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MONTANAN FALL 2006 ContentsVOLUME 23 NUMBER 3

PUBLISHER Rita Munzenrider ’83

EDITOR Joan Melcher ’73

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS AND EDITORS Brenda Day ’95 Betsy Holmquist ’67, M.A. ’83 Cary Shimek Patia Stephens ’00 Crystal Stipe ’06

D ESIG N ER Jennifer Paul

PHOTOGRAPHER Todd Goodrich ’88

ADVISORY BOARD Jim Bell Laura Brehm Perry Brown Denise Dowling ’82 Jim Foley Daryl Gad bow ’75 Bill Johnston ’79, M.P.A. ’91 Jed Liston ’82, M.Ed. ’00 Ginny Merriam ’86 Carol Williams ’65 Kurt Wilson ’83

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FEATURES

8 Where Challenge Meets the Road B y C rystal Stipe A view of college life from a wheelchair and what UM’s Disability Services does to help.

16 When Speech Wasn't Free B y P atia Stephens UM journalism and law students help to right a nearly century-old wrong by gaining pardons for Montanans convicted of sedition.

DEPARTMENTS

03 Letters & Editor's Desk

04 The Oval

20 Bookshelf .^ iOvHere's the Beef 25 About Alumni -■ r /'I u ’Y a u x 40 Artifacts w tQ M & J r -A / ' . v t / \ ■ R^M^vPjjkMlife^nd protein from across :,Montana are feeding campus ; k M K v ^ ^ u n l^ s through a Farm to COVER PHOTO BY TODD GOODRICH k T h ' i £o0egapmgra^ that nourishes ESTEE FLEMING '98, MANAGER OF COMMON GROUND FARM, PICKS RASPBERRIES AT THE FARM l•■IwSj tfre s ^ ^ j x f UM . OUTSIDE OF ARIEE.

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2 PALL 2 0 0 6 MONTANAN E ditor's

MEMORIES Kaimins of the era and did not I attended all of the Aber fin d a record o fJefferson SUMMERTIME Day keggers, even the ones Airplane playing at a kegger. ummer is delicious on a university not held at lower Miller The band no doubt frontedfor campus. Acres of well-kept greenery, Creek. Jefferson Airplane S the Airplane, but at another turquoise skies with wispy clouds ... so still and Bonnie Raitt were event. and beautiful on a silent morning one might never at any of those events, conceive it a cathedral of nature, Main Hall's as noted in the article. I can TAMSEN OR TAMZENE? bell tower sounding out eight chimes. think of quite a few I enjoyed Vince Devlin’s But if you want that kind of quiet, you'd (believe it or not) who article in the Spring 2006 better come early in the day. Although the were, but I would remem­ Montanan about Kelly popular conception may be that universities ber Bonnie Raitt and the Dixon’s work at the Donner are abandoned in the summer, that idea is far Airplane. Bonnie Raitt Party site. I hope she contin­ from the truth. High school football camps, played a ballroom concert ues. A minor correction: I’m summer session classes, prospective students in 1976, but the Aber Day pretty sure that George visiting with their parents. Groups here, there, event was usually boogie- Donner’s wife’s name was everywhere. woogie, borderline country rockin’ blues artists spelled Tamsen, not Tanzene. I hope that You see pre-schoolers strung along across like Elvin Bishop, Jerry Jeff Walker, Heart, Kelly Dixon has read Ordeal by Hunger, a very the grass, each connected to a rope held New Riders of the Purple Sage, and even the detailed and understated account of the ultimately by their grown-up leader, moving Cajun fiddler, Doug Kershaw, who came in by Donner Party tragedy by the late George R. like a bobbing, colorful centipede across the helicopter one year. Someone should compile a Stewart, who was an English professor at the green expanse of the Oval. A little later, short history of those keggers, starting as an University of California. He wrote quite a bit soccer camp for middle-schoolers. On my offshoot of residence-hall keggers and growing about other events on the California trails. way back from an errand, a music professor to one east of Missoula the first year, I believe, His larger book, The California Trail, is very giving a violin lesson in the shade outside the and then moving twice before ending up at the complete and readable. music building, listening to her student while rodeo grounds for the last couple of years. Yours sincerely, she keeps an eye on her two-year-old. Thanks for bringing back memories. The Christopher P.S. Williams The other day I threaded my way through a Montana Band was what people came to think Portland, Oregon large group of men and women with the of as Mission Mountain in the latter days, but ubiquitous name tags, the women wearing head it was a whole different animal. The magic was Editor’s note: I contacted Kelly Dixon and she scarves, chatting happily as they moved en just not as keen. Thank you—and regards. responded that Ordeal by Hunger has been an masse to the UC, no doubt for lunch. Rick Tobin influence in her research and is noted in a ll o f her UM's connections with Kyrgystan and Sioux Palls, South Dakota project bibliographies. She wrote, “the story {behind) Pakistan, and its recent welcoming of students Tamsen’s name is actually more complicated than the from Saudi Arabia have broadened the lan­ Editor's note: We wondered about this because Greg writer of the letter may realize. Her first name is guages overheard as one ambulates across Reichenberg said in the band’s recently released commonly spelled Tamsen in the literature o f the campus. I am used to hearing French, German, DVD that Bonnie Raitt played and sang at one Donner Party. Yet, she herself used the spelling Japanese and now we'll add central Asian and Aber Day kegger. We didn’t have to look long to Tamzene. According to our project historian, this is Arabic languages to that mix. fin d collaborating evidence. This poster by Monte a version ofThomasine, which is a feminine form o f Although there is much happening at UM Dolack tells the story. (I suppose R aitt could have Thomas. ” Even though Tamzene may be a correct over the summer months, it all moves at a canceled, but she definitely was billed.) We checked spelling, our article had it as Tanzene, an error much slower pace, as if all the angst of class w ith UM Productions and then the K. Ross Toole probably attributable to a typo or to the author registration, tests, administrative snafus, faculty Archives at the Mansfield Library to see i f they had hearing the name that way. We regret the mis­ wrangling, facility service problems, parking any record o f the groups and individuals who played spelling and appreciate that both our readers and hassles, class preparation—all are reduced to a t the keggers. Archives sta ff dug through Montana our faculty members keep us on our toes. their lowest common denominator. No wor­ ries. It's summer. Let's sit in the sun here for a minute. Too hot, let's move to the shade. Feel that sweet breeze ... is it time for lunch? Summer is delicious on a university campus.

Joan Melcher Editor, Montanan

Letters MONTANAN FALL 2 0 0 6 3 ...... grizgreats IT'S TINKLE TIME

ou can look at it as the end of a short era or j Y the continuation of a potentially long one. j In June UM basketball coach Larry Krystkowiak left the University to join the m ai NBA Milwaukee Bucks as an assistant coach; his head assistant coach, Wayne Tinkle, was tapped for the top spot at UM. Krystkowiak (42-20), who still holds the record at UM for most points scored as a player, led the Grizzly basketball team to two straight NCAA tournament appearances in the two years he coached at UM, the first coach to achieve that goal. Tinkle has been an assistant coach for five seasons, the last two for Krystkowiak. He played for the Grizzlies on teams with “Krysko” in the 1980s and was a three-time Big Sky Conference all-league selection from his sophomore through his senior seasons. In a professional career that spanned twelve years, he played in the Continental Basketball League in Topeka, Kansas, and Venezuela. The final four seasons were played in Spain, where he ranked among the league’s top scorers and rebounders. “We are very fortunate to have someone like ...... bravo...... Wayne Tinkle waiting in the wings,” says UM Athletic Director Jim O ’Day. “For the past sev­ A LITTLE JUICE FOR NEW ORLEANS eral years he’s been a stable rock on our staff. As we’ve gone through some coaching changes, he Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans has project is completed, the portable solar system he has been the one constant, and this will give received a little “juice” from up north. will be used by community-based organizations T him an opportunity to show his talents.” UM’s Environmental Studies Program provided in the area for various reconstruction and edu­ “I can’t express how a portable solar power system built by its cational purposes. The Tulane City Center, excited I am to have director, Len Broberg, to help in rebuilding which is coordinating multiple university and the opportunity,” areas of the ward that were devastated by community partnerships throughout New Tinkle says. “During Hurricane Katrina. Orleans, will manage future use of the system. my playing days, we Broberg traveled to New Orleans in May to Students and professors from the UM could have picked any­ deliver the solar power system, which will be program have traveled to New Orleans several where to live, and we used in a project with Kansas State University, times to aid in the rebuilding process. the Tulane City Center, and Project Locus. The Dan Etheridge, assistant director of the always came back to Missoula. We love the portable system will provide solar power for center, is encouraged by the simple application tools used to rebuild the House of Dance and of such appropriate technology at a time when city and the state, and Feathers, a community museum of Mardi Gras there is much talk and little action regarding we wanted to be Indian history, and museum owner Ronald progressive rebuilding strategies. around the program. Lewis’ home, which is located on the same site. “W ith so much work to be done, it is too To now be able to run “We want to encourage people to think easy not to include options like solar power in the program, along about solar power as they rebuild New Orleans the rebuilding process,” Etheridge says. with my staff, is a dream come true.” and the Gulf Coast,” Broberg says. “More solar Ron Lewis (above), community leader in New power means less greenhouse gas emissions. Orleans' Ninth Ward, poses with a solar power sys­ After the Lower Ninth Ward construction tem donated by UM to help in reconstruction efforts. Wayne Tinkle

PHOTO OF TINKLE BY TODD GOODRICH 4 FALL 2 0 0 6 MONTANAN The President's Corner extracredit 'n the last decade of the nineteenth and first of the twentieth century, the AMERICAN INDIAN LEADERS RISE faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin coined and translated into ireality a conception of the role of a public university. According to that he University’s American Indian commu­ conception,I the boundaries of the state serve as the walls of the university, Tnity celebrated two key achievements in conveying the message that the university must do everything possible to the spring. UM’s student chapter of the Native serve the needs of all the people of the state. UM has accepted and American Journalists Association was endorsed that conception in the effort to make certain that we do indeed serve all of the approved— the first official chapter—and people of the state of Montana. This issue of the Montanan offers some insights as to the alumnus Joshua Brown ’01, MPA ’04, was meaningfulness and depth of that acceptance. chosen as one of Native America’s eighteen One article explains how faculty and students from the Environmental Studies Program brightest new leaders and invited to partici­ collaborated with UM's Dining Services to develop what has become a very successful pro­ pate in the landmark American Indian gram linking the University to local producers in a way that benefits students, producers, and Ambassadors Program. the state. Within a brief period, this program has added considerably to the quality of life on The NAJA chapter will serve as a resource campus and to the economic vitality of sectors of the Montana economy. In addition, the pro­ for American Indians and other students in gram has provided wonderful hands-on experiences to the students, faculty, and staff involved. UM’s School of Journalism, says Luella Brien, Another article focuses on the successful efforts by faculty and students from the Schools of who was a leader in the effort to get official Journalism and Law to expose and right a wrong that occurred nearly a century ago. They NAJA status. Brien graduated in 2006 and is received critical assistance from Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer. I need not do more now a reporter for the Ravalli Republic in than describe it to emphasize the valuable educational experience for the students and the Hamilton. service to people typically underserved. Finally, the last piece I will mention deals with an “We are so excited to hear that we got our institutional commitment to serve the needs of all people, however abled. As the piece makes chapter from NAJA,” Brien says. “Half of all quite clear, we diminish ourselves and our society unless we make the effort to assure that all NAJA members are students, and student people have the access required to participate and benefit from the programs we offer. chapters are vital to retaining members.” Adam These inspiring examples seem to me very indicative of the commitment of the faculty, Sings In The Timber will serve as president of staff, and students of UM to fulfill the mission of a public university. We in public higher the chapter during the next academic year. education frequently invoke what we refer to as the social contract between the people of the UM s J-School has been a leader in creating state of Montana and its public universities to provide meaning to the mission. The social con­ a voice for and mentoring American Indian tract refers to the felt responsibility of one generation to educate the next generation by fund­ journalists with its Reznet Web site and ing the institutions appropriately. The reciprocity of that felt responsibility, of course, imposes Native News Honors Project. a responsibility of service upon the institutions. Absent the willingness of both sides, the con­ Brown, a member of the Confederated tract will not achieve its intended result, as experience shows. We must all abide by its man­ Salish and Kootenai Tribes, has traveled the dates to realize its benefits. world studying indigenous language revitali­ zation efforts and is a co-founder of the Salish Language Immersion School for children. Currently, he is designing a language teacher­ George M. Dennison, '62 and '63 training program at Salish Kootenai College. President and The ambassadors program he will partici­ Professor of History pate in is spearheaded by Americans for Indian Opportunity and draws upon traditional indigenous values to empower new generations cultural values, of leaders. cultivating their During the two-year program, participants community organ­ will attend four weeklong gatherings to meet izing skills, and with key decision-makers and national and rebuilding a net­ international leaders. work of people Our applicant pool was especially com­ and resources they petitive this year,” says Laura Harris, executive can utilize director of AIO. “The eighteen individuals throughout their chosen already exhibit exceptional leadership careers.” skills, so our program aims to further strengthen their talents by reaffirming their Luella Brien Joshua Brown

PHOTO OF BRIEN BY ADAM SINGS IN THE TIMBER; PHOTO O f BROWN COURTESY O f AIO MONTANAN FALL 2006 5 theOVAL

...... alumniachievers...... DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI

he UM Alumni Association has tapped Tthree distinguished alumni who will receive their awards at Homecoming. They are G. George Ostrom ’53 (left), Terry W. Payne ’63 (middle), and Steve Petersen 7 4 (right). Ostrom, a writer, broadcaster, and photo­ grapher, is known as the “Voice of the Flathead Valley.” For the past fifty years he has served co-owner, general manager, and currently news director of KOFI radio. He built the Kalispell Weekly News into the largest circulation weekly newspaper in Montana. His “Trailwatcher” col­ ixing it Up for the Griz: LS Jensen Construction & Keady Mix is promoting the Oriz in umn has won state and national awards and he Mthe way it knows best—with its mixer truck (weighing about fourteen tons and capable has been inducted into the Montana of hauling ten yards of concrete). The barrel of the mixer celebrates the sports careers of four Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame. Ostrom athletes: Kevin Criswell (basketball), John Edwards (football), Katie Edwards (basketball), and helped write the Wilderness Bill with Senator Scott McGowan (long-distance runner). General Manager Stan Dugdale poses with the truck. Lee Metcalf in 1962 and was a member of the UM President’s Advisory Council for more than twenty years. He was instrumental in to be built on campus. Payne and his wife, alumniachiever. Patt, have two sons. establishing Flathead Valley Community BUY BOOK, HELP UM College, has served on its board, and lectured Petersen is the James S. McDonnell in its classrooms. He is the author of three Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at ames T. Grady 7 2 , acclaimed novelist of S ix ' books on Glacier National Park. Ostrom and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. J_Days of the Condor and recipient of UM’s his wife. Iris Ann Wilhelm Ostrom ’57, have A professor in the departments of neurology, 2005 Distinguished four children. psychology, and radiology, he is a pioneer in Alumni Award, is Payne is the founder, principal, and chair­ brain imaging; his work led to understanding donating some of man of the board of Terry Payne and Co. Inc., the neural substrates of cognitive activity. the profits from his an independent insurance agency established in Peterson has published in the top science jour­ new book, M ad Missoula in 1972. He also serves as chair of nals and has received numerous grants and Dogs, to UM’s Payne Financial Group Inc., which has received awards, including the Young Investigator scholarships and national recognition for best practices from the Award from the Society for Neuroscience and general expenses. “I Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology (with want to give some­ America. Business Insurance magazine ranked Marcus Raichle and Michael Posner). He is a thing back,” Grady the company in the top fifty privately owned Fellow of the American Association for the says. “This is my insurance agencies in the country. Payne is a Advancement of Science and a frequent lecturer chance.” M ad Dogs director of Washington Corporations and nationally and internationally. Petersen has is a thriller numerous other companies and a trustee emeri­ served leadership roles in many professional launched from the CIA’s fictional insane tus for the UM Foundation. He endowed a organizations. His current work involves how asylum. A reading by Grady and a book sign­ Presidential Scholarship as well as a scholarship the brain changes as children progress through ing will be a part of UM’s Homecoming cele­ for students with disabilities within the School stages of learning. He and his wife, Bonnie bration October 13-14. To purchase a copy of Business Administration. He also is commit­ Ulvila Petersen 7 4 , have one son. online and help this fundraising effort, log onto ted to supporting the Native American Center www.umt.edu/urelations/maddogs.htm.

6 FALL 2 0 0 6 MONTANAN PHOTO OF MIXER TRUCK BY TODD GOODRICH globalcommunity. ERIN GO BRAUGH rish student Alan Noonan came to UM to I study and write a masters thesis about how his forefathers helped settle Big Sky Country. He never suspected the leader of his country would follow him. Mary McAleese, the president of Ireland, brought the Emerald Isle and Treasure State clos­ er together in May when she spoke in a packed University Theatre about the historical and cul­ will offer instruction in conversational Gaelic, From left, Noel Fahey, Irish Ambassador to the tural ties linking the two regions. She also helped as well as Irish literature, history, music, dance, United States; Dr. Martin McAleese; President Mary launch UM’s new Irish Studies Program. film, and theater. Students also will have the McAleese; President Dennison; and Traolach (Terry) “This is fantastic,” Noonan said as he opportunity to study at Ireland’s University O'Riordain, Irish language instructor at UM. watched his president speak. “W hat an oppor­ College Cork, an institution with which UM tunity for somebody like me being a student has developed strong partnerships. “I hope the establishment of this program here. The Irish community had a huge impact Though five Irelands could fit inside will develop a new chapter in the relationship on the history of Montana, and I think this Montana, McAleese said Irish settlers made a between Ireland and Montana,” she said. “It’s a ' v>sit accentuates it and brings it into the open. huge impact on their new home, and she used a relationship, you know, that stretches back J I think it’s great.” Chinese proverb to illustrate this point: Those more than 150 years. It’s about Irish men and In his introductory remarks, UM President who drink the water should remember with women who made Montana their home and ! George Dennison said, “The establishment of gratitude those who dug the wells. held Ireland in their hearts.” — Cary Shimek the Irish Studies Program at this University will provide scholarship, research and friend- j ship and will goad us into developing our ...... discovery...... understanding and familiarity with Irish I language, literature, history, and culture.” WILD RIDE Bolstered by several standing ovations, UM professor and two graduate students Leonard says the Myotonometer fits the bill. J McAleese said there was “a lovely synchron- A discovered weightlessness in April while He came up with the idea for the instrument icity involved with her visit, since it was testing a device that measures muscle tone. while visiting St. Petersburg, Russia, with a exactly 100 years ago that Douglas Hyde— an Chuck Leonard, a professor in UM’s School of group of scientists in 1993. He said the Irish language scholar who later would become Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, Russians had a machine that used tissue Ireland s first president— came to Montana and used his ride in NASA’s “Weightless Wonder” to mechanics to measure muscle tone. So for the discovered Irish settlers who had lovingly pro­ test the Myotonometer. The Weightless Wonder next seven years, he and a Russian collaborator tected their language and culture. This was at a is a C-9 jet that flies a series of parabolic arcs re-engineered the device to make it portable time when the Gaelic tongue had almost been that produce weightlessness on the downhill and received a patent in 2000. Then in 2001 eradicated at home, so McAleese honored those runs. Leonard hopes NASA will use the they formed Neurogenic Technologies, a UM pioneers for helping preserve the language. Myotonometer in future manned space mis­ spin-off company, to market the device. There seems to be a kind of hand of history sions to monitor astronauts’ Leonard and the graduate stu­ at work here,” McAleese said. “It’s no mere muscle tone. Because astro­ dents had various computer- ; accident that we inaugurate a program of Irish naut muscles atrophy and and human-related problems studies whose hand and heart are focused on weaken during spaceflight during the test and report that 1 the Irish language.” NASA is looking for a way they were not able to gather as She said her country provided UM with to measure changes in mus­ much reliable data as they $40,000 to help start the Irish Studies cle health. Every ounce would have liked. However, ; Program. She also lauded Terry O’Riordain, a counts aboard a spacecraft, NASA is interested in the | Gaelic language instructor from Ireland so the device has to be device for use on the and a University College Cork graduate, for his portable, easy to use, can’t International Space Station and I work t0 helP create the unique program. be influenced by atmos­ Leonard was invited back to Initially UM will offer a minor in Irish pheric pressure, can’t From left, graduate student Jim Sykes, the Johnson Space Flight ; scudies, but instructors hope to expand to a involve disposables, and Leonard, and graduate student Eric Center in Houston to make j major in che ne« several years. The program can’t use much energy. Kruger more presentations. a

| PHOTO O f PRESIDENT MCA1EESE BY TOOO GOODRICH; PHOTO O f RESEARCHERS BY DANIEL FEEBACK; C-9 PIANE IMAGE COURTESY O f NASA MONTANAN FALL 2 0 0 6 7 ■ BY CRYSTAL STIPE

WHFRE Cha enae

MY FIRST DAY AS A STUDENT AT UM DIDN'T BEGIN AS PLANNED. I got up hours early to make sure I got to class on time— just as I’m sure many other freshmen did that day. I spent an extra half hour in front of the mirror— just as I had on the first day of high school the four previous years. However, the similarities between my first day of school and most everyone else’s ended there. As I attempted to leave my dorm room for the first time in my collegiate career, I realized I was locked in.

When I opened the door—with the tension set like it was—I couldn’t MY FIRST STORY ASSIGNMENT AS A PRINT JOURNALISM MAJOR get my wheelchair through before it swung shut again. After attempting came in my beginning reporting class. The assignment was to cover a this somewhat acrobatic move several times with no success, I placed a speech on campus and it came from Professor Denny McAuliffe, who frantic call to my mom, who was at work. In turn, she placed what I m gave us some helpful tips. The one thing I will never forget him saying almost positive was an equally frantic call to the front desk of my dorm. is, “Write down everything that’s said.” The reason I’ll never forget it is Mom called back to assure me that help was on the way and wished me because the moment he said it I started to panic. “This is why I can’t go luck—for about the twentieth time in twelve hours. Soon after I hung into journalism,” I thought to myself. “I take terrible notes.” up the cell phone I had purchased for emergencies such as this, I heard a I love to write. I always have. When I was little and most of my knock, followed by a key in the door. Pat, the Pantzer Hall secretary, friends were mastering the skill of jump-rope or learning to throw a opened the door with a smile and held it while I went through. As I perfect spiral, I wrote long stories about cartoon characters, cowboys, or thanked her and sped away, she promised to have maintenance come sports stars in notebooks I sincerely hope no longer exist. I imagined myself as an author. As I moved through elementary school, I wanted to change the tension on the door. The door episode was one of the first of what was to become a never- become a journalist. However, as I entered high school, reality began to ending list of adjustments, large and small. I have gotten much better at creep up on me. paying attention to the smallest details—from the method of note-tak­ My cerebral palsy affects my fine motor skills, making the speed at ing that works best in my wheelchair, to the best places to park my chair which I write and type slower than that of the average person. That and in different classrooms on campus, to making sure I schedule my classes other mobility-related concerns led me to believe it was impossible for me to go into journalism, so I began my college career as a Spanish so I can get to each one on time. I went to high school in the small Montana town of Charlo, where major. One year, a class on speechwriting, and a talk with a career everyone knows everyone else. Many of the people who live there have counselor later, I changed my major to journalism. been super-supportive of me. I have known them my entire life, and Sitting in that reporting class that day, I had serious doubts about the challenges I faced in high school we faced as a group. I had the my decision. Somehow, though, I made it through the first few assign­ benefit of knowing that they would always be there to pick me up ments. I experimented with different ways to improve my note-taking, when I fell, sometimes literally. Probably the most difficult thing I used a number of different tape recorders, I developed a version of about coming to college was not the number of adjustments I had to shorthand that only I will ever understand, and I used e-mail whenever make; it was the fact that I had to face those adjustments on my own. possible. It’s nowhere near perfect. In fact, sometimes it’s ugly, but I One thing that I have learned, however, is not to share my experiences have learned to combine several different methods and most of the time with too many people back home. The first weekend I went home after it works out fine. being locked in my room, many people congratulated me for making it After taking a few journalism classes, I realized that working at a newspaper would be very difficult, because, while my note-taking had out of my dorm room.

PHOTO BY TODD (3 0 0 0 0 0 8 FALL 2 0 0 6 MONTANAN Meets THE Road

become adequate, I was not a fast writer was installed and operational. Marks says that was a very quick response, or typist, making it difficult to meet especially considering the size of the project. deadlines, and since I don’t drive, it is Marks also credits increased access to the students who have requested very difficult to get anywhere on short the changes. “It takes a small group of people with a clear focus and a notice. After discussions with a few very willingness to see things through,” he says. He adds that while the helpful professors, I realized I may be University has made great strides, it still has a long way to go. “We try better suited for public relations work. hard, but it’s not easy,” he says. Marks is blind and his use of a computer and Braille e-mail is a joy to STUDENTS WITH DISABIUTIES face many watch. It’s also nice to know the person running the show not only is different obstacles, depending, of course, familiar with the difficulties faced by people with disabilities, but is also on their disability. One hundred and a role model as a successful professional. twenty-nine students with disabilities Another group that works hard to increase access for students on graduated from UM during the 2004-05 school year. For many of us, campus is the Alliance for Disability and Students at UM. ADSUM is a that could not have happened without the help of Disability Services for student group that works to break down barriers of all types for students Students. with disabilities, whether they are physical or people’s attitudes. Jon When Jim Marks became director of DSS in 1988 it was a part-time Pielaet, ADSUM secretary for the 2005-06 school year, says that position. His office consisted of a half-full file drawer, a desk without a ADSUM is successful because students don’t give up. “We don’t forget,” computer, and a closet that contained poster paints. He worked with he says. “We are very persistent.” 120 students. These days he works full time and oversees a staff of more During this last school year, for example, ADSUM worked to stop than ten people who serve approximately 900 students—seven percent of people from parking bikes in front of ramps and electric doors. The the University’s student population. DSS is bigger than similar depart­ group called the Office of Public Safety approximately sixty times ments at all other Montana colleges combined. during fall semester. Pielaet says there has been progress made in that DSS staff members do a number of different things. They rarely act area, but it is an ongoing issue for the campus community. on behalf of students; instead, they encourage students to act on their Pielaet says the list of access issues is long and gets longer every day. own behalf and are there to provide support for those who may need Physical barriers are the most difficult list to shorten because of the red their assistance. For instance, they provide test-taking accommodations tape involved. The list includes the lack of curb cuts on Campus Drive for students who need them, provided the students make arrangements and the lack of access to the Forestry, Native American Studies, and with their professors before the exam. Natural Sciences Buildings, and to Elrod Hall. DSS also works to ensure all buildings on campus comply with the Pielaet says while there are issues that still need to be addressed, the Americans with Disabilities Act. This requires the dedication of individ­ University does a better job than most places. “We don’t expect mira­ uals like Marks and his staff, as well as constructive suggestions from cles,” he says, “We just want small steps.” students with disabilities. The hard work of DSS to make the University increasingly accessible to students with disabilities is no doubt largely THE MOST IMPORTANT THING I LEARNED during my time at UM is responsible for the increase in the number of students with disabilities that challenges are never completely impossible to surmount. With a who attend UM. little help and a lot of patience almost anything is possible. While I by Marks explains the growth this way: “It’s not rocket science. When no means have all the answers and I am still learning to overcome you create access people will come.” Marks says the University reacts challenges that arise, I graduated from UM in May with a degree in well to the needs of students with disabilities, adding, “President journalism, just like I dreamed when I was in sixth grade. Dennison has been great about responding to DSS needs.” When I closed the door to my dorm room for the final time last Marks noted an example: in August 2005 it became necessary for a spring, I wasn’t worried about being locked in. I had to reach in and i t to be installed in UM’s Music Building to allow a student who uses a pull it shut—proof that while nobody is ever done facing life’s " ee^ a*r access to certain parts of that building. By spring, the lift challenges, at least they change. A*A

MONTANAN FALL 2006 9 UM's Farm to College program links Montana producers with campus consumers

> Gene Shock communes with his herd in the Mission Valley. Shock raises cattle that he sells to Montana Natural Beef, a vendor in the UM Farm to College program.

STORY AND PHOTOS BY ARI LeVAUX

ene Shock sits on his green four-wheeler, gazing I - | over his pasture toward the Mission Mountains. I’m a few feet away, surrounded by a ring of Shocks cows, who are intently gazing at me. One cow gets in my face and sniffs. “That’s Mary,” says Shock, who says he’ll hang on to her and breed her next year. “Her half sisters and brothers are what go to Montana Natural Beef.” Last year, Montana Natural might say it is from Idaho. But Beef, a Ronan-based company that only means the cows were that markets beef raised in the slaughtered there, perhaps fat­ Mission Valley, sold roughly tened on an Idaho feedlot. Or $37,000 of that beef to UM. they could have been raised in It may seem a no-brainer Florida, Texas, Washington, or that Montana beef, among the Montana and fattened in world’s finest, is fed to Colorado or Kansas, “It’s a Montana’s students. But today’s mixed bag,” says David Opitz, cattle industry, like many other purchasing manager for food industries, operates on a University Dining Services scale bigger than Big Sky (UDS). “Unless I can source my Country. The beef could come meat exactly, I don’t try to from anywhere. The distributor guess. You just never know.”

MONTANAN FALL 2006 11 UM’s Farm to College (FTC) program has eliminated a bit of that Now we have our inroads laid. We know our vendors. We ve made the guessing by taking the mystery out of the meat. “It started with a leap; it’s not new anymore. It’s the way we do business.” conversation after a campus recycling oversight committee meeting,” UM’s FTC program has been featured in articles in T im , the New explains UDS Director Mark LoParco. “Professor Hassanein [assistant York Times, and many more publications closer to home. This national professor in UM’s Environmental Studies Program} asked me what I attention puts UM on a short list of innovative universities with FTC thought about serving local foods. That’s something I ve wanted to programs that includes Brown, Yale, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, get going for some time, but didn’t have the resources [for}. After Williams, and Middlebury. that meeting, she lined up four graduate students and off we went. One would expect a different spin on the FTC menu for the The group met regularly during the spring of 2003 to discuss the various regions. Goat cheese and figs on the California salads, possibilities of local foods on campus. They researched what other perhaps, while the East Coast schools have the agricultural and schools were doing and what local foods were available in the quanti­ cultural resources to turn out a pretty good pizza. Here in Montana ties that UDS required. we have the ingredients to construct perhaps the epitome of the These inquiries culminated in a festive breakfast event called American college culinary experience: the burger. Montana Mornings. Menus were printed, with detailed descriptions of the origins of all ingredients. Eggs from Moiese were cooked into A HAMBURGER & FRIES, PLEASE omelets, stuffed with shitake mushrooms from Ninemile, shallots and There may be no better meal than the hamburger with which to cheese from the Bitterroot, and salsa from Belgrade. Cider syrup from illustrate the many tendrils that the FTC program has spawned. Bitterroot apples was poured over Cream of the West hot cereal, made To be clear, we’re talking about the classic hamburger meal, served in Harlowton. Waffles from Scobey, bacon and potatoes from on a bun, with a pickle, tomato, lettuce, and onion, all next to a pile | Kalispell, and beef from Ronan were on the menu as well. of fries. Everything in this meal could be grown or made in Montana, Besides a publicity event, Montana Mornings was a market test, an including extras like cheese, bacon, mushrooms, and condiments— attempt to assess student interest in local food. The response, based catsup, mustard, and mayo. on an exit survey, was very positive. Most breakfast eaters said they Many of the ingredients in a typical UM hamburger meal already would choose local food on a regular basis if they could. Encouraged, come from Montana producers, including the Montana Natural Beef FTC rolled forward. burger. That company requires that any beef it purchases be antibiot­ Three years and more than $1.2 million later, the programs ic- and hormone-free. purchases exceed 13 percent of the UDS annual food budget. Farm to UDS did an experiment in which "mixed bag” hamburger pat­ College has become standard operating procedure,” says UDS Executive ties—purchased on the open market through SYSCO, UM’s primary Chef Tom Siegel. “At first, finding new vendors was this big effort. vendor—were compared to the more expensive Montana Natural Beef burgers. Equal quantities were cooked side by side, then weighed again. They discovered that after cooking off the water, the Montana Natural Beef burger weighed more than the SYSCO patty. This Amanda Behrens (left) of the Western Montana Growers Cooperative delivers difference in water content all but erased the difference in price per produce to Nancy Cohen, UDS chef de partie. pound at the front end. Besides that extra water, it’s possible that the mixed bag beef contains other substances that don’t cook off so easily. Every day, an average 200,000 Americans suffer food poisoning; 900 are hospital­ ized, and 14 die. Contaminated meat is the largest vector of food poisoning. According to a USDA study, 78 percent of ground beef contains microbes that are spread primarily in fecal matter. “You gotta be careful with hamburger,” agrees Will Tusick of Montana Natural Beef. “It’s the proverbial canary in the coal mine. Everything’s gotta be just right, and if there is any contamination in the meat it will show up in the burger. In those giant mega-facilities, they mix a bunch of different stuff together. There could be 100 dif­ ferent cows in one patty.” Montana Natural Beef cows are processed at USDA-inspected Rocky Mountain Gourmet Steaks in Missoula, which earns thousands of dollars a year by turning Montana Natural Beef into hamburger, keeping those dollars in the local economy. Shock is proud of his product, proud that UDS appreciates the quality of his cattle and is willing to pay above-market prices for it.

12 FALL 2006 MONTANAN Eggs from Moiese were cooked into omelets, stuffed with shitake mushrooms from Ninemile, shallots and cheese from the Bitterroot, and salsa from Belgrade. Cider syrup from Bitterroot apples was poured over Cream of the West hot cereal, made in Harlowton. Waffles from Scobey, potatoes from Kalispell, and beef from Ronan were on the menu as well.

He adds that there is no cut of meat he wouldn’t grind into ham­ Cohen and Brian burger. “I might be a little unusual in that department,” he admits. Crego, UM’s head catering Hormones can increase a steer’s weight by as much as fifty pounds. chef, unload strawberries, Shock prefers a more old fashioned way to get big cows. His cattle are parsley, bagged salad, and a mix of breeds— Brown Swiss— the breed he favored when he was a cilantro. “Hey!” barks dairy farmer— and Black Angus, preferred by the market for its mar­ Cohen to the whole bling. “The Brown Swiss in them gives the mothers lots of good kitchen. “Give us some milk, which helps them grow so big,” he says. help here, let’s get her Anyone who’s spent time on a college campus can attest that there boxes back.” are more than enough hormones acting on students’ bodies without Chef Siegel walks by hormones in the meat. Marya Bruning, the UDS registered dietician, with a bunch of cilantro. Executive Chef Tom Siegel shows off his agrees. “No hormones or antibiotics is definitely positive for long­ He’s smiling. “This is salsa. Siegel regularly wins awards for his term health,” she says. Elsewhere, Bruning sees FTC making dietary what I like. Look how culinary creations. improvements as well. "The whole wheat bun option that we get clean it is. Some stuff we from Wheat Montana is wonderful. Whole grain and added fiber have get is full of sand and we need to triple-wash it to get the sand out. huge benefits.” She notes the fresh produce that goes on the burger With this, just give it a rinse and boom, ready for action.” As Siegel has more vitamins because it’s fresher and phytochemicals like says this he deconstructs the cilantro with his knife and tosses it into lycopene and lutein are better preserved in fresh tomatoes. a bowl of salsa he’s completing. Before Amanda even reaches the door, “And just as important,” she says, “people can’t be healthy if their I’m testing it. environment isn’t healthy. Bringing food from closer to home means Besides the sheer quantity of food that an institution like UM less shipping, which means cleaner air, water, and soil. And buying requires, UDS also has needs regarding the form in which the food local builds healthier social networks. Health is about more than just arrives. Rather than wash and clean hundreds of heads of lettuce, for what we eat.” example, UDS wants its salad to arrive ready to go, as with that bunch of cilantro, with no more than a rinse. WHERE THE CILANTRO MEETS THE SALSA Enter the Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center, a nonprofit Nancy Cohen, chef de partie for campus catering, prowls the kitchen based in Ronan that’s committed to helping local farmers succeed. with a silent authority. She’s supervising the baking of several pans of This includes finding ways to extend the growing season so farmers brownie-like goodness when Amanda Behrens arrives, pulling a cart can take better advantage of the considerably larger campus popula­ piled high with produce boxes. Cohen turns around to greet her. tion in the spring and fall. The center also helps farmers add value to Lemme see the cilantro,” she says. “Is it clean?” Without waiting for their products, turning apples into cider syrup, for example, or carrots a reply, Cohen digs into a box, finds the cilantro, and grunts an into coins, krinkle-cuts, and matchsticks—and maybe some day approval. The kitchen relaxes back into business as usual, chopping Montana mustard seeds into mustard and Montana tomatoes into and shuffling. catsup. Such value-adding maneuvers can make the difference in Behrens is the delivery driver for the Western Montana Growers getting a UM contract. Cooperative (WMGC), a crucial cog in the FTC wheel. One of the bigger hurdles in getting local food to campus is the fact that small, THOSE PESKY FRENCH FRIES local growers can’t always generate the product volume necessary to “Value-added is where it’s at,” confirms Opitz, UDS purchasing satisfy the UDS kitchens’ large appetite, and the purchasers don’t manager. One of the big value-added products that’s on everybody’s have time to call several different farms to piece together an order. mind these days is french fries. UDS has, by all accounts, a great rela­ Now they call WMGC and employees assemble the order with tionship with Bausch Potatoes in Whitehall. Bausch potatoes are used produce from a network of farms. This gives small farmers access to in baked potatoes, hash browns, mashed potatoes ... everything but UM, a market they couldn’t otherwise reach. the all-American french fry.

MONTANAN FALL 2 0 0 6 13 FARM PRODUCE CITY/TOWN

Amaltheia Dairy LLC goat cheeses Belgrade Bakery and Restaurant Foods 1 pasta Missoula Bausch Potato potato, sausage Whitehall Beaverhead Honey honey Dillon Big Sky Brewery } beer Missoula Big Sky Tea tea Thompson Falls Big Timber Meats 1 beef, buffalo Big Timber__ Brentari Foods salsa Missoula Caroline Ranch__ i beef, buffalo Boulder Cherry Apple Farm __apple cider Hamilton Chocolate Necessities candies, caramels Missoula Churn Creek Ltd | granola Sidney Clark Fork Organics I__produce Missoula Cream of the West cereals, pancake mix Harlowton Edible Flowers [ flowers __Missoula ET Poultry/ET Farms j__draper & ranger chicken Belt Farm to Market Pork pork, ham, whole hog Kalispell^^ Flathead Native AG Co-op produce Ronan Garden City Fungi Mushrooms mushrooms Huson Grandma Hoots __jalapeno jelly, chipotle Florence Great Grains Milling Company grains Scobey_ Helen's Candies candy bars, jam______Libby Hi Country Snack Foods, Inc. jerky Lincoln Home Acres Orchard j__apples __Stevensville Homestead Organics Farm, jnc. produce Hamilton Huckleberry People huckleberry products Missoula Hutterite Chicken __poultry__ Choteau John Knight/Mojo Foods spices Belt K & S Greenhouses tomatoes Corvallis__ Kettlehouse Brewing Co. root beer, beer Missoula__ Knapp Foods Inc. salsa Helena Lavender Lori : dried lavender Missoula Larry Evans mushrooms __Missoula__ Lifeline Farms cheeses______Victor Loring Foods Mexican-style wontons Loring MeadowGold dairy Missoula_ Mission Mountain Co-op produce Ronan Montana Buffalo Outfit ! beef, buffalo_ Butte Montana Milling, Inc. grains ______Great Falls Montana Natural Beef ___beef, buffalo Ronan Montana Range Meat Company I beef, buffalo__ Billings Montola Growers oil Culbertson Natural Tomatoes ! tomatoes__ Chester__ Ocean Beauty seafood__ Helena Planetary Designs chai, tea Missoula Ranchland Packing Co.__ beef_ Butte Rocky MT Gourmet (Imperial) 1 _beef__ __Missoula Senorita's Specialty Foods salsa Manhattan Service Specialty Distributors j tortillas Lolo Smoot Honey honey Power Stampede Packing sausage, andouille, links Kalispell Sweet Palace candy Philipsburg Terrapin Farms i_produce Whitefish The King's Cupboard candies, caramels Red Lodge__ The Orchard at Flathead cherry products Bigfork Tipu's Tiger chai __Missoula Totally Organic 1 tofu __St. Ignatius Viki's Montana Classics potato chips Bigfork VW Ice ice Missoula Wee Sprouts __sprouts East Missoula Western Montana Growers Co-op produce, buffalo, eggs Arlee Wheat Montana __grains, breads Three Forks Doug Baty, who sells produce through WMGC, checks White's Wholesale Meats __beef, buffalo__ Ronan__ squash plants at Wild Plum Farm near Dixon. The farm Whiting Enterprises ; chips, tortillas______Corvallis_____ has been in his family since 1910.

14 FALL 2006 MONTANAN LISTING O F VENDORS COURTESY O F FARM T O COLLEGE PROGRAM The problem with Bausch potatoes? They’re too fresh. Most fries Hassanein, “is designed to produce research that’s aimed to improve today are coated with flour and then flash-frozen in a machine called FTC and make recommendations that get translated into change.” an Instant Quick Freeze, or IQF. For about a year, UDS tried various Many of her students are doing their master’s thesis work in the ways to cook the fresh Bausch potatoes into a form that the students FTC arena. Scott Kennedy is doing his project on SYSCO, UM’s would like, even after twenty minutes under a heat lamp. primary food supplier. By all accounts, SYSCO has been very receptive “Bausch potatoes, being natural, never frozen, uncoated, don’t hold to the FTC program, working hard to find local products. “The up under the lamp,” says Opitz. “Their fries are extremely successful national CEO of SYSCO is talking about local food and the role of when cooked to order,” he says, “but we don’t do that.” SYSCO as a distributor of local foods,” says Hassanein. “As it stands “We tried a blanched product, but it didn’t fit the flavor profile,” now, we don’t have a distribution infrastructure in Montana. Do we he says. “Multiple units worked on this, trying many things, but it build one, or do we go with something that’s already going, like didn’t work. Our students are very used to the corporate, heavily coat­ SYSCO?” ed fry.” As it stands now, the french fry is the one big holdout in the Another member of Hassanein’s Action Research Group is All-Montana Burger meal. Even the fry oil comes from Montana— Kimberly Spielman, a graduate student in geography. She’s doing her canola oil from Montola in Culbertson. thesis on a concept called food miles, or the number of miles a But the process of working on those french fries, the push and pull product travels from farm, through supply chain, to the consumer. between the high ideals of the FTC program and the picky palates the Spielman has done extensive research comparing the food miles program caters to, is what’s driving FTC to keep innovating. “We just traveled by an FTC burger and fries with those traveled by a conven­ continue to work with the vendors to see what kind of products to tional equivalent made from ingredients purchased through SYSCO. add to our menus,” LoParco says. “We’re looking to expand in any By comparing the routes, from points of production to consumption, way that we can.” of beef, buns, potatoes, and oil, she found that, for fiscal year 2005, a To that end, and in service of its own mission, the Mission year’s worth of non-local burgers and fries traveled 110,450 miles, Mountain Food Enterprise Center is considering getting an IQF while the FTC equivalent traveled 33,624 miles, burning 43,184 machine to help Montana potato growers tap UM’s considerable fewer gallons of diesel fuel. Nearly a million fewer pounds of carbon french fry market. Meanwhile, UDS is purchasing a vacuum-sealer, dioxide was released into the atmosphere via the local burger and fries. which will allow it to take advantage of seasonal surpluses by freezing (Spielman’s research was conducted when Bausch potatoes were being produce for later use. Last year UDS tested the idea by freezing used for the french fries.) raspberries from Common Ground Farm in Arlee, which were used in Meanwhile, veterans of the FTC program’s early days are out there, dessert sauces throughout the year. still doing the work. Lauren Caldwell, for example, recently released a Chef Siegel calmly gushes over the possibilities. “Meats, chilis, book titled Eat Local, Feel Noble. Produced with support from the FTC sauces,” he muses. “It opens the door for us to blanch and freeze program, the book offers “a tasty recipe for each week of the year, broccoli for later use in soup, or coulis. We could do tomato products made entirely of local ingredients available during that week— fifty- — We have a lot of freezer capacity.” two delicious recipes in total!” Chrissy McMullan, another alum, heads an organization called PARADIGM SHIFTS AND REAL-WORLD IMPACT Grow Montana, which has received money from the Kellogg What’s really important about the new equipment is that it’s indica­ Foundation and the Montana Department of Agriculture to research tive of the paradigm shift that UDS is willing to make,” explains the potential of FTC-style programs in other institutions around the Neva Hassanein. “Most institutions these days like everything ready state: Missoula Public Schools, Montana State University in Bozeman, and value-added. UDS is looking at ways to add value themselves.” UM Western in Dillon, and Salish Kootenai College in Pablo. Hassanein has a knack for adding value to her students’ educations It’s easy to imagine wave upon wave of students, with their hard­ by finding them academic research projects with immediate, real- wired young adult energy, pushing the FTC program to new heights. world impact. It was her environmental studies students— Claire LoParco, Siegel, Opitz, and the rest of UDS stand ready to collaborate. Emery, Kira Pascoe, Shelly Connor, and Crissie McMullan— who put So do many others, including growers, distributors, and processors together the original Montana Mornings breakfast. As FTC has around the state. grown, successive students have worked closely with UDS to identify Someday, and it won’t be long, the all-Montana burger meal will ways that more local products can be brought to campus. be a reality, with fries on the side, a pickle on top, and the special Hassanein’s spring 2006 graduate course “Action Research in the sauce of your choice. A it Montana Food System” began a whole new round of inquiries into how to improve and expand the FTC program. She and her students Art LeVaux, M.S. '01, is a freelance writer in Missoula. He traveled across Montana, interviewing growers, processors, and dis­ pens a syndicatedfood column, which appears in the Missoula tributors who are part of the FTC program. They also did extensive Independent and other weekly newspapers. surveys at UM to learn what the campus community thinks of the program and how it could better serve them. “The project,” says

MONTANAN FALL 2006 15 UM PROJECT PRODUCES PARDONS FOR SEVEft T SEDITION CONVICTS

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Whereas, in America, free speech is a fundamental right

in times of war and peace alike . - from the governor's 2006 clemency proclamation

n May 3, UM law student Katie Olson spoke before a small and her eleven siblings were split up when their father, Fay Rumsey, was crowd gathered in the rotunda of the Montana State Capitol convicted of sedition and sent to the state prison in Deer Lodge. The in Helena. The occasion was the pardoning by Governor family homestead was lost and the children were sent to orphanages or Brian Schweitzer of seventy-eight men and women convict­ farmed out to other families. Oed of unlawful speech nearly a century ago under the Montana SeditionGovernor Schweitzer greeted descendants at the ceremony with a Act of 1918. heartfelt introduction about the importance of righting old wrongs, as Olson, a Great Falls native who, with eleven fellow students and two well as a personal tale of his immigrant grandparents, forbidden from professors, had undertaken the pardon project that secured the governor’s worshipping in their native German during the same wartime hysteria clemency, described the experience as a “giant history lesson.” in Montana. “For those of you who are here to honor your ancestors,” “This is a little embarrassing {for] someone who’s grown up in Schweitzer said, “I say to you: They were patriots. Montana her whole life,” Olson told the audience, “but I had no idea “For those of you who have traveled a long distance to Montana, that such a law had ever been passed.” welcome,” he said. “Welcome home.” Indeed, the First World War sedition law—strictest in the nation and Another relative at the ceremony was Drew Briner, who read from his the model for a nearly identical federal law passed just months later— grandfather Herman Bausch’s beautifully written prison memoirs. Few punished Montanans with prison sentences of up to twenty years and eyes remained dry as Briner read of Bausch’s agony at being on a prison maximum fines of $20,000. The seventy-five men and three women work crew in Deer Lodge when his toddler son, Walter, fell ill and died: were sent to prison for saying things as innocuous as “This is a rich “While my own flesh and blood was being lowered seven feet into the man’s war.” bowels of the earth, I was standing in the mire, also seven feet beneath The former convicts took the stigma of the convictions to their where the grasses grow, shoveling mud and stagnant waters, paying for graves. But decades and generations later more than forty of their the crimes I had not committed against the laws of God and man.” descendants attended the ceremony to see them vindicated for the crime Bausch, a pacifist who refused to buy Liberty Bonds in support of the of speaking their minds. war effort, had nearly been lynched in front of his wife and infant son by What began last December as an abstract to Olson—something that a mob that showed up on his doorstep near Billings. After being had happened a long time ago to people now gone— became very real harangued and physically threatened, Bausch was arrested and convicted when she visited the Montana Historical Society in Helena and held the for saying in his defense: “I do not care anything about the Red, White, original prison records of those convicted of sedition in 1918. and Blue .... We should never have entered this war and this war should The interesting thing about these records,” Olson told the audience, be stopped immediately and peace declared.” was that they each contained two photos: one of the individual taken Montana’s sedition law made it a crime to “utter, print, write, or right when they were admitted to prison and the second taken shortly publish any disloyal, profane, violent, scurrilous, contemptuous, thereafter, after they’d been processed through the system. The only slurring, or abusive language” about the U.S. government, its thing that was different about these two photos was that in the first Constitution, military, or flag. It conveniently overlooked the First photo, these individuals had their hair, and in the second their heads had Amendment to the same Constitution, which states that “Congress shall been shaved. make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech ....” And for some reason that juxtaposition just struck me,” she says. It was that contradiction, and the hard work of Olson and other UM Thats when I realized that we were dealing with real people—with students, that led to the posthumous pardons. people who’d been taken away from their families and charged needlessly The project began with Professor Clem Work, author of Darkest Before with crimes.” Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American West (2005: University of The convictions had serious repercussions for many of the families, New Mexico Press). Work, who came to UM fifteen years ago from a some of whom are still recovering from the shame and secrecy two or senior editor position at U.S. News and World Report, directs the 'threegenerations later. One eighty-nine-year-old woman, Marie Van School of Journalism’s graduate studies program. Teaching media law, he [Middlesworth, traveled from Medford, Oregon, to the ceremony, where became fascinated by Montana’s history of spectacular battles over speech i S^e met her nieces and nephews for the first time. Van Middlesworth issues.

PH0TOS ° f PRISONERS COURTESY O F THE M O N T A N A HISTORICAL SOCIETY; PH O T O O F BARBED WIRE BY PATIA STEPHENS MONTANAN FALL 2006 17 He set out to answer a question: Why did Montana imprison people and 1972 constitutions, looking for for speaking their minds? applicable wording. They researched Work researched Darkest Before Dawn in archives around the country, records of the state’s Board of Pardons especially those of the Montana Historical Society. The resulting book is and Paroles to see if it had ever a compelling read that chronicles Montana’s, and to an extent the received any requests for posthumous nation’s, understanding of freedom of speech during the tumultuous first pardons. They contacted every county three decades of the twentieth century. clerk of court in the state, seeking A quiet, thoughtful man, Work never expected his scholarly effort to trial transcripts and other records attract much attention. But at a reading last October at Missoula’s Fact related to the 150 people prosecuted and Fiction bookstore, he was asked by an audience member, “W hat’s for sedition. They did criminal back­ next?” He responded from the heart: “In my box of dreams— I hope ground checks to uncover any other Clem Work at the ceremony someday these people will be exonerated.” convictions that might have been The posthumous pardons garnered lurking in the backgrounds of those Those words were enough to light a fire under an audience member, media attention from around the charged with sedition. (They didn’t UM law Adjunct Assistant Professor Jeff Renz. Together, Renz and globe, including the New York Work cooked up a “pardon project,” recruiting a group of students to Times and the Washington Post. find any.) They contacted historians conduct legal and genealogical research. Journalism students Caitlin and First Amendment scholars across Copple, Nicole Todd, and Bree Rafferty teamed with law students the country seeking legal precedents. Olson, Jason Lazark, Peter Lacny, Laura Beth Hurd, Daniela Pavuk, They also did a lot of genealogical research. Work, who purchased a Myshell Uhl, Kimberly Coburn, Stuart Segrest, and Maggie Weamer. gold membership on Ancestry.com, says the students found genealogy a The students divvied up the tasks that would result in a formal letter very different type of research from what they were accustomed, to. and brief that petitioned the governor for clemency. “There was a lot of wheel-spinning going on,” Work says. “It seemed really daunting,” says Olson, who earned her law degree in The search for family history and living descendants was complicated May, just days after the pardoning ceremony in Helena. “We didn’t by name changes. Most of those convicted were first- or second-generation know if it was something we could really do. We thought, ‘How will German or Austrian immigrants, and their surnames sometimes had sev­ this ever happen?”’ eral spelling variations or were changed altogether to escape the stigma of Remarkably, given the typical glacial speed of bureaucratic processes, an ethnic name or a criminal conviction. Enforcement of the sedition law the entire project was completed in little more than a semester. “It was was capricious and often motivated by xenophobia, revenge, or jealousy. amazing how it all came together,” Olson says. “To see the petition Bree Rafferty, a 2006 journalism graduate, says the research was defi­ signed and the pardons granted in six months’ time was pretty incredible.” nitely character-building. “It was difficult keeping myself focused when First, to determine whether Montana could legally grant a posthu­ I kept coming to dead ends,” she says. “It called for a lot of persever­ mous pardon, Olson and her fellow students pored over the state’s 1889 ance.” That perseverance paid off, though, when Rafferty found a grand-

Relatives of the pardoned prisoners at the ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda Students with the governor: From left, Katie Olson, Peter Lacny, Myshell Uhl, Jason Lazark, Jag (the governor's dog). Gov. Schweitzer, Bree Rafferty, Stuart Segrest, Caillir Copple, David Gabriel (great-grandson of August Lambrecht), Laura Beth Hurd, and Maggie Weamer.

18 FALL 2006 MONTANAN PHOTOS BY KATRINA BALDWIN daughter of August Lambrecht (who changed his name to Lambert after Incidents like these were used as his prison sentence). “I got to speak with her only about a month before arguments for the passage of she passed away,” Rafferty says. “It was so cool to watch the puzzle of Montana's sedition law. August Lambrecht fall into place. She said no one had known what had The rationale was that arrests really happened. She was relieved to finally know what her grandfather and convictions for the outrage of had been taken to prison for. After doing so much work that seemed to disloyalty would prevent mobs of be going nowhere, it was awesome to realize that what I was working on citizens from taking the law into really made a difference for someone.” their own hands.

The seventy-five men and three women were sent to prison for saying things as innocuous as “This is a rich man’s war. I

Rafferty says meeting the families at the ceremony “brought every­ Some were convicted of sedition based on drunken utterances in thing together. As the past met the present, it revealed how much saloons. Many of those charged spoke in crass or vulgar language. Many history and the things that happened in the past can affect the present,” were uneducated. Others simply said the wrong thing to the wrong per­ she says. Work also says finding the families and seeing them reunited son in casual conversation. has been the most rewarding part of working on the book and pardon Ben Kahn, a liquor salesman visiting Red Lodge, earned a sentence of project. ‘Shame is just a psychological thing, but whole families were seven and a half to twenty years in prison for saying that wartime food torn apart,” he says. “Generations later they’re still finding each other.” regulations were “a big joke.” A rancher named Martin Wehinger got To Olson, meeting the relatives and discovering that some hadn’t three to six years in Deer Lodge for opining that the United States “had even known their family member had been in prison was revealing. “It no business sticking our nose in [the war] and we should get licked for really spoke of what a dark period it was,” she says. “The personal doing so.” Near Miles City, a postmistress and rancher’s wife named impact really drove home the importance of what we had done.” Janet Smith received five to ten years for saying citizens should loose Olson spent part of her research in Helena digging through a reposito­ the stock into the crops to prevent helping the government.” ry of records, looking for pardons granted in Montana. “The secretary of Others were articulate and principled, like the well-read Herman state has a warehouse there with all the state documents since the begin­ Bausch, whose memoirs explained his refusal to buy war bonds: “I am ning of Montana history,” she says. “I found violent offenders, even mur­ opposed to war. All war, I think, is aggressive and oppressive—but if Wall derers who had been pardoned, while the sedition convicts sometimes did Street plutocrats insist upon further bloodshed, why then, let them also more time in prison. It made me see the mob mentality at the time.” finance it. ... I will not contribute to continuation of this world calamity.” Reading Darkest Before Dawn, it’s easy to wonder if the whole country Bausch, sentenced to four to eight years, ended up serving twenty- went temporarily insane during the First World War. Work’s book eight months with the violent offenders in Deer Lodge. The longest chronicles the decline of fear and patriotism into hysteria and propagan­ sedition sentence served was thirty-six months, and the last sedition da. Americans became terrified of spies, Huns, and the “enemy within.” prisoner was released in late 1921, three years after fighting ended. Anything or anyone German was suspect; books were burned across the At the pardoning ceremony, Bausch s words read by his grandson country, and in Montana, teaching and even preaching in German were rang out in the Capitol building, mourning the death of his son, the loss forbidden. of years, money, and crops, and “the tears and anguish of my wife, her Anyone perceived to be disloyal to America or its interests was seen rude awakening from idyllic regions of beauty and innocence. as an outlaw and became a potential target for vigilante justice. Lumped I shall start out afresh to plant and build upon the ruins of the past,” in with the “disloyal” were members of the Industrial Workers of the he wrote. “My hopes are modified but not diminished. I have not lost EWorld—called Wobblies—and other labor organizations that had spent faith in the good, the holy, and the true. But I have found that contest in a decade agitating for improved pay and working conditions. Union battle must precede all true progress, all enlightenment, and in that organizers found an especially receptive audience among the working spirit I shall strive and labor onward.” men of Butte, home of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, which exerted a powerful influence over the state’s economy and politics and Patia Stephens is a 2000 graduate o f UM's journalism school and controlled most of the newspapers in Montana. is currently working on an MFA in the Creative Writing Program. Newspapers, including the Helena Independent, editorialized for strict She is an editor and Web content manager fo r University Relations punishment of those who fomented rebellion. There was plenty of it and an award-winning writer for the Montanan. |going on. In 1917 Wobbly organizer Frank Little was kidnapped from fhis Butte boarding house in the middle of the night by a gang of (Above) Marie van Middlesworth of Salem, Oregon, daughter of Fay Rumsey, with jmasked men and hanged from a railroad trestle at the edge of town. her grandson. Brad Gebhard, vice president of Columbia Sportswear in Portland. For more information on the project and prisoners, go to http://seditionproject.net

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This often Xlibris, 2006, 278 FSwain Wolfe begins and solitary sport, set in the wild country of rivers, pp., $21.95 ends his memoir in tunnels. continues to provide a luminous backdrop for stories The author draws The first set wander beneath of human nature, perhaps because reflection and from letters he wrote and entwine the buildings of the Colorado tuberculo­ introspection are nearly as important to it as the to his mother as a sis sanatorium where his father practiced medicine in delicate tying and determined casting that come young man and the the days before penicillin did away with such places. before. The deep pools, seasonal hatches, and flowing memories of other smoke- Wolfe ends his story, the first portion of his life, as a waters that define it are mingled here with an often jumpers to create an engaging young copper miner working among the multitude of raucous tale of fishing guides, their unrequited loves, memoir of the early days of drifts tunneled beneath Butte’s richest hill. Both conflicted loyalties, and determined stewardship of smokejumping in Montana. experiences helped shape him as an iconoclastic and the places that make their lives possible. Moving from Washington, DC, frank purveyor of tales. He tells lovingly and unsenti- River guide and landowner Marshall Tate is thirty to Missoula in the early 1950s mentally of the horse that cheered and sustained his three years old and by his own account finds it absur< to attend UM's School of spirits in childhood, and later of the dreamers, bar­ that he can’t say whether or not he’s in a cortimitted Forestry, Fowler found the tenders, and hapless free spirits who provided “a sanc­ relationship. For the past two years, his considerable adventure he was seeking—in tuary from cynicism, a place to bloom.” energies have been given to the building and nurtur­ school, in his work for the The economic and spiritual deprivation of Wolfe’s ing of a spring creek on his family’s sizable southwest Forest Service, and in summer youth unwittingly resulted in a resourceful and Montana ranch. Loving toward animals, but some­ jobs, including a stint at Fort insightful soul, who originally took to reading in an what obtuse with humans, including himself, he Keough in eastern Montana. outhouse to escape the nightly domestic disturbances waits for the first spring and summer run of fisher­ of his ranch-bound mother and stepfather. Later, his men to crowd the banks of his stream and enrich his WAKING LAZARUS own skills of observation and storytelling would pockets. Before long, it becomes clear that intangi­ by X L . Hines VO build scaffolding strong enough to help him move bles like friendship, shared history, and the vast Bloomington, MN: from one life to another over and over again. natural panorama that envelops him will prove far Bethany House, 2006, One of those moves finds him as a teenager in more valuable. 235 pp., $18.99 1950s Missoula, acquainted with former UM profes­ The title, a play on words, refers to a mid-summe. Red Lodge is the set­ sor and literary critic Leslie Fiedler and his son, and hatch of pale morning duns that Tate’s sometime ting for this mentored by the owner of a newspaper and magazine lover, friend, and fellow guide Molly Huckabee Christian-themed stand who stocked Beat poets and novelists and encounters one afternoon on the Clark Fork River jus mystery novel that existentialist philosophers along with his more above Superior: “At about one o’clock in the after­ tells how a local man, who predictable wares. noon a cloud front that had been assembling in has died and mysteriously The boy who invented skiing invented himself as ragged wisps over the mountains set adrift across the come back to life three times, well. One winter day, while they were wandering sky and screened the sun. The river’s surface dark­ now must help absolve himself home through the Colorado foothills of his boyhood, ened, a bit of sprinkle began, the vegetation along from suspicion when children Wolfe’s smart and curious horse, Joe, stopped to look the bank seemed to swell and green, and then the around him begin to disap­ through the trusses of an old bridge. “In this cold-to- PMDs appeared. Across the pear. the-bone world, there was a tiny realm of color and glossy blue-brown surface of motion in the frozen river. A warm spring fed into the Clark Fork, dipping and the river beneath the bridge, heating the water for a turning on bulges and swells hundred feet downstream. It was the one place on the yellow bugs with their wing! river that never froze. The open water attracted a folded upright like lavender colorful exhibition of swimming, diving, darting sails littered the river. The birds— fluorescent green ducks with yellow bills, insects seemed to burst forth golden-eyed ducks, water ouzels, cinnamon teals, and from just below the surface, red-billed mergansers. We watched for several the emergence so profligate minutes before Joe remembered rolled oats. I could’ve and vast that Molly thought watched for an hour, but I let him have his rein.” there should be sound

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Getting a close E World, inhabited his life and his body less and look at our feathered friends is less, until finally, in mid-life, as his second marriage always a challenge, so this was unraveling, he committed suicide. He awakes BRING EVERYBODY nicely produced coffee table afterwards, as though from a deep sleep, to find his by D w ight Yates, M .A . ’70 book is a welcome addition to spirit still wanders the rooms of the Seattle house .Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, avian viewing. Jones has spent where he lived, able to observe the new living tenants 2006, 143 pp., $24.95 two decades photographing around him, but unable to leave or to articulate what wildlife and these photos show went wrong. he characters in these thirteen stories sometimes it. They are brilliant, stunning, David Long’s fourth novel Tcontribute to their own demise, but none of them educational, and entertaining. depicts the return of Evan’s falls short when it comes to an honest effort to do Daniel Casey contributed the memories and his struggles otherwise. Largely domestic in setting, these short introduction and narrative. to understand why he took sketches explore the lives of mapmakers, school bus his own life. Evan first recalls drivers, postal carriers, accountants, a Beckett scholar, GOING TO GLACIER his struggles with a charis­ and assorted others who wake each day in the deserts, NATIONAL PARK matic and successful father, mountains, and beaches of southern California, By Alan Leftridge Donovan, who, after his dis­ between Los Angeles and San Diego, stretched along Helena: Far Country charge from the Navy, had what one character calls “one long surfing opportuni­ Press, 2006, 48 pp., become one of Seattle’s lead­ ty.” The author, a professor of creative writing at the $12.95 ing designers and fabricators University of California, Riverside, pays equal heed to You'll learn new and of “massive iron gates, fences, plot, character, and the craft of language to create unexpected things and sculptural, and architec­ endearingly corrupted characters, several of whom when you pick up tural pieces.” After college, Evan becomes a consult­ teach or work at colleges, all of whom are confronting this colorful and fun book ant, good at advising those like his father who are their own limitations. aimed at children, but educa­ determined to strike out on their own. Keenly aware Impulses backfire. A cartogra­ tional for adults as well. For of their differences all his life, Evan in death comes pher at a professional confer­ instance: from a vantage point around to a different perspective: ence inadvertently hooks up in the park you can see Triple I Suddenly he wonders why it had been so impor- with a woman from his past, a Divide Peak, the only place in | tant to resist Donovan all that time, and just as hydrologist who never quite the United States where water suddenly he’s buffeted by love for his father. He’d got over him. A young, preg­ flows to three oceans—to the always blamed Donovan for setting an impossible nant wife from Omaha finds Pacific through the Columbia example, always taken him for one of those overbear- herself living among River, the Atlantic through the I ing patriarchal types. strangers—her new husband’s Mississippi, and the Arctic But so what if Donovan had stamina to burn, so friends and family— in the through Hudson Bay. The I what if he wasn’t crippled by the usual qualms and Marine-base-town of author touches on the history I frailties? He was also gifted, ethical, not stingy Oceanside. In “Gisela,” a middle-aged art historian of the park, its many animal, with his time, and nowhere near as judgmental of puts his academic scholarship to memorable use when plant, and insect species, and Evan as Evan had given him credit for being__No, confronting the twenty-nine-year-old investment provides ideas for day hikes. Evan had given his father a bum rap.” adviser his wife of twenty years has found irresistible. He recalls his cynical sister, his loving wife, and a Whatever impasse these stories come to, they are | troubled thirteen-year-old step-daughter, who fell carried along by humor, pathos, and a lovingly I into a darkly tangled coming-of-age just prior to engineered buoyancy. Evan s own swift descent. As he remembers more of

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MONTANAN FALL 2006 25 ABOUTALUMNI Sprinklers Service TV commercials. Irene Pappas '41 has written Hrisanthi’s Legacy, a tribute to her Greek grandmother, “I’ve always felt I was meant for show ’ Hrisanthi Drakaki, whose move from Athens to Butte in the early 1900s opened the door business,” Clary explains. “I’m a ham,] to America for Irene and her family. The memoir includes many stories of Irene’s growing and I laugh a lot.” up on the east side of Butte and attending UM as a journalism student. From pajama-clad- Dorothy Craig Trent '47, Lebanon, candle-holding parades on Higgins Avenue, to watching the release of Gone With the Wind. Oregon, recently donated two near at the Wilma, to serving on the Montana Kaimin staff, to unforgettable classes from Mike mint-condition UM annuals to the Mansfield and “Hyphen Harry” (Harry Holbert Turney-High), Irene takes the reader on an alumni association. One, the 1906 insightful journey through her years at UM. Sentinel, is the university’s first annu­ After graduation and stints editing the Deer Lodge weekly newspaper and working for al. It lists all prior graduates and the wartime government machine in Washington DC, Irene moved to California. There she notes the first appearance of “Mascot made a career in editing, publishing, advertising, and public relations, crossing paths with Teddy.” (See Artifacts, page 40.) If many Hollywood celebrities, business tycoons, church hierarchs, and the king and queen of Greece. you have copies of the Sentinel you Today Irene lives in Los Angeles and writes regularly on her computer. She faithfully attends an autobiogra­ would like to donate, or if you are phy class at Emeritus College, the senior arm of Santa Monica College. An earlier course spurred her interest in looking for a special copy for your developing the memoir. “My biggest satisfaction," Irene says, “is that I set a goal and, at the age of eighty-seven, library, please contact the alumni I have been fortunate enough to see it come true, proving that it’s never too late to realize a dream. Early in association. Hrisanthi’s Legacy, when asked by her Latin teacher what she was going to do after high school graduation, Irene vowed, “I’m going to the university to be a writer. I want to write a book some day.” Information on that book is available from www.Xlibris.com. ’50s The yoth reunion for the class of 1957 w ill be held on campus May 11- 12, 2007. Contact the alumni office for A LETTER FROM THE ALUMNI BOARD PRESIDENT ’40s further details. The 60th reunion for the class of 1947 Byron A. Bayers '52, Twin Bridges, Michael McDonough is originally from Glendive. w ill be held on campus May 11-12, was named Pilot of the Year at the He graduated from UM in J 972 with a bachelor's 2007. Contact the alumni office for Montana Aviation Conference. Byron degree in economics. In 1976 he earned a doctor­ further details. has been a pilot for fifty-one years ate in economics at Texas A&M University. After Dean E. Galles '41, Billings, brought and has flown nearly two million teaching economics at several universities, Mike Alaska’s Bloodiest Battle, a newly miles. Amie Carruthers '55, Spokane’s spent most o f his career in the telecommunications released History Channel documen­ piano jazz legend, was feted industry. He and his wife, Mary, also from tary to his sixty-fifth class reunion in November 10, 2005, when the city’s Glendive, reside in Dallas, Texas, and Rollins. May. Dean was flown to Attu Island by the History Channel and is inter­ mayor declared it “Arnie Carruthers viewed in the documentary about his Day.” “You’ve put Spokane on the W flft V hether we attend Homecoming this fall, have recently visit- participation in the Japanese invasion musical map,” he was told. “We love ed Missoula, or think back to our student days at UM, all of the Aleutian Islands in June 1942. and appreciate you.” Arnie grew up m m of us appreciate the beauty of the campus sitting at the George Ryffel '41 in Kalispell, attended UM, and base of Mount Sentinel and bordering the Clark Fork River. However, of Arlington, moved to Spokane in 1957. There he something on campus is missing—a missing piece that makes UM Virginia (left), played at the Davenport Hotel, as unique among schools in the Big Sky Conference. Our University does and classmate Bill well as in gigs at the Olympic Hotel not have an alumni center. The exciting news is that a center has Murphy '41 of in Seattle and the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. In 1974 Arnie recently been designated a priority in the University’s capital cam­ Wi ldo mar, suffered a stroke that left him para­ paign. Donations by several generous alums have enabled planning California, climbed to the M lyzed on his left side. He trained work to begin, but realizing the dream will require creativity, hard himself to play piano one-handed, work, and, of course, funds. The alumni center will be a welcoming during their sixty-fifth class reunion this spring. enrolled at Eastern Washington and gathering place for alums, friends of the University, and visitors. It Both men hiked to the M at their will include reception rooms, meeting facilities, and display areas, fiftieth and sixtieth class reunions, and will provide office space for alumni association and foundation and have vowed to repeat the climb staff, currently housed in a renovated dormitory. This center will be in 2011 at their 70th reunion. more than a building. It will be i place to "stay connected," to main­ Clary Kaufman Cory '43 has long tain, renew, and strengthen rek onships with alums, with students, been a local celebrity in Great Falls. and with the University. The res> will be a stronger UM. There is Formerly a newspaper columnist, a ample opportunity for all of us i participate. We hope you can help. participant in every Junior League follies, and a sought-after convention speaker. Clary’s current notoriety is as a silent, suffering, housecoat-wear­ ing character in the Dusty’s

2 6 FALL 2 0 0 6 MONTANAN University, and completed the degree in music theory he had begun at UM. Still a regular at the annual Sun Valley Jazz Fest, Arnie performed at Spokane Community College last November at the request of his grandson, Nick Klassen, a student at SCC. Nick was fulfilling a require­ ment for his music appreciation class and needed an audio-visual— Grandfather Arnie. Many members of Arnie s family were in the audience that day including his daughter, Charlotte Carruthers, a vocalist with the Spokane Jazz Orchestra. When asked about the most memorable performance of his career, Arnie replied, “I haven’t had it yet!” Donald L. Newhall '59, M.Ed. '67, has written Dora— Thine is the Glory: Living with Hodgkin’s Disease, a biography of his wife’s faith despite her terminal illness. A retired school superintendent and resident of Loon Lake, Washington, Don was inspired to tell his wife’s story hoping it would NEW PREZ FOR MCC provide inspiration for others’ lives. Information on his book is available tefani Gray Hicswa has been making things happen most of her life. Recently named president of Miles from www.authorhouse.com. SCommunity College at the ripe old age of thirty-eight, she was an Advocate coordinator and resident assistant at UM, as well as peer adviser, Watkins Scholar, and a member of several campus organizations. Homecoming queen her senior year, Stefani graduated with high honors in organizational communications in 1991. ’60s She is shown here with her family at the Muddy Creek Ranch outside Wilsall. Stefani and her husband, The 40th reunion for the class of 1967 Scott, know about career juggling. Scott, a 1990 UM forestry grad from Port Murray, New Jersey, worked will be held at Homecoming, September for eleven years as a forester with Stoltze Land and Lumber Company in Columbia Falls while Stefani com­ 28-29, 2007. Contact the alumni office for further details. muted to Libby, Bozeman, and Austin, Texas, working and picking up a master's degree in adult education Robert E. Rickels, M.A. '60, Billings, from Montana State University and a Ph.D. in community college leadership from the University of Texas. taught at Concordia College in St. The couple made major career and life changes three years ago when they signed on as joint managers Paul, not Moorhead, Minnesota, as of the Muddy Creek Ranch. Their first son, Kalin, arrived in the fall of 2004. His brother, Keegan, arrived in listed in the Spring Montanan. February. "I'm a first generation college graduate," Stefani says, already earmarking 2025 and 2027 as her Stanley J. Underdal '60 received the sons' graduations years. "The rural aspect of life in Miles City is a perfect fit for our family," she says, 2005-2006 Outstanding Lecturer adding, "Scott will work part time as a land management and natural resources consultant, doing lots of Award, one of the top faculty awards child care, but with time to hunt and fish." Most days this ranch girl from Dillon, Montana, will don a busi­ given by San Jose State University. A ness suit instead of jeans as she heads out the door, her energy and talents ready-made for her new position. member of the history department Stefani's looking forward to next May, too—her first Bucking Horse Sale in her new hometown. Aftt and the American Studies program, Stanley has been on the SJSU faculty since 1984. “I’m not preparing future France. Lorna recently completed her learned that hundreds of historians when I teach a survey forty-first year as principal oboe of his former students had class, Dr. Underdal commented. “I’m the Bozeman Symphony and contin­ pledged $2 million to helping to prepare better engineers, ues to be active with the Gallatin endow a professorship in biologists, social workers, computer Woodwind Quintet and the double­ his name. He has also scientists, and business majors. I try reed trio, OBoze. received Macalester’s to equip them with ways to compre­ Karl A. Egge '65 retired in May after Thomas Jefferson Award hend the world and the people they thirty-five years teaching economics, for lifetime teaching will deal with every day.” finance, small business, and entrepre­ excellence, research, and homa Mikelson Nelson '63 neurship at Macalester College in St. service. Karl encourages performed a recital of oboe/organ Paul. At a reception honoring his students seeking career music in March at La Trinity in Paris, years of outstanding teaching, Karl advice to “go out and

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2 8 FALL 2 0 0 6 MONTANAN ABOUTALUMNI ' make a buck" rather than enter grad- hand at making ceremonial pipes, partner at the firm of Davis Grimm iuate school. “Invest in relationships,” 70s and enjoying grandchildren, Brent Payne and Marra where he has been he urges. “Then, reach back and help Keith L. Beartusk '71, Billings, and Kaci Lloyd. Keith and his wife, for nineteen years. ■jothers.” Remembering his years at retired in April as director of the Debby, have two daughters, Miki Joe was recently ; UM, Karl speaks highly of his econ Bureau of Indian Affairs Rocky Lloyd of Helena, and Tahnee Barnes awarded the | professors George Heliker, Dick Mountain Region, ending a thirty- '97, M.B.A. '99, a financial analyst for Distinguished ■ Shannon, and John Wicks. He’ll still six-year career with the federal IBM in Butte. Citizen Award for | teach a course or two at Macalester as government. Keith looks forward to Joseph G. Marra '77 continues to his work on behalf ; his youngest of four daughters begins hunting, fishing, golfing, trying his practice labor law in Seattle as a of small business 'college this fall. Tom Lee Huffer '66 writes from Eagle River, Alaska, “On March 19,1 ARE THE GREEKS HISTORY? was inducted into the inaugural class of the Alaska High School Sports he walls (and everything else) of the Phi Delta Theta house in Missoula came tumbling down the first Hall of Fame. I am the first football Tweekend of June. The FUI house has closed. As Greek fraternity and sorority memberships decline, a | coach inducted into this organiza­ hearty group of alumni is working hard to resurrect Greek life at UM. Members of UM's Greek Task Force tion.” Often referred to as the dean of are holding summer parties for prospective UM students and raising funds for scholarships. They've already Alaska coaching, Tom retired as the met several times on campus and will reconvene at Homecoming. They hold regular conference calls, put Jongest-serving head football coach out an impressive pamphlet, and have enlisted several heavy-hitters on campus. in the Cook Inlet Conference. A Emily Yaksitch, UM's Greek life coordinator and a Kappa Kappa Gamma from the University of teacher and counselor at Chugiak Washington, speaks fervently of the values and friendships she experienced with sorority life. Yet, Emily's High School, he was also involved in acutely aware of some national trends in Greek living that are mirrored in the falling numbers of Greeks on wrestling and track. UM's campus. Pierre M. Cantou '66 received the | Department of the Interiors Phi Delt Brian Dirnberger '96, a local member of the task force, reflected on the 1,500-plus men whose Meritorious Service Award in recog­ college lives centered around their Phi Delt experience. Hoping the fraternity can continue, he explains: "A nition of his service to real estate and chapter can exist in the dorms and funds can be set aside to buy a new house. Having a vibrant Greek rights protection programs for the community requires student body support. Undergraduates who understand the concept and the lifetime ben­ Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pierre has efits will make the commitment." But times have changed dramatically from the heydays of fraternity row worked in the Phoenix area office for that many members of the task force remember. Living regulations and options have multiplied. Today's stu­ thirty-two years as a paralegal spe­ dent mix flies in the face of conformity. Yet, there are those values—those friendships and tradition-laden cialist on surveys, land, and water experiences that Greek alumni count among their deepest UM connections. I rights claims. Interested? E-mail Emily at [email protected] or call (406) 243-2005. i i t Hale F. Williams '66, is co-founder and vice president of Safe Shop Tools Inc. in Missoula. The company has Kappa Alpha Theta's senior sneak, 1967 developed and marketed the Back Buddy for lifting brake drums and jhub assemblies from trucks, an entire line of Truck Service tools, and the BoaGrip, a nylon lifting sling for moving gas cylinders and metal i poles. The company’s current project is the RoundUp Ramp, a light­ weight, foldable platform/ramp to replace the tailgate in a pickup ■truck. Rodger D. Young '68, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, was select­ ed by his peers to be included in the 2006 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Roger presently heads a civil litiga­ tion boutique. Young & Susser, PC, with offices in Southfield, Michigan, and New York City.

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3 0 FALL 2 0 0 6 MONTANAN ABOUTALUMNI land recognized by the Washington practiced in Great Falls and most Bar Association for his pro bono recently in Missoula. Bart has moved work. He also serves on the board of back to Whitefish to be with his ALUMNI EVENTS 2006 directors for the Italian Studies children and grandchildren. He SEPTEMBER Department at the University of previously served on the UM Alumni ALUMNI [Washington. Joe and his wife, Association’s Board of Directors. 2 Tailgate, Iowa City, IA <1 ASSOCIATION Yungmi, have two children—Sam, Robert R McCue '83 27-10/6 International travel: rh« University ol M ontana 'seventeen, and Maria, thirteen. “In is the current presi­ Germany & Czech |my spare time," Joe writes, “I ride dent of Missoula’s Republic [Dakota, the wonder horse, and rope Downtown Kiwanis 30 Tailgate, Portland, OR 2007 small animals.” Club. Bob and his FEBRUARY Thomas P. Barnett '79, '85, Gilbert, wife, Sydney, own and OCTOBER 4-17 International travel: Arizona, was named a fellow in the operate Eagle Self 7 Tailgate, Cheney, WA Antarctica Society for Technical Communications Storage and U-Haul facility. Bob also 12- 13 House of Delegates 15-22 International travel: for his dedication to improving the runs a self-storage consulting busi­ annual meeting Yucatan [profession of technical communica- ness. The McCues have two sons— 13- 14 Homecoming 2006 jtions. Tom is a senior computer Scott, a junior and Sigma Chi at UM, Charter Day, Missoula 15-17 UMAA Board of analyst at the development center of and Sam, a sophomore at Sentinel MAY the Salt River Project. High School. Bob writes, “I am look­ Directors Richard L. Robbins, M.A. '79, ing forward to seeing old friends and 21 Tailgate, Ogden, UT 10-12 Reunions, classes of director of creative writing and the attending the alumni gathering on 1937, 1947, 1957 Good Thunder Reading Series at the 100th anniversary of the Beta NOVEMBER 12 Commencement Minnesota State University (MSU), Delta Chapter of Sigma Chi at 11 Tailgate, Greeley, CO Mankato, received the Minnesota 18 Griz-Cat football, Homecoming this fall.” For more information, call the U M A lum ni Humanities Commission’s 2006 Kay Therese Clark Nugent '85, Sonoma, Missoula; satellite Association, (877) U M -A LU M S, or visit Sexton Award for his contributions to California, is a certified culinary parties our Web site, wu/w.UMontanaAlumni.org. Minnesota’s literary culture. Rick was instructor at Ramekins Sonoma recognized for “fostering books, read­ Valley Culinary School. She is also a ing, and literary activity; helping food writer and a professional fitness Thom Jensen '88 received two Knowles helped shape my future,” build and nurture a thriving literary and nutrition consultant. After read­ Emmys in June for his work as an Thom writes. community in south- ing our tailgate recipe challenge in investigative reporter for KGTV, the Claudi Jo Sterner central Minnesota; the last issue of the Montanan, ABC affiliate in San Diego. His story, Lund '89 begins her advancing the careers Therese wrote, “I know tailgating. “Behind Closed Doors,” which won eighteenth year of of dozens of writers; I’m a graduate of The University of the political reporting Emmy, teaching elementary connecting the MSU, Montana, after all.” Click on exposed deals cut in school in Hamilton Mankato campus to “Tailgate Recipes” at the UM Web secret meetings at this fall. This spring the larger community; site (www.umontanaalumni.org) for San Diego City Hall she received her sec­ and for significantly enriching the Therese’s favorites. “I particularly to fund the construc­ ond nomination for inclusion in cultural environment in his region of enjoyed the article on the Mission tion of a major league Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. the state.” Mountain Wood Band,” Theresa said. baseball stadium, Claudi was nominated for the KPAX “I, too, was a member of the PETCO Park. The Educator of the Week and was a Jubileers, traveling to Vienna in story also won the Watchdog Award finalist for the KECI Gold Star ’80s 1983 under the tutelage of Professor from the San Diego County Teacher Award. She notes that her Ron Gillet '81 began his volunteer Don Cary. Wonderful memories!” Taxpayers Association. Thom’s envi­ first grade teacher, Janet A. Flanders involvement with Hugh O’Brian John E. Davis '86, is the Pacific ronmental reporting Emmy was '70, M.Ed. '76, teaches at Missoula’s Youth Leadership (HOBY) in 1986. Northwest regional awarded for “Rocket Fuel,” which Franklin School, and that Scott He currently serves as vice chair for manager for Zep showed how rocket fuel manufactur­ Holland '04, a former third-grade its board of trustees. Ron also was Manufacturing ers in the Las Vegas area dumped pupil, is now teaching with her in .recognized as HOBY’s 2005 Company in Kent, millions of tons of perchlorate, a car­ Hamilton. “It’s truly remarkable that Volunteer of the Year. He and his Washington. He cinogen, into the Colorado River. there are currently three teaching wife, Jan, live in Tempe, Arizona, received the 2006 Jensen and his team traced the pollu­ generations of first-grade teachers where Ron is vice president of under­ Acuity Brands tant from Nevada to water taps and within our five-valley system,” writing for Countrywide Home Chairman’s Award for Impact and foods in Southern California. Thom Claudi writes. “I have had and Loans, FSLD. Leadership. John recently finished his and his wife, Melanie Wingo-Jensen, continue to have the love of teaching, Jeremiah C. Lynch, 'J.D. '81, was military career at the Pentagon after have two children, Tanner, nine, and and I find great joy in being part of selected new U.S. Magistrate in twenty-six years with the U.S. Army Grace, three, and a third on the way. Hamilton’s extraordinary community.” Missoula, replacing Reserve. He and his wife, Barbara, They live in San Marcos. “I cannot Leif "Bart" Erickson '64, J.D. '67, have two daughters, Elizabeth, nine, say enough about how men like Joe who retired June ninth. Jeremiah has and Christine, five. Durso, Gus Chambers, and Bill

MONTANAN FALL 2006 31 ABOUTALUMNI Paul J. Staso '90, '93, is currently have developed a strong business on a 3,200-mile solo run across ’90s printing menus for Chinese and other1 the United States. His trek came Shannon Holmes Asian-owned restaurants and about as the result of a “Run/ Behounak '91 , and Chinese-language business cards. Walk Across America” curriculum Jeffrey E. Behouneck Their company was also noted for idea developed by Paul, his wife, '9 1 Billings, both helping fuel the growth of Asian- Vicki Opstad Staso '87, a physical received promotions owned firms in Colorado. education teacher at Missoula’s to director within the Shaklee Zachary D. Cain '97 joined the Russell Elementary School, and Corporation and were recognized at Phoenix office of Quarles & Brady their daughter Ashlin. With the the company’s international conven­ Streich Lang LLP as goal of increasing student fitness, tion this summer in San Francisco. an associate in the Paul challenged the fourth- and M ichelle L. Truax '95, Helena, is White Collar Crime fifth-graders at Russell to take a program supervisor in the Office of Practice Group. virtual run/walk across the United Consumer Protection at the Montana Zachary previously States. If either class completed Department of Justice. Michelle pre­ worked for the the trek—totaling their mileage viously worked in the Crime Victim Maricopa County from running or walking during Compensation Unit of the Public Defenders Office and the their P.E. classes—Paul vowed to Department of Justice and for the Montana’s Federal Defenders Office. make the actual race. On April Montana Board of Crime Control. In Kortny K. Rolston '97 is city editor of 25, the Russell fifth-grade class logged 3,200 miles. (The fourth-graders 1998 she was recognized by the FBI the Post Register daily newspaper in completed their journey May 16.) Paul began his run in Cannon Beach, for her work improving the state’s Idaho Falls, Idaho. At a National Oregon, on June 23, outfitted with a converted baby stroller filled with compliance with national hate-crime Press Club dinner in April, the news­ fifty pounds of gear. He plans to reach Cape Henlopen in Lewes, Delaware, reporting requirements. paper received the Edward'Willis on September 27. The curriculum ideas generated by Promoting Active Danchen Yi Astle, M.ACCT. '96 was Scripps Award and a cash award of Children Everywhere (PACE), as the program is now known, have reached featured in a May 17 article in the $10,000 for a series of articles educators across the country, as well as Runners’ World magazine online and Denver Post. She and her husband, documenting the improper sealing KidsRunning.com. Log onto www.pacerun.com to read more about PACE, Daniel P. Astle '92, M.B.A. '96, own and hiding of court files involving to follow Paul’s run, and to cheer him on. A-A Printing LLC in Denver, and sexual predators.

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MONTANAN PALL 2006 33 ABOUTALUMNI brother William Russell Nash. three years ago through his holding IN MEMORIAM Greg Fitzgerald '98, M .Ed/02, and To be included in In Memoriam, the Steven is an elementary school and venture company, RSI Global. Keeley Konen Fitzgerald '99 alumni association requires a newspaper I teacher in Bozeman. Belinda is a Mike’s key to success: “Rather than announce the birth of their daughter, obituary or a letter of notification from pharmacist at Highland Park telling your employees what to do, Halle Catherine, on March 19, 2006. the immediate family. We extend sympa- | Pharmacy in Bozeman Deaconess inspire them. Work alongside them. Halle joins siblings, RJ, seven, thy to the families o f the following Hospital. Visit his Web site at Brynley, six1, and Jace, three. Greg is alumni, faculty, andfriends. the principal and head football coach Karen Novatney, J.D. '99, and www.goomzee.com Jerem y M. Bennett '01 writes from Mary Anderson Dundas '32, Miles City | at Ennis High School. Keeley works Patrick R. Kane '99 were married New Haven, Connecticut, “As of Victor C. Vadheim '32, Hamilton | from home as a freelance writer and May 20, 2006, in Missoula. Karen Percy Frazier '34, Missoula an administrative assistant for several practices personal injury law in the April 2005,1 have been working for Einer "Jerry" Aasheim '35, Poison Ennis businesses. “The family is busy, Missoula firm of Meismer & the Center for Language Study at Yale University on a feature-length Lorraine Storms '36, W alla W alla, W A ' |but so much fun,” Keeley writes. Associates PLLC. Patrick is a profes­ Film to raise awareness on the issue of W ayne B. Gitchel '38, W ausau, W I ‘ Ashley Mares Jones '98, parent- sional fly-fishing guide and works in D. Jeanne M ueller '38, J.D. '40, liaison for Bozeman’s Sacajawea Montana and southern Chile. child trafficking. I would like to M is s o u la Middle School and Longfellow make myself available to UM stu- dents/recent grads needing help in Robert T. Sterling '38, Poison Elementary School, received the foreign language, business, technolo­ Leonard M. Benjamin '39, Bigfork Bozeman Peacemaker Award. Ashley ’00s Ada M ilne Clapp '39, Lafayette, CA assists in connecting with the parents Callie Ann M eyer '00, Seattle, is gy, or film making.” Jeremy’s e-mail Curtis E. Flint '39, Kalispell of students with special needs and of events manager at the Museum of is [email protected] Harold R. Riveland '39, Saratoga, CA j those students experiencing other Glass: International Center for David C. Jones, M.S. Oliver A. Roholt '39, Raleigh, N C difficulties in the school system. She Contemporary Art in Tacoma, '01, a chemistry Richard P. W illiams '39, Fargo, N D previously worked for both Belgrade Washington. Callie has worked with teacher at Missoula’s Frank J. Davis '40, Missoula and LaMotte school districts. master glass artist Dale Chihuly, Big Sky High School, received the Vernier Virginia Strickland Hasting '40, Steven D. Nash, M.Ed. '99, and whose Bridge of Glass links the Technology Award for Tumwater, WA Belinda J. M unday-Nash, Pharm.D. museum with downtown Tacoma. Mary K. Dye Hveem '41, Libby '01, announce the birth of their M ichael J. Sparr '00, Missoula, High School Teaching Rachel Gitchel Williams '41, Linton, ND second child, Benjamin Peter Nash, launched Goomzee Web Services at the 2006 National Science A.E. "Gene" Hirst '42, Billings on May 9, 2006. Benjamin joins big (named after a childhood friend) Teachers Association conference. Working with colleagues from UM s Kay Nichols Buraam '43, Salinas, CA Department of Chemistry and Center Jam es Samuel Caras '43, Missoula for Environmental Health Sciences, Come Murphy Leaphart '43, Helena and the Missoula City and County Mary Jo Pease Plummer '43, Poison Health Departments, David and his Jean M. W iegenstein '43, Seattle students created “Air Toxics Under John Babtiste Bellusc '44, Maple the Big Sky,” a research project seek­ V a lle y , W A ing a link between incidences of asth­ Dorothy "Two Dot" M artin M ather ma and air pollutants during severe '44, Billings temperature inversions. Patricia Corbin Osweiler '44, Derek D. Crosier '03 performed this Issaquah, W A spring with the Juilliard Theatre Joann Randall Pierce '45, Gig Orchestra’s “New Dances/New H a r b o r , W A Music” in New York City. Derek is a W alter F. Rathbone '46, Havre graduate student at Mannes College Bette Lorenz Ronish '46, Lewistown of Music in New York. Tannisse E. 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MONTANAN FALL 2006 37 Invest in DISCOVERY Tracking Montana Elk CONNECTING PEOPLE PROGRAMS AND PLACE Just One Project A Campaign for The University of Montana Endowment Will Support Nyeema Harris had never seen an elk before coming to Total Goal $100 million Montana, but after three busy spring seasons in the Garnet Mountains she has gotten up close and personal with ninety-eight newborn elk calves. 'It's a pretty interesting transi­ tion,' says the dynamic Philadelphia native with a laugh. Scholarships a n d Fellow sh ips Now part of the Wildlife Biology graduate program at The Uni­ versity of Montana, she found herself flying in a helicopter over rugged ranchlands near Ovando and the Blackfoot River drainage B S Q H tii 00 [Goal $17 million o trying to spot cow elk who had separated themselves from the Graduate Fellowships • Need-Based VO herd-a telltale sign when they're about to give birth. With trained Scholarships • Presidential Scholarships • 3 eyes, they continue their lookout for bedded down calves who Montana University System Honor Scholarships are well hidden in the thick grass and sagebrush. When a calf is spotted, the pilot finds a place to land and the o 3 skilled crew members go to work, being careful to minimize stress. While her two partners Faculty P o sit io n s keep an eye on the cow, handle equipment, and fill out a data sheet, Harris attaches an eartag containing a small radio transmitter to the calf, takes some measurements, and gets 2 3 SCB a weight to estimate the calf s age. The whole process takes only three-and-a-half to four Goal $18 million minutes. 'Despite the fact that we're handling this animal, mom still takes it back. Seeing the calf reunite with the cow is a pretty neat feeling,' says Harris. Chair in Cardiovascular Sciences * Chair in Over the five-year span of this elk calf survival project, 221 elk calves have been Neurosciences • John J. Craighead Chair in Biological Sciences • Kittredge Visiting 'marked' with transmitters which allow tracking of the animal up to a year. Crews spent Professorship in Creative Writing • T. Anthony about a week and a half this spring marking calves, but that's only the beginning of their Poliner Distinguished Professorship • General work. Tlie rest of the summer's efforts will be largely allocated to tracking. Teams go out Faculty Support twice a day monitoring the eartag transmitters for a mortality signal. Upon determining that a calf has died, Harris becomes a detective. 'At that time we scour the terrain to try to find it and basically it's a CS.l.-type investigation,' putting all the clues together to figure out the P rog ra m Su p p o r t cause of death,' says Harris. Information gathered on the cause of mortalities has an impact on the management of elk and helps researchers studying predator/prey dynamics. $27.7 million According to Dan Pletscher, professor and director of the Wildlife Biology Program at 1 Goal $16 million UM, these data will also be used in conjunction with a study looking at the impacts of moun­ tain lions on their prey being conducted by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Academic Programming • Technology • 'Private individuals and private foundations have been just amazing in their support of Mansfield Library Holdings • Professional Development • Outreach Efforts • Other UM this project,' says Pletscher, and also acknowledged the essential relationship with private Programs landowners. The bottom line, he said, is that programs like these would not be possible without generous private support The University of Montana's campaign, Invest in Discovery - Connecting People, Programs and Place, plays a key role in keeping Pletscher involved in important research with first-rate student help. R enovated a n d N ew Facilities Because great support like this allows these unique and important projects, Pletscher says, "We re not only able to attract the best and brightest graduate students from Montana, f iiE s is im but also from around the country and around the world to TTie University of Montana.' Giv­ Goal $49 million ing a nod to Harris, who received her bachelor's degree from Virginia Tech, Pletscher adds, Alumni Development Center • Don Anderson 'We're able to attract students like Nyeema to our program.' Hall • Giikey Center for Executive Education • Looking toward future support, Pletscher says, *We have before us a goal to raise a $3 Hall of Champions • Law Building Addition • million endowment to secure the future of the Boone and Crockett Conservation and Educa­ Montana Museum of Art a Culture | Native tion program. With this endowment, we're going to be able to do essential research (elk calf American Center • Pharmacy Biomedical survival project and others) basically forever. Not just me, not Nyeema, but for a long, long Addition • Phyllis Washington Education Center time we re going to be able to do positive things for people and wildlife in this part of the world.' For information on ways to support the Boone and Crockett Conservation and Educa­ Check the campaign's progress at tion Program, contact Lisa Lenard, director of development and alumni relations, College of www. umt edu/umf Forestry and Conservation, (406) 243-5533 or [email protected].

38 FALL 2006 MONTANAN DHC Opportunity Fund is a Group Effort They're young, climbing the corporate ladder, and raising families, but like Tom Hayes '99, who considers himself a 'Friend of the Davidson Honors College,' they want to make educational experiences like their own available to current and future students. Hayes, his wife, Donde, and several other alumni and friends are contributing to the Friends of the Davidson Honors College Opportunity Endowment. Begun in 2005 by Tom and Ann Boone of Missoula when Ann was chairman of the DHC Advisory Board, the fund National Chair is a provides annual support for programs and projects that help create opportunities for stu­ dent travel and intellectual interaction with students on other campuses. The fund also al­ ‘Hands-on’ Leader lows faculty to develop special courses and programs that enhance educational and cultural opportunities for honors students. Deborah Doyle McWhinney '77, president of The Opportunity Endowment is a $150,000 priority of this campaign and a goal that size the Services for Investment Managers Enterprises sets the bar high for DHC alumni and friends. The chance to contribute as part of a group of at Charles Schwab 8 Co. in San Francisco, has people who value the Davidson Honors College as they do was an attractive option for the been the leading force behind the campaign as Hayeses. "We were excited to hear this fund had been created and felt it was a way that we its national chair and San Francisco Bay Area volunteer leader. could give something back for all the honors college did for me. It was the reason I chose to go to UM in the first place.' McWhinney has long and deep ties to Hayes was a Presidential Scholar in the late 1990s and was president of the Honors Stu­ Montana and the University. As an alumna of dents Association in 1997. He says the experience 'made a huge impact on his time at UM' the class of '77 and a trustee emeritus of the and on his career. In the years since his graduation from the DHC and School of Business UM Foundation, she has been a key participant Administration and through his career as every step of the way as the Invest In Discovery vice president of investment banking at - Connecting People, Programs and Place campaign D.A. Davidson & Co. in Great Falls, Hayes took shape, gained momentum and was publicly has followed the honors college's growth launched in September of 2005. and development and said he is excited It was she who recruited many key volun­ about how far it has come. He and his teers, particularly her Campaign Cabinet, Mickey class of Presidential Scholars were close Cummings Sogard '68, Priscilla Pickard Gilkey to the honors college throughout their '62 and Charlie Oliver. Along with the Cam­ college careers, 'but we were a small paign Steering Committee, these individuals group. Now there are many students have served as the engine driving the incredible - besides the Presidential Scholars - who success of the campaign so far. Now they are stay active in the honors college for four joined by an ever-growing cadre of supporters years because there are more chances to and regional volunteers who are stepping up interact with different departments.' and bringing the campaign and its message of As a former honors student, Hayes the future to communities ail across the country. brings an alum's perspective to the tA",ut* nyan ana ,om "**«*• Photo byAmle Thompson '97 There are currently 12 regional committees and DHC advisory board, one of the groups more than 125 volunteers actively working on actively promoting the Friends of the Davidson Honors College Opportunity Endowment, behalf of the campaign. and he can speak with conviction on the benefits of an honors college education. This is a About her campaign involvement, McWhin­ campaign priority that's definitely worth support,' he says. ney says: 'I am privileged to lead this campaign Fewer than 600 students, out of a UM student population of 13,000, are enrolled in the because The University of Montana is dear to Davidson Honors College. There they can make the very most of their time at UM through my heart. I believe deeply in its promise of association with the University's top faculty, engaging in undergraduate research (which, quality education for the students of today and at one time, was an almost-unheard of concept at most American universities), and honing tomorrow, and I want to be a part of the trans­ their leadership skills. formative power this campaign will bring to the To meet those objectives, the dean appreciates the flexibility that an opportunity fund University, the State of Montana and the world.' provides. 'A guiding principle for honors education is that we offer programs that give stu­ Expressing her appreciation to the cam­ dents with the greatest potential a chance to use their college experience to become lead­ paign's participants, she adds, 'I'd like to thank ers, not only in their profession, but in life. Going to a conference and presenting a paper or all of you who have joined us out of your belief being mentored by a leading researcher can be a life-altering experience, and it is one that and love for UM. We are a community of we, at the Davidson Honors College, want to provide. Money to finance these opportunities people with common goals and dreams for our is extremely valuable,' said Dean James McKusick. University. Keep up the good work; spread the More information on the Friends of the Davidson Honors College Opportunity Endow­ word from coast to coast; let's reach $100 mil­ ment is available from the DHC director of development, Vickie Mikelsons, (406) 243-5110 lion and celebrate together!' or [email protected].

MONTANAN FALL 2006 39 BY BETSY HOLMQUIST THE BEAR FACTS In 1906 a black bear cub named Teddy became UM’s mascot. The University’s football team was known as the Bears, so Teddy was an apt representation. Teddy lived in a stone den on the Greenough property. We don’t have photos of him, but drawings appear in early Sentinels.

UM's football team officially became the Grizzlies in 1923 and a live bear cub served as its mascot for years. From 1906 to the early 1960s bears often appeared at football games (above), in Homecoming parades, and in the parades at Butte before the Griz-Cat football games. Noteworthy were the three Fessy bears of the late 1930s and early 1940s, named for famed UM football coach Doug Fessenden. They wore their own jerseys, emblazoned with A Hamms beer bear, compliments of a local beer distributor, "Fessy" and a large "M." delighted youngsters in the mid-1970s.

By the 1980s Barry Anderson a full-body, '05, Capital One costumed Otto Mascot for 2003 appeared. Named and 2005, and for corporate UM's beloved sponsor Grizzly Monte from 2001 Auto, he per­ to 2005, appears formed with UM's here as Benny the cheerleaders at Bull of the Chicago football and Bulls, his current basketball games. alter identity, with Otto donned vari­ the 2005 Monte. ous outfits for his UM's mascot contin­ acts and for a few ues to evolve with seasons evolved each season, with into a wolfish Scott Stiegler '98 took on mascot each portrayer bear. The huge duties in 1993 as Monte, the delighting fans as head made seeing mascot's updated name—short did that first Teddy difficult and the for Montana. He spent five years 100 years ago. bulky costume developing Monte into one fun- limited movement. loving character.

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