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Communique University of Montana School of Journalism 75 Years / --------------------------- Detail o f Kirk Johtggn poster commemoratJfig : the Diamond Anniversary*;. of the Montana School 8CU? Journalism. See page 5 iv I Diamond Anniversary Sixth Pulitzer Students cover all-class reunion for J-alums Asia connection Page 5 Page 4 Page 12 Fall reunion to mark 75th anniversary jA he University of Montana ing Dorothy Rochon Powers on another day for newspaper I School of Journalism is 75 '43, who retired from the workshops conducted by the II years old and we're cele­ Spokesman-Review and Spokane UM journalism faculty. Chronicle after more than four If all that doesn't seem brating. Mark October 5-7 on enough, we also introduced an your calendar — that's Home­ decades. • Lee Enterprises, the honors reporting course in coming 1989, and we're plan­ which our best print and ning the biggest School of Jour­ Greater Montana Foundation, the Great Falls Tribune and Car- broadcast students docu­ nalism homecoming ever — an mented Montana's economic all-class reunion. It will be roll and Nancy O'Connor all made significant financial con­ ties with Asia. This Pacific Rim your chance to see old friends Honors Project produced and professors and to revisit tributions to our program to stories that were both pub­ old haunts. enhance the training of Native lished and broadcast. We plan a journalism Americans. alumni reception and banquet • The J-School's student or our 75th anniversary, and open houses at the Journal­ documentary unit won the the school commissioned ism Building and the Perform­ Montana Broadcasters Associa­ FMissoula artist Kirk ing Arts/Radio-Television tion award for the best non­ Johnson to create a framable 20 Center. Former deans and past DEAN CHARLES E. HOOD commercial television program x 30-inch commemorative and present faculty will be on for two consecutive years. poster. (See page 5.) We offer hand to greet you. You'll have nal article in 1988 listed the J- • A student photojourna­ the poster as a premium to time to attend the Homecom­ School as one of the outstand­ lism centennial project, "Focus alumni who contribute $75 — a ing Parade and to watch the ing journalism programs in the on Philipsburg," produced a dollar for each year of the J- Grizzlies play in their new sta­ nation. 70-print exhibition shown at School's existence. dium. • The Pacific Northwest the Performing Arts/Radio- Since this is the first The J-School has much to Newspaper Association evalu­ Television Center. The photos, Communique in three years, we celebrate during this diamond ated 11 journalism programs in which document life in that apologize if a few alumni briefs anniversary year. Since you re­ the Northwest and rated Mon­ historic Montana mining town, are dated. Please bring us up to ceived the last Communique: tana's one of the two best, will be published as a book. date. • The school was fully re­ awarding the school $15,000. • Our Newspaper Design As you'll read elsewhere. accredited by the Association • Debra McKinney '79, a '88 conference attracted 25 edi­ I'll be in Japan during the for Education in Journalism feature writer for the Anchorage tors from three states. coming academic year and will and Mass Communication. Daily News, helped her paper We've been very busy dur­ not be able to join you at the • Nick Ehli and Marlene win the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for ing our 75th year. We re­ reunion. But Acting Dean Bob Mehlhaff, both from Billings, public service for a series of ar­ vamped our curriculum in McGiffert will make sure became the 23rd and 24th UM ticles about Indian alcoholism preparation for the university's you're properly welcomed and Sears Congressional Interns in and suicide in rural Alaska. transition to semesters. In April entertained. Washington, D.C. The school Debra is the sixth UM J-alum to we sponsored with the School Sayonara! continues to lead the nation in play a major role in winning a of Law a conference, "Allies the number of interns selected Pulitzer. and Adversaries: The Press, the since the program began in • Cowles Publishing Co. Bar and Justice." Some 200 CB H o o d -— —i t . 1970. established a $25,000 endow­ Montana high school students • A Gannett Center Jour- ment for a scholarship honor­ attended that event and stayed Communique Anniversary issue designed by grad student This 75th anniversaiy issue of Commu­ teacher and as a re­ 1989-90 Issue nique was designed and co-edited by Tara porter for the Living­ Volume 43 Gallagher, a graduate student in journalism, ston Enterprise, the lo­ Missoula, Montana cal daily. She since has Magazine of the University of Montana as part of an advanced project in publication School of Journalism design. won scholarships from Published for alumni and friends. The work was done on a Macintosh SE D.J. Shults, the Pacific system acquired by the journalism school Northwest Newspaper Publisher earlier this year. Association and the So­ Charles E. Hood, Dean Tara, a Missoula native, received a bache­ ciety for Newspaper Editors lor's degree in history and teacher certifica­ Design. Carol Van Valkenburg, Tara Gallagher tion with a journalism minor from UM in TARA GALLAGHER jn June and July Designer 1980. She returned to UM last year after 1989, Tara completed an editing internship Tara Gallagher working in Livingston as a high school at Montana Outdoors magazine in Helena. Cover design by Kitit Johnson Communique 1989 • 2 Scholarships honor Dean Brier ive $600 renewable scholarships in honor of Warren J. Brier and News Services, with the late Howard Heyn of the Associated will be awarded to journalism students at the University of Press, and co-edited, with Nathaniel Blumberg, A Century of Mon­ F Montana through a $15,000 gift donated by the Brier family tana Journalism, a collection of regional essays and articles. He also and a Seattle insurance firm. wrote articles for numerous publications, including The New York Dean Brier died of cancer June 7,1988, at his home in Times, The National Observer and Montana — The Magazine of Missoula. Western History. The gift, announced at the Dean Stone Night banquet in May Dean Brier's news experience included postions with the Se­ 1988, is principally funded by PEMCO Financial Center, Seattle. attle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Anchorage (Alaska) Times and Brier family donors are Karin Brier, Missoula; Lynn and T.C. De Associated Press bureaus in Helena, Seattle, Los Angeles and LaCruz, Genie Brier, Tom and Ruth Kurack, Nancy and Peter New York. Rybock and family and Sandy Kurack and sons, all of Seattle. Journalism school colleagues of Dean Brier also awarded the arren Judson Brier was bom in Seattle on April 25,1931, Warren J. Brier Prize at Dean Stone Night 1988. The one-time a son of Howard and Grace Kjelstad Brier. His father was $1,000 prize went to Deborah Richie, a graduate student from W a professor of journalism at the University of Washington Prairie City, Ore., who completed her thesis this academic year. and a much-published author of novels for young people. One Brier Dean Brier scholarship will be received a bachelor awarded each year of arts degree in to an outstanding journalism from the journalism student University of and will be renew­ Washington in 1953, able for up to four a master of science additional years. degree in journalism The first scholar­ from Columbia ship recipient was University, New Dawn Reiners, a York, in 1954, and a freshman from doctor of philosophy Poison who main­ degree in mass com­ tained a 4.0 grade munications from point throughout the University of high school. Iowa in 1957. Stanley O. After service as McNaughton, an Air Force lieuten­ chief executive ant from 1957-59, he officer of PEMCO taught at San Diego and a longtime State University for family friend, in a year and at the announcing the University of gift, said: ''Warren Southern California Brier represents for two years before the values and the coming to UM. professional ex­ Although Dean ample that every­ Brier spent 14 years one seeks in a in administration, teacher. His dedi­ his heart remained cation throughout in teaching and he his career has been excelled at it. He set to the welfare of his students and associates. We at PEMCO Financial exacting standards for himself and his students, particularly in Center are pleased to honor him and we hope that the young people ethical conduct, accurate and fair reporting and clear writing. But who benefit from the scholarship will always honor nis example." although he was a demanding teacher, he conducted himself with unfailing civility and good humor. Students and colleagues ean Brier came to UM as an associate professor in 1962, respected and admired him for his skills as a writer, editor and | became full professor in 1967 and was named dean in 1968.