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Students tell refugees’ stories from the streets of Berlin COMMUNIQUÉ Page 6

Nick Ut, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning image that became known as “Napalm Girl,” visited UM as part of a nation- wide centennial celebra- tion of the Pulitzer Prizes.

WHAT’S INSIDE Stories that matter J-School strives to help cover an increasingly diverse world

Latest J-School news 2 Journalism is no longer a single culture’s on a Turkish beach. Freshmen in our Global Kaimin wins fee increase 5 conversation. Today’s professionals must Current Events course explored the context Ekness starts new job 9 tell stories that serve a more diverse and behind the world’s breaking news. Podcast Fest fills Roxy 9 complex world, where the interest is always Seniors in our Student Documentary Faculty updates 12 human. Unit told stories of Montana parents strug- Student awards 14 Doing that well means immersing stu- gling to ensure lives of independence and Obits 18 dents and faculty in cultures they may not meaning for their autistic offspring as they Class Notes 22 know or can barely imagine. The School become adults. Meanwhile, Professor Denise Tribute to our donors 29 of Journalism is working hard to meet that Dowling researched a story on the lives of ever-growing challenge. transgender youth in the Northwest. CALLING ALL ALUMS: This year, the J-School celebrated 25 years Last fall, students in the school’s Diversity Join us during Homecoming of telling stories that matter on Montana’s in Media class kick-started a conversation for two J-School events on seven tribal reservations through its Native about race in a state where nine of 10 Friday, Sept. 30. We’ll be News Honors Project. It also sent 18 stu- residents are white. Students found that hosting an Alumni Showcase dents to Germany to detail the struggles of Montana’s lack of racial diversity does not at 2 p.m. in Don Anderson Hall 210, followed by our Syrian and Iraqi refugees making new lives. mean a lack of diverse voices. Homecoming Reception from Back in the classroom, Nick Ut, a Viet- As you catch up with classmates and 4 to 4:40 p.m in Don Ander- namese-born journalist, showed students the faculty in this edition of Communiqué, you son Hall 210. We hope to see enduring power of his iconic Vietnam War will also see stories about our school’s ongo- you in the fall! photo “Napalm Girl.” Meanwhile, seniors ing commitment to serving an increasingly in our ethics course studied the impact of diverse and interesting world. We hope they a photo showing a dead Kurdish boy lying inspire you as much as they do us. THE LATEST

Award-winning editor, digital producer named distinguished Pollner professors

former deputy managing editor of has worked as a media consultant, writer Congo, Tunisia and France; and at the the Los Angeles Times and a multi- and editor. She also was a visiting faculty UM School of Journalism. She will teach a Amedia documentarian will be the T. member at the Poynter Institute for Media spring semester course on producing video Anthony Pollner Distinguished Professors Studies, where she’d previously served as across media platforms. at the University of Montana School of an Ethics Fellow. Her fall semester seminar Both professors will work with the staff Journalism in the fall and spring semesters will focus on reporting and writing about of the Montana Kaimin. of the 2016-17 academic year. sensitive topics like rape, murder, suicide The Pollner professorship endowment Melissa McCoy spent 17 years at and mental illness. was created in 2001 by the family and the L.A. Times, advancing from metro Anne Bailey is a digital producer and friends of T. Anthony Pollner, a 1999 UM copy editor to a deputy managing editor visual journalist for Public Radio Interna- journalism alumnus who died in a motor- supervising 250 journalists. In addition to tional/The World’s “Across Women’s Lives” cycle accident two years after graduating. overseeing the paper’s award-winning copy series. She recently reported from Brazil on So far the program has brought 17 desks, graphics department and researchers, the Zika virus and its effect on pregnant distinguished journalists to the school for she was frequently the final editor for major women and newborn babies. Other recent a semester to teach a seminar and serve as projects, a number of which won Pulitzer projects include stories on women’s rights in a mentor to the students at the Kaimin. Prizes. During her newspaper and magazine India and women and business in Kenya. Several former Pollner professors have won career, McCoy also has been a reporter, Bailey has taught multimedia storytell- journalism’s most coveted awards, includ- copy chief, news editor and assignment ing at the Salt Institute for Documentary ing Pulitzer Prizes and National Magazine editor. Studies; at the Freedom Forum Diversity Awards. Since leaving the Times in 2009, McCoy Institute; in the Democratic Republic of

MELISSA MCCOY ANNE BAILEY

2 | UM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

We use many measures to make sure our program is producing graduates who are ready to work in today’s media mar- ket. But the best litmus tests are to see students in action and to see how they deal with other people. Judging by this measure, our students are ready to take on the world. I had a number of experiences with students this year that underscored the role of self-confidence in our profession, and was glad to see just how poised our students are in real-life journalism situations. When UM announced it would cut positions because of a budget shortfall, reporters from the Montana Kaimin knew what they had to do: bang on doors to find out who was facing the ax. One of those doors was mine. Now, it’s a lot more fun to ask questions than it is to Dean Larry Abramson explains the complexities of navigating Berlin to student Shannon O’Hara, answer them. Still, I was glad to see the one of 18 students reporting on the refugee crisis there this summer. Abramson covered the fall Kaimin was asking the right questions. of the Berlin Wall in the early 1990s and speaks fluent German. He helped students share stories They were aggressive but respectful, and of this complicated moment in global politics (see related story, pgs. 6-7). had the self-confidence to challenge the administration, which was closed-mouth about the actual victims of these cuts. the many majors UM offers. When I bump Fellowships at my alma mater, NPR. That’s I had the same sorts of encounters into these experts, I regularly hear praise another clear sign that our students with students working on the Montana for our students’ persistence and curiosity. stand out from the crowd, and do well in Journalism Review last fall. This annual, That was the case when our documenta- interviews. student-produced magazine has put in ry students completed a fascinating look Presenting yourself well is a critical skill place a rigorous fact-checking process at the lack of services available to adults in journalism—actually, it is essential in to make sure every detail is accurate. on the autism spectrum. Ann Garfinkle, just about every profession. The J-School Those fact-checkers also showed up at a friend and nationally recognized autism will keep stressing that it takes more than my door and posed tough questions that expert at UM, worked closely with our reporting and research skills to make great challenged me to check my own memory students and told me how impressed she journalists. banks. was with the resulting doc, which viewers One of the great things about our around the state recently saw on Montana program is that we push students to PBS. And this year, we have two students explore our campus and quiz experts in who are finalists for the prestigious Kroc — Dean Larry Abramson

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2015-16 Pollner profs raised the bar for students, Kaimin

his year’s Pollner professors blazed a trail for their successors to follow and T inspired students in their seminars and at the Kaimin to do award-winning and attention-getting work. Kevin Van Valkenburg ’00, a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine and our fall 2015 Pollner professor, took his charges on a tour of some of the best writing in the business. His reading list, which he posted on Medi- um (http://tinyurl.com/hq5jghv), makes for a great self-guided course in storytelling. “It was a wonderful experience, one that I will always cherish, simply because, twice a week, I got to sit in a beautiful classroom with a window that looked up at the moun- Kevin Van Valkenburg ’00, a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine and fall 2015 Pollner professor, tains and talk about some of my favorite with program donor Alice Thorpe. writing with smart students,” Van Valken- burg wrote. Valkenburg’s Pollner lecture, titled “Why “Classroom discussions are great, but I Storytelling Matters.” You can find that on didn’t learn how to write features in a class- Medium too (http://tinyurl.com/hntp9sx). room. I learned because I obsessed over the Spring Pollner Professor Sally structure and the details of certain magazine Stapleton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former stories for a decade before I ever wrote a executive photo editor for The Associated magazine piece. A lot of people think it’s Press whose international résumé includes pointless to teach ‘longform’ (a term I’ve covering the Rwandan genocide, also en- grown to dislike in recent years, because couraged her students to aim higher. of how often it’s abused) because of space They produced multimedia pieces they restrictions and people’s iPhone attention shared with the Missoula community in spans. But they’re wrong. You can apply the a showing at the Roxy Theater titled “The storytelling techniques in these pieces to Value of the Moment” (see pgs. 16-17). Spring Pollner Professor Sally Stapleton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning former executive photo stories of almost any length: tension, action, Her semester included Skype visits with editor for The Associated Press. dialogue, detail, character development.” some of the world’s best photojournalists, Stories his students began in his seminar but the highlight was a day spent with promising journalists and the future of jour- included senior Sojin Josephson’s “Finding veteran AP photojournalist Nick Ut, whose nalism—was evident,” she wrote later. “Not Feller,” a profile of UM basketball star and Pulitzer Prize-winning photo “Napalm Girl” lost on me that Tuesday evening in February adoptee McCalle Feller. The piece won sec- became an icon of Vietnam War coverage. was a well-placed photo in the newsroom ond place in the national personality writing His visit with students and a public lecture of Anthony Pollner, for whom this teaching competition of the Hearst Awards, collegiate that evening celebrated the 100th anniversa- experience is named. His Kaimin successors journalism’s Pulitzer Prizes. ry of the most famous award in journalism. had worked as a team and prevailed, as did The course also inspired first-year grad- Stapleton found the students in her sem- my multimedia storytelling class of 15. Isn’t uate student Ben Polley to pursue a profile inar and at the Montana Kaimin inspiring, that why all journalists view ours as one of of one of his literary heroes, the legendary even daunting. At the Kaimin’s first meeting the singularly great ways to spend a life?” author and poet Jim Harrison. When Har- of the semester, the challenge of producing In the end, the students’ example proved rison died this March, Polley’s profile was a robust paper and online news operation in uplifting, she added. published by Esquire.com, where it received tough financial times was stark. But the stu- “My students took risks because they national attention. dents decided to do the best job they could. know good journalism matters,” she wrote. One of the semester’s highlights was Van “The symbolism of that moment—50 “They inspired me to keep doing it too.”

4 | UM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM Kaimin wins student fee increase, crucial support from donors

he student vote to increase fees was a show of confidence for the T Montana Kaimin and a badly needed extension of financial support. It was vital to the Kaimin’s long-term plan to re-envision the newspaper as a multi-platform news, entertainment and opinion outlet, and to continue its tra- dition of training student journalists to hit the ground running in contemporary newsrooms. Led by Hunter Pauli, the assistant managing editor for print, the Kaim- in sustained focused coverage on the University of Montana’s budget woes and staffing challenges. The year-long reporting effort used freedom of information requests, person- The Kaimin’s dedicated 2015-2016 staff worked hard to cover a ality profiles and tumultous year at UM. insightful analysis to keep the cam- pus community led the weekly will be judged by your ability to think informed about publication. online first,” she told students. “There are changes in faculty Senior Kaimin those who get it, and those who don’t,” and staffing levels. sports reporter and Stapleton made it clear where she By the end Sojin Joseph- expected her students to land. of the 2015- son proved an Reporters Andrew Houghton and Pere- 16 school year, especially astute grine Frissell also earned awards in Hearst the Kaimin was disciple of Van competitions this year, leading UM to a live streaming Valkenburg’s. seventh place overall finish in the Hearst ASUM debates Her profiles of Competition for 2016. on Facebook, UM athletes won The Pollner professorship is supported using geotagged SnapChat promotions second place in the Hearst Competition’s by the family and friends of Anthony Poll- to campaign for the student fee increase Personality/Profile category and first place ner ’99, a Kaimin reporter and web editor and printing an award-winning weekly in the regional Society of Professional who died in an accident in May 2001. The newsmagazine. Journalists Mark of Excellence awards. Pollner professors work closely with the Editor-in-Chief Cavan Williams and Former Associated Press executive Kaimin staff and teach a seminar of their Business Manager Megan Dowaliby photo editor Sally Stapleton brought her own design. forged a strong working relationship “adapt, survive and thrive” approach to Anthony Pollner’s brother Edward between the business and news sides of the Kaimin as Pollner Professor for the Pollner and sister Amy Moritz provided the Kaimin. spring semester. Before long, she had allies additional vital support this year to help Fall semester Pollner Professor Kevin on campus ranging from drone pilots to the Kaimin cover operational expenses Van Valkenburg, a senior writer at ESPN the IT leader in charge of the all-campus that will be covered in the future by the The Magazine and former Kaimin sports online bulletin board known as Moodle. newly approved student fee increase. Their editor, helped reporters find their voice Stapleton led by example. bridge grant spurred students in their own through long-form narrative pieces that “Within your first week on the job you fundraising and campaigning efforts.

UM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM | 5 THE GLOBAL J-SCHOOL Missoula to Berlin J-School students relate refugees’ stories from the streets of Germany’s largest city

ast year, more than one million asylum seekers made their way to L Germany. This summer, 18 jour- nalism students from the University of Montana followed them. For three weeks, the students and four local translators shared stories of this complicated moment in the lives of refugees and in global politics. The project was born at the kitchen table of Professor Henriette Löwisch, a former Berlin editor for Agence France-Presse, with alum Shane Thomas McMillan ’10, a free- For three lance photojournalist based in Berlin. They weeks, 18 dreamed of getting UM students journalism students to Shane Thomas McMillan shared the city to document the Historian Ysanne Choksey gives student reporters a history of the Berlin Wall, visible behind her. refugee experience. One goal of the workshop was to give historical context to the current humanitarian crisis. stories of The resulting “Missou- refugees la to Berlin Journalism in this Workshop” blended Löwisch’s focus on moment international reporting, in global McMillan’s experience politics. covering refugees, and the skills of former NPR

correspondent Dean Shane Thomas McMillan Larry Abramson, who covered the fall of Translator and asylum seeker Anmar Ismail the Berlin Wall in the early 1990s. explains his route from Syria to Germany. Arriving on May 25, students dove headlong into a week of lectures, meet- ings and tours designed to give them a deeper understanding of Germany’s migration situation. They visited the ini- tial registration point for asylum seekers in Berlin, a school working to integrate refugees, and an emergency shelter in Berlin’s suburb of Karlshorst. Students finished the week by volunteering at a refugee shelter near their hostel. In Week Two, groups of students began working on stories that included the

challenges facing unaccompanied minors, Shane Thomas McMillan the role religion is playing in the humani- Student Ian Strahn takes notes during an interview with an organization tarian response, and how Berlin’s refugees working to combat racism in the state surrounding Berlin. Strahn and two are dealing with the city’s housing crisis. other UM students will be following up their time with the workshop as Guided by their instructors, the interns at ZDF, one of Germany’s prominent news channels.

6 | UM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM students produced articles accompanied by photo stories, photo essays, multime- dia pieces and other elements. Stories were made available for syndication and the project will be housed on a dedicated website. To make this project happen, the students relied heavily on the networks of the University of Montana and the School of Journalism, and on the gen- erosity of citizens from Missoula and Berlin who supported the project with donations. See the students’ work at: • facebook.com/MissoulatoBerlin • instagram.com/missoula2berlin • twitter.com/missoula2berlin • mtpr.org/term/missoula-berlin- project#stream/0 For more about this project, see: • jour.umt.edu/student-projects/ missoula-berlin Shane Thomas McMillan University of Montana student Kira Vercruyssen interviews children at a refugee camp in the Next summer’s trip? Japan! Berlin neighborhood of Karlshorst with Aimal Noori (left), a member of the translation team.

Shane Thomas McMillan J-School professor Henriette Löwisch and a group of her workshop students listen to the vice principal of Berlin’s Johanna-Eck School. With so many new arrivals, many Germans realized that schools are going to play a major role integrating refugees into their society.

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Grad program alums tell stories of science in many ways, places Nicky Ouellet, Katy Spence selected for the Crown Reporting Fellowship

ince the J-School reinvented its mas- ter’s program in 2010, more than 30 Sstudents have graduated with a focus on Environmental Science and Natural Resource Journalism, and they are telling the story of science on multiple platforms across the United States. Some joined the staffs of online pub- lications, as did Abbey Dufoe MA ’15, a web producer at Climate Central, or Krysti Shallenberger MA ’14, an associate editor for Utility Dive, a trade publication report- ing on transformations in the energy sector. Others report for radio or print publica- tions. Emily Wendler MA ’13 is at KOSU in Oklahoma City, Tom Kuglin MA ’14 reports for Montana’s Helena Indepen- dent-Record, and Kasey Rahn MA ’15 until recently reported for the Buffalo (Wyoming) Erik Petersen Bulletin and is now assistant editor for Grad student Ben Polley talks with Jim Harrison in one of his final interviews before the author’s Bugle magazine at the Rocky Mountain Elk death. Polley published their conversation in an article for esquire.com and The Whitefish Review. Foundation. Rahn joins other grads who write or edit NPR Senior Health and Science Produc- for magazines, like Kevin Dupzyk MA ’15, er Jane Greenhalgh worked with Ouellet, of Popular Mechanics, or Sam Lungren MA while Hillary Rosner, an independent sci- ’13, of Backcountry Journal. And then there ence and environment writer, will mentor are the freelancers like Kate Walker MA Spence. ’14, who recently produced a video for an Professors Löwisch and Nadia White also exhibit on the human microbiome at the worked with scientists on the University American Museum of Natural History. of Montana campus to embed journalism “Our graduates turn out to be incred- graduate students in research teams. ibly versatile,” said Professor Henriette For example, when University of Löwisch, the program’s director. “Not only Montana biogeochemistry Professor Cory For the the 2016 Crown Reporting Project, NPR’s Jane Greenhalgh (top left) mentored do they understand science and policy, Cleveland begins a new project in Panama Nicky Ouellet (top right), while Hillary Rosner they also have broad storytelling skills, in 2017, a journalism student will go along (bottom left), a science and environment with particular expertise in their area of for the ride. With financial help from the writer, will mentor Katy Spence (bottom right). choice.” National Science Foundation, the student Now in its sixth year, the master’s pro- will document Cleveland’s research on gram continues developing opportunities whether tropical plants are able to get more for students to practice their craft. nutrients from the soil than scientists have In 2016, Nicky Ouellet and Katy Spence previously thought. were selected for the Crown Reporting Fel- “It’s an innovative model of collaboration lowship, which pairs graduate students with between journalism and the sciences that professional mentors as they pursue stories we hope will serve as a model for other in the Crown of the Continent region of research efforts at the University of Mon- Montana, Alberta and British Columbia. tana,” Löwisch said.

8 | UM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM Montana podcasters Ray Ekness named and fans celebrate head of university’s audio storytelling Broadcast Media Center

The First Missoula Podcast Festival, which was sponsored by the J-school, packed the Roxy Theater in downtown Mis- soula in early November. The fest featured the best of the best from the school’s audio students of the past few years, especially those pieces that ran or would run on “Last Best Stories,” a podcast launched in July by Associate Professor Jule Banville. That podcast tells the unexpected stories of Montana. Student stories are mixed in with Banville’s work and stories created by professional and independent producers in Montana. Banville produced the event, creating loosely related “story blocks” and allowing time for intermission when the crowd could talk about what they heard and buy a beer and some popcorn. The sound-wave visuals changed with each story coming in over the speakers, thanks to Associate Professor Lee Banville, who designed them. RAY EKNESS Like “Last Best Stories,” the fest leaned heavily, but not exclusively, on high-quality student work. Professional stories Professor Ray Ekness, former chairman of the Department heard that night included those from Clay Scott, who’s pro- of Radio-Television and a faculty member since 2000, has duced more than 180 stories—mostly lovely and short audio been named director of UM’s Broadcast Media Center, home profiles—around the Rocky Mountain West. His work has of KUFM-TV and Montana Public Radio. aired for several years on Montana and Yellowstone Public He succeeds J-School alumnus William Marcus ’74, who Radio. The evening also included a story by Amy Martin, who retired as BMC director last year after 40 years in Montana introduced listeners to a podcast she’s developing that will air public broadcasting. on MTPR and a story from “Tell Us Something,” a series of “Ray has the talent, personality and work ethic to help first-person storytelling events held in Missoula and recorded guide the Broadcast Media Center through an evolving public for a podcast audience. media landscape,” said Mario Schulzke, the UM official who The event sold out early, and people seemed eager for the oversees the center. next opportunity to sit in the dark together, listening to sto- Ekness worked in radio in his native North Dakota and at ries. Planning has begun for Montana’s second podcast festival KUFM as a UM student in 1982 before becoming a commer- in the fall. Keep your ears open for details. cial producer and newscast director at television stations in Montana and Idaho. In 1989 he joined the Broadcast Media Center, where he worked for 11 years while serving as an adjunct professor and earning a master’s degree in journalism. After joining the J-School faculty, he served as chairman of the Radio-TV De- partment for six years. He was the school’s director of student success this year. He helped produce MontanaPBS’s popular “Backroads of Montana” program, and he oversaw scores of student produc- tions, teaching hundreds both the basics and finer points of radio-TV production. “The good news of course is that Ray won’t be far, and that we will know we have the best of friends running the BMC,” Associate Professor Jule Banville orchestrated the first-ever Missoula Dean Larry Abramson told the faculty. “The bad news is that, Podcast Festival, which featured the best of the J-school’s audio well, it’s hard to think of this place without Ray at the center students on Banville’s “Last Best Stories” podcast. of it, and that someone like Ray cannot be replaced.”

UM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM | 9 STUDENT PROJECTS

Student TV project Student doc explores profiles businesses struggles of autistic youth UM journalism The 2016 Student Documentary Unit spent the last few students produced days of the semester under deadline making last minute two more episodes of script changes, re-editing, adding graphics and creating the television maga- promos. They finished just zine “Business: Made in time for the premiere of in Montana” during “Aging Out: Autism Care the past year, the 23rd in Montana” before an year of production for emotional crowd at UM’s this program that has University Theater. now featured more The moving hour-long than 200 Mon- documentary told the story tana-made businesses. Ethan Fitzgerald shoots video for the of Montana families strug- The production is “Made in Montana” project. gling to find help for their part of the J-School’s autistic children as they age Intermediate Video Photography and Editing class each se- out of the public school mester. Student teams research, produce, photograph, write system and transition into and edit the stories using only natural sound and sound bites adulthood. Student doc- from their characters. Four to six businesses are featured in umentary teams traveled each program. across the state to find In the fall, teams traveled to businesses in Kalispell, Big- stories of Montana families fork, Deer Lodge, Columbus, Bonner, Helena, Polson, Gar- trying to piece together a future for their autistic sons and diner, Potomac and Missoula. All program costs are covered daughters. It also details the effort to place the issue before by a grant from the Greater Montana Foundation. Montana’s lawmakers. Students Caryn Foehringer and Mederios Whit- Student producer Keiko Sagami and director Peter Riley, worth-Babb hosted this year’s programs that aired statewide both seniors, led a team of 13 broadcast journalism students on MontanaPBS. Segments of the program are also being who took the project from idea to completion in a single shown to waiting passengers in the Bozeman Yellowstone semester. Adjunct Professor John Twiggs led the class with International Airport. help from Associate Professor Denise Dowling.

Native News Honors Project examines tribes and politics

The Native News Honors Project pub- finals week. Later that was third place in the THE lished its 25th edition, “Across the Divide,” day, Begay, Lurgio and ACROSS DIVIDE Large Group Multimedia on May 21, 2016. The project focused on photography student Project at the College politics in Montana’s Indian Country, an Jake Green watched as Photographer of the important but often overlooked topic made the tabloid-sized pub- Year awards. Students relevant by the national election in the fall. lication rolled off The also won national Hearst Students produced stories on how well Missoulian’s press. It was Awards, including a Montana’s Native Americans are represent- inserted in newspapers ninth place for Bronte ed in Montana’s Legislature; the fallout of statewide. An online Wittpenn’s multimedia

an era of massive government misspending; version of the project is Native News 2016 Montana's tribes navigate University of Montana project about domestic nativenews.jour.umt.edu School of Journalism and the process by which one tribe is trying on the school website. politics and progress violence on the Fort to draft a new constitution, which includes Meanwhile, the 2015 Peck Reservation and a implementing a three-branch government. Native News project, “Intertwined,” 17th place in feature writing for Kolby The project’s co-teachers, Professors which focused on relationships and the Kickingwoman’s story about a transgen- Jason Begay and Jeremy Lurgio, and their bonds that hold people together, won der high school student on the Blackfeet students showcased the project during several awards this year. Among them Indian Reservation.

10 | UM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM Montana Race Project challenges residents to start a conversation Adjunct Professor Kathy Weber-Bates ’01 they found, but it does have a diversity of accepted the challenge last fall of starting voices. Weber-Bates found that Montanans a conversation about race in a state where had plenty to say—even when they said nine in 10 residents identify themselves as race was a non-issue. white. She and students in her Diversity in “Growing up mixed race in Montana, I Media course asked Montanans to submit remember almost every time I met some- six-word stories describing their experiences one new they would ask, “What nationality and attitudes about race. are you?” she wrote in a blog post. “No one The resulting Montana Race Project meant any harm by asking. But, they didn’t reached students enrolled throughout the realize they were suggesting I was somehow Montana University System and others. less American than they were. I realize now The short stories forced writers to distill that if you were never asked that question their feelings. Responses ranged from in your life, you would probably never even disbelief (“Race is not an issue here.”) to think about race in Montana.” fear (“Better stick to your own kind.”) to Journalism student Mia Soza said the pleas for inclusion (“Black. White. We all class made her realize how little the main- bleed red.”) stream news media cover minority commu- Participants followed the project on nities—except in times of crisis. Facebook, and versions of the program are That means it is missing out on a lot of Charli White, a student in the Montana Race planned at other campuses. The project was interesting stories and concepts. “We’re Project, helped solicit six-word stories from an eye-opener for students, who presented all just people,” she told listeners at the across Montana that were included in this their findings during UM’s DiverseU Week DiverseU forum. “We’re on a rock spinning class poster. last fall. around the sun. At the end of the day, we’re Montana might not be diverse racially, all in this thing together.”

Montana Journalism Review looks at wildfire coverage Every year, reporters nationwide tell icon Ira Glass offered career advice. workflow. Corrections now are easy to find stories of spreading wildfire. Increasingly, For the first time, some of the stories on the magazine’s newly designed website. they become trapped on a merry-go- were published on Medium.com, an All stories and past issues are available at round of coverage that is merely reactive alternative story platform that specializes mjr.jour.umt.edu. The print magazine, instead of critical. Following a particularly in long-form work. which is sent to subscribers nationally, can volatile wildfire season, the 2016 issue of Students on the MJR staff receive a be ordered through the MJR website. As- Montana Journalism Review analyzed how crash course into the world of producing a sociate Professor Henriette Löwisch serves journalists could better inform the public, high-quality magazine. as MJR’s editor-in-chief. especially when it comes to illuminating “Creating MJR is one of the most the links between climate change, politics authentic experiences students can have and fire science. while still in the classroom,” said Man- In addition to following reporters aging Editor Nicky Ouellet, a graduate covering Montana wildfires, staff and student in UM’s master’s program in En- contributors of Issue 45 probed ways jour- vironmental Science and Natural Resource nalists are feeling the burn, from a legacy Journalism. “I’m really proud of what publisher closing its statehouse bureau to we’ve created, and the immense energy newsrooms in the West lighting up with and dedication our staff poured into this reviews and commentary on legalized mar- issue.” ijuana. Cutting-edge scientists spoke out The 2016 MJR team worked to improve on overlooked stories; freelancers got tips the fact-checking and copy-editing system on how to make their work pay, and radio for increased accuracy and a more effective MJR, SPRING 2016

UM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM | 11 FACULTY NOTES

Associate Professor Lee Banville has a grant to return to a broadcast news- finished work on his 800-page “Cov- room and bring current knowledge ering American Politics in the 21st and practices back to UM. Denise says Century: An Encyclopedia of News social media, apps and online news have Media Titans, Trends, and Controver- drastically changed the way newsrooms sies.” The two-volume book investigates share information with their audiences, how a mix of technology and money has and she’s eager to bring that approach fundamentally altered political cam- to her teaching. Dowling and husband paigns and the media that cover them Chris Johnson sent their daughter Erin by exploring some 200 different topics. off to college in the fall. In her free The work will be published by ABC- Associate Professor Jason Begay spent time Denise still plays a mean game of CLIO in October 2016. This effort also the year as the president of the Native tennis, a lousy game of golf and is a fre- led Cowles Montana Media Company, American Journalists Association, which quent spectator and sometimes stadium which operates seven stations through- entailed organizing the 2016 Excellence announcer at her son Kellen’s baseball out Montana, to tap Banville as its in Journalism conference, the organi- games. on-air political analyst throughout the zation’s joint event with the Society of Joe Eaton 2016 elections. He also continued to Professional Journalists scheduled for Assistant Professor published explore how digital games are becoming September in New Orleans. Working a cover story in the January edition of more and more of an effective teaching with NAJA, he also helped organize a the magazine Pacific Standard. The piece tool through his work with the Joan smaller weekend media regional summit explores the failure of a federal govern- Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Work- in April with UNITY Journalists for Di- ment initiative to use data analytics to shop. As editorial director of the Games versity in Phoenix, focusing on regional crack down on Medicare fraud, which and Learning Publishing Council he media coverage of Southwest tribes and costs the program at least $60 billion oversees the reporting and production immigration issues. Begay was pro- a year. The story details the success of the niche news site gamesandlearn- moted to associate professor in April, of the credit card industry in using ing.org. based in part on his work with NAJA so-called predictive analytics to catch and its Native American Journalism criminals and explains why Medicare Newly promoted Associate Professor Fellowship student program, which he has struggled to follow its example. Jule Banville launched her own podcast helped create. Throughout the 2015- Eaton continues to cover energy issues project, “Last Best Stories,” in July. The 16 academic year, Begay welcomed for National Geographic and regularly Missoula Independent featured the proj- more than 100 Native American high writes about crime and aging for AARP ect, and the podcast was recommended school and middle school students from the Magazine. In addition to teaching for “binge listening” by The Audit, an throughout Montana to Don Anderson courses in public affairs reporting, independent Australian newsletter that Hall to discuss the need for journalism editing and investigations, this spring recommends podcasts from across the in tribal communities. He continues Eaton taught a class called “Marketing world. To date, six episodes are avail- to co-teach the school’s award-winning your Work,” a course on entrepreneurial able at lastbeststories.org. Listeners can Native News Project, which marked its journalism. also subscribe and download episodes 25th anniversary. This fall, he will teach Ray Fanning through iTunes. Jule’s advanced audio the school’s Diversity in Media course. Associate Professor serves students launched their own podcast on the UM General Education Com- last spring, “Rest Stop Radio,” featuring Associate Professor Denise Dowling mittee, which is working on revitalizing stories from travelers along I-90, the spent the 2015-16 academic year on the general education perspectives and country’s longest interstate, in the state sabbatical. She’s working on a radio making them more relevant to students. with its longest stretch. Jule also wrote documentary profiling transgender During the School of Journalism’s articles for the website MediaShift about youth in the rural West. Her work on annual High School Journalism Day, teaching audio journalism and podcast- the project has taken her to Arizona, he presented a workshop on mobile ing. She continues to teach Elements Washington and California to talk with newsgathering. The presentation, titled of News Writing and Feature Writing young transgender people, families and “The Reporting Gear in Your Pocket,” classes, in addition to audio. She is also friends, medical doctors, coaches, teach- focused on ways to gather better video the school’s internship supervisor, serves ers, researchers and program directors. and audio using smartphones. He on the Faculty Senate and is a member Denise spent March at KING-TV in also served as the chair of the Faculty of KBGA radio’s board of directors. Seattle where she studied the station’s Evaluation Committee for the School of approach to social and digital media. Journalism, organizing the annual peer The National Association of Television and student reviews. Fanning applied Program Executives awarded Dowling for and won a sabbatical for spring

12 | UM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM semester 2017. He’s currently research- vironmental journalism; the J-School’s news writing and reporting courses. This ing race in Montana in preparation for a freshman-level Global Current Events fall he and Professor Lee Banville will multi-part audio reporting project. The class, supported in part by UM’s Da- co-teach the school’s capstone course scope will include historical, cultural vidson Honors College; and a senior on election coverage, which produces and legal perspectives. This year, stu- course in International Journalism. She stories for professional news organiza- dents in his UM News course have won continues to serve as the school’s major tions across Montana. This spring he multiple nominations and awards from link to UM’s international and scientific won a grant from Humanities Montana the Society of Professional Journalists, community. to speak to civic groups and schools the Hearst Journalism Awards and the statewide, explaining the radical changes National Academy of Television Arts facing the news media. He was also and Sciences. selected by the National Endowment of the Arts to review applications from the Associate Professor Keith Graham states to digitize historical newspapers. continues to work on a book and video Outside the J-school, he is a director of documentary about Montana’s one- the Montana Innocence Project, which room schools. A photo exhibit on this investigates wrongful convictions. project, “Chasing Time: The Last of the Active One-room Schools in Montana,” was in the Missoula Art Museum this summer and fall. It moves to three Jeremy Lurgio more cities in Montana, beginning in Associate Professor December. Meanwhile, he continues recently earned a merit award from UM to serve as judge for the Association for excellence in teaching. The student for Education in Journalism and Mass projects he mentors regularly garner Communication’s national design national awards. The 2014 Native contest and the National Press Photog- News Honors Project finished second raphers Association’s photo contest. His as a national finalist at the Society for teaching highlights this year included Professional Journalists’ Mark of Excel- Associate Professor Nadia White earned a studio session in which his Freelance lence student awards. The 2015 online a merit award this year for her work as Photography students photographed version placed third in the Large Group faculty adviser to the Montana Kaimin. food dishes prepared by Chef Patrick Multimedia category at the College She helped the Kaimin’s student staff ex- Browne. The class also created official Photographer of the Year contest. A pand its online presence, refine the voice portraits of members of the University portrait project, “A Century of Stories,” of its now-weekly news magazine and of Montana’s rodeo team. He added placed fifth in the Hearst competition’s move into live event coverage. Students instruction in Adobe Illustrator to his Team Multimedia category. An exhibit in her graduate-level science journalism Publication Design course this spring so of those portraits of Montana centenar- class provided coverage of the search for students could learn to create logos and ians toured the state. This year Lurgio a new dean of the College of Forestry news graphics. worked with colleague Erik Peterson on and Conservation, asking candidates a documentary about Bob Hayes, an what they would do to continue a tra- Associate Professor Henriette Löwisch’s 89-year-old who runs 30 races each year, dition of transparency and cooperation busy year culminated in a study abroad cuts his own firewood and does things with journalists. The answers proved trip to Berlin with a bevy of UM stu- the hard way to remain active and alive. more surprising than anticipated, a re- dents to explore Europe’s refugee crisis. The film is scheduled for release this minder to journalism students that you It began last fall with her oversight of fall. Lurgio also helped teach a five-day don’t know if you don’t ask. White spent the Montana Journalism Review, the outdoor workshop for rural high school part of winter break in Dawson, Yukon J-School’s student-produced magazine students and teachers in Oregon’s John Territory, to continue work on “Travels and online publication, and continued Day River watershed. with Josie,” her adventure biography with her leadership of the J-School’s of her great grandmother. She looks Dennis Swibold 6-year-old master’s program in Environ- Professor continues to forward to leading students on a trip to mental Science and Natural Resource serve as one of the school’s two direc- Fukushima, Japan, in May 2017. That Journalism, which produced student tors, in addition to teaching a couple trip will explore the impact that Japan’s works that made headlines nationally of courses each semester. This year triple disaster of March 11, 2011, has and across the globe, and is anticipating he taught two sections of Ethics and had on young people thrust into a his- its largest class this fall. She also teaches Trends, a required course for seniors, toric cycle of crisis and reconstruction. the program’s graduate seminar on en- and sections of the school’s introductory

UM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM | 13 AWARDS

SPJ Winners Society of Professional Journalists UM students earn

NATIONAL FINALISTS Television Photography Hearst honors again Student Documentary Unit, “Changing Home: Small Town Survival” Students grab eight more “college Pulitzers”

Television Sports Photography s a sports reporter at the Montana Peter Riley, “Cross country runner Kaimin, Sojin Josephson was used Makena Morley” A to fast turnover between stories. But with some encouragement from REGIONAL WINNERS ESPN reporter and fall 2015 Pollner General News Photography professor Kevin Van Valkenburg, she took Evan Frost a swing at long-form features. Sports Photography Her feature story, “Finding Feller: A family on and off the court,” delved Will McKnight into the life of McCalle Feller, a senior Breaking News Reporting player for Lady Griz, focusing not on her Kasey Bubnash impressive career stats, but on the fact that Feller was adopted and had been Feature Writing trying to connect with her birth parents Kolby Kickingwoman while at college. Josephson interviewed Feller and her adoptive parents together, In-Depth Reporting and managed to get in touch with Feller’s Erin Lorangerm birth-father. Kaimin Sports Writing After appearing in the in Febru- ary, the story went on to win second place Sojin Josephson in the Hearst Awards personality/profile Best Affiliated Web Site category, granting Josephson a $2,000 Fall 2015 UM News class scholarship and national recognition. From print to broadcast, Sojin Josephson is She joined seven other UM students getting noticed for her student work, taking Online Feature Reporting recognized by Hearst this year, adding second place at the Hearst Awards and a first in the regional SPJ’s sports reporting category. Bronte Wittpenn to the J-School’s reign as one of the top She starts work soon as a news assistant at finishers in this college version of the Pu- “CBS Evening News.” Online In-Depth Reporting litzers. UM finished seventh overall. Sam Waldorf and Bethany Blitz

Online News Reporting Nicky Ouellet and Kristin Kirkland

Radio News Reporting Hearst Journalism Awards Cheri Trusler Personality/Profile Writing Broadcast II - Radio News TV General News Reporting Sojin Josephson, second place & Features Sean Robb Andrew Houghton, 11th place Emily Proctor, ninth place

TV In-Depth Reporting Multimedia I - Features Broadcast III - Television News UM Student Documentary Unit Kaci Felstet, sixth place Sarah Yovetich, 12th place

TV News and Feature Photo Sport Writing Writing I - Feature Writing Andy Anderson Peregrine Frissell, seventh place Kolby KickingWoman, 17th place

Television Sports Photo Multimedia II - News Photo I - News & Features Peter Riley Brontë Wittpenn, ninth place Evan Frost, 18th place

14 | UM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM NATAS Awards UM grad student first from National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences - Northwest Chapter Montana to win prestigious 2016 College Student Awards for Excellence journalism scholar award Sports Sean Robb, reporter/producer; atie Riordan, a master’s degree candi- Riordan earned an OPC Foundation Pete Riley, photographer/editor; “Makena Morley Leads date in journalism at the University fellowship with The Wall Street Journal in UM Cross Country Team” K of Montana, received an Overseas London. She also received the Flora Lewis Press Club Foundation Scholar Award at Fellowship, named for the former Paris bu- Video Essay the 2016 Annual Scholar Awards Luncheon reau chief of The New York Times, presented (Single Camera Only) held at the Yale Club in New York City. by Michelle LaRoche, editor of develop- Jamie Dittmar, A graduate of the Universi- ment at The Wall Street Journal. Producer/photographer/editor, ty of Colorado, Riordan was The award winners received “Meissenburg Designs” among 15 aspiring foreign cor- risk management and situa- respondents selected by a panel tional awareness training from NATAS-NW of leading journalists out of 175 Global Journalist Security at AP Regional Scholarships applicants from 50 different headquarters in New York City Mason Birgenheier colleges and universities. She is and met privately with editors and Ethaniel Fitzgerald the first student from a college from BuzzFeed, AP and Reuters in Montana to win the award. at a special breakfast and during a Riordan’s winning application post-luncheon panel. Other me- CBYX Fellowship told how she worked in Yemen dia organizations at the luncheon Katie Riordan Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange and then went to the Republic included Bloomberg, CBS News, of Somaliland in the Horn of GroundTruth Project, IBT Media Young Professionals Fellowship Africa and covered the effects of drought and The Wall Street Journal. Katie Riordan, full-ride award to on nomadic tribes, among other environ- The OPC Foundation is the nation’s larg- study and work in Germany from mental and political stories. Her interest est and most visible scholarship program July 2016 through August 2017 lies in reporting on the impact of climate encouraging aspiring journalists to pursue change and the growing number of climate careers as foreign correspondents. refugees. CPOY Awards College Photographer of the Year Large Group Multimedia Project competition Native News, third place 2015 online multimedia publication

BEA Awards Broadcast Education Association International Festival of Media Arts

Best of Festival Nicky Ouellet, student audio competition

Nicky Ouellet’s radio feature “An 80’s Cover Band with Global Dreams” was awarded “Best in Festival” at the Broadcast Education Association International Festival of Media Arts.

UM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM | 15 PHOTOGRAPHY Value the Moment

Adam McCaw Dr. Mike Kremkau, a senior medic on the Missou- la County Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team, squeezes off a well-aimed shot from the Olivia Vanni 25-meter line, in February. Stu Williams, a local boatmaker and owner of Montana Boat, takes his newly finished boat out on March 26 to check for leaks before handing the boat off to a customer.

Kayse Angel Kevin Benhart Brown, co-owner of Strongwater Surf, rides Brennan’s Wave in downtown Missoula. He said he tries to surf every day.

16 | UM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM tudents in UM Pollner professor Sally Sta- pleton’s class worked to capture multime- S dia stories that portrayed “the value of the moment,” a term Stapleton used to encapsulate the class. That culminated in a showcase of visual stories by the student journalists in May at the Roxy Theater in Missoula. Here is a small collection of some of the images her students captured.

Freddy Monares Kathryn Brandos Jeff Stevens hammers a clamp into the neck of a wood-carved pony for UM student Dac Cederberg wears an outfit resembling Little Bo Peep Butte’s Spirit of Columbia Gardens Carousel. for a drag competition.

Jacob Green A volunteer feeds a wood-fire kiln at The Clay Studio of Missoula. Missoula is home to one of the largest wood-fire kilns in America, and because of its size, it must be constantly stoked during the seven- to nine-day firing. The kiln is only used a few times per year due to this time commitment.

UM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM | 17 OBITUARIES

COL. WILLIAM SWARTZ ’42, who DOROTHY JEAN MCKENZIE ROSS HAGEN ’52, a former Associ- flew combat missions during World War ALLEN ’48, whose career as a journalist ated Press newsman and manager who II and in support of the Berlin Airlift, included stints at several newspapers in covered the civil rights march on Sel- died Dec. 30, 2015, in Bloomington, Washington state, died Jan. 3, 2016, in ma, Alabama, and the 1964 Republican Minnesota. He was 96. Seattle. She was 90. Convention, died May 9, 2015, in Iowa He was born in 1919 in Sheridan, She was born on May 5, 1926, in City. He was 86. Wyoming, but later moved to Pryor, Philipsburg, Montana, where she gradu- He was born in Glendive, Montana, Montana, where his father served as ated as valedictorian from the local high where his parents were wheat-farming agent for the Crow Tribe. William grad- school. She enrolled at the University homesteaders. He joined the Navy at uated from high school in Fromberg, of Montana, studying journalism and 17, serving for two years before enroll- Montana, before earning a bachelor’s communication. She was a member of ing at the J-School. After graduation, degree in journalism from the Universi- Alpha Chi Omega sorority and Theta he returned to Glendive where he met ty of Montana. Sigma Phi, the honorary society for his future wife, He enlisted in the U.S. Air Corps in women in communications. Jackie, while 1942, serving in Europe until after the After earning her degree, she moved selling her Berlin Airlift. He also was command- to Spokane, Washington, where she father newspa- er of Charleston Air Force Station in met and married Roy Allen. They were pers ads for his Maine, an air traffic control adviser in together for 57 years. In retirement they furniture store. Taiwan, a systems officer in Colorado traveled to Central and South America, He soon Springs, Colorado, and a space systems Europe and Asia. joined The staff officer at the Pentagon. She worked as a journalist for many Associated He married Deloris Debner in 1946 papers, including the Spokane Dai- Press, and the in Billings, Montana. Their daughter ly Chronicle, the Wenatchee Daily, couple traveled Roxana was born during a posting in the Renton Chronicle and the Renton to assignments that ranged from Helena the Seattle area. Daughter Jeanne was News-Record. She also worked as a dis- to Colorado, Alabama and Georgia born in Frankfurt, Germany. trict director for the Camp Fire Girls. (twice) before becoming a news director He retired from the Air Force in in New England. In addition to the 1967, after 24 years of service, during WALTER R. ORVIS ’49, who worked Selma story and the ’64 GOP conven- which he won the Distinguished Flying on many small-town weekly newspa- tion, he covered Vietnam War protests, Cross, among other commendations. pers, died on Feb. 1, 2015, in Clinton, the Chappaquiddick Island incident, He moved to Bloomington with his New York. He was 92. sports stars such as Alabama head coach family, working in real estate in the He was born on Oct. 22, 1922, in Paul “Bear” Bryant and quarterback Twin Cities area for 14 years. Newberg, Oregon, but raised mostly in Joe Namath, and the pennant-winning Missoula, Montana, where he attend- 1967 Red Sox. GERALD THOMAS LESTER ’45, ed high school and enrolled in UM’s He left the AP for a second career in who worked as a communication spe- J-School. He married Mary Lou Mars public relations, working for Massey cialist in agricultural economics at the on May 11, 1946 in Missoula. Ferguson, the American Bar Associa- University of California-Davis, died He spent his early professional life tion, the FMC Corp. and the University on Aug. 3, 2015, in Rollinsford, New working as a journalist, primarily in of Iowa and its hospitals and clinics. He Hampshire. He was 95. small-town weekly papers. For many retired in 1997. He was born in 1920 in Seattle, years he was the editor of The Montclair Washington, but was raised in Mon- Tribune and later of The Chino Champi- KEN BYERLY ’56, who reported for tana, where he met his wife of 60 years, on, both in southern California, where The Washington Post and Newsday before Geraldine Fahey Lester, his “Stardust he and his wife lived for 50 years. becoming a New York stockbroker, died girl.” The couple moved to Clinton, New Nov. 17, 2015, at his home in Jericho, He earned his bachelor’s degree in York, in 2004, to be near their son and Vermont. He journalism in 1945. After their mar- grandchildren. Walter enjoyed watch- was 81. riage, Jerry and Jeri lived briefly in ing his grandsons grow up during his He was born Rhode Island before settling in San decade there. He also enjoyed the quiet in 1934 in Francisco to raise a family. He worked small-town life and the friends he and Stokes County, for many years for the California uni- Mary Lou made at the Clinton United North Caroli- versity system. Methodist Church. na, the first of He liked to sail and was a lover of three sons born zeppelins, planes, trains and automo- to newspaper biles. publisher and

18 | UM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM owner Kenneth Rhodes Byerly Sr. on June 13, 1970, and they moved to He served in the U.S. Navy, which and Louise Hanes Byerly. In 1940, his Lubbock, Texas, after his commission- led to a stint in Vietnam with the father bought a paper in Thermopolis, ing in the U.S. Air Force. He received Mobile Riverine Force at the height of Wyoming. In 1947, the family moved an honorable discharge from the Air the war. He was awarded a Purple Heart to Lewistown, Montana, where Ken Sr. Force in the spring of 1973. The couple and Silver Star for throwing an enemy had purchased the Lewistown Democrat then moved to the Flathead Valley grenade off his News. where he worked in radio and televi- boat, saving Young Ken played football for and sion. It was there that their daughter, many lives. graduated from Fergus County High Laura, was born. After the war, school. He went on to play football on Ed worked as a district executive with he married his an athletic scholarship for the Univer- the Boy Scouts of America and then high school sity of Montana, where he majored in enrolled in seminary at the Iliff School sweetheart, journalism. of Theology in Denver in 1980. He Debra Neiss, After serving briefly in the peace- earned his Master of Divinity degree in and they moved time Army, he became the editor of The 1983 and was ordained as a pastor in to Missoula Tidewater News in Franklin, Virginia, the Yellowstone Annual Conference of where Dave a paper his father had purchased. He the United Methodist Church in 1985. earned a moved from there to The Washington The family served churches in Troy, Va- journalism degree in 1974. He became Post. He quit to spend a year traveling lier, Harlowton/Judith Gap, Whitehall, editor of eastern Montana’s twice weekly and writing in Europe, returning to the Hardin/Ashland and Sheridan/Twin Sidney Herald. His daughter, Rachel, U.S. in 1963 to take a reporting job Bridges. He retired from the ministry was born there. The family moved to with Long Island’s Newsday. It was there in 2011 and also served as manager at Missoula in 1978 so Dave could work that he met and married Raquel Gill. the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in on a master’s degree in journalism. Their marriage lasted three years. Billings. A year later they moved to Florence, He later became a Wall Street stock- As a pastor, Ed’s ministry reached Montana, where Dave built a log home broker, working for several firms before beyond church doors in service to the and worked in carpentry and drywall settling at Merrill Lynch. rural people and communities where until he decided to enroll in the Uni- In 1977, he married a junior high he served. During the same time, Ed versity of Montana’s School of Law. He Spanish teacher, Priscilla Morse, whom began bicycle touring. He toured well earned his J.D. in 1989 at the age of he met while skiing in Vermont. They over 8,200 miles, and he died doing 36, and worked briefly in the Missoula lived in Tarrytown, N.Y., for 10 years, something he loved. County Public Defender’s Office before before they retired and moved to Boze- Ed and Shirley moved to the family becoming a contract public defender in man, Montana. In 1990, they bought a farm in Columbia Falls in 2010. They Ravalli County. house near Burlington, Vermont, which built a home and grew a market garden In 1999 he and Debra divorced, and served as a home base for their hiking to sell produce through Community Dave married Diane Gearhardt that adventures. Supported Agriculture (CSA) and the July. The couple worked together in the Columbia Falls and West Glacier farm- Stenerson Law Office until 2006, when EDWARD H. FOLKWEIN ’70, of ers’ markets. they both joined the Public Defender’s Columbia Falls, died Monday, July 27, Ed was an amateur photographer Office in Hamilton. In 2011, Dave be- 2015, in a bicycle accident in Washing- and enjoyed hiking, bird and wildlife came a regional deputy public defender, ton state. watching, and singing with the Flathead responsible for Missoula, Ravalli and He was Valleyaires Barbershop Chorus. Mineral counties and a staff of 35. born on Nov. “I like fighting for the underdog,” 25, 1947, in DAVID EDWARD STENERSON ’74, he once said. He and Diane also liked Youngstown, a defense attorney, Vietnam vet and one- riding their Harley motorcycles. He Ohio, and time weekly newspaper editor, died Feb. also enjoyed gardening and cooking his graduated 23, 2016, in Hamilton, Montana, of a famous baked beans. When he wore a from Struthers sudden illness. He was 66. tie, it was always a red one, in honor of High School He was born in Billings in 1949, the his optician father, who wore a red tie in 1966. He youngest of four children. He graduated and red socks every day. earned a degree from Billings Central High School in in radio-televi- 1967 and briefly attended Eastern Mon- JEFFREY ALLEN GERRISH ’89, sion from the University of Montana in tana College. Due to his driving record, who specialized in photography during Missoula in 1970. a Billings city judge strongly encouraged his time at the School of Journalism, He married Shirley (Rogers) Folkwein him to join the military. died Jan. 18, 2016, at his home in St.

UM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM | 19 OBITUARIES

Ignatius of a gunshot wound. He was 53. RUSSELL BRYAN HICKS ’00, a feelings known at countless legislative He was born in 1962 to Dorothy commercial real estate developer and hearings in Wisconsin. A book lover and Duff Gerrish of Kalispell and St. manager, died Dec. 1, 2015, in Missou- and library advocate, she opposed an Ignatius. la. He was 38. effort to close neighborhood libraries. He was born Feb. 8, 1978, in Missou- She also battled for the homeless and RUSSELL “WILL” GETELMAN ’91, la and attended Valley Christian School those without health insurance. a brilliant student who worked for the from kindergarten through graduation She wrote her own obituary, in which Montana Kaimin and interned at The in 1996. He graduated from the Univer- she says she started sticking up for the Missoulian in the summer of 1991, died sity of Montana in 2000 with a double underdog in fourth grade by socking a Sept. 23, 2015, at Hillside Manor in major in journalism and English. In bully on the chin, “and kept it up her Missoula. 2006 he graduated from St. Thomas entire life.” Law School in Florida. According to the Journal, she was SHARON ROSE NEVATT SCURRY Russell was the president and general injured two years ago when a state ’93, who owned a delicatessen and manager of a local business, which con- capitol police officer treated her roughly, worked as a night editor for The Ravalli sisted mainly of commercial real estate dragging her from her spot collecting Republic, died on Dec. 16, 2016, in development and management. signatures for a ballot measure to limit Rocklin, California, of a sudden illness. He was active in the Missoula Ex- subsidies for developers in Madison. She was 63. change Club and was a board member She wrote that she hoped to be rein- She was born in 1949 in Springfield, and secretary of Missoula Parenting carnated as “a 6-foot-4 warrior for good Missouri. She married John B. Scurry Place. He was passionate about helping with her own super PAC.” Jr. in the summer of 1976, and they children and worked to prevent child moved from California to Montana, abuse. SPENCER VEYSEY ’12, a dogged where she lived for 33 years. investigator for the Montana Innocence After earning her journalism degree, Project, died Friday, Oct. 2, 2015, while she owned the Farmhouse Delicatessen climbing Long’s Peak in Colorado. He and worked as a night editor for The was 26. Ravalli Republic in Hamilton. She also He attended taught school in Darby and Missoula. Fellows, Ames She eventually moved back to Cal- Middle, and ifornia to be near her daughter, Staci, Ames High and four grandchildren, who survive School in her. Ames, Iowa, Courtesy of the Wisconsin State Journal before head- ALBERT BYRON PRICE, who worked ANN FLEISCHLI MA ’12, a Wiscon- ing west, first as a custodian at the J-School and sup- sin attorney who fought for the environ- to work on a ported its students with special scholar- ment and against poverty and develop- commercial ships, died May 5, 2016, at his home in ment, died March 20, 2016, in Arizona fishing boat Missoula. He was 79. of cancer. She was 73. in Alaska, and He had moved to Missoula to be A native of Kankakee, Illinois, she finally to Montana, where he floated near his aging mother after working for started her professional life in the South rivers, climbed mountains and earned many years in Alaska. He was a school as a poverty lawyer, and came to Mad- a journalism degree at the University of counselor in Barrow, Alaska, and he ison with her husband, George, about Montana. He worked as a reporter for also worked on the Alaska pipeline and 50 years ago. She ran unsuccessfully for the Montana Kaimin and played rugby, helped clean up the Exxon Valdez oil City Council and used her legal training serving as president of the UM Jesters spill. to battle in the courts against developers rugby club for two years. Al was born in Butte in 1936. He and miners. After college, he worked for three graduated from high school in Wallace, In 2009, she moved to Missoula, years as the Montana Innocence Proj- Idaho, and joined the Marine Corps. where she enrolled in the new master’s ect’s first full-time investigator, skillfully He returned to Missoula to work in the program in Environmental Science re-examining evidence in potential Anaconda Company’s Bonner lumber and Natural Resource Journalism. Her cases of wrongful conviction. His work mill and to earn bachelor’s and master’s master’s project focused on efforts to helped win a new trial for one Montana degrees from UM. preserve wild areas on the Rocky Moun- inmate. Other cases that he developed tain Front. are still working their way through the According to The Wisconsin State post-conviction process. –30– Journal, she made her environmental

20 | UM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM Outstanding journalists shared with students Here are some of last year’s important visitors.

Alyssa Rabil

Special correspondent Susan Stamberg, one of the “founding mothers” of National Public Radio, offered tips to future journalists at the J-School’s annual Dean Stone Lecture this spring.

Jeremy Lurgio Ira Glass, host and producer of “This American Life,” conducted a master class for journalism students last fall. He also delivered a lecture to raise funds for Montana Public Radio.

Author and ex-Wall Street Journal reporter Ken Wells Award-winning author and producer Hedrick Smith (center) visited our senior ethics gave the spring’s Jeff Cole Distinguished Lecture. seminar this spring.

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Editor’s Note: In December 2015, John Kafentzis ’75 is a senior lecturer Jeremy Sauter ’85 works in entertain- Professor emeritus Carol Van Valkenburg in the Integrated Media Department at ment marketing. He lives in Missoula and Professor Denise Dowling put out a Gonzaga University, teaching journalism and L.A. call to alumni on Facebook, asking them to and public relations. tell us what they were up to. Here’s what Shane Bishop ’86 is a national producer we heard. Rich Landers ’75 has been an outdoors for “Dateline NBC.” editor for The Spokesman-Review in Spo- Verina Palmer Martin ’86 retired after kane, Washington, since 1977. a long and varied career. Verina was a 1950s David Allan Cates ’79 is a novelist, GA and medical reporter for Tribune poet, part-time director of Missoula newspapers in Arizona, editor of custom John Bansch ’57 is retired. He worked Medical Aid and part-time teacher for health magazines, freelance writer/editor 41 years at The Indianapolis Star. the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific for newspapers and magazines, writer for Lutheran University. national medical imaging magazine, and Debra McKinney ’79 is a freelance a PR specialist/writer/editor at Arizo- 1970s reporter and is trying to get a farm-based na State University and a community charter high school off the ground. college. Michael Lee Moore ’87 was a coordi- Chuck Johnson ’70 almost retired in nator for Reaching Home, Missoula’s May 2015 after 43 years as a journalist in 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness in Montana, mostly as a statehouse reporter 1980s Missoula. for the Lee State Bureau and The Great Falls Tribune. He’s scheduled to cover the John Engen ’88 is the mayor of Missou- Mike Dennison 2017 Legislature for The Bozeman Daily la, his hometown. ’81 is chief of the Chronicle. Scott Fralick Montana Television ’88 is a managing editor J. F. Purcell ’72 retired to help take care Network’s Capitol for CTV News Edmonton in Alberta. of twin grandsons and volunteer to help Bureau. He was a Kevin McRae ’88 is a deputy commis- save regional photos and help dogs get statehouse reporter sioner of higher education. adopted. for Lee Newspapers Michele Troxel ’88 is a unit manager Jack Tanner ’72 is a page designer and until May of 2015. and show producer for KING TV’s presentation desk editor at the Naples Pamela Bennett “Evening Seattle.” (Florida) Daily News. Mike Dennison ’82 is a senior Mark Downey ’89 is a fishing guide. Ronnene Anderson ’73 worked 14 years media planner and He says he still aspires to professional as a part-time copy editor for the daily strategist for the Wendt Agency in Great whistling. Edmonton Journal in Alberta, Canada, Falls. before retiring. Romney Dunbar ’82 is the founder of Peggy Kuhr ’73 Dunbar Productions. The company is 1990s resigned as the known for TV programs like “100 Mile Meals” and “Great Homes TV.” University of Mon- Amber Underhill Beckner ’90 is the tana’s vice presi- Paul VanDevelder ’82 spent 20 years marketing and grant coordinator for dent of integrated as a photojournalist on four continents. NeighborWorks Great Falls & Neigh- communications in Paul now writes columns for the LA borWorks Montana (affordable housing May and will retire Times, New York Times, Esquire, Audubon nonprofits). Previously she was a business from UM in Janu- and Forbes. planning manager at D.A. Davidson and ary. She served five Pam A. Boyle ’83 has been in the mil- an editor at The Great Falls Tribune. years as J-School Peggy Kuhr itary since 1993. Pam is also a doctoral dean. John MacDonald ’90 is a strategic student in management. communications and government affairs Kay Balmer ’74 worked for 15 years at Carol Hyman ’83 was the news director consultant focusing on media training The Oregonianbefore retiring. for UCSF Medical Center. and crisis communications. Kevin S. Giles ’74 is a reporter and Gary Moseman ’83 retired after 24 years Beth McLaughlin ’90 is a Supreme editor at The Star Tribune newspaper in at The Great Falls Tribune. Gary is now Court administrator in Helena. Minneapolis-St. Paul. He’s also pub- living and writing in Lincoln, MT. lished three books with more on the way. Beth Brennan MA ’91 is a lawyer and John Bulger ’84 is an attorney in Po- occasional law professor. She says she is a Bob Anez ’75, now retired, was a catello, Idaho. constant grammar nerd. longtime statehouse reporter for The Associated Press in Helena and com- Marlee Miller ’85 is a chief operating Marlene Feist ’91 works for the City munications director for the Montana officer at M+R, a public affairs consult- of Spokane as the director of strategic Department of Corrections. ing firm, in Missoula. initiatives.

22 | UM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM Shelli Johnson ’91 is an entrepreneur Thomas Nybo ’95 is a freelance pho- building her second business: Epic Life, tographer, videographer and filmmaker 2000s a leadership development, coaching and for UNICEF, The New York Times and adventure guiding business. Her first CNN. He is about to launch a VR business was a tourism publishing com- production company with three NYT Matt Gouras ’00 is now a banker living pany (Yellowstone Journal and Yellowsto- journalists. in Seattle. nePark.com) which she sold to Active Linn Parish ’95 is the deputy editor Julie Sarasqueta Hahn ’00 is a free- Interest Media in 2008. at the Journal of Business in Spokane, lance marketing writer. Julie Walker ’91 manages business and Washington. Emily Heffter ’00 does PR for Zillow communication services at Take Control Patricia Snyder ’95 is a program manag- in Seattle. in Missoula. er at a library. Hilary Hutcheson ’00 is the marketing Gary Jahrig ’92 is now the lead billing Tim Thompson’95 is a freelance pho- director and principal at “Trout TV” analyst for Consumer Direct Manage- tographer in Alabama. and Outside Media. ment Solutions in Missoula. Ralph P. Bartholdt ’96 is the crime and Paige Parker ’00 is the proposal writer Joe Kolman ’92 is the director of the court reporter at The Lewiston (Idaho) for an early childhood education com- nonpartisan Environmental Policy Office Tribune. pany in Portland. for the Montana Legislature. Tracy Johnke ’96 is a business news Benjamin Shors MA ’00 is a clinical Carlos Pedraza ’92 is a screenwriter and anchor for Bloomberg Radio, serving associate professor at the Edward R. producer. WCBS, WBZ, KCBS and KRLD. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. Gina Boysun Pinnock ’92 is the online Kortny Rolston ’97 is a business and director at The Spokesman-Review. strategic communications manager for Lorie Hutson Stucke ’00 is a registered the clean energy research division at nurse in cardiac rehab at Providence Roger Renville ’92 is an appellate attor- Sacred Heart in Spokane. ney for the Montana Public Defenders’ Idaho National Laboratory. Linda Thompson Office in Helena. Erica Curless ’98 covers baby boomers ’00 is the program director for the undergraduate program Karen Coates ’93 is an independent and aging for The Spokesman-Review. She also owns a horse and dog bodywork in photojournalism at Mid Sweden journalist, author, editor and media University. trainer, and a senior fellow at the Schus- business. Matt Thompson ter Institute for Investigative Journalism. Bruce Ely ’98 is a photographer for the ’00 is a cultural affairs Portland Trail Blazers and a freelancer. officer for the U.S. Embassy in Riga, Francine Lange ’93 is a tourism infor- Latvia. mation specialist in New York City. She’s Justin Grigg ’98 stepped down recently Kevin Van Valkenburg also a street photographer, writer and as city editor at The Missoulian. ’00 is a senior election poll worker. writer for ESPN The Magazine and Tom Mullen ’98 is a Los Angeles screen- ESPN.com. Chris Dawson ’94 is a news and sports writer and a partner in a government Karl Vester ’00 is a writer and edi- editor for Baytoday.ca in North Bay, On- software startup. tor for the U.S. Forest Service, and a tario. He is also a freelance TV reporter Sonja Lee Nowakowski ’98 is a research photographer at Buckaroo Photography for Canada’s Weather Network and the analyst for the Montana Legislative Envi- Oregon, specializing in rodeos and owner of Dawstar Video Productions. ronmental Policy Office. horse shows. Nick Ehli ’94 is editor of The Bozeman Kim Ochsner ’98 is a marketing direc- Ann Williamson ’00 is a public infor- Daily Chronicle. tor for United Way of Cascade County. mation officer/webmaster/social media William Heisel ’94 is the director of Matt Ochsner ’98 is an audience analyst manager for the Kansas Department of global engagement at the Institute for for The Great Falls Tribune. Transportation. She had worked as a Health Metrics and Evaluation. Wil- photojournalist at The Topeka Capi- liam says he still writes on the side for Jason Asteros ’99 is a photographer and tal-Journal and nearly two years at The the Center for Health Journalism and video producer at Habitat for Humanity Birmingham Post-Herald. International. HealthNewsReview.org. Andres Bentley ’01 is a graphic design Libi Sundermann ’94 worked for The Kerri Lee O’Farrell ’99 is an executive and journalism high school teacher in Missoulian, then returned to UM for producer for the TV show “Well Read,” Fort Worth, Texas. a history degree. She then worked for which airs nationally on PBS and World Channel. Sam DeWitt ’01 is the director of com- the Japanese Exchange and Teaching munications for the Colorado Health Program before earning a master’s degree Brandi Lynn Wilkinson ’99 is a pro- Care Association. and doctorate from UC-Davis. fessor of English, literature and speech at Fort Peck Community College, and a Ryan Divish ’01 is a Mariners writer Kim Benn-Hilliard ’95 is doing cor- for The Seattle Times. porate affairs work for Husky Energy, a broadcaster at KVCK Radio. Calgary-based oil and gas company.

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Cory Myers ’01 is a “consumer experi- documentarian and photojournalist. She Matthew Friend ‘04 is a news producer ence director” at Argus Leader Media in is currently based in Istanbul, Turkey. for WSOC in Charlotte, North Caro- Sioux Falls, S.D. He says that’s “newfan- Paul N. Queneau ’02 is an editor for lina. gled code for an editor in the newsroom Bugle magazine and served as editor for Shirstie Gaylord ‘04 is the lead promo- with wide-ranging responsibilities.” this publication. tions and marketing photographer for Erik Olson ’01 is a business reporter at Tiffany Aldinger ’03 is the night editor KGTV in San Diego, California. The Billings Gazette. at The Great Falls Tribune. Beth Gorder ‘04 is a news and public Nate Schweber ’01 is a “permalancer” Andrea Barlow ’03 is chief business affairs producer for Montana PBS. for The New York Times, an author and development officer for Vandervert Bryan Haines ’04 is administrator of the a freelancer for a host of other publica- Construction. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana Care tions. He also describes himself as an Van program. “opportunistic troubadour.” Josh Carstens ’03 is the owner and producer of Altitude Films in McHenry, Keagan Harsha ‘04 is a weekend anchor Krystal Spring Steinmetz ’01 is a writer Illinois. and reporter at FOX31 in Denver, CO. for Money Talks News. Ian Costello ’03 is the executive pro- Danielle Hunt ‘04 is a lawyer at Miller Katja Stromnes-Elias MA ’01 is a ducer of the morning show at KOIN Nash Graham and Dunn LLP in Seattle. freelance editor and an independent Portland, Oregon. consultant who works mainly for an Crystal Ligori ‘04 is a host and an- educational consulting company. Courtney Lowery Cowgill ’03 is man- nouncer at Oregon Public Broadcasting aging editor of MediaShift, an adjunct and a producer for the Literary Arts Casey Temple ’01 is a fourth-grade professor at the J-School and farmer and Archive Project. teacher. owner of Prairie Heritage Farm. Marina Mackrow ‘04 is an original Olivia Bucks ’02 is a La Leche League Tara Dowd ’03 works in Spokane, programming producer at TWC Sports Leader and is planning to become a Washington, as a cultural competen- Net LA in Los Angeles. certified consultant to mothers. cy consultant after many years in the Ali Mandell ‘04 is an AVP marketing of- non-profit world. Kash Cashell ’02 is an investigative ficer for Opportunity Bank of Montana. and special projects photojournalist at Kristen Inbody ’03 is a reporter for Kate Medley ’04 is a photographer and WOAI/KABB in San Antonio, Texas. “Montana Mystique” at The Great Falls filmmaker for Whole Foods Market. Trisha Drobeck ’02 is a West Coast and Tribune. Fred Miller ’04 is a postal service clerk. Canada sales representative for Spectrum Lance Johnson ‘03 is a video broadcast He is also working on a series of science Aquatics. journalism teacher at Lee High School in fiction novels. Chad Dundas ’02 Huntsville, Alabama. Phil Stempin ‘04 is the chief sales officer is a lead writer for Pete Nowakowski ’03 is a proposal writ- for ColdAvenger in Missoula. Bleacher Report.com er and content developer at Healthcare and author of a new Service Corp. Dax VanFossen ‘04 is the bureau chief novel, “Champi- for KAJ in Kalispell. Lido Vizzutti Kim Dobitz Oliver on of the World,” ’03 is the director of Stephen Abatiell ’05 is a field seminars published by G.P. network management for First Choice program manager for the Yellowstone Putnam’s Sons. Health Network. Chad Dundas Association in Gardiner. Jenny Schultz ‘03 is the senior project Leilah Langley ’02 manager of audience growth at The Mollie Bond ’05 is the director of foun- is an assistant news director for KREM 2 Seattle Times. dation and corporate relations at Moody News in Spokane, Washington. Global Ministries. Keila Szpaller MA ’03 has been a Peet McKinney ’02 is the director of IT reporter for The Missouliansince 2006. Tyler Christensen ’05 is an opinion at UM School of Journalism and owner Keila also does freelance writing and editor at The Missoulian. of Artichoke Consulting. editing. Chelsea Anne DeWeese ’05 is a natural- Jared Miller ’02 is a lawyer in Seattle. Lido Vizzutti ’03 is a freelance photo- ist with the Yellowstone Association field Kevin Mitchell ’02 is a pilot for the journalist who works for national and institute. She also writes for its magazine Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and international publications. He also works and helps with marketing. Nantucket Steamship Authority. as a digital strategist for clients that Joseph Friedrichs ’05 is a reporter Laura Parvey-Connors ’02 is commu- include the Montana Boy Scouts. and producer at WTIP North Shore nications director for the Montana State Kristen Cates ’04 is the Montana Dem- Community Radio in Grand Marais, Auditor’s Office. She also owns a small ocratic Party’s communications director. Minnesota. business that focuses on graphic design Aaron Flint ‘04 is spokesman for Re- Christine Tutty Johnson ’05 owns the and website development. publican gubernatorial candidate Greg only certified woman-owned logging Holly Pickett ’02 is an independent Gianforte. company in Montana, and she owns a

24 | UM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM business strategy and corporate event Ryan Brennecke ’06 is a staff photogra- Hilltop Public Solutions, a lobbying and planning company. pher for The Bend (Oregon) Bulletin. consulting firm. She is based in Boise, Sheri Johnson ’05 is a registered nurse Anne Pettinger Cantrell MA ’06 is Idaho. for Benefis in Great Falls. assistant director of Montana State Uni- Danny Davis ’07 is a sports reporter at The Austin American-Statesman. Dave Kirkpatrick ’05 is teaching and versity’s News Service. tutoring refugee high school students David Erickson ’06 is a reporter at The Dianne Dotter ’07 is primarily a stay- from Nepal and various African coun- Missoulian. at-home mom, but also does portrait tries. photography. Gabe Ferguson MA ’06 is the chief pho- Lisa Kunkel ’05 is a work-at-home tographer at KHQ-TV in Spokane. Patrick Duganz ’07 is the father engage- mom of three kids and a freelance pho- ment specialist at Gallatin City-County Eva Dunn-Froebig MA ’06 is the events tojournalist for the local newspaper. She Health Department in Bozeman. and outreach coordinator at Adventure also runs Lisa Kunkel Photography. Cycling Association. Heather Hintze ’07 is a photographer Angela Marshall ’05 is a creative con- and reporter at KTVA 11 News, CBS Erin Madison Granger ’06 is a mar- tent manager and anchor for ABC Fox affiliate in Anchorage, Alaska. keting specialist at Great Falls College Montana in Missoula. MSU. Ian Graham ’07 worked in digital Jennifer McKee ’05 is the communica- strategy and digital communications Courtney Hanson ’06 is a portrait and tions manager for the Montana Lottery. for the Department of Defense and for wedding photographer for Carlmark nonprofits (most recently a super PAC Nathan Petersen ’05 is the production Photography in Sacramento, California. supporting the Clinton campaign). He manager for K2 Productions in North Paola Kulsrud ’06 is a project manager just started a skateboard company. Carolina. and scrum master in software develop- Eric Jochim ’07 is a news director for Katherine Sather ’05 is the digital mar- ment at Surge in Bellevue, Washington. KPVI, an NBC affiliate in Pocatello. keting manager for The Nature Conser- Louis Henry Montclair ’06 is a reporter vancy’s North America Marketing team. Chandra Johnson ’07 is a features writ- for the Fort Peck (Montana) Journal. er for The Deseret News National Edition. Eric Schreibeis ’05 is a store team leader Amy Nile The Daily for Target. ’06 is a reporter at Tim Kupsick ’07 is a producer and Herald in Everett, Washington. director for Spectrum Reach. Lee Squires ’05 is vice president of Park Kristin Knight Pace City Ski Valet and owner of Park City ’06 is a wilderness Kerstin Lock ’07 is a news producer for Boat Rentals and Ski Tuning Express in planner for the National Park Service in CBS13 in Sacramento, California. Park City, Utah. Alaska. Kristin is also a professional long distance dog musher. Andrea Lutz ’07 is a news director for Natalie Storey ’05 is a high school En- KTMF/KWYB in Missoula. Scott Poniewaz ’06 is in business de- glish teacher and occasional essay writer Erin Miller ’07 is a chief meteorologist in Livingston. velopment with Hawke Media, a digital marketing company. at KPAX-TV in Missoula. Andrew Weed ’05 is a director of pho- Chelsea Rabideau ’06 is a public rela- Brenna Moore ’07 does public and me- tography for Warm Springs Productions dia relations for Visit Albuquerque. in Missoula. tions coordinator at ISCO Industries in Louisville, Kentucky. Jennifer Reed ’07 is now the copywriter Rajendra Dev Acharya MA ’06 is the and editor for the American Animal director of state television in Nepal. Christina Rust ’06 is the event manager at Montana ExpoPark. Hospital Association (AAHA). Andy Atkins ’06 owns 730 Eddy Christopher Rodkey Aaron Simtob ’06 is a freelance camera ’07 is safety com- Studios, a full-service video and media munications manager for Alaska Airlines. production company in Michigan. operator. Emilie Ritter Saunders Tiffany Toepper-Reppenhagen ’06 is ’07 is a commu- Luella Brien ’06 worked as a communi- nications director for Montana’s superin- an editor for Northstar Travel Media. cation arts instructor at Little Big Horn tendent of public instruction. College for almost five years. Now she’s Cory Walsh ’06 is the arts editor for The Becca Sayre ’07 is a freelance web de- the youth and family services commu- Missoulian. nity outreach coordinator for St. Labre signer and developer. Jacob Baynham ’07 is a freelance jour- Catholic Academy. Keriann Lynch Strickland ’07 is a mar- nalist based in Montana. Rachel Van Blankenship ’06 is a De- keting communications manager for an Eli Bierwag ’07 is a senior colorist for signer III at the Gannett Design Studio education technology company. Warm Springs Productions in Missoula. in Phoenix and was named the Arizona Christa Turski ’07 is a freelance pho- Designer of the Year. Cal Conrad ’07 is a customer relations tographer who covered NASCAR for Carey Proctor Brandenburg ’06 is the supervisor for Portland General Electric seven years. She now owns Christa Leigh digital director for a boutique advertising in Portland, Oregon. Photography. agency in Seattle. Caitlin Copple MA ’07 is a principal at

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Kerry Allen ’08 is an integrated media Cristin Nielsen ’08 is the owner of Niel- Elijah Hermann ’09 is a ranger with the supervisor for Disney Theme Parks & sen Property Management in Butte. National Park Service. Resorts. Kaylee Porter ’08 is copy chief at The Amy Knob ’09 is a counselor at a Anne Bailey MA ’08 is a digital produc- Vail (Colorado) Daily. junior-senior high school in Washington state. er and visual journalist at Public Radio Ashley Rhian ’08 is a freelance photog- International’s “The World.” rapher and the owner of Ashley Rhian Carli Krueger ’09 is a copy editor, Diego L. Bejarano ’08 is a user-expe- Photography. designer, graphic maker and illustrator for The Bend (Oregon) Bulletin. She also rience designer, focused on designing Alex Sakariassen ’08 is a staff writer at does freelance graphic design, primarily digital products. The Missoula’s alternative newsweekly, for romance novelists. Dan Boyce ’08 is a reporter for Inside Independent. Trevon Milliard ’09 is the K-12 educa- Energy in Denver, Colorado. Emma Schmautz ’08 is an interna- tion reporter at The Reno Gazette-Journal Rachel Cook ’08 is the niche con- tional development proposal writer for in Reno, Nevada. tent editor for The Post and Courier in Chemonics International in Washington, Charleston, South Carolina. D.C. Kayla Matzke Newbanks ’09 was a journalism instructor and newspaper ad- Steve Dent ’08 is a multimedia journal- Chris Spencer ’08 is a case manager for viser at a Colorado community college. ist for CBS Green Bay. DirectTV and AT&T. Colter Nuanez ’09 is the founder and Ashleigh Ebert ’08 is the executive pro- Dillon Tabish ’08 is a staff writer at creative director at Skyline Sports, an ducer at KTUU in Anchorage, Alaska. The Flathead Beacon in Kalispell and a online multimedia site covering the Big freelance magazine writer. “Thanks to Sky Conference. Eleena Fikhman ’08 is a manager at many red pens cleaning up my copy in H&M. J-School classes.” Bill Oram ’09 is a Los Angeles Lak- Layne Fisher ’08 is the communica- ers beat writer for The Orange County Ryan Widdekind ’08 is a morning news Register. tions director for the Bozeman Amateur producer at KOMO in Seattle. Hockey Association in Bozeman. Nathan Rott ’09 is a reporter for Murphy Joseph Woodhouse ’08 is a National Public Radio, based in Los Jake Grilley ’08 is a graphic designer at reporter and photographer for Nogales Angeles. Hammer Nutrition. International. Breanna Roy ’09 is a news editor at the Jason Hendrickson ’08 works inside Marnee Banks ’09 is the communica- University of Montana in Missoula. sales for G.S. Long Co. in Yakima, tions director for U.S. Sen Jon Tester, Lauren Russell ’09 is an attorney at a Washington. He recently moved back D-Mont. west from Virginia. mid-size firm in Portland, Oregon. Whitney Bermes ’09 is the cops and Melissa Swalla ’09 works with the Inter- Kimberly Hogberg MA ’08 is a produc- courts reporter for The Bozeman Daily Varsity Christian fellowship in Wyoming er at North by Northwest. Chronicle. and Colorado. Amber Krempel ’08 is a stay-at-home Kelsey Bernius ’09 does content mar- Charlie Thomas ’09 is an executive mom and independent Jamberry Nails keting writing for a digital PR agency. consultant in Helena. producer of the “Erick Erickson Show,” Sean Breslin ’09 is the county initiatives Atlanta’s Evening News, and co-host of Karl Krempel ’08 is a technical editor manager at Philabundance, a food bank the Mark Arum Show on News 95.5 and for the Montana Legislature in Helena. in Philadelphia. AM 750 WSB Radio in Atlanta. Katie Marshall ’08 is the external com- C.M. D’Angelo ’09 works for The Huff- Jordan Treece ’09 is a photojournalist at munications manager for the American ington Post in Honolulu, Hawaii. KOMO4 in Seattle. Red Cross, Midwest Blood Services Amanda Eggert Holly Wulf ’09 is a stay-at-home mom Region. ’09 is a staff writer at Outlaw Partners, publisher of Mountain in Great Falls. Jessica Mayrer ’08 is earning a master’s Outlaw magazine and Explore Big Sky, a Ashley Zuelke ’09 is helping U.S. degree in public administration at the bimonthly newspaper in Big Sky. businesses as a senior adviser at the U.S. University of Montana. Amanda Ferrucci ’09 is a veterinary Department of Commerce. Tess McEnroe ’08 is teaching photogra- technician studying to get her veterinary phy and art at Dunn School, a boarding license. school on California’s central coast. Carmen George ’09 is a features report- 2010s Angela Monroe ’08 is a weekend anchor er and columnist at The Fresno Bee in and senior video journalist for KMIR California. News, Palm Springs. Kelly Hanson ’09 is a franchise produc- Vince Bagby ’10 is the sports director at Christian Murdock ’08 is a photogra- er for NWCN, KING5, KONG TV in KECI in Missoula. pher for the Colorado Springs Gazette. Seattle.

26 | UM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM Charlie Baser ’10 is in her last year of Joe Paisley ’10 is a college hockey and Bess Pallares ’11 is an editorial assistant law school at the University of Chicago Olympics sports writer for The Gazettein for Oni Press in Portland, Oregon. Colorado Springs, Colorado. and will soon join a law firm in Santa Fe. Joe Pavlish ’11 works for a college min- Kimball Lynn Bennion ’10 is the Greta Rybus ’10 is a freelance photog- istry called Cru. assignment editor at KUTV in Salt Lake rapher. Brad Peers ’11 is a former sports broad- City. Rose Stepanek ’10 is a project manager caster and current garage door installer in Jaime Berg ’10 is the 6 p.m. producer for Sport Ngin in Minneapolis. Missoula. for Denver7 News and The Denver Troy Warzocha ’10 is a solutions man- Shaun Rainey ’11 is a sports reporter for Channel. ager for Verizon Wireless in Spokane, ABC FOX Montana. Brenna Braaten ’10 is a copy editor for Washington. Drew Stanley ’11 is a digital communi- The Billings Gazette. Shande Wiest ’10 is a story producer at cations manager at NARAL Pro-Choice Hugh Carey ’10 is a staff photogra- Warm Springs Productions in Missoula. Texas and a freelance video producer. pher for The Wyoming Tribune Eagle in Scott Youngbauer ’10 is a freelance Heidi Williams ’11 is supervising digital Cheyenne. entertainment journalist in Pasadena, producer at The Oregonian. Sarah Cauble ’10 is a freelance graphic California. Beth Beechie ’12 is the marketing and web designer in Livingston. Tyson Alger ’11 is a college sports re- director at Hummel Architects PLLC in Daniel Doherty ’10 is a freelance inter- porter at The Oregonian in Portland. Boise, Idaho. active producer at AKQA in Portland, Steel Brooks ’11 is a photographer at Emily Creasia-Worden ’12 is a refugee Oregon. The Gillette (Wyoming) News Record. resettlement case manager in upstate Ashley Douville (Korslien) ’10 is an an- Casey Chaloupek ’11 is a membership New York. chor and reporter for KGW in Portland, specialist and auto travel counselor with Lt. Victoria Edwards ’12 is a logistics Oregon. AAA MountainWest in Missoula. officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. Carly Flandro ’10 is a high school En- Ben Coulter ’11 is a freelance wildlife Alex Schwier glish teacher and cross country coach. ’12 is working with the photographer and videographer. Peace Corps. Karen Garcia ’10 is a reporter at The Alisia Duganz ’11 is a paralegal at Michael Beall Chilkat Valley News in Haines, Alaska. ’12 is a snow reporter for Goetz, Baldwin and Geddes, a Montana Whitefish Mountain Resort. Mike Gerrity ’10 is an afternoon and law firm that helped bring a lawsuit Jackie Coffin evening web producer for KPAX-TV in against the state of Montana that led to ’12 is an executive produc- Missoula. marriage equality. er for ABC FOX Montana in Missoula. Matt DeBray Katrina Heser ’10 is a partner relations Justin Franz ’11 is a staff writer and ’12 is a photographer for manager at Avitus Group in Billings. cops and courts reporter for The Flathead KRNV in Reno, Nevada. Beacon. Josh Jaeger ’10 is the vice president of Adrienne Diede ’12 is an assistant line operations for Digital Lizard. He lives in Brittany Griffin ’11 is a communica- producer at Warm Springs Productions Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. tions specialist for the Ogden, Utah, City in Missoula. Council. She also works as a teaching Lizzy Duffy ’12 is a digital content Katrina Johnson ’10 is the owner of assistant at the University of Utah. Amplify Film Group. The company does production manager at Sparkloft Media media, film and content marketing in Heidi Groover ’11 is the city hall report- in Portland, Oregon. Portland, Oregon. er for The Stranger, Seattle’s alt-weekly. Jayme Fraser Ford ’12 is a state govern- Allison Maier ’10 is communications Keith Hensley ’11 is a video editor for ment investigative and data reporter for and outreach manager for the Idaho Warm Springs Productions in Missoula. Lee newspapers of Montana. She does freelance photography, graphic design Humane Society. Dan LaDue ’11 is a freelance shooter, and typesetting on the side. Greg McDonald ’10 is a contracting editor and director in New York City. Ali Murray ’12 is a copy editor and page officer for the U.S. Air Force in Great Camillia Lanham ’11 is the editor of designer at The Vail (Colorado) Daily. Falls. SLO New Times in San Luis Obispo, Shane Thomas California. Tara Oster ’12 is a 911 dispatcher in Montana’s Flathead County. McMillan ’10 Greg Lindstrom ’11 is The Flathead Bea- is a freelance con’s photographer, based in Kalispell. Anna Penner-Ray ’12 is a concierge at documentary Katie Mansfield Disney World in Orlando, Florida. photographer and ’11 is a national sales Katie Radford filmmaker. He also director for Launch Digital Marketing ’12 is the owner and op- manages a studio and Dealer Inspire. erator at Art of Observation Photography for photographer A. J. Mazzolini ’11 is a “professional col- in Yucaipa, California. Nan Goldin. Shane McMillan lege football watcher” for The Missoulian.

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Justine Schulerud ’12 is a marketing Dustin Askim ’14 is a program coordi- Mahkia Clark ’15 is a news producer at manager at an investment firm in Denver. nator for the nonprofit group Riding on KPAX-TV in Missoula. Erik C. Anderson ’13 is a sports produc- Insulin. Eric Clements ’15 is an evening reporter er at The Oregonian. Conor Ballantyne ’14 is a production at KPAX in Missoula. Jonathon Ambarian ’13 is a reporter for assistant at the NFL Network in Culver Abbey Dufoe MA ’15 does web produc- KXLH in Helena. City, California. tion and social media at Climate Central Jackson Bolstad Taylor Anderson ’13 works for The Bend ’14 is marketing in Princeton, New Jersey. (Oregon) Bulletin. He is the government communications manager for Black Hills Jesse Flickinger ’15 is a student at the reporter in Salem. Federal Credit Union in Rapid City, University of Montana School of Law. South Dakota. Thom Bridge ’13 is a photo editor and Sydney Gillette ’15 does social media for Allison Bye photographer for Helena’s Independent ’14 is a copy editor and de- Artsy in New York City. signer for The Bend (Oregon) Bulletin. Record. Ryan Groh ’15 is a radio and marketing Hunter D’Antuono Nate Chapman ’13 works for Consumer ’14 is the photo intern with Sub Pop Records in Seattle. editor for Montana’s Livingston Enterprise. Direct Care Network and is a sports and Katheryn Houghton ’15 is a staff writer Alexander Deedy entertainment podcaster in Missoula. ’14 is a freelance jour- at The Daily Inter Lakein Kalispell. Marcus Chebul nalist in Hawaii. ’13 is a news operations Mackenzie McKinney ’15 is a morn- Jenna Heberden manager for Missoula’s KECI-TV. ’14 is a morning report- ing producer at FOX40 in Sacramento, Grady Higgins ’13 is a sports writer at er at ABC Fox Montana. California. Louise Johns Montana’s Great Falls Tribune. ’14 published photographs Paul Nocchi ’15 is a SEO analyst at Brooks Johnson ’13 is a business, ports of Yellowstone National Park in the May Performics in Chicago. 2016 issue of National Geographic. and economy reporter at The Columbian Jeremy Pool ’15 is the Associate Video Seaborn Larson in Vancouver, Washington. ’14 is a business and city Director for the Jacksonville Jaguars in Apoorva Joshi MA ’13 is an indepen- reporter and a page designer at Kalispell’s Jacksonville, Florida. Daily Inter Lake. dent journalist and an environment and Kylie Richter ’15 is the editor of the Ashley C. Mackey science correspondent for Mongabay.com. ’14 is a professional weekly Lake County Leader in Polson. Dillon Kato tennis player. ’13 is the cops and courts Ric Sanchez ’15 is a social media editor Tommy Martino reporter for The Missoulian. ’14 is a staff photogra- at The Washington Post. Candace Rojo Keyes pher for The Missoulian. ’13 is assistant ed- Austin Schempp ’15 works in marketing Allison Molin itor and photographer at Prince George’s ’14 is the 10 p.m. news at a software company in Portland. Sentinel in Seabrook, Maryland. producer at KULR-8 in Billings. Holly Sinnema ’15 is a producer at Billie Loewen Jordon Niedermeier ’13 is director of mar- ’14 is a reporter for KTMF/KWYB in Missoula. keting and communications for Holt The Billings Gazette. Alex Valdez ’15 is a sports reporter for International, a non-profit working to Megan Petersen ’14 is an arts and educa- prevent child abandonment and care for The Mason County Journalin Shelton, tion reporter for Ketchikan (Alaska) Daily Washington. orphaned and homeless children. News. Michael Wright ’15 is an environmental Jessica Murri ’13 is a staff writer at the Kyle Schmauch ’14 is a field representa- reporter at the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Boise Weekly. tive for U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont. –30– Cody Proctor ’13 is a weekend anchor Amy Rose Sisk ’14 is a North Dako- and reporter at KRTV in Great Falls. ta-based reporter for Inside Energy. Aaron Rains ’13 is an SEO and digital Kate Walker MA ’14 is a freelance marketing consultant in Austin, Texas. producer. SEND US YOUR Patrick Record ’13 is a freelance photo- Madelyn Beck ’15 is a reporter for the NEWS UPDATES journalist and photography director in Idaho Mountain Express and Guide in Sun Los Angeles. Valley. Shoot us an email and let your Emily Wendler MA ’13 is an education Tim C. Blodgett ’15 is a photojournalist classmates know what’s up in reporter at KOSU Radio in Oklahoma at KHQ Local News in Spokane, Wash- your world. City. ington. [email protected] Ketti Wilhelm ’13 is a freelance travel Sarah Chaput de Saintonge ’15 is a 406-243-4001 writer. co-deputy director, instructor and social 32 Campus Drive Emily Adamson ’14 is director of media manager for Missoula’s Rocky Don Anderson Hall development for the Humane Society of Mountain School of Photography. Missoula, MT 59812 Western Montana.

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ourteen thousand people made a difference. To be exact, 14,014 future of media—a Media Entrepreneurship Lab (MEL)—where people made gifts to the University of Montana during the last journalism, business, media arts and technology students can come F fiscal year. That’s quite a crowd. Their gifts totaled more than together to create. The world of media platforms is changing daily. $50 million. But what does that mean for the School of Journalism? UM J-School students must be prepared for that world. It means that Sachi can report directly from Berlin on the Syrian UM students need the skills required to report in a very diverse refugee crisis in Germany. It means that Jake can document stories environment. They need a global perspective, a solid understanding that could change the world through photojournalism. It means of other cultures, different ideas, and a historical perspective on that Ken can research ecological issues and publish lengthy features what drives today’s news. That knowledge will make our students in local media. better reporters. The dean envisions a diversity issues program to Each donor’s gift made a difference this year, no matter how help accomplish that. great or small. Combined, those gifts helped enhance UM overall, All-important scholarships help students achieve their dreams. including the School of Journalism programs, faculty and students. Four new scholarships emerged this past year and we anticipate Together we helped achieve important goals. more in the future. Donors honor loved ones, alumni, faculty, and Dean Larry Abramson’s vision is that all journalism students will favorite programs with scholarships awarded at the annual Dean have an international reporting experience before graduation. Two Stone Banquet in the spring. years ago, students reported from India. This year, a group reported Partnerships with our donors make their dreams and ours a from Berlin and next year other students will report from Japan. reality. We extend our deepest thanks to all of the following donors The dean also wants students to have a safe place to invent the to the J-School:

Betsy Cohen Memorial Internship Carol Van Valkenburg Endowed Don Weston & Ron Richards Broadcast Support Fund Scholarship Journalism Scholarship Daniel Gallacher & Cynthia Ford Ben Pollner Robert Lazich

Billings Family Journalism Connie Craney Scholarship Fred Martin Community Scholarship Joseph Sample Scholarship in Journalism Jay Driscoll & Erin Billings Fred & Shirlee Martin Leon & Cherry Billings Cordillera Montana MTN Scholarship Paul & Teresa Billings KXLF Communications, Inc. Great Falls Tribune Scholarship Fund Philip Paschall & M. Elizabeth Gannett Foundation Cox Cordingley Scholarship Great Falls Tribune Nancy Marks Thomas & Lisa Cordingley Donald Nicoll Cordingley Foundation Hearst Fund Gary & Katherine Nygaard William Randolph Hearst Foundation Crown Reporting Graduate Fellowship Blumberg Fund for Investigative Roger & Libby Smith International Reporting Fund Journalism – Berlin Project Suzanne Ives Crown Reporting Fund Albert Borgmann Gary & Hazel Sorensen Evolve Foundation Patricia Borneman Myra Shults Denise Dowling & Christopher Johnson Boatman Family Scholarship Roger & Libby Smith Armand Duwell & Soazig Bihan James & Linda Boatman Christine Edgar Dean Charles E. Hood International Victoria Emmons Bruce M. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Scholarship Mary Fahnestock-Thomas Scholarship Anonymous Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Bob & Jeanna Kennedy Jana Hood Gwen Florio Sage Accounting Molly Galusha & Grant Parker Don Oliver Scholarship Peter Graf Butte Press Club/Rick Foote Memorial John & Joyce Bansch Jana Hood Scholarship Kate Oliver Butte Press Club Continued on next page

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From previous page Judith & Neil Morgan Endowed Robert McGiffert Excellence Award Scholarship Steve Barr & Lexie Verdon International Reporting Fund Judith Morgan Jack & Barbara Cloherty – Berlin Project (cont.) Charles Schwab & Company John Fairhall Eftychia Koehn Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Peggy Kuhr & Thomas Foor Kinney Journalism Scholarship Fred & Carol Van Valkenburg Henriette Lowisch Genell Subak-Sharpe Matthew & Kathleen Whetzel Anne Murphy Shirley Oliver KTMF Kalee Scolatti Memorial Rosetta Rush Kamlowsky Memorial Raymond & Susan Risho Scholarship Scholarship John Saul Anonymous Diana Schutte Dowling Jeremy Sauter & Rebecca Jasmine Thomas E. Ciprari Ann Jackson Mario Schulzke Cowles Montana Media Co. Frank Kamlowsky Eileen Sullivan Aaron & Jessica Flint John Peters Dennis & Julie Swibold Angela Marshall Audrey Stratford John & Susan Talbot Amy Nile Fred & Carol Van Valkenburg School of Journalism Clemens & Lucia Work Lee & Donna Metcalf Scholarship Acantha Publishing, Inc. Lee & Donna Metcalf Charitable Trust Anonymous Jennifer Servo Scholarship Fund Apple Computer Denise Dowling & Christopher Johnson Lucille & McLean Clark Television Sandra Armstad Raymond G. Ekness Scholarship Dean Baker Christa Handford Linda Lynch Stephen & Jane Baldock Richard & Susan Bangs Jerry L. Madden Memorial Scholarship MT Broadcasters Association Joe Durso Carla Beck for Journalistic Ethics Jr. Memorial Scholarship Jaime Berg John & Gale Kuglin Montana Broadcasters Association Armond Duwell & Soazig Bihan Mario & Kristy Madden Victor Bjornberg & Marilyn Richardson Microsoft Corporation Melissa Weaver Memorial Dustin Blanchet Scholarship Geoffrey Pinnock & Gina Boysun Joe Durso, Jr. Memorial Fund Shelly Johnson J. Tucker Brooks Mervin Block William & Cathleen Lynch Dennis & Judi Brown Dennis & Julie Swibold Olympus Larry & Lysandra Bruce Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Krista Porter Kelly Buechler Gary & Donna Williams Samantha Bury Journalism General Scholarship Fund Timothy & M. Byrne Billings Gazette Montana Kaimin Moraine Byrne Associates Pam Boyle Henriette Lowisch Glen & Marilyn Cameron Jeremy Lurgio & Caroline Crittenden Amy Moritz Dennis Carollo Robert & Antonia Dean Edward Pollner Marcus Chebul Raymond G. Ekness Richard & Joan Wohlgenant Paul Christman Thomas & Carolyn Flaherty Jack & Barbara Cloherty Vicki Gale Montana Newspaper Association Ryan Coleman Gannett Foundation Scholarship Scott & Judy Coleman Keith Graham Montana Newspaper Foundation Inc. Teresa Conway Ashley Korslien William & Martha Cook Jonathan Krim Radio/Television Department Mary Ann Cotter Lee Foundation Timothy & M. Byrne Neva Cotter Montana Broadcasters Association Moraine Byrne Associates Mary Cottor Teddy & Marcie Roe William Randolph Hearst Foundation John & Ellen Counihan Nancy Szokan Montana Broadcasters Association Emile Cowdery Fred & Carol Van Valkenburg Adam Creagan Nelson & Jane Weller Richard Brown Stripp Award Sophie Curtis Ruth Johnson Cinda Davis Susan DeVore

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