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Volume 54,2010 The University of Montana______School of Journalism J-alum Jason Begay joins faculty, Stubbs and Rott inherits McAuliffe's Reznet post bring home top Hearst awards Navajo Times New York Times. The reporter and J-School Times offered him The UM School of Journalism is the alumnus Jason Begay a two-year intern­ only one of the more than 100 accredited will join the faculty as ship, but Jason was journalism programs in the country an assistant professor eager to get back to score in the top 10 in the print, and director of Reznet to the West, so he photojournalism and broadcast competi­ beginning in August. accepted a job at tions of the Hearst Journalism Awards Jason will replace The Oregonian. After program for this academic year. Reznet founder two years, he took Two print students also qualified for Denny McAuliffe, at job at The Navajo the Hearst national championships in who resigned in Times in Gallup, New York City. October to return to N.M., where he was The Hearst competition involves a The Washington Post, a reporter covering series of contests throughout the year, where he is overnight tribal government with points awarded for students scoring news editor. Denny and education. in the top 20. At the came to Montana in Since April Jason end of the academic 1999 to teach for a has been acting year, photojour­ year and stayed for 10. editor of The Navajo nalism students He created Reznet and Times, an indepen­ ranked seventh, print built it into a top jour­ New J-faculty member Jason Begay dent newspaper students ranked nalism training and and one of the most eighth, and broadcast mentoring program for American Indian respected tribal papers in the nation. students ranked college students across the country. Jason will teach one course each ninth. The school’s Jason was among the first students semester, recruit and mentor students, overall ranking was Denny recruited to UM and mentored. and raise funds for and direct Reznet and sixth. He had earned an associate of arts other Native American initiatives. Now in its 50th degree in creative writing in 1996 from Denny raised more than $700,000 for year of handing the Institute of American Indian Arts the site and recruited Native American out scholarships, and had held a number of newspaper students around the country to write the Hearst Awards internships when he caught Denny’s eye. and take photographs for the website. are often referred Denny was determined to get him to Before Denny left for the Post, to as the collegiate UM, and succeeded. representatives of UM’s American Indian Pulitzers, and placing Jason had internships at the Duluth Support and Development Council in the competition is News Tribune and The Oakland Tribune honored him with a Pendleton blanket a major honor, said before coming to UM. After his studies called “The Record Keeper,” a design Dean Peggy Kuhr. here he worked a summer at The Wichita adapted from the work of Cherokee “I’m proud of our excellent placement Eagle and, upon graduation, accepted the artist and flautist Terry Lee Whetstone. in print, photo and broadcast,” Kuhr James Reston summer internship at The d said. “It shows we have a well-rounded program.” Roman Stubbs, who will take the reins as editor of the Montana Kaimin next fall, won first place in the person-

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► Three signature J-School projects • The latest Native News Honors students in the Pollner seminar, for the wrapped up at the end of spring Project revisited health care, an issue faculty and for the Pollner professors. semester. that students first looked at in the • In March, Rebecca Blumenstein, • The 2010 RTV student documentary second year of the project, now in its deputy managing editor and the interna­ Cannahusiness examined the issues 20th year. Eight reporters and eight tional editor of The Wall Street Journal, that surround the sale and use of medical photographers reported in-depth stories delivered the second annual Jeff Cole marijuana in Montana. Montanans from the state’s seven reservations, Distinguished Lecture. Her focus voted in 2004 to legalize marijuana for and looked at the access to health care was “Making Journalism and Global medical uses and at present more than of Indians who live off the reservation. Coverage Relevant in the Internet Age.” 12,000 people have signed up and are They were guided by three student copy Journalism has been reshaped by the authorized to buy marijuana from any editors, a photo and multimedia editor, recession, globalization and technology, of the 2,797 caregivers. The 19 students’ and their work was designed for print Blumenstein said. So the key is to make semester-long investigation found publication by a design editor and for journalism relevant, timely and trusted. that as traveling clinics make medical publication online by an online editor. For the Journal, she said, that means it marijuana cards more readily available to Professors Carol Van Valkenburg and will be newsier, pay more attention to walk-in patients, authorities are strug­ Jeremy Lurgio teach the course. You visual presentation, and have expanded gling to regulate the use and distribu­ can see the students’ work at: http:// international coverage. Blumenstein tion of the drug. Students interviewed nativenews.jour.umt.edu. talked about the importance of street doctors, legislators, police officers, • The Montana Journalism Review reporting, and advised students to get caregivers, patients and community this year is devoted to “Thriving and out of the office, learn another language, members about the impact of medical Surviving in a Multimedia World.” and travel overseas. marijuana on their lives. The interviews Among the stories is a look at how • The 53rd Dean Stone Lecture was reveal how Montana residents are magazines are trying to reach Gen Y, delivered in April by Caesar Andrews, struggling to find a balance between the whether the iPad will change personal former executive editor of the Detroit business, health and legal issues involved computing, a critique of Twitter in Free Press. He oversaw coverage that with medical marijuana. The last three covering news, the debate provoked by resulted in the paper’s winning the 2009 student documentaries can be viewed web comments to news stories and how Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting. Last online at montanapbs.org. journalism schools are teaching multi- spring he was a visiting professor at media reporting skills. The issue can be the University of Nevada-Reno. In his seen at: http://mjr.jour.umt.edu. lecture, “Journalists and ‘American Idol’: What We Can Learn,” he said the show is Communique ► The J-School hosted three major a model for finding a way to succeed in a Volume 54,2010 lectures last academic year: fast-changing media world. He said the • In the fall, T. Anthony Pollner performances - like much of journalism Published for Alumni and Friends Professor Chris Jones delivered the - are works in progress. And the public Pollner lecture, which he titled “Acci­ has a voice in the outcome. “You can’t Editor: Carol Van Valkenburg 72 dents.” He said many accidents come use the same game plan from 1979 [or Design: Printer Bowler '63 down to luck, good or bad, but what anytime in the past] and win,” he said. happens afterward, how we deal with “Take the best of what was there and © 2010 UM School of Journalism the happy accidents and cope with the move forward.” sad occurrences are part of what defines At the Dean Stone banquet the Send news and Class Notes to: us. He told about what he’d learned following evening, the school handed UM School of Journalism covering stories for Esquire, including out nearly $110,000 in scholarships and Don Anderson Hall working for a story as an EMT and a awards. Missoula, MT 59812 story he wrote about a man who had lost family members in an airplane crash ► From Aug. 7 through Oct. 23 The 406.243.4001 and later became an aviation accident University of Montana hosted “ Capture email •[email protected] investigator. And he praised the Pollner the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Visit us a t: www.jour.umt.edu family for turning the tragedy of their Photographsthe largest display of and on Facebook son Anthony’s death into an unforget­ Pulitzer Prize-winning photos ever table experience for the Kaimin staff, for shown in the United States. The photos

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were displayed in two galleries in the ► Advanced photojournalism students head of the Central Department of PARTV building and in a third in the taught by Associate Professor Keith Journalism and Mass Communication Social Science building. The exhibit drew Graham and Assistant Professor at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, more visitors than any other in UM Jeremy Lurgio focused on Seeley Lake visited classes, met with faculty, and history. last fall as part of the program’s second participated in two public forums. (For year of the Montana Towns Project. more on the school’s budding relation­ ► Print journalism students landed a The previous year’s project focused on ship with Tribhuvan University, see handful of prime internships for this Corvallis, Mont. Students do documen­ Professor Clem Work’s faculty update.) summer. Carly Flandro rose from the tary photojournalism that looks at the ranks of 300 applicants to capture the people and places that make up these ► Student work posted online from coveted Seattle Times general assignment small towns. To see their exceptional Associate Professor Henriette internship. Tyson Alger also swung for work, go to http://www.mttowns.jour. Lowisch’s feature writing class can be the fence and landed The Oregonians umt.edu/ viewed at nightvisionmissoula.com. The sports reporting internship. Karen students explored everything from the Garcia landed an internship at Utne ► White House Deputy Chief of Staff city’s bars and nightlife to its population Reader. On the RTV side, senior Garrett Jim Messina, a journalism school of late-shift workers stocking shelves or Browne is working at WAMU Radio in graduate, visited the school on Oct. 8 for saving lives while everyone else is asleep. Washington, D.C., a public broadcasting an informal discussion with students, In general, they offered a portrait of a | station. faculty, staff, and alumni. He was chief of city between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. staff for Sen. Max Baucus before joining ► The Society of Environmental Journal­ the Obama campaign staff and then ► In last year’s Communique we told ists will hold its national conference on landing the White House job. He’s one of you that 1979 RTV alumna Colleen campus Oct. 13-16. J-School alum Jim two deputies working for Chief of Staff McGuire received her first star, making Bruggers, a reporter for The Courier Rahm Emanuel. One story he related to her one of only a handful of brigadier Journal in Louisville, is a conference the students was how, when covering generals in the U.S. Army. Now she’s co-chair. The conference, Wild Rockies a city council meeting as a student received even more remarkable recogni­ and the Changing West, is expected to reporter, he asked his professor for extra tion. Brig. Gen. McGuire was recently attract up to 1,000 participants. time to write the story. He remembers named head of the Army military police the answer vividly: “Jim, it’s not a maybe force - the Army’s provost marshal ► The student-produced television line. It’s a deadline.” He said that lesson general and the commanding general of program “Montana Journal: Unaf­ has been an invaluable one in his career. the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation fordable Education?” premiered on (Missoulian reporter Kim Briggeman Command. She answers directly to the MontanaPBS on Oct. 29. It addressed wrote about his visit: http://missoulian. U.S. Army’s chief of staff and is in charge the issue of whether education is slip­ com/news/local/artide_96ee95a8-b48e- of all of the Army’s military police and ping out of reach for many Montanans. Ilde-a068-001cc4c03286.html.) its investigations of felonies that involve The program featured a Helena family U.S. soldiers at home and abroad. She is working to put five children through ► In the Broadcast Education Associa­ the first woman to head the office. college; a Billings student making the tion’s Best of Festival 2010 competition, trade-off of military service to pay for RTV senior Grant Beaudette received his education; a Flathead Valley student an honorable mention in the student TV who found a local community college features category, and Unspoken: Voices of as a cost-saving alternative; a former Suicide, the 2009 student documentary Montana State University-Bozeman project, received an honorable mention student who realizes he may never have in the student long form documentary the opportunity to return to school category. because of the expense; and a Corvallis High School senior trying to plan her ► Two journalists from Nepal visited college financial future. The program is the J-School Sept. 12-20. Rajendra Dev produced by RTV seniors and is taught Acharya, news director of Nepal Televi­ by MontanaPBS producer and RTV sion, who earned a master’s degree in adjunct John Twiggs. RTV from UM, and Prabal Raj Pokhrel,

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New requirements take effect this fall J-School notes media evolution, updates curriculum

After years of faculty study and Once students are accepted into the provide an environmental science discussion, a blizzard of paperwork, and professional program, which can now and natural resource education for scrutiny by several university commit­ occur in either semester, they are able to journalism graduates and others tees, major curriculum changes for take courses in all four options—print, with previous journalism experience. undergraduate and graduate programs in photo, broadcast news and broadcast Students with science backgrounds also the School of Journalism will take effect production. will be recruited for the program. beginning with fall semester. To broaden their depth of knowledge, The faculty closely watched the many students are required to choose at least New emphasis for grad program changes occurring in the news media and five courses from among an array chosen Professor Dennis Swibold and had ongoing discussions on how the by the faculty. They must also take a Assistant Professor Nadia White spent school should train students for work capstone course before graduation. a year studying possibilities for the upon graduation. “The idea is that students in all new graduate program structure and During the past five years, faculty options will get the same foundation, so curriculum. In the school’s application updated the content and their teaching that once in the professional program, for program approval, it cited a “growing in many courses. Still, they felt the need they will be able to cross disciplines and need for versatile storytellers knowl­ to go further and adjust requirements in take courses in any option if they meet edgeable about energy policy, climate both the pre-journalism and professional the prerequisites,” said Carol Van Valken- change and conservation issues.” journalism programs. burg, print journalism department chair. Students will take courses in print, “That way students can choose their own photo and broadcast media, as well as Newly required pre-J courses direction, based on what they want to do graduate courses across campus in the In the new pre-journalism program, after graduation.” hard sciences, history, philosophy, ethics all students must take: and law, among others. Swibold and • Jour 100 - Media History & Literacy More options for students White, assisted by Dean Kuhr, collabo­ • RTV151 - Beginning Video Photo­ RTV Associate Professor Denise rated with faculty in other disciplines graphy & Production Dowling said this new structure will to compile a list of appropriate courses • Jour 227 - Beginning Photo­ still allow for “specialists,” students who outside of journalism for the new grad journalism want to follow an option, but will permit class to take. • Jour 270 - Reporting the school to graduate “jacks of all Associate Professor Henriette The new Jour 100 course emphasizes trades,” students who want experience in Lowisch, hired in 2009 to head up the media literacy, an important concept as all emphases the school offers. new graduate program, said: “To commu­ the number of information sources has Dean Peggy Kuhr said the changes nicate environmental science and natural exploded. All students must learn how will make the students adaptable. “The resource issues to the general public is to use still photography and video to tell idea is to integrate, across various one of the most important challenges stories and to write clearly and concisely. options, all the possibilities,” said Kuhr. for journalists and scientists today. The The reporting class assignments help “The lines are blurring as far as what new program fits seamlessly into the students tell stories for print and online journalists do. Now, students (can) chart university’s cross-disciplinary focus on and also teach them how to use audio to their own path.” those issues and capitalizes on faculty produce radio stories. The new graduate program will expertise across campus.” ❖

Where did those high-paying internships go? In an era of unpaid internships and finding enough students to fill them. an average debt load of $20,000 for UM He said the Cut Bank Pioneer Press students by the time they graduate, it editor had just interviewed students for was interesting to come across a letter summer internships and was offering in the files that Dean James L.C. Ford $50 a week for the first month, $60 a wrote to a recent graduate in 1956. week for the second and $70 for the Dean Ford told the student that he third. had 26 jobs posted on the bulletin board In today’s dollars the yearly starting m May 1956, some with starting salaries salary would be nearly $33,000. The $70 of $4,200. He was having a hard time a week internship would be almost $550.

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Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow the world’s oldest and most violent will be the schools 2010 T. Anthony sport. And still, no matter where I am Pollner Distinguished Professor. Saslow or what I’m covering, I rarely have felt was selected from among 20 applicants so energized as when I was 21, sleepless for the fall semester visiting professor­ and unshaven, editing the sports section ship. of a college newspaper that few people Saslow is a national enterprise read.” reporter at the Post. Prior to that assign­ He proposed a class that will mirror ment he was political features writer and life in a newsroom, with three-week sports enterprise writer. Before coming segments on story conception, deadline to the Post he worked for 1he Star-Ledger news writing, blogging with attitude and in New Jersey and The Buffalo (N.Y.) voice, quick feature writing, and writing News. He received his journalism degree magazine-style narrative. from Syracuse University. Saslow will be the school’s 10th Among recent stories Saslow has Pollner professor. Established by the covered are the oil spill in the Gulf of family and friends of 1999 alumnus T. Mexico and a look inside the White Eli Saslow, 2010 Pollner Professor Anthony Pollner, an endowment allows House at President Obama’s reading the school each fall semester to bring of 10 letters each day from among the committee, Saslow wrote: “I’ve flown on a distinguished journalist who teaches 20,000 that arrive daily. Saslow looked at Air Force One with Barack Obama on a class, works with the staff of the what prompted one of the letter-writers the day of his election; I’ve waded into Montana Kaimin, and delivers a public to write to the president and her reac­ New Orleans to write about the victims lecture. tion to President Obama’s response. of Hurricane Katrina; I’ve traveled to a The Pollner lecture this year is sched­ In his letter to the Pollner selection remote Scottish island to write about uled for Oct. 18.1

Record scholarship & awards contributions Alums & friends allow students more opportunities

As I write this year's Communique W hile the J-School has tremendous featured works. We're also on Facebook: column, I can't help but reflect on scholarship support, among our biggest School of Journalism, University of the last 18 months I've spent with the needs are additional financial resources Montana, with more photos, student and J-School. For those of you who may not to help pay for student projects such faculty news, job notices and features. be familiar with the current faculty and as Native News, Montana Journalism Donating is easy - just click on the Dean, I must tell you, they are an incred­ Review, and the senior documentary. "Giving" link at the top of our website. If ible group of people. No one on campus These projects give students invaluable you would like to learn more about our works harder or is more committed to hands-on experience travelling across needs or to discuss students than they are. The J-School the state to develop stories that air on gifts to the School, really is a family, in every sense of the public television, online and in state please feel free to word. newspapers. These projects are not contact me at 406. I also want to thank our alumni and funded by the University, but through the 243.5354 or laura. friends for your continuing support of Dean's discretionary fund, which comes biancoadams@mso. the School. Because of your generosity, entirely from private donations. umt.edu. nearly $110,000 in scholarships was I encourage you to check out the Thank you again awarded at this year's Dean Stone J- School's website at www.jour.umt.edu. for your generosity. Banquet - a record amount. In these There's a great video by students under tough economic times, students depend "Video Showcase," as well as student L aura Biarxio - Ada^r5 on your contributions more than ever. and alumni news, upcoming events and Director of Development

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ality profile competition, while Nate Rott, a wo photojournalism students also placed recent graduate, took first for in-depth reporting. Thigh in the rankings. Senior Shane They were among seven print students who McMillan placed fourth in the picture story- competed in the national championships in multimedia competition while 2009 graduate mid-June. While they didn’t finish in the top Russel Daniels placed fifth in the same contest. three there, Stubbs won $1,500 for what the Their winning pieces appeared in the 2009 online judges assessed was the “story of the year.” Each edition of the Native News Honors Project. of them also won $1,500 awards as finalists in Assistant Professor Jeremy Lurgio credits the national contest. the students with playing to their individual strengths when conceiving and working on their rofessor Carol Van Valkenburg said the two multimedia pieces. Pwins in the monthly competitions were “He’s a great producer,” Lurgio said of unprecedented for the school. “It’s a real coup McMillan, whose piece focused on a family who and it does draw attention to how strong our claims their son’s killing was unjustly ruled program is,” Van Valkenburg said. self-defense. Lurgio said Daniels’ creativity was Stubbs’ story, “Gladiator School,” which was the lifeblood of his project. The piece explored cited as the best story from any of the competi­ troubled youth on the Blackfeet Reservation. tions, profiled former Grizzly football player McMillan won $750 and Daniels $600. Jimmy Wilson, who was charged with murder, tried twice and ultimately acquitted. Van Valken­ roadcast students also placed in the top 20. burg said the story’s extensive reporting and BJunior Jake Stevenson won eighth place literary merit set it apart. He wrote it for Pollner and $500 in the radio multimedia category for his Professor Chris Jones’ class. It can be found by piece featuring sustainability efforts surrounding going to the montanakaimin.com and searching Missoula’s “Flat House,” and placed 14th in the for stubbs and gladiator. radio contest that required students to submit “Roman is a superb writer,” she said. “I think a number of radio reports. His stories looked at that was really a strong point of his story and I’m so-called “pharm” parties, new rules about the sure it caught the judges’ attention, because he alcohol content of Montana-brewed beers, and a is able to describe scenes in such a unique and Missoula music festival. Stevenson is co-anchor compelling way that he keeps readers mesmer­ of Montana Evening Edition on KUFM radio. ized. He really has a writing ability that is far “Jake used video to show the building tech­ beyond his years.” niques and technical devices used to monitor and improve energy usage in the home,” Associate ott’s story from the 2009 Native News Honors Professor Denise Dowling said. “His audio work RProject explored the legal issues of sover­ brought out the personalities of the students and eignty and extradition in a case from the Crow professors working on this remarkable project.” Reservation. Brittany Wooley placed 19th in the radio “It was so complex and nuanced,” Van Valken­ multimedia competition for her reporting on the burg said of Rott’s story, “Beyond Reach.” “He had effects of cap and trade legislation. done such good reporting that a complex story was made easily understandable, yet he didn’t Kaimin editor Allison Maier won 11th place gloss over the complexity of it.” It can be found in the editorial writing competition. Her edito­ by clicking on “Media Projects” on the J-School rial was about the Kaimin s dispute with former web page and going to Native News archives, then Montana football coach Bobby Hauck and his the Urban Indian tab in the 2009 issue. refusal to answer questions after the paper Each student won $2,000 in his respective reported on alleged assaults by Montana football category, plus matching grants for the school. players.

Our student successes are a boon for the journalism school’s coffers, as well as its reputation. The Hearst Foundation matches scholarships given to students placing in the top ten with grants to the school. This year that comes to $5,850. /TUDENT/| ACU_TY AWAfU)/ iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Rott also wins top national SPJ award Nate Rott ‘09 was a national winner in the Society of Professional Journalists 2009 Mark of Excellence Awards. He won first place in In-Depth Reporting for his story “Beyond Reach” that ran in last year’s Native News Honors Project. Nate’s story, which also took a first place in the Hearst College Journalism Awards, is about tribal sovereignty and the legal implications facing a young man from the Crow Reservation who committed a crime off the reservation, then ran back to the reservation because he knew the Crow Tribe has no extradi­ Chris Miller and Gillette Vaira gather information and video for the student documentary Cannabusiness, which examines Montana's controversial medical marijuana business. tion agreement with the state. SOCIETY OF The J-School did PROFESSION Ai JOURNALISTS well in the regional SPJ Mark of Excel­ Students, faculty bring home the Emmys lence Awards as well. It was a good night to be a Griz at The two profiled a small business called First place regional the Northwest Regional Emmy Awards “Lissie’s Luv Yums” for an episode of winners, besides in early June. Radio-Television student Business: Made in Montana. The dog Nate Rott, were: projects from 2008-2009 won Emmys biscuit company is run by a woman • Native News in two of three student categories, while with developmental disabilities due Honors Project 2009, Best Indepen­ adjunct professors and former students to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Dowling dent Online Student Publication also received awards. and RTV Chair Ray Ekness advised. Last year’s student documentary, Both winning student projects aired on • The Grace Case Project, website and Unspoken, won the award in News -Long MontanaPBS. course by Associate Professor Nadia Form. Sixteen students produced Emmy Awards also went to Adjunct White and Associate Professor Andrew the hour-long documentary in spring Professors Gus Chambers, John King-Ries from the Law School, Online semester 2009 examining suicide in Twiggs and Kagan Yochim of KUFM/ In-Depth Reporting Montana. Associate Professor Denise MontanaPBS. Chambers and Yochim earned their undergraduate degrees at • Jake Stevenson, for Smoking Ban, Dowling and Adjunct Professor Gita Saedi-Kiely were the UM while Twiggs earned his Radio Feature faculty advisers. ^ masters. • Gillette Vaira, for Suicide Prevention In addition, 2010 gradu­ A 2003 journalism Walk, Radio News Reporting ates Ashley Korslien and graduate, Jordan Caskey, won four Emmy awards in • Vince Bagby, for UM Football Series, Dustin “Buddy” Cowart won a student Emmy in the documentary, sports and Radio Sports Reporting News-Short Form category. editing categories. • Ashley Korslien and Mark Wilson, for Military Study, TV General News Reporting More firsts in Durso broadcast competition • Paige Browning and Katrina Heser, for Montana Journal: Unaffordable J-School alumni and students won Carmen Ebert ’10, for best radio sports Education, TV In-Depth Reporting several awards in the 11th annual coverage; Dan Boyce ’09 of KUFM for Joseph Durso, Jr. Awards for Excellence best radio audio; Kevin Maki ’78 for • Dustin “Buddy” Cowart, for in Broadcast Journalism, sponsored by best radio newswriting and best radio Hospital Helpers, TV News Photography the Associated Press. enterprise; RTV adjunct Sally Mauk, • Jon G. Denny and Laura Elizabeth First place winners are: senior KUFM news director, and Emilie Ritter Wilson, for Griz Bye-Week, TV Sports Jannette McDonald, reporter/anchor ’07 for best radio spot news live and best Reporting. at KGVO-AM, for best radio newscast; radio spot news edited category.

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Dear Friends, At the graduate level, we’re special­ to listen to eight of our students describe izing in an area that allows us to work life at the J-School. You can listen by s I write this, it’s one of those with some of the best minds across going to our website and clicking on the Aspectacular mornings in June. campus. We have recruited our first class video on the right-hand side: http:// Mount Sentinel, Mount Jumbo and of graduate students who will inaugurate www.jour.umt.edu/ Mount Dean Stone have greened up, our new Master’s Degree in Environ­ There, Carly Flandro explains that and stand against a blue sky. The air has mental Science and Natural Resource “we always know to work our hardest, that mountain-crisp smell and the river Journalism. because we want to do it as much for is running high. Inside Don Anderson n the middle of all this change, the our audience and ourselves as we do Hall, it’s quiet - a rare moment in the ISchool keeps a focus on excellence. for our professors.” Adam Sings in the busy life of the J-School. Timber explains that, for him, “the most In the past year, we’ve redesigned our important thing about journalism is to curriculum, welcomed two new faculty tell the story of Native Americans — to members, said goodbye to another, and help dispel the myths and stereotypes seen our students’work rank among the about Natives.” And Shane McMillan best in the country. In many ways, our reminds us that “Everyone loves to think work here reflects the wider world of of the lone journalist but we really are a team.... It’s more about journalism than news media today: Change is a constant. ourselves.” The J-School started last fall with hat you won’t hear is a story new faculty members Henriette Lowisch about the young woman who and Lee Banville, who’ve brought new W made that video. Ashley Korslien filmed expertise especially in international and and edited the interviews, and spent online journalism. By mid-fall, we were hours putting them together — all on her wishing the best for Denny McAuliffe, own time in her final weeks as a student Reznet founder and Native American last Fall Semester. The J-School tried to journalist-in-residence, who was lured D e a n P eg g y K uhr pay her at least something for her work. back to The Washington Post. Here are just two highlights: But Ashley turned us down. Instead, she hat means in Fall 2010 we again took the money we offered; her parents • Our faculty continue to be selected will start the year with a new added a contribution; and she gave it T for major presentations across campus. faculty member. We’re thrilled to back to us for a scholarship. Associate Professor Denise Dowling welcome aboard Jason Begay, a reporter gave last fall’s convocation speech to “I want it to go to a student who and editor at The Navajo Times. Jason, incoming students and their parents. At needs it,” she said. So, at the 2010 Dean a 2002 J-School alum, says Denny the end of the year, Associate Profes­ Stone Awards Banquet, our newest McAuliffe is the person who convinced sor Henriette Lowisch gave a keynote scholarship was created by a graduating him to come to UM to study journalism. senior. What a wonderful legacy! address at the national undergraduate research conference here. Ashley, now a reporter at KRTV in We’U also start the fall with new • At the student level, just look at Great Falls, is a model of giving back curricula at the undergraduate and to the community — in this case her graduate levels. All incoming undergrad­ this year’s Hearst College Journalism J-School community. We appreciate uates will take a core series of classes Awards. Montana placed among the top all the support — moral and financial that includes multimedia reporting and 10 in three contest categories — writing, — that so many of you have offered writing, photography, and broadcast broadcast news and photojournalism/ this past year. Do stay in touch, come video and production. Once admitted multimedia. We are the only accredited and visit, and spread the good word into the professional program, students program in the nation to do that. about Montana. We couldn’t do the job can either specialize in a particular area can’t mention student work without without you! of journalism, or they can generalize and Imentioning the students themselves. take classes across the spectrum. If you ever need a boost, I encourage you Peggy K uhr P r c u l t y N o t e s

♦ Associate Professor Denise Dowling tive techniques and Montana journalism Jeremy offered instruction in photojour­ received UM’sJohn Ruffatto Memorial history, and will co-teach a reporting nalism. Award, which recognizes UM faculty who boot camp for students in the school’s integrate practical, applicable principles new master’s program in environmental ♦ Associate Professor H enriette into their classroom presentations. Denise journalism. This fall, he’ll supervise Lowisch gave a featured lecture April won based on several student and profes­ student election coverage for a string 17 as part of the National Conference sional projects she’s supervised, including of Montana newspapers and moderate on Undergraduate Education, which was Legislative News Service, Business: Made a panel on asbestos contamination in held at UM. “It’s the questions, stupid: in Montana and the Montana Economic Libby, Mont., for the Society of Environ­ How the new American generation can Minute. Denise also won a Best of Festival mental Journalists’ national convention in make a global difference,” posed the idea honor from the Broadcast Education Missoula. Otherwise, he enjoys perfecting that change isn’t driven as much by the Association for a radio story called “The a drag-less drift and exploring the musical one right answer as it is by asking smarter Choking Game.” It was named the best possibilities of an Open G tuning. questions. Henriette, director of the work in the faculty news division. She also J-School’s new graduate program in Envi­ earned an Emmy nomination for her work ♦ Associate Professor Keith Graham ronmental Science and Natural Resource on election coverage for MontanaPBS. collaborated with colleague Jeremy Journalism, also participated in the 10th Denise spent more than two months Lurgio to rework three photojournalism National Conference on Science, Policy teaching an experimental radio news classes to make sure students learn the and the Environment in Washington, D.C. course at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo. variety of skills they need in today’s While on the Flathead Reservation, she professional photography world. He ♦ The Christian Science M onitor published reported several stories for National and Jeremy have reworked many photo a piece on its website this spring by Assis­ Native News, including pieces on an and multimedia courses during the last tant Professor Lee Banville. “In Montana, American Indian history project and a several years. In August Keith will teach a ‘tea party’ revolution begins with a pot traditional diet and exercise study being workshop for the Rocky Mountain School luck,” was part of Patchwork Nation, conducted on the reservation. of Photography on photographing and a PBS project that divides all American writing for publications. He also will be counties into 12 categories based on voter ♦ Professor Ray Ekness has been on the road to prepare for a workshop makeup and then focuses on illustrative awarded a sabbatical for the 2010-201 I next summer that takes students on a communities across the United States. academic year. He hopes to produce a photo tour along Montana’s back roads. In Lake County, Montana, was chosen as a follow-up to a program he created in August he’ll speak on convergence in the typical “Tractor County,” mostly agricul­ 1997 called “Building Bridges” in which J-School’s journalism program at the Asso­ tural and rural, with higher-than-average he profiled a dozen young adults from ciation for Education in Journalism and unemployment and a reliably Republican Ireland and Northern Ireland who helped Mass Communication’s convention. He’s voting base. Banville, former PBS News- build a Habitat for Humanity house in also continuing work on his documenta­ Hour Online editor, and students Carly Missoula. Denise Dowling will take over ries about rodeo and multi-generational Flandro and Rollo Scott posted pieces this chair duties while Ray is on sabbatical. family ranches. spring about Lake County, focusing on Ray continues to contribute to the Ronan, on the Patchwork Nation commu­ popular MontanaPBS series Backroads o f ♦ Assistant professor Jeremy Lurgio nity page, http://ronan.patchworknation. Montana, working with co-producers and and his wife Caroline welcomed Lachlan org/. Lee and his wife, Jule, who taught RTV department adjuncts John Twiggs, Daniel Lurgio into the world on April 7. editing courses for the school last fall, William Marcus and Gus Chambers. Jeremy will be spending his summer baby recently welcomed Kate Gardner Banville, One segment Ray produced for Backroads gazing, but will also travel to the Montana who was born Dec. 8. received a Best of Competition award Hi-Line to work on his Lost and Found in the faculty news division from the project, in which he is documenting dying ♦ Professor Clem W ork is traveling Broadcast Education Association. Montana towns. This spring he won a to Nepal in June to explore plans for university grant to help support his work. an exchange program with Tribhuvan ♦ Professor Dennis Swibold marked In May Jeremy and Denise Dowling University in Kathmandu. He will be his 20th year on the faculty. The year’s participated in Missoula’s gifted education joined there by Associate Professor highlight, he says, was his Investigations conference by putting on workshops for Denise Dowling for a week of meet­ course, which examined the causes of gifted and talented elementary and middle ings and tours of the university facilities. wrongful convictions. He’ll be making school students from the region. Denise Clem then will fly to Bhutan to conduct a presentations this summer on investiga­ taught sessions on podcasting, while workshop for reporters and editors at ►

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Kuensel, the national newspaper, in the ♦ Assistant Professor N adia W hite FORMER FACULTY capital city of Thimphu. Next stop is in joined UM law school professors Andrew a remote part of the country with UM King-Ries and Beth Brennan MA ’95 to Nathaniel Blumberg continues to live graduate student Passang Norbu, who is teach interdisciplinary teaching techniques near Bigfork and remains in touch with working on his professional project there. to law professors at the Institute for many alums and admirers. Nathaniel’s Clem also helped lead a Davidson Honors Learning and Teaching Law conference. wife, Barbara, died in 2007. ♦ Charlie College study tour of Ireland over winter They discussed how law and journalism Hood has reacclimated to Missoula after break. The group of 20 students met with students collaborated to cover the crim­ his several years living and teaching in two editors at the Belfast Telegraph, who inal trial of W.R. Grace Co. executives a Prague. Last year he volunteered to be a explained the challenges of reporting in year ago. This summer Nadia will begin writing coach for students needing help in Ireland during the Troubles, and current a project following the spirit and route of Jour 270, the reporting class. ♦ Bob issues affecting journalism in Ireland. The her great grandmother Josephine Keys M cG iffert recently moved from his group also met a leading journalist in White. Josie was a newspaper roustabout apartment to The Springs, an assisted Cork, who writes for the Irish Times. married to the early Alaskan newsman living facility in Missoula. His eyesight Elmer John White, better known as “The continues to give him fits, but he’s as ♦ Professor Carol Van Valkenburg was Stroller.” She was a typesetter, reporter, sharp as ever. ♦ Jerry Holloron took a an invited speaker at the UNESCO World editor and crack shot with the family .22. buyout from The Seattle Times, but still Press Freedom Conference in Brisbane, All summer Nadia will ride her bicycle does contract editing and enjoys Seattle, Australia in May. She spoke about the in Josie’s spirit from Kenton, Okla., to mostly. ♦ Patty Reksten recently left J-School’s 20-year-old Native News Sumner, Wash. You can follow along at her job at The Oregonian and continues to Honors Project. She also participated http://www.travelswithjosie.com. live in Portland with her husband, Jim. ♦ in a discussion with former journalism An exhibit of Teresa Tam ura’s photo­ professor Teresa Tam ura at the ♦ RTV adjunct instructor Kagan Yochim graphs was on display at the Missoula Art Montana Committee for the Humanities received a plaque this spring from the Museum from October through Festival of the Book about the intern­ Great Falls Police Protective Association December. Teresa was in Missoula for the ment of Japanese during World War II. in honor of his television production work exhibit opening. Carol talked about the detention of 1,000 for the Great Falls Police Department. Japanese nationals at Fort Missoula by A few former T. Anthony Pollner the Department of Justice, and Teresa ♦ The MontanaPBS documentary professors have taken on new roles or showed several photographs she has “Playing for the World: The 1904 Indian made news recently. ♦ Jonathan taken of people and places connected to Girls’ Basketball Team,” produced by RTV W eb er left New W est to become the War Relocation Authority’s Minidoka adjunct instructor John Twiggs, was fed editor-in-chief of the Bay Area News detention camp in Idaho. Carol spoke to via satellite last fall to PBS stations around Project. ♦ Tom Cheatham attended a a number of groups in the last year about the country for national broadcast. reunion in April of journalists who the detention camps, sparked by publica­ covered the Vietnam war. Tom has tion of a revised edition of her book, An ♦ Adjunct Printer Bowler received traveled several times in recent years to Alien Place. Carol also served on a site confirmation that “presentation matters” Southeast Asia and published a book of visit team reviewing the re-accreditation when a 50-page paper he edited and photography from Burma. ♦ Maurice application of Iowa State University’s designed earlier this year found its way to Possley left the Chicago Tribune a few Greenlee School of Journalism. the White House, NSA and Joint Chiefs months after he shared a Pulitzer Prize of Staff. Steven Pressfield (Legend o f with five other Tribune reporters. He ^ Assistant Professor Ray Fanning Bagger Vance, Gates o f Fire et al) asked taught at the University of Michigan law designed and built a website celebrating Bowler to produce Special Forces Major school, then moved to California to do the history of UM’s Memorial Row. The Jim Gant’s Afghanistan strategy piece, investigative work for the Northern site focuses on the origin of the two rows One Tribe at a Time, for publication on California Innocence Project. He and his of Ponderosa Pine trees that run from his blog at stevenpressfield.com. Gant’s wife recently adopted a 10-year-old boy Eddy Avenue to Don Anderson Hall, team and a Pashtun tribe had “adopted” from Malawi, Africa, whom they had met north of the Oval. UM planted the trees each other, fought side by side and drove there and brought to the United States for in 1919 as a memorial to students and Taliban forces out of their tribal area. heart surgery. ♦ Chris Jones continues others who lost their lives during World “We became family, a model of what we to write for Esquire. A profile he w rote for War I. Some died in combat and others can do over there,” Gant said. He told the March issue about movie critic Roger died in the 1918 influenza pandemic. 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Mary Jane “Judy” Bartley, 84, died Feb. 4 in Anchorage, Mr. Campbell was bom Oct. 6,1918, in Butte, the oldest Alaska. of four boys. He graduated from UM in 1941, and joined the Judy Beeler was born Jan. 23,1926, in Montgomery, Ala., Army. He was a staff sergeant, serving as editor of an Army the youngest of six siblings. She moved with her family to newspaper in Kauai, Hawaii, and later on the staff of Stars Billings when she was 10 years old. She graduated from UM and Stripes in Honolulu. in 1948 and was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority. After his discharge in 1945 he worked in Chicago, where On March 17,1949, she married John M. Bartley, and he met his wife, Barbara “Bobbi” Dobbin. They married in they moved to Federal Way, Wash. Her husband died in 1967 May 1947 and he accepted a job with the Montana Standard and she and her young children moved back to Montana. She in Butte. His career was devoted to the Standard and he was later married Hank Ostermiller, who also preceded her in named publisher in 1967, a post he held until retiring in death. In 1988, she moved to Great Falls, then retired in 1994 1979. and moved to State College, Pa., to be near her daughter. She He was active in numerous organizations, both in Butte later lived in Wyoming and in 2001 moved with her daugh­ and Bigfork, and was made an honorary life member of the ter’s family to Anchorage. She loved singing, dancing, theater, Montana Press Association. He was a singer, painter, golfer, travel and wearing her favorite hats and was an extraordinary bird hunter, cross country skier and a hiker. Mr. Campbell cook. Her family said that with her journalism background, was also the author of a book titled “Perhaps It’s God’s Plan” she believed in getting to the truth with information and which was privately published. taught her children how to apply critical thinking when In addition to his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Rae evaluating news and the media. Renne, and a son, Duncan. She is survived by her daughter, Jo Ann Bartley, and son, John Scott Bartley, a stepdaughter, Cheryl Blaquiere, and a Vinton Corwin, 82, died April 13 in Yarmouth, Maine. A grandson. 1949 graduate, he worked in advertising and public relations for oil companies. Robert P. Burns, a 1950 alumnus, died Oct. 8,1999. For Mr. Corwin was born July 27,1927, in Great Falls. His several years he was manager of the National Electrical family moved to Billings and later to Detroit, where he Contractors’ Association in Portland, Ore. graduated from Royal Oak High School. After graduation He was born in Chicago on March 10,1923, and at age from UM he took a job for a year at the Billings Gazette and eight moved with his family to Butte. He graduated from was then hired by the Carter Oil Co. He edited company Boy’s Central High School in 1942 and enrolled at the publications, living in Billings and Denver during his years Montana School of Mines. He enlisted in the Navy in 1943 with the company. He later worked for Exxon, living in Texas. and was deployed to the South Pacific. He was discharged in He married Phyllis Von Eschen on July 17,1954, and she 1946 and began college at UM that fall. He was a member of predeceased him. Phi Delta Theta and president of Intrafraternity Council. After graduating in 1950 he took at job with the Montana John Vernon Honey Jr., who found a third career in Physicians Service in Butte, married Marjorie Fryberger publishing newspapers for senior citizens, died April 6 in in September 1950 and was called back into the Navy in Salem, Ore. A 1961 graduate of the J-School, he was 72 years December. After 16 months in the Middle East, he was old. discharged and returned to MPS, this time in Great Falls. He He was born Oct. 4,1937, in Great Falls. At UM he was a took a job as manager of the Butte Country Club. Burns later member of Sigma Chi. He and Sue Lind were married Dec. 31, worked with an electrical contractors’ group for many years. 1960, and soon after graduation they moved to Billings where In 1971 he wrote a letter to the journalism school, he took a job with Standard Oil Co., which later became suggesting that all law students be required to take a quarter American Oil Co. In addition to Billings, they lived in of journalism. 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sold the business in 1996, but continued to serve as the Evelyn Mayer King died May 18 in Missoula, just weeks pubhsher until his retirement in 1998. after writing her last column for the Missoulian, where she His family said he was a news junkie and highlighted every began her newspaper career in 1942, a year before earning publication he could find with sticky notes and paper clips. her degree from UM. She was 89. He is survived by his wife, sons, John, III, Darin and She was born Feb. 24,1921, in Round Butte and grew Adam, and daughter Kathleen Kleint, plus a sister and seven up in Pablo. While she was in school, and with so many men grandchildren. off to war, she was hired for the night police reporting job at the paper. She met Air Force cadet Colie King at a dance Ralph Allen Jackson, who spent 27 years with the Montana in Missoula and they were married in 1944. Ms. King took State Employment Service, died in Helena on April 12 at the some time off from the paper to raise their five children, but age of 91. returned to the paper in the 1960s. He was born Oct. 24,1918, in Choteau and grew up in Though her title upon her return was officially “women’s Buffalo, where his father was the station agent for the Great editor,” Ms. King covered all manner of stories and frequently Northern Railway. Following graduation from UM in 1940, he took photographs to accompany them. She retired in the worked at the White House Department store in San Fran­ mid-1980s, but her column, “Patches,” continued to run in cisco until 1942, when he joined the military. He served in the paper until just a few weeks before her death. In it she the Pacific Theater with the Army Air Corps and was awarded chronicled her life, the lives of her children and grandchil­ several service stars. Mr. Jackson sailed for home from Japan dren, but also offered commentary on area happenings and on Christmas Day 1945. political concerns. A few of her favorite topics, outside of He began work at a jewelry story in Havre, where he met family, were smoking — which she gave up after years of his future wife, Mary Patricia Langdon, whom he married on trying and adamantly encouraged others to do too — and Jan. 24,1947. They lived in Missoula and Kalispell and he swimming, a sport to which she was dedicated most of her managed the F.A. Buttrey Co. store in Kalispell from 1952- life. She also was one of the first women pilots in Montana 1954. He began work with the Montana State Employment and loved to recount earning her wings at the old air field Service in Shelby and in 1960 subsequently moved to Helena, where Sentinel High School now stands. where he worked for the service until his retirement in 1981. Her husband Colie died in 1975. In 1991 she married Dick He loved fishing, classical music, oil painting and opera Moore, who survives her. and was passionate about Montana wilderness and the world In addition to her five children, Karen, Sally, Pat, Tony and environment. Colette, she is survived by stepchildren and several grandchil­ Survivors include his wife, sons Robert and Richard, and dren. She wrote a touching tribute in one column to grand­ daughter Sylvia, four grandchildren and a great-grandchild. daughter Larissa Haar, who died of melanoma at age 27.

Thomas S. Kerin, ‘40, who spent 36 years at the Great Falls George R. Kraus, a 1951 graduate who spent his career Tribune, died May 21 in Bozeman. He was 95. working for the Southern Pacific Co., died Feb. 17 in Billings. He was born May 1,1915, in Anaconda and moved with He was born March 29,1930, in Butte to German immi­ his family to Hamilton and later to Missoula. After gradua­ grant parents. His family moved to Hamilton, but following tion he took a job with the Helena Record until enlisting in the his parents’ divorce he moved with his siblings and mother Army Air Force in 1942. Following his discharge as a captain back to Butte and graduated from Butte High School in 1947. he married Margaret Rolczynski and they moved to Centralia, After graduating from the J-School, he joined the Army and Wash., where he worked for the Centralia Chronicle. In 1948 when he was discharged he began working at the Williston he returned to Montana for a job at the Tribune, working (N.D.) Daily Herald. After a short time he began his career as sports editor, state editor and business editor before his with Southern Pacific in its news division, a job that took him retirement in 1984. He also co-edited the Montana Catholic to San Francisco and Portland, Ore. He wrote a book, High Register. Road to Promontory: Building the Central Pacific across the High Mr. Kerin spent his retirement traveling and volunteering Sierra, and was ever interested in trains. He raised funds to for several organizations and had dedicated 4,000 hours to refurbish the steam locomotive SP4449, which powered the community service by 2002. Among his life’s highlights was “American Freedom Train” that crossed the country in 1975- an interview in 1932, while a high school journalist, with ’77 in honor of the bicentennial. Franklin Roosevelt, and an afternoon spent with author He is survived by his partner, Ron LeProwse, and several Margaret Mitchell, whom he met in Atlanta while stationed nieces and nephews. in the South during the war. His wife died in 1988 and son Kelly died in 2008. Among Richard Ross “Shag” Miller, a 1947 graduate who started survivors are daughters Judy Green and Susan Simshaw, a his career in newspapers, then became one of the state’s most son, Rick, and five grandchildren. prominent broadcasters, died Dec. 7 in Butte.

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He was bom Sept. 3,1923, in Lewistown, but at age three family moved to Chinook when she was 2. After graduation in months his family moved to Butte. He graduated from Butte 1954, she moved to St. Louis to work for the Christian Board High School in 1941 and joined the Army Air Corps in 1942. of Education. It was there she met Leonard Pietryga. After He was a flight navigator based in Italy and earned a Distin­ their marriage they moved to Alaska, then in 1957 to East guished Service Cross and Air Medal. Lansing, Mich. He earned a degree at UM, then returned to Butte to They subsequently lived in Taylor, Mich., and Dearborn work at the Montana Standard, first as a reporter and later in Heights before moving to Highland. In Highland Ms. Peitryga advertising. In 1962 he purchased KBOW radio and two years wrote copy for Lansing radio stations and did editing and later bought KOPR radio. He owned the stations until 1994, proofreading for writers. She also served on the Highland then purchasing Muzak Communications, which he operated Board of Education and worked in other volunteer positions until retiring in 2004. with the schools and her church. He served on the CBS Radio Affiliates Board, AP Broad­ She is survived by her husband, sons Michael and casters Board and the National Broadcast and Engineering Matthew, a daughter, Mary Ogle, and several grandchildren. Board. He also served as a board member of the UM Founda­ tion, Montana Power Co. and the Entech board of direc­ Farrell Jane Coffman Stewart, 74, who did public relations tors. In 1974 he scored a scoop in covering Butte icon Evel writing for two colleges in Billings, died in her home Oct. 14. Knievel’s attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon. His other She was bom in Edina, Minn., on June 1,1935, and gradu­ passion was golf and he was a rules committee member of ated from the J-School in 1957. At UM she was a member of the USGA for more than 25 years. In 1996 UM named him a the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. On May 8,1958, she married Distinguished Alumnus. Robert Burns Stewart. The couple later divorced. He married Danette Kelly in 1951 and she died in 1978. Ms. Stewart was a sports reporter for the Billings Gazette In 1979 he married Helen “Gus” Guthrie, who survives him. from 1957 to 1959, then was the public relations director Other survivors include two daughters, Ellen Miller and at Eastern Montana College from 1964 to 1968 and Rocky Emily Morris, and two sons, Chris and Doug, and a step­ Mountain College from 1970 to 1971. She completed her daughter, Eden Atwood and six grandchildren. 26-year career as a news writer for Eastern Montana College in 1998. She was also a founding member of the Yellowstone Gordon E. Nelson, one of the first Peace Corps volunteers Genealogy Forum, member of Junior League of Billings and and who later served as its deputy director in Malawi, died Montana Press Women. Nov. 29 in Bowie, Md. A 1948 alumnus, he was 84. Survivors include her children Robert, Leslie, Jennifer and Mr. Nelson was born Feb. 19,1925, in Scranton, N.D. He Todd, and three grandchildren. began working for the Hettinger Herald in 1940 and when the paper was sold to UM alumnus D. J. Shults, he was named Richard J. Wright, a 1948 alumnus, died April 19, in editor. He moved to Wolf Point to manage the Wolf Point Portland, Ore., where he had lived for many years. Lariat and attended J-School for a year before serving in the He was born Nov. 14,1921, in Molt, Mont., and moved Marines during World War II. He later worked as a pressman with his family to Missoula, where he graduated from in several cities before returning to UM to finish his degree. Missoula County High School in 1939. He enrolled at UM, After graduation he was editor of the Lewistown Daily then joined the U.S. Marine Corps, serving in the South News, then began working in 1950 for the Fresno Bee. He was Pacific. a reporter, assistant city editor and city editor until leaving After the war he earned his degree and took a job as to work in public relations. He worked as an administrative program director at KEYY radio in Pocatello, Idaho, then at assistant to a California legislator. KJRL in Pocatello before taking a job in Spokane. He became He earned a masters degree from George Washington public relations director of KGW-TV in Portland in 1960, a University in 1972 and worked for Fannie Mae as vice job he held for many years. After his retirement he became president for corporate affairs until 1978. He then operated publicity director for the Portland Rose Festival. the D.C. office of the Farm/Water Alliance, a lobbying group He was married to Bernice Enevoldsen for 65 years. that helped secure passage of federal water rights legislation. She survives him, as do his sons Richard and Robert, four He retired in 1983. grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. He is survived by his wife, Ruth Popisil Nelson, and children, Gary Nelson and Rita McGuigan, and three grand­ children.

Beverly H. Praetz Pietryga died Jan. 9 in Highland, Mich., where she’d lived since 1974. She was 77 years old. She was bom Sept. 29,1932, in Mohall, N.D., and her

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Not listed? sheet pages about every three weeks, Barbara Williams Perry ’75 is the We’d like to hear from you. The Sentinel had its best year ever in president of the Chicago/Midwest Chap­ 2009-10. It won first place in ter of the National Academy of Televi­ general excellence for two-year colleges sion Arts and Sciences. at College Media conventions in Austin, New York (nine of the last 10 Moraine Byrne ’78 was named presi­ years) and Phoenix, and for the dent of Ontrac Management Services, national Mark of Excellence for the Soci­ a new member of Covenant Retirement ety of Professional Journalists. Two Services, which provides management to NIC students won national SPJ first senior living and health care nationwide. Patrick Graham ’52 has published a places for general columns and sports Moraine was recognized in 2009 as the book about the history of steamboats columns, and two were among three developer of www.havingtheconversa- on the Upper Columbia River. Patrick national finalists for feature writing and tion.com, a heart-to-heart with aging is a former publisher of the Statesman- breaking news. parents. She lives in Denver. Examiner in Colville, Wash. Steamboats on Rosdahl is a finalist for SPJ’s national the Upper Columbia is part of his “Colville teaching excellence award. He plans to The Champion Buffalo Hunter: The Frontier Collections” series of books, the first of retire this December. Memoirs of Yellowstone Vic Smith was which was published in 1989. revised and republished in Fall 2008. Editor Jeanette Hortick Prodgers ’80 Kim Foreman '56 began service as a lives in Dillon. missioner for Total Common Ministry’s Olympia, Wash., diocese on July 1, 2009. TCMs are small Episcopal mis­ 1970s sion churches in rural areas with limited resources. Kim has served at St. Hugh Episcopal Church in Allyn, Wash., for 10 For nine days AOL’s Politics Daily web­ years, and now serves the rural churches. site ran James Grady’s serial political Kim spent his journalism career with the novella What’s Going On. Grady ’72 has AP and as director of employee commu­ published several books, among them Six Terry MacPheat ’82 celebrated her nications for Burlington Northern until Days of the Condor, which was made into 20th year working for St. Patrick Hospi­ he earned his master’s degree in theolo­ a movie starring Robert Redford. tal and Health Sciences Center, currently gy from the University of Dallas. He was serving as the hospital’s cardiovascu­ ordained in 1998. He is married to Mary Jonathan Krim ’77 has left his job as lar registrar. She says, “While it may Travis Foreman ’58. His daughter, Susan, innovations editor at The Washington seem far removed from journalism, the is a 1985 J-School grad. Post, where he was in charge of the background in detailed information paper’s online coverage and services, to gathering, verification, and then pulling become senior deputy managing editor it together to paint a broader picture is for the Wall Street Journal Online (wsj. invaluable in my work.” com). He lives in New York. Kjeldl Rod ’83, M.A. ’93 says he survived Several J-School alumni spoke at the the coldest, snowiest winter he remem­ 2009 Montana Festival of the Book. bers back home in Norway. He expects Among those featured were Paul to finish work on a Ph.D. in spring 2011. Nils Rosdahl ‘67 will start his 26th year VanDevelder ’82, Judy Blunt ’91, as the main journalism instructor James Grady ’72, Deirdre McNamer Lee Achenbach ’84 is a senior IT ana­ and student newspaper adviser at North ’73, Ginny Merriam ’86, Deborah R. lyst with Portland General Electric. He Idaho College, a community college Oberbillig ’88 and Carol Van Valken- and his family live in Keizer, Ore., and with more than 6,000 students in Coeur burg ’72, who spoke on a panel that he loves to watch the Grizzly football d’Alene. With a staff of about 40 included former photojournalism profes­ team when they play in Portland against students and publication of 16-24 broad­ sor Teresa Tamura. Portland State.

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Thom Jensen ’88, an investigative re­ throughout more than a decade of Asian Jeanne Kavanaugh Olson ’96 teaches porter at KATU-TV in Portland, worked travels. In the fall Karen will be a Ted fitness classes and Kindermusic as an for more than a year on a series of sto­ Scripps Environmental Fellow at the adjunct professor at Florida Keys Com­ ries that resulted in a man being released University of Colorado in Boulder. munity College. Her husband, Garth from prison on Dec. 18. Also working the Olsen, is a Navy pilot and flew one of the story were KATU photographer Kevin Mike Lockrem ’93 is director of market­ jets over Washington Grizzly Stadium Farmer ’06 and DatelineNBC’s Shane ing and communications at South Da­ for UM Homecoming 2009. They have Bishop ’86. kota State University. Mike reports that four children. he was offered the job in December, just Two journalism school alumni have won days before SDSU played the Grizzlies in After earning her Ph.D. in history from first place in the National Education a football playoff game. Previously, Mike the University of Califomia-Davis, Writers Association contest. Missoulian was director of athletic communications Elizabeth ‘Libi’ Sundermann ’97 took photographer Kurt Wilson ’89 and at the University of Minnesota and held a job as a lecturer in Interdisciplinary reporter Chelsi Moy ’05 won first place a job in corporate communications in Arts and Sciences at the University of in the small media-feature, news feature Sioux Falls. Washington-Tacoma. or issue package category for their story, “Recruiting on the Rez: UM Appeals Bill Heisel ’94 left the Los Angeles Times Aime Thompson ’97 won a National Directly to American Indian Students.” to take a position at the Institute for Headliner Award for a series of stories in Health Metrics and Evaluation, a branch the Great Falls Tribune. Aime won third of the University of Washington that place in the news series category for studies population health. He is also a newspapers with a circulation of under contributing editor for ReportingOn- 75,000. Her series, “Lethal Legacy,” Health.Org where he writes for his blog, was about an extended Montana fam­ “Antidote.” Bill says he and his wife, ily afflicted with a rare genetic illness, Jennifer, who are the parents of 2-year- Pallido-Ponto-Nigral-Degeneration, that old Charlotte, yearned to get back to the manifests in early adulthood and leads to Roger Renville ’92 was a 2008 fellow Northwest. deaths within seven or eight years. at the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center and spent the summer Don Barcus ’95 lives in Browning and Cari (Cast) Hawthorne ’99 has a new interning at the Indian Law Resource has been working for the U.S. Census name and new career plans. Cari married Center in Helena, before earning his law this year. U.S. Army Capt. Patrick Hawthorne and degree from the University of Minne­ is finishing her second year of law school sota. Beth Brennan M.A. ’95 was one of the at the University of Hawaii. They live in Roger, a member of the Sisseton- law professors who assisted journal­ Honolulu. Wahpeton Ovate tribe, earned a master’s ism Assistant Professor Nadia White in degree in American History at Yale. overseeing journalism and law students Roger has also taught high school on the covering the W.R. Grace trial in federal Northern Cheyenne Reservation. district court in Missoula. She teaches legal analysis and legal writing at the UM Karen Coates and Jerry Redfern, who law school and supervises two environ­ both graduated in ’93, visited the school mental law clinics. in October and gave presentations to several classes about how they practice Mark Matthews M.A. ’95 has a new Christina Kindwall ’00 is the field “Slow Journalism,” magazine and book book out, Droppers: Life in Americas First producer, who also shows up on camera writing based on reporting from South­ Hippie Commune. It’s published by the from time to time, of the Fine Living east Asia on cultural and social issues. University of Oklahoma Press. Mark is Network program Three Sheets, produced Karen, the writer, and Jerry, the photog­ an adjunct at the University of Montana by Screaming Flea Productions out of rapher, split their time between Albu­ College of Technology. Seattle. querque and Southeast Asia. They recently signed contracts for Tracy Johnke ’96 was promoted to A documentary written and produced two books, Eternal Harvest: The Legacy of broadcast correspondent at MarketWatch by Anna Rau ’00 examines the details American Bombs in Laos, the culmination Radio. You may hear her doing midday behind the 1997 deregulation in Mon­ of their project documenting the long­ business reports for WBZ-AM in Boston tana of electric power rates, one of the term effects of unexploded ordnance or KCBS Radio in New York or on Mar­ most important changes in Montana’s in Laos, and This Way More Better, a ketWatch podcasts. Tracy celebrates her economic history. “Power Brokers” collection of essays and photos compiled fifth year at MarketWatch this fall. premiered on MontanaPBS on March 2.

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For more than a year, Rau researched the programs for Orion Multimedia, Bass explore a small movement on the fringe origins of the deregulation movement Pro Shops, Winnercomm, Versus and The of the sports world, and examine what and interviewed principal players in the Outdoor Channel. He’s working on a new it might mean for the larger culture,” he Legislature, the Public Service Com­ series called “The Zone” for the Sports­ said. “Anyone familiar with the length mission, power-industry experts and man Channel. of time it took me to turn in my senior consumer advocates. thesis would not be shocked to learn Aaron Murphy ’01 is communications that I’ve been working on the book Elgin Smith ’00 is moving back to Mis­ director for Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana. since 2006.” It’s published by Riverhead soula after 10 years in the film produc­ He fives with his wife and two children in Books, a division of Penguin. tion world of New York. Elgin and his Billings. wife, Sarah, are creating a production Leilah (Beatty) Langley ’02 began company called Backtrack Films to Melanthia Mitchell Peterman ’01 as an intern eight years ago and is now produce commercials, documentaries, is a freelance writer and photographer the executive producer at KREM-TV in narratives and promotional videos. for Seattle’s Child Magazine focusing on Spokane. organic gardening, “green” issues and Kevin Van Valkenburg ’00 and his health. She left the AP after seven years Holly Pickett ’02, formerly with The wife, Jennifer McMenamin, are parents as a military and general assignment Spokesman Review in Spokane, now of Molly Sofia, born Dec. 4 in Baltimore. reporter and weekend desk editor. fives in Cairo, Egypt, and is a freelance Kevin continues as the sports enterprise photographer. Her recent photographs reporter for The Baltimore Sun. In the last Nate Schweber ’01 won a Council for from Afghanistan were published in The year he also wrote two profile pieces for Advancement and Support of Educa­ New York Times, accompanying a story by The Montanan. tion (CASE) bronze award in the writing Sabrina Tavemise. category for “The Making of Meloy,” a Andres Bentley ’01 lives in Fort Worth, feature he wrote for the Montanan maga­ Arianna Robinson ’02 returned from Texas, and works as a producer/director zine about UM alum and rock star Colin Peru, where she served two years in the at Fort Worth City Cable. She’s also the Meloy, lead singer of The Decemberists. U.S. Peace Corps, to use her Spanish and producer, director, photographer, writer, Nate reports for The New York Times her Intercultural Youth and Family De­ and editor for Fort Worth Focus Monthly. and also plays in his own band, the New velopment master’s degree as a bilingual She is back in school at the University Heathens. family support specialist working for of Texas at Arlington to get her teach­ Healthy Families in Phoenix. ing certification to become a high school Tamara Sternoff ’01 is freelance journalism teacher. producing in Seattle for a variety of Katrin (Frye) Steck ’02 is the Flathead national networks covering breaking reporter for Montana Public Radio. She Jennifer Perez Cole ’01 left her job as news, producing human interest stories was married last September and she fives Montana Indian Affairs director to be­ for syndicated programs and conducting in Bigfork. come a public affairs specialist, outreach interviews for various cable programs. coordinator and state civil rights coordi­ Kristen Inbody ’03 left the Cody (Wyo.) nator for the USDA Farm Service Agency Ted Sullivan ’01 is a cops and courts Enterprise in June to take a job at the in Montana. She’ll live in Bozeman. reporter for the Janeville (Wis.) Gazette. Great Falls Tribune.

Sam DeWitt ’01 is the digital content UM J-school alums are the backbone of Evan Soderquist ’03 is the assistant manager for Bonnier Mountain Group, the Flathead Beacon news staff, a newspa­ branch manager at Door to Door Storage publisher of Ski Magazine, Skiing Maga­ per and online news site that focuses on and fives in Seattle. He was married in zine and the Warren Miller film fran­ the Flathead Valley. Kellyn Brown ’02 is the past year and still picks up part-time chise. His day-to-day includes writing, the editor and among his staff are Dan work at a local sports radio station. producing and editing content for four Testa M.A. ’07, Molly Priddy M.A. ’09, Bonnier sites (skimag.com, skiingmag. Lido Vizzutti ’03, and former Kaimin John Trousdale ’03 is the co-owner com, warrenmiller.com and NASTAR. reporter Myers Reece. of Animas Media LLC, a production com), as well as overall digital content company focused primarily on outdoor/ strategy for the two magazines. Zach Dundas ’02 is the author of The action sports projects, and producers He lives in Denver with his dog, Renegade Sportsman: Drunken Runners, of Inside Durango TV, a locally focused Missoula. Bike Polo Superstars, Roller Derby Rebels, magazine-style program. This summer Killer Birds and Other Uncommon Thrills he’ll enter his second season hosting a Andy Johnson ’01 is a freelance video on the Wild Frontier of Sports, which hit half-hour travel/adventure series called photographer/editor living in Living­ bookstores in June. “Ride to Adventure Extreme” on the ston. Andy shoots and edits outdoor “It is an effort to both define and Outdoor Channel. Cla/ / Note/ lllltiiiliiiiiiliillllillillllllililliiilllliiiiiliiliiiiiitiiiiiiliiiim iiililiiililllllilllim iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Marci Krivonen ’04 lives in Aspen, Christine Tutty Johnson ’05 is the Andra Wisnu ’05 is a reporter with the Colo., and work as the Morning Edition business development director of John­ Jakarta Post in Indonesia. host and reporter for Aspen Public Radio. son Brother Companies. She’s started her own grant writing and marketing Jason Cole ’06 works at Nintendo of Marina Mackrow ’04 is living in Los consulting business and is president of America as a marketing support editor in Angeles and works as an associate pro­ the Missoula Businesswomen’s Network. Seattle. He creates television commer­ ducer for Fox Sports and foxsports.com’s She completed the Missoula Marathon cials, game trailers and online advertis­ original online programming “Lunch last summer. ing for video game releases. with Benefits.” She’s become a Dodger fan, but refuses to cheer for the Lakers. Nate Peterson ’05 travels about 240 Tyler Claxton ’06 is the marketing and days a year working for Barrett Produc­ public relations manager for Magnum Ali (VanFossen) Mandell ’04 and tions in Missoula. Global Media in Corvallis, Mont., which Matt Mandell ’04 are living in Helena, produces hunting shows for the Outdoor where Ali is the marketing director for Van Redpath ’05 is the online sales Channel and Sportsman Channel in the American Federal Savings Bank and Matt manager and commercial representa­ U.S. and WildTV in Canada. is a claims examiner for the Montana tive for Sleep City in Missoula. He also State Fund. Matt plans to go to graduate designed and manages its new website. Cal Conrad ’06 is backpacking the school in the fall. world. He says, “I am currently jobless Libby Riddle ’05 has been hired as a and loving it.” You can check out Cal’s Willy Miller ’04 and his wife brought segment producer for the CBS-TV prime­ blog at http://cal.withoutacompass.net. baby girl Cora Elaine Miller into the time program “Big Brother.” She’ll be world on October 8. Willy still works at working on another CBS program called Trent Gary ’06 wears many hats for KECI-TV in commercial production. “Mommy Talk Show.” A former member Barrett Productions in Missoula. He is of the Grizzly dance team, Libby is on an the media manager, Avid technician and David Nolt ’04 is an editorial assistant all-star cheerleading squad called Cheer systems administrator. He says he still for University Relations at The Univer­ LA. She fives in Los Angeles. hosts the “Drinking Team” class reunion sity of Montana Western. After graduat­ party every Fourth of July. ing in photojournalism from UM, David Eric Schreibeis ’05 is the sales manager served as editor, writer and photogra­ at Best Buy in Missoula. Mike Greener ’06 has had several pher for the Livingston Weekly from 2005 photographs published in flyfishing to 2007 and later as a staff correspon­ After completing two years in the Peace magazines. Mike is a staff photographer dent for NewWest.net in Bozeman. Corps in Jordan, Natalie Storey ’05 will for the Daily Republic newspaper in enter the graduate writing program at Fairfield, Calif. His work can also be Dax VanFossen ’04 is doing double Penn State in the fall. Before her stint in viewed at http://www.mikegreener. duty reporting in Kalispell for both KOFI Jordan, she worked for three years at the com/. Last year Mike and his brother Radio and KPAX-TV. Santa Fe New Mexican. went on a five-month fly fishing expedi­ tion, which he documented in a book, Mollie Bond ’05 is keeping busy work­ Jessica Wambach ’05 is finishing her Shopping for Dynamite: A Brotherly ing at Kohl’s, finishing her MBA at Kan­ master’s degree studies in Honolulu at Adventure to South America. sas Wesleyan University and working as the Center for Excellence in Disaster a DJ/assistant sales manager/website Management 8c Humanitarian Assis­ Kevin Farmer ’06 is a news photog­ administrator at a local radio station. tance, a Department of Defense agency rapher for KATU-TV in Portland, Ore. She fives in Kansas. that specializes in civil-military opera­ Farmer hopes to climb Mount St. Helens tions coordination. She started as an this summer. Aaron Carothers ’05 is editing a Trout information analyst, writing daily briefs Unlimited television series for Barrett on political and natural disasters in Asia Gabe Ferguson M.A. ’06 is a news pho­ Productions in Missoula. Aaron and his for the U.S. military. During the past tographer at KHQ-TV in Spokane. wife, Darla, five in Missoula with their year she has served as a DOD program two-year-old daughter. manager for risk assessment, conducting Courtney Hanson ’06 has left KTVQ- research and analyses of the vulnerabil­ TV in Billings, where she’s worked as a Aaron Flint '05 hosts the statewide talk ity to natural and man-made disasters in reporter and anchor for four years, to show “Voices of Montana” for North­ Asian countries and communities. join her fianc£ in Phoenix. She’s getting ern Broadcasting out of Billings. The married in September in Red Lodge. program airs on radio stations across Andrew Weed ’05 is a videographer Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota with Warm Springs Productions based in Heidi Hayward ’06 moved to Los Ange­ and Wyoming. 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up comedy and is writing with the goal Day keggers. Becca Sayre and Marcus Lauren Pedrick Karnopp ’08 is an as­ of working for a talk show. She says, Chehul, both ’07 grads, wrote, produced sistant editor and assistant producer at “Even though its not news, the writing, and directed the film, which premiered Barrett Productions in Missoula. Lauren shooting and editing skills I learned in on campus in October and has also aired got married last July. college are so valuable to comedy writing on MontanaPBS. Like the legendary keg­ and making comedy videos. And it all gers, proceeds from the doc will support Allison Kwesell ’08 spent time in Haiti makes my resume look great.” the Mansfield Library. after the earthquake writing and photo­ graphing for the Chattanooga Times Free Elyse Hughes ’06 is the digital librarian Courtney (Fawthrop) See ’07 fives in Press. Greg Rec ’97 was also in Haiti in Digital Media Services for both Fox Great Falls with her husband, Jake, and shooting for MaineToday Media. Both News Channel and Fox Business Channel their son Hudson. She’s working on a Ali’s and Greg’s work is posted on their in New York. master’s degree in public relations with employers’ websites. an emphasis in public communication Stan Pillman '06 is the web content from Montana State University-Billings Jamie Leary ’08 was racing the clock to manager for WBBM Newsradio 780 in and works at Montana State University- get a few more runs in on the ski slopes Chicago. The news website won the Great Falls COT in Student Central/New at Big Sky before heading off to attend regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Student Advising. graduate school in journalism at DePaul best radio station website for the past University. two years. Abby Stitt ’07 teaches third grade at Potomac School and expects to complete Caitlin Mallory ’09 fives in Seattle and Eli Bierwag ’07 is celebrating three her master’s degree in education from is an editor at Northwest Cable News. years of employment as finish editor at UM this summer. She’s still upset that Barrett Productions in Missoula, five Brett Favre is no longer the Green Bay Kerry McKay ’08 is a media strategist at years of marriage to Melissa and a sec­ Packers’ quarterback. Swirl Integrated Marketing and works on ond child coming in July, who will join the San Francisco Giants account. their two-year-old daughter Carley. Alethea Young ’07 is teaching English at a public school in Beijing, China. Anne Medley, M.A. ’08 spent three Maritsa Georgiou ’07 has moved from months teaching multimedia journalism anchor/reporter at KCFW-TV in Kalispell Kimberly Cosgrove M.A. ’08 is a at a university in the Democratic Repub­ to weekend anchor/producer at KECI-TV producer in the nonfiction department lic of Congo. You can see her posts and in Missoula. of North by Northwest Productions in photographs on her blog at http://anne- Spokane. She’s producing documentary- in-congo.blogspot.com. She also teaches Heather Hintze ’07 works as a news style videos for non-profit groups, gov­ multimedia journalism at the Freedom photographer and editor at KEZI-TV in ernment agencies and colleges. Forum Diversity Institute in Nashville Eugene, Ore. and the American Indian Journalism John Ryan Corwin ’08 works for Institute in Vermillion, S.D. Eric Jochim ’07 moved from news pho- Mountain Broadcasting in Missoula. He tographer to news producer at KECI-TV hosts a morning show on KHDV-FM and Cristin (Rennick) Nielsen ’08 works in Missoula. an afternoon show on KMSO-FM. for Montana Tech in the Student Union Office, and is in charge of all the ad hoc Amy May ’07 works at Outside Media, Danny Davis ’08 is a sports reporter for scheduling on campus as well as student a public relations company in Columbia the Austin-American Statesman. clubs and student events. She’s also the Falls that does public communications head cheerleading coach for Butte High work for local and international outdoor- Layne Fisher ’08 loves golfing, kayaking School, which recently placed second in focused brands. and flyfishing in western Montana when the state championships. She fives in she isn’t working as an assistant to an Butte with her husband, Ryan, and their Jeremy Pool ’07 is a video assistant for attorney in Missoula. She serves on the three dogs. the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars. board of the West Slope chapter of Trout Unlimited. Katie Stukey ’08 is an anchor and Emily Ritter 07 has been the capitol reporter at KRTV-TV in Great Falls. She reporter in Helena for Montana Public Jason Hendrickson ’08 trains troops says, “I’m grateful to be employed and to Radio for the past two years. and civilians on the Department of De­ have a job in which I grow personally and fense’s MRAP suspension system for the professionally everyday.” RTV alumni were part of the creative Oshkosh Corp. He fives in Spokane with She also reports that 2010 grads force behind a documentary on the Aber his wife, Whitney. Ashley Korslien and Marnee Banks

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have been great additions to the KRTV Will Friehofer ’09 works for Raytheon Breanna Roy ’09 is a news reporter at news team. Polar Services as a general assistant in KPAX-TV in Missoula. She also served McMurdo, Antarctica. on a search committee for the School of Megan Taylor ’08 lives in Boston and Journalism this year. is attending the Cambridge School of Kayla Matzke ’09 is the city/health Culinary Arts in hopes of writing about reporter for the Gillette (Wyo.) News- Hugh Carey ’10 was a photographer last the food business. Record. fall at the 21st Summer Deaflympics in Taipei, Taiwan. His photos can be found Holly Baker ’09 is the wilderness cam­ Colter Nuanez ’09 is the sports editor on usdeaflympics.com. paign director for the Rocky Mountain of the Daily Record in Ellensburg, Wash. Front with the Montana Wilderness He covers five county high schools and Shane McMillan ’10 is a Fulbright Association and living in her hometown Central Washington University, so he scholar and will study at Free University of Choteau. says while the job is “so so hectic,” he in Berlin in the fall. He’s planning to cre­ gets a lot of clips every issue. “I also take ate a documentary film or a multimedia Josh Benham ’09 has been writing most of my own photos and design my project on German multiculturalism and for the Rapid City Journal since the end whole section every day, so it’s great identity and its collision with politics, of January as a stringer for the sports experience,” he said. racism, and racial and cultural identity. department, doing features on local ath­ He also hopes to intern with a German­ letes, covering high school and college After internships at The Washington Post speaking newspaper or magazine. teams in the area. and The Oregonian, Bill Oram ’09 has taken a job writing sports at the Salt RTV grad student Gillette Vaira had Dan Boyce ’09 has covered President Lake Tribune. a radio story aired on National Native Barack Obama, fired a tank, skied, scuba News this spring. Vaira filed a report on dived, hiked and danced all while work­ Noel Pederson ’09 works as an editor the work being done on campus dealing ing as a reporter and fill-in anchor at at a new Missoula production company with Native American children and post KBZK-TV in Bozeman. called Hookem Productions. traumatic stress syndrome.

Sam Bury '09 is directing and technical directing at KPAX-TV in Missoula. She says, “Directing is much more fun than I thought it would be and I’m enjoying it. It’s fun bossing people around.” Keep us posted J-alumni Russel Daniels ’09, Breanna Roy ’09, Devin Wagner ’08 and Sarah We look forward to getting regular updates for Communique from our Welliver ’07 were among the mentors alumni. For a new listing or updates to Class Notes, please email us at for high school students at the annual [email protected] or write us at Communique, School of Journal­ Crazy Horse Journalism Workshop in South Dakota in April. ism, Don Anderson Hall, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812. They were joined by senior Charles For J-School news in between issues of Communique, check out our Pulliam. The workshop was created 11 years ago to encourage more Native website, where you'll find news about the school, events and alumni Americans to consider news media as a updates. You can find it at: www.jour.umt.edu and on Facebook. career and to give them a taste of doing journalism. As we publish new issues of Communique, we'll also add new class notes to our web page. We'll also archive old class notes for your refer­ Chris D’Angelo ’09 is a reporter for the ence. St. Maries (Idaho) Gazette-Record. Finally, let us know if you'd like your email address included in your Amanda Ferucci ’09 works part-time class note. We won't add it unless you say so, but several alums tell at KING-5 News in Seattle helping on the news desk and running the tele­ us they'd like to know how to communicate easily with other graduates. prompter. She’s also working part-time -CW at Safeco Field for the Seattle Mariners’ in-house productions.

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