz G rad Fiesta, C am pu s wealth management firm. 13-15 C om m en cem en t Reunions, Classes o f 1940, 1950, 1960, He writes that he is look­ C am pus ing forward to working 2 7 - 6 / 4 International Travel: Dordogne, France with fellow alums. Adam can be reached at adam@ TBA A lum ni Event, C h icago american-mtg.com.

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WILLIAM J. "BILL" FITZGERALD 52, WILLIAM F. HICKEY, M.A. 70, Ed.D '84, IN MEMORIAM Great Falls Anaconda To be included in "In Memoriam,” the UM EDWARD WILLIAM NELSON ’52 , Helena TIMOTHY D. MEAGHER 70, Helena Office o f Alumni Relations requires a newspaper WILLIAM H. SPEACHT '52, Philipsburg DOREEN "DODIE" MAHAN 71, Twin Falls, ID obituary or a letter o f notification from the JACK LEROY SUTTON 52, Wichita, KA MARTIN GORDON PALAGI 71, Vacaville, CA MICHAEL PAUL KETCHER 72, Kalispell immediate family. We extend sympathy to the LOIS JEAN BAKER 53, Tucson, A Z GERALD T. BRITTON 53, Great Falls HENRY W. "HANK" KIPP, M.R.A. 72, families ofthe following alumni, faculty, and BARBARA JONES RYAN 53, Payson, A Z Olympia, WA friends. Names without class or degree years MARIE MASTOROVICH 54, Great Falls UNDA ANNAS HEYES 74, West Yellowstone include UM alumni, employees, an d friends. BETTY MORRISON REMINGTON 54, JERRY L PAINTER,/.D. 74, Austin, TX EVELYN GERTRUDE RIMEL '32, M.Ed. 33, Ann Arbor, M I DEAN CHARLES SOLHEIM 74, Huson Missoula WILLIAM L KANN 55, M .Ed '65, JANICE SPIEGLE STINGER 74, East Helena EDWARD C. ALEXANDER, J.D. '34, Great Falls Yorba Linda, CA MARK DAVID PETTINATO 75, Aiea, H I FLORENCE STEINBRENNER JONES 35, Missoula EDWARD WAYNE BORER 57, J.D. 59, ARTHUR F. ANDERSON, M.B.A. 76, Missoula . AILEEN AMBROSE 36, Vancouver, WA Marysville, WA EDITH DAHLSTROM WOODLEY 76, | LENA BRAVO RIVELAND 36, Saratoga, CA BERNADINE KUSSMAN CLANCY 57, Madison, AL ► LEROY W. LEFLER 37, Napa, CA H untingon Beach, CA ROGER JAMES BISHOP 77, Eagle Point, OR f MILDRED MACDONALD "M AC" OLIVER 37, EDWARD ANDREW ILGEN 57, Olympia, WA STUART C. FITTS, M.B.A. 77, Branford, C T Billings MARILYN GUNKEL LUCAS 57, Fox Island, WA STANLEY VLAHOVICH 77, Palmer, AK HELEN TRASK TOBIN 37, Boulder, C O FARRELL JANE COFFMAN STEWART 57, DUANE REUBEN KNUTSON, M.Ed. 78, I RUTH RICE POPE 38, New York City B illin g Kalispell ELEANORS WEINBERG BLAYDEN 39, Seattle LYLE BAGNELL 58, Poison JOSEPH PATRICK GILUGAN 79, Great Falls | JAMES WARREN LOVE 39, W illiamsburg VA JOSEPH PAUL BARETTA 58, Renton, WA UMBERTO BENEDETTI 80, Missoula WILLIAM V. "BILL" LAZETICH 40, Billing RICHARD HUNTINGTON BOSARD 58, M.A. PEDER HAROLD ESPESETH JR., M.Ed. 80, KEITH G. VINAL 40, Missoula 59, Auburn, CA Wasilla, A K MILDRED MCINTYRE EHRLICH CAMPISI 42, RICHARD BERTRUM MCCREA, M.Ed. 58, ANTOINETTE "TONI" WILKERSON, M.Ed. 80, I West Palm Beach, FL College Place, WA Missoula RUTH HEIDEL CLARK 42, Billing LEVERN M. MELLSTROM, M.Ed. 58, PAUL CARL MEISMER, J.D. 81, Missoula LEONA DECOCK SMITH FENNER 43, Missoula Roseau, M N PATRICK STEPHEN NISTLER 82, Plentywood EARL E. COOLEY 44, Missoula PAUL M. ROBISON 58, Durango, C O RICHARD ALLEN STROHMYER 83, M iles City ANN EUZABETH AKIN HESSER 44, IRENE ALVSTAD BERVEN, M.Ed. 59, Seattle DENNIS N. LERUM, Ed.D. 84, Missoula Scottsdale, A Z IRWIN L "IKE" KLUNDT, M.S. 59, Tucson, A Z JUDY LOUISE WANG, J.D. 84, Missoula RONALD D. SAX 59, Missoula JEANNE DIEDE MAILLOUX 87, Red Lodge MARK RICHARD TAYLOR 44, Boise, ID STEVEN J. TOROK 59, Budapest, Hungary THOMAS TURTON BOYER 90, Missoula IBETTY HOLMES THOMSON 44, Racine, W I RUTH ANN BOYD, M.Ed. '60, Anaconda HAROLD ALFRED "HARRY" SMITH, Ed.D. '90, CORA CUTHBERT BECK 46, Drummond JAMES EDWARD COWAN ’60, Seeley Lake Helena | MARVIN KERMIT DANIELS, J.D. 46, Swan Lake WILLIAM AUGUST DOUGLAS 60, J.D. '63, JOHN C. FILLNER 91, J.D. '98, Missoula FRANCES LEAPHART HAAS 46, Tifron, GA Libby SEAN KELLY RAGEN 93, Drummond I CLINTON V. OSTER 46, Tucson, A Z THEODORE HULBERT 60, Marina D el Rey, CA MARENA HAGER STEELE 93, Bismarck, N D GERALD J. CASEY 47, J.D. 48, KENT A. MEEK 6 1 , Issaquah, WA RACHEL ANN CLARK WRIGHT 93, J.D. '93, Morgan H a ll, CA RONALD C. COUCH 63, Melbourne, FL Hull, MA FRANCIS CARL "HAM " HAMMERNESS 47, LLOYD EDWARD "ED" NOEL 63, Missoula ROBERT EDWIN SULLIVAN, Hon. Ph.D. '96, j M.S. 51, Yuma, A Z CAROL GAIL ANDERSON FINCH '64, Missoula JOSEPH L KELLER, M A 47, Havre Calgary, AB JANELLE MARIE O'DONNELL 98, Anchorage, AK ROBERT WHEELER DAVIDSON 48, WILLIAM J. "BILL" HOPPES, M .E d '64, CECILY JANE FREDICK OLSON ’01, Whitehall \Jamesville, N Y Kennewick, WA CHRISTOPHER DAVID STREET '05, Missoula WARREN FREDERICK VAUGHAN 48, J.D. 48, EDWARD R. LEMP ’64, South Jordan, U T JEAN HANSEN BECCARI, Bonner I B illin g HENRY G. NEIDHARDT ’64, Hamilton NANCY BORGMANN, Missoula FRANK H. SJURSEN, M.A. '64, Issaquah, WA BONNIE MAY BRUCE BURGESS, Missoula CHARLES W. CQHt, J.D. 49, Wenatchee, WA DAVID CLARENCE WALKER, M.A. '64, PAM MCGAVIN DEVINE, Butte IPHIUP ROGER MAGEE 49, Baltimore San Francisco LENOAR "LEN" FOSTER, Pullman, WA FRED R. 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