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Clear glass with etched bear logo. lOoz. $7.35 • CONTENTS • Alumni O ffice Director Bill Johnston 79 225 Brandy Hall The University o f Montana Missoula, MT 59812-1313 (406) 243-5211 Alumni A ssociation Board Frank Shaw, ’64, President, Great Falls Dorothy Pemberton Laird, ’63, President-Elect, Whitefish Features Tom McElwain, ’68, Vice President, Butte 12 M ansfield C on feren ce by Melanie Threlkeld Bill Beaman, ’67, 72, Past President, Helena Blaine Huber Adams, '60, 14 Lessons to Learn Following the Nez Perce Trail Lakewood, C O by Paddy O ’Connell MacDonald Lou O. Aleksich Jr., ’63, Billings 17 Jack Horner: The Dinosaurs’ Dynamo by Janice Downey Bill Brenner, 79, Sidney Paul Caine, ’56, Bonita, CA 20 UM geologists making an impact by Janice Downey Joan Watts Datsopoulos, 66, Missoula Gail Paige Good, ’62, Fort 22 Frank Bird Linderman: ‘The Man That Makes Benton Dick Hughes, 74, Missoula W ord P ictures’ by Celeste River Dennis Iverson, ’67, Helena Joe McDonald, ’58, ’65, ’82, Departments Ronan Barbara Barker Parker, 73, ’82, Cut Bank 2 Letters 3 Around the Oval Marilyn Shope Peterson, ’57, Seattle, WA 25 Class Notes 36 Forum Karl Rogge, 74, Miles City Don Stanaway, ’52, Billings Jim Wylder, ’51, Great Falls C o v e r: Jack Homer at dinosaur dig in Paraside Valley. MONTANAN•THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA • FALL 1991 • By Howard Skaggs. Volumc 8 Number 4 M ontanan—The University o f Montana magazine—is published three times a year by the University for its alumni and friends. P ublisher The University o f Montana E ditor Janice Downey C on tribu tin g E ditor Terry Brenner Please help: If the person named on the C on tribu tin g W riters Paddy O ’Connell MacDonald, Kristin Rodine, Carol Susan Woodruff address label has moved, could whoever P hotograph er Howard Skaggs has received this magazine send the G raph ics Neal Wiegert Alumni Office that person’s new address Editorial O ffices and phone number? The Alumni address News and Publications, 321 Brandy Hall, The University o f Montana, Missoula, M T 59812-1301, (406) 243-2522 is listed above. A dvertising R epresentative Joan Watts Datsopoulos ’66, (406) 243-2522 Letters Dear readers, I thought the spring 1991 issue of My wife, Amy ’70, forwarded the winte Montanan was the best yet. The cover of Montanan to me in Kuwait. What a nice 1 In our last issue I talked with you the flyfisherwoman is posted on my surprise. I am a chaplain with the 3rd about the tight financial squeeze we bulletin board and has inspired me to Armored Division Artillery. We are in were in because of increased postage consider flyfishing, having never seen a position not far from a massive oil field fif rates and chronic underfunding. So woman engaged in the sport before. Each with great black clouds pouring into the j far, our appeal for “voluntary article exemplified that special human being sky. | subscriptions” has been answered by that either is from Montana or drawn to In the sand, sun and black cloud, the j 252 of our Montanan readers who have Montana. Montanan took me back to the green contributed a total of $6,232. Greg Pape’s poem “Wading the campus of UM, as far as I’m concerned tli Bitterroot” was evocative. The articles on Your generosity is truly appreciated most beautiful campus in the world. Henry Bugbee, Rosi Keller, Seth Kantner We are waiting for the peace treaty to l| and will help assure that you continue and John Wang showed me “souls taking signed and to fly home to Germany. Our 1 receiving three issues a year full of shape” and helping others to do the same. soldiers have done well. They are good , stories like the ones in this issue about There is something about being from kids and have felt the great support we Montana’s dinosaur dynamo, Jack Montana and The University of Montana received from the States. Even those who ] Horner, or Frank Bird Linderman, one that one grows into, rather than protested against the war supported our :- of this sta te ’s early literary figures or a outgrowing. Your job must be rewarding soldiers. UM history class as it retraces the sad indeed, as I am sure you receive many Our commanding general is Paul Funk. flight of the Nez Perce Indians more letters of this nature. He is a Montana State alumnus. I will than 100 years ago. Since you have notified me that I can’t forward the Montanan to him with the expect something for nothing, I have Many of the checks we received had football scores highlighted. enclosed a check. Please do keep up the Thank you for the break in the desert. - short notes accompanying them letting good work. Chaplain George L. Onstad '71 us know how much the magazine Patricia Moran Kennedy '66 Divarty Chaplain means to you. We, in turn, want you 222 West Bay Drive, Apt. B (written April 4, 1991) to know that your support and Olympia, WA 98502 encouragement are important to the Montanan production team. Thanks I have been meaning to write about you I Enclosed is a check for my voluntary from all of us. article about “student-speak” in the winter subscription to the Montanan. issue of the Montanan. Sincerely, Enjoyed the spring issue of the Montanan As a born and bred Montanan who has] David Purviance and its references to streams and fishing. I two sons born and bred in Yorba Linda, Director grew up in Missoula and my father was an Calif., I thought it was an interesting ardent fisherman. Together we fished many Office of News and Publications coincidence that you picked our city for Montana streams. We also waded the your official slang writer. Bitterroot. A glance at the old fly rod I thought no one had heard of Yorba brings back many pleasant memories of the Linda. When we moved here, I sent my I enjoy my memories of growing up in Bitterroot, Blackfoot, Ranch Creek, Rock address to family. My sister-in-law wrote j Montana and the practical teachings of the Creek, Swan River, the Yellowstone and back, “Is that in the United States?” UM Business School. Reading the spring Flathead Lake. Being with my kids daily, I don’t notice ’91 magazine, however, reminds me that we Will be looking forward to future issues how they talk. When we visit their lost out on a far more important aspect of of the Montanan. Montana cousins, however, I am constantlj our lives—as the book of Proverbs explains Mark E. Lawrence '34 told, “You can tell they are from “... the fear of the Lord is the beginning of 39 N. Orange St. California. Listen to how they talk.” I knowledge ... .” I didn’t see that side of my Medford, OR 97501 think slang is a fun part of growing up! education at the University. Great article. Love the Montanan. I t ’s th< None of my memories encouraged the That was a really nice article about a classiest alumni magazine I receive. type of knowledge that will last for eternity river that means so much to UM students Gayle Tafford Ashabraner '74 “peace with God through our Lord Jesus and to people all the way to Portland, Ore. 20712 Via Sonrisa Christ.” As a kid, I remember it as only a home Yorba Linda, CA 92686 I do remember roommates who to suckers. Thanks for bringing the Clark influenced my life by introducing me to Fork to the attention of alums all across their lifestyles of dope (which I’d never the country. It is indeed a breath of fresh air to seen before) and alcohol (which I joined in Douglas Grimm ’64, M.A.