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A Smokejumper Reunion MONTANAN FALL 2004 ContentsVOLUME 21 NUMBER 3 i

24jumping Out of Perfectly Good Airplanes PUBLISHER By Vince D evlin Rita Munzenrider ’83

EDITOR A smokejumpers’ reunion is replete Joan Melcher 73 with handshaking, storytelling, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS AND EDITORS and Mann Gulch memories. Holly Fox Betsy Holmquist ’67, M.A. ’83 Paddy MacDonald, M.A. ’81 Kathie Nygaard ’68, M.A. ’87 Cary Shimek Patia Stephens ’00

DESIGNER Jennifer Paul

PHOTOGRAPHER Todd Goodrich ’88

ADVISORY BOARD Jim Bell Perry Brown Harry Fritz, M.A. ’62 Bill Johnston 79, M.P.A. ’91 Mehrdad Kia Jed Liston ’82, M.Ed. ’00 Dennis Swibold Carol Williams ’65 Kurt Wilson '83

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12 Greenough by ’P a d d y M acDonald and contributors Readers share their memories o f a park that grew up along with the University.

20 Emma, Bravo! by Betsy Holmquist A profile of a remarkable woman who has been a role m odel for countless students as well as UM faculty and staff members.

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04 Letters & Editor's Desk

06 The Oval

10 Student Seen

28 Bookshelf

33 About Alumni

44 Artifacts

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MONTANAN FALL 2004 3 THE FIRST SATELLITE PARTY est venue to some sixty far-flung lieutenant general, John Hay and J The most recent article about the locations over nearly two decades George Forsyth. I visited the Griz-Cat satellite parties (Spring has been supported by a lengthy Grizzly Battalion in the summer A NEW LANGUAGE 2004) made me wonder how many roster of alumni. They include of 1998 and enjoyed very much ii T f s a few hours before winter readers know the origin o f this Betsy Holmquist, who provided the hospitality o f the PMS. To 1 A solstice, a few days before November ritual. immeasurable help in the early read that the Corps is ranked Christmas. Ellie, our hostess, says, The year was 1986. UM had a years, and John Niemi, who took ninth in the country is really a .1 let's move to the kitchen. The new coach over as ramrod for the Denver source o f pride. Lt.Col. Ierardi is | sound is better there. Musicians and a new party and has managed to make it to be congratulated upon her stadium and even bigger and better. The 2003 selection to attend the Army War 1 have been tuning their strings, try­ while there party drew more than 800 atten­ College. The article places the col- J ing a few chords, finding the right was wary dees despite a nasty game-day lege in Washington, D.C. This is 1 way to sit in their chairs. Already curiosity blizzard. not correct. The Army War in a sort of cosmic sync, they pick about anoth­ Doug Hacker '59 College is at Carlisle Barrack, up their instruments and chairs er football Highlands Ranch, Colorado Pennsylvania, where I graduated and move en masse to the kitchen. season it was in 1961. The National War A small audience follows. interest in College is in Washington, D.C. at Soon music takes the room and seeing Washington-Grizzly stadi­ SOURCE OF PRIDE Fort McNair. pushes its way out cracks of win­ um, successor to a decrepit twen- I read with interest the Spring Keep up the good work. dows and doors into the cold ty-year-old “temporary” 2004 issue of the M ontanan, par­ James W. Love '39 mountain air. There the darkness Dornblaser Field, that actually ticularly the article about ROTC Colonel, USA, retired is deep and long, the snow in prompted the first-ever satellite and Lieutenant Colonel Ierardi. Williamsburg, Virginia party at Denver’s Zang Brewing mounds, the quiet like ice. Bare I graduated in 1939 with twen­ Company. ty-four other second lieutenants, maple branches long for the Sheila Stearns, alumni director two o f whom attained the rank of moon. Inside I ponder how won­ at the time, agreed to send out the derful stringed instruments can be. first Colorado area mailing, which SEND US YOUR MAIL Not only do they travel easily prompted a crowd of roughly 100 from living room to kitchen, but Griz faithful. (Several years would The M ontanan welcomes letters to the editor. W e ask that letters be they can turn exalted warbling pass before an invitation was signed and include the writer's graduating year or years when appropri­ into a soulful mourn. extended to the Gallatin Valley ate, home address, and phone number or e-mail address. Send them to: Sitting within a few feet of the brethren.) musicians, I begin to notice the Outgrowing Zang’s after two Montanan Editor forms of communication they use. years, the party moved to the 315 Brantly Hall Only two of the five have played Ironworks, a scruffy biker bar University of Montana overseen by an affable manager Missoula, MT 59812 together regularly and one is named Junkyard. Two years later entirely new to the group, but they saw another move— to the original Unfortunately, because of space limitations we are not able to include all letters all know the language. Eyes and Brooklyn’s, where the Griz-Cat sent to us. Letters that appear often are edited for length or clarity. feet are clearly key: feet tap out satellite party resided for thirteen While universities are places of discussion where people of good will do not the rhythm; eyes relay what needs years before relocating last always agree, letters deemed potentially libelous or that malign a person or to be told. Ellie's eyes register the November to the newer and larger group will not be published. Opinions expressed in the M ontanan do not neces­ pain of an out-of-tune chord; give Brooklyn’s. sarily reflect those of The University of Montana. the go-ahead to the bass player The growth from a single mod­ for a solo; convey appreciation for a bluesy vocal by the slide string guitar player. I become intrigued with how they move into a song. Someone calls out a song title. Musicians shift in their seats, get that far-off look as they reach back for what they know. Then there's the tap-

4 PALL 2 0 0 4 M O N TA N A N IUUSTRATION BY BOB 3N GM AK GENEALOGY CONNECTION spoon collection, one featuring ping of feet. A chord here, a riff In response to a letter from Buckskin Charlie. Jeannie wrote the there, another chord. Out of a sort Jeannie Green o f Ashland, Oregon, following to Betsy Holmquist. of hesitant, rambling cacophony of I would like to offer the following sound, the music gels and off they about the identity o f Buckskin Valerie and I have exchanged sev­ go, never to look back. How won­ Charlie. The Buckskin Charlie eral e-mails. S h e ’s a very cordial derful to be carried on their backs! who took Teddy Roosevelt up the correspondent. With info she had I All creative endeavors have Gallatin Valley hunting was really hit the Internet to research some that "gelling" moment. It's what Charlie Marble. H e and his wife leads and the fascinating footnote hooks many of us on the creative Lizzie (my great-great aunt) and to this story is that “her” Buckskin two other men lived in the Charlie (the one on the Butte process. I've found nothing else Gallatin Valley and guided hunt­ spoon) apparently was a Native : that merges excitement with satis­ ing trips. Validation o f this can be American o f the Ute tribe! My faction in one sensation. found in Bozeman and The Gallatin great-grandfather was o f French, For more than a year we've been Valley: A History o f Montana’s Welsh, and English descent, prob­ { involved in redesigning this maga­ Gallatin Canyon: A Gem in the ably third- or fourth-generation zine. We have a whole new look Treasure State. from his immigrant ancestors. and a few new departments. Besides Jeannie Thompson What a coincidence! I was disap­ the more obvious visual changes, Missoula, Montana pointed indeed, but communicat­ KUDOS, PATIA we've rethought such things as the ing with Valerie has been fun and The follow ing letters were sent to role of each department, how to bet­ Editor’s Note: This information was I ’ve found new Internet sources Patia Stephens regarding her article, ter integrate ads, and appropriate passed on to Jeannie Green, which that may lead m e further on Higher Education, in the Spring vehicles for fulfilling various wishes resulted in a correspondence between her genealogical pursuits. 2004 Montanan. and Valerie Walther, who wrote a Jeannie Green expressed by readers. Class Note in the Winter 2003 issue Ashland, Oregon Whatever math phobia you once Redesigning a magazine is a of this magazine about her historical had or have, it didn’t get in the different sort of challenge than way of the excellent cover piece on musicians jamming, but the collabo­ higher ed costs and finances at ration, exchange of information, and UM. G ood work! gelling of ideas are of the same fab­ Clem P. Work ric no matter the endeavor. Many Director of Graduate Studies have been involved in the tapping of UM School of Journalism feet that produced this new Montanan. Chief among them are Great article! I’m going to pass it Rita Munzenrider, director of along to several people on our campus because it certainly res­ University Relations and Montanan onates here. The statistics are only publisher, who made it all possible, modestly different and the lack of and Jennifer Paul, who with a visual sales tax and biennial legislature prescience translated my rambling makes for many com m on threads. editorial template to a fresh and And, while your annual income inviting graphic reality. per family may be somewhat lower I have wishes for our audience than ours, I believe we have higher of readers with this new design: I unemployment. Anyway, good hope that you will follow us into work! the kitchen; that you will know our Pat Squire language and talk to us often; that Director of Alumni Relations what gels for us will be of interest Portland State University to you, and that occasionally we will carry you on our backs. It's a lot to ask for, but the music made me bold. Joan Melcher M ontanan Editor

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hen Larry Krystkowiak, 6 ’9”, was named Dakota Wizards for the le a g u e ’s title last year. Whead basketball coach at UM last spring, Tinkle was assistant coach first to Don Holst he quickly tapped Wayne Tinkle, if 10”, as an and then to Pat Kennedy, who left UM after two assistant coach. In so doing, he created the losing seasons to coach at Towson University in tallest coaching staff in the league, perhaps the Maryland. Before that Tinkle played in the West, and reunited a duo that played together European basketball leagues. as Griz in the 1980s. Montanan staff knows full well that tall bas­ “Krysko” happens to be U M ’s all-time lead­ ketball players are desirable. But tall coaches ... ? ing scorer and rebounder and was assistant Griz We sat down recently to mull over the possible coach under Blaine Taylor. H e also played ten advantages and came up with this top-ten list. years with the NBA, mostly as a Chicago Bull. His last job was head coach o f the Idaho Stampede of the Continental Basketball A RECORD BREAKER Association. The Stampede lost a squeaker to the UM's Biggest 'Suit'

W HY IT'S GOOD TO BE A TALL COACH ccasionally, George Dennison’s been spot­ You can share workout sweats Oted without a necktie: jogging down K n f l with each other.* Higgins Avenue at a seven-mile-an-hour clip M l You're more likely to survive Missoula's in the pre-dawn light, wearing sweats and a watch cap; or in khaki shorts and a yellow golf R air inversions. shirt, driving the green on a par three. But I Your players will always look up to you. m ost o f Dennisons waking hours are spent in a dark suit and spit-polished dress shoes as he m Missoula's big and tall shop may single-mindedly immerses him self in the HjTCj want to become a sponsor for your job of UM president— a position h e ’s held longer than any other leader in K K You get better cell phone reception.* U M ’s 111-year history. “It ’s necessary,’’ Dennison says, of K B You don't need a ladder to cut down the public persona he inhabits nearly H a championship net.* twenty-four hours each day. And George B S Refs can't get in your face. Dennison ’62 , M.A. ’63 , does w h a t’s neces­ sary. Fit, trim, lightly tanned, and looking jK w p N o one can see your bald spot. younger than his sixty-nine years, he relaxes in his office while discussing Nobody makes fun of your name, the hurdles facing him when he |p even if it is Tinkle. assumed U M ’s presidency in 1990. Iljjffipl Number One: You can reset “I expected challenges in two ■ UM's Main Hall clock.* areas: development o f academic pro­ grams and development o f research. ^n & catti a savjtfg&jsr the athletic department The last thing I expected was having to deal with the infrastructure.”

6 PALL 2 0 0 4 M O N T A N A N ILLUSTRATION BYUNDYCOON ...... lifelong learning...... UM President George Dennison gets down with the YOU? YES, YOU! New Big Sky Singers at UM's 2004 Odyssey of the Stars. Dennison helped pay his way through college by singing in a band. He has a better gig now. prestigious, world-opening scholarships a re n ’t PH lim ited to currently enrolled students. The Institute of National Education, in cooperation swelled under Dennison’s leadership. “The with the U.S. Department o f State and the J. interaction among students makes them all W illiam Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, better citizens.” has announced the 2005-2006 Fulbright U.S. Volunteerism is another of Dennison’s causes, Student Program competition. not only for the services that students perform, For more than fifty-seven years, the program but because, in the process, they’re m olded into has provided future American leaders with an better citizens. “It ’s the civic engagement that opportunity to study, conduct research, and comes as a result,” he says. teach in other nations. Applications from During President Dennison’s tenure, young professionals interested in an interna­ research funding has increased nearly tenfold. tional experience are also encouraged. See if “It ’s because o f the faculty,” he says. “When I there may be a Fulbright in your future by got here, I challenged them to double it, which contacting Paula Fisher at (406) 243-2401 or they did in record time. I keep raising the bar visiting www.iie.org/fulbright. The application and they keep beating it.” deadline is October 21, 2004. George Dennison defies labels: h e ’s a scholar who loves sports, an aesthete with a yen for ...... extra credit...... glazed doughnuts; h e ’s confident yet shy, impa­ But deal with it he did. Under Dennison’s tient but enormously kind. His intense, vaguely PROF. JUSTMAN NETS PEN AWARD leadership, the University launched an extraor­ discomfiting gaze will morph like quicksilver dinary building boom. W ith low national into crinkle-eyed merriment when someone M Professor Stewart Justman won the interest rates, timely bond issues, individual taps into his whimsical vein. “I love a good U2004 Pen Award for the Art of the Essay donations, and monies from the largest and joke,” Dennison says. “I like wit.” A theater for his book, Seeds o f Mortality: The Public most successful fundraising campaign in UM buff, h e ’s seen C ats and Les Miserables each sev­ and Private Worlds o f Cancer. history, Dennison built the Davidson Honors eral times. H e sleeps little, drinks coffee by the One of the writing world's highest honors, College, Pantzer Hall, the parking garage, and quart, and indulges in only one meal per day. the award is presented each year to new family and student housing. He realigned “It works for me, he says. “I d o n ’t want to be the best collection of essays by an Campus Drive, expanded Washington-Grizzly wasting time eating.” American writer in recognition Stadium, and renovated the pharmacy. Student A voracious reader, Dennison relaxes with of "the dignity and esteem the Health Services, chemistry, and media arts John Grisham and Michael Crichton novels essay form imparts to literature, buildings, among a few dozen other projects. when not plowing through historical and edu­ the visual arts, and philoso­ All the buildings have com e as a result of cational books by the dozen. “You have to— in phy," and is considered on par need,” Dennison says. “They all relate to what a job like this,” he says. with a National Book Award. the students and faculty can accomplish.” O n April 25, 2004, President Dennison A review of Seeds o f Mortality Dennison, an unwavering and outspoken out-distanced the tenure of Charles Clapp, by the New England Journal o f Medicine champion of diversity on campus, has made U M ’s president from 1921 to 1935. A smile noted, "Justman cleverly interweaves his own increased enrollment of minority students softens Dennison’s face as he contemplates the experience as a patient with cancer with another of his priorities. “It comes out o f what significance of his accomplishment. “It means reflections on works of literature, the visual I learned growing up,” he explains. In that I adhere to positions I took,” he says, “that arts, and philosophy to create an insightful Dennisons Kalispell high school, “Native presidents ought not move around. They ought commentary on how cancer is viewed by Americans w e re n ’t part of things.” Dennison to stay and solve the problems they create.” American society." saw the same situation with black citizens dur­ “Running the University is a huge honor,” 'The award is especially significant to me ing his travels in the military. “I understood we President Dennison says, “and a huge responsi­ as it was conferred by writers themselves— had to do something about this,” he says. bility. You have to always be making sure members of the craft," says Justman, a liberal Civil rights is important. Affirmative action is y o u ’re doing the right thing. Y o u ’re never studies faculty member who has taught intro­ important because i t ’s the right thing to do.” ‘there’—wherever ‘there’ is.” — Paddy ductory English composition at UM for three International student enrollment has also M acD onald decades.

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hree Montana women— Diane Barz, Doris TPoppler, and Lee Rostad— will receive UM Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumni Awards at Homecoming ceremonies October 8 . Diane G. MacDonald Barz, J.D. ’6 8 , and Doris Swords Poppler, J.D. ’48 , have been leading women in Montana’s legal system. Barz was the first woman and the youngest person elected as a Montana State District Court Judge; she was reelected to this position four times and was the first woman Diane Barz appointed to the Montana Supreme Court. W hile on the bench, Barz focused on the treatment o f children in the criminal justice system. She served as Youth Court Judge in Billings for fifteen years and helped establish the Youth Court Conference MAPPING MONTANA Committee. From 1991 to 1994 Barz was an he/re here! Map aficionados, as well as the cartographically challenged, will enjoy the new Assistant U.S. Attorney and from 1995 to 2003 Tseries, "Historical Maps of Montana— Educator's Edition," now available at UM's bookstore. she served as chair of the Montana Judicial 'They are intended to help school teachers bring history to life, but they are really user-friendly Nomination Commission. Barz has been active for people who just want to know more about Montana and the place they live in," says Kim in Big Brothers and Sisters, the Tumbleweed Lugthart, who helped compile the maps for UM's Lifelong Learning project. Advisory Board, the Junior League of Billings, The reproductions include seventeen maps spanning the years 1778 to 1898. The maps, print­ and the UM School o f Law Board o f Visitors. ed on heavy archival paper, are unbound— to encourage people to study the materials. They She and her husband, Daniel, reside in Poison show how our fledgling country began to expand westward, the transformation from tribal territo­ and have one son, Rocky. ries to full statehood, and how Montana's future was impacted by the fur trade, treaties, the Poppler has opened doors for Montana Oregon Trail, Indian wars, mining, and railroads. women within the legal profession. After a twenty-two year leave from practicing law- while she raised her six children and cared for the Billings City Council and the Tri-County Committee for the Humanities, the Charles M. her husband, Louis, Poppler joined Barz to Guardianship, Poppler has served on the Bair Family Trust Board, and the Montana form the first all-woman law firm in Montana. Montana Human Rights Commission and the Historical Society. A former teacher, Rostad is In 1990 President Billings School Board. The first female to an author, historian, art advocate, potter, and George H.W. Bush receive the UM Law School’s Distinguished painter. She writes a weekly column in the appointed her as U.S. Alumnus Award, Poppler recently received a Meagher County News. Her latest book, Grace Attorney for the Lifetime Achievement Stone Coates—Her Life in Letters, was published District o f Montana, Award from the Barristers. in July. In 1994 Rostad received an Honorary the first Montana Lee Birkett Rostad ’51, Doctor of Letters from Rocky Mountain College woman to receive this has dedicated herself to and in 2001 she received the Governor’s Award honor. She was a senior preserving the vanishing in Humanities. She and her husband, Phil ’51, field representative for parts o f Montana’s small­ continue to operate the family ranch near the National Indian town cultures. A Fulbright Martinsdale. Their sons, Phil 76 and Carl 77, Gaming Commission scholar to London follow­ are UM graduates. and continues today as ing graduation, Rostad has Doris Poppler a consultant. Active on served on the Montana Lee Birkett Rostad

8 FALL 2004 MONTANAN ...... UMfoundation. GIFTS FOR PHARMACY, Poe worked on farms in Sheridan County BUSINESS SCHOOLS near his hometown o f Medicine Lake when he was young, so a retirement to agriculture was hat do semiconductors and avocados a natural progression. N ot everyone can retire Whave in common? Both have had the at fifty, Charlotte Poe notes, but it has been a unwavering attention o f a man named Jack great stress reliever for her husband. “What Poe. Poe parlayed a successful career as a CEO retirement?” Poe says o f his ten-hour-plus days of an electronics company to an early retire­ on the ranch. “I spend as much time there as I ment on an avocado farm near the Pacific. did at the office, but i t ’s different and i t ’s Recently he made a $2.5 million gift and Jack Poe refreshing to keep my schedule my own.” — commitment to two UM schools. The pharmacy gift— the largest the program Kathie Nygaard Like business students everywhere, Poe ’73, has received— supports a scholarship in P o e ’s MBA 74, heard UM professors say “go to big family name and the biomedical research addi­ ...... extra credit. companies to make your mistakes and small tion to the Skaggs Building. The portion bene­ UDALL SCHOLARS companies to make money.” So after he gradu­ fiting the School of Business Administration ated, Poe worked at Fairchild Camera and provides a scholarship, faculty fellowship, hree UM students— Lauren Caldwell, Instrument for ten years to cut his business opportunity fund, and the Poe Family TDawson Dunning, and Sierra Howlett— teeth. In 1985, after five years abroad and five Professorship in Entrepreneurship. The son of a were among eighty students in the United more years in the Silicon Valley, he accepted a small-town business owner, P o e ’s vision is that States selected as 20 04 Udall scholars. position with a small Southern California the occupant of the professorship becomes a Caldwell, from Fort Wayne, Indiana, and semiconductor company, Semtech. As leader in supporting M o n ta n a ’s small business Dunning, from Otter, are both juniors in biol­ S e m te ch ’s CEO, Poe transformed the $ 10-mil- infrastructure and nurturing business opportu­ ogy; Howlett, from Arlee, is a junior in lion company into one now valued at $2.2 bil­ nities for young people in the state. Native American Studies and sociology. lion and a leading supplier of analog and His years at Semtech were rewarding for The $5 ,00 0 scholarships are awarded annu­ mixed-signal semiconductor devices. Poe and h e ’s proud of the c o m p a n y ’s growth ally to juniors and seniors studying in fields Poe and his wife, Charlotte, have asked that and accomplishments. For the decade from related to health care or tribal policy. They their gifts support the schools of Business 1992 through 2002, Sem tech ’s stock was the were named for Morris K. Udall, who repre­ Administration and Pharmacy and Allied leading gainer on Nasdaq, increasing more sented Arizona in the U.S. House of Health Sciences. Poe chose business because than 12,000 percent; but the long hours, hard Representatives for thirty years. th a t’s where he earned his degrees and worked work, and post-9/11 travel were exhausting. In The Udalls are the second major scholar­ as a teaching assistant under the legendary 2003, Poe stepped away from the CEO posi­ ships received recently by both Caldwell and accounting professor. Jack Kempner, and phar­ tion at Semtech to devote more time to grow­ Dunning. Caldwell earned a Truman macy because his grandfather was a pharmacist ing citrus and avocados on the fa m ily ’s small Scholarship, worth $26,000 for undergraduate and his father and brother both graduated ranch in Somis, California. He remains chair­ and graduate studies. Dunning earned a from U M ’s pharmacy school. man o f S e m te c h ’s board. $7,500 Goldwater Scholarship...... griz great...... DON READ NAMED ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

ne of U M ’s favorite people and its most discipline in the department. department. “My heart has always been Osuccessful football coach, Don Read, In May the Board of Regents in Montana,” Read says. “This is a won­ returned to the University in May, assuming accepted the p a n e l’s report and derful opportunity for me. I did a lot of the responsibilities of athletic director follow­ approved President George things and really enjoyed my retirement. ing a low point for UM athletics. Dennison’s plan to eliminate the But I really need something to focus on, and A nearly $1 million deficit in the athletics deficit and prevent any reoccurrences of short­ what is better than to com e back and be part of budget, reported in February, resulted in the falls by: controlling expenditures; and increas­ a great University and a tremendous athletic resignation of former Athletic Director Wayne ing ticket prices, concessions, royalties, student program?” Hogan. The Commissioner of Higher fees, and institutional funds. The additional fee Read coached the Griz from 1986 to 1995, Education Sheila Stearns named a panel to revenue and other funds will go to prevent any amassing a career record o f 85-36 and capping investigate the shortfall. After a three-month future deficit, Dennison says. his career with U M ’s first I-AA championship study, the panel attributed the shortfall to Dennison tapped Read, who had retired and in 1995. Along the way, he made many friends accounting errors and a failure to maintain fiscal was living in Oregon, to lead the athletic and influenced a lot of people.

MONTANAN FALL 2004 9

Brooklynn Sun Lorenzen '06

As an undergraduate from Corvallis, Oregon, Brooklynn distinguished herself as a point guard for the La< dy Griz. She received her bachelor's degree in Operational Communications in May 2 0 0 4 a n d h as returned to UM to enroll in the business school's master's program. She also will be a grad assistant for the Lady Griz coaching staff.

Why are you at UM? I chose to attend the U o f M because not only do we have an accomplished and well-known w o m e n ’s basketball program, but also because Missoula is beautiful and the people are great.

What surprised you m ost when you cam e to UM? There weren’t any cowboy types.

What's the best advice you ever got? I c a n ’t think o f the best advice I ’ve even gotten, but the best advice my husband ever g o t was “your wife is always right.”

When you were ten, what did you want to be when you grew up? The next Michael Jordan.

Do you have a favorite guilty pleasure? I like to eat a whole lot.

If your life was made into a movie, what genre would it be? Who would portray you? My life would be a comedy because of all the dumb things my friends and I do. Jennifer Lopez (J. Lo) w ould play m e for sure and Brad Pitt w ould play my husband and I’m sure that Cher, Halle Berry, Brittney Spears, Shakira, and Shrek would be in there, too.

Sum up your life philosophy. Have fun, learn from people and experiences, and constantly try to improve yourself and that will lead to happiness and success.

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feSi/ LongLorn ago we asked our readers to write in with reminiscences of 1 ' ^ ■ ■ 1 Greenough Park, thirty-seven acres spanning Rattlesnake Creek that were given to the city by Thomas and Tennessee Greenough more than one hundred years ago. The Greenoughs deeded the land to the city as a place “to which the people o f M issoula may during the heated days o f summer, the beautiful days o f autumn, and the balmy days o f spring fin d a com­ fortable, romantic, an d poetic retreat. ” The Greenoughs specified that the park be kept in a natural state and the fam ily has steadfastly main­ tained that position, much to the benefit o f the community and the sm all ecosystem the park cradles. Because it is a scant half-m ile from campus and its life span nearly parallels the University’s, Greenough and the UM community have been inextricably linked fo r decades. We are happy to share these memories, knowing there are thousands more out there and knowing that memories continue to be made everyday at a park as rare and honest and accessible as any in the land. - JM THROUGH THE YEARS by p a d d y Ma c d o n a l d

s I sit on a creekside bench in Greenough Park, a k in gfish er’s and round, guileless faces, their chubby hands clutching apple wedges rattle echoes down the waterway and two mallards paddle toward and peanut butter sandwiches the size of postage stamps. After enduring Aa brace of serviceberry shoots. To my right, a handsome young lunch with their parents, they would race off to the real order o f busi­ couple poses for a photographer in front o f a massive cottonwood, the ness: sitting astride the water-spouting cement turtles; hurling stones b o y ’s arm looped snugly around his fia n c e e ’s shoulder. I hear tapping, and pine cones into the water; or prowling the creek banks, eyes peeled and turn to see a bearded man making his way up a wooded path, his for the tiny, florescent-striped garter snakes they loved to catch and white cane bobbing ahead o f him like a dowsing rod. release. And while our children played, my husband and I would talk, I t ’s spring, and the air is heavy with the smells of sticky, unfolding because Greenough Park is a talking kind o f place. leaves and new blossoms and wet, loamy soil. A train whistle groans Each O ctober for several years, m y sister Molly and I spent one per­ through the air then lifts away, and now I can hear the laughter o f three fect, blue-skyed morning gathering horse chestnuts in the park. tousle-haired children w h o ’ve entwined themselves like spider monkeys Serious— almost ceremonial— we’d riffle through fallen leaves until we in the rust-colored steel slats o f the footbridge. uncovered our quarry, nestled like jewels, all waxy, reddish-brown, and “Archimedes, no!” hollers a ruddy-cheeked girl as a opalescent. well-groomed, pointy-faced, toy poodle blasts out of One year a woman approached us, eyes bright with the woods, screeches to a halt in front of my bench, and curiosity, her large, olive-drab trench coat flapping in the bares its teeth at me. gentle breeze. “What do you do with those chestnuts?” Archimedes? Pretty hefty name for a dog who looks SATURDAY she demanded, and Molly gave me a furtive, worried like a squirrel with a bad perm. MORNING look. Was this against the law? “Come here, Archimedes,” the girl says, and swoops GREENOUGH PARK We did nothing with the chestnuts. We just wanted the yipping, snarling little guy into her arms. Another them. The chestnuts were exquisite, th a t’s why, and gath­ young woman, her auburn hair braided into a single, A glade ering them gave us an excuse to while away an autumn thick rope down her back, lies on a blanket, chin a glen morning, unfettered by the everyday demands o f our cupped in her hands, studying a spiral-bound note­ a quiet spot young families. book. One leg is bent at a ninety-degree angle, and a walked “Oh,” I said, averting my eyes from M olly ’s, “we leather shoe dangles from her big toe. Someone into by chance b a k e ’em and eat 'em.” M o lly ’s elbow jabbed into m y side. shouts— an exhilarated, high-pitched yelp— as a kayak or memory Paddy! Why did I lie? Who knows— maybe I c o u ld n ’t whizzes by in a blur of color, paddles gyrating like the sound find the words I needed to explain the sim ple truth. huge whirligigs. of water moving Volleyball teams and church camps cook thousands of I love it here. I feel as grounded in this place as I do toward hamburgers, frankfurters, and chickens near the covered in my own home. the end o f summer pavilion while children swarm over the swings and climb­ My first glim pse o f Greenough came many years ago a damp ing forts and dogs sniff the charcoal-and-meat-tinged air; during a weekend I spent visiting a UM student— a morning families gather here to toss Frisbees or throw baseballs; wide-shouldered, blue-eyed boy with a shock of blonde a rotted log high school cross country track-star hopefuls thunder hair and an engaging, irrepressible laugh. H e drove me in the midst down the paved trails, all piston arms and Roadrunner through the park— you could do that back then— and I o f standing trees legs, numbered, school-color team jerseys plastered to was enchanted with this rough-hewn arboretum— a I sir their sweaty backs. Couples celebrate weddings at juniper and maple-studded oasis a few blocks north of here with this ink Greenough Park; sometimes the bride, under a white trel­ the center of town. My romance with the boy d id n ’t as my thought lis banked with wildflowers, says her vows with one eye last, but my relationship with the park was to endure, makes its shaky on the groom and the other on a dark, rum bling sky. grow, and nurture m e for the next thirty-five years. way downstream. Once, in the pre-dawn murk o f a winter morning, I As young parents, my husband, Ron, and I brought spotted a pygmy owl on a bare maple tree branch, ruffled our son and daughter to Greenough Park for picnics David Thomas '69 and hunched against the frigid air. O n another, warmer when they were toddlers. I remember their com silk hair Missoula, Montana day I watched park officials try to coax a black bear and

MONTANAN PALL 2004 13 trying to untangle a Gordian knot o f fishing line. The sight nudges my j brain and I smile, remembering the long-ago afternoon I spear-fished in the creek, face mask fogging up and fins flopping as I floated over a deep; hole, aiming a sling-shot, harpoon-like contraption at several bemused bottom-feeders. Greenough Park is my next-door neighbor, my extended backyard, my thinking place. I t ’s where I try to walk each morning, and i t ’s my safe, soft harbor at d a y ’s end, full o f secrets and comforts and treasures. * I love it here.

UNFORGETTABLE: HAM SALAD SANDWICHES reenough Park brings back memories of the birthday parties of my Gchildhood. I grew up in Missoula during the Depression years o f the 1930s and the war years o f the 1940s. My dad was an out-of-work rail­ roader who took on any job to feed and clothe my brother and me and our grandmother and great-grandmother, so money was almost non-exis­ tent in our household. However, lack of money didn't stop Grandma from creating a very special birthday each year. The day before, she would bake a cake and boil eggs and grind up ham for her special ham salad sandwiches. Early on the morning of the great day, she would make up dozens o f sandwich­ es and wrap them in damp dish towels. (If waxed paper was available, we couldn’t afford it.) Then she would squeeze lemons for lemonade and add a chunk o f ice from the block in our ice box. The cake, sandwiches, and lemonade would be carefully packed into our little red wagon (we d id n ’t I recall a profound sense of own a car), and we were ready to head to Greenough Park for the party. Since we lived on the 400 block o f Alder Street, getting to the park calm before waking facedown was half the fun. Grandma must have looked like the Pied Piper as she pulled the wagon east down Railroad Avenue followed by more than a near the lower walking bridge. dozen small children. On past the Northern Pacific Depot we trekked and over to Van Buren Street, where we turned north to pass the brewery and the entrance to Waterworks Hill. Then we were in the park and on her two cubs down from a Ponderosa pine. And a few seasons back, an the path to the picnic area. enormous hunk of ice tore loose upstream and ripped its way down the There was a covered table and benches, a small merry-go-round, and creek, uprooting all vegetation in its path. swings, and surely there were gifts, but I mostly remember the delicious Nailed to trees, hunkered down under bushes, or dotted along the sandwiches and cake. N othing has ever tasted so good! Seventy years trails are laminated signs and metal plaques containing information and later, whenever I eat a ham salad sandwich, I remember a beautiful June renderings of Greenough P a rk ’s native denizens: woods rose, pea-trees, day and a birthday party at Greenough Park. Bohemian waxwings, burr oak, and pileated woodpeckers, among others. Dorothea Baltezar Embedded beside Rattlesnake Creek is a unique, arresting piece of art— Salinas, California a chunky, slate-blue boulder, its topside studded with a jewel-toned bull trout mosaic. Greenough Park is the place you take your out-of-state friends to MOMS CALLING, DINNERS COLD impress them with western Montana’s natural beauty. I t ’s where you go or us kids growing up in the lower Rattlesnake in the ’60 s and to eat your lunch, read the newspaper, or propose to your girlfriend. I ’ve F'70s, Greenough Park was adventure. Riotously green in spring, run through the park, and walked, and cross-country skied. Snow-shoed, luminous in winter, “The Park” kept our m oms calling and our din­ rollerbladed, and chased my errant Labrador. I ’ve pushed a stroller ners cold. The trees were stories tall. Rattlesnake Creek lively and through the park, and a flat-tired bicycle, and a wheel chair. The first, clear, trout hovered along shady banks. Limits were quickly met with ' sad and eery morning after a freak June blizzard, I clim bed through a fly rod. All manner of wildlife— bears included— could be foraging Greenough P a rk ’s wreckage, my throat swelling with sorrow as I sur­ behind walls of green. One morning I saw a red fox. Hobos were veyed smashed robins’ eggs and ice-edged leaves tossed in heaps against known to sleep there. You had to be on alert. felled branches, limbs, and sometimes, whole trees. In winter w e ’d skate the creek bridge to bridge; in sum mer we From my bench I watch a scowly-faced kid in raggedy jeans who is made home movies o f a “jungle” expedition. At age ten I tried my

14 BALL 2004 MONTANAN „ PHOTOS BY KELLY SPEAKS All manner of wildlife could be foraging behind walls of green.

first climbing rope on a rocky road cut. We caught fish with our bare o f the more m em orable outings we had. W e knew the general reac­ hands, tossing suckers ashore, and when the creek jum ped its banks, tion should we drown: “Damn fools!” Icy water knocked us uncon­ we used worms to lure lunkers. Snakes, even birds, were brought scious when we flipped in rapids, and I recall a profound sense of home. We rolled in stinging nettles and smoked “monkey weed.” calm before waking facedown near the lower walking bridge. Parents Deep within the unkempt north {of the park} we discovered a weren’t told and w e ’d g o again. hollow cottonwood that held our entire club. Idiotically, we tried to Still today, a way out West, The Park is calling. further hollow the tree with fire (as seen on TV), which ruined our Mike Kellog '83 fort. Hard lesson learned. Fremont, California Inner tubing Rattlesnake Creek at night— in high water— is one

MONTANAN FALL 2004 IS It was a symphony o f water: the basso roar o f the main creek and the gentle, laughing babble of the raceways.

0 SISTER, WHERE FOR ART THOU? The Rattlesnake at high-water is pretty bouncy, very fast, and a damn j robably the best times we had in Greenough Park were high-water cold stream. W e d id n ’t have to steer too much because the only hazards Pinner-tube excursions in the early ’80 s. Pretty much every Friday in were a concrete block with a protruding piece of rebar immediately May someone would buy a keg o f beer (Old Milwaukee-$24) and upstream from the Apple Tree Restaurant and, at extreme water, the announce t h e r e ’d be an afternoon party at Kiwanis Park. The Merry Front Street Bridge, which required ducking, not steering, to negotiate. Pranksters soccer club would bring a ball, someone would start a volley­ On most occasions, there was a pretty good-sized crew who ventured ball game, and the rest of us would stake out the baseball field. on the ’Sn a k e together. However, on one particular afternoon— I recall On those hot spring afternoons in Missoula some of us just loved to the weather was burning hot like Jamaica— only me and my beloved Rie | cool off by taking inner tubes down Rattlesnake Creek to its confluence Hargraves '82 journeyed up into Greenough. That burning sun had the with the Clark Fork River; then w e ’d be on our way to the festivities at mountain snow cascading down the Rattlesnake. Little whitecaps formed Kiwanis. on clear blue water. It was sheer madness racing toward the river.

16 FA LL 2 0 0 4 MONTANAN P H O T O BY JO A N MEICHEK There was a tree down across the creek in the m id­ During these times, we discovered that the park also dle of Greenough Park, so we opted for a put-in a hun­ served as a “Lo v e r’s Lane” for some o f the more amorous dred yards above the lower Greenough walk bridge. GREENOUGH PARK young men and women o f Missoula. It was great sport for Our inner tubes must have been pick-up truck tubes— EARLY MARCH 2002 us to harass these romantic couples by doing such things not all that big, so when inflated were a bit lopsided. as tossing pebbles of gravel onto the hoods of their cars or Okay, WAY lopsided. To ride one o f those round boats, Woodpecker emitting w olf whistles in the nearby woods. On several one needed to install o n e ’s self securely butt down, head shatters occasions we were spotted and got chased by an irate male on the fat end, feet over the skinny— no real opportuni­ the frozen morning “smoocher.” Considering our knowledge o f the park, an ty for compromise or adjustment. air after-dark chase was entirely futile on the part o f the chaser. This was R ie ’s maiden Rattlesnake voyage, so I, my boots squeak In fact, one chaser made a wrong turn and found himself being the veteran of the excursion, volunteered to snow packed waist-deep in the waters of a dark pond. His verbal launch first. It took approximately two and a half sec­ by thousands response to that predicament can best be described as onds for me to realize that the water was much too o f other feet crude and uncouth. high, and my tube way too uneven to provide the usual centuries We probably overdid it though when one of our mem­ steady ride. o f feet echo bers found a bugle and brought it to the park. After dark “Rie,” I hollered immediately, glancing back in the frigid on a warm summer night he singled out an unsuspecting upstream, “Do n ’t go!” gurgle c o u p le ’s car and cautiously sneaked up on it. ... Nightly Unfortunately, Rie had launched a mere two seconds of Rattlesnake police patrols after that incident caused us to amuse our­ after me. There would be no turning back. Being expe­ Creek selves elsewhere. rienced with all manner of unusual watercrafts, I found but in this moment Bob Van Gieson if I relaxed and let the river flow (as though I had a of snow falling Missoula, Montana choice) I would be fine. Rie, however, being a lop-sided in sparse easy flakes inner-tube novice, expected balance. That was her m is­ I am alone A SYMPHONY OF WATER take. Within seconds, Rie was in the drink, grasping in the naked trees first came to know Greenough as an undergraduate in her runaway tube, dragging feet and bouncing knees walking. the late 1960s. ... Being part of the bicycling boom of off slippery Rattlesnake rocks. the late ’60 s and early ’70 s, my cycling on the upper and “Le t’s get out,” I hollered upstream. David Thomas '69 lower Rattlesnake took m e through the park regularly. A “Yo u ’re crazier than a box of valve stem c o re s! ’’sh e Missoula, Montana friend of mine rented a little cabin on upper Jackson yelled back. Street and it became a welcome refuge from the rigors of There was some peril in being dragged mercilessly dorm life. I inherited rental o f the cabin at the turn o f the down this frigid stream. Happily, however, our friend decade and it became the first o f several residences for me Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs ’82, M.A. ’84 was out enjoying her afternoon in the lower Rattlesnake over the course o f seven years. stroll through Greenough Park. W hy Stephenie was there at this time There was always the sound of the stream, especially in spring when we still d o n ’t know. (Steph herself and her entire family, dogs included, the Rattlesnake was a raging torrent and the network o f irrigation were regarded as legendary Big Blackfoot canoeists, but she was never a ditches and raceways through the neighborhood began to flow. It was a I Rattlesnake tuber.) However, there she was— long stick in hand— the symphony of water: the basso roar of the main creek and the gentle, i hero of the day. Rie abandoned her ship, grabbed the stick, and pulled laughing babble of the raceways. In the spring, the neighborhood | herself to the safe harbor of the banks. orchards and apricot trees blossomed out. J u m b o ’s grassy slope was span­ I caught a fleeting glimpse of the rescue, rolled along, bounced off of gled with such a profusion of wild flowers that I remember you could the concrete block, saluted the diners at the Apple Tree Restaurant, and smell their heady nectar from the cabin. The park, too, was an explosion was positioned in left field by the next inning at Kiwanis. of buds and birds and leaves and flowers. A popular meeting place for Tony Moore '82 students o f the era and other folks— hoboes, hippies, artists, local work­ Livingston, Montana ing people— was near the park footbridge. A guitarist would strum, Frisbees float lazily on the pungent spring air. Now and then somebody would com e flying down the creek on an inner tube. LOVER'S LANE AND "REVERIE" Fall in the park was memorable, too. There was nothing like a moon­ s young teenagers during the early 1930s, some o f my friends and I lit ride on my trusty French touring bike through the park on a crisp Awould ride our bikes to a wooded area along Rattlesnake Creek September or October night with wood smoke in the air. I remember known as Greenough Park and have a “wiener roast.” W e ’d build a fire, how on those nights Lolo Peak hung luminous white on the southern j roast marshmallows and hot dogs, and generally explore the area. We got horizon, like Mount Fuji over the town. : to know every trail and detail o f the park, which, at that time, was quite James Hilgemann '72 undeveloped. Sometimes w e ’d stay till well after dark sitting around the St. Paul, Minnesota fire talking.

MONTANAN FALL 2004 17 HOT PANTS tree at the side of the trail. Being a young, pack-oriented animal, the puppy group of UM students— perhaps two carloads— had a picnic. We would quickly realize she was alone and come running back to find me. Ahad ample beer. There was some sort o f a suspension structure Paula Anderson '89 across the river— perhaps a fence line on steel cables. As the evening pro­ Phoenix, Arizona gressed, emboldened by a young m a le ’s tendency to show off, I attempt­ ed to reach the opposite bank. I did not succeed. Drenched and cold, I removed my pants and rolled up in a blanket and rigged up some sup­ THE CLASSIFIEDS port out o f branches to dry my pants on. N ot long after this, the stench grew up on McLeod Avenue in Missoula and was part o f a wonderful o f burning fabric assailed our nostrils. W hen I got my date home and I small pack of friends who freely roamed the neighborhood picking got to my residence, there were a few fraternity brothers still up to take apples, gathering hollyhocks in the alleys, roller skating to Bonner Park, notice of my pants— part of a leg burned off. and reading library books up in our favorite trees. My instant nickname at the Phi Delta was “Hot Pants.” Thankfully, Beth Briggs was a year older than the rest o f us and very talented. She soon afterward I got another one and H ot Pants was forgotten. choreographed story ballets that we performed in our back yards, wear­ Tom Regan '41 ing old curtains and clothes gathered from our basements. It must have Billings, Montana been 1949, the summer before my seventh-grade year at Paxson, that Beth came up with an intriguing idea to liven up our daily routine. W hy not put an ad in the M issoulian’s classifieds saying: WANTED- DOG DAYS ADVENTURE and list B e th ’s phone number? hile I enjoyed many facets of Greenough Park, this park remains in Since we often rode our bikes across the Van Buren Bridge to my memory as the ultimate dog-training tool. W Greenough Park for picnics, I think we had some vague notion that this When both my Boston terrier dogs were young, a walk through the prospective adventure might involve a rendezvous there, though we twisting, looping paths was a wonderful treat for those doggy senses. So had not really thought through phase two. O ne thing we were sure of: many exciting scents! However, if a puppy strayed too far ahead and out of none of our parents ever read the classifieds. sight, I d turn around, backtrack a short ways, and hide behind a bush or But, o f course, B e th ’s father (a law school professor) did read the clas-

18 FALL 2 0 0 4 MONTANAN l£FT PHOTO BY TODD GOODRICH; RIGHT PHOTO BY JOAN MELCHER The park and its enchantments remain indelible in my memory.

sifieds that morning, noticed his phone number, and called Beth to the PERILOUS CROSSING breakfast table for an explanation. W e have all wondered in the years s children about seventy-five years ago we were glad if we could since, what adventure m ight have awaited us, if only the ad could have Aconvince our father to drive through Greenough Park. It seemed a run another day. magical place to enter. W e often stopped just inside the entrance. On the Colleen Higgins Nicholson '59 left, there was what we had been told was a bear cage that was part o f a Seeley Lake, Montana menagerie that no longer existed. If permitted, we would walk across the lawns to be near the Rattlesnake, which flowed clear and shallow there. Often we searched for FOUR GENERATIONS small water snails in their tiny, sand-covered shells. We called them The first real memory o f I have o f the park is a birthday party when periwinkles and their construction seemed a marvel of engineering. TI was about four. ... Two years ago my niece Amy, who was ten, got Further along, we would come to a bridge where our father stopped to see the park from my perspective. Even though I was fifty-two at the the car while we pretended to be aboard a ship on a perilous crossing, time, I took my shoes and socks off and went wading. What was fun was the water rushing beneath us. There were places on the unpaved road seeing my niece enjoy the creek like my sister and I always have. where branches reached out toward us and marvelous images were con­ I remember Granny Ruth talking about the Greenough family when jured up in the brief glimpses into the deep woods. the mansion was in the park. Granny worked at the Missoula Mercantile There was a picnic place near the exit that had been a pavilion built and knew many of the family by name. Granny Ruth introduced my by Mrs. Greenough for summer night dancing, which eventually led to a mom and my aunt to the park in the late ’40 s. They introduced my sis­ certain degree of stylish carousing. Mrs. Greenough canceled the whole ter and me and we introduced the fourth generation to the wonders and business and the pavilion became a picnic shelter with tables and benches. quiet beauty of the park. My niece will be visiting the park again this Eventually a wonderful childrens “go-round” was installed, and if we summer and ca n ’t wait to wade in the creek. Four generations o f women stopped there we scuffed our shoes as we whirled around in what seemed and one great park. a vast circle ... the park and its enchantments remain indelible in my Melanie Tondreau '72 memory. Aurora. Colorado Lucie Hagens '41 La Crescents, California

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Countless stories surround Emma Bravo Lommasson ’33,

M.S. ’39 . Nearly ninety-three years of them. And Emma

tells some of the best. This endearing and enduring

woman, whose presence at UM spans more than seventy

years, still cannot believe that a building on campus— the

Emma B. Lommasson Center (formerly the Lodge)— is

named in her honor. Emma will tell you that she just did

her job. That she worked hard. And, along the way, tried

to make other people happy. “Isn ’t that the way,” she says,

“that you keep happy in life?”

20 .JA142004 MONTAMAJ? RIGHT PHOTO BY TOOO GOOOBCH Emma sife in living room in frdft of a painting by the fate Walter Hook, a|*ell-kAwn and loved MjStana artist and former UM professor. Emma lq|ew Hook when he was flnaBstudent at UM. Before he paint­ ed the v&rk behind her, Emma tafi him "if you're going to use cats, you might a s w e il put mine in." He pmtedjfier cat {blocked in this photo) and his <§wn, which can be seen Bjpefiright. PALL 20 0 4 * 21 quarter, correcting his tests, and editing his math workbooks. One quar- | ter she taught all his classes. “I learned a lot from him,” she quickly adds, always admitting that the harder she worked, the more she learned and the better person she became. From her youngest days, Emma worked hard. She was the first woman from Sand Coulee, Montana, to attend UM. The oldest o f three girls born to Italian immigrants, Emma spoke only Italian until first \ n 1942 a thirty-one-year-old Emma was hired to teach navigation grade. “I learned English properly,” Emma says, o f her first year in and civil air regulations to future Air Force pilots stationed on the school. “My teacher would write the words I needed to learn on the UM campus— subjects she knew nothing about. Emma stayed board and make me pronounce them until I got them right. I struggled 1 ahead of her students by studying all day for the two-hour nightly with those ‘th’ sounds.” As with most struggles s h e ’s encountered, classes. “I’d never even been in an airplane,” she admits. “I worked Emma triumphed. Her English is flawless. And, she still speaks and hard, trying to imagine what it was like to fly.” One wintry day reads Italian. the orders came to take her up. “All my boys came to the airport,” she says.I “They put a flight suit on me, the helmet, the goggles. I was just hen she was seventeen, Emma boarded the train for the overnight I ready to step into the plane when they attached a parachute to my chest. Wjourney to Missoula and the State University o f Montana. A resi­ ‘Do you know how to work a parachute?’ someone asked. ‘No,’ I replied, dent o f North Hall that fall o f 1929, she soon became a senior assistant ‘Who cares?”’ Emma climbed into the open cockpit behind pilot Frank to the housemother, Mrs. Brantly. Emma led the girls into the dining Wiley. He gave her an instruction: “When you start to get sick and want room— now the Presidents Room o f Brantly Hall— each day for lunch to go down, pat your head.” U p they went. W iley put the plane through and dinner. The girls dressed for meals. A host and hostess sat at each all possible maneuvers. The ground and mountains were covered in table. There were tablecloths and linen napkins. “We learned manners!” snow. The sky was white. Emma d id n ’t know if she was right side up or Emma declares and fondly recalls the frequent visits of Mary Clapp, the upside down. But she never patted her head. After they landed, Emma wife of Charles H. Clapp, U M ’s fifth president. Mrs. Clapp came to teach faced one more challenge— she had to drink a cup of coffee and eat a the coeds etiquette and Emma was a rapt pupil. To this day Emma can piece of pie to prove she w a sn ’t airsick. Emma had never been a coffee eat a piece o f chicken without touching it with her fingers— thanks to drinker, still is n ’t. But she drank a cup and ate a piece o f pie in front of Mrs. Clapp. “I never have chicken without thinking o f her," Emma all the men. “The next night,” she says, “ I knew I was a much better laughs. “We respected her. She impressed me a lot.” teacher.” By her senior year, Emma was deeply involved in campus activities. Emma was always hard on herself, a trait that allowed her to put pres­ In the 1933 Sentinel yearbook a serious Emma Bravo appears in the pho­ sure on others she felt could do better. One year a transfer student from tos for Mortar Board and the governing body of the Associated Non- Custer County Community College fell under E m m a ’s scrutiny when she Fraternity and Non-Sorority students. Her erect posture, thick, wavy noticed that his straight “A” record was marred by a “B” in a Spanish hair, dark eyebrows, and prominent cheek and jawbones quickly catch course. “Emma was crushed and I know felt much worse about the B than the v ie w e r ’s eye. I did, and I felt badly,” this former student reports. “She spent some time A slight grin appears on Emmas face in the Hi-Jinx Committee consoling me and urging me to get the string going again. I made it to photo. That year she had managed “Must W e G o On,” a musical revue graduation the following spring with one more B. Despite these two B ’s, o f take-offs on campus life. Emma presided over May Fete activities that | Emma congratulated me for doing well, and cautioned me to sustain the year, too, as Queen o f the May. effort as I went off to graduate school. Nearly thirty years later,” President Emma received a bachelor’s degree in math from UM in 1933 and George Dennison continues, “Emma welcomed me back to campus as returned to Sand Coulee for six years to teach. She remembers her first president almost as if she had expected that to happen.” day teaching high school algebra. “I looked at my students and said, ‘Yo u ’re all going to like algebra when I’m done teaching you.’ I wanted resident Dennison’s current home was E m m a ’s residence for a time them so to like it. At the end o f the year one student came to me and Pwhen she was a student. Then, 1325 Gerald was owned by Dr. N.J. admitted he just d id n ’t like algebra. I told him I understood completely, jj Lennes, the head o f U M ’s math department. He employed Emma as an but that I admired him so for trying. I learned from that experience that assistant for his math classes and she lived with Dr. and Mrs. Lennes and you can work hard with a student, but if i t ’s not in their nature, th e y ’re Marie, “the maid,” as she was called by Mrs. Lennes. Marie and Emma just not going to get it.” This sense of compassion and acceptance of the were the same age and wanted to be friends. Mrs. Lennes preferred that difficulties others face came early to Emma and allowed her to offer reas­ the girls kept their distance. Emma was learning to roller skate and one surance without judgment to countless people along the way. summer evening invited Marie outside to try it herself. Unfortunately, “You were my role model from the very beginning,” a former Angel •- Marie fell and hurt her arm. Mrs. Lennes was livid. The girls were for­ Flight member related to Emma just a few years ago. Emma was the bidden to ever talk again. “But,” Emma explains,” w e ’d open our sponsor for this Air Force ROTC drill team for eighteen years and had upstairs windows and talk to each other that way.” worried all that time that the girls thought her a “fuddy-duddy.” Emma Emma worked hard for Dr. Lennes, teaching a class for him each admits to interceding several times for girls who were too frightened to

22 FALL 2004 MONTANAN go before the Dean of Women, Maurine Clow, in the ’60 s an d ’70s many life lessons from Emma when she worked for her in the 1970s. “Why a re n ’t you the Dean o f Women?” she was frequently asked. “Emma was one of the first people to see the importance of a woman keeping her identity, o f not being Mrs. John Doe, but o f being Mrs. Jane ick Joy ’54 from London, Ontario, Canada, remembers meeting Doe,” Temple says. She still thanks Emma for showing her how to write DEmma when he was thirteen years old. J o y ’s father worked with a letter of introduction she would use later when job searching in a new E m m a’s husband, Tom, in the U.S. Forest Service and one evening the state. E m m a ’s sage advice, “It ’s important to introduce yourself,” has Lommassons invited the Joy family to dinner. “Her flashing eyes,” Joy stayed with Temple throughout the years. She fondly remembers a gift of recalls, “her dark-haired beauty really made an impression on me.” plum trees from E m m a ’s yard when she and her husband needed help When he returned to campus as a student six years later, Emma was the with landscaping. “I d o n ’t know how she knew we needed trees,” Temple assistant registrar. “She took the sons and daughters o f Forest Service muses. “Emma just knew.” employees under her wing,” Joy says. “We could g o to her office in the old m en ’s gym any time we had questions or needed help.” This past mma lives in a beautifully furnished third-floor apartment at the May at J o y ’s fiftieth class reunion, he proudly escorted Emma EVillage Senior Residence near Fort Missoula. She paid rent for a year Lommasson to his table at his class banquet. Many o f his classmates, now before she could move in to make sure she got the spot. “It ’s the farthest in their early seventies, came by to pay her tribute. walk from the elevators and stairs,” she explains. “ I have a view of Students who worked with Emma often learned more than their jobs Mount Jumbo every day, and when the trees are bare, I can see Mount required. U M ’s Associate Registrar Laura Wolverton Carlyon ’63, M.P.A. Sentinel.” Baskets of letters hug the end of her couch, bundled according '87, began working for Emma at ninety cents an hour while a college to their arrival at Christmas, her birthday, or M o th e r ’s Day. Although freshman in I960. She continued working for Emma, who was then she has no children o f her own, countless University “children” send her assistant registrar, throughout college, even during the summers. greetings on many occasion. She answers them all. In her spare bedroom Following graduation, Carlyon left Missoula, returning several years is a computer. Emma has discovered e-mail. later, married and expecting her second baby. She wanted to work on An autographed photo is taped to a kitchen cupboard door. “To the campus, in the registrar’s office, if possible. Emma interviewed her for a best lookin’ gal in the building! W ith love, Monte,” it proclaims. A secretarial position posted by Registrar Leo Smith. She told Carlyon that bobblehead Monte stands nearby. A large stuffed bear greets visitors in "You were my role model from the very beginning."

Leo wouldn’t hire her because she was pregnant. “I’ll hire you,” Emma E m m a ’s entryway. Her University and Grizzly ties are reflected in the said and she did. Carlyon was soon back on staff and still is today. many awards, photographs, and plaques on her walls. Emma is happy “Emma always appreciated a hard worker,” she says, “and she never fired about Don Read returning to campus, and that “her” boys— Krysko and anyone. If someone was not up to par, they just knew it. They went Tinkle— will be coaching basketball this winter. “Until two years ago I’d away. Emma had a way o f getting them to leave. She never raised her attended all Griz and Lady Griz basketball games,” Emma says. “I was voice. She was always a lady.” Carlyon d o e s n ’t remember Emma ever tak­ the oldest attendee at all the Griz football games, too.” Last season ing a coffee break either. “People always came over to see her,” she Emma missed three Griz football games. S h e ’d been out walking, fell, recalls. “She couldn’t leave.” and broke her hip. Her recovery was quick and complete, but s h e ’s given Ruth Rollins Brocklebank ’67 keeps handy a poem Emma gave her up her Griz football tickets this year and will watch the games on TV. forty years ago when she worked for Emma in the registrar’s office. “It “I d o n ’t want to be a burden to anyone,” she says, and d o e s n ’t under­ typifies her view about life and work,” Ruth believes: stand, “what all the fuss is about.” Quick to credit others and deflect attention from herself, she still worries that “I just m ight do something A horse c a n ’t pull while kicking that would make me not be the same woman walking out o f a room that This fact we merely mention, I was walking into it.” And he ca n ’t kick while pulling. T h a t’s not yet happened. Most likely it w o n ’t. When Emma Which is our chief contention. Lommasson leaves a room, or a building, or an institution she leaves it a L et’s imitate the good horse better place. And most often someone seeing her leave will openly And lead a life th a t’s fitting; admit, “I want to be just like her when I’m her age” (really meaning Just pull an honest load, and then “just like her, right now/”). T h e r e ’ll be no time for kicking. “I’ve known all but the first four University presidents, Emma Lommasson quietly states. “Th e r e ’s no one else who can say this.” Mrs. L. is amazing,” Brocklebank says. “She remains interested in life— *s a great advocate for education— encourages people to improve. She has Betsy Brown Holmquist ’67, M.A. ’83 , is a writer!editorfo r the UM been a source of inspiration for me since my meeting her.” Alumni Association She has known Emma Lommasson since her under­ Karen Smith Temple, currently an internal auditor at UM, received graduate years at UM and admits to wanting to be like Emma, too.

MONTANAN FALL 2004 23 JUMPING; OUT OF PERFECTLY GOOD AIRPLANES BY VINCE DEVLIN t took some of the biggest that, indeed, the federal government preferred I barns in Missoula to hold peo- forestry majors for smokejumping. “But some o f them c o u ld n ’t chop a tree or saw a log,” I pie who showed up for the M cDonald says. “The national government I 2004 National Smoke jumpers wanted forestry majors, but the local people in ^■ 1 Association reunion in July. charge wanted local guys who wouldn’t get lost in the woods and knew how to swing a Nearly 1,000 people were pre-registered, and the Pulaski.” caterer for the opening night barbecue promised there was There was a no-show. M cDonald g o t in. The enough food for 1,500— no one would go hungry. But they ran first time he jumped out o f an airplane was also the first time h e ’d ever ridden in one. They took off from Hale Field. Back out of food long before they ran out of people. in those days, th a t’s what Missoula’s airport was called. It was located where Sentinel High School stands today. At hundreds of tables at the Western Montana Fairgrounds, smoke- The Ford Tri-Motor headed for a jump site near Lolo. “I was cussing jumpers and their wives— and yes, smokejumpers and their husbands— m yself all the way,” McDonald says. ‘“Yo u dumb SOB, what are you swap the same old stories th e y ’ve delighted in retelling every five years doing, jumping out o f an airplane?’ When y o u ’d do practice jumps from at these reunions, while updating each other on what th e y ’ve been up to the tower, y o u ’d just drop. But up there, the door you jum p out o f is since the last gathering. There are people from their twenties to their low, you have to put your foot out on a step before you jump, y o u ’re in a eighties, and their conversations take place over the noise of a loudspeak­ 100 mile-per-hour wind, you know y o u ’re gonna get whipped back ... I er beckoning people to one side of the pavilion for group photos: (“La st just kept telling myself, ‘Yo u ’re not gonna N O T do it.'” call, Redding, 1975 to 1980; first call, W est Yellowstone, all y e a r s ”). McDonald would go on to make twenty-eight jumps onto fires from Two parachutes serve as a backdrop. The former smokejumpers sit on 1951 to 1955. And those forestry majors the locals sometimes cussed— risers and smile for the camera. It takes about five seconds to shoot the “I mean, there were guys from the University o f Connecticut, the photo and fifteen minutes for the photographer to clear the risers. As University of Georgia, just all over the map,” McDonald says— inspired soon as the shot is taken, a new wave o f smokejumpers moves in. him to go to college: “Just being around them, listening to them talk Invariably, they spy old friends in the departing group and a new round about college, made me want to do it.” of backslapping, handshaking, and storytelling begins. M cDonald spent his first two years at what was then Western So it seems odd, in this mass collision o f humanity under the para­ Montana College in Dillon before transferring to UM. He earned a chutes, with a couple thousand people milling around the huge pavilion, degree in education while sm okejum ping in the summers, then taught that a writer looking for former smokejumpers to interview, would hap­ and coached his way around Montana— at Oilmont, north of Shelby; at pen, back-to-back, to select these two. Plevna and Miles City in southeastern Montana; in the Bitterroot Valley, at Hamilton. H e became an assistant basketball coach to Ron N ord at UM and was head coach at Northern Montana College in Havre before t h e y o u n g a n d t h e r e s t l e s s becoming principal at Ronan High School in 1968. Today he is president of Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, which he oe McDonald started fighting forest fires when he was thirteen years old. helped to found in 1978. He is one of the youngest smokejumpers in J“It was during W orld War II, and they were short o f firefighters,” says history. Certainly, George Cross c a n ’t challenge him on that. McDonald, a UM graduate. “They needed bodies, and they d id n ’t pay Cross happens to be the next face plucked from the crowd. Turns out very close attention to your age.” the red tape Joe McDonald successfully cut through in the 1 9 4 0 s a n d By the time he was eighteen, M cDonald had five years experience on ’50 s held firmly in place when Cross tried to join the smokejumpers in the summer fire lines and even though he was too young to meet the the 1960s and ’70s. minimum age requirement for smokejumping, he again sneaked around Cross was a UM physical education instructor for thirty-one years the red tape. In 1951 an old buddy from a ground crew called and told who often found forestry majors signing up for his physical conditioning him that the next crop of smokejumper candidates had been invited to class to prepare for the rigorous physical tests required o f smokejumpers. the Ninemile training center. Most were college-age forestry majors, “I’d make them wear their jum p boots during the class, and I gave it at McDonald says. His friend told him sometimes people d o n ’t show, and if two o ’clock — the hottest period o f the day,” says Cross, now retired and you re there and t h e r e ’s an opening, they m ight take you. living near Orofino, Idaho. “I hustled down to Ninemile,” McDonald says. What he found was In 1961 the Forest Service hired Cross to run their physical condition-

^MOTOS COURTESY Of THE K. ROSS TOOLE ARCHIVES, UM-MI5SOULA; PHOTO ON LEFT BY KEN FRANZ (93-3720*1), RIGHT BY HARPER MOODY (930662*1); LOGO BY GEM DESIGN MONTANAN FALL 2004 25 in g for smokejumpers. A paratrooper during his time in the service, the more time he spent training smokejumpers, the more he wanted to be one. Trouble was, you couldn’t join if you were older than twenty-seven. And you had to quit by age forty. Cross was thirty-four— too old to qualify. The years rolled by. Every summer he was at the training center by 6 a.m., ready to put a new batch o f rookies through the grind. By 1973 Cross was forty-six years old— and still writing letters to congressmen and regional foresters complaining about the age parameters for smoke­ jumping. That year the federal government finally did away with the age requirements. Cross promptly broke his ankle while teaching a soc­ cer class at UM: “That took care o f 1973.” But in 1974, George Cross became a smokejumper. And he remained one until 1986, when he was fifty-nine years old. "I figured since it took all those years to get in, I m ight as well stay in,” he says with a shrug. “The other smokejumpers accepted me. Heck, a lot o f them were my students.”

THE OLDER ONES, AND THE REST

issoula has hosted previous smokejumper reunions, and this one Mlanded in the city for good reason. A rededication o f the Missoula- based Aerial Fire Depot, on its fiftieth anniversary, was a key element of the smokejumpers’ celebration. In 1954, 30,000 people showed up and President Dwight Eisenhower made a cameo appearance to christen the center, where smokejumpers have trained and scientists have discovered safer ways for them to fight fires for the last half century. The Mann Gulch fire of 1949, when twelve smokejumpers perished, spurred the government to better study and understand fire, and to better train and equip the peo­ ple who put their lives on the line to fight it. Fred Brauer was the dispatcher who sent the plane to Mann Gulch. He also was the smokejumper chosen to give the welcoming address for Eisenhower at the original dedication. the first band of brothers that ever existed. I loved every one of those Now eighty-seven, Brauer remembers the dedication well. “They did boys. I’m quite proud o f them.” the whole thing ass-backwards,” he says. “Eisenhower made the dedica­ They include men like Dean Bate o f Ogden, Utah, eighty years old tion speech, then I made the welcoming address.” The order also put now but twenty-one when he started smokejumping out of McCall, Brauer in a tough spot. Eisenhower, he says, referred to the Forest Idaho, in 1946. His reaction the first time he leapt from an airplane? Service as being a part o f the Department o f Interior. “The g r o u n d ’s a long ways away, is n ’t it?” he says. “Honestly, I was so “Well, no, i t ’s the Department o f Agriculture,” Brauer says. “So I’m busy trying to remember everything they told me to remember that I sitting there wondering, when I get up, do I correct the President?” d o n ’t remember anything else.” Anyone who knows Brauer, knows the answer. “I tell it like it is,” he Andi McQuade o f Avery, Idaho, spent three years on a hotshot fire says. “It ’s not Interior, i t ’s Agriculture. So I said so. Some people told crew before joining the smokejumpers, jumping out of Missoula in 1992 me, ‘Yo u ’ve got a lot of nerve correcting the President o f the United a n d 1993 and West Yellowstone in 1994. She remembers her first jump: States.’ But a lot o f people said I was right to do it.” “I was really excited, and there was lots o f fear,” McQuade says. “I was B ra u er’s smokejumping career was parlayed into a brief movie career. wondering if I’d be able to do it. Then y o u ’re out the door, and all of a He made ten jumps during the filming o f 1942s The Forest Rangers, sudden everything’s very peaceful. The first thing you do when you land standing in for star Fred MacMurray. H e also served as a technical adviser is look straight up at the sky and think, ‘I was there.’ ” on 1952 s Red Skies o f Montana, a film based on the Mann Gulch disaster. W hen she made her first jum p to fight fire: “We flew the fire a long A Butte native and a starting guard for the Grizzly football team in time. It was very windy and very bumpy. There were four rookies on the the mid-1930s, Brauer was a smokejumper in the summers o f 1941 and load, and the others had all gone. My jump partner was vomiting. I’m 1942, and again from 1946 to 1958. The forty-year-old age lim it ended trying to stay out o f his w ay. Then h e ’s in the door, and I realize my leg his career, “Or I’d have jumped ’ti l I was fifty-five,” he says. “We were is asleep because I ’ve been sitting on it funny, trying not to get vomited

2 6 FALL 2004 MONTANAN P H O T O (93-3676*1J COURTESY OF THE K. ROSS TOOLE ARCHIVES, UlAMISSOULA, BY HARPER MOODY on. They dropped us next to a road, and there were these people camp­ the unstable air. The first smokejumper leapt out at 3:50 p.m., and by ing there. When I got down, I’m taking off my jump suit and these two 4:10 all fifteen o f them were on the ground. little girls, about six years old, walked up to me and asked me for my They couldn t take the plane down to drop our cargo, either, so the autograph. It was all very strange.” cargo ended up scattered all over,” Sallee says. “One chute d id n ’t deploy, Counting her training, McQuade made more than seventy jumps as a and the radio was destroyed.” The men ate quickly, then were led into smoke jumper. the gulch. Everything was normal until about 5:45 p.m. In an instant, Mann Gulch was hell on Earth. An incom ing cold front, m ixing with the 100-degree temperatures on the ground, caused AND THE SURVIVOR opposing winds to turn the “piece of cake” into an instant inferno that would trap— and kill— m ost o f the men. | lllh e keynote address at the reunion’s banquet gets off to a rocky start. Sallee and buddy Walter Rumsey ran into the rimrock and found an 1 There are troubles with the sound system at the Adams Center. Then opening that led to safety. Foreman R. W agner Dodge, in a desperate speaker Bob Sallee opens his remarks by telling the crowd that smoke­ attempt to save his crew, lit a second fire that shot up the mountain and jumping taught him courage. “What is courage?” he asks rhetorically. created a safe haven seconds before the wall o f flames reached him. But “The dictionary defines courage as ...” instead o f staying with their foreman, the rest of the crew tried to out­ Turning to a dictionary definition in a speech is seldom a good sign. run the fire. On this night, however, it will be different. “All I know is that to jump The young men didn t stand a chance. “The noise was incredible,” out of an airplane and trust your life to a parachute takes courage,” he Sallee says. “It sounded like a thousand jets taking off at once.” Almost says. But it also takes courage to change jobs, to get married, to raise a as quickly as the fire had blown up, it was past them. Sallee described family. Courage makes living easier. After smokejumping, everything finding one of his fellow smokejumpers still alive, “but with the clothes else was easy.” burned off his back.” Dodge found another still breathing, his feet and He recounts his training, both for jum ping and for fighting fires. hands badly burned, but his clothing intact.” "We were expected to be the best,” he tells the crowd. “And we believed The rest had burned to death. Sallee was sent for help. H e hiked to we were. If you walked up a fire line, you expected to see every man the bottom of the gulch and flagged down a boater who gave him a ride swinging a Pulaski. Y o u ’d see nothing but asses and elbows.” to the ranger station, where it took a few hours for a rescue party to be Smokejumping taught them all, he says, “that whatever you do, you organized. By the time they returned to Mann Gulch, it was too late; do it well. And they have. The National Smokejumpers Association is they had to wait until morning to move the two badly burned smoke­ filled with people who have gone on to very successful lives. “We have jumpers. “They both died the next day,” Sallee says. “The other eleven doctors, lawyers, an astronaut (Stewart Roosa) ... a lot o f people a lot perished at Mann Gulch.” more qualified than m e to give this address. The only reason I’m here is A few minutes earlier, a thousand festive people had been laughing because o f Mann Gulch. I know that.” and talking at more than 100 linen-covered tables that spread from one Sallee is the last survivor o f the little fire that suddenly erupted and end o f the field house floor to the other. Silver and glassware clinked, burned thirteen men— a dozen smokejumpers and one ground crew waiters and waitresses bustled about and there was a steady dull roar. member— to death. Sallee had lied about his age to get on a smoke­ Now, you could hear a pin drop. Sallee finishes his speech almost jumping crew. Mann Gulch was his first fire jump. He was seventeen apologetically. “Thank you for your patience,” he says softly. “And for years old. having me tonight.” On Aug. 5, 1949, Sallee says Canyon Ranger Station requested a A thousand people shove their chairs back and leap to their feet. The smokejumper crew out of Missoula for a fire north o f Helena, near the ovation thunders on. A weekend o f laughter and dancing and drinking Gates of the Mountains. The smokejumpers were stuck on a roof putting and photos, of food and fun and red, white, and blue-colored water drops a new coat °f sealant down, “Because Fred Brauer believed a smoke- from retardant planes, had com e down to this: A reminder, from the last jumper without anything to do would lead to mischief,” Sallee says. living witness at Mann Gulch, of the often unspoken bond in this band The crowd laughs. I t ’s the last time you hear a peep from them. o f brothers— and yes, sisters. They jumped out o f perfectly good air­ They suited up and climbed on a DC-3, Sallee continues. There were planes and— even after all that has been learned about wildfire since sixteen smokejumpers, spotter Earl Cooley, and two photographers, one Mann Gulch— once on the ground, they were just a wind-shift away from the Forest Service, and one from L ife magazine. from death. The fire was in the Helena National Forest, and the temperature in It is a common denominator as powerful as the gravity that once Helena that day was 97 degrees,” Sallee says. “It was very unstable air, pulled them from airplanes and into h a rm ’s way. And every five years, it ^ d the ride over was horrible. One fellow .got so sick he c o u ld n ’t jump.” pulls them back together to reminisce. The fire was small, about forty to sixty acres, and “looked like a piece of cake, Sallee says. Cooley chose an area with open grass and a few Wince Devlin is a reporter fo r the Missoulian. scrub pine trees as the landing spot. Sallee c o u ld n ’t wait. “I was so sick I wanted out o f that plane in the worst way,” he says. They had to jum p from 4 ,5 0 0 feet up, higher than usual, because of

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From indigo bush in school in Takunak, a local village, which has recently also some that are better forgot­ Missouri to feather boa kelp on acquired many of the dubious totems of western civi­ ten;” his former partner, private the Oregon Coast, his book lization— Bruce Lee movies on television, Miller beer, investigator Clete Purcell, “a melds twenty-first century electric coffee pots, and W ham m o slingshots. C u t u k ’s human moving violation, out of knowledge with the excitement Eskimo schoolmates treat him like a second-class citi­ sync with both lawful and crim­ of nineteenth-century explo­ zen, and Cutuk d o e s n ’t find the sense o f belonging inal society, no more capable of ration. h e’d hoped for. He struggles to learn an entirely new changing his course than a steel set of survival skills and often longs for the social ease wrecking ball can alter its direc­ MAGNIFICENT of his sister. Iris, who “knew how to move between tion after i t ’s been set in JOURNEY worlds and find a trail that was broken.” m o t io n ”; and a rich, amorphous collection of hit men, By Otto L. Schumacher Eventually, Cutuk follows his older siblings to priests and nuns, musicians, ex-cons, street criminals, and Lee A. Woodward Anchorage and is equally flummoxed by the frenetic and mobsters. But, like most of B u rk e ’s mysteries, the ’55 city folk, whom he likens to “female mosquitoes, central moral lesions lie in the realm of the wealthy and Spokane: Woodhawk brave and fiercely competitive, trying to acquire powerful, remnants of the old plantation oligarchy, who Press, 2004, 150 pp., blood before they die.” Cutuk ekes out a living, “do business . . . with baseball bats.” $19.95 working construction with his brother Jerry in The novel opens after Robicheaux, a recovering alco­ This book provides a geologist's Fairbanks, but soon finds him self drawn back to the holic now working as a detective for the sherifFs depart­ interpretation of the spectacular North. “I’d done it; I’d found jobs, friends, an amaz- ment in New Iberia, drives to his old beat in the Big scenery of the Upper Missouri ing girlfriend, even my brother, and a bunch o f dol­ Easy with his friend, Clete Purcell. Their intention is to River Breaks National lars.” N ow h e ’s now free to go “home where real roust a drug dealer and porno star they believe is Monument, told in a way that things happen.” responsible for the severe beating of a radical Catholic will appeal to Lewis and Clark C u t u k ’s journey ends where it began, in the priest named Jimmie Dolan. Engagement in D o la n ’s enthusiasts, river travelers, and wilderness— or what remains o f it. “Suddenly the problems soon leads to an entanglement that includes a all who share an interest in the past was over. It would never com e back to protect decades-old murder, a fatal car accident, incest, and area's natural and cultural his­ us. W e ’d been pretending as marital treachery. Above the fray sits Castille Lejeune, a tory. well as any actors. The former war hero and a member of the landed gentry. chasm between legends Although Robicheaux solves the mystery and metes around the fire and sur­ out justice when he can, h e ’s unable to resolve his round-sound TV, snowshoed increasing sense of loss. The Louisiana he knew as a boy d og trails, and Yamaha V- has become part of the irretrievable past. In its place is Max snowmobiles was too a toxic terrain of oil corporations, fast food joints, waste overwhelming, and no hunt­ management companies, and drive-in daiquiri stands. ing, no tears, no federal dol­ Robicheaux is left emotionally adrift, longing for com­ lars could take us back forts that elude him: “Home . . . the word would not I across.” register in my mind.”

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Brown Holmquist '67, M.A. '83. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Submit news to the UM Alumni BOARD OF DIRECTORS Association, Brantly Hall, Missoula, ♦Indicates new member M T 59812. You may fa x your news to P r e s id e n t (406) 243-4467 or e-mail it to Mary Ellen Cawley Turmell ’64 R olling H ills Estates, CA UMontanaAlumni.org. M aterial in this President-elect issue reached our office byJune 1, 2004. Robert J. Seim ’59 Please contact UMAA with a ll name M issoula and address updates at the above addresses Vice President or phone 1-877-UM-ALUMS. Read Michael J. McDonough ’72 more Class Notes on our new Web site D allas www.UMontanaAlumni.org Past President R. Michael W. H iggs 76 Eagan, M N ’40s Board of Directors The 60th reunion fo r the class o f 1945 ♦Sharilyn McGuire Campbell '87 will be held on campus May 12-14, Redmond, WA 2005. Contact the alumni office for Frank G. D ’Angelo ’90 M issoula further details. ♦Thomas J. Dimmer ’85 Williamston, M l Philip C. Doty ’64, 7 4 ’50s Fairfield, CA The 50th reunion fo r the class o f 1955 Marcia E. Holland 76 will be held on campus May 12-14, Fairbanks, AK 2005. Contact the alumni office for David T. Kearns ’68, 74 further details. Townsend Donald W. Kinney ’64 Lakewood, CO Donalee Beary LaBar ’65 Great Falls ♦Marlee Miller ’85 Riverhead, N Y Mora MacKinnon Payne ’54 M issoula Thomas A. Ford '50, his son, Alan Duncan A. Peete ’91 Ford '74, and daughter, Julie Ford B tilings Walker '79, received the Business of ♦Geannine T. Rapp ’92 Great Falls the Year Award from the Bitterroot UM alumna Holly Rollins (lower left) performs with the Cirque du Soleif. See Patrick M. Risken ’81 1 Chamber of Commerce for their fam- story on page 34. Spokane, WA , ily-owned and operated F o r d ’s Bernd A. Schulte ’65 . Department Store in downtown Ocean Ridge, FL Hamilton. T o m ’s father, John, opened j During his career he also has coached Colleen M. Schwanke ’94 the store in 1947. Tom manages the Bozeman 60 cross-country and legion baseball. shoe department, Alan the main ’ s ♦Michael J. Sheldon ’86 Paul V. Sullivan '6 0 , William J. Beecher '63 retired in floor, and Julie the junior and ladies Los Angeles Anaconda, received April as vice president of Wells Fargo departments. Betty Basye Ford '52, Zane G. Smith ’55 A F L A C ’s 2003 Bank in Great Falls after nearly thirty- Springfield, OR T om ’s wife, helps out when needed. National Assistant nine years in banking. Bill plans to ♦Marcia Holmes Yury ’62 I’m definitely one of their better Coaches of the Year establish a fee-only financial advisory Laguna Beach, CA customers,” Betty says. Award for distin­ service in Great Falls and do some Donald J. Cameron '53, M.A. '57, Alumni Office guished service. In 1997 Paul golfing and skiing. H e currently Thousand Oaks, California, retired in Bill Johnston 79, '91 received the Montana Coaches serves on the city commission and the 1998 following thirty-eight years on Executive Director Association’s Assistant Coach of the Great Falls Development Authority. i the faculty and administration at Year Award. H e recently received a Roberta Lee Anderson '6 4 , Poison, Brantly Hall r California State University, Longevity Award from the Montana has been an importer and wholesaler The University of Montana I Northridge. In early January he Coaches Association for forty-five of sterling silver jewelry for twenty- Missoula, MT 59812-7920 I returned from a three-and-a-half year years of service. A teacher at one years. Her jewelry is available in 406.243.5211 | “ssignment— starting a new universi- 1-877-UM-ALUMS Anaconda H igh School, Paul coaches more than 700 stores nationwide I ty in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. [email protected] football and track and referees foot­ and through her Search Widens I Summers find Don escorting go lf www.UMontanaAlumni.org ball, basketball, and volleyball. Internet site. I tours to Scotland and Ireland.

PHOTO BY JEREMY LURGIO MONTANAN FALL 2004 33 ABOUTALUMNI Gary T. Cummins '64, Clark Bicentennial and for the cost- in assistance programs to national Heuvelen '68, Denver. An emeritus a thirty-year National effective interpretive and educational parks in Egypt, Haiti, and Argentina. member of U M A A ’s House of Park Service (NPS) media he has made possible for the John L. Niemi '65 recently attained Delegates, John helps coordinate employee, received the national parks. A member of the Certified Advertising Specialist certi­ D en v er’s annual Montana Picnic and United States Senior Executive Service since 1997, fication from Promotional Products Big Sky Open Golf Tournament. Department of the Gary began his NPS career as a sea­ Association International. John also Lowell A. Tripp '65, Oakes, North Interior Meritorious Service Award in sonal ranger at Glacier National was selected the 2003 distributor of Dakota, retired after thirty-eight February. H is work on restructuring Park. H e has worked at Padre Island the year for Rocky Mountains years as an upland game biologist Harpers Ferry Center in Harpers National Seashore, the USS Arizona Regional Promotional Products with the North Dakota State Game Ferry, West Virginia, was cited. Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as Association. John and his wife, Ellen, and Fish Department. Lowell and his Currently the manager of the NPS superintendent of Petrified Forest live in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, wife, Karen, plan to visit Missoula Harpers Ferry Center, Gary also was National Park, Cabrillo National where Johns admits h e ’s “trying to this fall. noted for organizing a large-scale Monument, as deputy superintendent rehabilitate” Mac Fraser '62, traveling exhibit for the Lewis and at Grand Canyon National Park, and Boulder, Colorado, and John Van

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BY BETSY HOLMQUIST s a little girl, Holly Rollins envisioned an audience watching her pen. "Working with four guys, I was perform. For now it would be the other skaters and the residents motivated to train, she says. "Chin- Asnug inside their homes along Lake Archer. She set her transistor ups, rope climbs without using my radio on the boat dock, turned up the music, and skated out onto the ice. legs. At first the/d said, 'You're a Fast forward a couple of decades and we see the girl has grown, as girl. You're not strong enough.' That has her audience. Twirling from hoops or dangling high above a stage did it. You just watch me, I said to from forty yards of red silk, this Cirque du Soleil aerialist has thrilled myself!" thousands of people all across the globe. O nce she took a six-month Holly grew up outside Boston and discovered Montana during the break and danced the can-can in summers she visited relatives in Missoula, the Flathead, and Seeley Lake. the Follies Bergere in Vegas. But After a year of college in Massachusetts and another in Alabama, she she missed the aerial work and transferred to UM to study health and human performance. "Just for fun," returned to a Club Med in Mexico. Holly explains, she signed up for a dance class. "Holly took us by sur­ There Holly got her big break. A Holly Rollins prise," says UM dance instructor Amy Ragsdale. "She was not a dance vacationing performer from Cirque major, yet she was so naturally gifted with strength and flexibility. Plus she du Soleil spotted her doing an aerial had all this ability as a performer, technician, and choreographer." Holly fabric routine she had choreographed herself and encouraged her to in turn credits Ragsdale for opening doors for her. "She doesn't even audition with the company. know what a huge inspiration she was for me," Holly says. "She's who Cirque du Soleil's goal is to transform an athlete into a performer. taught me stage presence— to focus my eyes outward." They had the perfect candidate in Holly. After six months of training she Holly discovered other levels of her talent when she hooked up with beat out every other competitor for the few coveted positions open with Missoula dance instructor Jan Snow and the Harley Davidson Leather the troupe. Holly focused her eyes outward. And for three years—ten per­ Forever show. "I was immediately struck with her performance ability and formances a week plus rehearsals— she performed with Cirque du Soleil. the great talent she had for comedy," Snow says. "Her give and take with Holl/s taking a year off now. Exploring options and enjoying the audience was something she was born to do." Missoula with her Cirque du Soleil rigger and friend of ten years, Nick Holly graduated in health and human performance in 1994 and for Tarstenjak '96. She trains twice a week from a hoop in UM's Schreiber two years was the fitness coordinator for UM's Wellness Center. But her gym— rigged by Nick. She's teaching pilates, staying flexible and strong, passion for performing led her to seek a new challenge—as choreogra­ and thinking of developing a cabaret act to take to Europe. "I know it's a pher with Club Med in the Bahamas. A circus program complete with a cliche," Holly says, "but I've followed my heart and done what I was pas­ flying trapeze was part of the club's activities for its guests. Holly soon sionate about. I hope I can be an inspiration for others to take a risk and was making the thirty-foot climb up to the trapeze and performing free of deviate from what others think a 'normal person' does. Believe in your­ harness and safety lines. "I was hooked," she admits. self." Just like that little ice skater years a go who believed in her make- She soon gave up her choreography job for the trapeze act, loving the believe audience. surge of adrenaline, the music, the audience, the "Hep" called out when it was time to jump and fly and catch the bar. The freedom of it all. Cirque Du Soleil was founded in Gaspe, Quebec, in 1984. Today its Yet she knew, too, the seriousness of the sport. She trained hard. She international com panies entertain millions o f viewers each year with learned how to fall, lo respect, not fear, the fact that terrible things can hap- unique and cutting edge circus productions.

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7* Straight ach year the incoming president of your Alumni Association Board of Directors ■ hdi writes a letter to the alumni. I hold that \ ,i Talk on honor this year and delight in being able to carry on the tradition. My major goal is to work with the W .f Gift University, the Alumni Association, and the UM Foundation to address issues that affect Annuities prospective and current students, alumni, and friends. The challenges are many: helping find affordable solutions to ' ^ PART ONE encourage student enrollment from all economic classes; encouraging the development of broad undergraduate social interaction programs, “Gift annuities are great alternatives and building support for the development of a new alumni facility. Another goal is to expand the association's group travel program. Its to Certificates of Deposit” trips are educational and always enjoyable. The participants are great # • • ambassadors for UM and Montana. Compare Gift Annuity Payments The exceptional staff at the Alumni Association provides outreach . to CD income on a transfer of $10,000 and services to the more than 70,000 alumni throughout the world. Log onto the association's new interactive Web site, Current Annual Tax-Free 4 Term CD Rate Income Portion www.UMontanaAlumni.org. It's a user-friendly way to access campus ly ea r 1.69% $169 0 news, alumni, and the many benefits of membership. 3 years 2.21% $221 0 All our Alumni Association board members encourage your com­ 5 years 3.53% $353 0 ments, questions, and suggestions. Contact us through the Web site. Get involved . . . stay involved. And, get connected . . . stay connected. Annuity Tax-Free Tax Age Rato Payment Portion Deduction* Mary EUen Cawley Turmell 60 5.7% $570 $309 $2,680 65 6.0% $600 $348 $3,216 Mary Ellen Cawley Turmell '64 is a Missoula native with a bachelor's 70 6.5% $650 $407 $3,692 degree in history. A member o f Alpha Phi sorority, she taught school in 75 7.1% $710 $480 $4,245 80 8.0% $800 $580 $4,777 Great Falls following graduation. Mary Ellen is an emeritus member o f UMAA's H ouse o f Delegates an d w as a UM Foundation Trustee from A Montana Endowment Tax Credit of up to $10,000 Is also 1991 to 1997. She is married to Missoulian John Turmell '64. They have available for certain transfers to gift annuities. two sons, Jay '91, and Joe, a Boston College graduate. The Turmells have Benefits: lived in California, Cincinnati, and Boston and recently m oved to Bigfork. ► Guaranteed lifetime payments and part of each payment is tax-free (part may be taxed at the capital gains rate if appreciated property is contributed). Bob Fulton '66 was selected ball history from 1895 forward, Lewiston, Id a h o ’s Citizen of the Year adding to his “book" each season. ► Payment rates may be much higher than comparable investments. for 2003. Bob owns Creative Phillip Van Ness '68 is a partner in ► The contribution provides a charitable deduction and perhaps a Strategies, a marketing consulting the law firm of Webber & Thies PC Montana income tax credit. and business coaching practice. He in Urbana, Ilinois, where he concen­ ► You may contribute cash, real estate, or securities; however you and his wife, P eggy Wallis Fulton trates on environmental and real irrevocably transfer the assets to charity. '6 7 , a fifth-grade teacher, have lived estate law. Phil is president-elect of in Lewiston for twenty-two years. his local Rotary club and vice-chair For more information on gift annuities or to learn about They have two children and five o f the Environmental Law Section other life income options through charitable givin g, contact: grandchildren. Council of the Illinois State Bar James E. "Jeff' Frank '6 7 , M.Ed. 75, Association. Phil e-mails that he John C. Scibek, CSPG interrupted his thirty-fifth year of “keeps track of the Griz and goings- \ Director of Planned Giving teaching to take the position of vice on at UM through the UM Web site principal at Anaconda High School. A and UM Alumni W eb site.” He and Fo u n d a t io n “ “ S 5 E S S coach and referee for thirty-two years, his wife, Cheryl, have two children. (406) 243-6274 Jeff has chronicled Anaconda s foot­ “Against all odds,” he says, “I hope one will attend UM!”

MONTANAN FALL 2004 35 ABOUTALUMNI enjoying work at the Nevada Bureau the department of economics and 70s of Mines and Geology, mainly in geo­ ’80 s management at Beloit College in Kathleen Preuninger Akey '76, a logic education and outreach to the Herbert W. Luthin '80, Clairon, Beloit, Wisconsin. Warren does ! second-grade teacher at W hitefish ’s public and K-12 teachers. I still hunt Pennsylvania, edited Surviving research that focuses on the Chinese Muldown School, received this yea r’s (deer, elk, antelope— whatever cooks Through the Days: Translations of economy and on liberal education Maryfrances Shreeve Award. The up well!), raise vegetables and a Native California Stories and Song, and employment outcomes. He also ’ award and its $3,000 cash prize rec­ twelve-year old, and quilt. 2002, published by the University of administers the department’s com­ ognized K ath y’s quiet caring and Retirement in Montana draws ever California Press. puter resources. commitment to her students and pro­ closer—July 2006 is the current pro­ Christine L. Congdon '81, a Navy LaVem Schillinger '86 and Anne fession during a twenty-eight year jected date. When that happens, I commander and laboratory depart­ Harkrader Schillinger of Glen Ellyn, career in education. may have to move my base of opera­ ment head at Naval Hospital Camp Illinois, announce the November 23, ij Paul Zarzyski, M.A. '76, Great Falls, tion back to Missoula.” D.D. also Lejeune in Jacksonville, North 2003, adoption of Margaret Chang ■ won the 2004 Spur Award for poetry mentions seeing UM alums Kathy Carolina, was named the 2004 Ling, born February 10, 2003 in from the Western Writers of America Hawley '74, Ruth Badley Buffa, M.S. Outstanding Laboratory Manager by Hunan Province, China. Margaret for his new collection, W olf Tracks on '78, and working with Jim Faulds the Society of Armed Forces Medical joins siblings, Katherine, ten, and the Welcome Mat. Paul also released his '81, a research geologist and graduate Laboratory Scientists for her leader­ William, eight. second recording of poetry, The faculty member in the Nevada ship and accomplishments promoting Craig R. Smith '88, Glorious Commotion o f it All. Bureau of Mines and Geology laboratory medicine. Christine has director of Fort Peck 7 Melissa Kwasny '77, M.A. '99, Department at the University of been in the Navy for seventeen years Community C o lle g e ’s M.F.A. '99, Jefferson City, has edited Nevada, Reno. and plans to remain at the naval hos­ Community Business Toward the Open Field, a compilation Jeff J. Lassie '77 is an international pital until the summer of 2006. Assistance Center, of previously uncollected essays, pref­ commodity trader involved in trad­ Paul W. Kuhn, M.S. '83, a consulting was named the 2004 jj aces, introductions, letters, and mani­ ing forest products and steel geologist, formerly from Spokane, Montana Minority Small Business festos about the art of poetry. A writ­ throughout the world. Jeff heads an now lives and works in Ankara, Advocate by the U.S. Small Business ' ing teacher at Carroll College, office in San Diego and was nominat­ Turkey. “Precious metals exploration Administration. Craig has helped Melissa currently is serving as a visit­ ed for the Importer of the Year award is feeding us this time around!” he many Native Americans own and ing writer at the University of for the Port of San Diego. He devel­ writes. operate their own businesses. He and Wyoming. oped a trademarked plywood from Warren B. Palmer '83 was promoted his wife, Leanne, have four children: Daphne D. LaPointe, M.S. '77, writes Brazil and travels frequently to to associate professor with tenure in Jared, Halie, Thea, and Bryor. from Reno, Nevada, “I am still Brazil, Moscow, and China.

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MONTANAN FALL 2004 37 ABOUTALUMNI John W. Hogan '85, Hampton, VA Dispatch AN ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALIST REPORTS IN. Vincent J. Iacopini '98, Las Vegas Lynn Sparks Keeley '64, Butte Ardice Weaver Kuehner '54, Fort BY JIM BRUGGERS Benton Donna Larson Lester '54, Boulder, CO 'm not quite sure how I got to Kentucky Robert C. Lester '55, Boulder, CO after twenty-three years of living in the Nicholas Natalie-Lopuch '01, Missoula West. It's been a journey—for the most part Kathleen Askin Netland '85, Kent, WA a joyous one— starting with the nearly ten Mark J. Netland '86, Kent, WA years when I called Montana my home. Daniel R. O'Gara '04, Northbrook, IL I became hooked on journalism when I fol­ Robert H. Peck '68, Aurora, CO lowed the Watergate saga in the 1970s and Denise Shaw, Great Falls saw the press' ability to serve as a watchdog Frank W. Shaw '64, Great Falls and truth beacon. I've also had a lifelong love Jennifer Alcorn Sliter '98, Kalispell Justin P. Sliter '97, M.ACCT. '98, of nature. With its mix of nature and academ­ Kalispell ics—as well as environmental challenges— UM Betty McLeish Smith '55, Springfield, OR turned out to be the best place for me to merge Zane G. Smith Jr. '55, Springfield, OR my interests. Cathleen Stagg, Sacramento, CA As an undergraduate, on weekends my friends and I would go backpacking. Jim on a recent visit to Jennifer R. Stuber '99, Missoula During the week, I'd help put out the Montana Kaimin. And I mixed classes in forest Amsterdam Jeanette Blush Toole '95, Spokane, ecology with news reporting. WA. After three years in the the "real" world, working for weeklies in Montana and Jeffrey H. Toole '96, Spokane, WA Alaska, I hadn't had enough of UM. So I returned as a graduate student in environmental studies. It was my Diedre J. Turner '69, Helena experiences in that program that broadened my understanding of environmental issues and sent me down Raul Roy Vallejo '69, St. Ignatius what has been an extremely rewarding career path. Sheila Vallejo, St. Ignatius Certain experiences remain with me all these years later, those trips into the mountains, or late-night study James G. Webb '66, Bellevue, NE sessions fueled by the first espresso machine in town—one that was supposedly held together with spare parts from a VW bug; seeing the Robert Cray Band for a buck cover charge at the Top Hat; long talks about politics IN MEMORIAM at the Missoula Club; and of course, working on the Kaimin staff. To be included here, the A lum ni I can't shake certain professors, either. Jerry Holloran put up with me for five classes in J-school. During the Association requires a newspaper obit­ first one, he probably never thought there was much of a future in the news business for someone who had uary or a letter o f notification from such a hard time spelling. I know that Jerry's other former students will understand when I say that I still, in the immediate family. We extend some work situations, ask myself: What would Jerry do? sympathy to the fam ilies o f the fo l­ Then there was my EVST graduate committee of Tom Roy, Chuck Jonkel, and Charlie Hood, and their support lowing alumni, faculty, and friends. and guidance during the research and writing of my professional paper on Montana's American Indians and natural resources. After seeing how I could turn that report into a seven-part series in the Great Falls Tribune, I Cora Sellers Cocks '24, Long Beach, CA decided to become a reporter who was focused on in-depth, public service journalism. And the environment. Harvey Franklin Baty '31, Missoula Now here I am in Kentucky, where I work as perhaps the only journalist covering the environment beat full­ Harry Lloyd Miller '31, Poison time for a daily newspaper. The Courier-Journal, a venerable old newspaper with a forty-year track record of Marion Cline Ruth '31, Billings aggressive coverage and nine Pulitzer prizes, is the largest newspaper in the state. I've been here nearly five Frances Ullman Gallagher '32, Sun years, having moved East after twelve years living and working as a journalist in the San Francisco Bay Area. City, AZ In California, journalists seem to be everywhere, and there were many who, like me, specialized in the envi­ Everett E. Logan '32, Missoula ronment. That's not the case in Kentucky. I now feel especially needed. Dorothy P. Tupper '32, Missoula For example, if my editors had not given me ten months to uncover how several hundred railroad work­ Irma Tressman Daniel Brown '33, Billings ers— many of them from rural Appalachian towns across the South— had been diagnosed with permanent Vinette Bell Parrish Fisher '33, brain dam age from the solvents they used to clean locomotives, who would have known? Just a small circle of Kalispell families, lawyers, and railroad company officials—and even they hadn't been able to connect all the dots. For Selena Toulouse Paulson '33, the last year and a half. I've focused almost exclusively on documenting the problems of toxic air in Louisville Spokane, WA and reporting on potential solutions. Osbord B. "Oz" Stoverud '33, Missoula James Bruggers lives in Louisville with poet and writer Merle Lyn Bachman and their two cats. He has served Helen Schroeder Halverson '34, seven years as a board member o f the Society o f Environmental Journalists, two o f them as president. This Spokane. WA year he won the Thomas Stokes Award for reporting on energy and the environment and Best o f Gannett Lewis J. “Luke" Mogstad '35, Vaughn awards for reporting. Mary C. Knoble Young '35, Oilmont

38 PALL 2004 MONTANAN Wilbur G. "Duke" Gilbert '36, J.D. Frank A. Pettinato '49, M.S. '54, '39, Dillon Missoula Keith W. Haines '36, Billings Gene A. Picotte, J.D. '49, Helena Letitia Kleinhans Johnson '36, Verland "Swede" Ohlson '50, M.Ed. '63, Missoula Conway, NH Lucille V. Lindgren '36, Glasgow Joseph Frederic "Jose" Stell '50, Lela Woodgerd Mountain '36, San Jose, CA Billings Donald G. Bradley '51, Great Falls Harold G. Steams '36, H.Ph.D. '83, John C. "Jack" Harrison '51, Helena • Helena Dorothy Hoff Hunton '51, Missoula Rosemary Reidy Grattan '37, Arthur Harold Olson '51 Coeur Whitefish d'Alene, ID Wayne David Rasmussen '37, Lawrence Gregory Stimatz, LL.B. H.Ph.D. '88, Concord, MA '51, Butte Lois Knauff Volkel '37, Missoula Drusilla V. Thompson '51, Portland, OR Doris Gilkerson Williams '37, Great Dorcas Means Rose '52, Missoula Falls Robert J. Souhrada '52, M.Ed. '58, Eileen McHugh Jeppson '39, Columbia Falls | |W ||h e five Olson sisters, born within four years o f each other, form the nude- Bountiful, UT Patty Burkhart Fisher '53, B illin g s I us of a dedicated UM family. Their father was Missoula native and Griz Robert R. Milodragovich '39, Victor J. "Jack" Scott '53, Great Falls ■■ quarterback Bruce Olson '60. Their mother, Mary Margaret Chinske '60, Bozeman Russell James Bay, M.Ed. '54, w as the daughter of Margaret Johnson Chinske '29 and Ed Chinske '30, on e of John G. Billings '40, B illin g s Missoula UM's most famous athletes. Four of the sisters are married to UM grads. The A.R."Del" Klaue '40, Great Falls Beverly York Brown '54, Honolulu same four are mothers to eleven children. Thomas B. McKee '40, Gresham, OR Byron L. Robb '54, J.D. '56, Left to right front row: Christine Olson Sandry '95, Bigfork, married to Paul Donald Bailey Ashworth '41, Seattle Livingston Sandry '87, J.D. '90. Theresa Olson Hagen '87, N ew Castle, Washington, mar­ Roger W. Christianson '41, M.Ed. Gene Willard Shockley '54, ried to Jay Hagen '87. Cara Olson Simkins '84, Missoula, married to Larry ■ 'S3, Stanwood, WA Tuscaloosa, AL Simkins '83. Back row: Twins Stephanie Olson Bohrnsen '89, Soldotna, Alaska, Catherine Kester Karlsgodt '41, William H. Dankers '55, San Diego married to Dan Bohrnsen, and Jennifer Olson Kiesel '89, Winthrop Harbor, I; Great Falls Norma Wadsworth Pelo '55, Castle Illinois, married to Robert Kiesel '87. 1 Walter Herbert McLeod '41, Apple Rock, CO Valley. MN Johan F. Miller '56, Great Falls | Bonnie Bovee Alt '42, Great Falls Jerold Eugene Walker '56, Billings f Orval F. Erwin '42, Shelby Robert Dean Engle '57, M.A. '61, GRIZ TAILGATE DATES [ Lucille Hagen Newman '42, Poison Parkville, MD Kay Tyler Lynn '57, Missoula I Maurice Rosenberg '42, Anaconda Edward J. Prinkki '58, Missoula Sam | Dorothy Skrivseth Smith '42, William A. Graham '59, Butte I Tempe, AZ John M. Cornish, M.Ed. '60, 9/18/04 Houston \ Virginia Morse Connors '43, Livingston | Sacramento, CA Martha Ann Smithers Haggett '60, State 4:00-6:00 pm CDT •Mary Hennessy Hoffman '43, Sun Lakeside [City. AZ Beverly Coverdell Josephs on '60, ■-Robert J. Rangitsch '44, Missoula Big Timber Weber " Ruth Riskin Darlington '45, Palmette Margaret Ellen Williams, M.A. '61, 10/02/04 [Bay, FL Bellevue, WA State | Edwin L. Gemberling '45, Moscow, ED Agnes Hunter Bjomson '62, St. Paul, 4:00-6:00 pm MOT | Patricia Elder Sullivan '45, Helena MN | Elmer Morris Frame '46, Missoula Charles Michael Disliman '63, I Donald Harry Haines '46, Missoula Orlando, FL Eastern | Robert Allen Gulbrandsen '47, Great Richard Marshall Karnes '63, 10/16/04 ['alls Washington Rochester, MN 11:00 am -l:0 0 pm POT I fames J. McCrea '48, Hayward. CA Grace Lloyd Bonebright '64, Cheney, WA | forgery Holt Stradley '48, Sun Hamilton ji-akes, AZ Neil Donald Johnson '64, Seattle £ Robert Arthur Tucker '48, J.D. '60, William R. Baldwin, M.Ed. '65, : Portland llreat Falls Bamum, IA | ’• Keith Gregg '49, Oak Park. IL Howard Martin Farver '65, Scobey ^ State | -ecille Gullickson Kincaid '49, Raymond J. Lapke, M.Ed. '65, Wolf 1:30-3:30 pm PDT K'alier Point Log on www.UMontanaAlumni.org for details

MONTANAN FALL 2004 39 ABOUTALUMNI Missoula Jack F. Bollinger '66, Billings ALUMNI EVENTS John B. "Jack" Hogan '67, Bellingham, OR AUGUST 2004 F. Paul Halpin, M.M.Ed. '68, Billings 18-30 International travel, British Isles & Kathleen Anne Madsen '68, Missoula Normandy Coast Margaret J. Gardner, '69, Anaconda 20 Big Sky Open Golf, Denver James F. Donovan, M.Ed. '72, 24-9/1 International travel, Ireland Missoula 29-9/7 International travel, Spain Duane N. Peterson '72, Great Falls Dennis John St. George '72, St. Paul, SEPTEMBER 2004 MN 8 Moonlight Mix and Mingle, campus Cheryl Maschera DiCarlo '73, M.Ed. '79, Phoenix 15-23 International travel, Tuscany Kingsley Daniel "King" Kuka '73, 18 Griz vs. Sam Houston State, football and Great Falls tailgate, Huntsville, TX May Grenier MacDonald '73, Missoula OCTOBER 2004 Carol Anita Brunner '80, Missoula 2 Griz vs. W eber State, football and tail­ James D. Clowes '81, M.A. '88, gate, Ogden, UT gate, Portland, OR Seattle 7,8 House of Delegates, Missoula Annette L. Toplarski '82, Bellevue, WA 8 Homecoming: Singing on the Steps, NOVEMBER 2004 Janyne Bebee Oberdorfer '84, reunions, Alumni dance 20 Griz-Cat football, Missoula Washington, DC 9 H om ecom ing: G riz vs. Idaho State, Brenda McFarland-Klakken '86, 20 TV satellite parties, nationwide Missoula parade, reunions Richard Michael O'Hare, M.Ed. '86, 10-12 UMAA Board of Directors F or more inform ation on these events, c a ll the UM Dayton, WY 16 Griz vs. E. Washington, football and tail­ A lum ni A ssociation: 1-877-UM. A L U M S or visit our I gate, Cheney, WA new Web site: www.UMontanaAlumni.org J Time is Running Out! Consolidate Your Federal Student Loans!

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40 PHOTO BY TODD GOODRICH Sharon J. Zimmerman Walker, Isidora Persephone Geranios to M.Ed. '91, Helena George Geranios '89 and Alice M. Karen Marie Knie '92, Missoula Norton '95, December 4, 2003, M ontanaG rizzlies.com Bruce Anthony Birch '93, Kalispell Portland, OR Jake Allen Paisain '94, Panama City, Get in the game with the Griz PL Shelbi Margaret Fuller to Cindi Theresa Stoll Sholey '94, Butte Witzel Fuller '97 and Ronald Fuller, Michael Ian Stubblefield '94, December 24, 2003, Veradale, WA Missoula Terry J. Neujahr '95, Lakewood, CO Spencer Clements Clark III to Carleen Gary Ray Holmquist, M.S. '01, Lolo Sandell Clark '99 and Spencer James Aldwin MacDonald '04, Clements Clark Jr. '99, February 2, Browning 2004, American Canyon, CA Chad Joseph Houtchens '05, Missoula Ramsey Colter Knowles to Justin L. Jonathan "Sully" Sullivan '05, Knowles '95 and Tiara Christopher Boston Knowles '96, March 2, 2004, Katherine Frances Aschim '06, Tucson, AZ Sunburst Glenn R. Barth, Yuma, AZ Lucy Callahan to Lynn M. Dankowski Jane Jeremy Barthelmess, Spokane, 90, J.D. '96, and C. Paul Callahan, WA M.S. '96, March 18, 2004, Missoula Virginia H. Boone, Raleigh, NC Bonnie M. Briggs, Missoula Gray James Fitzpatrick to Leslie Jay P. Chipman, Patagonia, AZ Lucas Fitzpatrick '89 and Terence Alistair Donald Graham, Conrad Fitzpatrick, April 20, 2004, Ruth Graham, Absarokee Petaluma, CA Carol Bischman Guthrie, Choteau Robert L. Kindrick, Witchita, KS Hunter Alaxandar Coyle to Melani Sally Listerud, Philadelphia Hansen Coyle '99 and Craig Coyle, Harlie Ray Morrison, Missoula May 3, 2004, Missoula E.W. "Bert" Pfeiffer, Missoula Ella Zittel Pew Scott, Missoula BENEFACTORS SOCIETY OF THE ; Margaret York Swan, Missoula UM PRESIDENT'S CLUB i William Brooks Whitaker, Bigfork n i | | | New members o f the Benefactors Society o f the UM President's Club, whose BIRTHS lifetime giving reached the $100,000 Julian Thomas Hicks to Rebecca level since the F a ll 2003 edition o f the Rose Hicks '02 and Richard W. Montanan was published, are: m :%■ -aucauorv Hicks, June 10, 2003, Hampton, VA Platinum Level Higher Education. Aleah Kirkpatrick Nelmes to ($1 million or more) Higher Education. Kathryn Kirkpatrick Nelmes '98 and Robert S. Howard Timothy A. Nelmes, October 13, John D. '73 and Charlotte Poe Higher Education. 12003, DuPoint, WA Copper Level Low Interest Rates. I Anthony Joseph to Vincent J. ($100,000 or more) : acopini '98 and Cindy Iacopini, Calvin T. '63 and Marva Kirby '62 Ipctober 12, 2003, Las Vegas Christian Mary C. Sobotka '54 Estate First in meeting your financial needs. l^m onn Micheal to Brandi N. Foster William H. & Margaret M. Wallace School ♦ Home ♦ Mortgage ♦ Auto ♦ Refinancing Federally insured by NCUA 194, October 24, 2003, Helena Foundation

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It may com e as a surprise to many alum­ ni chat the Singing on the Steps tradition predates the first H om ecom ing at UM. It began in 1912 when Robert Sibley, head o f the University’s engineering depart­ ment, urged students to gather in front o f the science hall and sing to raise school spirit. The Victory Bell also emerged on the scene much earlier— in 1903. It was used to open and close Singing on the Steps and to proclaim victories for UM in academic com peti­ tions as well as athletic meets.

The first unofficial Homecoming was in 1914, when President Craighead named November 6 as a special day for the return of alumni. The Griz beat the Bobcats in a close match that year, 7-6. This program from that year exhibits the early rivalry, when the Griz eschewed the state agricultural college's mascot and simply referred to them as farmers. On Thanksgiving Day in 1915 the Grizzlies held Syracuse to a 6-6 tie during another unof­ ficial Homecoming. There were no gatherings from 1916 to 1918 because of the war in SHOCKING NEWS Europe. Thanksgiving 1919 was the first official Homecoming. Letters were sent to former stu­ Who would have thought the Griz and dents inviting them to attend and nearly 600 graduates returned to the campus. the Cats would share a drinking fountain, let alone Homecoming. But they did—in 1922 and 1923. In 1922, the State FINALLY/ IT ALL MAKES SENSE? University of Montana and the State The Grizzlies’ fight song. U p with Montana Boys, goes way back. Often people have College of Agriculture and Mechanical wondered about the origin of the line, “and the squeal of the pig will float on the air from the tummy of the Grizzly bear." In a program for the 1921 Homecoming, the Arts (now Montana State University) held full text of the original song is printed. The Griz at this point, are still referring to a joint Homecoming in Missoula, with the the Bobcats as formers. And both teams talk about consuming the other. One promi­ idea of presenting a unified effort to keep nent sign at the 1921 game read "We want bear meat." Could the line about the pig the colleges open for Montana students. squealing refer to the farmer’s pig? Another interpretation is that the pig is the foot­ Railroads granted a special roundtrip rate ball pigskin. Take your pick. However from any location in Montana to UM and you slice it, i t ’s still strange. an estimated 900 people flocked to Missoula for the celebrations. The The first Griz team— 1897. Football was Grizzlies beat the Bobcats 14-7. The always a big deal at UM, although in early game was played at Domblaser Field years, the Griz played a tough schedule and (shown here), which had been completed often came out on the losing end—except in 1920. The next year Homecoming was when they played the school located in held in Bozeman and several new build­ Bozeman. The Griz won 17 of 26 games from 1897 to 1923, tying five and losing four, ings on the MSU campus were open "for while racking up a total of 357 points to the inspection"; an estimated 500 fans from Cats' 159. Missoula traveled east to see the Griz defeat the Cats 24-13.

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