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Explosive Growth

Two-year colleges increasingly vital

to economy

Saving LivesUM alum founds

National Kidney Registry

Protecting Grizzlies

Federal employee leads recovery efforts from Main Hall office

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AdVISoRY BoARd Meg Oliver Basinger ’93 Laura Brehm Denise Dowling ’82 Jim Foley Daryl Gadbow ’75 Charlie Hood ’61, m.A. ’69 Bill Johnston ’79, m.P.A. ’91 Jed Liston ’82, m.Ed. ’00 Ginny Merriam ’86 Don Oliver ’58 Carol Williams ’65 Kurt Wilson ’83

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20 Garet Hil ’84 works in his West Islip, N.Y., office, where he directs the National Kidney Registry, an organization that facilitates matches for people who need transplants.

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ON THE COVER:No, it’s not alive. Chris Servheen, who directs U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service efforts to protect grizzlies in the lower forty-eight states from an office in Main Hall, poses on the Oval with a mount of a seven-year-old female griz.

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14 A Bear’s Best FriendBy Daryl Gadbow ’75

UM alum and Fish and Wildlife Service employee Chris Servheen leads federal eff orts to preserve grizzlies in the lower forty-eight states. And he does it from a Main Hall offi ce in the heart of Griz Nation.

20 A Father’s FightBy Nate Schweber ’01

A threat to his daughter’s life led Garet Hil ’84 to create the National Kidney Registry, which saves scores of lives and makes hunting for a donor easier for families with affl icted loved ones.

24 Bursting at the SeamsBy Erika Fredrickson ’99, M.S. ’09

Two-year education has become increasingly vital to Montana’s economy, community college enrollments are booming, and some facilities are not keeping pace.

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DowntownA Public House brought the authentic Irish Pub tradition to Downtown Missoula eleven years ago. On any day you will � nd professionals, students and shoppers enjoying Sean Kelly’s famous Pub fare – lunch dinner, and a pint or two. Along with great food and beverages, the Public House also features live music, pub trivia and an open mic night throughout the week. 130 W. Pine St. just west of Higgins. 406-542-1471 seankelleys.com

UptownThe Stone of Accordis Missoula’s newest Irish Pub where friendly Irish hospitality is exceeded only by the wonderful flavors in the creative menu and daily specials. Make yourself comfortable at a table or booth, with new friends at the bar or play in the Emerald Casino. Shop in the complete liquor and wine store and enjoy a signature breakfast, lunch, or dinner. The Stone of Accord is one block south off I-90 on Reserve, just a “stone’s throw” from Missoula’s Snowbowl Ski area. Open daily from 7:00 am to 2:00 am. 406-830-3210 seankelleys.com

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Representatives from Montana’s seven reservations and one landless tribe dedicated and celebrated UM’s new Payne Family Native American Center on May 13 with an entire day of festivities. The $8.6-million, 30,000-square-foot center is the first of its kind on any U.S. university campus. It houses UM’s Native American Studies department, American Indian Student Services, and related programming under one roof. Tribal, University, and state officials gave remarks, as did Daniel Glenn, the Crow tribal member architect who designed the building, and Terry Payne, whose family gave the major donation to make the building a reality. Speakers agreed that the center, located on the Oval near the heart of campus, marks a new era for Native students and Indian scholarship at UM.

UM Dedicates Native Center

Counter clockwise from top: Montana tribal leaders participate in dedication ceremonies at The Payne Family Native American Center on May 13 at UM. | Stephen Small Salmon, a Pend d’Oreille elder from Ronan, leads a youth drum group during the ceremonies. | Steve Lozar, secretary of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council, wears a coyote headdress at the dedication. | Fredricka Hunter, director of American Indian Student Services at UM, addresses the crowd. | Terry Payne, a 1963 UM alum and Missoula-based insurance executive, gives brief remarks during the ceremonies. Payne and his family were the building’s primary benefactors.

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Ask him today, and former UM guard Anthony Johnson

doesn’t remember much of the second half of the Grizzlies’ 66-65 win over Weber State in the Big Sky Conference basketball tournament title game on March 10. With UM down twenty at the half, he entered a zone that few elite athletes ever experience. He started dropping bombs, and thirty-four second-half points later, “The horn went off, and we all took off running. I was like, man, what the heck just happened?”

He found out later while watching the replays on ESPN. Johnson scored a school- and tournament-record forty-two points in that game, including UM’s last twenty-one. Suddenly his phone was ringing with reporters from The New York Times, USA Today, and other major media outlets.

Flash forward to July 14 in Los Angeles. Johnson, escorted by his wife and guiding light, Shaunte Nance-Johnson, was on the red carpet leading into the Nokia Theatre for ESPN’s 2010 ESPY Awards. He had been nominated for an ESPY in the Best Championship Performance category. He was in pretty good company with fellow nominees Michael Phelps (World Swimming Championships), Shaun White (the Winter Olympics), and eventual winner Drew Brees (Super Bowl XLIV).

“This was the first ESPY nomination by anyone from

UM and is yet another example of the national exposure UM student-athletes have provided for the University in recent years,” UM Athletic Director Jim O’Day says. “Who knows if we will ever see another individual performance like that?”

Nance-Johnson, a former Lady Griz, says, “All the celebrities and nominees stayed at the same hotel. I’m talking with (Terrell Owens) and the Heisman Trophy winner and the guys who do ‘SportsCenter’—it was crazy. You see them on TV, and two seconds later you are on the elevator with them. I had a couple of those kinds of moments. And then the red-carpet experience was just unexplainable. To be there for Anthony’s special moment was amazing and an honor in itself.”

One highlight of the experience was the “ESPY gift-packing tour,” in which the Johnsons accompanied a group that included NBA stars Gary Payton and Kenyon Martin and the NFL’s Tim Tebow into various hotel suites to select free swag items. “It was the hottest and latest stuff,” the irrepressible Nance-Johnson says. “I was saying, ‘You guys get all this free stuff? Why do you need this? You are rich already.’”

The Johnsons had a central seat about eight rows from the stage. They sat near the

Touhy family that the movie The Blind Side was based on, as well as TO and college basketball phenom Brittney Griner.

Anthony Johnson highlights rolled on big screens during the event, but his actual award category was presented during a commercial break and didn’t make the national telecast. “We weren’t too disappointed, because we don’t feel this is the last time we are going to make it to something this big,” Nance-Johnson says.

The couple’s UM playing days are behind them, but their wild year continued June 22 when they were drafted by the Harlem Globetrotters—the first husband-wife duo to be selected by a professional

sports team. Johnson also tried out with the NBA’s Nets and Celtics and has opportunities to play in Europe.

“Our story is not over,” Johnson says. “We definitely have bigger dreams and goals to attain.”

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Shaunte Nance-Johnson and Anthony Johnson enjoy the red-carpet experience at the 2010 ESPY Awards in Los Angeles.

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THE EXEMPLARY ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF FOUR MONTANANS have been recognized with the University’s 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award. John H. Badgley ’52, Patrick Cheney ’72, Joseph P. Mazurek ’70, J.D. ’75, and Colleen L. McGuire ’79 will recieve their awards at a September 24 ceremony during Homecoming. The Distinguished Alumni Award is the highest honor presented by the UM Alumni Association.

Badgley is a Missoula native whose Bachelor of Arts degree in history was followed by an extensive career in academia. He taught international relations and Asian studies at universities including Miami, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, and Kyoto. In 1973 he founded the Institute of the Rockies, a public policy education organization, and more recently co-founded the Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation. While at UM he was a member of Phi Delta Theta and president of Silent Sentinel. He also lettered in track during all four years of his attendance. He is a member of the Oscar J. Craig Heritage Society and now lives in Edmonds, Wash.

Cheney, a Great Falls native, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English at UM and now is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author and editor of fifteen books and numerous essays on a variety of subjects, including William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. He is a consultant for Oxford University Press and Cambridge University

Press. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. At UM he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon. He mentors young athletes and scholars in State College, Penn.

Mazurek put his UM business administration and law degrees to work as a lawyer and politician in Montana. He served 12 years as a state senator and eight years as state attorney general. At UM he was a member and president of Phi Delta Theta, as well as the fraternity’s Outstanding Graduate of 1970. He also was ASUM president and a member of Silent Sentinel and Beta Gamma Sigma. In law school he was a member of Phi Alpha Phi and associate editor of the Montana Law Review. He lives in Helena, where he is a longtime community volunteer.

McGuire is the first Montana woman to achieve the rank of brigadier general and the first woman ever to become provost marshal general of the U.S. Army and commanding general of the Army Criminal Investigation Command. She was sworn in as the Army’s top law enforcement officer

during a January 2010 ceremony at Fort Belvoir, Va. At UM she was a broadcast journalism major, ROTC member, and Grizzly cheerleader. Her commissioning in the Military Police Corps has been followed by nearly thirty years of active service in Germany, Somalia, Iraq, and the United States. She looks forward to retiring to Montana.

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Campus visitors will have a unique opportunity to view masterworks by

European artists during an upcoming Montana Museum of Art & Culture exhibition titled “Renoir, Magritte, Gauguin, and other Masterpieces from a Private Collection.”

The exhibition will launch with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, November 12, at the Meloy and Paxson galleries, located in UM’s Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center.

Largely centered on portraiture, the

exhibition includes works by artistic giants such as Rosa Bonheur, William Bourgereau, Max Ernst, Paul Gauguin, René Magritte, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, George Romney, Théophile van Rysselberghe, and John William Waterhouse.

Lectures and discussions to coincide with the exhibition are planned, and MMAC will provide expanded hours during the event, which will run through March 12. For more information, call 406-243-2019 or go online to www.umt.edu/montanamuseum.

EXHIBITION OFFERS RARE GLIMPSE OF EUROPEAN MASTERPIECES

Mademoiselle Grimprel au ruban rouge (Hélène Grimprel), 1880, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Mademoiselle Grimprel au ruban

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“This issue of The Montanan marks my last opportunity to hold forth from this

very special podium—I almost said pulpit—as President of The University of Montana, the position I accepted twenty years ago in August.” Please note the quotation marks, since events changed this statement of assumed fact into an error. While I intended to retire on 15 August, I agreed to remain until the regents appoint a replacement. That has yet to happen, although the schedule calls for campus interviews in September. In any event, I now have another opportunity to use this podium for good purpose. Wonderful!

This past year brought a number of beneficial developments for UM, but one stands out. The Northwest Commission of Colleges and Universities sent a team to campus to conduct the evaluation for possible re-accreditation for the next seven years, and the final decision of the commission reaffirmed accreditation. The evaluation team confirmed the strengths and weaknesses we had identified through the self-study and had already begun to address. During the coming year, we will work on the recommendations presented to us by the team. UM stands in a robust condition today because of the dedicated work of the faculty and staff and the continued support of friends and alumni. I want once again to express my appreciation—and that of the students who benefit immensely.

This issue focuses on the inspiring examples provided by alumni and programs. The two featured alumni have made incredible differences in our world through their passionate commitment to critically important causes. In real ways, their examples demonstrate how passion combined with education leads to amazing results. The third feature reveals vividly how the University changes and grows in response to identified societal needs. The College of Technology became an integral component of UM in 1995 and has more than doubled its student enrollment and programs during the past decade. Still, the college has much more to do and stands well positioned to fulfill its promise if those of us responsible find ways to provide resources. UM has committed itself to providing the education people need, at the two-year through the advanced graduate level, and does all of it well.

The fact remains, however, that the University will encounter serious challenges during the next five years. Success in surmounting those challenges will depend on the continued moral and financial support of friends, alumni, and the Montana citizenry. To earn and reciprocate that support, UM will change and evolve in response to societal changes to assure that Montanans have access to a responsive education of the highest quality.

George M. Dennison, ’62, ’63

President and Professor of History

The President’s Corner


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Quotable UM has contracted to do an independent study

to assess the internal strengths and weaknesses of its athletics program as compared with programs of peer institutions. The study will provide accurate and timely information as the University confronts challenging choices concerning the future of Grizzly Athletics. It will help assure sound and informed decisions about the future direction of the program. The UM president makes decisions about the program in consultation with the Montana Board of Regents. With the fluid nature of NCAA conference structures and the possibility of realignment, the University will have the most accurate information possible about the current situation and likely trends. Campus will rely on privately donated funds to finance this important study.

The Princeton Review seems fond of UM. The college guidebook organization included the University in two prestigious lists for 2010: the top 286 green colleges and the top 373 best colleges. The organization chose UM based on its Green Rating score of 96 (out of 99) it received in the summer of 2009. The entry mentions several of UM’s sustainability initiatives. The best college guide is based on the rankings of more than 122,000 undergraduate students across the nation. UM’s two-page spread includes quotes such as “Life at UM combines a love for the Grizzlies with the outdoors.” Another says, “Academics at UM are facilitated by great instructors [who do] anything and everything for their students.”

A short film made by recent UM graduate Ali Tabibnejad was one of six out of more than 100 entries that recently advanced to the final round in a competition for $50,000 and the chance to become a feature-length movie. Tabibnejad made “Untitled for James” earlier this year as his thesis project, then entered it in OpenFilm.com’s first-ever “Get it Made” competition. The nineteen-minute movie features a cast and crew made entirely of UM students and was shot on campus, around Missoula, and outside Kalispell. Tabibnejad earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in digital filmmaking from UM in May. The public voted for its favorite film during the month of July, and Tabibnejad’s was among the top six vote-getters. The finalists now go before a panel of judges that includes film industry professionals James Caan and Robert Duvall. The winner will receive $50,000 cash and a $200,000 financing contract to turn their short film into a feature film.

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UM held its 113th CoMMenCeMent CereMony May 15 outdoors on the oval, which was a first for the University. the lawns before Main hall were transformed into a concert-like venue with seating for 3,000 graduates and their loved ones, complete with a large stage and Mount sentinel as a backdrop. large video screens surrounded the stage to aid viewing. George M. dennison, UM’s longest-serving president, gave the address in what was likely his final Commencement. “the future depends on what you make of it,” dennison said. “We have full confidence that you will make the most of it to the benefit of all.”

it doesn’t stop here! A time-lapse video of Commencement and the preparation that occurred the day before is posted on the University’s official youtube channel at www.youtube.com/universityofmontana.

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467:3.06: The cumulative grade-point average of UM’s 286 student-athletes

Number of cadets UM’s Taylor Healy bested in his ROTC regiment to win the Army Physical Fitness Test.

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Two new endowments have been created at UM to help students with

the increasing costs of a college education. Trustees of the UM Foundation and

alumni and community members have established an endowment to honor President George M. Dennison and his wife, Jane, for the many contributions they have made to the University. Dennison plans to retire after more than 20 years leading his alma mater when a new president is chosen this fall.

Alumni and friends have contributed nearly $900,000 toward the ultimate goal of having an endowment valued at $3 million for the George M. and Jane I. Dennison Doctoral Fellows in History Endowment. Dennison earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the UM Department of History, which the endowment will support.

Dennison is the longest-serving president in UM history. His achievements as president include overseeing a nearly 50 percent increase in enrollment, a 138 percent increase in American Indian student enrollment, and the construction and improvement of numerous buildings. The partnerships Dennison built with alumni and friends led to $500 million in private gifts to UM during his tenure. Mick Hanson, the UM leader responsible for student financial aid for 25 years, will have a program of privately funded, need-based student grants named for him. Hanson retired in June after forty years of service to the University.

To honor Hanson for his dedication to UM students, his family, friends, and

colleagues have created the Montana Investment in Character and Knowledge (MICK) Endowed Grant Fund.

“The University plans to use the MICK fund for grants for students in good academic standing who have demonstrated financial need,” said Laura Brehm, president and CEO of the UM Foundation.

Contributions to the endowments may be made online at www.SupportUM.org or mailed to the UM Foundation, P.O. Box 7159, 600 Connell Ave., Missoula, MT 59807-7159.

For more information, call Ric Thomas, UM Foundation vice president for development, at 406-243-5615 or e-mail [email protected].

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2:444: Number of regional Emmys won by UM student filmmakers on June 5 in Snoqualmie, Wash.

Number of cadets UM’s Kurt Schiedermayer defeated in his ROTC regiment to win the Army Physical Fitness Test.

Student Writers Achieve National AcclaimTHREE OUTSTANDING STUDENTS recently won national writing awards.

Two students took first place awards in the 50th annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program. The Hearst awards, often referred to as the college Pulitzers, are the most competitive in the country.

Missoula native Nate Rott, who graduated in December, took first place in the in-depth writing competition for his story “Beyond Reach,” which he wrote for UM’s Native News Honors Project. The story is about a young man from the Crow Reservation who committed a crime off the reservation. He then ran for the reservation where he knew he would not have to face the consequences of the crime because the Crow Tribe has no extradition agreement with the state.

Roman Stubbs, a UM print journalism major from Great Falls and sports editor of the Montana Kaimin, won first place in the Hearst Journalism Awards personality profile

writing competition for a meticulously prepared profile of Jimmy Wilson, who played football for the Grizzlies from 2004 to 2006. The story, “Gladiator School,” describes Wilson’s struggle as he was charged with and eventually acquitted of a murder charge involving an incident that occurred in the Los Angeles area in 2007.

Environmental studies graduate student Michelle Lanzoni received the 2010 Desert Writers Award from the Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers for “Thirst,” a book about water availability. Lanzoni has traveled to several regions where clean water is scarce and where conflicts over water resources erupt in war. Using research, literary journalism, and creative nonfiction, she hopes to persuade a drastic reexamination of our relationships to water.

The Ellen Meloy Fund was established in honor of Meloy, who earned a master’s degree in environmental studies from UM in 1979. It supports writers whose work reflects the spirit and passion for the desert embodied in her writing.

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Thompson and Coburn used that guidance as a launching point and created a jingle and a video that portrayed college roommates waking up and enjoying the day’s first cup of joe together in their home. Tapestries on the wall, a sink full of dishes, and the friendly antics amongst the roomies clearly appealed to viewers, who voted the video as one of the top ten in the first round.

By the time they advanced as one of five finalists in New York in June, the band was feeling confident. The company flew the band mates—Thompson, Coburn, and bass guitarist Landon Lee, all UM students, along with Kalispell native and backup vocalist Jenny Snipstead—to New York City in early June. The band performed one

of their own songs and the forty-five-second jingle before a panel that included American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi.

DioGuardi’s enthusiastic response sealed the deal.

“Right when she started giving us feedback, I knew we had it in the bag,” says Thompson.

Folgers now owns the jingle and plans to make a commercial using the college roommates angle. They’ve even discussed using the band members in the ad, but that remains to be seen.

Meanwhile, the band was busy playing gigs around Montana over the summer. They split the check four ways and used the earnings to upgrade music equipment, pay for college, and record an album that is slated for release this fall.

A trio of UM students are enjoying the sweet aroma of success after recently taking

first place in the first-ever Folgers Coffee “The Best Part of Waking Up” Jingle Contest.

The Ethan Thompson Band won $25,000 in June after beating out nearly 1,000 other entries. Lead singer Ethan Thompson heard about the contest from his mom and teamed up with drummer Dan Coburn to write the catchy jingle that ends

with Folgers’ familiar motto, “The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup.”

But before putting pen to paper, Thompson sought advice about what Folgers might be looking for from a student in the UM business program. The friend suggested that the company probably wanted to revamp its image while marketing Folgers as the brand that young coffee drinkers enjoy when they brew at home.


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Meet Grizwald, UM’s cartoon bear. In many issues of the Montanan, we provide a drawing featuring Grizwald in need of a caption. Then it’s up to you, our readers, to send in your most original and creative ideas. The winning contestant will receive a Griz stadium blanket. Send submissions to: [email protected].

UM Students Brew Up Top Jingle

Griz fans likely did a double-take this season when their football

team took the field in new darker uniforms. Created by designers at Nike with input from Grizzly Athletics, the new uniforms sport “Montana granite” gray helmets with the familiar Griz logo. The home jerseys and pants use maroon and dark gray with black highlights, and

the shoulders feature a distinctive line pattern.

The new lighter gear has better ventilation and the ability to shed moisture. Only

ten teams nationwide have the new equipment, and the Griz are the only squad at their level using it. Longtime Griz equipment manager Steve Hackney says it

now costs about $1,500 to armor a Griz football player.

the new uniforms sport “Montana granite” gray helmets with the familiar Griz logo.

and dark gray with black highlights, and the shoulders feature a

distinctive line pattern.

NEW LOOK GRIZ

distinctive line pattern. The new lighter gear has better ventilation

and the ability to shed moisture. Only ten teams nationwide have the new

a Griz football player.

The Ethan Thompson Band performs its contest-winning song.

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A BLANK SPOT ON THE MAP of major research and education computer networks was filled June 3 with the completion of a new digital pathway across the northern states between Chicago and Seattle. The network offers a huge increase in bandwidth for research, education, health care, and government uses, with speeds 10,000 times greater than the typical broadband connection.

A Northern Tier Network Consortium “Golden Spike Event” was held at UM’s School of Law to celebrate the new computer pathway. About sixty attendees discussed the possibilities of the new ten-gigabit-per-second system, with other participants added via crystal-clear videoconferencing sessions between UM, North Dakota State University, and Indiana University.

“We have all eagerly anticipated this day and what it will mean for this region,” says UM President George M. Dennison, who expects the robust network to provide tangible benefits for education and research efforts across Montana. “We are at the beginning, it seems to me, of a new era.”

Dennison compared building advanced computer networks to constructing roads, and he hopes the increased bandwidth will spur economic development across Montana.

“This new network is 10,000 times faster than what people have in their homes,” says Ray Ford, chief information officer for UM Information Technology. “It will allow Montana researchers and educators to do well-known things much faster and also inspire creativity in our students, faculty, and researchers to invent uses that haven’t been invented yet.”

He said the network is only available for educational and research functions so they don’t compete with private telecommunications businesses. For more information on the Northern Tier Network Consortium, visit www.ntnc.org.

Computer Network Upgrade Celebrated at UM Ryan Stevens ’10, who worked for University

Dining Services at UM, was recently named the National Association of College and University Food Services Student Employee of the Year.

Founded in 1958, NACUFS is a trade association for food service professionals at more than 600 institutions of higher education in North America and abroad. The award is given annually to an outstanding food service student employee at a NACUFS member institution.

“As the saying goes, ‘When you’re hot, you’re hot,’ and Ryan Stevens is just that,” says

UDS Marketing Director Jerry O’Malley.

The NACUFS award follows a string of accolades Stevens garnered during his UM tenure. His exceptional work was acknowledged with Student Employee of the Year awards from UM, the state of Montana, and the Northwest region. He then was honored with the National Student Employment Association’s National Student Employee of the Year Award, which was presented by UM President George M. Dennison in April.

Stevens completed major projects at UDS that ranged from developing online data forms to overhauling financial-management and budget-planning systems. He majored in history at UM and has accepted a position with defense and aerospace corporation Northrop-Grumman.

Ryan Stevens accepts an award from President Dennison.

WHERE’S YOUR GRIZ BEEN?RONALD EBY ’67 proudly displays his UM T-shirt during a June visit to Peru’s Machu Picchu. He and his wife, Joane, also visited an island in Lake Titicaca and the Amazon jungle during their South American adventure, where they were treated to sightings of parrots, monkeys, and giant otters.

Congratulations Eby family. You have won a $50 gift card for The Bookstore at UM.

Do you have a photo of yourself wearing your Griz gear in an amazing place or while on an incredible adventure? If so, send it along with a brief description to: [email protected]. Winners will see their photo published in the Montanan and will receive a $50 gift card to The Bookstore at UM. To be considered, photos must be in focus and with the UM or Griz logo clearly visible.

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did ten years ago, we can simply visit their website. Basically, the Web browser serves as an operating system for the Internet. 5. What is the best part of your job?Getting to work on projects with some of the brightest and most passionate people I’ve ever met. Google has given me an opportunity to actively participate in the development of the Internet, and while much of my work impacts millions of people around the world, sometimes it’s the smaller-scale projects that really stick with me. For example, we ran one project where I visited low-income apartment complexes in San Francisco and strung Ethernet cable to provide free Internet to the residents. 6. How did your education at UM help you in your career? Does any class stand out?Yes, it would absolutely be the advertising competition class taught by Dan Cahalan. We worked on an advertising campaign for Bank of America’s investment services throughout the year. At the end, we flew to Anchorage to compete against regional schools and present our plan to industry professionals (we ended up placing second). I played the role of the account executive. This was the one class you could take as an undergraduate that would give you real-world experience. It really solidified my love for marketing. 7. What advice do you have for people on following their dreams?Without sounding too cliché, don’t talk yourself out of something for fear of failure. For example, imagine if I hadn’t applied to Google a second time after my initial rejection. Oh, and don’t build a baseball diamond in your cornfield—it’s already been done.—Interview by Brianne Burrowes '07

some root beer to take back to India. The next Friday, I served small root beer floats to each employee. Only half of them tried it. My plan to win them over had backfired. A female employee took a small sip, made a disgusted face, and exclaimed, “This tastes like cough syrup!” Another employee agreed, “Yeah, cough syrup, or medicine ... only with vanilla ice cream floating in it.” A third started laughing and remarked loudly, “I can’t believe they give this to children as a treat—I would have thought it was punishment.” Everyone laughed. I guess some things just don’t translate.3. What is your typical day like?As a product marketing manager, I focus on the end-to-end user experience for a specific product—in my case, Google Chrome. My responsibilities include everything from designing what our Web pages look like to understanding what users think of the product, tracking how people found the product, measuring how often they use it, etc. I also manage all of the paid media dollars we put behind Chrome, so my average day is filled with a good mix of online metrics analysis, reports, and meetings between internal and external stakeholders. 4. Why do you care so much about browsers? In short, a better browser means a better Web. The majority of the time I spend in front of a computer is spent online—and this online experience is being delivered through a Web browser. And as the Web continues to evolve, many of the applications we used ten years ago (which required software to be installed on our computers), can now be delivered by rich, online Web apps—like Gmail or Pandora. I like to use my father as an example. During the holidays, he would go out and buy the latest version of Turbo Tax and then have my mother wrap it up for him to open on Christmas Day. That was more than ten years ago. Today the Turbo Tax product is completely available online. What used to be considered software is now accessible as a Web page or Web application. Instead of installing Turbo Tax on our computer’s operating system as we

A Butte native, Chris Wright joined Google in 2003. A few months after accepting a full-time position, he set off to India for fourteen months to help build a new Google office from the ground up. He also was cast in an Indian movie, but that’s another whole interview. When Chris returned, he worked as a strategist on the free municipal WiFi network Google developed for Mountain View, Calif., and eventually transitioned to Google’s marketing organization. Now as a product marketing manager at Google, he promotes all sorts of cool products at the company–and right now his focus is the Google Chrome Web browser.1. How did you get your start at Google?After graduating from the University in 2002, I decided to teach English in South Korea for a year. I then returned to Montana and began my job search. I had always loved Google, so I sent them my résumé. Within a couple hours I received a response thanking me for my interest, but there were no openings that fit my background. The next day I was searching a job site and saw a specific position at Google that I felt qualified for—so I applied again. After a phone screen with a Google recruiter in New York, I was granted an onsite interview, so I drove to Spokane, Wash., flew to California, and was offered a position a few days later as a contractor. After three months I interviewed for a full-time position and have now been with Google for seven years.2. What was it like to spend fourteen months in India building a team for Google?India is an amazing country, and I’ve returned twice since my initial fourteen-month assignment. While working in India, my role was to help build the team, train new employees, and extend the Google culture to our new office. The day I landed we had just hired our first class of six employees, and when I left, there were more than 200. One of my favorite memories involves describing the idea of a root beer float to the India team. They thought I was crazy. One, because I was describing a beer that was given to children, full of sugar and containing no alcohol; and two, because I declared that this beverage was best served with ice cream floating on the top. Later that year when I returned to the United States for a short visit over the holiday, I picked up

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Protecting an icon: Chris Servheen, a UM alum and adjunct professor working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, leads efforts to save grizzlies in the lower forty-eight states.

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our wildlife researchers crouch around the mammoth hulk of a grizzly bear slumbering in a drug-induced stupor in Yellowstone National Park. As the group scurries to collect a variety of data from the inanimate giant–its weight, blood samples, condition of its teeth–the tranquilized bruin suddenly stirs to life with a thunderous roar.

Woozily, the grizzly staggers to its feet and charges blindly after the fleeing researchers,

who barely reach the safety of their red Ford station wagon before the bear plows like a freight train headfirst into the side of the car, rocking it off its wheels.

That dramatic scene captured the imagination of television viewers across the U.S. in the mid-1960s as part of a series of National Geographic specials about grizzly bear research in Yellowstone.

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The scientific study featured in the shows–led by John Craighead, a University of Montana wildlife biologist, and his twin brother, Frank–pioneered the use of radio telemetry and satellite mapping to aid wildlife research.

Among the millions of Americans glued to their TVs for those programs was a spellbound Pennsylvania teenager.

“When I grew up back East,” says Chris Servheen, “I saw the National Geographic specials on the Craigheads working with grizzlies in Yellowstone, and I decided that’s what I wanted to do.”

In 1968 Servheen enrolled at UM as a zoology/wildlife biology major and landed a coveted work-study job with the school’s Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, helping John Craighead with his grizzly field studies. His duties also included taking care of up to eight golden eagles housed by the wildlife unit in a fenced area behind Schreiber Gym at the base of Mount Sentinel.

“We used to train these eagles with falconry to fly free and come in when called,” Servheen recalls. “I used to fly these eagles on Mount Sentinel every afternoon by hiking up the mountain with the eagle on my glove and then release them to soar over the mountain. I would call them back with chunks of deer meat carried in a leather bag. Missoula is a bit tamer these days, eh?

“I was really living my dream then,” he adds. “I was in Montana working in wildlife biology, and for John Craighead and Bart O’Gara, who was the assistant unit leader with John in those days.”

From that time on, Ursus arctos horribilis (the grizzly bear) has been the central focus of Servheen’s professional life. And for the past twenty-nine years, you might say he’s been the official guardian of the symbol of Griz Nation.

In 1975 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the grizzly bear as a threatened species in the lower forty-eight states under the Endangered Species Act. The act’s goal is to recover listed species to the point at which federal protection under the ESA is no longer needed. To accomplish that critical mission, FWS developed a grizzly bear recovery plan and hired Servheen

in 1981 as the agency’s first grizzly bear recovery coordinator, a position he’s held ever since.

At the time he was hired, Servheen had just completed his doctorate at UM, doing research on grizzlies in the Mission Mountains of western Montana. While still involved with that study, he worked with FWS to help draft the initial grizzly bear recovery plan.

“It was a case of good timing,” Servheen says of his appointment as the man in charge of FWS grizzly recovery efforts. In that capacity, he’s responsible for coordinating all research and management on grizzly bears in the lower forty-eight states, as well as working with grizzly biologists in Alberta and British Columbia on grizzly conservation efforts spanning the U.S.-Canada border.

“We implement specific research and management actions to facilitate grizzly bear recovery,” Servheen says. “In addition, we assist in land management activities by offering guidance to agencies on what will and will not negatively affect grizzly bear populations and their habitat.”

In addition to his FWS position, Servheen is an associate professor of wildlife conservation in UM’s College of Forestry and Conservation, where he advises graduate students and teaches an international wildlife conservation class each spring.

The combination of his duties for both institutions has been helpful for him, Servheen says, and also forges a mutually beneficial partnership between UM and FWS.

Initially, the federal agency stationed Servheen at its Billings office.“But that,” he says, “didn’t make sense, because most of the

grizzly bears were in western Montana. And Missoula is centrally located. The University said they’d give us office space. I think they thought it would bring in research and student learning activities related to that. And that’s just what it did.”

In 1983 FWS accepted UM’s invitation, moving Servheen and the grizzly bear recovery headquarters to the Missoula campus. His office in Main Hall at the heart of campus now gives UM added distinction as “home of the Grizzlies.”

Since 1983, Servheen says, he’s worked with about a dozen grad students at UM doing grizzly research thesis projects. He also has advised students working on other bear species around the world.

“That’s really been beneficial for us (at FWS),” he adds. “All

As part of his dream job working with the Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit in 1970, sophomore Chris Servheen flew this golden eagle above the slopes of Mount Sentinel to exercise the bird.

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those students I worked with on grizzly projects over the years have gone on to positions in state and federal agencies. They advanced knowledge about bears. And because they’re out in the field now, I know them well, and we work closely together. This has been a very useful partnership during the past twenty-eight years between UM and the FWS to support student education and training and to advance the conservation of our state animal and UM’s mascot at the same time.”

Servheen also has collaborated frequently with bear researchers from other countries around the world. He’s brought graduate students to UM from such exotic locations as Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Greece. He also has worked on bear conservation in many areas of the world, including a stint as a Fulbright Scholar working on brown bear conservation in Greece.

That work, and the emphasis on bear research he helped foster at UM, has made the University an international center for bear research.

“In the ’80s and ’90s, we were the knowledge base for other areas of the world,” Servheen says. “Many students and researchers came here from around the world. They had the same problems we have: small populations, habitat fragmentation from highways and development, illegal killing. We were all sharing information and building a common knowledge base on how to help small bear populations.”

While the historic range of grizzlies once covered more than a third of what is now the continental United States, the FWS recovery plan focuses on the six remaining areas in Idaho, Montana, Washington, and Wyoming that have habitat suitable for self-sustaining grizzly populations. Only five of those “recovery zones” are currently inhabited by grizzlies:

• the Yellowstone, encompassing parts of Montana, Wyoming, and eastern Idaho, which covers 9,200 square miles.• the Northern Continental Divide, about 9,600 square miles, which includes Glacier National Park; the Bob Marshall, the Great Bear, and Scapegoat wildernesses; the Mission Mountains; and surrounding national forest land.• the North Cascades, covering nearly 10,000 square miles.• the Selkirk, 2,000 square miles in north Idaho, northeast Washington, and a portion of southern British Columbia.• the Cabinet-Yaak, 2,600 square miles in northwest Montana and a small portion of northeast Idaho.

The sixth recovery zone, the Bitterroot, the largest block of designated wilderness in the Rocky Mountains at more than 5,600 square miles, does not currently have a grizzly bear population despite containing excellent habitat.

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In 2007, citing a healthy population, the service decided to remove grizzlies in the Yellowstone ecosystem from the threatened list under the Endangered Species Act. But a lawsuit by an environmental group resulted in the agency’s decision being overturned by a federal court in 2009. FWS is appealing that ruling this year, Servheen says.

In addition, a proposal to reintroduce grizzly bears to the Bitterroot in 2000 met opposition as well, and the project was put on hold.

Worrisome, too, for Servheen and the grizzly bear recovery team are the precariously small and isolated grizzly populations in the other recovery zones.

“We’ve got separate populations in the Yellowstone and Northern Continental Divide that are doing well, and smaller populations in the Cabinets and Selkirks, and very small populations in the North Cascades,” says Servheen. “All of those (the last three) are on the Canadian border. So we work a lot with our Canadian partners tracking bears.

That’s a very important part of our program–to have cooperation managing our linked habitats.

Since he started his career almost 30 years ago, Servheen says, grizzly bears have made a remarkable recovery. In 1980 the Yellowstone ecosystem had about 225 grizzlies. Now it harbors an estimated 550 to 600 bears.

“When I worked for John Craighead in 1971 in the Scapegoat doing habitat mapping, we saw four grizzly bears the whole summer–a sow and three cubs,” Servheen says. “There were maybe as few as 300 in the whole Bob Marshall complex. Now there are 765 and counting.

“We probably have three times as many (in all the recovery zones) as thirty years ago,” he adds. “There are 1,500-plus grizzlies in the lower forty-eight. Montana has more than half of those. For the first time since the 1880s or 1890s, we’re seeing grizzlies again on the Missouri River. So we’ve made huge progress. And it only came through the efforts of people who live, work, and recreate in grizzly bear country. Agencies can do some good. But the cooperation and support of the public has been essential to get us where we are today.”

However, that doesn’t mean grizzly bear recovery efforts don’t still have a long way to go, or that FWS’s policies are without critics.

“There are 1,500-plus grizzlies in the lower forty-eight. Montana has more than half of those. For the first time since the 1880s or 1890s, we’re seeing grizzlies again on the Missouri River. So we’ve made huge progress. And it only came through the efforts of people who live, work, and recreate in grizzly bear country.”

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“The big vision,” he says, “is to reconnect all the large blocks of public land in the northern Rockies, from the Cabinets to the Bitterroot and eventually down to Yellowstone, and try to understand where animals can get across highways and through human development.

“We’re lucky we have huge blocks of public lands. Our goal is to identify linkage areas and put in effective crossing structures on highways, provide easements on private land, and increase sanitation at human settlements. All those things increase the permeability of the landscape for animal movements.”

Servheen knows that vision could take a long time to realize—perhaps decades—and will require the support of the public.

“We’ve worked hard for many years building populations,” he says. “In a way we’re victims of our own success. We have so many grizzlies in so many places now that we have more bear-human conflicts. We have to spend more time doing human outreach and education.”

Despite some recent frustration over setbacks in the courts, Servheen says he is encouraged by the progress made in the recovery of the grizzly bear so far.

“The most enjoyable (aspect of his job),” he says, “is seeing the bears doing so well—so much better than in 1981. Populations are healthy. We have bears living in places I never thought that they’d be living. The habitat management and mortality controls are so much better. It’s all a much better situation for the bears.”

Recent DNA studies on grizzlies in the Northern Continental Divide ecosystem revealed a grizzly population much larger than

scientists previously thought, Servheen says.

“It’s a really healthy, robust population,” he says. “And the trend is very positive. We know it’s going up by 2 to 3 percent a year. The Northern Continental Divide is probably the

next one we’ll move toward delisting.”It certainly doesn’t hurt the grizzly’s cause that Ursus arctos

horribilis is UM’s mascot symbol, Servheen says.“It’s a real positive thing for grizzly bears in Montana,” he

says. “We’ve used Monte (the UM athletic team mascot) in our education efforts. The huge popularity of the UM Grizzlies helps make the grizzly bear and its conservation much more acceptable in Montana.

“You can’t put a price on that. Public perception of bears is so important to the future of the grizzly bear. We’ve spent a long time promoting the idea that grizzly bears are a positive thing in the ecosystem. They’re prominent in Montana history. And they set us apart from other places in the country. The fact that we live in grizzly bear country, and the fact that grizzly bears are doing so well here in Montana, is something we should be real proud of.

“Montana is a special place because grizzlies still live here.”

Daryl Gadbow ’75, a retired reporter and editor, worked twenty-eight years at the Missoulian. He now works as a freelance writer when not fly-fishing or hunting.

Servheen examines and places a radio collar on a Rocky Mountain Front grizzly two years ago as part of a monitoring program.

“The fact that we live in grizzly bear country, and the fact that grizzly bears are doing so well here in Montana, is something we should be real proud of.”



alumni profile

A FATHER’S FIGHT

Threat to daughter leads UM alum to create life-saving organization

BY NATE SCHWEBER PHOTOS BY DAVID SAVINSKI

Garet Hil remembers the moment he lost control. It was the day doctors said they couldn’t cut him open and give a piece of his insides to his daughter to save her life.

Until that point Hil’s life was distinguished by mastering his every challenge. As a teen he drew a bead on moving to Montana. He set his sights on being a Marine and graduating from The University of Montana. He honed in on a business career and became very successful.

But when his young daughter’s kidneys failed, and he learned hours before surgery that she could not take one of his own, suddenly his most trusted assets, his focus, his work, even his body, couldn’t save the day.

“You don’t expect it; you don’t see it coming,” Hil says. “And then you wake up one day and your kid has kidney failure.”

Hil, who graduated from UM in 1984, shakes his head and his brown eyes turn slate gray when he talks about what he calls that “devastating” time three years ago.

The experience inspired him to start a nationwide network matching kidney donors with patients. The National Kidney Registry, which uses the most efficient method yet devised to link donors with recipients, has saved scores of families the kind of pain that Hil’s family endured.

It also has saved lives.“Nobody was tackling the problem effectively, so my wife and I said,

‘We’ve got to tackle this problem,’” Hil says. “I know what that’s like—my daughter was on the other side of the equation.”

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Intense focus: UM alum Garet Hil started an organization that helps families find transplant donors for their loved ones.



calls his “motorcycle days.”“I loved Missoula,” he says. When he received his

bachelor’s degree, though, Hil left Montana for good. He had business elsewhere.

Hil opted out of the Marines and charted a career in business. He went to the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania’s business program in Philadelphia. A succession of jobs landed him in Omaha, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Virginia.

Around 1990 he moved to Boston, where he started a division of a mail processing company. There he fell in

love with a New York woman who worked for Dreyfus Mutual Funds and was one of his company’s best clients. Soon he married Jan Vilim.

“I made that sale,” he says.Hil moved to New York City in 1993,

and three years later his first daughter was born, rounding out a family that also includes a stepdaughter.

In the late 1990s, Hil settled in Long Island, and in 2003 the company he helped build sold for more than a billion dollars.

All seemed on the usual up and up for Hil until that cold February day in 2007, when his ten-year-old daughter got sick and didn’t get better.

“It just blindsided me,” he says.

The problem with kidney transplants is that if a person in need tries to get a kidney from a friend or relative willing to donate, the

odds of them being compatible is around one in ten. If that doesn't work, the pair try to find one other pair with whom both donors and both recipients are compatible. This is called a "paired exchange." The odds of it working out are around one in a hundred.

Hil learned fast that this is how most transplant programs work.

His daughter, whose name he asked not be printed for the sake of her privacy, had a rare genetic condition that made

Hil, at age forty-seven, is fit and friendly, with a chiseled mug that an old college friend described as “like Errol Flynn’s

handsome older brother.” He speaks in a matter-of-fact style. Even his name eschews redundant letters. He keeps his home and business headquarters in West Islip, N.Y. Gatsby country.

The first thing he remembers wanting more than anything was to live in Montana. Born in Severna Park, Md., Hil went on a family vacation to Montana when he was on the cusp of his teenage years.

He was spellbound. He remembers spending a week hiking the mountains around Missoula.

“It was just so beautiful,” he says. “It was amazing.”

The Treasure State left such an impression on young Hil that he decided he wanted to go west and work on a farm. Barely sixteen, he moved to Missoula and into a South Hills apartment with his cousin. He enrolled at Sentinel High School.

The farm fantasy didn’t quite work out. Instead he sold fancy women’s footwear at the old Thom McAn shoe store in Missoula’s Southgate Mall.

After high school Hil joined the Marines and studied field radio operation at Parris Island, S.C. Months later he switched to the Reserves, bought a motorcycle, and took a coast-to-coast road

trip that ended, once again, in Montana. He worked a landscaping job beneath his beloved Big Sky for a summer.

In the early 1980s, Hil transferred to UM from a community college in Maryland. He decided to kindle his entrepreneurial spirit and study business.

His close friend Richard Venola, who lives in Peoria, Ill., and works as a field editor at Guns & Ammo magazine, remembers how Hil was so dedicated to his major that he wore business attire to class every day.

“Every night he would press his clothes and step out in a suit and tie and sit in the front row in business class,” Venola says. “Garet is intensely focused. When he told me he was going to start the National Kidney Registry, I knew it was a success already.”

Michael Heitmann, a retired Marine and now an auctioneer in Colorado, remembers Hil’s gung-ho attitude outside of class. On weekends when Hil wasn’t running reconnaissance drills with the Marines near Billings, he, Venola, and Heitmann dove headfirst off the Deer Creek Bridge into the Clark Fork River and bounded around improvised obstacle courses in the valleys, firing rifles at pizza boxes. Another time, Hil entered an amateur boxing contest at the old Carousel Lounge and whupped every challenger, emerging with only a black eye.

“We read Hemingway and Steinbeck; we were tough guys,” Heitmann says.

Hil keeps good memories of what he

Hil runs the National Kidney Registry from this West Islip, N.Y., office.



her kidneys shut down. Hil hoped he could give her one of his, knowing that kidney transplants from live donors last twice as long. But doctors called off the swap thirty-six hours before the operation because they discovered an incompatible antigen in Hil’s blood.

“You’re the dad; you know you can control things,” Hil said. “Once I was out, we’d lost control.”

Hil launched an urgent search for a donor. He contacted every plausible hospital in the nation. None helped.

“I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t get a match for my daughter,” he says.

Hil and his wife lived by their daughter’s hospital bed for a month, working to cheer her with arts and crafts projects. When she came home, they brought her to dialysis three times a week, their hearts heavy with the knowledge that the longer she spent on the machine, the shorter her life expectancy.

At that point Hil’s existence was distilled down to finding a transplant for his little girl. His daughter’s kidney became his business. His Marines. His Montana.

Friend Venola says he lost track of Hil during this period.

“He was completely closed down; he went into combat mode,” Venola says. “All he did was rescue his daughter. When I finally got an e-mail from him, I was like, holy cow, he’s been through a journey.”

In July 2007, five months after the ordeal began, one of Hil’s nephews stepped up. The twenty-three-year-old donated his kidney. The transformation in Hil’s daughter was extraordinary. She unplugged from dialysis and resumed her normal life. Her embattled body grew again.

“It was miraculous,” Hil says.

The transplant was both a milestone and a crossroads. Hil achieved his goal and could have gone back to his business career. But he

still reeled from the experience of hunting for a kidney.

“There had to be a better way,” he says.Hil had a vision to start a nationwide

database of kidney donors. That way,

instead of just paired exchanges, kidney swaps could include numerous people, boosting the odds of finding a match.

From that germ of an idea, he took what he called “the big leap” and founded the National Kidney Registry. His wife says it made perfect sense.

“Garet and I always felt that it was important to make a positive difference in the world,” says Jan Vilim. “The National Kidney Registry was a natural choice for us to accomplish this because it touched us so personally.”

In 2009 the registry facilitated sixty-two transplants. By mid-2010 that number more than doubled and included several donor chains comprising more than ten people.

“We are facilitating five times the number of transplants as the industry standard,” Hil says, adding that the registry has shrunk the average wait time for a kidney from more than six years to less than one year.

Dr. John Milner, director of living donation at Loyola University in Chicago, says Hil is revolutionizing kidney transplantation.

“He’s matching some of the most difficult to match transplants in the country that before were almost impossible,” Milner says. “You combine a loved one who needs a transplant and a

brilliant man and things start to happen.”Impressive as the statistics are, they

pale compared to testimonials from people around the nation such as Kimberly Wagner, forty-three, a teacher in Glenshaw, Pa., whose life was turned around by her kidney transplant in February.

“I thought it was never going to happen,” she says. “I’m just so thankful.”

Melissa Clynes, nineteen, a student in St. Louis who received a new kidney in March, calls the registry “a blessing.”

Though the registry’s reach is nationwide, its roots are at UM. Hil learned the basics of the complicated computer programs used to match donors with patients from statistics Professor Patrick

Shannon, who taught at UM during the 1980s.

Shannon, now dean of the College of Business and Economics at Boise State University, marvels at Hil’s accomplishments.

“The fact that he’s making an impact on people and the fact that he remembers that course and what he got out of it, that’s what it’s all about in our profession,” Shannon says.

The most important fact is that Hil’s daughter, now fourteen, is

healthy and active. She jogs with her dad on the beach in the mornings, and Hil takes great pleasure regaling her with tales from his motorcycle days.

“She knows more about my time in Montana than any other,” Hil says.

One day she might even run the National Kidney Registry. She’s expressed interest, Hil says, and he is adamant that the registry be shepherded by “someone who has been there.”

That’s a long way off, though. She still needs to grow up. Also, since Hil wrested back some of the control he lost during those dark days, he doesn’t plan to let go of the National Kidney Registry anytime soon.

“I plan to run it for a long time,” he says. “It’s my passion.”

Nate Schweber is a freelance journalist who graduated from UM’s School of Journalism in 2001. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Budget Travel, and The

Village Voice. He lives in New York City and sings in a band called the New Heathens.

“You combine a loved one who needs a transplant and a brilliant man and things start to happen.”

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Bursting at the Seams

Increasingly vital tech colleges experience explosive growth

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A student welds at UM’s Helena College of Technology.

Greg Miller started working at the Stimson Lumber Company in March 1974 when he was nineteen years old. For more than thirty years he remained secure in the job, running machinery at the company’s Bonner mill off Highway 200. But after mass layoffs, Miller found himself shuffled from day shift to night shift, from one job in the company to

another. Finally in January 2007, he got his pink slip and, at age fifty-two, found himself out of work. It was a tough blow.

“Like so many in that same situation, I had that nervousness and fear about what to do next,” Miller says. “I had a family to support, and I didn’t know what my future was going to hold.” But he adds: “I was eager to do something else.”

Miller started attending meetings for laid-off workers, and he enrolled at The University of Montana College of Technology to begin working toward an associate degree in accounting technology and computer support. He graduated in 2009 and got a job as a part-time accountant at COT and a part-time bus driver for the school system. He now speaks to other laid-off workers about his experience.

“When you go to the same place day in and day out for thirty-some years, you don’t see other things,” Miller says. “Once I got into college, I saw that there’s so much more to life. I had never gone to college, but I had wanted that experience, and a two-year program seemed to be the ideal thing for me.”

Miller isn’t alone. COTs and community colleges across Montana are becoming more popular—not just for displaced workers, but for a diverse array of people. In recent years as the recession continues, more students who might otherwise apply to a four-year college—or not attend college at all—are opting for two-year programs. In fact, two-year education is currently the fastest growing part of the Montana University System.

Between 2000 and 2010, enrollment at Montana’s three community colleges increased by 45 percent, and enrollment for the state’s five colleges of technology increased by 81 percent. Those increases also have affected four-year programs, which have seen record full-time enrollment increases during the past couple years directly related to COT student transfers.

Two-year institutions are having an economic impact on Montana. And with constantly expanding degree programs and ever-evolving community outreach, they’re starting to get the credit they deserve.

Perception & OverflowMontana’s colleges of technology first started as vocational technical centers with an emphasis on industrial training. The first one was founded in Helena in 1939. Billings, Great Falls, and Missoula followed in 1969, and Butte's was built in 1976. In 1994 all the vo-techs merged into the university system and officially became colleges. During the next decade, COTs began expanding their programs to offer not only tech classes such as welding and small engines, but also health and business associate’s degrees and some bachelor’s degrees.

The problem is, people’s perceptions of COTs didn’t follow suit. Even now many people don’t realize Montana’s COTs are an accredited part of the university system that offers a wide range of programs.

“We have evolved into the comprehensive two-year college of the University,” says Barry Good, dean of the UM COT in Missoula. “We provide the same services as a community college. I believe that that message isn’t clear yet.”

Good says there are many reasons some people have always chosen two-year education. For one thing,

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The developmental education aspect of the school’s Applied Arts and Sciences Program makes it easier for students who struggle with basic math and English or people who have been out of school for a long time to transition to a higher education environment.

Low tuition is another major reason for the popularity of COTs. Tuition at two-year colleges in Montana is about 61 percent of what it is at four-year colleges. That benefit is enhanced by the fact that COTs have expanded their

transfer programs. For instance, social work students can take two years at Missoula’s COT with cheaper tuition before transferring to a four-year program. Good says COT is working to make transferring easier, because 68 percent of Missoula COT students are full time, and last fall about 400 of them expressed interest in transitioning to UM’s mountain campus.

The fact that COTs always have offered low tuition and open access has helped college-goers in hard economic times. But, Good says, people are choosing to attend some of Montana’s two-year programs because the institutions have made major positive changes over the past decade. UM COT now offers thirty-five degrees in five departments, including its health professions department, which offers degrees in nursing, surgical technology, radiology, and pharmacy tech, among others. More recently the business technology department earned awards for its culinary program. And the Department of Applied Computer and Electronics now offers a green technology emphasis that embraces current trends in sustainable systems.

COTs have an open admission policy, which encourages a diverse population, including single parents, laid-off workers, and older nontraditional students or younger high school graduates looking for a stepping stone to higher degrees.

Alan Fugleberg, for instance, used his COT experience as a springboard to a successful career. In 1995 Fugleberg was seriously injured in a car crash that left him with head and other injuries requiring that he receive Social Security disability benefits. Though he was lucky to recover in five years, at age forty-one he found himself facing the daunting task of rejoining the work force after being out for so long.

In 1999 he enrolled at the UM COT with the help of the Montana Vocational Rehabilitation Program and graduated with an associate’s degree in legal assisting. With that degree under his belt, Fugleberg went on to get both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at UM’s mountain campus. After working for UM’s Rural Institute and the COT Admissions Office, he eventually served as a COT associate dean and chaired the college’s Department of Industrial Technology.

Currently the UM College of Technology has two campuses. East Campus, near the Missoula County Fairgrounds, has two main buildings and six trailers, which house offices and classrooms for culinary, writing, and nursing courses, among others. One trailer is affectionately called the “math shack.” The West Campus, near Fort Missoula in west Missoula, houses Department of Industrial Technology programs such as carpentry, diesel technology, heavy equipment, and welding.

UM’s mountain campus hosts a lab for COT’s radiology tech program in the basement of

the Interdisciplinary Science Building.

Two years ago UM received an appropriation from the Legislature for a planning grant to conceptualize a new COT

facility. It received top priority from the Board of Regents, but the project was not funded.

A new COT facility will have top priority in the coming legislative session, but both COT

Dean Barry Good and UM President Dennison note that the chance of funding is bleak.

In 2008 the 1,532 students enrolled at the Missoula COT were a tight fit. Last fall 2,105 students enrolled, and enrollment is expected to increase yearly. The facility originally was designed to house fewer than 1,000 students.

The COT East Campus has had few building renovations since it was built in 1968, and the Administration Building does not have air conditioning.

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first place in the educational attainment of our citizens,” Dennison says. “So maybe it can happen again.”

In fact, studies in Montana show that skill-based jobs requiring two-year degrees are on the rise, and the Montana Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that 80 percent of all jobs in the state can be filled with a two-year associate degree or less. With two-year education growing in popularity, changes are on the horizon.

Mary Sheehy Moe, state deputy commissioner for two-year education, says Montana currently is engaged in a grant project funded by the Lumina Foundation for Education that will bring the full community college mission to all of Montana’s two-year colleges.

Moe has been on the frontlines of the movement for a while: She recently became the deputy commissioner after serving eighteen years as dean and CEO of Montana State University–Great Falls College of Technology. During her tenure there, she led the college to the largest enrollment increases in its history, significant facilities and program expansions, and innovations in distance learning, health care partnerships, and dual enrollment.

“Montanans’ mindsets are changing when it comes to two-year education,” Moe says. “Especially as dual crediting programs continue and academic offerings expand. These are really innovative institutions, and it’s an exciting time for two-year education.

“Keep watching,” she adds. “If you thought the last ten years were remarkable, wait until you see what happens in the next five.”

Erika Fredrickson is the arts editor at the Missoula Independent. She graduated from UM’s Creative Writing Program in 1999 and received a master’s degree in environmental studies in 2009.

Recent community partnerships also have helped bring more students to COTs—sometimes temporarily and in other cases for the full two years. UM’s growing dual credit program allowed 200 high school students last fall to take COT courses that count toward both high school and college credit and, in the process, saved them money.

“We would like to eventually give high school students the opportunity to, when they get a high school diploma, get some kind of associate degree at the same time,” Good says. “That’s where we’d like to go in the future.”

Two-year colleges are still underused in Montana: About 25 percent of college students attend two-year colleges, whereas in most other states about 50 percent do. Perception may be part of that equation, but the fact that two-year education is growing fast in the state means that things are changing—and perhaps faster than campuses can prepare. At UM’s COT East Campus, six trailers and two small buildings hosted 2,105 students last fall, which is double the number from a decade ago.

“We are bursting at the seams,” Good says, “but we do a great job with what we have. We are accessible and affordable, and we stand for having quality programs and caring about students.”

The FutureIn July 2009 President Barack Obama predicted that jobs requiring at least an associate’s degree would grow twice as fast as those requiring no college. He proposed the American Graduation Initiative, which would divvy up $12 billion over a decade to support two-year colleges. A year later, the initiative has been scaled down to $2 billion, but the idea that two-year education is an important component nationwide has created a buzz among two-year educators and its supporters.

UM President George M. Dennison says two-year schools have done a good job helping people get back into the work force quickly. He says making certain the programs offered at two-year schools are those that are the most in demand is critical for a college that has a vocational technical mission, as well as an academic transfer mission. And UM’s COT has done that, he says.

“There’s no doubt that in the mid- and late-1960s the development of community colleges helped the United States get to

“We are bursting at the seams,” Good says, “but we do a great job with what we have. We are accessible and affordable, and we stand for having quality programs and caring about students.”

COT Dean Barry Good (left) and Associate Dean Alan Fugleberg


On the drawing board: Library 4.0

Think back to 1973, the year UM built the Mansfield

Library: writing a paper meant hours of combing the

stacks. Fast forward to 2010: handheld computers

provide facts in a flash.

It’s time for a library upgrade. UM is planning to

create a new learning commons in the Mansfield

Library. Much more than a renovation, the learning

commons will provide the perfect place for students

to work in teams with instant access to expertise,

information and technology. Plus, a coffee shop to

keep the ideas flowing.

Twice as many students use the library at universities

that create learning commons. That means more

successful students. Learn how you can help get the

learning commons off the ground by contacting The

University of Montana Foundation at 800-443-2593,

or by visiting www.supportum.org.

The plan for the Mansfield Library includes creating a learning commons on the first floor with a wall of windows.

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Washington, D.C., has long called Montanans away to serve. From Capitol Hill

to federal courtrooms, Montanans have made their state proud.

When Washington lawyer Robert S. Bennett, whose clients have included former President Bill Clinton and journalist Judith Miller, began serving on the UM School of Law’s Board of Visitors in 1995, he thought of two federal judges with Montana roots. Both Judge William Jones, who moved to Montana in 1931 to coach football at Carroll College, and Judge Edward Tamm, who grew up in Butte, earned reputations for fairness and keen judicial instincts.

In Bennett’s words, they “left a very positive mark on the federal judiciary. They established themselves as judges who were deeply committed to improving the administration of our justice system.” Both judges stayed connected to law students and members of the bar throughout their service.

The judges’ enduring interest in students combined with his own love of Montana led Bennett to establish the Judge William B. Jones and Judge Edward A. Tamm Judicial Lecture Series at UM. Bennett wanted to increase recognition for the UM School of Law and provide Montana law students with the same

prestigious lecturers who frequently visit Ivy League law schools.

“I wanted these hardworking students at The University of Montana to feel they were important enough for a Justice of the Supreme Court to come and speak to them,” Bennett says.

“Bob Bennett not only envisioned the Jones-Tamm Lecture Series, he put the program in place and proved critical in recruiting candidates to speak,” says former UM law school Dean Ed Eck, who worked closely with Bennett to establish the series.

Fly-fishing originally brought Bennett to Montana. At a lecture early in the series, his affection for both the state and students came together in an unexpected way.

“I went up to introduce the speaker, and there sitting in the audience I saw the young man who’d been our guide on the Smith River a few years before,” he says.

Since Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor first lectured at UM in 1997, the series has brought Supreme Court Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas, as well as Chief Justice John Roberts, to UM. Bennett’s brother, political commentator and radio host William J. Bennett, who served as secretary of

education in the Reagan administration and directed the National Office of Drug Control Policy for former President George H.W. Bush, lectured in 2002.

On September 15, UM will welcome U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., as the eleventh lecturer in the Jones-Tamm Lecture Series. Holder, who became attorney general last year, is the first African-American to serve in the post.

“This lecture will provide valuable perspective and insight for our students, faculty, and the community at large,” says Irma Russell, UM law school dean.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan, who had been a law clerk to Jones, and Montana District Court Judges Jack Shanstrom and Don Molloy have been important supporters of the lecture series, which is open to the public. Its popularity has spurred renewed fundraising efforts to see it through its next ten years.

If you are interested in contributing, call Dean Russell at 406-243-5730 or make a gift online at www.SupportUM.org. Write “Jones-Tamm Lecture Series” on the online giving form.

BY JOYCE BRUSIN, MFA ‘85

Top Legal Lecture U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at UM Sept. 15

Read more about the Jones-Tamm Lecture Series: www.umt.edu/law/jonestamm.htm

Above: UM President George Dennison and Dean Irma Russell presented an Honorary Doctor of Law degree to Robert S. Bennett at the 2010 Commencement ceremonies May 15. Above left: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder


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On the drawing board: Library 4.0

Think back to 1973, the year UM built the Mansfield

Library: writing a paper meant hours of combing the

stacks. Fast forward to 2010: handheld computers

provide facts in a flash.

It’s time for a library upgrade. UM is planning to

create a new learning commons in the Mansfield

Library. Much more than a renovation, the learning

commons will provide the perfect place for students

to work in teams with instant access to expertise,

information and technology. Plus, a coffee shop to

keep the ideas flowing.

Twice as many students use the library at universities

that create learning commons. That means more

successful students. Learn how you can help get the

learning commons off the ground by contacting The

University of Montana Foundation at 800-443-2593,

or by visiting www.supportum.org.

The plan for the Mansfield Library includes creating a learning commons on the first floor with a wall of windows.

Artwork by Ben Tintinger, Mosaic Architecture

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Caryl Woodbury Jones “Suds” Stortz ’40, formerly of Escondido, Calif., posthumously received a Congressional Gold Medal this past March for her service as a pilot during World War II. Caryl was one of more than 1,000 Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) who secretly logged more than 60 million air miles transporting every size of war plane across the United States and serving in other noncombat roles. The WASP was launched in 1943 to free up male pilots for combat, but the female pilots were officially considered civilians until 1977, when their records were unsealed. They were granted veteran status in 1979. In July 2009, President Barack Obama signed a bill to award WASPs the Congressional Gold Medal, which ranks among the highest honors bestowed for courage, service, and dedication. Caryl, who learned to fly in Missoula while attending UM, died in February 2009 at the age of ninety-one. Her niece, Ann Jones, represented her at the Capitol Hill ceremony where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress honored the WASPs. Read more about the WASPs at www.wingsacrossamerica.us and www.twu.edu/library/wasp.asp. Follow Caryl’s journey in her own words at http://waspfinalflight.blogspot.com/2009/04/wasp-caryl-suds-jones-stortz-43-w-5.html.

Keep Us Posted. Send your news to The University of Montana Alumni Association, Brantly Hall, Missoula, MT 59812. Go to www.grizalum.com and click on “Class Notes,” fax your news to 406-243-4467, or call 1-877-UM-ALUMS (877-862-5867). Material in this issue reached our office by July 7, 2010. Note: The year immediately following an alum’s name indicates either an undergraduate degree year or attendance at UM. Graduate degrees from UM are indicated by initials.Snowbirds/Sunbirds—Anyone! Whenever you change your mailing address, please contact the alumni office. Let us know where you are and when. Thank you.

’40s ROY JUNE ’48, ’51, J.D. ’52, and his wife, Laura, Joshua Tree, Calif., received the President’s Volunteer Lifetime Service Award

in April for their work at the Palm Springs Air Museum. Roy and June have each accrued more than 5,000 volunteer hours at the museum.

’50s JOHN F. CLELAND ’51, M.A. ’54, Regina, Saskatchewan, lived in the University’s strip housing at No. 7 Carbon Street while a student at UM. John snapped this photo as his family prepared to return to Canada following his graduation. John’s daughter, Sally Cleland (on left), remembers thinking her father was a carpenter rather than a grad student studying clinical psychology, because “he was always building shelving units for his books and fixing things in general.” (Ed. Note: UM was one of 500 schools and colleges that received the

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORSChair

Thomas J. Dimmer ’85 Williamston, MI

Vice Chair

Eric D. Botterbusch ’87 Everett, WA

Past Chair

Sharilyn McGuire Campbell ’87Redmond, WA

Board of Directors

Alina Alvarez ’99Denver

James Bartell ’63 Kildeer, IL

Brandon Byars ’93 Portland, OR

Craig W. Crawford ’79 Darien, CT

Susan C. English ’72 Missoula

Alison Fuller ’99 San Francisco

Scott Horsley ’73 Scottsdale, AZ

Barrett Kaiser ’99 Billings

Karin Larson-Pollock ’93 Houston

Ken Lawrence ’63 San Antonio

Allan Murphy ’65 Bend, OR

Erin Rogge Niedge ’05Miles City

Marnie McMeel Prigge ’73 Butte

Gregory K. Stahl ’82 Missoula

Greg Sundberg ’01, ’03Missoula

Paul Tuss ’88Havre

Patrick Weasel Head ’71, M.Ed. ’73Missoula

Pat Weber ’73Yardley, PA

UM Alumni Association

Bill Johnston ’79, ’91PRESIDENT AND CEO

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plywood houses in 1946 in response to the campus housing shortage created by veterans coming home and attending college. The structures had housed workers in Richland, Wash., where parts of the atomic bomb were made.)KEITH D. PETERSON ’56 is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from both the Pacific Northwest Football Hall of Fame and the Montana Pro Rodeo Circuit. Keith and his wife, Marilyn Shope Peterson ’57, invite Montanans to call or visit them in Cygnet Lake, near Seeley Lake.RICHARD D. WOODS ’56, Chicago, has donated a copy of his self-published book, Good-bye, Malta –Hello, France: the Great War Comes to Phillips County, Montana, to UM’s Mansfield Library. The book is based on clippings from the Phillips County News and tells of the impact of World War I on Malta and other neighboring towns. Richard writes, “Its index of males registered for the draft suggests the large population at the height of the homestead period in one Hi-Line community.”HELEN ELOISE EVANS ’57, Chillicothe, Mo., was honored for her many volunteer hours for the betterment of Livingston County in 2009. A former schoolteacher in Missouri, Idaho, and Ohio, Helen moved to Chillicothe to be near family following her retirement.

’60sLEE SCIFERS ’61 is

pictured at the Casavant pipe organ in the First Presbyterian Church of Kalispell, where he has served as an organist for eighteen years. His sixty-four-year musical career began with the piano at age six, and he took up the organ at age sixteen. Following his UM graduation, he taught band, orchestra, classical piano, and guitar for thirty years in Seattle. In 1991 Lee and his wife, BETSY WINSHIP SCIFERS ’60 returned to Montana and settled in Kalispell. Lee keeps a picture of

his grandmother over the organ to remind him to practice; she’s who insisted on those piano lessons many years ago.DAVID B. ROLL ’62, Granbury, Texas, wrote, “In April I had the opportunity to take a boat from Paris down the Seine to Normandy, where I visited, among other things, the American cemetery at Colleville. By chance I came across the graves of two Montanans, James Huges and Edward Weinmeister. It is an awe-inspiring

sight. I have no idea how many Montanans are buried there.” Note David’s “Montanan,

wherever I am” hat in the accompanying photo.ELTON ADAMS ’65, Great Falls, has joined Benefis Physician Associates as a rheumatologist. He had previously practiced at the Great Falls Clinic since 1995 and at Big Sky Health in Great Falls from 1981 to 1995. At Benefis, Elton sees patients for a variety

of autoimmune and musculoskeletal disorders. An avid mountaineer, he has climbed some of the world’s tallest peaks and has a special interest in high-altitude medicine.GERALD R. ZACHARY ’65, Olympia, Wash., was appointed chairman of Golf Savings Bank’s board of directors, where he has served since 2000.

Gerald was previously the director of banks for Washington and managed operations with banks in Washington and Montana. He retired in 1998 and currently works as a bank consultant.KALLI LISTER DESCHAMPS ’68, Missoula, wrote Always There Is The Mountain, a contemporary western

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Come Home to UMAS I SIT HERE WITH NETBOOK IN HAND, preparing for my return to Missoula for Homecoming 2010, I am pondering all the changes and growth occurring on our campus.

If you haven’t been back to campus lately, you will notice quite a bit of new construction. Three recently completed major construction projects at UM were funded all or largely with private sup-port (this means … many of YOU!): The Payne Family Native American Center, the Law Building addition, and the Phyllis J. Washington Education Center. Next time you’re on campus, please be sure to visit these great new facilities.

And for the first time in twenty years, our University is preparing for a new campus leader to take the helm. Thanks, George, for a great run.

Every time I return to the area, I think back to the time I brought my wife, Holly, to Missoula for a visit many years ago. I recall (as many of you probably do, too) getting off the plane with the scent of the paper mills lingering in the air. She remarked, “Hmm … what is it that I smell?” To which I replied with a very big grin, “Honey, that’s home!” While the air has cleared, “home” still awaits you. Each visit back I find my soul is recharged and reinvigorated. Missoula and the University are our own fountain of youth.

The University of Montana and Missoula—a great place to live and visit. For those out of town, I hope you consider plans to return to the region and the campus to visit, whether it be for Homecoming, a reunion, or just “because.” For those who still reside nearby, continue to embrace the University and your region. It is a special place.

Return … reinvest … recharge the soul!

THOMAS DIMMER ’85 earned a degree in business administration from the School of Business Administration. Tom has served on the UMAA board for six years and before that served on the SOBA Marketing Advisory Board. He lives in Michigan and is director of national individual sales for Delta Dental, where he has worked for twenty-three years. Tom and his wife, Holly, will celebrate their twentieth anniversary this fall. They have two children: Zach, eighteen (who, despite the consternation of his father, is a freshman at Western Michigan University—at least it’s not MSU), and Amanda, fourteen.

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has been appointed chief geologist for Tara Minerals Corp. With more than thirty years of experience in precious metals exploration and

mining, Peter will be responsible for identifying, evaluating, and managing mineral properties and development.RICK WEAVER ’75 is the new publisher of the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell, as

well as the other Flathead Valley newspapers in the Hagadone Newspapers group–the Hungry Horse News, Whitefish Pilot, and Bigfork Eagle. Rick and his wife, KAREN CLARK-WEAVER ’86, both Kalispell natives, returned home in May after a national search by

Hagadone. This is Rick’s fourth stint at the Inter Lake, having worked there as a newspaper delivery boy in the mid-1960s, then holding various positions, including circulation director and ad director in the 1970s and ’80s. He has worked at newspapers in Havre, Bozeman, Wyoming, and Idaho, most recently as publisher of the Idaho Press-Tribune in Nampa. During his time in Bozeman, Rick served a term as president of the Montana Newspaper Association.CRAIG K. ANDERSON ’76 and JOHN F. HEDGE ’76, Billings, were recognized as Montana’s top two financial advisers in Barron’s “America’s Top 1,000 Advisors: State by State.” Both Craig (No. 1) and John (No. 2) work

for Merrill Lynch.DEBORAH DOYLE MCWHINNEY ’77, New York City, was honored in May with a 2010 Aiming High Award presented by Legal Momentum, a women’s legal defense fund. The award recognizes the accomplishments of women and the benefits of pro-diversity policies in the nation’s most successful companies. Deborah became CEO of Citi Personal Wealth Management in April 2009. She previously was president of Schwab Institutional, a division of Charles Schwab & Co. A Missoula native, she chaired the UM Foundation’s Invest in Discovery campaign, which concluded Dec. 31, 2007, after raising a record $131 million.

novel placed on Lolo Creek, under Lolo Peak, in the ’50s and ’60s.MARTIN V. MELOSI ’69, M.A. ’71, director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston, Texas, has been named the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor.

’70sMICHAEL J. OBER ’70, M.A. ’73, Kalispell, published a book, Glacier Album: Historic Photographs of Glacier

National Park, timed to coincide with the park’s centennial celebration. A longtime seasonal park ranger in Glacier, Michael is head librarian at Flathead Valley Community College, where he also has taught history for twenty years. For the book, he compiled old black-and-white photos from archives at UM and elsewhere to explore the first fifty years of the park, from its creation in 1910 to the postwar boom in automobile travel. Most of the images have never been published until now. “Part of the pleasure in producing such a title comes in the tangential discovery of hundreds of photographs taken by ordinary park visitors,” Michael says. “I cling to the belief that humans still like to look at pictures of other humans doing human things.” Published by

Riverbend Press, Glacier Album is available at major booksellers and all park outlets.EDWARD PITCHER ’70, Malad City, Idaho, has

written a new book, The Flying of Falcons, about his philosophy of natural falconry. Ed’s passion for falcons began in 1969, when he was studying zoology at UM. He has since become renowned for his innovative falconry methods and keeps a dozen of the birds at the remote solar- and wind-powered home he shares with his wife, Barbara. Ed recently retired after a career as a registered nurse and continues to work as a steelhead guide for the outfitting business Clearwater River Co., which he co-owns with his son. Visit www.theflyingoffalcons.com. ROBERT “BOB” PUNCHES’71 writes that he has “retired from coaching sports and teaching high school English at Three Forks High School and at Missoula’s Sentinel High School. I presently live in the beautiful mountain town of Florence.”RALPH B. KIRSCHER ’74, J.D. ’79, Butte, was elected to the U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit. Ralph is chief bankruptcy judge of the District of Montana. BAP judges serve a term of seven years.PETER MEJSTRICK, M.S. ’75, Missoula,

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FRANK R. “RANDY” HARRISON ’75, J.D. ’83, Missoula, organizes a ski trip to the Alps for family and friends every two years. UM alumni and friends in the group of forty-eight who traveled to Solden, Austria, this past February included, first row, left to right: KARA MCCARTHY ’00, Missoula; PATRICK MCCARTHY ’71, Yakima, Wash.; Caroline Baur (future Grizzly); Courtney Johnson (Grizzly supporter); RAYMOND HOWARD ’73, Missoula; DONALD MCDONALD ’74, San Diego, Calif.; and JOHN L. ALKE ’73, J.D. ’76, Helena. Second row: BETH REUTER EVENSON ’82, Great Falls; MOLLY HARRISON HOWARD ’72, Missoula; RANDY HARRISON; and RICHARD CROSBY ’69, Tustin, Calif. Third row: KIRK EVENSON, J.D. ’89, Great Falls; KAY MARTIN DUFFIELD ’70, Missoula; MICHAEL DUFFIELD ’70, Missoula; and NINA HARRISON ’64, Helena. Fourth row: P. MARS SCOTT ’75, J.D. ’80, Missoula; ELAINE SCOTT ’89, Missoula; CHASE HARRISON ’11, Missoula; and AIDAN MYHRE, M.B.A. ’89, Helena.


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Her achievements were recognized by UM with a 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award. ELIZABETH ANN WEBERM.F.A. ’77, associate professor of English at the University of Indianapolis, is one of four poets whose work was chosen for display along the Indianapolis Cultural Trail. Elizabeth’s poem City Generation was chosen from among 120 submissions and will be mounted at Poet’s Place, a downtown site honoring one of the trail’s early supporters. (Read it online at www.indyculturaltrail.org/CityGeneration.html.) She also received a $1,000 honorarium. Elizabeth teaches creative writing at UIndy and is co-director of UIndy’s Kellogg Writers Series. Her poems and essays have been published in many magazines, anthologies, and literary journals. JIM LORTZ ’78, M.F.A. ’99, Bellingham, Wash., directed the play Once Upon the Mattress in May for the Bellingham Academy of the Arts, where he is artistic director. Jim has been an associate professor in Western Washington University’s theater arts department for nearly twenty years. In an interview, Jim says, “I teach acting, which means I teach about life. My

acting classes are referred to by the students as Intro to Crying, Intermediate

Crying, and Advanced Crying.” In 2007, while writing and filming My Name is Noemi, based on a book by a woman who survived the Holocaust, Jim was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. He went on to appear in a 2008 election commercial supporting stem cell research. “With my Parkinson’s, I am reminded of what I do as an acting teacher. I have to make the private public. I know I have a responsibility to make myself visible.”MARY VAN BUSKIRK, J.D. ’78, and her husband, ROGER A. BARBER ’69, M.B.A. ’83, have moved to Whitefish, where Mary is the new city attorney. Mary had been an attorney in Havre since 1978, doing civil attorney and criminal defense work.

’80sNEAL FREITAS ’81, Gardnerville, Nev., is the new human resources

director for the Lyon County School District. Neal has a thirty-year career in education, beginning as a school counselor in Germany for the Department of Defense. He also has worked as a special education teacher, an assistant principal, and principal. Neal has three daughters: Allyson, nineteen; Natalie, seventeen; and Kassiday, fourteen.DANIEL J. O’BOYLE ’81 is the news media chief in

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the U. S. Army’s Public and Congressional Affairs Office in Redstone Arsenal, Ala. A thirty-year career civil servant, Dan writes, “The work that we do here at Redstone Arsenal places us so close to the anti-terrorism war

fighting front that our commanding general says we are only five miles from Bagram.” LAUREN DRYSELT THOMAS’81, Bothell, Wash., is the new chief financial

officer/chief operating officer of Hopelink, a nonprofit organization serving people in need in north and east King County. Lauren has twenty-five years of not-for-profit financial management. A certified public accountant, Lauren was named a CFO of the Year finalist by the Puget Sound Business Journal in 2007. She and her husband, Lance, have two teenage sons. FRANK J. MORBILLO, M.F.A. ’84, Tesuque, N.M., was one of three artists featured at the Craighead Green Gallery in Dallas, Texas, this past spring. Frank’s exhibit pieces employed stainless steel, cast glass, and bronze. View his sculpture, furniture, reliefs,

and fountains at www.morbillosculpture.com. HARLEY ROSS HARRIS, J.D. ’84, is vice president and general counsel for the Helena office of Montana Alberta Tie Ltd. (MATL), a subsidiary of Toronto-based Tonbridge Power Corporation. MATL is constructing a 300-megawatt electric transmission line between Great Falls and Lethbridge, Alberta. Formerly a partner in Luxan & Murfitt, Harley is now responsible for U.S. and Montana legal, regulatory, and governmental affairs, right-of-way acquisition and management, project management, and strategic project development.MELODY PERKINS-MARTINSEN ’87 and her

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GERALD DIETTERT ’84, M.A. ’90, Missoula, was presented in June with a Scouting Legacy Award, one of the first such awards given on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America. In a June 12 Missoulian article, Jerry said he joined Missoula’s first Cub Scout pack in 1937 and has been involved with local Boy Scout troops ever since. A retired cardiologist, he interrupted his pursuit of a bachelor’s degree after three years at UM when he was accepted to medical school. Thirty years after getting his medical degree, he returned to UM to complete his bachelor’s degree at the same time as his youngest child, Bruce. He told the Missoulian: “I had so much fun that I decided to get a master’s degree in history.” As a project for his Boy Scout “doctorate,” he wrote the history of scouting in western Montana, learning that the first Missoula troop was formed by the Rev. John Maclean in 1916. Maclean’s son Norman, author of A River Runs Through It, was among the first members.

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husband, Jeff Martinsen, were honored in June with the Montana Newspaper Association’s 2010 Master Editor-Publisher Award for their twenty years of dedication as owners of the Choteau Acantha. Melody put her degree in print journalism to work as a reporter at the Great Falls Tribune before she and Jeff married in 1989 and bought their hometown weekly newspaper in 1990. They have since published more than 1,000 issues, won numerous awards and contributed many hours of volunteer service. Melody was president of the Montana Newspaper Association during 1996-97 and continues to serve on the MNA Foundation board and the Montana Freedom of Information Hotline board. In 1997 she said in a speech: “We in Montana journalism should never lose sight of the fact that we are all community journalists. We do have the power to right wrongs. We do have the power to enlighten our readers, to open their minds to new ideas, to bring the world to their breakfast tables. We have the power to stick up for the little guy, to expose the corruption, and to praise and highlight the good people in our towns. We are the living historians for our communities, taking the time to publish the births, the deaths, the weddings and divorces, the triumphs, and tragedies of the ordinary people. We create the written legacies of our friends, our neighbors, and our fellow man.”LORI MATTINA ’87, Boulder, Colo., illustrated a new hardcover children’s book, A Bear in the Air,

by Sue Baer. It is the story of a boy who finds whimsical creatures making themselves at home in his house. Lori, originally from Missoula, now runs a graphic design and illustration firm in Boulder. Visit her at www.morninglori.net. LAUREL LINDELL STAPLES ’88 was named the 2010 Television On-Air

Broadcaster of the Year by the Montana Broadcasters Association and the Greater Montana Foundation. Laurel is an anchor, reporter, and producer for KXLF-TV in Butte, where she also won a 2009 E.B. Craney Program of the Year award for coverage of the 2008 Mansfield-Metcalf Dinner that featured then-presi-dential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Laurel is married to TOM STAPLES ’89.

’90sKAREN J. COATES ’93, Brookfield, Wis., is one of five 2010-11 Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A freelance journalist, author, and media trainer, Karen splits her time between Asia and the American

Southwest after living in Thailand and Cambodia for several years. A correspondent for Archaeology, she was Gourmet’s Asia correspondent before the magazine ceased

publication. Karen writes a food culture column for The Faster Times and has written for GlobalPost, National Geographic Books, Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia, Orion, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Boston Globe, and The Christian Science Monitor.

Karen has published two books–Pacific Lady: The First Woman to Sail Solo Across the World’s Largest Ocean and Cambodia Now: Life in the Wake of the War. She has two books due out in 2011. Karen has helped train international journalists from

Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.KIEL KLAPHAKE ’94 and CASSANDRA NORVILLE KLAPHAKE ’94 work and perform at the Arizona Broadway Theatre, a professional dinner theater company in Peoria, Ariz. Kiel, the founder and executive director, and Cassandra, the artistic

producer, have two sons–Kieran and Tristan. Joe Martinez, marketing director and a former Missoulian, writes that ABT was created, built, and funded by alumni of UM. The company continues to employ UM alumni, including:

MARTHA CLARKE, M.F.A. ’95; MARY ROONEY ’86;RANAE NELSON, M.F.A. ’06; D.J. SELMEYER, M.F.A. ’06; SARAH NELSON, M.F.A. ’05; STACEY GORDON, M.F.A. ’05; MONICA HART ’94;MIKE MONSOS ’84, M.F.A. ’01; DAVID ERRIGO ’08; Jamie Parnell; Jonn Jorgensen; and Tim Luoma. ABT has produced twenty-five full-scale musicals since opening its doors in 2005. Find out more at www.azbroadwaytheatre.com.ROBERT LEVEY ’96 was appointed director of development and communications at Seacoast Mental Health Center in Portsmouth, N.H. Before joining the center in 2008, Rob worked as a freelance writer and marketing consultant. MURRAY C. “TRIPP” GREASON, J.D. ’97, Winston-Salem, N.C., has been elected a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. An attorney and pro bono director with Womble Carlyle, Tripp practices in the firm’s Winston-Salem office.BEN S. GRAHAM ’97, Chicago, is president of

Bell Incorporated, one of the country’s ten largest independently owned folding carton companies. Bill began working for Bell Incorporated nearly two decades ago and has led the acquisition of such customers as General Electric, the U.S. Postal Service, and UPS.BEAU STANGE ’98, Orting, Wash., writes, “I want to notify you

of the arrival of one of the newest Grizzlies. Brady Micheal (yes, on spelling!) Stange was born December 21, 2009. I also want to note my

running the Seattle half-marathon in November 2009. The photo shows me after the race wearing a Griz stocking cap. I spent about fourteen months prior to the race

gaining my health back. On January 1, 2007, I weighed 287 pounds. Running that half-

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BIRTHS Emily Nicole Fritch to CYNTHIA BRENDEN FRITCH ’91 and MARK FRITCH ’93, March 19, 2010, MissoulaRex Mercer Gorman to JANE MAKICH ’95 and Paul Gorman, May 18, 2010, San FranciscoPiper Joy McElwain to PATRICK C. MCELWAIN ’96 and Annie Marie Rose, March 7, 2010, MilltownKeira Lee Flaig to MATTHEW FLAIG ’01 and Mindy Flaig, March 1, 2010, MinneapolisKaysa Mae Fuller to ERIN EGELAND FULLER ’97 andJEFF FULLER ’89, March 1, 2010, MissoulaBrady Micheal (yes on spelling!) Stange to ORVILLE D. STANGE III ’98 and April Goffena, December 21, 2009, Orting, WA


marathon was my reward for hitting my goal weight of 200 pounds. I ran in the Tacoma half-marathon in May and beat my personal best by over twelve minutes. I have now lost 94 pounds.”TERREL JONES, M.F.A. ’99, opened a new art studio in Troy, where she has taught high school art

and Spanish since 1983. Terrel’s painting subjects include landscapes, trees, and flowers. Her work can be seen online at www.terreljones.com.

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18 Griz/E. Washington Tailgate, Cheney, WA 19-25 Homecoming Week 2010 19 Homecoming Kickoff Celebration, Southgate Mall 23, 24 House of Delegates Annual Meeting 24 Class of 1970 Reunion, Distinguished Alumni Awards, International Alumni Reunion, SOS, Pep Rally, All Alumni Reunion and Dance 25 Homecoming Parade, Griz vs. Sac State Football, TV Tailgate 25-10/3 International Travel: River Life in Burgundy and Provence 26-28 UMAA Board of Directors Meeting, Missoula

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ALINA ALVAREZ, J.D. ’99, Denver, COJOSEPH L. BEATTY ’90, MissoulaPAUL A. BEAUFAIT ’77, M.A. ’86, Shoreline, WAYUKIKO MATSUSHITA BEAUFAIT, Shoreline, WAMARC BEBOUT ’96, Franktown, CODAVID BLAKELY JR. ’60, M.S. ’70, Missoula JOHN W. BRADFORD ’51, Red LodgeLAVETTA JACOBSON BRADFORD ’52, Red LodgeRYAN J. BURFEIND ’06, SeattleA. PATRICE CALLAGHAN-STOVER ’75, HamiltonRAYMOND S. CARLISLE ’74, MissoulaWILLIAM R. DEREU ’88, Greenacres, WAJAMES R. DRISCOLL ’94, Denver, COLISA M. DUFFIN, M.S. ’05, Spokane Valley, WAJULI A. ECKMANN ’83, ’95, San Diego, CADAVID G. FENNER ’98, Metuchen, NJGREGORY J. HANSEN ’97, Garland, TXVINCENT G. HANSEN ’81, Haines, AKWILLIAM T. HODGES ’64, Des Moines, WAMARYANN SCHULZE HORST ’08, Santa Clara, CAMATTHEW MICHAEL HOUSE ’06, MissoulaLT. COL. GREGORY G. HULLA ’65, Bellevue, NESYDNEY MALOUF HULLA ’63, Bellevue, NEERIC ALAN KAEHLER ’97, Anchorage, AKTHOMAS J. KOVALICKY ’61, Stanley, IDJAMES A. LEWIS, J.D. ’77, HelenaBLAKE W. LUDWIG ’87, MissoulaSTACY M. MALONEY ’02, San FranciscoDIANE SHERRARD MOOTHART ’89, MissoulaSCOTT A. MOOTHART ’86, MissoulaCLAUDETTE MORTON, HelenaIVAN T. NELSON ’62, Bellevue, WABRUCE G. NORDSTROM ’69, Golden, COROGER F. SCHULZE JR. ’06, MissoulaSANDY SHEPPARD, MissoulaGEORGE JOHN STRATMAN ’68, M.A. ’70, Oakton, VAJOEL ANN GECK STUBER, M.Ed. ’83, HamiltonPRISCILLA A. SWANSON, M.S. ’76, Libertyville, ILSHELLEY TAYLOR ’97, Warren, OHCOLLEEN RUTHER TURNER ’89, WhitefishNIKKI WALTER ’91, Metuchen, NJSUZANNE SCHULTZ WILEY ’54, Bellevue, WA

NEW LIFETIME MEMBERS The following alumni and friends have made a commitment to the future of the UM Alumni Association by becoming lifetime members. You can join them by calling 877-862-5867 or by visiting our website: www.grizalum.com. The Alumni Association thanks them for their support. This list includes all new lifetime members through July 15, 2010.

College, where he is an associate professor of mathematics. Todd is the recipient of the 2010 Harry Joy Dunbaugh Award, which recognizes outstanding classroom teaching and is considered the highest honor bestowed upon an Illinois College faculty member. A student committee selects the recipient, with oversight from the dean of the college. Todd also received the 2010 Arthur Hallerberg Faculty Development in Mathematics Award. He has taught at the Jacksonville, Ill., college since 1999.MARGIE COOK STRAINER, M.Ed. ’01, writes from Kalispell, “I love UM, and I love the fact that we have four generations of UM students and staff in our family. My daughter, Ann Piersall ’80, is a Fulbright Scholar studying glaciers in Kyrgyzstan. You can read her blog at www.tienshanglaciers.blogspot.com. My father, Ed Cook, graduated from UM in 1936 and then went on to West Point. Ed’s father, Irwin

Cook, taught forestry at UM from 1923 until his death in 1936. Irwin and his wife, Mary Cook, have a bell in the bell tower–the Forestry Bell. Go Grizzlies!”ANNIE M. HIGGINS ’02 has garnered lots of Chicago-area press upon the release of her band Singing in the Abbey’s debut album, Wake Up, Sardis! An article in the Chicago Sun-Times describes their sound as “classical and pop with a touch of gothic” and Annie’s lead vocals as “seductive, comforting.” Newcity calls the album “a soundtrack to shadows in an old castle.” Annie says her UM social work major and music minor was “something sensible. Something I could use to deal with all the personalities you come across in the music business.” Listen to Singing in the Abbey on MySpace, YouTube, and www.singingintheabbey.com.JAYSON LAWFER ’02, Chicago, runs an art consulting business and online gallery he started

called The Nevica Project (www.thenevicaproject.com). Jayson lived in Rome from 2006 to 2008 and says his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree has been instrumental in developing his career as an artist, dealer, and collector. “I really needed a BFA to ignite my sense of what is ‘important’ art. My degree helped me make wiser decisions in

making art, collecting art, and in the artwork and artists that I represent in my business.” KATIE DELL JOHNSON ’03, Great Falls, has joined Davidson Cos. as a project manager. Katie previously was an acquisition manager with APMC in San Diego.CALEB GRAHAM PUTNAM, M.S. ’03, Sparta, Mich., is the Important Bird Areas

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Program coordinator for the Michigan Audubon Society and chairman

of the Michigan Bird Records Committee. A lifelong birder, Caleb’s most recent work involves research on shorebird molt and searching for ivory-billed woodpeckers for the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. He is co-author of Montana Birds, recently published by Lone Pine Publishing.CARL CHRISTOFFERSON ’05, Missoula, was named Montana’s first runner-up 2010 Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration. He is the owner of Lawns of Montana, which began with a business plan on a cocktail napkin in 2005 and now is a successful company with 12 employees providing lawn care, sprinkler installation, landscaping, parking lot sweeping, and snow removal services. KAILA HOPE STRONG ’05, is an Internet marketing coordinator and social media architect at Vertical Measures, an SEO link-building and website marketing firm in Phoenix, Ariz. When asked what was the greatest thing about being a Grizzly, Kaila responded, “Knowing that I got a great education, one that I use every single day of my life. Even though I’m not using my bachelor’s degree in political science, I know that the writing skills I utilize, the critical thinking, creativity, etc., were well-honed by the great teachers at UM.”

KACEY HARSHA MOLLOY ’05 and CONOR PATRICK MOLLOY ’08 are Peace Corps volunteers in Tetovo, Macedonia. Kacey writes, “I work as an English teacher and focus much of my time on introducing new teaching methodology to the teachers. Because they only have chalk and the textbook to work with, I focus on games and

interactive teaching and learning that don’t require many materials. I started

Kids’ Club, a program for children ages three to six to encourage creativity and basic English vocabulary. I also teach an English course for women twice a week, and I helped eight high school girls start a club, GLOW – Girls Leading Our World. Read more about GLOW and watch a video at sites.google.com/site/campglowmacedonia. Conor is a community development volunteer at the local municipality and with an NGO focused on youth development. He also serves on a Small-Project Assistance Committee, a joint USAID-Peace Corps committee that provides small USAID grants to

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Peace Corps volunteers and their communities through nonformal education.”JEFF BERMES, M.Ed. ’06, Roberts, is the new superintendent of schools for the Joliet School District. He previously was superintendent of the Roberts School District, where he served for five years. JUSTIN JAMES MADDISON, MBA ’06, Williston, N.D., is vice president for Business Services at Williston State College. Justin recently completed an eight-year enlistment in the Army National Guard. He and his wife, Patricia, moved to Williston four years ago. They have a one-year-old son, James. BRIANNE BURROWES ’07, Santa Monica, Calif., is a digital content associate at WONGDOODY, a marketing ideas agency. After three years at UM she left her position as editor-in-chief of the Montanan to pursue a

life in the advertising industry and says, “I’m really excited about the work our team is doing for our clients to break ground in the digital market. I’m particularly excited about a venture WD launched called CareerSparx. It’s an online course offered to

recent college graduates that teaches them the skills necessary to market themselves and land their dream job.” You can check out Brianne’s website, I Want Her Job, at www.iwantherjob.com.IAN CLARK ’07, La Grande, Ore., premiered his fifty-seven-minute film, Pool Room, at the Kansas City FilmFest in April. The fictional film

is about a reclusive young man emerging from his shell. “I wanted to focus on beauty that exists in [the] quiet and ordinary,” Ian told a reporter, “a story about someone who’s practically invisible, while also searching for

subtle humor in day-to-day situations.” A trailer and more information are online at www.poolroommovie.com. Ian earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography at UM, while spending six years making snowboard films. He is at work on his next project, a feature-length film

titled Country Story. ALLISON MAIER ’10 was hired in June by the Helena Independent Record as a city and county government reporter. Allison previously was editor of the Montana Kaimin and completed an internship at the Missoulian.


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BEN HOFFMAN ’06, Durango, Colo., won an Ironman triathlon July 24 in Lake Placid, N.Y. Ben swam 2.4 miles, biked 112 miles and ran 26.2 miles in 8 hours, 39 minutes and 34 seconds. It was his fourth Ironman and first win. In June he finished second at Ironman 70.3 Boise, just 10 seconds behind the winner. The victory qualified Ben for the Ironman World Championships in October in Hawaii. Ben began competing in triathlons in 2004. On his website, Ben says: “I was first exposed to the sport at The University of Montana in Missoula and quickly rose to the top of the ranks at the collegiate level. Since then I have moved back to my home state to train in Durango, Colo., one of the fitness meccas of the United States. Here I have great swimmers, bikers, and runners to push me to the limits in each of the triathlon disciplines.” Follow Ben at www.benhoffmanracing.com.

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What is her potential for discovery? What would you give to find out?For someone who never considered college an option, mother of three and UM student Teri Jo Lanoue has discovered that her choices are now limitless. When you estab-lish a planned gift with the UM Foundation, you are providing scholarships, choices and chances for more students to learn and grow. To learn more, contact Theresa Boyer, director of gift planning, at 800-443-2593 or visit www.supportum.org/plannedgiving.


’30sSALLY MCMURDO JOHNSON ’31, Goochland, VADOROTHY DEE MILLER SHUGART ’34, Medford, ORLEWIS EUGENE STEENSLAND ’34, Gig Harbor, WAJAMES A. WEST ’35, Scottsdale, AZFREDERICH W. SEARLES ’36, Fallon, NVPAUL B. STEINMAN ’36, Ventura, CAMARGARET RICKETTS ROBBINS DEBATES ’37, WhitehallJULIAN DOMINEK ’37, Fort Myers, FLMARYALYS MARRS FRISBEE ’37, WhitefishEDWIN GEORGE LEIPHEIMER ’37, ButteJOSEPH A. LUCIER ’37, HelenaALICE MCCLAIN ’37, BozemanJEANETTE GOCHENOUR SULLIVAN ’37, Sacramento, CALESTER N. ENGBRETSON ’38, LoloFRANK F. JESTRAB, J.D. ’38, Denver, COANN PICCHIONI GODLEY ’39, Fort Worth, TXHILDA NIEMEYER HARDESTY ’39, Yucca Valley, CARITCHIE M. TURNER ’39, Portland, OR’40sMARY JANE BRUST BASS ’40, Moorhead, MNRALPH ALLEN JACKSON ’40, HelenaLILLIAN CERVENKA KOLAR ’40, M.Ed. ’57, LewistownWILLIARD W. OLSON ’40, Locust Grove, VALEWIS I. PHILLIPS ’40, Portland, ORCARYL WOODBURY JONES STORTZ ’40, Escondido, CAHERMAN WILLIAM BANDEL ’41, Mountain View, CAWILLIS C. BLANCHETTE ’41, Shoreline, WAROBERT LEE “BOB” LONNEVIK ’42, ConradWILLIAM P. MUFICH ’42, J.D. ’48, Naples, FLEVELYN L. MAYER KING ’43, MissoulaJEAN FRAME STIENSTRA ’45, EnnisLEONA HALTER BURKETT ’46, Boise, IDROBERT W. NOTTI ’46, StevensvilleMARTHA DOYLE WHEELER ’46, FairviewGORDON HOLTE ’47, PlentywoodWILLIAM M. MARMONT ’47, Clarkston, WAJAY T. PLUMB ’47, Wenatchee, WAPATRICIA COVERDALE SCOTT ’47, Atlanta, GAJOHN CHRISTIAN SEIDENSTICKER III ’47, Twin BridgesGORDON E. NELSON ’48, Bowie, MD

ORVALL AUGUST NELSON ’48, Spokane, WAJAMES F. SENECHAL, J.D. ’48, Asheville, NCRICHARD J. WRIGHT ’48, Beaverton, ORSHIRLEY KREIS CRAFT ’49, Fairbanks, AKWALLY E. CRANSTON ’49, Spokane, Valley, WAPAUL HAVEN CRESAP, J.D. ’49, Adel, IANORMA DANIELS HARTSE ’49, Miles CityMARVIN J. SMITH, J.D. ’49, Great FallsDONALD EDWARD SWANZ ’49, Billings’50sWALTER ALBIN CASH ’50, MissoulaLEE CORK ’50, M.Ed. ’61, HonoluluSHIRLEY SUE HELMS DELAMATER ’50, GlendiveGEORGE B. FRASER ’50, ButteLOCEA ADA MACKEY FRAZIER ’50, Collinsville, MSROBERT LEROY KOLB ’50, Powell, WYJOHN L. LUGER ’50, Spokane Valley, WAELMER MATTHEW ”JAKE“ MAIN ’50, M.Ed. ’58, HaysARCHIE E. MCGLENN ’50, KalispellDALE F. MILLER ’50, HarlowtonMICHAEL SASSANO ’50, HelenaGEORGE H. VEITH JR., M.A. ’50, St. Paul, MNGERALD B. EFFING ’51, M.Ed. ’51, HelenaKLAS K. FENELL ’51, York, MEDONALD HARRIS REYNOLDS ’51, LaurelMARTIN H. WOLPERT ’51, Boise, IDDONNA BARR FUHS ’53, Spokane, WAORVILLE N. DODGE, M.Ed. ’54, PhoenixKENNETH LEROY KERSHNER ’54, StevensvilleBEVERLY PRAETZ PIETRYGA ’54, Highland, MIDONALD R. WELCH ’55, Henderson, NVBARBARA KEENAN FELLAND ’57, Tucson, AZTHOMAS JAMES FRASER ’57, BillingsWILLIAM D. NEVILLE ’57, Fresno, CASTANLEY SPRINGER, M.Ed. ’57, Juno Beach, FLJERRY L. MOHLER ’59, Sidney, NEVIRGIL CLARENCE YOUNG ’59, Missoula’60sFRED WATSON LUHMAN, J.D. ’60, ForsythRICHARD J. “DICK” TAHIJA ’60, ButteJOHN VERNON HONEY ’61, Salem, ORRICHARD ALAN MCMEEKIN ’61, ButteMARGIT CASTLE CUMMINGS ’62, M.Ed. ’65, Tucson, AZANDREW W. MUNSON ’63, Sacramento, CARAYMOND CURT COFFMAN ’64, Corvallis, OR FRANK W. SHAW ’64, Great FallsHOLT CORETTE ’65, MissoulaKARALEE STEWART KOPPANG ’66, Oregon City, ORJAMES H. MANN ’66, KalispellTHOMAS ANDREW ULBERG ’66, HelenaPATRICK MELVILLE MORRIS, M.A. ’67, Pinehurst, NCGARY P. BROCK ’68, Ammon, IDVICTOR J. CAMERON ’68, Orem, UTWILLIAM M. “BILL” KIRKPATRICK, J.D. ’68, ButteSUSAN NISSEN LERDAL ’68, M.P.A. ’80, Des Moines, IARONALD R. SKELTON’69, Corvallis

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door above your head, and there they are—the bells of Main Hall. Forty-seven dusty bronze bells. Each one sounds a six-note chord. Each one in perfect tune with the others. Each one connected by cables, wires, and bars to the clavier on the floor below. The clavier, with its beautifully curved wooden batons (keys) and full foot pedal keyboard, is the magical, organ-like instrument that triggers the music that has graced campus for more than fifty years.

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Each bell is embossed with a special seal that says “Montana State University”–UM’s official name from 1917 to 1965. The bells also sport memorial inscriptions. The 1,500-pound Student Bell, for instance, says, “I sound for the student spirit and tradition.”

Before the installation of the carillon, the Victory Bell was housed in the tower and rung to celebrate Grizzly football victories, often for hours. In 1947 UM President James McCain declared the bell could be rung for only one hour after each victory.

Nancy Cooper, the current carillonneur and School of Music faculty member, makes her way to the clavier each Tuesday through Friday, providing campus with its

Adoor above your head, and there they are—the bells of Main Hall. Forty-seven dusty bronze bells. Each one sounds a six-note chord. Each one in perfect tune with the others. Each one connected by cables, wires, and bars to the clavier on the floor below. The clavier, with its beautifully curved wooden batons (keys) and full foot pedal keyboard, is the magical, organ-like instrument that triggers the music that has graced campus for more than fifty years.

equipment are housed in Main Hall’s bell tower, constructed in 1897 with special footings for just such an instrument. The carillon bells, cast at the Royal van Bergen Bellfoundries of Heiligerlee, Holland, and the clavier were dedicated at Homecoming on October 18, 1953. Montana Power Co. presented the clavier in honor of its 400 employees who served in World War II and Korea. At that time UM’s carillon was one of the largest in the nation.

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THE BELLS!

traditional noon concert. (The tower bells also sound on the hour and half-hour, keeping campus folks attuned to the time day and night.) Her strong wrists and fingers form fists that pound the batons, her feet adding the deep tones of the larger bells with the pedals below.

The bells ranged in price from $100 to $2,000 in 1953, and they all cost about $16,000. Bells 48 and 49 are still awaiting purchase and dedication, and Cooper says they would give the carillon its intended full four-octave range. She estimates each bell would cost $100,000 in today’s dollars.

Cooper has played the carillon since 1992, yet never met her predecessor, John C. Ellis, for whom the bell tower is named. At UM’s Commencement on the Oval this past May, she was joined by Kevin Leiferman, her latest carillon student. He serenaded the new grads with “The Teddy Bears’ Picnic” at the close of the ceremony.

With the thousands of pieces of music written just for the carillon that Cooper has collected and the thousands of noontimes, weddings, and University ceremonies calling for its accompaniment, UM’s Memorial Carillon will surely continue to ring out its glorious melodies for years to come.

“FOR ALL THOSE WHO UPHOLD

THE DIGNITY OF THOUGHT AND

LEARNING”Presented by the faculty.

26 lbs, 8 inches wide, $150*

Presented by students and alumni of the Forestry School and

employees of the Forest Service in memory of (thirteen names,

seven of them UM alums) who lost their lives fighting the

Mann Gulch forest fire near Helena on August 5, 1949.

34 lbs, 8 inches wide, $185*

Presented by (fourteen Butte alumni who graduated from

UM in years ranging from 1919 to 1950).

83 lbs, 13.5 inches wide, $235*

Irwin Wycliffe Cook, 1884-1936Mary Gaylord Cook, 1886-1946891 lbs, 34 inches wide, $850* *1953 dollars

Irwin Wycliffe Cook, 1884-1936

THE STUDENT

BELL“I SOUND FOR THE

STUDENT SPIRIT AND TRADITION”

Presented by the Associated Students of UM 1,530 lbs, 41 inches wide,

$1,500*

“I SOUND FOR THE STUDENT SPIRIT AND TRADITION”

Presented by the Associated Students of UM 1,530 lbs, 41 inches wide,

$1,500*

THE BUTTE

ALUMNI BELL

THE MANN GULCH BELL

THE FACULTY

BELL

from 1919 to 1950).

ALUMNI

THE ALUMNI

BELL

“DEDICATED TO ALL

THOSE FORMER

STUDENTS OF THE

UNIVERSITY WHO

HAVE GIVEN THEIR

LIVES IN DEFENSE OF

THEIR COUNTRY.”

Presented by the Alumni Association

2,150 lbs, 46 inches wide,

$2,000*

“I SOUND FOR THE

AND TRADITION” Presented by the

$1,500*

FACULTY

Nancy Cooper, UM’s official carillonneur, has played the tower bells with this clavier since 1992.

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campus in 1953.

THE FORESTRY

BELL“TO THE

INSPIRATION AND

DEVOTION OF ALL

THOSE FORESTERS

WHOSE FIGHT FOR

CONSERVATION PROTECTS

OUR BIRTHRIGHT.”

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