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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Communique, 1953-2020 Journalism Spring 1960 Communique, Spring 1960 Montana State University (Missoula, Mont.). School of Journalism Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/communique Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Montana State University (Missoula, Mont.). School of Journalism, "Communique, Spring 1960" (1960). Communique, 1953-2020. 30. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/communique/30 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the Journalism at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Communique, 1953-2020 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. w <?A. ^ AECHlVfS Johnston Gives SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM Stone Address William F. Johnston, managing ed CO M M UNIQUE itor and editorial page editor of the Vol. 17, No. 3 MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY Spring, 1960 Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune, was the featured speaker at the fourth annual Dean Stone Night on May 8. J-Graduates Get He also served as Professional Lec turer in Journalism, meeting classes and talking informally with students. Excellent Jobs His address, dealing with the prob Ten graduating seniors and a host lems of small city .dailies, has been of juniors had no trouble getting jobs published in the Montana Journalism in June—the first step of a profes Review, . sional career for the graduates and . John F. M. Travis, publisher of the some valuable summer experience Havre Daily News, served as toast for the upcoming seniors. master. Presenting, awards or mak Five graduates now are reporting ing introductions, in addition to the for newspapers. Patricia Ashall journalism staff members and stu joined the Billings Gazette, James dents, were Ray Loman ’49 of the Berry is with the Missoulian, Keith Ronan Pioneer, Don Bartsch ’40 of Wood is with the Montana Standard the Great Falls Newspaper Guild and in Butte, Vera Swanson joined the A. J. Mosby of KMSO-TV. Colfax (Wash.) Gazette, and Judith Special guests were Dean S ton e’s Blakely is back in Tulsa, Oklahoma, daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Stone Mur with the World. phy; a son, Dr. Emerson Stone, and WILLIAM F. JOHNSTON Brinton Markle went to KOFI in his wife; and Dr. S ton e’s son, the Rev. Kalispell and Toni Richardson moved George Emerson Stone, and his wife. full-time into KQTE in Missoula. The Rev. Stone delivered the invo Mrs. Powers Gives James Kolstad accepted a job in the cation and benediction. promotion and advertising depart Eight awards, including checks $1,000 to J-School ment of Bullocks in Los Angeles. totaling $450, were presented at the A check for $1,000 has been pre The graduates again this year were banquet attended by 115 persons. sented to the School of Journalism by aided by a brochure prepared for Mrs. Dorothy Rochon Powers ’43, col them by Prof. Olaf J. Bue. The spe (See Photos on Pages 2, 3 and 4) umnist and feature writer for the cial publication, containing photos Spokane Spokesman-Review. and biographies of the graduates, She asked that the money be used was given a wide mailing to poten Fred Yu Gets Grant to provide five $200 scholarships in tial employers. coming years to graduates of Ana Roderick Fisher, versatile musi For Far East Study conda High School who wish to cian, is delaying his entrance into the Frederick T. C. Yu, associate pro major in journalism at MSU. Mrs. field in order to play the Stagecoach fessor of. journalism, has been Powers also is a graduate of Anacon Inn at West Yellowstone for a while. awarded a research grant by the Ford da High. Ruth James is taking on a fulltime Foundation to study the most influ The check, presented to Dean Na job as housewife. ential molders of public opinion in than B. Blumberg, is the one she re Juniors have taken positions with Asia. ceived earlier this year when she AP and UPI in Helena, the Wiscon He has been granted a leave of ab won the national Ernie Pyle Me sin State Journal in Madison, the sence for fall term. He plans to leave morial Award. The new University Montana Standard, KMSO-TV, the soon and spend several months in award will be known as the C. G. information office of the Department seven Asian countries gathering data Rochon Scholarship in Journalism, of Agriculture in San Francisco, the before returning to the United States in honor of her father, who died in Yellowstone Park company publica before Christmas. 1944. tion, and others. His research plans include inter Mrs. Powers was featured speaker views with approximately 150 lead at the Matrix Table in Missoula this ing! & newspaper publishers, editors, year and also won 10 awards in the Montana Journalism Review columnists,' reporters, writers and eighth annual Inland Empire Press- Will Be Mailed on Request radio broadcasters. Radio-TV contest. Free copies of the third annual Montana Journalism Review are Placement, Anyone? available on request. - - • / The 32-page issue, edited by 3 0 Looking for a better job? Jere M. Coffey, 39, publisher of Prof. Frederick Yu, contains ar Have a job for a graduate? the Choteau Acantha, died of res ticles by William F. Johnston, Profs. piratory complications in a Phoe Either way, Prof. O. J. Bue, direc Blumberg, Bue, Dugan and John nix, Ariz., hospital May 8. He was tor of the J-School Placement Bu son, former graduate student John graduated in journalism with high reau, may be able to help you. P. Fought, and research summaries est honors in 1943. Drop him a line. by journalism students. The First Years . Richard G. Schneider ’33 says he misses the old routine but not the George T. Armitage ’14, first grad deadline pressure since the sale of uate of the MSU School of Jour With Grads the Glasgow Courier. He now de nalism, writes from Calistoga, Calif., votes full time to the Glasgow Of that all goes well and that he is doing fice Supply. a lot of writing. Afield... Clarence K. Streit ’19 saw his Russell P. Daigle ’36, his wife and movement for Atlantic Union gain years at national headquarters in Cin four children moved to Cincinnati, impetus when the U. S. Senate passed cinnati, Ohio. Ohio, from'Atherton, Calif., last sum a resolution favoring a convention to Paul T. DeVore ’26, director of in mer. He is district sales manager for consider establishing the union. The formation for Farm Credit Banks of Notcross Inc. vote was 51-44, and authorizes ap Spokane, reports son Cameron in Betty Eiselein Wetzel (Mrs. Win propriation of $300,000 to pay the second year of law at Harvard; ston W.) ’37 returns to Missoula United States’ share of expenses. daughter Lee ’57 still with informa where her husband has been named tion division of Agricultural Research principal of Missoula County High The Twenties . Service, USDA, in Washington, D.C., School. A. B. Guthrie Jr. ’23 : “The Big It” and Chuck to be a senior in Lewis B. T. Bergeson ’37 and his wife is out. (Ed. Note: D on ’t miss this and Clark High School. stopped to buy a package of cigar book.) Gretchen Muckier Averill (Mrs. ettes at the A&W Drive-In in Palo Agnes Boyd Troeger (Werner Walter) ’26, with her husband as Alto, Calif., and ended up buying Troeger deceased) ’23, order cor co-publisher of the Casa Grande the business and franchise. respondent for Allis-Chalmers in (Ariz.) Dispatch has been notching Ed Erlandson ’38, Missoulian news Milwaukee, reports she enjoys read one first prize after another in state editor, is directing preparation of the ing Communique and is impressed “general excellence” competition for p a p er’s centennial special edition to with the development of the School weeklies. Youngest daughter Vir be published this summer. from the days when it was in the old ginia plans to enroll in MSU for Doris McCullough Dickman (Rol ROTC barracks. social welfare study. and F.) ’38 is technical editor for Fred J. Martin ’25, publisher of the Catherine Calder Cushing (Mrs. Soil Conservation Service of USDA Park County News in Livingston, be Ralph H.) ’28 is a Billings house in Beltsville, Md. came the first graduate of the School wife, but manages to handle public to run for the United States Senate. relations for the Midland Empire Girl The Forties . He ran hard and well, but d id n ’t Scout Council with a membership of Ken Kizer ’41 sent the J-School make it in the Republican primary. 5,000. two brochures including the annual Margaret Anderson Bloom ’25 report of the Burroughs Corp. in De (Mrs. Herbert L.) is in Evanston, TheThirties . troit, most of which was his work. 111., and is alumnae editor of the Edwin P. Astle ’32 has been busy Irene Pappas ’41, publicist for the quarterly Alpha Phi magazine. indeed as representative to British City of Hope National Medical Cen Vivian D. Corbly ’25 is trying to Honduras for the U. S. International ter in Los Angeles, was awarded a qualify as a wrangler on the Mission Cooperation Administration. Since golden “Lulu” trophy by the Los An Valley Guest Ranch near New arriving in Belize in 1956, he has set geles Advertising Women, Inc., for Braunfels, Tex., which he purchased up the ICA program there, saw outstanding accomplishment in the last year. He retired as national daughter Susan married (1958), and field of local publicity. adjutant of Disabled American Vet whooped with joy at the birth of Betty Bloomsburg Butler (Mrs.