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oroth yM . Joh n son Ha legacy of lean prose and laughter

This Mel Ruder photo was Dorothy Johnson’s favorite picture of herself. She especially liked the dog, which she, said was “slinking from the scene” to avoid watching the author o f “A Man Called Horse” mount up.

V olu m e 41 Missoula, Montana 1 984-85 Issue two-year study funded by the Gan­ But we need help. We need more finan­ nett Foundation concluded last year cial assistance from the media that are em­ that journalism education in the ploying our graduates and we need help United States is “grossly underfun­ from you, our alumni. Last year, many of A you responded generously to our maiden ef­ ded.” The American Society of Newspaper Edi­ fort to raise money. Some 40 of you, listed tors noted in August 1984 that journalism on the bottom of this page, contributed schools face “serious financial problems,” more than $1,300 to the Dean Stone Lectures and called on media corporations and other fund and others of you, also listed, contrib­ private sources to increase their financial uted to the Excellence Fund or the new support to journalism education. journalism scholarships. We hope many more Now as never before, the Gannett study alumni and friends will help us now and suggests, the differences between the na­ will continue to do so on a regular basis. tion’s best J-Schools and the mediocre ma­ Dorothy M. Johnson was very concerned jority lie in the amount of outside financial about the tight budgets at the UM J-School, help the programs receive. for which she had a special place in her Dean Charles The DMJ fund — honor her memory Hood Dean Stone Lecture Fund None of this surprises us at the Univer­ heart. She once remarked publicly that this sity of Montana, where during recent years Penelope Wagner Peabody school seemed to be one of the few places Nathaniel Blumberg appropriation increases have not kept pace left where the teaching of spelling and gram­ Lois/Robert Holt with rising costs and climbing enrollment. Mary L. Vanderslice mar still mattered. The creation of the Dor­ Norma Tirrell Complicating the situation further is a com­ othy M. Johnson Fund by Mel and Ruth Charles Johnson (plus match from Cowles Media) munications revolution that is requiring jour­ Ruder gives us a wonderful opportunity to Paul H. Lloyd-Davies Don R. Larson nalism schools to equip themselves at least honor Dorothy’s memory and to strengthen Scott Sorensen minimally with sophisticated electronic the journalism school in many areas we Majorie Bennetts equipment. Joe Frank Purcell have just mentioned. We want to make the Robert C. Gibson A decade ago the UM journalism budget DMJ Fund the principal vehicle through Nancy L. Harris supported modest travel for our faculty; the Jill Thompson which journalism alumni and friends can Lorraine Lindahl visits of distinguished journalists; a work­ help the school financially. The yearly inter­ Molly Herrin shop or two a year for high school students Bryan DiSalvatore est from this growing endowment will be Gwinn Dyrland or working professionals; reasonable in­ used to give us the edge we need to remain Lexie Verdon Barr (plus match from Washington Post) creases in books and periodicals for the J- an excellent program. As a first step, we are Collette Cornelius Library; a supplies and equipment fund that Kathleen Mensing Rehbein adding to the endowment—with the permis­ John Talbot kept our operation running smoothly; publi­ sion of the donors—last year’s Dean Stone Larry/Lysandra Bruce cation of the Montana Journalism Review, Blanche Lanstrum Lecture contributions. Patricia Taylor and salaries that were not unattractive to We know that professional journalists are Douglas Moher the best young teaching prospects in the not made of money. We probably told you William Lundgren country. T.H./Ruth Regan as undergraduates that the rewards of a Mary Ellen Myrene Today, our budget barely permits us to journalism job are not usually monetary. But Verna Green Smith pay the phone bills. One-person trips to re­ Patrick Sheehy there are thousands of UM journalism gradu­ Janet Trask Cox gional journalism conferences in Denver and ates, and if each of you could contribute a Daniel O’Boyle Seattle wipe out an out-of-state travel fund Paula Walker few dollars each year to help us maintain Theresa M. Murphy designed to serve both the dean and the fac­ our excellence, your money would be well- William D./Loretta Charlotte James ulty. Workshops and distinguished visiting spent. Col. and Mrs. G.A. Sorensen Maibelle Christy lecturers are fewer; library acquisitions are Please write out a check to the Dorothy John/Teresa Kafentzis less substantial; the Montana Journalism M. Johnson Fund, and mail it directly to Sam Gilluly Sue O’Connell/Mike Dennison Review has disappeared. Finally, low salaries the University of Montana Foundation, 600 have figured in the departure in recent years University Avenue, Missoula, Mt. 59812. New scholarships and gifts of two talented young teachers. Thanks! Mel Ruder We’re not demoralized by this. As the Blanche Coppo Lanstrum 1984 Communique shows, good things con­ D.J. Shults tinue to happen to the School of Journalism Virginia Braun d ------Rich Landers and we’re proud of our performance under CLE. M-o o Dorothy Rochon Powers these difficult circumstances. We’re working Dorothy Brading Scott Gratton on methods to cut costs and exploring in­ Vivian Palladin novative ways to meet our needs. C o m m u n iq u e The 1984 Communique was produced by an Writing and editing: Charles Hood and War­ honors class in advanced publications design, ren Brier. taught by Patty Reksten. The students were David Fenner, senior from Helena; Marlee Photography: Bob Cushman and Patty Reks­ Miller, senior from Eugene, Ore.; and ten. Christine Johnson, graduate student from Hamilton. The Communique is an annual publication Typesetting: The Missoulian and UM Print­ published by the University of Montana ing Services. School of Journalism and is distributed to alumni and friends. Printing: UM Printing Services. Dorothy M. Johnson’s death ends lifetime love affair with language

Author Dorothy M. Johnson, a member of the journalism faculty from 1953 to 1967, died at home Nov. 11 at age 78. She had suffered from Parkinson’s disease and other illnesses for the past few years. Miss Johnson taught the magazine courses at the J-School. In 1952 she resigned as news editor of the Whitefish Pilot to become secre­ tary-manager of the Montana Press Association, which had its office in the Journalism Building. Miss Johnson was the author of 17 books and more than 100 short stories. She was best known for three stories that became movies: “The Hanging Tree,” “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” and “A “I noticed in the paper last week Man Called Horse.” The movies starred Gary Cooper, John Wayne, a county budget item of $1,200 for Jimmy Stewart, Lee Marvin, Richard Harris and Karl Malden. She also was an inveterate writer of letters to the editor of the a gopher revolving fund. I wonder if Missoulian, criticizing subjects that ranged from a so-called county the gophers have made a reasonable Gopher Revolving Fund to use of the word “gift” as a verb. attempt to provide their own recrea­ Miss Johnson was the recipient of five national and regional awards for her writing. In 1973 she received an honorary doctor’s tion. And I suggest we might be able degree from UM. to do an even better job if the gophers She referred to herself as “a little old lady who had a right good time getting here.” received a federal grant.” Her colleagues remembered her splendid sense of humor, her life­ Dorothy M. Johnson (Letter to the editor— Missoulian) time love affair with the English language and her meticulous re­ search for her novels. One of her fondest remembrances was having dinner with Gary Cooper when he visited Missoula to announce he would appear in “The Hanging Tree.”

‘How to Get on a Horse’ Dorothy Johnson’s character and personal­ public hearing concerning “a tract of land ity emerged from a host of non-professional located in and being a portion of the SE IV2 activities remembered by her friends and of Section 18, T 13N,R19W.” She said: “This “The City of Missoula fans. For example: is the second such piece of gobbledegook •Her many speeches, which always had I’ve received recently. Presumably Missoula advertised for applications for the same title-“How to Get on a Horse.” County wants to tell me something but the the position of Ward 5 ‘alder- •Her Christmas letters, which were ripe effort was a total failure...Let’s have some person. • This nicety makes me with humor and included a photograph, such plain English, with a hint about where that as an uncomplimentary view of her getting land is located. Without it, I have a strong gag. There is nothing wrong on a horse. suspicion that somebody is trying to pull a with the last syllable of ‘aider- •Her continuing efforts to rid the Rattle­ fast one. In case I haven’t made my position snake area of rattlesnakes. During the sum­ clear: I’m damn mad.” Subsequent notices man’ except to persons who mer of 1975, six rattlesnakes were seen near have described the tracts in “plain English.” just ca n ’t get their minds off her home. She took the precautionary meas­ sex. Sometimes I worry about ure of loading a .38 pistol with scattershot. •Her donations of several of her original R uder’s ‘rose' blooming the huperson race. Dorothy manuscripts to the University of Montana ar­ Mel Ruder, retired editor and publisher M. Johnson, a woperson.” chives and her generous contributions to the of the Hungry Horse News in Columbia (Letter to the editor— Missoulian) University of Montana Library and the Mis­ Falls, and his wife Ruth, a UM graduate, soula County Library. donated $6,600 to the School of Journalism •Her initials inscribed in the front step last spring in honor of Dorothy M. Johnson. of her home when the cement was poured The gift was “my rose to Dorothy,” 21 years ago. •Her petite appearance, which was such Ruder said. a sharp contrast to the burly villains and he­ Since the endowment was established, roes who appear in her stories. more than $1,000 in additional contributions •Her humorous letters from abroad. have been made, and the Montana Press As­ From Australia, she once told a colleague sociation has donated an original painting to who had been stationed there in World War be hung in the Journalism Building in her II that the women in Brisbane remembered honor. him well. Dean Charles Hood said the fund will be­ •Her insistence on using the language come the principal vehicle for fund-raising in clearly and precisely. One of her letters to support of the journalism school (See the the editor complained about a notice of a Dean’s Report on opposite page).

3 Above, Don Oliver, ’58, fields questions at a press conference in the Journalism Library. The NBC correspondent was in Missoula to attend Homecoming and his 25th class reunion. At right, senior Julie Omelchuck listens intently to the news­ man.

Cosmopolitan bunch The UM J-School is continuing to attract students from every part 3 new scholarships of the United States and from foreign countries as well. Three new scholarships for journalism students have been estab­ The 104 freshman and transfer students who turned up last fall lished at the University of Montana. represented 20 states-from Alaska to New Mexico and from Rhode D.J. Shults, ’33, editor and publisher of the Adams County Record Island to California. Canada and Norway also were represented. in Hettinger, N.D., contributed $3,500 for an endowment whose inter­ As usual, Montanans constituted the largest group. They hailed est will provide a scholarship each year for the J-student. from 25 cities and towns in every part of the state. Blanche Coppo Lanstrum, ’30, of Billings, donated $3,300 to estab­ lish a yearly scholarship for a female student who intends to enter newspaper work. Mrs. Lanstrum is a former Billings Gazette reporter. Students cover elections UM journalism students worked into the wee morning hours last Lucille Limpus Clark of Big Timber contributed $3,300 to establish November to provide election-night coverage for KUFM, the campus’ a scholarship in the name of her late husband, McLean Clark, who radio station, and for the Montana Kaimin, the student daily. was in the cable TV business. The award will go to a student who intends to go into television. A radio-television class provided on-the-scene reports from election headquarters in Missoula for KUFM News, and the Kaimin staff pushed back normal deadlines to allow complete coverage of national, state and local results. A Forty students Huneck named Sears intern, complete outdoor scholarship winner internships Timothy K. Hu­ The Outdoor Writers scholarship is neck, a senior in jour­ awarded to promising journalism students Some 40 University of Montana jour­ nalism from Colum­ who demonstrate talent and interest in writ­ nalism students picked up professional expe­ bus, Ohio, is one of 20 ing about outdoor themes. rience as interns last year. students nationwide to Though most of the internships were in Huneck is a straight-A student and man­ receive a three-month Montana, some students worked in Seattle, aging editor of the campus’ student news­ Sears Congressional in­ San Francisco and Washington, D.C. paper, the Montana Kaimin. He won the ternship, and one of Among the out-of-state agencies taking 1984 Lee Newspapers of Montana award for eight to receive a UM journalism interns were: King Broad­ outstanding performance and was an intern $1,400 sch olarsh ip casting, Seattle; Common Cause magazine, in 1983 for the Tobacco Valley News in from the Outdoor Washington; Center for Investigative Report­ Eureka. Writers Association of ing, Washington D.C.; Center for Investiga­ America. The UM School of Journalism is ranked tive Reporting, San Francisco, and U.S. Pub­ The Sears internships give outstanding first among all journalism schools in the na­ lic Interest Research Group, Washington, junior and senior journalism students the op­ tion in the number of students selected for D.C. portunity to work in Washington, D.C., on the Sears internship. Huneck is UM’s 20th In Montana, students interned as re­ the staff of a U.S. senator or representative. student chosen for the program. porters with the Great Falls Tribune, the Helena Independent Record, the Montana Standard in Butte, the Billings Gazette, the Missoulian, the Tobacco Valley News in Eureka, the Lewistown News-Argus, the Terry Tribune, the Miles City Star and the Jahrig heads Kaimin staff Glendive Ranger-Review. Gary Jahrig, a sen­ Pam Newbern of Salem, Ore., and Theresa Broadcast news students worked for ior in journalism from Walla of Lewistown; senior editors Jeff Mc­ KECI-TV and KPAX-TV in Missoula, KRTV- Calgary, Alta., is the Dowell of Missoula and Eric Williams of TV in Great Falls, KCFW-TV in Kalispell, 1984-85 editor of the Hobson; associate editors Deirdre Hathhorn Spiker-Corwin Communications in Missoula University of Mon­ of Anchorage, Alaska, and Shannon Hinds of and the Montana Promotion Bureau in Hel­ tana’s student daily, Fairfax, Va.; special sections editor Marlee ena. the Montana Kaimin. Miller of Eugene, Ore.; photo editor Michael Jahrig heads a 22- Moore of Jackson, Miss.; reporters Dave member staff whose Fisher of Billings and Brian Justice of journalism majors in­ Ekalaka, and columnist Richard Venola of clude business man­ LaCrescenta, Calif. ager Brian Mellstead The Kaimin is in its 87th year as an in­ •Gordy Pace, senior in journalism from of Charlotte, Mich.; managing editor Tim dependent student publication at the Univer­ Helena, and Carlos Pedraza, senior in jour­ Huneck of Columbus, Ohio; news editors sity of Montana. nalism and history from Arvada, Colo., are coordinators of the Advocates, the 60-mem- ber student group that does promotional and public service work for the University of Montana. Both are in their third year as Ad­ Turbak wins writing awards vocates. Gary Turbak, part- Go,” about the problem of kids being held •Jeremy Sauter, a senior in radio-televi­ time School of Jour­ in adult jails. nalism graduate stu­ sion from New York City, was elected vice Turbak also won an Eagle Rare journal­ dent and full-time president of the Associated Students of the ism award from the Outdoor Writers Asso­ free-lance writer, won ciation of America and the General Wine University of Montana last spring. He suc­ two major writing ceeded Paula Jellison, a senior in radio-tel­ awards in 1984. and Spirits Company for having written the evision from Kalispell. He won the grand best magazine article about an endangered prize in the Writer’s species. The article, “Grizzly on the Ropes,” •Larry Howell, a graduate student from Digest writing com­ Colorado Springs, Colo., won second prize in petition for an article, appeared in the February 1984 issue of the editorial writing competition sponsored “Let the Children American Forests magazine. last spring by the Pacific Northwest Region of Women in Communications. The award was for an editorial that appeared in the student daily, the Montana Kaimin. Dodrill receives scholarship •Enrollment at the School of Journalism Steve Dodrill, a Dodrill will work toward a master’s degree was at a record high during Fall Quarter senior in radio-televi­ at UM, probably in an interdisciplinary pro­ 1984, in spite of overall enrollment declines sion and journalism gram in political science and broadcasting. at the University of Montana and in the from Omaha, Neb., is He received an expense-paid trip to the Montana University system. the 1984 winner of the Radio Television News Directors Association Journalism and radio-television enrollment $1,000 Abe Schecter International Conference in San Antonio in totaled 362, up eight over last year’s record Graduate Scholarship, December. number. Of this fall’s total, 233 students sponsored by the Dodrill was chosen partly on the basis of were journalism majors, 129 radio-television Radio Television News his documentary on asbestos insulation at majors. Directors Foundation. UM, which was an expanded version of the The national award stories he did as an intern for KPAX-TV in The figures included 14 graduate students, supports graduate Missoula. He also has been a news intern at another record. study at the school of the recipient’s choice. KXLY-TV in Spokane.

5 The $8.6 million building will house the new Telecommunications Center, the J-School’s Department of Radio-Televi­ sion and the Department of Drama/Dance. Radio-TV center nearly complete

oseph Durso Jr. has joined the School of Journalism faculty y the time UM’s Performing Arts/Radio-Television Center as an associate professor and as chairman of the Department opens in early 1985, the staff of the new Center for Telecom­ of Radio-Television. He resigned as director of news and munications will already be working on several special televi­ programming at WBBM, the CBS-owned all-news station in Bsion productions. Chicago, to accept the position. Under the administrative control of Mike Easton, vice JThe previous chairman, Philip J. Hess, has returned to teaching. president for university relations, and directed by Kenneth G. Field­ UM President Neil S. Bucklew has authorized the School of Jour­ ing, the telecommunications center will be responsible for producing nalism to hire an additional radio-television faculty member, beginning radio and television programs for audiences in Montana and the re­ with the 1985-86 school year. gion. Its first special broadcast was a Christmas program, which in­ The new positions are needed to meet serious understaffing prob­ cluded UM choral and dramatic performances. lems and in anticipation of increased demands and opportunities Greg MacDonald, associate professor of journalism and a producer created by the new Performing Arts/Radio-Television Center. for the center, is working on several other productions, including a pilot for a monthly magazine show. The new organizational arrangement presumes a close relationship CBS newsman joins J-faculty between the telecommunications center and the School of Journalism, Durso began his broadcasting career in 1970 as reporter for WETA, whose students will enhance their professional skills by working on the public-television station in Washington, D.C. He later served as the production projects. director of editorials and community affairs for WCBS Radio in New KUFM, the campus’ public radio station, which previously had York, CBS’s all-news station, and as director of the CBS Radio Sta­ been under the administrative umbrella of the School of Journalism, tions News Service in Washington, D.C., which serves as the Washing­ is now part of the telecommunications center. Student training at ton bureau for the company’s radio stations and as production and KUFM will continue as before, and may actually be strengthened as distribution center for news features. He joined WBBM in Chicago in the result of recent efforts to increase student internship involvement 1982. in the station’s news operation. Durso has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Cornell University and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Television projects planned An avid fisherman who grew up in the New York City area, he is Fielding, who was named telecommunications director late last the co-author of an article about fishing Montana’s Bitterroot River in summer after a national search, will teach part time in the radio- the April 1983 issue of Field & Stream magazine. His wife, Maureen, television department. University President Neil S. Bucklew said that spent part of her childhood in Montana, and her parents now live in future center employees would also be expected to teach in the jour­ Victor. The couple has a 9-year-old daughter, Joanna. nalism school. Fielding has 16 years’ experience in the production of live and taped radio and television and eight years’ experience in teaching tel­ evision production. He resigned as assistant general manager of Radio-TV Services at Washington State University to accept the new UM position. From 1970 to 1973, Fielding was producer-director of television services at the University of Illinois-Urbana. He then took a similar position at Washington State, where he eventually became assistant general man­ ager, with major responsibilities in the operation of the Edward R. Murrow Communications Center. Fielding received an M.S. in radio and television in 1972 from the University of Illinois, where he also earned a bachelor’s degree in television production. He and his wife, Kathy, are the parents of a 6- year-old son, J.M. Besides the telecommunications center, other features of the new building include a 499-seat proscenium theater and a smaller theater- At left, Telecommunications Director Kenneth G. in-the-round, dance performance areas, an art gallery and offices for Fielding; at right, Radio-TV Chairman Joseph Durso. the dean of fine arts, drama department and radio-television depart­ ment personnel. 6 ThreeJ-School grads are distinguished alums

ovelist A.B. Guthrie Jr. and newspapermen William D. “Scot­ his way up from cub reporter to executive editor of the Lexington, ty” James and Harry Billings are the three latest journalism Ky., Leader before leaving newspapers to devote his time to a fiction­ school graduates to receive University of Montana distinguish­ writing career. ed alumnus awards. Billings, ’33, was managing editor of the progressive, labor-oriented They bring the J-School total to 23, more than any other People’s Voice in Helena from 1946 to 1969. The Voice took strong academic unit. Guthrie and James received their awards in 1984; Bill­ and often unpopular editorial stands on social and political issues. In ings received his in 1983. 1958 Billings and his wife, Gretchen, jointly won a national Sidney James, ’41, had been a reporter and editor for the Great Falls Hillman Award for their editorials in behalf of civil liberties and the Tribune for 36 years before retiring in 1983 as vice president and general welfare. The Billingses are now retired and live in Thompson editor. One of Montana’s most respected newsmen, he was a percep­ Falls. tive commentator on Montana and national issues, and was credited with having played an important role in making the Tribune one of Previous journalism school distinguished alumni: Dorothy Rochon the state’s best newspapers. James was guest of honor at a J-School Powers, ’43; Ronald S. Kain, ’22; Vern Haugland, ’31; Frank Brutto, reception on Oct. 26. He fielded questions from students, other alumni ’29; Ann Wilson Haynes, ’22; Aline Mosby, ’43; Robert C. Hendon, and faculty, who included professors emeriti Andy Cogswell and Ed ’34; William Forbis, ’39; Norma Beatty Ashby, ’57; Vernon F. Spen­ Dugan. cer, ’42; William A. Barbour, ’48; Hal Steams, ’36; Andrew Cogswell, A.B. Guthrie Jr., ’23, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for his novel ’27; Martha Dunlap-Moore, ’28; Ossian MacKenzie, ’28; D.J. Shults, “The Way West.” An earlier book, “The Big Sky,” was the first of ’33; Joan Hoff-Wilson, ’57; and Verna Green Smith, ’40. Young Distin­ six historical novels that explored the unhappy consequences of civili­ guished Alumni awards have gone to David Rorvik, ’66 and Janet zation’s encroachment on the American wilderness. Guthrie worked Trask Cox, ’63.

A.B. Guthrie, Jr. William D. “Scotty” James Harry Billings

Holloron, who is on leave to work as an Alumni win editor at the Missoulian during the 1984-85 Anderson added academic year, joined the UM journalism teaching awards faculty in 1974. He received a merit award, primarily based on his teaching performance, to Hall of Fame Two School of Jour­ from UM in 1983. Don Anderson, the nalism alumni are He served as chief of the Lee News­ Lee Newspaper execu­ among 11 winners of papers State Bureau in Helena, and has tive who negotiated the 1984 National worked for the Missoulian, the Great Falls Lee’s purchase of the Teaching Award spon­ Tribune, the Hamilton Daily Ravalli Repub­ Anaconda Company sored by the American lic and the Wisconsin State Journal in Madi­ newspapers in 1959, is Society of Newspaper son. the 26th inductee to Editors and the Poyn- From April 1971 to April 1972, he was the Montana News­ ter Institute for Mass assistant director and local government re­ paper Hall of Fame. Media Studies. search analyst of the Montana Constitutional His photo and They are Jerry Hol- Convention Commission. He later served as biography will join loron, associate profes­ research director of the Montana Legislative those of other mem­ sor of journalism at the University of Mon­ Council. bers in the Hall Of Fame display in the UM tana, and Zena Beth McGlashan, associate A Corvallis native, Holloron earned a School of Journalism. professor of journalism at the University of B.A. in 1964 and an M.A. in 1965 from the A native of Bozeman, Anderson spent his North Dakota in Grand Forks. UM journalism school. entire career with the Wisconsin State Jour­ The award honors college journalism McGlashan, a 1961 UM journalism gradu­ nal in Madison before serving as the first teachers in the United States and Canada ate from Butte, has worked as a reporter or president of Lee Newspapers in Montana. who have demonstrated “proven ability in editor for the Montana Standard, the Missou­ The newspapers included the Billings Gazet­ the teaching of writing and editing, devotion lian and the Albuquerque, N.M., Journal. te, the Missoulian, the Montana Standard in to students, a love for the English language She earned her master’s degree at Cali­ Butte, the Helena Independent Record and and a dedication to teaching its proper and fornia State University in Northridge, and the Livingston Enterprise, the last of which creative use.” A panel of prominent news­ her Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. She was later resold. It was the nation’s largest paper editors makes the selections. taught journalism at Penn State University one-day newspaper purchase up to that time. Holloron and McGlashan joined other before moving to the University of North The Montana Press Association authorized winners and writing expert Roy Peter Clarke Dakota. Anderson’s induction at its 1984 convention in a seminar on effective writing in May at Her husband, Harley Straus, also teaches in Missoula. the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla. journalism at North Dakota.

7 W inging it

Professor Bob McGiffert delighted Dean Charles frain, “So i t ’s hats off, to plucky, lucky Lindbergh, Hood’s Senior Seminar class last year with a rousing the Eagle of the U-S-A.” For years, McGiffert has set musical salute to Charles A. Lindbergh. A student J-School windows a-rattling with his exuberant rendi­ had just finished an oral report on the fabled aviator tions of “Marching Through Georgia,” “Bringing in when McGiffert strode in and belted out five verses the Sheaves” and “Keep Mum, Chum.” of a popular period tune that concludes with the re­

Charles Hood, Nathaniel Blumberg, Jyl Hoyt dean and professor, was the principal organ­ professor emeritus and former dean, is the continues to be on leave of absence from izer of “The China Hands’ Legacy: Ethics author of a controversial contemporary novel KUFM News to produce the radio documen­ and Diplomacy,” the inaugural event of the that criticizes news media coverage of John tary series “Reflections in Montana.” The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at the W. Hinckley’s attempt to assassinate Presi­ series, which airs on 30 radio stations in the University of Montana. The $26,000 project dent Reagan. Nathaniel discussed the book, region, offers profiles on writers such as was funded by the UM Foundation and the “The Afternoon of March 30,” at Senior A.B. Guthrie Jr., Ivan Doig and James Montana Committee for the Humanities. Seminar Revisited, the alumni reunion held Welch; on Montana artists like Ted Waddell, Hood also coordinated “Images: War, Peace in conjunction with Dean Stone Night last Isabelle Johnson and Patrick Zenta, and on and Love,” a university public film and lec­ spring. He continues to teach one quarter a public issues affecting Montanans. Jyl ture series designed to complement his Sen­ year at the J-School. worked with producers from National Public ior Seminar class, which focuses on 20th Radio on a 20-minute radio profile of Butte century society. He is chairman of the com­ Warren Brier, that aired on NPR’s “All Things Consid­ mittee overseeing the Mansfield Lectures in ered,” and she spent 10 days in San Fran­ International Relations. professor of journalism and former dean, spent the first half of the summer teaching cisco last spring attending a Western Public the class School Publications and Teaching Radio workshop. Andrew C. Cogswell, Methods and the second half exploring the professor emeritus of journalism and former beaches of Vancouver Island. During the Bob McGiffert, professor of journalism, spent his summer dean of students at UM, shared grand mar­ 1984-85 academic year he will develop and on the telephone to such spots as Ougadou- shal honors with former Dean of Women teach a new J-School course, a graduate gou, Cairo, Beirut, Adelaide, Bonn, San Sal­ Maurine Clow at the 1984 Homecoming Pa­ seminar. He continues to be the journalism vador, Paris, Rio, Buenos Aires and Moscow rade. Andy continues to be active in the graduate student adviser. as a member of the Foreign Desk staff at Friends of the UM Library. the Washington Post. In response to his an­ Philip J. Hess, nouncement that his 11th summer was prob­ Joe Durso, professor of journalism and former chairman ably his last, his colleagues threw a working- of the radio-television department, taught hours party on the newsroom floor and gave associate professor of journalism and chair­ Specialized Reporting, Broadcast Advertising him a fake Post front page replete with man of the radio-television department, trav­ and Management and Introduction to Radio- funny stories about his misadventures. Shar­ eled to Los Angeles in November to help Television during Fall Quarter 1984. Though ing the limelight was Lexie Verdon, 77, who judge the Golden Mike Awards Contest of multiple sclerosis has landed him in a transferred the same week from the Foreign the Radio-Television News Association of wheelchair, he continues to teach and advise Desk to the Metro Desk- Ben Bradlee and Southern California. See additional story on students and is helping to break in his suc­ Page 6. Len Downie, the new managing editor, cessor as chairman, Joe Durso. dropped in. 8 Jerry Holloron, Charles Lubrecht, Greg MacDonald, associate professor of journalism, is on leave chief engineer, is the telecommunications associate professor of journalism, has of absence during the 1984-85 academic year center’s $600,000 man. That’s the price tag stepped down as manager of KUFM to to work as an editor of the Missoulian. His for the radio and television equipment he allow him more time to pursue new respon­ selection as one of the nation’s top journal­ must install in the new Performing Arts/Ra- sibilities as director of television production ism teachers is reported on Page 7. dio-Television Center in the next few in UM’s new telecommunications center. months. Ken Fielding, the center’s director, is the John Talbot, new station manager. Greg’s teaching and advising responsibilities will not be affected who retired in January Jace Laakso by the organization change. He attended the 1984 as a senior execu­ has been assistant news director of KUFM February 1984 faculty-industry seminar of tive with Lee Enter­ since March. He also produced a pilot radio the International Radio-Television Society in prises, joined the jour­ program on the arts, designed to be the first New York. nalism faculty as a vi­ of a series. Three more “Montana Gallery” siting lecturer in the programs are in production, to be aired on spring to design and KUFM during Winter Quarter 1985. Carol Hayes teach a new course in has resigned as secretary of the radio-televi­ newspaper manage­ Patty Reksten, sion department to take a similar position ment. John, who was with the UM Telecommunications Center. vice president for the a visiting lecturer and teaching assistant, newspaper group’s taught a new course in graphics and layout Kay James western operations, had been with Lee for last spring, and designed the publications for Kay assumed Carol’s old job in December “The China Hands: Ethics and Diplomacy,” 25 years. His previous assignments included 1984. stints as publisher of the Missoulian and the first event of the Maureen and Mike business manager of the Billings Gazette. He Mansfield Center at UM. During Fall Quar­ Gus Chambers, will teach the newspaper management course ter 1984 she taught a one-credit honors class again this winter, along with another new that did the design and paste-up of the 1984 visiting lecturer in radio-television, is teach­ course in newspaper advertising. Talbot is a Communique. She traveled to Billings in Oc­ ing basic radio production. Gus has worked 1951 graduate of Harvard. tober to present, at the request of the Mon­ tana Press Association, redesign suggestions on the KUFM staff for five years, and also for the MPA’s newspaper, The Fourth Es­ works for KECI-TV, where he directs the Sharon Barrett, tate. nightly news. He earned a B.S. in microbiol­ assistant professor of journalism, served on ogy from the University of Georgia and a the University Planning Council, was the J- B.A. in radio-television from UM. School’s representative to the University William Marcus Teachers Union and was elected to the Fac­ continues as production/promotion and de­ ulty Senate. She also served on a Writing velopment director for KUFM. Projects this Carol Van Valkenburg, Task Force whose goal was to determine year included Public Radio Week, the sta­ ’72, has joined the which UM courses would meet the writing tion’s annual on-air fundraiser which netted journalism faculty as a portion of the new general education re­ $98,000 in listener pledges. William is looking visiting assistant pro­ quirements. forward to the move to the Performing Arts- fessor for the 1984-85 /Radio-Television Center, where he will be academic year. Carol director of audio production for the telecom­ Edward B. Dugan, replaces Jerry Hollo­ munications center. He’s a 1974 R-TV gradu­ ron, who is on leave. professor emeritus, attended the alumni re­ ate from Wibaux. A former reporter and union following Dean Stone Night last April editorial writer for the and took part in journalism faculty retreat Missoulian, she is in September 1983. Suzanne Lagoni, teaching beginning and advanced reporting 76 will teach broadcast news courses part- Terry Conrad, classes and advises the Montana Kaimin time during winter and spring quarters, 1985. KUFM program director, is devoting much Suzanne resigned as news director at KNDO- staff. Last year she discussed news media ethics at a Great Falls conference of the So­ of his time trying to meet the challenge of TV in Yakima, Wash., last year to return to ciety of Professional Journalists. serving the station’s expanding listening audi­ her job as news director at KPAX-TV in ence. KUFM now serves half the state’s Missoula. She is coordinating the “Face the population in five major communities and State” public affairs programs and statewide many smaller ones. political coverage for the Montana Television Ray Ekness, Network. graduate teaching assistant in radio-televsion, Sally Mauk, is teaching basic television production. Ray, news director of KUFM, took on several from Crosby, N.D., has been a producer and special projects during the past year, includ­ Deirdre McNamer, director for “Grizzly Replay” for two years. ing production of a radio documentary on visiting lecturer in He earned his B.A. in radio-television from the Colstrip 3 rate case. She covered the journalism, taught re­ UM in 1983. special session of the Legislature in Helena porting and editing earlier last year, and is looking forward to classes during Fall the 1985 session. During Fall Quarter 1984 Quarter 1984. A 1973 Karen Kaley and she worked with radio-TV seniors doing graduate of the School news internships with KUFM. of Journalism, Dee re­ Barbara McElwain Kennedy signed her feature­ are sharing the journalism secretary’s job. writing job at the Mis­ Karen, formerly the fulltime secretary, runs Bob Cushman, soulian to teach and the office in the morning, then turns over work on a m aster’s visiting lecturer in photojournalism, judged the reins to Barb in the afternoon. The ar­ degree in fine arts. photo entries of the Missouri Press Women’s rangement permits Karen to spend after­ Before coming to the Missoulian in 1978, she Communications Contest and worked on noons with year-old son Sammy. Barb, a had been an Associated Press reporter in plans for a graphics lab and still photogra­ 1983 journalism graduate, married Michael Portland, Ore., and in Helena. She spent the phy studio on the J-School’s third floor. He Kennedy in Missoula last April. Jan Liane, 1982-83 academic year at the University of published a photo page in the Autumn 1983 Karen’s predecessor, filled in as secretary Michigan on a fellowship for professional issue of Western Wildlands magazine, and during the summer, and is finishing up a continues to work as a freelance photogra­ journalists funded by the National Endow­ degree in nursing. pher. ment for the Humanities.

9 Howard Simons

Howard Simons among J-School visitors

ashington Post managing editor Jeffrey Boswall, British Broadcasting Corporation' Howard Simons was among 35 news- film producer. media professionals and public figures John W. Powell, former editor of the China who visited the School of Journalism Weekly Review, Shanghai. W during the past year. Howard Berkes and Art Silverman, producers for Simons, who has since resigned his Post position National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” to become director of the Nieman Fellowships John Melcher, U.S. senator from Montana. program at Harvard, gave a public address focusing Lyman Dayton, independent film producer. on First Amendment issues and fielded questions Paul Spranger, vice president, Western from students in the Journalism Library. Broadcasting. Other visitors to the School of Journalism Brian Howell, city editor, the Missoulian. included: Brian Kennedy, editor, Hungry Horse News. Frances FitzGerald, Pulitzer Prize-winning K.A.“Doc” Eggensperger, editor, Thompson Falls author. Ledger. Robert Shaplen, correspondent for the New John McNamer, opponent of the nuclear-arms Yorker. race. Don Oliver ’58, NBC correspondent. Sally Hilander, Helena Independent Record and Jack Perkins, NBC correspondent. president, SPJ. Robert White, former U.S. ambassador, El Harry Billings, ’33, former editor, the People’s Salvador. Voice, Helena. Richard Clarkson, former associate managing William D. “Scotty” James, ’41, former editor, editor for graphics, Denver Post, now with National Great Falls Tribune. Geographic. Leon Billings, lobbyist and political consultant, Josef Joffe, former editor, Die Zeit. Washington, D.C. Raymond Anderson, former New York Times Bob Fitch, former photojournalist with Black Moscow correspondent. Star. John Schulz, ’62, deputy news director, Voice of Wes Spiker, Spiker-Corwin Communications, America. Missoula. Robert Shaplen

s jj. Robert White x Faculty and Alum

athaniel Blumberg, dean of the UM on Schwennesen, former UM graduate School of Journalism from 1956 to 1968, student in journalism, is co-author of is the author of “The Afternoon of March “Montana Wilderness: Discovering the 30,” described as a contemporary histori­ Heritage,” a 128-page volume published Ncal novel about the attempted assassina­ D by the Missoulian. tion of President Ronald Reagan. Schwennesen teamed up with two other Missou­ Blumberg, who retired in 1978, continues to lian staffers, reporter Steve Woodruff and photog­ teach one quarter each year at the journalism rapher Carl Davaz, to produce the book, which ex­ school. amines Montana’s 15 wilderness areas and the is­ Montana Wilderness: In Blumberg’s words: “This is the story of a sues that affect them. Discovering the Heritage Montana newspaperman who is at first puzzled, The book is the result of a year-long explora­ then curious, then finally outraged by what the tion. The three journalists covered more than 10,- national news media never told the American peo­ 000 miles, traveling by foot, ski, canoe, raft, horse­ ple about the attempt of John W. Hinckley Jr. to back, car, airplane and helicopter. They spent assassinate the President of the United States. more than 230 days and nights in the wilderness, “It is a real-life mystery story, a detective most of them far off the beaten track. story, a newspaper story, a spy story and more than one love story.... n 1969 Steve Smith ’65, M.A. ’69, wrote a “Even more dangerous for the future of our 412-page master’s thesis about Montana country than a conspiracy to assassinate a Presi­ author Dorothy Johnson. In 1984 the dent is a conspiracy to manipulate and control thesis was published as a book, “The what the American people are told by the national I Years and the Wind and the Rain,” by media. This book-among much else-examines the Pictorial Histories Publishing Company of Missou­ official cover-up of vital information that left la. scores of unanswered questions surrounding the The biography traces the personal and profes­ event of the afternoon of March 30, 1981.” sional life of Miss Johnson, who was the author of The self-published book (Wood, Fire and Ashes 17 books and more than 100 short stories. Press) is set in Placer, a Montana university com­ Miss Johnson was an assistant professor at the munity whose physical surroundings and inhabi­ UM School of Journalism from 1953 to 1967. The Years and the Wind tants may remind knowledgeable readers of Mis­ Smith is a reporter and columnist for the Mis­ and the Rain soula. But the story reaches well beyond Mon­ soulian. He has been city editor and state editor tana’s borders. at the Missoulian and a reporter for the Belling­ Blumberg, a Rhodes Scholar, also is the author The Afternoon o f March 30 ham (Wash.) Herald. He has taught journalism at of the book “One-Party Press?” and co-editor of UM and the University of Alaska. He also is the the anthology “A Century of Montana Journal­ author of the book “Fly the Biggest Piece Back,” ism.” a biography of Bob Johnson, a pioneer Montana He has worked for the Associated Press, the aviator. Denver Post, Lincoln (Neb.) Star and the Ashland The Dorothy Johnson biography has a foreword (Neb.) Gazette. He was a member of the journal­ by author A.B. Guthrie Jr. ’23. ism faculty at the University of Nebraska and at * CONTiUPORAItr HISTORICAL NCHB. Smith describes how Miss Johnson was in­ Michigan State University before coming to Mon­ fluenced by the late Prof. H.G. Merriam of the WNWa BUJWOK tana. UM English Department. He also describes her ca­ Blumberg and his wife, Barbara, live at reer as an editor at the Gregg Publishing Compa­ Flathead Lake near Bigfork. ny in New York City-a period during which she wrote stories at night and refused to become dis­ allie Sinclair Maclay ’29 is the author of couraged by rejection slips. “What News from the Pleiades,” a self- Eventually, Miss Johnson sold a story to the published book of poems. Sallie is from Saturday Evening Post and her career as a pub­ Hamilton, where she and her husband, lished writer began. S Frank Brutto ’29, live. He is the former Virginia Weisel Johnson, reviewing Smith’s book Vatican correspondent for the Associated Press. in the Montanan, the University of Montana maga­ zine, wrote: “Steve Smith is to be congratulated history of Montana newspapers by the on giving us this portrait of a feisty, independent A late Sam Gilluly, a 1935 UM journalism woman with a wonderful sense of humor-small in Z A graduate, will be published by the Mon- stature but big in courage.” / % tana Press Association in June 1985 to commemorate the association’s 100th an­ es Granberg-Michaelson, a University A niversary. of Montana visiting professor of jour­ WORLDLY Kevin Giles ’78, an editor for the Bismarck, nalism in 1981-82, is the author of SPIRITUALITY N.D., Tribune, is editing “A Century of News­ “A Worldly Spirituality: The Call to papers 1885-1985,” which Gilluly described as “the W Take Care of the Earth,” published story of the Montana Press Association, an organi­ this fall by Harper & Row. A Century o f Newspapers zation that has bloomed and withered several The publisher describes the book as a “bibli­ 1885-1985 times, and appears to be at its greatest strength as cally-centered” examination of the church’s respon­ it approaches its centennial in 1985.” sibility to address fundamental questions of envi­ In his foreword, Gilluly notes that though the ronmental ethics-how to respond to the “ad­ unwholesome influence of “company” newspapers vances” in science and technology that have probably reached into the Montana Press Associa­ A Worldly Spirituality: created such results as acid rain and the threat of tion, Montana editors performed significant public The Call to Take Care nuclear war. o f the Earth service during the state’s early years. “Editors may sometimes have been mistaken in the stands Granberg-Michaelson is the president of the they took, but these early Montana journalists had New Creation Institute, a Missoula-based Christian a strong commitment to improve their towns and study center committed to the application of Chris­ their country,” he wrote. tianity to social and environmental issues.

1 POIGNANT MOMENT At right, a furniture-maker confined to a wheelchair since childhood watches silently as his two Dobermans cavort against a stark Montana background.

Good pictures tell their own stories, as the recent work of UM photojournalism students shows. When words alone w on ’t d o

t £ 1 PORTRAITS Above, Hope Dennis reflects on her career as a freelance writer and editor in Hawaii and Europe. At right, UM student Jay Noffsinger salutes the home team and college life at a Grizzly football game last fall. PLAYTIME AND PAINTIME Above, UM student Doug Parker of Prineville, Ore., juggles away the stress of classes. At left, Grizzly track star Gordon Ruttenbur col­ lapses during the steeplechase event at the Montana Invita­ tional Track Meet in Missoula. Sam Gilluly Edward B. Hudacek Norman A. Johnson Sam Gilluly ’30, Edward B. “Butch” Hudacek ’41, an out­ Norman A. Johnson ’81, died of cancer editor of the Glasgow standing Grizzly athlete who became a suc­ Dec. 4, 1984, at the home of relatives in Courier from 1932 to cessful businessman in California, died Feb. Horace, N.D. He was 27. 1960, died May 20, 15, 1984, following heart surgery in Sacra­ Ill only for a few months, he had ex­ 1984, in a Spokane mento. He was 68. pected to take a staff job last fall with a hospital after a two- After service as a naval officer in World U.S. Senator in Washington, D.C. He had re­ month illness. War II and a brief coaching career in Mon­ signed earlier in the year as editor of a Mr. Gilluly worked tana, including a stint at Havre High School, newsletter for Georgetown University Hospi­ for the Great Falls he established a construction firm in Sacra­ tal in Washington. Tribune from 1930 to mento. At the time of his death, he was com­ 1932. In 1960 he He was married to the former Margaret pleting a master’s degree in history at the moved to Helena, “Muggs” Morse of Anaconda, who also at­ University of North Dakota at Grand Forks. where he was publications editor for the tended UM. She continues to reside at the Born March 16, 1957, in Harlowton, he Montana Chamber of Commerce (1960 to family home at 7511 Fairway 2, Apt. S, Fair grew up in Worden, graduating from Huntley 1970), director of the Montana Historical So­ Oaks, Calif., 95628. Other survivors include a Project High School. After graduating from ciety (1967 to 1974) and executive secretary daughter, Peggy Eillena of Woodbridge, Va.; the UM School of Journalism, he spent time of the Montana Press Association (1974 to a son, David, of Lake Tahoe., and two in Ireland and Alaska. 1979). grandchildren. Survivors include his wife, Billie Lamb, a Mr. Gilluly was born April 25, 1908, in medical doctor; their eight-month-old son, Billings. His father was a pioneer Montana Ross L. Miller Conor; and his parents, T. Carl and Betty newspaperman who operated weeklies in Ross L. Miller ’49, former UM public ser­ Johnson of Helena. Columbus, Billings, Glendive and Lewistown. vices director and Alumni Association direc­ He recently had compiled and edited a tor, died in Juneau Sept. 30, 1983. He was Robert E. Crennen history of Montana journalism that will be 59. published in 1985 by the association. Robert E. Crennen ’51, vice president of His daughter Alexis is a senior in the UM United Press International’s Central Division, Mr. Gilluly’s wife, Esther Hart Gilluly journalism school. died May 19, 1984, of a heart attack in Bay ’30, died Dec. 4, 1982, at age 74. Mr. Miller was born Dec. 13, 1923, in City, Mich. He was 54. He is survived by three sons: Jack ’62, Parker, Idaho. He was stricken while attending a meet­ who works in information services for the He served for four years in the Army Air ing of the UPI Michigan Newspaper Editors Montana Power Co.; Robert ’57, editorial- Association. page editor of the Great Falls Tribune, and Corps in World War II. Mr. Crennen, a 30-year veteran of the Dick, who lives in Baltimore. In 1958 Mr. Miller and his family moved company, was chief manager for UPI in its to Fairbanks, where he became director of nine-state central division. He was dean of public relations and information at the Uni­ Edward Furlong the vice presidents of UPI’s sue domestic versity of Alaska. He later became executive Edward P. “Dazz” Furlong ’35, retired divisions. director of the Fairbanks Chamber of Com­ managing editor of the Great Falls Tribune, Mr. Crennen was a reporter for the Min­ merce. died Feb. 12, 1984, after a long illness. He neapolis Star and Tribune before he joined The family moved to Juneau in 1962. was 75. the then United Press as a newsman in 1954 From then until his retirement in 1980, Mr. Mr. Furlong worked as a reporter for the at Salt Lake City. He later worked in the Miller was an industrial and tourism devel­ Missoulian and as telegraph editor for the Honolulu and San Francisco bureaus. opment specialist with the Bureau of Indian Missoula Sentinel before he joined the Trib­ As a young reporter, he was proud of an Affairs. He recently had been honored by une in 1943. interview with Eleanor Roosevelt. For many years he played for semi-pro being adopted into the Tlingit Raven Tribe. football and baseball teams in Great Falls. He also had received the Alaska Native Mr. Crennen served in the Army Counter­ His wife, Emmogene King of Great Falls, Tourism Association Service Award for intelligence Corps in the Korean war and died in 1977. “faithful commitment and dedicated support later was a member of the Marine Corps Survivors include two sons, James of to native tourism development.” Reserve. Great Falls and Michael of Helena, and nine Mr. Miller is survived by his wife, Mary, He is survived by his wife, Beverly; chil­ grandchildren. and eight children. dren Kristi and Thad; and a sister.

But Clarkson provided only part of the fun at the banquet. The rest came in the form of awards to Journalism and Radio-Television Dean Stone Night students totaling more than $10,000. Clarkson resigned as assistant managing edi­ tor of the Denver Post last spring to take a Photojournalist speaks; senior photography position with National Geo­ graphic. Before joining that magazine, he cov­ R-TV, J-students ered the 1984 summer Olympics in Los Angeles for Sports Illustrated. receive $10,000 Clarkson worked for the Topeka Capital- Journal from 1958 to 1981, eventually becoming director of photography. in awards He has been a contract contributing photog­ rapher for Sports Illustrated since 1974 and in tioiT oMsldMn'fn photo®raph®r Richard C. Clarkson and the prese 1980 organized that magazine’s coverage of the Dean Lone Night on Aprifay. SCh°larshlPs highlighted the 25th an, Olympic Games in Moscow. His free-lance photos have appeared in Time, Life, the Saturday Evening Post and Sport Magazine. senfatiira^'heLrdtehri f°Wd ° t " earIy 300 saw Clarkson's slide In 1972 Clarkson won the highest honor in the field of photojour­ Priie L ^v USA *ntitled "How to Win a Puli nalism, the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award. The Dean Stone Night awards and recipients: photojournahsthoTe a^°DeL%S one’H i P T " -He * the 1 series began in 1959 S Nlght speaker slnce the lecl Richard Shirley Award—$100 each to Brett French, Bozeman, and 1 4 Ann Hennessy, Butte. Vern Haugland Virginia Shanley MacLean Tom Wigal Vera Haugland ’31, Virginia Shanley MacLean ’38, the last Tom Wigal ’36, former city editor of the retired aviation and' student secretary to work for Dean Arthur Butte Montana Standard and the Daily Post, space editor for the M. Stone, died of cancer in a Missoula hos­ died Jan. 19, 1984, in Tarpon Springs, Fla. Associated Press, died pital. She was 70. He was 69. Sept. 15, 1984, at the Mrs. MacLean had worked for the Helena Mr. Wigal was director of press relations age of 76 in Reno. Independent, the Baker (Ore.) Democrat Her­ for the Montana Mining Division of the Ana­ Mr. Haugland, who ald, the Nampa (Idaho) Free Press, the Spo­ conda Co. when he retired in 1975. He had lived in San Clemente, kane Daily Chronicle, the Glasgow Courier, joined the Anaconda public relations staff in Calif., died while at­ the Havre Daily News and the Poison 1959. tending a meeting of Flathead Courier. Mr. Wigal, editor of the Montana Kaimin, the Eagle Squadron At the time of her death she was office went to work for the Butte newspapers Association, a group manager for the Ship’s Store in Poison. when he was graduated from the University. of Americans who flew with the Royal Air In 1978 she was named Key Woman of He joined the Army in 1941 and was at Force before the U.S. entered World War II. the Year by the Poison Chamber of Com­ Hickam Field, Hawaii, when the Japanese He recently wrote a book, “The Eagles merce for “outstanding community service.” attacked Pearl Harbor. He subsequently War,” about the squadron. Survivors include a daughter, Leslie Kuka, served in the European Theater as an infan­ Mr. Haugland first attracted national at­ Havre. try officer and was wounded by shrapnel in tention in 1942 when he bailed out of a B-26 the Vosges Mountains along the Franco-Ger­ over the New Guinea jungle after the fuel Mabelle Willard Wilkinson man border in December 1944. He spent 17 ran out. He spent 43 days trying to find his Mabelle Willard Wilkinson ’34, a Missoula months in Army hospitals before returning way out of the jungle, and he recounted the native, died in Lexington, Ky., after a long to Butte, having left the service as a cap­ ordeal in his book “Letter From New illness. She was 74. tain. Guinea.” Mrs. Wilkinson had lived in Lexington Survivors include his wife, Helen, three Gen. Douglas MacArthur awarded Mr. since her late husband, Harvey, retired as an daughters and five grandchildren. Haugland the first Silver Star presented to a attorney for the federal government. Memorials may be sent to the United civilian. Her father, Dr. Asa Willard, was a long­ Congregational Church in Butte. Mr. Haugland began his career as a re­ time osteopathic physician in Missoula and for porter for the Montana Standard in Butte. more than 40 years was official timekeeper Mary Bukvich Fenton He joined the AP in 1936 and served as its at the annual state Interscholastic Track and Mary Bukvich Fenton ‘43 died of cancer aviation reporter/editor from 1952 to his re­ Field Meet when it was held regularly in Dec. 15, 1984, in a Helena hospital. She was tirement in 1973. Missoula. 63. In 1976 Mr. Haugland received the Mrs. Fenton and her husband, Ray ’43, Lauren D. Lyman Memorial Award from the John B. Curtis operated Public Relations Associates in Aviation-Space Writers Association for his John B. Curtis ’33, former chief of the Great Falls from 1960 to 1982, when they service as an aviation editor. Santa Fe bureau of the Associated Press, moved to Canyon Ferry Lake near Helena. He is survived by his wife, Tess, and died Sept. 8, 1983, in Santa Fe. He was 73. Mrs. Fenton, born in Butte, was gradu­ daughters Marci Watson and Taya Haugland A native of Libby, Mr. Curtis was editor ated with honors from the University. of San Francisco. of the Twin Bridges Sentinel from 1933 to She was a reporter for the Great Falls Frances Ketcham Harker 1934 and a reporter for the Helena Record- Tribune from 1943 to 1946. Herald from 1934 to 1935. Frances Ketcham Harker ’50, died March Since 1982 the Fentons had been conduct­ He joined the AP in 1935 and worked in 28, 1983, in Foster City, Calif., at age 54. ing writing and design workshops, including the Albuquerque bureau from 1937 to 1941. two at the journalism school. During the summer months of 1945 and In 1945 Mr. Curtis won an E.H. Shaffer 1946 she worked in the Office of the Secre­ Award for his story based on an interview tary of the Treasury in Washington, D.C. with Dr. Robert Oppenheimer. Robert L. Wolfe After being graduated from UM she held He retired from the AP in 1961 and Robert Lloyd Wolfe, a UM journalism a federal information job in Billings. worked for the Southern Union Gas Co. student in the mid-1970s who worked as a She is survived by her husband, Robert until 1972. lab assistant in the photography program, (UM Business Administration, 1951), and Survivors include his wife, Mary, three died in Missoula last July. He had been bat­ three children. sons and one daughter. tling a brain tumor.

Outstanding Senior Woman of the Year—$100 to Beth Redlin, Sid­ Tucker, both of Huron, S.D., and Laura Harrawood. Nashville, Tenn. ney. Sam and Nellie Maclay Book Award—to Sarah Prodell, Missoula. Last Chance Press Club Award—$100 to Ann Joyce, Butte. Art Jette Award—$25 each to Gary Jahrig, Calgary, Alta., and Mary Decker Award—$100 to Susan Forman, Seattle, Wash. Mark Grove, Cincinnati, Ohio. Kappa Tau Alpha National Journalism Society Top Scholar Award- Dean Stone Award—$300 each to Marlee Miller, Eugene, Ore., and -to Beth Redlin. Melanie Williamson, Great Falls. Butte Press Club Award—$350 to Jim Knudson, Missoula. Grace Crane Newman Award—$200 to Laura Harrawood. McLean Clark Television Award—$300 to Janet Dixon, Laurel. Sigma Delta Chi Kaimin Service Award—to Gary Jahrig, Calgary, Blanche Coppo Lanstrum-Dean Stone Award—$250 to Laurie Wil­ Alta. liams, Billings. SDX Outstanding Graduate—Laurie Williams. Great Falls Newspaper Guild Award—$200 to Yvonne Lucero, Melvin and Myrtle Lord Award—$100 each to Jeff Mackey, Heron; Great Falls. Bruce Burns, Pittsburg, Calif.; Julie Heath, Lewistown; Casey Carroll, Olaf J. Bue Award—$100 to Patricia Tucker, Huron, S.D. Great Falls; and Damien Conrad, Conrad. Montana Stockgrowers Association Award—$300 to Eric Williams, Guy Mooney Award—$250 to Gary Jahrig. Hobson. Steve Forbis Award—$250 to Jerry Wright, Granada Hills, Calif. Sadie Erickson Award—$100 each to Carlos Pedraza, Arvada, Colo., Durgin Memorial Award—$200 to Joel Lundstad, Bigfork. and Dave Fenner, Helena. Lee Newspapers Award—$500 to Tim Huneck, Missoula. Ronald E. Miller Award—$100 each to Jeanine Bohannen, Missou­ Don Anderson Award—$1,000 to Deanna Rider, Hardin. la; Nola Gerth, Butte; Jo York, Newport, Minn.; Georell Copps, Hel­ Great Falls Tribune Award—$1,000 to Jim Fairchild, Missoula; ena; Donna Clark, Lodi, Calif.; James Jonkel, Missoula; and Alexis $500 each to Eric Troyer, Copper Landing, Alaska, and Karol Bossier, Miller, Juneau, Alaska. Helena. David Rorvik Award—$200 each to Patricia Tucker and Barbara Connie Craney Award—$900 to Darrel Palmer, Lead, S.D.

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Laurie Williams Bonnie Yahvah ’84, is a reporter for the Tri-City Herald in ’83, resigned her reporting job with the S Georell Copps eastern Washington. Libby Western News to join the Army. ’84, has joined Exclamation Point, the Bill­ Larry Winslow Deborah J. Davis ings advertising and public-relations agency, ’84, is a reporter and editor at the Vancou­ ’82, is a feature and events writer for the as a copy writer. ver (Wash.) Columbian. Mullan Trail News, the Missoulian’s Wednes­ day supplement for Superior and St. Regis. Scott Gratton Jerry Wright ’84, and Shelley Burt were married April 7, Ann Hennessey 1984, in Missoula. ’84, has joined the Helena Independent Re­ cord as a reporter. ’84, has joined the Vacaville, Calif., Daily Perry Backus Republic as an education reporter. ’84, is news editor of the Dillon Tribune. Renata Birkenbuel ’83, left the news staff of the Anaconda Mary Shanahan Ann Joyce Leader to join the Great Falls Tribune. ’82, is vice president in charge of publica­ ex-’84, has joined the City News Bureau in tions for Truck Transport Consultants, Inc., Chicago as a reporter. Charles Mason and Mike Mclnally based in Missoula. Yvonne Lucero ’83, shared second place for spot news in Clark Fair the 1984 newspaper competition sponsored ’82, is editor of the Tides, the weekly maga­ ex - ’84, has joined Deaconess Hospital in by the Pacific Northwest Society of Profes­ Great Falls as assistant director of public af­ zine section of the Peninsula Clarion at sional Journalists. fairs. Kenai, Alaska. He placed second in the in­ vestigative-reporting category in the North­ Gordon Gregory Julie Omelchuck west Excellence in Journalism Competition M.A. ’84, took second for social issues writ­ for newspapers with circulations below 16,- ex-’84, is director of membership services at ing. Charles, Mike and Gordon work for the 000. the National Federation of Local Cable Missoulian. Programmers in Washington, D.C. Rita Munzenrider ’82, was a general-assignment reporter for Virginia Vickers Braun Jim Peterson the Billings Gazette before getting her who received a master’s degree at the ’83, works for Hartford Steam Boiler Inspec­ present assignment as federal court reporter. School of Journalism in 1984, is editor of tion and Insurance Co. in Michigan. He also Her article about Billings-based Cream of edits technical reports and is planning a the “Montanan-The Magazine of the Univer­ the West cereal company appeared in the writing seminar for other Midwest inspec­ sity of Montana.” Virginia works in the UM first issue of Northwest Edition magazine in tors. Office of News and Publications. January 1984.

Denise M. Dowling Linda Caricaburu Ronald S. Peterson R -T V ’82, joined KHQ-TV in Spokane in ex-’81, was named regional editor of the R-TV ’81, is an editor and videographer for February, 1984, as director of the production Great Falls Tribune earlier this year. KOAP-TV, a Public Broadcasting station in department. Two months later she was Portland, Ore. promoted to director of the news depart­ Vanessa Ceravolo ment. The job includes directing an hour ’81, was graduated from the UM School of Alan Rosenberg broadcast at 5 and a half hour program at Law in June and joined the Army Judge Ad­ ’81, is a reporter for the Boston Herald. 11. Previously she directed the MTN News vocate General Corps. Among his assignments was a February 1984 at Great Falls. She also has experience at interview with “a solemn Walter Mondale, KRDO-TV, Colorado Springs, and KPAX-TV, Gwinn Dyrland Missoula. trying to sort through the wreckage of his ex-’81 joined the Great Falls Tribune as a stunning New Hampshire primary defeat.” Sue O’Cpnnell reporter ’81, has joined the Great Falls Tribune capi­ Pat Sullivan tal bureau in Helena as a reporter. Jack Gauer ’81, editor of the Ritzville (Wash.) Journal, R-TV ’81 and wife Anne Ryan Gauer, R-TV placed third in sports feature stories (fewer Doug O ’Harra ’78, work in Billings for Aldrich and Helm than 5,000 circulation) in a contest sponsored ’82, is a reporter for the Anchorage Daily Advertising. Jack is an account executive by the National Newspaper Association. He News. and Anne is a broadcast producer. also won three awards from the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association, including Tim Rogers Kyle Hunter Albert a first place for investigative reporting. ’82, is the Butte advertising representative M.A. ’84, is working as an advertising and for KANA Radio in Anaconda. publications copywriter for Robin Chew De­ Susan Wailes Toft sign Co. of Colorado Springs, Colo. He also ’81, joined the Coeur d'Alene (Idaho) Press Rich Stripp is writing a column for Springs, a local mag­ as a correspondent in May 1983, and was ex-’82, is a sports writer for the Hardin Her­ azine. promoted to full-time county reporter the ald. following August. Brad Newman Paul Vandevelder ’81, was graduated from the UM School of Jim O ’Day 82, left the Tucson Daily Star to become Law in June. ’80 presented a memorial scholarship honor­ chief photographer at the Corvallis (Ore.) ing his father at the Cut Bank High gradua­ Gazette-Times. Lynette Nickel tion ceremony. J im ’s father, James F. O ’Day, was editor and publisher of the Cut Jim Bruggers ’81, won the Montana Press Association fea­ ture photo contest for newpapers with more Bank Western Breeze until his death in 1982. 81, resigned as the county reporter for the than 2,901 circulation. She took the picture Eileen Sansom Whitefish Pilot. He is now a reporter for the when she was with the Libby Western News. Frontiersman and Valley Sun newspapers in ’80, is director of District 6 of the Human She joined the Havre Daily News as a re­ Palmer and Wasilla, Alaska. Resources Development Council. She lives in porter and photographer. 16 Lewistown. Victor Rodriguez Randy Mills Sally Thane ex-’79, left the Glendive Ranger-Review and ex-’78, Dan Hollow ex-77, Lance Lovell ex- Christensen moved to Butte, where he is working as a ’83 and Pat Murdo 75 joined the Great S private investigator. He and Lona have a Falls Tribune staff during the past year. 79, who earned a law degree at UM in boy, Hunter, who was bom last year. 1983, is the legal counsel in Missoula for Re­ Patrick Sheehy gion 1 of the Forest Service. She was ap­ Bob Black 78, has been named president of the Mon­ pointed to the post by the U.S. Department 79, joined the Associated Press as a re­ tana Society for Hospital Community Rela­ of Agriculture’s Office of General Counsel in porter, and was assigned to the Salt Lake tions and Development. He continues to be Missoula. City bureau. the public relations manager of the Northern Montana Hospital in Havre. Debra McKinney Bert Caldwell 79, won the $1,000 a journalism graduate student in 1977 an d Bryan Abas first prize for having 1978, resigned as managing editor of the ex-’77, is author of “Inside the paper God the best people, fea­ Miles City Star to become regional editor of wanted: A nonbeliever’s account of life at ture or lifestyle sec­ the Spokesman-Review. the Reverend M o o n ’s Washington Times,” tion among weekly which appeared in the May/June 1984 issue newspapers in the 24th Nicole Flemming of the Columbia Journalism Review. Bryan annual J.C. Penney- 78, assistant editor of the Montana Business had resigned his newsroom job with the University of Missouri Quarterly, received a $445 UM grant to at­ Times in January, after working there about Newspaper competi­ tend training sessions in the use of graphic 18 months. He previously worked for the tion. arts. Lewiston, Idaho Morning Tribune and the She won the prize, Orange County, Calif., Register. H e’s now which included a trip Nancy Harris living in Colorado. to the Missouri J-school for a lifestyle-page 78, reports that she and husband Dean have workshop, for her work as an editor of the two children, Kyle and Claire. Nancy works Tom Hurly Hillsboro, Ore., Argus. part time as the office manager for the Nug­ 77, and Jamie Phair Hurly 77, announced She since has pulled up stakes “for yet get Department Store in Juneau, Alaska. the arrival of Wynne Elizabeth on April 24, another summer of bear wrestling in Alas­ 1984. Jamie took a leave from the Las Vegas ka,” but at last report was working on the Patricia Perkins Sun, and Tom took a semester off from the lifestyle page of the Anchorage Daily News 78, is a reporter for the Daily Journal of University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Tom as a feature writer. Commerce in Portland, Ore. also is a kitchen supervisor at the Tropicana.

Roger L. Heffner Lexie Verdon Richard M. Kaudy 77 is director of operations at WGRB-TV in 77, has resigned as an assistant foreign edi­ 76, is an attorney in Denver. Louisville, Ky. He formerly was an associate tor at the Washington Post to become an director at WAVE-TV in Louisville. assistant editor on that p a p e r ’s Maryland Wally Parker desk. Her article on the Soviet rejection of a 76, and wife Peggy announced the birth of Jonathan Krim U.S. diplomatic effort was the top story on Daniel on March 12, 1983. Wally is a re­ 77, was acting national editor of the San the P o s t ’s August 2, 1984, front page. porter and copy editor at the St. Paul Jose (Calif.) Mercury News until November. (Minn.) Pioneer Press and Dispatch. Virginia Getz Archdale During the spring he taught an editing class Dave Trimmer at San Jose State University. Jonathan vis­ 76, joined the Glendive Ranger-Review as a 76, sports writer for the Billings Gazette, ited friends in Missoula during the summer. reporter in October. She lives in Wibaux. won second place in the news story and fea­ Glenn Oakley ture story categories of the 1984 Montana Jay Kohn Rodeo Press Contest. Last year he won the 77, continues to live in the Boise, Idaho, R-TV 76, is the Helena correspondent for news story competition. area, where he freelances as a writer and KULR-TV in Billings. Jay and wife Judy live photographer. Glenn, who visited the jour­ in Clancy and have a daughter, Melanie, and Joy Toppin nalism school last summer, continues to be a son, Jeffrey. 76, is an Associated Press staffer in Cleve­ contributing editor for High Country News. land.

Mike Thompson Daryl Gadbow Geoffrey Harp 76, visited the J-School last summer. He is Missoulian sports editor, attended a 10-day 74, and Patty Jo Duncan were married a lawyer in Litchfield, Minn. seminar for sports editors at the American September 1 at the Double Diamond Guest Press Institute in Reston, Va. Ranch in Condon. Geoffrey is an insurance Robert C. Gibson agent with Tom Hiller & Associates. 75, and wife Linda Brown Gibson an­ Steve Fullerton nounced the birth of Curtis Daniel on Nov. 74, editor of the Hamilton Ravalli Republic, Durell Kinghorn 21, 1983. Bob is in charge of the Billings is treasurer of the Montana Society for Pro­ R-TV 74, visited the J-School last summer. fessional Journalists. Gazette Western Wyoming Bureau. He teaches in the Department of Interperso­ nal Communication at Brigham Young Uni­ Carey Matovich Kevin Giles v e r sity ’s campus in Hawaii. 75 (J.D. ‘81), opened her own law office in 74, left the Helena Independent Record to Billings last December. She had worked for become features and photography editor at Clarence McConnell the firm of Holland & Hart in Billings for the Bismarck Tribune. 74, resigned from the Hamilton Ravalli Re­ two and one-half years. Carey and husband Dan McIntyre public in August 1983, to become managing Stephen C. Linder live in Billings. editor of the Chippewa Falls (Wis.) Herald- 74, has begun doctoral work in political phi­ Telegram. Paul Christman losophy at Princeton University, where he ’74, is book sales and advertising manager was awarded a major fellowship. He com­ Larry Bruce for ATCOM Inc., a newsletter publishing pleted a m a ste r ’s degree in philosophy at 73, continues to do the sports and outdoor company in New York City. The firm prints UM last year, writing his thesis on Walter reporting for the Circle Banner while he also weekly business and behavioral newsletters Lippmann. D an ’s wife, Judy, died last year serves as assistant office manager for the and quarterly journals on “psychohistory.” after a long illness. Their daughter, Echo, is electric cooperative in Circle. He is working Paul lives in Brooklyn. with Dan in Princeton. on a second article for Bowhunter Magazine. 1 7 Richard Bangs Fred King Jack Tanner ’73, was promoted 73 is news editor of the Spokane Chronicle. 72, is a reporter for the Hamilton Ravalli from assistant news Fred and wife Susan live in Spokane. Republic and a m a ste r ’s degree candidate at editor to day news the J-School. editor at the Rocky Deirdre McNamer Mountain News in 73, and Bill Vaughn, ex-’72, are authors of T.J. Gilles Denver. H e ’ll super­ the article “Home on the Range” in the ex-’71, is editor of the farm and ranch sec­ vise advance sections, May 1984 Northwest Orient magazine. tion of the Great Falls Tribune and the agri­ including Lifestyles, culture columnist for Montana Magazine. Entertainment and Jack Cloherty Sunday Magazine. 72, is the author of “The Culpability Trap,” Norma Tirrell Richard, Susan Van an article in the February 1984 issue of The 71, is manager of publications for the Mon­ Koten Bangs, ’71, and Washington Monthly. Jack is a reporter for tana Travel Promotion Office in the Depart­ their daughter, Ashley, WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. ment of Commerce. She and husband Gor­ in June. don Bennett live in Helena. Robin Brown Tawney Don Bloom Vern Argo 73, is teaching at Wabash College. Don, wife 72, and husband Phil have joined writer R-TV 70, is the president of the University Nedra and son James reside in Crawfordsvil- Dale Burk as partners in the Stoneydale le, Ind. Press Publishing Co. An article by Robin, of Montana Friends of the Library. He is “Missoula: A Community Profile,” appeared programming director of KYLT radio in Mis­ Thomas K. Cordingley in the September-October 1983 Montana soula. 73, resigned from the Great Falls Tribune Magazine. to become director of advertising and mar­ Ken Berry keting for Montana Magazine in Helena. Joe Frank Purcell 70 publisher of the Sun Press newspapers in 72, and wife Francine announced the birth Kaneohe, Hawaii, is challenging the tradi­ George Guntermann of Matthew Leo on July 13, 1983. They live tional advertising turf of the metropolitan 73, is editor and director of administration in Oceanside, N.Y. Honolulu dailies with an “upstart” direct- for Professional Association Management mail shopper magazine called Midweek, ac­ Publications in Salem, Ore. The firm pub­ John Paxson cording to a cover story in the October 1984 lishes three senior-citizen newspapers, a na­ 72, was the subject of issue of Hawaii Business. tional newsletter and several annual specialty a Missoulian feature publications. John Honey, ’61, is publisher. story when he visited Charles S. Johnson Missoula last spring. 70, the Great Falls T r ib u n e ’s political re­ Carrie Hahn N ow a radio new s porter, covered the national conventions in ex-’73, a radio-television specialist in the Of­ producer for CBS in San Francisco and Dallas. Last fall he gave fice of Publications and News Services at New York, he is re­ a speech about the s ta te ’s right-to-know and Montana State University, received a second- sponsible for the con­ open-meetings laws at the convention of the place award in a national communications tent and production of Society for Professional Journalists. contest sponsored through the National Fed­ each five-minute news eration of Press Women. Carrie, who previ­ segment heard hourly Ken Robertson every morning on CBS ously worked for KIMO-TV in Anchorage, 70, continues as managing editor of the Tri- radio stations nationwide. Alaska, was director last year of a state high City Herald. The daily, which converted to school writing contest sponsored by the Thomas Herd morning publication last summer, serves Montana Press Women. 72, is a regional editor for Montana Magazine. Pasco, Richland and Kennewick, Wash.

Valerie Siphers Lindstrom James D. Susan Lawrenz Lubbers ’69, is office manager of the UM University ’68, has been named S Eggensperger Relations Office. account supervisor of R-TV ’69, is manager of internal affairs for Edwin Neuger & As­ IBM in White Plains, N.Y. Jim and wife Ron Schleyer sociates, a Minneapolis Didi have two sons, J.T. and Ryan. They ’69, M.A. 78, is a contributing writer for public relations firm. live in Fairfield, Conn. Training: The Magazine of Human Resources Before joining Edwin Development. He lives in Minneapolis, where Neuger, Susan worked Nancy Foote he is on the board of the Minnesota Council for Brum & Anderson of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc. ’69, and Rick Foote, ’69, announced the Public Relations and birth of their first child, Ryland Kneal Ben Hansen Padilla & Speer, both Marks Foote, on Oct. 14, 1983. Rick is the ’68, and wife Barbara live in Beaumont, of Minneapolis. She new managing editor of the Butte Montana Texas, where he is editor of the Beaumont also worked as a com­ Standard, and Nancy is a travel agent in Dil­ munications specialist for CENEX, the agri­ lon. Enterprise. Tyler James Hansen, bom May 10, 1983, joins Joshua, 5. Ben writes that the cultural cooperative, in St. Louis. S h e’s a na­ Pam Patrick Langley Enterprise was on line in April with the tive of Laurel. ’69, former journalism instructor at Helena first total pagination system in the nation Douglas F. Moher Senior High, was named one of four national capable of handling photos and graphics in­ side the computer. ’69, is assistant vice president of the Manu­ Medal of Merit winners by the Journalism facturers Life Insurance Co. in Toronto, On­ Education Association. She received the Marcia Williams Krings tario. award at the JEA national convention in Se­ attle. ’68, works part time for the Western Live­ Lynn Stetler Schwanke stock Reporter and Agri News and is editor Barb Richey Leland of the Tri State Racing Journal. Marcia and ’68, has started a Newspaper in Education program for the Missoulian. 69, is a copywriter for Judge Advertising in husband Greg have three children—Kelly, Helena and is in charge of program coor­ Gregory, and Krish, who was bom Oct. 20, 1983. The Kringses live in Billings. Georgianna Taylor dination for the Montana Broadcasters Asso­ ’68, reports that she is “temporarily retired” ciation. She lives in the Helena Valley with Meg Lavold Henderson after working for four years as a sports writ­ husband Ron, a self-employed accountant, er for the Fort Collins Coloradoan. and sons Mark, Rob and Scott. ’68, moved from Thompson Falls to Missoula 18 in September 1983. Lorretta Lynde Breslin Kay Morton Ellerhoff Bill Schwanke ’67, M.A. 79, is sales manager for the Bill­ ’67, was elected presi­ ’67, is program director for KDXT Radio in ings Gazette Neighbors, a weekly shopper dent of the Associa­ Missoula. distributed in Yellowstone County. tion for Conservation Information at the Jo Ann Hacker Speelman Fred Caruso g r o u p ’s 43rd annual ’67, and Gene Speelman, ’67, and three ’67, is executive vice president of Moun­ conference in Chicago other couples bought the Kalispell Weekly tain States Lumber & Building Material last July. News last March. Dealers Association, a five-state regional She is associate trade association. Ellen Broadus Caruso, 71, editor of Montana John T. Edwards owns Caruso Associates, an association man­ Outdoors, the Montana ’66, continues to operate his own public rela­ agement firm that provides services for non­ Department of Fish, tions and advertising firm in Englewood, profit associations. Andrea is 14 and Tanya Wildlife and Parks Colo. Before starting his firm, John was an is 12. The Carusos live in Englewood, Colo. magazine. account executive with William Kostka and Founded in 1938, the Association for Con­ Associates, D en v er’s largest public relations Jane Stahl MacCarter servation Information is composed of infor­ company. ’67, is a media buyer for Laino-Ludwig Ad­ mation specialists from wildlife agency pub­ William A. McGinley vertising in Santa Fe, N.M. Jane, husband lic affairs units throughout the United States Don and children Mindy and Kent moved to and Canada. R-TV ’66, is general manager of KMSU, the Santa Fe last year when Don became Envi­ Kay previously served as secretary, board National Public Radio station at Mankato ronmental Education Coordinator for the member and chairwoman of the awards State University at Mankato, Minn. For the state. committee for the group. past six years he had managed the univer­ s it y ’s reprographics office.

Norma Sandberg Jack Counihan Douglas A. Kienitz ’66, was married April 14, 1984, to William ’62, is the promotion director of Field & ’62, has been elected L. Mason. They live in Florence. Stream magazine. He worked for 10 years as to the board of the an advertising promotion writer for Sports Press Club of Dallas. Daniel J. Foley Illustrated. Doug, an executive in ’65, an investigative Lou Garcia the broadcast division reporter for the of the Associated R-TV ’64, is a profes­ Davenport (Iowa) Press, represents the sional singer and danc­ Quad-City Tim es for AP at radio and tel­ er based in Las Vegas. eight years, has been evision stations in Entertaining on the promoted to managing North Texas and Okla­ liner Island Princess editor. Dan formerly homa. He has lived in during a Caribbean was a Lee Newspapers Dallas since 1977, cruise last winter, Lou State Bureau reporter when he moved from Atlanta. in Helena. He and charmed a group of wife Lela Weggenman vacationing Montanans, Frank Walsh including William D. Foley (UM ’65) have ’62, M.A. 72, has resigned as director of the “Scotty” James, ’41, two children, Christopher, 17, and Bridget, public relations program at the University of former editor of the 16. Texas. He continues to teach and has started Great Falls Tribune. Lou and partner Gary a public relations business in Austin. Tom Flaherty Oakes form a singing team that has traveled ’62, covered the 1984 World Series for the twice around the world, performing on many Penny Wagner Peabody Milwaukee Journal. In a strongly worded of the major cruise ships. The two were fea­ tured in the MGM Grand Hotel production ’61, is enjoying a sabbatical from nine-to-five opinion piece, he condemned the mob vio­ jobs in Seattle, and has achieved her “life­ of “Hallelujah, Hollywood” in Las Vegas and lence he witnessed after D e t r o it ’s victory. long ambition to be a dilettante.” One of have appeared on the Merv Griffin Show. her dabbles was to teach a course in public Bryan Alexander John Schulz relations as a guest lecturer at the Univer­ sity of Washington. She and her husband live 62, and wife Carmita live in Boise, Idaho, ’62, deputy news director of the Voice of on Mercer Island. where he is a salesman. America, visited classes at the J-School last spring.______

Gary A. Sorensen Tom Anderson ’57, is a colonel and public affairs officer for ’52, left the Planning Research Corp. to be­ S Frank Crepeau the First Army. He and wife Juliann live at come director of marketing for the Allen Fort Meade, Md. Corporation of America in Alexandria, Va. ’58, assistant foreign editor of the AP, was Tom and wife Pat Riley (UM ’55) live in one of several desk editors cited in the AP Ann Thomson Beaman Falls Church, Va. Log for handling copy about the downing of ’55, is the secretary for Florida State Sen. Korean Airlines Flight 007. His story about Jeanne Malchon. Ann and husband Robert Ross M. Hagen how the AP covered three international hi­ live in St. Petersburg. She writes that she is ’52, was named associate director of the jackings in 10 days was the AP L o g ’s cover “learning the welfare circuit to help peo­ University of Iowa Office of Public Informa­ story on Aug. 13. ple.” tion and University Relations. Don Oliver Del Mulkey Henry J. Pratt ’58, was a member of the NBC News floor ’54, and his two daughters visited the J- ’52, retired from the National Park Service team covering the national political conven­ School last summer. Del, who lives in south­ after 31 years and five months of service. tions in San Francisco and Dallas. ern France, continues his career as a sports He was chief of the Branch of Program John Bansch photographer. He covered the winter Olym­ Evaluation and Employee Relations in Den­ pics in Sarejevo for a French agency. ver. Hank and wife Beverly live in Lake- ’57, assistant sports editor of the Indianapo­ wood, Colo. lis Star, visited the J-School last year and spoke to a reporting class.

1 9 Margot Luebben Aserlind Bill Farden Ward Sims ’50, continues as a special-education teacher ’50, is president of Outdoor Empire Publish­ ’50, news editor of the Anchorage AP at Madison Memorial High School in Wiscon­ ers and the Union Bay Trading Co. Bi bureau, earned mention in the AP Log for sin and is secretary of the Madison teachers’ Books. He writes that his company publishes his story about a hospital that serves gour­ union. One of her four children, Kristy, is a from 250,000 t o 350,000 language learning met dinners and champagne to new parents. television journalist in Boston. Margot and books each year and that they are sold all husband LeRoy live in Madison. over the world.

Robert T. Holt ty said: “I feel I’m still part of this great Virginia Sikonia ’42, retired after 34 years as a reporter and newspaper world, even though I’m retired.” Golden columnist for the Ventura (Calif.) Star-Free 4 0 s Press. Robert and wife Lois live in Ventura. Verna Green Smith ’45, retired after 27 years service to UM. She ’40, w on the 1983 Midwest Regional Distin­ began working in 1956 for the News Service, D.R. “Scotty” Campbell guished Service Award from Women in Com­ then transferred to the Alumni Office where ’41, retired publisher of the Butte Montana munications, Inc. Dr. Smith, a UM Distin­ she was responsible for records and adapting Standard, was awarded an honorary lifetime guished Alumna in 1982, is director of publi­ them to a computerized system. membership in the Montana Press Associa­ cations for McREL, an educational labora­ tion. In a thank-you letter to the MPA, Scot­ tory in St. Louis.

Hal Stearns Edwin P. Astle Mary Leichner ’36, served as chairman of the campaign ’32, and wife Berta are retired and living in Vanderslice committee for the re-election of Gov. Ted Belize in Central America. Two granddaugh­ Schwinden and Lt. Gov. George Turman. ters, Cynthia Astle and Angie Astle, are journalism majors at UM. He visited the J- ’38, has retired as a records supervisor for Gordon Cunniff the police department in Compton, Calif. School in 1984. She writes that she is trying to catch up on ’35, retired Oct. 31, 1983, after nearly 45 all of the things of the past 36 years that years as an advertising salesman for the Thomas E. Mooney were filed under “to be done later.” Great Falls Tribune. Gordon had worked for ’32, attended the Helena Senior High reunion the Tribune since 1935 except for four years of his class of 1928. Betty Eiselein Wetzel in the Army Air Corps in World War II. He ’37, is the author of “Cherries Jubilee: Pick recalled that Prof. Andrew Cogswell (now Ruth Patridge Nelson professor emeritus and former Dean of Stu­ of the Crop at Flathead” in the May-June, ’30, resides in Spokane. 1984, Montana Magazine. dents) had encouraged him to apply at the Tribune.

Maibelle Mohrherr Christy Guthrie is a former executive editor of the ’25, is retired and lives in Park Ridge, 111., Lexington Leader. He was the subject of a 2 with husband Christ. They have one son, profile on the radio series “Reflections in Os lO s Peter, and three grandchildren. Maibelle Montana.” The series was produced by Jyl Thomas H. Regan worked eight years for a newspaper and Hoyt, who is on leave as K U F M ’s news di­ seven years as a caseworker for the Illinois rector. ’28, is retired and lives with wife Ruth in Department of Pubic Aid. She also worked Tacoma, Wash. seven years for a physician and held other Clarence Streit Herbert M. White jobs in the Chicago area. ’19, returned to Missoula for the annual Grizzly Trail ride sponsored by the Univer­ ’25, and wife Ruth B. White (UM ’25) live A.B. Guthrie, Jr. sity. He also visited the School of Journal­ in Portola Valley, Calif. Herbert worked for ’23, was one of eight journalists inducted ism. newspapers from 1925 t o 1935 and was assis­ into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame tant director of information at Montana last year at the University of Kentucky. State University from 1935 t o 1965.

A.B. Guthrie Jr., ’23, the novelist, was an correspondent for Central America and earlier winner. A third recipient, the late northern South America. He became a con­ For bis wins Dorothy M. Johnson, was a journalism tributing editor for Time in 1952, an associ­ school faculty member. ate editor in 1955, and a senior editor in The Friends of the UM Library, an off- 1959. He wrote some 1,200 stories for Time, Merriam Award campus group, established the award in 1982 including five cover articles. From 1967 to William H. Forbis, ’39, as a means of recognizing good writing and 1969 he served as T im e ’s bureau chief in an author and a for­ scholarship by Montanans. Rio de Janeiro. mer senior editor of A native of Missoula, Forbis was gradu­ In 1969 Forbis returned to Missoula as a Time magazine, last ated with honors from the School of Jour­ visiting lecturer in the School of Journalism. spring became the sec­ nalism in 1939. As* editor of the Montana Subsequently, he became senior editor of ond University of Kaimin, he converted the student newspaper Money Magazine. Montana journalism into a daily. In 1972 he completed the late John Gun­ school graduate to win From 1940 t o 1942, Forbis worked for the th e r ’s book, “Inside Australia.” His other the H.G. Merriam Panama American in Panama. He served in books include “The Cowboys,” “Japan Award for Distinguish­ the Merchant Marine during World War H, Today” and “Fall of the Peacock Throne: ed Contributions to then returned to Panama as city editor of The Story of Iran.” He also has written arti­ Literature by Monta­ the newspaper The Nation. nans. cles for Fortune and Sports Illustrated. Forbis joined Time magazine in 1950 a s a He now lives near Flathead Lake. 20 Grad Briefs

Tom Alton, Kyle Albert, Gordon Gregory and Virginia Braun received m a ste r ’s degrees in journalism during the past year. Their thesis topics: Four earn m aster’s Alton—A biography of Ernest Gruening, the journalist and U.S. senator. Albert—Coverage of the rescue of Evangelina Cisneros by H e a rst’s New York Journal. Gregory—The M issoulian’s coverage of the Northern Tier Pipeline. Braun—A comparative analysis of lifestyle sections in seven metropolitan dailies.

Thirty-one School of Journalism alumni from five states gathered around the familiar U-shaped table in Journalism 211 for a special reunion April 28. “The Big Comeback: Senior Seminar Revisited” offered reflective comments from Na­ Journalism reunion thaniel Blumberg, who taught the seminar during his eight years as dean, and a lively discussion about the news media, journalism education and the state of the world. The draws 31 to J211 rest of the journalism faculty, including Professor Emeritus Ed Dugan, took part as well. Janet Trask Cox, ’63, president of Exclamation Point Advertising and Public Relations in Billings, organized the all-day event the Saturday following Dean Stone Night. The group enjoyed themselves enough to plan another gathering in three years. Joining Cox at the reunion were Jim Kolstad, Denver; Dorothy Rochon Powers, Spo­ kane; Marcia Eidel, Great Falls; Mary Glynn George Cromwell, Honolulu; Arlene Mylly- maki, Kalispell; Jeannie Young, Great Falls; Bob Verdon, Great Falls; Sue O ’Co n n e ll and Mike Dennison, Spokane; Jim Bruggers, Columbia Falls; Cathy Kradolfer, Deer Lodge; Gary MacFadden, Missoula; Jeff Cole, Missoula; Printer Bowler, Bigfork; Wilbur Wood, Roundup; Judith Franklin Spannagel, Portland, Ore.; A1 Madison, Missoula; Dan Vichorek, Helena; Rick Foote, Butte; Steve Fullerton, Hamilton; John Kafentzis, Spo­ kane; Steve Smith, Missoula; Don Schwennesen, Bigfork; Paul Driscoll and Barbara Miller, Butte; Bill Pedersen, Missoula; Kim Forman, Seattle, and Charles Hood, Jerry Holloron and Carol Van Valkenburg, Missoula.

Former UM journalism students are playing an important role in .the Montana Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. They include Jill Thompson of the Great Falls Tribune, president, and Steve Fullerton Alums lead SPJ of the Hamilton Ravalli Republic, treasurer. Directors include Patrick Sheehy of the Northern Montana Hospital in Havre, Jeff McDowell, formerly of the Lewistown News Argus, and Pat Murdo of the Great Falls Tribune. Three UM journalism graduates made presentations at the S P J ’s fall conference in Butte last October. They were Roger Fuhrman of Eagle Communications’ new television station in Butte, Chris Rubich of the Billings Gazette and Rob Dean of the Bozeman Chronicle. Jyl Hoyt of KUFM also spoke at the conference.

Joan Hoff-Wilson, ’57, was the subject of a full-page interview in the August 13, 1984 U.S. News and World Report. Hoff-Wilson, a professor of history at Indiana University Historian and executive secretary of the Organization of American Historians, responded to ques­ tions about a book she is writing on the Nixon presidency. “Watergate demonstrated that Hoff-Wilson the political system worked,” she told the interviewers. “But, in the long run, people may see it as an opportunity missed because we d id n ’t go far enough to insure presiden­ tial accountability and access to information.” She also said, “Even with Watergate, Nix­ re-evaluates Nixon o n ’s positive achievements compare favorably with those presidents who have been ranked among the near great. His administration remains the most significant one since Franklin D. Roosevelt held office. I say that as someone whose overall views are left of center. It very often takes somebody with that perspective to re-evaluate a conservative.”

Grads cover UM journalism graduates covered three of the n a tio n ’s best-known trials of 1984. Larry Elkin, ’78, an Associated Press reporter, covered the Agent Orange trials in DeLorean, Washington, D.C. and the $120 million Westmoreland-CBS libel suit in New York. Gordon Dillow, ’77, covered the John DeLorean trial in Los Angeles for the Herald- Westmoreland trials Examiner.

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Journalism school plays major role in Mansfield Center conference

he School of Journalism played a major role in The conference was videotaped for future broadcast and planning and implementing “The China Hands’ for archival use by the School of Journalism’s radio-television Legacy: Ethics and Diplomacy,” the inaugural event department. of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at the Journalism students Theresa Walla, Kathy Horejsi and TUniversity of Montana. P.J. Wright acted as hosts for the conference participants The conference, which took place on April 19-20, focused during their two-day visit. on the foreign-service officers and journalists who suffered Hood and Don Spencer, associate dean of the Graduate personally and professionally during the McCarthy Era for School and associate professor of history, taught a special reporting events as they saw them in China during and after China Hands course designed to acquaint students with the World War II. Their experiences were used as case studies issues and historical background to prepare them for the for exploration of the ethical dilemmas posed when an conference. individual is caught between the policy of his government Among the journalists who attended the conference were and what he considers the empirical truth. John W. Powell, former editor of the China Weekly Review Dean Charles Hood came up with the original concept for in Shanghai, and A.T. Steele, former Far East correspondent the event, and eventually became chairman of the conference with the Chicago Daily News. Other participants included committee that included James J. Lopach, chairman of the John Paton Davies and John F. Melby, former foreign Department of Political Science; Thomas P. Huff, chairman service officers in China; Ernest R. May, professor of of the Departn^nt of Philosophy; Mark Clark, professor of history, Harvard University; Akira Iriye, chairman of the health and rcreation; Ruth J. Patrick, dean of Library history department, University of Chicago; Immanuel C.Y. Services; Paul Gordon Lauren, professor of history, and John Hsu, professor of history, University of California at Santa 0. Mudd, dean of the Law School. Barbara, and Paul Gordon Lauren, UM professor of history. Patty Reksten, visiting lecturer in journalism, designed the The conference embraced the Mansfield C e n te r ’s two posters and publications for the conference, and Karen primary areas of interest-Asian studies and ethics in public Kaley, journalism secretary, handled the bookkeeping and affairs, subjects with which Mike Mansfield has long been many of the arrangements for the $26,000 project. identified.

From left to right: Chen Jiang, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Immanuel C.Y. Hsu; and Paul Gordon Lauren.

John W. Powell, former editor of the China Weekly Review, was charged by the U.S. government with sedition as the result of his articles criticizing American involvement in the Korean War. The charges were eventually dropped. [NA HANDS' LEGACY: AND DIPLOMACY ETHICS

John Paton Davies, former foreign service officer in China, from the State Department. His security clearance was later was accused of being a Communist sympathizer and fired restored.

Ernest R. May Iriye John F. Melby

23 An animal presence Miniskirts, shades, wild prints and a certain animal presence characterized the Senior Seminar class in 1983-84. By the numbers, the students are: 1, Dan Dzuranin, Brookparo, Ohio; 2, Georell Copps, Lewis town; 3, Jerry Wright, Granada Hills, Calif; 4, Karol Bossier, Helena; 5, Deanna Rider, Hardin; 6, Ann Hennessey, Butte; 7, Brian Rygg, Great Falls; 8, Pat Tucker, Huron, S.D.; 9, Joanne Depue, Whitefish; 10, Rebecca Self, Wurz­ burg, Germany; 11, Melinda Sinistro, Youngstown, Ohio; 12, Alexis Miller, Juneau, Alaska; 13, Theresa Walla, Lewistown; 14, Richard Parker, Terry; 15, Julie Omelchuck, Billings; 16, James Jonkel, Missoula; 17, Bill Miller, acentia, Calif.; 18, Dean Charles Hood; 19, Laura Harrawood, Nashville, lenn.; 20, Nola Gerth, Glasgow; 21, Mark Montgomery, Bozeman; 22, Richard Venola, La Crescenta, Calif.; 23, Steve Dodrill, Omaha, Neb.; 24, Laurie harness, Bigfork; 25, Kooney. Not pictured are Ann Joyce, Butte, and Paul Tash, Dillon.

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