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t DR. DAVE’SK RxFQRM VICTOR! Grizzlies Captune \i National Title I A \ > v / M To p r o t e c t G r iin the Swan Valley, Lorin Hicks is helping to create FOUR NEW HIGHWAYS.

hey’re known as Conservation Agreement. “Linkage Zones,” and It will coordinate road use, maintain they’ll help grizzlies protective cover, and set up a pattern cross the valley undis- of restrictions on r turbed, so they can timber harvesting in forage and mate - areas used by bears. and survive. Plus, Plum Creek The idea began will conduct with biologists at ongoing research - the U.S. Fish and and share the find­ Wildlife Service. ings - to make sure the Agreement is . Then, with the actually helping grizzlies to recover. help of Plum For Plum Creek, the Agreement and its Creek’s Wildlife Linkage Zones grow directly from our Biologist, Lorin philosophy of Environmental Forestry. M i& s to r r . Hicks, the idea We’re finding scientifically sound ways to m o u n t a i n s WILDERNESS was implemented maintain both the productivity and the

Lorin Hicks, Ph D. is Plum Creek's Director o f Fish and Wildlife Resources. J5C PtumCreek As part o f his research, he uses a radio telemetry receiver to Leaders in Environmental Forestry trade wildlife. Volume 13 (intents N umber 2

STAFF FEATURES Editor 10 2 Caroline Patterson, Biscuit Eaters and Bayous A round the M.F.A. ’94 By Paddy MacDonald Oval A portrait of James Lee Burke, creator of the sleuth Dave Robicheaux. Special Section Editor 9 12 Sports David Purviance ’90 M issoula’s “ High B rown K nowl” By Connie Poten Contributing 33 The efforts to save Mt. Jumbo, where explorer David Thompson mapped the Classnotes Editor surrounding area and the Salish picked bitterroots. Kristin Rodine 14 40 Contributing Sunday in the Park in Shanghai A lumni Notes W riters By Juliette Crump Rita Munzenrider ’83 A vision of the new China, where ballroom dancers glide next to performers 42 David Purviance ’90 of Mu Lan Qigong and Tai chi. Campaign Kristin Rodine M omentum 16 Photographer Saving Our Tongues Todd Goodrich ’88 44 By Peter Stark Campus Color The efforts to preserve Indian languages at UM and across Montana. Layout and G raphics Mike Egeler 19 W e A re the Champions Special Section D esign Pictures and profiles of the Grizzlies, 1995 1-AA National Champions. Consultant Ayers/Johanek 27 Publication Design, Good Medicine In c By Marga Lincoln To battle illness, many American Indians are using both modern A dvertising medicine and native healing. Representive Jackie Drews 30 (406) 728-1573 Book Chat By Susanna Sonnenberg Editorial From WW1I prison camps to the Borneo forests, several new books O ffices by UM faculty and staff. University Communications COVER: Grizzly 321 Brandy 32 Reflections quarterback and The University of By Kerri Faughnan M ontana premed student A UM student’s account of a day in a refugee camp in Zaire. Missoula, MT Dave Dickenson. 598121301 INSIDE: Photos by (406) 243-2522 Thanks to Saint Patrick Hospital, the Uniform Shop, the Intercollegiate Athletics Todd Goodrich, Department and Three Rivers Trading Post. except as noted.

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This football jersey and trophy belonged to All- Back to the F uture American football play­ er Terry Dillon, who he University of Montana plans to resurrect an old tradition by returning to the colors wore the maroon, silver of maroon, silver and gold-UM’s new “spirit colors." Although the school's official colors and gold during his have always been copper, silver and gold—an acknowledgement of the importance of 1959 to 1963 playing T these minerals in the state’s history—from the University’s founding, other colors have long career at UM. His been substituted for the copper. jersey was retired At the turn of the century there was no copper dye and maroon was used instead of in 1 9 6 4 . copper. This change lasted for fifty years until Jack Swarthout, UM football coach and athletic director, decided to create more color consistency among athletic teams by using “Texas orange" for copper. Today, however, he says he prefers the maroon he wore as a UM athlete. The decision to return to maroon is somewhat controversial A lively public debate has ensued in the opinion pages of the Missoulian and the Kaimin, and batdelines seem drawn according to age. Those who attended UM prior to 1967 tend to see the change as a return to a revered tradition. Post-’60s graduates view Texas orange as the true representation of copper. Judging by the rainbow-hued stands at athletic events, fans can’t decide which color to wear. President Dennison said he hopes the return to these spirit colors will result in a sea of maroon, silver and gold at sporting events. The official colors of the University, however, will always be copper, silver and gold, he said.

“ Dandng Cranes” by Monte Dolack was commissioned by The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center for the T*" w (W IfFTC U /fC T 1995 conferenceand l"tt 13 ¥V Ci3 I academic symposium. .S. Forest Service Chief Jack Ward Thomas and former Japanese First Lady Kayoko Hosokawa were among the experts Uon U.S. and Asian environmental issues who descended on UM from October 15 to 17 for the 1995 Mansfield Conference and academic symposium, “Landscapes and Communities in Asia and the Pacific Northwest” The conference linked American and Asian perspectives to exam­ ine the impact of community on environment and environment on community. Symposium speakers examined how place defines cultur­ al identity and how EuroAmerican ideas and worldwide economic forces affect the idea of place. Thomas, a wildlife biologist who has headed the forest service since 1993, gave the opening address on biodiversity and community in the Pacific Northwest Hosokawa, a leader of grassroots movements on social issues, gave a presentation on grassroots volunteerism and communities in Japan. Philip West, acting director of the Mansfield Center, said the con­ ference gave Montanans the opportunity “to see what we have in common with Asia, where there are differences and what we can do together to address these problems of environment and community.”

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Above: a sample of a redesigned page for the Montanan. Note use of white space, type and photographs. Below: the same page as it origi­ nally appeared in the Montanan.

The State of UM

n his annual State of the University Address on September 1, President George Dennison told an overflow audi­ enceI at the Montana Theatre that the University had to become more efficient and effective in order to restore public confi­ dence. “We must rethink and restructure our M ontanan gets academic programs to assure the public that we have designed an education to prepare a M akeo ver students for the world of the future rather than the past,” he said. t all began with a survey. In the winter As state funding shrinks, the University 1994 M ontanan, we asked you to evaluate will need to more fully accommodate stu­ the magazine’s graphic design and story dents, Dennison said, adding that the campus contentI because we were considering We have also tried to tap one of must examine its curriculum and business redesigning the magazine. With your respons­ Missoula’s greatest resources—its wealth of methods in order to offer lower-cost pro­ es in hand and with the help of designers good writers—to bring you compelling, lively grams and services. In an effort to further Robert Ayers and John Johanek of stories that reveal the breadth and depth of cut costs, Dennison formed a task force to Publication Design, we’ve hammered out the the University’s activities. ask the 1997 Legislature to “release us from new look and content of the magazine. In the center of this magazine, you will bureaucratic entanglements.” He also Welcome to the redesigned Montanan. also notice something unusual—an eight-page announced the formation of a human Take a look at our before and after sample color insert on the Grizzlies, the winners of resources initiative to respond to employees’ pages to compare the old and new designs for the I-AA national football championship. concerns about the work place. yourself. We feel the use of white space, the Although the final game against Marshall Despite a “seemingly unfriendly atmos­ emphasis on graphics and the bolder use of University’s Thundering Herd in phere” toward higher education, Dennison headlines gives the magazine a more contem­ Huntington, West Virginia, caught us as we said he is optimistic for UM because “we porary, more inviting look. Johanek said he were approaching our press deadline, we have regained control of our affairs” with tried to create a “design that better reflected decided to halt the presses so we could put actions such as the recent faculty bargaining the character of the University and better together this special section. We had to. Such agreement and the revised funding model for reflected the vitality of the campus and the a hard-won, first-in-a-lifetime victory deserves a two-university Montana University System. student body.” celebration.

ty for us to respond to adviser on government and international M ontana the changes in the affairs and has previously worked with the global marketplace U.S. Information Agency, the Voice of Goes G lobal resulting from GATT America and the American embassies in ' and NAFTA,” said London and Paris. tether it’s logs to Japan or Governor Marc One special feature of the center is that it W wheat5 to Russia, Racicot, who chairs the will be staffed almost entirely by student MMontana’s efforts to trade in center’s board. “Exports interns, providing invaluable hands-on experi­ the global marketplace got a big boost last can significantly increase ence for international business students. Two fall when the Montana World Trade Center profits and jobs for the people to four interns from international business was established at UM-Missoula. The of Montana.” programs at UM and other Montana schools Montana WTC “promises a major export pro­ Career diplomat Charles E. “Sam” will be on staff at any given time. motion effort for our state and an opportuni­ Courtney heads the center. He is UM’s special

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Presentations from administrators, stu­ D ollars and dents, legislators and business people made it R oe v. W ade dear the premise for financing higher educa­ Scholars tion was changing. While it was previously A tto rney thought sodety should pay because society ublic universities must tighten their was the major beneficiary of a well-educated S peaks belts and be innovative to continue to dtizenry, President George Dennison said the serve their students and communities. new trend is that “the students should pay n 1973, five years out of law school and ThatP message pervaded the three-day confer­ because the student is the major beneficiary. twenty-six years old, Sarah Weddington, a ence, “Quality...Access...Cost: The Financial Most of my colleagues are saying that this is Texas attorney, successfully argued for Future of Public Higher Education,” which I a permanent change.” abortion rights in the landmark U.S. drew 140 legislators, business executives and Dennison said universities must change Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade It was university officials from thirteen states to by becoming more entrepreneurial He said Weddington’s first contested case, and the Missoula, September 17 to 19. faculty members increasingly “will have to favorable ruling made her the youngest find ways of funding themselves, of helping woman ever to win a case in the U.S. to deal with a problem that we have left, in Supreme C ourt the past, for policy makers to solve.” This past November, Weddington offered A legislative panel urged educators to encouragement to UM law students during a explain and market their product to lawmak­ visit sponsored by the Women’s Law Caucus ers and the public Montana Speaker of the and Women’s Studies Program. Weddington, House John Mercer said lawmakers don’t who continues fighting for abortion rights, understand the complexities of higher educa­ told students that law school opens a many tion funding issues. “You need to explain opportunities to fight effectively for causes. your product to legislators,” Mercer told edu­ “There are still issues that need champions, cators. “You’ve got to let people know what it including this one,” she said. is that’s valuable about higher education.” Now in private practice in Austin, Texas, Weddington is a former Texas state represen­ tative and served as an assistant to President Jimmy Carter from 1978 to 1981, directing the administration’s work on women’s issues.

F ro m the S em ino les to the G r izzlie s

n All Saint’s Day, Wayne Hogan, associate athletic director for communications at Florida State University, took the Ohelm of UM’s intercollegiate athletics department Hogan was chosen from more than 100 applicants for his commitment to student athletes, leadership skills, knowledge of intercollegiate ath­ letics, commitment to gender equity, support for non-revenue sports, personality and knowledge of all forms of media. Hogan succeeds Bill Moos, who left UM in June to become athletic direc­ tor at the University of Oregon. Hogan was impressed by the success of intercollegiate athletics at UM and believes his experience will further improve the pro­ gram. “I think it’s a great marriage,” Hogan said. “It’s one that will do nothing but enhance the program and move it a step further forward.”

4 W inter 1996 Montanan At a special dinner honoring the newly finished Pantzer Hall, student housing director Ron Bruneil (second from left) gives a tour to guests (left to right) Ann Pantzer, form er UM President Robert Pantzer, Carrie Bruneil and Head Resident Becki Hartman.

by the New Jubileers N e w H u m a n ities and the Virtual Orchestra and pre­ D irector sentations by faculty members on topics ark A. Sherouse, a former vice for Excellence at the annual meeting of the ranging from electronics technology to new provost for administration at Association for University Business and math. Southern Methodist University in Economics Research in Boulder, Colorado. M The quarterly won the same award in 1983. Dallas with eleven years of administrative experience, was hired as the new executive Judges praised the quarterly’s covers, graphics UM ’s A rm ch a ir director for the UM-based Montana and content, which they described as Committee for the Humanities. Sherouse “provocative and balanced.” The quarterly has T r a v e lle r replaces Margaret Kingsland, who retired been published by the bureau since the early October 31 after 21 years in the post Despite 1960s. pressure from Congress about federal fund­ ing of national arts and humanities programs, Sherouse sees a bright future for the arts and UM Buys Back humanities across the country and in Montana. “MCH has a top-drawer reputation Fort Missoula nationally,” he said. “My highest priority ini­ tially will be simply to maintain the level of n September 29, 1995, the Board of excellence in its programs and involvement in Regents approved the University’s the public and intellectual life of the state.” Oreacquisition of eighty-three acres at Fort Missoula from Divot Development for $790,000. The land was originally sold to f you have access to the World Wide Enrollm ent Divot Development by the UM Foundation in Web, you can now “visit” UM at this March 1994 for $450,000. In December 1994, address: http://www.umt.edu. From UM’sI home page, you can find information Steadies after concerned citizens initiated a successful ballot drive protesting the zoning changes about admissions, events, campus news and M enrolled 15,941 students this fall at involved in the deal, the University began departments. Coming attractions also include its campuses in Missoula, Butte, negotiating to reclaim the land. This culmi­ a Web version of the Montanan. UHelena and Dillon. The Missoula cam­ nated in an agreement with Divot You can also e-mail your questions, sug­ pus registered the largest enrollment with Development, returning the eighty-three acres gestions, raves and brickbats to the following 11,753, including 633 students enrolled at the to the University. Divot Development said campus offices, which we have listed at the College of Technology. Last fall’s total was the new purchase price covered expenses suggestion of an alum. 11,717. While it is a new high, the 1995 fig­ such as architectural, zoning and permit fees ure for the Missoula campuses reflects an incurred during its ownership. Admissions and New Student Services: expected slowdown in the rate of increase in President Dennison said the agreement [email protected] enrollment, President George Dennison said. represents “the best resolution that we could Alumni Association: make,” noting “It’s quite clear, given the atti­ [email protected] tudes within the community, that this is an Ask an Alum: issue that had to be resolved.” Kudos to [email protected] M ontana The Mansfield library: UM Bus Tour [email protected] B usiness The Montanan: ctober 8 through 12, administrators, [email protected] Quarterly educators and staff from all four UM Registrar Ocampuses hit the highways from Miles [email protected] wo’s a charm, for Montana Business City to Box Elder for the eighth annual bus Financial Aid: Quarterly anyway. Marlene Nesary, edi­ tour, “Plains, Terrain and Automobiles.” [email protected] torial director for the quarterly maga­ Designed to showcase higher education UM- Tzine from UM’s Bureau of Business and style at seven high schools and three tribal Economic Research, accepted the 1995 Award colleges, the 1,400-mile tour featured concerts

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ro m the September 1989 to March 1990, when Harley teacher, including F Lewis moved on to the National Collegiate those who survived r izzlie s to the Athletic Association. his classes on G “Kathy’s decision to accept the assistant research methodolo­ ig k y commissioner position causes both joy and gy and European his­ B S sadness-joy that she has the opportunity to tory and exploration. accept new challenges, but sadness at the loss He spent a great deal athy Noble was serving as interim of a valued member of the University com­ of time advising stu­ director of UM’s intercollegiate athlet­ munity,” President Dennison said. dents, and in 1985 ics—for the second time—when she got K he received UM’s the call. It was an offer to become the assis­ Distinguished Faculty Award. The tant commissioner for compliance services of U M M ourns Department of History is establishing a schol­ the Big Sky Conference. She accepted and on arship in his name. October 1, she moved on. “This was one of H isto ry “Integrity was the word people always those once-in-a-life- used in association with Bob Lindsay,” said time opportunities,” P rofessor’s history Chair Bill Farr, who team taught a Noble said. “I just western civilization class with Lindsay. “He didn’t think I could D eath brought integrity to everything he did.” Farr pass up the chance to said the department is feeling “bereft of a move into the confer­ his fall, the campus community teacher who always lifted teaching and advis­ ence office.” Noble mourned the passing of another col­ ing to a level that gave the rest of us a stan­ said she’s pleased, league when history professor Robert dard to shoot for.” however, that she’ll be T O. Lindsay died of a heart attack September able to maintain the 16, at the age of 65. Grizzly contacts and Lindsay, who specialized in early modem Fort M issoula friendships she has European history, taught at UM for twenty- forged over the years, since UM is a member eight years and served as UM’s faculty repre­ D o cum entary of the conference. sentative to the NCAA. Lindsay published a Noble had been associate director of the bibliography of Witter Bynner, coedited sev­ T wo Missoula women have made the athletics department since 1987. She served eral bibliographies and wrote articles on geo­ story of 1,000 Italians interned at Fort as interim director from July to October graphical discovery and seventeenth-century Missoula during World War II into a 1995, when Bill Moos become athletic direc­ book collecting for many journals. thirty-minute documentary that aired on pub­ tor at the University of Oregon, and from To many students, Lindsay was a favorite lic television in November. Bella Vista: An

NASA Chief Dan Goldin (left) and his staff members listen to a presentation by UM forestry professor Steve Running (right), who is creating computer software fo r NASA’s Earth Observing System that w ill be launched in 1998.

6 Winter 19% M ontanan Unseen View o f WWII was co-produced by Davidson Honors College i two UM alums, Lori Hudak and Kathy Finishing building’s exterior, scheduled for Witkowsky. The documentary weaves togeth­ completion 4/96. er interviews of six former internees with his­ K. Ross Toole Family Housing Complex Roamin’ f m torical photographs, archival footage and pre­ Finishing interior on townhouse units; viously classified documents. scheduled for completion 8/96. N um erals Partially funded by the UM-based University Center renovations From the 1995-96'Baas Brochure Montana Committee for the Humanities, the Bookstore now in renovated space on first film will be added to the MCH media collec­ and second floors of University Center, tion at UM’s Instructional Media Services Copper Commons kitchen nearing comple­ 1,060 — Linear feet of University archives in the Mansfield Library and will be available for purchase from tion. Scheduled for completion 3/96. Missoula’s MQTV. Student Health Center renovations 4,803 - Number of periodicals Construction begun on footings and foun­ 132,128 — Number of maps dations. Scheduled for completion 7/96. Construction 673,852 — Number of books in the Miller Hall renovations Mansfield Library pdate Finishing building’s exterior; scheduled for U completion 8/96. $111,267,898 — UM’s Operating Expenditures/Current Funds William and Rosemary Gallagher Prescott House and grounds restoration 25% — Percentage of State School of Business Administration Architect’s design completed and construc­ Appropriations in Current Building. tion company working with contractors to Funds Finishing building’s exterior; scheduled for renovate structure. Front porch being completion 7/96. replaced. Scheduled for completion 6/96. 31% — Percentage of Tuition and Fees in Current Funds

A W olf in School C lothes

role of the wolf in western literature by Betsy Cohen and in fairy tales. “The wolf controversy is fueled by fantasy and misinformation,’’ ot only do Pat Tucker, M.A. *91, and Weide said. “We continue to fear the Bruce Weide, M.F.A. ‘88, draw capaci­ wolf in terms of our own safety even Nty crowds with their wildlife biology though people are injured or killed by program, they can even make elementary more deer and moose than they are school children sit quietly. What’s the allure? by wolves." Koani, the 100-pound black wolf and family They also include their dog, Indy, member they bring along as part of their pre­ in the program to demonstrate the sentation. similarities and differences between Tucker and Weide, who earned graduate the two species and to illustrate why degrees in wildlife biology and creative writ­ dogs make good pets and wolves ing, founded the nonprofit Wild Sentry. The do not Northern Rockies Ambassador Wolf Tucker and Weide present programs Program. Their mission: to clear up myths primarily in rural schools and communities about the wolf by presenting scientific infor­ where the U.S. Forest Service is considering mation and using Koani as a real-life example. reintroducing wolves. This fall the pack hit “What we do is present a straight education the East Coast, presenting programs at such about wolves—what they eat, what their teeth places as the American Museum of Natural look like, what their families are like," Weide History and the Smithsonian Natural History said. Museum. Their book, There's a W olf in the Melding natural science with the humani­ Classroom!, was published in September by ties, Tucker and Weide discuss the symbolic Carolrhoda Books. A ROUND THE OVAL ^ Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority member Tanya Smith, hard at work for the Alumni Association. Homecoming *95 Alumni and students flocked onto campus September 22 to 23 for the festivities revolving around “Ride a Painted Pony,” UM’s Homecoming. Events included the Singing on the Steps, the 1995 Distinguished Alumni Awards, the Homecoming parade and the Grizzlies’ trouncing of the Boise State Broncos 54-28.

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Members of Sigma Chi, Kappa Alpha Theta and Pi Kappa Alpha atop their float featuring a Trojan horse.

Grizzly Center Dave Kempfert holds o ff a Boise tackier.

Distinguished Alumni Award winners George Ericksen ‘42 (left) The UM Marching Band and Hal Stearns ‘36 chat during the Distinguished Alumni Circle bugles and slides down 41 dedication. Dr. Ericksen passed away on January 14,1996. the University Avenue ** parade route. Kicks, Spikes & Sprints by Nikki Judovsky then dropped three in a row, two on the road against California and Oregon State and Senior Donovan at home against Portland State. S occer Shanahan, three-time “You could say we started out strong and cross country MVP and then had a mid-season slump,” Duerksen nding the 1995 season with a 5-2 loss 1994 Big Sky said. “But we finished out good.” UM closed against Washington couldn’t nullify the Conference Champion the season with wins against Hawaii, success Montana’s soccer team had dur­ at 10,000 meters. E California State-Sacramento and Arizona, ing its second season, said Betsy Duerksen, before losing the final game to Washington. UM’s cross country women’s soccer head ______Duerksen said the 1995 team was much teams finished the coach at The Univer­ improved from a year ago, but she didn’t hesi­ I 1995 season in sixth sity of Montana. “We tate before noting her expectations for next place in the Big Sky played right with year’s team. “By next year we won’t be con­ Conference. For the Washington for most sidered a young team anymore and there will 1996 season, the men’s of the game before be no more excuses,” she said. “Our goal will team w ill lose their top two run­ they kicked our butt,” be to make it to the national tournament” ners, Donovan Shanahan and Duerksen said. “But Jason McLellan, while all the I’m very pleased with y women w ill return, including the way our kids Vo lleyball Julie Peterson and Anna Hurd, played and the way i who finished twentieth and or the first time since the inception of they played all season.” F twenty-first in the Big Sky the conference in 1982, the Montana UM ended the year J Championships. posting a 12-7 record, ip. Lady Griz volleyball team fell short of a mark she said is the Big Sky tournament during the 1995 respectable for a pro- f R season. gram still in its infan- UM head coach cy. “Looking at other Dick Scott said that Over the first month of conference com­ second-year programs, his team learned a petition, the Lady Griz picked up just three we’re a little bit ahead valuable lesson. more wins, putting them in a three-way tie o f them,” Duerksen Sophomore sensation “Especially at this level, for fifth place in the league. said. “We won some Courtney Mathieson athletics isn’t a lot Montana gained momentum in the final big games this year but unlike life,” Scott said. two weeks of the season, winning four in a also lost to some teams we shouldn’t have.” “If you’re not getting it row and capping that off with a second victo­ Opening weekend, September 2 to 4, done, you’re not going ry over Montana State. “We said we fell short brought third-year programs New Mexico and to be successful” in certain areas, but one of our highlights was Minnesota to UM’s new South Campus From the onset, the definitely sweeping the Cats,” Scott said. Soccer Field for the second annual Soccer Lady Griz never got But the Lady Griz weren’t able to contin­ Showdown. UM defeated New Mexico 4-1 rolling. Senior outside ue that stellar play and lost three of their four before falling to Minnesota, 6-2. hitter Inga Swanson final games, ending the year with a 13-13 Following another two-game split in Utah, suffered a fracture in record and a fifth place finish in the Big Sky. Montana went on a tear, winning seven of its her right foot and was Outstanding sophomore “You hate to look back and think, what if next eight games. During that stretch, UM in and out of the line- Dana Bennish Inga stayed healthy? The most frustrating defeated perennial soccer powerhouse up all season. And thing about this year was that we should’ve Colorado College, 5-3, and NCAA tourna­ when Big Sky action began, Montana was off been better than we were,” Scott said. “We ment participant Washington State, 2*1. to one of its worst starts in history with a should’ve been there (the Big Sky tourna­ After jumping to a 9-3 record, Montana 6-6 record. ment).” M

Winter 1996 Montanan 9 Profile Biscuit Eaters K AND Bayous: The World of James Lee Burke

by Paddy MacDonald

R ead one of James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux detec­ tive novels and you’ll feel the soft rain sweeping into southern Louisiana from the Gulf of Mexico, smell the rich, fecund swamp, hear the shrill cries of mating nutria, taste po’boy sandwiches stuffed with shrimp and oysters and meet the colorful assortment of people that popu­ late New Orleans’ French Quarter. There’ll be at least one gangster, and he’ll have a moniker with a story to it, like Tony “The Cutter” Cardo, Julie “Baby Feet” Balboni or Sally “The Duck” Dio, who once severed a man’s ear with tin snips and told him to say a duck had bitten him. There’ll be a sadistic, slimy, peculiar-looking sociopath: Jimmie Lee Boggs, with elongated, spearmint green eyes and threadlike hair, Victor Romero, with oily black curls; Will Buchalter with sprays of blackheads “like black pepper” in the corners of his eyes. And there are the other characters, all of whom “have some correspondence, some equivalent, in the real world,” says Burke. There’s Hogman Batin, a former razor-totin’ I convict who plays a mean twelve-string guitar 1 and lives in a shack, his yard strung with blue Milk of Magnesia bottles and silver crosses. Gros Mama Goula, a big, hard­ boned, tattooed, voodoo-spouting, cigarette- imoking brothel keeper. And Batist, the black man who works at Robicheaux’s bait shop and once pulled a six-foot alligator out of a swamp with one arm. Then there’s the protagonist, Dave Robicheaux, a thrice-married recovering alco-

10 Winter 1996 M O N T A jy iN ' holic with a past, a landscape palpable- temper and a heart waves scud, rain A former New ticks, palms click. Orleans Police The sky can be pur­ Department officer, ple “like torn plums,” he owns a bait shop or black “like torn and works for the cotton” or “white as sheriff’s department bone.” Smoke rises in New Iberia, a “like pieces of dirty small Louisiana town string.” The swamp best known for its “boils” with insects. Tabasco sauce. He Burke, who is lifts weights, struggles with nightmares and UM, the University of South Louisiana and married and has four grown children, lives a puzzles over his world’s moral and ethical the University of Missouri, among others. quiet life, dividing his time between enigmas. He switched to detective novels at the Missoula and Louisiana. And although he “Dave is my attempt at ‘every man,”’ suggestion of writer Rick DeMarinis—also a relies heavily on his own unique Cajun-Irish Burke says. “He tries to give a voice to blue- former UM creative writing professor—and experience in the novels, he has strong ties collar people—people with profound feelings Burke’s career took off once again with the to Montana. “I live here because, as (writer) but no way to express them. He articulates publication of The Neon Rain in 1987. Rick Bass says, ‘it’s a place you think of as the what other people feel but cannot articulate. Burke’s language is rife with a blend of afterlife.’” Burke says. He works out daily, Dave is chivalric, decent and kind.” gangster-ese, Cajun French and Southern- fishes the streams and writes incessantly. In contrast to Dave is his former partner speak. The underworld lingo, for the unini­ After nearly twenty years of sobriety, it’s on the New Orleans Police Department, tiated, takes a while to understand. To “drop no surprise that alcoholic recovery is one of Cletus Purcel, a boozy skirt chaser who the dime” on someone is to snitch on him; to the most pervasive themes in his books. wears a porkpie hat, Budweiser shorts and a “drop the hammer” or “pop the cap” is to “What I’m most proud of,” he says, “is that collection of tropical shirts decorated with shoot him. A cop “on the pad” is taking all over the country, people approach me at parakeets and watermelons. Clete, who has bribes, and someone who’s “giving a shuck” book signings and tell me that these books been known to drive a bulldozer through a is lying. A “biscuit eater” is a poor, landless helped them into sobriety. I’m honored to mansion and pour sand into the fuel tank of white, and a “Murphy artist” is a special type have that kind of positive influence.” an airplane, often comes to Dave’s rescue of con man, a pimp who never produces the Despite the violence wrought on human with a length of pipe, a baseball bat or a .45 prostitute. beings by others and despite the sometimes automatic If you know a little French, then you’ll grim changes going on in Dave Robicheaux’s “Clete Purcell is the other side of Dave,” know that a traiteur is a conjuror, a loup- world, there is always a message of recovery Burke says. “He’s outrageous—a human garou is a werewolf, a gris-gris is an evil spell and hope underlying the action: wrecking ball. God makes people like Clete and a tonton macoute is a certain type of ter­ to remind us of who we are. He destroys rorist. Then there’s the Cajun. Open to any But, as always, just before arrogance, deflates the pompous, shows page and you’re likely to find a sentence like dawn, the tiger goes back in his them they’re not superior to the rest of us. this: “You didn’t told me about your hog in cage and sleeps, and something He reduces hypocrisy to the sham it is and my cane, no, so I didn’t mean to hurt it hot and awful rises from your pokes holes in pretentiousness.” when I pass the tractor on its head and had body and blows away like ash in Burke, who taught writing at UM from to eat it, me.” the wind. And maybe the next 1966-69, is currently enjoying the kind of A master of description, Burke uses day is not so bad after all. M success most writers only dream of. His fresh, starding metaphors: “His face was like third Robicheaux novel, Black Cherry Blues, boiled pigskin.” “The muscles in his arms won the Edgar Award in 1989; D ixie C ity were like rolls of nickels.” “He had one dead Jam neared the top of the New York Times eye, like a colorless marble.” “His best seller list in 1994; and a movie based on stomach was like boilerplate.” Heaven's Prisoners, starring Alec Baldwin, Everyone eats crawdads, will soon be released. Most recently, B urning poTjoys, dirty rice and beans. A ngel has met with critical and popular They feast on boudin (blood acclaim. sausage), beignets (pow­ Raised on the Gulf Coast of Texas and dered doughnuts), Louisiana, Burke published his first short cush-cush (corn- story at 19, his first novel at 23 and two bread and more novels by the time he was 34. Then, for milk), raw 13 years, he couldn’t sell a manuscript The oysters, Lost Get-Back Boogie was rejected by dozens fried of publishers. W hen it was finally published shrimp and by the Louisiana State University Press in soft-shelled 1985, it was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. crabs. A selection of three of To support his family during the lean Burke’s descrip James Lee Burke’s th ir­ years, Burke worked as a pipeline welder, tions of southern teen books. social worker, truck driver and oil lease nego­ Louisiana bayous, swamps, tiator. He also taught writing and English at flora and weather make the

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by Connie Poten or Man W ho Looks waited to ambush at the Stars by the returning hunters, so Salish, Thompson homecoming tribes or a mountain with the F climbed the “high climbed the trail over majesty of a giant brown knowl” of Jumbo’s saddle to spud, as a friend describ­ Jumbo and mapped avoid the canyon es it, Mt. Jumbo fig­ the distant surround­ French fur trappers ures richly in western ings with his sextant called the Gate of history. Shore lines—forty of them -dent its and compass. Hell. Rock cairns still flank, mementoes of a thousand years’ ups mark the old Indian and downs of Ice Age Lake Missoula. Jumbo At 5 1/3 AM set Trail to Walla Walla was a turbulent crossroads for tribes travel­ off...I had a fine (so named on survey ing east to buffalo ranges and west for bit- Prospect of the maps). Tepee rings terroots, a starchy food staple. The first map country, here I near a spring at the of the area was drawn from the summit of [traced Lewis and base of the saddle are the mountain the Salish called Sin-min- Clark’s journey the buffalo hunters’ koos-bump or obstacle. Later, the town of over the Bit- A bitterroot, a starchy food staple of the Salish Indians. quiet legacy. Missoula came raucously alive at its base. teroots]....It being Jumbo’s land is Today M l Jumbo is a broad, grassy hump late, bad rainy weather....we turned like a picture book to the Salish. Sixty years that means home; faithful friend; compass aside to the Brook [Rattlesnake ago, Salish elder Felicite “Jim" MacDonald point and barometer; our big wild heart Creek]....very bad weather all night watched the “Suicide Races” at the Western W hen chunks of M l Jumbo were put on the and no shelter, I passed much of the Montana State Fair, where young Indian auction block in the past four years, night standing, leaning against a tree. men raced bareback from the fairgrounds up Missoulians began exploring what they the steep south slope of Jumbo, around the would lose. Then they tried to save i t Every August, the Salish month of the Eat medicine tree and back. In earlier days, Jumbo’s first white explorer, Canadian Bison, countless generations of Nez Perce, young Salish warriors raced up to touch the David Thompson, surveyed more than Coeur d’Alene, Shoshone and Salish tree for luck in battle. That ponderosa is 50,000 miles—from Hudson Bay to the streamed east through the canyon at the base gone, chopped down by a university mouth of the Columbia. Called KooKoo-sint of Jumbo to hunt buffalo. The Blackfeet prankster in the 1950s.

12 Winter 19% Montanan Below: This 1890s photograph of Mt. Jumbo was taken from the south bank of the Clark Fork River, between Missoula’s Madison and Higgins bridges.

frigid January day in 1993, when four boys died over, now rare because of encroaching climbed up from East Missoula to photo­ development. graph elk. A cornice of snow suddenly col­ In spring 1995, inheritance taxes forced lapsed in an avalanche and buried them in Klapwyk’s heirs to log the timber that shel­ snow hard as concrete. Three got free, but tered the elk herd’s calving grounds. The Percy Phillips was killed on impact. He was conservation group Five Valleys Land Trust 13 years old. warned that 373 houses could go up on Two months later, Missoulians were Jumbo. Senator Max Baucus tried—and shaken by the March 6, 1993 Missoulian failed—to get government funding to pur­ headline “For Sale: Mt. Jumbo.” For genera­ chase the mountain. In a desperate move, tions, townspeople had blissfully picnicked the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and the in Jumbo’s pine clearings as if ownership Five Valleys Land Trust purchased an option couldn’t apply to such a high, fine place. Few to buy the Klapwyk land. The first pay­ realized the mountain’s destiny was in the ment—$275,000—is due in April, 1996. hands of twenty-three private owners. The city of Missoula and private groups In response, botanists and biologists clam­ launched a second campaign for a $5 million bered up the hillsides to catalog species. Open Space Bond: Jumbo, again, topped the Paragliders floated over the mountain like list. As the November 1995 election drew giant, airborne wildflowers. People joined near, local newspapers never let readers for­ naturalist Will Kerling for evening hikes to get the critical need for the bond. University m m see wildflowers and mule deer, bear, red students registered to vote in unprecedented foxes, yellow-bellied marmots, eagles, ruby numbers. As opposition to the tax-based crowned kinglets and blue grouse. bond grew louder, Mt. Jumbo’s grasses But since 1981, more than 120 houses turned red and gold in the autumn light. have also gone up near the old The town of Missoula was born at the Walla Walla trail, from the base base of Jumbo in 1864 as Missoula Mills, toward the saddle. Coyotes and milling flour for gold rushers in Bannack mountain lions have nearly disap­ and Virginia City. W hen Mullen built his peared. New residents had bears road from Ft. Benton to Walla Walla along trapped and removed. the base of Jumbo, it brought in trappers, The first serious effort to pre­ speculators and pioneers. “You could say serve the mountain began when Jumbo was like the capitol dome,” says the Rocky Mountain Elk Missoula historian Audra Browman. Foundation launched the Percy “Everyone headed for it.” Phillips Fund to save wildlife Gold, silver and copper lured the hopeful habitat, particularly on Jumbo. to tunnel into Jumbo’s sides. By 1884 it was Then Jumbo’s largest landowner, “Elephant Hill” and a quartz lode claim took Bert Klapwyk, died and his thousand acres— Mule deer grazed the ancient shore lines, elk the name Jumbo, after a traveling circus ele­ including the saddle, the elk migration corri­ strolled the high ground and black bears lay phant. The Jumbo Mining Company struck dor—went up for sale: $2.7 million. under berry bushes, pulling branches into a copper vein that assayed $62 to the ton, The city-county government became their mouths as if nothing could happen to and the name Jumbo stuck. alarmed. An $8 million Open Space Bond, such a high, fine place. A week before the After World War II, Missoula County with the primary purpose of saving Mt. election a fat white heart appeared on the Attorney Dusty Deschamps’ grandfather Jumbo, was put before the voters in June dome above the L bought the east side of Jumbo to run sheep. 1994. The bond passed on first count Then On November 7, 1995, despite an elec­ Deschamps built his house on the wooded it failed. Not enough people had turned out tion day blizzard, the Open Space Bond slope, using copper rock from an old Jumbo to vote to make it valid. passed 8,085 to 4,097. After the victory, the mine for his fireplace. He sold off pieces of Mt. Jumbo began to feel even more pre­ city council earmarked $2 million for Jumbo. Jumbo, too. But he’s had a change of heart. cious. Within shouting distance of 1-90, peo­ The fight isn’t over. Five Valleys Land Trust “I’ll do whatever I can to get Jumbo pre­ ple climbed up it to find Nabokov satyr but­ still needs to raise $1 million more to pre­ served,” he says. “It’s Missoula’s history up terflies, bighorn sheep, elk calves, salaman­ serve the mountain. But the day after the there and the wildlife depend on it.” ders, a rare colony of grasses and pink mass­ election, the fat white heart, engineered by On a steep gully on the southeast side of es of spring bitterroots—the state flower and graduate students using sheets donated by Jumbo, a recent plaque commemorates the the food Blackfeet and Salish fought and local motels, turned into a smile. M

Winter 1996 Montanan 13 Faculty Sunday in the Park IN-SHANGHff

These women are practicing Mu Lan Qigong in Shanghai’s Lu Xun Park.

by Juliette Crump To the side, a few people move through a delicately, in keeping with the peace and complicated Tai chi. quiet of the sculpted gardens. Some are hid­ unday, July 7, 1995, Lu Next to the pond, two fishermen with fif­ den in the shrubbery; others prefer the con­ Xun Park, Shanghai. teen-foot bamboo poles hold their rod tips geniality of the group. It is quite warm, low close to the water; today I notice the small In the stone room of a nearby pavilion, a nineties, and I have worms wriggling on the hooks, little boys woman is singing a traditional-style song and come here at 7 a.m. to and a man are trying to catch fingerlings the haunting, high notes bounce off the see the ballroom dancers. It cost me one and with a small n e t Several men with caged walls. On the terrace nearby, two couples a half yuan to enter this park, but it cost the birds greet each other in their usual spot maneuver across a cement floor. One couple Chinese less; the price on quite a few things under the trees. They hang their bird cages does the cha-cha. The other couple, younger here is raised for foreigners. Somehow, this close together on the branches. As they pull people, are waltzing. The woman is wearing seems right. back the blue cotton covers, the birds begin a pale yellow skirt and the man has on a blue Several groups of women are performing to chatter. I notice some of the few young jogging suit I notice he is leading incorrectly, Mu Lan Qigong, a martial art named after a people in the park, batting a badminton with his inside foot, which trips his partner famous lady general. One group, in matching birdie in a field where people swing swords when he tries to turn her. I find it charming white shirts and pink pants, move to the in measured drills. the way the Chinese have adapted Western music of a boom box, opening and closing There are a few lazy joggers and babies ballroom dance—no fancy clothes or sophisti­ red fans. Another larger group of men and being walked in their strollers. As I take all cated atmosphere, only constant practice on women stand in silence, arms straight out this in, I think these people are performing Sundays when they have spare time. and knees slightly bent, in one of the open­ various rituals to connect themselves to the Was this the real China? I was part of the ing poses of the more widely known Qigong. space around them as dancers do. It is done Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad pro-

14 Winter 1996 Montanan The Fullbright scholars who spent their summer in China, observing the momentous economic and social changes.

gram in China, and all of us were their families in rural areas. pestered by this question. Our Nearly all the young, mostly mission was to observe firsthand female workers we saw in the the monumental economic and labor-intensive joint venture social changes sweeping the world’s most her to plead her father’s case. She did and as companies signed three-year contracts, saved populous country, and we were anxious not a result, her father was not accused of with­ their money and returned to their villages to miss any unscheduled opportunities to holding taxes and the nephew “ceased to when they were done. find the answer. Some of us hoped to find it exist” These changes have affected the status of in these morning rituals in Shenzhen and Many traditional Chinese social values women. Under Mao Tse-tung, women “held Shanghai. have resurfaced with China’s transition into up half the sky”—they shared duties of sol­ Others sought to find it by sampling the a socialist market economy: pragmatism, sup­ diering, political leadership and earning a liv­ eight unusual dishes served at meals. Some port from family, a desire for self-employ­ ing. Now, as old Chinese patriarchal values went to bars; others went to an English ment and “guanxi,” a system for doing busi­ have resurfaced in the new China, middle- teacher’s apartment to eat a bowl of noodles ness by blending social and economic con­ aged women are once again being exploited and “see how the ordinary people live.’’ Some nections. Yet this change is confusing because in China’s new commercial climate. As the tried to find the real China by “surfing” the business and social customs of one gen­ economy shifts from light to service indus­ Chinese TV or by looking at groceries, eration don’t hold true for the next. tries, they are losing jobs. Employers are also household items and temple offerings in the Reflections in a pool are not clear when the reluctant to hire women for long-term jobs stores. We even thought we could learn more wind blows; codes of conduct are not easily because of mandated pregnancy leaves and about China by devouring the sweet, ripe deciphered in times of change. their belief that “men are stronger.” lychees from the trees on the Shenzhen The signs of change are everywhere. We may have come the closest to finding University campus, although my Lonely Skyscrapers, automobiles and new superhigh­ the “real” China one morning at dim sum in Planet guidebook warns that “Shenzhen is ways have displaced farming villages, carts Guangzhou, where at 9 a.m. every banquet not the real China.” and bicycle paths. Workers, no longer table was filled. The room echoed with a In China, from its feudal past to its pre­ assigned to communist “danwei” or work cacophony of jovial diners, including differ­ sent socialist market economy, the truth is units, are abandoning inland China and ent generations of families enjoying their that business, political and social worlds are rushing to the thriving coastal cities we vis­ most valued custom: eating together. so entangled they are almost impossible to ited, where some contribute to increasing Business deals seemed to be progressing separate. W hen I asked a UM exchange stu­ pollution and crime. Several hundred thou­ favorably with toasts and jokes. dent at Hangzhou University if the Chinese sand have been turned back at the borders of We wondered how all these people could were now as loyal to their families as they the coastal provinces. Migrant workers who be partying during working hours. Maybe were before communism, he told this story: land temporary jobs send money home to these were the new entrepreneurs, the people When the father with time and money of his Chinese Seven Missoulians that we had been teacher hired a A tte n d UN Women's Conference hearing about. May­ ' nephew to work in be they were “real” his factory, the n early September, seven Missoula exhibits and cultural events. Art China. Or was it nephew stole machin­ women updated their passports and Associate Professor Beth Lo, who partici­ only in America that ery to set up his own packed their bags to join the 50,000 pated on an artists’ panel, said being the newest is most business. W hen the foreigners who descended on Beijing. “with a huge number of women was a “real?” In China was factory owner Vickie Amundson, Vivian Brooke, Anita great experience,” but she was disap­ it the oldest? O r was accused the young Coryell, Kelly Slattery-Robinson, Sharon pointed events were so dominated by it rooted deep in the I man of stealing, the Reynolds, Kelly Rosenleaf and Beth Lo Westerners. park’s stone pavilion, nephew told a party travelled to China to attend the United State Senator Vivian Brooke, who echoing with the official his uncle had Nations Fourth World Conference on attended workshops on domestic violence woman’s song ring­ not been paying his Women and the related Non- and on how fundamentalism affects ing out over people business taxes (busi­ Governmental Organizations Forum. women, enjoyed the networking that took moving in unison nessmen commonly The more than 20,000 women at the place among the participants. Impressed with precision and ignore these). The women’s conference passed initiatives with the confidence, self-esteem and hard concentration? | Chinese teacher promoting equal pay, equal educational work each woman represented, Brooke We will listen and went to an acquain- opportunities and family planning. said, “There is a lot of sisterhood among watch as the giant I tance connected to a The forum for nongovernmental orga­ the world’s women and you uncover it awakes. M high government nizations was the site of workshops, more and more through stories.” official, and asked

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ony Mattina wishes we’d pay as much attention to saving Native American languages as we do to preserving plant and animal species like the spot­ ted owl. “These languages deserve special atten­ Saving tion,” he says. “They were here long before TEuropeans. They are the native languages, period. We should pre­ serve them as special treasures. Once a language is extinct, it*s just words on paper, just like a stuffed animal in a museum.” Mattina, a native of Italy and linguistics professor at The University of Montana—Missoula, brings this passion to his work to _ OURpreserve Okanagan. Stephen Greymorning and Victor Montejo, two UM assistant professors of anthropology and Native American stud­ ies, likewise work to preserve the Arapaho and Mayan languages. Their efforts are part of a growing awareness of the cultural value of ongues American Indian languages and the growing fear that, unless they are T taught to younger generations, many of these languages will soon die. by Peter Stark “Language and culture cannot be separated,” says Montejo, a Mayan Indian from Guatemala. “If the culture is not expressed through the language, then the culture ceases to exist” Many of the strategies for reviving American Indian languages center on teaching it to schoolchildren, but it’s here also that some of the biggest obstacles lie. “The explanation given by school officials for not letting the language in the classroom is that there are no written materials, there are no certified teachers,” Mattina says. Mattina has addressed those issues in his work with Okanagan. Mattina came to the language circuitously. He discovered a love for linguistics at Drury College. Later, influenced by M. Dale Kinkade, his mentor at the University of Kansas graduate school and a schol­ ar of the Salish family of languages of the Northwest, Mattina began studying Okanagan. One of the twenty-two Salish languages, it is now spoken by less than half the 10,000 Okanagan people, whose tradi­ tional lands include the area north of Spokane and part of southern British Columbia. Mattina has written numerous scholarly articles about Okanagan, but in recent years he has shifted his focus to ensure that the lan­ guage doesn’t die. “Instead of sticking with linguistics for linguists, I reached less for the scholarly and more towards the lay person, to get these materials out,” he says. Working at the En’owkin Centre in Penticton, B.C., he trained teachers in the language and developed grammar primers, coloring books, videos and other teaching aids. But Mattina admits progress has been slow because it is difficult to teach using written materials Detail of Mayan hieroglyphic taken from an altar. A fter Mayan was banned in the when the entire Okanagan tradition is an oral one. early 1550s, understanding of the written language disappeared. “The best way to learn it is to speak it, be immersed in it, but that*s difficult,” he says. In response, he has designed interactive computer games and Preserving Indian lessons to introduce schoolchildren to Okanagan. On his computer screen, Mattina clicks his mouse on a program that teaches children what to call their various relatives in Okanagan. There are more than fifty basic words for kin. Stick figures and a kinship diagram of a Languages family flash up and a woman’s voice on a small speaker beside the computer explains in Okanagan: axa? ismi’T. “This is my (paternal unde).” inca kwu_siaiw 'ilc. “I am his niece.”

16 Winter 1996 Montanan axa9 ta^jsank’lip.

Above: A detail from a computer program designed to teach children Okanagan. Below: UM linguistics This is Coyote. Professor Tony Mattina who is working to preserve the Okanagan language.

axa? inm’istem i'>_santxwusc. “He is my father’s brother (or cousin).” Another game throws colored pictures of Click the word to hear it. wild animals on the screen and the student must match the correct Okanagan word to Click the picture to hear the word in a sentence. Click Continue to return to consonant chart. the picture. Continue pqolqin bald eagle sdmxikon’ grizzly wapupxan lynx to the centers to talk to the kids,” Mattina schools” based on those developed by the says when asked what more needs to be Maori in New Zealand. Young children who Though they may look like alphabet soup done. “Until now they’ve been shy, partly speak English at home begin preschool in to the unaccustomed eye, the letters belong because many don’t have a formal education. which only Hawaiian is spoken. The immer­ to the International Phonetic Association I’d like to see the elders rewarded for know­ sion schools continue throughout kinder­ alphabet, which is used to commit to writing ing their language, just the opposite of the garten. Students begin to learn English read­ many languages that have no alphabet of way it used it be, when they were punished ing and writing in the fifth grade, but teach­ their own. According to Mattina, the IPA for using it.” ers still use the Hawaiian language as the alphabet is a more logical system of repre­ medium of instruction. The earliest group of sentation than English orthography. The IPA “People have no idea of the magnitude of students bilingual in Hawaiian and English is alphabet assigns only one symbol to describe the loss of these languages,” says Stephen now in about the 10th grade, Grey morning one particular sound, where English often Grey morning, a Southern Arapaho. “It’s like says, and the Hawaiians now plan to build an assigns many letter combinations. Thus, for a beast that can’t be stopped. A global cul­ immersion college. the sound “sh” in English, we use martian, ture is emerging that grabs at youth and “Anything short of immersion, and the pension, patrician, sugar, mission, chevy, fas­ aligns them to it. It’s beamed in on satellite children will revert back to English,” says dishes, on the Internet, on television, and dis­ Greymorning, who has started preschool tracts from the native language of the home.” and kindergarten classes in Arapaho on the Greymorning mentions the example of Wind River Reservation. “The Hawaiians the Navajo, where the children know their have taken their language, and put it every­ native language, yet when the adults address where.” them in it, they often respond in English. Greymorning took yet another approach Another success story has been the sud­ to bring American Indian language to chil­ den and surprising revival of the Mayan lan­ dren. Inspired by his young daughter’s attrac­ guages in recent years, after centuries of sup­ tion to Disney films, he assembled a team to pression by Guatemala’s ruling class of translate the classic animated film, Bambi, Spanish descent. Traditionally, Mayans into Arapaho. He recruited and coached res­ recorded their history and legends in books idents of Wyoming’s Wind River Reservation and stone carvings using an elaborate system to speak the parts, convinced the Walt of hieroglyphics. In the wake of the Spanish Disney Company to produce the translation Conquest of the early 1500s, Diego de as a home video and distributed 2,000 cas­ Landa, the bishop of Yucatan, ordered the settes to the Arapaho Nation. He is current­ library of Mayan books burned because he ly working on translations of the animated believed it “contained the works of the cism and shoe, while the IPA alphabet, or films The Little Fox and Willie the Sparrow. Devil,” Montejo says. The written Mayan lan­ Okanagan, uses only s. “If you want the language to survive, guage essentially disappeared, although the Mattina, who has compiled a dictionary it has to be everywhere that Mayan Indians who make up the majority of of Okanagan, says the work of committing an English is,” he says. “It has to infiltrate every the Guatemalan population continued to use oral language to a written one is no great lin­ medium — music, books, television, even the the twenty-one spoken languages. guistic trick. The more difficult problem is to street signs on the reservation. Every time In the 1980s, the Mayan people them­ convince people to learn the language and to they turn around, the kids should bump into selves came under violent attack by a speak it, to keep it alive, to prevent it from the language. That was part of the strategy Guatemalan government and army intent on becoming, as he puts it, simply “words on a behind these videos.” rooting out what it believed were guerrillas page.” Greymorning cites the success the and communists in the upland villages. The “What I’d really like to see is the elders Hawaiians have had since the mid-1980s in soldiers destroyed communities and killed paid for their knowledge so they’d be invited reviving their language through “immersion thousands of people, Montejo says.

Winter 1996 Montanan 17 “If the culture is not expressed in the language, then the culture ceases to exist.”

At the same time, Mayan intellectuals ti’, which translates into English as “the lan­ Around 400 people have taken the native established the Academy for Mayan guage of power.” language classes through Salish-Kootenai Languages, which has taught schoolchildren College, says Joyce Silverthorne, director of to write in their native tongues and has stan­ In Montana, eleven languages are spoken bilingual education. The course offerings dardized the written versions of the Mayan by American Indians. They range from lan­ have included Salish, Kootenai, Cree, languages. It has been cited by the United guages still spoken by only a few elders to Northern Cheyenne and Assiniboine. At the Nations as a model for indigenous groups Crow, which is very much alive. Widely spo­ elementary and high school levels, Arlee whose languages are ken by adults and children alike, the Crow School offers Salish classes and Two Eagle threatened. language is still, significantly, serving as the River School offers both Salish and Kootenai “When you’re language of ceremony and politics. classes. Silverthorne estimates that about one under great stress, Efforts to keep American Indian lan­ percent of tribal members are fluent in the you go back to your guages alive in Montana are taking place at native languages. roots to make your Salish-Kootenai College in Ronan, at Piikanii, spoken by the Blackfeet, is in life more meaningful Blackfeet Community College and the “extremely critical condition” and may be within the context of Piegan Institute in Browning, on the Crow lost, says John Murray, acting chair of your culture,” says Reservation, and elsewhere. Blackfeet Studies at Blackfeet Community Montejo, drawing a College. The demand to learn the language parallel to the Ghost has grown so much the college has had to Dance revival of BAMBI SPEAKS hire speakers from Canadian bands to meet North American the need for teachers, he says. The program Indian culture on the ARAPAHO continues to look for resources to hire more. Great Plains during The college offers nine different levels of the late 19th century. the language, supported by teachings in Anthropology and “There was terrible Blackfeet philosophy, myth and ceremony. Native American studies violence, and every­ Without these other teachings, the language assistant professor body responded by is “just a set of symbols,” Murray says. “We Stephen Greymoming working to ensure could just as well learn Spanish or French.” who has translated the survival of the As part of their continuing effort to children’s film s into Mayan culture.” revive the American Indian languages in A rapaho. Montejo wit­ Montana, the tribes recently asked the Board nessed that violence of Education to approve a certification sys­ firsthand when in tem for teachers of the languages. On 1982 soldiers took him at gunpoint from the November 30, 1995, the board unanimously classroom where he was teaching. After tor­ approved the creation of a special license for turing him for a night, they released him those who teach Indian language in reserva­ because he was a schoolteacher. But SHOWING OPEN TO PUBLIC AT THE tion schools. Montejo’s brother, also a teacher, was shot GRANT THEATRE IN LANDER This Class 7 certificate, which will be in and killed by drunken soldiers in the village place by May 15, 1996, does not require the plaza. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3, 1994

18 Winter 1996 M ontanan WE ARETHE CHA MUONS By Kim B riggeman W j i ' d J i

Kicker Andy Larson celebrates his game-winning field goal against M arshall University.

Ironically, Dickenson and a few other key players sat out the fourth quarter of all three record-breaking contests. 2 Against Eastern Kentucky, ™ one of I-AA’s veteran playoff teams, Dickenson was weak­ ened by a flu-like bug and star linebacker Jason Crebo Ihey stayed in and running back Kelly washington- Stensrud sat out with Grizzly Stadi­ injuries. Despite his ill­ um, almost ness, Dickenson passed 18,523 of them, for 399 yards in the first riveted by the half, when UM cashed scene. Montana in on eight of nine pos­ kept scoring touchdowns, the sessions to score all ROTC cannon kept booming and forty-eight of its the thermometer hovered in single points. digits as Grizzlymania consumed the The next week, record crowd like a fever. Montana led Long after the Grizzlies tucked away Georgia Southern Stephen F. Austin Dec. 9 in a 70-14 35-0 at halftime. A crowd of 18,518 romp in the semifinal round of the — a stadium record at the time — enjoyed Division I-AA playoffs, fans cheered, in October. some brief spells of sunshine as the Grizzlies stomped and chanted. Slaloming through the autumn vir­ amassed a playoff record forty-one first downs “We can’t leave,” said Tony Cox, a reveler tually free of serious injuries, Montana to Georgia Southern’s five. from Missoula. “This is too much fun.” It was claimed its second Big Sky Conference title “I really feel like we’re playing as good of a marvelous way to cap an 8-0 home slate. in three seasons by a comfortable two-game football as we’ve ever played around here,” But the season’s crowning moment was a margin. But the Grizzlies saved their best for coach Don Read said. The Grizzlies were week and 2,000 miles away. O n a balmy fifty the playoffs. also kissed with luck. They drew an unex­ degree day in Huntington, West Virginia, They became the first team in I-AA play­ pected home-field advantage for the quarter­ Andy Larson kicked a twenty-five yard field off history to post back-to-back shutouts finals when Georgia Southern upset unbeat­ goal to give UM its first national football when they whitewashed Eastern Kentucky en Troy State in Alabama. Stephen F. title. The kick defeated the homestanding 48-0 and Georgia Southern 45-0. The 70-14 Austin’s road win over undefeated Southern Marshall Thundering Herd 22-20. decision over Stephen F. Austin in the semi­ Conference champion Appalachian State The Grizzlies, led by incomparable quarter­ final was the most lopsided playoff win ever saved UM from a cross-country trip to back Dave Dickenson and an undersung and Montana’s biggest offensive explosion Boone, N.C., for the semifinals. defense, finished their most successful season since before World War II. No other team “This is about the most exciting time of with a 13-2 record. Their only losses came has ever scored so many points (163) and my coaching career, but I especially feel good within eight miles of each other, at allowed so few (fourteen) in a three-game for these kids,” said Read, after the victory Washington State in September and at Idaho march to the championship game. over Stephen F. Austin.

Sports Special 1996 M o n t a n a n 19 But time and again they were denied the end zone by the Thundering Herd’s unshakable secondary and unnerving front four, led by monstrous “Lion King” Billy Lyon. Fortunately, there were just enough exceptions to Montana’s offensive struggles. Dickenson had touchdown passes to Matt Wells in the second and fourth quarters. It was a fitting end to the careers of UM’s all- time leading passer and receiver. Larson also kicked a personal-best 48- yard field goal early in the game after missing badly from 47 yards out in pregame warm ups. Dickenson, who finished the playoffs with 1,490 yards passing and thirteen touch­ down tosses, wasn’t stifled. He completed twenty-nine of forty-eight passes for 281 yards with one interception. When the time came to do or lose, Dickenson delivered. Trailing 20-19 with just a little under five minutes left AMAZING GRIZ in the game, the Grizzly quarterback hit six of ▲ Four Grizzly football players were named Josh Branen eight passes on a drive that covered seventy- to the GTE Academic All-America team. UM rushes for yardage was the only Big Sky Conference school to against Stephen F. Austin two yards in just over four minutes. place any players on this team. UM tied with University in the semifinal game. On fourth down with thirty-nine seconds the University of Nebraska for most players left, it was all up to kicker Larson, snapper named to the Academic All-America team. Eric Manzanarez and holder Larry Tofanelli. Both schools won the national championship The following week the Grizzlies, vying for The mechanics were flawless, though the ball In their respective divisions. the championship, played a game vasdy differ­ passed close enough to the left upright to ent from the preceding three. This one was cause a breathless pause. But when the ref­ ▲ Walter Payton Award winner Dave held on a sunny day with temperatures in the eree signalled that the kick was good, Dickenson is only the second Grizzly foot­ low fifties. It was played on artificial turf, a sur­ Montana fans went bonkers. So did Larson. ball player to ever have his jersey number face that has proved troublesome to the Griz­ “I can’t believe it happened to me,” the retired. Grizzly football great Terry Dillon’s number 22 is the zlies. Montana had played at junior said moments later. “It’s the best feeling other retired jer- home in morasses of mud the I’ve ever had in my whole life. Every time I look sey. first two playoff games, then on at that scoreboard I almost break out crying.” a frozen field in the semifinal. “I tell you what, it was the toughest game ▲ The Griz set a And this one proved to be a I’ve ever played in my life,” said Grizzly new NCAA record real nailbiter for Griz fans. defensive tackle Ryan Thompson. “It was in posting two A boisterous contingent of tougher than Idaho, tougher than shutouts during 2,500 Montana fans standing in Washington State. In those games, even the playoffs. The the northeast section made it though we were losing, we were having fun Grizzlies beat hard at times for Thundering Eastern Kentucky because we knew there was a tomorrow. 48-0 and Georgia Herd quarterback Chad Penn­ There was no tomorrow in this game.” Southern 4S-0. ington to make himself heard in Two nights later, in a rousing ceremony in They also broke his own stadium. But well over UM’s Adams Field House, Dickenson the previous NCAA 90 percent of the 32,000 specta­ received the Walter Payton Award as playoffs single tors were partial to Marshall. Division I-AA’s outstanding player. A con­ game record when The Grizzlies, whose defen­ gratulatory phone call from President they amassed 41 sive and offensive units Clinton to Dickenson and Read, recorded a first downs against waltzed hand-in-hand through few minutes before the event, was played to a Georgia Southern. earlier playoff games, relied on surprised audience. Then Athletic Director the defense to save the day. ▲ The Grizzlies Wayne Hogan astonished the senior from scored 163 points in the first three playoff Plundered at times during the Great Falls with the announcement, “Never games and held opponents to a total of just regular season, Grizzly defenders limited All- again, never again, will number fifteen be 14 points. American running back Chris Parker to 94 worn by a Montana football player.” yards on 23 carries and his team to just 112 Dickenson became the second football player ▲ The semi-final victory over Stephen F. yards on the ground. In UM’s first three in UM history to have his number retired. Austin (70-14) was the most lopsided score playoff victories, opponents rushed for only In a final tribute, the 8,000 people attend­ in playoff history. forty-one, fifty and seventy-two yards. ing — fans, parents, teammates, coaches and Dickenson and company averaged forty- Gov. Marc Racicot — boomed their appreci­ five points through their first fourteen games. ation one last time. M

20 Sports Special 1996 Montanan B y R ita M unzenrider[ENRIDER THE GRIZ COACH IS

/\N 1 S!S¥ LffiLD hen “W e’re all really good ^G rizzly M Don Read was honored at friends and we don’t want Wm jt # football halftime of the Hula Bowl on to let each other down,” % / % / players January 21 a s Division i-AA Bouchee said. “That comes m# y helped Coach of th e Year. straight from Coach Read.” ▼ ▼ Head Coach To bolster team pride, Don Read celebrate his Read started the tradition birthday on December 15, of having his players sing they promised they’d deliv­ the UM fight song, “Up er his present the next day. W ith Montana,” to the fans They kept their word. On after each victory. It’s a pol­ December 16, the tenth ished performance by now anniversary of Read’s hiring U— they’ve had plenty of at UM, the Grizzlies hand­ practice. ed their coach the first Read’s first college national championship of coaching assignment came his thirty-six-year career. in the mid-1960s at “I always believed we Humboldt State. He could win, and I believed moved on to Portland in those kids,” Read said of State, the University of the Grizzlies’ Division I- Oregon and Oregon Tech. AA championship victory, The week after the cham­ the first in UM’s ninety- pionship game brought acco­ eight-year football history. lades for Read. He was named “This was a payback Big Sky Conference coach of game,” Read recalled. “I the year for the second time told every guy to look at in the past three years. the people who have American Football Quarterly helped him along the named him Division I-AA way—family, friends, pre­ coach of the year. vious coaches. If they Read and his star quarter­ believed in those folks, this back also received a congrat­ was their chance to give ulatory telephone call from something back. I think President Bill Clinton. In they bought into that.” his trademark encouraging Read doesn’t seem to manner, he told Clinton: realize that he was one of “Keep up the good work, those people for whom it Mr. President.” was payback time. Grizzly players say they won games and led the Grizzlies to five play- A few job offers rolled in that week as well, wanted a championship tide for their head offs is by motivating his players. but Read was too busy doing his job at UM to coach as much as for themselves. Expect no Knute Rockne-style inspira­ pay much attention. He was pounding the “There’s an incredible amount of respect tional speeches from Read, nor a good chew­ recruiting trail, trying to catch up with com­ for him,” said inside lineman Mike Bouchee. ing out in the locker room at halftime if the petitors who had a month’s head start while “No one would want to let him down.” game’s not going in the Grizzlies’ favor. He’s he and his assistant coaches were busy win­ Read deserved a championship to enhance never one to lay blame. ning a championship. Inquiries about his his already stellar career, quarterback Dave “He’s not a real rah-rah motivator,” coaching services are nothing new for the Dickenson said. “He’s just as genuine and nice Bouchee said. “It’s a subtle kind of motivation sixty-something coach (he declines to reveal a guy as you’ll find,” Dickenson said. “It’s just that goes on year ‘round. He’s not like any his exact age). Read usually has at least a few amazing what he’s done and how he’s done it.” other coach I’ve ever had. The others have offers every year, including an occasional What Read has done is distinguish himself been the get-in-your-face-and-shout kind of temptation from the NFL. as UM’s most successful coach with a ledger motivators. He’s just an outstanding man— “I have no plans to go anywhere,” Read o f85-36. Since taking over the Grizzly foot­ more like a father figure than a coach.” said. “W hen I was younger, I was always ball program in 1986, the veteran coach has In true fatherly fashion, Read tries to instill looking to move up. My wife and I feel like never had a losing season. And the way he’s a sense of family among his players,. being happy is what’s important now.” M

Sports Special 1996 Montanan 21 Dave Dickenson RENAISSANCE MAN By Rita M unzenrider ast summer, University of many wonder what comes next in the twenty- the talents are there,” Dave said in a rare Montana promotional materi­ three-year-old quarterback’s remarkable career. interview. “If it’s not going to work, so be it, I als dubbed Grizzly quarterback Dave wonders himself, and hopes that playing I’ll move on.” Dave Dickenson “The Legend professional football in the United States or Faithful Grizzly followers watched their favo­ of the Fall.” By the end of the Canada will be part of his future. He intends to rite quarterback bud during his first two seasons, ^season, Dickenson had someday be a family doctor, but for now, med­ but it wasn’t until the record-shattering 1995 become a Montana football ical school is at least a year away. season that Dave Dickenson legend for all time. “I’d like to continue playing as long really became a household The senior who led UM to its first national as my body can put up name in Missoula. By year’s championship set twenty-six school records with it and end, Dave outranked every and fourteen Big Sky Conference and NCAA other college quarterback Division I-AA records along the in die nation in passing way. He capped yards, despite being off his college pulled in the third quar­ football career ter from more than half by winning the of the Grizzlies’ fifteen Walter Payton games. With comfort­ Award as the best able point spreads, offensive player in Read wanted to spare Division I-AA. his star quarterback “Super Dave” made the grades as well as the points, Dave Dickenson throws a pass earning high honors against the as a student-athlete Thundering Herd, and attending UM on a the number-one Presidential Leadership defensive team Scholarship his first four in the nation. years. A pre-med student with a 3.84 grade point average, he was named to the 1995 GTE Academic All-American team. He was one of seventeen players in college football to receive an $18,000 scholarship for post­ graduate study from the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame in recognition of his accomplishments on the field and in the classroom. The orga­ nization added an extra $3,000 scholar­ ship for medical school. “I’ve not coached one like him I before,” said Head Coach Don Read. “He’s so complete. He does so many things so well. He truly is special.” As football fans continue swapping favorite memories of the 1995 Grizzlies,

22 Sports Special 1996 M o n t a n a n I « PHOTO BY BRUCE ELY er, taking the time to sign autographs even even autographs sign to time the taking er, quarterback blue-eyed bespectacled, blond, his of out when recognized easily wasn’t he games, playoff the Until field disappeared. the off relished had Dave that anonymity the Suddenly, God.” is a Dickenson “Dave proclaimed: headlines local and seasons three in crown Big Conference Sky second injury giveand his backups some playing time. That’s not true at all.” at true not That’s friend’s birthday celebration at a local lounge. local a at celebration friend’s birthday girl­ his interrupted popularity his when crowd. Missoula the into blended longer no the chagrin, his To jersey. fifteen number say his size and appearance don’t fit the quar­ the fit don’t appearance saysize and his nerdy guy who turns into something else. something into turns guy who nerdy try­ they’re glasses,I wear “Because said. he stereotype that jocks aren’t smart. ‘T here’s a ‘T here’s smart. aren’t jocks that stereotype tutor than the star quarterback. star the than tutor quarterback’s star the like more looks Dave that noted publication One image. terback observers when offense takes He media. by the especially him, on heaped attention the ing to compare me to Clark Kent or some some or Kent Clark to me compare to ing smarter than I am,” Dave said. Dave Iam,” than smarter lot a are who team that on people of lot the including players, football of images ative setback in his bid for a pro football position. position. football pro a for bid his in setback championship season. “I’ve been very very fortu­ “I’ve been season. championship the for teammates his credit to he’s and quick and he’s ready to do it again. it do to he’s ready and before, himself prove to had has Dickenson pounds, 185 and inches eleven feet, five At need to happen, I seem to get them. And I And them. get to I seem happen, to need breaks hen W life, actually. whole my nate Dave at times felt uncomfortable with all with uncomfortable felt times at Dave howev­ grace, with fanfare the handled He their captured Grizzlies the November In He gets defensive when talking about neg­ about talking when gets defensive He off that,” play to like people many “Too He’s tired of the talk about his size being a size being his about talk the of He’stired He’s modest about his accomplishments, accomplishments, his about He’s modest football championships. He graduated at the the at graduated He championships. football state consecutive two to Rustlers the led he where School, High Russell C.M. at started breaks.” own your make you guess maybe high school. high in sports three all in captain wasteam and athlete, and leader natural A football. nized duck his opponents. his duck and dodge deftly to learned son quarterback her where that’s said mother His Grizzlies. the for coach assistant teams special a now Craig, brother big and buddies hood neighbor­ with River Missouri the of banks the along games yard front about niscing remi­ Dave, said sure,” for football playing Christmas. for kind any of balls get to loved son their remember, can as For football. first his tossed he when dler the best students make the best athletes. best the make students best the that belief by Read’s UM to was drawn He athletics. and academics both in excel to ue contin­ could he where college a wanted and average point grade 4.0 a with class his of top you want him to move on to play at a higher higher a at play to on move to him want you but playing, still him see to You’d like sweet. “It’sbitter­ fans: really their and Grizzlies all golf, and basketball football, in lettered Dave orga­ played clan Dickenson the of member long as his parents, Bob and Sue Dickenson, Dickenson, Sue and Bob parents, as his long number fifteen jersey. fifteen the number in quarterback confident the without same the quite be never will Grizzly Stadium Washington- But season. 1996 the in track to stars of new search in Sentinel Mount of base the at stadium the to back flock level. I’m going to miss him a lot.” lot.” a miss him to I’m going level. A Great Falls native, Dave was still a tod­ a was still Dave native, Falls Great A “As soon as it snowed, we’d be out there there out we’d be snowed, it as soon “As Eight months from now, willGrizzly fans now, from months Eight Dave’s brother Craig, perhaps, speaks for speaks perhaps, Craig, Dave’s brother quarterback a as career storybook His youngest the before grade was seventh It M Most total yards: Idahovs 574 (*95) Mostplays: Idaho vs 85 <*95)‘ BgSyRcr "Nationall-AA Record "Big Sky Record Longest TD yards pass: 90 BoiseState vs (*95) Most TDs passing: (*95) BoiseStale vs 6 Most passing yards:Idaho vs 558 (‘95) Most completed: passes Idaho vs 43 (*95) Most passingattempts: Idaho vs 72 (*95) •95 •95 *95 *95 •94 •94 *93 TeamYear 095)' 379.6 yards/game: Passing (*93)points 4 Scoring: 8 (‘95) offense: Most 4,209 total (‘95) plays: Most 544 (*95)‘ Most TO38 passes: (‘94) 68.2 : Highest completion % (*95)* yards: 4,176 passing Most (‘95) 309 completions: Most Pass (*93)14 rushing: Most IDs TDs passing: 96* TDs passing: 11.080 yards: Passing 813 Completions: asn fiiny 1663* efficiency: Passing 1,208 attempts: Pass 3163* game: per yards Passing 116* r fo TDs responsible Most 673** percentage: completion Highest TDs: 7.9**for passes of perentage Highest percent" 2.1 pass: per interceptions Fewest *95 •94 •93 ‘92 Year Sports Special 1996 1996 Special Sports A SINGLE SEASON A ▲ POST SEASON GAME BY GAME BY GAME SEASON POST ▲ DAVE’S CAREERSTATISTICS S. F.S. Austin Ga.South E. Kentucky N.Iowa McNceseSL Delaware Marshall G/CS 35/30 11/11 11/10 9/9 4/0 ▲ YEAR BY YEAR BY YEAR ▲ ▲ SINGLE GAME SINGLE ▲ Comp 813 229 309 262 Comp 13 202 37 38 25 37 31 29 CAREER ▲ 5 1.208 336 455 390 Att 269 27 44 Att 50 48 36 46 39 6 M from the sidelines as as sidelines the from .841 championship game. championship left the in seconds with fieldgoal a Andyattempts Larson and receiver Matt receiver and Wells anxiously watch Daveleft,Dickenson, .833 .760 .694 .795 .604 .804 .762 Pd Pd .482 .673 .679 .682 .672 n a n a t n o bit Int 0 0 0 0 0

1 1 2 6 9 2 6 11.080 26 9 2,406 3,640 4,176 3,053 408 436 441 409 Yds 370 Yds 281

61 21 TDs TDs 20 4 96 38 5 4 2 1 2 32 24 2 2 A HERO’S WELCOME See the conquering hero comes! Sound the trumpet, beat the drums! — Thomas Morell

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The Grizzlies savor the moment during an airport celebration rizzly Telephone calls following their championship victory. Front row, left to right: m ^ foot- Yohanse Manzanarez, Matt Wells, Mike from the team plane ball Kowalski, Dave Dickenson and keep Missoula Eric Simonson. /A I apprised of the team’s progress O an home. “They’re now len ig m a: raucous, boarding the plane roaring and defiant in Huntington,” one week; sentimen­ radio deejays intone. tal and teary-eyed “They’ve stopped in the next. Des Moines to refu­ The countdown to el.” “They’re 50 an emotional cham­ miles outside of pionship celebration Missoula and will cir­ that swept up the cle the city in.ten faithful and the indif­ minutes.” At this ferent alike began on point a crowd esti­ a snow-filled Satur­ mated at between day in Washington- 4,000 and 8,000 peo­ Grizzly Stadium. The Griz had just defeated stations begin announcing the airport cele­ ple strains the barricades surrounding a stage Stephen F. Austin University, 70-14, in sin­ bration. Local businesses offer to donate set up on the Smokejumper airfield and sings gle-digit temperatures before a record-break­ food and beverages to feed the expected “W e will, we will rock you.” ing crowd of 18,523. The easy win earned mob. Business marquees all over town pro­ The team deplanes a half-mile away from the team a berth in the championship game claim support for the Griz. Football pen­ the celebration and boards four chartered the following Saturday. And before the last nants and posters festoon businesses’ win­ buses. A police and fire truck escort leads fan had left the stadium, plans were already dows and walls. the buses to the roaring throng. One televi­ under way for a national championship cele­ Saturday, December 16. At 10 a.m. there is sion and two radio stations broadcast the cel­ bration. an almost eerie silence in Missoula. It is ebration live. As loudspeakers play “We Are Saturday, December 9. Offices that would kickoff time in West Virginia, and the streets the Champions” by Queen, the Grizzlies, normally be darkened through the weekend in the Grizzlies’ hometown are deserted. walk a red carpet past thousands of well- blaze with light in the post-game hours of a Nearly a thousand UM students take a break wishers and up to the floodlit stage. Many snowy, frigid Saturday as Alumni from studies to watch “the game” on a four- players later said the reality of winning the Association Director Bill Johnston and his teen-foot screen in the University Center national championship did not sink in until staff arrange charter flights to Huntington, Ballroom. Missoula bars overflow with the moment they stood on that stage. West Virginia. This isn’t cheap talk: The patrons. Residents of a local retirement cen­ The heroes’ welcome continues as the ante is over $80,000 to book one plane. ter crowd into the facility’s television room. buses carrying the national champions roll Monday, December 11. Planning for the Local department stores are deserted except into town from the airport led by a police booster airlift to West Virginia accelerates as for small knots of customers and clerks clus­ escort. Spontaneous cheering erupts from the fans seek charter seats and game tickets. tered around the television display areas. street as motorists, pulled over for the lights The team plane quickly fills with players, Had medical science been able to measure and sirens, realize the emergency vehicles are coaches, athletic staff and University admin­ such a phenomenon, it would have discov­ actually heralding the return of their Grizzlies. istrators. The original allotment of 1,000 ered that on Dec. 16 at approximately 1:30 “It was unreal,” recalls Gordy Fix, a Grizzly game seats set aside for UM fans has grown p.m. Mountain Standard Time, several hun­ booster who rode on one of the team buses. to 1,500; before midweek it will increase to dred thousand people in the state of Mon­ “There were tears in the eyes of the players more than 2,500. A t week’s end, eight char­ tana stopped breathing for thirty seconds. as they ran from one side of the bus to the tered planes from Missoula and two from W hen the referees’ upraised arms signal other to see the fans cheering.” Great Falls fly Grizzly fans to Huntington. that kicker Andy Larson’s field goal is good, The week was a magical time for Missoula. Thursday, December 14. University and breathing resumes with a collective roar, the As Missoulictn columnist Evelyn King community representatives scramble to lay celebration begins. penned, “Missoula hasn’t experienced such the groundwork for a celebration welcoming People flood into Missoula streets, car horns tremendous shouting, singing, bell ringing, the team home on Saturday night. The U.S. blaring, index fingers signalling the news: WE jumping and dancing in the streets since the Forest Service gives permission to hold the ARE NUMBER ONE! Radio deejays urge end of World War II.” Quoting a reveler, event at the Smokejumper Center airfield. their listeners to welcome die champs home at she added, “It was great to see Missoula act­ Friday, December 15. Radio and television die airport later that night. ing like a small town!” M

24 Sports Special 1996 M on tan an Grizzly defensive end Yohanse Manzanarez, No More shown tackling a M arshall player, sheds his “vanilla” Im a g e d u r­ VANILLA ing a game. By Todd G oodrich

A s the University of Montana Gang’s photographer, I was blessed “Celebrate” just with the assignment of travel- a little too early. I ing with the Grizzly football Haven’t they ever j L JL »team and capturing on film heard of a jinx in since returning from the Herd’s their bid for the national championship in West Virginia? pasture is, “W hat was it like on the plane ride Huntington, West Virginia. A t pre-game inter­ home? It must have been wild!” Everyone We arrived late in the evening on views, UM players and staff answered reporter’s pictures a frenzied flight with players high-fiv- Wednesday, Dec. 13. I believe if they’d had questions in typical Montana “vanilla” and ing, squirting champagne and dancing in the their way, the team would have suited up on “double vanilla” style. For those who don’t aircraft’s aisle. Actually, the celebration was the plane and met the Thundering Herd on a know, “vanilla” is a way of talking to the media quite tame. No bubbly. No dancing. Just a field marked out in chalk on the tarmac. The with great respect for your opponent’s talent few motion sickness pills and ice packs. Marshall people, on the other hand, seemed and skill while downplaying your own. Head Don’t misunderstand: everyone was determined to make this game an extravagan­ Coach Don Read is considered the reigning happy. But it was more of a “satisfied” hap­ za with bells, whistles and yes, karaoke. king of vanilla, while, senior defensive end piness than a “We did it! Let’s get crazy!” Thursday evening dinner featured Yohanse Manzanarez is said to wield a pretty happiness. On the plane ride home, the karaoke as the entertainment. While each mean scoop. loudest cheering came when Read team had a few players take the stage, the Game day finally came. Sixteen rolls of announced that Dave Dickenson had won enthusiasm necessary for successful karaoke film later, my work was over, and I got to the Walter Payton Award. just didn’t exist in a room filled with players hear one final chorus of “Up With But for me, the most appropriate cheer and coaches vying for a championship. Montana” sung by the victorious Grizzlies. came in the post-game lockerroom. It was Some Marshall players sang Kool and the Probably the most-asked question I’ve heard just three words: “N o More Vanilla!” M

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and spirit. Healing seeks to by Marga Lincoln restore balance and harmony, whether the problem is physical, emotional or spiritual. As soon as Slater began work­ hen I first learned ing with a healer, his depression I had cancer, it began to lift “I just seemed to was just absolute­ relax, to calm down. I developed ly devastating,” a different attitude about says Jerry Slater, myself,” he says. He changed to a viceW president of academic affairs healthier diet and began to exer­ at Salish-Kootenai College and cise regularly. “I began to take an enrolled tribal member. better care of myself. If you truly Diagnosed with bone cancer in respect yourself, it’s much easier July 1994, Slater was told by doc­ to take care of yourself.” tors that the disease would run Slater also developed a differ­ its course. Slater, who describes ent attitude about his illness. He himself as a “fix-it” type of per­ has learned to be thankful for son, was suddenly faced with what he has. “Everything that “something that couldn’t be happens, there’s a reason,” he fixed.” says. “I had to re-examine my life “Immediately I went into a and relationships. My family and deep depression,” he recalls. “I health became a higher priority could wake up and it was like for me than work. There’s almost something black was sitting on a gift within the illness. My life is my chest and face, almost smoth­ so much richer now. My life is ering me.” this particular day.” His brother-in-law, a Blackfeet He gestures out his office win­ medicine man, approached dow to the Mission Mountains, Slater and offered to help. Slater lit with a golden autumn light “I accepted because he “had noth­ think of the phenomenal beauty ing to lose.” He had not sought of this world. There are cycles of out a native healer on his own, GOOD life that are deep and profound. I he says, because he was not am just a part of the rhythm and raised practicing tribal tradi­ cycle. I am finding that place of tions. “I’m thankful I found this harmony.” way, otherwise 1 would have If modern medicine treated a been treating this one little part Medicine person’s spirit as well as the body, of me,” he says. Slater believes it could reduce a Like an increasing number of patient’s anxiety and fear. Slater American Indians and non- Combining Modem Medicine found native healing eased his Indians, Slater decided to use fears and helped him become both a doctor and a native heal­ more involved in his own treat­ er to treat his bone cancer. He and Native Healing m ent “You’re told by Western regularly consulted with a cancer medicine there’s nothing you can specialist and received six chemotherapy treatments. With his native do. There’s mechanical intervention,” he says. “In Native American healer, he took part in five healing ceremonies that involved medi­ medicine, you have to participate. If you don’t do anything, nothing’s cine bundles, prayer, song and sweats. “Together they seem quite pow­ going to happen.” erful,” Slater says of the combined medical practices. “That’s why I Doctors are kept too busy staying abreast of the latest medical am working with both.” developments to explore alternative types of healing, he says. “In the Modern allopathic medicine focuses on the physical aspects of ill­ Western way of medicine, they try so hard to be honest,” he says. ness or injury. Using research-based treatments, physicians approach “They’re very careful not to deceive you. W hat they don’t under­ medical conditions by treating symptoms. While native healing varies stand is they don’t give you enough hope-the kinds of things you by tribe, it generally treats illness as a disruption of the mind, body need. They’re cold and factual. Their vision of us is too narrow.”

•> Winter 1996 Montanan 27 i about her cultural prac­ Native Healing and Hospitals tices. HpOTged her to treat her cancer Bonnie Craig, director of UM Native American like a boxing match, to strike the first blow and always Studies, reached the same conclusion during treatment of ovarian get back up. cancer. Her experiences as a Blackfeet Indian in a Seattle hospital This was in sharp contrast to a later trip Craig made to the same were the impetus for a conference hospital. Each day a team of a dozen specialists entered Craig's room When Craig had on American Indian health care to examine her. There was no conversation. “They didn’t know who a recurrence of issues that was held at UM in I am,” Craig says. “They were not relating to me as a person.” At one cancer, this April 1995. The conference fea­ point she became so frustrated that she stopped them as they were spirit dancer tured American Indian physi­ leaving. “There is more to healing than just putting medicine in a mysteriously cians and practitioners who find body,” she told them. “You are not treating my mind. You are not appeared on traditional healing complements allowing my spirit to heal.” her desk to their medical practice. The hospital also interfered with her praying, Craig says. “My give her “W hen I was diagnosed prayer involves smudging”—burning sweetgrasses to ground her spirit hope. with cancer, I felt schiz­ and communicate with the Creator. “The fire marshal was called in. ophrenic,” Craig says. I was pointedly asked ‘do not do this.’ I couldn’t rely on who I am as “I felt pulled to a spirit person.” my personal roots, yet part of me was pulled to Combining Traditions modern technology. A Mohawk physician who spoke at the April conference says, I made a personal “people really fall back on their traditional ways, particularly in times choice to bring togeth­ of stress.” Dr. Theresa Maresca works with traditional healers to help er doctors, nurses and her patients and honors such patient requests as allowing an Indian tribal healers.” Fear grandmother to wit­ was at the root of her ness the birth of her decision to use both mod­ grandson so she ern medicine and tradition­ could greet him with al healing, she says. 1 need­ a gifting ceremony. ed a foot in both worlds in Maresca suggests order to feel comfortable.” that medical profes­ Unlike modern medicine, sionals learn to greet native healing treats the mind, Indian patients in body and the spirit, Craig says. their native language “It places you in the middle of and make their med­ your family or your tribal mem­ ical offices more wel­ bers, who surround you and give coming. Receptionists you their support and their love. need to be under­ There's a continuum of prayer standing about that goes on constantly.” appointment times, In the course of her treat­ she says, because ment, Craig took part in many Indians on Native American studies Professor Bonnie Craig numerous healing ceremonies. reservations lack reli- combined modem medicine and native healing prac­ She also had a hysterectomy, fol­ able transportation. tices to treat her cancer. low-up surgery, taxol treatments She also advises med­ and high-dose chemotherapy. ical professionals to look at the pictures and messages on waiting The chemotherapy took an room walls and ask themselves, “W hat’s there that greets people and incredible physical toll “A cou­ says this is a place of healing?” ple times I felt near death,” she It is sometimes difficult to translate Western medical terminology says. into native languages, Maresca says. One of her older patients Craig's hospital experiences laughed heartily when the radiologist told him about a diagnosis in varied widely. One of her spe­ his native tongue. When asked, he replied that he had just been cialists took an interest in get­ told,”You have a large lightning bolt coming out of your face.” ting to know her and learning “The Indian Health Service is long overdue in utilizing tradition- In modern medicine they try so hard to be honest....What they don’t understand is they don’t give you enough hope....”

al medicine people,” says Gordon Belcourt, who organized UM’s Healers do not claim to be able to cure every illness every time, American Indian health care conference. “In the past, the Indian he says, nor do they boast of their power. “I observe the spirit world. Health Service has excluded traditional medicine.” As much as they allow, I am a guest there,” Yellow Kidney says. “If I Traditional healers provide invaluable counsel and support to peo­ am in luck, they will come to me in a sweat lodge. They’ll tell me this ple who are sick, says Belcourt, a former executive director of person needs this root. We manipulate the plants and the spirit of the National Indian Health Board and a tribal health director on the Blackfeet Reservation. “I’ve seen people with heart problems, can­ cer and tremendous mental problems have miraculous recoveries,” he says. “Medicine people also help those who are dying. They come in and clean your body, and sing, and pray with you, encouraging you to leave without fight­ ing.” Currently there are several crises fac­ ing traditional heal­ ing. One is that med­ icine bundles used in healing ceremonies The face of modern medicine: Dr. James Oury performs a Ross procedure, heart surgery that replaces a patient’s diseased aortic valve are locked in muse­ with his pulmonary valve. ums. For example, Belcourt says, a Blackfeet beaver bundle that has tremendous power other side. If everything is right, it will work.” to help alcoholics and drug addicts is locked in a Canadian museum To heal the body and heal the spirit, many Indians are combining vault. If it is not returned soon, he fears that the elders who know the power of both medical traditions. “I wouldn’t be here without one how to use the bundle will be gone. or the other,” Craig says. “I’m here because of the choices I’ve “Medicine bundles are living entities with powers from the made to survive.” Creator,” Belcourt says. “They need to be cared for like a baby. There While one practice offers the latest scientific knowl­ are songs and rituals that are done to care for the bundle properly and edge and technology, the other provides strength and preserve its powers.” solace. “Traditional healers never say, ‘We can’t Another problem is that native language and ceremonies are dying help you,’” says Craig. “There’s endless hope with tribal elders. In the Blackfeet tribe, there were 300 elders in till the last breath.” M 1968; today there are sixty-five. Merle Yellow Kidney, a Blackfeet medicine lodge keeper and a drug abuse counselor for the Salish and Kootenai Tribes, says native language is the root of all ceremonies. He is saddened that some of those who lead ceremonies are not fluent in Blackfeet “W hen you call an eagle, it has to be called by the cor­ rect name,” he says. “There are seven different eagles. You can’t just Sweetgrass, which is say eagle.” used in some native Yellow Kidney knows that the Western-trained mind may be skep­ healing ceremonies. tical of traditional healing. That’s not his concern. “Spiritually, to make everything all right, we have to stop being what everyone else wants us to be,” he says.

Winter 1996 Montanan 29 C h a t | by Susanna Sonnenberg

All Alidl Place: The Fort Missoula, Montana, Detention Camp 1941-1944 by Carol Van Valkcnburg, ‘72, M.A. ‘78. VM associate professor o fjournalism. Missoula: Pictorial Histories Publishing Qx, 1995. 128 pp. $10.95.

ifty-four years ago, the district office of the Japanese requested fish and rice). As the Civilian Conservation Corps, each separate nation appointed its leaders Flocated on a grassy spot near and spokesmen, a government emerged Missoula’s country club, opened its gates to within the camp. two thousand Italian and Japanese men and Van Valkenburg focuses her story on closed the gates again. For the next three Missoula. As the prisoners’ tedious lives are years, while World War II raged on, Fort recounted and Missoula natives adjust to Missoula served as a detention camp. their neighbors, she tells a surprisingly In An Alien Place, Carol Van Valkenburg domestic story. Missoula suddenly had for­ has gathered together every available piece of eigners, and the author describes the young local data concerning the prisoners detained women looking through the fence and the at Fort Missoula, detailing a brief historical police who couldn’t tell a Korean tourist Missoula suddenly had moment in a small American town. from a Japanese prisoner in custody. She Van Valkenburg’s strength lies in her culls M issoulian editorials for the changing research, a collection of exhaustive data use­ attitudes toward the Japanese and Italians, foreigners.... ful to anyone studying internment camps. which range from curious to racist, welcom­ The 2,000 prisoners slept in low-lying ing to fiercely xenophobic. Van Valkenburg bunkhouses, did minimal chores and their methodically lays out the facts and lets them own laundry. They ate meals in the same speak for themselves, characterizing this cafeteria but kept apart culturally (the moment as somewhat benign in Missoula’s Italians asked for and got olive oil shipped in; history.

Homestead by Annick Smith. Workshop coordinator o f the Yellow Bay Writer's Workshop. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1995. 211 pp. $19.95.

he skepticism that opens Annick In the finest essay, after which the book Smith’s H om estead will resonate with is titled, Smith recounts the story of her own Tmany readers who have struck out for arrival with her young, sick husband and unknown territories. To the city friends she their sons, their claim on the land and the left behind, Smith’s new home of Missoula, land’s claim on them. She documents the Montana, was in 1970 still locked in the beginnings of a new self she felt stir and her myth of the West, a dangerous, inhospitable husband’s death. Smith grows from wife and frontier. With a foreigner’s curiosity and the mother into a writer, a film producer, a devotion of an adopted daughter, she records woman at home. But her story of herself is impressions, anecdotes and memories of bound up with the land, for this circular Montana in her volume of essays. book, while describing the grass and sun and The essays, gathered from magazines and beauty of Montana, deftly traverses her per­ anthologies, examine a simple, good life from sonal terrain. many angles. Smith writes with unbridled Smith evolves from an outsider to one “‘Montana?’ said one friend. joy of the pleasures of a grassy river bank, an who considers herself part of the landscape elk in the snow, the work of brand inspec­ The young Smith, she tells us, sought a home tors, the gathering of good friends. Her par­ when she arrived in Montana, and the I give you a year. Maybe two.’” ents, Jewish Hungarian emigres, lived in writer has discovered that home comes from Paris when she was born, then moved the a peace within. Montana, she writes in this family to Chicago. In her own travels, Smith love letter, brought her that peace “We can finds parallels with her ancestry: the never be abandoned,” she writes in the essay, nomadic restlessness, the adventure and sad­ “Homestead.” “The love you have had will ness in foreign lands. never abandon you.”

30 Winter 1996 Mo n tan an Borneo Log: The Struggle for Sarawak’s Forests by W illiam W. Bevis. Professor o f English. Seattle: University o f Washington Press, 1985. 245 pp. $19.95.

E arly in his book Borneo Log, William Bevis tells an old tale, one of greed and W. Bevis spends five pages describing colonizing. He deftly blends Borneo’s history a single tree. “We are deceived by the of rajahs and commercial enterprise into the word ‘tree,’ a clean noun from the world of murky weave of entangled vines that darken hard edges and ice,” he begins. “This [tree! the magnificent rain forests. To help us com­ is a gathering, a neighborhood, a mob of veg­ prehend the scope of the logging and its etation; in fact, I can hardly see the tree.” effects he details global shifts in the wood And then, from the depths of the Sarawak trade. Then he follows a single tree from its forest, where Bevis investigates the Borneo forest felling to Japan’s buzzing neon mar­ culture and its intricate relationship with ketplace and its fate as disposable frames for logging, he delivers a description of this the drying of cement. extraordinary living creature so beautifully He writes sometimes in diary form, detailed that the mesmerized reader can details keen and sharp, sometimes in the smell and hear the forest. authorial voice of a researcher. W hat William W. Bevis’s book, This is a moment of drama in his story, emerges is almost a thriller, rich with vil­ and Bevis’ trick and talent is transforming lainous raiders, deceived natives, poverty- both senses of the word log into theater. ravished families and himself, this modern Borneo Log, won the 1995 W ith his wife and a guide, he journeys day Marlow who goes up the river into the upriver into the forests, learning this foreign jungle and learns a terrible tale that illumi­ culture of logging—thousands of miles away nates his life and ours. Western States Book Award from his home, Missoula, Montana, also affected by the timber industry. for creative non-fiction.

W hat can 1 tell you that you do not polished hardwood porches far up the Zealand, and in 1990 bought extensive know? That as 1 sit here, home brown rivers of Borneo, timber traders concessions in Alberta, Canada. As I sat in in Montana after two years away, Borneo from the richest of countries are sitting the Timber Section conference room in is a dream of green, of insects honking like down face to face with some of the last tra­ the Mitsubishi Soshi Annex, seventh floor, car horns, of rain like cataracts, of beauti­ ditional tribal people on earth; that we, Ginza, Tokyo, March 5, 1991, they were ful people who put a hand into yours as if the consumers of this earth, are tearing considering the purchase of a Montana placing the world’s last butterfly, fallen the trees and vines from around their plywood mill near my home. “A man and dazed, back on a leaf. It rests there; houses; that they do not want this; that at called yesterday,” said the head of they do not shake. That these people once this moment one timber camp in the Mitsubishi Timber. ”He wants eight mil­ hunted heads, and so were famous; that Baram is taking out $3.6 million a month lion dollars for the mill.” 1 guess: “It’s noth­ headhunting is irrelevant now and will of timber and paying for the privilege less ing.” “It’s nothing,” he agreed. I felt for a not be mentioned again; that their land is than one percent, or $1.35 to each native second how the weak feel about the being taken away, bit by bit, the length and of that district; that most of the timber strong, how Japan and most of the world breadth of Sarawak, north Borneo; that goes to Japan, much of it to plywood forms had felt about America for two genera­ their rain forest, the oldest in the world, is for concrete which are thrown away after tions, how Borneo feels now about Japan. being cut; that they stand in feathered two uses; that the forest will be gone in It is as much fun as looking at the head of hats, earlobes stretched to the breasts, seven to ten years. That the government Medusa, as sitting down across the table spears and blowpipes in hand, in front of and companies have no thought for tomor­ from your fate. Japanese bulldozers. row in Sarawak, although Mitsubishi is May 1 tell you that right now on foot- looking now toward Chile and New

Winter 1996 Montanan 31 JJ^^^FLECTIONS

Faughnan with some young friends in a refugee camp in Zaire.

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A REFUGEE CAMP hat do you call by Kerri Faughnan several visits to the facility, I saw members of i i this?" I ask the Maasai tribes, dressed in red with dyed Charles, our red scalps and dangling, stretched-out ear­ driver, in bro­ Six months ago, I interviewed for the lobes. Yes, this was a really different part of ken French, AMDA internship in the International the world. Wshowing him the dirt-streakedPrograms office tissue in I UM’s have Main Hall. Africa, After a brief general tour around the just wiped across my face. international relief work...I was all but on my Kalehe camp, I follow the resident doctor, Dr. “Poussiere” (dust), he answers, barely knees begging to go. Peter Koehn, the pro­ Aacharya, on his rounds. In a clinic with glancing away from the road. gram director, was stern. This will be reality, wards separated only by curtains, he treats July 9,1995.1 lean back into the back seat he said, not a National Geographic special. patient after patient with malaria. Although of the Land Cruiser and cough. I have been You will face alien situations, possibly alone. he treats ailments ranging from AIDs to mal­ in Bukavu, Zaire, exactly two days, and my You will see poverty far beyond anything in nutrition, malaria is by far the most preva­ throat already feels lacerated by the dust. It is the United States. Are you sure you want to lent illness in the camp. Dr. Aacharya tells me the dry season in eastern Zaire and when the pursue this? he asked. I was certain. The people in the camp get malaria an average of occasional truck passes, the dust is so thick International Programs office approved my four times a year. The patients lie on plain that visibility drops to zero. It is as if we are application, and on May 28 I left for Nairobi wooden beds without mattresses while the driving in that road, not on it The dust con­ from Seattle. team struggles to treat them. I see women trasts sharply to the rich green hills we are The five weeks I spent in Kenya before with newborns who cannot find a clean cloth driving through. Not long before, the area coming to Zaire had somewhat prepared me to wrap their babies in. No soap has been was carved out of the jungle, and it still lurks for the realities of the refugee camps. I delivered to the camp for six months. conspicuously around its edges. worked in AMDA’s regional office in As we leave the camp that afternoon, we Along with our Zairian driver, I am trav­ Nairobi, doing cost estimates for renovating see the biweekly food distribution, handled eling with three members of the Association a health center in southern Kenya. During by CARE International, drawing to a close. of Medical Doctors of Asia medical team. At Dr. Aacharya asks Charles to stop so I can 8:30 a.m., we are on our way to the AMDA see the ration for each person: half a cup of dispensary at Kalehe refugee camp, the tent oil, a few tablespoons of salt, a bit of sugar hospital for 8,000 Rwandan refugees who and a few pounds of soy flour. This is the are the residents of Kalehe. This is my first 1,000 calorie a day diet for each adult. Dr. full day in the camp and 1 am bewildered. Aacharya tells me—a starvation diet in Before I left Montana, someone told me to America. As we drive away, children in “prepare to be shocked." As we drive into the ragged or no clothes once again wave wildly, camp, I see naked and semi-naked children groups of men move to the side of the road standing in front of small mud and twig huts and women take time from pounding cassa­ covered with white plastic sheets, waving va to look up and smile. M wildly, yelling “Muzungu! Muzungu!” (white Dr. Aacharya on his daily rounds in Kerri Faughnan is a senior majoring in people). Prepare? I think. the camp infirm ary. chem istry.

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Palo Alto, Calif. Recendy Tom and his wife, Neva, were MlCHIO KfTAHARA ’61 recendy wrote The Entangled Class notes are compiled and edited by Paddy honored in Townsend for contributing to the commu­ Civilization: Democracy, Equality and Freedom at a O’Connell MacDonald, M A '81. If you would like to nity. May 13 was declared Tom and Neva Cotter Day, Loss. He is director of the Nordenfeldt Institute in submit information, please write to her c/o Alumni and the mayor gave them the key to the town. Goteborg, Sweden. Association, Brandy Hall, The University of Montana, Missoula, M T 59812-1313. O r e-mail your news to: Larimore ’49 and Elaine Ungherini Howard x’53 David Dale '62, MJEd. ‘69, M .FA ’91, and his wife, A** * [email protected] live in Colorado Springs, Colo., where Larimore, a Donna, live in Big Arm. David is a poet and teaches retired forensic scientist, is a consultant Spanish at Ronan High School.

Le e Woodward ’53, a professor of geology at the Jack Gilluly ’62 recently ended his job at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, recendy Montana Rawer Co. He was a reporter and photogra­ * ’30s published Metallic Mineral Deposits o f the Judith Ernest “Prunie” Holmes Jr. x’34 married his high pher for daily and weekly newspapers before joining school sweetheart, Effie Clark Dockstader, this sum­ Mountains, Central Montana. the MPC, where he was in charge of the employee pub­ mer and they live in Bigfork. lications and editor of a daily news publication for 18 Dick ’54 and Jane S eely S olberg ’57, M A ’74, years. Jack and his wife, Carol, live in Anaconda. They Ke n Hufford ’34, a retired accountant, lives in spent the autumn teaching advanced English at the have two children. Lafayette, Calif., where he plays clarinet and saxiphone Zentrales Sprachlabor of Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat in with his musical group, “Oldies But Goodies.” Heidelberg, Germany. They taught nearly 50 students Bobbin Field Mak i ’63, M A ’95, lives in Great from countries such as Hungary, Russia, Japan, China Falls, where she is a psychotherapist with Crossroads and Germany. After teaching, Dick and Jane traveled Ethel Bond '35 lives in Terry. This summer she Counseling Services Inc She is also an adjunct faculty in southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland with was named first Lady of Prairie County by the Beta member at the College of Great Bills. their grandson, Austin Willis, of Billings. Mu and Xi Alpha Xi for her community service. Jane is a speech therapist and Dick was a former Ja n Thruston S chwartz ’63 and her husband, associate provost at UM. They live in Whitefish. Edtth Peterson Gronhovd ’36 lives in Billings. Her James, live in Bozeman, where she is a residential real grandson, Tom Spaulding, is completing a master’s estate specialist with Coldwell Banker Realty. She was degree at UM. honored as realtor of the year by the Montana Association of Realtors at the annual joint convention B yron Lee '39 writes: “My wife, Lois, and I are ’S* ’60s of Montana and Idaho realtors in Coeur d’Alene enjoying retirement on the banks of Puget Sound in Duane Diamond Mercer ’60, M A ‘63, owns Mercer Seatde. We also enjoy traveling to visit our family and Miracle Message in Mercer Island, Wash. Charles R . Hatch ’64 is dean of the College of friends. In June we traveled all around France. I had to Forestry at the University of Idaho in Moscow. show Lois where a lot of us spent 1941-45-especially JOHN F. Kavanauch ’61 of Shelby recently sold his Normandy.” newspapers, the Shelby Promoter and the C u t B a n k Dale Huhtanen ’65 is an administrative assistant at ***** Pioneer Press, to his son and daughter-in-law. He lives Hamilton City Hall He and his wife, Dianne, have two in Shelby and maintains an office at the Prom oter. children. * ’40s Vm a n Hilden Paladin x’43 of Helena, who edited the Montana Historical Society’s Montana, the Magazine of Western H isto ry for 19 years, received an award of Travel Connection merit from American Association for State and Local History for develop­ Conference planning service ing the magazine into a nationally recognized and Montana Vacation Planning On The award-winning journal. Full service travel agency UM Campus ’50s In The Mel Yuhas ’51 and his wife, Millie, recently cele­ UC Center brated their 50th wedding anniversary. They live in West Glacier, where they own Glacier West Chalet They have three children and six grandchildren.

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William McRae, ‘69 Rob Thornburg, *69 Musselshell Museum in Harlowton. Curt McMarrell ’65 of Eureke recently wrote a history teacher at Lake City High School in Coeur book, Investments for Low Incomes and d’Alene, Sandra received the University of Idaho Emma M. Joki Gebo 7 1. chief operating officer for Understanding Interest Alumni Teaching Excellence Award in 1994. Jim also teaches at the high school and is a collegiate football Super Save of Idaho in Pocatello, was recognised as one of eight national leaders by the American David Carpita ’66 and his wife live in Saint Remy- official de-Provence, France and operate a cooking school and Asociation of family and Consumer Sciences. private country inn from a 200-year-old stone farm William McRa e '69, M A. '72, lives in Cookville, house They are located near Roman ruins and the set­ Tenn., where he teaches English at Tennessee A ndrea Malyevac M ungas 71 received the tings for many of Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings. Technological University. As a 1995-96 Fullbright Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching Scholar, he will travel to Oman, along the southeastern Elementary Mathematics in Washington, D.C Andrea is implementing a new math program in the DODDS B ill Ruegamer ’66, president of First Interstate Arabian Penninsula, to teach and conduct research at Bank of Commerce in Billings, was recendy elected Sultan Qaboos University. Schools in the Wuerzburg District in Bavaria, working president of the Montana Bankers Association. in 13 schools with 300 teachers. She and her husband, Robert Thornburg ’69 is a research analyst in the Bob, live in Ansbach, Germany. They have two grown Craig Pierson ’67 worked at the Billings Exxon research department of D A Davidson and Co. in children, Nicholas and Jeannette. refinery for nearly 20 years after completing a doctor­ Great Falls. ate in chemistry at Penn State in 1973. With Exxon’s Juue Duncan Robbins 7 1 is vice president, service matching gift program, Craig helped the Law School manager and bank secrecy officer at First Bank install a wheelchair lift as a memorial to his father, Helena. Dalton T. Pierson, who practiced law in Missoula until § ’70s R o y R obinson 7 1 is a supervisor at Stimson 1970. Rk k Applegate ‘70, M A ’79, is West Coast con­ Craig, who lives in Billings, now choreographs and servation director for Trout Unlimited. He lives in Lumber near Missoula. He and his wife, Sandi, have teaches round dancing and operates a service prepar­ Porland, Ore. two daughters, Claudine and Morissa. ing cue sheets for dance leaders nationwide. He has released two dances on Grenn Records—"Double Eagle Ted Wold ’70 of Winnfield, La., was granted a Challen “R usty” Wells 71 writes: “After 17 years Polka" (on Missoula’s carousel) and “Columbia patent from the U.S. Patent Office for forming articles of guiding backpacking and mountaineering trips for Quickstep.” He taught dancing at a national conven­ of reinforced composite materials. He works at the National Outdoor Leadership School in Wyoming tion in Portland, Ore. Riverwood International and the Wilderness Treatment Center in Montana, I’ve quit carrying a pack for a living and now work in

Helen Bailey Bradley ’68 is a certified election A lexander (Zander) Blewett III, JD. 71, an attor­ a flyfishing store in Whitefish. I’m also an active mem­ administrator in Yakima, Wash. ney with Hoyt and Blewett in Great Falls, was named ber of the National Ski Patrol a fellow in the International Academy of Trial “By the way, I was happy to notice in my latest Ga r y Nelson ‘68, M.Ed. ’72, is athletic director at Lawyers. He is one of four M ontana attorneys in the issue of the M o n ta n a n (spring 1995) that the Forestry the Multnomah Athletic Club in Portland, Ore. academy. School now offers ‘five discrete master’s degrees.’ I remember during my years in school nothing at all dis­

Sandra Pramenko Kravik ’69 and her husband, Jim Nik Carpenter, M .FA 7 1, is an artist and lives in creet about UM forestry students (especially at the x’67, live in Hayden Lake, Idaho. A government and Bridger. Recently, his work was displayed at the Upper convocation!).”

Randall R . HERZBERG 7 2 is the district ranger at U N I V the Beartooth Ranger District in Red Lodge. He and his wife, Janet, have one daughter.

Ron Campbell 7 3, a pharmacist from Cut Bank, was elected president of the Montana State You’re a part of a Group Pharmaceutical Association. that can help you save on Life. Barbara Barker Parker 7 3, M.Ed. ‘82, lives in Havre and is superintendent in the Turner School District in Harlem.

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34 Winter 1996 MONTANAN §Mffi | (SStOlB | in Missoula, received the U.S. Forest Service’s Superior Thomas Pelletier 76 is an account executive for Science Award at a recent ceremony in Arlington, Va. CommNet Cellular Inc of Great Falls. itadlgiam © 1 Sarah Emerson Crowley 74 and her husband, Mark Osteen 77, M.A. ’82, associate professor of Russ Baxter, live in Lewistown, where she writes for English at Loyola College in Baltimore, Md., published the Lewistown News-Argus.. She published a novel, The Economy o f Ulysses: Making Both Ends M eet VpTTfitYt I The Foretelling and is working on a second. Ken Paul ' l l , assistant fire manegement officer on John Schaffner 7 4 o f Los Angeles writes: “I’m the Diamond Lake Ranger District of the Umpqua designing sets for five sitcoms this season with my National Forest, lives with his wife and two sons in 2 8 + K partner, Joe Stewart: ‘Friends,’ ‘Hope and Gloria,’ T he Toketee, Ore. Drew Carey Show,’ ‘Partners,’ and Too Something.’ This spring we received a daytime Emmy nomination Ken Egan Jr ., M.A. 78, professor of English at K y i - Y o for T he Leeza Show,’ and we received two primetime Rocky Mountain College in Billings, was recently elect­ Emmy nominations, for ‘Friends’ in the series catagory, ed chairman of the faculty. In d ian \/ouf and ‘Magic of David Copperfield’ in the variety special catagory. Weve launched two new talk shows, ‘George Teresa Ventrell Longo 7 8 was one o f five recipi­ and Alana’ and ‘Tempest’ and designed the ents of the 1995 Alumni Fellowship Award from the CZonfe.re.nce. ‘MDA/Jerry Lewis Telethon’ for the fifth time College of William and Mary’s Society of the Alumni. “We’re currently working on designs for Michael She has taught Spanish language, literature and cul­ Jackson’s HBO special and TTN’s ‘Music City Tonite’ ture classes at the college since 1988. Teresa lives in In September, I was elected to the Board of Governors Williamsburg, Va. April 2 6 ,2 7 ,2 8 of the Academy of TV Arts and Sciences for a two-year term.” JAMES Lortz 78, a drama teacher at Western 1 9 9 6 Washington University in Bellingham, received Patrick Zemtz, M.F.A. 74, who lives in Laurel, was Western’s Excellence in Teaching Award last spring. one of two artists selected to design artistic elements The U niversity of Montana for Westside MAX light rail stations, a 12-mile project R oger A . Noble 7 8 is staff hydrologist for the Missoula, Montana in downtown Portland, Ore. Kalispell Water Resources Regional Office of the ▼ Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. Dave Manovich 7 5 , M.B.A. 7 9 , lives in Roger, his wife and two children live in KalispelL Conference - Pow-wow Burlingame, Calif., and is vice president o f con­ sum er/ retail sales for Apple Computer Inc S uzanne Bradley 79 earned a juris doctorate at South Texas College of Law. She and her husband live Workshops John Hedge 76 is a certified public accountant at in the Houston area. They have two children. o Merrill Lynch in Billings. Contest Dancing o Panels T h e o t ' o MONTANA fours Theatre from the Heart of the Rockies CZovxfcuzh THE SUNSHINE BOYS & 'M m Scott Carlson

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Teresa Ventrell Longo, 7 8 Kenneth D. Myers, 7 9

S tephen D. Huntington 79 is a general partner of Milt Thomas, M A ’82, assistant professor at S teve K . Waldron ’84 is executive director of the Helena’s Mountain West Management and Northern Metropolitan State University in the Twin Cities, Arc of Virginia, a statewide organization which pro­ Rockies Venture Fund He also manages corporate recendy received its Excellence in Advising Award for vides services for and advocacy on behalf of persons development and finance at Montana Technology 1994-95. Milt lives in South S t Paul with mental retardation. Steve lives in Richmond. Companies of Butte. Stephen, who lives in Helena, was elected to the board of directors of Big Sky Bret BENNETT ’83 is a personal accounts represen­ SCOTT B ower ’85 writes: “I m arried Danna Blachly- Transco. tative at Roybal Insurance Agency in Billings. Bower x’87 and we now have three daughters: Brianne, five, and twins, Savannah and Paige, three. I Kenneth D. M yers 79 recently wrote False Ken GUTOWSKI ’83 is a representative of Prudential own a general contracting business and my wife is a Security, Greed and Deception in America's Preferred Financial Services in Missoula. He and his mechanical engineer.” Multibillion-dollar Insurance Industry. He divides his wife, Dalene, live in Bonner. time between his family’s farm near Glasgow and New Darcy Hoffman Crum, J.D. ’85, and her husband, Orleans. STEVE Hamilton ’83, an accounting manager for Dave ‘85, live in Great Falls, where Darcy is in-house Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, Wash, has three chil­ counsel with Crop Growers Inc and Dave is a Dennie S iegle 7 9 lives in Missoula, where he is dren with his wife, Ilene: Graham, Elizabeth and research, support and development officer for sales manager for Affordable Home Center Madelyn. They live in Bothell. McLaughlin Research Institute. They have two daugh­ ters, Ellie and Mollie. WlLUAM Higgason ’83 is a commercial loan officer at Mountain West Bank in Helena. Marvin J. Knapstad ’85, J.D. ’88, lives jn Butte, where he practices law. ’80s Timothy Waldo ’83 is assistant vice president of Mike Covey ’80 is general manager for the Rocky First State Bank in Fort Benton. Jamie M cCann ’85, western regional marketing Mountain Timberlands division of Plum Creek manager for Domino’s Pizza in Orange County, Calif., Timber Co. in KalispelL Renee J. Fontenot de A mado ’84 writes: “1 received will travel to major west cost markets. Jamie lives in my M.BA. from Gonzaga University, Spokane, Wash., Aliso Viejo. Bradley W. B utler, M.B.A. ’81, recendy graduat­ in 1993 and married Mauricio Amado that same year. ed from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at We are living in Baton Rouge, La., while I attend Dixie Goeres M cLaughlin ’85 is program coordina­ the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. Louisiana State University, working on my doctorate tor for the Institute of Medicine and Humanities, a He was promoted to colonel in the U.S. Air Force and in marketing. I’ve started my own marketing firm, cooperative venture of St. Patrick Hospital and UM. is logistics wing commander and U.S. senior national MRM Associates, specializing in small business mar­ representative at the NATO E-3A Component at keting. Mauricio and 1 have one daughter, Maria Jack Oberw bser ’85 is a math teacher at Helena’s Geilenkirchen Air Base, Germany. Louise.” Carroll College

David N . Wear ’81, Ph.D. ’87 is project leader of A nnie M. Bartos, J.D. ’84, is a registered nurse and Chuck S tearns, M.RA. ’85, is town manager in Mt. the economics of forest protection and management an attorney in Helena. Recently elected to the nomi­ Crested Butte, Colo. He encourages UM alumni to call research work unit in Research Triangle Park, N.C He nating commission by the National Board of Directors and visit when they are in the area. is also an adjunct assistant forestry professorof the at of the American Lung Association, she represented Duke University and North Carolina State University. Montana at its annual meeting in Seattle. Carso n Krook '86 married Carol Sachs on May 16, 1995, in Brownsville, Texas. They live in Flagstaff, Ariz. Get a TEAMLINE Season Ticket and be at every Montana Grizzlies game - even if you live 2,000 miles away! David R . Nicholson ’86 is a registered patent attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C. He lives with his wife, No matter how far away you live from your favorite team, you can always hear the play-by-play over the Jeanmarie LoCoco, in Alexandria, Va. telephone by calling TEAMLINE. Now with the TEAMLINE Telephone Season Ticket you can hear the

games you want cheaper and with faster access. Tam i R . Lanning ’87 and her husband, Mark The TEAMLINE Telephone Season Ticket is a pre-paid telephone calling card designed to ease access Bruno, live in Helena, where Tami is a marketing offi­ to your favorite teams games by eliminating the need to use a Visa or MasterCard each time you call. Plus, cer for the Montana State Dept, of Commerce. They for the first time fans can enjoy great savings by buying in bulk. Instead of starting at the regular rate of 500 have two children, Khalina and Kyler. Tami writes: “I per minute fans can pay as little as 250 per minute, including long distance charges for every minute they just completed a one-year assignment as the represen­ listen. Plus, the athletic depart-ment gets a percentage of each season ticket order to help support the team tative for the state of Montana in Japan. It was a great financially. To order you TEAMLINE Telephone Season Ticket just call 800-225-5321 Today! learning experience for my husband and kids!” Even without a season ticket you can hear any game by calling TEAM-LINE. Just call 800-846-4700 at game time and enter your team's four digit access code - 6018. You can listen as long as you like and pay Ty R embe ’87 and his wife, Laura, own Printers between 50e and 300 per minute on your credit card depending on how long you listen. Plus in Great Falls. No matter how you choose to use TEAMLINE you can call from any telephone in the U.S. or Canada including home, office, car, hotel, Wilu am A . S quires, J.D. ’87, a shareholder in the even a pay phone. Using a speakerphone the games sound like FM Great Falls law firm of Matteuci, Falcon, Squires and radio. TEAMLINE provides the live games of over 350 colleges and Lester, received the 1995 Alumni Recognition Award professional sports teams. So no matter where you are - even from from Montana Tech of The University of Montana. 2,000 miles away - you can follow your favorite team on TEAMLINE.

Lisa Grossman ’88 is a physical therapist and certi­ Montana Grizzlies fied athletic trainer at Luckman Therapy Clink: in Call: 800-846-4700 Ext. 6018 Great Falk.

36 Winter 1996 MONTANAN Lance Clark ’89 Raymond S. Nordhagen ’91

Patricia Parobeck ’88 teaches learning disabled TV, a CBS affiliate in Yakima, Wash. Juue OPTTZ ’93 is director of sales at the Colonial and emotionally disturbed children at Reece School in Inn in Helena. New York City. She pursuing a graduate degree in spe­ Dianna Tickner, M.B.A. ’92, is vice president of cial education at H unter College. contracts and planning for Western Energy Co., which Elizabeth Almond ’94 is the alumni director and operates the Rosebud Mine near Colstrip. development associate for the Billings Catholic Schools Laura L Tayer ’88 earned her doctorate in chem­ and for Billings C entral istry from Arizona State University in Tempe. A nne Lear Whitson ’92 is a legal assistant to a real estate development firm in Tempe, Ariz. She lives in Chad Lembke ’94 is a loan officer for Capital Family Lance Clark ’89 is a graduate student in the public Mesa with her husband, Matt, and their son, Jake. Mortgage in Missoula. administration program at the University of Illinois in

Chicago. S gt. William A sher '93 was selected as the Thomas N ybo ’94 is a general assignment reporter Washington Army National Guard’s 1994 and photographer for the Acantha in Choteau. S uzanne Curtis ’89 lives in LaCrosse, Wash., Noncomissioned Officer of the Year. He serves with where she teaches English for LaCrosse Schools. She Company C, 181st Support Battalion based in Seattle Janet S kesuen ’94 lives in the Ukraine’s Odessa earned her graduate degree in literature and writing at and teaches high school students through UM’s Soros the Breadloaf School of English at Middlebury College Robert Cameron, J.D. ’93, is a principal and share­ English Language Teaching Program. in Vermont and was awarded a scholarship to study in holder in Gregory O. Morgan, P.C. in Bozeman. Oxford. William John S peare, J.D. ’94, practices law with Greg Fine ’93 is director of front office services at Herndon, Sweeney and Halvorson in Billings. Joe Whtttinchill ’89 works with a management the Red Lion Bay Shore Inn in Port Angeles, Wash. consulting firm on Whidby Island, Wash. He is a grad­ Holly J. Fisher, M .F A . ’95 has an art studio in uate student at Pepperdine University’s School of Ma rk Heinz '93 is a reporter and photographer for Basin. She recently held a showing of her work, Business and Management the Sidney Herald. He and his wife, Marie, have two “Rotating Around the Axis.” children. Erika Harrison '95 lives in Cashmere, Wash., and R ich Hickel, M .B.A. ’93, is an associate in the law works as a reporter and photographer for both the # ’90s firm of French, Mercer, Grainey and O ’Neill. Cashmere Valley Record and the Leavenworth Echo Barbara Hill Raible ’90 is the ecologist and her husband, Joe 78, is the local area network administra­ tor for the Salem District’s Cascade Resource Area of the Bureau of Land M anagement They live in Salem. The University of Montana

Mike Rankin ’90 lives in Missoula and works at the and D.A. Davidson fiz C o.... Courthouse Racquetball and Health Club, where he oversees the personal trainers. ...a tradition of partnership between a great

Emily Hazeltlon ’91 is state and regional sales University and Montana's oldest investment firm manager for the Red Lion Hotel in Portland, Ore.

Raymond S . Nordhagen *91 graduated from the • Since 1986 DAD has provided • DAD People serve on university Border Patrol Training Academy in Artesia, N.M., and $50,000 for hands on investing has been assigned to the Laredo, Texas, sector. foundation boards, advisory by business students and a faculty boards and investment committees. Marge Wilson, M.Ed. *91, lives in Changchun, member to teach the class. China, where she teaches at Jilin Institute of • Over 55 U of M alumni now staff Technology. • For over 25 years DAD has our 26 locations in 5 western underwritten bonds to facilitate Greg Yockey *91 is a retail loan officer at states. Mountain West Bank of Helena. the growth of the University. In just the last ten years we have Mark A lbert ’92 is the boy’s basketball coach at participated in over $100 million Darby High SchooL of bond sales.

Tony Campeau ’92 is an admissions counselor for Montana Tech of The University of Montana in Butte. He is also a volunteer coach of a developmental soccer team.

Brad T. Fasbender *92 is an investment executive for Dain Bosworth in Spokane.

Lt. Kimberly A . Lewark *92 was inducted into the 1995 Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center Hall of D.A. Davidson SC Co. Fame. She lives in Waynesville, Mo. INCORPORATED M em ber SIPC

Jiaje McAllister ’92 is a news reporter at K1MA-

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Michelle Stephens Teske ’95 is a pharmacist for Nicholas Loren to Stephanie Jo Blanchet Trebesch Natalie Byrd Manicke x’32, Whitefish Walgreen Drug in Prescott, Ariz. ’88 and Loren Boyd Trebesch ’88, O ct 14, 1994, in Marion Wilcox Tooley '32, Bainbridge Island, Wash. Missoula. John E Bills ’33, Billings Teresa Timm, M.B.A. “95, is vice president of George M. Hall ’33, M.Ed. ’49, Myrtle Beach, S.G finance and administrative services for Bigsky Transco Jake Taylor to Anne Lear Whitson ’92 and Matt Lester L Harris ’34, Waynesboro, Miss. in Billings. Whitson, June 16, 1995, in Mesa, Ariz. Tess McMahon Haugland x’34, Palos Verdes Estate, Calif. Cheyan Towne '95 is the junior volunteer coordi­ Ellsworth G. Nelson ’34, Wenatchee, Wash. nator at Columbus Hospital in Great Falls. William H. Hileman ’35, Casper, Wy. In Memoriam Clarence E Pearson ’35, Phoenix, Ariz. Roy M. Quanstrom x’35, Monee, 111. The Alumni Office extends sympathy to the fami­ Gertrude Hahn Sturrock x’35, Great Falls Births lies of the following alumni, friends and faculty. Ervin R. Cornwell ’36, Paradise Valley, Ariz. Ruth Rosa Lee Edwards Leib ’36, Deer Park, Wash. James Matthew to Nicolette Michel Ormsbee 7 5 Grace T. Barnett ’21, Missoula Oskar Lympus ‘37, J.D. ’38, Kalispell and Stuart Ormsbee 74, M.A. 7 8, May 11, 1995, in Ruth McQuay Lee ’22, St Ignatius Thelma Knutson Saklin '37, Walla Walla, Wash. Missoula Wynema Woolverton Porter ’23, Missoula Clay re Sceaice Flashman '38, Seattle Mary Muchmore Cramer ’25, Poison John A Forssen ’38, Dayton Hayden Bruce to Hal Cronfein ’81, M.A ’83, and William J. Gallagher ’25, Missoula Sam W. Hilts x’38, Great Falls Dana Cronfein, Dec 1,1994, in Santa Rosa, Calif. Albert N. Berg ’26, Helena Grace Huseth x’38, Great Falls George H. Buergi x’26, Albuquerque, N.M. Emerson P. Jones x’38, Billings K athleen Rose M arie to David P. M cG rath *82 and Willard H. Moyer ’26, Powell, Wy. June L Paulson Krekler ’38, Tucson, Ariz. Deborah McGrath, June 2,1995, in Seattle Thelma Whipple Bates ’27, Billings Peggy J. Ross Kurtz ’38, Missoula Nettie Porter Reynolds ’27, Missoula Kirke L Noyes x’38, Billings Brenna Marie to Brian E. Parker ’82 and Gerald H. Hughes ’28, Stanford Albert L Stone x’38, Billings Rosemary Parker, March 12,1995, in Hartford, Conn. Alice Viet Irwin ’28 David J. Thomas ’38, Santa Barbara,Calif. Jane Anne Holmes Laird ’28, Westminster, Calif. Norval C. Bonawitz ’39, Missoula Mary Margaret “M olly” Crum to Darcy Hoffman Arthora G. “Artie” Dawes ’29, Missoula Morris C. Olson ’v39, Grand Forks, N.D. Crum, J.D. ’85, and Dave Crum '85, O c t 10, 1994, in Thomas A McCarthy x’29, Paradise Valley, Ariz. Arthur L Anderson ’40, Shelby Great Falls. Lydia L Maury Skeels ’29, Storrs, Conn. John T. Campbell ’40, Missoula Eileen Barrows Vance ’29, San Diego, Calif. Lyman M. Clayton x’40, Wolf Point Steven Anthony to Lisa B urke O rizotti ’86 and Gean Woods ’29, Missoula Walter A Krell x’40, Etna, Calif. Tony O rizotti, July 16,1995, in Butte Clark Hamor x’30, Ontario, Ore. Russell E Lockhart ’40, St Ignatius Helen Wickes Nelson x’30, Dillon Burton Perry x’40, Missoula Meredith Grace to Erika Colness Bishop ’87 and Ethlyn Fowler Ross ’31, Poison Fred C. Wamecke x’40, Billings Shane Bishop '86, O ct 25,1995, in Glen Ridge, N.J. John Clancy ’32,Seattle Milton J. Boken ’41, Twin Bridges Karl W. Erickson ’32, MJSd. ’32, Sun City West, Ariz. George David Craig ’41, M A ’47, Edinboro, Pa. Vera Marie Hunt Salinas ’41, Great Falk Becky Brandborg Simons ’41, Palo Alto, Calif. Arie Andrew van Teylingen ‘x’41, Bozeman Katherine M. Kelly Dee x’42, Anaconda John D. Davis x’43, Poison The Easiest A+ Joan Kountz Morris x*43, Butte Vincent Wilson ’43, Missoula Earl E Dahl ’44, Anaheim, Calif. David A Hill x’44, Monterey Park, Calif. atUM. Roy L Jameson x’44, Mena, Ariz. FOODFOR Morris Eugene Mayo ’44, Oceanside, Calif. Ronald R. Randall ’44, MJBd. ’48, Shelby William N. Sagin ’44, M A. ’48, Hamilton Where else at UM can you Marguerite McGreal Shaffer ’44, Bigfork Patricia H. MacDonald x’45, Oceanside, Calif. get an A+ as easy as James T. O’Loughlin x’45, Helena you can at Food For A William DeGroot ’46, Cut Bank Samuel L Buker ’47, Grants Pass, Ore. Thought? Our courses Virginia McClary Cheney ’47, Thompson Falk Roy H. Colder ’47, Honolulu, Hawaii require no reading, except the menu. And the Layton F. Jones ’47, MEd. ‘52, Columbia Falk finals are a piece of cake — or a cookie or ice Frances Pattison Snow ’48, South Puadena, Calif. warn George Van Brockbn ’48, Portland, Ore. cream. We even let alumni sit in — or out on — 540 DALY ^ Donald J. Byrnes ’49, Tampa, Fla. the patio. So stop by for an easy A+. Or an MISSOULA, MONTANA George T. Kalaris ’49, Bethesda, Md. Victor K. Koskinen ’49, Cambria, Calif. M, V-l, Popeye, Veggie Taters... (406) 721-6033 George S. Friedman ’50, Stillwater, Minn. Robert N. Heiding, J.D. ’50, Whitefish David N. LindeD ’50, Chelmsford, Mass.

38 Winter 19% M ontanan John D. Onsum ’50, Lolo Robert H. Padbury ’50, Port Townsend, Wash. New Alumni Raymond A Ponke ’50, Livingston John J. Annala ’51, Geyser Calvin A. Lieding ’51, Glendora, Calif. Association Robert T. Taylor ’51, M.A. ‘52, Butte SAVE MOUNT JUMBO Colleen C. Tidyman x’51, Missoula Members CAMPAIGN Donald K. Bulman ’52, Missoula Jim Maurice Clark x*52, Kali spell Jack W. Armstrong ‘62, Valleyford, Wash. You can help! George Murray Emerson ’52, Ekalaka Kelly O ’Neil Armstrong ‘83, Valleyford, Wash. Send a tax-deductible contribution. Gillett Griswold ‘53, M A '54, Lakeside Karen Cieri Duncan ‘82, Centerville, Va. Camille Olson Gregory x’53, Meru, Kenya Wymond J. Duncan ‘82, Centerville, Va. Posters also available at $20 each Robert G. Ross ’53, Portland, Ore. Carl Harvey Cain ‘62, Missoula + $2 s/ h. Send to : Marian Lavonne Poll Johnson x’55, Mesa, Ariz. Ruth Jansson Cain ‘65, Missoula Five Valleys Land Trust Elizabeth A Harrington ’56, Kalispell Gary P. Curran ‘87, Tucson, Ariz. Verna I. Rasmussen ’56, Cut Bank Stefani Gray Hicswa ‘91, Columbia Falls P.O. Box 8953 James F. Watkins ’56, Great Falls Betsy Brown Holmquist ‘67, Missoula Missoula, Ml: 59807 Geoffrey L Brazier, J.D. ’57, Helena Richard K. Holmquist ‘67, Missoula John L Moore ’57, Costa Mesa, Calif. Nicolas Jude Kimmet ‘88, Idaho Falls, Idaho Richard W. Fox '58, Billings Penny A. Joseph Kimmet ‘88, Idaho Falls, Idaho Frank J. Grebenc ’58, Kennewick, Wash. Glenn A Kozeluh ‘57, Missoula Nicholas J. Grubich ’58, Wenatchee, Wash. Noreen Ortwein Kozeluh ‘72, Missoula Thomas J. Haggarty ’58, Van Nuys, Calif. Terence Lamers ‘70, Auburn, Wash. Fred N. Tebbe x’58, Hockessin, Del. Robert S. Mathison ‘49, Victor William A. Dickinson x’59, Bigfork James M. O’Day ‘80, Cut Bank Duane R. Taft, Ed.D. '59, Poison Kenneth R. Peers, Missoula Edmund R. Kopitzke ’60, M.A. ’63, Pacific Maureen Gilligan Peers ‘57, Missoula Palisades, Calif. George G. Scott ‘52, Sherwood, O re Marjorie Harriet Kempner ’61, M.Ed. ’73, Missoula Samir M. Soueidan ‘81, Missoula Forest E Cornwell, M.Ed. ’63, Billings Sara E Steadman ‘63, Denver Patrick M. Campbell '64, Columbia Falls William I. Stems ‘72, Wasilla, Wash. Frederick S. Neser ’64, Aiea, Hawaii Carla J. Teigen ‘72, Seatde Frances Cestnik ’65, Kalispell Dorothy C. Willworth ‘77, Anchorage, Alaska T-Shirts from Dick J. Richards ’65, Anaconda Joseph R. Whittinghill ‘89, Freeland, Wash. M oose's Saloon in Montana! Barbara Lee Flanagan Schembs ’65, Redmond, Wash. Wear one of our T-shirts, even if you won't be back for awhile. Ella V. Bray Downey ’66, M.F.A. ’74, Bothell, Wash. For free color brochure with designs and prices, write: Sally Straine Parsons ’68, Drumheller, Alberta Moostlv Mooses, PO Box 668, Kalispell, Montana 59903 Phone: 1-406-755-6667 FAX: 1-406-257-2338 Edward E Shubat, Ph.D. ’69, Great Falls Bruce Gronfein ’74, Casper, Wy. Hollis A Munson ’75, Bellevue, Wash. Wayne L Houston, M A ’76, Aldergrove, British Columbia Craig J. Hess, M.S. ’78, Kalispell John H. Brock, Idaho Falls, Idaho Joann Faye Morgan Bryant, Havre Harry Landstrom, Temple City, Calif.

Bringing Yamaha Pianos to The University of Montana Each year at Homecoming, The University of Montana Alumni Association honors outstanding Alumni. Recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Awards are individuals who have distinguished themselves in a particular field and who have brought honor to the University, the state or the nation. The focus of this award is career achievement a n d /o r service to The University of Morgenrofh Montana. Up to six awards can be given annually. Music Centers All University alumni and friends are invited to nominate a graduate or former student for this award. Please call the Alumni Office at (406) 243-5211 or 1-800-862-5862, to request a nomination form. 1726 Grand Ave. 3014 Brooks Nominations must be submitted by April 15, 1996. Billings, MT 59102 Missoula, M T 59801 N O M IN A T E S O M E O N E GREAT! 1-800-821-1753 1-800-462-0013

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD C onnections By Bill Johnston President Joan Watts Datsopoulos ‘66 The Alumni Association faces a tion. Although many of our alumni do Missoula challenge in keeping you connected to not own or do not care to own a President-elect Dennis D. Iverson ‘67 The University of Montana and to computer, that number is dwindling. Helena other alumni. We do this through Computers open up a whole new world Vice President the Montanan, through gatherings— of information. Gwen McLain Childs ‘63 People put information on the web Littleton, CO some of which are showcased on these pages—and now through the World using an area called the Past President Jim Wylder *51 Wide Web. The web, or WWW, is a home page. The Univer­ G reat Falls graphic interface to the Internet that sity of Montana Alumni James R. Beery ’67 allows anyone who has access to view Association’s home page W olf Point information and communicate with contains information on Marcia Meagher Bragg ’63 people anywhere in the world. It is gatherings around the M.A. ’74 C u t Bank revolutionizing the way alumni associa­ nation, a schedule of our tions across the nation provide 50 and 60 year class Beverly Simpson Braig '63 Kalispell services to their members. reunions, the Association’s interna­ Glenn M. Campbell ‘85, ‘87 Some of my alumni colleagues feel Redmond, WA they have been rear-ended on the tional trips and a campus telephone

Norman Creighton '58 information super highway. But we all directory. From this home page you Inglewood, CA are starting to understand how impor­ can be linked to the Missoula weather

Lauren Davidson Descamps '85 tant the W W W is to our associations. information center and a home San Rafael, CA For example, do you know what today’s shopping center, where you can order Susan Foster Koikalo '66 campus looks like? Would you like to alumni gifts and apparel. Soon our Livingston read todays Kaimin? Do you want to home page will offer a campus tour. Patricia McCallum Lament '65 know when and where alumni gather­ The tour will feature current photo­ Calgary, Alberta ings are scheduled? Do you need e-mail graphs of existing buildings and those Dirk Larsen '52, J.D. '56 under construction. G reat Falls addresses for friends? Would you like current athletic schedules and win/loss Please visit our home page at http:// Jeanette Sayer McKee '68 Ham ilton records? www.umt.edu/alumni and send us, by All of this is possible on the web. If e-mail, your comments and suggestions. Kitty VanVliet Meyer ‘64 Eugene, O R you have a computer linked to the Our home page is updated frequently, so visit us often. Wilmer “Bill" Mitchell ‘50 Internet, you can access this informa­ Miles City

Michael J. O ’Neill '80 Butte

Ann Parke Ruegamer ‘65 Billings

Ride F. Schneider '78 Canadian alumni recently raffled a Jeep to Edina, M N raise money for UM. Pictured are Calgary Kay LeFevre Stipe ‘59 area alumni who organized the raffle. Left to Spokane, WA right are Doug '93 and Molly Schaeffer Robin Brown Tawney '71 Lamont '93, Loy and Wayne Krywko '63, Missoula Clarke ‘65 and Pat McCallum Lamont '65, and Shirley and David Gentile '63. Not pictured Rick V. Weaver '75 Havre are David Lamont '94, Steve MacDonald ‘94 and Wayne Carter ‘64. The Jeep was won by ALUMNI OFFICE Rod Blades ‘65. Rod elected to accept the Bill Johnston '79, M .P A '91 The University of Montana cash equivalent from which he donated Missoula. MT 59812-1313 $1,000 to the University. ^ (406) 243-5211

40 Winter 19% MONTANAN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION TOURS 1 9 9 6

A COSTA RICA AND IT’S TREASURES - APRIL 8-17, 1996 a 10-day trip including 3 days cruising the coast of Costa Rica Grizzly fans cheer on A ROAD TO DAMASCUS - APRIL 16-29, their team at the UM 1996 • a 14-day adventure to the holy land and vs. Washington State lands of antiquity - ISRAEL JORDAN SYRIA football game. More than 2,000 alum ni, MEDITERRANEAN AIR/SEA CRUISE • A boosters and friends MAY 28-JUNE 10, 1996 - a 14-day luxury air/ attended the Alumni sea cruise aboard the pacific princess - SPAIN FRANCE ITALY GREECE TURKEY Association pre-game tailgate party. A ALUMNI CAMPUS ABROAD- ◄ MEIRINGEN, SWITZERLAND - MAY 27-JUNE 4, 1996 - One week listening to lectures and Photo by Mark Frjtch David ‘Moose’ Miller ‘53 ► sight-seeing in this beautiful alpine country (right) visits with a guest at A CANADA/NEW ENGLAND AIR/SEA the 1995 Flathead Valley CRUISE - SEPTEMBER 18-28, 1996 - a 10- Garden Party. Moose and night cruise on the Royal Princess from New Shirley Fornier Miller ‘55 York. Enjoy the colors of New England in the hosted this event, the 3rd fall annual, at their Kalispeli residence. The Don A CHINA AND THE YANGTZE RIVER - Lawrence Orchestra played OCTOBER 10-25, 1996 - an exciting 15-day their Big Band music while adventure including BEIJING XIAN alumni strolled through CHONGQING SHANGHAI featuring a 4-night the . Miller’s gardens, Yangtze River cruise through the three gorges which encompass a quarter of a city block. '

Scheduled UM Alumni Events for 1996 1 O c to b e r U-U' February 1 Montana vs.ldaho Stat 11 Denver, CO - Alumni Ski Trip 1 5 Missoula - Charter Day 17 Missoula - Griz/Cat Basketball & Satellite TV Parties Paul Chumrau ► 2 3 San Diego, CA - Alumni Event ‘39 (left) visits with Joe McElwain March ‘43 ‘47 and Mary 1 5 Palm Desert, CA - Alumni Event McLaughlin a t a reception following Ma y the Distinguished 1 6 -1 8 Missoula - 5 0 /6 0 Class Reunions Alumni Circle 18 Missoula - Commencement dedication. More 3 1 Portland, OR • Rose Festival Cruise St Fireworks than fifty recipients of the Distinguished June Alumni Award were 2 3 Denver, CO - Montana Picnic present for the dedication ceremony held during homecoming. Each October recipient’s name is engraved on a brick located on the north 1 1 -1 2 Missoula - Homecoming ‘96 edge of the campus’ Oval sidewalk. N ovember 2 3 Missoula - Griz/Cat Football & Satellite Parties

Winter 1996 Montanan 41 ^jA M P ’A.IGN m o m e n t u m

Estate of 1 9 1 6 G raduate U pgrades Library T echnology S he N ever Even I magined

hen Pearl S. Clark ’16 was a student at the University, the library was a small collection housed in what is now Jeannette Rankin Hall. Today the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library is a five-level build­ Wing and consists of nearly one million documents. Tomorrow it will be even more extensive and better able to meet the University’s changing needs for information resources, thanks to Clark’s $221,772 bequest to benefit the Mansfield Library. Dean Karen Hatcher said the library would set aside $100,000 from the Clark estate to enhance library technology. The remainder will fund projects beyond the regular budget, Hatcher said. The first such project is the library’s new security system, installed in time for spring semester. The new system, which includes a security camera, replaces the old bar system that Hatcher described as “unattractive, frequently out of order and difficult for wheelchair patrons to use.” The dean was especially pleased Clark’s gift was unrestricted. She said, “The unre­ stricted nature of the gift allows us to relate it to the needs of today’s students and faculty. Today’s libraries are changing so rapidly— certainly from the what they were like in Pearl Clark’s student days—that no one can anticipate what future needs might be.” Dr. Clark, who earned her UM degree in math­ ematics, died on June 29, 1994, in Santa Barbara, Calif., at age 97, after a distinguished career as a sociologist and educator. Nominated into the Ameri can Men of Science, she spent 49 years teaching at the college level, 40 of those years as Dean of Guidance at Chaffey College in California. Because of her interest in education and in books, Clark’s commitment of a major portion of her estate to the University library was not surprising to those who knew her. Education was so important to her that she helped many of her students, even to taking them into her home to live when hardships would have cut short their studies. After her retirement, she volunteered for many years in local schools reading to kindergarten Peart Clark as a children. UM senior (1917 Sentinel)

42 Winter 19% MOSTANAN Campaign Marches Ahead $35 m illion and counting!

THE EXCELLENCE FUND - A CAMPAIGN PRIORITY Gifts to the Excellence Fund count toward the campaign’s goal. Commitments this fall alone raised:

A $316,000 FROM INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESSES THROUGH THE MlSSOULA BUSINESS DRIVE

A $143,000 THROUGH PHONATHON CALLS TO ALUMNI AND FRIENDS

Once known as the Prescott House, this historic structure at the base of Mt. Sentinel will see new use as a reception center and offices for the UM/Achievement Television Project. Capital Campaign gifts from Dennis and Phyllis Washington, the law firm of Datsopoulos, MacDonald and Lind, the Suzanne and Walter Scott Foundation, Ed and Pam McMahon and others are financing the refurbishing of the home occupied by the Prescott family for nearly 1 0 0 years.

Winter 19% MONTANAN 43 m r u s C o l o r Get back into the action! Join the Alumni Association and enjoy the best The University of Montana has to offer: Invitations to alumni gatherings in your area, homecoming and reunion announcements, UAAAA MasterCard— a great sense of belonging ...and much more!

Take advantage of all benefits of membership* Call your UM Alumni Association today! 406-243-5211 or 1-800-862-5862

Annual membership...... Single $35 Dual $50 Lifetime m e m b e rsh ip ...... Single $350 Dual $500 ALUMNI•The Uruveretfy of Montana __ ASSOCIATION Brantly Hall Missoula, Montana 59812-1313

YELLOWSTONE ART CENTER 28TH ANNUAL ART AUCTION

Saturday, March 2,1996 6 :3 0 p .m . Sheraton Billings Hotel

Over 100 artists of the Northwest, including: Deb o r a h B u t ter fiel d J ohn B uck Rudy Autio R u s se l l C hatham T heo d o re W a d d e ll.

Exhibition of auction w ork a t th e m useum January 26-M arch 1.

Catalogs available January 26,1996.

Call 406-256-6804 for information. Deborah Butterfield. “Rosebud." 1995. stick original for unique bronze casting. 35" high x 4 7" w id e x 11" deep.

A REGIONAL ART MUSEUM ACCREDITED BY THE AAM. YELLOWSTONE ART CENTER 401 NORTH 27TH STREET • BILLINGS, MONTANA 59101 -1290 PHONE 406-256-6804 FAX 406-256-6817 M eet the people w ho invented “M ade in M ontana”. *

n the heart of western Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation, a unique cultural center has been built by the region’s original creators of fine art and crafts: the Salish, Kootenai and Pend d’Oreille peoples. More than a museum, The People’s Center is a vital, living encounter with our culture. Here, centuries-old wisdom for living harmoniously with the Earth is practiced and taught through classes, demonstrations and tours. In our gift shop, you’ll be able to choose from authentic, local, Indian-made arts and crafts. Come visit “The People’s Center”. You’ll discover a whole new appreciation for “Made in Montana”.

Sqelixw/Aq+smakni k Cultural Center ^ “T he People’s Center” Six miles south of Poison, Montana on Hwy 93. For more information, call 406/6750160.

Winter Hours: 9 am - 5 pm, Monday through Friday • Admission Fee

The University of Non-Profit Org. Montana U.S. Postage PAID MONTANAN The University of Montana 224 Brandy Hall Missoula, MT 59812-13 ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED