University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana

Montanan Magazine, 1969-2020 University Relations

Winter 1-1-1985

Montanan, Winter 1985

University of Montana (Missoula, Mont.: 1965-1994)

Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/montanan Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y

Recommended Citation University of Montana (Missoula, Mont.: 1965-1994), "Montanan, Winter 1985" (1985). Montanan Magazine, 1969-2020. 91. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/montanan/91

This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the University Relations at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Montanan Magazine, 1969-2020 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. M pn ian an m W ^ B lT h e Magazine of the University of MontanaHIF Winter ’85 I Vol. 2, No.2 ' 1; f . ' v; •' • -

Address Correction Requested Non-profit Org. Office of News and Publications •’ U.S. Postage University of Montana PAID Missoula, Montana 59819 Kansas City, Ml Permit No. 4131 Forum

Update on the Montanan

W h e n the Montanan was launched sixteen months ago it Montanan in return for a commission. If they are seemed too good to be true. After years of printing an successful, ads could eventually generate most of the inexpensive tabloid, the University of Montana would again money we need to continued producing the Montanan. But have a quality, glossy magazine. It would come out as our experience with UNP demonstrated, building ad monthly throughout the academic year, and the only cost sales takes time. You can help by supporting the firms that would be postage. advertise in your magazine. And if you own or run a All this was to be possible because a group of thirty-four company, consider advertising in the Montanan. college magazines editors joined together with a Tucson Demographic information and rates are available from the company, University Network Publishing, which promised M issoulian advertising department. The address appears on to underwrite production costs with national advertising. It the masthead. seemed like a brilliant idea. You can help even more directly with a voluntary But it didn’t work. The national advertising market is subscription. While we hope to continue sending the fiercely competitive, and UNP was never able to sell Montanan to all alumni and friends regardless of whether enough ads to cover their costs. Only seven of the they “ subscribe,” your help can insure that we have a promised nine issues materialized last year. Then in magazine to send. Small amounts are welcome. In fact, if September with the fall issue of the Montanan ready for every reader were to send only $1 we could not only the press, UNP announced they were suspending continue to print, we could add pages or print more often. production. Of course not everyone will contribute, so we are What to do? From your comments and letters we knew suggesting a contribution of $10 a year. Make your check that you liked and apppreciated your new magazine. Here payable to Montanan magazine. at UM everyone involved with the Montanan agreed there The story of the Montanan is still unfolding. With your was no going back; UM alumni wanted and deserved a help it will yet have a happy ending. quality magazine. So we printed the fall issue, using funds that had been budgeted for postage. Then we set about finding a way to keep the magazine going. There is no easy way to do that. Even cutting the frequency to four issues, the cost of the Montanan will be $50,000 to $60,000 this year. Only $25,000 was budgeted at the start of the year for the magazine, and half of that was spent to bring you the fall issue. We are doing two things to keep the Montanan coming: selling advertising and soliciting voluntary “ subscriptions.” Director of Information You can help with both. In early November the Missoulian newspaper agreed to act as our advertising representative, selling ads in the Sheila Steams Virginia Braun Paul Lauren, left, professor o f history, A new on-campus football stadium is part o f the Homecoming royalty Harlan Fredenberg (king), and Jo Bucklew, right, wife o f UM Presi­ University’s $10.6 million capital campaign to meet Lori Serviss (queen), Anna Swallow, Jeff dent Neil Bucklew, chat with Maureen long-range needs. See pages 8-9 for details. Christopher, Lina Barakat and Shawn Gray Mansfield at a UM reception in Tokyo. brave snow flurries at the game. See pages For more on the Mirage Bowl game and 12-15 for more on Homecoming. alumni trip to Japan, see pages 10-11. Contents

2 Letters ^^Lontanan—The Magazine of the University of Montana is published every other month, by the University of 3 Around the oval Montana for its alumni and friends. Publisher 6 Dorothy Powers: She can’t stand not The University of Montana to know Director of University Information William Scott Brown Alumni profile by Virginia Vickers Braun Editor Virginia Vickers Braun 8 Extending a tradition of excellence Contributing Editor by William Scott Brown Maribeth Dwyer Sports Writers Dave Guffey, Linda Reaves 10 Grizzlies in the Orient Photographer by Maribeth Dwyer Howard Skaggs Editorial Offices Office of News and Publications 12 Homecoming ’84 Main Hall University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812 16 Learning how to have good fights 406-243-2522 Course of the month by Joyce Hocker Alumni Office Sheila Steams, Director Missoula, MT 59812 17 Alumni news 406-243-5211 Advertising Representative The Missoulian 19 C lassnotes Attn. Sharon Schroeder 500 N. Higgins Ave. Missoula, MT 59807 406-721-5200 Cover photo: At the Mirage Bowl game in Tokyo by Sheila MacDonald Steams. Inset o f Mike Mansfield ’33, M.A. ’34 by Dan Root.

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 1 Thanks for the photo Just a note to comment on the photo of the Dietterts in Letters your October issue of the Montanan. Reuben Diettert is one of my very favorite people, as well as teachers. I was in his course when his other son gave his life to the state Writing project should prevail of Montana as a smokejumper. Dr. Diettert’s strength of character was never more in evidence than when this I read with interest your latest issue, Oct. ’84. Of unfortunate event occurred. One of my majors from the particular importance to me was the Around the Oval University of Montana is in botany so I had a couple of section about students meeting general-education courses with Dr. Diettert. It was a real treat for me to see requirements. I congratulate the Faculty Senate for adopting him, looking well and healthy, with his son and grandson. such a general program. I believe this philosophy reflects a So, thanks for the wonderful photo, along with Main Hall real understanding of what college is all about. and Mount Sentinel in the background. I am sorry to hear that the finest program to alleviate the problems addressed by this adoption, The Montana Writing Arthur W. Merrick, x’40, ’50 Project, is in danger because of lack of funding. I Potomac, Maryland understand that the project has been funded somewhat tentatively by the University of Montana and others for some years, but that now there is danger of its funding Band members were Tri Delts being cut out or cut back. This seems to me to be in direct If you are serious about your inquiry concerning the two opposition to the motives of the Faculty Senate, which ladies, members of the Grizzly Band in 1938, in the deems a strong foundation in language, primarily writing, October ’84 publication, said girls are Winnie Gordon to be an essential to true education and thus of the highest (shown with pom pom) and Nonie Lynch, both members of priority to students entering the University System. Delta Delta Delta at that time. Where do students acquire the background in the humanities and the skills to meet the University’s Luana Warren Wilkinson ’38 expectations? They get them from teachers who are Waterville, Washington equipped to teach them. No program has met the needs of teachers of writing as well as have the writing projects of all the states. Montana has had a superior writing project; Remembering a ‘Grande Dame’ students o^ most Montana schools benefit from this fine I noted the passing of Dorothy Johnson with great writing project provided by UM. We should not let it die sadness recently because she was a genuine first-class lady, now when the need for it is more pronounced than ever and because she was a friend and confidante during my before. university days. If you will indulge me, I would like to Jan Dunbar share an incident that helped teach me some of life’s West Yellowstone, Montana important lessons and endeared her to me. While I was going to the University on the G.I. Bill and struggling to make ends meet with a wife and two babies, Dorothy put me to work as a handyman around her house. Indian headdress a backrest I was enrolled in her magazine-writing course at the time I am sure that you have been told by now that the Indian and entertained a dream of becoming what she personified. “ headdress” being examined by Johnson, Cabrera and Patrick Passing through her living room one day, I noticed a stack in the photo on page 3 of the October 1984 issue of the Mon­ of magazines commonly referred to as pulps, considered tanan is a backrest, the forerunner to the chaise lounger. “ trash” by the intellectual community of which I fancied I would like to congratulate you, nonetheless, on your Univer­ myself a member. “ Dorothy,” I asked, “ you don’t really sity’s acquisition of the Linderman materials and wish you well read this junk, do you?” She promptly brought me back to in the display of the collection. the real world and taught me a*basic lesson in economics by replying with a cold stare (as she flipped through the Walter C. Fleming, MSU ’79 top magazine to an article written by herself, about the Acting Director of the Center infamous Montana cannibal, Boone Helm). “ This junk not for Native American Studies only pays my bills but your salary as well.” Enough said. Bozeman I shall miss Montana’s Grande Dame, as I know manyothers will. It is appropriate to say, “ Thank you for Editors Note: Unfortunately the wrong cutline ran beneath the the memories, sweet princess, wherever you are.” photo. Pictured with the backrest were Library Dean Ruth Patrick, Hammond Professor o f History Duane Hampton, and Ralph DeLange, ’59 history student Rick Cabrera o f Billings. San Jose, California

2 UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA Michael Gallacher An estimated 350 Montana high school students representing forty-six countries attended a Model United Nations session at UM in November. Representing Turkey are, from left, Linda Lane, Elaine Cain and Mary McGhee, students at Big Sky High School in Missoula. Around the Oval

Burlington Northern contributes University. This year’s national goal is $250,000. $250,000 to Mansfield Center This year’s Excellence Fund receipts will be used for such programs as the Marching Band, the design and T h e Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation has planning of a new Business Administration building, the received $250,000 from Burlington Northern Inc. for the Mansfield Library and alumni projects. Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at the University. James Lopach, acting director of the center, said income from the money will be used for an annual Burlington Northern conference dealing with either ethics in public Pantzer award presented affairs or Asian studies. The first conference will be in to Missoula civic leader 1985-86. John N. Etchart of Helena, vice president of BN, iVIissoula civic leader Paul Chumrau received the Robert presented the check to Gov. Ted Schwinden, president of T. Pantzer award at Homecoming. The award honors the foundation, at the annual meeting of the foundation’s Pantzer ’40 B.A., ’47 J.D., UM board of directors in Helena July 18, 1984. The foundation president from 1966 to 1974. He and his raises funds for both the UM center in Missoula and the wife, the former Ann Pr6ndergast of Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs, which will be built at Butte, ’40 B.A., came from their home Flathead Lake. in Santa Rosa, California, for Homecoming and were on hand for the Excellence Fund drives tops presentation of the award. Chumrau retired as president of $95,000 goal in Missoula Missoula First Federal Savings & Loan Association in 1977, but he has not retired from service to the community F o r the sixth year in a row, the Missoula fall campaign and the University. He is now a member of the Office of for the Excellence Fund, concluded in December, exceeded the Chairman, which provides the leadership to the its goal. The Missoula drive, headed by Thomas H. Boone, University’s $6-million Capital Campaign, announced at aimed for $95,000 and brought in $102,800 in money and Homecoming. pledges. University personnel accounted for more than Chumrau, an outstanding athlete at Anaconda High and $10,000 of that total. the University, was co-captain of the 1937 Grizzly The Missoula campaign is a major part of the Excellence basketball team. He is a member of Phi Delta Theta Fund’s effort to raise unrestricted money for the fraternity.

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 3 UM senior receives Gift of $350,000 will support Sears Congressional internship Erasmus Scholarships at UM

T im o th y K. Huneck, a senior in journalism from he University of Montana Foundation received a gift of Columbus, Ohio, has become the 19th University of $350,000 from anonymous donors to endow Erasmus Montana journalism student to receive a Sears Scholarships at the University for another eighteen years. Congressional internship. The awards were established by a gift from the same Huneck, a straight-A student and news donors for 1983-84, when twenty-four students received a editor of the campus daily newspaper, total of $42,600. the Montana Kaimin, was one of twenty Erasmus Scholarships, which range from $500 to $4,000, journalism students throughout the are for full-time students, including incoming freshmen, country selected for the program, which transfer students and graduate students. They are granted begins in Washington, D.C., on on the basis of financial need and other factors to students February V. He was the only student who have shown a determination to work toward selected from a university in the humanistic ideals. Northwest. The UM School of Journalism ranks first among all journalism schools in the nation in the number of students selected for the Sears program. The internships give outstanding junior and senior journalism students the opportunity to spend three months on the staff of a U.S. senator or representative. A panel of professional journalists and educators chooses the interns each year from a field of candidates nominated by accredited journalism schools. Huneck won the 1984 Lee Newspapers of Montana award for outstanding performance as a journalism student.

Retired business professor endows scholarship fund

B renda Farrell Wilson, retired professor and first chairman of the Department of Business Education and Office Management, has established a $5,000 endowed scholarship at UM in honor of her late husband, M.B. “ Scotty” Wilson. Mr. Wilson was district head of the American Crystal Sugar Company, formerly Amalgamated Sugar, which produced refined sugar from sugar beets grown in western Montana. He was an active alumnus of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and helped found the Beta Chapter of SAE on the UM campus. Mrs. Wilson taught stenography and transcription in the UM business school for thirty-four, retiring in 1967. She wrote two monographs on teaching methods that were widely distributed to Montana high school teachers by the state superintendent of public instruction. She was Howard Skaggs personally acquainted with the nation’s leading authority on 0(X>OOOOOOh la la —Roman Zylawy, professor o f French, is already teaching shorthand, Louis Leslie, and during her tenure preparing for the French Immersion Workshop, a week-long dip into brought Leslie and other leaders in the field to UM to French culture at Flathead Lake Aug. 18-24. “Students eat, drink and lecture and conduct workshops. sleep French, ’ ’ Zylawy says, ‘ ‘and whoever doesn’t gets the guillotine. A similar workshop in German will be held at Lubrecht Forest Aug. The scholarships will be awarded annually based on 11-17. The 2-credit workshops are open to high school language financial need and academic achievement. Preference will teachers and anyone with an intermediate command o f French or be given to business education majors and members of the German. To enroll call or write the Center o f Continuing Education, Beta Chapter of SAE. 243-2900. Enrollment is limited to 20 per workshop.

4 UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA Students earn and learn

H a v e you employers out there considered hiring a student through the University’s cooperative education program? The students are placed in job-related internships for a quarter, usually receiving a salary but sometimes working as volunteers. The University has students in internships all over the country. The intern often is able to earn academic credit while gaining on-the-job experience in his or her field of study, and the employer gets a highly motivated worker. From July 1982 through June 1983, internship placements numbered 283. In the corresponding period the next year, 331 students were placed, an increase of 14.5 Howard Skaggs percent. In 1982-83 interns earned $243,237 and the Laura Grealish, a business management major from Helena, got some 1983-84 interns earned $289,283. The number of practical experience last spring working with Dave Gerrard, manager undergraduate credits generated increased from 1,071 in o f The Club, an athletic facility in Missoula. 1982-83 to 1,430 in 1983-84. To find out how you can take part in this program that music professor, who had played it in his first recital at the benefits both employers and students, write to Barbara University, in 1968. Olson, Director of Cooperative Education, University of For thirty-three years the piano served faculty, students Montana, 125 Main Hall, Missoula, MT 59812. and visiting artists. Among the last was Arthur Rubenstein, who wanted to buy it. It wasn’t for sale. University’s Steinway comes home But, as pianos will, it finally wore out in 1980. It was acquired by Hut, who had left the faculty to open his own A former trustee of the UM Foundation and a music business, Pianos International, in Missoula. After Hut professor turned entrepreneur are among the principals in a returned the instrument to its original brilliance, he found story about a piano and the University—a story with a himself reluctant to accept the offers for it that were happy ending. coming in. For sentimental reasons, he decided he would In 1947, Rudolph Wendt of the music faculty played the rather take less than its appraised value of $38,000 than let recital that dedicated the magnificient Steinway grand that it leave Montana. had just been purchased by the University for about Learning that the piano was available, John Ruffato and his wife, Fran, donated the money to the UM Foundation $ 10, 000. In 1984, pianist Dennis Alexander and mezzo-soprano to purchase the piano for the University. Ruffato, a former Esther England, associate professors of music, presented foundation trustee, is a director of the investment firm, Murphey Favre Inc. the recital that re-dedicated the instrument. Professor Emeritus Rudolph Wendt was in the audience. So through a chain of fortuitous events, the Stein way that The piano had been restored by Lucien Hut, a former Hut calls “ the beloved instrument’’ is back where it belongs. Wildlife film festival draws international attention

W ild life biologists, filmmakers and cinematographers from all points of the compass will converge on the campus April 1-7 for the 8th annual International Wildlife Film Festival. The event focuses worldwide attention on the Wildlife Biology Program in the School of Forestry every spring. The festival is a showcase for the best professional and amateur wildlife films released in 1984. In addition to showings of winning films and videos, free workshops and panels will be in session throughout the week on such Marty Stouffer of Marty Stouffer Productions of Aspen, Colorado, topics as wildlife media strategy, underwater filming and coaxes his star to look at the camera for his production, ' ‘Bighorn! ’ ’ film techniques. The film, shot in Colorado, was shown at the 1984 International Wildlife The UM student chapter of the Wildlife Society sponsors Film Festival at UM. the festival.

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 5 Virginia Braun A 1943 graduate o f the UM School o f Journalism, Dorothy Powers is associate editor o f both the Spokesman Review and the Spokane Chronicle.

Alumni Profile * Dorothy Powers

She can’t stand not to know

by Virginia Vickers Braun Ringling Brothers Circus and ended up riding an elephant. She was trotted out before all of Spokane society, including I don’t imagine Dorothy Powers, ’43, has changed much. her unsuspecting husband, wearing, well, a very startling She’s got the energy and enthusiasm of an 18-year-old. Her costume to say the least. smile hasn’t faded one kilowatt—it still lights up her entire Her ability to “ tell the story,’’ directly with humor and face. And she hasn’t lost that mischievous twinkle in her heart, has taken her up the ranks from general-assignment eyes, a twinkle that probably still gets her in trouble. reporter, to feature writer, columnist and editorial writer. Fresh with a B.A. in journalism, she set out in 1943 to She was named editorial page editor of the Spokesman be a reporter. Today, as associate editor of both the Review in 1977 and associate editor of both Spokane papers Spokesman Review and the Spokane Chronicle, she’s one of in 1982. the nation’s most prominent journalists. A gifted observer, she’s been willing to go almost I met Dorothy this spring at Dean Stone Night, the J- anywhere and do almost anything for the sake of a story. School’s annual awards banquet. A crowd had gathered After World War II, she was sent to Nishinomiya, around her table, and those listening were begging her to Spokane’s sister city, to tell the story of what postwar “ tell the story about the time when. ...” One of those Japan and the Japanese were really like. For a feature on times was when Dorothy went to do a feature on the Washington’s mental institutions, she had herself committed

6 UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA as a patient. Her account of the patients’ despair and lack back to Spokane on vacation and decided to stay. of medical attention helped bring about needed reforms. Working for the press has put Dorothy in a special Similarly, she placed herself in the women’s state position to know the people and the problems in and penitentiary at Walla Walla to experience the living around Spokane. In 1960 she lost in a bid to run for conditions of the prisoners. “ There was no way to prove Congress. Six years later she was the Republican nominee the feelings of the inmates unless I went in there,” she in the general election but lost to Tom Foley, who has said. served twenty-two years in Congress and as majority whip Her concern for people and social issues prompted a is the third-ranking member in the House. series on skid-row bums. She fearlessly crawled into Over the years Dorothy has maintained close ties to UM. boxcars and frequented hobo camps to interview her She was the Dean Stone Lecturing Chair in 1962, has subjects. served three terms (1974-83) on the UM Foundation Board She also was the first woman to make a tactical refueling of Trustees, and was the first woman elected president of flight on a jet tanker, a feat which required clearance from the Foundation. SAC headquarters. In 1960 she was the first woman to win the Ernie Pyle While she doesn’t think women reporters should trade on Memorial Award, a national award given annually by the fact that they’re female, she feels women make Scripps Howard to a journalist who best emulates Pyle’s especially good reporters. “ We’re naturally curious,” she flair for human-interest stories. She used her $1,000 award, says. “ We can’t stand not to know.” the same amount as a Pulitzer Prize, to establish a Interestingly enough, Dean Stone, the venerated founder journalism scholarship in memory of her father, who, after of the J-School, apparently did not share this perception. seeing to his own children’s education, continued to help “ Dean Stone all but kicked us out,” Dorothy said. “ He send Anaconda students to UM. Currently there are three was a shrewd old gentleman. At the end of our freshman Rochon scholars at the J-School. year, he excused the men from class. He told us we were Among the other honors she has received, Dorothy was entering a man’s field, and that we had no business in it. selected in 1973 to join an elite group of journalists sent to He. said there was no way we’d be anything but society Russia to contrast the Western press with Pravda, the editors. Soviet press. “ ‘Now we’re just going to sit here and nobody will “ We forget how totally unrestricted American reporters think the less of you if you walk out,’ he said. There were are,” she said. “ We aren’t made to believe anything by only about six or seven women of a total of about thirty. anyone else. Our only limits are our responsibility and No one stood up and left. The women were serious.” insistence on perfection.” Dorothy has always been serious about writing. Brought That and the ability to tell the story. And few people can up in a family of writers, she said: “ I never remember a tell a story like Dorothy. time I didn’t want to write. English was the thing.” Her mother, Edna Waterbury Rochon, was a teacher and a principal in Anaconda. Her father, C.G. Rochon, was the son of a Nebraska wheat farmer. Her parents homesteaded briefly in Alberta, Canada, where Dorothy was born, and moved to Anaconda when she was two years old. For many years her father was clerk, or business manager, of the Anaconda School Board. During the Spanish-American War, he wrote dispatches from the Philippines and Cuba. Her brother, E. W. Rochon, also has had a career in journalism. He worked for the New York World Telegram and Sun, the Associated Press, and is the retired senior editor of Business Week. In 1943 Dorothy landed a job at the Spokesman Review and moved right into the news beats covering federal and criminal courts. “ Ours was a perfect era for women to get in (to reporting),” she said. “ It was wartime and the men had left their posts.” She never worked as a society editor. She married El wood Powers in 1945, then a B-17 pilot and now regional manager for a large steel corporation. They moved to Tennessee where her husband finished a master’s degree and where Dorothy edited the Marysville Enterprise and later worked *as a reporter for the Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle and a stringer for the Nashville Banner. After her husband finished his degree, they came Dorothy makes another appearance in the circus, this time as a clown.

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 7 Extending a tradition of excellence by William Scott Brown the first attempt by the University or the Foundation to conduct a general fund drive designed to meet capital and Q uick. What percent of the University of Montana’s long-term needs. Previous fund-raising efforts have been budget is supported by state taxes? 90 percent? 75 percent? for annual needs or single projects. 60 percent? Less than 50 percent? Don’t peek. The University of Montana Campaign incorporates seven If you guessed less than 50 percent, you were right. goals that cut across the full spectrum of UM’s activity. Only 48 percent of UM’s total budget comes from state The Campaign will establish University professorships and taxes. The rest comes from student fees, federal funds, merit scholarships, fund the work of research and creative grants and contracts and private donations. centers that have achieved excellence, provide for the care The point, which was made by President Neil Bucklew in and expansion of University archives and collections, his fourth annual convocation address, delivered at expand service to the state and region through Homecoming, is that while UM is a state school and the broadcasting, build a new, on-campus football stadium and state’s tax-based support is critical, it is less a fully funded endow the UM Foundation. state agency than it is a publicly assisted one. These goals were carefully arrived at during more than a In his address, titled “ Extending a Tradition of year of preliminary research. Each represents an area of Excellence: Private Support in the Life of the University of real need and opportunity for which the prospect of state Montana,’’ the president argued that private support of the funding is small to non-existent. And each generated University of Montana is essential to its continued enthusiasm and support in conversations with alumni, excellence. He also announced the most ambitious private friends, faculty, staff and administrators. fund-raising project in the University’s history, a three- That preliminary appraisal is accurate if the Campaign’s year, three-part effort to raise $10.6 million for the early success is any indication. At Homecoming, the University. Two of the three parts are 1) the Maureen and president also announced that the University had, pledged Mike Mansfield Center with a goal of $2.5 million and 2) or in hand, $2 million toward the Campaign and $5.3 annual giving programs, like the Excellence Fund and the million toward the total goal. Grizzly Athletic Association, with a combined goal of $2.1 The Campaign’s first contribution came from Champion million. The third and most ambitious effort is the International Corporation. Their pledge of $750,000 came University of Montana Campaign. Its goal is $6 million. with no strings attached. With “ Extending a Tradition of Excellence’’ as its “ As soon as Champion heard we were planning a theme, the Campaign is being conducted for the University campaign, they came forward and wanted to know how by the UM Foundation (see “ A Foundation of they could help,’’ President Bucklew said. While the entire Excellence,’’ Montanan, October 1984). The Campaign is gift has yet to be allocated, at least $250,000 will endow a Champion professorship in forestry, and some of the EXTENSION OF EXCELLENCE money will be used for scholarships in forestry and 1 9 8 4 • 1 9 8 5 • 1 9 8 6 business. “ They are marvelous corporate citizens,’’ the president said. “ Their generous gift reflects well on the hundreds of Champion employees who are such productive and important members of our community.’’ A second large gift that arrived before the Campaign was formally announced came from Lee Enterprises. Montana’s four Lee papers, The Billings Gazette, The Missoulian, The Montana Standard in Butte, and ther Independent Record in Helena, joined with Lee President and Chairman Lloyd Schermer and his wife, Betty, to contribute $225,000. The entire gift will be used to endow the UM Foundation, of which Schermer is a trustee. “ The Lee gift reflects confidence in the continued This chart illustrates the three components o f the University o f Mon­ excellence of this University over the long term,’’ said tana ’s three-year “Extension o f Excellence. ” The shaded area on each President Bucklew. “ By helping, endow the Foundation, bar graph represents the amount already pledged or received by Oct. these Montana newspapers have invested in our ability to 26 when the campaign was announced. maintain a healthy, private support system. We are

8 UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA * ^mmferin/ Juovetf One?

An artist’s rendering o f the planned football stadium. The view is from Mount Sentinel looking toward Missoula. The playing field will be below the level o f the surrounding ground, and the stadium will be encircled by an earthen berm. particularly pleased that this was a statewide commitment.” If the Lee gift was a statewide commitment, the Campaign’s leadership represents that and more. Fourteen business and community leaders from across Montana and the nation have joined President Bucklew to constitute the Office of the Chairman, and they are rapidly making plans to take the Campaign far beyond Missoula. While initial efforts have focused on potential major donors and those closest to the University—a solicitation of the University’s own faculty and staff is under way—the campaign staff is now preparing to organize volunteer alumni committees in cities outside Montana like Portland, Seattle, Denver and Phoenix where UM alumni are Give a gift for excellence—that keeps on giving. . . concentrated. Regardless of where they live, every alumnus and friend The Memorial Gifts Program is a way for you to sup­ of the University will have a chance to participate in the port the University of Montana while paying tribute Campaign. to someone special. ‘‘We don’t want anyone to feel left out or unimportant,” It focuses on honoring people and is not restricted said Foundation director Bill Zader. ‘‘Anyone who wants to memorializing only the deceased. You can express to help should contact the Foundation office. appreciation for someone living—at Christmastime, a ‘‘I have no doubt that people are going to want to birthday, marriage, anniversary, or any number of per­ contribute,” said President Bucklew. “ Alumni in particular sonally meaningful occasions through our Memorial Program. are going to remember what the University did for them, and they are going to see the Campaign—rightly—as an Promote excellence while remembering loved ones. opportunity to do something in return.” Send your memorial gift to the University of Montana That was the president’s message at the end of his Foundation. Be sure to tell us who you are honoring! convocation address when he quoted Albert Schweitzer: When your gift is received, a card will be sent to the person you wish to remember or to the family of the Whatever you have received more than others—in person memorialized, indicating that a gift has been health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant received and from whom. childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life—all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of The University of Montana strives to maintain the edge in excellence in student education, faculty develop­ course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must ment, and alumni programs. With your memorial gift, render some sacrifice of your own life for another life. we can continue this tradition. “ This sentiment,” President Bucklew concluded, “ is at the UM Foundation heart of our desire to extend our tradition of excellence to University of Montana a new generation.” 600 University Avenue It is also a powerful reason to support the University of Missoula, MT 59812 Montana Campaign.

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 9 ■I m :4; • /]L

Sheila Steams Beth Wright, above, of Missoula keeps an eye out for a bargain or a photo opportunity in Tokyo. At right, Bill Con­ ner o f Whitehall and Dr. Leonard Brewer o f Missoula see Hong Kong Harbour from a sampan.

Sheila Steams Grizzlies in the Orient Mm ■ ; ' |§f |§§

by Maribeth Dwyer After the final gun a drawing is held for a Mirage car. The game’s Most Valuable Player award is presented to P erky pompon girls. Exuberant cheerleaders. Flashy Army quarterback Nate Sassaman. The Fighting Spirit marching bands. For the some 450 Montanans in the award goes to his Grizzly counterpart Marty Mornhinweg. bleachers or on the field this is a day very like any football The feisty UM quarterback passed for a gain of 424 yards Saturday on an American college campus. Except this is to break his own school record. the Mirage Bowl game between the University of Montana The game—the whole Mirage Bowl panoply—gave Grizzlies and the U.S. Military Academy Black Knights, Montanans there and everywhere cause for pride. and it is being played not at Missoula or West Point but in They were proud of Mike Mansfield, UM alumnus, Tokyo. And football transplanted to Japan is not quite like former UM history professor, longtime Montana senator. anything the Montanans in the stadium have ever The U.S. ambassador to Japan is a statesman who belongs encountered. to the world, but Montanans don’t forget—and neither does Vendors hawk noodles as well as hot dogs in the Tokyo he—their special claim on him. Olympic Stadium where more than 60,000 fans are The Montanans were proud of UM President Neil gathered on Saturday, November 17, to watch one of Bucklew, too. Showing class, he delivered his remarks to Japan’s most popular sports spectacles. The game’s chief the overwhelmingly Japanese crowd in Japanese. sponsor is the Mitsubishi Corporation, maker of the Mirage And they were proud of the Grizzlies, who made a car and diverse other products. terrific showing against a powerful Army team that was Activities get under way at 10 a.m. when a torch lit having its best season in years and that two weeks later earlier that morning by Shinto priests in a ceremony at beat favored Navy 28 to 11. The Mirage Bowl score was nearby Meiji Shrine is carried to the top of the stadium by Army 45, UM 31, but the Grizzlies gave the Cadets a run UM cheerleader Trevor Delaney of Missoula. He hands it for their money, at one time closing the gap to seven to an Army cheerleader, who ignites the flame that will points. bum throughout the day. All in all, it was a great day for Montana. The The lighting of the flame signals the release of 20,000 University traveled a long road, beset by uncertainties, to brightly colored balloons and touches off the waving of Tokyo. The trip paid off in immediate benefits and in a 60,000 yellow and orange pompons. Dignitaries greet the promise of more to come. crowd, Japanese rock stars sing, bands play. Ambassador The sponsor guaranteed the University $45,000 for the Mike Mansfield throws the football onto the field. The team’s participation and picked up the tab for travel eighth annual Mirage Bowl game is on its way to the expenses of the 153 members of Montana’s official party. record books. (Another 275 fans flew to Japan for the game.) In the The bands from West Point and Tennessee State official party were Lt. Gov. George Turman, Big Sky University play on—all throughout the game, during Conference Commissioner Ron Stephenson, UM officials, halftime, after the game, they play. coaches, seventy team members, and the twenty-four

10 UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA dancers, cheerleaders and pompon girls in the Spirit Squad. Tokyo) sharing the neighborhood with Shinto shrines and It’s impossible to calculate the other benefits the Buddhist temples. University and the state will reap from the Mirage Bowl. Nor was I prepared to find tree lights, ornaments and Montana and Japan are linked by educational and economic “ winter gifts” for sale in department stores in a country bonds—the University has three sister institutions in Japan, where Christians account for less than one percent of the and Montana exports 35 percent of her wheat to that population. This is indeed a nation of great adapters. country. The better the people of Montana and Japan get to Another unexpected experience was the Ohara Museum know each other, the stronger their ties will become. of Art in Kurashiki with its fine collection of Western art: The Mirage Bowl advanced the growing friendship Renoir, Corot, Manet, Rouault, Monet, Rodin, Van Gogh, between Montana and Japan. The Japanese are, generally, Picasso—the list goes on. I should have known that the enamored of things American, and they seemed truly glad acute Japanese aesthetic sensibility would respond to art of to have the Montanans in their midst. The Montanans, in all styles and countries. turn, left Japan with high praise for Japanese courtesy, The Japanese may appreciate other cultures but they are honesty, efficiency, cleanliness, hospitality, love of beauty themselves a homogeneous people, a family whose and sensitivity to nature. members know their obligations to each other and who Ann Cole of Malta commented that she and her husband, seem instinctively to put the common good above self- Don, never felt threatened in Tokyo, even on the streets at interest. Clearly defined and strictly adhered to codes of night. They were also impressed by the ease with which behavior govern every situation, minimizing fuss and the 60,000 Mirage Bowl spectators moved in and out of the friction in this densely populated country. These are a stadium—no pushing or shoving or jostling in this orderly people easy to admire and to like. and good-natured throng. They are also a people poised between two worlds. Japan Cele and Joe Forzley of Great Falls found the Japanese is a progressive industrial society looking toward the 21st “ very accommodating,’’ and they liked Japanese century as well as a nation rooted in tradition. The postwar architecture. constitution of 1947 transferred sovereignty from the emperor to the people; but the emblem of the imperial Jeff Easton, a Missoula high school student, described family, the chrysanthemum, remains a powerful symbol of Japan as “ wall-to-wall people” —but the crowds did not values deeply ingrained in the Japanese consciousness. keep him from enjoying his tour of the country, which he Is it an impossible dream to expect to go back someday called “ a good experience.” to this land of enchantment and paradox, this place of Japan offered many attractions and pleasures—and some almost palpable tension between old and new, and find surprises, at least to me. It was a bit startling to find undisturbed the delicate balance between chrysanthemum McDonald’s and Disneyland (there really is a Disneyland in and computer?

c 1 to i§ Ambassador Mike Mansfield, above, greets old Enjoying the tranquility of a park just off a crowded friends Evelyn * ‘Cookie ’ ’ and Naseby Rhinehart thoroughfare in Kyoto are, from left, Hilary Easton of o f Missoula. At right is our very own China doll, Missoula, Monica Webb o f Yakima, Wash., Pat Moline of Sheila Steams. Glendive, Kathy Hillman o f Salt Lake City and Wyley Good of Fort Benton.

Kay Christenson of Moorhead, Minn., left, and Lucille Boehme Arlys Bolich o f Missoula leads the fans in a cheer at the Mirage Bowl game. o f Glasgow take a breather during the tour o f Hong Kong.

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 11 Illuminating the parade’s theme, “Missoula and its Univer these stars from Tracy’s School o f Dance and Baton. Virginia Braun

Former Grizzly Tackle John Dixon ’59, above, general manager o f the J. Homecon W. M arriot H otel in Washington, D. C., visits with retired athletic trainer Naseby Rhine- hart. At right, Grizzly cheerleaders put some pep in the rally at the UC Mall before the game. Heavy_ rains prevented the tent from being erected at Domblaser Field.

Virginia Braun

Janice Zabel Sarah Hatfield, granddaughter o f Frank Underman, is shown with her son Mark Hatfield and daughter Cindy Farnsworth at the opening o f the Underman collection at the Mansfield Ubrary archives. High hopes for a roast. Virginia Braun

12 UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA Virginia Braun htest Stars in the Big Sky, * ’ were

I ’84 Virginia Braun

Familiar faces in the crowd above are, fore­ ground, Brad Brugge- mah ’64 of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; Joanne Hassing Ritvo ’64 of Power, Mont. At center is Robert Wickware ’34 of Lyme, N.H. At left, members o f the Home­ coming Court wave to the spectators during the parade down Uni­ versity Avenue.

Virginia Braun

Virginia Braun Lou Aleksich ’63 and Judy Bishop of Billings enjoy the "tent” party in the Mall.

Virginia Braun Carol Sue Otthouse Palin ’59 and Bob Palin ’58 o f Littleton, Colo., chat with alumni director Sheila Steams.

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 13 Virginia Braun Virginia Braun CLASS OF ’34—Front row: Allene Schiesser, Florence Ditlmeier C L A SS OF '59—Front row: Marge Dodge, Ardice Sayre Steinbren­ Vickerman, Laura Martin Gamertsfelder, Helen Huxley Hujford, Una ner, Fran Ferrlan Carissimo, Katie Lou Johnson Rosenow, Suzie Ot- Greene Dougan, Eleanor Fredrickson Wing, Vera Gilbert Bruggeman, thouse Palin, Ruth Wenholz West, Sharon Higman Holtzman. Second Olga Wik Erickson. Second row: Mildred Angell, Sara Miles Borchers, row: Sharon Orr Demmons, Karen Whitcomb Eide, Camie Peterson Helen Schroeder Halverson, Louise Rule, Flora Horsky Wertz, Florence Smith, Kay Thomas Green, Nancy Preston Davidson, Nancy Nelson Steinbrenner Jones, Robert E. Jones. Third row: Ester Lentz Coriell, Taylor. Third row: Don Brickley, Rick Benson, Don Wright, Bob West, Betty Nof singer Dixon, Lewis Steens land, Kenneth W. Hujford, Ar­ Bud Swarens, Matt Gorsich. Fourth row: Bill Steinbrenner (a.k.a. Otto chie Kimpel, William Hawke, Robert G. Stansberry. Fourth row: Pottinger), C. Bob Davis, Leon Billings, Wayne Chattin, Bryon Chris­ Jerome Frankel, Charles Holstrom, Clement Spicher, James Benish. tian, Bob Seim. Fifth row: Carl Dix, Dick Carrissimo, Jim Smith, Ken Fifth row: George Long, Lewis Coriell, Percy Frazier, Howard Brown. Eide, Merrill Evenson, Don Dupuis, John Dixon. Sixth row: Howard Bischoff, William Vickerman, Hal Steams, Leonard Kuka, Edward Alexander, Robert Wickware. Not pictured: Arnold Peterson.

Virginia Braun Virginia Braun CLASS OF ’49—Front row: Hilda Myre McGaugh, Katy Shallenberger CLASS OF ’64—Front row: Donna Wilson Ferdinand, Marie Volkel Delano, Katherine Ritenour Sylvester, Donna Harlan Schermerhom, Curran, Mary Ann Marsh Campbell, Julie Jacobs Hood, Joanne Hass- Helen MacDonald Beattie. Second row: Bette Mae Bays, Carol Chaf­ ing Ritvo, Karla Chandler Barley, Betty Anderson Bachman. Second fin Anderson, Shirley McShane Miller, Harriet Haines Becker, Jo Ann row: Alice MacDonald Down, Phyliss Peterson Washington, Mary Rupp Gray. Third row: Bill Kelsch, Orris Moe, David Bays, Bill Henry, Mulroney Pitch, Phyliss Lindgren Bouchee, Mary Lou Salveson Ratz- William Grater, Frank Kline. Top row: Cal Murphy, Edward Mosier. burg, Sharon Northridge Leonard, Florine Smith, Mary Lou Dwyer Louis. Third row: Sam Yewusiak, George Olsen, Melvin Good, Ernie Ratzburg, James Erickson, Robert Pantzer. Fourth row: Bradley Brug- geman, Duane Ferdinand, John Cook, Keith Law, Frank Shaw.

14 UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA Hal Stearns Sr. ’34 of Helena attended the Homecoming game with his daughter, Jeanie Schmidt, o f “ / make more money now on my M issoula. investments than I did when I owned my own machine shop. ’’ — Bud Liffring

“Excellent communication, reliable information, and I make more money. That’s why I like DAD. ’’ Reflections on a 50-year reunion — Garth Good by Bob Jones *34 “Regardless o f economic conditions, H o w can fifty years seem such a short time? When the word Financial Aims has always performed went out that the class of ’34 would have a golden-anniversary well for our organization. ’’ -r-Wyman Taylor reunion during Homecoming in October, I couldn’t believe that that much time had passed. However, when we got together after registration at the Student Center, memories clicked and “I’ve been very pleased with pieces fell into place. the way my income has grown There were forty-one of us—classmates from way back in with DAD over the years. ” the Great Depression. They weren’t all that hard to recognize — A DAD customer for 25 years. either, surprisingly enough. There, towering over everyone else was big Leonard Kuka, a great tackle on the Montana football teams of the ’32-’34 era. And right beside him, reliving their “DAD helps me carry out football past, was Bill Hawke, another great Grizzly lineman. an investment plan that fits my family *8 personality. *’ Also, except for the white hair, I’d have known Bob Stansberry — Neil Ugrin anywhere. As a fleet halfback on those teams, he traveled over lots of real estate for Montana. Not far away I saw Bill Vickerman, who became a dentist, “DAD’s Operations Department is and Lewis Steensland, track men of our day along with Hal prompt, professional and efficient. Stearns, who did a lot of newspapering before retiring. They serve our legal firm well. *’ Olga (Wik) Erickson was there with husband Bill of Grizzly — Lester Hauge basketball fame. Lewis Coriell (E. Lentz) and George Long distinguished themselves in the medical field so that we always “I feel very secure with had a doctor in attendance at our functions. And Bob Wickware our money invested through became well known in the education business over the years— D.A. Davidson & Co. *’ even published a few books, I hear. All in all, for a bunch of — Maxine Robertson people who were at UM during the Depression years, we had a pretty good record of success. There were many other friends to greet after all the years. “It’s a pleasure working with investment professionals I enjoy Some I’d gone to high school with, even grade school. Several, and trust. Thanks, DAD!’’ I’m happy to say, have been continuously a part of our lives — Dr. J.W. Bloemendaal all through the years. Lina Greene Dougan, Percy Frazier, Pat Wilcox are but a few. It became more and more a mystery to me that other old D. A. Davidson & Co. has thousands of satisfied customers in friends hadn’t shown up for the reunion. “ We won’t know all walks of life. No matter what your age, occupation, income or investment goal, a DAD broker enjoys helping you. anyone,’’ they said. Nothing could be less the case. Recogni­ tion is almost instant, and covering the events of the interven­ Offices in Billing)*. Bozeman. Butte. ing years is only one of the great pleasures of the get-together. Great Falls. Havre. Helena. Kalispell and If I were to make a critique of the whole affair, it would be Missoula. Montana; that even more time should be allotted to each reunion class. Williston. North Dakota: Lewiston and So, to those who were there, it was great. And to those who Moscow. Idaho. D.A. Davidson SC Co. M em ber SI 1*1* didn’t show up, don’t ever miss another one. INCORPORATED Bob Jones x ’34, ’40 and his wife Florence Steinbrenner Jones ’35 live An investment firm you like to tell your friends about. in Missoula.

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 15 Course of the Month

Learning how to have good fights

Howard Skaggs by Joyce Hocker Joyce Hocker, associate professor o f Interpersonal Communication, center, says a mediator can often help get problems out in the open W h a, do you think of when you hear the word where they can be dealt with and resolved. “ conflict” ? If you’re like many people, images of destruction, hostility, tension, violence, pain and different options for solutions. Don’t get fixated on the one competition come to mind. solution you think is best. But conflict can be productive and necessary in human Tactics to avoid include labeling, name-calling, blaming, relations. The responsible and straightforward exchange of scapegoating, and threatening and withholding. “ If you do differences can lead to growth, creativity and change. this, I will do that.” This tactic raises hostility and a The Chinese symbol for conflict is made up of characters person’s defensiveness, don’t say things like, “ You are symbolizing danger and opportunity. In Interpersonal irresponsible” or “You are incompetent.” Try to use Conflict 485 we focus on how to resolve conflict by “ we” in your negotiations. Also avoid indirect transforming danger into opportunity. communications, and don’t expect people to be When conflict arises, most people either avoid it or blow mindreaders. “ He should know how I feel.” it up — “ flight or fight.” These are the least productive In the course we try to teach people how to solve their methods for handling conflict, but the most common. Most own problems, whether it be a divorce involving children, of us don’t know how to handle conflict because as landlord-tenant problems, organizational problems or work- children our parents didn’t fight in front of us, or if they related problems. We teach students to bring in third-party did, they didn’t have “ good” fights. mediators or arbitrators when necessary. Students taking the course begin by writing a profile on Bill Wilmot, with whom I wrote the text for the course, how they handle conflict. Later they analyze one major and I believe peacemaking, whether in the home or on a conflict in their lives, first looking at the “ triggering global level, is the crucial issue of our time. Peacemaking event,” or what set off the conflict. An example is the begins with learning ways to stop the destructive practices boss who always announces meetings at the last minute and in our everyday lives with children, spouses, co-workers then gets angry when people don’t come. The triggering and others with whom we live and work. We teach our event can often be recognized by that “ here we go again” students to engage in conflict more skillfully and, usually, feeling. more often as a good way to solve problems. Throughout the course we use case examples from the lives of class members when looking for positive solutions Reading List to problems. We try to clarify common goals and ways to Fisher, Roger, and William Ury, Getting to Yes. work together for a solution rather than against each other Folberg, Jay, and Alison Taylor, Mediation. as in a game of war. Productive tactics begin with Folger, Joe, and M. Scott Poole, Working Through separating people from the problem. Don’t see the person Conflict. as the problem, but rather the person’s behavior. Instead of Hocker, Joyce, and William Wilmot, Interpersonal Conflict saying, “ She is the problem” say, “ Her lateness is the (2nd ed.). problem.” Juergensmeyer, Mark, Fighting with Gandhi. Another tactic is to decide on the criteria you will use May, Rollo, Power and Innocence. for finding a solution. You may consider fairness, Tavris, Carol, Anger, the Misunderstood Emotion. practicality, cost effectiveness, etc. Generate a lot of Wehr, Paul, Conflict Regulation.

16 UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA Howard Skaggs Ray Nelson o f Missoula happily accepts tickets to Mexico from Sheila Stearns. Ray won the free trip by filling out and returning his alumni survey questionnaire.

Dear Alumni and Friends, Alumni College will be located at a spectacular resort setting this year, the Beartooth Ranch adjacent to the Congratulations to Ray Nelson of Missoula, winner of the Beartooth Primitive Area in south central Montana. The Alumni Association’s trip to Mexico in March. Ray was closest town is Nye. Appropriately for such a setting, the one of 13,000 alumni who returned their biographical theme is “The Montana Experience.” Set for the weekend surveys. The survey was a massive project undertaken by of June 28 and 29, its schedule will include the memorable our office to update and complete our files. Our thanks to activities of a Montana summer: horseback riding, fishing all of you whose cooperation resulted in a successful and hiking, as well as discussion with UM faculty members survey. If any of you still have your survey, we would appreciate receiving it. Ray Nelson works as a computer operator at the Department of State Lands in Missoula. He is adjusting his vacation plans to take the Love Boat cruise Alumni News to Puerto Vallarta in March. Says he, “ I can’t believe it! I never win anything.” He may be entering into indentured of what it means to be part of the “ Montana Experience.” servitude, because now we are considering him for various Please join us for what promises to be a truly enjoyable Alumni Association committees. event. Write the Alumni Center soon for registration Our new records manager, Diane Norem, asked the materials. computer to select winners at random from our file. The Homecoming 1985 is scheduled for October 11 and 12. first three potential winners were a woman from Ronan, a It will be highlighted by the formal dedication ceremonies woman from East Missoula, and a man from Fairview, of the new Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center. Alberta, none of whom had returned their surveys. Ray Special events include a luncheon for all alumni and friends Nelson was the fourth name to appear. In the event he who “ bought a seat,” a reception in the new building, and could not accept the prize, we drew several other names. a week of seminars and programs in broadcasting and the Runners-up were from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; fine arts featuring distinguished alumni in those fields. Roseburg, Oregon; and Fairfax, Virginia. Another feature of the 1985 Homecoming will be the A highlight of my year was getting to know the many Alumni Hall of Fame banquet, honoring new inductees into Montana alumni and friends who traveled to Japan to watch the Lettermen’s Hall of Fame for Grizzly greats. It is the Grizzlies in the Mirage Bowl. Alumni from several scheduled for Saturday night, October 12, and all former western states as well as from towns all over Montana Grizzly athletes, spouses and friends are welcome. All M joined together for the trip. Our guide in Kurashiki assured Club members should begin making plans now to attend. us we couldn’t get lost because there was only one main To receive a registration form for any Homecoming event, street. Jim Willits, a member of our alumni group, said, just send a note to the Alumni Center. We hope everyone “ Good! That’s just the way it is in Fort Benton.” For who plans to return for Homecoming will register with us. information about alumni trips to Mexico, France, We will compile “ Who’s Here” lists for every class, in Scandinavia and Hawaii in 1985, just write to our office. addition to the honored reunion classes of 1935 and 1960.

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 17 Volunteers for “ class recorders’’ would be very welcome. You will notice in “ Classnotes’’ that June Krekeler, ’38, of Valparaiso, Indiana, has volunteered to Alumni Schedule of Events serve as recorder for her class. If any of you would be Jan. 14-15 Excellence Fund Phonathon, Missoula interested in this form of service to the Alumni Jan. 21-22 Excellence Fund Phonathon, Helena Association, please let us know. You will save our Jan. 24 UM Art Exhibit and Alumni Gathering, “ historian,’’ Vivian Heltemes, many hours of time. Commissioners Office, Helena Distinguished Alumni Awards nominations are due by Jan. 28-29 Excellence Fund Phonathon, Great Falls April 1. The Distinguished Alumni are graduates or former Feb. 11 Excellence Fund Phonathon, Kalispell students whose achievements or public service have Feb. 25-26 Excellence Fund Phonathon, Billings been remarkable. Up to four are granted annually. In March 4 Excellence Fund Phonathon, Butte addition, up to two “ Distinguished Young Alumni’’ awards March 7-9 Big Sky Tournament, Boise March 8-9 Montana West Athletic Conference may be granted annually to graduates or former students Championships under 35 years of age for significant achievements in their March 16-23 Alumni Association Mexican Riviera Cruise fields or for outstanding service to the University. featuring three nights aboard the Pacific The Alumni Association Board of Directors and House of Princess and four nights in Puerto Vallarta Delegates meet three times a year to steer the course of the March 24 Excellence Fund Phonathon, Miles City Alumni Assocation. At the fall meeting Jean’ne' Shreeve, June 7 Alumni Night 1985, honoring the Class of ’53, of Moscow, Idaho, was installed as president, and 1925 Connie Corette Kenney, ’60, of Butte as president-elect. June 15-28 Alumni Association “ Cote du Rhone Passage” The Board elected Dan Marinkovich, ’50, of Anaconda as featuring a six-night cruise on the Rhone River vice-president. Any alumnus or alumna may volunteer or June 28-29 Alumni College, Beartooth Ranch, Nye, can be nominated for a position as a delegate or director. Mont., “ The Montana Experience” Nominations should be submitted to the Alumni Office by April 15. New directors and officers are elected by the country to ask each of you to help. One of the many side Board of Directors and the House of Delegates. New benefits of an effort such as this is getting to know delegates are elected by ballots mailed to all alumni with outstanding alumni volunteers such as Nels Turnquist of their annual dues statements. The Board welcomes your Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Nels, ’47, succeeded Joe interest and support in this process. Hats off to Ward McElwain, ’47, as president of the University of Montana Shanahan, ’53, of Helena for his excellent service as Foundation Board of Trustees. Nels recently retired as president of the Alumni Association for the past two years. Chairman of the Board and CEO of the National Bank of All former UM band members are invited to an “ Oldies South Dakota. He spent most of the autumn months of but Goodies” concert by the Symphonic Band on Tuesday 1984 in Missoula helping in the organizational stages of the evening, April 16, in the University Theater. The Law campaign. The Alumni Center shared office space with him School is sponsoring reunions of the classes of 1950, 1960 for several weeks until he had to return to South Dakota. and 1975 at the conclusion of Law Week April 26 and 27. Thanks, Nels! Things haven’t been the same since you left. The University of Montana Campaign described Tomme Lu Middleton Worden, *51, has also been elsewhere in this issue will depend on our alumni for its assisting with the Campaign. She says, “ You Gotta’ Have success. Soon the UM Campaign will reach out across the Heart” when you attempt an ambitious campaign for a small public university such as ours. She thinks UM alumni have the kind of heart it takes to support this Campaign. I think she is right, and I know if even a fraction of our alumni are as big-hearted as Tomme Lu, and as loyal to the University, that the Campaign will reap benefits for the institution far beyond its financial success. Tomme Lu would agree with Cecile Morrison, ’42, of Whittier, California, who wrote these reflections in a recent note to the Alumni Office: We often mention how one can always tell a Montana grad in other quarters. No matter how far away we get or how long ago it was, we are still really very special people.

Howard Skaggs Best wishes to all of you for 1985 from the staff of the Andy Cogswell, professor emeritus o f journalism and dean o f students, Alumni Center! was surprised by the Alumni Association on his eightieth birthday Dec. 10. From left are alumni staff member Amy True, Paul Chumrau, and Don Emblen, professor emeritus o f business. Sheila MacDonald Steams

18 UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA Classnotes

Editor’s note: Classnotes are compiled and Donal Harrington ’28 of Seattle for Valor. edited by Vivian Heltemes. Write her d o UM endowed a scholarship in the University of Not a flyer himself, he was the Alumni Association, University o f Montana, Montana Department of Drama in 1984. “ Boswell” of the Eagle Squadrons, some Missould, MT 59812. Once described as the “ most brilliant 240 American flyers who made their way woman Western taleteller since Mary Beatrice Turner Bethune ’19 of San to England to join the Royal Air Force in Austin,” Dorothy Johnson ’28 died Nov. Mateo, Calif., reports, “ My chief aerial combat against the Nazis before the 11, 1984, in Missoula. She was the author occupation on the eve of my 89th birthday U.S. entered the war. He had finished the ofJhe Hanging Tree, The Bloody is keeping out of the hospital, which I third book in his Eagle Squardons’ Bozeman, The Man Who Shot Liberty have accomplished very well.’’ triology. Valance, and many other books, short Jessie M. Bierman ’19 of Carmel, He is survived by his wife, Teddie stories and magazine articles. She received Calif., received the professional Courtney McMahon Haugland, x’34 of achievement citation from the University a UM Distinguished Service Award in San Clemente, Calif., and two daughters. 1961; an honorary doctor’s degree from of Chicago in June. This citation Edwin T. Mertz ’31 of West Lafayette, UM in 1973; the Golden Saddleman recognizes those alumni whose attainments Ind., is a consultant to the Department of Award for “ outstanding contribution to in their vocational fields have brought Agronomy at Purdue University, a the history and legend of the West” in distinction to themselves, to the scientific writer for the Saturday Evening 1976; the Western Heritage Wrangler University, and real benefit to their fellow Post, and staff pianist for the Holiday Inn Award in 1978 when her book, Buffalo citizens. Her work has been in national Sunday brunch. He helped his brother, Woman, was named the outstanding and international public health. Art Mertz, ’39, LL.B. ’41 celebrate his western novel of the year; and the H.G. Thomas M. Pearce ’23 of Albuquerque fortieth wedding anniversary on Sept. 1 in Merriam Award for Distinguished Lakeside, Mich. communicates his goodwill and loyalty to Contributions to Montana Literature in Lewis K. Ambrose x’32 of Seattle 1982. retired in 1976 after having worked in Elsie Gusdanovich Noble ’28 lives on various engineering positions and serving Hilton Head Island, S.C., with her twenty-five years with the Army. His husband, William. They have traveled personal card indicates he has “ No extensively: China, Japan, South America business, no schedule, no worries. Taxes, and Greece. “ We have never met people yes, d—n it.” from Montana—the best state in the nation.” Marion Wilcox Tooley ’32 and her George W. “ Shorty” Huber ’29 of husband, George of Bainbridge Island, May dances on the Oval were traditional. Helena hiked the North and South Island This 1914 photo is courtesy o f Pearl Clark, of New Zealand in March and the San ’16, o f Santa Monica, Calif. Juai\ Islands and Widber Island in July. “ This is the best way to meet people, UM and recalls fond memories of save energy, keep physically fit, and see Professors H.G. Merriam, Edmund and feel the country.” Freeman and Ellen Geyer. “ My memories Ernest G. Lake ’29 and his wife, include Aber Day, the festival when girls Jeanette, of Laguna Beach, Calif., spent a danced on the Oval, and my initiation into pleasant three months at their summer Sigma Chi fraternity. The University was home in Wisconsin and are off to Europe rewarding in every way. I’m grateful and for three weeks. proud to have been a part of it.’’ Martha L. Larsen ’30 of Los Angeles Class of ’25 sixty-year reunion will be cruised the Orient in 1980, the Panama Remember when Dornblaser Field was Commencement Weekend, June 7-9. Canal in 1983, and plans to travel to behind Main Hall? The University plans to Annabelle Desmond Cook ’27 of Australia and New Zealand in 1985. bring the football field back to campus. Washington, D.C., spent one week in Vem Haugland ’31 died Sept. 15, London and two in Edinburgh last May. 1984, of a heart attack while attending a Wash., “ scooted off to Austria for “ Ruth and I are celebrating fifty years reunion of the Eagle Christmas in 1983.” of marriage today (9/7/84). All I can say Squadrons of World Margaret Lewis Maness ’33 of Troy, is that ‘we made it’,’’ comments Malcolm War II in Reno, Nev. Mont., is a retired teacher and has been Morrow ’27 of Kelseyville, Calif. He joined the doing a lot of traveling. Two of her Boynton G. Paige ’27 of Philipsburg, Associated Press in children are UM grads, Richard ’72 and Mont., writes: “ I must brag and say that I Salt Lake City in Beth Maness Schweitzer ’77. have three granddaughters at the 1936 and became an Edward Alexander LL.B. ’34 of Great University this academic year. They are AP correspondent in Falls is a senior partner in the firm Rebecca Good, a senior; Paula Good, a the Southwest Pacific in 1942. Alexander-Baucus. “ Travel a lot now—off sophomore, and Jennifer Good, a Forced to bail out of a falling bomber to Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, freshman.’’ while over Japanese held jungles of New Hawaii, California and Mexico. Going Herbert E. Robinson ’27 and his wife, Guinea, Haugland evaded the Japanese strong at 73.” His son, John, ’67, J.D. Frances, of LaGrange, 111., celebrated while living off the land for over a month ’70 is in law practice with his firm. their golden wedding anniversary on Aug. before being rescued. He was the first Frankie Schaff Houston x’34 and her 18. civilian to receive the Army’s Silver Star husband, John, of Arcadia, Calif., “ have

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 19 tyre Court, Valparaiso, IN. 46383. I have been happily married for forty years to a Lutheran pastor who is a biology professor at Valparaiso University. We have two unmarried daughters, one in Seattle and one in Red Lodge, Mont. The highlights of our lives have been trips we have taken to Europe, the Orient and Africa. Carl is now teaching part time and working on the Elderhostel program for our university. We hope to give it a good start this summer. After having been a secretary at Valparaiso Univer­ sity for twenty-two years, I retired in 1982. We now spend winter months in Virginia Braun our trailer at 1032 E. Blacklidge, Tuc­ PHI SIGMA KAPPA REUNION—Phi Sigs attending their annual reunion this August in son, AZ. 85719. Please write your news Missoula are, kneeling: Emile Perey, Billings; Emmett Carey, Greensboro, N.C.; Chuck to me at either of the preceding ad­ Goodspeed, Seattle; and Jack Cougill, Eugene, Ore. Standing, front row: Nick and Claretta dresses. Mariana, Portland, Ore.; Irene O ’Toole, Seattle; Florence Jones, Missoula; Nat Allen, Round­ Hoping for lots of mail, I am. up, Mont.; Florence Brophy, Whitefish; Else Porter, Seattle; Estelle and Bill McFarland, Sincerely yours, Missoula; and Betty Hauck, Butte. Second row: Waldo and Elsie Ekegren, San Jose, Calif.; June L. Krekeler Paul and Vemadine Keller, Helena; Roy Peden, Bozeman; Helen Perey, Billings; George Adams, Cascade; Jane Stillings, Flathead Lake; and Alene and Fritz Blake, Flathead Lake. Back row: Bob and Deane Jones, Missoula; Bob Brophy, Whitefish; Emmett Buckley, Flathead Lake; John C. Paul Marshall x’38 has retired to San Hauck, Butte; and Irv Stillings, Flathead Lake. Luis Obispo, Calif., after thirty years with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as an in­ done extensive traveling in Europe and the out on boarding our bus if there were any spector and pesticides program coordinator. Orient. Recently Egypt and the Holy Land passengers from Montana. I wondered if “ Would be most happy to see any alumni who were on the agenda.” there was any reason Montanans were not pass this way.” Warren Phelan ’34 of Quakertown, to be allowed back into Alaska. It turned Enid Larson Hooban ’39 of Caldwell, Pa., has retired again, this time from the out he was Red Lodge—a nice Idaho, was named to the Idaho High county government of Bucks County, Pa. experience.” School Activities Association Hall of Greg Short ’34 and his wife, Maye, Henry “ Hank” Jackson x’38 of Fame in 1984. “ live near Trinidad, Calif., in redwood Marina Del Rey, Calif., has retired from Donald W. Lynch ’39 of Riverside, country, where we can look twenty five Hughes Aircraft. Calif., has been retired since 1975. “ I’m miles along the Pacific coast. We loaf a Paul A. Johnson ’38 had an interesting enjoying life in southern California but great deal while tending roses and fighting trip to Thailand in March. He and his have roots in my home state of Montana, off the wild blackberry.” wife, Eleanor, reside in Great Falls. with a summer home near Whitefish.” Ada Forsythe Akers x’36 of Lynbrook, Carl E. Turnquist ’39 of Houston has N.Y., has returned from a two-month Dear Fellow Members of the Class of retired from Exxon after thirty-eight years freighter trip to South America. 1938: of service. Gordon C. Buck ’36 of Glendale, Myron S. Marra ’40 of Shelby, Mont., Having watched the number of news Calif., has retired from General Electric has received a twenty-five-year plaque after thirty-four years of service. items about the Class of 1938 dwindle from the Montana Associated Utilities for Vera M. Russell x’36 and her husband, with each issue of the Montanan, it outstanding service in the field of rural John, of Malibu, Calif., attended “ Golden seems to me it’s time the Class of ’38 electrification. He is secretary and should rise and be heard! Wouldn’t you Days” in Fairbanks, Alaska, in July. “ A treasurer of the Marias Electric Co-op and wonderful celebration of statehood. We like to hear more news about your old president of the Shelby Gas Association. spent two weeks at the Arctic Circle Hot classmates? For me it has been such a Verna Green Smith ’40 of St. Louis, Springs, a wonderful place to relax and disappointment to turn to our classnotes Mo., is serving as communication contest explore.” and find only three or four items. So, director for Missouri Press Women. This Hub Zemke x’36 of Oroville, Calif., never having been one to leave bad year’s contest was judged by Dean renewed acquaintances at the American enough alone, I wrote to the Alumni Of­ Charles Hood ’61, M.A. ’69 and the UM Ace Fighter Convention in Phoenix with fice suggesting each class have its own School of Journalism faculty. “ A happy former aerial contenders in World War II. alumni reporter. What do you know? coincidence occurred when I discovered “ The combats still continue, but over Many of you have suggested the very that one of the awardees, Joan Kemp, is steins of beer.” same thing. I have been asked if I’d be the wife of John Bernard Kemp ’40, William J. Beeney ’37 of Saratoga, willing to be that reporter for the Class who is secretary of transportation for the Calif., has retired after working for forty- of 1938, and I have accepted. Now, all state of Kansas. We had a Montana one years for Thrifty Corporation of Los we need is input from all of you. Since reunion at the banquet in Kansas City.” Angeles. “ We are looking forward to there has been no news from some of Helen Marie Nielsen Carlson ’41 of you, you should have a great deal to tell travel and visits with friends in Montana San Bemadino, Calif., retired in 1978. and other places.” us about your work, your hobbies, your Since then she has served a year with the Judith Latta ’37 of Washington, D.C., children, your retirement, your travel Peace Corps in Liberia, acted as reports that “ On crossing the adventures, your joys and your sorrows. teacher/director in a local Head Start Canadian/Alaska border in the Yukon this I shall start the ball rolling. I am June program, substituted in special-education Paulson Krekeler, living at 360 McIn­ summer, the immigration inspector called classes, and is now involved in the

20 UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA California Literacy Campaign. mayor of Logging Creek,” where he has Maxine Axelton Jones ’52 of Hamilton Katherine Sire Bentley x’42 of Los a summer house. He is married to the drove through Mexico and Guatemala to Angeles worked at the USC Olympic former Harriet Welsh x’48. Honduras to visit their son, Scott, and his headquarters this past summer. Albert C. Pospisil x’46 of El Paso, wife, Marsha, in the Peace Corps. They Charlotte M. Weaver ’42 of Texas, retired in October 1983. spent five months seeing firsthand how a Bakersfield, Calif., retired in 1983 after Ruth Martin Gruenstein x’47 of Third World country functions. “ We’re twenty years as a social worker. On the glad we went but not interested in going day of her retirement she broke her hip, again.” which put all her plans in a holding Tom Roberts ’47 retired from the pattern. Dupont Chemical Company in Bernice Hansen Mannix ’44 married Wilmington, Del., in 1983 following more W. H. Zosel in May 1984. They reside in than thirty years of service. Avon, Mont. Warren Amole Jr. ’49 of Great Falls is William J. Miloglav x’44 of San the chief executive administrator and Rafael, Calif., is retired and returned to inspector for the Montana Board of Missoula this summer for the Class of ’39 Pharmacy and has been elected to the reunion. national governing board. Bro. Paul David Nyquist x’44, O.S.B. Ben Lien ’49 owns and operates an of Richardton, N.D., is semi-retired 1,800-acre grain farm near Peerless, because of poor health. “ A few years ago Mont. “ In the off-season I work as a tax I was in Missoula for an informal reunion. consultant with a CPA firm in Mesa, One of my fraternity brothers laughed Ariz., where I am also a licensed when I told him I am a monk. I could not realtor.” feel insulted because we had lived together Francis “ Pete” Small x’49 was in the Phi Sig house and, as I look back, I It’s hard to imagine the Oval, originally a recently appointed ombudsperson for the am surprised myself!” carriageway, as a driveway. staff at UC, Berkeley. His office provides Orville Gray ’45, LL.B. ’46 has retired a completely neutral and confidential place as U.S. bankruptcy court judge in Great Tacoma, Wash., traveled to Goodrich, for staff to air their work-related Falls after more than twenty-nine years in N.D., in August to attend the Martin problems. that position. He will continue his private family reunion. She is the happy Raymond Tyvand ’50 has retired as a law practice in Great Falls. Now, he says, grandmother of nine. business and math teacher from the “ The only position I will retain is that of Layton Jones ’47, M.Ed. ’52 and Beaverhead County High School in Dillon, University of Montana ^ presents SCANDINAVIAN HOLIDAY Copenhagen • Arhus • Kristiansand • Kinsarvik/* Bergen • Laerdal Oslo • Stockholrar August 16-30, If85 $1979 per person from Seattle and $2179 per person from Salt Lake City or Boise includes: • Round-trip air fare • 13 nights in first-class hotels, double occupancy • Continental breakfast and dinner daily, including welcome and farewell dinners • All sightseeing, via deluxe motorcoach ? /Ferry service between Denmark and Norway • Rail service between Norway and Sweden • Professional multilingual tour guide throughout • All taxes, service charges ana entrance Tees For more information call Dittmann Tours toll-free: Nationwide 1-800-426-2255 In MN 1-800-642-3860 ______or UM Alumni Office 406-243-5211

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 21 Mont., where he and his wife, Olga, elected president and chief executive Wayne Jensen ’61, sixteen-year owner 1 reside. officer of the First National Bank of of Jensen Adjusting Service, of Kalispell ] G. Newton Buker ’51, M.Ed. ’58 is Glendive. has sold half the interest of the firm to the assistant director of the Washington Walter J. Lonner ’56, M.A. ’61 Ken Utter ’75. The business is now Department of Social and Health Services received a Fulbright Award and sabbatical Jensen-Utter Adjusters. Wayne reports he in Olympia. “ I am also involved in leave from the Department of Psychology will soon be looking for a new challenge theater and music activities in the area.” at Western Washington University in or two. Don Campbell ’51, curriculum Bellingham for the academic year 1984-85 Paul G. Ulrich ’61 is a partner in the coordinator and administrative assistant for to study and do research at the University Phoenix law firm of Lewis and Roca. He the Kennewick, Wash., school district, of the Saar, Saarbrucken, Germany. has published many articles and spoken recently became president of the James Mountjoy M.E. ’57 retired as frequendy on legal assistants, law office Washington Interscholatic Activities salary administrator of the Seattle Public management, and appellate practice and Schools in December 1983. procedure. William Lawton ’58 reports “ in Gordon D. Bacon ’62, M.Ed. ’69 of addition to my family practice in Eugene, Harker Heights, Texas, has retired as Ore., I have accepted the position of team chief of Army community services physician for the University of Oregon programs. He will be completing doctoral athletic department (the Ducks).” work at the University of Texas. John S. MacMillan ’58 of Kalispell Douglas Kienitz ’62 of DeSoto, Texas, was elected to the UM Business School was elected to the board of directors of Advisory Board in May 1984. the Press Club of Carole Domke Allen ’59 has taught Dallas. The Press elementary education for twenty-five Club, comprised of years, the past twenty in Denver. She and journalists from the Brenda Farrell Wilson, third from left, looks her husband, George, reside in Dallas area, acted as over some new equipment in the Business Englewood, where they raise Schnauzers hosts for all newsmen Administration Building in the 1950s. and enjoy golf. and women attending Ed Jasmin ’59, president of the the Republican Association executive board. He and his Norwest Bank in Helena, was recently convention. He is an executive in the wife, the former Patricia Kabrick, x’50 named president of the Montana broadcast division of the Associated Press, have five children. Ambassadors, a group of private business which he represents at radio and television John Pine x’52 El Dorado Hills, Calif., executives working with the state to stations in North Texas and Oklahoma. submitted his senior thesis this past promote economic growth in Montana. Joseph L. Tucker ’62 is stationed in October after having worked on it for Paul Nordstrom ’59 was named a 1984 Woomera, South Australia, a very remote thirty-five years! “ I was determined to Teacher Fellow by the National area, with the U.S. Air Force. He is live up to Professor Freeman’s faith in Association of married to the former Judith Coons ’71. me. I also had a moral obligation to fulfill Colleges and Douglas Chaffey ’63 of Pittsburgh has all the requirements for my B.A. degree.” Teachers of returned to being a full-time associate His first book-length collection of poetry, Agriculture. He is professor of political science at Chatham titled Cliff Walk, will be published in associate dean and College after three years as associate dean March. director of resident of the faculty. “ I spent this past summer Henry “Hank” Pratt ’52 of instruction at South at an National Endowment for the Lakewood, Colo., retired in September Dakota State Humanities summer seminar at Stanford following thirty-one years of service with University College of Agriculture and studying political thought and experience the National Park Service. Biological Sciences at Brookings. in the Revolutionary War period. In Billie Johnston Fleming ’53 is Sara Alice Baring Steubs ’59, M.A. January I leave for Queen’s University, “ teaching junior high in Livingston. Mike ’76 received a National Endowment for Kingston, Ontario, for a six-month 52 is civil defense director and juvenile the Humanities grant for a six-week sabbatical. I will be studying Canadian justice officer for Park County. Two seminar titled Wordsworth and Keats: daughters attend UM and Jill, ’79, is Versions o f Romanticism at Rice teaching and coaching at Townsend. Lots University in Houston. of Grizzly supporters in the Fleming Gail Guntermann ’60 of Phoenix is household. We have had good luck associate professor of Spanish and foreign recruiting Park High grads. This year, language education at Arizona State eight for UM.” University. She was recently elected to a Daniel J. O’Rourke ’54 of Cedaredge, three-year term on the executive board of Colo., has retired from the U.S. Forest the American Council on the Teaching of Service. Foreign Languages. James L. Hoffman ’55 and JoAnn Robert M. Johnson ’60 of Vienna, Va., Abbott Hoffman x’54 of Grand Rapids, is the executive director of the U.S. The 1961 Synadelphic living group. Minn., enjoyed a three-week trip to Architectural and Transportation Barriers Europe last summer. James has been Compliance Board, a federal regulatory employed by The Phillips Petroleum, agency in Washington, D.C. constitutional law and doing a comparative marketing department for over twenty- Mae C. Mulkey ’60 is “ living up life” study of privacy in the U.S. and eight years. JoAnn recently retired as in Salmon, Idaho, after thirty-four years Canada.” audio-visual coordinator in the Grand of teaching. She spends time at her lake Danny Coyle x’64 of Carson City, Rapids school district. cabin fishing and looks forward to her Nev., attended a Montana picnic in Thomas W. Hughes ’56 has been sons’ visits each year. August at Wild Creek Golf Course in

22 UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA Sparks, Nevada. “ This is an annual event, Mary Ann Cosgrove ’68 has been Muskogee, Okla. and a great time was had by all. All of appointed principal of Whittier School in Willard Wylie ’71 and his wife, Sonja, you UM alumni living in Nevada, contact Great Falls School District #\. of Missoula “ enjoyed a Mexican cruise in me next July for dates.” Earl L. Miller ’68 of Andover, Mass:, December 1983 as tour guides for the H. Rick Jones ’64 is president of Irish played his thirteenth annual concert tour Senior Citizens Center. Distillers International Inc. of White of historic organ recitals in Maine, New George W. Atwood ’72 of Gwynedd Plains, N.Y. Hampshire and Vermont in August. He is Valley, Pa., has completed ten years with Stan Lewis ’64, M.A. ’71 and Bill a scriptwriter for weekly organ broadcasts State Farm Insurance. “ In 1983 I gained Thoren ’64 renewed an old friendship at over National Public Radio in Boston. In membership in the State Farm Presidents the Capital City Marathon in Olympia, addition, he is about to release his sixth Wash., in July. Both lived in Craig Hall record on the AFKA label An American as freshmen in 1959 and had not seen Classic Organ at Brooks School. each other for twenty-five years. Thoren G. Steven Brown ’69 of Helena has completed the course in nine minutes less been appointed to the Montana Economic than Lewis. Lewis has challenged Thoren Development Board by Gov. Ted to a friendly rematch at the Houston Schwinden. Marathon in January. Bill resides in A. James MacKenzie ’69 of Gig Bremerton, Wash., and Stan in Houston. Harbor, Wash., is vice president and Anita Schroeber Lewis ’71, Stan’s wife, human resource administrator for Pacific completed her first marathon at Olympia First Federal Savings Bank in Tacoma. with no ill effects. Jim is a member of the Clan Gordon Bonnie Butchart Smith ’65 is a music- Bagpipe Band. He has also graduated resource teacher in Victoria, British from the Diocesan School of Theology in Columbia. She, along with a group of Seattle and hopes to be ordained a deacon ukulele players, were invited to Missoula in the Episcopal Church in 1985. last summer by music educators at UM Glen M. Stocking ’69 of Missoula has and Missoula School District 1 to show been named Syntex “ Preceptor of the Carmen Monaco, where are you? how versatile and fun the ukulele can be. Year” by the UM School of Pharmacy in Frederick Gilliard M.A. ’66 has been recognition for his important contributions named academic vice-president of Lake to the educational experience of future Superior State College in Sault Ste. Club. To be eligible, you must rank in the pharmacists. He is married to the former Marie, Mich. top fifty agents in the country out of Joy Murray ’69. Jack Parker ’66 of Spokane, was 19,000 State Farm agents.” named Syntex “ Preceptor of the Year” by J. Scott Wheeler ’69 of Springfield, Terry Boyer Wiedmer ’72, M.E. ’75, Washington State University College of Va., a lieutenant colonel with the U.S. D.Ed. ’83 has taken a sabbatical this year Pharmacy students in Pullman, Wash., in Army, has been appointed a White House and is working part time as an recognition of his important contributions Fellow for 1984-85. administrative assistant in the teacher to the educational experience of future John Williamson ’69 married Merri education department at UM. She is pharmacists. Shannon Nov. 12, 1983. They reside in conducting research on qualities of Delvina Lyonais ’67 of Kalispell took a Camarillo, Calif. exceptional teachers and is writing a camping trip to Alaska last June, and then Christine Suntheimer Coleman ’70 resource guide for implementing took the Marine Highway from Prince teaches first grade at Holloman Air Force computers in the classroom. Rupert to Haines, 150 miles from the Base in New Mexico, where her husband, Steve Armstrong ’73 served in the Arctic Circle. Lynn, is a pilot. Their son, Matthew Carl, Peace Corps from 1974-78, teaching was bom April 24, 1984. African history in the African village of Susan Lanman Johnson ’70 of San Maun, Botswana. He has taught advanced Jose, Calif., was recently admitted to placement and American government at practice law in California. “ Because of Helena High School for the past five years numerous moves over the years, I have and has been twice voted “ best teacher” suffered through and passed five bar by graduating seniors. Steve also plays exams—New York, Connecticut, tympani with the Helena Symphony and Washington, District of Columbia, and drums with the Helena Big Band. California.” Thomas M. Fitzpatrick ’73 has been Robert Baldassano M.B.A. ’71 of San reappointed chairman of the American Bar Jose, Calif., was promoted to staff Association Standing Committee on engineer at Lockheed Missiles and Space National Conference Groups. The HOLLYWOOD—NBC television person­ Company Inc. in June. “ Took a trip to association maintains communication with ality Ed McMahon is shown with Donna Portugal and Spain in July. I had not been scientists, accountants and other Phillips Myers and Kenneth D. Myers o f the there since being stationed there in the Air professional groups. He is an attorney in Phillips-Myers Advertising Agency, Kenner, Force eighteen years ago.” Seattle. Louisiana, during filming o f a new commer­ Gloria Phillip ’71 is a preview artist Ellen Miller Haddow ’73 and Kit cial featuring McMahon fo r a Phillips-Myers with the Seattle Opera and will be Haddow ’73 reside in Grand Junction, client. Kenneth Myers, x ’67, is a former UM performing with them for the next two Colo., where Kit is in private dental information services staff member and was years. She is also a professional church practice. Ellen is Western Slope at one time associated with a Helena adver­ soloist in the Seattle area and oratorio correspondent for the Associated Press tising agency owned by former Montana singer. She teaches piano, voice and and works on the Colorado staff with two Governor Thomas L Judge. Myers has been theory in her private studio. other UM alums, Carl Hilliard ’59 and in the advertising business in New Orleans Lita Sharone ’71 married Kenneth Dick Buholz ’68. since 1977. Palisin on Nov. 19, 1983. They reside in Lauri Kola ’73, M.A. ’74 continues his

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 23 job as school psychologist for Kalispell graduate training in anesthesiology at the Hendrickson & Pullen. School Dist. it5. He has just begun a Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Sheila Kampschror ’81 married Ray private practice in relationships Rochester, Minn., and has entered private Liermann on Sept. 15 and is employed as counseling. practice in Billings. an escrow officer with First American Janice Wiley ’73 married Daniel Richard June ’77 graduated from Title Company in Sun Valley, Idaho. She Roberson ’78 in June 1982. They reside Western State University College of Law and Ray live in Ketchum. in Troy, Mont., where she teaches school in 1982 and was admitted to the California Scott ’81 and Joan Hora Kuehn ’81 and he works for the Forest Service. bar that same year. have three children and live in Missoula. Jane Connor ’74 of Salt Lake City, is a Claire Kern 'll married Keith Johnson Scott is a logging supervisor for public relations account executive for Hal on Feb. 19, 1983. They reside in Champion International and is a two-time Gardiner and Associates, Public Relations. Goldendale, Wash., and are expecting world champion and current world-record James R. Comstock ’75 is community their first child in January. holder in the hot saw, an unlimited class relations director for psychiatric services Scott E. Wolff 'll of Eagan, Minn., of chain saws in logging sports. They at French Hospital and Medical Center in received the degree of doctor of medicine have just completed rebuilding their home San Francisco. from the University of Minnesota Medical after a major fire last April. Nancy Jean Smith ’75 was injured in School in June. Risa Gayle Lange ’81 has accepted a an automobile accident in May 1984. Margaret Ellen Davis ’78 and Timothy job in fuels management with the U.S. Nancy has crushed vertebrae and is Earl Bennington of Portland were married Forest Service on the Deschutes National confined to a back brace. She welcomes on July 28. She is preparing for medical Forest in Oregon. She recently became the any letters at Box 295, St. Maries, Idaho school and he is employed as an electrical wife of Tony Navarro. 83861. engineer at Tektronix in Beaverton. Charles Conrad ’82 of New York has Allen Chrisman ’76, M.S. ’80 of Benny Onwumeroki ’78 is a resident completed graduate school and is an Divide, Mont., is a timber resource pharmacist and has completed his national editorial assistant with New American assistant for the Wise River Ranger service in Oyo State, Africa. He resides in Library, one of the largest paperback book District, Beaverhead National Forest. On Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria. publishers. April 12 he and his wife, Charlotte, Kevin R. Smith ’78 of Stone Mountain, Cheryl Kay Hill Hunt ’82 married became parents of a son, Allen Baird. Ga., married Linda Pattillo on Sept. 15. Dale Hardy-Short ’76 is an instructor Larry D. Nelson ’79 of Auke Bay, in the Department of Speech and Drama Alaska, has relocated to Juneau, where he at Trinity University in San Antonio, will be the project manager on a facilities Texas. She is completing her doctoral addition for the University of Alaska. degree at Indiana University. In 1982-83 Keith Olson ’79 is completing an M.S.E. in industrial engineering at Arizona State. During the summer of 1982 he was a consultant to the Arabian American Oil Company in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He has been offered a job with a security transportation company in Columbia and has been accepted to study for a Ph.D. in sports medicine. Lawrence Fowler ’80 has been Flour Power Helps promoted to Army captain at Fort Hood, Friends of the Library Texas. He and his wife, Terry, ’78 have Anyone interested in Montana two daughters and live in Copperas Cove, Territorial history will love this book Texas. on the early flouring mills in Jill Fleming—we still miss you. Bill R. Griffiths ’80 of San Francisco Montana. Included are mills in “ now works for MCC Powers and travels Missoula, Deer Lodge, Lewistown, Dale was a Congressional Fellow on to Portland, Seattle, Phoenix and Denver Great Falls, Townsend, Bozeman, St. Women and Public Policy. all the time. This spring I went scuba Ignatius, Frenchtown and many other places such as New Chicago, Patricia June ’76 received a master’s diving on the Great Barrier Reef.” Gallatin City and Springville. Also degree from Pepperdine University and is Kevin Hunt ’80 received a juris covered are the flour riots in vice principal of the Orange County, doctorate at spring commencement from Virginia City in 1864-65. Calif., Special Education School. the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis Tom Haines, former editor of the Sheila Mayer Rinder ’76 passed the and Clark College in Portland. Montana Food Distributor magazine Nebraska bar and is employed by First Helen Gibson Hart ’81 has earned a and manager of the Montana Food Distributor Association, spent many National Bank & Trust Company of master’s degree in planetary sciences from Lincoln as a trust marketing hours looking through newspapers the Colorado University in Boulder. She is and manuscripts in search of representative. Her husband, Daniel an author of a winning paper, A Water materials relating to the flour-milling Rinder, ’76 is a trust investment officer Supply System for a Manned Mars Base, industry. Tom, who helped organize with the same firm. in an international competition sponsored the Friends of the University of Leonard Abels ’77 married Jane Fisher by the Planetary Society. Currently, she is Montana Library in 1960, is donating 'll on July 31, 1982. They live in working on a Ph.D. thesis at CU in all proceeds from the sale of this Westwood, N.J. Boulder. handsomely illustrated hardcover Ed Campbell 'll is the owner of John W. Jacobsen ’81 married Joan book to the Friends of the Library. Kennedy’s Restaurant in Vail, Colo., and To order send $12.95 plus $1 for Elizabeth Hansen ’82 on May 26. Joan is postage to "Flouring Mills," Friends has plans to open another in Scottsdale, an executive housekeeper for the Billings Ariz., this winter. of the Mansfield Library, University Sheraton Hotel, and John is a certified of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812. David G. Healow ’77 has completed public accountant with McGladry,

24 UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA Marvin Hunt on June 2. They live in Ralph Wadsworth x’24, Lurena Black Sheridan, Wyo. Births Banghart ’25, Dennis J. Sullivan x’25, Jed Liston ’82 is an admissions Charles W. Dutton ’26, Amelia Fergus representative for UM. Ashley Mary Elizabeth to Jocelyn Williams x’26, Anne Miller Sparrow ’27, Peggy Nelson ’82 is attending “Jolly” Johnson Tyler ’66 and Lyle B. Adeline Platt Bartron ’28, Thomas R. Tyler, Aug. 11, 1984, Wyola, Mont. Northwestern University in Evanston, 111., Biggerstaff ’28, George C. Borchers ’28, Nylene Rae to Mary Lee Douglas as a recipient of a doctoral fellowship in Kathryn Elizabeth Harbaugh Crumbaker language and cognition. Since graduating Wicks ’69 and Leonard R. Wicks ’70, ’28; M.E. ’73, Oct. 17, 1983, Missoula in 1982, she has been director of a two- Mary Margaret “Merlie” Cooney Brady Robert to Barbara Pallett county program for senior volunteers in Hughes ’28, Dorothy Johnson ’28, North Dakota. Bennetts ’71 and Bruce Robert Bennetts Lewanna Coleman Spielman x’28, John Armando Tomas Perez ’82 married ’70, Aug. 15, 1983, Marina Del Ray, Calif. H. Bolton x’29, John A. Fallman ’30, Shawn Leary ’83 on Aug. 6, 1983. Tom Cecile V. Sughrue ’30, George L. is working on a master of divinity degree Joshua Lynn to Judith Coons ’71 and Turcott, ’30, Vern Haugland ’31, Joseph L. Tucker ’62, Great Falls and Shawn is working on a master of Marion Judge Orr ’31, Alice Brusletten biblical counseling degree at the Brianna Rose to Barbara and Fredric Arter x’33; LePiane ’73, Vancouver, British International School of Theology in San William T. Boone LL.B. ’33, Philip Columbia Bernadino, Calif. They reside in Forest Buckley Jr. x’35, George McPhail x’35, Falls. Derek Ray to Raelene Keaster Wilson Allan Schwartz x’35, Hansi Steinitz ’73 and Steven L. Wilson 73, Federal Bradley Williams ’82 of Ogden, Utah, Willig ’35, Thomas E. Brierley ’36, Way, Wash. is a wage and salary analyst in personnel William P. Smith ’37, John S. Thane development for Morton Thiorol Inc. Tori Lynn to Delaine Dahmer Butorac x’37, Marion Kimball Fraser x’38, Marie “ We’re involved with the aerospace x’74 and Thomas Butorac ’72, Aug. 3, Lasby Geil ’38; industiy.” 1984, Missoula Virginia Flanagan Harrison ’38, (She John Collier to Kay and James Coghlan Sheila Corcoran ’83 of Anaconda is a was UM’s first Homecoming Queen), ’75, May 25, 1984, Seattle business-education teacher at Warm Marie Hales Jones x’38, Jean Springs State Hospital. Michael Robert to Connie Johnson McConochie Lundgren ’38, Don Geil Forbes ’75 and Mark Forbes, Helena Marc Simenson ’83 married Lois Paige ’39, Anna Belle Hartwig Chumrau x’40 Kevin Christopher to Cheryl Burke ’77 and is a high school science teacher in Noel McDermott x’40, David C. Anchorage, Alaska. Harris ’75 and Donald L. Harris ’80, Thompson x’40, Charles R. Ames ’41, Tom Wynne ’83 has opened his own J.D. ’83, Aug. 4, 1984, Billings William Frint Beaumont x’42, Donald CPA practice in Kalispell where he and Torey Paige to Stacy Towle Jovick ’75 O. Bradeen ’43; his wife, Susan Bronson Wynne, x’84 and Robert Jovick J.D. ’75, Oct. 31, Peggy Clark Jann ’43, Ellen Borchers reside. 1983, Livingston Hexom x’45, Kathryn Zaharee Taylor Daniel M. Craig ’84 has passed the Erica Lynn to Susan Hemmer Lutke Kuhns M.A. ’46, Dale Gillespie ’48, Pennsylvania Pharmacy Licensing Exam ’75 and Douglas Lutke, Plains, Mont. Paul M. Szakash ’48, Guy H. Price ’49, and is employed with McLanahan Drug of Chelsea DeHaven to Velma and Terrill M.Ed. ’53, John M. Borgerson M.Ed. State College, Pa. “ I am sure to miss Korell ’76, Grass Valley, Calif. ’50, D.Ed. ’59, Wilmer D. Gray x’50, Montana and all the wonderful people Christopher Neil to Judith and Robert Donald B. Sass ’50, Robert E. Crennen encountered while attending UM.” C. Oaks M.S. ’76, Macedon, N.Y. ’51; Mara Kathleen to Kerry and Bob Gary R. Schaertl ’84 of Stevensville is Harriet K. O’Conner ’52, M.Ed. ’54, supervisor of the Forest Management Bronson ’77, May 28, 1984, Great Falls Carole to Cynthia Harris Dushin ’77 Winifred M. Sevalstad ’52, Robert C. Bureau, Forestry Division, Department of Letcher LL.B. ’53, Harry M. Tamplin State Lands in Missoula. and James H. Dushin ’75, Jan. 7, 1984, East Helena M.Ed. ’53, Charles A. Roberts ’54, Florence M. Holmes ’55, Leo C. Christopher Deane Bell to Laurie Musburger, Jr. ’55, Bess Reed x’55, Mutch Bell ’78 and Deane M. Bell ’77, March 16, 1984, Seattle George Alfred Phelps ’56, Margaret Ryan Skranak ’56; Sarah Irene to Kelly and Steve Mildred Tamplin ’57, Allan L. Bruggeman ’78, March 11, 1984, Billings Tschida ’57, Albert L. Hanson M.E. Riana Morgan to Vicki Lohrenz ’79 and ’59, Thomas G. Squire ’59, Robert K. Homecoming ’85 Lee Dilley ’77, July 17, 1984, Northfield, W 1 H 1111 ifty .iTii iiA i —tin i ih * U i Minn. Crebo M.A. ’60, Ray B. Bowden ’62, William E. Gilbert ’62, ’65, Dorothy Katherine Ann to Karen M. Walker ’80 Oct. 11-12 Gilmore Bansch ’63, Ivan C. Nelson and Michael J. O’Neill ’80, May 15, • Honoring Classes of 1984, Butte ’63, Charles D. Carpenter ’65; 1935 and 1960 Gene Wurzburg x’65, Ruth Dickman • University of Montana Highness Duckworth ’66, M.A. ’71, vs Mavis Hersrud Roberts ’69, Vivian Idaho State University Allgaier ’71, Curtis E. Hopkins ’72, • Dedication of the Deaths Lawrence Miller ’72, Benjamin W. Performing Arts and Wright ’72, James R. Hawkins ’74, Marie F. Jacobson ’74, Kathy LeFebvre Radio/ Television Center Merritt M. Owsley ’15, Hedda Austin ’78; For more information call or write: DeCivray ’17, Gladys Phillips Bennett Stacy E. McClure Donley x’79, Alumni Association x’20, Frank Gosman ’20, James A. Richard Nimick ’79, David K. Miller University of Montana Johnson ’21, John D. Sullivan ’21, ’81, Hannah L. Box ’83, John Albert J. Cramer ’22, Edith B. Missoula, MT 59812 McCormack Lanky x’84, Lucille Leyda (406) 243-5211 Hamilton ’22, Bill Durham ’24, Bernice Jesse, assistant professor, physical Thompson Moore ’24; education. Spokane How many Montanans does it take ...?

No, this isn’t a joke. It’s going to take a lot of “Montanans” to bring you your M ontanan. A quality magazine like the Montanan is expensive, more expensive than the Univer­ sity and its alumni association can afford, even with help from ad sales. To keep it coming to you and all other University alumni and supporters, we need your help.

Voluntary subscriptions A contribution of only $1 from each of the Montanan's 40,000 readers would assure the future of the magazine. If you enjoy reading the Mon­ tanan and want to see it continue, send your contribution* — $5, $10 or whatever you can afford — to Montanan Magazine, d o UM Alumni Association, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812. Think of it as a voluntary subscription.

Contributions to the Montanan are con­ tributions to the UM Alumni Association and are therefore tax deductible.