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DEPARTMENTS 3 Letters 5 Around The Oval 29 Raising Montana m V i 8 31 About Alumni 52 Artifacts

ON THE COVER: Megan Fisher approaches the finish line at the 2010 International Triathlon Union World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. She won her division for the second consecutive year.

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BSifAvaiioM i m s m letters My wife and I went to Homecoming in Missoula this past fall. Many of my teammates and friends attended. W e reveled in the atmosphere before the game and were amazed by the attendance. W e couldn't have enjoyed it more. The stadium, the players... it was electric, and now we're hooked. George W eikum '76

AN AMBROSE CONNECTION Jerry always had such a warm, endearing INSTANT REPLAY My husband, Dick, and I thoroughly personality and sense of humor. I’m glad to I enjoyed very much two articles from the enjoyed the article about Hugh Ambrose in know that hasn’t changed, winter 2011 issue of the M ontanan. the winter 2011 edition of the M ontanan. iurine La node '61 First, coach “Jiggs” Dahlberg and his Dick, who got his doctorate at The Orange, Calif. Red Book were featured in the Artifacts University of Montana in 1969, chose to story. He made possible my years as a leave Michigan for Montana because he REKINDLED SPIRIT FOR UM high school basketball coach. I started in was intrigued by a television story about I must tell you about my first return trip Alberton and also coached in Livingston fly-fishing. Once he set foot in Big Sky to UM since I graduated in the 1970s. and Helena. And Glen Welch [About Country, he fell in love with the West and The idea started in 2009 when I watched Alumni] officiated many of those games I Western history. a Griz playoff football game on ESPN here coached! Some years later, we moved south to the in Illinois. The Griz won, and it got me so I’m proud to remember that Jiggs and Mississippi Gulf Coast, about forty miles excited that I decided to go to the National Glen were good friends of mine. from New Orleans. We became acquainted Championship game in Chattanooga, Jack LeClaire '52 with Hughs father, Stephen Ambrose, who Tenn., that December. I met up with some Moscow, Idaho also had a home in Bay St. Louis, Miss. old football teammates at the game, and Stephens books further enhanced our love that made me realize I should be more of the mountain states and history. involved in Griz activities. Your article brought back some My wife and I went to Homecoming I lf A M T E f t • The Montanan wonderful memories for us. Thank you. in Missoula this past fall. Many of my v v m h i c is * we|comes)etters Nan Ehrbright teammates and friends attended. We to the editor. Winter Haven, Fla. reveled in the atmosphere before the game and were amazed by the attendance. opinions " r r ; r nd A JUBILANT FEELING We couldn’t have enjoyed it more. The graduating year I loved reading Jerry Nordstrom’s account or years of attendance, home address, stadium, the players...it was electric, and and phone number or e-mail address. [Letters, winter 2011] of the exchange now we’re hooked. involving the “Go Griz” signs between When I played in the mid-’70s, the Send them to: Montanan Editor, 325 Brantly Hall, Missoula, MT 59812 Billings and Laurel and the clever way he football program wasn’t very big. These or [email protected]. resolved the issue. Jerry and I both sang days it seems everything is all about the with the UM Jubileers many years ago. Griz: signs on the light poles around Because of space limitations, we are not able When Jerry and I belonged to the group, to include all letters sent to us. Letters may be campus, T-shirts, jackets, caps. It makes edited for length or clarity. While universities there were ten men and ten women, along me proud to have been a small part of the are places of discussion where good people with an accompanist. We performed for all Griz in the early stages of building Griz do not always agree, letters deemed potentially types of functions, both in Missoula and Nation. Congratulations to all who have libelous or that malign a person or group throughout the state. It was a real honor will not be published. Opinions expressed been involved. in the Montanan do not necessarily reflect to be chosen as a Jubileer, and the Jubileer George Weikum '76 those of The University of Montana. experience was very significant to me. Naperville, IlL

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The Montana Lady GHz won the Big Sky Conference tournament championship and faced the UCLA Bruins in the first round of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament in Spokane, Wash. The Lady Griz fell, 55-47. A b o v e : Lady Griz coach Robin Selvig

teams I’ve had in the past. We AN UNEXPECTED DANCE felt they could win it, and they Lady Griz take W ild Ride to N C AA Tournament did. So maybe there were a few more tears shed after this one.” I t’s a first-round game in the championship and earning the champion Portland State. Then it was on to Spokane I NCAA Womens Basketball program’s nineteenth berth in “We definitely had no fear and the NCAA Tournament, I Tournament. The site is the the NCAA Tournament. of playing on the road,” Selvig where the fourteenth-seeded ■ McCarthey Athletic Center UM lost to UCLA, 55-47, says. “The team had a strong Lady Griz drew third-seeded | on the campus of Gonzaga but the roller-coaster ride they mental approach, and they sure UCLA, which lost only j University in Spokane, Wash. took to the Big Dance is how showed me what they were four games all season. UM | There is 1:16 left to play, and this Lady Griz squad will be made of in Portland.” struggled in its past three trips | the Montana Lady Griz trail by remembered. UM beat Idaho State in the to the Big Dance, and no four points to the UCLA Bruins Selvig admits he wasn’t at quarterfinals and dispatched fourteen-seed has ever beaten a | of the Pac-10 Conference. all surprised by the team’s 3-8 Northern Colorado in the three-seed in the history of the If you had told longtime record to start the season, citing semifinals to earn a berth in women’s tournament. Lady Griz coach Robin Selvig a strong schedule against quality the championship against top- Despite of all that, Selvig— early in the season this is the opponents. seeded Portland State. and his team—knew they had a j situation his team would “A lot of those losses were The Lady Griz trailed by chance. And they were spot on. i find itself in come March, he close, too,” Selvig says. “We six points with eight minutes “You have to believe,” Selvig probably would have looked at stressed that the ladies stay remaining, but scored the says. “We were playing well, and you funny. focused on improving, and next twelve points and held we had gotten good defensively. ‘I might have thought you’d that’s what they did.” off the Vikings late to win, If you can defend, you can hang • been drinking,” he says. Uncharacteristically 62-58. UM senior Stephanie around in those games.” After losing eight of their inconsistent in the friendly Stender of Sheridan, Wyo., But it wasn’t meant to be, | first eleven games of the confines of Dahlberg Arena, the was named the tournament’s and UM’s season came to an ! season, it’s rather easy to Lady Griz were road warriors most valuable player. end at the hands of the Bruins. understand Selvig’s outlook. throughout league games, “We were so excited,” “I couldn’t be prouder of But the team kept its trademark posting a 6-2 record away from Selvig says of the win over the this team,” Selvig says. “They positive attitude, relied on Missoula. The success they Vikings. “It was very emotional. went through a lot of adversity | excellent defense, and played had on the road gave them the No one championship is more and kept a fired-up attitude its best when it mattered confidence needed to make a important than any other. But through every practice and most—winning the Big Sky run in the Big Sky tournament, to the outside world, this team’s every game. They made a Conference tournament hosted by regular-season expectations weren’t the same as believer out of me.”

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STRATEGIC ISSUES | Partnering for Student Success The University will help its students succeed academically and personally so they graduate well- right prepared for their careers or further education. This involves preparing around students to attend and transition to UM, integrating the early college the corner from curriculum, engaging students, strengthening student support, and Commencement, improving employee development. A new Partnering for Student Success the most important Program works to increase retention and graduation rates. day in the annual cycle of y j Education for tho Global Century UM will offer an University life. educational experience at all degree levels that provides graduates Commencement is the foundation to make positive impacts on a world that is increasingly a day of celebration interconnected. This includes strengthening foundational academic for graduates, family, and friends. Upon programs, improving two-year programming, creating a Global Leadership Institute, and boosting discovery and innovation through Commencement, we send our graduates off to graduate education? This theme offers strategies that help students careers, adventures, or additional education. become engaged global citizens. Because of the hard work of faculty, staff, administrators, and the students themselves, UM y | Discovery and Creativity to Servo Montana and graduates are equipped to become citizens and leaders in todays world. tho World The University will transform discovery and creativity into applications and experiences in ways that benefit the state, region, In these past six months, we have focused nation, and world. This will enhance faculty and student research, expand intently on bringing clarity of direction to The knowledge and cultural richness through creative research, and advance University of Montana. That effort resulted in innovation, business opportunities, and job creation. Scholarship, research, a new strategic plan called UM 2020: Building and creative work are recognized as essential components of campus life. a University for the Global Century. The plan is centered around the five Strategic Issues | Dynamic learning Environment UM will enhance its described in the column to the left. These issues character as a place where people are passionate about learning, reflect the central role of higher education in discovery, and growth. Strategies will include integrating UM's unique the economic, social, and cultural development mountain setting into instruction and discovery, recruiting and developing of our state, nation, and world. Within this the highest-quality students and employees, providing programs of edition of the M ontanan, you will see the distinction and worldwide partnerships, and using technology practices Strategic Issues illustrated with examples from that optimize learning and model sustainability. our students and faculty. I believe there has never been a time when Q The Planning-Assessment Continuum The University will higher education was more important. Whether model transparency, systematic communication, and sound decision­ you think of the impact of education on the making to ensure that resources are marshaled to achieve UM's mission. individual or on societies, the Global Century This theme describes a system for data-driven decisions and goal-setting. depends critically upon higher education for It promotes participation, linked plans and resources, and objective and people, ideas, and leadership. The University timely assessment of outcomes to demonstrate that campus does the right things for the right reasons. of Montana is a special place and is poised to make a distinctive contribution to the Global Century. We must combine a sense of urgency, an explosion of creativity, and a celebration of accomplishment to the Strategic Issues defined in U M 2020. This is an exciting time for higher education and for the University. We can take pride in our LEADERSHIP DIVERSITY past accomplishments and look forward to a ENGAGEMENT SUSTAINABILITY I promising future. Thank you for your support and interest!

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Meet Grizwald, Joel and Patricia Meier UM's cartoon bear. In frequent issues of the Montanan, we provide a drawing of Grizwald that needs a creative, original caption. It's up to Meiers give $3 million you, our readers, to provide it. The winning contestant will receive a Griz to renowned UM program stadium blanket. Send submissions to [email protected]. ne of UM’s premier programs will colleagues were very supportive, mentored receive a significant boost from me, and helped me grow professionally. Also, a former associate dean of the I greatly enjoyed working with my students CollegeO of Forestry and Conservation and who were preparing for future careers in his wife. Joel and Patricia Meier of Denver managing outdoor recreation opportunities have included a $3 million provision in their and our nations magnificent natural wills to endow a chair in Parks, Tourism, resources. Now Patti and I want to give back and Recreation Management. to the institution and a program that has “The Patricia and Joel Meier Wildland meant so much to us.” Recreation Management Chair will allow The UM Parks, Tourism, and Recreation us to attract a leader in what already is a Management program prepares students nationally renowned program at UM,” for careers with land management agencies, President Royce Engstrom says. “We are nonprofits, and nature-based tourism, as well grateful for Joel and Patti Meiers generosity. as graduate studies in these related areas. It certainly will help UM better serve “The colleges leadership in recreation students and the world.” resource management started when Joel was Joel Meier, who became a professor a member of our faculty twenty years ago,” emeritus at UM after twenty-four years of says James Burchfield, interim dean of UM’s This is a screen grab from a video that service, joined the faculty in 1970. At the College of Forestry and Conservation. “This appeared on www.cnn.com on February 24. time, recreation management was part of the generous gift will ensure our students can The segment was filmed in Benghazi, Libya, Department of Health, Physical Education, actively engage with the best faculty in the and is titled Voices from a Benghazi Rally. and Recreation [HPER] in the School of best environment to learn how to protect The video shows thousands of Libyans at a Education. The program moved to the and enjoy our natural legacy.” demonstration, and at the fifty-four-second School of Forestry, and Meier served as its The Meiers are world travelers who enjoy mark the camera focuses on a protester chair. He later was associate dean of the backpacking, mountaineering, whitewater wearing a UM sweatshirt. The video went School of Forestry. Meier left UM to chair and ocean kayaking, and skiing. They have viral on social networking sites, with the Department of Recreation and Park trekked through Nepal, New Zealand, and some people even using the image as their Administration at Indiana University. The many other places and have kayaked most of profile picture on Facebook. The video can Meiers retired in Denver. the rivers in the western U.S. be seen at www.cnn.com/video/#/video/ “Patti and I loved the University, as well as Meier will give this year’s College of worid/2011 /02/24/wedeman.benghazi. Missoula’s geographic location and Montanas Forestry and Conservation commencement voices.cnn. great outdoors,” Meier says. “My faculty address May 14.

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PICCOLO PETE’S ISN’T A FIVE-STAR UM students RESTAURANT In fact, it may not have pose for a photo any stars at all. But it’s legendary investor with investor Warren Buffett’s favorite restaurant in Warren Buffett Omaha, Neb., and it’s where students from September. It was there Buffett extended City, Mo. They also at Piccolo Pete's restaurant in UM’s Master of Business Administration the invitation to UM students to visit with scored an impromptu Omaha, Neb. and Accountancy programs ate lunch with him during spring semester. meeting with Thomas him in March. UM shared the day in Omaha with Hoenig, president Buffett’s restaurant choice reflects his students from seven other universities. and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank, personality: down to earth. Students were During the question-and-answer session, for about an hour. Coleman said Hoenig impressed by how modesdy Buffett seems UM students were able to ask two candidly answered any questions the to live and how humbly he spoke during questions of Buffett. students had. the 150-minute question-and-answer Casey Chumrau, one of the few females “It wasn’t your typical politician-type session they attended before lunch. to ask a question during the session, stuff,” Coleman says. “[He talked about] all UM student Ryan Coleman says impressed her peers when she asked Buffett aspects of the economy, and where he thinks Buffett’s answers reminded him of about ethics in the companies in which he [the country] is going,” Coleman says. conversations he’s had with his dad about has a stake. The students were grateful for what business. Buffett advised students to make “I think all of the students [from other could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. sure they love the work they’re doing. “His schools] were surprised at how well UM They also were glad they could dispel some value system is no different from our own,” students were versed,” Coleman says. “I of the myths about Montana, and show Coleman says. don’t think students from a lot of big other schools in attendance that they’re More than 200 schools apply to meet schools usually ask questions about ethics. prepared to compete in the business world. with Buffett each year, and UM was lucky Kids from Montana have a very different Talking about UM’s M.B.A. program, enough to be among those accepted. U.S. oudook on why we have business and why “It’s very undervalued,” UM student Senator Max Baucus invited Buffett to we do what we do.” Michael Manhardt says, “but it is of be the keynote speaker at the Montana After meeting with Buffett, UM significant value compared to other Economic Development Summit, held at students took a trip to the Board of Trade M.B.A. programs.” Montana Tech of UM in Butte this past and the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas — Colette Maddock

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unda halstead-acharya '79, second from right, sports her Griz gear in front of the Taj Mahal in India this past fall. Though the background in this photo almost appears surreal, we are in fact standing in front of the Taj Mahal," Halstead-Acharya says. "And yes, if does seem surreal, even when you're right there!" She and her husband, India native Bharat Acharya 75, right, were joined on the trip by Tom and Jan Angstman. Tom is a 1968 graduate of UM, and Jan is one of its most devoted fans. Congratulations, Unda. You have won a $50 gift card for The Bookstore at UM. Do you have a photo of yourself wearing your Griz gear in an amazing place or while on an incredible adventure? If so, send it abng with a brief description to themontanan® umontana.edu. Winners will see their photo published in the Montanan and will receive a $50 gift card to The Bookstore at UM. To be considered, photos must be in focus with the UM or Griz logo clearly visible.

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WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN MONTANAN SPRING 2011 I 11 around the oval UM students explore the mangroves ' of Cape Ca Mau instead of bickering about whether there’s I National Park, a problem,” she says, “is different from located on the attitudes people have about the issue in southernmost the U.S.” tip of Vietnam. UM is one of just two schools in the j , country to offer a minor in climate change Students Study studies, and the only school that has gone to Vietnam to study the effects. ClimattOiange The goal of the six-credit course was to provide students with an opportunity in Vietnam ■ to go to a country where climate change effects can be seen and to apply what WHAT DO VIETNAM AND setting. Students listened to lectures and they learned to their studies on the MONTANA HAVE IN COMMON? presentations, but also spent a large portion environment in Montana. Not much, you say? Well, it turns out of the trip in the field with people directly Through a grant awarded by the U.S. they are related in more ways than might affected by climate change. Department of State, the Maureen and be expected, especially when it comes “Hearing [farmers] talk about how Mike Mansfield Center at UM partnered to concerns about water, agriculture, flooding and droughts affect their farm and with Can Tho University in the Mekong ecotourism, and forestry. [their] concerns about the rising sea level Delta of Vietnam to facilitate the study- During the past winter break, nine makes the learning that much more real,” abroad trip. CTU provided UM with a list students and two faculty members from Phear says. of possible field-study sites the UM group UM experienced climate change firsthand Trina Jones, a graduate student in might be interested in, and representatives in Vietnam, a low-lying coastal country UM s Environmental Studies Program, from UM went to Vietnam to scope out expected to be drastically affected by was impressed with how actively Vietnam’s the sites and prepare a useful curriculum climate change in the coming years. government is addressing climate change. for the students. Nicky Phear, coordinator of UM s “Its really forward-thinking to want to Jones says the trip was invaluable to her Climate Change Studies Program and a incorporate preparation for climate change in learning experience. faculty member who went on the trip, all of their government activities,” she says. “You learn so much more about the thinks it was a worthwhile experience She also was taken aback by reactions course material when you’re actually in a because the group was able to see climate Vietnamese people had to climate change. country affected by it than you ever could change up close and in a different cultural ‘Their willingness to look for solutions at home,” she says. — Colette Maddock

Adventures of the Mind Brings Young Leaders to UM ontana has long been a stronghold of exploration and years ago, just as the tech boom gained speed in America. 'I saw discovery: From Lewis and Clarks journey through the how people were leaning toward the 'Facebook model,' texting, and regions rugged terrain to Jeannette Rankins election to that it's more important than ever for face-to-face contact,* she says. Congress three years before women had the right to vote, the state Though the program only accepts the best and the brightest has always cherished innovation and personal achievement. students—'one in a hundred or one in a thousand,* according It's this spirit that will have UM buzzing with young leaders to Gray—the students don't necessarily look that way on paper. and great achievers this summer when the Adventures of the Mind Adventures of the Mind searches beyond traditional achievement Mentoring Summit comes ro campus June 22-26. benchmarks, such as grades and test scores, and selects attendees Every two years Adventures of the Mind brings together based on nominations from educators who know students with exceptional high school students and great thinkers and achievers exceptional potential, despite obstacles such as learning disabilities for four days of mentoring and exploration. During the UM summit, or socioeconomic status. the 150 to 200 students in attendance will be paired with high- Adventures of the Mind also recruits runners-up in national achieving mentors, such as a Google innovator, an award-winning competitions, such as the Presidential Scholars Program, as these author, and a New Yorker cartoonist. students often are just as talented as the winners but don't receive the Founder Victoria Gray worked with major sponsors Dennis and same recognition. Gray says. Phyllis Washington to bring this year's summit to Montana. While at 'The students we select can't just have potential—they must UM, attendees also will explore Missoula and the surrounding area. have real potential to do something with their life and with the Gray says she had the idea for Adventures of the Mind about ten world,* she says.

12 I SPRING 2011 MONTANAN Holly Pickett, third from left, is among a group of photographers running for cover during a bombing run by Libyan government planes at a checkpoint near an oil refinery March 11. Pickett told www.msnbc.com it was the most chaotic, intense situation she has ever been in. "Bullets were whizzing past us. You could FACETIME: see the dust stirring on the ground from bullets zipping past our legs. I've never HOLLY PICKETT 02 taken this much fire before." N ew York Holly Pickett graduated from UM in 2002 with a What are some of the challenges you've faced Times photographers Tyler Hicks, right, and Lynsey Addario, far left, along with double major in photojournalism and history and a as a female journalist in Egypt, and how Times correspondents Stephen Farrell have you learned to protect yourself? minor in German. The Butte native credits her and Anthony Shadid (not pictured), were grandfather, who worked as a photographer and It is difficult to work here. There is quite captured by Libyan leader Muammar painter, and her aunt, who works at the Billings a bit of harassment of women in Cairo. I el-Qaddafi's forces March 15. They were Gazette newspaper, for her early interest in the respond to each situation differently, but released unharmed four days later. combination of art and news. Drawn to history, other I try to head off problems by wearing languages and cultures, travel, and news around the conservative clothing and trying not to approach stories much the same way I world, she put her degrees to work as a freelance put myself in situations where there is no would anywhere, trying to gain people's foreign photojournalist based in Cairo, Egypt, for the escape. I've had to adjust to working in trust and trying to give them a chance to past three years. She started her journalism career war zones and extremely conservative share something about themselves. in Athens, Ga., where she interned at the Athens societies as well. Can you describe a typical day in your life? Banner Herald. She went on to intern at the Do you generally feel safe in Egypt? It is different every day. Every story is Chattanooga Times-Free Press, M ’issoulian, and the Yes, I do. Cairo has become more different. While working on news stories Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash., where she unpredictable in the past few months, and like the ones in Tunisia and Egypt, I would eventually landed a full-time job. After working it is more difficult to live and work as a start the day talking to other journalists to there for five years, Pickett moved to Cairo and has foreigner here now, but generally I feel safe. see if there were any new developments. since worked in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Gaza, and What has been the most challenging part of Then I would go out and shoot. At the covering the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia? Libya. Her photos have appeared in The Hew York end of the day, I would edit, caption, and The uprisings have been so unpredictable Times, Time, Hewsweek, File, Christian Science transmit photos, then eat dinner, then bed. and chaotic. I've really had to take all Monitor, and The Los Angeles Times, among others. What is the most rewarding part of your job? possible precautions, and the biggest thing I have had the privilege to see many Why did you decide to move to Egypt? has been trying not to walk into a bad amazing events and meet incredible I always saw myself going overseas; it was situation that I can't get out of. I saw a side people because of my job. I am always just a matter of when that would happen. of Cairo I've never seen before, and it was learning something new. When I decided it was time to leave the pretty shocking. Do you plan on staying in Egypt for the Spokesman-Review to freelance, I came How is covering news in the Middle East foreseeable future? to Egypt because I was interested in the different from covering news in the U.S.? Yes. I will stay for now. Egypt still feels like Middle East, and Cairo is centrally located. There are language and cultural barriers it is in the throes of the revolution, and it is It was a logical choice. Cairo is a natural that aren't there as often in the U.S. really exciting to document this amazing, hub for many foreigners in the region, People respond to cameras and journalists historic event. including a huge number of journalists. differently than they do in the U.S. But I —interview by Colette AAaddock

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Below-the-Knee Amputee Megan Fisher '06 Overcomes Daunting Odds to Become World Champion

STORY BY CHAD DUNDAS PHOTOS BY TODD GOODRICH

There was a time in early 2006 when Megan Fisher gave up on walking.

' t was January, midway that this latest setback must have been through her senior year at particularly crushing. ji The University of Montana. Seeing her now, its almost While hiking in the hills outside impossible to imagine. The 2011 Missoula, she suddenly found version of Megan Fisher—the six-time herself in so much pain that she world champion paratriathlete and decided she needed a few days off cyclist—is so upbeat and positive, so her feet. She went home and lay fiercely independent that its difficult down on the couch to rest, waiting to conceive of an obstacle she couldn’t for the agony to subside. When it overcome. Currently a member of the didn’t, she barely got up again for United States National Paracycling team almost three months. and gunning for a trip to the 2012 Fishes a former walk-on with Paralympics in London, you can’t spend the UM tennis team, was four years more than a few minutes talking with removed from the freak car accident her without coming away struck by her that took the life of her best friend unique strength and candidness. and caused her to lose the lower In 2006 however, Fisher was still half of her left leg. She had already in the process of teaching herself overcome so much—the wreck, the how to be an athlete again, and as a coma, two separate amputations, the woman who had always self-identified realization that her life would never as an active person with a relentless be the same again, and then finding competitive streak, nothing scared her the determination to live it anyway— more than the idea of being helpless. Megan Fisher; who had me lower parTof her left leg amputated after a horrific car accident, hopes to represent the United States in porocycling at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London.

i WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN' MONTANAN SPHNG 2(Sl j ' 15 Fisher runs on the Riverfront Trail along the Clark Fork River in Missoula. At her fastest, she can cover a mile in six minutes, thirty seconds.

"It's just her unstoppable drive. If Doctors she saw couldn’t give her any answers. When she did leave the house, she hobbled around on crutches. “I had amazing shoulders,” Fisher jokes, cracking the sly, dry she's going to do something... smile that seems to be her modus operandi for navigating the able-bodied world. “But it hurt too much to walk. No one here in “That’s a small thing,” she says now, “but when you consider Missoula could help me. In fact, I had a [doctor] in Missoula tell that when I was nineteen I was told that my pupils were fixed and me I might never walk again. I ended up looking into wheelchairs. I dilated and I wasn’t moving [and] my mom had to give the order mean, I was twenty-two years old. That’s hard.” to donate my organs if I died—to think that I walked across that The thing that finally got her off the couch was her impending stage—it’s huge.” college graduation that May. The idea of not being able to participate—or worse yet, wheeling across the stage—must have offended Fisher’s athletic sensibilities. No, she decided that wasn’t isher doesn't remember the accident itself going to be good enough. She decided that when they called her but retains clear memories of just about everything else. name as part of the Class of 2006, she was going to walk out there and grab that piece of paper saying she’d successfully completed her She remembers the name of the emergency helicopter degree in athletic training. Fpilot who flew her to Rapid City (S.D.) Regional Hospital after Most everybody in her life knows what it means when Fisher sets the crash, which floor her room was on, and the names of the her mind to something. doctors and nurses who treated her there for the next five weeks. “It’s just her unstoppable drive,” explains longtime friend Emily She remembers that the first people to arrive on the scene of the Garlough. “If she gets an idea in her head that she’s going to do wreck assumed Fisher and her best friend, Sara Jackson, were something...you really can’t stop that kid.” already dead, and she remembers the name of the woman who The weekend before Commencement, Fisher flew back home didn’t believe it, crawled into the car and pulled them out, almost to Chicago and saw Dr. John Angelico, the prosthetist who’d been certainly saving Fisher’s life. She remembers the date, of course— working with her since just after the initial accident in 2002. June 30, 2002—what the weather was like, and how many miles Angelico came into the office on a Saturday, and together they they had to go before their next stop. worked to solve the problem. The answer they came up with on More than anything, she says she remembers being happy. the fly—tweaking her prosthetic leg just so—wasn’t perfect, she “I had never been happier in my life,” she says. “I was playing admits. She was a little unsteady on her feet, her gait perhaps a college tennis, I was going to live with my soulmate, and it was little awkward, but a week later Fisher walked with the rest of her a beautiful day. Everything seemed golden, and then at that very class at graduation. moment, everything, absolutely everything, was taken away.” Fisher had completed a relatively successful freshman season

16 I SPRING 2011 MONTANAN in a familiar place: tennis. A friend from the Chicago tennis community got her back out on the court teaching fundamentals to children before she could even walk again— instead just wheeling around in front of the net in an office chair. Her recovery, she says, was baby steps. she gets an idea in her head that “Eventually I got a [prosthetic] leg, and I could stand up and teach, and then I could walk around and teach. It was just small, you really can't stop that kid." little changes here and there.” Back on her feet and re-enrolled at UM the following spring, Fisher still wasnt satisfied. She describes the original prosthetic doctors gave playing for the Grizzlies, and then she and Jackson had both spent her as like a ski boot, a clamshell-type situation” and says the mass of the summer in Chicago teaching tennis at a local country club. On tissue and scarring around her left foot was completely nonfunctional. this day in June they were driving back to Missoula to sign the lease Her mobility was severely limited; she couldn’t walk more than the on a new apartment. Jackson was going to study English, and Fisher length of a football field without “pain that felt like there were bones had hopes of earning an athletic scholarship. They were halfway sticking through the bottom of my foot.” across South Dakota when, with Jackson behind the wheel, Fisher It was not a life she knew how to lead. Fisher was twenty years decided to rest her eyes for a while. old, a lifelong athlete. She wanted to be mobile, to be active. She The next thing I remember, when I opened them I was in the wanted to have fun. So eleven months after the accident, Fisher ICU...,” she says. “My life was kind of like a strobe light. It switches opted for a second surgery, this time allowing doctors to amputate on, and then it’s off. Sometimes it’s really quick and you just catch a her left leg below the knee. It was an aggressive treatment. She glimpse and you have no idea what it means.” could have proceeded more cautiously, but for a college sophomore The car had rolled eight and a half times before coming to who didnt just want to walk without hurting, but wanted to run— rest upside down on the median of Interstate 90. Jackson did not fast—it seemed like the only option. survive. Fisher suffered brain damage and severe injuries to her left I didnt want to spend my younger years dealing with pain,” she foot. She had emergency surgery to relieve the pressure in her head says. “With each level of amputation it just would have been a long and then spent ten days in and out of consciousness before she was experimental process. I just wanted to live my life. I wanted to stop finally stable enough to move out of intensive care. The hospital being sad and turn the corner. So I chose to go for [below-the-knee] kept her another three and a half weeks before turning her over to amputation because that’s where the [prosthetic] technology is.” the care of her family. She says it wasn’t until she got home that she The second surgery gave Fisher and Dr. Angelico more options realized what a truly long road she had in front of her. for better prosthetics, and it gave her the ability and confidence “When you’re in the hospital it’s pretty easy to fall into a routine,” to move toward recovery with far less pain. One day, back in the she says. “They bring your lunch, they bring your medications...you hallway of her dorm at UM, she even tried running. “I think it was can kind of check out. When you go home, that’s when I started to more akin to an old mans shuffle,” she says, but points out that realize how rough it was going to be. All my friends had gone off to with both feet off the ground, she’d met the dictionary definition of college, and I couldn’t do anything.” the word. That was good enough for a first try. She fought major bouts with depression but found comfort It was not good enough for long.

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little less than a year after her second amputation and with zero experience, Fisher signed "I can ski— I cross-country ski and up for the Grizzly Triathlon, the annual short-course “sprint”A event held in the Grizzly Pool and around the UM I can rollerblade. I ride my campus. She admits she had no idea what she was getting into, but says she saw the triathlon as something she needed to do to I rock climb. Anything every prove a point to herself—that she was capable, durable, and able to accomplish things on one leg she’d never tried with two. “I thought, ‘Well, here goes nothing,’” she says. “I’d never swam someone who readily describes herself as “a five-foot nothing, one- 20,000 yards in a row. I’d never hiked 20K in a row; I had to legged girl.” borrow someone’s bike. I think I definitely did an old man’s shuffle In fact, it’s more accurate to describe Fisher as a four-legged girl. for the running part, because I didn’t have my running leg [yet]; I That’s how many different prosthetics she currently uses—running just had my old walking leg. It was not graceful, but my one goal up a bill of nearly $30,000 last year, she says. She has a running was not to finish last. I figured that was reasonable. Actually, I leg, a biking leg, a walking leg, and even a leg she uses primarily for was not last, I was seventh from last. Lo and behold, after that, I rollerblading. Her newest running leg, a graceful, L-shaped carbon became a triathlete.” paddle she’s very protective of, was specially built for her by Angelico A world champion triathlete, to be more specific. in Chicago during 2010. The first time she took it out for a test Fisher went on to capture world tides in her division in the drive, she says she clocked a mile in six minutes, thirty seconds. grueling, off-road Xterra That, she proudly reports, triathlon series—which is as fast as she’s run since includes open water high school. swimming, mountain biking “I can ski—I cross­ and trail running—in country ski and downhill 2008 and 2009. She ski—I can snowboard, won world paratriathlon 8 championships sanctioned by j the International Triathlon Fisher uses four different Union in 2009 in Australia prosthetics: one for | and 2010 in Budapest, running, one for cycling, one for rolleribloding, Hungary. Not bad for and one for walking. *

18 I SPRING 2011 MONTANAN i events [and] the ultimate goal, of course, is the Paralympic Games.” downhill ski— I can snowboard, To get there—even though she hit her mark at the time trials in Montreal in 2010— Fisher will still have to qualify again this year bike, I mountain bike, I kayak, at an event sanctioned by the International Cycling Union. She chose to pursue only cycling this year because triathlon won’t be a body else does, I do it, too.,/ medaled event at the Paralympics until 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. “I keep getting glimpses of what it would be like to be at the Paralympics, but I won’t know unless I actually go there,” she says. I can rollerbladeshe says. “I ride my bike, I mountain bike, I “It’s such an honor to put on the stars and stripes and go to the kayak, I rock climb. Anything everybody else does, I do it, too. I start line and represent your country. Then, if you’re lucky enough play kickball. I can go on a swing, I can hopscotch, jump rope, to win and stand at the top of the podium and hear your national play basketball, teach tennis. I can do anything, and that’s because anthem being played—it is magical. It is.” of [Angelico and his staff]. It’s a huge thing when you hurt. Living Fisher currently is dealing with a hip injury, so she says she’s not your life in pain is horrible. They allowed me to live my life making “any extravagant promises” about what the future holds. without pain, so I can just be me.” Still, she’s going to try her best. Fisher even spent a few months practicing with UM’s Betterside Everyone who knows Megan Fisher understands what that means. women’s rugby team, something she says she never would have “I think I’m a positive person because I’m stubborn. I’ve always dreamed of doing as a self-described “delicate been stubborn,” Fisher says. “I refused to let little flower” of a tennis player. Given a couple It doesn't stop here! this beat me; being sad stinks...I mean, it of years to think about it, she looks back on Visit www.umt.edu/montanon stinks to be disabled. Shoot, it stinks to be her initial experience at the Grizzly Triathlon to read a Web exclusive Q&A with Megan Fisher. abled. We all get happy and we all get sad. I as “hugely transformational” and admits all the \ ______y just choose to be happy.” All accolades she’s racked up since then are a direct result of the pure, unadulterated stubbornness it took to sign up for A Missoula native, Chad Dundas is a freelance that first event. sportswriter who earned a bachelor’s degree in “I prefer [to call her] tenacious,” says Rick Babington, Fisher’s journalism in 2002 and an M.F.A. in English- coach on the U.S. National Paracycling team, for which she Creative Writing in 2006, both from UM. He's captured gold medals last year in time trials and road racing. “She’s worked for the Missoulian, the Associated Press and driven, definitely. The success that she’s had has fueled that even Missoula Independent. His journalism andfiction further...the more she wins, the more she wants to win in bigger have appeared in numerous publications.

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Collaborative Efforts Put Alex Philp and his High-Tech Companies on the Map

I lex Philp might have lived “Everything we do is custom,” Philp says, happily in Choteau, making information is there. We make the systems that make I maps of the movements of it available.” ■ bears and wolves and bobcats The company’s most exciting work today shows up in for the U.S. Forest Service and embracing a life in a security system called AdelosS4. Philp and his partners the outdoors. He might have been a philosopher or a based it on the U.S. Navy’s BLUE ROSE system, which historian grounded in ancient Greek. He could have used fiber-optic cables towed behind submarines to listen answered the pull of an academic life in environmental to sounds in the surrounding ocean. In Adelos, Philp’s ethics or geography. brain trust developed the technology into a fiber-optic Instead, today he brings all those interests to the cable that can be buried in the ground. The acoustic data world of technology. As president and chief brain it picks up— a footstep, a bird, a vehicle—is transmitted among many at Missoula-based GCS Research, Philp, to the user in video in real time— two seconds, tops. who earned a masters and a doctorate degree at The Adelos can protect a power plant or a pipeline or be used University of Montana, is fiercely driven and wildly in defense. innovative. He works every day—fourteen to sixteen Philp formed a separate company, TerraEchos, hours worth—at staying five to eight years ahead of the to work on Adelos. It partnered with IBM software advancing technology front. to make Adelos work. To apply successfully for “I never apologize for striving for excellence,” Philp a Navy license to practice the invention, Philp says. “You have to be authentic at anything you do. And needed a company to make the hardware. He met Alex Philp, who you have to be absolutely straight.” Larry Hall, president of S&K Electronics in Pablo. earned a master's At its most simple, the work of GCS takes geographic Then he met Tom Acevedo, president and CEO of and a doctorate information, applies computer software to it, and S&K Technologies. S&K Technologies bought the degree from UM, pairs that up with hard equipment to provide elegant, majority of TerraEchos, and S&K Electronics makes has started two advanced solutions to real-life problems and needs. the hardware. companies aimed at “World-class GIS solutions,” the company says. “Your It’s the first such investment S&K Technologies has keeping technology data. Smarter.” The products of the nine-year-old firm made outside the Confederated Salish and Kootenai jobs in Montana. are at work around the world, unnoticeable to average Tribes, and it’s keeping S&K Electronics’ 100 or so people but helpful to millions. high-tech manufacturing employees busy. Take, for instance, Missoula County’s Property It’s a technology-based collaboration that works, Information System. You can check in on the Hall says. Technologies supplied the capital. Electronics Internet and locate any parcel of land by address, tax makes the hardware. Philp’s shop does the software. identification number, or geocode. You can look at the 'That’s where the collaboration comes in,” Hall parcel’s tax history and ask the system to overlay data says. “That’s what Montana companies have to do to such as floodplains, rivers, even voting precincts. build sustainable technology jobs. We do the thing Or look at the Choose Lethbridge website, where innovatively, collaboratively, but we get the same bang the user can look at Lethbridge-area business data as big companies.” interactively. Competing against thousands of other IBM Surveyors use the Montana Control Point Database partnerships around the globe, TerraEchos won IBM’s to update and view surveying control points across the prestigious CTO (chief technology officer) Innovation state. If you’ve ever used Street View in Google Maps, Award for Adelos last fall. you’re using an application that began at GCS. Hunters “It helps save lives. It helps protect the war fighters,” use the Montana Parcel App for smartphones to make Philp says. “Every day, the sons and daughters of sure of their locations before they shoot. There’s an app Montana come back dead and wounded. Adelos can for Vermont, too. make sure that worst nightmares never happen.”

MONTANAN SPRING 2011 21 S&K Technologies, headquartered ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ delos takes its name from work provided the base data layers that in St. Ignatius, employs 360 I the Greek word meaning became digitized into a GIS [geographic professional people around the “unseen.” And that association circles back information system] record of the area. world, contracts with the U.S. Air to Philps early scholarly interests and “At the end of the day, I wanted to sit Force and other entities, and has classical education with Jesuit mentors at there and work in the Sun River watershed gross revenues of $80 million Seatde University. the rest of my life,” he says. annually. Since its start with only Philp grew up in Redmond, Wash., with Intervention came in the grave illness $150,000 in 1999/ it has returned interests in the sciences, history, philosophy, of his future wife’s mother back in Seatde. $12.1 million in dividends to the and ancient Greek thought. His ambition, He returned to Seatde to be with Gretchen, Confederated Salish and Kootenai though, was singular. Tribes. Its engineers come from his sweetheart since kindergarten, and they Montana State University and “All I wanted to do was be a park were married in October 1992. its managers from UM. Tribal ranger,” he says. “And be outside.” Philp wasn’t exacdy employable, he colleges provide graduates with In the spring of 1986, when he was remembers. He applied to graduate school computer literacy. nineteen, he landed a job as a seasonal at UM, where he began work on a master’s ranger in Glacier National Park. degree in history in the fall of 1994. In S&K Electronics started in 1984, “That one summer completely, radically spring 1995, he happened into the UM employs about 100 people, changed my life forever,” he says. “For some Department of Geography. One door was and has a 40,000-square-foot reason, the landscape called me.” open, that oftProfessor Jeff Gritzner. manufacturing facility outside Philp worked for two seasons at Many “I sat down, and we talked for five Ronan. The company broke the Glacier and three at Two Medicine, both hours,” Philp says. “I felt reborn. I now $20 million mark in annual sales in 2010. places where the plains and the mountains knew I had a home.” meet and the light dances as in no other Philp’s master’s degree morphed into place. He loved interdisciplinary studies in geography, the Seatde area forestry, and history. His thesis was a but was haunted three-volume history of the geography by Montana. of the Sun River watershed. His broad Through practical experience in geography prepared college he him to integrate many aspects of the field, pounded nails says Gritzner, whom Philp still claims as in new houses his mentor. going up in “He’s really an exceptional individual,” Redmond says Gritzner, who says that today Philp for Microsoft mentors him as much as the other way billionaires, around. “I think his thought has a depth worked as a and clarity that is very, very unusual.” concierge in a From there, Philp was on to a doctorate hotel, and did in forestry. In late 1999 he was offered a job research on launching the Earth Observing System, a spotted owls for joint project of the schools of forestry and a senator while education. He was broke, the father of a studying history, baby, and he and Gretchen had another on philosophy, and the way. He took up residence in a cubicle environmental in the School of Education, armed with a studies. Around desk, a chair, and a telephone. Larry Hall, left, graduation The Earth Observing System took and lom Acevedo in the spring of 1990, a friend who science and data produced by UM climate are seen with two worked for the Lewis and Clark National scientist Steve Running’s team and turned versions of Adeios. Forest called to offer him a job working it into a K-12 educational tool that helped out of Choteau at the Ear Mountain people communicate about the planet’s Ranger Stauon tracking and mapping the changing landscape. GIS tools were just movements of a wolf on the North Fork of becoming Internet-based, and the exciting | the Sun River. He collected biological data project won a NASA award. on pine martens, lynx, and bobcats. That “We were on fire,” Philp says. “I learned I led to a job mapping bear management you don’t have to reinvent everything. We j i units on the Rocky Mountain Front. were taking the tools and combining them | Philp mapped 2,800 square miles by in different ways—systems integration.” j hand and won a productivity award. His Philp worked “all the time.”

22 SPRING 2011 MONTANAN professional Montanans good salaries for fulfilling work. Leadership and innovation must be the hallmark of the American position in the world. “We have got to retain that,” he says. “We cannot become a bunch of drooling consumers. We’ve got to be the innovators. We’ve got to take control of our destiny.” That suits UM, where GCS now funds a computer science scholarship, just fine. The science and technology jobs of the future are entrepreneurial, says Joe Fanguy, UM s director of technology transfer. “Alex is a huge role model for this institution,” Fanguy says. “And he’s a research partner. He’s got great energy and ideas. He also represents a small technology Helena native Erin Brimhall, seated in back, is one of tfie "Montana kids" who gets to stay home company that hires our graduates.” because of a job at GCS Research. When he finished his master's degree in computer science at Philp also is an example of someone UM in 2007, he didn't want to leave the state, his family, hunting, fishing, hiking, and skiing. By who launches a business that fits Montana’s luck, he went to work at GCS. It's interesting work and a good salary, he says, and it's allowed him and his wife to stay at home. "I was very worried for a long time about being able to stay in environment, its region, and its work force, Montana," Brimhall says. "In my field, I wasn't sure it was possible. Grateful is the adjective I'll he says. It’s the kind of business that helps choose." Also pictured are Philp, front right, moving clockwise, Mike Beltz '97, Brynn Griffin '08, Montana be part of the new economy that’s Elizabeth Schalk Aronoff '98, Grant Frame '10, Scott Frydenlund '02, Brimhall, Robert Kinnear '00, technological and entrepreneurial. Dan James '00, James Nyberg '05 (sitting), Joe Tosoni '08, and Mike Snook '03. “I think it will be very critical for us to think on a regional level,” Fanguy says. “A lot of people started saying I belonged Mike Beltz to buy in. By 2006 they moved “We have to make ourselves a part of that in the private sector,” he says. “Too driven, to the business incubator MonTEC. And regional effort, that national effort, and too entrepreneurial.” three years ago, they outgrew that and make ourselves part of that team. That’s our And he was being visited by people from moved to a building at Fourth Street and opportunity. If you think about competing federal programs who wanted problem­ Higgins Avenue with eight employees. on a global level today, you can’t do that solving work from him. It was time to go Along the way, Philp finished his alone. There’s great opportunity for the city, out on his own. In for the community, for typical Philp fashion, "We cannot become a bunch of drooling the state of Montana.” in fall 2002 he hired Those ideas also sit a lawyer and an consumers. W e've got to be the innovators. well with the leaders of accountant, bought S&K Technologies and a computer, printed We've got to take control of our destiny." S&K Electronics. business cards, set “We know we’re up a desk in his basement at home, and interdisciplinary doctorate at UM. developing industry here in Montana that then sat down and called every person he With an abiding interest in “getting the has potential for well-educated Montanans had met through his work—633 of them. right data to the right people at the right to work in nonpolluting industries,” says Geographic Communication Systems time,” the team worked on synchronizing SKT’s Acevedo, who grew up in Montana, Research was bom. video and data for surveillance use in earned his undergraduate degree at UM, and I wanted to revolutionize how we defense, as well as such things as forest fires went on to earn a law degree. communicate geographically,” he says. and crop monitoring. The collaborations make Philp happy. Among his first projects was a series of Today, GCS employs twenty-four “I have one of the premier think tanks websites that allowed people to experience people, about fifteen of them UM in Montana,” he says. “I get the work ethic. geography of the Lewis and Clark Trail graduates. Philp is passionate about And Montanans get the chance for their on the Internet. technology jobs as the strength of kids to stay home.” M By late 2004, Philp’s wife thought it was economic development in Montana. a good idea to get him out o f the basement. “We re investing in the Montana Ginny Merriam is a He and his three employees rented a work ethic,” he says. “That’s why we hire graduate o f The University subterranean office in central Missoula Montanans. I can’t get enough of them.” o f Montana School o f they called “the radon den.” He borrowed Montana can stop its traditional “brain Journalism and worked as an $50,000 against his house to grow the drain,” Philp believes, by creating advanced award-winning reporter at company, and he asked his now-partner technology centers that pay educated, the Missoulian newspaper. She writes from Missoula.

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The Montana Digital Academy Gives Students Across the State the Chance to Succeed

t wasn’t long ago that answering machines were the norm and cellphones a novelty. It wasn’t even that long ago that e-mail became commonplace.I Texting? Some of us only started doing that in the past few years. Such rapid development means new generations aren’t just learning technological literacy in a world of evolving communication and information tools—they’re born into it. And virtual education is a part of that evolution. One of the newest additions to virtual education in the state is the Based on the third floor of Montana Digital Academy [MTDA], UM's Phyllis J. Washington which launched last fall. The program, College of Education and funded by the 2009 Montana Legislature, Human Sciences, Montana serves up a buffet of forty-five different Digital Academy serves classes that run the gamut from basics nearly 2,000 students in such as Algebra I to electives like Digital 137 schools across the stale Photography, with opportunities for dual credit for college. The free courses are delivered through the Internet, twenty- four hours a day, seven days a week, to registered students from all corners of the state—creating a virtual classroom of students from Missoula to Sidney, Havre to Billings, and everywhere opens up opportunities for those working toward an education in between. degree to add one more tool to their teaching toolbox. The program now serves high school students and some middle schoolers, though the goal is to eventually provide a full K-12 Growing a Virtual Classroom selection. Nearly 2,000 students from 137 schools of all sizes enrolled Robert Currie isn’t really bragging when he says he has all the this spring semester, and seventy certified teachers in thirty different credentials to run a virtual program. As MTDA executive director, school districts teach the courses. Currie is a career educator from Michigan who’s worked in three What makes MTDA unique is that it doesn’t just apply to one different school districts as a superintendent of schools, principal, kind of student. It can help gifted or struggling students and those assistant superintendent for curriculum, a teacher, a counselor, and with scheduling issues. Equally important is the fact the MTDA links a coach. Most recently, Currie spent six and a half years as executive classrooms to future educators. Though the program’s aim is K-12 director of the Michigan Virtual School. It was his role in the virtual students, it’s headquartered at The University of Montana, which school network that led him to hear about Montana’s plans to start

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v x ^ ,r i ti J >iJ«Jr /v nri T Tut a program. By that time, he’d taken Michigan’s virtual school enrollment of about 5,000 to nearly 15,000. “That really gave me the foundation to be able to come here and lay out the framework,” Currie says. “I was selected to stan up the initial program, and I arrived here January 4, 2010. Jason Neiffer [the curriculum director] and I worked through all of the start-up activities—organizing and training, the selection of materials.” The curriculum blends required courses like English, math, science, and social studies with a slew of world languages, plus electives such as Oceanography, Web Design, and Photography. Furthermore, they built specialized classes specific to the state, including a Montana history course and a Native American studies course. The variety has helped fill in gaps. We have some very unique students, some with specific health issues that have severely limited their ability to attend school,” Currie says. “Students '-■i involved in Alpine skiing, students traveling with the rodeo competitions— we had a junior hockey player working toward the Olympics.” Those with learning disabilities also have benefited, Currie says. One kid with Asperger’s syndrome was reluctant to go to school and be subjected to peer scrutiny. “That student is involved in one of our courses and doing very well learning to communicate, critique others’ work, and be critiqued,” says Currie. “Those kinds of skills are pretty important, and that particular course is making a difference in the student’s life, building confidence.” Despite the fact that technology seems to come easier to younger generations, Currie says online learning isn’t necessarily a breeze for the tech savvy. As MTDA students work in a statewide classroom, “netiquette” becomes an important aspect of online learning. “When you’re communicating in an online course, just as you’re communicating in the

Director Robert Currie, second from right, moved to Montana from Michigan to launch the program. Jason Neiffer, left, is the curriculum director, Rayleen Hicks is the administrative assistant, and Ryan Schrenk, right, is the instructional program coordinator.

WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN MONTANAN SPRING 2011 I 25 classroom, there are certain standards,” Currie says. “It’s not going on homework in the car, or did to be the same communication that you would text to your friend it ahead of time to free herself up or use on Facebook. Learning what’s appropriate, learning how to for skiing. She’s had supportive be part of an online discussion for the first time, is challenging.” teachers, she says, and some sent One thing that helps students with online learning is MTDA’s her class notes. When it comes blending of education with gaming. In one Spanish class, for to class discussions, however, instance, students can create an avatar that navigates the course it’s easy for Lacey to miss out. Susan Quinn, associate through games, such as vocabulary challenges. As students succeed, This year she’s enrolled in an principal at C.M. Russell High School in they earn virtual money, which they can use for online shopping to Advanced Placement history Great Falls, says MTDA enhance their avatar. It helps spur some competitiveness that results class through MTDA that allows helps all different types in learning. her to engage in discussions with of students succeed “A student may be doing a drill in Spanish but it doesn’t feel other students on her own time, in school. She also quite like sitting there with flashcards,” says Currie. “We’ve had even when she’s competing on leaches a psychology kids in the past that start to have these rivalries about how cool the road. course in the program. their avatar is, or how much money they’ve made. That makes it “At school [AP history] is a fun experience and something different from what they’ve ever a really discussion-based class experienced before.” and you can’t really make up classroom discussions, so we Learning on the slopes replicate that through online During the winter, Darby Lacey’s typical day is unlike most kids’ discussion,” says Lacey. “If her age. The sixteen-year-old attends C .M . Russell High School in you’re not a motivated person, Great Falls, but often enough she’s out on the road competing in it doesn’t really work, but I like United States Ski and Snowboard Association or International Ski it because I don’t have to waste Federation races anywhere from Sun Valley in Idaho to Nakiska in time with a teacher disciplining Alberta, Canada. She’s skied since age two and a half and competed kids or kids who didn’t get the for the past eight years of her life. Each year during the snow homework done. It’s just me season, that can require several weeks’ worth of school absences. getting what I need to get done Even for a student who maintains a 4.0 when I want to get it done.” grade-point average, which Lacey does, it’s not easy to keep up. “It’s just “So far this semester—and we’re not even a quarter of the way done with me getting it— I’ve missed twelve days,” says Lacey. “We’re only supposed to miss ten, but as what I long as you keep your grades up, it’s O.K.” need to A typical day includes being on the slopes by six in the morning to do practice get done inspections of the ski runs, followed by a when I couple of competitions. The end of the day requires several ski waxings, dinner, and a want to recovery workout. “It gets stressful get it because with ski racing done.” you have so much to do,” Lacey says. “Some Different strokes nights I’m not done until One student at CMR was truant for two and a nine, and then I don’t half months. Susan Quinn, associate principal at have a lot of time for the high school, says it was a circular problem. homework.” His mother would drop him off at school, and he Until recendy, Lacey would take off. The school would call the mother, improvised. She worked but then it would happen all over again. There were problems at school, there were problems at MTDA allows CMR home, but even with truancy laws it wasn’t easy to student Darby Lacey to force the student to go to class. balance being a successful “We finally got ahold of him,” says Quinn. “I said to him, ‘What student and a top-notch is it about school that you don’t like?’ And he said, ‘I don’t like Alpine ski racer.

26 MONTANAN Teaching the teachers Roberta “Bobbie” Evans sees MTDA as a way to prepare the next generation of educators for the real world—which includes virtual environments. As dean of UM’s Phyllis J. Washington College of Education and Human Sciences, Evans is interested in all the cutting-edge tools that will put UM students at the head of the pack when it comes to getting jobs as teachers, counselors, and school administrators. “Teachers leave education programs with a broad repertoire of approaches to teaching,” Evans says. “They have to meet so many different learning styles and needs in individual students, and this experience with MTDA will give teachers a whole new portfolio of skills to share.” Evans says that education programs in Montana have invested heavily in online technology during the past eight years, and MTDA

“If you think about endeavor. ‘ It’s another the problems... approach for teachers when classroom leading to high environments aren’t quite cutting it, school dropout when students might anything.’ And so I asked him if I could remove all the going from rates, the Digital see dropping out as class to class and just have him at a computer learning, would he do the only option. that? And he said, ‘Yeah, I’d do that.’” Academy alone will “You can fill in as The typical online learner is often pegged as a gifted kid, Quinn address many of a student begins to says, a kid who already is motivated in school and just needs struggle or needs to another step up or, like Lacey, needs another option to facilitate an them for Montana.” repeat a class,” Evans already accelerated lifestyle. In this instance, however, MTDA serves says. “That’s part of as an alternative to someone who is academically capable but who that credit-recovery mission. If you think about the problems that dislikes all the other aspects of school enough to run away from are pretty complex leading to high school dropout rates, the Digital it. The student now sits for four hours a day with help from the Academy alone will address many of them for Montana.” high school media specialist, ear buds MTDA staff likely will offer pre-service teachers preparation in—learning. courses in online teaching by autumn. But UM isn’t the only “It’s such a nice story in that there potential beneficiary of MTDA when it comes to college-level are options,” says Quinn. “Some kids education studies. Currie says that because it’s a statewide program, recognize the drama that goes on in it should help all educators who are going out into the field. school, and they just don’t thrive on it. “Some of this is still pretty developmental, and naturally by our This kid was just really struggling, and location [at UM] those discussions go on regularly here,” he says. here he sits and does MTDA classes But there are a lot of professional development opportunities, and we every day.” would be willing to offer that kind of program to other teacher prep Educators like Quinn see online learning as vital for students schools in the state. I think that that’s going to really put university who need an alternative to classroom learning, especially in the graduates at an advantage if they have that skill in their toolbox.” context of being in a generation brought up on visual stimulation. Evans agrees, saying that advantage will only enhance the The Great Falls public schools have their own suite of online classes, positive effect on kids. Given a good teacher, she says, the forum of but those only cover classes that can be filled by local students. a statewide classroom can flourish. If one student in Great Falls wants to take Chinese, for instance, “When they teach across the state and augment the numbers it wouldn’t be economical to offer it. The statewide net cast by of students with these cross-pollinations, kids will make MTDA, however, can fill more obscure virtual classroom needs. connections, she says. It s great linkage. And a great teacher will The program also gives teachers a chance to diversify. In addition always foster great camaraderie—and now you’ve got that across to her duties as associate principal, Quinn, a former history teacher, the whole state. ’ Ul is now back teaching—as a psychology instructor for MTDA. We looked at Montana Digital Academy as another way to kind Erika Fredrickson is the arts editor at the Missoula of let online learning go viral,” she says. “It helps kids get a little bit Independent. She graduated from UM’s Creative of a taste for it so they know how it works and so they see they can Writing Program in 1999 and received a master’s be successful doing it.” degree in environmental studies in 2009.

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Joel Meier and his wife, Patti, have explored the world. So when it came time to decide where to leave their legacy, the couple chose the UM program dedicated to ensuring the future of outdoor recreation— Parks, Tourism and Recreation Management. Joel spent 24 years as a professor and associate dean in UM's College of Forestry and Conservation. The Meiers have included a provision in their wills to endow a faculty position that will be called the Patricia and Joel Meier Wildland Recreation Management Chair.

"Patti and I loved the University, as well as Missoula's geographic location and Montana's great outdoors," says Joel Meier. "Now Patti and I want to give back to the institution and a program that has meant so much to us."

Like the Meiers, you have the opportunity to shape the future by including a gift to UM in your will. Gifts through wills are easy, revocable and tax-smart. The Gift Planning Office at The University of Montana Foundation has developed a packet of materials to help you prepare your will. For your complimentary Will Kit, mail in the response form below, or call Theresa Boyer, director of gift planning, toll-free at 1- 800- 443- 2593.

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Alina Alvarez '9 9 Denver James Bartell '63 Kildeer, IL Brandon Byars '93 Portland, OR Craig Crawford '79 Darien, a Susan C. English '72 Missoula Alison Fuller '05 Son Francisco Scott Horsley'73 Scottsdale, A Z Barrett Kaiser '99 " & & f f p jC S t u a r t C o n n e r , J.D. '4 9 , Billings, has received the Montana Historical Billings Society's Outstanding Individual Achievement in Archaeology Award. The Karin Larson-Pollock '93 award, presented by Montana Lieutenant Governor John Bohlinger during a January ceremony Houston in Helena, recognizes Stu's dedication to recording and preserving archaeological artifacts and Ken Lawrence'63 San Antonio sites. "Amongst archaeologists in M ontana, Stu Conner is known as the guy in Billings who knows more about Montana rock art and other sites in the state than anyone else," MHS said in Allan Murphy '65 Bend. OR recognizing him. "'You should talk to Stu' is a common response to questions about the history Erin Rogge Niedge '05 of Montana archaeology." Stu was nominated for the award by the Montana State Historic M iles C ity Preservation Office. He has completed comprehensive surveys of more than 200 sites, written Mamie McMeel Prigge '73 dozens of papers and articles, and shared his expertise with many professional archaeologists and ethnologists. He also helped found the Montana Archaeological Society in 1958. Fresh out Gregory K. Stahl '82 Missoula of law school at UM, he spent four years tracking Communist Party members with the FBI, then Greg Sundberg '01, '03 was a special assistant to the New Hampshire attorney general before moving back to Montana Missoula in 1955. Growing up in Livingston, Stu had never heard of buffalo jumps, but learned about Paul Tuss '88 them as a young lawyer in Billings. "I had no idea there w as such a thing in the world," he Havre recently told the Billings Gazette, "and my reaction was—we've got to record them." He credits Patrick Weasel Head '71, M.Ed. '73 his background as a lawyer and FBI agent with giving him the skills to record archaeological M issoula . sites. He retired from the Crowley Law Firm in 1986 and now, at age eighty-six, says he has Pat Weber '73 enough archaeological projects to last him two lifetimes. Vordley, PA

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UM Senior Laura Jenkins travels the world to follow her passion. Her passion is chasing bats. Last summer, the wildlife biology major chased them in the Philippines. "This trip was one of the most meaningful things I've done at UM," she says. "I got to see lots of different cultures and how all the wildlife information I'm learning applies to the lives of people around the world."

Laura, a student in the Davidson Honors College, presented her research on the impact of illegal bat hunting at conferences in Missoula and Jackson Hole, Wyo. When the Massachusetts native graduates she plans another summer of travel and, yes, bat chasing through the Pacific Islands.

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U N IVE RSITY O f MO N T A N A F O U N d / a T I O N a b o u t a lu m n i UM graduates and had an stories and events from impromptu Griz Nation his life. Dennis gave get-together. “They—of copies to his children and course—recognized the grandchildren. His first shirt,” Dick writes. “They book was Rebels, Saints were traveling the world and Sinners: An Ancestral before serious life begins. History o f the Southern One of the couples got United States. engaged two days before.” DENNIS TATE ’58, DICK SPALDING ’55, Missoula, recently '6 0 s Billings, was on a beach completed his second AMY LORTIN LEIF BART ERICKSON '64, J.D. '67, and book, The Good Times ABERCROMBIE in Krabi, Thailand, when ’62, CAROLE HEDLUND ERICKSON '68, Whitefish, he ran into four recent Book, a compilation of New Marshfield, were crowned king and queen of the Ohio, published her Whitefish Winter Carnival. As King Ullr Lll grandmothers novel, The Other House, and and Queen of the Snows, Bart and Carole produced an independent, presided over festivities, including the grand full-length movie of the parade on February 5. The couple met at UM story, which is set in New and have been married since 1967. Hampshire in 1885. Amy’s grandmother, it was as far away from which was a fun-filled Rebecca Hooper Eastman, my hometown of Hardin ride with the cars over­ died in 1937. One as I could get without flowing with wall-to-wall reviewer called the tale “an paying out-of-state students. The mountain absorbing family drama... tuition,” LaBar said passes were often treach­ in the tradition of Jane during her acceptance erous, Bozeman and Austen.” Visit www. speech. “This distance Pipestone on one route theotherhousemovie.com. made it certain that I and MacDonald Pass on GARY SMITH ’62, could only return home the other. But all those Kalispell, was inducted for major holidays. Often conditions worked well in into the Whitefish in the winter, we would encouraging students to High School Hall of LAWRENCE K. PETTIT take the train between become a part of campus Fame. Gary earned all­ *59, Helena, published Billings and Missoula, life here in Missoula. And conference honors twice a memoir, I f You Live by to be a part, one had to during three seasons with the Sword: Politics in the be involved. This involve­ the Montana Grizzlies Making and Unmaking ment remained with us football team. o f a University President. | throughout our lives.” THOMAS D. CROCI ’65, Pittsburgh Magazine says the book is compelling LARRY ANDERSON Mill Neck, N.Y., received and “reads like [a] tragicomic novel.” Born in ’67, Missoula, recently the 2011 Outstanding Lewistown, Larry became a professor, political retired as northwest Service Award from insider, and top administrator at institutions in Montana field director Adelphi University in New the Montana University System and Indiana for U.S. Representative York in April. Tom is vice University of Pennsylvania. Larry started out in Denny Rehberg. Larry president and treasurer politics as ASUM president during 1958-59, then is a former Missoula of the Christopher D. was a political science professor at Montana State city administrator, city Smithers Foundation. University in 1972 when he left to manage the councilman, and county DONALEE BEARY LABAR successful gubernatorial campaign of Thomas L. commissioner. Judge. The two-term governor endorsed Larry as ’65, Missoula, received Montanas first commissioner of higher education, the UMAA Montana Did you lose a class ring r where he served an often-controversial five and Alumni Award during the Oregon resident Margie Warkentin and her a half years. He then worked as a university Charter Day ceremony president or chancellor in four states, retiring Feb. 17 in the University husband were walking on the beach at tincolnl Center Ballroom. Charter from IUP in 2003 amid yet more controversies. ity years ago when they found a treasure—a Larry addresses them head-on in his memoir of Day marks the day in man s class ring with the words ■■Montana State 1893 that the University dual careers in politics and higher education. University,0 UM's name from 1935 to 1965. The was chartered by the Missoulian state bureau reporter Chuck Johnson size 13 ring is gold with a red stone. If you think L says the book provides “interesting insights into Montana Legislature. “Fifty years ago, I chose the ring may belong to you—or perhaps a parent] this states modern progressive era in the 1970s or other family member—call Margie with the class and its politics and higher education.” Visit www. to go to The University of lawrencekpettit.com. Montana, then Montana year to identify it. Her number is 541-480-3832. State University, because Thanks, AAorgiel

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3 6 I SPRING 2011 MONTANAN a b o u t a lu m n i ROGER BERGSTROM develop native plants for MONTE DOLACK 7 4 , PHILIP A . MAY, Ph.D. Autism. The book is a ’67 retired after thirty- conservation practices in Missoula, had twenty- 76, Albuquerque, N.M., deeply personal narrative four years in law Montana and Wyoming. four fine art posters delivered the University about the struggles and enforcement—twelve He also consulted on displayed in The A rt o f of New Mexico’s 56th triumphs Mark and with the U.S. Forest native seed collection, Annual Research Lecture, his wife, LESLIE GILDEN Service and twenty-two plant evaluation, and seed one of the highest faculty ’81, have faced raising with the Whitefish Police production in northern honors. Philip has been their severely autistic Department. China and Mongolia. a professor of sociology son, Cameron. Temple Visit his website at www. at UNM for thirty-three Grandin endorsed the nativeadvice.com. years. His lecture was book, saying, “It should KATHLEEN TOFTELY titled “Adventures in be read by psychologists, FARMER 71, Imperial, Public Health Research: family therapists, and Calif., has retired as chief Four Decades of Shoe- others who are helping financial officer of El Trees: A Forest Gallery, a Leather Epidemiology Centro Regional Medical United Nations exhibit and Prevention.” Center after twenty-four in Geneva, Switzerland. CAROLYN RIEHL MIRICH years of service. Kathy The exhibit at the Palais 77, Missoula, and her husband, Jerry, des Nations celebrated the spearheaded a drive recendy purchased a International Year of the to save the old asylum RODGER YOUNG ’68, - home in Chandler, Ariz., Forests. cemetery at the state Southfield, Mich., was and have been taking golf EDWARD FLOOD 7 4 , hospital in Sparks, named to “Best Lawyers lessons. Toronto, Ontario, is the Nev. Due to the efforts in America 2010” DEREK CRAIGHEAD new chairman of Byron of Carolyn and other and “Chambers USA: 72, M.S. ’80, and Capital Markets. Ed has preservationists, the 2009 Americas Leading Lawyers his wife, Sophie, were spent thirty-five years Nevada Legislature passed families to cope.” Mark for Business 2010.” recognized as Outstanding in investment banking, a bill designating the is an English professor President George W. Bush Conservationists of the most recently as chairman cemetery as historic and at Loyola University appointed Rodger to serve Year by the Jackson Hole of Western Uranium preventing its destruction. Maryland. as U.S. representative Conservation Alliance for Corporation. A monument erected JOHN HERRUN 7 9 , to the United Nations their lifetime commitment JEFF HAGENER 7 6 , in January marks the Mendham, N.J., is the General Assembly. to conservation. Derek Helena, has joined Northern Nevada Adult new head of U.S. oil is the founder, president, the Montana Wildlife Mental Health Services and gas equity research and executive director of Federation as director Cemetery. for Societe Generale '7 0 s Craighead Beringia South, of development. He MARK OSTEEN 7 7 , Corporate & Investment MARK MAJERUS 70, a research and advocacy previously was director of M.A. ’82, Baltimore, Banking in New York M.S. 72, Bridger, has organization for Wyoming the state Department of published a memoir, One City. He previously published Forage and wildlife. Fish, Wildlife and Parks. o f Us: A Family’s Life with worked for Alpha One Reclamation Grasses o f Capital Partners and the Northern Great Plains Merrill Lynch, where he and Rocky Mountains, was Institutional Investor Magazines top-ranked oil and gas analyst for six years. '8 0 s DAN BOUCHER ’80, J.D. ’84, is the new district judge in Havre. He was appointed to the position by Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer. WILLIAM MCGLYNN native and introduced ’80, M.B.A. ’81, Boise, j grass species in the Idaho, was a speaker for COLLEEN L MCGUIRE 79 accepted her 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award region. Mark recently the Harold and Priscilla at a private ceremony in Washington, D.C., in December. Among those in I retired from thirty-two Gilkey Executive Lecture attendance were 2005 DAA recipient James Grady 72, left, and UM President I years of service at the Series at UM’s School of Royce Engstrom, right. Colleen is the first Montana woman to achieve the j U.S. Department of Business Administration rank of brigadier general and the first woman ever to become provost marshal ! Agricultures Natural in November. Bill’s general of the U.S. Army and commanding general of the Army Criminal | Resources Conservation lecture was titled Investigation Command. j Service, where he helped “Technology and Market

WWW.UMT.EDU/AAONIANAN MONTANAN SPRING 2011 I 37 a b o u t a lu m n i Disruptions: A UM DOUG DECKER ’85, leadership, DURA has near Lake Patagonia and Graduates Experiences Portland, Ore., is the new managed to take the most on fifty wild acres in the on the Bleeding Edge state forester with the difficult projects under the foothills of the Chiricahua of Technology.” After Oregon Department of most difficult economic Mountains. Vince offers twenty-four years as Forestry. He began with circumstances and find UM alumni a ten percent a senior executive at the agency in 1987 as a a way to make them discount on all Ravens- Hewlett-Packard, he now public affairs specialist happen.” Way programs. Visit www. is CEO of Memjet. and most recendy was JAMES DILLON ’86 is a ravensnatureschool.com. ; MARY HUFFMAN ’81, acting chief of the state managing partner with NICHOLE MORTENSON Lyons, Colo., recendy forests division. The state Dillon-Umbaugh Wealth GOODYEAR ’88, San completed a doctorate in forester serves as director Management in Plymouth, Diego, is founder and forest sciences at Colorado for the department, whose Ind. Jim lives in Granger, CEO of the 2005 startup Income Security Act. State University. Marys services include managing Ind., with his wife, Laurie Brickfish, which has thirty KEVIN MCRAE ’88, dissertation was tided forests, fighting wildfires, Diane, and son, Matt. employees and sales offices Helena, is the associate “Community-Based and enforcing natural VINCENT PINTO ’86 is in Los Angeles, Seatde, commissioner of Fire Management in resource laws. a professional naturalist San Francisco, New York, higher education for La Sepultura Biosphere TRACY WILSON HUGGINS and outdoor educator in Chicago, and Adanta. communications and Reserve, Chiapas, Mexico.” ’85 was named the 2010 southeastern Arizona. In Brickfish is a technology resources in the Montana She works for the Nature Woman of Influence by 1993, he formed his own platform that powers University System. Conservancy’s North Commercial Real Estate outdoor environmental social media for Fortune Kevin is married to BETH American Fire Team. Women Denver. Tracy is school, Ravens-Way Wild 1000 companies and MCLAUGHLIN ’90, who is TRACY TURBAK ’82 is the executive director of the Journeys. Vince and his their marketing agencies. director of court services new director of finance for Denver Urban Renewal wife, Claudia, lead nature Nichole and Brickfish for the Montana Supreme the city of Sioux Falls, S.D. Authority. adventures were finalists in three Court and state judicial PATRICIA CONNER ’84 is In selecting and teach categories of the 2010 branch. They have two the new director of the her from Earth Stevie Awards for Women daughters, Clara and Utah Health Insurance sixteen stewardship in Business. Eliza. Exchange. She previously award and JELEEN FISH GUTTENBERG ERIC TROYER ’88, worked for Ceridian nominees wilderness ’88, Seattle, has joined the Fairbanks, Alaska, was Corporation in South and four survival skills law firm of Bracewell & described in a recent Jordan, Utah, where finalists, to all ages. Giuliani. Her practice is newspaper article as she was an account CREW Ravens-Way focused on applying the “Fairbanks’ staunchest executive and senior Denver is based on fiduciary responsibility trail advocate.” He is vice manager of the Health said, a forty-two- provisions and prohibited president of the Interior and Welfare Relationship “Under acre nature transaction rules of the Trails Preservation Management team. Tracy’s sanctuary Employee Retirement Coalition and has worked

MICHAEL CLARY 87 was part of the officiating crew at the Conference, an FCS powerhouse that features teams such as Football Championship Subdivision championship game in Appalachian State, Georgia Southern, and Wofford. Michael Frisco, Texas, on January 7. He was the field judge on Eastern says once the title game started, it was just like any other Washington University's sideline during the Eagles' 20-19 television game. But what set it apart were all of the events come-from-behind victory over the University of Delaware. "I leading up to kickoff. "For example. Vice President Joe Biden was very excited and honored to work that game," the Ronan was there," Michael says, "so we had bomb-sniffing dogs going > native says. "It's the best you can do at this level. And no through our locker room." Michael says he "lives and dies" for college official can do it by themselves. I've got a lot of people the Griz and calls his father in Ronan to check the scores right who support me, especially my wife, Laura, and daughter, after he's done officiating games on fall Saturdays. He doesn't Rhiannon." Michael, a director at the Federal Reserve Bank in get to see the Griz play often, but plans to be in Knoxville, Atlanta, works about twelve games per season for the Southern Tenn., when the Griz battle the Vols to open the 2011 season.

38 I SPRING 2011 MONTANAN a b o u t a l u m n i | to make the Equinox Custer National Forest in Marathon Trail safer. Billings. For wore details, call the Office o f He also is editor of the DAVE HAYS ’92, Fort Jones, ALUMNI EVENTS 2011 Alumni Relations, 877-UM-ALUMS, Alaska Trails newsletter Calif., recendy transferred or visit www.GrizAlum.com. and Interior Trails from the Bureau of Land Quarterly. Management to the U.S. 2 Inauguration of UM President Royce Engstrom. Installation JENNIFER ERIS YOUNG Forest Service, accepting ceremony, luncheon, guest speakers, www.umt.edu/president ’88 has worked for the a job as district ranger 5 Senior Send-Off Kalispell Parks and of the Klamath National 12-14 Commencement reunions, classes of 1941, 1951, 1961 Recreation Department Forest. He can be reached 20 Pordand event: Meet the new president of The University for twenty-one at fishin_dave_h@yahoo. of Montana years. As recreation com. superintendent, she KELU CRINER SANDERS 1 0 - 2 3 International Travel: Passage to the Norwegian Fjords, cruise organizes the Picnic in ’92 and MEUSSA ALDER from London to Copenhagen the Park summer concert series, childrens sports 21 Seventh annual UM Alumni Night with the Missoula Osprey activities, and an after- school program. Jennifer 2 5 Homecoming 2011 (Sept. 25-Oct. 1) and her husband, Steve 2 5 Homecoming kickoff celebration, 1-3 p.m., Southgate Mall Berglund, and their - 2 8 UM dorm and office decorating contests, 2:30 p.m. children live in Kalispell. 2 9 House of Delegates annual meeting, all day | NANCY SKINNER 89 was ’93 became business Homecoming buffet dinner, 5 p.m., Food Zoo named superintendent partners after meeting 3 0 Davidson Honors College all-class reunion, all day of Fossil Butte National as freshmen at UM. 3 0 Class of 1971 reunion luncheon, 11 a.m. Monument near According to their House of Delegates breakfast and wrap-up, 8 a.m., Holiday Inn Kemmerer, Wyo. An website, “On the first Downtown at the Park employee with the day, Kelli peeked her Hello Walk, 1 p.m. National Park Service, head into Melissa’s room UM department open houses and receptions, 2-5:30 p.m. Nancy previously was and introduced herself. Distinguished Alumni Awards ceremony and reception, 6 p.m. superintendent of Navajo They became instant Pep Rally, 8 p.m. National Monument in friends and have been All-Alumni Social and Dance Arizona. inseparable ever since.” The duo decided to 1 Homecoming Hustle— 5K Race, 9:45 a.m., Higgins and become business majors, Broadway '9 0 s then opened an outdoor Homecoming Parade, 10 a.m., Higgins and University DAVID MARSHALL gear store together in Homecoming TV Tailgate, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.. East Auxiliary ’90, Belle Haven, Va., 1996. Freeheel & Wheel Gym, Adams Center published a book, The in West Yellowstone Montana Grizzlies vs. University of Northern Colorado Bears, Clam Hunter, about sells, rents, and tunes 1:05 p.m., Washington-Grizzly Stadium the art of clamming skis and bikes. The shop Honors Student Association Fall Ball, 9 p.m., University and the challenges of also sells clothing and Center Ballroom making a living on the features a coffee bar. Visit 2 - 1 5 International Travel: Mediterranean Pearls, cruise from Venice water. The book has them online at www. to Istanbul been described as a freeheelandwheel.com. combination of memoir, EDWARD TINSLEY ’92, 4 - 5 UM military reunion and Grateful Nation Memorial unveiling nature lesson, philosophy, M.P.A. ’07, Helena, is (in conjunction with UM Athletics’ Military Appreciation Day) and appreciation of the director of Montana Eastern shore. David Disaster and Emergency the agency,” Joe told the Montana. He previously and MIKE TREVATHAN sees the clam as “an Services in the Montana Billings Gazette. “This is was the company’s chief ’99, Thousand Oaks, I ambassador to the isolated Department of Military a great forest and a great operating officer. Calif., were inducted into I and yet disappearing Affairs. Ed served as a place to live and raise my JOANNE PUCCINELLI, the Canadian Football I world of the tidal salt Lewis and Clark County family.” M.Ed. ’95, Lolo, League’s British Columbia marsh.” commissioner from 2002 NANCY STOUFFER published a children’s Lions Hall of Fame. Matt THOMAS WHITFORD to 2008 and as sergeant- BANISTER ’94 is the book. Naughty and Mike were 86, M.S. ’91, Republic, at-arms in the 61st new sports reporter at Nello and the Grizzly receivers I wash., is the new Montana Legislature. the Kemmerer (Wyo.) Sausages, about for UM during district ranger for the JOSEPH ALEXANDER Gazette. a boy who 1987-90. | Republic District of the ’93, Cody, Wyo., is the MIKE FRANK, J.D. ’95, learns about BRADLEY ! Colville National Forest. new supervisor for the Helena, is the new his Italian FOGO ’96, ! Tom has been with Shoshone National Forest president and chief heritage. 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Tom says he owes it all to UM and the support he received as a Presidential Scholar. Now, he and his wife, Donde, give back each year as members of the President's Club, which honors those who give $1,000 or more in a year. Members receive invitations to special events and other exclusive b en efits.

Join Tom and Donde in taking your support of UM to the next level by joining the President's Club. Learn m o re a t www.SupportUM.org or contact Lauren Clark, director of annual giving, at 800-443-2593 o r [email protected] .

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Photo by Inspire Portrait A D esign a b o u t a lu m n i International Outstanding recently moved to Manila, DAVID D. CARLSON JOSH COREY, M.A. and editor at the Helena Doctoral Dissertation Philippines, to start Flex ’98, Boise, Idaho, M.F.A. ’99, Evanston, Independent Record. He Award. Bradley is a Point Outsourcing, a started Think Green, 111., won the 2010 Dorset previously was with the postdoctoral fellow in company that assists Inc., a lawn sprinkler Prize from Tupelo Press for Idaho Statesman in Boise, Stanford University’s small businesses and installation company, in his third book of poetry, Idaho, for eight years. Teacher Education entrepreneurs in the 1990 after his business Severance Songs. Josh is Program. His dissertation, United States and plan won first place the Gustav E. Beerly Jr. “What Every Student Canada. A business in a UM competition. Assistant Professor of 'OO Should Know and Be Able process outsourcing After twenty-one years English at Lake Forest JO A N MATTELIN GARRETT to Do: The Making of center, Flex Point handles in business, David’s College in Illinois. ’00, M.Ed. ’08, married California’s Framework, back-ofFice tasks such as company has grown into JOE HARLAN, M.S. ’99, is Matt Garrett of Little Standards, and Tests for customer service, online a diversified landscape the new dean of physical Rock, Ark., on September History-Social Science,” order management, and design and construction education and athletic 11, 2010, at University will be published in the graphic design. Business firm with twelve director at Rio Hondo Congregational Church May issue of Kappan graduates Paul and Evelyn employees. College in Whittier, Calif. in Missoula. Joan teaches magazine. The award from provide their employees JUSTIN DEAN ’98, Taos, He previously was athletic kindergarten at Woodman the PDK Educational with above-average wages N.M., co-released a live director at the University Foundation includes a and extensive training. music CD, The High of Wisconsin-Stout. $5,000 cash prize. Their daughter, Rachel, Desert Acoustic Duo. HEATHER HOOKS OHS ’99, PAUL GALASSO ’97 and' will start school at UM in The album is a mix of Billings, is state manager EVELYN GALASSO 96 September. traditional bluegrass, old- of Montana’s new Make- time, Eastern European, A-Wish Foundation and Celtic tunes, with office. Heather joined the original lyrics by Justin. foundation after working Another song he wrote, with the National Multiple “Small Japanese Truck,” Sclerosis Society for eight from his 2008 solo years. The Make-A-Wish album, was picked up by Foundation is a nonprofit National Public Radio’s organization that grants Car Talk show. When not wishes to children with making music, he works life-threatening medical as a wilderness ranger conditions. Heather for the Bureau of Land says this is the first time Management. Montana has had its own JENNIFER HENSLEY Make-A-Wish office. ’98, Helena, has been “We are excited to start Elementary School near appointed commissioner spreading more magic in Lolo. The couple were of political practices for the Treasure State,” she introduced by Joans NEW LIFETIME MEMBERS the state of Montana. says. “We encourage others college roommate and The fallowing alumni andfriends have made a IAN MCCLUSKEY, M.S. to join us in fulfilling eagerly await the start of I commitment to the future o f the UM Alumni Association ’98, Portland, Ore., is our mission by referring Arkansas Razorbacks and \ by becoming lifetime members. You can join them by executive director of a child or donating Montana Grizzlies football. | calling 877-862-5867 or by visiting our website: www. NW Documentary, your time, talents, and HILARY HUTCHESON GrizAlum.com. The Alumni Association thanks them far an organization he resources.” Visit www. ’00, Columbia Falls, is their support. This list includes all new lifetime members founded in 2003 to mon tana, wish. org. co-host of a new regional through March 7, 2011. help people make their BENJAMIN ROMANS fly-fishing show, Trout DOUGLAS AIDE 70, Glasgow own documentary films. ’99, Boise, Idaho, has TV, which airs on more UNDA S. ALUE 70, Glasgow NW Documentary’s published Montana’s Best than thirty-five broadcast ANNE TAYLOR ARRINGTON, M.S. W ’09, Missoula efforts have collected Fly Fishing, a 283-page channels in the West, BETH MARSHALL CHRISTOPHER ’93, Broomfield, CO seven regional Emmys. illustrated guidebook including Montana CBS KELLY A. CONNOLE 91, Northfield, M N A former producer to boat launches, access affiliates. 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IN MEMORIAM w il l ia m O . COFFEE 56, Missoula To be included in “In Memoriam, * the UM Office o f Alumni Relations requires a newspaper ESTELLE MARIE STEVENS HUEY, M.Ed. 56, obituary or a letter o f notification from the immediate family. We extend sympathy to the Tonganoxie, KS families o f the following alumni, faculty, andfriends. Names without class or degree years PATRICIA ANDERSON STANCHFIELD 56, include U M alumni, employees, and friends. Missoula ' I ROBERT VERN CARRUTHERS 57, Montrose, CO Material on this page reached our office by March 3,2011. JAMES R. HOWETH 57, Helena SHEILA MARIE SULLIVAN 57, Helena ' 3 0 s St. Maries, ID ANTHONY M. BROWN, Ph.D. 58, Butte GEORGE E. M ARKIN ’32, Helena JOHN "JACK" EDWARD DARHAM 49, Rapid City, S.D. THOMAS PATRICK DOOHAN SR. 58, M.Ed 71, j RUSSELL D. KINNEY 33, Missoula Nine M ile Falls, WA LEWIS GOMAVITZ 35, Camarillo, CA ROBERT D. HAYTON 49, Danbury, CT JOSEPH SAMUEL GASSER JR. 58, Avondale, A Z j EMMA L VAN DEUSEN BARKHOFF 37, > PENNY "RUTH MARY" MCMANUS MOORE 49, Helena SHIRLEY ANN FORSNESS JO H N SON 58, Edmonds, WA M .Ed 74, Great Falls HORACE EVAN JONES 38, Tualatin, OR ROBERT BARTON MURRAY 58, Billing j BENJAMIN E. BERG JR. 38, J.D. '41, Bozeman ' 5 0 s PATRICK JOHN CONROY, M.Ed. 59, Judith Gap LLOYD "CRIP" G. CRIPPEN 39, Butte RICHARD L CARTER 50, M.S. 51, Frenchtown JAMES D. CREELMAN 59, M.B.A. '60, Bigfork MILDRED JANES CROMWELL MORRELL 39, HERBERT L COLLINS 50, Butte BILL G. HAND SR. 59, Bullhead City AZ Missoula JOHN A. FRANKOVICH 50, J.D. 55, Tucson, LESLIE HAMILTON PETERS 39, Boise, ID AZ ' 6 0 s MARY KATHERINE MEE VOGET 39, Portland, OR ALBERT J. GALEN 50, J.D. 52, Covina, CA WILLIAM LARRY HOGAN 50, Billing HOWARD JO H N BEAR '60, Montgomery, AL ANN L KELSO CULBERTSON '60, Bellingham, \ ' 4 0 s ALETA HANSEN HUSTED,/.£>. 50, Stockton, CA WA ERNEST RUBEN BOYER 40, Auburn, WA ARTHUR FRANCIS SMITH 50, Orem, U T RUTH E. DAVIS '60, Kalispell JOSEPH W. CLEMOW 40, Athens, GA RUDY TRAMELU 50, Great Falls EDWARD KENDALL "KEN" KUHR 60, Chinook CLARENCE PERRY GRAHAM '40, JOHN W. BRADFORD 51, Red Lodge and Billing West Palm Beach, FL SHERMAN THOMAS DARLAND 51, J.D. 52, FRED MUMBOWER '60, Columbia Falls RAYMOND LEO HOWERTON '40, Portland, OR Plentywood RAYMOND LEE KAMRATH '61, Easton, M D ANNABEL VANCLEVE OLSEN ’40, Helena NOEL D. FURLONG 51, M.Ed. '64, Kalispell GERALDINE R. HAINES MACLAY '61, Perris, CA DOROTHY C. PARSONS RIND 40, Torrance, CA HAROLD HUBERT HERBIG 51, Missoula BRUCE WARREN NEWGARD 61, Silverdale, WA NORMA N. WHEATLEY BATHURST '41, LOWELL L MAYFIELD 51, Monrovia, CA GERALD V. PARKER '61, Seeley Lake Bismarck, ND JO H N M. SCAUSE 51, Portland OR LOUISE A. JOH N SON ROSS '62, Missoula DERALD D. DOKTER '41, Bradenton, FL MARGIE J. HUGHES WILKINS 51, Lewistown CHARLES KIRK BULS '63, Missoula SIDNEY L GROFF 41, M.A. 54, Butte MARILYN ANN ALGUIRE BROWN 52, Billing MARGARET K. MURPHY JERRIM '63, M.Ed. W. STANTON HALVERSON 41, Thayne, W Y BONNIE M. ALBRIGHT HAYTON 52, 76, Missoula EDGAR DWIGHT MILLEGAN 4 1 , Danbury, CT HAROLD "HAL" J. FRASER JR. '64, Missoula Santa Barbara, CA VERNON K. JO H N SON 52, Bozeman JOHN RAY GORDON ’64, J.D. '67, Missoula JOSEPH HARRIS 42, Butte EARL DEWEY SANDVIG JR. 52, Missoula ELLEN A. THORWARDSON VANDENBURGH ’64, EILEEN SULLIVAN CO M BO 44, Boise, ID MARGARET M. WALSH, M .Ed 52, Great Falls Fullerton, CA ENNOLA CAMPBELL BAGGENSTOSS 45, MARGARET O'LEARY WOLPERT 52, Anaconda GARY EKEGREN '65, M .Ed 74, Missoula Choteau MARION "BILLIE" THOMPSON ARNDT 53, ROBERT L LAMBERSON, M .Ed '65, White JOHN "JACK" R. HALSETH 46, Great Falls Manteca, CA Sulphur Spring EUGENE LEE PITTS 46, Dixon RAYMOND CHARLES FELDT 53, Albuquerque, HOWARD ROY PIRCH 65, Aurora, CO JO H N " J R " RUSSELL CALFEE 47, NM DOUGLAS ALAN BUCKINGHAM ’66, Billing Desert Hot Spring, CA ROBERT WALDO SHERMAN 53, Walla Walla, JOHN B. JUNGERS 66, Seeley Lake JOHN LEE DELANO '47, Helena WA THOMAS RONEY WHIDDON JR. '68, M.Ed. DAVID L JONES 48, Helena DONALD GENE SMADING 53, M.Ed. 57, Cumming, GA 75, Turah RAYMOND DONALD RYAN 48, J.D. 70, Big Sky PATRICIA M. WOODCOCK BERGSING 54, ROGER RAY REICHMAN 69, Sedan VIRGINIA "HONEY" PEARSON ASHER 49, San Carlos, CA Eugene, OR FRED L LEHMAN 54, Missoula ' 7 0 s DALE BLACKLER 49, Missoula JOHN "GUS" NASH 54, M.S. 58, Missoula PATRICIA JEAN CYR 70, Missoula DUANE E. COLLI SO N 49, Great Falls SHEIUA JEAN LOWNEY RIPKE 54, MA. 58, JO H N R. GILBERT 70, Great Falls MYRTLE HAMMELL CO X 49, Santa Rosa, CA Chico SUSAN HONEYCHURCH MORHOUSE 70, GARDNER CROMWELL 49, J.D. 50, WALTER "PAT" WARREN EYER 55, Ticonderoga, N Y

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WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN M O N TAN AN SPRING 2011 I 51 BY BETSY HOLMQUIST University Avenue, directly across from the such as horseradish, celery salt, dill, Tabasco sauce, lemon ^B D elta Gamma house and the former site of the juice, and Worcestershire were adjusted and voted in or out, Phi Delta Theta house, sits a home with white depending on the crew’s taste tests. columns knd bright green trim. It was known as the Blue “The only real secret,” Sharee says, “was to make it all Parrot Tea Room in the 1920s and later as Kays Dress. up the dayfbefore, and let those flavors marry.” The Marys Shop, but for the last quarter-century, it was the home of married all night on the Frasers’ deck. Missoula’s Best Homecoming Bloody Mary Party. The price was right, too. Only tips were accepted, which For helped cover expenses and paid the Phi Delt and Alpha Phi bartenders hired in later years. (Hal and his son Jason were A PARTY TO Phi Delts, daughter Kate an Alpha Phi.) The Fraser kids University \ helped up the tip ante, too, offering special garnishes such Avenue, as asparagus spears or artichoke hearts at the tables they j REMEMBER home of .helped staff. UM alums Hal ’64 and Sharee Reardon Fraser ’65, was the I Fromj politicians to mascots to bagpipers— everyone spot to enjoy the parade and renew one’s connections to seemed tb drop by, upward of four hundred in thejast years. UM. Each yea? without fail, the Frasers and their diligent, “We never had any trouble,” Sharee confirms. “We had sworn-to-secrecy crew brewed up to forty-five gallons of soft drinks, water,rand chips—-something for everyone”. Bloody Marys to share .with whomever dropped by. Longtime friend Donna Manley Olsort ’65 recalls the “See you at the Frasfers’” was frequendy overheard in the i group heckling Hal as he directed the parade traffic and hours leading up to the Homecoming Parade, while “great the crowds. Hal was the official volunteer parade disburser Bloody Marys this year” was the annual affirmation on the at the corner of University and Helen avenues for many lawn itself,'at tailgates, and even during postgame festivities. years—not an easy task.: O n Fridays before the parade, the crew (California “It was especially fun to watch his big grin when he alums “Elly” Ellison ’66 and Maureen and Diflc Ford directed the Alumni Band straight down University Avenue, [64—rwho had permanent reservations in the Frasers’ front 1 in front of his house,” Donna says. “We would all yell and bedroom; Montanans Carla Boettcher ’66, * applaud them. Wefhave.the Frasers t& thank for keeping Lynn Sparks Keeley ’64, and Sally Fraser many of us in clofe contact for twenty-five years.” | Moskol ’60; and the Fraser kids: Jason Originated when Sharee’s mother, Kay Thrailkili- Reardon ’95, Kate ’97, and Joe ’85) gathered at 36—-with a Bloody Mary in hand—took to waiting for her ' the home to mix the concoction. From f granddaughter Kate to march by in the famous Red Wave, . -filling just a single pitcher in the earliest the Frasers grew a tradition aS large as their hearts. years of the party to the whopping nine | The last party was held ini 2058. five-gallon paint buckets fr the latter ! “It was time for it to end,” Sharee says. “It had gotten so .years, the crew dutifully prepared the big. And we were getting older.” tomato and Clamato juice and vodka The memories, however, will live on. mix. One bucket was kept virgin— “the “It was the location,” Dick Ford says about why the only thing we ever hadjeft over,” parties were so popular. “And the people. Our era of people. Dick Ford laughs. Other ingredients It was really special;” Hal Fraser passed away January 10, 2011. t t Counterclockwise from upper left; Left to right: Kate Fraser her parents, Hal and Sharee Siblings Joe, Kate, and Jason Fraser with Benny the Bull, a.k.a. Monte, a.k.a. Barry Anderson Mac Fraser '62, U.S. Senator Max Caucus, and Sharee Fraser The brewing crew on Frasers' deck, left to right: Sharee Fraser, Hal Fraser, Carla Boettcher, "Elly" Ellison, and Maureen Ford.

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