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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.