M O N T A N A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y

The magazine for members of the MSU Alumni Association | Fall 2009

In this issue:From attorney to author and playwright

463 retroactive architecture degrees awarded

Sustainability: A Montana State of Mind

Measuring success from wheelchairs to pet toys

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sUsAn CArsTEnsEnA Billings native, Susan is a member of the class of ’85 with a BA in Political Science and a BS in Business. She’s been at RightNow for 10 years and serves on the MSU College of Business Advisory Board. Susan is RightNow’s Chief Operating Officer.

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THE MAGAZINE FOR MEMBERS OF THE MSU ALUMNI ASSOCIAT ION | FALL 2009 | VOL. 86, NO.3

D E P A R T M E N T S

From the President 2

Mail Bag 3

Blue & Gold 4

Class Notes 22

Association News 24

Cat/Griz 28

16 MSU Student Profile: Josh Mori

17 MSU Alumni Profile: Dan Mortensen

20 New certificate program grooms leaders

21 Danforth Park restoration planned for spring

27 Woman’s Week founder honored with SUB window

F E A T U R E S 9Paul Wylie:

From attorney to author and

playwright

14Sustainability:

A Montana State of Mind

12Giving back with a song

18Salient Technologies measures

success from wheelchairs to pet toys

10463 recipients awarded retroactive Master of Architecture degrees

MSU ALUMNI AS SOCIAT IONChairLois (Fulker) Norby, ’65, Excelsior, Minn.Chair-ElectBill Perry, ’02, BozemanPast ChairTodd Eliason, ’74, BozemanTreasurerRick Reisig, ’82, Great FallsBoard of DirectorsWilliam Breeden, ’65, ’68 M, Anchorage, AlaskaBrian Clark, ‘82, KalispellFlorence Garcia, ’99, BozemanStephanie (Good) Bunkley, ’89, Bothell, Wash.John Green, ’70, Littleton, Colo.Dave Johnson, ’67, ’68 M, BigforkLea (Anderson) Moore, ‘93, Miles CityJeanette “Tootie” Rasmussen, ’60, ChoteauMichael Sanderson, ’94, ’96 M, BillingsShaun Shea, ’98, ClancyMark Sherman, ’97, KalispellMary Beth (Holzer) Walsh, ’86, Twin BridgesBrant Weingartner, ’98, Irving, TexasStudent Alumni AssociationLaura Anderson, LewistownNate Carroll, Ekalaka

MSU ALUMNI STAFFPresident and CEOJaynee Drange Groseth, ’73, ’91 MAssociate DirectorKerry Hanson, ’93, ’08 MMembership DirectorJennifer Ward, ’94Program ManagerRose (Healy) Hanson, ’82Administrative AssistantJennifer Anderson Communications SpecialistMegan (Koehler) Walthall, ’06

Vol. 86, No. 3, Fall 2009

EDITORIAL BOARD Caroline Zimmerman, ’83, Jaynee Drange Groseth, ’73, ’91 M, Suzi Taylor, ’99 M, Jodie DeLay, ’93, Julie Kipfer, Kerry Hanson, ’93, ’08 M, Tracy Ellig, ’92

EDITOR Caroline Zimmerman, ’83

CRE ATIVE DIRECTORRon Lambert

DESIGN AND PRODUCTION MSU Office of Communications & Public Affairs

PHOTOGR APHY by Kelly Gorham, MSU Photography (unless otherwise noted)

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Dear Alumni and Friends,It has been a bittersweet time for me since

announcing my retirement earlier this year. I relish the opportunity to explore the best of Montana with my wife Patricia and am anxious to return to the classroom and my other true love—teaching.

Yet, the last nine years have been the best in my career thanks to the friendships Patricia and I have developed with so many of you, and the support our alumni have extended to the university. It has been a wonderful experience, and I have been deeply honored to serve as MSU’s eleventh president.

Fall semester opened with great enthusiasm and record numbers of students. Cata-palooza and Move-In day were exceedingly successful and brought together the com-munity and campus to welcome our new Bobcats. The time is ripe for MSU to prepare more students to be successful in their careers and give back to their communities. Also, this fall, our third Convocation was held, building our tradition of launching the aca-demic year with an inspirational message. Our keynote speaker was Steve Lopez, author of The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music. The story of how Lopez befriended a homeless man and how they each found a second chance is a story that has inspired thousands. You can watch a recording of the Convo-cation on our Web site at http://www.montana.edu/convocation.

As I leave the presidency, I leave our students in the most capable of hands—our faculty and staff, who demonstrate daily their commitment to supporting our students’ success. I am also confident that our alumni will continue to strengthen MSU. Thank you, alumni friends, for your genuine dedication to MSU and your support of our students.

Sincerely,

Geoff Gamble President, Montana State University

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On the CoverChamp fires up the Gold Rush crowd. Photo by Kelly Gorham.

The Collegian magazine welcomes letters from alumni and friends of MSU. Send them to alumni@montana.edu or MSU Alumni Association, P.O. Box 172940, Bozeman, MT 59717-2740.

Scholarship Recipients Say ThanksI would like to express my gratitude for choosing me as one of the recipients of the MSU Distinction Scholarship. Thank you for awarding me with this $500 scholarship. This will help me financially throughout my freshman year at MSU as I study exercise and begin a career of helping people. I greatly appreciate it. Thank you again. Go Bobcats.

Sincerely,Jamie Walden

Dear Alumni Association and Jaynee Groseth,Thank you so much for the Alumni En-dowed Scholarship. I plan on going into elementary education, and I greatly appreci-ate all your support.

Thank you,Jamie Ries

I want to thank you and the MSU Alumni Association for the unexpected Alumni Endowed Scholarship for my first year at MSU. I am so excited to go to MSU as both of my parents also attended and speak very highly of the programs and the quality education. The financial assistance is very much appreciated.

Thanks.Callie J. Ralph

I am writing to say a big thank you for the alumni scholarship. I greatly appreciate any money towards school I can get. I am

currently a film student entering into my second year. As you may know, all fresh-man in the film department have to make it through what is called the gate, which is the main film program that will continue for the following three years. Now only 48 out of maybe a hundred are chosen, and I was selected to be one of those fortunate 48. I am explaining this to you, so you will know that I am a very hard worker and I will not waste this generous gift. I have a family his-tory with MSU and would very much love to continue studying at MSU.

Sincerely,Justin Mckinsey

Dear Alumni Association,I am a Montanan through and through and will always call this state home. When I was little, my family lived in Bozeman while my dad attended MSU. He graduated with a degree in construction engineering technology. After a year at MSU-Billings, I am now transferring to MSU to major in biomedical science.

After graduating in 2012, I plan on going to medical school. After my educa-tion is complete, I hope to get a job at a hospital in Montana. Wherever I’m living, I will continue to be active in the commu-nity. Once my college loans are paid off, I plan on going to Africa and third-world countries to help dig wells and plant crops to help villages and will also help with any health needs while I’m there.

Thank you for your investment in my education at MSU.

Sincerely, Brook Murphy

 

10,000 Hours Volunteer ProjectThank you so much for your official sponsorship of the 10,000 Hours Volunteer Project. With the support of the Alumni Association, we look forward to making this the first of many successful years.

Best,Ted Koenig, Chair, 10,000 Hours Program(This program connects students to volun-teer activities throughout the community.)

Thank You Dear Jaynee,Thank you so much for coming to my mom’s “Celebration of Life” and for sharing your story. I’m so impressed that you took time out of your very busy schedule. Please accept this small donation for the depart-ment that was formerly Home Ec.

I look forward to seeing you again at Homecoming 2009. My Pi Beta Phi friends are getting organized to attend.

Sincerely,Cyndi Chauner Niendorf, ‘69(Remembering her mom Jean Haynes Chauner Caldwell, ‘43)

Dear Ms. Groseth,Thank you for your thoughtful message of support and condolence. It is difficult to find adequate words to express my grati-tude to so many people. Until the very end, Maurice stood in the midst of life with an abundance of plans for the future.

Your kindness and sympathy are greatly appreciated by my entire family.

Warm regards,Lorraine HillemanWife of Maurice Hillerman ’41, HonDr ‘66

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MSU Alumni Association announces new board membersThe MSU Alumni Association appointed three new board members, effective July 1. The three new members join an 18-member board that oversees the Alumni Association’s finances, policies

and practices, strategic planning and com-munications, and marketing.

Michael Sanderson, ’94 CE, ’96 CE M, Billings, Mont., principal and managing director of Sanderson Stewart, an engi-neering firm.

Brian C. Clark, ’82 Bus, Kalispell, Mont., president of Fun Beverage, Inc.,

an independent wholesale beer, wine and soft drink distributor servicing northwest Montana.

Lea Anderson Moore, ’93 ElEd with a library media endorsement, Miles City, Mont., currently a stay-at-home mother.

Big League ResearchMSU was sixth in the nation for growth in federal funds for academic research and development between 2000 and 2007, according to the Chronicle of Higher Educa-tion Almanac. Based on the NSF Science and Engineering survey, MSU had a tremen-dous 148 percent increase.

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Montana State University wins $98.4 million in research dollars for fiscal yearResearch funding won by MSU rose $2.2 million in the past year, totaling $98.4 million for the fiscal year that ended June 30.

“The competition for research dollars is fierce,” said Tom McCoy, MSU vice president for re-search. “Nationally, only one in five proposals for federal research dollars is funded on average. In some cases it is only one in 100. That our faculty continue to compete so well speaks well of their excellence and ambition.”

Federal stimulus money had no effect on this year’s figures, but its influence will likely appear in next year’s report, McCoy added.

The university’s largest college, Letters and Sci-ence, received $24.5 million in Fiscal Year 2009, making it MSU’s top grant-getting college again. The College of Engineering followed with $19.9 million, a $2.5 million increase over FY 2008.

“Whatever the college, our students benefit from these research dollars by having hands-on opportunities to work on some of the most com-plex problems of our day with the most sophisti-cated equipment available,” McCoy said.

In the past fiscal year, MSU’s research awards directly provided $7.76 million in undergraduate and graduate salaries, benefits, scholarships and fellowships.

The top grant-getting department in FY 2009 was the Department of Chemistry and Biochem-istry with almost $10 million. The department moved into a new building in 2007 and saw its success in grant awards skyrocket, taking a 71 percent leap from $4.5 million in FY’06 to $7.7 million in FY’07.

“Having quality research space plays a direct role in increasing a program’s competitiveness for research dollars,” McCoy said. “You can’t attract

world-class faculty for our students, without hav-ing good research space.”

The university issued bonds to construct the $23 million chemistry building. Repayment is being made from the grants won by those pro-grams housed in the building.

Student success in the Department of Chem-istry and Biochemistry has followed suit. Since 2007, the department has had three undergradu-ates win Goldwater scholarships, the nation’s premier scholarship for undergraduates studying math, natural sciences and engineering.

Thanks to those wins, MSU is ranked 11th nationally for Goldwater winners, just behind Yale and MIT and ahead of other distinguished institutions including Johns Hopkins, University of Washington, Purdue and University of Min-nesota.

David Singel, head of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, credited the hard work of all of the faculty for the department’s high standing, and called special attention to three major, multi-investigator programs: the Center for Bio-Inspired Nanomaterials headed by Trevor Douglas, the Astrobiology Biogeocataly-sis Research Center headed by John Peters and the Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence headed by Ed Dratz.

Other top departments were the Department of Veterinary Molecular Biology with $7.8 mil-lion and the physics department with $6 million. The Western Transportation Institute in the Col-lege of Engineering received $8.1 million.

MSU research is funded mostly by federal grants, with some money coming from state and private funds. — Evelyn Boswell

MSU School of Film and Television celebrates 50th anniversaryIt was in the mid-1950s and Roland Renne, then president of Montana State University, was so enamored with a new technology that he thought his university should become one of the first in the country to offer a de-gree in the new discipline—television.

More than 2,000 students, three Oscars and several name changes later, the MSU School of Film and Photography celebrated its 50th

anniversary with a weekend of re-unions and activities Sept. 11–12.

“From its very inception the program was built upon hands-on-learning, real application and a spirit of exploration,” said Susan Agre-Kip-penhan, dean of the MSU College of Arts and Architecture, which houses the School of Film and Photography.

“We will honor these beginnings (with

the celebration) even as we build programs for the future.”

The School of Film and Photog-raphy’s 50th anniversary weekend included a roundtable of successful alumni; video retrospectives from film, television, theater and photography; photo displays; student film screen-ings; and tips for aspiring filmmakers and students from successful alumni.

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Vets Get Big WelcomeG.I. Jobs magazine has named Montana State University as one of its

“Military Friendly Schools” for 2010 in recognition of the work MSU does to support student veterans. MSU will be included on the maga-zine’s list of Military Friendly Schools. The list named the top 15 percent of more than 7,000 colleges, universities and trade schools with pro-grams that support veterans.

Museum of the Rockies receives significant history collectionThe Museum of the Rockies at Montana State University announced in September that it had received the most significant history collection since its founding more than 50 years ago thanks to a generous gift from Eleanor Hamilton Povah of West Yellowstone.

Povah is the daughter of Charles A. Hamilton, founder of the Hamilton Store chain that operated in Yellowstone National Park from 1915 through 2002. She and her deceased husband, Trevor Povah, assumed the operation of Hamilton Stores and ran the company for many years. During their long involvement with the park, the Hamilton and Povah families acquired a unique and valuable collection related to the history of the Yellowstone area.

More than 1,000 items from the Hamilton Povah Collection are being donated. They include vehicles associated with the families’ business operations in Yellowstone, items from the stores themselves and Native American objects that would have been represen-tational of inventory in the stores. Among the vehicles are an authentic Yellowstone bus, a 1941 Lincoln Zephyr and a horse-drawn oil tanker.

Povah said it was important to keep the col-lection together in a location associated with Yellowstone National Park, rather than have the items sold individually at auction.

“It’s a matter of keeping something together that we spent a lifetime of putting together,” Povah said.

Sheldon McKamey, museum dean and direc-tor, said, “The collection itself is extensive but Mrs. Povah’s generosity didn’t stop there. She is also providing a substantial financial gift to sup-port the curation and interpretation of the collec-tion, which makes it possible for us to accept it.

The collection complements MSU’s intention to be known as the University of the Yellowstone,

McKamey said, adding that “Currently MSU’s focus has been based on scientific research in the Yellowstone ecosystem, but this collection will help us better understand the area’s cultural history.”

Museum Curator of History Michael Fox said the museum will use the collection as the basis for a long-term multidisciplinary project to interpret the history and legacy of the Hamilton and Povah families and their contributions to the cultural development of Yellowstone National Park.

A full-scale exhibit of the collection is planned at the Museum of the Rockies within the next five years, and traveling rental and/or online exhibits are possible. Isolated objects from the collection will be displayed as soon as they are catalogued and conserved. Artifacts from the col-lection would be available to researchers and his-torians including students at MSU, and objects could be loaned to other qualified institutions.

Financial support from Povah will be used as a match in securing federal support for the col-lection, and fundraising from private donors and foundations will be ongoing. —Evelyn Boswell

Eleanor Hamilton Povah has donated more than 1,000 items to the Museum of the Rockies. Among the hundreds of items in the Hamilton Povah Collection are Native American objects that would have been representational of inventory in the park stores.

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Steve Lopez, the award-winning Los Angeles Times columnist and author of The Soloist: A Lost Dream, An Unlikely Friendship, and The Redemptive Power of Music, spoke at the Montana State University 2009 Freshman Convocation on Sept. 9.

Lopez discussed the four-year odyssey and friendship with Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, a journey that led to his writing of The Soloist, which in turn inspired a recent motion picture by the same name starring Jamie Foxx as Ayers and Robert Downey, Jr., as Lopez. Incoming MSU freshmen read the book over the summer. The book and related issues of music, homeless-

ness and mental illness will be discussed in MSU classes during the fall semester.

Lopez met Ayers, a homeless musician with schizophrenia who slept on a Los Angeles’ skid row street, while he was looking for a topic for an upcoming column. The encounter led to a friendship and a number of columns that result-ed in a bestselling book about friendship, second chances, the power of human connections, and the healing power of music and art. The friend-ship of the two men continues today.

As a salute to the role music plays in the book and Ayers’ life, the convocation also included a performance by MSU cello professor Rebecca Hartka and some of her MSU students. Trained in classical bass at the prestigious Juilliard School before his career was cut short by mental illness, Ayers also taught himself to play violin, cello and trumpet.

The MSU Convocation is an annual event that celebrates the entrance of freshmen into MSU. It provides incoming students with the opportunity to meet peers and connect with faculty and staff.

The MSU Leadership Institute of ASMSU, the MSU Alumni Association and the Bozeman Public Library Foundation were also sponsors of the event.

— Carol Schmidt

Author of ‘The Soloist’ inspires students at MSU freshman convocation

Bobcat ForeverEvin Groves, ‘09 LibStud, former Bobcat running back, wrote and recorded

“Bobcat Forever,” in which he vocalizes how proud he was playing for the ’Cats. To hear his ’Cat tune, go to www.mainbeatz.com/bobcatmu-sic. As Evin says, “Being a Bobcat is in his soul.”

Perhaps because they come from far-flung places, the three new directors for the MSU College of Arts and Architecture bring a world of experience to the college. They are (from left): Robert F. Arnold, a film-maker who comes from Boston University, director of the MSU School of Film and Photography; Fatih A. Rifki, former dean of the School of Architecture and Design at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, director of the MSU School of Architecture; and Vaughan Judge, a fine art photog-rapher from The Glasgow (Scotland) School of Art, director of the MSU School of Art.

MSU College of Arts and Architecture names three new directors

Los Angeles Times columnist and author Steve Lopez

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Montana State University scientists are involved in a new space mission to figure out how energy is transferred through the sun’s atmosphere.

As a partner on the IRIS team headed by Lockheed Martin, MSU will receive about $3 million to design an optical system for a telescope that could be launched on a NASA rocket in 2012, said solar physicist Charles Kankelborg. If Lockheed Martin agrees, MSU could receive another $2 million for an associated project involving MSU students.

“It is really exciting,” Kankel-borg said.

IRIS, short for Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, was one of two missions that recently won NASA’s Small Ex-plorer Competition. The IRIS team will design its telescope to face the sun at all times, orbit the Earth at least three years and gather images from the sun’s chromosphere and transi-tion region, Kankelborg said. The sun’s transition region is invisible from the ground. Dur-ing a total eclipse of the sun, the chromosphere is seen as a thin red layer of atmosphere just above the bright yellow photosphere.

Dave Klumpar, director of MSU’s Space Science and Engineering Laboratory, said the MSU student project, if allowed to continue, would ride on the same spacecraft as MSU’s optical system. Instead of facing the sun, however, it would face away from the sun and gather information from the dust particles that scat-ter sunlight in space. Called

the Gegenschein Imager, the instrument would be built largely by MSU undergraduates with oversight by Klumpar and Larry Springer, senior engineer and project manager for SSEL, formerly of Lockheed Martin.

“By looking at that reflected light coming off these little dust particles, we can learn a lot about how that dust gets gener-ated, how it behaves, how it moves around, what the sources are and how it finally dissipates and if there are variations in dust distribution in time or space,” Klumpar said.

He added that the Ge-genschein project would be

a “perfect opportunity for students to apply their skills, the knowledge that they get in the classroom and bring it into a real life design fabrication and operation effort that involves students from a wide variety of disciplines.”

IRIS is the latest in a string of solar missions involving MSU scientists. TRACE, or Transition Region and Coronal Explorer, was the one that drew Kankelborg to MSU in 1996. The same scientist who headed that mission—Alan Title from Lockheed Martin—is heading the IRIS mission.

—Evelyn Boswell

Raising Adventure KidsBozeman was named one of National Geographic Adventure magazine’s top three cities for an adven-turer to start a family in the October 2009 issue. Bozeman’s hiking and biking trails, proximity to ski resorts and Yellowstone National Park, coupled with highly ranked public schools and culture that “comes courtesy of Montana State University” supported the selection.

MSU scientists to design optics for new solar mission

MSU solar physicist Charles Kankelborg

The IRIS observatory will carry an optical system developed at MSU.

“A perfect opportunity for students to apply their skills, the knowledge that they get in the classroom and bring it into a real life design fabrication and operation effort that involves students from a wide variety of disciplines.”

—Dave Klumpar

New SUB memorial wall pays tribute to Al Bertelsen

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Montana State University’s Strand Union Build-ing has a new memorial wall in honor of the SUB’s longtime director Al Bertelsen, ’63 Gen-Stu, who died in March following complications from back surgery. He was 69. Bertelsen was a well-known figure at MSU, devoting himself to

the campus and com-munity that he loved, said Frank “Butch” Damberger, ‘80 PE, the director of the SUB.

The wall has been named “Bobcat Spirit Lives,” and it honors Bertelsen as well as the SUB and campus, according to Damberger, who spearheaded the ef-fort to create the wall.

The wall features a bronze Bobcat statue and photographs of various campus scenes, including one image of Bertelsen and his daughter Julie. The memorial encom-passes a section of wall that is approximately 8 feet by 8 feet and is visible to people entering the

SUB by the new south entrance. A plaque near the wall also pays tribute to Bertelsen.

Bertelsen was a ranch kid who was raised near Ovando, Mont., and moved to Deer Lodge, Mont., where he attended high school. While attending MSU, he worked his way up from student pot-scrubber in the SUB cafeteria and building custodian to clerk in the game room.

After a stint in the military, where he was involved in Army intelligence, Bertelsen taught social studies in California. Lured home by the Bridger Mountains, he returned to Montana, and MSU, as the SUB activities and building supervi-sor under Mildred Leigh. In 1974 he became the SUB’s third director. During his more than four decades of service with the SUB, the building was expanded and renovated three times, most recently in 2008. Bertelsen retired from his post in September 2008 after 34 years as its director.

“(Al) helped so many people,” Damberger said. “Al devoted 43 years of his life to the Strand Union, and I truly believe every decision he made over those years was in the best interest of the students of MSU.

“I think Al would have enjoyed this new part of the SUB,” Damberger said. “I think many people will enjoy it.” — Anne Pettinger

Dan Moshavi has been named dean of Montana State University’s College of Business for a three-year term. Moshavi served as interim dean dur-

ing the 2008-2009 academic year and has been a member of the management faculty since 2000.

“A major focus of mine will be on finding new and innovative ways to create hands-on opportunities and a personalized learn-ing environment

for our students, with a big emphasis on professional skill development,” Moshavi said of his appointment.

Moshavi has taught a variety of management courses and has won more than a dozen teaching awards during his career, including the MSU President’s Excellence in Teaching Award, the MSU Cox Award for Creative Scholarship and Teaching and several MSU Alumni Association / Chamber of Commerce Awards for Excellence. In 2003 and 2007, College of Business students voted Moshavi the Gary Bracken Student Choice Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching.

“Dan brings a great understand-ing of what our students need to be successful,” said Joseph Fedock, MSU provost. “I know he will lead the col-lege in making it a place where our students are well prepared for success after they leave our campus.”

Moshavi has consulted for a variety of large and small organizations, including Nike and Blue Cross/Blue Shield, helping them manage their critical interactions and relationships with both employees and customers.

He has been a research fellow with the Nemours Center for Medical Leadership and focuses his research on how organizations, especially professional service providers such as physicians, accountants, professors and others, successfully manage key stakeholder relationships.

He received his doctorate in man-agement and organizational studies from the University of Oregon. His master’s and bachelor’s degrees are from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. — Tracy Ellig

Moshavi named MSU College of Business dean

Bertelsen memorial wall designed by Alison Gauthier, ’06 Art, MSU Creative Services

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When Paul Wylie, ‘59 ChE, gradu-ated from Montana State College 50 years ago, he never imagined

himself as an author. Yet, there he was last St. Patrick’s Day in a Barnes and Noble bookstore in New York City, autographing copies of his 2007 volume The Irish General: Thomas Francis Meagher.

Successful author is Wylie’s third career. “Everything I’ve done, I’ve done the hard way,” he says, acknowledging that he’s had some lucky breaks as well, including getting signed by the preeminent publisher of Western his-tory books based on a very rough draft.

After a few years as a chemical engineer, Wylie earned a law degree at American Uni-versity and embarked upon a career as a pat-ent attorney. Then, with young children, the Montana native and his wife, Arlene, decided to raise them in Bozeman, and he began work as an expert witness on the economic worth of patents in infringement cases.

“I tried to limit my practice by insist-ing on consultations and depositions in Bozeman, only willing to travel to trials,” he explains. “But it turns out everyone likes to come to Bozeman, so I was busier than ever.”

Later, when Wylie tried to retire, he dis-covered, “I don’t do well with free time.” So, he launched his current career.

“At first I was just doing research,” he says, but eventually friends like MSU history professor emeritus Pierce Mullen urged him to publish his findings.

His choice of subject was natural. On vacation in Ireland, Wylie was struck by fre-

quent mention of Thomas Francis Meagher. Having grown up in Montana’s Meagher County, Wylie was intrigued. Meagher served as territorial secretary and acting gov-ernor of Montana from 1865 to 1867, when he died mysteriously after falling off a river-boat in Fort Benton, Mont. Although he is memorialized with an impressive equestrian statue outside the Montana state capitol, Wylie recalls that Meagher was mostly re-membered as a dissolute drunk in Montana tradition.

“He did have a problem with alcohol, but he was also a major character of the mid-19th cen-tury,” Wylie says. Like Wylie, Meagher had several careers. He was a firebrand for Irish independence, condemned by the British to be hung, drawn and quartered, a sentence later commuted to exile in Tasmania. He escaped from Australia and made his way to New York, where he found fame as an orator and editor of the Irish News. He joined the Union Army in the Civil War, rose to the rank of brigadier general and led a contingent known as the Irish Brigade. His appointment to the territorial government of Montana followed.

Wylie recently embarked upon a new endeavor, writing and producing his

“Coroner’s Inquest into the Death on July 1, 1867 of Thomas Francis Meagher,” first in White Sulphur Springs, Mont., at the 2007 Meagher County Festival of the Book, and

then this year at Fort Benton’s 33rd Annual Summer Celebration.

Wylie had already made several appear-ances at the Meagher County event. “I’d read from the manuscript in progress and from the book, and I’d signed copies,” he says. “Putting it into play form was a new way to participate.” As an attorney, it was easy for Wylie to create dialogue and testimony for the courtroom drama. He

recruited friends and colleagues to play the parts of judge, witnesses and potential villains and seated a jury from the audience. At the performance’s end, they present their verdict and the audience also votes on “who dun it.”

“My wife is the narrator,” Wylie says. “She introduces each charac-ter as the inquest progresses.”

Wylie’s Bozeman office is decorated with copies of paintings

of Thomas Francis Meagher, and he proudly displays a framed certificate commemorat-ing his induction as an honorary member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. “You have to be Irish and Catholic to be a regular member, and I’m neither,” he explains.

He has embarked upon his next book. “The Baker Massacre,” he says. “In 1870, Major Eugene Baker, Commander of Ft. El-lis, just outside Bozeman, was sent to punish the Blackfeet Indians for the murder of Mal-colm Clarke. He attacked the wrong village, and 173 Indians died—mostly women and children. It’s a story worth telling.”

Paul Wylie: Attorney turned authorand playwright

BY M A R JO R I E S M I T H

PHOTO BY STEPHEN HUNTS

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Vince Werner, ‘48 Arch, if he wanted, could drive all over Montana and visit buildings that the Page-Werner architectural firm designed over four decades. They would include the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, a building on the University of Great Falls campus, schools and medical offices across north-central Montana and the Creative Arts Complex at Montana State University.

It’s an impressive legacy, but it wasn’t enough for the Great Falls architect who formed Page-Werner with George C. Page in 1953 and retired in 1988.

When Werner, 87, learned that the MSU School of Architecture planned to award retroactive master’s degrees to qualifying alumni, he knew he wanted one.

“I needed to continue to grow the rest of my life, right up to the last moment,” Wer-ner said during a summer visit to MSU.

The Montana Board of Regents decided last year that MSU could retroactively offer a master’s degree to all alumni who had received a Bachelor of Architecture degree before 1998. To receive the degree, the graduates had to complete an online course that focused on sustainability issues.

Encouraged to pursue the degree by John Brittingham and Steve Juroszek, architect professors and interim directors of the School of Architecture before the arrival of new director Fatih Rifki, Werner headed for his home office.

The online course he took was the same kind that any practicing professional would take, Brittingham said, but Werner said the content was relatively new to him. As he and Page approached their mid-60s toward the end of the 1980s, they didn’t cherish the thought of converting to computers from their familiar design/drafting table. Steve L’Heureux bought their interests in 1991, forming L’Heureux Page Werner PC.

He “fiddled around” with the course content for quite awhile, then decided he’d better finish, Werner said. When he took the final exam in December 2008, he passed and became the oldest person to receive MSU’s retroactive master’s degree in archi-tecture. He was one of 463 recipients.

“I guess it was probably considered an easy exam, but not for this old bird, retired for 22 years,” Werner said.

To celebrate their accomplishment, Werner and more than 100 other recipients, their families and friends gathered June 27 in MSU’s Strand Union Building for a banquet and formal ceremony. Aaron Betsky,

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an architect, critic, curator, educator and writer, gave the keynote address. For Werner, the event came within days of celebrating his 65th wedding anniversary and climb-ing once more into the nose cone of a B-17 bomber. Werner was a B-17 navigator during World War II and flew in his old navigator position during a special exhibit week at the Museum of Mountain Flying in Missoula. Daughter Lisa was in the bombar-dier seat for the event.

“I have had about eight decades of good memories,” Werner said.

Werner came to MSU the day before the ceremony and stopped by Cheever Hall where the School of Architecture is housed. Clearly welcomed around campus, Werner visited friends and pointed out various aspects of the building he helped design. Ju-roszek said the ceremony itself was probably the largest gathering of MSU architectural alumni in 25-30 years.

Bill Hoy, ‘81 Arch, ’08 M, came from Maryland for the festivities. He worked nearly 20 years for Marriott International

(He was senior vice president for Marriott Architecture and Construction). He now works for a private developer in Washington, D.C., and heads up the construction and development department for a company named BF Saul. Despite all that, he still wanted a retroactive master’s degree from MSU.

It was a matter of pride, Hoy said. As soon as he heard it would be offered, he decided, “Absolutely. This is fantastic.”

Catherine M. Herbst, ‘85 Arch, already chairs the Department of Undergraduate Architecture at Woodbury University in San Diego, but said the retroactive master’s degree will still benefit her.

“I get rank advancement because of it,” she said.

Brittingham and Juroszek said former School of Architecture Director Clark Llewellyn introduced the idea of a retroactive master’s degree, and the enthusiasm grew from there. It was only right, they added, that architecture students who graduated before and after 1998 receive the same

degree for doing the same work. In 1998, the National Architectural Accrediting Board gave MSU the go-ahead to replace its five-year Bachelor of Architecture degree with a five-year Master of Architecture degree.

In a handful of cases, architectural firms who bid on government jobs lost out because they didn’t have as many archi-tects with master’s degrees on staff as their competitors did, Brittingham said. It didn’t matter that the MSU graduates had equiva-lent educations.

Juroszek said, “Whenever you said you had a five-year bachelor’s degree, it sounded like it took you an extra year to finish a de-manding degree. The master’s degree really recognized their level of academic accom-plishment.”

MSU architecture professors John Brittingham (left) and Steve Juroszek

recipients awarded retroactive Master of Architecture degrees

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S hane Clouse, ‘96 Bus, wrote “Mon-tana Matters” for a campaign of the same name. He also performed as the

headlining act for a concert that was held this fall to raise money for the campaign.

According to campaign materials, the Montana Matters campaign “aims to preserve Montana’s rich and storied past and its vibrant history as the embodiment of the Wild West, while at the same time ensuring the state’s abundant wildlife and magnificent forests, fields, lakes and streams are preserved for generations to come.” Montana Matters is a collaboration between the International Wildlife Film Festival and Media Center based in Missoula and the Montana Wildlife Federation.

Clouse said he was eager to give back to the state that he loves so much.

“Agriculture, wildlife and conservation are three things I’m really passionate about,” Clouse said. “I’m willing to donate significant time and effort for this project.”

The youngest of eight children, Clouse started singing on the hearth of his family’s farmhouse in Missoula, Mont., and won his first singing contest at the age of 5. Since then,

he has performed on stages across Montana, throughout the U.S., and around the world. Clouse and his band, Stomping Ground, were named Montana’s best country act in 2005.

Though Clouse was born in Missoula and both of his parents attended the University of Montana, his allegiance to MSU has been long-standing.

“I’ve grown up being a huge MSU fan my entire life,” Clouse said.

In fact, he said there was never any question in his mind where he would go to college.

Six of the Clouse kids attended MSU, and Shane’s older brother was a freshman player on MSU’s 1976 national champion football team. Watching games was a normal part of Clouse’s childhood—a habit that continued when he enrolled in the university. Clouse said he never missed a home football game when he attended MSU in the ‘90s.

As an MSU student, Clouse also played music in a rock band, “Father Midnight.”

“It was a period of time when grunge was really popular on the national scene,” Clouse said, laughing. “So a couple of farm kids grew their hair long and played in a rock band.”

In 2006, while singing the national anthem for a College National Finals Rodeo that was held at MSU, Clouse landed a job as a sports marketing event coordinator for a company that was then called United States To-bacco Company, and he started traveling around the country for work. While he said the job was a great learning experience, it also helped him realize that he really wanted to get back to Montana.

So, in 2000, Clouse quit the job and began splitting his time between Montana and Nashville, Tenn. Three years later, he decid-ed to return to Montana full time. He now lives in Lolo, Mont., with his wife, Kelly (Powers), ‘88 HomEc, who was the school’s homecoming queen in 1987. He and his family own a nursery business and garden center in Missoula. He also spends a great

deal of time on the road, playing music. Clouse’s degree in business has proven to

be extraordinarily useful as he navigates the business world, he said, and he attributes his musical success to opportunities that sprouted from his connections at MSU.

“Being at MSU is what made me go down this path,” Clouse said. “Had I not been involved with the rodeo finals, I never would have gotten these musical opportunities.”

“Montana Matters” honors the state that he dearly loves with music that crosses all politi-cal boundaries, Clouse said.

“The song has the potential to bring folks together for a common cause,” Clouse said.

“That’s what I’ve always wanted to do with my music.”

“We all love Montana so much,” he added. “To have the combination of free spirit, wildlife, wild places and huge tracts of open agricultural land is really unique.”

To watch a video of Clouse performing “Montana Matters,” visit www.montanamat-ters.com/Artists. For more on Clouse, visit www.shaneclouse.com.

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Recycling bins are popping up

around campus, students are

turning off the lights when they

leave their dorm rooms and

new buildings are more energy

efficient than their predecessors.

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becoming more sustainable.

Many of the changes got their initial push in December 2007 when MSU President Geoff Gamble signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment giving direction to sustainability efforts on campus. The Climate Commitment tasks the university with reducing greenhouse gas emis-sions and implementing sustainable practices.

Sustainability and energy conservation concepts are integrated into many aspects of the university’s mission: academically through the colleges’ curricula; through outreach and Extension programs through-out the state; through cutting-edge research programs; through student initiatives; and through facility projects.

I N I T I A T I V E S

As part of the Climate Commitment, Gam-ble appointed 17 members of the university and Bozeman communities to the Campus Sustainability Advisory Council (CSAC) and charged them with developing a campus sustainability and energy conservation plan.

CSAC works with students, faculty and staff exploring ways to fund and promote sustainability efforts.

Students have prompted several initia-tives to make University Food Service (UFS) dining halls and cafeterias more sustainable. In fall 2010, UFS will go “trayless” to save water, reduce food waste and chemical waste, and to reduce overeating. UFS is currently encouraging people to give up bottled water with its “Take Back the Tap” program. It is also exploring the feasibility of composting food waste.

UFS currently spends 12 percent of its food budget on products that are grown and/or processed in Montana, which means $460,000 per year goes towards Montana farmers, ranchers, processors and distribu-tors. UFS has also been working with the MSU student farm, Towne’s Harvest Garden, to use the farm’s food in some meals. UFS donates used cooking oil to a biofuels col-lective, offers discounts to customers who bring their own mug at retail operations and purchases energy saving equipment when-ever possible.

“Being as sustainable as possible is a major goal set forth by the director of University Food Services, and a goal we are excited to be working on,” said Deb Crawford, market-ing manager for University Food Service.

A C A D E M I C S

An undergraduate Bachelor of Science in sustainable food and bioenergy systems (SFBS) started last spring. The new major is a partnership between the College of Agriculture and the College of Education, Health and Human Development. The in-terdisciplinary degree promotes sustainable production, distribution and consumption of food and bioenergy (renewable energy derived from biological sources).

This fall, 120 undergraduates are taking an energy and sustainability course taught by Paul Gannon, CSAC member and as-sistant professor in chemical and biological engineering. Students are surveying modern energy technology and learning how their lifestyles impact the global environment.

MSU is leading the way in research re-lated to alternative energy and food systems. Faculty and students create “smart” wind turbine blades with embedded sensors, install wind turbines at schools around the state, study how to sequester carbon dioxide and work to make fuel cells an af-fordable and practical source of energy for the 21st century.

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MSU aims for sustainability with initiatives, academics, awareness, facilities and programs

Above right: This fall professor Paul Gannon is teaching 120 undergraduates enrolled in an energy and sustainability course.

Far right: Sophomore and CSAC member Blake Bjornson spearheaded a program that put recycling bins in many of the residence halls.

Right: Rendering of MSU’s Gaines Hall, currently under construction. The renovated building will comply with LEED standards for high performance green buildings.

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A W A R E N E S S

A new Web page on the MSU Web site pro-vides a comprehensive look at sustainability efforts of faculty, staff, students and the greater Gallatin County community. www.montana.edu/sustainability.

The CSAC communications subcommit-tee is instituting a series of monthly chal-lenges to encourage a culture change toward sustainable thinking. One challenge will be

“Turn it off, turn it down, unplug it,” en-couraging energy savings. Future challenges include conscious consumerism, or consider-ing whether a purchase is necessary.

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F A C I L I T I E S

Since 1995 MSU has invested more than $3 million on energy conservation projects with $7 million appropriated over the next two years.

Facilities Services staff have done every-thing from installing water fountains instead of electrically-cooled water coolers; putting motion sensors on lights; upgrading insula-tion and installing energy-efficient windows in older buildings; and conserving $100,000 annually in natural gas by shutting down the university’s central heating plant at night during the summer.

The remodel of Gaines Hall will comply with LEED standards. LEED is the nation-ally accepted benchmark for the design, con-struction and operation of high performance green buildings.

David Klem, CSAC member and a consultant with Integrated Energy Solutions, was hired to help save energy across campus. Integrated Energy Systems is paid a percent-age of verifiable energy savings that the uni-versity realizes over the life of the five-year contract with his company. In his first four months on campus, MSU has saved a little over $100,000, according to Klem.

Klem is trying to influence behavior—encourage people to turn off lights and computers when they aren’t using them—and change certain operations, such as not heating or cooling unoccupied buildings.

P R O G R A M S

Blake Bjornson, a sophomore from White-fish, Mont., CSAC member, assistant pro tempore of ASMSU and president of Network of Environmentally Conscious Organizations (NECO), was surprised to ar-rive at MSU and find there weren’t recycling bins in the residence halls.

“It’s a basic, low-hanging fruit kind of thing,” said Bjornson. “I got together with my pod-mates in Roskie and came up with a proposal for recycling in our dorm.”

The Resident Hall Association accepted the proposal and recycling bins are now found in many of the residence halls at MSU.

“We’ve more than doubled the recycling at MSU,” said Bjornson.

NECO is encouraging other students to bring their sustainability ideas to them. Their special research projects provide sup-port, framework and networking.

Last fall, MSU students passed a sustain-ability fee on themselves. Each semester each student pays $3.50 for recycling and other projects such as the Sustainabil-ity Center, which helps organize campus recycling, sustainability luncheons and will be working on initiatives such as creating a sustainability curriculum.

“There is so much to accomplish at MSU,” said Bjornson. “It’s really exciting.”

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I t might be said that Josh Mori, ‘09 Phil, has a smile that could melt a snowman, which he needs frequently in Montana

given his penchant for wearing Hawaiian rubber flip-flops and board shorts.

Mori, a native of the Hawaiian island of Molokai who plans a career as a profes-sor and Native Hawaiian activist, came to Montana State University three years ago in search of adventure. And while Mori didn’t necessarily find the diversion he was seeking in this icy land thousands of miles from the islands, he did find a greater sense of himself and what he wants to do with his life.

“I’ve made some great connections here. I’ve met a lot of really smart people, and they have allowed me to focus on my culture.”

Mori graduated in May with honors with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and minor in Native American Studies. This fall he began work on a master’s degree in Native American Studies and is a teaching assistant.

“I’ve definitely grown up here. Sometimes, it’s just easier to see where you are going when you have some perspective when you are far away.”

Mori is one of a handful of Hawaiian students at MSU, including a few Hawaiians

and Pacific Islanders. As he explains it, he was at loose ends and set to enroll at the Univer-sity of Hawaii-Hilo when a former girlfriend encouraged him to leave Lihue on the garden island of Kauai for a northern latitude.

His tenure as an MSU student far out-lasted the romantic relationship. Mori said it sometimes still surprises him that he stayed, because previous to coming to Bozeman he had the reputation of someone who jumped from place to place.

While Mori was born on the island of Oahu, he grew up in Colorado, Oregon, New York and California. He played football at Eastern Oregon and California’s Merced Community College. It was there that Mori first became interested in philosophy. After he graduated with an associate’s degree, he returned to Hawaii and was set to enroll at the University of Hawaii-Hilo before he fol-lowed his friend to Montana.

Mori said his first months at MSU were tough and isolating. Fellow philosophy stu-dent Nicholas Ross-Dick, a Yakima Indian from White Swan, Wash., brought Mori to the Indian Club Room in Wilson Hall.

“I just felt at home there,” Mori said. “The students looked a little like me.” Soon, he be-

gan pitching in at various Indian Council ac-tivities and taking Native American Studies classes. In the process he became acquainted with his essential self, playing in the local Hawaiian reggae band, “Landlocked.”

Mori said while MSU’s Indian students may have an entirely different history, they grapple with some of the same issues as Hawaiians.

“Josh is an inspiring character to have around,” said Kristin Ruppel, MSU profes-sor of Native American Studies. “I appreci-ate his sense of urgency and social justice.”

Mori said he couldn’t have imagined even a year ago that he would be looking forward to returning to Montana. Now, he knows the road to his future in the land of the rain-bows goes right through the Big Sky State.

“My time here has been hard, but one thing that it has done is to challenge me to look at myself and the way I go about things,” he said. “I have matured a lot in my thinking here. I know I’m going to be better for it.”

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A different kind of Native: Hawaiian finds purpose and passion at MSU

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Rodeo legend Dan Mortensen riding high

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Dan Mortensen, ‘92 AgBus, received official recognition as one of the all-time greats in the world of rodeo

by being inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in July. As a six-time Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association saddle bronc riding world champion and all-around world champion in 1997, his accomplish-ments are among the greatest in the history of the sport. Mortensen said his achieve-ments reflect a lifetime in the saddle.

“I was just always around horses grow-ing up,” said the Billings native. “From the time I was 11, I geared everything in my life towards rodeo, and I was lucky enough to have the support of family and friends.”

Mortensen said the university was also a large part of his success.

“I attribute most of my bronc riding suc-cess to what I learned in college,” he said. “I have a tremendous amount of respect for the collegiate rodeo program and what it gave me. It was there when I needed it. It gave me access to a coach and a regular practice facility. I think it really helps kids who want to go into the sport of rodeo.”

It was while representing MSU on the college rodeo circuit that Mortensen began his professional career. He was PRCA Rook-ie of the Year in 1990 and won the National Intercollegiate Saddle Bronc Championship in 1991—all while going to school.

“I’ve never actually used my degree, but it definitely gave me peace of mind,” he said.

“Rodeo is such an unstable, unforgiving sport. You face the fact that every day your career could be over because of injuries. It’s nice to know you can do something else.”

Mortensen has suffered many injuries on his way to the top, most notably while competing at the ProRodeo Tour’s 2004 season championship. After the eight-second whistle, his horse ran into a fence. The im-pact broke a bone in his foot and damaged a major tendon. He recovered, but he said the volatile nature of the sport is something he always tries to teach young rodeo athletes to prepare for.

“If you’re ‘rodeoing,’ you have to be aware of the potential of injury,” he said. “You have to do everything you can to stay in shape. You have to learn how to be aware

and ready for the potential hazards that lie out there.”

Despite hazards and injuries throughout his career, Mortensen stayed in the saddle and achieved his dreams. He retired from professional rodeo in 2006 with well over $2 million in career earnings—the first rough stock cowboy in history to pass that benchmark. He said he stays involved in rodeo today by teaching young athletes in programs at Billings area schools as well as at Northwest College in Powell, Wyo. He was immortalized in 2002 with the unveiling of an 18-foot bronze statue at the Montana Wall of Champions at MetraPark in Bill-ings. The statue stands as a monument to Mortensen’s legacy as a Montana cowboy who grit his teeth and rode to the top.

“It’s like anything in life,” he said. “You have to keep your nose to the grindstone no matter what. You have to get your priorities and goals in line. Then you have to go out and actually try to achieve them.”

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Take a few notes and diagrams scribbled on a cocktail napkin, a

couple conference calls with billion-dollar companies and toss in

a dash of top-secret patent negotiations, mix them together, and

you might come up with something approximating a day’s work for

Stephen Sanford, ‘00 ME, and David Yakos, ‘02 ME.

The two men, both mechanical engineering graduates from Mon-

tana State University, own and operate Salient Technologies Inc., a

product design consulting firm in Bozeman. Salient helps people

make their products ready for manufacturing.

“We take ideas from conception to production,” said Yakos. “We’ll

work with everything from a paper napkin sketch on up. We do

everything from wheelchairs to pet toys.”

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From left: Stephen Sanford, Bryan Walthall, David Yakos and Jens Anderson.

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Sanford and Yakos met as undergraduates at MSU. Despite being two years apart in classes, the two became good friends and found that they shared similar ideas about where they saw themselves going after college.

“Dave and I knew we wanted to be in some kind of enterprise together since we met, and that we wanted to stay in Boze-man,” Sanford said. “It turns out that we really work well together. We have enough differences to make up for each other’s dif-ference, if that makes sense.”

Sanford, a native of Fairbanks, Alaska, started working at Salient right after gradu-ating from MSU. His father had been an engineer working in the Alaska oil industry, and, for a while, it was Sanford’s intention to do the same. Instead, he fell in love with the Bozeman area and decided to find a way to stay.

Yakos’ story is similar. After college, the Racine, Wis., native did some traveling and worked in the engineering field for a short time, but he too was drawn back to Boze-man and eventually joined Sanford at Salient.

Neither of them wanted to get lost in the “large corporation shuffle,” Sanford said, where an engineer can spend months working on a tiny piece of a much bigger project and never get a look at the big picture.

“I didn’t want to spend a year of my life designing some little hose-clip and never see the rest of it,” Yakos said.

“Here, it’s like solving little puzzles every day.”So, with an eye on the big picture, San-

ford and Yakos bought Salient Technologies in April 2007 from its founder, MSU grad Brad Wright, ‘83 Eng. Since then, they’ve hired a pair of MSU engineering grads, Jens Anderson, ‘09 ME, and Bryan Walthall, ‘08 ME.

“One of the benefits of being in Boze-man is that we have the ability to hire these engineering students right out of college,” Sanford said.

Another benefit of Bozeman, Yakos said, is the number of technology companies that have sprung up in the area. Having so many

high-tech developers in one place not only gives MSU gradu-ates the opportunity to work in Montana but also gives business-es a chance to connect and work with each other, he said.

“It’s heaven on earth here with all the tech industries crop-ping up,” Yakos said. “We even see a handful of products that have come through the hands of MSU students.”

Based in offices on the north side of Bozeman, Salient is the

regional distributor for Solid-Works, a computer program that

makes it possible to do fast and accurate three-dimensional design work. Salient provides the software, support and

certified training. The software is central to Salient’s work with

clients, Sanford said. For example, Salient has worked with

ROC Wheels, a local nonprofit that builds highly adaptable wheelchairs for children in third world countries. The chairs make it possible for children with certain disabilities to sit comfortably, or, in some cases, even sleep through the night.

Sanford and Yakos helped ROC Wheels design the chair in the SolidWorks software to reduce the complexity of the design and make producing it easier and less expensive.

“Every single nut and bolt was in Solid-Works first,” Yakos said. “We even knew how much it would weigh before it was made.”

Sanford said the company now counts the number of products it has consulted on in the thousands. The list includes items such as GPS units, plastic water bottles and pet toys.

Both men say their time at MSU pro-vided them with a strong foundation of engineering knowledge to take out into the business world.

“College gives you a huge breadth of infor-mation,” Sanford said. “I think MSU has done a good job. Within very short order, we’ve had grads up to speed on the things we do here, and that’s impressive.”

Part of the joy Sanford takes in the job is seeing real people enjoying products he’s helped design. On a recent trip to a local park, he saw a man tossing a toy for his dog, and Sanford recognized the product as one that Salient had helped develop.

“It’s always fun to see your product out there in the real world,” he said. “Plus, it’s a really, really neat thing to see our names listed on a lot of patents.”

The best part of the work for Yakos is the variety. Every client who walks through the door brings in new ideas, and getting to see that process—from conception to manufac-turing —is priceless, he said.

“We see companies coming up and going from startups to having the tools to really help themselves advance,” he said. “The best measure of our success is the success of the companies we work with.”

Top: Products representing a wide variety of industries, from award-winning pet toys to an ergonomic clipboard—all designed by Salient.

Bottom: Computer rendering of a cryogenic valve being designed by Salient for a high-tech firm (Patent Pending).

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L ast spring, students in the Principles in Leadership class read books by Rudy Guillani, Barak Obama and

Hillary Clinton. According to Greg Young, vice provost of undergraduate education and head of University College, by read-ing books by leaders, not about leaders, students gain a first-hand perspective on what it’s like to make the difficult decisions required of leaders.

“On the whole, most of the students have considerable respect for leaders in tough situations and can only imagine how they might react,” said Young.

A new program at Montana State Univer-sity challenges students to investigate leader-ship, through case studies, service-learning and exploring their own leadership. Called the Leadership Fellows Certificate Program, it aims to equip students with critical and ethi-cal thinking skills so they can become positive agents of change in their communities.

“I was looking for a professional experi-ence to supplement my academic studies,” said Jen Poser, a liberal studies major from Denton, Mont., who is currently enrolled in the program. “I wanted to learn outside the classroom and have a hands-on leader-ship experience.”

The Leadership Fellows Certificate Program is a collaboration between the Asso-ciated Students of MSU, the MSU Leader-ship Institute and University College. The program came out of a request by students for more leadership education, according to Carmen McSpadden, director of the MSU Leadership Fellows Program.

“There was a real thirst for this kind of training,” said McSpadden.

The service component aims to get students involved in the MSU and Bozeman communities.

“Given the increased emphasis on service at the university and the direction to inte-grate what students learn in the classroom

with what happens in the community, we knew we needed to step up our service-learning to create the leaders of the future,” Young said.

For her service component, Poser created a proposal to make MSU a smoke-free cam-pus. She met with the marketing director of Bozeman Deaconess Hospital to understand how the hospital went smoke-free.

Poser is also the president of the MSU chapter of Colleges Against Cancer, and she networked with the American Cancer Society as part of her project.

“I have learned that implementing a smoke-free campus is a challenging process, and there will be opposition. However, I do have faith it will happen as there are already more than 300 smoke-free campuses in the United States.

“The Leadership Fellows program has been a phenomenal experience,” said Poser. “I’ve learned to express myself articulately and network, both skills that will pay off in the job market.”

Students come to the program with vary-ing levels of leadership experience. Some ar-rive with experience as leaders in large high schools. Others, like Poser, discovered their leadership potential at MSU.

Poser will be the only woman from her high school class of 16 to graduate from college. Each year at MSU she has gotten more involved in leadership, including as an officer in her sorority, AOΩ, ASMSU Homecoming chair, senior associate for the MSU Leadership Institute and as an orientation leader.

“It’s very rewarding to see her personal growth as she takes on leadership roles and responsibilities,” said McSpadden.

Students in the Leadership Fellows pro-gram take two classes in the program and another 12 credits from major and non-major courses in addition to the service-learning piece.

In the capstone class students reflect on their leadership experience.

“It’s that reflective piece that allows them to go into the workforce and articulately and knowledgeably talk about leadership,” McSpadden said.

The program has been in development for three or fours years. A pilot class took place last spring with nine students. The program officially launches in spring 2010.

“It’s the wave of the future to prepare tomorrow’s leaders,” Young said.

Poser feels she has learned a lot from the program so far and “definitely recommends” it to others.

“I am grateful for the opportunity to add value to my undergraduate degree,” she said.

New certificate program grooms leaders

Jennifer Poser

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E ighty years ago, inspired to create a garden area on the Montana State College campus, the dean of women

students, Una Herrick, called a meeting to consider the idea of an iris garden. Although the Great Depression was under way, the proposed garden won unanimous approval. Female students donated 50 cents each. Male students gave a dollar.

Now, during another economic down-turn, Montana State University students are working to restore and revitalize the garden that has fallen into disrepair. The Danforth Park, once known as the Iris Garden, is lo-cated between Herrick and Hamilton Halls on the east side of campus. It was renamed Danforth Park in 1972 because of its prox-imity to the Danforth Chapel.

“In the past, the park has been used for wedding receptions and collegiate events,” said English instructor Jill Davis. “More recently, however, it has provided students with a quiet respite, a peaceful sanctuary, an oasis from the stresses of college life.”

“Project Iris Gar-den” grew out of Da-vis’ Writing II class, which explores social networking, change, agents of change and how each impacts society. After reading Malcolm Gladwell’s book, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, the students proposed several projects the class might pursue to improve and strengthen the MSU community spirit. They decided to concentrate on the Danforth Park restora-tion project, which was proposed by student Alexey Kalinin.

Plans for the garden include blue and gold irises, native plants, flowering bushes and shrubs, an amphitheater for 250 people, and three sculptures, Davis said. The stone pathway from Wilson Hall to the park will be extended to the Hannon lawn.

The project will cost an estimated $60,000, Davis said. If fundraising goes well, students hope that the “hardscape” work will begin in the spring and

“softscape” work will begin in the fall of 2010. Hardscape priori-ties include fixing antique lamps and stone work. Softscape work includes planting flowers and bushes.

The garden, once completed, will be maintained by four student clubs and other groups that may decide to adopt a campus space for restoration and revitalization, Davis said.

Approximately 18 groups, departments and clubs are involved in the project, as well as faculty, staff, students and members of the Bozeman community, Davis said.

For more information, see www.projecti-risgarden.com.

Danforth Park restoration planned for springBY E V E LY N B O S W E L L

Top: Planned garden perspective rendering; Above: The Iris Garden in an undated historic photo.

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Class Notes are compiled by Jennifer Anderson. Alumni Association members will receive priority listing in Class Notes. If you would like to submit information, please submit to her via e-mail to alumni@montana. edu or through the Alumni Web site http://alumni. montana. edu/classnotes. Or drop a line to the MSU Alumni Association, P. O. Box 172940, Bozeman, MT 59717-2740.

1940s

Leslie Cowan, ’47 I&ME, Seaview, Wash., reports the class of 1943 was delayed to 1947 by WWII.

1950s

Marvin Beatty, ’50 Ag, Madison, Wis., published a historical novel, A Few Good Acres, which traces five generations of farmers from colo-nial times in Appalachia to the mid 1950s in Montana. Beatty retired from the University of Wisconsin as emeritus of soil science and associ-ate dean emeritus of Cooperative Extension.

William Lassey, ’56 AgEcon, ’61 Econ M, Tucson, Ariz., taught from 1963-1972. He recently completed Fabulous Journey, a memoir with his wife, Marie, about growing up on a small North Dakota farm, teaching, authoring nine books and traveling the world during 36 years at Mon-tana State and Washington State. He retired in 1999 to the good life in Tucson.

Lu (Bokenkroger) Nauman, ’56 Nurs, ’81 M, Topeka, Kan., has downsized to a two-bedroom home in a retirement community. She continues playing her E flat alto saxophone and bells at their Countryside Methodist Church. Lu plays bridge and husband Alan stays active with his retired military officers’ organizations. They had a super time at their 50th MSU class reunion.

1960s

George Cheng, ’60 EE MS, Virginia Beach, Va., sends his best regards to all old and new friends of MSU.

Charlotte (Brown) Shackelford, ’60 ElEd, and husband, Bill, Wil-liamsburg, Va., live most of the year in Williamsburg and escape summer and early fall to Colum-bus, Mont. They enjoy the Big Sky Country.

JoAnn (Koford) Paullin, ’68 Bus, Kalispell, Mont., has just retired and thinks it’s great. Thank you for the wonderful degree from Montana State. It made good jobs attainable.

1970s

Ron Campbell, ’70 ME, Plano, Texas, has retired from Texas Instrument and Raytheon’s Space and Airborne Systems in McKinney, Texas, after 31 years. He served as lead mechanical engineer on the Air Force Predator Drone, Navy helicopter and fighter programs. He contributed to the design of recon-naissance systems, which included night vision and color TV pictures transmitted to ground or airborne receivers via satellite link. The systems included a laser or guiding missiles to targets. He now operates CompuForms. com in Plano, Texas. He and wife, Rhonda, enjoy raising longhorn cattle, snow skiing and showing Brittany dogs.

Willis Conover, ’71 ApSci MS, ’77 Educ PhD, Clarks Summit, Pa., has retired after 31 years of teaching and service at the University of Scranton, a Jesuit institution in northeastern Pennsylvania. As emeritus professor he will return to teach history and geography part time and continue his research on local history.

Russell Ewan, ’71 Bus, Spokane Valley, Wash., is retired and lives in McLeod on the ranch for about seven months a year. He married Eileen Garcia Dec. 21, 2007. She is an EWU grad and retired middle

school teacher from Evergreen Jr. High in Spokane.

James Harwood, ’72 CET, Hous-ton, Texas, will be moving to Abu Dhabi.

Nanci Bain, ’73 ElEd, Allentown, Pa., is still enjoying her 20th year as a life enrichment director at Valley Manor Nursing and Rehab, but still misses Montana. She also works in their marketing and admissions department, while enjoying the fun and challenge of the environment. Her only child, Maine Coon Kitty, Tana Jo, is 13 now and adjusting to her four siblings.

Douglas Chapman, ’73 PreMed, ’76 Micro M, Naperville, Ill., is currently seeking new employment opportunities at companies across the U. S. Previously, Douglas served as a senior specialist, QA Customer/Mfg. Support at Unilever Food So-lutions located in Lisle, Ill. Business reorganization resulted in being laid off after 27 years of service.

Donna (Ault) Jennings, ’73 Nurs, Missoula, Mont., is expanding her mental health center to include clinicians and co-occurring inte-grated treatment. She is enrolled in the psychiatric nurse practitioner program at Gonzaga. She plans to graduate May 2010.

Suzanne Thomason, ’75 Micro, Terry, Mont., received her master’s degree in education from Minot State University last May.

1980s

Rodney Brook, ’82 AgBu, Judith Gap, Mont., still ranches east of Judith Gap. Wife Carla is employed as a nurse practitioner with the Great Falls Clinic.

John Floyd, ’83, Alexandria, Va., left active duty with the Navy in July 2008. He then visited Bozeman for the first time since the big Y2K New Years Eve bash at the Baxter Hotel. He enjoyed a Sig Ep reunion to mark 25 years since graduation in 1983. John has just completed his first year as a defense contractor in the Pentagon for the support of the Navy’s Air Warfare Division. He is still living the dream.

Lee Kierig, ’83 Arch, ’09 M, Ham-ilton, Mont., has written a book titled Where Is Infinite Love? Public Welfare, Human Responsibility and Sustainability of Earth.

Eric Peterson, ’83 F&PH, Great Falls, Mont., has served as director and produced stories for the 2008 Montana Air National Guard Year in Review, which won 1st place in the 2008 U. S. Air Force Media Contest. He was also named the 2008 Air National Guard Broadcast Journalist of the Year.

David Sutherland, ’83 Acctg, Ka-lispell, Mont., has been appointed to a three-year board of director term with the Montana Society of CPAs (MSCPA).

Tamra (DeRudder) Jackson, ’84 Engl, Cody, Wyo., became one of only 10 Wyoming teachers to receive a 2009 Arch Coal Teacher Achievement Award. She’d like to share some words of wisdom for those considering the profes-sion. First, be completely in love with your subject matter, because students positively respond to the example a teacher sets. Also, treat every student as though he or she will be your banker, doctor or building contractor one day. She believes the teaching profession is the foundation for everything else that matters.

Charles Fulcher, ’85 Art, was recently juried into the Montana Painters Alliance (MPA). He was the winner of the C. M. Russell Art Auction’s 2006 Ralph “Tuffy” Berg award and is proud of his affiliation with the prestigious group. In ad-dition to his success in oil painting, Charles is also a renowned graphic designer and musician.

Col. Paul Funk II, ’85 SpCom, was recently appointed Brigadier General, US Army. He is the son of Paul

“Butch” Funk, ’61 Ag, ’72 EHHD M, ’73 PhD, ’98 HonDoc, and Sheila (Brown) Funk, ’72 EHHD.

Kelly (Broere) Brough, ’86 Soc, Denver, Colo., became president and CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce on Aug. 7.

Bruce Fox, ’87 EHHD MS, Little-ton, Colo., has been awarded a Ful-bright Teacher Exchange grant to

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teach in Wil, Switzerland. He will be accompanied on the exchange by his wife Jean and daughters, Sarah, 15, and Rachel, 13.

Robynne (Warren) Sindelar, ’87 Spcm, Littleton, Colo., is currently employed by Pfizer Animal Health Therapeutic Specialists. She has two sons, Dylan, 16, and Kohl, 13.

Martin Dahl, ’89 EE, Minot, N. D., serves as general manager and CEO of McLean Electric Cooperative in Garrison, N. D. His position began last January.

Jean (Warmbrod) Dixon, ’89 Nurs, Tucson, Ariz., received an MSN ED from the University of Phoenix this past June.

1990s

David Johnson, ’90 CE, Plano, Texas, has been appointed operations vice president, branch manager for FM Global company’s Forest Products operations based in Stockholm, Sweden. David will oversee all client relations, under-writing, engineering, processing and administration for the operation.

Margaret (Doyle) Treat, ’91 Engl, ’05 Art, Billings, Mont., enjoys teaching at the Career Center in Billings.

Raymond Johnson, ’96 MET, Sidney, Mont., received a master’s in business administration from the University of Mary in Bismark, N. D. He moved back home to Sidney, along with his wife, Heather (Hansen) Johnson, ’96 Acctg, and their three children. Ray is the new director of operations for his in-laws businesses, the South 40 Restaurant Lounge and Casino and the Winner’s Pub Sports Bar and Casino. Heather assists with part-time accounting for both businesses when time allows while raising their children. Ray and Heather are very happy to be back in Montana.

Ryan Schrenk, ’97 EHHD, Great Falls, Mont., has been promoted to director of the Extended Learning Division at MSU–Great Falls Col-lege of Technology. He has served as the director of Technology Facili-tated Learning, working primarily in distance learning at the college since 2002. Under Ryan’s leadership, the college has experienced a doubling in the number of online offerings.

Kate (Quintero) Stafford, ’97 Acctg, ’00 M, Bozeman, has been appointed as president of the board

of directors for 2009-2010 with the Montana Society of CPAs (MSCPA). Kyla is a shareholder in the Bozeman office of Anderson ZurMuehlen and Company.

Bobbi Jo (Miller) Rettmann, ’98 BioSci, ’04 HHD M, Spokane, Wash., was selected as Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year for 2009 at the annual Washington State Dietetic Association on April 28. The award is granted annually to a registered dietitian in the state who has made a significant contri-bution to the dietetic profession and is 35 years of age or younger.

2000s

Andy Schottelkorb, ’04 Ag, Get-tysburg, Pa., was ordained as a Lutheran pastor (ELCA) on Sep. 13th in Princeton Junction, N. J. Andy graduated from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. Andy’s wife, Lucy Francisco Schot-telkorb, was also ordained. They are the new pastors of Emanuel Lutheran Church of Elmer, N. J.

Philip Schatzka, ’07 Psy, Great Falls, Mont., is enrolled in a gradu-ate program at MSU–Northern at this time. He will graduate with a master’s degree in May 2010.

MARRIAGES

Jamie Hass, ’04 EHHD, married Michael Hass, June 6. They make their home in Billings, Mont.

BIRTHS

Kimberly (Steffel) Duis, ’93 PSci, Woodbury, Minn., had a son, Logan, born Oct. 10, 2008.

Jim Magera, ’93 ChE, has com-pleted a six-year urology residency at the Mayo Clinic this past year and is now a practicing urologist in Iowa City, Iowa. Jim and wife, Jody (Verploegen) Magera, ’93 Bus, Coralville, Iowa, had their third daughter, Macey Grace, born Feb. 1, 2008.

Amy (Stewart) Stemple, ’93 ElEd, and husband, Randy, welcomed a baby girl, Lindsay Marie, born June 30.

Lyndsey (Medsker) Thomas, ’97 Bus, Washington, D. C., had a baby boy, Atley West, born May 1.

Heidi (Broadbent) Rubich, ’01 Art, ’03 M, and husband, Mark Rubich, ’04 ChE, welcomed their newest addition, Cooper Ban-non, on June 30. Cooper joins big brother, Michael, 2 ½.

Joshua Alzheimer, ’03 EE, and wife, Sara Kay (Schwartzenberger) Alzheimer, ’02 Psy, Boise, Idaho, announce the birth of their son, Conlin Joshua, born on April 8. He joins sister Anika, 2 ½.

Matthew Hoffmann, ’04 CE, and wife, Kaitlen (McCafferty) Hoff-mann, ’04 ElEd, had a baby boy named John. He joins sister, Addee.

Mark Paske, ’05 Acctg, and wife, Jessica (Clayton) Paske, ’03 Acctg, celebrated the birth of son, Bran-don, born July 2. They currently live in Boise, Idaho.

IN MEMORY

Robert Patton,* ’35 BioSci, Dexter, Mich., died April 28. Charles Bohlig,* ’39 CE, Crockett, Calif., died March 13. Elizabeth (Craine) Duykers,* ’39 Bus, Sebastopol, Calif., died April 4. Don Brown, ’40 F&WL, Helena, Mont., died May 1. Allan Roush,* ’40 Chem, ’51 PhD, Bozeman, died May 19. Ruth (Grainger) Dreyer,* ’43 HmEc, Glasgow, Mont., died April 10. Robert Rieman,* ’43 Micro, Red-mond, Ore., died April 17. Jean (Chestnut) Armstrong,* ’44 Art, Spokane, Wash., died Dec. 27. William Swartz,* ’44 Sci&Tech, ’49 Math M, ’55 Math PhD, Boze-man, died July 27. Robert Oertli,* ’48 I&ME, Toma-hawk, Wis., died April 18. Dorothy (Krulatz) Barker, ’49 Bus, Mercer Island, Wash., died June 27. Eugene Coleman,* ’49 I&ME, Cupertino, Calif., died April 20. Terrance Cypher, ’50 GenStu ’58 Math M ’77 Educ Phd, Dillon, Mont., died April 9. Harold Harding,* ’50 EE, Albany, Ore., died Dec. 24. Joseph Meyer, ’50 AnSci, Harlow-ton, Mont., died April 30. George “Ed” Deschamps,* ’51 Ag, Missoula, Mont., died April 2. Robert Hockett, ’51 AgPl, Havre, Mont., died May 7.

James Stephens,* ’51 Arch, Ka-lispell, Mont., died April 22. Thomas Waldo, ’51 PE, Hamilton, Mont., died April 16. Valerie (Glynn) Brinkman,* ’52 HmEc ’81 Educ M, Billings, Mont., died May 7. Robert Maquire, ’52 I&ME, Butte, Mont., died April 11. James Thiel, ’52 Bus, Reno, Nev., died Oct. 27, 2008. Berney Kempton, ’53 Bus, Monte-bello, Calif., died June 1. Georgia (Bourquin) Jaskot,* ’54 HmEc, Media, Pa., died May 27. Clifford Poor,* ’56 Che ’59 ChE PhD, Las Vegas, Nev., died July 1. John Woodmansey, ’57 EE, Bill-ings, Mont., died May 28. Jane (Shope) Hyatt,* ’60 Ex HmEc, Bigfork, Mont., died July 3. Martin Perga, ’60 ChE, Joliet, Mont., died May 30. Edythe Crouse,* ’61 ElEd, Boze-man, died May 20. Sandra (Skelton) Antonich, ’62 I&ME, Great Falls, Mont., died June 20. Lucille (Campbell) Balfour, ’63 Nurs, ’70 M, Helena, Mont., COR-RECTION, we’d like to report that Lucille is still very much alive and happily living in Helena. Wanda (Parent) Browne, ’64 ElEd, Hillsboro, Ore., died July 3. Susan (Davis) Gum,* ’64 ElEd, Ferndale, Wash., died May 31. Larry Morrow,* ’64 AgEd, ’65 M, Columbia Falls, Mont., died April 6. Jim Mayo, ’66 AgPl, Marmath, N. D., died May 7. Gerald Cormier, ’69 Ag, Billings, Mont., died May 21. Cheryl Knuchel, ’71 ElEd, Deer Lodge, Mont., died May 1. Raymond Stubbs, ’71 I&ME, Bozeman, died April 14. Jack Williams, ’71 Math ’76 M, Clancy, Mont., died April 28. Janet (Lane) Eaton, ’74 EHHD, Mukilteo, Wash., died March 15.

James Ellerton, ’74 Bus, Overton, Nev., died June 1.

Jeff Holder, ’76 Educ M, Medford, Ore., died April 5.

Judee Wargo, ’76 Biochem, Fort Benton, Mont., died July 7.

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“Twice blessed." That is how Lois (Fulker) Norby, '65 HomEc, describes her feeling about Montana State and her role as Chair of the 18-member volun-teer Alumni Association Board of Directors.

First, as an MSU student and now as a member of the board of directors. "I have been given the opportunity to give back to the institution that gave me so much,” she said.

She met her husband, Kent Norby, '64 Ag Bus, at MSU. They have three married sons, five grandchildren, and split their

time between homes in Minnesota and Montana.

Lois retired from the Minnetonka Pulic School System in Minnesota, where she served as the community resource

coordinator. Working with volun-teers and as a member of Junior League of Minneapolis, the Min-nesota Landscape Arboretum and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, gives Lois an edge for managing and leading the Alumni Associa-tion board.

“We are here to help alumni become more involved in their university and to develop partner-

ships that promote MSU. We are the lifetime connection for alumni of Montana State Univer-sity,” she added.“I love returning to campus where the atmosphere is energizing and stimulating.”

Lois carries with her a point of pride that is unique to her gradu-ating class. “We were the last class to graduate from Montana State College. In 1966, MSC be-came MSU,” she notes. The name may have changed, the campus has grown, faces are different, but to Lois Norby, Montana State will always be a special place and one in which she is willing to invest her time and her talents.

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A S S O C I A T I O N N E W S

Dear Friends,

The Alumni Association at Montana State University is much more than an organization. While your membership brings you benefits and opportunities, it also gives you the satisfaction of knowing that you are supporting an association that advances your alma mater, Montana State.

Let’s talk about benefits. Take a look at the career services provided for alumni at montana.edu/careers/alumni.

Here you can get assistance in updating your resume and posting it for employers to see. You can review a list of potential jobs. You can post job announcements and have the oppor-tunity to hire a Bobcat.

The Association offers group inwsurance plans for auto, home and renters insurance. We also offer short term medical and life insurance.

For those of you who love to travel, think about an Alumni Association trip. You will be assured of an outstanding itinerary, excellent accomodations and informed tour guides.

The Online Community is a perfect way to find your classmates and college friends, as well as to network in your new residence or as you search for employment.

Looking for fun? Alumni events are just that. The calendar in this issue covers several events that you may enjoy attending.

Please encourage your friends and family to join the Alumni Association. The Collegian, Mountains and Minds and the alumni calendar are member benefits. If you know someone who isn’t receiving them, suggest that they join. www.alumni.edu/membership.

In Blue and Gold,

Jaynee Drange Groseth, ’73, ’91President and CEOMontana State University Alumni Association

F R O M T H E P R E S I D E N T & C E O

Leave an Enduring LegacyThe Alumni Association is pleased to introduce the Alumni Plaza, a project to instill pride and provide a focal point for spirit on campus. The vision for the Alumni Plaza is to capture the rich tradition of spirit at MSU and express it in a physical space built around a six-foot high bronze bobcat, where the campus community and visitors alike can gather, connect and celebrate. The Bobcat was selected as MSU’s mascot in 1916 for its cunning intelligence, athletic prowess and independent spirit. These attributes are elegantly reflected in Spirit, the plaza’s centerpiece, a bronze sculpture named for Montana State’s first bobcat.

The Association is offering for sale two versions of collector quality, limited edition small copies of Spirit to fund the project.

To learn more about the Alumni Plaza and how you cn help support it through a Spirit bronze purchase, visit www.bobcatspirit.com or call 406-994-2401.

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A S S O C I A T I O N N E W S

Blue and Gold FridaysShow your Montana State school pride by wearing MSU apparel on Fridays throughout the year. Check out the latest Bobcat gear at the MSU Bookstore’s Web site www.msubookstore.org. Look sharp, be proud. Let the world know that you are a MSU graduate.

Alumni Calendar of EventsOct. 11 Alumni Association Board of Directors Meeting BozemanOct. 17 Bobcat Football vs. South Dakota —1:05 pm BozemanOct. 23 Bobcat Friday Night in Spokane, Wash. at Heroes & Legends Spokane Wash.Oct. 24 Bobcat Football & Tailgate @ EWU—1:05 pm Cheney, Wash.Oct. 29 MSU Libraries Dinner & Auction BozemanOct. 30-31 Parent/Family Weekend at MSU BozemanOct. 31 Bobcat Football vs. Idaho State—1:35 pm BozemanNov. 1 Bobcat Women’s Basketball Season begins vs. MSU Billings BozemanNov. 3 Bobcat Men’s Basketball Season begins vs. Saskatchewan BozemanNov. 6 Bobcat Friday Night in Portland, Ore. Portland, Ore.Nov. 7 Bobcat Football & Tailgate @ Portland State, PGE Park—1:05 pm Portland, Ore.Nov. 9 Montana Farm Bureau MSU Alumni Social—Missoula Hilton Garden Inn MissoulaNov. 13-14 Ag Appreciation Weekend BozemanNov. 14 Bobcat Football vs. Sacramento State—12:05 pm BozemanNov. 21 Cat/Griz Member Breakfast—Alumni Center BozemanNov. 21 Cat/Griz Football on the home turf!—12:05 pm BozemanNov. 21 Cat/Griz Satellite Parties around the country—see pg. 28Dec. 3 Montana Graingrowers MSU Alumni Social Great Falls

Dec. 10 Montana Stockgrowers MSU Alumni Social Billings

Jan. 23 Bobcat Women’s Basketball @ Univ. of Montana Missoula

Jan. 23 Bobcat Men’s Basketball vs. Univ. of Montana Bozeman

Watch Montana State-ments for updated calendar of events or check the Web at alumni.montana.edu/events.

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A S S O C I A T I O N N E W S

Mysteries of the Mekong: Saigon to Angkor Wat Aboard the Deluxe Jayavarman. March 7-18, 2010 $2995/person

This unique itinerary features a five-night cruise along the Mekong River, the historic lifeline of South-east Asia, where the

traditions of bygone centuries still thrive.

Natural Wonders of Costa RicaMarch 12-21, 2010 $1839/person

Experience the incredible sights and people of Costa Rica at an affordable price with amazing amenities.

Monumental RomeMarch 12-19, 2010 $2599/person (in-cludes airfare from many major cities)

See remnants of past civilizations, revel in architectural splendors, stroll over the Tiber’s graceful bridges and

sample the world’s best espresso; welcome to Rome, a city steeped in nearly 3,000 years of history. .

Cruising the Canary Islands, Ma-deira, Morocco and GibraltarApril 8-16, 2010 $2595/personn

One of the most popular programs of last year, join in this nine-day journey to the exotic and beautiful Canary Islands, Madeira,

Morocco and the Iberian Peninsula.

The Romantic Rhine: Switzerland, France, Germany and HollandSept. 18-26, 2010 $2287/person

A seven-night cruise aboard the newest Avalong ship being introduced to the fleet in 2010.

Aegean Adventures CruiseSept. 21-Oct. 4, 2010 $3699/person (includes airfare from many major cities)

Twelve nights of luxurious and highly personalized accommodations and cruising to historic and scenic ports of call

including Isatanbul, Kusadasi, Rhodes, Delos, Mykonos, Santorini, Katakolon, Corfu, Dubrovnik, Crete and Athens.

Mediterranean Inspiration CruiseOct. 17-30, 2010 $3699/person (includes airfare from many major cities)

Twelve nights on board Oceania Cruises visiting some of Italy’s most amazing ports with stops in Monte Carlo, Corfu,

Montenegro and Croatia along the cruise. An amazing itinerary with diverse ports of call is sure to create your own Mediterra-nean Inspiration.

Israel & Jordan: A Grand Journey Nov. 19–Dec. 1, 2010 $3495/person

Discover the magnificent wonders of Israel and Jordan and immerse yourself in local cuisine, architecture and land-

scapes, people and culture. Limited passenger numbers encourage camarade-rie with unique opportunities to explore a region in a more expansive manner.

For more informationAll trips are listed on the Cat Treks Web site—alumni.montana.edu/resources/travel Or, call to request a brochure: 1-800-842-9028.

2010 MSU Alumni Association Adventure and Educational Travel

IN MEMORY continued from page 23Nancy Dahy, ’77 Ex Educ, Great Falls, Mont., died March 10. William Menghini, ’78 EE, Sandpoint, Idaho, died June 1. Linda Reynolds, ’78 Soc, Lake Stevens, Wash., died April 30.

Dennis Schoepp, ’78 Anth, Columbia Falls, Mont., died June 11.

Jan (Davidson) Gilligan, ’79 AgPl, Great Falls, Mont., died April 19.

Catherine (Rammer) Kopp, ’79 Nurs, Spo-kane, Wash., died May 29.

Brian Johnson, ’80 I&ME, Littleton, Colo., died Aug. 13.

Wallace Leider, ’82 ElEd, ’97 Educ M, Lodge Grass, Mont., died April 14.

Byron Berglind, ’87 EE, Townsend, Mont., died July 30.

Patricia “Patty” Kern, ’88 AgEd, Pryor, Mont., died June 8.

Susan (Daines) Owenhouse, ’88 ElEd, Boze-man, died April 13.

Constance “Connie” Staudohar, ’92 Hist M, Bozeman, died May 19.

Jennifer Ferguson, ‘01 Engr, Madera, Calif., died June 8. She was 30.

Shannon Oliver, ’06 Art, Belgrade, Mont., died May 17.

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A series of airy new decorative windows grace the north wall of the North Lounge in the Student Union Building, and the person responsible for it couldn’t be more pleased.

“I’m thrilled with it,” says campus and community activist Dorothy Aasheim, ’44 EX Bus, a 2005 recipient of the Alumni Association’s Blue and Gold Award, who instigated creation and installation of the window as a memorial to Vivienne Kintz, ’32 HomEc, founder of Woman’s Week.

When Dorothy Aasheim’s husband, the late Torlief Aasheim, ’37 Ag, ’54 M Agron, ’96 HonDoc, took over as director of the Extension Service, he asked Kintz, an Exten-sion specialist, to develop a special program for the women of Montana. In 1966, Kintz put together the first Woman’s Week, which offered Montana women of all ages a chance to spend a week on campus, living in dor-mitories and choosing from as many as 35 short courses taught by faculty members.

“In those days, many rural women hadn’t had a chance to go to college, and they led

rather isolated lives,” Aasheim explained. “Woman’s Week opened up the world of higher education to them.” Hundreds of Montana women attended each year, one year as many as 500 came to campus for the program.

Aasheim herself attended all 42 Woman’s Weeks. Some of her favorite classes through the years were the late MSU President Mike Malone’s classes on Montana history, retired English professor Alanna Brown’s literature courses, courses in philosophy and creative writing, and “a fascinating course on chemis-try in the home.”

When Vivienne Kintz died, Aasheim set out to raise money from Woman’s Week alumni to establish a memorial. “She gave us so much. I didn’t want her to be forgotten,” she said.

Aasheim chose the artist to create the win-dow—David Fjeld, of Big Sky Stained Glass.

“I’ve known David since he was a little boy,” she says. “His work is beautiful and sensitive, just what we wanted.” She also shepherded

the project through approximately seven university committees.

Much of the window remains clear glass, preserving the view across the Centennial Mall to Hamilton Hall, the original women’s dorm on campus, but Fjeld has sprinkled colorful vignettes through the space. Books, flowers and hot air balloons are among the images that convey a sense of the freedom and expanding horizons Woman’s Week represented to its participants.

Although she was sad to see the program end in 2007, Aasheim muses, “Maybe it had run its course. Nowadays so many women are in professions and attended college, there’s not such a need for it.”

But thanks to Dorothy Aasheim, MSU’s efforts to extend its offerings to all Montan-ans will be remembered by future genera-tions as they take seats by the windows in the SUB’s North Lounge to study or eat their lunches in a contemplative setting.

Historic Bobcat goal post survives explosion and finds a new homeBY M IC H A E L B E C K E R

Two things happened on Nov. 19, 2005. The MSU Bobcats football team defeated its rival, the University of Montana, and the Rocking R bar in downtown Bozeman got a new decora-tion: an MSU goal post.

Excited fans swarmed the field after the Bobcats’ 16-6 victory and, in true college football tradition, tore down the goal post. The crowd then marched its souvenir downtown to the Rocking R, where the post was hung behind the bar, covered with the autographs of the fans present that day.

The post hung there for five years until March 5, 2009, when a natural gas explo-sion tore through downtown Bozeman, killing one person and destroying several buildings, including the Rocking R. Amid the confusion and rubble, the fate of that particular piece of Bobcat history was unknown.

It wasn’t until two months later that the Rocking R’s owner, Mike Hope, ’87 Bus, got a chance to walk through the remains of his bar. The goal post, he said, was very much on his mind.

“The bar’s always been tied to the Bobcats and that tradition, so the first thing I did when I got in there was to look for the goal post,” said Hope.

Hope found the goal post pretty much where he left it, albeit covered in rubble and soot. It was charred; much of the yellow paint was gone; and only a handful of the auto-graphs were still readable.

Hope had the goal post removed from the blast site and, on July 11, he brought the post—along with current football coach Rob Ash—on stage at one of Bozeman’s Music on Main events to ask the crowd for help moving the goal post to its new home.

At Hope’s behest, the crowd marched the goal post to its new, temporary home at Hope’s nightclub, Mixers. There it will stay until the Rock-ing R is rebuilt and reopened in early 2011.

Tony Kaber, ’05 Bus, the manager of Mixers, said the customers are glad to see the goal post, both because it reminds them of the 2005 game and because it’s something posi-tive that survived the explosion.

“People like to see it there,” Kaber said. “It’s a part of the community and a part of MSU as well.”

Hope was happy that his businesses could help preserve something that’s so meaningful for the community and the university.

“We had the whole community down there chanting ‘Go, ’Cats, Go!’ It was really special. I think that’s good for school spirit and commu-nity, he recalled”

Woman’s Week founder honored with SUB window BY M A R JO R I E S M I T H

PHOTOS BY STEPHEN HUNTS

ALASKA: Anchorage*—The Peanut Farm 522 Old Seward Hwy • Cari (Boltz) Zawodny ’98 (907) 223-0477 • Cari@virtugallery.biz Fairbanks—Red Fox Bar & Grill • 398 Chena Pump Rd. • Joni (Gardner) ’82 & Tom ’82 Simpson • (907) 460-6635 • rvrrun@att.net Juneau—Location TBA. • Virgil Fredenberg ’83 • (907) 523-6025 • virgil.fredenberg@uas.alaska.edu

ARIZONA: Flagstaff*—Granny’s Closet • 1 blk S of underpass on Milton Rd • Howard Hansen (UM Coordinator) • (928) 774-3175 • howardhansen@allstate.com Peoria*—McDuffies • 15874 N. 83rd Ave. • Dave Melrose (UM contact) • (623)-972-0144v Scottsdale—Duke’s Sports Bar • 7607 E. McDowell • Brad ’91 and Brenda (Sedivy) ’92 Neubauer • (602)-524-9509 • bneubauer720@aol.com • Tricia (Ketterling) ’91 and Jim ’89 Quitmeyer Tucson —Stadium Grill & Bar • 3682 W Orange Grove Rd • Julie Goswick ’82 • (520) 296-0725 • jpgoswick@raytheon.com Yuma—Buffalo Wild Wings Bar and Grille • Yuma Palms shopping center • Pat (Smith) Hall ’58 • (928) 314-3252 patiluhall@aol.com

ARKANSAS: Little Rock*—West End Smokehouse & Tavern • 215 N. Shackleford • Allen Davis (UM Coord.) • (501) 804-7987 • allen.davis@pbba.cc

CALIFORNIA: Chico*—The Graduate • 344 W. 8th St. • Mary Ann Williams (UM Coordinator) • (530) 518-3322 • maryannwilliams@tcbk.com Fresno—Silver Dollar Hofbrau • 333 E Shaw Ave. • Don Henderson ’63 • (559) 435-8874 • ljhintdes@yahoo.com LA-Culver City—Joxer Daly’s • 11168 Washington Blvd. • Chris Kubin ’86 • (310) 466-4827 • dawgdiver@gmail.com Orange County-Rancho Santa Margarita—Daily’s Sports Grill • 29881 Aventura • Lisa Rockwell ’83 • (714) 832-6371 • Rockwell_L@AUHSD.US Palm Desert-La Quinta—Beerhunter 78-483 Hwy 111 • Mark ’88 & Laurie Pertile ’88 • (909) 795-5895 • mlpertile@aol.com Sacramento-Fair Oaks—Players Sports Pub • 4060 Sunrise Blvd • Bonnie McCracken ’84 • (916) 784-3507 • bonnie.mccracken@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu San Diego—McGregor’s Grille and Ale House 10475 San Diego Mission Road Pete Burfening ’94 • (619) 933-2272 • pburfening@wshblaw.com SF East Bay: San Leandro—Ricky’s Sports Theater and Grill • 15028 Hesperian • Steve Wray ’84 • (925) 672-0976 • s.wray@comcast.net SF North Bay: San Rafael area—Flatiron Sports Bar • 724 “B” Street, San Rafael • Bob ’59 and Bonnie ’56 Smith • (415) 892-3123 • bandbsmithc@comcast.net

COLORADO: Colorado Springs—Dublin House Sports Bar & Grill • 1850 Dominion Way • Art Post ’58 • (719) 634-5907 • sharcampo@earthlink.net • Rick Smith ’60 Denver—Brooklyn’s @ The Pepsi Center • 901 Auraria Pkwy • Margie Barnes ’63 • (303) 696-6359 • mdb10@hotmail.com • Al Nelson ’78 Fort Collins—TBD Grand Junction—Wrigley Field • 1810 North Avenue • Dusty Dunbar ’83 • (970) 858-9132 • edustin@peoplepc.com

FLORIDA: Pensacola—Seville Quarter – Pool Room • 130 E. Government Street • (850) 434-6211 • Jeff Neely ’91 • neelys4@mchsi.com The Villages—Beef O’Brady’s Sports Bar • 353 Colony Blvd., Suite 100, Colony Plaza • • Steve Gamradt ’72 • (352) 259-6070 • sigamradt@hotmail.com

GEORGIA: Atlanta-Alpharetta—Montana’s Sports Bar and Grill • 13695 Hwy 9 • Josh Earhart ’86 • (770) 516-0547 • josh_earhart@bellsouth.net

HAWAII: Oahu—Legends Sports Bar • 411 Nahua St., Honolulu • Martina Bannon • (808)265-3637 • bannon6@@hotmail.com

IDAHO: Boise—Dutch Goose • 3515 W. State St. • Brad Schmidt ’91 • (208) 938-4795 • Brad.schmidt@sybase.com Idaho Falls —Fanatics • 2040 Channing Wy. • Christy Frazee ’84 • (208) 521-3888 • bcfrazee@cableone.net Moscow area (Pullman, Wash.)—My Office Bar & Grill • 215 S. Grand Ave, Pullman • Mike Holder ’77 • (509) 751-0381 mikeh852@cableone.net Twin Falls—The Pressbox • 1749 Kimberly Rd. • Jessica Myers ’00 • (208) 420-2830 • jmyers@windwireless.net

ILLINOIS: Chicago-City—Fireplace Inn • 1448 North Wells • Jeana Lervick ’99 • (312) 399-7546 • jlervick@bellboyd.com • RSVP to Pattie Sheehan at psheehan1400@ameritech.net Chicago-Schaumburg—The Fox and Hound Smokehouse and Tavern • 1416 N. Roselle Rd • Matt Mulryan ’83 • (847) 548-1149 mattm180@comcast.net Rockford*—LT’s • 1011 S. Alpine Rd.

INDIANA: Indianapolis—Fox and Hound English Pub & Grille • 4901 E. 82nd Street Ste 900 • Donna (Swank) Rudiger ’75 • (317) 788-1299 • donna.rudiger@roche.com

KANSAS / MISSOURI: Olathe (Kansas City)—Johnny’s Tavern • 10384 S. Ridgeview Rd. • Rick Marr ’87 • Rick@marrandcompany.com

LOUISIANA: New Orleans-Monroe— RJ Gators • 1119 Garrett Rd in Monroe, La. • Deanna Buczala ’05 • buczala@ulm.edu

NEW ENGLAND / MASS.: Salisbury, Mass.—The Winners Circle • 211 Elm Street (Route 110) • Chris Mattocks ’65 • (508) 883-1706 x 106 • cmattocks@bellingham.k12.ma.us

MICHIGAN: Detroit Area-Utica—Dave and Buster’s of Detroit • 45511 Park Ave (Intersect. of M59 &M53) • Fred Quinn ’60 • (586) 781-0605 • fjquinn2812@msn.com

MINNESOTA: Minneapolis-Mendota—Lucky’s 13 Pub • 1352 Sibley Memorial Highway Jerod Fehrenbach ’02 • (952) 334-0680 • jfehren@aol.com

MISSOURI: St. Louis—Ozzie’s Restaurant & Sports Bar • 645 Westport Plaza • Brett Green ’88 • (314) 721-0590 • brett-green@charter.net • David Bauer ’78

NEBRASKA: Omaha—DJ’s Dugout West 636 N 114th St. • Jennifer (Trowbridge) Krantz ’00 • (402) 493-7312 • jenn.caleb@cox.net

NEVADA: Dayton/Carson City—1st and 10 Sports Bar (in Dayton) • 240 Dayton Valley Rd., Suite 101 • Tanya Edmondson ’02 • (775) 291-8737 • tedmondson@lyon.k12.nv.us Las Vegas—Torrey Pines Pub 6374 W Lake Mead Blvd • David Thiel ’85 (702) 845-7832 • dwthiel@earthlink.net Mesquite—TBD • Karen ’60 and Curt ’59 Dassonville • (702) 346-2861 • karille@q.com (through Oct.) Reno—Bully’s Sports Bar & Grill - Robb Dr location • 1640 Robb Drive • Sam Kumar ’93 (775) 324-3146 • sam.kumar@sbcglobal.net

NEW MEXICO: Albuquerque—Coaches Sports Grill • 1414 Central Ave SE • Becky (Bondurant) ’96 and Stuart Crane ’97 • (505) 899-3268 • beckycrane51@gmail.com

NEW YORK: New York City—The Australian • 20 W. 38th St. • Sean Steyer ’93 • (212) 389-4255 • seangrila@yahoo.com

NORTH CAROLINA: Charlotte—DD Peckers • 10403-E Park Rd. • Dorrance (Davis) ’93 and Travis ’95 Bickford • (704) 756-3134 • bickfords@ymail.com Raleigh/Durham—Woody’s Sports Pub • 8322 Chapel Hill Rd., Cary NC • Duncan Riley ’85 • (919) 572-0024 • driley@unc.edu

NORTH DAKOTA: Bismarck—Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar • 212 South 3rd Street • Gerald “Poke” Buck ’81 • (701) 355-7929 • gbuck@border-states.com Fargo—Side Street Grill and Pub at the Howard Johnson Inn Downtown • 301 3rd Ave. N. • Annie (Lind) ’81 & Chip Young ’79 (701) 282-2816 • anniefannie1031@aol.com

OHIO: Cincinnati-West Chester—Willie’s Sports Café • 8188 Princeton Glendale Road • Charlie ’68 & Gloria (Stevens) ’68 Garrison • (513) 378-0635 • chaglog@aol.com

OKLAHOMA: Oklahoma City—The Fox & the Hound Pub • 3031 W. Memorial Rd • Randy Smith ’92 • (580) 481-0249 • phdcop@gmail.com

OREGON: Bend—The Village Grill • 1033 NW Bond Street • Todd ’86 and Candy ’86 Peplin (541) 923-9695 • todd.peplin@or.usda.gov Portland-Pearl District—On Deck Sports Bar • 910 NW 14th • Deborah Quitmeyer • (503) 347-1820 • dquitmeyer@yahoo.com

PENNSYLVANIA: Allentown•Forks Township—Big Woody’s Sports Bar, Forks Township • 1855 Sullivan Trail • Greg Korin ’77 • (570) 283-2951 • kingofunny@aol.com Philadelphia—The Field House Sports Bar • In the Market St train station • Chase McLaughlin • (480) 678-9299 • McLaughlin_chase@yahoo.com Pittsburgh—Damon’s, The Place for Ribs • Miracle Mile Shopping Center, Monroeville • Jim ’75 and Kathie ’75 Montana • (412) 373-0947 • kmont97755@aol.com • Chauna Craig ’92

TENNESSEE: Nashville—The Crow’s Nest 2221 Bandywood Dr. • Bret Quinn ’86 • (615) 460-7894 • bret.quinn@bellsouth.net

TEXAS: Austin—Cool River Café • 4001 Parmer Ln • Clark Knopik ’93 • (512) 636-2899 • cknopik@sbcglobal.net • Maureen Lee-Robinson ’86 Dallas-Richardson—The Fox and the Hound • 112 West Campbell • Brant Weingartner ’98 • (972) 906-3431 • bweinga@us.ibm.com Houston—The Fox and the Hound • 11470 Westheimer Rd. • David Ayers ’81 • (281) 494-2828 • ayers@sugar-land.oilfield.slb.com

UTAH: Salt Lake City—Gracie’s • 326 SW Temple • Rachel (Riley) Heitz ’92 • (801) 302-3959 • rachel.heitz@chghealthcare.com • Beth Riley ’91

WASHINGTON: Bellingham—Quarterback Pub & Eatery • 356 36th Street • Sarah Hickman • (360)-510-6367 • sarah.hickman@gmail.com Olympia-Lacey*—O’Blarney’s Pub • 4411 Martin Way East Pullman—My Office Bar & Grill • 215 S Grand Ave. • Mike Holder ’77 • (208) 746-7270 mikeh852@cableone.net • Pat Shannon (UM coord) Seattle-Renton—The Spot • 4224 E. Valley Rd • John Keil • (206) 310-3821 cell • j.keil@att.net • Holly (Briggs) Kessler ’02 Spokane—The Swinging Doors • 1018 W Francis Avenue • Robert ’86 & Tana (Turnquist) ’86 Hoyem • (509) 924-9881 • hoyemrtbb@aol.com Tri-Cities-Richland*—Kimo’s • 2696 N Columbia Center Boulevard Yakima—Jackson’s Sports Bar • 48th and Tieton • Lynda (Nelson) Matthews ’86 • (509) 452-3074 • lyndamatt@earthlink.net

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Arlington, Va.— Rhodeside Grill • 1836 Wilson Blvd (Corner of N Rhodes St. & Wilson Blvd.) • Bruce Larsen ’89 • (202) 414-4399 • bruce.larsen@us.pwc.com • Lyndsey Medsker ’97 • lmedsker@dezenhall.com

WEST VIRGINIA: Morgantown*—Kegler’s Sports Bar and Lounge • 735-A Chestnut Ridge Rd. • Scott Schield (UM alumni volunteer) gogriz@ma.rr.com

WISCONSIN: Madison—Pooley’s • 5441 High Crossing Road • Mark Rinehart ’90 • (608) 839-8514 • RinehartMW@doj.state.wi.us • Katie (Schruth) Cappozzo ’00 Milwaukee—Henry’s Tavern • 2523 E. Belleview • Stacy Blasiola ’01 • (414) 708-2527 • sblasiola@journalbroadcastgroup.com

WYOMING: Casper*—Sidelines Sports Bar • 1121 Wilkins Circle Cheyenne— TBD Gillette*—Mingles 2209 S. Douglas Hwy Sheridan*—Ole’s Pizza & Spaghetti House 1842 Sugarland Dr Ste 110 • Garth French ’04 • gfrench@wwcengineering.com

*MSU coordinator needed— call Kerry Hanson to volunteer at 1-800-842-9028

To help defray costs of the satellite transmission, there will be a $5 cover charge per attendee.

CAT GRIZ2009 Satellite PartiesSaturday, November 21 12:05 MST Kickoff in BozemanFor updated party information visit: alumni.montana.edu/events/catgriz

The MSU & UM alumni associations bring you these national satellite parties.

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