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B o x 7159 MANSFIELD LIBRARY M issoula, M T 59812 M issoula, M T 59807-7159 406-243-6800 1-800-443-2593 o r 406-243-2593 V o l u m e 15 Contents Number 2 STAFF FEATURES DEPARTMENTS E d i t o r Caroline Patterson ’94 2 AROUND THE C ontributing 10 W r i t e r s a n d REMAPPING HOPE OVAL by K a t h y W it k o w sk y E d i t o r s Terry Brenner Located in Missoula’s Milwaukee Station, the Center for the Rocky Mountain West 8 takes a broad look at issues facing the Rocky Mountain region. Gerri Jardine ’95 SPORTS Janelle Leader Lamb Paddy MacDonald ’81 12 Rita Munzenrider '83 TRADE SECRETS 26 Cary Shimek CLASS NOTES by K im A n d e r s o n Patia Stephens Marketing Big Sky businesses to the world at UM’s Montana World Trade Center. P hotographer 32 Todd Goodrich '88 14 ALUMNI L a y o u t a n d INNOCENTS ABROAD NOTES G r a p h i c s by C a r o l in e Pa t t e r s o n Mike Egcler From lawn bowling in New Zealand to fruit markets in Rome: Snapshots and student 34 impressions o f UM study abroad programs. A d v i s o r y CAM PAIGN B o a r d MOMENTUM Vivian Brooke 17 Perry Brown VILLAGE TALES William Farr by R a c h e l S c h n e l l er Bob Frazier A day in the life o f Zignasso, a small village in the West African country o f Mali. William Johnston Annick Smith Dennis Swibold 18 John Talbot INTERNATIONAL STUDENT PROFILES by S h a r o n B a r r e t t , S u s a n n a S o n n e n b e r g a n d Pa d d y M a c D o n a l d A d v e r t i s i n g Four UM students who hail from disparate parts o f the globe. R epresentive Jackie Drews (406) 728-1573 22 THE TWAIN SHALL MEET E d i t o r i a l by Pa t r ic k H u t c h in s O f f i c e s From homes to healing, the Mansfield Center explores important issues facing the East University and the West. Communications 323 Brandy Hall The University of 24 Montana BOOK CHAT Missoula, MT by S u s a n n a S o n n e n b e r g 59812-1301 Two novels-one about a young woman’s journey of self-discovery and another about a (406) 243-2522 plane crash-set in Missoula, searing poetry about Vietnam and a history of hellraisers Web site: and hotdoggers at The Big Mountain in Whitefish. h ttp :/ /www.umt.edu C over UM student Manda Ko o f Hong The Montanan is Kong. published three times Photo by Todd a year by The Goodrich. University of Montana-Missoula Inside photos by Todd for its alumni and Goodrich, except as friends. noted. Winter 1998 Montanas* 1 t h e O v a l . Tu Babdong’s paintings, “Snowy Alley” (above) and “Summer Alley” (right) are part o f the permanent art collection at the UM Museum o f Fine Arts. Tu Baixiong in Brushstrokes ast October at The University of which he received the Northwest Watercolor April 1, 1996. Montana’s Paxson Gallery, Missoulians Council’s first prize. His work is in permanent Baixiong found his adopted home welcom­ Lhad the pleasure of viewing a record of collections in the United States and Asia. The ing. “Emerging from the social upheaval in late twentieth century Montana. Organized by Montana Arts Council commissioned him to China, 1 found the peace in Missoula especial­ Margaret Mudd, director of U M ’s Museum of create four scenes of UM campus life—some of ly meaningful,” Baixiong wrote. “When I walk Fine Arts, the Tu Baixiong retrospective fea­ his final works—which now hang in the along the quiet, clean alleys, the newly mowed tured the lifework of a Chinese artist who Gallagher Building. lawns, even the garbage cans in neat order, all portrayed his adopted home in colorful water- Bom in Shanghai in 1944 to a family of seem to show with pride the Montanans’ colors, gouaches and oils. shipping merchants, Baixiong left China in enjoyment of life and their kindness to me as Baixiong, a portraitist and master Chinese 1987 for UM, where in 1992 he received a an outsider.” calligrapher, is best remembered for his light- masters degree in painting. He stayed on as a “Tu carried on a love affair with Missoula,” washed portrayals of Montana landscapes, for popular visiting instructor until he died on Mudd said. “He painted us better than we are.” 2 Winter 1998 MONTANAN at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 18, at the law jumped 140 percent, and bachelor’s degrees Former Law school's Castles Center. awarded in English rose 82 percent. Why the sudden interest in literature and P rofessor Dies creative writing? According to Bruce Bigley, argery Hunter Brown, a professor U M ’s First English department chair, students are mov­ emeritus of U M ’s law school, died ing out of more specifically career-oriented Friday, January 9, of congestive S weat Lodge M majors. “People have discovered that a busi­ heart failure, ending a lifetime of notable M’s Native American Studies Program ness degree is n ’t necessarily a passport to a achievements. During her career at UM from has a new sweat lodge, constructed job,” he said. “So they might as well take 1976 to 1993, Brown served as assistant Unear Fort Missoula in 1997 after something they like.” dean, associate dean President George Dennison designated a and acting dean. She quarter-square-mile along the Bitterroot also founded and River for the project Jim Kipp, a senior in Founder of UM served as the first Native American studies who is the driving director of the Indian force behind the project, says the new lodge is Native American Law Clinic sacred to Native Americans. “Native Before joining the American students have long recognized the Studies Dies UM law faculty, need for a sweat lodge to help maintain the onnie Heavy Runner Craig, director Brown, the mother of balance of body, soul and mind,” he says. o f U M ’s Native American Studies two, co-founded the Kipp welcomes people of other tribes to build BProgram and a Blackfeet tribal mem­ Bigfork Summer at the site and people of all cultures to partic­ ber, died November 24, 1997, after a long bat­ Playhouse, served on the Montana Human ipate in sweat ceremonies. tle with cancer. Craig founded Montana’s Rights Commission and was a member of the first NAS program and won state and nation­ Montana Constitution Revision and Montana al recognition as a champion of civil rights, Constitution Convention commissions. H ow M any particularly for Native Former law school dean Martin Burke Americans and described her as a person of integrity. “She English M ajors women. She was a brought a vision of what legal education UM law school should be,” he said to the Missoulian. “She Does It T a k e ....? Distinguished Alumna was the heart and soul of the law schooL..the M students have recently flocked to and received the 1997 moral compass for us and for our institution.