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T H E MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA S P R IN G ’89 ALUMNI AS SOCIATION

May 19-21, 1989 Alumni College at Flathead Lake Lodge June 8-10, 1989 50-& 60-Year Reunions 1929 & 1939 Classes Commencement Reunion

October 5-7 1989 Homecoming 1989 Honoring the 1970s Decade 1963 & 1979 Class Reunions All-Alumni Band Reunion School of Journalism 75th Anniversary Celebration

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Spring 1989 Montanan Volume 6, Number 2 Montanan—The University of Departments Montana magazine is published three times a year by the University of Montana for its 2 Letters alumni and friends. Publisher 3 Around the Oval University of Montana 26 Classnotes Director of University Information Mary Grove Features Editor Virginia Vickers Braun 10 Partners for a century Contributing Writers By Sheila MacDonald Stearns Janice Downey Page 10 Carol Susan Woodruff In the words o f UM ’s second president, “As Montana develops, so does Photographer its University.” After nearly a century, the partnership between UM and Howard Skaggs Montana is still an indispensable one. Editorial Offices Office of News and Publications 11 UM ’s 24th Sears intern: learning the ropes in D.C. 303 Main Hall By Carol Susan Woodruff University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812 Marlene Mehlhaff o f Billings is one of twenty-five journalism students (406) 243-2522 nationwide to be awarded a three-month Congressional internship. She is Alumni Office currently in Washington, D.C., working on the staff o f Democratic Rep. Bill Johnston ’79 Director Albert G. Bustamante o f Texas. Missoula, MT 59812-1313 (406) 243-5211 12 Writers’ workshop draws rave reviews UN Alumni Association By Janice Downey Directors Page 12 An idea whose time has come—a writers’ workshop sponsored by Donna K. Davis ’74, ’78 President UM—has surfaced at Flathead Lake. Last summer, the program, which Billings has strong ties to UM ’s Creative Writing Program, attracted fifty-five Sharon Northridge Leonard ’64 students and featured nationally renowned authors. Past-President Spokane 14 New professors add prestige to UM ’s faculty Dean Hellinger ’56 By Kate Ripley President-Elect Shelby The University continues to attract outstanding faculty members. Kate Jane Reed Benson ’64, ’78 Ripley, a senior journalism major, profiles four new professors and their Helena reasons for choosing UM. Bill Beaman ’67, ’72 Helena 18 Up, up and away! Homecoming ’88 ! Larry Epstein ’71, ’76 Last fall’s Homecoming included home economics and fine arts Cutbank Page 14 reunions and an alumni art show, along with the traditional Steve Harrington ’70 Missoula awards, parade and football game, which the Grizzlies won Bill Kearns ’61 33-26 over Northern Arizona. Townsend 20 Blazing a trail across the state: UM ambassadors spread Dorothy Pemberton Laird ’63 Whitefish good will in eastern Montana Brian Lilletvedt ’75, ’78 By Charles E. Hood Havre Last September a group o f UM faculty, administrators and staff took a Sally Shiner Lehrkind ’62 four-day trip to eastern Montana in an effort to strengthen ties to that Bozeman Tom McElwain ’68 part o f the state. Journalism Dean Charles Hood recalls the trip, Butte including a visit to his hometown, Miles City. Debby Doyle McWhinney ’77 Tiburon, Calif. 22 T h a t’s how it was: football, Grizzlies style, in ’88 By Don Read Patricia Walter Moline ’53 Page 19 Glendive Coach Read reviews the football season, in which the Grizzlies went Frank W. Shaw ’37 8-4. His next goal: beat the alumni this spring! Deer Lodge Frank A. Shaw ’64 24 Over the mountain and back: Scobey residents bring Great Falls educational benefits home Rita Schiltz Sheehy '43 Helena By Paddy O’Connell MacDonald Hal Woods ’63 Although the small town o f Scobey is far from Missoula, the Missoula University’s influence pervades the town and surrounding ranches. Many Advertising Representative o f the town’s leaders are UM graduates, and the education they received Donald E. Kludt 420 Fairview Ave. at UM benefits the entire area. Missoula, MT 59801 Cover: Photo by Howard Skaggs. Faculty Senate members (from left): Devon (406) 543-5780 Chandler, Instructional Media Services; Maureen Cheney Curnow ’60, foreign languages and literatures; Audrey Koehler Peterson ’67, home economics; Frank Clark, Page 22 social work; Gerald Fetz, foreign languages and literatures and Faculty Senate chairman; Esther England ’66. music; Richard Fevold ’56, biochemistry. Special thanks to Elisabeth Kester, UM costume shop supervisor. President Craighead’s desk loaned by Ken Willett ’66, safety/security. Please help If the person named on the address label has moved, could whoever has received this magazine send the Alumni Office that person's new address and phone number? The Alumni address is listed at left. LETTERS

Dornblaser remembered Ad has blooper Place names important My apologies for taking so long to The Montanan is always well-done, Montana’s place names are a thank you for the copies o f the and we look forward to reading about significant part of history, and Montanan. 1 have just finished a the various alumni and other Garryowen is one o f the most colorful. grueling quarter at DePaul, and now I happenings regarding them and the It is a little town a few miles south of can finally attend to my Paul University. It was disappointing to see Custer Battlefield and on the Crow Dornblaser project after having on page 33 o f the fall 1988 issue the reservation. It was named for the abandoned it in deference to error: “If your not 100% satisfied marching song o f the old 7th Cavalry. school work. ....” I do hope that was a Myles Keogh, one of Custer’s officers, I thought your article was wonderful, proofreader’s oversight. brought the tune and the words from and I was especially pleased with the We are sorry we missed seeing Ireland. It had been the marching song two photos you included—the ones of Cow boy when it was in the East. for the Royal Lancers at Garry owen, my uncle and myself. Our family Perhaps it will be back here again Ireland. The spelling “Garrytown” doctor, whose daughter attended the sometime, or we can see it when we’re robs Garry owen, Mont., o f its University of Montana, was so excited in Montana. We do want to see it. significance. to see the article that he personally O f course you’re just doing your job, Amazing, too, what a typo dropping brought a copy of the magazine over to but thank you so much for keeping us o f one letter can do to a name. Sand my mother’s house shortly after he displaced Montanans in touch. Coulee is obviously a descriptive name, read it. Ruth G ilberti ’43 but if the “d” is left off (see page 32, I have received five letters in B ox 246 news of Karla Miller McCale), the | response to the article—three from Aliquippa, PA 15001 word becomes a Spanish saint, and we Montana, one from California and one don’t have any o f those in Montana. from Virginia. One letter was from a California is full o f them—San man who actually knew my uncle; the Merger is good news Francisco, San Diego and names others were from people who knew of I’m sitting here in my home in Elko, honoring the lady saints, Santa Paul or those associated with him. Nev., glancing through my brother’s Barbara, Santa Monica and others. Most of the letters confirmed what I Montanan, and the article about the I just saw an interesting one in the already knew about my uncle, but it UM-WMC merger catches my eye. Montana Standard—a town in Park was very exciting to hear from people I’m glad to see this positive step County spelled “Immigrant.” Actually, all across the country. I certainly never toward progress, Montanans. I was on the name is Emigrant and honors the expected all this to happen when I was the Montana Days picnic committee people who came on emigrant trains in planning my trip to Missoula just about here a month ago, and the people from 1864. a year ago. “home” who have been forced to leave The Montanan is an excellent vehicle One of the men who wrote to me is unreal and depressing. The merger to keep alumni informed and interested. mentioned a Presbyterian minister who tells me that Montana young people can Thank you for good work in editing. used to live in Missoula. His name was stay a year or two longer before Roberta Carkeek Cheney ’32 J.N. Maclean, and his grandson now leaving to find employment. B ox 554 lives in Chicago and works for the My motto is “there’s not one Cam eron, M T 59720 Chicago Tribune. I am planning to Montana native who’s displaced whose meet with him later this week and goal is not to get back to Montana.” show him a copy of the address his We all say someday we’re going Spell it right grandfather gave at the planting o f the “home.” I’ve been gone since ’64, and Congratulations on another fine issue Paul Dornblaser Memorial Tree in that’s my goal. With roots from home of the Montanan. As usual, it is well- 1919. I also received a phone call from and colleges and universities, we will written, and well-illustrated, and this a Marine in North Carolina who is an never forget Montana. issue in particular is well-aimed to alumnus of the University. He had I have several brothers and sisters inspire confidence and dispel doubts. done some research into Marine who have degrees from Montana higher On one item, however, some records about my uncle, and he shed education institutions as well as roots improvement is necessary. The Latin some light on the circumstances that go back to my grandfather in the phrase is in memoriam , not in surrounding Paul’s death. It is amazing early 1900s. I’m proud to be a memorium. I’d suggest inserting the to me that I have been able to meet displaced Montanan. Someday I’ll be correct -am in future issues. After all, these people as a result o f your article. home again. a fair number o f the grads (including I thank you again for taking the time to Keep up the efforts and the Janice Downey) have had some Latin, write it. circulation o f your magazine. It’s all and you wouldn’t want them to think Paul Phillips some have to keep reminded of their the quality of education was declining 1354 W. Rosem ont Ave. pleasant past. at UM. C h icago, 1L 60660 Betsy Jueschke John D. Madden, director B ox 1815 Honors Program Elko, NV 89801 University o f Montana

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Visual aids on display at the Jan. 21 hearing of the Legislature’s Joint budget spending per FTE student has declined. More than 150 people Education Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee show how attended the hearing, at which staff and faculty members and several much U N ’s faculty has shrunk over a ten-year period and how much community leaders testified about U N ’s needs.

Legislative update The biennial legislative session has over two years for the university united UM administrators, faculty, system. The increment would combine staff, alumni and students in an effort $13 million in new general-fund mone> to persuade legislators of the pressing with a 14-percent tuition increase. The need for financial support. two top priorities of the Regents and On Jan. 21 the education UM—raises for faculty and increased subcommittee of the joint support for the library—were included Appropriations Committee conducted a in the recommendation. “I think in an hearing on campus, at the invitation of overall sense I’m encouraged,” said Speaking at the Mansfield Library, law school President James V. Koch. As they Koch. “I think we’ve crossed the Dean Nartin Burke told subcommittee members toured the campus, legislators saw the biggest and most important that the law school needs additional funds for the law libraiy, which has the lowest budget of old and the new. They visited a fifty- hurdle. . . but by my count there are at any ABA-accredited law school. A budget year-old freshman chemistry lab and least six additional hurdles out there.” modification proposal was placed before the saw modern television facilities used to One hurdle is the tuition question. Legislature this session. offer interactive business classes to Students are willing to share the burden graduate students in Billings. With to solve the financial problems of charts, graphs, facts and figures, Koch higher education, according to Michael US West gift supports demonstrated the achievements o f UM Mathison, director of the ASUM BBER program faculty and students, despite a decade Student Legislative Action Center, but of sinking budgets. Koch urged they want the state to assume a larger UM’s Bureau o f Business and legislators to heed the recommendations part. A poll of students indicated that a Economic Research has received a of the Board of Regents for substantial majority favor a 10-percent tuition $20,000 gift from US West increases in faculty salaries and support increase. Students from the six system Communications to support its for the library, buildings and campuses, vocational and technical Economics Montana forecasting equipment. He also asked for more schools, and community colleges program. management flexibility, a retention of planned a March 3 march on the Economics Montana, developed by efficiency savings and the return of capitol, general meetings and lobbying the Bureau in 1984, is the state’s only indirect costs earned through research with individual legislators to deliver source o f income and employment grants. their message. The rally, delayed projections. The program, which Throughout the legislative session in because o f severe weather, was re­ provides statewide and local forecasts, Helena, Vice President Sheila M. scheduled for March 31. ‘‘We want to is part o f the bureau’s ongoing efforts Stearns played an important role as a sit down with individual legislators and to give Montanans reliable, up-to-date full-time lobbyist for UM. Stearns was get them to listen to the students’ information on all aspects o f the state’s on hand to apprise legislators of UM’s viewpoint,” said Mathison. economy. needs, provide accurate information and Higher education has fared rather Don Hanson, US West manager of coordinate testimony. Members o f the well in the Legislature, but the best-laid economic development and educational Faculty Senate, Staff Senate, and plans can go awry. Without new tax relations, presented the gift to bureau Alumni Association sponsored political revenues, the effort of the past months Director Paul Polzin as part o f the receptions, organized phone campaigns will be incomplete. As this Montanan company’s program to promote and made their case to individual goes to press, it appears that voters economic research in Montana. US legislators. may be asked to cast their ballots for West Communications, formerly On Feb. 15 the subcommittee voted tax bills to generate needed funding for Mountain Bell, made its first unanimously to accept a budget higher education and other state contribution to Economics Montana providing an $18.8 million increase priorities. four years ago.

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Mansfield Foundation Consolidation will benefit the life names president sciences in several ways. It will eliminate the duplication o f introductory Attorney and former U.S. courses, give biology majors a home at Ambassador Francis Dale has become last, and save money the division needs president of the Maureen and Mike for expanding its offerings in aquatic Mansfield Foundation, headquartered at biology and biotechnology. UM. One o f Jenni’s goals is to foster an The foundation promotes United atmosphere conducive to faculty States-Asian understanding and research. The best teachers, he says, encourages high ethical standards in “are those explorers who are pushing public service. The organization forward the frontiers.” During a press conference held in November, sponsors the Maureen and Mike UN President James V. Koch thanks Robert N. Mansfield Center at the University of Lee for his $500,000 gift to fund wildlife research at UM. The research initially will be Montana, which has a primarily carried out by Cooperative Wildlife Research academic mission. The foundation also Director Bart O’Gara. sponsors the Mansfield Center for Honors institute receives Pacific Affairs, which recently moved $250,000 endowment to UM and works with public and private policy-makers and the general from anonymous donor public. Robert M. Lee gives Dale will represent the foundation An anonymous donor recently gave $500,000 to fund around the world, take part in its $250,000 to the UM Foundation to big-game research conferences and educational programs, endow an honors institute for high and be responsible for fund raising. school juniors at UM. Sportsman and conservationist Robert As an ambassador, he was stationed The donor asked that the endowment M. Lee gave UM $500,000 on Nov. 18 in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1974-76. be named in honor o f Kermit R. for big-game research in China. He’s also been president and publisher Schwanke, retired president of the John His gift is aimed at developing basic o f the Cincinnati Enquirer and L os R. Daily Co. and a 1939 graduate of research useful to promoting sustained- Angeles Herald-Examiner, president of UM. He served as president of the yield trophy hunting in western China. the Cincinnati Reds baseball team and Alumni Association in 1966 and 1967. Interest from the endowment will pay the Music Center in Los Angeles, and The gift assures continuation of the for scholarships, research and travel for commissioner of the Major Indoor honors institute, offered for the first UM graduate students in wildlife Soccer League. time this past summer when thirty-nine biology, zoology and forestry who He holds degrees from Duke students spent two weeks studying with specialize in Chinese wildlife. University and the University of UM professors. Lee, who owns a ranch in Ennis, has Virginia Law School. “We’re delighted because this is a long wanted to create such an program that helps us attract the very endowment. Bart O ’Gara, who heads best students to the University,” the Montana Cooperative Wildlife President James V. Koch said about the Research Unit at UM, is the magnet gift. that drew Lee to UM because of his The institute, which offers academic credentials, work with College establishes new scholarships to cover in-state tuition China’s Northwest Plateau Institute of biological division and lodging, gives high school juniors Biology and scientific expertise. Lee with high academic promise a chance expects to keep contributing to the In July, the state Board o f Regents to earn college credit for classes not endowment and hopes to match it next gave its stamp o f approval to the traditionally taught in high school. The year. College o f Arts and Sciences’ Division program can also be a productive way O ’Gara and Lee have chosen doctoral of Biological Sciences. The division to recruit students, Koch said, recalling students Richard Harris and Dan Miller transfers biochemistry from the the success of a similar program he to receive the first awards, for research chemistry department and melds three started at Ball State University. on musk deer and wild yaks in the former departments: botany, The K.R. Schwanke Honors Institute Quinghai Province. microbiology and zoology. for High School Juniors is administered Lee owns Hunting World Inc., a Professor Don Jenni, associate dean through UM’s Center for Continuing New York City-based importer of of the division, says the idea for Education. To be chosen for the sports equipment and clothing, and consolidation came up in the early institute, students must be in the top 10 holds dozens of U.S. and foreign ’70s, when UM was emerging from a percent of their class and have a B patents for his inventions and designs growth phase. Consolidation didn’t average or better. of apparel, luggage, leather goods, seem advantageous then. “Now we’re This summer’s institute will be held jewelry, photo equipment, arms and faced with the continual specter of the June 19-30 and will include three armor. A member of the Explorers down-sizing phenomenon,” he says courses: human genetics, non-verbal Club, he has written books on Chinese “We’re continually forced to do the human communication and and African safaris. same or more with less.” contemporary East Asia.

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School. The Rocky Mountain Symphony was his last complete work. As a student, Riddle sang with the Jubileers and University Choir. He also organized and directed the Campus Capers, a song-and-dance group that toured the Northwest. In 1960 he and Maxine Blackmer Joseph McElwain Marjorie Nichols Kent Demers Price two Sigma Nu fraternity brothers took their vocal group. Three Young Men from Montana, to New York City. Distinguished alumni honored at Homecoming They cut two albums with Columbia Records, played in supper clubs around the country and appeared on the column, “The Nation,” runs in the At a Homecoming awards ceremony “Tonight Show,” the “Today” show Ottawa Citizen and fifteen other last October, Distinguished Alumni and “Hootenanny.” Canadian newspapers. She often Awards went to Maxine Blackmer, Born in Missoula and reared in Joseph McElwain, Marjorie Nichols, appears on Canadian radio and Libby, Riddle died last April at age 51. Kent Demers Price and the late Dick television and American Public Riddle. Broadcasting Service programs, Blackmer, a retired UM associate including “The Editors.” professor of art who lives in Missoula, Nichols, who M aclean’s Magazine earned a master’s degree in art at the once described as the “best woman University in 1960. After teaching art journalist on Parliament Hill,” joined at Helena High School and Missoula the Ottawa Journal in 1966 and May Carol, Fell-Oskins County High School, she taught at UM covered Canadian politics. She’s also scholarships benefit from 1962 to 1976. reported on the British Columbia Blackmer specializes in ceramics and Provincial Legislature for the drama, art migors jewelry and has shown her work in Vancouver Sun and covered the Carter New scholarships established through Brussels, Belgium, and at the administration as a news service the UM Foundation will benefit drama Smithsonian Institution; Baltimore correspondent. and art majors. Museum o f Art; Denver Art Museum; Price, who lives in London, May Carol Zeman o f Great Falls, and Tiffany’s in New York. In 1980 graduated in history and political who died of cancer at age 51, donated she won the Governor’s Citation for science in 1965 and earned a master’s $15,000 to establish the May Carol meritorious service to Montana and in degree in Russian history in 1966. Drama Scholarship. The endowment 1972 the Montana Institute o f the Arts Since 1986 h e ’s been the chief will generate about $600 a year for Fellow Award. executive officer of the Chloride Group scholarships for junior or senior drama McElwain, a Butte resident and PLC, an international corporation majors. Montana Power Co. chief executive specializing in industrial batteries and Zeman taught music and drama to officer from 1975 to 1983, earned a energy storage technology. H e ’s also Great Falls grade- and high-school law degree in 1947 and bachelor’s worked for Citibank/Citicorp and held students. A guiding force behind May degree in 1943. He grew up in Deer jobs in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Ivory Carol Theatre Productions and the Lodge, where he practiced law from Coast, Nigeria and Ireland. Great Falls Center for the Performing 1947 to 1964 and was the city attorney During his undergrad years, Price Arts, she established the scholarship to for ten years. was active in Sigma Nu, the history help talented students who couldn’t He became the counsel for MPC in honorary, Model United Nations and otherwise afford to attend UM. 1963 and later was the assistant to the ROTC. After earning his bachelor’s The late William Woodbury Fell of president and vice president. In 1970, degree, he received a teaching Cody, Wyo., who earned UM degrees he became the executive vice president. fellowship in history at the University in biology and law in 1928, left the Since 1985, h e’s been a consultant to of California at Los Angeles. In 1967 University more than $100,000 to the company. He also directs the he landed a Rhodes scholarship to create the Fell-Oskins Scholarship Development Corp. o f Montana; Pembroke College, Oxford, where in Fund. Income from the gift will Pacific Steel, Hides, Furs, Recycling; 1969 he received an honors degree in provide about $4,000 in scholarships and the Montana Energy and MHD history. yearly. Research and Development Institute. Riddle, a 1958 graduate who lived in Preference will go to UM art majors McElwain worked in three campaigns New York City, composed the music from Park County or the Big Horn to pass the six-mill levy for the for C ow boy, a musical about artist Basin in Wyoming. Financial need may University System and was the Charlie Russell. He also wrote two be another criterion. president o f the UM Foundation board children’s musicals and an adaptation of The fund honors Fell’s mother, of trustees. the Ox Bow Incident, a novel by Florence Oskins, and his sister, Olive Nichols, who lives in Ottawa, Walter Van Tilburg Clark. He Fell. Oskins owned a flower shop in Ontario, graduated from the journalism copyrighted more than 300 songs, Cody, which Fell ran after her death. school in 1968 and is a well-known including “Old Missoula Town” and Fell’s sister was an artist known for Canadian political commentator. Her the school song o f Big Sky High her etchings and paintings.

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Mansfield may teach Kumamoto. Annual interest from the endowment will pay the salary and Mike Mansfield may teach or give expenses of a new professor. lectures at UM at least occasionally, The gift followed visits to Kumamoto say President James Koch and Prefecture by UM President James Mansfield Center Director Paul Lauren. Koch and Paul Lauren, director of In November, the two men met with U M ’s Maureen and Mike Mansfield Mansfield in Tokyo. Mansfield, who Center. While there, they worked on turns eighty-six in March, recently developing exchange programs and resigned as U.S. ambassador to Japan. explored funding sources. UN President James V. Koch presents the He taught Asian history at UM before Robert T. Pantzer Award to Dr. Robert Cany, Montana and Kumamoto have a entering Congress in 1944 and retired director of UN’s Student Health Service since special sister state/prefecture 1965, daring Charter Day ceremonies Feb. 16. as Senate majority leader in 1976. relationship initiated by former Lauren says he raised the possibility Ambassador Mike Mansfield in 1982. of Mansfield’s teaching at UM two Charter Day is back UM has a formal faculty and student years ago. “I said he ought to continue exchange program with Kumamoto UM observed Charter Day with a his career where he began it—at the University and Kumamoto University lecture on the importance o f Montana University o f Montana—and that he o f Commerce and yearly hosts visiting writers and regional literature and a should change his title from high school teachers from Kumamoto. presentation o f service awards. Ambassador Mansfield to Professor The endowed professorship is a. Charter Day commemorates the date Mansfield again,” he says. major step in fulfilling UM’s goal of that the Montana Legislature chartered Since then, Lauren has continued to making the campus more international, UM ninety-six years ago, Feb. 17, 1893. speak and write to Mansfield about Koch says. By building on U M ’s For his talk about regional literature, teaching, covering the kinds o f courses Japanese program, directed by UM English Professor Bill Bevis he might teach, the number o f students Professor Nori Ichizawa, the gift will discussed The Last Best Place, a he might have and the kinds of services enable UM, the Mansfield Center, the Montana anthology edited by UM UM and the Mansfield Center might foreign languages and literatures English Professor Bill Kittredge and offer him. department and the Asian Studies Missoula-area film maker Annick Lauren says that when he and Koch Committee to strengthen the study of Smith. again raised the topic with Mansfield in Japanese language and culture at the The day’s activities also included November, Mansfield said h e ’d give University. performances by the UM Chamber the invitation serious consideration and “I believe that it will be the seed Chorale and the UM Symphonic Band would like to spend at least part o f his that leads to many further and the presentation of service awards. retirement time in Missoula. developments,” Koch adds. The Robert T. Pantzer Award, Mansfield couldn’t help but chuckle, Karashima plans to visit UM in June honoring UM’s president from 1966 to Lauren says, and comment that ‘‘I’ve with Professor Shohachi Fukuda of 1974, was awarded to Dr. Robert been trying to retire for twenty years, Kumamoto University. Curry, director of UM’s Student Health and you want me to go to work Service since 1965. again.” The recipient of the Neil S. Bucklew ‘‘We will continue these Presidential Service Award, named for discussions,” Lauren adds, ‘‘because Wins teaching award UM’s president from 1981 to 1986, we believe it would be very, very was Bruce Crippen o f Billings. H e’s a special to have Mike Mansfield back on Professor Bill Patton, U M ’s director 1956 business graduate, legislator, real this campus, where he was both a o f business education, has been named estate developer and recent president of student and a professor many years Montana’s vocational teacher of the the UM Foundation Board. ago.” year. The Alumni Association’s Montana He received the award Oct. 20 in Award went to Hal G. and Jean Kountz Butte at the Montana Vocational Stearns ’38 o f Helena and Dan Association’s state convention. He was Marinkovich of Anaconda. The Stearns chosen from a field o f six candidates led the Referendum 106 campaign for Record gift to endow who represented the organizations that higher education funding. Hal Stearns Japanese professorship make up the association. Patton is a 1936 UM journalism and English represented the Montana Business graduate. Marinkovich, who earned a UM landed the largest gift in its Education Association, which chose bachelor’s degree in education from nearly 100-year history in January: him as the outstanding business UM in 1950 and a master’s degree in 100-million yen, or about $800,000, to education teacher in 1987. 1957, also campaigned for R-106. endow a professorship of Japanese Patton, a native o f Philip, S.D., has The Student Service Award went to language and culture. taught on U M ’s business education Mike Craig of Billings. Craig, who The gift came from Tsukasa faculty for twenty years. He earned a holds a bachelor’s degree in political Karashima o f Kumamoto, Japan. bachelor’s degree at Blackhills State science and a master’s degree in public Karashima, president and director College, in Spearfish, S.D.; a master’s administration, has been a legislative general of the Kumamoto Foreign at Wayne State College, in Wayne, lobbyist for UM students. Language Academy, is a civic leader in Neb.; and a doctorate at UM.

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Sports shorts helps the University attract strong • Football: The 1988 football team faculty members. “The average age of finished with an 8-4 record, ranked faculty is forty-five,’’ he adds, “old sixteenth in the nation and was invited enough to be seasoned, young enough to participate in the 1-AA national to be energetic.’’ playoffs. The Grizzlies’ 8-4 record was He commends UM for emphasizing third best in their eighty-nine-year teaching and having low teaching loads history. and moderate class sizes. He also cites Third-year Head Coach Don Read U M ’s Honors Program, describing it as has achieved records o f 6-4, 6-5 and a well-funded program that lets students 8-4 during his tenure. It is the first complete their general education time in Montana’s history a coach has requirements in small, usually very begun his career with three consecutive well-taught classes. winning seasons. Nemko says U M ’s biggest weakness Montana finished in second place in is its open-admissions policy, which the Big Sky Conference with a 6-2 will change in 1990. The current policy record, finishing second behind top- accounts for the many freshmen who ranked Idaho, which the Grizzlies drop out and students who d o n ’t defeated 29-17 in the regular season. graduate, he says. Another problem he UM lost at Idaho 38-19 in the first All-time leading scorer and rebounder Larry sees is poor state funding. Low salaries Krystkowiak, now a member of the Milwaukee make it hard to recruit and retain top- round of the playoffs. Bucks, holds up his retired jersey, No. 42, Junior strong safety Tim Hauck from during halftime o f the Montana-Weber State notch faculty members, and inadequate Big Timber was named the Big S k y ’s game Feb. 11. Krysko is the first Grizzly funding hurts the Maureen and Mike basketball player to have his number retired. Defensive Player o f the Year and a Mansfield Library. first team All-American. UM had “If you can live with the minuses,” fourteen players named to the all-league conference meet. Nemko concludes, “UM offers an team and six named All-American. • W o m en ’s cross country: A veteran unusual set of contrasts: strong liberal Another first was U M ’s four Lady Griz team finished third in the arts and sciences education with some Academic All-Americans—the most by 1988 Big Sky Championships. Senior excellent professional programs, an any Division 1 team in the country. Vonda Harmon finished ninth outdoor person’s paradise next to a Sophomore Mike McGowan was a first individually to earn all-conference liberal, culturally oriented town, and teamer, while seniors Rick Sullivan, honors. Senior Loreen McRae and the diversity of a flagship state John Huestis and Brad Salonen were sophomore Amy Williams placed university with the friendliness that named to the second team. fourteenth and fifteenth, respectively. comes from a small campus in an isolated setting.” • Volleyball: In what was supposed Harmon, McRae and sophomores Nemko will speak on Saturday to be a rebuilding year, the Lady Griz Jeanine Crabtree and Ann Monaghan evening, May 20, at U M ’s Alumni volleyball team posted its best all earned academic all-conference College, which will be held at Flathead conference record ever. UM finished recognition. Lake Lodge. third in the Big Sky with a 12-4 record. The team was young, with two Book hails UM as freshmen, three sophomores and one M on tan a’s flagship Islamic professor hired junior in the starting lineup. Junior outside hitter Mari Brown earned first- institution UM has hired Mehrdad Kia to teach team all-conference honors and was an The University of Montana earns several courses on the Islamic world all-tournament pick. Sophomore middle high marks in the book How to Get an beginning next fall. H e ’ll teach an blocker Anne Tarleton and freshman Ivy League Education at a State introductory course and several upper setter Ann Schwenke were both University for its strong professional division classes, including one on honorable-mention all-conference programs, modern liberal-arts nineteenth century Islamic intellectual selections. With no letter winners lost requirements, teaching-oriented faculty history, his specialty. from this team, a good foundation has and beautiful setting. Originally from Iran, Kia is a visiting been set for 1989. In his 1988 book, Martin Nemko professor of history at Io w a ’s Cornell • M en ’s cross country: The Grizzly profiles in detail 101 college, university College. H e’s taught courses on the cross country team was in a rebuilding and military academy campuses. He Ottoman Empire, origins of the Islamic phase with just one returning letterman. devotes six-and-one-half pages to UM, state and Arab nationalism, history of A talented group of freshmen stepped the only Montana school in the book. Iran and Egypt, and Arab-Israeli in and made an immediate impact. He judges the institutions in such areas conflict. David Morris, a freshman from Eagle as students, faculty, courses in the UM history courses customarily have River, Alaska, was the tea m ’s top liberal arts and sciences, reputation and focused on Europe and America, says finisher in every race this season. He location. history department Chairman Bill Farr, placed twenty-first in the Big Sky Nemko praises UM for its “updated adding that K ia ’s classes will help Conference Championships. The version o f a liberal education’’ and students understand the significance of Grizzlies finished sixth in the says Missoula’s “mountain grandeur’’ non-Westem traditions as well.

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Student becomes UM ’s Another fund of more than $40,000 Indian Law Clinic 24th Rhodes Scholar will provide income for the Rittenour receives $100,000 grant Presidential Scholarship, also worth UM senior David Wheeler, a twenty- about $1,600. It will be awarded The Indian Law Clinic at the UM three-year-old zoology major from annually on the basis o f academic law school has landed a one-year, Missoula, has achievement, leadership, character and $100,000 grant to study the feasibility become the involvement in community activities. of an inter-tribal appellate court system University’s twenty- Clifford Rittenour attended UM and in Montana and Wyoming. The grant fourth Rhodes was on its first football team. In 1902 came from the Montana-Wyoming Scholar. he began working for the McGowan Tribal Court Judges Association, which A former Hellgate Commercial Co., in Plains, and later is funded by the Interior Department’s High School became part owner. He died in 1967. Bureau o f Indian Affairs. dropout, h e’ll spend Jimmie Rittenour, a 1901 graduate, The clinic will design and administer at least two years at died in 1972. a study o f issues involved in the University of Oxford, in England, establishing an inter-tribal appellate after graduating this spring. He plans court system. A committee o f tribal to study the physiology of the nervous Presidential Scholarships court judges will direct the study, system. which will include local planning and Ten UM freshmen have landed Wheeler, a Watkins Scholar with a investigation on eight Indian $6,000 Presidential Scholarships for 3.92 grade-point average, was one of reservations. The clinic will also 1988-89. The students, who will thirty-two college students nationwide explore establishing a tribal judges’ receive $1,500 a year for four years if chosen for the prestigious award based exchange program, through which the they stay in good academic standing, on their academic achievement, Montana and Wyoming tribal courts were chosen on the basis of their high leadership, participation in sports, could use the services o f judges from school transcripts, activities, character and concern for others. The other reservations when special needs standardized test scores, letters of scholarship covers the cost of travel arise. The project directors at the law recommendation and an essay. and tuition and provides a stipend to school are Professor Margery Brown Todd Balazic, a philosophy and cover living expenses. and visiting Assistant Professor Brenda Russian major, graduated from Bigfork A part-time employee at a nursing Desmond. home, Wheeler is a Big Brothers and High School in 1988. Sisters volunteer; works with a local Keith Krone o f Big Timber, who group that helps people in Nicaragua; majors in math education, was the 1988 and has taken part in demonstrations salutatorian of Sweet Grass County against nuclear arms. He also swims, High School. The recipient of a High Champion Corp. gives plays tennis, bicycles and canoes. School Honors Scholarship, h e’s now a forestry school grant After attending Oxford, he plans to basketball manager for the Grizzlies. work on a joint medical and doctoral Business administration major Teresa Champion International Corp., a degree in medical genetics. H e’s McElwain, a 1988 graduate of Butte forest-products company with interested in neurological disorders— High School, is a member of the headquarters in Stamford, Conn., has particularly Alzheimer’s and National Honor Society and winner of donated $150,000 to the UM Parkinson’s diseases—and the genetic an Academic Fitness Award. Foundation for the forestry school. components of diseases. A mathematics major, Craig Sprout, The money is Champion’s second gift was the valedictorian of Ennis High to the forestry school to establish the School in 1988. H e’s received the Champion Professor of Forestry. The Rittenour trust benefits Presidential Academic Fitness Award total gift for the professorship in School of Fine Arts and J.P. Sousa Band Award and was $250,000. named an Army Reserve Student Ernie Corrick, Champion’s vice The UM Foundation has received an Athlete. president of special projects and a 1948 endowment of more than $200,000 for Roland Durocher, an honors major, UM forestry school graduate, said most the School o f Fine Arts and two was the valedictorian o f the Great Falls of the co m p a n y ’s foresters are separate scholarship programs. The High School class of 1988. University graduates. “I think it ’s a Clifford H. and Jimmie Rittenour trust Solomon Davis, a former Marine, of commitment of the company to the will provide about $90,000 for the Fine Las Animas, Colo., is majoring in University as a whole,” he said. Arts Endowment and another $30,000 English. ‘‘Th o se o f us who live in Missoula for discretionary use by the fine arts Four students from Missoula schools certainly know its importance to the school. also won the prestigious scholarships: community. We want it to be the very Income from the $40,000 fund will Deanna Gustafson, a pre-physical best.” be used for the annual Clifford H. and therapy major. Sentinel; Trade Marie With the donation, the forestry Jimmie Rittenour Scholarship, worth Bemardini, a political science and school will hire a new permanent, about $1,600. The scholarship will go histor major, Loyola Sacred Heart; tenure-track faculty member who will to graduates o f any Sanders County Larry Risinger, a chemistry major, teach and do research on forest high school showing reasonable Sentinel; and Emily Grieves, a history measurements and timber growth and academic progress. major, Hellgate. yield.

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Enrollments increase degrees passed at least one part. Pat Nygaard worked for Missoula In November 1987, UM ranked Radiology from 1971 to 1979. After U M ’s fall quarter enrollment third—behind the State University of joining U M ’s staff, she was increased 4.8 percent from what it was New York at Albany and University of instrumental in developing a scholarship a year ago, and winter quarter Pennsylvania—with a 51.9 passing rate. fund and fund-raising cookbook for enrollment rose by about 7 percent. Nationwide, 20 percent o f first-time former UM student Pat Norwood, who Fall enrollment was 8,879 students, candidates passed the exam in May and died of cancer in 1983. She also played 407 more students than in fall 1987. 21 percent in November. an important role in establishing the The greatest increase—23 percent—was Bruce Budge, chairman of the Montana Racquetball Association. in the number o f freshmen and transfer accounting department, said at least 75 students, with 461 more new students percent o f UM accounting students enrolling than a year ago. prepare for the exam by taking the Renowned grizzly experts “I’ve got to attribute it to the department’s intensive six-week, nine- increased effort by President Koch, the win Geographic awards credit review course. But, he said, Admissions Office, students and faculty students who d o n ’t take the course Former UM zoology and forestry to tell the University’s story,” frequently pass the exam the first time Professor John Craighead and his twin Registrar Phil Bain says. ‘‘Th is is also because th ey ’re already well-prepared brother, Frank, a former research the first year in several when some of and highly motivated. associate, won National Geographic our academic programs have not been Society Centennial Awards Nov. 17 in threatened to be cut.” Washington, D.C. Freshman enrollment, up 219 Scholarship honors Renowned grizzly experts, the students or 20 percent from last year, memoiy of Pat Nygaard Craigheads received the awards along also reflects a national trend o f more with thirteen other people ‘‘wh o have high school students going to college, UM health and physical education devoted their lives to expanding Bain says. Professor Gary Nygaard has established knowledge o f the Earth and its For the first time since World War a scholarship fund in inhabitants.” Among the recipients II, more women than men registered at honor of his late were undersea researcher Jacques-Yves UM fall quarter: 4,465 women wife, Pat, who Cousteau and former astronaut Sen. compared to 4,414 men. supervised the X-ray John Glenn. Winter quarter enrollment was 8,809 and orthotics John Craighead, director o f the students, 546 more students than in departments o f U M ’s Wildlife-Wildlands Institute in winter quarter 1988. Freshman and Student Health Missoula, led the UM-based Montana sophomore enrollment accounted for 81 Service. Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit percent of the increase, with 308 more She worked at UM from 1952 to 1977. Frank Craighead, a freshmen and 136 more sophomores from 1979 to 1987 and died o f cancer former research associate with the enrolled than a year ago. in January 1988 at age forty-four. wildlife research unit, is the president ‘‘UM is delighted with the confirmed The fund now holds about $12,500, o f the Environmental Research attraction that it has exhibited to and income from it will provide a Institute, in Moose, Wyo. The two men students,” says President James Koch. scholarship for a senior or graduate gained international fame with their ‘‘Th is is a strong vote of confidence student in the health sciences: health research on grizzlies in Yellowstone that is impressive in any year but and physical education, communication National Park and pioneered the use of especially in one when the Legislature sciences and disorders, physical radio collars and satellites in meets.” therapy, medical technology, monitoring wildlife. microbiology, clinical psychology, Each award winner received $10,000, pharmacy and pre-medicine. to be donated to an organization in his CPA candidates take top Applicants must have at least a 3.2 or her area o f research, and a crystal pass-rate honors grade-point average. ‘‘But more and silver Centennial Award. important,” Professor Nygaard says, UM accounting students had the ‘‘th e recipient should reflect those highest success rate in the country on qualities that made Pat special to a Tom Brokaw to speak the May 1987 Uniform Certified Public whole lot o f people.” Those qualities Tom Brokaw, anchorman for the Accountant exam, according to the include a love o f life, a love o f people ‘‘NB C Nightly News” in New York, September 1988 New Accountant and a sense o f fairness, he says. ‘‘Th e will be the speaker at U M ’s 30th magazine. scholarship is designed for a humanistic annual Dean Stone Night journalism The magazine reported that in May health professional, which is what Pat awards banquet Friday, May 19. 1987, 60 percent o f UM students was.” The banquet, which honors the taking the exam for the first time Professor Nygaard expects that the School o f Journalism’s first dean, A.L. passed all four parts: auditing, business first scholarship will be given this Stone, will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the law, accounting theory and accounting spring. He hopes that the fund will Holiday Inn-Parkside. The phone practice. UM was also one o f four grow to $25,000-$40,000 in the next number at the journalism school is schools—including two University of five years and that interest from it will (406) 243-4001. Wisconsin campuses—where at least 90 provide a full scholarship for a The journalism school is celebrating percent o f students without advanced qualified student. its 75th anniversary this year.

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 9 Tradition

UN’s original faculty pic* tured in 1895 at the old Willard School on South 6th West and Ash Streets are, from left: Cynthia Reilly, professor of mathematics; W.M. (“Daddy”) Aber, pro­ fessor of Greek and Latin; Stephen A. Mer­ ritt, professor of chemistry and physics; Oscar J. Craig, presi­ dent; and Frederick C. Scheuch, professor of mechanical engineering and modern foreign languages. President Craig’s desk is pictured on the cover and is cur­ rently being used by Ken Willett, manager of safe­ ty and security.

Partners for a century

By Sheila MacDonald Stearns Montana must diversify and develop its economy without sacrificing clear air, clean water and open space. The Montana and its university in Missoula have been University must educate citizens for the international partners for almost a century. Both are approaching their economy o f the coming century, without sacrificing the 100th birthdays with youthful exuberance and aging grace. traditional arts and sciences curriculum. Their histories intertwine. We at the University of Montana believe our faculty and Members of the first state Legislature in 1889 discussed students are indispensable to Montana as partners in establishing a state university, but waited until 1893 to do charting the sta te ’s future. Research at UM attracts clean so. Meanwhile, state leaders surveyed university presidents industry, such as the biotechnology firms o f Ribi across the nation as to whether one unit or several units ImmunoChem in Hamilton and ChromatoChem in should be established. According to the history of the Missoula. The Mansfield Center and the Department of University written by the late Professor H.G. Merriam, Foreign Languages and Literatures prepare UM students to their responses were unanimous for one unit, “. . . but the share in global economic and educational ventures. The politics of the day had to recognize four hungry towns.” Institute of Travel and Tourism in the School o f Forestry is The politics of the day have not changed much since 1893. a partner with the Department o f Commerce in promoting The Legislature assigned Missoula the State University; Montana. UM and St. Patrick Hospital have formed The Bozeman, the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts; Institute o f Medicine and Humanities, a joint venture into Dillon, the Normal School; and Butte, the School of improving the health-care enterprise for patients and health­ Mines. Northern Montana College in Havre was established care practitioners. The School of Business Administration in 1913 and added by the Legislature to the Montana assists dozens of M on tan a’s small businesses. Examples of University System in 1927. T h e 1925 Legislature the sta te’s interdependence with its University can be found authorized Eastern Montana College in Billings. in every school and department. University (Main) Hall on the UM campus was In 1908 U M ’s second president, Clyde A. Duniway, completed in 1899; the Capitol Building in Helena, three wrote in his first report to the Board of Education: ‘‘As years later, in 1902. Both structures remind those who Montana develops, so does its University.” At UM we also work in and around them of our ancestors’ high believe that as the University develops, so does Montana. aspirations. Both, like the state itself, are sound and sturdy. Happy Birthday, Montana. The University is right behind Yet revitalization is in order. you.

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U M ’s 24th Sears intern Learning the ropes in D.C.

By Carol Susan Woodruff

Marlene Mehlhaff, a twenty-year-old junior from Billings, was optimistic last spring that sh e ’d land a Sears Congressional Internship. The program, which runs from February through April, sends journalism students to Washington, D.C., to work on the staff of a U.S. senator or representative. For one thing, she knew that UM ranks first among all American journalism schools in the number of students chosen for the program since it was established in 1970. “I d o n ’t know whether th ey ’re trying to bring a hick from the country to show them the big city,” she said with a laugh, referring to the intern selection com m ittee’s preference for UM students. As it turned out, Mehlhaff had good reason for optimism. In July, she became U M ’s twenty-fourth Sears Congressional intern. She was one o f twenty-five Marlene Mehlhaff accepts a check for her internship from Missoula journalism students nationwide and the only student from a Sears manager Gene Jarvis, right, as journalism school Dean Charles Northwestern journalism school to receive the three-month Hood looks on. internship this year. Mehlhaff, who has a 3.6 grade-point average and minors in political science, was chosen based on her academic performance, writing ability and interest in legislative reporting. S h e’s edited and written for the Montana Kaimin Besides working on Capitol Hill, Mehlhaff is taking part since her freshman year, including covering the campus in a weekly seminar taught by Louis Kohlmeier, a Pulitzer visit of New York Times columnist Tom Wicker and Prize-winning Washington correspondent formerly with the serving as one of two news editors last fall. Wall Street Journal. The Sears internship is n ’t Mehlhaff s first honor. Last Before her internship Mehlhaff, who lived in Elmont, spring she was the first winner of the Dorothy R. Powers N.Y., until age ten, had never set foot in Washington, Scholarship, given to one o f the journalism s c h o o l’s most D.C., and h adn ’t visited the East Coast since her freshman promising students. She also received a Fox Foundation year in high school. Now sh e ’s living in a two-person scholarship and a fee waiver her freshman year and co­ apartment about an h o u r’s commute from work and has edited the award-winning Billings Senior High School begun a new life in a major metropolis. B ronc Express. Last fall, she said she was more excited than nervous ‘‘Sh e was a precocious student from the start,” said about moving to the n a tion ’s capital. ‘‘It will be like going journalism school Dean Charlie Hood, explaining that it ’s to college—starting all over again,” she said, adding that rare for freshmen to volunteer as Kaimin reporters. ‘‘Sh e she looked forward to meeting senators, congressmen and did a very good job of reporting. She caught our attention other Sears interns; visiting monuments and museums; and early.” window shopping in historic Georgetown. Spending a Mehlhaff put her writing skills to use in applying for the weekend in New York sounded good to her, too. Sears internship. Asked to write a ‘‘constituency letter,” After sh e ’s gotten her internship and some more credits she played the part o f Montana Sen. Pat Williams’ press under her belt, Mehlhaff plans to work for a daily secretary and wrote a letter supporting the wilderness bill newspaper—first as reporter, then as an editor. S h e’d he cosponsored. prefer to work out o f state, maybe in Spokane. The Great Another part o f the application process was listing the Falls Tribune is the paper sh e ’d probably most like to work types of legislation sh e ’s most interested in so she could be for in Montana, she says. paired with a legislator working in those areas. Her She harbors no illusions about landing a plum job right interests lie in education and space. out of school; she expects to begin her career like most Mehlhaff works on the staff of Albert G. Bustamante, a journalists, with what she calls ‘‘th e low beat on the totem Democractic representative from Texas. She said she pole.” She also knows that working for a non-university expected to work for a politician from a different part of daily will be different from working for the Kaimin. Still, the country and d id n ’t care what his political views were. she feels prepared to handle the hectic lifestyle of a “I’ll still learn something from him,” she said. professional journalist.

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 11 CONTINUING EDUCATION

Winters* workshop draws rave reviews

By Janice Downey

If the University of Montana Writers’ Workshop at Yellow Bay were a book, its opening chapter would be the promising start of a best seller. At the late summer week-long workshop on the east shore of Flathead Lake, fifty-five writing students joined nationally known writers to exchange manuscripts, stories, poems and ideas about writing. The w o rk sh o p ’s featured Montana writer was Tom McGuane, w h o ’s written five novels, including The Sporting Club and Ninety-Two in the Shade; a collection of short stories, To Skin A Cat\ and the scripts for the films The Missouri Breaks and Rancho Deluxe and, with Bud Shrake, Tom Horn. Joining McGuane in teaching and reading at the workshop were Marilynne Robinson, author of the novels Housekeeping and Mother Country, Geoffrey Wolff, who wrote the novel Providence and an autobiography, The Duke of Deception: Memories o f My Father, and Carolyn Kizer, whose book YIN: New Poem s won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. The workshop sessions were held at U M ’s Flathead Lake Author Geoffrey Wolff and film maker Annick Smith sign autographs. Biological Station at Yellow Bay. The writers stayed in the sta tion ’s cabins and dormitory and ate in the dining hall. During breaks many canoed and swam, and some visited place where the subject is literature. T h at’s what the Glacier National Park. At night they chatted mostly about s u b je c t’s been. T h ere’s been no down time. W e’ve all been writing, read and wrote in their quarters or paused under going kind o f wide open.” the moonlight. McGuane—whose name drew writers to Yellow Bay “Yo u ’re out kind of in the boonies talking about writing from as far away as Arizona and Florida—has written with people who write, and that’s enough,’’ Chip Rawlins screenplays, novels, short stories, book reviews and more. of Pinedale, Wyo., said. But until his week at Yellow Bay, he had participated in “It’s a luxury to have people give an honest appraisal of just one writers’ workshop, ten years ago in Berkeley, your w ork ,’’ said Washington (D.C.) Times reporter Ann Calif. Geracimos, formerly of Missoula. “It ’s like group therapy. “I’m sort o f more secure than I used to be, more T h ere’s a total lack of pretention. If this is a model, le t’s financially secure,” McGuane said. “I’m doing things I have m o re.’’ like to do now, and this is one of them.” For McGuane, a Workshop student Dennis Jovenetti of Prescott, Ariz., Michigan native who grew up on the Gulf Coast of said about the workshop: “I think it ’s ridiculous to put any Florida, teaching at Yellow Bay was a way o f giving monetary value on it. But in terms o f what it ’s done for something back to his adopted home state. “I wanted to do me in terms of writing, it ’s been phenomenal. The this one. If I had been asked to do one at Princeton, I encouragement has been amazing.’’ w ou ld n ’t have gone.” “I’ve probably gotten more out o f this than any o f the Many students said they came because o f the faculty. students have,” McGuane, who lives on a ranch near Sam Halpert of South Miami, Fla., took the summer to McLeod, said. “It’s been nice. We d o n ’t live a quiet life drive the co u n try ’s back roads—camping along the way and by any means, but I d o n ’t really get a chance to go to a stopping at a writers’ workshop in Aspen, Colo., in early

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August—to be in M cG u a n e’s sessions at Yellow Bay. The other faculty members will be Mona Simpson, “I’ve attended a lot o f workshops,” Halpert said, “and I whose first novel, Anywhere But Here, was a best seller; can tell you unequivocally this is the best workshop I ’ve and poet James Tate, whose poem collection The Lost Pilot ever been to. And I’m not just saying that to make you won the Yale Series of Younger P o e t’s Award in 1967. He guys feel good.” He described the faculty as “super” and has since published eight volumes o f poetry, including continued: “Aside from being good writers, th ey ’re good Viper Jazz and Reckoner. The fourth faculty member has people and very good teachers.” not been confirmed. Anne Harris, a Billings counselor, said she attended the The next workshop’s opening night will feature readings workshop because Kizer was on the faculty. by four UM English faculty members: Professors Kittredge “She works hard at the workshop, and her comments are and Earl Ganz and Associate Professors Patricia Goedicke good,” Harris said. “She says s h e ’s blunt, but I like that and Greg Pape. because I have a lot to learn in a week.” The idea for a writers’ workshop at Yellow Bay surfaced Geoffrey Wolff, writer-in-residence since 1982 at about ten years ago in U M ’s English department. Yet, it Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., said the writing w a sn ’t until last year that it began to take shape through students were realistic about what they could learn at the the cosponsorship of the UM Center for Continuing workshop. Education and Summer Programs. “It ’s five days,” he said. “Th e r e ’s very little you can Because o f its location and ties to U M ’s strong Creative do except read a manuscript and respond to it; and those of Writing Program, the Yellow Bay Writers’ Workshop us on the faculty unburden ourselves with what we think is promises good reviews for the episodes to come. most important to us as writers and what we look for in “Montana is, in a funny way, becoming an interesting other writers. place culturally,” McGuane said. “There are lots o f good “Some people in other places I taught had very writers in Montana, and it ’s fun to stand up and hope to be unrealistic expectations. In a week they thought they could counted among them. be trained to be writers. I h aven ’t met anybody like that “This workshop finds the University o f Montana here. They seem to be very practical about what their acknowledging the presence of a literary community in the limitations are.” state which has long since been acknowledged by the rest Wolff also said the workshop, coordinated by free-lance of the country. I t ’s getting to be a well-known fact film maker Annick Smith, was smooth going. nationally that M on tan a’s becoming an interesting milieu, “I’ve been to a lot o f them,” W olff said. “This one has but the state has never acknowledged it. I think it ’s a good been about as well organized as any I ’ve been to, which is thing.” pretty amazing since this is the first one (UM has held at Yellow Bay). They can be very chaotic, and this one has not been at all.” Other faculty and students evaluated the workshop with Shelter overwhelmingly positive comments, Smith said, but she Bay received a few suggestions for the next writers’ workshop—scheduled for the week o f Aug. 20. On Flathead Lake 10 miles south o f Lakeside, MT The Second Annual Yellow Bay Writers’ Workshop will allow for longer workshop time with the faculty. In addition, a session on the nuts and bolts o f publishing, LAKE FRONT LOTS which UM Professor Bill Kittredge offered ad hoc at the first workshop, will also be scheduled for the next FOR SALE workshop. Kittredge and literary agent Amanda Urban will moderate the panel discussion on publishing and agents. • All Utilities to Lot Line The featured Montana writer for the next workshop will • Dock and Tennis Court be James Welch, a UM graduate living in Missoula and the author of Fools Crow, The Death o f Jim Loney and Winter • Year-Round Access in the Blood as well as a collection o f poems. Riding the • Good Terms and Times Earthboy 40. C all Jerry Ford (406) 721-5779 or Tomme Lu Worden (406) 549-7676 1-800-432-9357 (Montana only) 1-800-432-4595 Ext. 123 Lambros Realty Missoula, MT Students listen as nationally renowned professionals share their insights on writing.

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 13 F aculty New professors add prestige to UM’s faculty

Masanori Ichizawa, Japanese Michael Mayer, history

By Kate Ripley

Masanori Ichizawa Japanese culture at University College, Northeastern Japanese Professor Masanori Ichizawa jokes that the University and The Boston School of Modem Languages. professional baseball league in Japan lost a great player He also taught Japanese for two years at Brown University when he decided to make a life for himself in the United in Providence, R.I. States, but the thirty-six-year-old, soft-spoken man says he Two years ago he married a native Bostonian, Elizabeth, was destined to come to Montana. who also played an important part in Ichizawa’s decision to “I was looking for a place or a job which would give come west. me certain satisfaction,” Ichizawa explains. ‘‘My concern ‘‘Sh e loves to live in the country,” he says, adding that is to teach Japanese language as well as Japanese culture, she also loves horses. and there are not many universities which would offer a ‘‘Sh e told me once, ‘Well, I will have to have a horse as position like that.” a pet.’ Now it ’s possible for her to have that.” Except the University o f Montana. Ichizawa originally thought he would go back to Japan Ichizawa applied for the professorship and was invited to after receiving his American education and teach come out from Boston last spring for a visit. ‘‘When I philosophy there. But instead he found himself asking what arrived at the airport and came here, I felt...this must be he could offer this society. it.” ‘‘Basically, I would just like to give something Ichizawa is teaching elementary Japanese classes this meaningful—useful,” Ichizawa says. He knew he w asn ’t year, and will teach an intermediate series next year and an the best qualified to teach English or Western philosophy; advanced series the year after that. This is the first time so he decided to teach about his own culture and language. Japanese has been offered at the University. ‘‘Many people are aware of the importance o f Japanese” in Being able to establish the Japanese program is a the global economy, he says. challenge that Ichizawa says will have ‘‘grea t potential to Ichizawa says his main concern at UM is to help produce develop.” graduates ‘‘wh o we can proudly send into the world.” Ichizawa first came to the states during his junior year of ‘‘We are dealing with a student who has a lot of college. He was born in Date, Hokkaido, Japan. He potential, and I would like to provide an environment received a bachelor’s from the State University of New where I can give the best, since everybody is concerned York in 1975 and another b a ch e lo r ’s degree in English with his or her own life after graduation,” he says. Literature in 1977 from Meiji Gakuin University, Learning fluent Japanese can be a great asset to a Shiroganedai, Tokyo. He then received a m a ster’s in 1980 business student or any student in a professional major, and a doctorate in 1985 from Boston College, where he Ichizawa says. ‘‘I think it ’s really exciting to see these majored in philosophy. He stayed in Boston for several students speak the language.” years, teaching Japanese language and lecturing on In addition to teaching the language, Ichizawa is a faculty

14 UNIVERSITY O F MONTANA Faculty adviser for the newly formed Japan Club, which has Duke University and his doctorate in history from proven to be a success on campus by hosting such events Princeton University. He spent three and a half years as a party featuring the Japanese dish o f vegetables and lecturing in history at the University of Auckland in New beef called sukiyaki. Anyone interested in learning about Zealand and prior to that taught at the University of Japan can join the informal club, Ichizawa says, including Alabama and St. Vincent College in Pennsylvania. students who have been to Japan and want to keep in touch “I’ve moved a lot; I ’ve lived a lot of places,” says with the culture. Mayer, thirty-six. “I wanted a place where we could be Dennis McCormick, chairman o f the foreign languages comfortable.” and literatures department, says the addition of Japanese Mayer is making $6,000 less than he would have made classes was possible through a grant from the Japan teaching another year in Illinois, but he d o e s n ’t regret the Foundation and the Mansfield Center. McCormick says decision. “It ’s a lot of money, but m o n ey ’s not everything h e ’s pleased with the performance o f his colleague. either,” he said. Persuading his wife, Susan, to live out “I think in time h e’s going to contribute in a wide here was a bit more difficult, he says, but once she saw variety o f university service,” McCormick says. ‘‘He ’s the place, she readily agreed. interested in the wider intellectual community.” Mayer taught a class on the Progressive Era fall quarter, Ichizawa says he likens his teaching profession to the job along with a class on the history o f the American legal of a midwife. “She delivers many babies a year,” he says. profession. He is currently teaching the Age of Roosevelt “I feel the same way...just to help the student to deliver and spring quarter will teach modern American history, the whatever he or she is developing with hard labor.” third sequence o f the freshman-level course titled, “The Americans” and a graduate reading course in twentieth- Michael Mayer century history. Michael Mayer says h e ’s found his niche with the The ’50s and ’60s, particularly the Eisenhower University o f M on tan a’s history department and d o e sn ’t administration and the civil rights movement, were regret leaving the University of Illinois, referring to the fascinating times as far as Mayer is concerned, partly large school where he spent one year as “McEducation.” because he can remember it and also because it ’s a period “In all honesty, I came out here thinking ‘Well, I ’ll take most historians have ignored. a look at it.’ It really w a sn ’t at the top o f my list,” Mayer “When I started working on the ’50s, nobody was says. “But Missoula really is a terrific city. I was really working on it. Everybody said it w a sn ’t important, that quite taken by it.” nothing happened during those years,” Mayer says. “Now Besides the beautiful countryside, low cost o f housing it ’s a fairly hot field, especially civil rights. and “nice cooking stores,” Mayer says he c o u ld n ’t believe “Because it ’s so recent, it explains a lot about how we how well the history department faculty got along. At the got to be the way we are,” Mayer says, calling the time University o f Illinois, Mayer says, there were “battles over period “the immediate prologue to our political present.” turf.” But here, even though M a y er’s expertise in Mayer looks to his experience in New Zealand as being twentieth- century American and legal history sometimes instrumental in changing his attitude toward certain aspects crosses the paths o f other professors, the faculty has been o f American life. For instance, Mayer had always been “very welcoming, very helpful.” critical of the American high school system and still is to a “Th a t’s not easy to find,” he says. large extent. However, he found that the problem is “a Mayer was also impressed with how much the faculty world wide phenomenon.” stressed teaching, as well as scholarly research. “W e’re no worse off than a lot of other countries,” “One thing I really liked when I came out here is every Mayer says. “New Z e a la n d ’s high schools are abysmal. single person in the department who met me asked me They make ours actually look pretty good.” about teaching,” he says. “It was obviously important to Mayer remembers one New Zealand student o f his who them.” “was very upset. S h e ’d gotten a C or something on an Mayer says that at Illinois, “a high-powered research” essay sh e ’d written (for Mayer), and she obviously got school, “yo u ’re paid to do your research. Y o u ’re not paid nothing but A ’s in school.” Mayer says he spent quite a to teach.” bit of time working with the student, who next year will be The atmosphere at the University o f Montana, however, attending journalism school in Ohio on a full-ride is more along the lines of what Mayer feels comfortable scholarship. “So there were some very good experiences,” doing. he says. “Teaching is important, and I ’ve always enjoyed it,” he Mayer also says he looks at American race relations in a says. “I get a kick out of it. Where else can you get paid new light after witnessing relations in New Zealand to go and tell people what you think is important and they between whites and the Maori people, Polynesians who have to listen?” settled the country before Europeans. Mayer d o e sn ’t believe that it ’s impossible to publish and “In many ways they (the Maori) live much more teach at the same time, although he does admit research desperately and closer to the line than many blacks do in takes longer this way. cities here,” he says. “I’m now more impressed that w e ’ve “Your teaching informs your research and the other way come as far as we have-not that w e ’re anywhere near around. I d o n ’t see any contradiction between the two at perfect. At least we have begun to address the problem. all,” he says. New Zealand historians do not even acknowledge that This is the first time Mayer has lived in the western half ‘petty apartheid’ ever existed there, although it did.” o f the United States. He was born and raised in Maryland Besides contributing what Mayer hopes to be some good and received his undergraduate and m a ster’s degrees from teaching, he says he would like to help bring some

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 15 F aculty recognition to the University of Montana. Mayer is M ille r ’s early perception of pharmacists was that they completing a book on the Eisenhower administration and just dispensed drugs. Later she realized the profession re­ civil rights, which he hopes to have out by 1990. He quired more than just a “guy behind the counter who recently presented a paper on the Civil Rights Act of 1957 counts, pours, licks and sticks.” to the Southern Historical Association and will also be on a The modern pharmacist is “able to affect decisions panel at the Organization o f American Historians meeting regarding drug use” in patient care, Miller says. The job in the spring of 1990. Mayer is also on the Semester entails patient counseling, cholesterol and hypertension Transition Committee and favors the change from quarters screening as well as the traditional pharm acist’s role. to semesters. “I think academically it ’s more sound,” he ‘‘Therapeutics, or the use of drugs, is an art as much as says, having been a professor and student under ‘‘ev ery a science,” Miller says with conviction. “Th e re ’s so much kind of semester system” imaginable. new information in the medical field; th ere’s no way that a physician can know everything.” Sarah Johnston Miller Miller hopes to make her students in Montana understand that pharmacy is going from a distributional to a more Sarah Johnston Miller, the newest faculty member of the clinical profession today, she says. “Being able to School of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences, says sh e ’s influence young people” is also important to Miller, who just trying to get used to being on the other side of the fence these days—working in her field as professor instead says she hopes to become a role model whom students will want to follow. o f as student. The thirty-one-year-old Florida native received her doctorate in pharmacy in 1985 and spent two years doing her clinical residency at the University of Kentucky Philip West Medical Center in Lexington. Miller then spent another When Philip West, a Northern Indiana farm boy, first year of advanced residency in nutrition support at the went off to Manchester College, he found himself in love Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia with learning. ‘‘I was excited about learning and working before accepting her first teaching job at the University of hard in the classroom,” the fifty-year-old Mansfield Montana. professor recalls. ‘‘I loved all my subjects.” Miller admits that coming to UM was basically a ‘‘trade West sometimes jokes with students that he spent more off between lifestyle and salary,” noting that she was time milking cows as a young boy than he did reading offered year-round positions for 60 percent more than her books. salary here. The job was nevertheless attractive to her T h at’s not how West is spending his time these days. In because it provides ‘‘a lot of flexibility as far as what I’m his first year o f teaching at the University of Montana, going to be doing clinically,” she says. ‘‘It ’s also a full West continues his love o f learning as the Mansfield academic appointment, which is really kind of what I ’ve Professor of Modern Asian Affairs, a job which he says is wanted for quite some time.” part of a “moral commitment to international The University of Montana was also a convenient choice understanding.” because Miller can teach while her husband of two years, ‘‘In terms of human history, the Asian history is as large Stephen, attends law school. The couple came through if not larger than Western history,” West says. “Half of Montana on their honeymoon the summer before last. ‘‘We the world is Asian. For every American, there are ten just love it compared to Philadelphia,” Miller says. ‘‘We people who call themselves Asian.” hated Philadelphia with a passion. W e’re just not city Because o f this, West says every college student should people.” learn about the countries of Asia—including Japan, China, Miller is primarily interested in parenteral nutrition, Malaysia, India and Vietnam. which means intravenous feeding. Preparing for her role as Asian studies need to become a part of the general clinical preceptor for pharmacy students at St. Patrick education requirement for all schools within the University, Hospital, she found that the solutions the hospital used to West says. ‘‘Th ere should be as many students studying feed patients intravenously contained too many calories and Chinese and Japanese as are studying French and not enough protein. ‘‘What I was finding was that they German.” were overfeeding people,” Miller explains. ‘‘So w e ’re West first became interested in the Pacific Rim during trying to develop solutions where th ey ’ll (patients) get his freshman year o f college after writing a paper on Zen fewer calories but more protein.” Buddhism for a world history course. ‘‘That exercise was In addition to her work with students and faculty at the very stimulating to me...just because it was so different,” hospital, Miller is helping team-teach an antibiotic class and West says. a therapeutics class, which teaches students how certain His interest in Asian cultures was sparked enough to drugs work and what diseases or conditions they affect. make him spend his junior year in Tokyo at the Miller d id n ’t go to school intending to become a International Christian University, where he later returned pharmacist but planned to get a doctorate in basic science as a senior Fulbright lecturer. That year was a turning and teach at a university. Although she thought the point for West, who decided not to go into medicine as he research she was doing was interesting, she had a feeling had previously planned. “It was that year in Japan, living that none of her research would ever be applied during her with Japanese roommates, that was so fascinating to me,” lifetime. ‘‘I was never going to see any fruit of my labor” he recalls. sticking with basic science, she says; so she decided to go into “I knew I could make a lot o f money practicing ‘‘something more practical” and pursued pharmacy. medicine, but making money d id n ’t excite me,” West says.

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Sarah Johnston Miller, pharmacy Philip West, modern Asian affairs

“Creating international understanding—that was very him to work toward such an understanding as well. The exciting...it still is.’’ older West founded Heifer Project International at the end After graduating from college, West spent two years of World War II as a relief organization which gives cows teaching English in Warsaw, Poland, through the U.S. and other animals to needy families. The recipient families Department o f Agriculture as a conscientious objector to then pass the first offspring onto a neighbor, continuing the military service. That overseas experience, along with his relief and eliminating the feeling of accepting a hand out. year in Japan, helped him decide to pursue Chinese studies Though distant from academic life, Heifer Project remains at Harvard University, where he received his master’s inspirational to West in his studies o f Asia. degree in 1965. He later received his doctorate in history “The survival o f the American economy is going to and East Asian languages in 1971, also from Harvard. depend increasingly on our ability to do business with that West taught a course on contemporary East Asia at UM part o f the world. In terms o f trade, the Pacific Rim is fall quarter, is currently teaching the history o f Japan and more important to us than the European community,” West will teach the history o f China spring quarter. The China explains. “It ’s where the people are. I t ’s where new ideas course is timely in that the title o f the 1989 Mansfield and the challenge come from. I t ’s where the markets are.” Conference will be “Rising Expectations in China and In order for the United States to survive internationally, Human Rights.’’ West says it ’s time to take Asian people seriously. “We “Education is a very satisfying thing,’’ West says. must understand how they think and how they behave,” he “Especially teaching at the college level. The rewards are says. very large.’’ West and his wife, Youngee Cho, a Korean woman, While a professor at Indiana University from 1971 to have a two-year-old son named after W e st’s father, Daniel. 1987, West taught history and East Asian languages and His nineteen-year-old daughter, Jennifer, is spending her cultures and was director of the East Asian Studies Center junior year in Kyoto, Japan. She is enrolled at Wesleyan for six years before coming to Montana. He was also a University in Connecticut. And W e st’s eldest daughter, senior Fulbright lecturer at Keio University and a visiting twenty-one-year-old Barbara, is a student at Swarthmore scholar at Harvard Law School. College in Philadelphia. Both daughters have worked In addition to that, he was a key figure in establishing a summers with Heifer Project in Little Rock, Ark. sister-province relationship between Indiana and Zhejiang, Paul Gordon Lauren, Mansfield Center director and China. West received the highest governor’s award in professor o f Ethics and Public Affairs, says West has Indiana for his efforts—Sagamore o f the Wabash. already contributed much to the University. When West decided to come to Montana, he says he was “He brings a great deal o f experience, depth, maturity especially pleased to know of U M ’s exchange relationship and dedication to the Mansfield Center,” Lauren says. with Hangzhou University in China. He played a key role Lauren says W est’s interest in public outreach is a great in creating Indiana’s exchange with Hangzhou, beginning in asset to the center and the Asian Studies Committee, of 1982. His personal and professional contacts with which he and West are both members. Hangzhou continue through his current research on C h in a ’s West says he sees himself carrying on the vision of Mike experience in the Korean War. Mansfield. “Studying and preparing to work with the West says he also enjoys teaching in executive programs people o f Asia is something we must do if we are to live on the Pacific Rim for the private sector and working with well in the twenty-first century,” West says. “It can also local agencies, such as the Missoula Economic be a lot of fun.” Development Corp., in developing trade. West is following in his deceased fa th er’s footsteps because he says his father envisioned cultural and Kate Ripley o f Juneau, Alaska, is a senior in journalism at the intellectual understanding between countries and encouraged University o f Montana.

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 17 Homecoming

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Members of UM’s 1988 Homecoming Court, are, from bottom, Nikki Walter, queen, of Forsyth; Brett Parker of Seeley Lake; Shane Vannatta of Bainville; Jennifer Isern of Billings; Duane Flamand, king, of Browning; and Leslie Lucas of Miles City. At left, Steve Riddle '73 chats with President James Koch after accepting the Distinguished Alumnus Award, given posthumous­ ly to Steve’s brother, Dick '58.

Tri-Delts who got together at Homecoming to celebrate their sorority’s 100th national anniversary include Marienne Carroll Hanser ’54 of Billings; Mora MacKinnon Payne ’54 of Missoula; Patricia Schammel ’54 of Fullerton, Calif.; and Donna Hares Blumenthal ’54 o f Bridger, Mont. About 175 Tri-Delts and their husbands attended the celebration, which included a breakfast attended by President Koch and Library Distinguished Alumnus Award recipient Marjorie Nichols, left, of Ottawa, Canada, speaks Dean Ruth Patrick. Since the UM chapter to a journalism class during Homecoming week activities at UM. Nichols is a 1968 UM closed its doors in 1971, the chapter has journalism graduate. given more than $100,000 to the Mansfield Library. This year, the chapter presented the library with a check for $14,594. At left, Distinguished Alumnus Award recipient Marjorie Nichols of Ottawa, Canada, speaks 18 UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA to a journalism class during Homecoming week activities at UM. Nichols is a 1968 UM Homecoming

Justin Gray of Dana Point, Calif., left, a UM band direc­ tor from 1946 to 1958, directs an all-alumni band during Homecoming festivities at the music school. The School of Fine Arts held a reunion during Homecoming, which was at­ tended by former faculty as well as graduates.

Steve LaRance ’73 of Missoula is shown with his painting, “Water Recreation Spirit," which won an honorable mention in the UM art department alumni art exhibit at Homecoming. Nearly 60 paintings, photographs and sculptures were exhibited. Rick Phillips ’77 , M.F.A. ’86 of Great Falls, won best of show for his painting, “Cats." Also receiving an honorable mentions was Sarahjane Thompson ’87 of Bend, Ore.

Shown with home economics department Chair Audrey Koehler Peterson, right, are former department chairs Sara Cole Steensland of Bellingham, Wash., and Lendal Kotschevar, a distinguished professor at Florida International University in Miami. Steensland was chair from 1968 to 1983; and Kotschevar, the first male chair of any U.S. home economics department, was chair from 1955 to 1958. Kotschevar spoke on the “Role of Food in the Politics and Culture of China" in a lecture co­ sponsored by the department and the Mansfield Center. More than a hundred alums attended the department’s 75th anniver­ Getting candy at the sary events during parade is half the fun Homecoming. for Missoula children.

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 19 O u trea ch Blazing a trail across the state UM ambassadors spread good will in eastern Montana

By Charles E. Hood Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois and New Hampshire. Thomas Wolfe said you ca n ’t go home again, but he was The group that boarded our Beachliner behind Main Hall wrong. You can get there by bus. before dawn included the deans o f business, education, fine I found that out last September as a member o f a UM arts, pharmacy, forestry and journalism; the directors of “Ambassadors” good-will mission to southeastern admissions, financial aid, continuing education, alumni, Montana. Billed familiarly as “the Far Eastern tour,” the telecommunications and the honors program; several four-day trip took thirty-two o f us to Billings, Miles City, teachers and scholars; the president o f the student body; the Colstrip and Hardin in an effort to strengthen University past president o f the UM Alumni Association and a ties with that part o f the state. The First Interstate member of the Alumni Office staff; the director of the Bancsystem sponsored the tour. campaign to renew the six-mill levy in support o f higher I grew up in Miles City, home o f the Bucking Horse education, and the University o f Montana president Sale, the Range Riders Museum and the Custer County himself, Jim Koch. High School Cowboys. I had been back only a few times We breakfasted in Butte and lunched in Big Timber, in thirty years. where Eleanor Cooperider, president o f the Chamber of Of course, few of the bus passengers were searching for Commerce, found a metaphor for our mission. She referred their lost youth. My fellow travelers included wryly to the forest fires that were driving the grizzlies out administrators, faculty and staff members, students and o f the mountains and onto the plains. alumni who had grown up in Washington, California, During the next few days, we Grizzlies roamed a

Dan Marinkovich, right, stumps for R-106 on Main Street in Big Timber. Main Street visits were an in­ tegral part o f the bus tour at eveiy stop. Visiting with Marinkovich are Jim Graham, a 1950 UM graduate, left, and Dick Webb.

The UN bus tour to eastern Montana took a side trip to Pompeys Pillar, east of Billings, for a look at the land­ mark and a team picture. Smoke from the forest fires in Yellowstone National Park was so thick the pillar was barely visible. Kneeling, from left, are: Mike Keyser, Beach Transportation bus driver; Terry Berlchouse, cooperative education director; Hal Stearns, Missoula history teacher; David Forbes, pharmacy dean; Sheila Stearns, UM vice president for university relations; Joe Whittinghill, student intern and trip organizer; Joyce Dozier, Student Health Service administrative officer; Bob Dozier, history professor; and Bill Johnston, alnmnl director. Standing: Harold Stearns, R-106 lobbyist, of Helena; Dan Marinkovich, UM Foundation campaign fund raiser, of Anaconda; John Lnndt, education professor; Larry Gianchetta, business administration dean; James Kriley, fine arts dean; Sid Frissell, forestry dean; Mike Akin, admissions director; Teresa Seed, accounting professor; Sue Spencer, continuing education director; Charles Hood, journalism dean; George McRae, mathematics professor; UM President James V. Koch; Janice Midyett, teacher certification officer; John Pulliam, education dean, and Barbara Hollmann, dean of students. Standing on the bus: John Madden, honors program director; Betsy Brown Holmquist, alumni administrative aide; and David Wilson, telecommunications director.

20 UNIVERSITY O F MONTANA O u trea ch

UM President James V. Koch, left, teaches a high school economics class at Caster County High School in Niles City.

Pete Spooner pre­ pares “pitchfork fondue” at the Hardin Historical Museum. Beef sirloin steak is trimmed o f all fat and fried on pitchfork tines for eight seconds in a kettle of boiling oil. HOWARD SKAGGS HOWARD SKAGGS

thousand miles. The routine was the same at each stop. Jim Koch was lecturing on economics and then into another First, a reception and news conference at the First in which John Pulliam, our education dean, was discussing Interstate Bank. Then dispersal. Some o f us lectured in futurism. It was a day to remember. We drove to Colstrip schools. Others visited community leaders or alumni, or the next morning, stopping first at the new high school, simply marched down Main Street seeking targets of perhaps the most splendid school building in Montana. At opportunity. Pharmacy Dean Dave Forbes strode into drug the First Interstate Bank, I introduced myself to one o f the stores and chatted with the pharmacists. An Alumni Office directors, Wally McRae, the rancher-poet-environmentalist. staffer wandered into the local variety stores and asked He recalled attending a high school journalism workshop at surprised salespeople whether they would mind putting up the University o f Montana a quarter-century ago and being UM pennants in their display windows. ‘‘absolutely dazzled by a journalism professor named Coordinating our group, from her position at the front of Dugan.” (Professor Emeritus Edward B. Dugan, still a the bus, was Sheila Stearns, vice president for university frequent visitor on campus.) For my part, I was so dazzled relations. Her affable student assistant, Joe Whittinghill, by the legendary Mr. McRae that I missed the bus and had arranged the activities for some o f the stops. to ask Eve Benson, the bank president, to help me catch up Entertaining us on the road was S h e ila ’s husband, Hal J. with it. As it turned out, I missed the tour o f the coal Stearns, a Missoula high school teacher, who offered mines, but—with the help o f Western E n e rg y ’s Northern historical vignettes about the country we were passing Cheyenne liaison officer, Danny Sioux, and his pickup— through. rejoined the group in time to visit the Montana Power Our first overnight stop was in Billings, where we generating plants 3 and 4. demonstrated the microwave link that permits UM On our way to Hardin, Hal J. Stearns reminded us that professors in Missoula to teach business graduate students we were approaching the home o f another legend, in Billings. Gathered in an Eastern Montana College basketball player Larry Pretty Weasel. I needed no classroom, Billings-area educators and business leaders reminder. Visiting Hardin in the 1950s as a Custer County talked with UM television producer Claudia Johnson, Cowboy, I tried to guard this high-scoring Crow, and each whose image was telecast live from campus studios in time we seemed to reenact the Battle o f the Little Big Missoula. Horn. I, o f course, played Custer. The next day we headed for my old hometown. Miles But Hardin was more hospitable on this visit. If y o u ’ve City, o f course, had changed since 1957, when I graduated never had steaks fondued on pitchforks on the attractive from high school and went west. The Harmony Hangout, grounds of the Big Horn County Museum, you are to be where I learned to jitterbug, is a senior citizens center. The pitied. Joining the group there was Henrietta Mann Park Theater, where I watched Gene Autrey movies for Morton, director o f Native American Studies at UM. twelve cents on Saturday afternoons, is being converted Noting that we had been welcomed to ‘‘Cu ste r Country” into a nonalcoholic recreation center for young people. by our hosts, Henri allowed that she thought the term My former home at Orr and Tenth looked much as it did ‘‘Cr o w Country” more appropriate. As a victim o f Pretty thirty years ago. The latest owner, who was mowing the Weasel, I had to agree. lawn, invited me inside. T o my delight, I found that the En route back to Billings to spend our last night in a damage I had done by throwing a tennis ball against the hotel, we heard radio reports that firefighters were having dining room wall was faintly discernible. The graffiti I had some success in fighting the blazes that threatened Cooke painted on the garage wall—“Davey Crockett, 1848”—w as City. The smoke that had hung in the Billings air a few still there. ‘‘My kids liked it,” the owner explained. days before was dissipating. It seemed appropriate, then, After lunch in the Hole-in-the-Wall with my boyhood that the following day we should point our bus west and— friend Tom Peterson, I walked down Main Street to Custer like the grizzlies in Yellowstone—return to the mountains County High School, where I found myself pictured in a whence we came. basketball uniform that looks like the ones you saw in H oosiers. After passing the principal’s office, where I was Editor’s note: Charles H ood is dean o f I)M's School o f never sent to see my dad, I walked into a classroom where Journalism.

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 21 SPORTS

That's how it was: Football, Grizzly style, in ’88

By Don Read p o in ts.’’ And the final reaction came from a woman in The 1988 Grizzly football season was fun and exciting California who saw the game via satellite and said yours for all of us connected with the team. In fact, one of our truly looked old and heavy on TV. I am glad she d id n ’t Montana Quarterback Club members commented, “With also notice how thin my hair is getting on top. just a little coaching, this past y ea r’s team would have been The highlight o f this past fall campaign was when I hurt undefeated.’’ What really hurts about this statement is that my back and knee on two separate weekends. The way I limped around, you would have thought I had been playing. But as I tell our players, “It ’s a lot tougher to coach than to be a p la y e r .’’ Not many bought it. Throughout the whole injury ordeal, I tried to show how manly I was, but I received little sympathy. I got a clue as to how the players felt when they labeled me “Gimpy.” Boy, it is difficult sometimes being a coach! This season was full o f surprises. From week to week it brought one unique encounter after another: playing in a driving rain storm at Portland; competing on a ninety- degree field at Reno; and having breathing problems (lack o f oxygen) inside the dome in Pocatello. Boise provided us with blue astroturf, we were W eb er’s Homecoming, and the Montana State University game found us competing in wind and cold. Sometimes we could score without even trying, and other times we c o u ld n ’t get a first down. I might tell you I was reminded o f not getting enough first downs often by my athletic director. On the semi-serious side, we were most proud o f our defense leading the conference in every team category. Jody Farmer finished first nationally in net punting, while Kirk Duce broke our school record for field goals. The kids blocked more punts and returned kickoffs for more yards than any team in the league. Having fourteen on the All-Big Sky team made us happy; the Grizzlies have had the le a g u e ’s largest number of individuals selected to the All-Conference team the past two years. Tim H a u ck ’s UN head football Coach Don Read checks the scoreboard clock dar­ being selected the Big Sky Conference’s most valuable ing a game. UM ’s record was 8*4 for the 1988 season. defensive player was a tribute to the team, our defensive players, and his coach, Jerome Souers. It was exciting to play six games in Washington-Grizzly my wife, our Quarterback Club and others I am responsible Stadium. The fans were enthusiastic, and our players to seem to agree. What a deal! And would you believe the enjoyed competing in their arena. They did not lose a game coach of the UM Alumni football squad, Robin Peters, and this past year and, for that matter, lost only one contest in Casey Reilly, their general manager, have said to me, “If their new home during 1987. Finishing second in the Big the 1988 University o f Montana varsity team, after getting Sky and beating Idaho, which won the Big Sky, was hammered by the Grizzly alumni, can go 8 and 3, the satisfying. Being selected to the national playoffs was also alums could have been national cham pions!’’ By the way, a great honor. the score of last y ea r’s game was 12-10, and the yesteryear But, most o f all, what this coach would like to share players won the game on a last-play field goal. with you is that the ’88 team learned a lot about dealing Our win over Montana State was good, but you would with l if e ’s trials and tribulations. Coming back after losses, never know it by the mail and telephone reactions this playing with a lot o f pain and handling the tremendous coach received. One faithful Grizzly alum is still mad pressures o f each game made our athletes stronger and because we d id n ’t go for two after every touchdown. better equipped to challenge everyday life. Self-discipline Another 1970 graduate writes, “I d o n ’t count it as a win and sacrifice made demands on these young men, and they unless they go scoreless and we score at least forty responded.

22 UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA All in all, M ontana’s 1988 student athletes were very Announcing... special. Take my word for it. Each and every one o f these footballers will always be Grizzlies. Trust me when I say, they represented our University in a most commendable manner. I hope you are proud o f them, not just for their 8 Alumni College and 3 record, but because they always gave the best of themselves. You see, like us, they have learned to love not only this University but our great state o f Montana. And it is this attitude and spirit that helps to motivate and drive our athletes toward excellence. As most o f you did in your day, they have walked the halls and pathways o f their Flathead Lake Locke institution; and like you, these young men have developed the same deep pride you experienced. % 19-21,1989 Twenty seniors played their last scheduled contest Nov. 12, 1988. We will miss them. They have made a Open to all contribution to Montana football. Be assured, however, that alumni and friends they leave us only to make an even larger impact on society. Replacing these high-quality individuals will be of the University of Montana other first-class citizens/athletes who will perform in the great tradition o f Grizzly football. You can count on it! Let me conclude with the thought that while ’88 was $160 per person. This includes room, board, good, we hope ’89 will be better. Our coaching staff and tuition. The weekend begins with a welcome party on Friday evening and ends with pledges that your football team, like every educational a farewell breakfast on Sunday morning. Space pursuit at the University o f Montana, will continue to strive is limited; payments are accepted until May 1. for excellence. GO GRIZ! Write to the Alumni Center, University of Montana Missoula. MT 59812 d o Paddy MacDonald or call (406) 243-5211

50- & 60-Year Reunion Classes of 1929 & 1939 Commencement Reunion June 8,9,10

Tim Hauclc, a junior strong safety from Big Timber, com es up with an interception in 1 9 8 8 ’s second home game against South Dakota State* Hauck was named the Big Sky Conference defensive player of the year at the season's end.

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 23 Hometowns

Over the mountain—and back Scobey residents bring educational benefits home

By Paddy O ’Co n n e ll MacDonald the vast spaces around them. Scobey is almost as far away from the University as a Although the University o f Montana is far from here, its person can go and still be in Montana. Located in the influence pervades the town and surrounding ranches. northeastern corner of the state, twelve miles from the Patti Schafer Audet ’57 manages the Daniels County Canadian border, Scobey, population roughly 1,350, is a Credit Union on Main Street. A block away, Arthur spare, small town set in the middle of bone-dry country Erickson ’63 works as vice president of the Citizens State that has suffered ten years of drought. Bank. Don Lekvold ’72 sells crop insurance in the bank. Surely, A.B. Guthrie had this terrain in mind when he Ken Hoversland J.D. ’76, the city and county attorney, called Montana “the big sky co u n try ,’’ for there is little has his office in the next block and shares the building with else to distract the eye. The residents of Scobey like it this two CPAs, Darrel Tade ’79 and Don Hagan ’82. Two or way. They are plains people, accustomed to and fond of three doors down is a pharmacy owned and operated by Bob Haugo ’81. He is sometimes assisted (particularly Arthur Erickson *63 during hunting season) by his retired father, Orville ’49. outside the Citizens Across the street, Larry Bowler ’36 edits and publishes State Bank. the Daniels County Leader. Howard Farver ’65 , county superintendent of schools, has his office in the courthouse, and next door is the office o f attorney Jordan Fosland J.D. ’50. His wife, Ginger Brown Fosland x ’51, works as his legal secretary. For these business people, volunteerism is a way of life. Orville Haugo has been a member of the City Council, the Commercial Club and the Chamber of Commerce. H e ’s presently on the Council on Aging. Jordan Fosland is a former director of the Citizens Bank and has been involved in the American Legion, VFW and the L io n ’s Club. Ginger Fosland, who has been active in Girl Scouts and is a past president of the Scobey W om en ’s Club, says her university education broadened her scope and influenced the way she approached life. In her work with the scouts, for example, Fosland says, “My ambition was to teach the girls that there is a lot out th ere.’’ She took the troops to Regina, Saskatchewan, where they saw their first escalator. On a trip to Washington, D.C., they set up wall-to-wall sleeping bags in Congressman Ron M a rlen ee’s living room. Last summer, Fosland took the girls in canoes on the Missouri River from Loma to the Fred Robinson Bridge. The Farvers are active volunteers, too. Howard is director of the elevator board, sings in the church choir and leads a 4-H group. Ellen Murphy Farver ’65, when sh e ’s not working in nearby Flaxville at the kindergarten she founded in 1980, plays organ for her church and participates in virtually every musical activity in the community. Ellen credits her UM education for shaping her life. “Higher education gives you more confidence. Y o u ’re more willing to take a leadership role, and people expect you to . ’’ People make their own fun in Scobey. Since there are no malls, nightclubs or casino parlors, the school is the core of S c o b e y ’s social, cultural and athletic life. The town revolves around its plays, ball games, choral performances and band concerts. 24 UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA H o m e to w n s

“If the school goes, the town g o e s , ’’ says high school math teacher Claude Hayes M.A. ’68. “It ’s one o f the things that holds the community together.’’ Farver, who serves as liaison between the schools and the state department, is proud o f the school system he oversees. “We offer a good, basic liberal arts education here,” he says. “High standards have been set, partly because of U M ’s influence.” Many of S c o b e y ’s teachers were trained at UM. Kurt Hilyard M.Ed. ’86 is superintendent. Dustin Hill M.A. ’72 teaches fifth grade, and Clarice Gunderson Brekke ’50 At left in his law teaches second grade. At the high school, besides Hayes, is office are Jordan George Rider M.A. ’85, who teaches English. Fosland J.D. '50 and Ginger Brown Fosland U M ’s influence also reaches into the homes. Marjorie x ’50 , who is a legal Sampson Shiell ’42 channeled her energies into child­ secretary. Below in raising but has always valued her university experience. “It the family pharmacy are Orville ’49 and helped me give my children an idea of a bigger life in Robert Hango '81. terms o f music, books and travel,” she says. A few blocks away, Larry B o w le r ’s house reflects his college education and his passion for learning. The rooms are crammed with books, almanacs, magazines, maps, records and tapes. B o w le r ’s taste is encyclopedic: his collection of music ranges from Roy Acuff to Louis Armstrong to Brahms; his reading material includes The Arab World and Notre Dame's Man in Action. Bowler, who came to UM at the “request” o f his father, says his years at the University changed his attitudes and his life. “My father told me the story o f the bear who went over the mountain,” Bowler said. “So I did it, I went over the mountain and, well, I tell you!” Eventually, Bowler returned to Scobey to work for the newspaper he now publishes. He and his late wife, Beth, raised six children, several of whom attended the University. Many UM alumni in Scobey combine a job in town with ranching or farming. In fact, ties to family and to family- Howard '65 and owned land are what bring young people back home to Ellen Murphy Farver '65 outside Scobey. the Daniels County Darrell Tade spent five years in New Orleans after Courthouse. graduating from UM but eventually returned home where, by combining agrarian life and his accounting practice, Tade feels he has the best of both worlds. After a hectic tax season, he renews himself out on the ranch. “On the 16th of April, I’m out o f here and on a tractor,” Tade says. “The ranch is a real sanity-saver.” Involvement in ranching and agriculture contribute to the basic, common-sense attitudes of the people in this community. “You see the entire cycle o f things out here, not just a piece of it,” Tade says. “You see that there is a beginning and an end to things. If kids pay any attention at all, they see the calf being created. They see it born, they see it grow, and they see it slaughtered. I t ’s nothing but cycles. We always go back to where we started.” T a d e ’s words echo the habits o f many o f S c o b e y ’s UM alumni. They went west to broaden their scope and to pursue higher education at the University. When they completed the task, these people came back to family, land, home. They came back to complete cycles o f their own, and in the process, they passed on to their children, their friends and their fellow citizens the benefits o f what they had learned and experienced while in college. “Impact? Certainly the University has impact,” Ginger Fosland says. “An education never goes to waste around here.”

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 25 ALUMNI NEWS

H e ’s his own grandpa Alumni director can't shake ‘su cc e sso r ’

By Bill Johnston

Because I ’ve been with the alumni office only a few months, I had a hard time picking a topic for my first column. After sitting at my computer for hours cranking out. one draft after another on various subjects, I finally sent a finished column to Montanan Editor Virginia Braun. She was less than thrilled with my product; in fact, I believe she described it as “deadly” and “boring.” She recommended that I let more of my personality come through in my writing. Some people would argue that’s exactly what happened the first time. Nevertheless, I agreed to try again. Then it hit me. The perfect subject, one I c a n ’t believe I d id n ’t think of the first time: my infamous proofing goof. Several thousand careful readers recently noticed in the membership dues mailing that I referred to Sheila Stearns, former alumni director and now vice president for university relations, as my successor rather than predecessor. Did I ever receive mail! To the several hundred people who took the time to write, thanks. Just for the record, John Piquette of Taipei, Taiwan, was the first person to report the error. Other people have told me about my error in both subtle and not-so-subtle ways. I was surprised how often the word “predecessor” could come up in everyday conversation— for example, at the mall during Christmas shopping trips. In addition, an alumnus sent a copy of the error to the The Chronicle o f Higher Education. After the publication ran the error in its “Marginalia” column, colleagues from across the country began writing me to ask, “How red is your face?” I’m surprised they h adn’t seen the glow. I suppose by writing about the misuse of the word “successor,” I ’ve tipped my hand to as many as several thousand people who d id n ’t catch the error. Still, I have a compelling need to tell people I do know the meaning of “predecessor.” This proofing error has accomplished one good thing, though: it ’s helped me put my past errors into perspective. Accidentally giving a mother and daughter a tour of the m en ’s bathroom in a coed dorm while working as a UM campus tour guide in 1982 seems trivial now. Forgetting Bill Johnston, former associate director of admissions, took over former College of Arts and Sciences Dean Howard new duties as director of alumni relations in September. Reinhardt at Kalispell High School as we left town after-a recruitment visit in 1984 isn ’t so traumatic. Editor’s note: In case you missed B ill’s gaffe in the fa ll membership I know th ere’s a hungry crowd waiting for its next meal: mailing, several thousand o f you probably got to see it a second time another slip from the new director o f alumni relations. I after another mailing containing the original error was sent out by just hope the wait will be a long one. mistake by a private mail-order house. '

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Classnotes have been compiled and edited by been an independent teacher of piano for over Paddy O ’Connell MacDonald. If you would like 40 years. She and her husband, Art, live in to submit information, please write to her c/o Mercer Island, Wash. They have seven children Alumni Association, University o f Montana, and ten grandchildren. M issoula, M T 59812-1313. Keith Crandall ’48 and his wife, Annie Shaver-Crandall live in New York City, where Keith was recently appointed to the New York ’20 s State Democratic Committee, a policy-making body for the state Democratic Party. Mary Kirkwood ’26 taught art at the Univer­ Earl E. Dahl ’48 is retired and lives in sity of Idaho until her retirement in 1970. Mary Anaheim, Calif., where he is president o f the lives in Moscow, Idaho. This fall, her work was Anaheim Foundation for Culture and Arts. included in the University o f Montana Art Lynn Stetler Schwanke *68, left, and Frances “We are delightedly returning to Montana Department Alumni Exhibit during Hughes Maclay ’31 , both of Missoula, look at after 32 years of work in Georgia’s division of homecoming. list of manuscript materials in the Joseph Moore Dixon Collection, dedicated at the K. forensic science,’’ writes Larimore B. Howard Grace Elderling ’27 passed away August 31, Ross Toole Archives at Homecoming. Dixon was ’49 . He and his wife, Elaine Ungherini 1988, in Grand Rapids, Mich. After graduating publisher of the Mlssoulian during the first two Howard x ’53 , will move to Missoula, where from UM, Grace earned her Ph.D. from Johns decades of the 20th centnxy. A U.S. con­ Larimore will work at Montana’s crime Hopkins University. In the 1930s, she gressman and senator from Montana, he was President Theodore Roosevelt’s campaign laboratory. developed a vaccine still used to prevent whoop­ manager in the Bull Moose campaign in 1912. Robert Mattson ’49 lives in Eugene, Ore., ing cough (pertussis). Until her retirement, He also was governor of Montana in 1921-25 where he recently retired from the University Grace was the director o f the Michigan State and served as assistant secretaiy of the interior o f Oregon. He was a professor at U o f O for Health Laboratory. In 1968, she was given a during the Hoover administration in 1929-33. 30 years. Distinguished Alumna Award from UM. “I recently returned from Kenya, where I at­ Helen Addison Howard ’27 has written her Celia Raffin Risen ’35 has reprinted her tended a professional seminar on cross-cultural sixth western Americana history book. The book, Yankee Fiddler: A Man Called Suss. issues in mental health,’’ writes Barbara book is titled The UY Ranch, and it is schedul­ Recently, she donated a copy o f the book to Williams Merriam x ’49 . Barbara lives in ed for publication in July 1989. She recently U M ’s Mansfield Library. Celia lives in Pullman, Wash., where she is a psychologist learned that her 1965 book, Saga of Chief Bethesda, Md. for counseling services at Washington State Joseph, will be published in Italian by Rusconi Word has been received that Roy Babich x ’36 University. Libri of Milan, Italy. Helen, who lives in Bur­ died in Las Vegas, Nev., in January. Roy W. David Perkins ’49 and his wife, Agnes bank, Calif., will be listed in the 1989 edition played football for the Grizzlies in 1935 and Regan Perkins ’47 , M.A. ’49 , live on a farm o f The World Who's Who o f Women. was the heavyweight boxing champion in the near Ann Arbor, Mich. David, who retired in Pacific Coast Conference in ’34 -’35 . He also 1985, is professor emeritus of English at ’30 s was a member of Phi Delta Theta. Roy was a Schoolcraft College. Agnes, who retired in World War II Marine veteran and served in the 1986, is professor emeritus at Eastern Michigan Kenneth Duff ’35 , originally from Butte, Pacific theater. He had lived in Las Vegas for University. lives in Bountiful, Utah, where he is retired the past 44 years, where he was a gaming after many years as a general manager. clothing salesman. The James P. MacLaren '38 is retired and lives sweatshirt Ken is wearing in Oakland, Calif. James spent six years in was given to him by his Japan, from 1945 to 1950, before moving to daughter-in-law, who Korea for another six years, 1950-57, work­ added Class o f 1935 and ing as a civilian with the United Nations forces. Hall o f Fame on the James reports that when he left in 1957, his sleeves. While at UM, “two original duffel bags had increased to a Ken was also captain of Korean wife and three small children.’’ the track team, a member o f Silent Sentinel and Sigma Chi, and an of­ ficer in ROTC. ’40 s

Col. Myron Keilman ’40 contributed two copies of his book, 3 9 2 n d War Stories to U M ’s Mansfield Library. The book is a compilation ADVERTISE o f stories he wrote of combat operations over Nazi Germany from 1943 through V-E Day 1945. Myron and his wife, Blanche, live in their IN THE 36-year-old cabin on Holland Lake, Mont., dur­ ing the summer, and in Sacramento, Calif., the MONTANAN rest o f the year. The University of Montana's Magazine Warren Harris ’43 lives in Kalispell, where Our circulation reaches he works for Kalispell Realty. nearly 5 0 ,0 0 0 alumni and friends Thelma Merryfield Bogdanowicz ’44 recent­ Katherine Sire Bentley ’42 was one of 10 manne­ of the University. quins to model in the 1988 Las Floristas Floral ly retired as office manager for Koppers Com ­ Headdress Ball held in Beverly Hills. The ball, For advertising service contact pany Inc. in Newark, N.J. She lives in Mays which supports the Las Floristas’ Handicapped Don Kludt Landing, N.J. Children’s Clinics, has been termed by the press 420 Fairvietv Ave. Lois Hart Jacobson x ’47 was recently as the “most visually beautiful ball in America.” Missoula MT 59801 Katherine lives in Los Angeles and works with the (406) 543-5780 elected president o f the Music Teachers Na­ media on special events at the University of tional Association Northwest Division. Lois has Southern California.

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patients have raised $10,000 in his name for a fund that will be used to pay for respite care for parents o f ailing children, child care when a parent is hospitalized or items not covered by insurance. Donald C. Orllch ’53 has edited and written A Handbook fo r Staff Development. He lives in Pullman, Wash. Lynn Hughes Ophus ’54 , a longtime physical education instructor at Northern Mon­ tana College, has retired. Lynn lives in Havre, Pictured on the alumni trip down the Danube in Mont. November are, front row: Juanita McKay, Mesa, Ariz.; Sharon Northridge Leonard ’64 , Spokane; Mary Lou Marsh Wagner ’55 lives in Bill­ Estelle Marcoe McFarland x ’29 , Missoula; Lee ings, where she is librarian at Alkali Creek Birkett Rostad ’51 , Martinsdale, Mont.; and School. Florence Steinbrenner Jones ’35 and Bob Jones Members of the class of 1960 gathered for a reu­ ’34 , Missoula. Back row: Nancy Dominici, Butte; George L. Campanella ’56 has been award­ nion in Colorado this past summer. Seated are Lucy Pesanti, Butte; John McKay ’32 , Mesa, Ariz.; ed the Distinguished Service Award by the Roberta Cain Hover, Salt Lake City; Elaine Huber M. Estelle McFarland Byrne ’53 , Mount Lebanon, Montana Society o f Certified Public Accoun­ Adams, Denver; and Carol Hertder Miller, Pa.; Blanche and Myron Keilman ’40 , Sacramen­ tants. He is executive vice president of Junker- Loveland, Colo. Standing: Marilyn Boward Wells, to, Calif.; Ann Rawlings Cole ’53 , Malta, Mont.; Tehachipi, Calif.; Dorothy Thomas Jones, Fairplay, and Dick Boggio ’56 , Clinton, Wash. mier, Clark, Campanella and Stevens, P.C., in Colo.; Carol Rose Eddleman, Fairfax, Va. Great Falls. The award was presented at the society’s 75th annual meeting held in Butte last June. where he is engaged in the private practice of Marshall H. Murray Jr. J.D. ’56 was recent­ opthalmology. ’50 s ly elected president of the Montana Law Foun­ Peggy Marlow Guthrie ’59 lives in Choteau, dation. Marshall lives in Kalispell, where he Mont., where she operates a travel agency. John K. Beumee ’50 has been named presi­ is a partner in the law firm o f Murray, Kauf­ Ed Lord ’59 was recently elected second vice dent and CEO o f TPEX Exploration Inc. in man, Vidal & Gorden. president of the Montana Stickgrowers Associa­ Denver. Harvey Kom ’57 retired from the U.S. Forest tion. Ed lives in Philipsburg. Victor Dahl ’50 lives in Lake Oswego, Ore. Service in June 1987 after 31 years of service. Gary G. Morrison ’59 retired as program co­ He is a professor o f history at Portland State Harvey and his wife, Bernice, live in Orofino, ordinator for the division o f minerals and University. Idaho. geology of the USDA Forest Service’s northern Robert Damon ’50 was elected a 1988 Frank Jernigan ’58 has been promoted to region headquarters after 32 years o f service. Fellow o f the Society o f American Foresters. Clearwater woodland manager for Potlatch Gary and his wife, Sheila Lacy Morrison ’58 , Nationwide, only 57 Fellows were elected this Corp. Frank lives in Headquarters, Idaho. live in Missoula. They are the parents o f two year from the 19,000-member organization. Herbert Ekstrom ’58 , M.Ed. ’64 was grown daughters. Robert, who is retired, lives in Spokane. recently selected as the 1988 “Distinguished Lawrence K. Pettit ’59 was awarded the Robert J. “Bob” Fischer ’51 retired from Principal” for the state of Oregon. Herbert lives “Significant Sig” award, the highest honor the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and is present­ in Bend, Ore., where he is principal o f Ken­ given by the Sigma Chi fraternity to its alumni ly a consultant for the Fish & Wildlife wood Elementary School. for professional achievement. Larry lives in Reference Service in Bethesda, Md. He and his Bill Pellant ’58 , M.Ed. ’62 , lives in Carbondale. 111., where he is chancellor of wife, Pat, live in Vancouver, Wash. Hamilton, Mont., where he is the new direc­ Southern Illinois University. Dr. Ray Rademacher ’52 and Jackie Perry tor o f the Bitterroot Special Education Bob Ruby ’59 and his wife, Eunice, live in Rademacher ’52 live in Denver, where Ray Cooperative. Altamonte Springs, Fla., where they are in the practices medicine. Recently, Ray was honored Dr. Richard Beighle ’59 has recently been restaurant business. Their restaurant. Bob by 800 of his patients at a party they gave for reappointed to the Board of Medical Examiners. Ruby’s Great Steaks, was recently written up him in Denver’s City Park. In addition, Ray’s Richard and his wife, Bernice, live in Missoula, in Florida Magazine.

HONORS Institute is a two-week program offered for outstanding Applicants must have completed their junior year of high school, high school students. Students who nave completed their junior have a GPA of 3.0 (or B) or better, and be in the top 10 percent year are invited to live and learn on the University of Montana of their class. Completed applications must be postmarked by May campus this summer. 8,1989. Applicants will be notified of acceptance into the Institute and awara of scholarship by May 22, 1989. Early application is Students choose one of three introductory courses: Non-Verbal Com­ advised; enrollment is limited. munication, Human Genetics, or Contemporary East Asia. Suc­ cessful completion of a course results in students’ receiving three To receive a program brochure and an applicationpacket, interested quarter hours of college credit. All courses are taught by Univer­ students ana parents may contact the Center for Continuing Educa­ sity of Montana faculty. Class size is small to guarantee maximum tion, 125 Main Hall, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812 educational benefits to the student. or telephone (406) 243-6486 or 243-2900.

The University of Montana will grant thirty scholarships for this UNIVERSITY program. Scholarships will cover a student’s in-state tuition and lodging for the two-week program. All students applying to the pro­ gram will be considered for scholarships. The UM HONORS Institute will begin Monday, June 19, and run through Friday, June 30. Classes will meet daily with times to be determined by course content. jt t w S M m mMiMMiiiiwimii

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The Alumni Association House of Delegates met at Homecoming. From Scales McMahon '67, Madeleine Martin Neumeyer '68. Fourth row: Bill left, first row: Wayne Mathis *67, Jim O'Day '80, JoAnn Sayre Firm Boettcher '63, Beverly Simpson Braig '63, Bob Bronson '77, Larry '58, Carol Otthuse Palin '59, Noreen Ortwein Kozeluh '72, Beverly Kravik '74, Carla Boettcher '66, Rebecca Christensen '74. Fifth row: St. Cyr '69, Pat Doney Evans '78, Monte Solberg '79. Second row: Karl Rogge '74, Marilyn Shope Peterson '57, Doug Harris '74, Tom Karen Schirm Dahlberg '60, Steve Munson '71, Bob Hoene '70, John Mathews '79 & '87, Richard Ford '64. Sixth row: Lou Griffee '57, Bruce Coffee '61, Tom Welch '60, Dean Bellinger '56, A1 Cochrane '51. Third Jelinek '61, Paul Caine '56, Rocky Torgerson '82, Dan Sullivan '77, row: Reed Gunlikson '82, Brad Niclde '62, Mark Josephson '84, Susan Bill Brenner '79.

’60 s

James E. Cowan ’60 is president and CEO o f First Valley Bank in Seeley Lake, Mont. Nominate Someone Great! James was recently appointed to the Teachers’ Retirement Board. Each year the University of Montana Alumni Association honors outstand­ Mary Clearman Blew ’62 , M.A. ’63 , lives in Lewiston, Idaho, where she teaches literature ing alumni. Nominations for awards are currently being sought from alumni at Lewis & Clark State College. and friends of the University who wish to submit names of outstanding former Jan Standley Albright ’63 and her husband, students or graduates. Nomination forms are available from^he UM Alumni Jerry, live in Chester, Mont. Jan retired in June Office, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812. Nominations must be 1988 after 25 years o f teaching. submitted by May 1st. Richard S. Paul ’63 has been elected vice president and general counsel o f Xerox Corp. Award Categories Richard lives in Stamford, Conn. Karen Krout x ’64 lives in Calgary, Alber­ ta, where she is a violinist and assistant con- Distinguished Alumnus Award: Recipients of this award have certmistress with the Calgary Philharmonic distinguished themselves in a particular field and have brought honor to the Orchestra. University, the state or the nation. The.focus of this award is career achieve­ Jim McLean ’64 , J.D. ’67 , and his wife, ment. Up to four awards are given. Francie, live in Bozeman, where Jim is a part­ ner in the law firm o f Drysdale, McLean, Nellen & Nellen. The McLeans have three teenage children. Young Alumnus Award: Recipients of this award are graduates or former Myra Alves Shults ’64 was recently named students, 35 years of age or younger, who have^

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Roy E. Korkalo ’66 lives in Livingston, Michael McKee ’67 James C. Beseske ’70 lives in Plymouth, Mont., where he is manager o f human has been appointed to Mass., where he has his own physical therapy resources and public relations for the Livingston Montana’s Board of practice. Rebuild Center. Housing. He and his Shelly Dumas ’70 lives in Grangeville, Everit A. Sliter ’66 has been appointed to wife, Jeannette Sayer Idaho, where she works for the Moose Creek the Board o f Public Accountants. Everit lives M cKee ’68 , live in Ranger District. in Kalispell. Hamilton, Mont. Dave Filius M.A. ’70 has moved to Duluth, Lane Basso ’67 , president o f Billings Minn., where he is supervisor of the Superior Deaconess Medical Center, has been appointed National Forest. to the Rocky Mountain College board o f William H. Ruegamer ’67 is the chief Carol Gartzka Gilles ’70 and Jere Gilles ’70 trustees. operating officer o f the First Interstate Banc- live in Columbia, Mo., where Jere is an Bill Beaman ’67 , M.B.A. ’72 , has joined the System o f Montana Inc., located in Billings. associate professor of rural sociology and Carol President’s Council o f Carroll College. Bill Gene Speelman ’67 is the sports editor for is a teacher. Carol, in conjunction with six other lives in Helena, where he is vice president of The Daily Interlake in Kalispell. teachers, recently wrote and edited a book titl­ D.A. Davidson & Co. Phil Turck ’67 lives in Belgrade, Mont., ed Whole Language Strategies fo r Secondary Edward G. Groenhout ’67 , M.F.A. ’69 , is where he is vice principal o f Belgrade High Students. dean o f the College o f Creative and Com­ School. Edward J. Leary ’70 lives in Spokane, munication Arts at Arizona State University in Jerry Waltari ’67 is branch manager o f Wash., where he is executive vice president and Flagstaff. Hamilton Misfeldt in Havre, Mont. general manager o f the Williams Investment Gary W icks ’67 lives in Helena, where he Co. is Montana director of highways. He recently Charles Philpot Ph.D. ’70 lives in Portland, received the U.S. Department o f Transporta­ Ore., where he works for the U.S. Forest Ser­ tion’s Administrator’s Public Service Award for vice as director o f the Pacific Northwest outstanding leadership and management. Research Station. Donald C. Brunell ’68 was recently named George Sorenson ’70 and his wife, Marilyn, president o f the Association o f Washington live in Forsyth, Mont., where George works Business. Don lives in Olympia, Wash. for the Eastern Montana Community Health Linda Chidely Lewis ’68 is coordinator of Center. compensatory education for the Unified School Elizabeth Timm Christian ’71 and James Byron Christian ’59 live in Poison, Mont., Three Alpha Phi’s who enjoyed a reunion at District in Vallejo, Calif. She and her husband, Homecoming this year are Madeleine Martin Russell, live in Vallejo. where Elizabeth is a teacher and James is a real Neumeyer ’68 of Helena; Susan Scales Mike Milodragovich ’68 , J.D. ’71 , has been estate broker. McMahon ’67 of Lovettsville, Va.; and Diane re-appointed to the State Banking Board. Mike Patty Duncan Harp ’71 is on the staff of Ask Leach Noznesky ’67 of Minneapolis. lives in Missoula, where he is an attorney with Mr. Foster Global Travel in Missoula. the law firm o f Milodragovich, Dale & Dye. Kirk M. Hubbard ’71 , M.Ed. ’76 , and his Jerry Okonski ’68 and his wife, Mary Ann wife, Anne, live in Norfolk, Va., where Kirk Jolley Okonski ’68 , live in Libby, where Jerry was recently selected to be commanding officer owns and operates Timber Tech and Mary Ann of a U.S. Marine Corps Reserve medical I t ’s not teaches school. They have three daughters: company. Kendra, Kristina and Janina. Michael McKeon J.D. ’71 has been certified James R. Penner ’68 was awarded the by the National Board o f Trial Advocacy. too late! Chartered Financial Analyst designation recent­ Michael and his wife, Carol Stocich McKeon ly. James, who lives in Helena, is an invest­ ’71 , live in Anaconda with their two children. You can s i apply ment officer. Norma Tirrell ’71 is publications co­ for the Boyd A. Vander Houwen ’68 and his wife, ordinator for Travel Montana in Helena. She Loma Madsen Vander Houwen ’69 , live in has recently published a book, We Montanans, UM Alumni VBA Card Mercer Island, Wash., with their two children. a portrait o f the state and its people. Boyd is a principal in Hawkins Vander Houwen Frank Grant M.A. ’72 , Ph.D. ’84 , was re­ Inc., a public relations firm specializing in tained by the Stevensville, Mont. Civic Club marketing and management communication. to do an historical inventory o f the buildings Loma teaches Spanish and directs a program in the town. Frank lives in Missoula. in drug and alcohol abuse education at Jeri S. Guthrie-Coon ’72 , M.A. ’76 , was Shore wood High School near Seattle. recently sworn in as an officer o f the U.S. Gail Cleveland ’69 lives in Whitefish, where Foreign Service. Her first assignment is in she teaches English at Whitefish High School. Oran, Algeria. Barbara Kolar ’69 teaches sixth grade at Terry Sather ’72 , M.S. ’88 , lives in Havre, Harlem Elementary School in Harlem, Mont. Mont., where he is interim principal at Lincoln- Darrell J. Micken M.A. ’69 lives in McKinley Elementary School. Bozeman, where he is an audiologist and owner Margi Corey ’73 lives in Choteau, Mont., o f the Medical Arts Hearing Center. Recently, where she teaches second grade at Choteau Darrell received the Montana Speech- Elementary. She and her husband, Rick, have Language-Hearing Meritorious Award. two children, Jeremy and Danny. Call Thomas M. Fitzpatrick ’73 lives in Seattle, (406) where he is a lawyer with the firm of Karr, Tut­ ’70 s tle and Campbell. Tom was recently appointed 243-5211 as a member o f the American Bar Standing M. Jane Bauer ’70 has been promoted to vice Committee on Professional Discipline. president o f Canyon Consulting Inc. in Debbie Losleben Fleming ’73 and her hus­ Missoula. band, Paul Fleming '76, live in Seattle, where

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Debbie is a theatrical makeup artist; and Paul he is a financial consultant at Merrill Lynch. teaches drama in a prep school. Debbie started Robert Boast ’76 and his wife, Diane Boast \ I her own business, Faces, through which she ’86, live in St. Louis, Mo., where Robert is does work for commercials, theater and TV. employed by Aselaye, Kiefer & Co. as a staff G e n tle Steve LaRance ’73 lives in Missoula, where accountant in the tax department. Diane R ea d er, he runs a graphic design business. Steve is also manages the St. Louis office of Conway an artist, and an exhibit of his work was recently Millikin and Associates, a market research We hope you enjoy receiving the shown at the Hockaday Center for the Arts in company. Montanan. W e’re trying hard to Kalispell. James R. Carlson Jr. J.D. ’76 lives in Col- keep you in touch with your John S. Monahan ’73 joined the staff of legeville, Minn., where he is assistant professor university—with students, faculty, American Ranch & Farm Insurance Agency in and associate law librarian at St. John’s College. your friends and current issues and Butte. Joyce Davis ’76 is a counselor at Rocky events. But—and there’s always a Rita M. Theisen ’73 of Washington, D.C., Mountain College in Billings. “but”—we’d like to gently remind has been named chair of the task force on AIDS Gary Harrington ’76, M.A. ’79, lives in and chair of the health insurance law commit­ Salisbury, Md., where he teaches American you to send in your “voluntary tee of the tort and insurance practice section of literature at Salisbury State University. He has subscription” if you haven’t done so the American Bar Association for the 1988-89 finished a manuscript on William Faulkner, and this year. And keep those cards and bar year. it has been accepted for publication. Gary letters coming. It’s always good to Mark L. Amdahl M.A. ’74 has earned a estimates a publication date of July 1989. hear from you. Ph.D. in English from Washington State John Hedge ’76 is a partner in the Peat Mar­ Your Montanan wick Main & Co. accounting firm in Billings. University in Pullman, Wash. He and his wife, News and Publications Office Cathryn, teach in the English department at John was recently appointed to the Business Ad­ University o f Montana WSU. visory Council of UM’s school of business ad­ Robert S. Houser ’74 was named assistant ministration. Missoula, MT 59812 regional director for Northwestern Mutual. He Marshall B. Long ’76, associate professor of and his wife, Kay, live in Glendale, Wis. They mechanical engineering at Yale University, is Today I received my copy of the fall issue of have a daughter, Kali. currently heading a study on the nature of fire. the Montanan, and as always I read it from Erika Syroid ’74 lives in Las Vegas, where Marshall, a former Young Alumnus Award cover to cover. I do enjoy receiving it, as it she plays violin with the showroom orchestra winner, and his wife, Leslie, live in Guilford, keeps me in touch and brings back many fond memories of my undergraduate years. Enclos­ at the Las Vegas Hilton and with the Las Vegas Conn., with their two daughters. They are ex­ ed is a small check for a “voluntary subscrip­ Symphony Orchestra. In 1982, Erika toured the pecting a third child. tion.” United States and Europe with singer Diana Melody Weathermon ’76 lives in Wolf Ross. Point, Mont., where she teaches third grade at Lynn Chiodo ’84 Ann Gidel ’75 lives in Helena and is phar­ Frontier Elementary School. 709 Fairway Drive macy adviser and clinical Joseph V. Bower ’77 lives in Helena, where Melbourne, FL 32940 pharmacy co-ordinator at he is assistant vice president of First Bank. Veterans Administration Recently, Joseph was named vice chairman of Please accept the enclosed contribution. Medical Center, where the Montana Bankers Association Real Estate Although the amount is small, it is in no way indicative of my appreciation of “our” UM pharmacy students Committe. publication. gain practical experience William O. Bronson ’77, J.D. ’83, lives in through clinical extern- Great Falls, where he practices law with the Kaylene Larson ’67 ships. She was recently firm of James, Gray & McCafferty. Box 705 named Syntex “Precep­ Jane Fisher ’77, Ph.D. ’85, lives in Helena, Bynum, MT 59419 tor of the Year” by UM where she was recently promoted to office pharmacy students in recognition of her impor­ director of the Helena Outpatient Office of Please accept our check for $10 to keep your tant contribution to the educational experience Mental Health Services Inc. great magazine going. We always enjoy it. of future pharmacists. Patty Simon Groves ’77 and Jim Groves ’78 Helen ’32 and Earl Helms ’39 Gregory Hughes ’75 lives in Helena, where live in Redmond, Wash., where Patty is a 445 North Ave. W. he is assistant vice president and trust officer secretary for B.E. Meyers & Co., and Jim Missoula, MT 59801 for Norwest Capital Management & Trust Co. works for Microsoft. They have two children, Recently Gregory was named secretary of the Jeremy and Christy. We liked the recent fall issue tremendously. Montana Bankers Association Trust Com­ A J. Lorenzen ’77 and his wife, Julie Aicher Thanks for remembering us, even when we mittee. Lorenzen ’79, live in Big Timber, Mont., forget you. Here’s a check to keep the issues Randy Pugh M.F.A. ’75 and his wife, where they own Cole Drug. coming. Alicia, live in Billings, where Randy is direc­ H. Lynn Reese M.B.A. ’77 has recently been Betty Ellen ’42 tor of the Billings Studio Theater. “I love appointed director of the North Carolina 525 S. Fifth E., No. 2-C theater people, and I think Billings is a wonder­ Science and Technology Research Center. He Missoula, MT 59801 ful place to live,” he reports. The Pughs have and his wife, Marilyn, live in Raleigh with their two children, Miranda and Dustin. sons, Johnny and Jimmy. The best buy I ever made was my Alumni Life Gene Sentz M.Ed. ’75 lives in Choteau, Harley Schrenck M.A. ’77 lives in St. Paul, Membership for $250! I ’m enclosing my Mont., where he teaches fourth grade at Minn., where he is assistant professor of an­ check of $10 to help with your expenses. I Choteau Elementary. thropology at Bethel College. have enjoyed your publications. Jo Christiansen Swain ’75 lives in Billings, Ryan Toole ’77 has been appointed city Barbara Roache ’54 where she is principal at Bitterroot School. leader for Minneapolis operations by the 106 Eastwood Drive Leslie Westphal ’75 lives in Portland, Ore., Prudential Property Co. He has overall respon­ San Francisco, CA 94112 where she is assistant attorney general. sibility for the company’s Minneapolis property Craig Anderson ’76 has been named to the portfolio. Executive’s Club of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Barbara Springer Beck ’78, M.A. ’82, lives £ ------xr* £ Fenner & Smith. Craig lives in Billings, where in Townsend, Mont., where she is district

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA 31 CLASSNOTES ranger for the Forest Service. reported for duty with the fourth Marine Divi­ Mont., where he is principal at Poplar High Margaret Bennington Davis ’78 and her sion in Encino, Calif. School. husband, Timothy, live in Beaverton, Ore., Elbert Hatcher ’79 lives in W olf Point, with their son, Dane Paul. Margaret is a fourth- Mont., where he is superintendent and principal year medical student at Oregon Health Sciences at Frontier Elementary School. ’80s University. Deborah Bock Huck ’79 and Christopher Don Bennett ’80 lives in Columbia Falls, Kelly Roberts Weibel ’78 has received a Huck M.A. ’77 live in Sanford, Maine, where Mont., where he is president of First Citizen’s Fulbright grant to teach English as a foreign Chris is a regional planner for the Southern Bank. Don and his wife, Barbara, have three language at the University of Osijek, Maine Regional Planning Commission. “We daughters, Melissa, Kellen and Blayne. Yugoslavia. Kelly and her husband, Pat, live are currently building our own house in the Dario Duke ’80 and his wife, Patricia, live In Osijek. town o f Waterboro, and that keeps us busy,” in Santa Terasa, N.M. Dario is employed by Dr. Gerald Spangrude ’78 recently headed Deborah writes. PATHLAB, a reference laboratory in El Paso, a research team at Stanford University that Steve Huntington ’79 lives in Helena, where Texas. isolated a type of blood cell that could be a key he is executive director of the Montana Science Kerry Hallin Kienberger ’80 and her hus­ to new treatments o f a wide range o f blood and Technology Alliance. band, Jon, live in Missoula, where Kerry is an disorders. Currently, Gerald is working at the Ginny Jamruska-Misner ’79 , M.A. ’81 , and accountant for Eagle Communications Inc. Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, her husband, H. Ellis Misner, live in Cascade, Robert B. Pfennigs ’80 , J.D. ’88 , lives in Australia, under a grant from the Leukemia Mont. Ginny is the school psychologist for Great Falls, where he is an associate with the Choteau Schools. law firm o f Jardine, Stephenson, Blewett & Tom Alexander ’79 Neil McMahon M.A. ’79 has published two Weaver. has been named director novels. Next, After Lucifer and Adversary. Neil, Peggy Probasco ’80 , J.D. ’83 , has been o f the Montana Power who lives in Missoula, is working on a third named project manager for Gateway Place in C o .’s education and book. Missoula. training group in the per­ Richard Morrison ’79 lives in Livingston, Calvin J. Small ’80 is currently serving his sonnel relations depart­ Mont., where he is employed as controller for internal medicine residency at the University ment. Tom and his wife, the Livingston Rebuild Center. o f California in San Diego. Mary Ann, live in Butte. James D. Rector J.D. ’79 lives in Great Marine Captain Timothy B. Starry ’80 They have one son. Falls, where he is a partner in the law firm of recently received the Navy Achievement Rector & McCarvel. Medal. Tim received the decoration for his Genny Dodd Barhaugh ’79 and her husband, Diane Savage J.D. ’79 lives in Sidney, superior performance o f duty while stationed Lee, live in the Bob Marshall Wilderness area Mont., where she is an associate with the law with the 2nd Force Service Support Group in o f Montana, where they manage the Pine Butte firm o f Habedank, Cumming, Best, Maltese Camp LeJeune, N.C. Guest Ranch. They have a daughter, Laney. and Savage. Dirk Williams ’80 , J.D. ’85 , lives in Marine Captain Steven E. Burke ’79 recently Keith Schauf M.Ed. ’79 lives in Poplar, Missoula, where he is an associate with the law firm o f Snavely & Phillips. Robert Bristol ’81 lives in Butte, where he is accounting manager for St. James Communi­ ty Hospital. Sheri Spurgin Flies ’81 , J.D. ’84 , and her husband, Jon Flies ’81 , live in Seattle, where Montana Sheri has recently become a partner in the law j o r k ,\ a i. firm o f Sylvester, Ruud, Petrie & Cruzen. “I couldn’t figure out if I was a tree man with literary pretensions or a writer with arboreal 1889 • MONTANA CENTENNIAL ISSUE - 1989 pretensions,” says Fred Haefele M.A. ’81. The Montana Journal is a newspaper filled with stories about the people, places Fred, a former tree doctor, has recently mov­ and events that built Montana. Delightfully entertaining, the Journal will publish ed to California, where he has been awarded six Montana Centennial Issues in 1989, including a schedule of Centennial a Stegner Writing Fellowship at Stanford events. For ONLY $10.00 you will receive each issue filled with pioneer recipes, University. Fred has had stories published in historic photographs, Montana memoirs, secret fishin* holes of Western Montana Epoch and The Missouri Review. and special Centennial products made by the crafts-people of Montana. Gary Kalkstein ’81 , J.D. ’87 , and his wife, Janet, live in Glendive, where Gary is an at­ D o n ’t Miss A Single Issue! torney for the law firm o f Simonton, Howe & Jackson. They have a daughter, Courtney. r — -----—------—-----«i Wayne Kimmett ’81 is president of SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIPTION FORM Homestead Hyundai in Billings. TODAY Recetv Six Centennial U»y» for only $10.00. Rita G. Lange-Navarro ’81 and her husband, Send the attached form PLEASE PRINT Tony, live in Selah, Wash. Rita recently ac­ and your check or money Name; •’ * 'i cepted a promotion to assistant fire management order for $ 10.00 to: officer on the Naches Ranger District o f the Address: ' , • < • ‘ Wenatchee National Forest. THE MONTANA JOURNAL City: - _ _ _ ..State:, Zip: . “Subscriptions” Donald A. Matelich ’81 lives in Missoula, P.O. Box 4087 Signal ure: where he is a financial consultant for Shearson Missoula, MT 59806 Dale: : Lehman Hutton. Helena writer Matt Pavelich ’81 has been awarded the prestigious First Book Award for his manuscript, After the White Horse Rodeo. Your Montana Centennial Connection Matt’s book will be published and promoted by the Montana Arts Council. 3 2 UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA CLASSNOTES

Kenny Dernier ’82, his wife, Christine, and tion. She completed her master’s degree in Casey M. Cregg ’83 lives in Missoula, where their son, Jeremy, live in France. Kenny, who economics at California State University at he is vice president of finance at Truckers is employed as a mountain guide to take French Hayward this year. Express. tourists into the Moroccan mountains, recent­ Kathy Timm ’82 and her husband, Dan Eileen Cummings M.A. ’83 lives in Victor, ly accompanied a plane-load of French people O’Fallon ’82, live in St. Paul, Minn., where Mont., where she teaches Spanish at Victor to the United States on a tour of the Northwest Dan practices law with Robins, Kaplin, Miller School. and the Grand Canyon. and Ciresi. Shelly Marcinkowski Laine ’83 lives in Captain P.J. Dermer ’82 is a helicopter pilot Tracy Turbak ’82 lives in Hamilton, Mont., Clancy, Mont. She was recently promoted to in Germany, and he will soon be transferred where he is employed as Ravalli County’s director of administrative services for the city to the United States. He and his wife, Kathy, finance officer. of Helena. have a daughter, Aubrie. Terry Althaus ’83 and his wife, Maureen, Terri McFerrin Smith M.F.A. ’83 has writ­ Jocelyn Dodge ’82 lives in Kalispell, where live in Darby, Mont., where Terry has recent­ ten her first novel, False Starts, which was she is a programmer for the visitor center at ly been appointed game warden. published in September. The book was review­ Lone Pine State Park. Arthur D. Amiotte M.A. ’83 was recently ed by People Magazine in October. Terry lives Andrea Gary ’82 lives in Georgetown, named a South Dakota Centennial Alumnus in in Plains, Mont. Calif., where she works for the Georgetown honor of significant achievements. Arthur has Douglas Anderson ’84, J.D. ’87 has open­ Ranger District of the Eldorado National written numerous articles concerning Native ed a law practice in Missoula. Forest. American traditions and has lectured at Dart­ Tim Donahue ’84 has accepted the position Jeanette Geary ’82 lives in Butte, where she mouth College, the Smithsonian Museum of of administrative services manager for has joined the staff of The Montana Standard. Natural History and in Barbados, Canada, Washington State University in Pullman. He In her new job, Jeanette will provide illustra­ Ecuador and Jamaica. His art has been in more and his wife, Leslie, live in Palouse, Wash. tion and art designs for advertisers. than 80 exhibitions. The subject of five film Kevin M. Dunnigan M.B.A. ’84 is manag­ Joan Hansen Jacobsen ’82 and her husband, productions, Arthur lives in Custer, S.D., ing executive of the Investment Center of John Jacobsen ’81, live in Billings, where John where creates art and participates in art-related Kalispell. is a manager with Charles Bailly & Co. They activities. Melissa Foster ’84 of Cicero, 111., has been have a son, Charlie. Matthew Burbank ’83 and his wife, Mary, awarded a $1,000 Katherine Wills Coleman Roger Parchen '82 lives in Arlee, Mont., live in Chapel Hill, N.C., where Matt is work­ Fellowship for next year. Melissa plans to use where he owns Four Winds Marketing & ing toward a doctorate in political science. the grant to pursue doctoral studies in zoology Design. Bill Burton '83 and his wife, Barbara, live at the University of Florida. Joan Wood Spencer ’82 and her husband, in Butte, where Bill is pharmacy manager of Karla Judge ’84 has been named the head Aaron, live in Sacramento, Calif., where Joan Bernie’s Rexall Pharmacy. The Burtons have women’s athletic trainer at Idaho State Univer­ is the senior financial analyst at Unity Corpora­ one daughter, Krista. sity in Pocatello.

‘My scholarship is an incredible financial relief, but it is much more than that. To me it shows that someone cares deeply about giving a young person with hopes and dreams the foundation to succeed. This is a priceless opportunity. I promise to make every effort to build upon what you have given me. I ’ll do my best to make you proud. 1 Z ' \ —Tracie Bernardini scholarship recipient ______freshman, honors/political science.

here are many students at the University of Montana who, like TTracie, have hopes and dreams. Last year 1,012 men and women, all with outstanding academic records, applied for scholarships. There were only 325 scholarships available. An endowed scholarship, funded at $5,000, will help generations of UM students pursue their hopes and dreams. Such scholarships, named for their donors, are endless testimonies to the generosity of individuals and families and the value they place on helping to educate UM students. For assistance in making a scholarship gift, contact the University of Montana Foundation, Box 7159, Missoula, MT 59807. (406) 243-2593

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Ronge, Saskachewan, where he will be a youth worker at La Ronge Christian Street Ministry. Roger Lockwood ’87 lives in Glendive, Mont., where he teaches at Upper Crackerbox School. Tara DePuy J.D. ’87 lives in Livingston, Mont., where she has been appointed deputy county attorney. Tara also works for her father, David, in the DePuy law firm. Marine Pfc. Bradford K. Jorgensen ’87 recently completed the Enlisted Supply Basic Course at the Marine Corps base in Camp Le- Jeune, N.C. Randy Lester J.D. ’87 lives in Great Falls, UN alumni enjoying a Grizzly victoiy at the big-screen TV party held in Seattle Jan. 28 daring where he is an associate with the Matteucci and the Griz/Cat game are, from left, Eric Botterbusch ’87 ; Kathiyn Driscoll ’84 , ’87 ; Kathy Sherry Falcon law firm. '88; Glen Campbell ’86 ; and Sharilyn McGuire ’87 , The Griz mauled the Cats 86-87. Craig Mayer ’87 lives in Des Moines, Iowa, where he attends the University o f Osteopathic Medicine & Health Sciences and School o f Matthew Kinney ’84 is youth sports coor­ tary school. They have two children, Sam and Podiatry. dinator for the YMCA in Missoula. Sarah. Michael Moore ’87 is a news photographer James Kranick ’84 , J.D. ’87 , lives in Havre, Ren Obrigewitch ’85 graduated from the at KFBB in Great Falls. Mont., where he practices law with the firm American Graduate School o f International Sherri Smith ’87 lives in Harlem, Mont., Morrison, Young, Melcher & Brown. Management in Glendale, Ariz., and is current­ where she teaches elementary school and Terry J. MacDonald ’84 , J.D. ’88 , lives in ly export administrator for Cambridge Interna­ coaches basketbell. Missoula, where he practices law with the firm tional Trading Corp. in Boston. Shelly Lynn Williams Ph.D. ’87 has been o f Garlington, Lohn & Robinson. Bart Ostrom ’85 is a captain for Bay State- appointed assistant professor of psychology at Bonnie Madigan M.Ed. ’84 lives in Spray and Provincetown Steamship Co. in Washington and Jefferson College in Milwaukee. She works in Racine, Wis., as ex­ Boston, Mass. Washington, Pa. ecutive director of Racine’s chapter of Oppor­ Julie Amsden M.B.A. ’86 joined First Bank Michael Aaron J.D. ’88 and Elizabeth tunities Industrialization Center. o f Butte as an account officer. Rogers J.D. ’88 have opened the Aaron Law Mary Lipski Kulla ’85 and her husband, An­ Eve Bakula ’86 , M.A. ’88 , works at the Bit­ Offices in Missoula. dy, live in St. Regis, where she teaches elemen­ terroot Speech Center in Missoula. Ray Bumgarner ’88 and his wife, Wendy, Rob Deyerberg M.S.’86 has moved to live in Valier, Mont., where Ray heads the Hathaway Pines, Calif., where he is employed music department at Valier schools. by the Forest Service. Lona Carter ’88 lives in Helena, where she UMALIM David Hagan ’86 was chosen by the Cultural teaches special education at Helena Middle Services of the French Embassy in Washington, School. TOMB D.C., to teach English at the Centre Pedagogi- Kevin Edwards M.B.A. ’88 is a petroleum que in Paris. David, who began his job October landman for Entech’s Oil Division in Butte. C R L W G T O E 1, will also take courses at l’Universite de Paris. Kim Faulkinberry ’88 and her husband, Lyle MKHIY MBSBS1PPI Michael Keown ’86 lives in Ogden, Utah, Faulkinberry ’87 , live in Harlem, Mont., May 24-June 2 where he works in the science lab of the Inter­ where Kim tutors at the high school and Lyle mountain Forest & Range Experiment Station. teaches fourth grade in the elementary school. MEWIERRANEAN AND Craig Stahlberg ’86 is a controller for “Tampico Road,” a poem by Shelley Western States Insurance Agency in Missoula. Sanders Freese ’88 , appears in the fall edition B U CK SEA Ford L. Stuart ’86 recently completed a two- o f The Elkhom Review, published by Northeast MGHUGHTS year term as a leadership consultant for the Community College in Norfolk, Neb. Shelley Alpha Tau Omega fraternity national head­ and her husband, Bart, live in Miles City, quarters in Champaign, 111. Ford now lives in Mont. k a SCANDINAVIA FOR Seattle, where he is employed by Coldwell Claudia French M.A. ’88 lives in Superior, TWO FABULOUS Banker Commercial Real Estate Services. He Mont., where she is office director for the Com­ is an active member of the Seattle UM alumni munity Mental Health Center. WEBBS group. Paul Haffeman J.D. ’88 lives in Great Falls, June 2&Juiy 11 Calli K. Theisen ’86 lives in Birmingham, where he practices law with the firm o f Cure, Ala., where she is assistant sports information Borer & Davis. y ROMANCE OF director at the University of Alabama. Calli has The paintings of Jane Reilly Harte ’88 were THE SEINE responsibilites in 12 varsity sports, with primary recently featured at the Copper Village Arts J September 22- emphasis on the program’s six women’s teams. Center in Anaconda this fall. Her paintings are iS. October 4 Lisa Williams ’86 lives in Billings, where she to be found in the private collections of former is a certified public accountant for the firm of President Jimmy Carter, former Ambassador JStfT ORMSETHE Herbert J. Mangis, CPA. Mike Mansfield, Congressman Pat and Carol s t : DANUBE Erika Colness Bishop x ’87 and her husband, Williams and Ray Dockstader o f the Library October 24- Shane Bishop ’86 , live in Mechanicsburg, Pa. o f Congress. Jane, who lives in Missoula, has - November 6 Erika is general manager of WAF-TV in Carli­ been accepted into the MON AC, a National Art Contact the Ahem Association ¥ you sle, Pa., and Shane is the producer of “27 News Institute in Spokane. are interested in any o f the above trips. Tonight” at WHTM-TV in Harrisburg. John Johnston J.D. ’88 is an attorney for Randolph DeLay ’87 has begun a two-year the firm o f Corette, Smith, Pohlman & Allen Mennonite Central Committee assignment in La in Butte.

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Kraig C. Kazda J.D. ’88 lives in Great Falls, Mary Catherine to Jim McKeon ’84 and San­ Philip C. Brown x ’36 , Monterey, Calif. where he practices law with the firm o f dy McKeon, Jan. 31, 1988, in Helena. LaRue Samuel son Evans ’37 , Toms River, Hartelius, Ferguson & Baker. Andrew James to Jean Lenzmeier Smith ’85 N.J. Caroline Kemble Ennis J.D. ’88 lives in and Mike Smith, Nov. 1, 1988, in Great Falls. George J. Martin ’37, Missoula Billings, where she practices law with the firm Elinor Dee Nofsinger ’38, Missoula of McNamer & Thompson. Margaret Hull Koch x ’39, Hamilton, Mont. Tili Levinson ’88 has moved to Nakne, In Memoriam Theodore R. Falacy ’39, Missoula Alaska, where she works as a school librarian. Reid A. Hamilton ’40, Tacoma, Wash. Jackie Lohman ’88 is health and physical Helen “Sally” Heydorf Parker ’40, Missoula The Alumni Association extends sympathy to education manager at the YMCA in Missoula. Wanna Finley Thompson '40, Santa Rosa, the families of the following alumni and friends: Rodney Pogachar ’88 lives in Harlem, Calif. Mont., where he serves as librarian for the Mildred Wagy Hearst ’23 , Plains, Mont. Paul R. Carter ’42, Colorado Springs, Colo. elementary and secondary schools. Claudia Woodward Hooper ’24 , Seattle William T. Gwin ’42, Lewistown, Mont. The Rev. Leo Proxell ’88 has been appointed Anna I. Webster ’24 , Missoula Dan M. McDonald '43, Billings chaplain at Carroll College in Helena. Winifred Baptist Remington ’25 , Springfield, Kathleen Hubbard Malgren ’45, Poison, Michael K. Rapkoch J.D. ’88 lives in Bill­ Ore. Mont. ings, where he practices law with the firm o f Donald F. Hellinger x ’26 , Shelby, Mont. Mary McKenzie Flanagan M.Ed ’47 , Great McNamer & Thompson. Ella Brown Seidell ’27 , North Branch, Minn. Falls David M. Richards ’88 has moved to An­ Mattison S. Spencer ’27 , Victor, Mont. B. Jean Kunick Dahl x ’47 , Anaheim, Calif. chorage, Alaska, where he is an audit assistant Frank C. Merritt x ’28 , Payette, Idaho Robert S. Morgan ’48 , Hamilton, Mont. with KMG Peat, Marwick, Main & Company. Agnes Craig Price x ’28 , Kalispell Kenyon R. Kaiser ’49 , Missoula Grant Sasek ’88 lives in Columbia Falls, Mildred Stoick Keenan ’29 , Seattle Patrick J. Connolly ’50, Anaconda Mont., where he is a reporter for the H ungry William J. Morris x ’29 , Stevensville, Mont. Donald B. Brandon ’51, Sonoma, Calif. Horse News. He and his wife, Diane, have two Elmore Nelson ’29 , Sacramento, Calif. Sue Ford Bovey M.A. ’52, Great Falls daughters, Chelsey and Sarah. Newton Chute ’30 , West Chatham, Mass. John R. Moran ’52, Laurel, Mont. Sandra Sauer ’88 lives in Darby, Mont., Pauline Hayne Washington ’32 , Gallup, N.M. Robert Dissly ’53 , Lewistown, Mont. where she is an elementary music teacher and Paul Krug x ’33 , Glendive Milton M. Molsberry M.Ed. ’56 , W olf Point, high school choir director. Hazel Thomas McCarthy ’33 , Tucson, Ariz. Mont. Brian P. Schwarz ’88 lives in Great Falls, John C. Hauck ’34 , Butte William P. Cahill ’61 , M.A. ’66 , Naperville, where he has joined the staff of Jefferson Na­ Paul H. White ’34 , Clarkston, Wash. 111. tional Mortgage Co. as a loan officer. Cregg Coughlin ’35 , Bethany Beach, Del. Robert Corontzos J.D. ’62 , Great Falls Jean Martinson Gies ’35 , Missoula Rita Beck Green ’65 , Tampa, Fla.

Births

Johnathan Ernst Peter to William C. Weisgerber ’69 and LuAnn Heer-Weisgerber, June 30, 1988, en route to Spokane. Adam Nickalas to John C. Williamson ’69 L so you know prospective and Merri B. Williamson, June 22, 1988, in Camarillo, Calif. stu d en ts\ w h o m a y be Zachary Kyle to Diana Gable Tyvand ’76 interested in the University of and Michael Tyvand ’74 , March 10, 1988, in Boise, Idaho. M o n t a m f? Rachel Jean to Julie Johnston Maier ’77 and Dennis Lane Maier ’77, June 16, 1988, in Kingman, Ariz. Help carry on the tradition of Kaetlyn Jeanette to Lisa Sullivan Cordingley ’81 and Tom Cordingley ’73 , April 28, 1988, excellence! Send us their in Helena. names and addresses along with Eric Jensen to Tracey Jensen Dramstad ’81 and Richard A. Dramstad ’82 , June 14, 1987, your own and we will make in Cambridge, Mass. Martha Frances to Susan Hammer ’82 and sure they hear from us! Joseph Howley, Sept. 26, 1988, in Stratford, N.J. UNIVERSITY Nicolle Lynne to Deanna Evans Phillips ’82 OFMON TA N A and Rick Phillips ’82 , June 20, 1988, in Butte. Kristen Rene to Mary Clark Taylor ’82 , Admissions M.Ed. ’87 and Ken Taylor ’80 , Dec. 9, 1987, (406) 243-5992 in Longmont, Colo. Drawer R Erik Ray to Dori Middleton Johnston ’83 and Bill Johnston ’79 , Nov. 18, 1988, in University of Montana Missoula. Missoula, M T 59812-1262 John “Jack” Bouvier III to Carrie Johnson Patterson ’83 and John B. Patterson ’82, May 11, 1988, in Bryn Mawr, Pa.

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Mary Pribble Rowton ’66 , Plains, Mont. ’39 John I. Hansen M.B.A. ’70 , Dallas Austin L. Baker; Houston Bosseler; Harold S. Schedule of Events Dan Stahley ’71 , Billings Brubaker; John S. Chandler; William A. Eggert; Tod W. Briggs x ’71 , San Francisco David Evert; Ann Piccioni Godley; W. Marlin April Maughan; Mary MacDonald Reid. George Michael Colarchik ’72 , Raynesford, 1 The Rainmaker in Lewistown Mont. 2 The Rainmaker in White Sulphur Kirk Edwin Peterson ’74, San Francisco New Alumni Association Springs Donald Mendenhall ’77 , Missoula Life Members May Coleen Tweedy MacMaster ’81, Saltese, Mont. 2 UM^ Booster dinner, White Sulphur R. Scott Salois ’84, Conrad, Mont. Springs Arthur J. Kaluza ’86 , Havre, Mont. Cynthia Willis Healey ’77 , Fargo, N.D. 19 UM Alumni Association Board Patrick J. Healey ’76 , Fargo, N.D. meeting, Flathead Lake Lodge Catherine Potter Armitage ’34 , Ennis, Mont. 19-21 Alumni College, Flathead Lake Lodge Lost Alumni Stephen M. Stanisich ’85 , Missoula 24-6/2 Alumni travel: Cruising the Mississippi Barbara Hays Pendleton ’36 , Coffeyville, June Kan. We have lost contact with the people listed 8-10 1929 and 1939 Class Reunion Donald Suzenski ’74 , East Granby, Conn. below. Some have not been heard from since 10 92nd Annual Commencement Ex- Martha Potter Suzenski, East Granby, Conn. graduation; some have moved and have not sent cercises us a forwarding address; some have married Kenneth E. O’Brien ’57 , J.D. ’59 , Kalispell and changed their names; some may have died. Maxine McElwain O’Brien ’57 , Kalispell If you know where any of these people are, Bruce J. McTavish ’86 , Kent, Wash. please drop a note to the Records Department, Gerald L. Madler ’80, Columbus, Ga. UM Alumni Association, University o f Mon­ Vanessa Ceravolo Kuntz ’81, Kalispell tana, Missoula, MT 59812-1313. Rodney M. Kuntz ’84, Kalispell Patricia June ’76 , El Toro, Calif. ’29 Gregg Davis ’75 , M.A. ’78 , Huntington, William F. Barry; Emma Neffner Baty; Forrest H. W.Va. Currens; Marie Bell Ellis; Marjorie Walker Janice E. Kraus ’78 , Irvine, Calif. Holcomb; C.D. Hughes; Marion Redle; Hannah Charles M. Virag ’78, Helena Veitch Teskey; Frederick C. Walker; Harold E. William Kearns ’61 , Townsend, Mont. Woods. Cynthia A. Tencick ’80, Salida, Colo.

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Interpreting Rhodes’ wishes

In a letter to the most recent Montanan, scholarship was not unconscionable, as Mr. Roger Stang accuses a woman who accepts a Stang claims. Rather, that change assured the Rhodes scholarship o f lacking moral character. Rhodes scholarships would advance rather than Mr. Stang apparently believes that because contravene public policy. Cecil Rhodes would want the scholarship he Finally, if anyone is immoral, as Mr. Stang established in his trust to remain limited to charges, it is not women who apply for the men, then the British government’s decision to scholarship now, but rather those men, open the scholarship to women in the 1970s including me, who participated in the was unconscionable, and any woman who scholarship program as applicants, scholars or accepts the scholarship lacks character because nominators during the period in which the she tacitly approves the British government’s effects o f gender discrimination were apparent wrongful revision of the trust. With all due and women were ineligible for the scholarship. respect, I believe Mr. Stang mistakes Cecil The University of Montana has had twenty- Rhodes’ intentions, the law’s legitimate reach three Rhodes scholars in its history. Two o f the and the moral issues raised by recent changes in three UM scholars since women became eligible the scholarship. have, indeed, been women. That is a record of First, one of Cecil Rhodes’ primary purposes which the University can be justly proud. in establishing the American scholarship was to Thomas Huff bring young Americans who had a high Montana State Secretary potential for leadership to Oxford University, Rhodes Scholarship Trust where they might share instruction with other potential leaders from English-speaking countries. One o f the four criteria for selection Editor’s note: Thomas Huff also is a UM philosophy professor states that the Rhodes scholar should show and a lecturer in the UM School o f Law. Since Professor Huff sent in his letter, a twenty-fourth UM student has won a Rhodes “moral force o f character and o f instincts to scholarship (see page 8). lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates for those latter attributes will be likely in afterlife to guide him to esteem the performance o f public duties as his highest aim.” At the end o f the 19th century, women, o f course, were not allowed to play the leadership roles to which Rhodes was referring, and it is therefore understandable, perhaps even forgivable, that Rhodes did not make women eligible for the scholarship. I imagine, however, had Rhodes seen the changes that have occurred since 1899—the number of American women who are now in, or moving toward, positions of leadership—he might have wanted women to be eligible for his scholarship. Second, no one, including Cecil Rhodes, can expect that a trust he or she establishes will be enforced if it comes to violate public policy. By the mid-1970s, public policy, as reflected in federal (and state) statutes and acts of Parliament, decried gender discrimination. Consequently, the change in the Rhodes trust that made women eligible for the Rhodes

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