THE MACHINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA-MISSOULA MONTANAN SPRING 2005 ContentsVOLUME 22 NUMBER 2

PUBLISHER Rita Munzenrider ’83

EDITOR Joan Melcher ’73

STAFF WRITER Paddy MacDonald, M.A. ’81

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS AND EDITORS Holly Fox Betsy Holmquist ’67, M.A. ’83 Kathie Nygaard ’68, M.A. ’87 Cary Shimek Patia Stephens ’00

DESIGNER Jennifer Paul

PHOTOGRAPHER Todd Goodrich ’88

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

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FEATURES

12 The G riz Lost, Not All at Once by Tom Lutey If losing can be fun, this writer is the one to take you on the ride.

20 Tribal Power by Beth Britton Three UM alumnae bring American Indian issues to the forefront in the Montana Legislature.

DEPARTMENTS

02 Letters & Editor's Desk

04 The Oval

10 Student Seen

24 Bookshelf

29 About Alumni

40 Artifacts

14 An Extraordinary Life By Vince Devlin John J. Craighead’s stories of research and life are woven into a tale of environmental greatness.

FRANK CRAIGHEAD TOOK THIS PHOTO OF M S BROTHER JOHN NEARLY SIXTY YEARS AGO. COVER PHOTO BY TODD GOODRICH or's Besk GRIZZLIES IN IDAHO We have lived outside of Montana longer than THE POLICE BLOTTER we care to remember, but the Montanan always t's easy to say that I grew up at UM. I brings our minds back! Thank you for all of Icame here a wet-behind-the-ears eighteen- the interesting articles about the people of year-old from Montana's eastern plains and Montana and UM. We are always proud to tell left an eyebrow-arching twenty-one-year-old everyone here that we are proof that Grizzlies with a journalism job in another state. live in Idaho. Becoming editor of this magazine was a sort Bert and Teresa Cole '80 of coming home. Needless to say, it was dis­ Lewiston, Idaho orienting: same place, so much different. PEACE CORPS CONNECTION One welcome element in my daily working When Kassy Holzheimer told her colleagues A FRIENDLY VOICE life quickly became the Montana Kaimin. I had in UM’s University College that she was head­ I noticed that you are honoring Emma my own memories of working on the Kaimin. So ing for Togo as a Peace Corps volunteer, we Lommasson on the occasion of her ninety- it came as a surprise to me that, although I ;: gave her the usual advice: Get plenty of sleep, third birthday. Emma played a significant role appreciated much of what the student newspa­ eat well, and write to us. [Kassy was featured in my attending UM, although she probably per had to offer in news stories and editorials, in the Winter 2004 Montanan's story, doesn’t realize it. In 1964 I graduated from the section I most enjoyed was the Police Blotter. “Volunteers in Time.”] high school and wanted to study wildlife I've spent many happy hours reading the Kassy had been a peer adviser for a couple management. No one in my family had ever "just-the-facts" reporting of the strange, often of years [with University College] and a attended a university and we weren’t familiar hilarious, and always human happenings on special populations/re-admit adviser in her last with how one was admitted. campus. I won't get into the vaguely illegal or year with us. We knew her as a sharp cookie. We lived in a remote part of Saskatchewan, decidedly tawdry occurrences that find their We also knew the breadth of her compassion north of Glasgow, Montana. We had an old-style way into the paper (still no censoring—thank and her interest in other cultures. crank phone on the wall and my mother was you, J-schooll). Kassy took us at our word and, writing able to have the operator find the University of What I've appreciated is the gestalt more back recently, asked us if we could send a few Montana (MSU then). She finally got through to than the actual occurrences. I can see the things that were desperately needed in her vil­ a woman named Emma. It was Emma who budding journalists' brains working behind lage. She mentioned such basic supplies as patiently explained that if we mailed transcripts each sentence. The five w's—who, what, toilet paper and Kleenex. She also told us down she would see if I met the requirements. I where, when, why. Why, of course, often about the environmental club she had started did, and thanks to the kind and thoughtful being the most difficult if not impossible to at the primary school where she was volun­ efforts of Emma Lommasson, I was able to com­ explain. For instance, one day Public Safety teering. She needed books to help with teach­ plete my degree in 1968. Thanks for your help, responded to a report o f a bicycle chained ing both English and environmental concepts, Emma. I hope you live more than six feet off the ground in a tree. and she needed supplies for the club— lots of another 100 years. My Officers notified a maintenance crew, which supplies. University College decided to make mother is ninety- cut the lock and brought the bike to Public Kassy’s school project in Togo our Christmas two now and still Safety for impound. giving project. remembers Or this one: A person collecting recycling Big cardboard boxes appeared in our talking to you from bins at the Physical Plant found a suspicious department workroom and objects began to on the old crank powder in a bin, Officer Lemcke said. Tests later fill them: toilet paper, tea, incense, markers, phone. showed that the powder was laundry soap. pencils, simple children’s books, even a book Ray Glasrud '68 There's a certain amount of tolerance on a on teaching math. Kassy’s Togo box was Shauanvon, college campus: Officers saw two men tip­ mailed in early December. Saskatchewan, ping over a portable toilet at the Griz home Melanie Hoell, M.A. '97 Canada football game. No one was in it at the time. Director of University College, UM One officer noted, Isomeone will have to Emma Lommasson in 1977 clean it up." The men will be punished according to the Student Conduct Code. And patience: Police said a male trying a key in various vehicles in Lot W was identi­ fied and released. Lemcke said the man had borrowed a car and was uncertain o f which vehicle it was. "He tried doors till he got the right one," Lemcke said. -*-* 2 SPRING 2005 MONTANAN Letters EDITOR'S DESK

FORGIVE US Sometimes a sort of Zen-like acceptance: The last issue of the H iH S H ) Officers found a shopping cart with alcohol Montanan contained in it perched on the bear statue on the Oval. The Montanan welcomes letters to the several errors. There was "The bear gets a lot o f attention," Lemcke a mix up ofpage editor. We ask that letters be signed said. The officers confiscated the alcohol, and numbers on the Contents and include the writer's graduating year the cart was placed at the northeast end of page fo r the story on or years when appropriate, home address, the Lommasson Center so its rightful grocery- Marc Racicot and and phone number or e-mail address. store owner could pick it up. William Kittredge’s Officer Lemcke is a favorite source and— Send them to: essay. Sorry about the possibly because I've never met him—I swear dyslexic number place­ I can see him as Sergeant Friday, grimacing ment. Then a letter Montanan Editor a little as he says, "just the facts, ma'am." writer noted that his 315 Brantly Hall One recent story was broken on the front name was Earl University of Montana page of the Kaimin, but went on to bigger press in the Missoulian. It seems a UM custo­ Christensen, not E d Missoula, MT 59812 Christensen. There’s ju st dian watched a rodent make a valiant no excuse fo r th a t sort o f attempt to enter Craig Hall. Thinking he might Unfortunately, because of space limitations we are not able to include all letters error and we’re even be a dorm resident's pet (unsanctioned at sorrier about that. sent to us. Letters that appear often are edited for length or clarity. UM), the man captured the small animal and Another letter writer, While universities are places of discussion where people of good will do not turned him over to Missoula County Animal Atiyyeh Mahmoud, always agree, letters deemed potentially libelous or that malign a person or Control. He told them he thought it was a chinchilla. They promptly reported the little corrected us when we group will not be published. Opinions expressed in the Montanan do not read his letter to imply guy was just a pack rat and said they'd prob­ necessarily reflect those of The University of Montana. Emma Lommasson ably just turn him loose somewhere. Stories in visitedJordan with ex- the Missoulian brought on a flood of concern. Dean o f Women Girls called in saying that they were con­ Maurine Clow; she did­ vinced the rodent was a degu, like their pets, n’t— he was just passing and would die if left to his own devices. The his regards to Emma. Interested in giving back debate about his species went on for a few Whew. One o f our w rit­ to your alma mater? days, ending when he was adopted. ers weighed in w ith Another story featured a woman and her another correction: in the Become a member of seeing-eye horse. The woman had called story, Volunteers in cam-pus security, complaining that in-line Time, the person quoted skaters in the UC had spooked her horse. The was Kevin Fiori, not story was written in a clear and concise way Kevin Novotny. We did and I learned everything I needed to know. have one more reader e- house o£ The horse was only thirty-six inches tall; the mail in we should know woman was traveling through town; the Marc Racicot played skaters weren't actually skating, but were basketball for the delegates walking by her and her horse; the woman Carroll College had been in and out of the UC several times Fighting Saints, not Join with alumni all over the and had reprimanded her horse earlier in the football. We checked country and assist with event day, resulting in the animal crashing into a that out, and what we planning, student recruitment, window. The reporter ended with, "the horse had there was an error was not injured and the window wasn't bro­ o f omission. Racicot legislative issues and more! ken." The main source for the story: a woman played basketball and working in the coffee stand for The Market football and ran track who had witnessed just about everything. for Carroll. We regret jt* or m ore 1 mu jtiiic«h u v>d»A,t . Journalism often isn't pretty. But it's nice to the errors and promise know UM's students are up to the task. ^ to do better in the 877.UM. ALUMS jk future. - JM Joan Melcher Editor, Montanan M A

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an you guess what tool UM forestry and Griffin says. “Based on carcasses recovered with Cconservation doctoral student Sue Griffin the radio-telemetry and predation events wit­ finds most useful in her award-winning nessed by park visitors, it appears that a single Olympic marmot research project? A stick. coyote was killing a lot of marmots and may Yes, a stick, broken from a dead tree branch. have driven them to extinction in some areas. She places sticks in marmot burrows. When We have reason to believe this coyote is now the marmot pops out of its hole, a DNA sam­ dead, and it will be interesting to see if mar­ ple is left on the stick from the marmot’s fur. mot numbers rebound or if other coyotes move Griffin uses this method—along with radio into the area.” telemetry and field observation— to gather data “I think [Sue Griffin] winning this most on marmot movement in Washington state’s prestigious award should be underscored,” says Olympic National Park. Scott Mills, associate professor of forestry and Her project has earned her one of eight conservation. “She’s very active in educating $78,000 annual Canon Park Science Scholars people about how science affects everyday lives. Program scholarships. Awarded on a com­ She’s done a wonderful job of educating the petitive basis, the scholarship provides selected public, as well as gaining scientific knowledge.” Ph.D. students the funds to conduct research Because understanding movement patterns essential to the conservation of national parks. is important to sustaining the existence of a So far, Griffin has seen very little movement species, Mills hopes that by studying the mar­ from the marmots—less than she expected mots, Griffin will find patterns that could be based on previous research. “We believe this is applied to species activity elsewhere. because the density of marmots is very low, and The Canon is the latest in a string of awards so there is little competition for space, food, Griffin has racked up in her first two years of mates, or other resources—which would research. She was a 2004 recipient of the normally cause young marmots to leave.” $10,000 Budweiser Conservation Scholarship Griffin has discovered something else she and has won a National Science Foundation didn’t expect: a single, voracious predator. “We fellowship. Environmental Protection Agency have seen very high mortality rates among the fellowship, and a National Science Foundation marmots, particularly in one area of the park,” grant. — Paddy MacDonald Sue Griffin with one of her research subjects.

bravo!. AWARDS GALORE

t's that time of year. UM's University Relations team is racking up regional, and national awards. The department hit a sort of Igrand slam with wins in four categories in the Admissions Marketing competition: gold awards for the Montanan, the 2004 President's Report, and Research View and a merit award for the Montanan's voluntary subscription ad. The team returned from the District VIII Council for the Advancement and Support of Education conference in Seattle with seven T awards: a silver for the President's Report, four silvers in writing for Paddy MacDonald, Cary Shimek, Patia Stephens, and Joan Melcher; a bronze for Research View, and a bronze for the cover of Vision magazine. As we went to press, Montanan staff learned the magazine was a finalist in two categories for Maggie awards, given out by the Western Publications Association.

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TALK TO US SMITHSONIAN HONOR

The Montanan staff is always looking for M geology Professor George Stanley lately previously unknown species during the course feedback from our readers. How many of Ufound himself among distinguished of his research and has written and edited six you know about the Montanan Chatroom? company. He was named to a three-year books and published more than 100 scientific Not nearly enough, it would seem. It’s a appointment as a research associate of the writings. discussion board connected to our site. You Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of “I am surprised and elated at this honor,” can log directly on to the Montanan's Web Natural History in Washington, D.C. Stanley says, “and I hope to undertake site, www.themontanan.us, and post The honor is awarded to “scientists of collaborative research with the Smithsonian comments to the site or share thoughts distinction who maintain a scholarly affiliation during the next three years.” with other readers. with the Smithsonian and its research community.” Before coming to UM, Stanley worked from Your posts also could be used as letters An invertebrate paleontologist and inter­ 1979 to 1981 as a paleobiologist at the to the editor in the magazine. Even more nationally recognized expert on modern and Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History. That interesting are the links at the ends of each ancient coral reefs, Stanley joined the UM work was followed by a one-year Fulbright fellow­ story published in the Montanan. After faculty in 1982. He has discovered dozens of ship to Germany. On sabbatical this year, Stanley reading a story, either in print or on the will travel to China, Germany, and Japan to Stanley with part of UM's Paleontology Research conduct research. Web, you can use these links to post your Collection, which has more than 100,000 specimens. comments about the story. Hearing your thoughts about what we’ve done is very helpful to us in determining what sorts of stories to plan for future issues. To further enhance our connection with readers, we will conduct a random national telephone survey this spring—to learn what you like about the magazine, what you could live without, and what sorts of sug­ gestions you have for improving the maga­ zine. We’re looking forward to talking with hundreds of you. The more we hear from you, the better we get. So call, write, and log on. Your opinions count!

The Montanan Chatroom is closer than you think—www.themontanan.us

PHOTOS BY TODD GOODRICH MONTANAN SPRING 2005 5 theOVAL ...... requiem......

PARTING WITH PANTZER

t was the late ’60s, the peak of the Vietnam IWar, and universities across the country were swelling with draft dodgers, protestors, and passion. Students displayed their right toi free speech on a frequent basis— boycotting classes and staging protests on the Oval. It was a challenge for any university president. One—UM’s Robert T. Pantzer—firmly and peaceably led his university through the : tumultuous years with dignity. At a time when there was an outbreak of violence on university campuses, Pantzer sided with students to keep theirs safe. “I think Pantzer was largely responsible for the fact that there extracredit, was no violence here,” says retired UM journalism Professor Bob McGiffert, who taught for twenty-nine years. THINK LOCAL, THINK FRESH Pantzer had a trick, McGiffert says: he he next time you sit down to eat at a UM Growers, Inc., based in Culbertson, supplies made it clear that he thought students had a Tdining venue, think local, think fresh. In safflower oil to UM. He says he is very satisfied right to express their opinions. “He was the past two years. University Dining Services with the Farm to College program and encour­ particularly understanding of the war protest has gone as local as possible with its food ages more use of it. It gives more than 250 position,” he says. UM history Professor budget and it’s because of the Farm to College farmers in Montola Growers encouragement, he Harry Fritz agrees. The late ’60s to early 70s program. Before the program’s inception in says. Personally, he says he feels pleased that his were the toughest times to be a university May 2003, dining services spent its $2 million kids who are at UM are receiving a better qual­ president, he says. There was booming budget in states all over the country. Now ity of food. Instead of buying what is cheaper, enrollment among students and a sticky war. Montana and other Northwest states are get­ he says he respects University Dining Services “He guided the ship and took students ting a much bigger piece of the pie— $425,000 for buying what is healthier. seriously,” Fritz says. this year. The people who created the Farm to College In 1971, when Cambodia was invaded, The program’s purpose is twofold: to supply program wanted to respond to the growing student organizers called a strike. Pantzer fresher products that do not have to undergo expectations of customers regarding the origins took to the Oval to discuss the strike with large amounts of processing and added preserv­ of the food they eat. Will Tusick, office manag­ students. During his message, atives and to support Montana producers. The er at Montana Natural Beef in Ronan and a he read aloud the program now offers food from thirty-five participant in the program, thinks its success t telegram he had sent Montana vendors. has to do with people realizing they “need to |La to President Nixon. Mark LoParco, director of UDS, says the take responsibility for where their food is com­ The telegram took greatest success of the program so far is “the ing from.” The program also “helps to focus the position of relationships and commitments we have with the state’s attention on the fact that the i many the vendors.” He says he likes how the program University is a business,” LoParco says. He says I students at the supports the community, giving it a sustainable it helps people make the connection that the | time and dispar- revenue. University has to maintain business f aged the war. He Mark Wehri, general manager for Western relationships just like any other business. sympathized with Montana Growers’ Co-op in Arlee, which sup­ Personally, LoParco says, what’s been the students’ griev­ plies various fruits and vegetables to UM, most rewarding for him is “getting out to the ances and addressed agrees. He says sales to the Farm to College places where people are doing this (farming them, Fritz says. program account for ten percent of the co-op’s and ranching). It feels good to be helping peo­ 'His steady hand sales this year and next year he expects it to be ple who work hard and have had to diversify and remarkable courage around twenty percent of their business. their revenue streams to keep their way of life.” during some very trying times kept the Neil Trunbull, general manager of Montola — Brianne Burrowes University on course and also assured stu-

6 SPRING 2005 MONTANAN UPPERIEFT PHOTOS COURTESY O f THE FARM TO COUEGE PROGRAM ...... discovery. WAY OUT THERE dents of the environment in which to study , and learn,” says UM President George ne UM scientist is way out there Dennison. OIn space, that is. Dan I But Pantzer, who died last fall, is remem- Reisenfeld, an assistant professor j bered for more than his peacekeeping ways. of physics and astronomy, is | He had what Fritz described as a “normal” helping NASA design a i academic background. He didn’t come out of research satellite to map the the cookie-cutter college president mold. He region in space called the graduated from UM’s School of Business termination shock. It's about Administration before serving several years in 100 times farther from the Sun the Second World War. In combat he earned than Earth—where the solar a Purple Heart and Bronze Star. After the war wind slows down and merges with Pantzer returned to UM to pursue a degree in interstellar space. law. He was a lawyer for half a decade before "There is a boundary between our j again returning to UM, this time to become a neighborhood and the rest of the universe, j professor in the business school. He was and we want to understand that boundary," ! named acting president at the University Reisenfeld says. "It's where the influence of the design IBEX-Hi, an instrument that uses a large- j before being named the twelfth president of Sun ends and the true void of space begins." aperture camera to detect high-energy particles UM, serving from 1966 to 1974. NASA recently approved funding for the coming from the edge of the solar system. Fritz says he believes another reason Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), with a Reisenfeld is developing a lab at UM to Pantzer had such an effective presidency was price tag of about $ 134 million; the satellite is assist with design of the IBEX-Hi instrument. j because of the people who served under him. scheduled to launch in 2008. "Hopefully, I will be able to involve our | Namely, Fritz says, Richard Landini, who Reisenfeld was part of a bur-member team at undergraduate students and do some of the j served as UM Academic Vice President under Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico foil research here," he says. "I think we can Pantzer. He stayed one year after Pantzer left and Southwest Research Institute in Texas that investigate certain aspects of the design in and then took a job as President of Indiana designed a prototype for one of two instruments great detail here, and the engineering will State University. Landini and Pantzer died that will fly aboard IBEX. The new team will happen at Los Alamos." within one week of each other last October. — Brianne Burrowes

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his painting by Jim Denomie titled Manifold Destiny is part of a Tshow that will have an April 26-June 26 run at UM's Montana Museum of Art and Culture and then travel nationally through November 2007 to a number of signature events planned along the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial trail. Contemporary Native American Art—Reflections After Lewis & Clark presents the views of Native American artists on the expedition. The exhibition includes artworks by nationally and internationally recognized artists, including Jane Ash Poitras (Collections: Brooklyn Museum, National Gallery, Ottawa), Joane Cardinal Schubert (Canadian Museum of Civilization, National Gallery of Canada), Corwin Clairmont (Collections: Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis), and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Collections: Museum of Modern Art, New York).

TOP **HOTO COURTESY OF THE IBEX PROJECT, BOTTOM PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MONTANA MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURE. MONTANAN SPRING 2005 7 theOVAL ...... grizgreat

ATTA BEAR! ranked the videos on fan interaction, sports­ hat intrepid bear did it again. UM’s mas­ manship, and community service. The judges’ Tcot, Monte, was named the Capital One vote counted for 50 percent in the final rank­ Mascot of the Year in January. Monte also won ings and 50 percent came from online voting. the title in 2003. After a slow start, the UM bear surged in Last summer the bear was one of twelve the polls, placing third in the online portion of critters from I-A and I-AA football programs the contest. “During the final weeks, Monte around the country named to the Capital One clawed ahead from eleventh to third place in All-American Team. Contestants submitted a the popular online voting,” says Pam Girardo video of their antics, and a panel of judges at Capital One. “That, combined with the ...... bravo!...... 1 judges’ ranking, propelled Monte to the highest perch in the mascot world. Atta STAGE NOTES bear!” Monte’s video highlights came from ark your calendar for UM drama/dance the 2003-04 athletic season. The man M events, whether you live in Missoula or who wore the suit during that time was not. The Montana Rep Theatre is currently Barry Anderson, the UM graduate from touring its 2005 production. Steel Magnolias, Terry who has gone pro as Benny, the and may be coming to a stage near you. mascot for the Chicago Bulls. Check out www.montanarep.org for-the Anderson reports that he watched all itinerary or call (406) 243-6809 for the Griz football games on the Internet information. last fall and that he’s pleased with what Evita, a production of the UM his successors have done with Monte. drama/dance department, opens April 5 in “I wouldn’t want to follow those the Montana Theatre and runs through the guys,” he says. “They’ve done some 9th and again April 12-16. For tickets and incredibly good work.” information, go to www.umtheatredance.org Anderson says one of the best parts or call (406) 243-4581. of winning the mascot championship Other productions this spring include: this time around was beating James Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight, April Madison University’s Duke Dog, who 20; Trumpet Spectacular featuring Doc finished first in online voting. "It was Severinsen and Allen Vizzutti with the nice to take down Duke Dog,” he says. Missoula Symphony Orchestra, April 24; the “At least we beat them in something.” Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival, April 29-30; [In case you don’t live on this planet, Grease, May 1; and the Spring Dance JMU beat UM in the I-AA champion­ Concert, May 4-7. The box office number for ship game this year. See story on page the Masquer and Montana Theatres is (406) 12.] 243-4581.

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M ONTANA TEACHER OF 2 0 0 4 A sort of institution himself, Fritz has and historical societies taught history at UM for nearly four decades across Montana. any people know him as Abraham and was nominated for the honor by UM An internationally M Lincoln. Indeed, when he dresses the part, President George Dennison. He is the fifth recognized expert on he’s history come to life. But Harry Fritz is consecutive UM professor to win the award. the Corps of much more than a symbol of the past. He’s the Fritz has won every UM teaching excellence Discovery, Fritz’s 2004 Montana Professor of the Year, named by award given by administration and students— book. The Lewis and two national organizations that promote teach­ some of them twice. Clark Expedition, was ing excellence: The Carnegie Foundation for Tall, lean, and Lincolnesque, the professor published earlier this the Advancement of Teaching and the Council takes his impression of the U.S. president on year by Greenwood for Advancement and Support of Education. the road each year, visiting schools, libraries. Press.

8 SPRING 2005 MONTANAN TOP PHOTO BY TERRY J. CYR; LEFT AND BOTTOM PHOTOS BY TOOD GOODRICH The President's Corner

...... griz greats...... everal recent studies conclude that intercollegiate athletics detract from rather than add to the sponsoring institutions' efforts to fulfill SPORTING NEWS Stheir missions in education. According to these studies, the athletics everal former Griz have distinguished programs—at all divisional levels—involve relatively small numbers of the Sthemselves on the field and court lately. enrolled students, focus more on entertainment than education, impose great Scott McGowan became the first pressures on the coaches and athletes to win rather than compete fairly, Montanan to break the four-minute mile in and drain resources from other academic uses. January. A former All- Moreover, the analytical studies find very little correlation between successful—meaning win­ American for the Griz ning—athletics programs and private giving to the sponsoring colleges and universities. Among track team, McGowan the so-called "elite" conferences, the "arms race" for enhanced facilities and amenities has result­ clocked in at 3 minutes, ed in escalating costs with no end in sight. In response, NCAA President Miles Brand has called 58.91 seconds during the for discussions to end the cost spiral and restore academic legitimacy and rationality to athletics. Reebok Indoor Games in One article in this issue of the Montanan focuses on the success of the Grizzly football Boston. The Poplar native team and the experience of one member of our alumni who traveled to Chattanooga to finished seventh in a race watch the championship game. Those who attended the playoff games in Missoula that led to loaded with elite runners. the grand finale had the chance to observe the great outpouring of support for the Griz. Robin Selvig, UM's During my years as President of the University, I have appreciated the strong and solid sup­ Lady Griz basketball port provided by alumni and friends of the University for the Griz athletics programs. coach of twenty-seven years, Moreover, I believe we can demonstrate that we have not succumbed to the "arms race" syn­ continues to distinguish himself. Street & drome, but have maintained a reasonable institutional posture concerning athletics. Smith's magazine, the bible of college hoops, We seek to make certain that the support for the athletics programs remains consonant recently named UM seventh on its list of all- with support for all programs at the University. As one benchmark, we peg the athletics budg­ time best women's basketball programs. UM et at roughly five percent of the total institutional budget, thereby allowing athletics to grow and Selvig earned the rank­ as the University grows. The second benchmark focuses on assuring that no more than five ing by winning twenty or percent of the general funds in the education and general budget—the portion of the total more games in twenty-four University budget devoted to the instruction and student service programs—goes to athletics. of the last twenty-six sea­ These benchmarks have served us well, as demonstrated by the remarkable success of the sons. Montana's sixteen programs. They also have enabled us to benefit from the willingness of Griz fans and sup­ regular-season conference porters to contribute generously to the support of athletics and academics. I believe strongly championships and fifteen that we have done well and will continue to benefit if we adhere to this principled approach. conference tournament titles rank second in the nation, trailing only Old Dominion. In addition, Selvig's 614-179 record George Dennison '62, M.A. '63 ranks him sixth among active head coaches President for winning percentage and tenth in victories. Trey Young, a standout safety for the Griz football team from 1999 to 2002, has landed ...... extracredit...... a two-year contract with the Calgary DENNISON NAMED TO NATIONAL BOARD Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. He will report for training camp in May; the CFL season kicks off in M President George Dennison received the position. Aside from numerous years in June. Usome exciting news in late December. He higher education, he has maintained a strong Young was MVP of the learned he’d been nominated by President interest in public diplomacy and international Big Sky Conference and George W. Bush for a four-year position on the education and has spent a considerable amount Griz Defensive Player of National Security Education Board. of time in other countries forging student the Year in 2002. He also The board was established in 1991 by for­ exchange opportunities. was an essential compo­ mer President Bill Clinton to educate U.S. The appointment must be confirmed by the nent of the 2001 national citizens about foreign cultures, strengthen U.S. U.S. Senate and Dennison says he believes its championship team. economic competition, and enhance interna­ members will act soon on the matter. tional security. Dennison is well qualified for

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Nicki Poer, M.F.A.'06

Nicki, an Illinois native with a bachelor's degree from Milliken University, first came to know about Missoula and UM through the Missoula Children's Theatre. She toured with the productions of The Wiz o f the West and Treasure Island from 1999 to 2001. That's when she met her husband. Brad, a UM graduate student in directing. Nicki plays the title role in E vita, produced by UM's drama/dance department. It opens April 5 at the Montana Theatre.

Why are you at UM? To study theatre in a place like no other on Earth.

What book would you take with you into your "next life?" S ta rg irl by Jerry Spinelli.

What is your favorite spot on campus? On stage in the Montana Theatre when it is empty. It is a powerful place.

What's the best advice you ever got? Fall flat on your face at least twice a day. Keith Hitchcock, the director of E vita , told one of our classes that at the beginning of the year. If everything is perfect, what is there to learn?

What interests you outside of the classroom? Knitting. Friends. Family. Wine. Music. Exercise. Not necessarily in that order!

What is your favorite bumper sticker? America needs an oil change.

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MONTANAN SPRING 2005 11 THE GRIZ LOST A die-hard fan tells the story.

BY TOM LUTEY JMU coach Mickey Matthews would later liken football on the loose field to “playing basketball in your socks." And Montana’s hopes of a third national championship in ten hey washed up in the parking lot years quickly slipped away. JM U’s offense of Montana’s national champi­ adjusted by running the football straight aheac onship football game like charac­ and any Griz in the Dukes’ path were driven ters from the Odyssey, eight men back as if they wore rollerskates. JMU won Tsailing across the Great American Desert31-21. in Duke fans headed to the bar. Griz a Jamboree motor home. faithful went hunting for all-night restaurants. They’d sacked Denver along the way, col­ Championship games are never a sure bet. lapsed in Kansas City, and lost all desire to go Deep down inside, all football fans know losses home somewhere between the sour mash capital are possible even when their team is 12-2 and of Lynchburg, Tennessee, and the host city of the struggling to become the only program in the championship game, Chattanooga. “It was a long country to end its season on a good note. But drive,” Jeff Hollenback shouted. “Thirty-five fans scrub the trauma of losing from their hours and seven states. We stopped in Denver brains as if erasing the pain of childbirth. just long enough to pick up my brother.” Lose? we say. How could we lose? We see a He was waiting for the matchup between bright light at the end of the tunnel and never the Montana Grizzlies and the James Madison consider that it could be a train, that our Dukes, while his crew—Shawn, Ed and Ron wings of feathers and wax aren’t fit for stadium Hollenback, Farley Frame, Moe Johnson, Jared lighting, that exit polling right outside Wierson, and Doug Chadwick—adjusted to Washington-Grizzly Stadium is less than solid ground. Behind them, six alluring sirens reliable. Our non-fanatical coworkers quiz our danced the cotton-eyed Joe in cowboy hats decision to fly clear across the country for a crafted from empty twelve-pack boxes. It was football game as if we’ve rashly invested our ten minutes to game time, ten minutes before 401(k)s in Powerball tickets. the Grizzlies’ storybook season hit the rocks. Oh, how we have been down this road before. No one saw it coming. We were lost in the In 1996, with hopes of back-to-back national lyrics of “Up with Montana Boys.” titles, we chanted for a rematch with Marshall The Griz lost, not all at once. On the University from the sidelines as our team game’s opening drive Montana marched down throttled Troy State 70-7. We’d never heard of the field and scored. Speedy wide receivers Randy “The Freak” Moss, a future NFL Pro Jefferson Heidelberger and Levander Segars Bowl receiver and Heisman Trophy candidate picked up eighty yards off broken tackles, who made our Montana boys look like bush- doing the unthinkable against a James leaguers in a 49-20 defeat in the big game. Madison defense that hadn’t allowed a first In 2000, we sang “Chattanooga Choo quarter score all year. But all planes fly before Choo” with then-coach Joe Glenn, only to find they crash and soon it was obvious something out we’d been tied to the tracks of Georgia wasn’t right. The grass was being ripped up Southern’s Adrian “The A Train” Peterson. It like Marv Albert’s hair. Big clumps of torn was a 27-25 loss that really wasn’t as close as turf were revealing bald ground, which had the score suggests. been sodded in preparation for the game to Memo to fans: If you know nothing about a Griz fan Jim Joyner make the field look better on television. team, their colors, their mascot, where they’re

12 SPRING 2005 MONTANAN PHOTOS BY TODD GOODRICH NOT ALL AT ONCE

from, but know their best player’s name begins the Dukes, though, was James Madison’s string with “The,” stay home. of road victories in the playoffs. Their winning It’s hard to stay home, though, when the scores weren’t great, but every JMU playoff stars seem to be aligning for your team and victory came on the road, while Montana even for you. They seemed to be aligning for played at home— in what, earlier in the year, Griz fan Jim Joyner, who spent hours having Sports Illustrated ranked as the twenty-fifth best his entire head painted before each Griz game. college football atmosphere in America, Joyner’s prospects of getting to Chattanooga mentioned in the same breath as legendary weren’t good. But the football gods intervened programs like Penn State and Michigan. just days before kickoff. EA Sports, a video The Dukes were the first team in I-AA his­ game giant with a penchant for college foot­ tory to make it to the national championship ball, awarded Joyner Best Game Face, a prize without a single home playoff game. No other that came with $1,000 cash. It was just enough team had come close to that feat. In fact 70 to get him and his head-painting brother, Tim, percent of all playoff road teams lose. It was plane tickets to the big game. easy to pass the Dukes off as lucky. UM’s side “I was thinking about renting a Suburban of the playoff bracket contained six of the top and driving to Chattanooga,” Joyner said. eight teams in the country. The Dukes’ side Outside the stadium, he was decked out in looked much easier. chains and skulls, a torn Griz jersey and a silver After the game, a throng of parents waited head. Complete strangers were posing for pic­ outside the Griz locker room for their sons to tures with the silver-faced giant. emerge. There were real players with real Was it destiny? Well, do lemmings run into injuries walking back onto the torn up grass. the sea? Joyner knew the answer. So did Rich Everyone bore the blue bruise of destiny’s sting. Borden, who crafted an ESPN sign recognizing There were James Madison fans still on the the boys in Scott’s garage on Prairie Schooner field stuffing clumps of shredded victory grass Road in suburban Missoula. into their pockets.

THE GRASS WAS BEING RIPPED UP LIKE MARV ALBERT'S HAIR.

Borden and the neighbors gather at Scott’s Down the street Griz fans wandered into a every Sunday to drink beer and watch football city with no real team in the championship on a small color television. He battled fog and game for whom to cheer. They were caught in a flight delays just to get to the game. The trip strange place grieving a loss no one around took twenty hours, but he was the only mem­ them seemed to care much about, a feeling not ber of the Sunday crew to make it. That’s either unlike losing your parents in a strange mall. It destiny or the consequences of going against would be several sobering miles before they predetermination. The Dukes were just lucky. found someone who did care. But one person’s lucky team is always another’s team of destiny. The Dukes didn’t seem special, though sometimes when you’re Tom Lutey is a 1995 graduate of UM's in Big Sky Country it’s hard to consider all the School o fJournalism and an award- stars. JMU’s football wasn’t flashy. Its season winning writer for the Montanan. In record was identical to Montana’s. The Griz between G rizzly football games, he were rolling over opponents in Missoula. writes for the Spokesman-Review in One huge difference between the Griz and Spokane, Washington. Griz linebacker Nick Vella

MONTANAN SPRING 2005 13 14 SPRING 2005 MONTANAN LEFT PHOTO BY S. GEBHARDS; OTHER PHOTOS BY FRANK CRAIGHEAD BY VINCE DEVLIN J^ T T lg d l started in the 1930s down prey as large as a cottontail rabbit. “A cottontail is with two teenage boys and a quite large for a female Cooper’s hawk,” Craighead says. hawk named Comet. “Normally a female Cooper’s hawk wouldn’t kill prey that The father of the boys— twin brothers—took them on large, and to fly a trained one at a cottontail rabbit was long hikes every weekend along the Potomac River, quite a struggle.” pointing out various species of plants and birds. As John and brother Frank tamed, trained and bonded The twins had already talked their father into letting with Comet, they kept a diary of their project and took them take a barred owl home, which fueled an interest photographs. Then one day, the teenagers marched into the in falconry. “The sport of kings,” says John Craighead, offices o f N ational Geographic magazine and asked to see the one of the twins. “We learned the American Cooper’s chairman. We have written a story about our adventures hawk had never been tamed or trained.” So they found with hawks, they told a secretary. And we have pictures. one and did so. The chairman, himself a twin, was curious about the two “It takes quite a bit of time manning (taming) them and boys down in the magazine’s lobby. He invited them up to introducing them to the prey that you want to fly them at,” his office. Craighead says. “It’s natural for birds of prey to kill—-in After hearing them out he bought their stories and fact, they have to kill every day to survive—and falconry is pictures, and the careers of two of America's foremost simply channeling the bird’s killing instinct.” wildlife biologists and internationally known grizzly bear Comet was an extremely aggressive female, able to take researchers were born.

WILDLIFE, INCLUDING H U M AN BEINGS.

MONTANAN SPRING 2005 15 ‘The grizzly was not protected and we were able to get it classified as a threatened species. Practically nothing was known about it ... . It was obvious if we were going to save the grizzly we had to know a lot more about its biology.”

AN ENDOWED CHAIR because two $500,000 challenge grants wait in the wings. The first Today UM—John J. Craighead’s academic home for a quarter century— kicks in when $1.5 million has been raised, which will automatically is $470,000 away from being able to establish the John J. Craighead trigger the second, which takes effect when the $2 million mark is hit. Chair in Wildlife Biology. The UM Foundation and the University have until June 30th to get “With this, we can go after a big name to jump-start the research he it done. conducted,” says Daniel Pletscher, professor and director of the wildlife biology program. Pletscher points to another chair at UM endowed by the Boone & Crockett Club for a professor of wildlife conservation, cur­ GRIZZLIES AND YELLOWSTONE rently held by Jack Ward Thomas, former chief of the U.S. Forest Most Americans know the Craigheads for their pioneering research on Service. “That’s the kind of person we can attract,” he says. “John grizzlies in Yellowstone National Park from 1959 to 1971. A series of Craighead was an incredible pioneer in his field. It’s a name everybody N ational Geographic television specials took their science into the living recognizes and respects.” rooms of millions of ordinary people. Craighead headed the Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit "The grizzly was not protected and we were able to get it classified as during his twenty-five-year association with the University. The a threatened species,” John Craighead says. “Practically nothing was endowed chair requires a total of $2.5 million and UM has collected just known about it, its life history, and even less about grizzly populations. over $ 1 million of that, according to John Scibek, director of planned It was obvious if we were going to save the grizzly we had to know a lot giving at the UM Foundation. Major contributors include the Gordon more about its biology. At what age are females able to reproduce? How and Betty Moore Foundation, the M.J. Murdock Trust, WSB many young did they have in a litter? How long were the cubs kept Partnership, the R.K. Mellon Foundation, Bonnie Snavely, and an before they weaned them? What was the mortality rate of the young, anonymous donor. and what caused the mortality? The school needs additional donations to make the chair a reality “It was obvious the grizzly needed a lot of wilderness habitat. So to

16 SPRING 2 0 0 5 MONTANAN l£FT PHOTO BY FRANK CRAIGHEAD, RIGHT PHOTO BY KAREN HAYNAM The Craigheads worked out a system of determining bears’ ages by sectioning a pre-molar, an important part of their studies. “This enabled us to determine the age when females first bred and over time also told us how long females continued to reproduce,” he says. “One of the most interesting things was the grizzly had always been considered a loner, but we found they were social animals. When they aggregated to feed they established a social hierarchy with an alpha male at the top, and then subordinate males and females. It was interesting that the alpha male didn’t monopolize the breeding. He spent more time defending his status in the hierarchy. The other large males did most of the breeding.” As the Craigheads learned more about the grizzly, so did the nation. The popular N ational Geographic television specials deftly combined science with a sense of adventure. The research was a family affair, and both twins brought their wives and children to Yellowstone, where TV cameras followed them at work and the children at play. Reminded of a scene where the Craighead children were shown swinging out over a cliff on a rope and plunging into a pool of water far below at Upper Falls, Craighead can’t help but laugh. “We caught hell for doing that from the (park) superintendent,” he recalls. “He thought that was a pretty bad place to put a rope.” It wasn’t the only time the twins knocked heads with park honchos. When Yellowstone officials decided to close the dumps where grizzlies John releases a grizzly on gathered each spring to feed, the Craigheads warned that the dumps had “Every single day at left; on the right he looks at become part of the bears’ ecosystem. They said the dumps should be a satellite-generated map phased out. They cautioned that the bears, coming out of hibernation, dawn, we would get that shows natural plant would likely look for food elsewhere. That would probably take them communities. The Craigheads closer to places occupied by humans and could result in danger to up and fly the hawks were pioneers in the use of tourists and the possible need to euthanize the bears. The controversy imagery of this kind in their that followed ended the Craigheads’ Yellowstone research. research. Above, John and “And,” notes Pletscher, “they were eventually proven right.” and falcons.” Frank with the prince.

AN INDIAN PRINCE protect the grizzly, we had to protect wilderness and increase designated The letter arrived from India, from Prince Dharmakumarsinhji. The areas classified as wilderness.” prince, a falconer himself, had read John and Frank Craighead’s article Learning what the bears ate was important and could only be about hawks in N ational Geographic. The twins wrote him back, starting accomplished by observation and analyzing feces. “My brother and I hit a correspondence that eventually led to a trip to America by the on the idea of placing a radio collar on them so we could locate and prince—and an invitation to India for the young Craigheads. observe them whenever we wanted to, instead of relying on chance, “He was extremely intelligent and well-educated,” John Craighead Craighead says. “This radio tracking was so successful that within a few says. “He was especially interested in co-education. In those times, years on all kinds of animals all over the world, scientists were placing Indian women, they didn’t even bother educating them.” radios on them. It made a tremendous difference. It probably increased The Craigheads took the prince— they called him “Bapa”—to several the observation, I’d have to guess, by at least fifty-fold. There was just universities back East, and also on a weekend trip on the Potomac. “My no comparison to how much you could learn when you had the radio. sister and her friends came along, and Bapa was amazed at what It was all ground-breaking science. The brothers had to develop American young women could do,” Craighead says. “They could swim methods to immobilize the bears in order to attach the tracking devices the rapids, paddle canoes, do most things the men did.” and ways to gauge their ages to aid their research. In 1940 the Craigheads traveled to India. "He put us up like “We tested a lot of things and finally got several that worked well royalty,” Craighead says. “Every single day at dawn we would get up and were safe,” Craighead remembers. “It would have been easy to kill a and go fly the hawks and falcons, or trap some. We’d hunt with the bear by giving it too heavy a dose. We had to approach it slowly and birds all morning, return for an afternoon siesta, then go out again until carefully and relate the dosage to the weight of the animal. At first that dusk. When we weren’t flying the falcons we’d hunt. Quail, partridges, meant capturing them, but in time we could judge the weight pretty antelope, wild boar.” accurately. That meant we could just shoot them with the propulsive The Craigheads adopted the dress of their hosts, turbans and all. dart, which negated the need to trap them.” Their India adventure included a trip across the country to attend the

MONTANAN SPRING 2005 17 three-day-long wedding of the prince’s brother and hunting trips where Conservation Society wrote in a profile of the brothers in 1996. cheetahs— trained the same way falcons were— took down black buck “Much more than most people, the Craigheads were able to bring antelope. “The cheetahs learned they’d be fed, so they’d make a kill and their science to the people,” said Jack Hogg, director of the Craighead allow the handlers to move in,” Craighead says. “You put a hood on it Wildlife-Wildlands Institute, in 100 Montanans, a book about the state’s right away, cut off a leg to give to the cheetah, and take the rest back to most influential people of the twentieth century, published by the the palace to eat.” Missoulian in 2000. “They made sure that people knew what they were The prince and his brother had a dozen falcons apiece and a dozen doing and how it was relevant to the management of our public lands.” men each to handle them all. They engaged in competitions to see who One of the Craigheads’ proudest accomplishments was the passage of could train and fly the most successful birds. It was impossible to keep the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. The brothers loaded their the birds over India’s hot summers, and so the birds were turned loose, families in kayaks and canoes and tackled the mightiest rivers of the and new batches trapped in the fall. “We’d get a bird and keep it for West. Their writings became much of the text of the act, and the years, but they had to get new birds and train them every year,” documentary crews that followed them helped convince Americans of Craighead says. the need for the legislation. The extended trip to India led to one of the several books John and “We had this director, he was slow at doing anything,” Craighead Frank would author or co-author over the years: Life with an Indian says. “He said he’d never really been outdoors before. He kept telling us, Prince. ‘You’ve got to give me time to get a feel for the river.’ So we put him in an Avon raft, looped line around the cleats on the raft, and told him to BRINGING SCIENCE TO THE PEOPLE hold on tight. Then we took him over Salmon Falls [on the Salmon Over the years the titles would become more scholarly—John, for River in Idaho]. When the raft buckled, as it does, he went in. He got instance, published “A Definitive System for Analysis of Grizzly Bear his feel for the river.” Habitat and Other Wilderness Resources Utilizing LANDSAT It was a time, Craighead says, when the Army Corps of Engineers Multispectral Imagery and Computer Technology" in 1982— but the surveyed every river for dam sites. “They wanted to put dams Every­ Craigheads never left the layman behind. “The positive influence of the where,” he says. The National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act stopped that. Craigheads on public understanding and appreciation of wildlife and Despite decades of research into dozens of subjects and their groundbreaking wildlife research has been incalculable,” John Weaver of the Wildlife grizzly bear studies, Craighead makes no bones about it. “The best thing

;Vr- ' ’ : To learn how you can help theJohn J. Craighead Chair in Wildlife Biology become a reality, contact: Frank and I did for conservation," he says, “was the Dan Pletscher, director of the Wildlife all of them carry on the family’s association with Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.” Biology Program, University of nature in one form or another. Craighead chil­ Frank died in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in Montana, Missoula, Montana 59812; dren are involved in the research of everything 2001 at the age of eighty-five. (406) 243-6364; dan.pletscher@ from polar bears to freshwater mussels. John W., umontana.edu who studies the latter, is also helping his father or with his archives. LIFE WITH ANTONIO John Scibek, director of planned giving, But the Craigheads’ biggest accomplishment He stood somewhere between three and four feet University of Montana Foundation, P.O. may have been the hundreds of students they tall. John Craighead, a small man himself, tow­ Box 7159, Missoula, Montana, 59807- inspired over the years. Chris Servheen, who ered over the man. “He was all sinuses and scars, 7159; 1- (800) 443-2593 or (406) 243- oversees grizzly recovery for the U.S. Fish and and about as alone as a man could be,” 6274; [email protected]. Wildlife Service, remembers watching the Craighead says. N ational Geographic television specials as a youth. He met Antonio on Palawan, one of the “From that point on, I wanted to do what I do 7,000 islands that make up the Philippine archipelago. In the Navy and today,” he says. “I know so many people who have the same story I have. assigned to write a survival guide for naval aviators, Craighead traveled They got into conservation because of what the Craigheads did.” through South America and then into the Pacific doing research for the Wrote one former student: “Sometimes as a student you get lucky with book. teachers. John and Frank have always been very busy men, but they also “Admiral Tom Hamilton had promised me he’d get me out in the took time to talk, to teach, to share their vast knowledge with the whole Pacific after we’d written this book,” Craighead says. “I was all ready to group of students around them at that time. We camped, fished, pho­ take off when the war ended. He told me he’d like me to go anyway and tographed, and spent long, hard hours working together. They shared their wrote out the orders. He wanted information on those who survived in vision—their dream of how wild rivers and wild lands could fit into the that type of wilderness.” modern American landscape mosaic—while teaching us about the stars and And so Craighead headed for Palawan, which he says was something flowers, to live lightly on the land, and how vulnerable megacarnivores, of an “open prison.” Antonio, he says, had been dumped on the island wilderness, and wild rivers are to man’s expanding sphere of influence.” for killing a man who had stolen his wife. “All he had was a bow and three arrows,” Craighead says. “He’d kill monkeys and wild pigs to eat.” Using a Filipino translator, Craighead quizzed Antonio to uncover FOR THE BIRDS information on survival in the South Seas, struggling with parts of it. It’s just a minute or two from the bustle of Reserve Street and Highway “Monkey for lunch?” he says. “It was like eating one of your own kids.” 93, but it could be a hundred miles. At the end of a dead-end street in Antonio chased wild pigs and monkeys through the jungle and lower Miller Creek, John Craighead enjoys a view with no other houses Craighead chased Antonio. “I had a jungle hammock I put up over an in sight from the rear of the home he shares with wife Margaret. old stream bed,” Craighead says. “Antonio slept by the fire. If you’ve He is eighty-eight now, and the years have robbed him of his hearing ever watched a dog sleep, where his feet move back and forth, well, but little else. More than seventy years after he and Frank trained a hawk that’s what Antonio did. He was always running, even in his sleep.” named Comet, John Craighead’s life is still, in large part, for the birds. When an American base on Palawan shut down with the end of the A raven he nursed back to health, Rudy, hangs around the backyard and war, Craighead loaded a Jeep with K rations and took them to Antonio. a golden eagle raised from birth that refused several attempts at returns . “They were getting rid of everything,” he recalls. “They had all these to the wild lives in a large aviary on the property. A couple of exotic down sleeping bags, which were useless in the South Pacific anyway, a birds fly freely inside the house, occasionally landing on John’s head to pile as big as a house they poured gasoline on and burned to get rid of. check on what he’s up to in the kitchen. And the artwork on the walls is They were getting rid of the K rations too, so I took a load to Antonio. largely of raptors rather than grizzlies. He opened them up, and he didn’t eat the food, but he ate the cigarettes. As Craighead spins his tales of adventure, from India to the South I left him with enough K rations to feed a lot of people. But I don’t Seas, from Washington DC to Yellowstone, son John W. rigs up know what he did with them.” fishing tackle for his father. His parents are about to leave for Florida, Craighead made sketches of Antonio in the jungle and wrote poems where John loves to get up, head for the beach, and cast into the ocean about him. for hours on end. The outdoors he spent a lifetime working to protect John Craighead has studied humans, too. are now his to enjoy. His days as a researcher are over. But if UM’s Foundation is successful in establishing the John J. Craighead Chair in Wildlife Biology, his research will go on. A FAMILY AFFAIR John and Frank are far from the only Craigheads who have contributed to conservation. Their sister, Jean Craighead George, has written more Vince Devlin is a reporter for the Missoulian and a frequent than 100 children’s books about nature, including My Side of the contributor to the Montanan. Mountain, which was made into a movie. She and her twin brothers each had three children apiece and virtually

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BY BETH BRITTON What a change six years can bring. “Indian people have to be a part of the decision-making process,” Juneau has become a leader for Indians Juneau says. “I’m hoping that as Indian legislators we’re able to make a statewide and an educator for legislators not much stronger connection between Indian people and the state of familiar with issues facing the state’s tribes. And two other UM grads Montana. It’s wonderful to be a part of the decision-making process. have joined her in representing their reservations—Joey Jayne and We’re sitting at the table, which is only right.” Margarett Campbell. Juneau, the vice-chair of the Democratic Party in Montana, is The three representatives have different backgrounds, but they have optimistic about the future of tribal involvement in state government. found common ground in Montana state government—working to She proudly states that residents of every reservation in Montana now improve the lives of their constituents. And they have backup: five other have an Indian representing them in the Montana Legislature. Indian legislators are serving. American Indians now hold twice as many Juneau, a Mandan and Hidatsa in her fourth term, earned a master’s seats as the state’s tribes held just four years ago. degree in education from UM in 1980. It was at the University that The Indian Caucus represents 5 percent of the 150-member assembly— she learned the power of a strong education and what education allows close to the 6.2 percent of American Indians in Montana’s total population. people on or off reservations to accomplish. “It’s always good to be on a The number is significant; it places Montana second only to Alaska in the college campus and around people with different ideas,” she says. “I percentage of Indian legislators. With seven Indians in its sixty-member developed my skills there.” legislature, Alaska has just under 12 percent representation. She worked for Blackfeet Community College and retired recently from Browning Public Schools, where she was student affairs adviser and TRIBAL LEADERS" INSTITUTE the director of the Stay-in-School program. “I think many Montanans forget about Indians, but Montanans need to Now a leader in the Montana House, Juneau says she learned as much understand that these three women come to the Legislature with a from her personal life as she did from any professional experience. She wealth of understanding about issues relevant not only to their own grew up on the Fort Berthold Reservation, sixty miles southwest of tribes but to all Montanans,” says former U.S. Congressman Pat Minot, North Dakota, and moved to Montana in 1969. Having lived on Williams, now senior fellow at UM’s O’Connor Center for the Rocky reservations most of her life, Juneau says she is familiar with Indian Mountain West. issues and the challenges that Indians have faced for decades. “What really strikes me is [that] people [are] finally recognizing their Her background serves her well today in her role as a member of the competence. Carol is one of the most competent of state legislators, a Joint Appropriations Subcommittee on Education. Juneau also serves on nonstop hard worker. Joey is a quite accomplished lawyer and whip the Joint Appropriations Subcommittee on Long-Range Planning and smart, and Margarett is razor quick.” the House Appropriations Committee, where she is vice-chair. Williams is leveraging his experience and the O’Connor Center’s “It’s good to go into the hearing room showing a real strong, united resources to provide a quick anecdote to the American Indian legislators’ front on issues of importance to us,” Juneau says. “Hopefully [the Indian steep learning curve. The center received a one-year pilot grant of about Caucus] is sending a strong message. So often we come to Helena or the $40,000 from The Sallie Mae Fund to finance the Tribal Leaders’ Institute. federal government and ask for support, and then we leave, go home, The institute, designed for any and all elected or appointed American and hope it works. Now we can make those laws.” Indian officials, debuted last fall. “The purpose of it is simple: Indian The creation of the Indian Caucus, which meets weekly at the leaders tell us what they want more information about and we attempt Capitol, has been a successful strategy in keeping the Indian legislators to provide it,” Williams says. together on issues, Juneau says. A key issue for the 2005 caucus is Issues of specific interest to the 2005 legislators are the principles of “Indian Education for All,” a Supreme Court ruling requiring Montana federal Indian law, the partnership between state government and tribal schools to recognize and preserve American Indian culture and heritage government, and how the state budget affects people on and off the in state classrooms, she says. state’s Indian reservations. “Support for the concept is there, but the money isn’t,” Juneau says. “The overall goal is to provide Native American leaders with an “We want the public school system to provide instruction on contem­ understanding of the issues they select as wanting to know more about,” porary Indian issues.” Juneau is a realist, and she understands that this Williams says. “This request for help is a sign of genuine maturity. Most year, in her final session in the House, not all issues of importance to elected officials don’t want to ask for help.” American Indians will make it to the floor. “My sense of hope is dwindling. I had greater hope that we’d have CAROL JUNEAU additional resources, but already three of my bills have died in For Juneau and the seven other American Indians holding office in the committee,” she says. "Even though we have a budget surplus, there are 2005 legislature, the growth of Montana’s Indian Caucus is not just so many issues, so many cutbacks in the past. We’re trying to make about numbers. It’s about time. some programs whole again”

MONTANAN SPRING 2005 21 PHOTO BY TODD GOODRICH MARGARETT CAMPBELL AMERICAN INDIAN CAUCUS JOEY JAYNE The journey from UM classrooms to the floor Joey Jayne of Arlee admits that her honesty of the Montana House of Representatives was a Montana Senate can occasionally get her into hot water. short one for freshman legislator Margarett SD 16: Sen. Frank Smith, D-Poplar “I feel like I have good judgment, but I’m Campbell. Just one year ago, she was finishing SD 21: Sen. Gerald Pease, D-Lodge Grass not afraid to stand up for what’s different,” her class work in Missoula on her way to she says. “Some people just sit around and earning her doctorate in educational leadership Montana House of Representatives don’t want to make waves; some people don’t and technology management. HD 15: Joey Jayne, D-Arlee even read the bills before they vote on them. I Today the Poplar resident serves on the HD 16: Carol Juneau, D-Browning think a lot of legislators are narrow-minded House taxation, legislative administration, HD 31: Margarett Campbell, D-Poplar and think it’s too much work.” local government, and education commit­ HD 32: Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder The 1993 graduate of UM School of Law, tees. “Each time I walk into the House of HD 41: Norma Bixby, D-Lame Deer who owns a law firm on the Flathead Representatives, there’s this incredible sense HD 42: Veronica Small-Eastman, D-Lodge Grass Reservation, is no stranger to hard work or of responsibility. It’s almost breathtaking to plain talk. She says she pursued a legislative think I will push a button to create a law or seat because statutes are unclear and she keep it from being created,” Campbell says. “wanted to be the one that was making laws.” When she reads the bills The fifty-year-old Campbell, who served as president and academic dean under consideration at the 2005 legislature, Jayne says, “I feel a huge of Fort Peck Community College for twenty-two years, today works as the responsibility and weight on my shoulders.” vice president for the Department of Community Services on the Fort Peck A forty-eight-year-old Navajo, she represents newly created HD15, a Indian Reservation. She comes from a long line of American Indians who huge expanse of land stretching from Missoula and Lake County north to served their country. Before her father became a U.S. citizen and earned the Heart Butte and East Glacier. In her first two terms, before redistricting, right to vote, he fought in the Second World War and was a prisoner of war the New Mexico native represented HD73- following the Bataan Death March. Both her father, now deceased, and her It was her education at UM’s School of Law and her experience as an mother believe in giving back to one’s country and community. attorney that she says prepared her for the legislative debates and a lead­ Holding political office was not part of any childhood dream or goal ership role in state government. She is the sole female attorney currently for Campbell, however. After redistricting. Senator Frank Smith came to serving in the Montana House. her and said he had approached every leader in the community. “He told A familiarity with federal Indian law and an understanding of how me that if they didn’t come up with someone soon there would be a the law works—along with a high comfort level when debating bills problem,” she says. Campbell laughs to think of what a spur-of-the- before her peers— helped ease Jayne’s transition from private practice moment decision she made to run for the vacant seat. But she was not into the very open process of making law, she says. “My biggest concern altogether unprepared. In 1992, Campbell worked as a program is that bills are being passed that limit people’s rights and narrow their coordinator for the ‘Discover the Indian Vote’ campaign and she also opportunities,” Jayne says. “What I feel deeply about is that we do not had registered voters in the past. take liberties away from people.” Campbell, an Assiniboine, laughingly describes the learning curve She spends time breaking down barriers between Indians and non- for new legislators as “steep.” She says she had great teachers at UM, but Indians. “We have to educate legislators who are naive or who don’t accept even her doctorate level work didn’t prepare her for her new job. Native Americans,” she says. “They learn there’s unemployment of over “It’s complicated, but not impossible. I do spend all my time reading seventy percent [on some reservations], and it’s very powerful. I am reach­ rules and doing lots of research,” she says. “The information from the ing both Democrats and Republicans. I have felt the responsibility to edu­ Tribal Leaders’ Institute has helped me so much. That program gave me cate others, and I work pretty well with both sides of the aisle.” a running start, and the only complaint I have is it didn’t last long Although Jayne admits that the atmosphere for Democrats at the enough,” says Campbell, who admits to feeling some pressure to 2005 Legislature is “happier” than in the past—due to the 50/50 accomplish much for her district. Montana House, and the Democrats’ majority in the Senate— if she had The chance for significant legislation aimed at helping the state’s her druthers, the members would do their jobs with little consideration tribes is greater this year than ever, she says. “Indian people have been of party affiliation. absent on taxation issues, and that’s been a concern to me. It’s essential “There are people on both sides who will not budge on party lines,” she we understand the bigger picture of taxation, and I can provide a voice says. “When parties fight and when one party wants to be superior to the for Indians.” The growing number of Indian legislators has resulted in other, who’s going to win here? It’s challenging, but if I can make it easier the need for more understanding of Indian issues on the part of non- for someone [in Montana] to go to bed at night, then it’s worth it to me.” Indian lawmakers, and there also is a disconnect between rural and urban Montanans, Campbell says. “What I find is an absence of thought Beth Britton, M .A.’99, is a freelance writer and journalism from people in urban areas for those of us in eastern Montana," she says. teacher a t C.M . Russell H igh School in Great Falls. She covered “Montana is like two states, and I feel a responsibility to educate other the 1999 Montana Legislature for the UM Community News legislators. That is a humbling and incredible process.” Service.

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PHOTO O f ANDREA GREENE BY DIANE SCHAEFFER MONTANAN SPRING 2005 29 ABOUTALUMNI at North Middle School and Skyline, children of diplomats and interna­ Kandi send best wishes to their UM retiring in 1995. Chuck served twen­ ’60s tional business people from more than friends and report that they will try ty-three years with the Montana Air Joanne Hassing Ritvo '64, M.A. '66, sixty countries. A former French to attend Homecoming this fall. Guard and has held volunteer and and her husband, Jonathan Ritvo, teacher at Missoula’s Sentinel High board positions with United Way, the were elected by their peers as two of School, Nancy traveled extensively Food Bank, and Boy Scouts. the top 205 doctors in the Denver while based in Moscow—from 70s metro area. Profiled in the October Siberia, Poland, and Estonia to George C. Manner, M.FA '73, Santa Fe, 2004 issue of 5280: Denver’s Mile- Vietnam, Thailand, Italy, France, and New Mexico, has written a chapbook of High Magazine, the Ritvos practice at Egypt. This spring she will visit poems, My View ofthe Mountain, available Denver Health. Joanne specializes in Kenya and Berlin, returning to from Red Wing Press. eating disorders and Jonathan in Missoula in June. James R. Shrosbree, M.F.A. '73, is an inpatient substance abuse. Both are Carey Smith '69, M.S. '78, and his associate professor in the School of senior examiners for the American wife, Kandi Bisson Smith '70, live in Arts at Maharishi University of Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Vancouver, Washington. Cary retired Management, Fairfield, Iowa. He Dean Hellinger '56, Devon, award­ Joanne is a clinical professor of in January 2004, following thirty held a one-person exhibition of his winning photographer and horse­ psychiatry at the University of years as a federal employee, and now works, most of them made from clay, radish grower, has created note cards Colorado Medical School and for owns an environmental consulting at the Des Moines Art Center featuring a composite of Grizzly three years chaired the American firm. His earlier career spanned years Downtown this past fall. James’s booster license plates. Dean is Psychiatric Association Assembly. as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force and as work also has been shown at the Los currently producing a video honoring The Ritvos have three children, all an employee of the Fish and Wildlife Angeles County Museum of Art, the the centennial of the Enlarged currently attending college. Service. In 2004 Carey received the Museum of Contemporary Art in Homestead Act of 1909- This act Paula Latham Wilmot '67 observed Ducks Unlimited Conservation Honolulu, and the Mint Museum in increased the acreage allotment from her thirty-fifth anniversary as a Great Achievement Award. The Smiths Charlotte, North Carolina. 160 to 320 acres, changing forever the Falls Tribune reporter/writer in have two sons—Kyle, who attends Dale R. Harris '74, Missoula, received dry land frontier in eastern Montana. October 2004. law school at the University of a $10,000 ChevronTexaco Dean is looking for black-and-white Nancy R. Marmont '69, M.A. '72, is in Oregon, and Chadd, who manages Corporation Conservation Award in photos of eastern Montana from 1900 her third year of teaching French at endangered species habitat for the September for his work on the pro­ to 1930 to use in the video. Contact the Anglo American School of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on the posed Great Burn Wilderness on the him at [email protected] Moscow, Russia. Nancy teaches Island of Kauai, Hawaii. Carey and Montana/Idaho border. Dale co-

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udy Stocking Doxtater '67, Kalispell, and Heidi Clark JHarsha '67, Columbus, were UM roommates more than forty years ago. This past summer they paired up again—spending two months volunteering at an orphan­ age in Balama, Mozambique, Africa. Judy set up a pre­ school—the first of its kind in Balama District. "It's incredible what she's given the people of Balama," Heidi writes. "I was her right-hand man in this and I worked at the nutrition center with malnourished women and children. I also taught some English to the pastors and their sons." The women lived without elec­ tricity, running water or mail deliveries. "There wasn't a piece of paper to be found or pencil or crayon," Heidi writes. Both women have been involved with social work and missions throughout their lives. "We've wanted to contribute like this for some time now," Heidi concludes, "and we decided we needed to do it before we start falling apart!" Judy has returned to her twenty-four year career as a kindergarten teacher in Kalispell. Her younger son, Jed, is a senior at UM. Heidi, and her husband, Wayne Heidi Clark Harsha '67 holds nine-day-old Moses a t the mission in Balama, Mozambique. The Harsha '67, are completing a move from San Antonio, child's mother had died in childbirth and his grandmother brought him in for clothing and formula. Texas, to Columbus, Montana. A it She asked Heidi to name him.

30 SPRING 2005 MONTANAN founded the Great Burn Study music curriculum for the district, Group, which is seeking national was a member of Richland’s task wilderness designation for this force, coordinated the district’s ele­ 300,000-acre area. mentary music program, and served Roger L. King '74, North Hollywood, on the school’s building improve­ California, has been an art director, ment committee. She also is an ALUMNI set designer, construction coordina­ adjunct professor at Washington ASSOCIATION r h e University o t M o n t >■ n •> tor, and prop maker in motion State University at Tri-Cities. pictures and television for eighteen Recently Mary achieved National years. He received an Emmy for art Board Certification as an early and direction in 1994 for the HBO pro­ middle childhood music teacher. duction C a m iv a le . Currently Roger is David R. Hunt '77 retired two years Z 0 0 J working on the HBO series B ig L ove. ago as vice president and director of SEPTEMBER 30-OCTOBER 1 ^ Kathryn C. "Kit" Herndon '74 writes technology for A.G. Edwards in St. from Boise, Idaho, where she works Louis and moved to Whitefish with ’Honoring the Class oftqbj in the family-owned business, Peasley his wife, Linda, and their two chil­ Transfer & Storage/Allied Van Lines, dren. Since 2003 David has donated “I’m very active in waterskiing, his time and aircraft to flying needy snow-skiing, tennis, biking, patients to medical care, first with swimming, a little golf, and whatever AirLifeline and now with Angel else I can find to do. I’m very proud Flight West. David is the wing to tell others I’m a Griz alum and leader for Angel Flight West, taking appreciate correspondence from the over for his friend, Jim Long, who University.” Before returning to was killed flying in September. HOMECOMING Boise, Kit used her recreation degree David hopes to expand the grassroots from UM as a pool manager in team of support pilots. “It’s been Farmington, New Mexico, as a humbling,” he says. “It minimizes c o m m c m o m e boating director in Chicago, and as your own problems and has made me 1.877.UMALUMS J www.UMontanaAlumni.org an after-school sports director in the thankful for what I have.” Bronx, New York. She has two grown John P. "Mickey" McKenna '78, a children, Chad and Brittany. “Call retired U.S. Air Force major, adminis­ me if I can help you with a move!” tered the oath of service to his son, Mike she concludes. McKenna, a Navy aviator, during the Lynn M. Hansen '76 wrote to identify Christmas holiday at the McKenna fami­ her mother, Dorothy Lazarus Hansen ly home in Anaconda. Mike’s older '56, as one of the Aquamaids (third brother, Lt. Col. John P. "Chip" McKenna from the left) in the large photo on Jr. '87, an endocrinologist for the Air page 40 of the Winter 2004 Force, had traveled from Fairfield, M o n ta n a n . "Mother married Dick California, for the event. Mickey taught Hansen '53 in 1954 and still lives in Mike how to fly at the Missoula airport Worden.” Lynn is manager of proto- when Mike was nineteen. Mike has now | col for the Lockheed Martin Space recorded 420 landings atop aircraft carri­ 1 Systems Company in Denver. "It’s a ers. “My dad has always set an amazing [ great job and I love living in example for me as a military officer and Denver,” she writes. “I got married as a person,” he commented. I last August to David Kipp, a Cal Craig W. Crawford '79, was appointed I State Fullerton grad. Watch for my January 1 to the International Federation I niece, Mom’s granddaughter, Mandy of Accountants’ International Auditing I Morale— she’s a freshman on the and Assurance Standards Board. Craig will I Lady Griz!” work with IAASB members worldwide, Mary Robert Dann determining how auditors can best meet '77, Richland, the needs of the public. Craig lives in Washington, was Darien, Connecticut, and is a partner in named the KPMG LLP’s national office. Southeastern All roads load to home. Washington Teacher of me Year. A music teacher at ’80s Class Reunions ■ nay •. Sacajawea Elementary School in Douglas B. Troost '80 taught music I935-I945-I9S5 ■ 12-13-14,200S h Richland, Mary helped develop a for twenty-one years in W olf Point www.UMontanaAlumni.org 1.877.UMALUMS

MONTANAN SPRING 2005 31 ABOUTALUMNI before moving to Lakeside. He response teams. In this position, Bob Lake Forest Park, Washington: "After and South Carolina, as well as work-1 reports he “sets out most days in travels the country, managing almost twenty years, I am finally ing one winter selling trolley tickets I search of a musical encounter.” Doug responses to wildfires and other utilizing my communication and in Key West and a summer as a tour ; teaches chorus at Thompson Falls disasters such as hurricanes. Bob is business degrees by being a business guide in Charleston, South Carolina.’] High School and at Spring Creek most proud of his near thirty-year fire manager for Aramark.” John recently Mike Nordstrom '89 and his brother Lodge Academy outside Thompson fighting career. The day he turned received his M.B.A. degree from the Tim, a.k.a. Montana Tunesmith, have: Falls. His combined chorus from the eighteen, he joined the night crew University of Phoenix. recorded the albums Under Yellowstond two schools has a repertoire that and fought the Pattee Canyon fire Shane Bishop '87, a producer for S k ie s and Life is for the Living. They | includes sacred music, madrigal, pop, outside Missoula. It was the first day Dateline NBC, received an Emmy for live in Red Lodge, where Mike is an i classic rock, and gospel— performed he was legally allowed to fight fire. the program’s coverage of the X-ray technician. Tim commutes to !i with choralography, hand and body Lucy Hicks Elizabeth Smart abduction, produc­ Billings, where he’s coordinating a movements Doug teaches to corre­ Denham '82 and ing an hour-long TV magazine two Homeland Security grant to train spond to the songs. Some days he’s Kristi Kliber days after she was found that detailed healthcare professionals in bioterror- \ off to Poison and Ronan to teach Larsen '83, pic­ her abduction and safe return. “The ism and disaster preparedness private guitar and voice lessons. tured here last quick turn-around time on the piece throughout the state. Other days he’s the traveling sales rep October in may have impressed the judges," Joseph R. Whittinghill '89, director ] for JMar Music in Great Falls, selling Venice, Italy, Shane says. Before receiving the of employee learning and develop- band instruments across western meet often in Europe. Kristi teaches Emmy, Shane had been in Athens, ment for Microsoft Corporation in Montana. Then, there’s his weekend at the American School on the Greece, where he produced coverage S e a t t l e , was interviewed in and summer DJ business, Extremely NATO base outside of Brussels and of the Olympic games. Shane and his Connections, a publication of the Tuned, its name a spin-off of his Lucy travels to Europe as a director wife, Erika Colness Bishop '89, live Graziadio School of Business and former high school rock band, with Carnival Corporation. Lucy’s in Jacksonville, Oregon, with their Management at Pepperdine Tz/cson N e d . Need music? Call Doug! home is in Wayzala, Minnesota. three children. University, where Joe received his j Bob Sanderman '81, Whitefish, is John G. Connors '84, Medina, Lisa M. Fosbender '87, M.A. '97, master’s degree in 2000. In the manager of the Stillwater State Forest Washington, has joined Ignition Ph.D. '99, has been appointed article Joe speaks about the need for . for the Montana Department of Partners LLC, a venture-capital firm associate professor of psychology at employees to imagine new technolo- : Natural Resources and Conservation. founded by former executives from Gulf Coast Community College in gies, new solutions, and new possibil­ Beginning January 1, he is also a Microsoft and McCaw. John is the for­ Panama City, Florida. Lisa writes that ities for themselves. Joe is a past Type 1 Incident Commander for one mer chief financial officer for Microsoft. since graduation she has “taught at president of the UM Alumni of the nation's seventeen elite disaster- John F. McCann '86, '88 writes from colleges in Pennsylvania, New York, Association Board of Directors. Higher Education. Presenting the 2005 Higher Education. Higher Education. Basketball M onte Higher Education. : < |||j j | w B o b b l e k g a d Higher Education. Higher Education. ------:—7 ^ ; Handcraftedin H i durable ceramic ^ Handpainted and Low Interest Rates. 1 boxed for gift giving j^ j fa*' tottv ? Cost is $29.99 (includes shipping First in meeting your financial needs. and handling) School ♦ Home ♦ Mortgage ♦ Auto ♦ Refinancing Federally insured by NCUA -

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’90s BY Brian D. Bizzano '92 e-mailed us just BETSY HOLMQUIST days after the Indian Ocean tsunami to report that, as a major in the P.J. Wright, a.k.a. Patti Jo Shaw '62, received this year's Montana Alumni Marine Corps Reserve, he was acti­ Award at Charter Day. Born in Butte and raised in Deer Lodge, PJ. won vated as a logistics operations center campus hearts early. As a freshman she was Miss M.S.U., later winning watch campus, state, and national Miss Wool pageants. A serious journalism officer for Combined Support Force student, PJ. is most proud of editing Venture, the campus literary maga­ 536. He was helping coordinate sup­ zine. "I patterned it after the New Yorker," PJ. says, "and one of my plies into Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and contributors was Mary Clearman Blew '62, M.A. '63." Thailand. Currently based in PJ. was the women's editor for the Anchorage Times, a feature editor Okinawa, Brian’s home is Bel Air, for the Charlottesville, Virginia, Progress, and a board member of the Maryland, where he is the director of trading controls for the Constellation American Newspaper Women's Club. She spent seventeen years in Commodities Group in Baltimore. Washington DC as an account executive with an all-women public rela­ Eric D. Borggard '92 joined A.G. tions firm. While there she became the first woman member of the Federal Edwards & Sons after twelve years City Club and served two terms as president of the Montana State Society. with D.A. Davidson. He lives in Later she was director of sales for the Miami Dolphins football team. Great Falls with his wife, Brenda, Today she works her public relations magic from an office off the lobby of the Holiday Inn Parkside in daughter, Quincey, and son, Kellen. downtown Missoula. For the past ten years she's been its director of sales and marketing. Not much goes William F. Burns '92, a negotiator for on around Missoula or campus that skirts PJ. Phone calls flow daily between her office and UM's many El Paso Corporation, writes from departments as arrangements are made—and often remade—for dignitaries, adjudicators, visiting teams, Ohio: “We will be moving soon to parents, reunion attendees, and always Homecoming. Indianapolis. I still play pick-up "The good thing about being this age and in this job is that I know most of the alums who come back basketball at noon like I used to at now for Homecoming," she laughs. "I'm really comfortable with my work. Homecoming is a big deal for McGill Hall. Now I spend most of my spare time with my family [wife the city as well as for the University. We want people to come back and we do everything we can so they Lisa, children Zach, Ryan, and will." 4* 4. Abby], write music, and play my

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MONTANAN SPRING 2005 33 ABOUTALUMNI acoustic guitar. ... The best friend­ birth of their son, Niklas Ralph ships I ever established were at UM. I Youngberg. Just weeks before his love the Griz and keep up with the birth, Kathrin won the Portland Straight football and basketball programs.” chapter of the Public Relations Jim Joyner '92, Missoula, e-mails, Society of America’s Ron Schmidt “Although I didn’t win the Community Involvement Award for Talk on Missouliaris fan of the year contest, I outstanding use of public relations to won the EA Sports Show Us Your support community improvement. Game Face contest! (See story on page Kathrin is vice president and director Charitable 12.) Jim’s brother, Tim Joyner '93, of client services for Maxwell PR and who accompanied him to leads the firm’s efforts for three large Chattanooga, gets the credit for Jim’s nonprofits. creative game faces. An artist in Eathan J. Guler '94, Kenosha, .Gilt Hamilton, Tim has done everything Wisconsin, develops character educa­ from airbrushing Jim to making tion and job-to-work programs for Annuities plaster casts of his head in this Learning for Life, an independent winning endeavor. Watch for more to subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of come from the Joyner brothers. America. Eathan earned his M.Ed. in PART THREE Morgan Kinross-Wright '92, educational leadership from u Owatonna, Minnesota, is director of National-Louis University in 1999 Maximum Flexibility with Lifetime Payments” the Undergraduate Business Career and is pursuing a master's degree in Center at the Carlson School of organizational leadership from Are you uncertain when you will retire but Management at the University of Capella University. you’re certain you will need a supplement to Minnesota. Previously, Morgan was Michael Francis '97 and his wife, your income? The Flexible Charitable Deferred associate director of corporate services Jennifer Kleffner '98, live in Gift Annuity may be the answer. at the Carlson School. Bayfield, Colorado. Michael is a biolo­ Kathrin Larson Youngberg '93 and gist with the Bureau of Reclamation . * * * Here is an example of the benefits of a Leif Youngberg, Portland, Oregon, doing wetland and wildlife mitigation * $10,000 flexible charitable deferred gift annuity. announce the November 26, 2004, work for water development projects.

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3 4 SPRING 2 0 0 5 MONTANAN PHOTO BY SUSAN MASON Meg Ratzburg Sampson '97, M.P.A. riz fans high-five it for '99, Missoula ALUMNI EVENTS their favorite team at the Nellie R. M. Sherman, M.Ed. '81, Cricket Pavilion tailgate Butte G MAY 2005 party in Chattanooga. The Janelle M. Swenson '88, Missoula Alumni Association also hosted Brandie Lynn Terpe '01, Missoula 9-25 International travel, a gathering the previous Gordon Eric Terpe '99, Missoula Mandarin China evening at the Chattanooga Dianna K. Tickner, M.B.A. '92, 11- 22 International travel, Choo Choo Holiday Inn, attend­ Collinsville, IL Italy 12-14 Class reunions, 1935, ed by more than 3,000 alumni Tim M. Turman, Denver David D. Urie '71, The Woodlands, TX 1945, 1955, campus and friends. The association Bradley C. Veis '83, Fairfield 14 UM Commencement extends its thanks to all who Dirk A. Williams '80, J.D. '85, helped and attended the events. Missoula JUNE 200 5 Matthew W. Woodcock '03, Missoula 3,4 UMAA Board of Judith Tait Zundel '78, Anchorage, AK Directors meeting, He also is pursuing a masters degree in Gary L. Graham, J.D. '69, Missoula Robert M. Zundel '82, Anchorage, AK Missoula natural resource development with C. Gail Guntermann '60, Tempe, AZ 9 Young Alum Event, Texas A & M. Jennifer is an Bernard E. Hale '67, Asheville, NC San Francisco environmental educator with the non­ Brenda Weyermann Hanson '90, IN MEMORIAM 12-24 International travel, profit organization Durango Nature Kalispell To be included in In Memoriam, the Baltic Sea and Studies. “Thanks to UM for being a Eric J. Hanson '95, Kalispell Alumni Association requires a news­ Norwegian Fjords great springboard,” Michael writes. Donde Hayes, Great Falls paper obituary or a letter o f notification 17-19 Resident Assistants Jason D. Westfal '98 and Thomas M. Hayes '99, Great Falls from the immediate family. We extend Reunion, Missoula Tana Lozeau Westfall '95 live in Lila A. Isbell '87, Columbus, OH our sympathy to the families o f the Kiowa, Colorado, where Jason is a Nicole L. Jennings '98, Anchorage, AK following alumni, faculty, and friends. JULY 200 5 principal for Kiowa Elementary and Bernard J. Klouda '75, Anchorage, AK 5-18 International travel, Middle School. Jason recently Mary Brick Knowles, M.A. '78, Waterways of Russia completed his M.A. in education Traverse City, MI ’20s Pearl Leonard Marsh '28, Portland, OR administration and supervision from Vasilios G. Koures '84, Missoula the University of Phoenix. He and Joseph M. Leimkuhler '81, AUGUST 2005 Tana have been married twelve years. Mandeville, LA ’30s 18 Big Sky Open Golf Geri M. Lincoln '88, Haugan June Donaldson Akin '30, Cheyenne, WY Tournament, Denver Alice Cook Madison '77, Golden, CO Mary Davenport Deeney '31, Portland, OR April Marsh Markovich, M.B.A. '01, NEW LIFE MEMBERS Beth Manis Gannon '32, Freeland, WA SEPTEMBER 2005 Butte The following alumni and friends have Adelaine Stillings Midgett '33, Missoula 23-10/2 International travel, Lino A. Marsillo '57, J.D. '61, made a commitment to the future of the Joy Browning Warden '33, San Diego Greece Missoula UM Alumni Association by becoming life Gordon C. Buck '36, Glendale, CA 29-10/7 International travel, Sherry Coll Marsillo, M.Ed. '75, : members. You can join them by calling Elbert H. Cosman '36, Billings Village Life in the Missoula 817-862-5867 or visiting our Web site, Harriet Calhoun Geden '36, M.Ed. Dordogne Carolyn Cordwell McCarthy '69, tvww. UMontana Alumni, org. A nnual '56, West Bloomfield, MI 29,30 House of Delegates Tucson, AZ memberships and payment plans are Virginia Bode Lohmiller '36, meeting Randall L. Mee, M.B.A. '89, Missoula ■available. The Alumni Association Crosslake, MN 29-10/1 International Students Dennis Scott Miller '99, Hamilton thanks them for their support. Bernice Granmo McDonald '37, Missoula Reunion, Missoula Donald R. Murphy '72, Stevensville Stephen Peter Attardi '67, Bayonne, NJ Eleanor Lux Terrill '37, Helena 30 Homecoming Singing Akiko Priscila Oncken '00, Donn Thomas Ault '00, Richland, WA Ken A. Ingram '38, Reno, NV on the Steps, Pep Gaithersburg, MD Eric D. Botterbusch '87, Everett, WA Isabel McClintock Bitz '39, Box Elder Rally, DAA Awards, Christine E. Brummer '81, Ann Arbor, MI Scott A. Oncken '00, Gaithersburg, MD Alberta Flatten McKinnon '39, Missoula 1965 Class Reunion .Ronald W. Brunell '71, Missoula David Dominic Petelin '73. M.S. '76, Cyril Murray Morrison '39, Havre | Clifford F. Christensen, Portland, OR Missoula Michael J. Covey '80, Roswell, GA Kathryn Fenner Pritchard '77, Missoula OCTOBER 2005 Tyler J. Disburg '03, Missoula Ralph K. Pritchard '78, Missoula ’40s 1 Homecoming I Peter B. Donovan, M.P.A. '92, Helena Lacey E. Rieker '01, Missoula Margaret Carlson Julius '40, Boise, ID [Jacqueline A. Elam '97, Missoula Patrick M. Risken '81, Spokane, WA Robert T. Pantzer '40, J.D. '47, Missoula I Edna LaFrance Finholm '66, Judith B. Rollins '62, M.A/63, Salt Harold G. Paulson, M.A. '40, For more information on these events, t Missoula Lake City Homewood, IL call the UM Alumni Association: [Darns R. Flanagan '73, Fortine Fred I. Root '71, Las Vegas William "Bud" Rolston '40, Forsyth 877-UM-ALUMS or visit our Web Lois Bauer West '40, Billings ['Kristine L. Foot '80, J.D. '85, Missoula Christopher W. Ruff '93, Bothell, WA site: 1vww.UM0ntanaAlumni.org. Mora Doherty Wiprud '40, Great Falls | Kristi Lynn Frank '02, Rochester, MN Katie Rupert Ruff '93, Bothell, WA

MONTANAN SPRING 2005 35 ABOUTALUMNI IN MEMORIAM c o n tin u ed June Cummins Merley '50, John Allen Cannon '58, Stevensville Douglas Kimmerle McLure '69, Red 2 Elsie Hanson Anderson '41, Dillon Albuquerque, NM Joyce DeCock Hert '58, Billings Lodge Frances Simons Purvis Batenburg Douglas A. Solvie '50, Spokane, WA Odin C. Vick '58, M.S. '60, Hamilton Thomas Francis O'Brien, M.A. '69, '41, Princeton, NJ Emmet T. Walsh '50, LL.B. '51, J.D. '53, Joseph Edward Hughes '59, Helena Great Falls Geraldine James Markytan '41, Seattle Ivan E. MacDiarmid '59, Port Orchard, Woodinville,WA William J. Allen '51, Hazel Crest, IL WA Jean Holzknecht Anderson '42, Bonner James B. Farrell '51, Kalispell 70s Orian "Ode" Cusker '42, Glendive Elmer J. Hotvedt '51, Ennis Jerry N. Olson '70, Dutton Bernard Gerard Shepherd '42, Helena Jerome Levine '51, Highland Park, IL ’60s Gregory Alan Ammerman '73, Missoula : Gene Maurice Barsness '43, Laurel Peder Moe '51, '53, LL.B. '55, Billings Donald George Bloom '61, Helena Ken Rasmussen '73, Kirkland, WA Philip M. Yovetich '43, Missoula Helen M. Nelson '51, Oceanside, OR Barbara Tippett Jones '61, Helena Cynthia Cook Kingston '76, Missoula J. Stanley Kimmit '44, McLean, VA Gayle Sweedland Bauer '52, Forsyth Vernon G. Nelson '61, Port Orchard, WA Michael A. DeGuire '77, McMinnviUe, OR William V. Moore, J.D. '44, Billings Joseph H. Small '52, Spokane, WA Ruth Gardiner Buck '62, Hot Springs Stephen J. Fleming '79, Amboy, IL Bud Rosar Hayhurst '45, Sublimity, OR Robert Bradley Abbott '53, Helena Valarah Jelley Johnson '62, M.Ed. Ellen Ditzler Meloy, M.S. '79, Bluff, m \ Lester Grant Sooy '46, Bryant, AR Peggy Ann Eder Fitschen '53, Ronan '69, Missoula Christine Clemo Near '79, Whitehall j Edwin G. Kellner, M.A. '48, Helena Charles R. Gansel '53, Cottage Grove, OR John E. Kenneally '62, Issaquah, WA Lola Falkenhain Nichols '48, Lamar, CO H. Richard Hansen '53, Worden Jack R. Mehlhose '62, Clancy Doris Swords Poppler, J.D. '48, Billings Alta Standiford Kuehn '53, SeaTac, WA Werner Held '63, Lynnwood, WA ’80s Gerald M. Smeltzer '48, E. Jack W. Olsson '53, Ronan Carl R. Schwertfeger '63, Plymouth, WI Donald Neil Klaudt '80, Post Falls, ID Wenatachee, WA Dave A. Weistaner '53, Coeur d'Alene, ID Sandra Piccinini Smith '63, Missoula Mary Ellen Houtchens Horton '82, Clovis L. Birdsill '49, Dillon Richard A. Faurot '54, Park Falls, WI Linda Storm Fredericks '64, '84, M.A. '86, Boulder Joseph Maitin '49, M.Ed. '59, Ennis Philippe G. Hammemess '54, San Lafayette, CO Gregory Lee Mitchell '82, Great Falls Jose, CA Florian "F.J." Gies III, M.Ed. '65, Glenn R. Janes '83, Deer Lodge ’50s Marlyn G. "Huz" Jensen '54, Kalispell Green Valley, AZ Beverly Way Bemis '50, Coeur Rosemary Laing Erickson '55, Helena Roy Allen Lanier '65, Billings d'Alene, ID Richard D. Jaraczeski '55, Great Falls William H. Walter '65, Walnut Creek, CA ’90s Robert Allen Tollefson '90, Missoula John A. Forsythe, J.D. '50, Billings Rudy John "Skip" Stoll '55, Whitehall John Paul Wilson '66, Missoula Scott Warren Aikins '92, Missoula Donald R. Knoll '50, Billings Joyce Hickey Redding '56, Lorena Homer Normandeau '68, Kenneth John Crowley '92, Missoula ; Russell H. Lukens '50, Wenatchee, WA Stevensville Missoula Angela Northey Bauer '98, Florence James D. Owens '57, Miami, FL Sheila Hanley Roberts '68, Renton, WA

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MONTANAN SPRING 2005 39 BY BETSY HOLMQUIST ONE FAMILY Frances Simons Purvis ’41 and Leroy “Brick” Purvis ’39, pictured below, knew each other growing up in Great Falls and both attended UM. But a chance meeting in Washington DC, where they both were working, propelled Frances into the ranks of war brides. They married the Saturday after Pearl Harbor. Fran moved to Greenwich Village to work for the United Nations Relief Agency and Army Captain Purvis went overseas. In early 1944, while stationed in Italy, Brick was routed a copy of the University’s alumni News Bulletin. In a letter to the association, he wrote, “The issue came to me from Major Franklin S. Logan ’36, who got it from Captain Robert S. Larson ’37, who got it from somebody else —and so on down the line. I’ve sopped up every line of it, and believe you me, it was a real letter from home... . Please put me down for a year’s membership to the Alumni Association— for which is enclosed $1.00,” he concludes. THE WAR YEARS Following the war. Brick Life was very different on the UM campus during the Second World War. More than attended Harvard Law School, 1,000 men from the Army Air Force and Army Specialized Training Program lived and joined Opinion Research trained on campus and residence halls were emptied for their use. Male students sought Corporation and later became beds in fraternity houses or off campus. Female students moved into fraternity houses. president of Gallup & Robinson Courses changed. World geography, world resources, and world politics were offered. Inc. in Princeton, New Jersey. He Students began an International Relations Club. Faculty members taught courses outside and Frances had four children. their areas of expertise: thirty-one faculty members were on leave of absence for the war They maintained their connection effort and forty others were teaching the trainees. Only 179 civilian male students were to Montana, summering on on the campus by the 1943-44 school year. Hauser Lake. Frances deeded the lake property to UM several years ago.

UM coeds rolled bandages for the Red Cross (right), sold war bonds (above), and took on leadership roles on campus. Jane Red Cross pins and service ribbons Jeffers Rybus '46 became attested to the hours volunteers spent the first woman president making surgical dressings. Through the of ASMSU in the 1945-46 course of the war, Red Cross volunteers school year. nationwide rolled 2.5 billion bandages.

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