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King brought out our best Walter King, one of the best teachers to ever We joked that only English majors, who were grace the UM campus, retired in June. Since required to take his classes, and masochists great teachers are almost as rare as the white would endure his classes. But, the truth is, we buffalo, the loss of even one of them should not stayed because he challenged us with new go unnoticed. Walt was the soul of the English insights; he made material we had dismissed as department and perhaps of the University for dull and irrelevant, timely and exciting. His m ore than twenty years. He maneuvered a courses dominated our conversations; his ragged assortment o f students from their natural demands dominated our time. Responding to a lackadaisical, nonchalant approach to life and question from him kindled emotions akin to learning toward his goal of discerning, those experienced during the Inquisition. The analytical, enlightened human beings. I'm sure first “A” I earned from him drew awed crowds he must have succeeded with one or two. But, who handled the paper with a reverence even those of us who fell short o f his standards reserved for papal edicts. We would have died were forever changed by our encounter with to please him. “Dr. King.” Recently while enduring yet another I first met Walt as a sophomore in his registration, I was contemplating the demise of Shakespeare class. I was terrified by the standards, as middle-aged people are apt to do legendary tales of his requirements and my while surrounded by youth, when I overheard worst fears were realized on the first paper I two scruffy-looking students discussing classes. turned in to him. It received a “D” and a full “You’re only taking six credits?” one asked the page of blood-red comments. Happily I was too other incredulously. “Yes, but I ’m taking King stubborn to join the legions lining up to drop this quarter,” the other retorted without a sign out and instead was jolted into a frenzy of o f remorse. “Lucky you!” the first student rereading and rewriting. My efforts were replied with a mixture o f sympathy and rewarded with a curt, “There may be hope for admiration that I understood perfectly. I smiled, you!’’ I still have that first paper on my desk. reassured that som e things never change. It tends to humble me in proud moments and Lucky boy to encounter a teacher like Walt bolster me in times of despair. King. Lucky us to have shared the exciting Walt was unyielding in demanding nothing world of ideas and ideals that Walt King created less than our best. He was relentless in his for us all. insistence that we reconsider, revise, rewrite >. Brenda Joyce Holland '62 until w e had grasped what the author intended. 2612 Cardinal Drive His critiques of our work were scathing and his Missoula, Montana 59803 ability to undermine our gerrymandered reasonings was unerring. No one churned out a paper in an hour or whipped through a reading assignment on the way to class. For “King” we read and wrote slowly, thoughtfully, cautiously. He never missed a class—nor did we. He never missed an appointment. He was always prepared, always passionately interested in our progress or lack of progress. He gave us his time, his knowledge, his attention. He left each o f us on a higher level o f learning than where he had found us. In short, he taught us.

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Autumn 1985 Montanan Volume 3, Number 1 Montanan—The University of Montana magazine is published Departments quarterly by the University of Montana for its alumni and friends. 2 Letters Publisher 3 Around the Oval University of Montana Director of University 20 Alumni News Information William Scott Brown 22 Classnotes Editor Virginia Vickers Braun Features Photographer Page 3 Howard Skaggs 9 Growing up female in Charlie Russell country Editorial Offices By Mary Clearman Blew Office of News and Publications 303 Main Hall Author Mary Clearman Blew, dean of the College of Arts and Science University of Montana at Northern Montana College and a UM graduate in creative writing, Missoula, MT 59812 discusses why there are so few women writers in the West. (406) 243-2522 Alumni Office 13 H.G. Merriam: His legacy lives on Sheila MacDonald Steams ’68 By Ginny Merriam Director Missoula, MT 59812 Dr. Merriam taught at the University for thirty-five years. His (406) 243-5211 granddaughter, Ginny, a senior in journalism, reflects on his life and UM Alumni Association career. Directors Page 9 Connie Corette Kenney ’61, 16 Homecoming ’85 President Butte By Virginia Vickers Braun “You gotta have art” was the theme of this year’s Homecoming, which Dan Marinkovich ’50, E.Ed. ’57, President-elect featured the opening of the new Performing Arts/Radio-TV Center. For Anaconda a photo feature on the parade, football game and other highlights, turn Jean’ne M. Shreeve ’53, Past to pages 16-17. President Moscow, Idaho 18 Six earn Distinguished Alumni Awards David H. Baker ’62 Each year the Alumni Association honors outstanding graduates who Billings have contributed significantly to the University, the state or the nation. Susie Beaulaurier Clark ’67 For biographical sketches o f this year’s recipients, see pages 18-19. Bigfork Robert L. Crippen ’65 Page 13 Butte Special Section Donna K. Davis ’74, J.D. ’78 Billings 29 Campaign update Carol Dulaney ’75, J.D. ’78 The UM Foundation brings you up to date on its goal of raising $6 Fridley, Minn. million in three years and takes a look at Dennis Washington, who Helena Hales Elliott ’54 donated $1 million toward building the new Washington-Grizzly Conrad Stadium. Sharon Northridge Leonard ’64 Missoula Zane G. Murfitt ’50 Philipsburg John Walker Ross '66, J.D. ’69 Billings Page 17 Ward A. Shanahan ’53, J.D. ’58 Helena John R. Tooke ’72 Miles City Dennis J. U ns worth Helena Advertising Representative The Missoulian Attn. Sharon Schroeder Box 8029 Missoula, MT 59807 (406) 721-5200 Page 29

C o v er photo: What could b e better than a fur coat at Homecoming, especially at a Grizzly gam e? Sporting a raccoon coat was Tim Grattan ’60 of Whitefish, and wearing a nutria fur coat was Marie Thompson of Billings. The Griz beat Idaho State University 35 to 29. Photo by Virginia Vickers Braun. Letters

Old-timers still around was with and what they had been Music was her medium In the Summer ’85 issue, Jim Scott, doing. The death of Lorraine Andrie ’73 , asks about the profs who are left My mother, Cora Mae (Cythbert) (7/14/85) saw the passing o f a gracious from his undergraduate days. Since Beck, and her girlfriend, Virginia lady and an unselfish advocate for the over half o f the faculty in the College (Purvess) Hughes, had ridden the train art of music. She was a significant of Arts and Sciences have been around from Drummond to Missoula to date “power behind the podium.” She was for more than fifteen years, that would Chuck Burgess (a Grizzly basketball also a dear friend. Pat and I treasure be a long list, indeed. Mr. Scott and star) and Jack Fisher, who attended the the personal notes we received — other readers might be interested in “U.” frequently with a pressed wild flower which re a l old-timers are still around. My mother was still in high school from the Oregon coast or from My definition of an old-timer is so this would have been around 1940. Georgetown Lake. someone who has been around longer Her brother. Jack Cuthbert, was a Phi One of her most lasting contributions than I. Delt and president of the student body was the establishment o f the W omen’s The oldest-timer in the College is at the “U.” He had lined up these Association of the Missoula Civic Carling Malouf of anthropology, who dates with his buddies. Symphony Association. It was through joined the faculty in the fall o f 1948 My mother’s father worked on the her vision that the W om en’s and is still going strong — on the Northern Pacific railroad so she had a Association began their good works on campus and in the field. pass to ride the train. She later behalf of the scholarship program for Other old-timers are Mike Chessin, attended the “U” for two years and student musicians in the Missoula botany, ’49 ; Richard Hayden, physics was a Delta Gamma. Symphony. She saw the need for and astronomy, ’49 ; William Myers, I thought you might enjoy knowing audience development and began the mathematics, ’52 ; Mark Jakobson, this about your selection. I really enjoy annual “Music for Children and Their physics and astronomy, ’53 ; Robert your work on years gone by. Parents,” designed not so much to Weidman, geology, ’53 ; Keith Keep up the good work. raise money but to expose young Osterheld, chemistry, ’54 ; Merrel children to the finest music available. Clubb, English, ’54 ; John Wehrenberg, Jill Spunich ’68 She instituted a series o f symphony geology, ’55 ; and Jesse Bier, English, Spokane, Wash. concert previews and a project which ’55 . she called “House Music.” More Editor’s note: We get the old photos from We continue to get excellent post- yearbooks, files and contributions. recently the Women’s Association retirement teaching from a number of published A Part o f the Whole, poem s other old-timers, including Theodore which Lorraine had written. Shoemaker, foreign languages and When her husband, Gene, retired literatures, ’46 ; George Weisel, Story stirs memories from teaching in the music school, he zoology, ’47 ; Gordon Browder, A wonderful story, “The Impossible was honored by the University, the sociology, ’48 ; Thomas Payne, political Dream Comes True.’’ Too bad we did community and the state. Recognizing science, ’51 ; Robert Fields, geology, not have these facilities fifty years ago. that Lorraine had been a strong ’55 ; and Walter King, English, ’55 . This brings back fond memories of our influence in the many successes her Still active in their disciplines, but no trying times at the old “Masquers’’; husband enjoyed, the W omen’s longer teaching are Oscar Hammen, sawing and painting flats in the Association established the Lorraine who first joined the faculty in 1947, driveway behind the old shack that we Andrie Prize for Musical Excellence. and Phil Wright, a teacher since 1939. shared with journalism; our 10- or In accordance with their wishes, the They are marvels and models for us 12-foot-high proscenium arch and all music faculty names the recipient, who all. the headaches and good times; our must have been an active participant in Howard E. Reinhardt road show to Hamilton, Bozeman, either the M issoula Symphony Dean o f Arts and Sciences Butte, and Helena—especially Helena Orchestra or the Symphony Chorale. with the D evil’s Disciple. Our set, The list o f students honored by this geared to our home stage, was lost on prize is a distinguished one. the professional stage (I don’t recall the W e are gathering funds here at the A tale of two women theater’s name), but the house University to honor Lorraine and will As I was looking at your Classnotes stagehands improvised with a stock set then transfer them to the W omen’s section o f the M ontanan, I recognized and, as stage manager, I did not have Association so that the Lorraine Andrie an old photo on pg. 20 in the Summer time to warn the cast. After the initial Prize for Musical Excellence can ’85 issue—the one o f the two women at shock, they performed beautifully. It becom e an endowed fund, thereby the railroad station. would be a thrill to hear from som e o f guaranteeing the availability o f the I was curious to know where you the former Masquers. Maybe you could prize for many generations to come. com e across the old photos—in files or help revive some fond memories from That will be a small part o f do people send them to you? those playbills that I donated at our Lorraine’s immortality. Anyway, the one lady in the photo at 50th reunion last year. A few names Donald W. Simmons right is my mother. I called her in that com e to mind—Pete Meloy, Les Chairman, Department o f Music Drummond, Montana, to confirm it. Pace, Ruth Wallace, Lina Greene. She had to think awhile and called me Jerome C. Frankel ’34 back when she remembered who she Cleveland, Ohio Around the Oval

John Fields and Nancy Fields O’Connor, both of Los Angeles, admire one of their grandfather’s photos during the opening recep­ tion for the Fred E. Miller Exhibition in the Gallery of Visual Arts.

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Fields family in spotlight financial assistance from the National editor o f the Missoulian, criticizing a Endowment for the Arts, the National particular word usage or poking fun at at Homecoming exhibit Endowment for the Humanities and a certain county budget item. Through the perseverance of Nancy UGO. The collection o f Miss Johnson’s Fields O ’Connor, *51, visitors at U M ’s papers offers a valuable resource to Gallery of Visual Arts this fall were students, faculty and visitors wishing to able to view a rare collection o f turn- Dorothy M. Johnson study the works o f one o f Montana’s of-the-century photographs o f the Crow Collection dedicated in most prolific and talented authors. Indians o f Montana. Mansfield Library The photos were taken by O ’Connor’s grandfather, Fred E. When Missoula author Dorothy M. UM Foundation modifies Miller, who was a government clerk on Johnson died in 1984, UM was South African investments the Crow reservation from 1898 to privileged to be bequeathed the papers 1910. of this outspoken doyenne of Western In August, UM became the first The exhibit, “Fred E. Miller: story-telling. public college in Montana to show Photographer o f the Crow s,’’ featured Oct. 11 marked the dedication o f the opposition to South Africa’s apartheid 102 o f Miller’s remarkably straightfor­ Dorothy M. Johnson Collection, located policy by divesting itself of holdings in ward, almost snapshot-like photos in the K. Ross T oole Archives o f the companies doing business in that depicting the Crow s during their Mansfield Library. The collection country that have not signed the transition to life on the reservation. includes Miss Johnson’s Sullivan Principles—ethical guidelines Recovering the glass plate negatives correspondence, research notes, book providing for equal treatment of South for Miller’s photos posed a and article manuscripts, speeches, Africa’s black majority. considerable challenge for O ’Connor, photos and som e o f her writing awards. UM Foundation trustees voted to wife o f actor/producer/director Carroll A one-time assistant professor at withdraw investments in two such O ’Connor, ’56. UM ’s journalism school, Miss Johnson companies, Chesebrough-Ponds Inc. When Miller died, 500 o f his wrote sixteen books and more than 100 and Fruehauf International. These firms negatives were sold for a paltry sum at short stories during her long, illustrious had not endorsed the Sullivan Principles. a court-ordered public auction. In career. Perhaps most well known are In its resolution, the Foundation 1980, Nancy Fields O ’Connor was able her stories “The Hanging Tree,’’ “The condemned South Africa’s racial to round pp the 140 plates still in Man W ho Shot Liberty Valance’’ and segregation as a “direct violation of existence. “A Man Called Horse,’’ which were human rights.” On Oct. 11, as part of Homecoming made into movies starring such famous Foundation board members adopted a festivities, UM held a reception actors as Gary Cooper, John Wayne, four-part policy to: endorse the Sullivan celebrating the exhibit and made a Jimmy Stewart and Richard Harris. Principles; identify and withdraw UM presentation honoring still another UM Not all Miss Johnson’s tales holdings in companies doing business graduate and member of the Fields concerned cowboys, however. She also in South Africa that have not endorsed family: Hulda Fields, ’27 , daughter of wrote about Native Americans and the principles; refuse to invest in any Fred Miller and mother of Nancy topics of special interest to children and corporation doing business in South Fields O ’Connor and John Fields. history buffs. Africa that has not signed the principles The exhibit was presented by the Ever eager to share her opinions, agreement; and review Foundation School o f Fine Arts and UGO M iss Johnson managed to find time to policy annually, making additional Productions Inc. o f Los Angeles with dash off scores of droll letters to the recommendations. Around the Oval

Ted Delaney Fund language skills nationally during recent in journalism at UM. decades. Those who wish to contribute to the established in journalism “He would have loved the idea of fund should send their checks to the A fund to heighten public this fund,’’ she said. Ted Delaney Fund for Writing appreciation of language skills and Charles Hood, journalism dean, said Excellence in care of the University of improve writing competency in a fund o f sufficient size will permit the Montana Foundation, Missoula, MT journalism and other professions has journalism school to sponsor yearly 59812. All contributions are tax- been established by the University of writing symposiums and workshops and deductible. Donors may contribute Montana Foundation in memory of bring nationally prominent writing and through the University o f Montana Theodore Delaney, Missoula langauge experts to campus as lecturers Campaign or the Excellence Fund, not businessman and 1947 graduate o f the and workshop leaders. Writing only this year but in succeeding years. UM School of Journalism. workshops will be conducted not only They need only to specify this wish to Delaney, president o f Delaney’s for journalists but also for the general the UM Foundation. Office Products, died July 29 of public and for students and leukemia. He was a former president of professionals from other disciplines, Missoula Red Lion makes the UM Alumni Association. such as business, law, medicine, The Delaney family established the forestry and creative writing. $10,000 Campaign gift fund with a $10,000 gift, which they In accordance with Mary Jean The University of Montana Campaign hope will be supplemented substantially Delaney’s wishes, the fund also will be has received a $10,000 gift from the through additional private contributions used to provide scholarships for Red Lion Inn of Missoula. and a journalism school fund-raising journalism graduate teaching assistants, Gary Kohler, general manager o f the effort. whose addition to the teaching staff will M issoula Red Lion Inn, said his Mary Jean Maclay Delaney, a 1948 mean more individual writing com pany’s gift was given in UM graduate, said her husband, Ted, instruction for undergraduate journalism “appreciation for what the University “loved good writing and maintained a students. The first Delaney Teaching has done for Missoula, especially what lifetime interest in and admiration for Fellow will be Tom Lackey, an it means to the business community. In people who could communicate Associated Press reporter in the Helena helping to make this campaign a effectively.’’ He was concerned, she bureau who is taking a leave of success, all o f us (in Missoula) benefit said, about the deterioration of absence to complete his master’s degree from that success.’’ Plan Your Vacation in Montana!

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Something to cheer about this year was dry rush at UM. The luterfrateruity C ou n cil banned b o o ze du rin g rush fo r the first time in many years. In keeping with national trends, the fraternities felt this would attract students interested in other aspects o f fraternity life and improve pledge retention. Members o f Phi Delta Theta swilling the light staff were Rich Grisham o f Great Falls, Chip Wbetherly o f Athens, Ga., and Darren Coldwell of Troy.

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Burlington Northern University o f Munich in 1963. A 1981. The Montana Writing Project is honors UN faculty faculty member since 1970, Borgmann a teacher-training program that has President Neil S. Bucklew announced has concentrated his studies in the past received both regional and national the recipients o f the first Burlington twelve years on the effects of praise for its contributions to excellence Northern Foundation Faculty technology and science on society. in public education. Achievement Awards during his annual The focus o f Borgmann’s work Chin teaches both graduate and convocation address Oct. 11 in the recognized by the Burlington Northern undergraduate courses, supervises Montana Theatre of the Performing Foundation Faculty Achievement graduate student research and Arts/Radio-Television Center. Award is his book, Technology and the publication, contributes to the The $2,500 cash awards were Character o f Contemporary Life, University’s General Education presented to Albert Borgmann, published in 1984. The American Program, and works with Montana professor of philosophy; Beverly Ann Philosophical Association has scheduled teachers and professional associations. Chin, associate professor of English; a May 1986 symposium to explore the She has been able to obtain funding and Linda Frey, professor of history implications o f Borgmann’s work in from seventeen school districts around and chair o f the history department. this area. the state for the Montana Writing The Burlington Northern Foundation In addition to his scholarship and Project. grant provides for three faculty awards teaching responsibilities, Borgmann has Linda Frey to be presented each year for the next been a member of the Mansfield Linda Frey, professor of history, three years. The awards focus on two Director Search Committee, the Faculty received her doctorate from Ohio State areas: achievement in teaching, Senate, the Ethics Task Force for the University in 1971 and joined the UM characterized by “exceptional General Education Program, and the Department o f History the same year. performance in the development of new Linguistics Committee, among others. Her award recognizes her extensive courses or new instructional techniques; In March 1985 he was named research published this past year. A special contributions to the General Humanist o f the Year by the Montana biography Frey co-authored with her Education program; or other indications Committee for the Humanities. sister Marsha Frey, titled Federick I: o f extraordinary success in Borgmann and his wife, Nancy, have The Man and His Times, has been undergraduate teaching, graduate three daughters and make their home in published in both English and German teaching, student research supervision, Missoula. translations. Frey also completed or a combination o f these’’; and in Volume II o f her study, W omen in achievement in scholarship or creative Beverly Ann Chin activity, characterized by “one or more Professor Chin received her doctorate Western European History: A Select outstanding publications, exhibits, or from the University o f Oregon in 1975 Chronological, Geographical, and performances, or other indications of and joined the UM English department Topical Bibliography: The Nineteenth scholarly or creative achievement.’’ in 1981. and Twentieth Centuries. The study, Only full-time and tenure-track Her award recognizes her classroom co-authored with Marsha Frey and faculty are eligible for the grants, ability as well as her other Joanne Schneider, has been published which are administered by the UM contributions to teaching. Included in in London, Tokyo, Singapore and Foundation. the latter are her chairmanship o f the Australia, as well as the United States. academic standards and curriculum Frey is working on another book, Albert B orgm ann committee, her supervision of the Evolution o f Diplomatic Immunity, and Professor Borgmann was bom and dissertation research project in the has published or presented three papers raised in Germany and earned his School of Education, and direction of during the past year in addition to doctorate in philosophy from the the Montana Writing Project since teaching at the University. Around the Oval

half from campus. It is designed so that always had a keen interest in the a dome may be added at some future University, both in the law school and date. athletics, and was a devoted follower of The UM Foundation, which is fund­ UM sports programs. Mrs. Blomgren ing the stadium project as part of its $6 said that it was “especially fitting that million University of Montana Cam­ this fund be available for a UM student paign, made the decision to proceed in the law school.’’ with construction after receiving a gift Boone is also survived by a son, o f $1 million from Missoula’s Thomas H. Boone, an attorney with the Washington Corporations. Missoula firm of Boone, Karlberg & Haddon. The William T. Boone Memorial William T. Boone Fund Fund will be administered by the UM will help law students Foundation with the assistance o f the University Scholarship Committee and A $25,000 endowment has been set the UM law school. up through the University o f Montana Foundation to provide scholarships in the University’s law school and support the educational goals o f its students. UM ’s four acting deans The W illiam T. B oone Memorial Four UM schools had acting deans at Fund has been established by Virginia the start o f the 1985-86 academic year: H. Boone of Big Arm in honor and forestry, law, business and education. memory of her husband. Former forestry school Dean Ben­ Boone was a successful, respected jamin B. Stout resigned Sept. 17 to member o f the Montana Bar from 1933 take a research administration jo b in to 1984. For m ore than fifty years, he New York City. enjoyed practicing law and was an Sid Frissell, associate dean of the unusually talented trial lawyer. His forestry school, was appointed acting President Neil Bucklew turns the first shovelful o f dirt during groundbreaking cerem onies for colleagues mention the even dean. Frissell has been a professor of the new Washington-Grizzly stadium as the temperament, keen intellect, great forestry at UM eighteen years and stadium's principal donor, Dennis Washington, compassion and complete integrity associate dean of the school the past lo o k s on. Boone showed in both his law practice five years. He specializes in wildlife and private life. habitat. According to Mrs. Boone, those are Law school Dean John Mudd will Groundbreaking held characteristics desirable in recipients of spend the year at New York’s Colum ­ for new football stadium this memorial scholarship fund. bia University researching law school Although financial need may be curriculum reform. During his absence, The University o f Montana’s new considered, the primary purpose of the UM law Professor Margery Brown is 14,000-seat Washington-Grizzly Foot­ fund is to provide the recipient an acting dean. ball Stadium is on its way to becoming incentive to achieve academic Brown has been on the law school a reality. Ground-breaking ceremonies excellence and to become a successful faculty since 1976 and teaches courses were held Oct. 5 on the site of the new and respected lawyer. A ccording to the in Indian, public land, and natural- stadium, east of Harry Adams Field terms o f the fund, the scholarship will resource law. House. Among those present were UM be awarded annually, preferably to one Former business school Dean Paul President Neil S. Bucklew; Athletic outstanding student. Blomgren retired in June. UM manage­ Director Harley Lewis; Dennis Boone served in World War II. ment Professor Bob Connole is tem­ Washington, owner and president of During his law career, he was inducted porarily filling the jo b o f dean. Washington Corporations and the major as a fellow into the prestigious Connole chaired the management donor to the new facility; and Exec­ American College of Trial Lawyers. department o f UM ’s business ad­ utive Director o f the UM Foundation He also served as chairman of the ministration school from 1970-76. Bill Zader. Missoula County High School board of UM lost another dean this past sum­ According to W. Michael Easton, trustees and served on the board of mer — former education school Dean UM vice president for university rela­ education for the state o f Montana. John Pulliam. Pulliam took a job as tions, the early October ground break­ Education—the education of young education dean at the University o f ing means the Grizzlies will be able to lawyers in particular—was a driving Arkansas in Fayetteville. play in the new stadium next fall. C on­ force in his life. Kathy Miller, professor o f health and struction is scheduled to take about Boone graduated from the UM physical education, is acting dean of fifty-five weeks. School of Law and also served as the education school. On the UM The stadium will replace Dom- visiting professor at the University. faculty eight years, she teaches blaser Stadium, built sixteen years ago According to his daughter, Marcia biomechanics, measurement, statistics as a temporary facility a mile and a Boone Blomgren of Missoula, he and research.

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the Montana Democratic Party during Considered’’ program, spoke on “The Journalism senior wins the 1985 Legislature. Last May he won Making of an NPR Documentary: Congressional internship the Lee Newspapers’ Don Anderson ‘Good-Bye, Saigon,’ ” covering the fall o f Saigon during the Vietnam war. David G. Fenner o f Helena, a senior Award as one of the journalism David Fitzpatrick, CBS News in journalism and managing editor o f sch ool’s top students. national editor, discussed “Deciding the Montana Kaimin this fall, has won Fenner’s internship begins Feb. 1, What’s News” on Oct. 9, focusing on a 1986 Sears Congressional Internship 1986. how decisions are made on what to Washington, D.C. constitutes the nightly news report. The internship is sponsored by Sears, Roebuck and Co. and gives outstanding Lectures highlight junior and senior Homecoming week journalism students the opportunity to Am ong the many highlights o f spend three months Hom ecom ing week were the public on the staff o f a lectures given in the Montana Theater U.S. senator or by prominent representatives of the representative, broadcasting and entertainment Fenner is the twentieth UM industries. The lectures were part of journalism student selected for the the week-long events surrounding the program since it began in 1969. He is dedication of the new Performing one of twenty-five students selected in Arts/Radio-Television Center on a national competition of candidates campus. nominated by accredited journalism Actor, director and producer Peter schools. He was the only student Fonda, who makes his home near selected from a university in the Livingston, spoke on the dedication Northwest, and one o f only five from theme, “The Arts and Telecommunica­ universities in the West. tions in Rural America: Roles and Fenner has been a reporter for the Responsibilities,’’ on Oct. 9. Kaimin, a reporting and editing intern Art Silverman, producer of National Skaggs Howard for the Missoulian, and an intern for Public Radio’s “All Things Peter Fonda lectures to a drama class.

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Former graduate dean and wife of UM alumnus and actor Registrar Phil Bain. “There are simply Carroll O ’Connor; and Dr. Bruce receives Pantzer Award fewer college-age students. This is true Vorhauer, president and founder of both in Montana and around the John Stewart, former dean o f the VLI Laboratories. country generally.” UM Graduate School, received the The UM Foundation is a non-profit Most of the drop came in out-of-state Robert T. Pantzer Award at the Alumni corporation that raises money for UM students. Students from Montana Awards Banquet during Homecoming. scholarships, professorships, new declined only 1 percent from 6,883 a The award, which was presented by buildings, research, equipment and year ago to 6,813 this fall. President Neil Bucklew, is given various other programs. annually to a person “who has The Foundation’s board o f trustees contributed substantially to making the consists of thirty-three professionals Fall sports highlights University a more open and humane nationwide who convene semi-annually The highlight o f the fall sports season learning environment. ’ ’ to guide the operation o f the has been the Lady Griz volleyball The UM Foundation established the Foundation. team’s performance. UM is 18-8 award in 1975 to honor Pantzer, overall and 5-0 in conference play and president of the University from 1966 has an 11-match win streak. A m ong the to 1974. Excellence Fund drive top wins were a five-game victory over The award consists of a certificate nears Missoula goal defending Division II national champion and an honorarium. Don Chugg, chairman o f the Portland State and a team championship Born in Vermillion, S.D., Stewart University of Montana’s Excellence in the Houston Invitational. came to Missoula when his father Fund drive, announced that 70 percent The men’s cross country is also off became UM athletic director. He of the Missoula campaign goal has to a go od start, claim ing team titles in earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry been raised as of the end of October. the Montana State Invitational and the at the University in 1941 and in 1944 “We have received $72,513 in gifts University o f Washington Invitational. received a doctorate in organic and pledges toward our goal of Senior Ken Velasquez of Oregon City, chemistry from the University of $105,000. That includes nearly $10,000 Ore., was the individual winner in the Illinois. from University staff and faculty Washington Invitational and the Fort In 1946, Stewart becam e an assistant members,’’ Chugg said. Casey Invitational, where the team professor o f chemistry at UM and in The Excellence Fund kicked off Oct. finished third. 1955 a full professor of chemistry. 3 and Chugg said he hopes to wrap up The Lady Griz cross country team He then served as UM chemistry the local portion o f the drive in has had some good performances department chairman from 1958 to November. despite key injuries. UM finished 1967 and as dean o f the graduate “We are well ahead o f last year’s second in both the MSU Invitational school from 1968 to 1977. During his drive in terms o f contributions received and the Eastern Washington Invitational tenure as dean, Stewart supervised a by this date, and w e hope to conclude and third at Fort Casey. major expansion of UM graduate the campaign in record time,” Chugg At press time, the football team is programs and worked to ensure their said. 2-6 overall and 1-4 in the Big Sky high quality. The Missoula campaign is a major Conference. The wins came against Cal In the summers o f 1975 and 1981, he part o f the Excellence Fund’s State-Fullerton and conference rival was UM’s acting academic vice nationwide effort to raise unrestricted Idaho State. president, and for the past few years he money for the University. The has aided the University’s faculty Excellence Fund will also conduct a evaluation process. Lubrecht Center earns phonathon and direct-mail drives as Stewart and his wife, Gene, have part of a year-long effort to raise conservation award homes in Missoula and Placid Lake. $275,000. The University o f Montana’s The Excellence Fund drive is Lubrecht Forest Research Center was New Foundation trustees administered by the UM Foundation, a the focus o f a national award for non-profit corporation that raises energy innovation from the Department During its semi-annual meeting this money on behalf o f the University. o f Environmental Quality (D.O.E.) in summer, the University of Montana Washington, D.C. The recipient o f the Foundation Board of Trustees award, Davidson/Kuhr Architects of nominated five new trustees to serve on Enrollment down slightly Great Falls, designed the center. the board. Fall quarter enrollment was 8,989, Electrical and mechanical engineering Accepting nominations for the three- down 2.4 percent from last fall’s head on the project was handled by Bergoust year terms were Tom Boone, a count. Enrollment was nevertheless the Engineers and Company Inc., of Missoula attorney with the firm of fourth highest in U M ’s history and Missoula. Boone, Karlberg & Haddon; Bruce higher than any enrollment before The award, presented in a ceremony Madsen of Great Falls, president of 1981-82. Nov. 6 in Washington, D.C., was one D.A. Davidson; Earl Morgenroth, The final enrollment figure came as of several awards given nationwide by president of Western Investments and no surprise to University officials. the D.O.E. to encourage energy founder o f the Morgenroth Scholarship “Enrollment dropped about as w e’ve conservation and innovation. Three at UM; Nancy O ’Connor, UM alumna been projecting it would,” said UM entries were submitted from Montana. Growing up female in Charlie Russell country

By Mary C learm an Blew I grew up in Charlie i same sense of irrevoc­ Russell country—which able loss: the West is is to say, the Judith lost, changed, tamed, Basin country of Mon­ altered beyond recog­ tana. But to me, nition and altered for “Charlie Russell coun­ the worse. This is the try” is not just a land­ myth o f the lone tragic scape, but a way o f hero; the myth of viewing a landscape; paradise lost. Most of not only a physical us in Montana recog­ location, but a state o f nize this myth and mind, even a way o f respond to it on a living one’s life. This deeply felt level. Our special way in which a most famous novelist, group of people give A.B. Guthrie Jr., shape and meaning to depicts it again and themselves and their again. From the place in the world, I defiling of the. wil­ may call myth. derness in The Big Sky Above all, this myth through the testing and is male—individual­ changing of old istic, romantic, danger­ Western values in ous and despairing. A rfive to the nostalgic The famous Russell return to the old story paintings loom up in o f innocence and my imagination today, betrayal in F a ir Land, each with its vision of F a ir Land, Guthrie the lone man pitted repeats the theme o f against a threatening loss and despair. environment: the Such heritage and wagon boss riding into such a deeply felt the sunset on the bluff above Fort Benton, the horse thieves mythology has contributed to a Montana literature of a blazing away with Winchesters in their last stand, the bronc depth, breadth, and quality o f which no other western state fighters, the trappers, the highwaymen, the Indians. It is can boast. A recent anthology of western writers includes the brevity of the moment that accounts for the emotional nine Montanans out o f seventeen selections. Particularly in force of a painting like “Laugh Kills Lonesome.” Looking the last fifteen years, the wealth of writing emanating from at the heavy midnight blues, w e already know that night Montana surprises even the staff of the University of has overtaken the figures highlighted in the glow o f their Montana MFA program which, of course, has generated campfire and that what remains is our own wistfulness for much of this creative energy. None of our neighboring a lost moment of couiage and laughter in the face of states can boast, along with the Pulitzer Prize-winning despair. Guthrie, a Richard Hugo, a Norman MacLean, a James Russell’s short stories, sketches and letters all echo the Welch, an Ivan Doig, a William Kittredge—and these are only the first names on a grow ing list. representing the ex-wife. During the past year I have been working with a group She inquires as to the number and nature o f my friend’s of writers and scholars who are planning the publication of publications; I explain in detail. a comprehensive anthology o f Montana art and literature. Now she pounces. “Isn’t it true,’’ she demands, “that One of the benefits of this experience has been to give me good writing requires long periods of quiet uninterrupted the opportunity to reread many old favorites and to meet time? Isn’t that incompatible with good parenting?’’ many new ones. I had supposed I knew the literature of Even today, several years after the event, I cannot Montana fairly well. But lately I have been amazed at the adequately describe the turmoil o f conflicting emotions I sheer volume o f material I never had com e across until experienced at that moment. Here I was, under oa th - now. mother of three children and author of dozens o f published My biggest surprise, however, came at one o f the short stories and articles, even a book—and was I to say planning meetings. We were working our way down an that all this creative achievement had been at the expense impressive list of contemporary short fiction writers— of my children? Or was I to insist that I had been a good Kittredge, MacLean, DeMarinis, Ford, Quammen—when mother because, after all, my writing was merely pick-up someone said, “These are all male writers. The only work, nothing to alarm anyone? woman on the list is Mary Clearman Blew.’’ I replied at last that I supposed long periods o f quiet It was true. W omen poets, yes. And older fiction uninterrupted time would be helpful to any writer. I would writers—Mildred Walker, certainly, and Dorothy Johnson. have liked to have added that I wished I had some, but I Grace Stone Coates and Naomi Lane Babson. Writers of wasn’t given the chance. children’s books. Writers of reminiscences. Scholars. But “That’s all!’’ she trumpeted. “Case rests!’’ the fact remains that virtually all contemporary fiction in That wasn’t all, o f course. The case eventually was Montana is being written by men. I am not sure whether I settled on grounds other than the question o f whether was more surprised that few wom en in Montana are writing well makes one an unfit parent. What remains in writing fiction, or that I never had noticed it until someone my memory is the look o f absolute certainty on that else pointed it out. Certainly I have been thinking a great attorney’s face as she sprang her trap. O f course a good deal about it ever since. parent wouldn’t have time to write! Even a woman who There is no obvious reason why. In the rest of the writes has to admit that! United States, including the West, as well as in Canada and I think many of us would be less certain than she was of Great Britain, some of the most impressive fiction being such an absolute contradiction. Many o f us of both sexes written is by women. Indeed, a case could be made that might also agree that we would accomplish very little if we short fiction in the twentieth century has been dominated waited for long periods of quiet uninterrupted time in by women. S o why, in the midst o f a literary renaissance which to work. O f course it is true that women historically in Montana that is the envy o f our neighborhood states, are have been responsible for m ore than their share o f Montana women not writing fiction? domestic drudgery, and it also is true that they have been Is it because of discrimination in the way women in blighted by the cultural expectations Virginia W oolf Montana have been taught, not only in the public schools characterized as “the angel in the house.’’ I cannot but especially in the creative writing program in Missoula believe, however, that women in Montana have less time which has nurtured so many of the men? than women elsewhere, and women elsewhere are finding No, I don’t think so. Not that discrimination has not time to write fiction. It is arguable that they might be existed and doesn’t still. There can be few women of my writing more, or writing better, or that more would be generation who cannot cite example after example of the writing if they had the time, but they are not silent. Time, subtle to the not-so-subtle. My own favorite story is the or a false choice between creativity and parenthood, is not time I went to an autograph party at a local bookstore for a a sufficient explanation. famous writer, male of course, and quite elderly; and when The real anomaly of the question, and one which I I came up with my copy of his book to be signed, the believe provides at least a clue to the answer, is that it is owner o f the bookstore introduced me: “Mary writes, in contemporary fiction alone that one finds few women too!’’ The old man took me by the hand, gazed into my writers in Montana. Consider for one minute the huge eyes, and rasped, “You’re too pretty to write!’’ outpouring we have seen in the past fifteen years which I Discrimination is not pretty, but women elsewhere have loosely categorize as homestead reminiscence. This material written in spite of it. Montana women have made great originates in every comer of Montana, and a great deal of progress in other fields in spite of discrimination. I cannot it has been written by women. believe it is the reason they aren’t writing fiction. The reminiscence literature, as one might expect, focuses What, then, about the argument that women, being the upon the experiences of women. The anxieties of leaving primary nurturers o f children, don’t have time! to write? families and familiar ground to move west, the early years Another story. This time I am on the witness stand in the o f hardship and loneliness, the cherishing of new friends, courtroom of the Missoula County Courthouse. I have the pleasures and perils of creating a home, rearing come as a character witness for a friend, male, who is children, planting a garden—these accounts recur again and locked in a custody battle with his ex-wife over their eight- again. None o f it lacks the potential, at least, for fiction, year-old daughter. I have testified that yes, my friend is a and all o f it rings with the writer’s conviction that she has respected professional and a fine scholar. As evidence I a story to tell and an experience to be given shape. have cited his wide range of publications which have A typical example is Belvina Williamson Bertino’s The earned him a great deal of regard in his field. Now I am Scissorbills: a True Story o f Montana’s Homesteaders, in being cross-examined by the attorney, female, who is which she records the lives of her parents, who raised

10 eleven children near Dodson, Montana, and “who with Thousand Hills or Margaret Carson in Arfive, savageiy faith and perseverance settled Montana’s plains country and punished when they dare to break the patterns of developed for their children and for posterity a new, raw conventional behavior. land into what is now one o f the leading agricultural states Such a view of women is consistent with the myth of in the nation.”1 Another is Rimrock Land, in which Sister paradise lost. Even Guthrie’s good women are the Noemi Weygant details how, for years after her father gave instruments o f the civilization that has put an end to the old, up on the harsh life, her mother struggled to homestead rough, romantic male ways. “People would come seeking near Denton, Montana. “She saw not the grim and lonely homesites,” muses Collingsworth in Arfive. “The land about her, as did my father, but a magestic one that straggling forerunners, indeed, were already coming, excited her soul,” writes Sister Noemi. “So the conflict bringing plow s and grains and garden stuff and hope and between my parents, caused by the new Montana life for the seed o f their loins. When there were enough o f them, them, and the tensions that multiplied and increased in what would be left? What of the old times of uncluttered pressure, resulted in suffering for both of them ... To acres, or hope that no homesteader could hope for, of take off, as my father proposed to do, was to lose it. He blithe and unstudied assurance?”3 To contrast Guthrie’s didn’t care—but even the thought o f it seemed to break my language here with the language of Bertino or Weygant mother’s heart. And it wasn’t the land as a possession that with their emphasis on “faith and perseverance” or “food she wanted, to give her wealth or status or security. But it for the soul” is to underscore not only a vast and seemed to be food for her soul. . . .”2 significant difference in point of view, but to uncover a That short stories are not emerging from such a matrix basic and apparently unreconcilable conflict between male suggests to me that women in Montana are encountering and female writers at the level o f the myth. The woman some rather formidable obstacles between their own writer not only is told that her experience lacks validity but experience and the shaping of that experience into fiction. that it is anti-heroic. Many years ago I sat in a university creative writing We are a long way from a new series of novels about class and listened to the instructor dismiss the classic white settlement in Montana, for example, in which women Katherine Anne Porter short story “The Grave” on the might be portrayed not as the spoilers of romance, but as grounds that, being preoccupied with the birth process, it creators who struggle heroically in the face of every kind was characteristic o f women’s writing and therefore second o f hardship to build paradise in their own terms: rate. His opinion may have been extreme, but it certainly comfortable homes, loving families, gardens, schools, wasn’t unique. libraries; the very stuff of the homestead reminiscences. Too many women have been affected by that kind of We are a long way from such a series because we don’t drivel. I myself have written and published several short have the myth to sustain it. stories dealing with the process o f birth, but I certainly But it is crucial that we travel this road; it is crucial that never would have submitted one to that creative writing women writers in Montana find a voice and a way to shape instructor. No; the idea was to see how close we could fiction. William Bevis points out, “Either we consider all com e to writing like men; and I, being ranch-raised and social development as an evil and put our individual heads possessed of a rather different line of experience from in the sand, wishing that society would go away, or we see other women in my class, had a certain edge. One o f the society and government as part o f ourselves and try to first stories to earn me recognition had to do with the make it behave well. W e don’t really think that the lone explosive violence in a frustrated man’s conflict with an male fleeing all problems is a hero . . . We need not animal—in this case, trying to break a horse to ride—and despise our own kind. The point is to gain and keep the instructor urged me to submit it for publication using control of society, which includes not only women but my initials, not my first name. Knowing it was written by government, so that we treat our place well.”4 To treat our a woman would lead editors to doubt the story’s place well, to respect ourselves, to find a voice will, I authenticity. hope, mark the achievements of women writers in Charlie I am told that Dorothy Johnson once was given the same Russell country in the com ing years. advice, and that Dorothy, who is best known for her “masculine” subject matter in works like “The Man Who Notes Shot Liberty Valance” and “A Man Called Horse,” told B ertino, Belvina Williamson, The Scissorbills: a True them what they could do with their initials. My Story o f Montana’s Homesteaders (New York: Vantage horsebreaking story was accepted under my full name by Press, 1975), from the fore ward. Robley W ilson at the North American Review. 2Weygant, Sister Noemi, Rimrock Land (Duluth, But what is likely to happen to a young writer who is Minnesota: Priory Press, 1978), pp. 39-40. told that the experience which com es first-hand to her is 3G uthrie, A.B. Jr., A rfive (Boston: Houghton Mifflin unworthy of fiction? What happens when that young writer Co., 1970), p. 102. also chances to come of age in a territory where the myth 4Bevis, William, “Examining the Primitivist Myth o f the which provides the powerful emotional basis for a male West,” The Windmill, Vol. 8, no. 4, January-February fiction renaissance denies, by its very nature, the female 1985, p. 12. experience? What happens, in other words, when a writer grows up female in Charlie Russell country? Mary Clearman Blew received a BA in English and Latin from Russell’s treatment o f white women in his writing and UM in 1962 and an MA with an emphasis in creative writing in his paintings is sentimentally idealized. A.B. Guthrie’s 1963. She is a fiction writer and dean o f the School o f Arts and female characters also tend to be idealized. Those who are Sciences at Northern Montana College in Havre. This article is not submissive, loving wives are, like Callie Kash in These reprinted from Plainswoman magazine.

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H.G. Merriam His legacy lives on in UN's Creative Writing Program

By Ginny Merriam

The University of Montana in its early years was felt it was necessary. However, after a period of fortunate to attract a number o f faculty members whose adjustment, Merriam found that he liked the idea that a dedication and long-range vision helped to build the man educated himself, and later called it one of the greatest University into the respected institution it is today. H. G. lessons he learned at Oxford. Merriam was one of these people. He came to the After his first term at Oxford, he found that he disliked University as chairman o f the English department in 1919 science and decided, after long thought during his first and stayed until his retirement in 1954. During his thirty- vacation between terms, to abandon a medical career and to five years at UM, he encouraged many students of enter the Honour School of English Language and literature and writing and established Missoula as a Literature. There he studied linguistics and literature and nationally recognized center for creative writing and taught himself to think comparatively, instead of learning western expression in the fine arts. by rote as he had in the past. Harold Guy Merriam was born Sept. 6, 1883, in To illustrate how much stress was laid on the individual Westminster, Mass. When he was six years old, the family at Oxford, Merriam told of being assigned by a tutor to moved to Denver because the high elevation was read a certain scientific book. Knowing the book had been recommended by doctors for his mother’s health. His father written in German and had not been translated, Merriam bought a grocery store where Merriam helped out, told his tutor he could not read German. The tutor looked working behind the counter and delivering groceries in a at him witheringly and said, “You can buy a dictionary, horse-drawn wagon. can’t you?’’ Merriam did so, and struggled through the Merriam helped the struggling family economy with book, learning German as he read. small business ventures of his own, including selling the He received his B.A. from O xford in 1907 (he later afternoon edition of The Denver Post on a street comer. received his M.A. in 1912) and returned home to Laramie Three papers went for a nickel, on which he made about after some traveling in Europe. In the spring of 1908, he one cent profit. was appointed instructor of English at Whitman College. Merriam entered East Denver High School in 1898. There he taught twenty-one hours a week and also served Intending to become a medical doctor and with his heart set as the drama coach for the grand salary of $1,000 for his on Yale, he chose the high school classics curriculum to two-year appointment. prepare himself for college. The course of study required After teaching at Whitman, Merriam went to Harvard four years o f Latin, three of Greek, four of English, two University o f Austin Teaching Fellowship for the year of French, and history, science and mathematics. O f o f 1910-11 and then was an instructor o f English at Beloit twenty-eight original students, he was one of only three College in Wisconsin from 1911 to 1913. who managed to complete the difficult curriculum. In 1913, Merriam went to Reed College in Portland as In 1902, Merriam went to the University of Wyoming in an assistant professor o f English. It was there that he first Laramie to continue his preparation for a medical career. began to coach students to write creatively outside of his In the spring of 1904, a geology professor encouraged him regular teaching duties. There he also met Doris Foote, to take the examination for a Rhodes scholarship to who was his wife for m ore than fifty years. Pleased with Oxford. He was accepted, and that fall at the age o f 20 the atmosphere of independent learning at Reed, he stayed he left for England with the first group of American until 1917, when he went to France as a YMCA worker in Rhodes scholars. They sailed for Liverpool on Sept. 28 at the French army during WW I. During this time he taught a cost of $64 each. English to French officers. Later describing himself as “an ignorant amateur in In 1919, Merriam came to the University of Montana as almost everything,’’ Merriam found his studies at Oxford chairman of the English department. Finding that from very demanding and wrote that he had trouble adjusting to 1905 to 1919 Montana had sent no Rhodes scholars to the British people and their manners and sense of humor. Oxford, he became the secretary of the Montana Rhodes At Oxford, students were much less supervised than in the Scholar Selection Committee, on which he served many United States, spending most of their time in independent years past his retirement in 1954. During those years, reading and attending the optional lectures only when they Montana always had Rhodes scholars at Oxford.

13 Nathaniel Blumberg, dean of the School of Journalism from 1956 to 1968 and also a Rhodes scholar, served on the selection committee with Merriam for several years. He remembers Merriam as “a tribute to what the Rhodes scholar should be” and says Merriam’s encouragement was largely responsible for UM ’s outstanding record in sending good candidates to Oxford. Merriam’s dedication to the Rhodes scholarship continued Under Merriam's until the end o f his life. In 1978, when he was 95 years old and recuperating from a broken hip, he traveled to New York City to attend the Seventy-Fifth Dinner o f guidance, UM Celebration for Rhodes Scholars. He was the only surviving member of his class at Oxford. During spring quarter of 1920, Merriam began a class in began offering a creative writing, the first o f its kind at UM, which had a total enrollment o f five students. The class published a B.A. degree in literary magazine, The Montanan, which became The F ron tier with the second issue. Merriam’s idea was to encourage creative writing among students and to provide a creative writing forum for literature that was distinctly western. His idea worked, and the publication was the campus literary magazine until 1927, when it passed out o f student hands and became a regional magazine of the Pacific Northwest. In 1932, it m erged with a Seattle poetry magazine, the Muse and Mirror, and in 1933 with The Midland. Frontier and Midland was published until 1939, and many Montana writers began their careers writing for it, including Dorothy M. Johnson and A. B. Guthrie Jr. Under Merriam’s guidance, UM began offering a bachelor’s degree in creative writing in 1929, one o f the first in the United States. Later the University was among the first to offer credit for graduate work in creative writing and its M.F.A. program continues to draw students from across the country. In 1930, Merriam set up a conference o f writers for the summer session, also among the first o f its kind. The conferences ran for four summers and then again for about ten years beginning in the late 1940s. Attracting writers such as Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Bernard Malamud and John Mason Brown, as well as faculty members like Leslie Fiedler, the meetings helped H.G. Merriam in his early 20s. to establish Missoula as a literary oasis in the West. The UM College of Arts and Sciences split into four divisions in 1933 and Merriam became the head o f the humanities division. In this capacity, he worked for several years to promote interdepartmental studies among the divisions, but with little success. Also during the 1930s, he was head o f the W.P.A.’s Federal Writers Project in Montana for one year. In 1939, he earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Merriam founded the Montana Institute o f the Arts in 1948 and served as its first president from 1948 to 1950. During his career and after his retirement, he edited several books, an anthology called Northwest Verse; Way Out West; Recollections o f Charley Russell; The University o f Montana: A History; Frontier Woman; and M ontana Adventure: Recollections o f Frank B. Linderman. He also wrote and published two verse histories before his death in 1980, The Golden Valley: Missoula to 1 8 8 3 and The L ong Friendship. Merriam’s tenure at UM was not without its troubles. In 1939, he taught at the University o f Oregon after resigning under pressure from UM’s president, George Finlay 14 Simmons, whose appointment as president Merriam had opposed. The two men could never agree on matters such as Merriam’s defense o f what had been called “immoral literature’’ by critics o f the University and on decisions about teaching staff and curricula. However, Merriam bufiab couub be cniceiv returned after one year, and his resignation was later changed to a leave of absence. Although sometimes considered autocratic in his methods, Merriam was always tftatv (uaifb? respected for his dedication and sense of fairness. Merriam was also a loving though sometimes stern father to his two children, Alan and Allison, and a devoted husband to his wife Doris, to whom he was married until her death in 1970. At home, away from his public position at the University, Merriam was a reserved man who was always busy and who possessed a wry wit that was betrayed by a frequent twinkle in his blue eyes. An avid gardener, he could be seen working in the yard of his house near the University after his retirement, his tall, thin figure moving about among his prized irises, hollyhocks and other flowers. As a grandfather, he was both wonderful and, at times, awe-inspiring. Although we grandchildren were mostly unaware of his professional importance when we were J /l cmatcninfmft. young, we were conscious of a certain air about him that commanded respect. As we grew up, we came to recognize this patient man with the deep chuckle and sweet-smelling pipe as someone who was important to many others besides us, someone we wanted to be proud of us. We looked forward to our visits to his house and to our chats with him in his study, where he kindly let us interrupt his work. As children, we especially looked forward to his visits to our summer cabin at Lake M cDonald in Glacier Park. He would arrive laden with bags of candy, a wheel of cheddar cheese, and, usually, a watermelon. He loved the Park and took delight in fishing with our father and in lying in the sun on the warm rocks of our beach. Despite his reserve, Merriam was not without his surprises. In 1974, at the age o f 90, he married Frances Logan, whom he described to us as “a spring chicken of 74 years.’’ Unfortunately, his health began to fail in the 'Tis the season to make your tax-deductible next few years. Though he had bouts with illness and a contribution to the Excellence Fund. And if you broken hip, he remained as sharp as ever and continued to work for one of the more than 800 companies that sponsor matching gift programs, your gift to the work on various projects until the end of his life. In March University of Montana could double or even triple. of 1980, the death o f his son in an airplane crash in Poland was too much for him, and he died twelve days later, his If you would like more information on your body simply worn out after 96 years of living. company's matching gift program write: Sallie Sinclair Maclay Brutto, ’29 , a poet who recently published What News from the Pleiades ?, which she The Excellence Fund dedicated to Merriam, recalls his reading of poetry in class University of Montana Foundation as being “inspired.” Merriam’s genius lay in his ability to 600 University Avenue recognize and coach young writers and to help them Missoula, MT 59812 establish a literary tradition in the West. In the dedication We will send you a free brochure listing matching of her book, she writes of his reading from Robert gift companies nationwide. Companies that believe Browning’s “Saul” to her class in 1928 and saying to the in a strong higher education system. students, “By George, that’s great stuff!” Brutto writes, “Poetry came alive for m e at that moment m ore than fifty And from all of us, Happy Holidays! years ago.” That is how H. G. Merriam spent his long life, making writing and writers come alive.

Ginny Merriam is a sen ior in the School o f Journalism and is the granddaughter o f H. G. Merriam.

15 Clockwise from top: Connie Corette Kenney *60 o f Butte, president o f the UM Alumni Association, admires a pottery lamp at the fair with Jody Crum baker Mercer ’60 and Wally M ercer *60 o f Billinas, Strolling around campus were Bob Helding ’50 o f Missoula, Harry Farrington *50 o f Kalispell, Joanne Helding s ’52 and Kathy Farrington s'52. Hundreds o f alumni toured the new Perform ing Arts/Radio-Television Center. President Neil Bucklew and Alumni Director Sheila MacDonald Stearns *68 toast John Fields *51 and Nancy Fields O'Connor *51 during a reception in honor o f their grandfather’s (Fred E. Miller) photographic exhibit. Tim *60 and Darlene Cunningham Grattan *60 ofW biteBsb came dressed appropriately for Homecoming in their raccoon coats. ASUM President Bill M ercer o f Billings, left, chats with Pat *59 and Maury Colberg *59 o f Billings. The cheerleaders bad something to cheer about as the Grizzlies beat Idaho State. (Photos by Virginia Braun) 16 Y o u g o tta nave Clockwise from top: Homecoming King Shane Sanders, a junior psychology major from Springdale, and Queen Karen Winslow, a senior business a dministra tion/economics major from Helena, ride in style down Higgins Avenue during Saturday's parade. This little Corvette was a big hit. The sweepstakes winner from Bonner School orchestrated the Homecoming theme, “You Gotta Have Art." Walking tall was the Sigma Nu juggler. (Photos by Virginia Braun)

17 Six earn Distinguished Alumni Awards

The Distinguished Alumni Awards, radio and television stations in Born in Butte, Harrington was a presented annually to UM graduates Montana, Idaho and Washington until 1923 graduate o f Butte Central High who “have brought honor to the 1961. He then received an RCA-NBC School. Between high school and his University, the state or the nation,” Godwin Fellowship to the Columbia graduation from college, he taught were conferred upon four people during University Graduate School of school in McCone County and traveled Homecoming week, Oct. 6-12. Two Journalism in New York. He received to New York City to try out the New Young Alumni Awards to honor alumni his master’s degree cum laude in 1962. York stage for the first time. While at 35 or under for professional Oliver was political editor for UM, Harrington was connected with all achievement or service to the KCRA-TV in Sacramento, then news phases o f Masquer Theatre activity, University were also presented. director for KREM-TV in Spokane. including road shows to Deer Lodge The Distinguished Alumni Awards After joining NBC News in 1966, he and Spokane. were given to Donald Oliver, ’58 , was assigned to cover the South and Harrington was a visiting professor at Woodland Hills, Calif., national the Midwest. His stories from that the University of Southern California in correspondent for NBC News; Donal period included the last civil rights 1947. He received his master’s from Harrington, ’28 , Seattle, Wash., campaign, the assassination and funeral Columbia University. professor emeritus at the School o f o f Martin Luther King Jr., the Poor UM currently has three faculty Drama, University of Washington; John People’s March on Washington, and members who studied under Bernard Kemp, ’40 , Prairie Village, the Middle East peace negotiations. Harrington: James Kriley, assistant Kan., secretary o f transportation for the In 1974 and 1975 he covered the dean of the School of Fine Aits and state o f Kansas; and Richard Darling, wars in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. professor of drama; Bill Raoul, head of ’48 , New York, N.Y., retired dean and He was the first American network the technical theater department; and professor at Columbia University. correspondent allowed back in Vietnam Rolland Meinholtz, professor o f drama. Receiving the Young Alumni Award after the fall of Saigon and did a series were Marshall B. Long, ’76 , Guilford, o f special reports on that country in John Bernard Kemp are Marshall B. Long, ’76 , Guilford, 1978. He has also covered the war in John Bernard Kemp, who graduated Conn., associate professor of El Salvador and the shooting down o f in 1940 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at Yale Korean Air Lines Flight 007. Earlier economics and sociology, is the . University; and Jim Waltermire, ’71 , this year Oliver spent several weeks in secretary o f transportation for the state Helena, secretary o f state for Montana. M exico covering the murder o f drug of Kansas in Topeka. agent Enrique Camarena. Born in Scobey, Kemp attended W olf D on Oliver Oliver and his wife, Shirley, live in Point High School and Northern Oliver is a 1958 graduate in Woodland Hills, Calif. Montana College as well as UM. He journalism and currently serves as a received his master’s degree from Iowa national correspondent for NBC News. Donal Harrington State University. A specialist in political reporting, he A 1928 graduate in English, Donal After graduation, Kemp worked for has covered major national and Harrington taught at the University o f the Montana Highway Department and international stories in the past twenty Montana from 1936 to 1938 before the U.S. Corps o f Engineers before years. going on to the drama department at joining the Navy. He subsequently Oliver was born and raised in the University of Washington, where he served as an engineer in Montana, Billings. After graduating from UM, he pursued his career until his retirement Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, served on the news staffs of several in 1967. Kentucky and Washington, D.C.

D on O liver Donal Harrington John B. Kemp

18 From 1968 to 1979, Kemp was assistant professor at the University o f in 1984. regional federal highway administrator Montana, teaching library-media Long is married to the former Leslie in Missouri. H e has been with the courses. During his deanship at Gill, also a 1976 UM graduate. The Kansas Department o f Transportation Columbia, the library school’s Longs have two children and make since 1979. endowment more than doubled. In their home in Guilford, Conn. Kemp has received many awards 1981, he helped start the country’s first during his career. In 1982, he was degree-granting programs for Jim Waltermire named one of the American Public < conservators and preservation Jim Waltermire, also a Young Works Association’s top ten public administrators. Alumnus Award winner, graduated in works leaders o f the year. In 1979, he Darling is married to the former 1971 with a degree in business received the U.S. Department o f Pamela W ood, who heads the administration. He is Montana’s Transportation’s Bronze Medal Award preservation department at Columbia secretary o f state. for Meritorious Service. University Libraries and has served as Waltermire was raised in Choteau. Kemp is married to Joan Berscheid a special consultant to the Library of During his years at the University of Stacey. He has two daughters, one son, Congress. The Darlings have three Montana, he was business manager of two step-children and four children and three grandchildren and ASUM and was named Alpha Kappa grandchildren. The Kemps live in make their home in New York City. Psi Outstanding Junior Business Prairie Village, Kan. Student. Following graduation, he Marshall B. Long worked in real estate, construction and Richard Darling Marshall Long, a Young Alumnus ranching. Richard Darling, Ph.D., graduated in Award winner, graduated in 1976 with In 1975, he formed an investment 1948 with a bachelor’s in English and a degree in physics and is currently an company and two years later ran for received his master’s in English in associate professor of mechanical Missoula County commissioner. 1950. He retired in June 1985 as dean engineering at Yale University. Waltermire subsequently served on of the Columbia University School of A native of Lewistown, Long the Airport Board for Missoula County, Library Science in order to prepare for continued his education at Yale with a the Planning Policy Board, the Crime a second career as an Episcopalian master’s and a doctorate in applied Attack Team and the county and priest. physics. While still in school, he regional councils on aging. Born in Sweetgrass, Darling grew up conducted research at the IBM Thomas Waltermire was nominated by the in Great Falls. After graduating from J. Watson Research Center in New Republican Party for the Western the University o f Montana, he earned a York, Los Alamos Scientific District congressional seat in 1978 and master’s and a doctorate in library Laboratory in New Mexico, and Yale in 1979 was elected chairman o f science from the University of University. He became an assistant Montana’s Association o f First and Michigan. His career as a librarian professor at Yale in 1980 and an Second Class Counties. He was elected began in public schools in Montana and associate professor in 1984. Montana’s secretary o f state in 1980 Michigan. Awards Long has received for his and re-elected in 1984. He has also Darling has specialized in children’s work include the Northeast Association served in a number o f positions with literature, school libraries, the library of Graduate Schools Book Award in the National Association of Secretaries in society, library administration, and 1981, the Harding Bliss Prize from o f State. education for librarianship. Yale University in 1980, and the Waltermire makes his home in From 1956 to 1959, Darling was an Presidential Young Investigator Award Helena.

Rickard D arling Marshall B. Long Jim Waltermire

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‘Dea/t and &tiiendQ,

The new president of the University o f Montana Alumni Jubileers, we are looking for you! Nancy Senechal, ’68 , Association is Connie Corette Kenney, class of 1960. of Missoula, and Bob Higham, ’58 , of Santa Rosa, Connie was elected vice president two years ago by the California, and others have proposed a Jubileer reunion. board of directors and served last year as president-elect. Longtime director, Dr. Joe Mussulman, has agreed to help Connie is news director at KBOW/KOPR radio stations in direct the reunion and a combined performance. We have Butte. She has been a member o f the board o f directors o f traced through yearbooks o f yore and compiled a list that the Association since 1981 and has served on the we will be mailing. If you know of a Jubileer from your President’s Citizens’ Council. Her son Pat is a sophomore era whose address or current married name might be at UM and her “baby,” Tom (6 ’6”, 223 pounds), is a unavailable to us, please let us know. W e recommend the freshman playing football for Colorado State University. occasion of Alumni Night, June 13, 1986, on Connie succeeds Jean’ne Shreeve ’53 o f M oscow, Idaho, commencement weekend for the reunion. But we will need as president o f the Association. Jean’ne is head o f the to hear from you soon! Department of Chemistry at the University of Idaho. Her Distinguished Alumni Awards are presented each research in fluorine chemistry has achieved worldwide autumn at Homecoming. We are already seeking recognition. Her parents still live in Missoula, and she has nominations for next year’s awards. Nomination forms will remained a loyal Grizzly. In her year as president Jean’ne be mailed upon request. The deadline is not until March spoke out on the obligation and opportunity we have to 15, 1986, but we encourage you to respond early. Weeks support higher education, whether it is at the University of in advance, we send copies of all nomination materials to Montana, the University of Idaho, or some other college. awards committee members, most of whom do not reside Great universities achieve excellence not just from public in Missoula. They have ample opportunity to study the support, but from the contributions of loyal alumni. Thank credentials o f each candidate. Selections are determined at you, Jean’ne, for reminding us to return to the University the spring meeting of the alumni association. of Montana some measure of what it gave to us. Your Alumni College, 1986, will continue the “Montana service shows that you practice what you preach. Experience” for all alumni and friends. The Lazy K Bar

Leslie Drake-Robinson Leslie Drake-Robinson was born in Missoula and grew up in Helena. She graduated from UM in 1979 with a major in art and now lives in Lolo with her husband, Tom, and son Ian, 2 ‘/2. A professional artist since 1981, she specializes in wildlife and scenic drawings. Much of her work appears on postcards that she and her hus­ band sell throughout the Northwest, One of her paintings is in the permanent collection at the Kennedy Art Center in Washington, D.C.

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Ranch in the spectacular Crazy Mountains south o f Big Timber will be the setting for this year’s celebration. Mark Alumni College ’85 your calendar for vacation on a mountain ranch in Montana on June 27-29, 1986. You will enjoy seminars with favorite UM faculty interspersed with the activities of rural A Montana Experience Montana: fishing, hiking, riding, fine dining and easy In late June thirty-four people, mostly UM alumni and living. The tuition is $150 per person, based on double their families, converged on the Beartooth Ranch at the foot occupancy. Reservations can be accepted by telephone of the towering Beartooth Mountains. The occasion was (406-243-5211) and will be followed with registration Alumni College; the theme was “The Montana forms. First come, first served! Experience,’’ proof, if we needed it, that Montanan’s are Montana alumni are keeping in touch. Fourteen Kappa fascinated by Montana. Alpha Theta alums from the class o f 1975 met July 18 in Substitute Iowa or North Dakota for Montana and the Missoula for a ten-year reunion. They came from ten title, to say nothing of the occasion, might have seemed a little weird. What is an alumni college? What did the title states, and staying in the Theta house was like old times. mean? Were we gathering to discover the Montana Highlights of the reunion were a campus tour and experience? To live it? A little of both? visits to the Dairy Queen and Stockman’s. Sadly missed If I, like most participants, was unclear on those points, I were the 2 a.m. hashbrowns and gravy. Also an invitation thought I at least knew why I was attending. The photos of to a Sigma Chi slumber party was regretfully declined. the Beartooth Ranch in the Montanan’s Alumni College ad “We did appreciate the invitation, though,” they said. The had captivated me. It looked beautiful, so I contrived an group also had fun boating on Flathead and Salmon lakes. “official” pretext for attending. Alumni Director Sheila Other spring and summer reunions in Missoula included Steams had appointed me “summarizer.” I would listen to Alpha Tau Omega, Phi Sigma Kappa and Alpha Phi. I the presentations by the Alumni College faculty, and when especially appreciated the invitation to the ATO reunion. the weekend was nearly over I would rise to tell everyone what they had already heard. My date for the ATO Esquire Ball in 1966 was Leroy At least I would have good material. The faculty was Fasching o f Wibaux. Leroy was killed in Vietnam in 1968. exceptional: history professor Bill Farr, (see the review of When I get a chance to visit the Vietnam Memorial in The Reservation Blackfeet in the summer Montanan) had Washington, D.C., his is the name I will look for. We prepared a slide show, “Next Year Country,” about have had inquiries from Vietnam veterans about UM Montana’s homesteading era. Popular English Professor Bill alumni and former students who were casualties o f that Bevis’s title was “Circle the Novels: The Indian West vs. war. No campus agency has a complete list. If you can let the White West in Montana Literature.” Acting Law Dean us know o f friends, classmates, or family members who Marge Brown planned to talk about “Indian Tribes and attended UM and subsequently were killed in Vietnam, we Homelands in Montana’s Past and Present.” Forestry Dean would appreciate hearing from you. Ben Stout had promised the intriguing title “Do Trees Grow? Yes and No.” UM alumni organized Montana reunions in Los Angeles Ben Stout did indeed show us how in Montana some trees in August, in San Jose in September, and in Juneau, grow and some do not, a fact with great significance for Alaska, in October. Dawson Oppenheimer, ’48 , secured the Montana’s future. Farr’s slide show brought the homestead following proclamation from the Los Angeles Board of era to life. Marge Brown skillfully untangled some of the I Supervisors: still-evolving law that surrounds Montana’s tribes. And Bill WHEREAS, Los Angeles County, a vast melting pot of Bevis got everyone’s attention by saying that nature to the I groups from other states and nations, is happy to recognize Indian was “downtown” and the plains Indian lifestyle was I in its midst a significant number o f natives o f the great “urban.” I state o f Montana, and But there was far more to Alumni College than lectures. WHEREAS, Thousands of Montanans have left the small Participants included a farmer from Shelby, a retired lumber mill owner from Eugene, a self-proclaimed agricultural and mining towns of their home state and made “household drudge” (who makes extraordinary cookies) I southern California their home in search of career and her dentist husband from Glendive, even a dude ranch I opportunities and longer summers; and operator (our hostess Ellen Langston, UM ’48). There were WHEREAS, University of Montana alumni have even a few University administrators. But that lapse in established careers in southern California in law, education, admissions standards aside, our diversity embodied part of I government, pharmacy, journalism, business, the fine arts, the Montana experience. and the service professions: By the end of the weekend any doubts about Alumni NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board College had evaporated. Whether we had come to UM from I o f Supervisors o f the County o f L os Angeles that its Montana or elsewhere, whether we had remained here or I appreciation is expressed to these transplanted Montanans been drawn away, we had all bought into the Montana experience years before, and we had come to Aumni for their contributions to the well-being o f southern College to look after our investment. The only nagging California and extends best wishes on the occasion o f this question that remained was why more alumni didn’t attend. I reunion o f alumni o f the University o f Montana, the home Next year’s Alumni College is already on my calendar: o f the Grizzly. June 27-29 at the Van Cleve’s Lazy K Bar Ranch, Big The proclamation appears on a beautiful scroll with the Timber, Montana. The theme—what else—“The Montana seals of Los Angeles County and the Alumni Association Experience.” I embossed in copper, silver and gold. Thank you, Los See you there. Angeles! William Scott Brown Sheila MacDonald Steams ’68

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Classnotes are compiled and edited by Vivian “Link” Lindall ’35 has been all over the Heltemes. Write her c/o UM Alumni Associa­ world since leaving UM. During World War tion, University of Montana, Missoula, MT II he went to Alaska and worked up the military 59812. promotion ladder, serving under General MacArthur as natural resources adviser in *208______forestry, fisheries, agriculture, mining and geology. His special claim to fame, even among Lambert ’21 and Dodie deMers of Arlee are Joyce and Andy Grande ofM artinsdale, D oris Sheridan the Japanese, is as “father of the Japanese birth planning a trip to Tampa, Fla., to visit friends o f Missoula, and Rosemary Grattan and Kay Lorenz, control movement.” He and his wife, the both o f Wbiteffsb, watch the action at Saturday’s foot­ there. They are also planning a visit to the West ball game daring Homecoming. former Genevieve Krum ’33, have retired in Coast to visit their sons, Lambert Jr. and Steuben, Maine, near the crystal clear and cold Harrison ’55, ’59, LL.B. ’61. ’58. Afterward, Leon drove Gretchen and me Atlantic ocean. “Here I built an early American Idabel McLeish Jordan ’25 of Billings spent to Roosevelt International Park and then back wooden sailboat. Life is idyllic; sailing, fishing, a “glorious week” on Maui, Hawaii, with three along the scenic coast of Maine to Washington, canoeing lakes and streams.” married grandchildren and their spouses last D.C., where we spent time with them at their Gordon C. Buck ’36 of Glendale, Calif., winter. home in Silver Spring, Md. Leon, after more visited his sister, Dorotha Buck Smola ’38, of Mary Kirkwood ’26 has been retired fifteen than fifteen years as a senate staffer, has had Stevensville this past summer. “To complete years but continues to paint and exhibit and held his own consulting service for over five years. our visit we stopped on campus to see all the a show in Spokane last April. She keeps a studio Pat is executive secretary of a nationwide health great changes, which gives the campus a grand in Moscow, Idaho, where she resides, and does maintenance organization. While in new look.” a little private teaching. Washington, we met Congressman Pat Edith Peterson Gronhovd ’36 of Billings is Reinhold W. ter Kuile ’26 has closed his Williams and Vic Reinemer ’48, who is the a retired librarian and has traveled all the con­ practice after a long career as an editor of the magazine Public Power and former tinents and forty-two of the fifty states. ophthalmologist and eye surgeon in Bergen Kaimin editor. Our son, Mike ’58, M.A. ’61 M. F. Thompson ’36 has been retired since County, N.J. He is an ardent collector of an­ and his wife, Alice, opened their own statistical 1974. This past August, he and his wife, Lillian, tique guns, some o f which date back to the computer programming and consulting service hosted a family reunion at their home in American Revolution. in Olympia, Wash., in 1984,” reports Harry Lakeside, Mont. Velma Rhodes Carpenter ’27 of Geneva, Billings ’33 o f Thompson Falls. Ethel Chesterman Fleming ’37 has moved Ohio, has completed a historical summary of Billy Burke ’33 of Phoenix and Allan Burke to a townhouse on the Pryor Creek Golf Course the Ashtabula County Beekeepers Association ’30, M.A. ’35 of Kirkland, Wash., held a in Huntley, Mont. “My husband, Clyde, and for the century publication of the county. Golden Grizzly family reunion with Marion I enjoyed the Mirage Bowl tour last November. William Martin ’27 is retired and lives in Burke ’25 in Lewistown last spring. “We had Here’s hoping for a successful Grizzly football Anaconda. our own Singing-on-the-Steps under the Big Sky season this year!” Earl C. Rundle ’28 is chief owner and boss but, on this occasion, did not stop singing when Please send notes to June Paulson Krekeler, o f the Rundle and East Rainy Butte Ranches the bell in Main Hall sounded.” class of ’38 recorder, 360 McIntyre Ct., near New England, N.D. Over the years he has Marciano Raquel ’33 resides in Quezon Ci­ Valparaiso, IN 46383, about the happenings in taught country school, ranched and been in the ty, Philippines, and is retired. He was most your life! newspaper business. He has been president of recently president of Central Luzon Teachers Emil Lubick ’39 is dean of the night program the North Dakota Press Association and serv­ College, now Pangasinan State University. at Long Beach Community College. He is in- ed twelve years in the North Dakota Legislature. Eileen Barrows Vance ’29 has retired from teaching in San Diego and has traveled the United States. Since the first of this year, she has been employed as a secretary for Senior Adult Services, a San Diego organization responsible for serving “meals on wheels” to hundreds of clients.

*308______Waldo Ekegren ’31 and Elsie Eminger Ekegren ’27 took a trip to Disney World last March. They reside in Santa Clara, Calif. Mary A. Wilson ’31 of Denver and her daughter, Creta, traveled to Israel and Egypt in May. “It was a fabulous trip!” “As columnist for The Nevada Rancher, I am the oldest active newspaperman in Nevada,” reports Elbert Covington ’32 o f Reno. Leonard '32 and Minnie Morrison Crane of Fort Benton were married fifty years this past April. They spent a week in Hawaii as part of the celebration.

“We had a wonderful trip to Maine in May Class o f1935—First row: Doima Hoover Metcalf, Alberta Wilcox Hubbard, Carol Wells Cooney, Ossia Taylor for the graduation of our granddaughter, Shan­ Kearns, Emmeline McKhtrick Lee, D orcas Keacb Nortbey, Isabelle Spitzer Brown. Second row: William Hilemaa, non, from Bates College. She is the daughter William Castles, Harvey Johnstone, Jack Couglll, Fred M ills and Rusty Jacobs. Third row: Colin Raff, Bob Stein, Ben White. Top row: Am brose Measure, H.O. “BUI” Worden, Leland Rudd, and Gordon Cunniff. Inset: o f Leon Billings '59 and Pat Harstad Billings Shirley Knight Benisb.

22 C lassnotes volved with the American Association of Worthy Grand Matron of Eastern Star. Bert K. Replogle ’50 is a retired geologist Retired Persons and is area coordinator for the Betty Cutts Wylder ’47 wrote her second in Carson City, Nev., with ‘‘ho p es to return citizen representation program. Through this musical in 1984. She won honorable mention to the Big Sky country.” work, senior citizens are appointed to boards in an anthem competition in 1984 for the Barbara Dockery Tremper ’50, M.B.A. and commissions that have an impact on their Unitarian Universalist Religious Arts Guild. ’76, is a third-year law student at UM. Her hus­ life, welfare and pocketbook. She and her husband, Bob ’47, M.A. ’49 live band, Bill ’46, is president o f Tremper Robert B. Young ’39 and his wife, Bonnie, in Long Beach, Calif. Distributing-Conoco in Missoula. own and operate the Arvada Book Shop in Ar­ Jean Kunick North ’48 of Los Altos, Calif., John C. Harrison Sr. ’51 is completing his vada, Colo. has retired from NASA Ames Research Library twenty-fifth year on the Montana Supreme in Moffett Field, Calif. Court and ‘‘am still enjoying the work.” In Lawrence Rooney ’48, M.A. ’50 is chief of July, he went to Germany to visit his daughter, the branch of Western Technical Reports with ^ 4 0 s ______Molly Harrison Howard ’72, and her husband, the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Raymond ’73. Heath Bottomly ’41 has retired from the Air Calif. “I spent the previous seven years with Madison Vick ’51 retired from public school Force after thirty-three years as a fighter pilot. USGS in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Thus, after teaching last June after thirty-two years. In his He now operates a Christian Youth Ranch call­ twenty years as a geologist, I have returned to ‘‘copious” free time he has opened a string in­ ed Eaglecrest in the Scott River Valley in nor­ publishing, closer to the career I started at strument repair shop, teaches private violin, thern California. He lives in Ft. Jones. UM.” viola and cello, tunes pianos and substitute George Ryffel ’41 and his wife, Ruth Hugos teaches. He also directs music for local theater Ryffel ’44, visited R. D. “Pete” Peterson ’41 groups and continues to play violin as a stroll­ of Poison this past August. The Ryffels, now ing soloist and in the symphony. His wife, the of Arlington, Va., spend part o f die summer ’50 s______former Claytene Merley ’55, teaches private near Neihart, Mont., where they have a cabin. voice lessons and choir for Chemeketa Com­ They and Pete were classmates at the Univer­ Clyde Montana Fauley ’50 of Lakeside, munity College, is director of music for Unity sity, and Marine duty brought them together Mont., attended the 75th anniversary of Glacier church and performs in musicals in addition to many times following World War II and the National Park in May. His father was a Glacier caring for her 92-year-old mother in their Korean War. Park ranger at the time of C ly d e’s birth in 1924. beautiful Salem, Ore., home. Andrew Lydall “Al” Temple ’45 is direc­ Clyde retired in 1983 at Glacier National Park Douglas Wilkerson ’51 of Roseburg, Ore., tor of education for the Air Force at Hickam after thirty-three years with the National Park has retired after teaching and coaching for nine­ Air Force Base in Hawaii. He manages pro­ Service. teen years at Roseburg Senior High. He and his grams from basic English (for foreign-bom George Remington ’50 has retired as wife have three children and four grand­ spouses) to Ed.D. programs. One of his first publisher of the Billings Gazette after thirty-five children. student jobs at UM was folding and labeling the years in the newspaper business, twenty-seven Wallace Dobbins ’52, M.Ed. ’58 ‘‘is alive alumni paper in Main Hall. o f them in Montana. He had been publisher of and well in Tucson. Just spent a y ea r’s leave Cora Mae Cuthbert Beck ’46 of Deer Lodge the Gazette since 1976 and previous to that was of absence from teaching in England con­ still gets around, although not by train from publisher of the Helena Independent-Record for templating retirement next year.” Drummond to Missoula (see photo on page 20, seven years. He and his wife, Lorraine Kur- Rudy ’52, M.Ed. ’62 and Jo Ann Sayre last issue of the Montanan). Cora Mae is busy fiss Remington ’50, continue to reside in Firm ’58 are retired and living in Martinsdale, traveling Montana and was recendy elected Billings. Mont., after living in Alaska the past twenty- six years. Gordon T. Litton ’52 of Spokane retired in 1983 after thirty years as a supervisor of train operations with Burlington Northern Railroad. He and his wife, Loma, recently returned from a trip to North Carolina and Wisconsin, visiting their sons, Jeffrey and Gregory. Ken ’52 and Joan Marty Smith ’52 spent time in Missoula and in the Flathead Lake area this summer. “Even though we have not lived in Montana since 1952, it will always be home to us. The years between have been in the field of education. I teach in Tonasket, Wash., and Ken is planting an orchard as a new adventure in retirement. We have four children and our son, Brent ’81, was a smokejumper based in Missoula for five years.” Idaho Governor John Evans has appointed Richard Hansen ’53 to the Fish and Game Commission. He resides in Bay view where he owns and operates a marina.

V. Braun Lewis Keim ’53 has joined the Gates Cor­ poration, headquartered in Denver, as director Classes o f 49, SO, 51—First row: Lorraine Kurfiss Remington, Fran Simons Bematz, Katherine Ritenour Sylvester, Mary (Betty) Sleler Hoyt, Dewitt C. Warren, Ann Evans Kallgren, Stanley B. Wayman. Second row: of corporate public relations. He and his wife, George Remington, Duane GiUmore, Lex Mudd McCullough, Boh Hawkins, Gene Kallgren. Third row: Margery Carol Cushman Keim ’56, reside in Aurora, Hunter Brown, Dorothy Swallow GUlmore, Gene Glsley, Jim McArdle, Elner Lund, Wally Mercer. Fourth row: Anne Kiefer Dietrich, Jeanne Taylor Knutzen, Jody Crumbaker Mercer, Vernon Sylvester, Virgil Lovingfoss, Colo. Glenn Wallace. Fifth row: George Gogas, Phil Strope, Harry Thomsen, Zane Murfltt, Jack Burke, Al Stevens. Donald C. Orlich ’53 is the acting chair of Sixth row: Jean Popham Carmoe, Virginia Garmoe, Robert Garmoe, Fred Burnell, Harry Farrington. Seventh a newly created Department of Educational Ad­ row: Everett Chaffin, Bruce Maclay, Mary Blair Maday, M adison H. Vick, BUI MltcbeU. Eighth row: Al Cochrane, Bob Holding, Jack Dietrich, G eorge Turman, Pat Kind WaUace, Nancy Fields O’Connor, Tom me Lu Middleton ministration and Supervision at Washington Worden, Garene Webber Cochrane, John Fields and Jeremy Thane. State University, Pullman.

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Dwight “Stocky*' Stockstad ’53 and his John R. Jackman ’58 and Judith Hart ing the summer and Hemet, Calif., in the wife, Hope, of Missoula were joined by his Jackman ’83 of Superior are proud that their winter. brother Ralph ’58 and his wife, Edeltraud, of twin daughters began their studies at UM this Littleton, Colo., for a touring vacation of fall. They are the third generation to attend the Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, University. Their grandparents are the late *608______Sweden, and Norway last May. The trip in­ Roscoe Jackman ’21 and Edetta Sawyer cluded a tour o f “Stokstad,” their ancestral Jackman ’26. Jacob Braig ’60 of Spokane is employed as home in Norway. The class of ’58 won the award for “largest a first officer on Northwest Airlines, flying Eugene C. Tidball ’53, J.D. ’55 of Boulder, class in attendance” at the Sigma Kappa Sorori­ routes to Europe and the Orient. He has been Colo., has been appointed general attorney for ty State Day July 20 in Helena, where sixty- a member of the Air National Guard since 1960 Atlantic Richfield’s legal division. He and those six alumni gathered. Heading the reunion from and is commander of the Washington Air Na­ attorneys reporting to him have overall respon­ UM were Andy Hemstad Bennett 71, state tional Guard with the rank of colonel. sibility for providing legal services to Anacon­ auditor, and Konnilyn Feig ’58, M.A. ’63 Jerald Metcalf ’60 is the owner of Vawter da Minerals Company, an ARCO division. professor of business and history at San Fran­ St. Antiques Store in Helena. He travels the Jack M. Dollan ’54 of Carlsbad, N.M., has cisco State University and leading international Northwest, participating in antique shows and completed three outdoor careers since authority on Hitler’s concentration camps. Kon­ sales. graduating from UM: three years with the Mon­ nilyn shared the keynote spot, speaking on her Willard Barnett ’61 and his wife. Rose, live tana State Department of Natural Resources; extensive travels in the Soviet Union and her in Mariner Village in Des Moines, Wash. He twenty-two years with the U.S. Forest Service book, The Sanity o f Madness. Germany resi­ retired from government service in 1962. and eight years with the National Park Service. dent, Patty Curran Antonich ’59, gave a Gene Jones ’61, M.E. ’72 has retired from “I am looking for a fourth career back in Mon­ humorous presentation about her experiences teaching after twenty-four years at Thompson tana. I’m too young to retire. I completed a new with the European people and their customs. Falls High School. TFHS Principal Ted Kato national park hike trail to Guadalupe Peak, Lynne Rundle Carlson ’59 is teaching at remarks, “He has been a stabilizing force in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, the Bowling Green University in Ohio. his many years at Thompson Falls High School. highest point in Texas at 8,750 feet. Several Cleo Bardelli Clizer ’59 is vocational coor­ I believe he epitomizes the teaching profession paraplegics climbed to the ‘top ’o Texas’ us­ dinator for School District #81 in Spokane in all respects.” ing the trail and received national acclaim in where she and her husband, Gary ’60, who is Bob Bragg ’62 and Kurt Ingold ’74 of recognition of all handicapped persons.” a pharmacist, reside. Missoula have completed the Certified Financial Gary Gallagher ’54 and Vicki Morin Jerry Young ’59 was elected Potentate of A1 Planner program and are the only CPA’s in the Gallagher now live on Black Point on the west Kader Shrine Temple, headquartered in state of Montana to do so. An article about their shore of Flathead Lake. Portland. Jerry is an operator of Taco Johns, firm is mentioned in the August issue of Venture Shirley Leffler Saunders ’54 is a real estate with franchises in the Albany and Willamette magazine in regard to use of graphics in their broker in Douglas, Wyo. Valley areas. professional activities. Juliet Minsone Gregory ’55 was awarded the Eloise Kingston Rusunen ’59, M.E. ’78 has Lyle E. Harris ’62, M.A. ’67 is associate Mayors’ Civic Award Medal by Missoula’s retired from School District #1 in Missoula after professor of journalism at Western Washington Mayor John Toole ’40 in March. It is the se­ thirty years of teaching. She enjoys golfing, hik­ University in Bellingham. He previously taught cond time this award has been presented. Juliet ing and traveling. She lives in Missoula dur­ at the University of Alaska and the University was mayor of Missoula from 1947 to 1949 and has continued to be active in the progress of Missoula. Ray Moholt ’55 has formed Moholt & Associates, a marketing communications and association management consulting firm in Portland. His wife, Lorinda Smith Moholt ’59, is director of com­ munications for the Oregon Dairy Products Commission. Lynn Eilefson ’57 has been the director of intercollegiate athletics at San Jose State University since January 1985. Ed ’57 and Pat Glynn Ilgen ’59 are “still living in Sunnyvale, Calif., and have enjoyed our association with some of the Montana gang each year for the Sigma Chi golf tournament.” Ed is corporate relocation manager for Hewlett- Packard in Palo Alto. Pat enjoys volunteer work and golf. Thomas D. Roe ’57 of Myrtle Point, Ore., is in his second year as superintendent of the Myrtle Point Schools. Donald Ferron ’58 recently sold his in­ Class o f 1960—First row: Marilyn Peterson Barney, Karen Larson Moore, Shirley Newton Eye, Pat Cameron surance business and has set up a consulting Swanson, Karen Schirm Dahlberg, Marcia Nearman Cyr. Second row: Carol SneUIng Walters, Donna Kelsch firm, Rocky Mountain Risk Management. He Wright, Dave Poncin, Emily Bach Poncin, Jean SchUcht Smith, Jean Pollch Blakely. Third row: Tom Altmaler, Dave Blakely, Gary Bradley, Richard Kmmm. Fourth row: Ben Ayers, Joan Urquhart McMahon, John McMahon, is also working toward a master’s degree in Connie Corette Kenney, Ron Webber. Fifth row: Ken Ross, Elaine Haber Adams, Myma Kronmiller Simon, public administration at MSU. Ron Simon, and Ken Eames.

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Each summer many alumni drop in on the and gas law. campus but few quite so literally as W illiam Ed Maguire ’66, associate administrator of “Goose” Goseling ’63. Goose descended on professional services at Missoula August 10 in a Navy F-15 Eagle, the Grossmont District world hottest fighter jet, which he displayed at Hospital in La Mesa, the annual Missoula Air Show. Goose, a Navy Calif., has been elected commander who’s flown jets for the past eigh­ president o f the teen years, is assigned to the McDonnell professional organization Douglas plant in St. Louis, where as a flight o f the California acceptance officer he test-flies each new F-15, Association o f Reha­ F-18 and AP-8B before approving it for bilitation. He has also been named a fellow with | delivery to the Navy or Air Force. the American. College of Hospital * Goose wasn’t authorized to fly a demonstra­ Administrators. tion at the air show, but on early Monday morning several of us from the Montanan were at Robert R. McConnell ’66, M.A. ’73 read an the airport to watch him leave. Word must have gotten around that he wasn’t merely going to invited paper titled “A Theory of Comedy: take off and head for St. Louis because we weren’t alone. The moment he fired up the F-15’s Comparisons between British and American engines the normal routine at the airport halted. Comedy in the Broadcast Media” at the fifth The F-15 took off more like a rocket than a commercial jetliner: a short roll down the runway, International Conference on Humour, in Cork, then seemingly straight up. It rolled away south toward Lolo and was out of sight in seconds. Ireland, last June. Bob teaches tele­ Minutes later Goose was back, appearing suddenly out of the sunrise over Mount Sentinel, then communications and broadcasting at the Uni­ coming in fast and low over the runway. versity of Nevada-Las Vegas. He and his wife, As the F-15 hit the cool air layer near the ground, it glowed suddenly as the hot skin of the the former Janet Stacey ’71, and their jet vaporised the moisture in the surrounding air. It was like someone had pulled a switch; a daughter, Stacey, reside in Las Vegas. breathtaking special effect from Star Wars. John Paul Little ’67 is a lieutenant colonel Directly in front of us he rocketed skyward again, climbed to a few thousand feet above the in the U.S. Air Force and lives in Fairfax, Va., airport tower, rolled back eastward and was gone. with his wife and daughter. The plane had come and gone so fast it was hard to believe it had been there at all. An airport Delvina Lyonais ’67 of Kalispell has traveled worker standing near us shook his head and said, “Billings in fifteen minutes.’’ to eight countries in Europe and cruised the William Scott Brown Aegean Sea. While there, she saw many of the famous ruins, paintings, sculptures and archi­ tecture she studied in the history of art. of Missouri and was a reporter for UPI and the Business Forms in Billings. Robert Semrad ’67 has assumed duties as Washington (D.C.) Evening Star. He and his Jim “Clem” Johnson ’63 is a regional sales pastor of the United Methodist Church in wife have three sons. representative for Kaiser Cement Corp. His Harrisburg, S.D. Since graduating from UM Wayne Leslie ’62 of San Jose, Calif., has wife, Karol Kramer Johnson ’70, M.Ed. ’75 he has been a pilot in the U.S.A.F. and, in been nominated for is the assistant principal at Great Falls High 1982, was ordained as an elder in the United governor of the Pacific School and a member of the board of trustees Methodist Church. His wife, Jeanne ’70, has Central District of of the Montana Deaconess Hospital. been teaching English, German, speech and Optimist International. Kendall Kinyon ’63 is the assistant chief drama. They have two teenage children. Wayne has been the team counsel for the California Franchise Tax Board JoAnn Kappel Sumner ’67 of Carmichael, trainer for the 1984,1968 and an associate professor at Golden Gate Calif., is an instructor of word processing at and 1972 Olympics and University. He and his wife, Mary Ann, have Sierra College. She has been elected secretary has had a twenty-year three children and live in Orangevale. of Theta Alpha Delta, a women’s business career in sports medicine. William Bourret ’64 has been selected fo.r honorary in California. Judy Thomas ’62, M.E. ’74 of Roundup, promotion to captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Cindy Jones Forrest ’68 has been appointed Mont., has been appointed chief probation He has been employed with Cogswell Agency executive director of the faculty association of officer of the fourteenth judicial district which Insurance in Great Falls since 1972. Arizona State University in Tempe. includes Mussellshell, Golden Valley, Henry Gosselin ’64 is an employment Ron Hauge ’68 is president and chief Wheatland and Meagher counties. She will specialist at the Butte Job Service. “I enjoy the executive officer of Montana Pollen and Herbs administer youth court business and provide challenge and the opportunity of helping Inc. in Arlee, Mont. His firm manufactures and counseling for youth and their families. applicants and employers get together in a is a worldwide distributor of Montana Big Sky Bill Boettcher Jr. ’63 of Laguna Beach, potentially rewarding relationship. I would like Bee Pollen products. Calif., has been elected president of the Council to hear from any former Newman House Terry A. Johnson ’69 is national forester for of Self-Insured Public Agencies for the state of residents regarding a reunion sometime.” the Soil Conservation Service in Washington, California. He also serves on the governor’s Darrel Choate ’65, M.A. ’67 is a Boeing D.C. This summer he attended a world forestry task force for Workers’ Compensation. engineer working on a Strategic Defense Robert J. Campbell ’63, J.D. ’67 of Helena Initiative program. His wife, the former Robin has been selected by the Workers’ Gayle MacNab ’67, works as a regional sales Compensation court as a hearing examiner. representative for First Tours. They reside in Diane Boyer Jerhoff x ’63 has joined Kent, Wash., with their two children. the Billings office of Armand Falk M.A. ’65, professor of English Piper, Jaffrey and at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Hopwood as a Minn., has been awarded a Fulbright grant to registered represen­ lecture on American literature this academic tative. Prior to joining year at the National University of Ivory Coast them, she was vice in Abidjan. Brian Knaff •67, center, of Minneapolis, Minn., president and owner of Richard J. Overby ’65, J.D. ’68 recently w elcom es Ginny and Marvin Horner, left, and Bill and Billie Level, all o f Missoula, to an alumni gathering Eagle Printing and opened an office in Billings specializing in oil in M in n eapolis S ept. 21. C la ssn otes

Conference of Lawyers and Representatives of i the Media. He is a partner in the Seattle law firm of Karr, Tuttle, Koch, Campbell, Mawer and Morrow. Jennifer Sweet Hoffman ’73 has worked in the microbiology department at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane for the past ten years. She and her husband, David, have two: children. Rebecca Manring ’73 of Seattle has worked in several fields since graduation. This fall she. is returning to school to pursue graduate work in Sanskrit language and literature as a National Resource Fellow. She will also be teaching Russian to preschool children. Karen Sennett O'Brien ’73 is a social worker for Judith Basin County in Stanford, Mont. Roger ter Kuile ’73 has opened ter Kuile Hardware Inc. in Hawthorne, N.J. Tom Welch ’73 is executive vice president and managing officer of Pioneer Federal Savings in Dillon, Mont. Morton Greenberger Ph.D. ’74 is director o f the Center for Practical Psychology in Lan­ Attending the class o f ’75 Kappa Alpha Theta reunion were: first row, Jackie Reilly, Jean Stolle, Chris Burnell; caster, Calif. second row, Ginny Murphy, Kathy Rebicb-Crowe, Kim Werner; third row, Jane Lininger, Paula Sinn-Penfold, Jan Dolan; fourth row, Lucy Stockburger, Chris Mahoney, Sue Campbell, Jane Wierzba and Charlotte Jones. Reza-Ul “Raj” Karim Ph.D. ’74 has been named dean of graduate studies at West Chester University in West Chester, Pa. Lanny Michael ’74 has been appointed vice congress in Mexico City as an American Virginia Jellison ’72 is principal manager president and controller delegate. He and his wife, Bonnie, and their o f the Public Housing of Airborne Express in three children live in Millersville, Md. Agency in St. Paul, Seattle. Minn., which, owns Martha Spohn Mor* ’70s______fourteen high rises for rical ’74 has joined Ger- the elderly and handi­ big, Snell/Weisheimer & Charles Briggs ’70, M.A. ’78 of Helena is capped and scattered Associates as assistant completing his third year as state aging site housing for a public relations director. coordinator for Montana. He has been total o f 4,800 She lives in Powell, Ohio, with her husband, published in the 20th edition of Who’s Who in public housing units. Richard, and two daughters. the West. Sarah Stephens Lord ’72 has been promoted Dave Morse ’74 is a manager with Pruden­ Raenell Hyvonen Johnson ’70 has been to associate professor of home tial Insurance in Santa Barbara, Calif. In his education chairwoman for Montana Women economics/education at the State University of spare time, he officiates water polo and swim­ Involved in Farm Economics. She lives in New York in Plattsburgh. ming at the national level. Browning and plans to return to teaching. Robert Lohrmeyer ’72 is assistant manager Dennis J. Samuelson ’74 serves as a super­ Gene Nix ’70, attended the Southwest School of the Production Credit Association-Federal visory realty specialist with the Bureau of Land of Governmental Finance at Texas Tech Land Bank Association office in Lewiston, Management in Las Vegas. He has been University in May. He is an accountant with Idaho. He has been elected president of the employed with the BLM for eleven years. the Campbell County government in Gillette, Greater Lewiston Chamber of Commerce for Stephanie Kemmis Wickersham ’74, home Wyo. the 1985-86 year. economics teacher at Metlakatla High School Richard J. Paulson '70 has been employed Kathleen McAuliffe ’72 is on an extended in Annette Island, Alaska, has been named by the UM Health Service for the past five maternity leave from practice as a family merit winner in the National Home Economics years. physician. Her husband, Steven Barry, is a Teacher of the Year competition. She was cited Lee Shannon '70, marketing director for clinical psychologist. They reside in Prineville, for her innovative commercial foods course, in Blue Cross of Montana, has received his Ore., with their two-year-old daughter, which students learn to process salmon for sale certified health consultant designation from Deirdre, and are expecting another child in in the community and to operate a full-scale Purdue University. He is the first marketing January. bakery. She lives in Sitka. person to receive this title in the Blue Cross of Ken Melichar ’72 received his Ph.D. from K. Kent Koolen J.D. ’75 has joined the law Montana organization. He lives in Kalispell. New York University in February. He is firm of Moulton, Bellingham, Longo and Eric “Rick” Becker ’71 and Dorena Martin chairman of the Department o f Sociology at Mather, P.C. in Billings. Becker ’72 now live in Bellevue, Wash., after Piedmont College. His wife, Barbara Ehrlich “It’s hard to believe that I’m in school one having lived in Peoria, 111., for thirteen years. Melichar ’72, is a recruiter and job developer more time but a fortunate combination of events Rick works for Boeing Computer Service in for participants in the Job Training Partnership has allowed me to start working on a third Seattle as a systems analyst, and Dorena is at Act, which is designed to help low-income degree. I had been working on the development home with their two children. persons enter the labor force. The Melichars o f management plans for the Helena National Thomas S. Lee ’71 is the owner o f Lee live in Demorest, Ga., with their daughter, Forest and was transferred to the Mt. Hood Na­ Outboard in Somers, Mont. He and his wife, Leah. tional Forest. At about the same time I was ac­ Barbara Shonkwiler Lee ’72, and their twin Thomas M. Fitzpatrick ’73 has been cepted at Northwestern School of Law, Lewis daughters reside in Kalispell. appointed co-chairman o f the National and Clark College, in Portland. The school is C lassn otes

Wisconsin. They have two children. Montana in January after serving as assistant Marilyn Kelly-Clark ’78 and her husband, football coach. He is now a financial planner Dennis, live in Suquamish, Wash., where he with IDS/American Express and resides in is employed by Camera Craft Photography. Eugene, Ore., with his wife, Terri, and their Marilyn is office manager for a stress disorder two children. “We sure miss Missoula and all clinic and hopes to resume studies toward a the great people we became associated with master’s in history or education. through UM and the community. Go William David Little ’78 has been appointed Grizzlies!” director o f public relations for the University Michael Johnson '80 of Fairfield, Mont., has of Montana Foundation. He is responsible for been selected to the board o f directors o f the implementing a public-relations campaign and First National Bank of Fairfield, where he is Alive and well at Homecoming were Kathleen Benoit ’76, Billings; Anne Ranf ’76 , Missoula; Marian Booth coordinating foundation publications. serving as vice president of commercial loans. ’77, Billings, and Tom Stockbnrger ’74 , Billings. Brian McGiffert M.S. ’78 is a design His wife, Shelly Woods Johnson ’83, is in her Standing: Lacy Stockbnrger ’75 ; Jeff Ranf ’75 ; Bruce engineer at Raychem Corp. and resides in third year as an elementary teacher in the Benoit ’74 , and Corley Skinner ’76 , Billings. Cupertino, Calif. Choteau school system. recognized for its natural-resource law pro­ Cari Moore Piatkowski ’78 is a geologist for Sandra Martin M.S. ’80 will soon complete gram. I’ll be trying to integrate my interests in ARCO exploration in Denver. Her husband, her Ph.D. in wildlife biology from UC, natural resources and law. I’ll be supported in Mark, is a programmer/analyst for GE Credit Berkeley. She and her husband, Joe Thornton, this endeavor by my wife, Susan Barmeyer, Corp. They have one daughter, Kelli Diane. reside in Truckee, Calif. who is presently employed as a social worker Alexander Taylor ’78 is pursuing a Ph.D. William R. Roth M.B.A. ’80 is the new at a nursing home,” reports Jonathan Haber in microbiology at the University o f Penn­ manager of the accounting and auditing depart­ ’76. sylvania in Philadelphia. ment of Peat Marwick in Billings. Rebecca Yager Madany ’76 is assistant con­ Judeth Birdwell Badgley ’79 was selected Anson “Skip” Baker ’81 is an appraiser for troller of the East Bay Regional Park District by the Arizona Department of Education as one the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian in Oakland, Calif. of twenty finalists for NASA’s Teacher in Space Affairs in Winslow Rock, Ariz., where he lives Garry South ’76 has assumed the position of Program in Arizona. She is a teacher at Crane with his wife, Elaine Gerard Baker ’77, and staff vice president for political communications Magnet School in Yuma. their daughter. Rose. of the National Association of Realtors, the na­ Craig Crawford ’79 is senior manager of the Denise Creamer ’81 and Tucker Ritner '81 tion’s largest trade association in Washington, accounting and auditing department of Peat are serving as missionaries in Puebla, Mexico. D.C. Prior to this position, Garry served as Marwick in Billings. Roger French ’81 is minibank coordinator political director for the Association and as Carol Erickson ’79 is senior manager of the of the United Bank of Arapahoe in Denver. He special assistant to former U.S. Secretary of accounting and auditing department of Peat is married to the former Carolyn Uda ’83. Agriculture Bob Berglund. Marwick in Anchorage, Alaska. Eileen Gibson ’81 is the business manager Paul Bolt ’77 is national sales manager for Joe Sobansky ’79 is a federal probation of­ for KEMC-FM, the National Public Radio sta­ American Forest Products in Stockton, Calif., ficer in Las Vegas. He had been an adult pro­ tion in Billings. and is responsible for furniture sales worldwide. bation and parole officer for the state of Shane Morger ’81 has joined KEYT-TV, an He spends much of his time on the road, most­ Montana. ABC affiliate in Santa ly in Europe, New York and Chicago. Paul Christine Sumption ’79 received her MFA Barbara, Calif., as an ac­ misses Stockman’s Bar and Grill. in directing from the University of Washington count executive. He was Robert I. Katz M.F.A. ’77 has been pro­ School of Drama. She is now in New York, ser­ formerly with the Mon­ moted to associate professor of art at the ving as an apprentice with the Drama League tana Television Network University of Maine at Augusta. He has also of New York. In January she will move to in Billings. Shane points received a major commission for a five-ton out­ Berkeley, Calif., to assist Sharon Ott, artistic out that this is the first door sculpture from Sachs Steel &vSupply Corp. director at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. time in fifteen years that in St. Louis, Mo. Dan Woods ’79 of Missoula worked as a there has not been a member o f the Morger Gerald “Gene” Reckin ’77, ’79 is a junior stage technician in 1984 for the Olympic Arts family from Fort Benton at the “U.” But, high science teacher. His wife, Lenora Spencer Festival and was recommended to manage a younger sister Audra plans to enroll next year Reckin ’78, is job-sharing in a second grade tour throughout the United States and Canada following high school graduation. In 1979, classroom. They live in Libby, Mont., with for the Kodo Drummers from Japan. This there were five Morger family members attend­ their daughter, Kara. winter he will be managing the Dresden ing UM. Lois Pickering Reimers ' l l teaches home Philharmonic and Yugoslavian symphony tours. Michelle Sayler ’81 is a corporate planning economics at the Sentinel High Alternative analyst for PacifiCorp, the parent company of School in Missoula. Pacific Power and Light. She and her husband, Carl Rostad ' l l is an assistant U.S. attorney ’80s______Ronald Peterson ’82, reside in Portland. in Great Falls. Lee Ann Cumley Zanon '81 and her hus­ Karen Stewart-Carrico ' l l is internal audit Julie Cromwell ’80 married Steve Lewallen band, Mike, live in Salem, Ore., where Lee director for the Washoe Medical Center in Reno June 15. Julie is a sales representative for Ann works in the public information office of and has been elected to the national board of Deluxe Check Printers Inc. and calls on bank­ the Oregon School Boards Association as an directors of the American Society of Women ing institutions in southern Wyoming. Steve is editorial and graphics assistant. Mike is com­ Accountants. a chemist for Halliburton Services in Casper, pleting a math/computer science degree at Gary Brownlee ’78 is a medical technologist where they reside. Willamette University. at Community Hospital in Missoula. His wife, Jill Fleming ’80, M.A. ’82 married Kelly Douglas Rice ’82 began work at KMON Peggy Morris Brownlee ’78, is a pharmacist F. Flynn on June 29 in Townsend, Mont. Jill AM/FM in Great Falls in September. In June at St. Patrick Hospital and is also a horse en­ is a counselor, teacher and coach in the Broad­ he was selected as the radio announcer of the thusiast. They have one daughter. water school system. Kelly is an outfitter and year for Montana. Ken Egan Jr. ’78 is assistant professor of rancher. Bradley Williams ’82 works as a personnel English at Rocky Mountain College in Billings. Cathy Hogan ’80 is a manager at Collagen recruiter for Morton Thiokol Inc. in Ogden, His wife, Terry Dutton Egan ’77, received an Corp. and coaches rugby in Cupertino, Calif. Utah. MTI is a government contractor in the M.S. in continuing and vocational education at Mike Johnson ’80 left the University of aerospace industry. C la ssn otes

Births Josephine “Joby” Hunt Forbis ’15, Missoula Jennifer Margaret to Carol Margaret Brown Dwight Leslie Carver ’21, Seattle Mills ’69 and Andrew Mills, Dec. 12, 1984, Amelia Donich Percin ’22, Anaconda RAF Lakenheath, England. Mary Margaret Cooney Hughes ’28, Butte Erik Friesen to Susan English ’72 and Scott Dorothy Draper Von Segen ’29, Hot Dahmer ’72, Feb. 12, 1984, Billings Springs, Mont. Lauren to Lorraine Henderson Gallagher ’72 Virginia Dailey Wilson ’29, Folsom, N.M. and James Gallagher, Feb. 5, 1985, San Philip M. Hoffman ’30, Phoenix Clemente, Calif. J. Fred Roush ’30, Montgomery, Ala. Richard Sean to Mami and John Haley ’71, Joseph P. Monaghan ’31, Butte M ay 11, 1985, Vancouver, British Columbia Thelma Williams Thomas ’31, Lewistown Twins-! Cori Rae and Lori Beth to Barbara Donald Atkins ’32, Sun City, Ariz. Susan Forman ’85 of Seattle and Laura'Davidson Shonkwiler Lee ’72 and Thomas S. Lee James Carlyle Sonstelie ’33, Spokane *85 of San Francisco came back for Homecoming. ’71, June 20, 1985, Kalispell Virginia Warden Morrell ’34, Orleans, Katherine Ann to Karen Sennett O’Brien ’73 Mass. and Richard O ’Brien, March 26, 1985, Loren H. Soenke ’34, Salinas, Calif. Cristine Carson ’83 married John George on Moore, Mont. Ada Forsythe Akers ’36, Lynbrook, Long June 29, 1985. She is assistant operations Graham to Kathleen and Richard M. Baskett Island, N.Y. manager at Kidder Peabody & Co. Inc. in Palo ’76, J.D. ’79, June 18, 1985, Baltimore Virginia Wilcox Harris ’36, Harrison, Ark. Alto, Calif. She and John live in Foster City. Lorna Christina to Kitty Steyskal Corak ’76, Thomas G. Roe ’36, Norfolk, Va. Thomas Morrell ’83 and Danette Angeliki M.A. ’79 and Ladd Corak, Dec. 22, 1984, Sister Mary Vivian (Winnifred) Huls M.A. Morrell ’83 have adopted a little girl, Alicia San Diego ’37, Spokane Montana Morrell. Tom is in his last year of Rachel Loraine to Rebecca Yager Madany ’76 Wiljo “Joe” Lindgren ’38, Tulare, Calif. graduate school studying wildlife at the Univer­ and Roland Madany, July 28, 1985, Inez Copy Maguire ’38, Spokane sity of Nevada-Reno. Danette is working for Oakland, Calif. Marion Van Haur ’38, Bloomington, Minn. Washoe County School District as a 7th and 8th Julia Lee to Joan and Phil Rostad ’76, Jan. 7, Ralph Mathew Wanderer ’39, Novato, grade reading teacher. They reside in Sparks, 1985, Martinsdale, Mont. Calif. Nev. Karl Erich to Rebecca and Paul R. Bolt ’77, Fred Dugan J.D. ’41, Billings Dan O’Donnell ’83 is a CPA with Deloitte, Aug. 16, 1985, Stockton, Calif. Ann Clements Conger ’43, Minneapolis Haskins and Sells in Philadelphia. The most in­ Erin Elizabeth to Elaine Maxwell Culver ’77 Richard A. Nutting ’43, Silesia, Mont. teresting item in his life is that he saw two Bruce and Leith Culver, May 9, 1985, Rock Josephine Oktabec ’43 , M.A. ’53, Springsteen concerts in August. He informs us Springs, Wyo. Missoula that Rick Rolston ’83 is attending medical Katie Marie to Colleen Murphy Gray ’77 and Ora Lloyd Gillespie M.Ed. ’46 , Missoula school at the University of New Mexico in Steve Gray, June 29, 1985, Helena Ted Delaney ’47, Missoula Albuquerque. Dan can’t wait until Rick Megan Doyle to Deborah Doyle MeWhinney Eugene Kopriva M.Ed. ’47 , St. Maries, graduates so that he can become his personal ’77 and Henry George McWhinney, Sept. Idaho accountant. 14, 1985, Tiburon, Calif. Leona Orth McCann ’48 , Rawlins, Wyo. Kyle Albert M.A. ’84 is “applying my Caroline Marit to Nancy and Carl Rostad ’77, John W. Bartlett ’49, Helena talents as a writer in the wacky world of adver­ July 9, 1985, Great Falls John Donovan ’50, Belt, Mont. tising.’’ He has a free-lance business called Alison Leigh to Vicki and Christopher Thomas Robert L. Stoick ’50, Missoula “Words” in Colorado Springs, Colo., and is ’77, Aug. 18, 1985, Seattle John L. Moody ’51, San Jose, Calif. employed fulltime as a writer/producer of film Kyle Stephen to Suzanne Morin Peterson ’78 Elizabeth M. Duffield M.Ed. ’52, Hardin, and video with Channel One Productions, an and David Peterson ’67, April 11, 1985, Mont. independent production house. “I write and Missoula Donald F. Gulden ’53, Miles City conceptualize everything from rock videos to Kara Spencer to Lenora Spencer Reckin ’78 Marvin N. Klampe M.Ed. ’53, Billings car spots and love every minute of it.” and Gerald Reckin ’77, ’79, June 22,1985, Winnafern Huffman Moore ’54, M.Ed. Allison Lee Allen ’84 resides in Denver, Libby, Mont. ’56, Lacey, Wash. where she works for Panned Kerr Forster, the Brett Michael to Laurie Jo Antonietti Hitch­ Richard J. Sandman ’56, Missoula twelfth largest international CPA firm. cock ’79 and Michael Hitchcock ’80, May Donald R. Galpin ’57, Pullman, Wash. Tim Borchers ’84 is attending the Universi­ 7, 1985, Butte Ralph Wright ’63, J.D. ’73, Billings ty of Notre Dame Law School. Now in his se­ Nicole Mary to Susan Fifield Jensen '79 and Shirley Panion Brazill ’71, Butte cond year, he has been invited to join the staff Paul Jensen, July 6, 1985, Portland Robert Neil Timberman ’75, Billings of the Journal o f Legislation. He served as a Josiha to Denise Creamer Ritner ’81 and Michael John Ihli ’76, Tucson summer law clerk in Great Falls with the law Tucker Ritner ’81, Dec. 25, 1984, Puebla, Lowell F. McAdoo M.B.A. ’77, North firm of Church, Harris, Johnson and Williams. Mexico East, Pa. Julie Burkart ’84 works in the financial ser­ Kiel John to Janine Bedey Unruh ’83 and Jeff John Jackson ’80, Roanoke, Va. vices division of Rawhide Realty in Colorado Unruh, June 13, 1985, Missoula Springs, Colo. Lorraine Andrie, July 14, 1985, in Harbor, Yvonne Lucero ’84 is the assistant director Ore. Mrs. Andrie established the Women’s of public relations at Montana Deaconess Association of the Missoula Civic Symphony. Medical Center in Great Falls. A native of Great In Memoriam Falls, the last place she expected to be follow­ We regret we erroneously listed Esther S. Russell B. Hart, Billings, Aug, 7, 1985, ing graduation was “back home.” Adams ’38, M.Ed. ’60 under “Deaths” in the chairman o f the Hart-Albin department store Jean Lenzmeier ’85 has married Michael spring issue. chain and known for his philanthropy and Smith and is an educator in Great Falls. The Alumni Association extends sympathy to service in the fields of arts and education. Carol J. Pfeiffer ’85 began her first year of the fam ilies o f the following alumni andfriends: law school at UM this September. Helen Goddard Adam ’08 , Billings CAMPAIGN UPDATE UM FOUNDATION, 600 UNIVERSITY AVENUE, MISSOULA, MT 59812

THE WASHINGTON GIFT ... ONE IN A MILLION

[ It’s not everyday you find someone willing to give away a million dollars, especially not /in Montana. In fact, such a donation has occurred only once in the history of the state. On August 14, 1985, the University of Montana Foundation announced a gift of $1 million to its Campaign and the new football stadium to be built on the University of Montana campus.' Missoula businessman, Dennis R. Washington, sole owner of the heavy equipment and construction firm, Washington Corporations, has Dennis R. Washington, owner o f Washington Corporations, holds up the football jersey presented to him by Neil Bucklew and the University o f Montana in honor of the stepped forward with a Washington Corporations’ $1 million gift to the University o f Montana Campaign. contribution that makes the planned stadium a reality. fan” and only attends one Although Washington never Pending the approval of the football game a year, but that attended the University of Board of Regents, the new his motivation for making this Montana, his wife, Phyllis, was facility will be named the contribution went beyond just a UM’s Homecoming Oueen in I Washington-Grizzly Stadium. love for sport. “ My whole 1963 and graduated from UM The contribution from Mr. motivation was to get in 1964. Washington and the people of something done for the state,” During its summer meeting, the Washington Corporations, Washington said. “ This state’s the UM Foundation Board of is the largest corporate gift in been good to me.” Washington Trustees voted unanimously to the history of the Foundation, also said that during his go ahead with ground-breaking the University, and the state of business travels he has seen this fall. And at noon on Montana. other facilities and decided that October 5, 1985, with the turn During a champagne Dornblaser Field, built as a of the first shovelful of dirt, reception at the Missoula temporary football facility 16 construction of the new Sheraton, UM President Neil years ago, was not a facility Washington-Grizzly Stadium Bucklew announced the gift that mirrored the “ pride and began. More than 200 well- and introduced Dennis value we have for Montana. I wishers attended the ground­ Washington. Washington said think Montana deserves breaking ceremony on the site he was “ not a real avid sports better,” Washington said. of the new stadium behind Cont’d next page Harry Adams Field House. vice-president of the UM soil. They were creating the President Neil Bucklew turned Foundation Board of Trustees; tunnels that will lead into the over the first shovelful, and and Jerry Balias, architect with new stadium and were working then handed the gold shovel to Fox Balias & Barrow, the on the earth berm that will Dennis Washington, who dug Missoula architectural company serve as the “ walls” of the down and managed to lift a working on the stadium project. stadium. 30-pound boulder out of the That firm has projected a As Dennis Washington said rocky soil. Joining in the 50-55 week construction during ground breaking, he ground-breaking were Connie schedule and barring any was looking forward to “ a year Orr, ’53, stadium sub­ major problems, the Grizzlies from how, when we all will committee chairman; David will be playing ball in the new gather here again on this spot, Paoli, ’83, student regent, UM Washington-Grizzly Stadium and be able to say ‘let’s play Law student and former Grizzly next fall. ball.’ ” See you in a year at the football player; Harley Lewis, And so far, things are going new home for Grizzly football. ’63, UM athletic director; Bill well. Almost immediately Zader, UM Foundation following the ground-breaking executive director; Bob Kelly, ceremony, crews from the ’69, public relations manager Washington Corporations had for Champion International and moved hundreds of tons of

CAMPAIGN REACHES $ 5 .1 MILLION

These drawings are an a r tis t’s conception The University of Montana o f how the memorials in the stadium and Campaign has reached the the University Center will appear. $5.1 million mark toward its goal of $6 million. As of October 15, gifts and pledges received showed the Campaign “ right on schedule” according to Foundation Executive Director Bill Zader. “ With that figure behind us, we can show strong support for the Campaign when our workers go out to alumni and friends across the country beginning this fall,” Zader said. “ I would anticipate meeting our goal, and exceeding that goal, with a strong show of support from out-of-state alumni and friends.” Key cities in the National Alumni Campaign tentatively include Seattle, Spokane, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Houston, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York and Washington, DC. BUY BUY BLEACHERS STADIUM SEAT-SPONSOR PROGRAM MMM hen the new Wash- mmm ington-Grizzly Stadium I fm is completed, Grizzly MM football fans will finally say goodbye to the splintered bleacher seats at Dornblaser Stadium. Although those old seats may be gone, they will not be forgotten. According to Gene Leonard, ’65, Chairman of the Stadium Seat-Sponsor Program for the University of Montana Campaign, every donor of $500 or more to the stadium Gene is a financial consultant University. “So, I guess you portion of the Campaign will and assistant vice-president at could say I have a vested symbolically retire a seat at Shearson Lehman American interest,” Leonard said. “ But, I Dornblaser and replace it with Express, Inc. in Missoula. Prior also believe in this project for a seat in the new stadium. In to that, he served as a teacher, the University, the city and the recognition and appreciation of coach and administrator at state. We’re twenty years behind that, each donor will receive a Sentinel High School in where we should be. Our small engraved section of the^ Missoula. Gene holds three temporary stadium was built original Dornblaser bleachers degrees from the University of close to twenty years ago, and and be named on a memorial Montana. He is married to it’s still in use. It’s a disgrace.” wall in the stadium and in the Sharon Northridge Leonard ’64, “ I really do believe this will University Center. who is financial vice-president be a very positive thing. I know The Seat-Sponsor Program of Mountain Supply Co. of there has been controversy kicked off in Missoula in Missoula and a member of the about'this project, but I think October with a goal of Board of Directors of the UM people will be pleased when $500,000 to be raised in Alumni Association. Their two this facility is in use, not just for Missoula by December 1985. daughters, Loreen ’87, and Amy football games, but for use by Leonard said that, with the ’90, presently attend the the whole community.” existing network of 100 leaders enlisted to help, he was “extremely confident” that this goal will be met. “ I really believe we have an over­ whelming majority in this city who support the stadium project. But now we have to answer the question Are they willing to pay for it?,’ and I think the answer is yes.” Among the alumni leaders working on the stadium seat sponsor portion of the Campaign are Hal Fraser ’65, Steve Harrington 70, Bob Massey ’69, Lino Marsillo ’57, Bob Sheridan ’67, Earl Sherron ’62, Bill Steinbrenner ’59, and Ben Tyvand ’48. THOUGHTS FROM THE CHAIRMAN

are close to our original goal of and research process. The $6 million. startling news was that, in Now the time has come for 1979, less than one percent of us to take the Campaign to the all University of Montana rest of our alumni and friends alumni had contributed in any of the University of Montana. way to the private support of Beginning this fall, Campaign the University. I am pleased to workers in selected parts of the announce that the number of country will extend an alumni now giving is close to opportunity for all alumni, twelve percent which is very parents and friends to join in good news and we are just this vital program for the beginning. University. This Campaign will be taken It’s always a pleasure to be These dollars, raised through to alumni and friends across the bearer of good news. And the Campaign and the efforts the country, many of whom as chairman of the University of of the UM Foundation, go haven’t had any connection Montana Campaign, I am toward making the University of with the University since they pleased to report that in the Montana a better place to graduated. This Campaign will second year of the Campaign, learn, a better place to teach, a get us in touch with our friends we are right on schedule. As place to enrich the quality of all again; let them know we this update goes to press, the of our lives. This private remember them and would University of Montana support is crucial to meet the appreciate their support of their Campaign portion of the $10.6 needs of the University if we University. This Campaign will million Extension of Excellence are to continue the pursuit of substantially increase our base fund-raising drive has raised excellence that is our tradition of support for the University; more than $5.1 million in gifts at the University of Montana. and in renewing these old and pledges. We have been Before this Campaign was friendships, that relationship will very successful in the major undertaken, a shocking statistic continue long after this gifts area of this Campaign and appeared out of the planning Campaign is over.

Nels E. Turnquist OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN

Neil S. Bucklew Paul J. Chumrau Bruce D. Crippen Ian B. Davidson Tom C. Davis Donald M. Fordyce President President, Retired President & Owner Chairman & CEO Colonel, USA Ret. Chairman & CEO University of Montana First Federal Savings & Loan Homestead Business Park D. A. Davidson & Company Missoula. MT Manhattan Corp, Missoula. MT Missoula. MT Billings. MT Great Falls. MT New York, NY

Robert G. Henry Robert J. Kelly Daniel Lambros Joseph A. McElwain Conrad Orr, Jr._ Lloyd G. Schermer President Public Relations Manager President Chairman of the Board D.V.M. President & CEO First Bank Southside Missoula Champion International Corp. Lambros Realty Montana Power Company Missoula. MT Lee Enterprises Missoula. MT Rocky Mountain Region Missoula, MT Butte, MT Davenport. IA Missoula. MT

Kermit R. Schwanke Ward A. Shanahan Nels E. Turnquist Warren F. Vaughan President, Retired Attorney at Law Chairman, Retired Vice Chairman of the Board John R. Daily Inc. Helena. MT First Bank of South Dakota Norwest Bank Billings. NA Missoula, MT Sioux Falls. SD Billings. MT

3 9 Grizzly Thirty Years in Support of Athletic Academic and Athletic Excellence Association

What is the Grizzly Athletic Association? The Grizzly Athletic Association is a non­ profit tax-exempt organization whose primary purpose is to provide scholarships for men and women student athletes. When was it founded? The Grizzly Athletic Association was founded in 1955 under another identity. Through the years many changes have been made, but the primary purpose of assisting many truly outstanding and worthy student athletes achieve a quality education has remained the same. Lady Griz basketball standout, Great Falls product, Brian All-everything University o f Mon­ Why is the Grizzly Athletic Barb Kavanagh, w as a first-team Salonen, is the career record tana forward, Larry Krystkowiak, Mountain West Conference selec­ holder in receiving at Montana. He was unanimous Big Sky Con­ Association necessary? tion in 1984-85, a s well as w as a 1-AA All-American a s a ference MVP as a sophom ore and Grizzly athletics are only partially funded by Domino's Pizza Woman Athlete of player and academically (3.8 in junior, a s well as honorable men­ traditional sources of revenue, which include the Year. She w as a two-time All- business) in 1983. He played in tion All-American. He w as first- District 7 academic selection, the East-West Shrine Game in team A cadem ic All-American, gate receipts, guarantees and general maintaining a 3.6 GPA in math Palo Alto. He was a three-time All- Division I (five players) in 1985, as University appropriations. While these and physical education. (Photos Big Sky Conference selection as well as District 7 Player of the sources of revenue help to meet the major by Howard Skaggs) a player and as a student. Brian Year in '85. He has a 3.73 GPA in operating expenses of the total program, also received an NCAA post-grad­ business. He has been featured in they are insufficient in underwriting the uate scholarship. He is currently Sports Illustrated and USA Today scholarship aid so vital in maintaining a a member of the Dallas Cowboys this past season. Larry has played in the National Football League. internationally on five teams. competitive sports program. Why support UM athletics? How do I benefit from How can I help? Athletics play an important role in the membership in the G.A.A.? The difference between existing and excell­ development of character, self-discipline There are many privileges afforded members ing in the ’80s may very well depend on the and competitive spirit in young men and in accordance with their contribution level, level of financial support given through the women at the University of Montana. Grizzly Athletic Association. To compete with such as ticket priority, special parking, donor integrity while striving for excellence is our Equally important is the sense of University recognition and invitations to special events. and community pride which occurs at ultimate goal. To achieve it, we need help The greatest benefit of all, however, is the from our alumni and friends throughout the athletic contests where students, alumni personal satisfaction of helping UM student and friends are brought together. In addi­ nation. Please consider a charitable gift to tion, there are direct economic benefits to athletes, sharing in their success and UM athletics. You can count on the Grizzlies state and local businesses as a result of assisting these young men and women to give 100 percent to prove worthy of your Grizzly athletics. achieve their academic and athletic goals. support.

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