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ARCHIVES J-Grads Write — I t ’s University of Montana Now — SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM In ’65 Review Twenty-four graduates of the Mon­ C O M M UNIQUE tana School of Journalism have con­ tributed articles to the eighth annual Vol. 22, No. 1 UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA Summer, 1965 edition of the Montana Journalism Review. The 40-page periodical, edited by Warren J. Brier, celebrates the 50th anniversary of the J-School. In the lead article, Tom Pettit, NBC news correspondent and ninth Dean Stone Night speaker, describes what he terms shortcomings of the tele­ vision industry. Major articles by J-grads are by William Forbis ’39, Ward T. Sims ’50, Ray W. Fenton ’43 and Annabelle Desmond Cook ’27. Also included are articles by Dean Nathan B. Blumberg, Prof. R. Lee Norton and the late Prof. Robert L. Housman, and research summaries by journalism students. Twenty graduates submitted com­ ments on press coverage of the 1964 campaign. They are: A. A. Applegate ’23, professor at Hillsdale College in Michigan; John Kamps ’31, Washington, D. C., AP Bureau; Richard K. Brome ’37, na­ tional staff of U.S. News & World Re­ port; Ken Kizer ’41, Electronic Data Processing of RCA in Camden, N. J.; Bob Holt ’42, political editor of the Ventura (Calif.) Star-Free Press; William A. Barbour ’48, editor and publisher of Product Design & De­ velopment in Philadelphia. Jack E. Fischer ’48, Spokesman-Re­ view political writer; Irene Turli ’49, staff writer on the McClusky (N. D.) Gazette; Sterling Soderlind ’50, page IT ’S THIS WAY—Tom Pettit, NBC news correspondent, gives the word one editor of the Wall Street Journal to journalism students in the J-Library. Pettit, best known as the man in New York; Mary Verploegen ’50, on air when Ruby shot Oswald, was the Dean Stone Night speaker and women’s editor of the Honolulu (Ha­ 1965 Professional Lecturer in Journalism. (Photo by Joe Holly ’65) waii) Star-Bulletin; Beverley Brink Morales ’50, editor of the Fort Lau­ derdale (Fla.) Republican Banner; John Owen ’51, executive sports edi­ tor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Two Scholarships Established Ross M. Hagen ’52, Birmingham, Ala., AP; Arthur F. Lundell ’53, co­ Minneapolis Tribune Melvin and Myrtle Lord publisher of the Vernon County The Minneapolis Tribune has es­ A $300 scholarship established by Broadcaster-Censor in Viroqua, Wis.; tablished a $400 journalism scholar­ Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Lord for a jun­ Jack C. Seigle ’56, assistant professor ship at the University of Montana be­ ior, senior or graduate student in of journalism at American Univer­ ginning in 1966, according to Joyce A. journalism was awarded for the first sity; Don Oliver ’58, political editor Swan, Star and Tribune publisher. time at the Dean Stone Night banquet for KCRA-TV in Sacramento, Calif. The scholarship will be awarded to May 9. Jim Berry ’60, chief of copy desk for an outstanding journalism student at Lord is a 1927 graduate of the J- the Tucson (Ariz.) Daily Citizen; the end of his or her junior year. School and was with the Sacramento John Bennitt ’63, then staff writer for Similar awards have been offered to Bee until his retirement. Mrs Lord, the Idaho Falls Post Register; Don the other 46 accredited schools and the former Myrtle Shaw, received her Hegg ’64, advertising department of departments of journalism throughout degree in 1925. They live in North Sears, Roebuck in Chicago; and Wil­ the country. Sacramento. bur Wood ’64, graduate student at San The Minneapolis papers purchased The recipient was Karalee Stewart Francisco State College. the Great Falls Tribune from the of Hungry Horse, an upcoming senior A copy will be sent on request. Warden family in April. and business manager of the Kaimin. Dorothy Rochon Powers ’43, colum­ Before the Thirties . nist for the Spokesman-Review, has Ruth Cronk ’18 is retired and living been appointed secretary of the in Santa Barbara, Calif. With Grads Washington Republican State Central A. B. (Bud) Guthrie Jr. ’23 is the Committee. author of “The Blue H en’s Chick,” a Tom Bogardus ’47, classified ad­ book recommended highly to anyone A field... vertising manager for the Palo Alto who has affection for Montana. (Calif.) Times, says he had good visits Ann Nilson Code ’26, widow of Al­ loss in Anchorage. “The experience,” recently with Kenneth Ingram ’38 lan Leslie Code, was married in De­ she reports, “was much the same as and Loran Palmer ’49. cember, 1963, to Hugh L. McCulloch, being caught on deck in a stormy Richard E. (Shag) Miller ’47, presi­ Canadian industrialist. She lives in sea.” dent of KBOW in Butte, was elected Galt, Ontario. Harry L. Billings ’33, managing edi­ vice president of the Montana Broad­ Annabelle Desmond Cook ’27, as­ tor of the People’s Voice in Helena, casters Assn, at the 1965 convention sociate editor of the Population Bul­ says “nothing new and exciting” but in Missoula. letin and other publications of the anyone who reads his and Gretchen’s Marjorie Anne Mitchell Culum ’47 Population Reference Bureau in paper knows better. is the mother of Kevin Christopher, Washington, D.C., and Robert report born Sept. 17, 1964. He joins Mary that the Bureau is enjoying great suc­ Walter P. Cooney ’33, president of Cooney Brokerage Co. in Butte, says Antoinette 3, and John Michael 7. cess. The first Ford Foundation grant Marjorie, after seven years as a re­ in 1952 was $60,000 for a three-year all is well with him, Geraldine and porter on the Helena Independent Re­ period and the fourth Ford grant in Walter P. II 23, John K. 18, and Anne Elizabeth 9. cord, did not return to the paper after 1963 was for $250,000. the birth of her third child. Douglass H. Thomas ’29, Missoula Faye Nimbar Black ’34 is a house­ Jack E. Fischer ’48, political writer manager for Mountain States Tele­ wife and partner with her husband for the Spokesman-Review, has been phone since 1949, has been transferred in a drug store in Scottsdale, Ariz. elected president of the Capital Cor­ to Helena and promoted to Montana Donald Aldrich ’35, substation op­ respondents Assn., an organization of personnel supervisor. erator in Missoula for Montana press, radio and television reporters Power, was re-elected vice president who cover the Washington state legis­ of the Pacific Northwest Conservation lature. The 30s and 40s . Council at a meeting in Lewiston, Idaho, in May. Joseph N. Braycich ’49, assistant in­ Sam Gilluly ’30 and Esther Hart formation officer in the U.S. Embassy Gilluly ’30 continue to enjoy life in Lucile Thurston Robinson ’39 is teaching this summer at the Univer­ in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, was editor of Helena where Sam is publications a review distributed recently to 35,000 chief of the Montana Chamber of sity of Redlands and is in the doctoral program at Claremont graduate Yugoslavs. He and Helen have three Commerce. He also has been active girls and a boy. as secretary-treasurer of the Montana school. Daughter Susan, a junior at William J. Cooney ’49 is a stock district of Kiwanis International, a Stanford University, is an intern this broker with Piper, Jaffray & Hop- member of the Montana Centennial summer in the office of Sen. Lee Met­ wood in Great Falls. Commission and a member of the calf. board of trustees of the Montana His­ William Forbis ’39, senior editor of Walter R. Larson ’49 is publishing torical Society. Time, was one of the first four re­ the weekly Odessa (Wash.) Record Deane Jones ’31, managing editor cipients of the “Order of the Grizzly” while his wife runs the Missoula Times. of the Missoulian-Sentinel, attended from the University in ceremonies in a seminar conducted by the American New York on June 7. The new award R. D. (Denny) Lodders ’49, presi­ Press Institute at Columbia Univer­ goes to those “whose careers or ser­ dent of R. D. Lodders & Associates, sity in New York City. vice have brought honor to the Uni­ Inc., now is a second-floor tenant in versity or to the state.” the magnificient new headquarters Lewis R. Cobb ’31, director of the Vernon Spencer ’42 administrator building of the Colorado Press Assn, advertising and publicity section of in Denver. the Colorado State Division of Com­ of New Y ork ’s Sydenham Hospital, merce and Development, reports that has been appointed editor of the sec­ tion on personnel services for Hos­ he has been “pecking away at this job for more than 18 years” in Den­ pital Management, professional jour­ The 50s and 60s . ver. nal for administrators and department heads. Mary Verploegen ’50, Honolulu Mary Aldula Wilson ’31 says she is Star-Bulletin society editor, was on Everton Conger ’42 and Ann Cle­ board when United Air Lines in­ getting “a second education via the ments Conger ’43 are in California route of typing theses” for graduate augurated its in-flight movies on the where Ev is technical editor for the mainland-to-Hawaii run.