Montanan Fall 2009

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The Guys of

GRIZ NATION

An inside look at the trek from UM to the NFL Featuring:

Colt Anderson, Colin Dow, Tuff Harris, Kirk Scrafford, Scott Gragg

Resident Rock Star: Pearl Jam Bassist Jeff Ament ‘85 How $62.2 Million In Research Funds Is Changing Your Life

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FALL 2009 Volume 26

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Rita Munzenrider ’83

EDITOR-in-chief

Brianne Burrowes ’07

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Pearl Jam bassist and UM alum Jeff Ament ’85 (far left) stands tall with bandmates (left to right) Eddie Vedder, Mike McCready, Stone Gossard, and Matt Cameron.

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Jacob Baynham ’07 Brenda Day ’95 Jennifer Sauer ’01 Cary Shimek Patia Stephens ’00, M.F.A. ’07 Ashley Zuelke ’09 Betsy Holmquist ’67, M.A. ’83 Jay Kettering ’82 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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By Kevin Van Valkenburg ’00 Breaking into professional football is just half the challenge for former Griz players. Find out what it’s like to play in the pros—from the first signing to retirement—and why Griz Nation will always be home.

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The Ideas Market

By Jacob Baynham ’07 In fiscal year 2008, UM received more than $62.2 million in research funds. The projects this money supports not only boost the Montana and local economies, but also promote research that could end up affecting your life in a significant way.

Jam Session

By Nate Schweber ’01 Jeff Ament ’85, bass player for Pearl Jam, shares his story of stratospheric success with one of the country’s premier rock bands—and explains why his Montana roots are so important in keeping him grounded.

DEPARTMENTS ON THE COVER: Former Griz players Colt Anderson (left) and Colin Dow (right) are just two UM athletes who signed with professional football teams this year.

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Letters Around the Oval UM Foundation About Alumni Artifacts

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“I must say (the article) took me back to my graduate school days at UM and the time I spent with my fellow students and professors flyfishing the streams and rivers around Missoula.”

Bill Cross M.S. ’68, Ph.D. ’70

RIVER RECOLLECTIONS

I read with interest the article by Daryl Gadbow about fly-fishing on the Bitterroot River. I must say it took me back to my graduate school days at UM (’66-’70) and the time I spent with my fellow students and professors fly-fishing the streams and rivers around Missoula.

Dick Ushijima, professor of virology, was an excellent fly-fisherman and taught me how to tie flies and fly cast. I spent many weekends in my backyard in the Rattlesnake trying to perfect fly casting. It was difficult, but I finally did it. Ushijima and I, along with Dick Faust, professor of microbiology, and several other graduate students spent many enjoyable hours at Rock Creek. The salmon fly hatch in late June was a great time, as was the spruce moth hatch that occurred in July. Faust and I floated a 10-mile stretch of the Clark Fork in the summer of 1970, after I had earned my Ph.D. and was getting ready to go on active duty in the Army.

The Blackfoot River also was one of our favorite locations and Russell Centanni (Ph.D. ’71) and I spent many hours chasing rainbows there. Fly-fishing is one of the best ways to relieve stress, as you have to focus solely on putting the fly in the correct location and watching for the strike!

These are some of the best times I spent with my teachers and friends, and the article brought them back to life.

I thought I would send this e-mail to let you know the “Fly-Fishing Lure” has long been a tradition at UM. Bill Cross M.S. ’68, Ph.D. ’70

Via e-mail A GRATEFUL CATCH

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full college scholarships to children of Montana soldiers who have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. This is a wonderful program.

In the caption of the photo of Dylan Hyland, who will be utilizing this program, it was reported that he is a junior at “Missoula’s Loyola High School.” In the 1970s Loyola and Sacred Heart Academy combined and became one school known as Loyola Sacred Heart High School. For all of us who attended LSH after this point we are proud to be graduates of Loyola Sacred Heart High School.

Eileen Conley Moore ’87

Missoula MORE THAN A FEELING

Thank you for putting together the article about the Foresters’ Ball in the spring 2009 issue of the Montanan! I was very excited to read up on the history, of which some details I already knew and some I didn’t.

The Montanan welcomes letters to the editor.

Please sign and include your graduating year or years of attendance, home address, and phone number or e-mail address.

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Send them to: Montanan Editor, 325 Brantly Hall, Missoula, MT 59812 or themontanan@umontana.edu.

Because of space limitations, we are not able to include all letters sent to us. Letters may be edited for length or clarity. While universities are places of discussion where good people do not always agree, letters deemed potentially libelous or that malign a person or group will not be published. Opinions expressed in the Montanan do not necessarily reflect those of The University of Montana.

As a forestry graduate and former Chief Push of the nintieth ball, the Foresters’ Ball has a very special place in my heart. I can even say the Foresters’ Ball influenced my personal life, as I married the Chief Push of the eighty-seventh ball, creating history as the first married couple who were both Chief Pushes.

Over the past seven years of my involvement with the Foresters’ Ball, I have felt that getting the word out about this unique event is essential to keeping the tradition alive. Thanks again for writing about an event that has been a big part of my life, as well as my husband’s life.

Let’s keep the ball going for another ninety-two years!

Leah Rediske (Jones) ’06 Joe Rediske ’05

Missoula COLLEGE OF TOMORROW?

I was surprised to see the UM College of Technology featured in the sidebar “UM’s College of Technology Fastest Growing MUS Unit” in the winter issue.

The facilities were decent when my mother attended the Missoula Vo-Tech in 1977. They were in mediocre condition when I attended the COT from 1996 to 1998, and I imagine it has only gotten worse in the last ten years. While I am thrilled that the COT is finally being recognized as a viable and valued member of the university system, the use of trailers for overflow offices and classrooms, as well as delaying construction of new facilities, only further portrays the COT as the “redheaded stepchild” of UM. As the unit that takes students from the classroom to the work force in two years or less, the College of Technology deserves better.

Deana M. (Nelson) Waters ’95 A.A.S ’98

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Notables | President‘s Corner | by the numbers | Griz Nation

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Apart from the percussion of the marching band, the boom of the gameday cannon, and the roar from WashingtonGrizzly Stadium, alumni on campus for Homecoming will find a familiar sound missing: the bells of Main Hall.

Renovations on one of the most recognizable and beloved buildings in Western Montana began in July and are expected to last through football season.

Restoration efforts will focus on the clock tower and roof in a $1.4 million state- and University-funded project. Construction crews will replace the roof, make masonry repairs, and build a web of iron structural supports inside the tower for seismic reinforcement.

The project aims to make crucial changes while maintaining the legendary look of the University’s cornerstone.

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Two New Deans Take Helms UM

Legal Education and Admission to the Bar. Russell is a graduate of the University of Kansas, where she earned bachelor’s degrees in liberal arts and education, a master’s in English literature, and her law degree.

Stephen Kalm became dean of visual and performing arts May 1 after serving as interim dean since the retirement of Shirley Howell a year earlier.

He was selected from a national search that brought three strong candidates to campus.

Engstrom says Kalm “has been an exceptional faculty member, and did excellent work while serving as interim dean.

We are entering an especially exciting time for the arts, with the new status as the College of Visual and Performing Arts and new leadership in the dean’s office.”

Kalm joined the UM faculty in 1994 and chaired the music department from 2002 to 2008. He is an awardwinning vocalist, opera singer, and music

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ushered in the new academic year with two new deans— one in the School of Law and one in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (formerly the School of Fine Arts).

Irma Russell, a legal scholar and national leader in environmental and energy law, became the law school’s first woman dean on July 1. She replaces E. Edwin Eck, who chose to step down and return to the law faculty after fourteen years as dean. A search committee selected Russell from five candidates who came to campus last spring.

“Professor Russell rates ‘outstanding’ in every category,” says UM Provost Royce Engstrom. “She is a well-regarded scholar in the field of environmental and energy law, a top-notch legal educator, and a respected leader capable of building upon the law school’s strengths.”

Russell came to UM from the University of Tulsa College of Law, where she was a professor and director of the National Energy-Environment Law and Policy Institute. She chairs committees in two American Bar Association sections: Environment, Energy, and Resources, and

Stephen Kalm

professor—performing in local, national, and international venues.

Kalm holds three degrees in vocal performance: a bachelor’s from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, a master’s from Queens College, and a doctorate from the City University of New York.

Main Hall, cont. from page 5 began upon the founding of UM in 1893.

UM architect and project manager Jerry Ballas says that this is the first major reconstruction project on the building’s exterior—an effort in

the works for the past few years.

President George Dennison notes the importance of taking steps now to preserve the premier UM building.

“Everyone knows The University of Montana by the

icon of ‘Main Hall,’ the popular reference to ‘University Hall,’” says Dennison. “We must act to protect the integrity of this historic treasure, the centerpiece of The University of Montana Historic District.”

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To do so, UM will replace two layers of wood shingles— the most recent dating from the 1970s—with shingles that look like weathered wood shakes but are made from recycled rubber. The high-tech shingles are similar to those used for renovations at the Daly Mansion in Hamilton and on Old Main at Montana State University in Bozeman.

Masonry crews plan to tackle brick deterioration on the clock tower and refinish parts of the granite entryway.

New structural supports will brace the interior of the tower from its top to the second floor.

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The President’s Corner

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Notable and Quotable Montana college sports fans can breathe easier.

The NCAA Executive Committee has adopted a policy relating to sports wagering and the conduct of NCAA championships that will allow future college play-off games to be held in Montana.

University of Montana President George Dennison says, “We appreciate the deliberate thoughtfulness of the NCAA Executive Committee in developing and adopting a policy that maintains the integrity of sporting events, while at the same time recognizing the gaming situation in the state of Montana.” The new policy outlines that no NCAA championship may be conducted in a state that allows gambling based upon single-game betting in any NCAA championship sport. The committee defined singlegame betting as wagering that involves either a money line or point-spread wager. Montana allows sports pools/pull tabs, and the state lottery runs a fantasy sports game for professional sports. These activities do not qualify as single-game betting under the policy.

UM signed a memorandum of understanding with the Dubai-based American University in the Emirates, paving the way for future collaboration, including student and faculty exchanges. AUE administrators contacted UM with the hope of forging a partnership, says Mehrdad Kia, associate provost for UM’s International Programs. He says AUE has particular interest in collaborating with UM’s School of Business Administration and College of Education and Human Sciences. UM, for its part, will be able to strengthen its programs in Middle Eastern studies and Arabic—fields of study that are seeing increased student interest, Kia says.

Bill Jones ’54, J.D. ’59, featured in the last issue of the Montanan for receiving the Montana Alumni Award at Charter Day 2009, was the subject of a profile in the July 2009 Mountain States edition of Super Lawyers magazine. The article, titled “An Organized Mind,” highlighted Jones’ career, as well as his knack for brevity in the courtroom. “… Even though a closing argument is short, if it appeals to tired jurors, then it’s the most meaningful thing,” Jones says in the pages of the magazine. This summer he celebrated fifty years as a trial lawyer at Missoula’s Garlington, Lohn & Robinson.

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his issue of the Montanan casts in bold relief the incredible diversity of talent of the people who constitute The University of Montana community, even if only for brief periods, while also emphasizing what they have in common. From the Griz athletes who have claimed their places in the NFL to the faculty researchers by and large responsible for the transformation of a liberal arts campus into a research university, success in realizing their dreams derived from their competitiveness whatever the odds. That same determination to achieve brought Jeff Ament from Big Sandy to Missoula to Seattle to the world and back again. We celebrate these attributes, in the full realization that the success of those attracted to the campus inspires others to follow. And why not? Every university, as the truism has it, consists of its students, staff, faculty, and alumni. In this regard, the stature of The University of Montana has risen with the accomplishments and achievements of the people who comprise it.

This tenacious striving for success characterizes the campus community and the University itself. We now rise to the greatest challenge of our time—returning the United States to world leadership in the educational attainment of its citizenry after having fallen within two decades to the second tier and being in danger of slipping to the third. We shall need the resourcefulness and competitiveness that explains the trajectory of the University as a graduate research university and the remarkable successes of our students and faculty. And, make no mistake, we must succeed, for failure will assure a future we Americans shall surely not select.

Consider that this country now stands as the only industrialized country of the world with a better educated older generation than the younger generation. In the human capital economy of today’s global society, we simply cannot compete with such a disadvantage.

We of The University of Montana intend to do our part to assure success in the national effort announced by President Barack Obama and endorsed by all national and educational leaders across the country. Doing so will require hard work and great concentration. We will begin by making certain that we use our available resources to maximum effectiveness in order to justify the investment the country must make in order to achieve the goal by the early part of the third decade of the twenty-first century. The commitment to public higher education explains how the United States attained world educational leadership during an earlier era, and that same commitment combined with the will to excel will return the nation to that status.

George M. Dennison, ’62, ’63 President and Professor of History

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hree exceptional UM graduates have been selected to receive the University’s 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award.

They are Leon Billings ’59, president of Leon G. Billings LLC, a consulting firm that designs public policy strategies on issues before Congress and advises clients on political matters and a broad range of environmental, energy, health, and safety legislation; William Veazey ’70, MBA ’75, will receive the award posthumously. When he died in May 2008, Veazey was senior vice president, CFO, and board member of Cargill Inc., a Minneapolisbased global provider of food, agricultural, and risk management products and services; and James Wylder ’51, who retired in 1986 as president and CEO of Great Falls Coca-Cola Billings Veazey Bottling Company.

Billings, a Montana native who now lives in Bethany Beach, Del., has a lengthy history of public service at the local, state, and national level.

He served twelve years in the Maryland House of Delegates and drafted federal environmental legislation that included the landmark Clean Air Act of 1970, the Clean Water Act of 1972, and their 1977 amendments. Billings served as executive assistant to Secretary of State Edmund Muskie and has held numerous leadership roles in the Democratic Party. He is nationally recognized as an authority on environmental issues and is dedicated to the preservation of the natural environment.

While at UM, Veazey, a Butte native and graduate of Missoula’s

Hellgate High School, was honored with the Legion of Valor Bronze Cross for Achievement for exemplary service in the Army ROTC program and was a Distinguished Military Graduate.

He began his career as an accountant in Minneapolis and with financial management jobs in the Cargill Corn Milling Division in the United States and Europe. In 1989 he became CFO of Cargill Europe, based in London. Veazey returned to Minneapolis in 1992 and was elected to the company’s top financial post in 2005 and to the board of directors in 2007.

Throughout his career, he served as mentor to many young employees in the worldwide Cargill network.

In twenty-five years under Wylder’s management, Great Falls Coca-Cola Wylder Bottling Company’s sales increased from $250,000 to $16 million, and case sales increased from 175,000 to 3 million. His territory included counties from Malta to Libby, Glacier Park to Cascade, and Flathead Valley to the Bitterroot.

After Wylder’s acquisition of four adjacent bottling operations, his Coca-Cola franchise territory was the largest in Montana. Wylder retired from Coca-Cola in 1986 and began a second career in photography. He has demonstrated exceptional commitment to the Great Falls community through his volunteer work and advocacy for a variety of area organizations. He also has been an active supporter of UM, and his daughter says he “probably hasn’t missed a Grizzly football game in more than twenty years.”

WHERE’S YOUR GRIZ BEEN? proudly wear their Griz shirts during a trip to The Great Wall of China during May 2009. “We traveled with a group of one hundred folks from the greater Flathead Valley and visited Beijing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Shanghai,” Kimberlee writes. “We were proud to show our Montana Grizzly allegiance from China!”

Congratulations, Bob and Kimberlee. You’ve won a $50 gift card for use at 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: themontanan@umontana.edu.

Winners will see their winning 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 with the UM or Griz logo clearly visible.

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UM Presents Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photo Display

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he largest and most comprehensive There are 143 exhibition of Pulitzer Prize-winning photos featured photographs ever shown in the United in ”Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer States opened in August at the Montana Prize Photographs,“ Museum of Art & Culture and the Gallery on campus through of Visual Arts at UM. October 23.

“Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs” features 143 color and black-and-white photographs of some of the world’s most iconic images. Included are a variety of photographs of pivotal moments in history, politics, sports, war, and much more. The exhibition is at MMAC’s Paxson and Meloy galleries, located in the Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center at UM, and at the Gallery of Visual Arts, located on the first floor of the University’s Social Science Building, through Friday, October 23.

The large-scale prints of the winning photographs are organized chronologically, beginning in MMAC’s Meloy Gallery, then proceeding to the museum’s Paxson Gallery, and finally ending with the most current images in the Gallery of Visual Arts.

Joe Rosenthal’s 1945 winning photograph of the raising of the American flag at Iwo Jima, Babe Ruth’s retirement in 1948 by Nat Fein, and the attack on the World Trade Center are just some of the many historic moments from around the world captured on film.

Robert H. Jackson’s 1963 photo of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald is one indelible image from the exhibition.

Another is a family’s unbridled joy in greeting a father returning from a prisoner of war camp in 1973.

Only two Pulitzer Prizes are given to the millions of photographs seen in newspapers each year—one for spot or breaking news and the other for feature photography. The winning photographs may be black-and-white or color and may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence, or an album. The UM exhibition features every Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph since 1942, the first year the prize was awarded.

“Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs” was developed by the Washington, D.C.,-based Newseum, the interactive museum of news.

NEW BOOK SHARES HISTORY OF GRIZZLY FOOTBALL Montana Grizzlies fans now can relish

the football program’s storied past with a new book from Whitman Publishing.

The University of Montana Football Vault: The History of the Grizzlies tells the story of the team from its inception in 1897 through 2008, when the Griz made it to the national championship finals in Chattanooga, Tenn. Whitman Publishing has chronicled dozens of the most celebrated collegiate football and basketball programs in the nation with its College Vault series, but The History of the Grizzlies marks the first time it has featured a school from the Big Sky Conference.

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Longtime Grizzly announcer Mick Holien recounts the history of Griz football alongside historical photographs, old newspaper clippings, game programs, and buttons. The book also features a foreword by Don Read and an afterword

by Bobby Hauck.

In March, UM asked fans to bring their original Griz memorabilia to the Adams Center, where Whitman representatives scanned and photographed the items for inclusion in the book. Dozens of supporters answered the call, including a handful of teammates who played for the Griz in the 1940s and showed up to share their collectables. Others mailed

Federal funding received by the Montana Safe Schools Center and UM’s Office of Public Safety to improve the University’s emergency planning

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in game programs, old tickets, and previously unpublished photographs.

One Griz fan brought in his stepfather’s letter blanket. Additional material was mined from UM’s athletic department and University archives. The result is a “scrapbook-style” book which weighs nearly five pounds and features replica memorabilia that readers can remove from pockets on the pages.

The University of Montana Football Vault: The History of the Grizzlies, which has a suggested retail price of $49.95, will hit stores in September.

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“WE ARE EACH THE LOVE OF someone’s life,” begins the novel selected as UM’s First-Year Reading Experience for incoming freshmen this fall.

New students are pondering that opening statement together this semester as they read and discuss The Confessions of Max Tivoli. The novel, written by UM graduate Andrew Sean Greer ’96, is a haunting, Cori Smith, a senior in music education, magical tale of models the new Grizzly Marching Band reverse aging, uniform, which was unveiled at the love, and loss September 5 season opener at home. that rocketed to the top of — best-seller lists after its 2004 release.

Number of practice hours The novel received numerous awards Written in an intimate first-person during the regular season. and was lauded by critics, who called voice, Confessions tells the heartbreaking Approximate number of years it “enchanting” (John Updike in The story of Max, who was born in turn-ofthe band has marched, but New Yorker), “dazzling” (The New York the-twentieth-century San Francisco with - various organizations have served as Times), and “a rich and mesmerizing the mind of a newborn but the physical - pep bands since UM’s inception. fable” (People). appearance of a seventy-year-old man.

UM’s First-Year Reading Experience He is further cursed with knowing the Number of members unites new students on their shared year of his death: 1941. expected this year. journey through a chosen book with As Max grows simultaneously older opportunities for discussion, a freshman and younger, he struggles to live by his The growth rate percentage writing contest, and a campus visit by mother’s well-intended but deceitful of the band since UM’s last - football championship in 2001. the author. rule: “Be what they think you are.” He Greer earned a master of fine arts falls in love with a neighbor girl, Alice, Approximate number of times degree from UM’s Creative Writing and because she doesn’t recognize him the band played “Up With Program. He will return to campus in subsequent encounters, he gets three - Montana” during the regular season up October 21 to present a seminar opportunities over the course of his - to the championship game in 2008. and lecture for the first-year reading lifetime to try to win her heart. experience program. The events begin at Number of years the band 2:10 P.M. and 7:30 P.M., respectively, in used the previous uniforms. the University Theatre, and are open to Number of things to think about the public. simultaneously while marching: - breathing, posture, memorized music, - playing, point spots, other marchers, - keeping time, and listening musically.

The University of Montana’s cartoon bear.

In the last issue of the Montanan, we asked Number of students who spent readers to submit captions interpreting their entire college career with - the band as of last spring.

Grizwald’s actions in a funny way. This issue’s winning caption was sent in by The percentage of nonCHARLES KING ’49. Congratulations, Charles, music majors in the band. you’ve won a Griz stadium blanket.

Stay tuned! In the winter issue of Number of songs learned in a -the Montanan, a new cartoon featuring season.

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Facetime: Sherry Jones ’06

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hen Random House agreed last year to publish Sherry Jones’ honors thesis— a fictional account of the Prophet Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha—her spirits soared. But the publisher reneged on The Jewel of Medina after a professor of Islamic history at The University of Texas claimed in 2008 that the book could incite violence by radical Muslims.

U.S.-based Beaufort Books picked up the novel and released it last October. Jones’ book remains unavailable, however, in the United Kingdom, where her publisher was attacked by arsonists last fall. The book’s sequel, The Sword of Medina, will hit store shelves this October.

1. What’s your typical day like?

My typical day consists of either feeling exhilarated because I’m getting to do something I really love, or feeling cranky because I didn’t get time to do the thing I really loved that day.

2. People ask if you fear for your wellbeing, but you say you’re more afraid that the word about your books won’t get out there? Why?

That’s right. I’m very concerned for the future of free speech in the Western world. I grew up in the Cold War and learned all about the evils of totalitarian government. And the one that resonated in me the most was not being able to speak freely.

3. What’s your perspective on selfcensorship?

We should strive to be sensitive to other people’s feelings. That’s the golden rule. But if we lose our ability to criticize, civilization doesn’t progress. We need to be able to question, to discuss, to disagree, to dissent.

4. At what point do you think that writing ideas like those in The Jewel of Medina will be mainstreamed? Will they?

Every time a project is challenged and goes forth anyway, it makes it less likely that similar projects will be challenged. When people read about The Jewel of Medina, the self-censorship by Random House, and the arson attacks in Great Britain—it makes www.umt.edu/montanan

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the entire Muslim community look bad, even though most Muslims are peace-loving, God-loving people. I think that moderate Muslims are speaking out more and more, and extremists are finding that protesting a book, a play, or a work of art doesn’t resonate the way it used to.

5. How difficult was it to blend a Western point of view with a Middle-Eastern subject?

One of the main challenges was getting the language down, and to do that I studied Arabic two years at the University. And, it’s hard to know how anyone thought back in the seventh century, no matter what culture.

6. What was your primary drive in writing your novels?

My impetus for research was having learned after September 11 of the way women were oppressed under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. I wanted to find out if Islam was a religion that was oppressive to women or not, and why. I found that it’s not Islamic to be oppressive, so I wanted to share that.

7. What about you makes you want to tell stories about notable women?

I’m just so passionate about women and women’s equality. Maybe it’s because when I was a kid, I noticed that whenever I talked, my father would often interrupt me, as if I hadn’t been speaking. Maybe I’m still trying to be heard.

8. How did your education at UM help you in your career?

9. Through writing The Jewel of Medina and weathering its criticism, what was your biggest trial?

The biggest challenge for me was finding the strength within myself to exhibit courage. I read somewhere once that we are born with all of the tools we need to survive in the world, but I didn’t believe it until this controversy came along and I had to endure so much hatred, hostility, and criticism—not only from offended Muslims but also from Islamophobes.

10. You went from wanting to be a writer, to thinking it might be better to get an engineering degree, and finally being able to pursue what you really want to do. Do you have advice for people on following their dreams?

Never stop believing in yourself. You’ve nothing to lose by trying and everything I wanted to write novels, but I never knew to gain by persevering and believing in what I wanted to write until I read about yourself. I grew up in small towns, on Air Aisha and Muhammad’s other wives. The Force bases; my parents didn’t have any creative writing workshop . . . gave me money. Nobody in my family had gone a lot of confidence in my ability to write to college. If I can be a published author, fiction. It improved my anyone can fulfill It doesn’t stop here! writing in every way. My their dream, too.

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ontana Grizzlies football coach Bobby Hauck traded the SprinTurf of WashingtonGrizzly Stadium for the sandy deserts of Afghanistan for ten days in July while visiting U.S. troops as part of a moraleboosting mission.

Hauck was invited on the trip last spring. He traveled with University of Idaho coach Robb Akey, James Madison University coach Mickey Matthews, Rice University coach David Bailiff, and Army assistant coach Chris Smeland. But Hauck found the troops needed only a little boost—if any at all. “It shocked me almost to a person how enthused they were to be doing their job over there,” he says.

The group flew into Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan for the first half and up to Bagram air base just north of Kabul for the second portion of the trip. Both sites are military hot spots that frequently see action. While staying at Bagram, an active combat zone, Hauck heard incoming rockets, but says he never questioned his personal

safety. “There is no Hauck (left) stands doubt you’re in a with a Missoula war zone,” Hauck soldier during says. “But I never felt his recent trip to uncomfortable. I felt Afghanistan. safe with our troops and their abilities.”

Hauck’s goal when he met with troops was simple: Look them in the eye and let them know he appreciates them and their efforts. The troops make it possible for those of us in the United States to have a normal life here while they fight the war on terror over there, he says. Though he did talk football with Griz fans and Montanans, one thing those he met with wanted to discuss was the media coverage the war receives.

“I spoke to many serving and I would say nearly 500 advised me to ignore the media reports of the war,” Hauck says.

“They (the media) only focus on the few negative, unsuccessful missions.”

They rarely—if ever—focus on the many military successes, he says. And after spending time in Afghanistan, Hauck says, he agrees with the troops.

Photo Courtesy of Bobby Hauck

Coach Hauck Visits U.S. Troops In Afghanistan

Hauck comes from a family of military men. His late father, Robert Sr., served in the Marine Corps and his uncle, Tom, an assistant coach with the Griz, was in UM’s ROTC program and later served in Vietnam. Hauck says because of this he always was intrigued by the armed forces and considered joining when he graduated from college in 1988. What happened? “Don Read offered me a coaching job instead,” he says. (Hauck served as an assistant under Read at UM during the ’88-’89 season.)

After his trip you can be sure of one thing: Hauck appreciates the men and women fighting abroad so that everyone in the United States can maintain their freedom—and play a little football.

Griz Hoopsters Go International

WEAR THE BEAR EVERY FRIDAY Griz Nation, a new tradition starts now.

Fans, alums, and followers of Grizzly Athletics and all things UM are asked to show their spirit by wearing UM apparel to work, school, or anywhere else on Fridays.

The first official Wear the Bear—Paint Montana Maroon Friday was September 4, which coincided with College Colors Day, an annual celebration dedicated to promoting the spirit and traditions that make the college experience great.

UM officials hope that Wear the Bear Fridays will become a custom that marches on long after College Colors Day.

TWO MONTANA BASKETBALL STANDOUTS are going international.

Former Grizzly forward Jordan Hasquet and four-time honorable mention all-American Mandy Morales are both living in Europe as they begin their careers as professional athletes.

Hasquet left for Basel, Switzerland, in mid-August to play for Starwings Basket Regio Basel.

He entertained offers from several other European teams before making the decision to play for the Swiss team. The 6-foot-8 ½-inch hoopster will play power forward for the Starwings.

Morales will play for Apollon Ptolemaidos in the Greek A1 league. She accepted their offer in

July after weighing her options for more than a month.

The Billings native made the big move overseas on Aug. 31 and immediately began practicing with the team. The season begins at the end of September.

In early August Morales—who had never set foot in Europe before arriving at camp—says she was anxious to arrive, establish a rapport with her new teammates, and explore her new home.

“Being in a different country is going to be a shock to me,” she says.

But Morales isn’t leaving her home state for good.

“I will come back to Missoula during the off-season,” she says. “I love it here.”

Spoken like a true Grizzly.

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GRIZZLY SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION UPCOMING EVENTS: GSA TAILGATE– ALL HOME FOOTBALL GAMES (Open to the public– Located NW of North Endzone Entrance) October 16, 2009 Grizzly Sports Hall of Fame Banquet Sponsored by State Farm Insurance Hilton Garden Inn– Missoula 6:00 PM Social– 7:00 PM Dinner $30 per person October 30, 2009 4th Annual Western Montana Wine Festival Sponsored by Summit Beverage Hilton Garden Inn– Missoula 7:00 PM– 10:00 PM $50 per person March 14, 2010 Statewide GSA Poker Shootout Sponsored by Century Gaming– Championship Round Satellite Tournaments around the state beginning in January, 2010 Championship Round– Missoula, MT Buy-in $250/ Re-buys available June 11, 2010 30th Annual Conoco Grizzly Golf Classic For more information about GSA Events or to purchase tickets, please call 406-243-6481 or visit our website at www.gogriz.com.

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Colt Anderson (left) and Colin Dow (right) both were signed to NFL teams this year. Anderson will play for the Minnesota Vikings.

Dow’s career with the Cincinnati Bengals ended before it began when he learned a back problem would prevent him from playing with the team.

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THROUGH THRILLS AND TRIALS IN THE NFL, GRIDIRON GREATS FIND FAMILY

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ome nights, after a long day of fishing or working in his garden, Kirk Scrafford will fall asleep and dream, ever so briefly, about football.

It’s not the NFL he dreams of, even though his nine-year career as an offensive lineman with the Cincinnati Bengals, the Denver Broncos, and the San Francisco 49ers is what earned him the quiet, peaceful life he’s living now on an 85-acre piece of land nestled in the Bitterroot Valley between Lolo and Florence.

Kirk Scrafford photo courtesy of Kirk Scrafford

To Scrafford, the NFL was a business: lucrative, competitive, exhausting, and thrilling. But in the end, just a business, as ruthless as the next. When he decided the game had abused his body a bit too much, he was done with it, content to walk away even though he probably could have kept playing, and there have been no lingering questions that his decision was rash.

In his dreams, however, Grizzly football will occasionally appear, even though this fall will mark twenty years since he put on a Grizzly helmet. In describing this strange phenomenon, Scrafford can’t help but laugh at himself. There is a playfulness in his voice that, on the phone, makes him sound like he might still be a big goofy teenager.

“Every once in a while, I dream that somebody tells me I have an extra year of eligibility and I’m going back to play,” Scrafford says. “But in the dream, I always end up looking for my uniform, or looking for my shoes, and I can’t find them and I’m panicked. I hear it’s pretty common.”

Grizzly football, to Scrafford and countless others, is a family—a big, messy, diverse, loyal family that is constantly evolving, but also forever remaining fundamentally the same.

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As is often the case with big families, there is no easy way to tell their entire story.

There are too many roads to travel, and too many tales to digest.

But you can get a sense of some of it if you’re willing to pause, just for a moment at each generation, and listen to the stories.

Every generation of Grizzly football dating back to the 1920s has produced a handful of NFL players—some of them Pro Bowlers and many of them journeymen. And while Scrafford doesn’t quite represent the genesis of that lineage, he’s darn close. It was, after all, his sophomore year in 1986 that ushered in the modern era

Kirk Scrafford prepares to attack an opponent during his third year playing for the San Francisco 49ers in 1997.

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Then and Now:

GRIZ NATION TO THE PROS There are ninety-five former Griz dating back to 1922 who have parlayed their college football success into careers in the professional football arena. Below is a breakdown of those players and the teams they signed with since 1960.

Please Note: *Signed as free agent; # Active at press time

John Lands, 1960, Indianapolis Warriors Gary Schwertfeger, 1961, British Columbia Lions Bob O’Billovich, 1962, Ottawa Rough Riders Terry Dillon, 1963, Minnesota Vikings Mike Tilleman, 1964, Chicago Bears Bryan Magnuson, 1967, Washington Redskins

some of the best defensive ends of his era. A persistent neck injury eventually bothered him enough that he decided to retire after the 1997 season with San Francisco, but midway through 1998, his 49er teammates talked him into coming back for one more playoff run.

Scrafford was in charge of blocking Reggie White on the final play when Steve Young threw his game-winning touchdown pass to Terrell Owens to beat the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Wild Card game.

“Everybody remembers that catch, but people forget (Owens) dropped about five passes before that,” Scrafford says. “If he’d have caught those five passes, it wouldn’t

to Grizzly games on the radio, and he keeps in touch with several of his old teammates.

He tries to take his daughters, ages ten and eight, to a couple of games a year, in part because he wants to show them where their father came from.

“I think they like watching the mascot more than the football,” Scrafford says.

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n 2006, Scott Gragg was checking his e-mail. He noticed that his old high school coach in Silverton, Oreg., had sent him a note, letting Gragg know he was resigning.

It was one of those moments in life that seems important only in retrospect.

“I deleted it from my Scott Gragg talks to his inbox, and I didn’t think players, the Silverton much about it,” Gragg says.

Foxes, after the team won “But the truth is, it never a playoff game against really left my mind.”

Oregon's Hillsboro High At 6-foot-8 and 320 School in 2008. pounds, Gragg was one of the biggest, and best, offensive linemen ever to wear a Griz uniform. He was drafted in the second round by the New York Giants in 1995, and when the e-mail arrived, he had just finished his eleventh season in the NFL, a oneyear stint with the New York Jets.

“I started thinking about what the rest of have come down to that last play.” my career would look like—a series of oneScrafford spends most of his time year deals, having to move my wife and kids outdoors these days, fishing one of the to different areas of the country,” Gragg many ponds and creeks on his land and says. “Suddenly, it made more sense to go hunting white-tailed deer. He works in his somewhere my wife and I were familiar garden often, mostly because he enjoys the serenity of it. Occasionally, he likes to listen with, where we felt comfortable.”

Dave Urie, 1969, Houston Oilers Willie Postler, 1972, British Columbia Lions Steve Okoniewski, 1972, Atlanta Falcons Roy Robinson, 1972, Saskatchewan Roughriders Barry Darrow, 1974, Cleveland Browns Walt Brett, 1975, Atlanta Falcons (4th Round) Ron Rosenberg, 1975, Cincinnati Bengals (13th Round) Greg Harris, 1975, New York Jets Doug Betters, 1977, Miami Dolphins Terry Falcon, 1977, New England Patriots Greg Anderson, 1979, Montreal Tim Hook, 1979, Saskatchewan Roughriders Carm Carteri, 1979, Ottawa Rough Riders Guy Bingham, 1980, New York Jets (10th Round) Pat Curry, 1982, Seattle Seahawks* Rocky Klever, 1982, New York Jets (9th Round)

Photos of Scott Gragg courtesy of Scott Gragg

of Grizzly football with the introduction of Washington-Grizzly Stadium.

“When we used to play at Dornblaser Stadium, we’d be lucky to get 1,000 people.

A lot of them would put bags over their heads because we weren’t very good,” Scrafford says, laughing. “We would change into our uniforms someplace on campus and then be bused over before the game.

I remember we had a little hut next to the field where we went for halftime. To see how huge it is now, to see them filling up that stadium every week with all those people, for me, it’s just amazing.”

The stadium isn’t the only thing that’s changed over the years. Scrafford was 210 pounds when he graduated from Billings West High School, and throughout his NFL career, he rarely weighed more than 275. During his rookie year with the Bengals, his first start came on the road against the Los Angeles Raiders and Raiders defensive end Howie Long, a future Hall of Famer.

“I remember Howie said to me, ‘Shouldn’t you be playing baseball instead?’” Scrafford says.

“LA was an intimidating scene in those days. Everyone in the stands looked like they’d just gotten a ticket out of jail. There were more fights in the stands than there were on the field.”

Scrafford, though, was a fighter with superb technique, and over the course of his career, he regularly held his own against

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Rich Burtness, 1982, Dallas Cowboys (12th Round) Mike Hagen, 1982, Seattle Seahawks* Mickey Sutton, 1983, Pittsburgh Maulers* Brian Salonen, 1984, Dallas Cowboys (10th Round) Mike Rice, 1987, New York Jets (8th Round) Brent Pease, 1987, Minnesota Vikings (11th Round) Larry Clarkson, 1988, San Francisco 49ers (8th Round) Pat Foster, 1988, Los Angeles Rams (9th Round) Tim Hauck, 1989, New England Patriots* Jay Fagan, 1989, Washington Redskins* Kirk Scrafford, 1989, Cincinnati Bengals* Matt Clark, 1990, British Columbia Lions Mike Trevathan, 1990, British Columbia Lions Brad Lebo, 1992, Cincinnati Bengals* Sean Dorris, 1992, Houston Oilers* Todd Ericson, 1994, Indianapolis Colts*

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He told the Jets he was retiring, dusted off his UM math degree, and applied for his temporary teaching license with an eye on getting his master’s. In a relatively short time, the biggest offensive lineman in Grizzly football history became the biggest high school football coach in Oregon history.

“I think whenever you feel like you have a responsibility to pass on the things you’ve learned to the next generation, it’s going to be a big determining factor in what you choose to do,” says Gragg, who is now entering in his fourth year as the head coach of the Silverton Foxes. “When you work in a field where the motivation to play is more out of passion than incentive, it’s a lot of fun to be a part of that process.”

Much of Gragg’s football career feels like a blur. The important stuff remains, like the friendships, the emotions, and the humorous anecdotes that have been

Gragg prepares to block a Philadelphia Eagles opponent while playing for the San Francisco 49ers in 2002.

“It’s like it was yesterday. You end up talking about this play or that play, and it’s like you never left. I think that says something about our group of guys.” told and retold so often at weddings and reunions that he and his teammates can recite the punch lines by heart. But football memories are difficult to pin down.

“I got down to watch the Griz play Portland State last year, and I ran into so many guys I played with,” Gragg says. “It’s like it was yesterday. You end up talking about this play or that play, and it’s like you never left. I think that says something about our group of guys.”

Gragg realizes too that he represents an era of Grizzly football that no longer feels

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familiar: the pre-national championship days. The year after he graduated, Dave Dickenson and Andy Larson helped forever change the expectations of Grizzly fans with a victory over Marshall in the I-AA national title game.

“I still felt like I was an integral part of it, the same way I feel like I’m a part of it now, fifteen years removed,” Gragg says.

“When I played, the program was just starting to become the dynasty that it is now. So you realize you’ve contributed to an ongoing legacy.”

Chase Raynock, 2000, New Orleans Saints* Jeremy Watkins, 2000, New York Giants* Jimmy Farris, 2001, San Francisco 49ers* Leif Thorsen, 2001, British Columbia Lions (1st Round) Thatcher Szalay, 2002, Cincinnati Bengals* Calvin Coleman, 2002, New York Giants* Drew Miller, 2002, Detroit Fury* Etu Molden, 2002, Chicago Rush* Spencer Frederick, 2002, New Orleans Saints* Dylan McFarland, 2003, Buffalo Bills (7th Round) Jon Skinner, 2003, San Diego Chargers* Chris Snyder, 2003, Detroit Lions* Justin Green, 2004, Baltimore Ravens (5th Round)# Andy Petek, 2004, Hamilton Tiger Cats Cory Procter, 2005, Detroit Lions*# Craig Ochs, 2005, San Diego Chargers*

These days, Gragg stalks the sidelines, trying to build his own legacy. He says he hopes there is a little bit of Don Read, a little Steve Mariucci, and a touch of Dan Reeves in his coaching style. The Foxes have improved each of the three years Gragg’s been in charge, and Silverton won two games in the state playoffs in 2008.

“I still have a long way to go,” he says. “The way I look at it is, for twenty years I was responsible for getting myself ready to play on a weekly basis. Now, I’m responsible for getting one hundred kids ready. . . . I remember, my first week in the NFL, the other offensive linemen and I were watching film, and my position coach was criticizing me a bit. He asked me why I played the game. I said, ‘Because I love it.’

He told me, ‘Not anymore. Now it’s a job.’

I disagree with him. I still feel that way.”

Levander Segars, 2005, Montreal Allouettes Willie Walden, 2005, Kansas City Chiefs* Trey Young, 2005, Calgary Stampeders# Brad Rhoades, 2006, Tennessee Titans* Tuff Harris, 2007, Miami Dolphins*# Josh Swogger, 2007, Kansas City Chiefs* Ryan Bagley, 2008, Saskatchewan Roughriders* Kroy Biermann, 2008, Atlanta Falcons (5th Round)# Cody Balogh, 2008, Chicago Bears*# Dan Carpenter, 2008, Miami Dolphins*# Lex Hilliard, 2008, Miami Dolphins (6th Round)# Colin Dow, 2009, Cincinnati Bengals Colt Anderson, 2009, Minnesota Vikings# J.D. Quinn, 2009, Miami Dolphins Cole Bergquist, 2009, Saskatchewan Roughriders#

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through the snow-capped mountains of Russia? Other than a brief vacation to attend the weddings of former teammates, that’s been Harris’ life in recent months.

“I’ve been doing all the training I possibly can,” Harris says. “I went to Wyoming with some family and did a lot of high-elevation running and lifting rocks and trees. You can really tell the difference up there. You really get lightheaded.”

Regardless of what happens to Harris the rest of his career, he already has made an impact back home on the Crow Reservation. When the Grizzlies sign American Indian players in the future, it will be, in part, because of Tuff Harris.

“I was always so focused on getting on the field and playing, I didn’t ever realize the importance of it,” Harris says. “To my knowledge, there’s never been a Crow or Cheyenne who has played in the NFL.

His name was Colt Anderson, and he and Dow were about to become as close as brothers.

“Once you set those things in motion, they’re pretty tough to stop,” Dow says. “As time went on, I realized how right my dad was. It’s crazy how close we’ve become. It’s funny, but I remember telling my mom that friends I made in high school I’d never forget and we’d always be real tight. She looked at me and said, ‘I hope you’re right.’

I can’t remember half those guys now. It’s the guys you meet in college, when you figure out who you’re going to be—that’s who you really are.”

To bring this family story full circle, it’s essential to pause, one last time, in the present.

Anderson and Dow, who led the Grizzlies to the national championship game in 2008, spent the spring and

Photo of Tuff Harris courtesy of the Tennessee Titans

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uff Harris was seven years old, scraping up his knees on the dirt roads of St. Xavier, when he first started dreaming of an NFL career. He and his brother, Jay, would collect football cards and spend hours playing catch in front of his grandparents’ house.

“We grew up in a town of about thirty people, so there were no neighborhood kids to play with us,” Harris says. “I’d snap the ball and run, and he’d throw it to me, then we’d line up and do it again.”

Unlike so many American Indian kids he knew, basketball didn’t grab hold of his heart and refuse to let go. It was football—its speed, its strategy, and the ferocious beauty of the game—that called to him. Didn’t matter that there were only thirteen kids on his high school team in Colstrip his senior year. He was always one of the fastest players on the field, no matter who he lined up against. He decided he was going to ride that dream until it bucked him off, the same way he learned to break horses growing up.

The reality of the NFL, however, is that sometimes talent and hard work aren’t enough to provide security. After a stellar four-year career as a defensive back with the Grizzlies, where he also was one of the most electric kick returners in the country, Harris signed with the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted free agent in 2007.

He didn’t play much, but learned plenty.

“As a kid, I always thought that if you were the best player, and the hardest worker, you’d make it every time,” Harris says. “But you realize that if a guy is getting paid, he’s going to play. It’s a business. It’s not always the coach’s decision whether you’re on the field or not. Even if you’re playing well and working hard, you never know how they’re crunching numbers in the front office.

You can’t get caught up in that. It was an important lesson to learn for me.”

When the Dolphins cut Harris, he had a brief stint with the New Orleans Saints before getting cut again and signing with the Tennessee Titans. He made it on the active roster last year, and even saw some time in the AFC divisional playoff game against the Baltimore Ravens, but he knows he’ll be fighting for a roster spot once again when camp begins. It’s unlikely, however, that he’ll be competing against anyone with a similar off-season workout. Remember Rocky Balboa training to fight Ivan Drago by marching

“Montana is a little different from other schools. It’s kind of a big band of brothers.

We’re able to talk to one another, root for one another, and that’s what I’ll always cherish about my time there.”

I don’t really think about it until I come home, and then people are constantly coming up to me saying, ‘Talk to my son.

Tell him what you’ve done.’ It’s kind of exploded on the reservation.

“Where I come from, all people care about is basketball. And it’s kind of sad in a way, but for some people, the biggest accomplishment in their life was winning a state championship. That’s the pinnacle of their vision. They could do that, and their lives would be complete. I’m trying to show that there is more than that.”

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efore Colin Dow left Billings for college, his father passed on an important piece of advice. One that he would not soon forget.

If you want to have a good time at school, Jimmy Dow said, you have to meet a Butte guy, and then make him one of your best friends.

So when Dow got his dorm room assignment that fall, it seemed a little serendipitous that the guy across the hall was a free safety from Butte with a square jaw and hair so long it nearly touched his shoulders.

summer preparing for their NFL careers.

Both went into mini-camp green and hopeful, a sense of endless possibility in front of them. Neither was drafted, but both felt determined to prove they belonged. Anderson signed a three-year deal with the Minnesota Vikings and Dow a two-year deal with the Bengals—the same team where Scrafford began his NFL career.

Even though they were with different teams, hundreds of miles apart, it felt, in a way, like they were in it together. The business aspect of professional football had not yet sunk in. They talked virtually every day about their hopes and their fears, just like they did throughout college, on road trips, on float trips, and during the days and nights they worked together behind the bar at the Missoula Club.

“That’s kind of one of the things I learned talking to guys in the NFL,” Anderson says. “Montana is a little different from other schools. It’s kind of a big band of brothers. We’re able to talk to one another, root for one another, and that’s what I’ll always cherish about my time there.”

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prankster and a joker throughout college— one of the few Grizzly players adept at cracking jokes to make others laugh. He was back home in Billings recently— working at a football camp with high school kids before getting ready to report to training camp with the Bengals—when he was struck by something.

No matter what happens next, he told himself, I’ve been blessed.

“I’ve always kind of thought that whatever you do in life, you better have fun with it,” Dow says. “Even when I’m holding a bag for high school campers to hit, I tell myself, ‘You remember how lucky you are to be playing football. To be twenty-three years old and playing football for a living is an amazing blessing.’”

Dow’s father passed away during his sophomore year at UM, and the emptiness he felt after his death was not easy to live with. But not long after the funeral, the owner of the Missoula Club, a friend of Jimmy Dow’s, asked Colin if he’d be interested in tending bar there during the off-season. A picture of his father from when he played at MSUBillings already was on the wall, right by the front door. Occasionally patrons would look at the picture, then look at

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the bartender, and act like they’d just seen right now, is remembering how far I’ve a ghost. come, and trying not to look at it as how far “I like to think of Montana as the I didn’t go. I was there. I smelled it, I saw it, biggest small town in America,” Dow says.

I touched it. I just couldn’t hold on.”

“It’s that kind of that community, where Dow made sure to pass along something people really know everybody’s history.” else to Anderson when the two finally Before long, Dow, Anderson, and Rob spoke: When you make the team, buy Schulte—another Grizzly player and “the a couch big enough for me to sleep on. third leg of our tripod,” according to Because there will be a road trip planned Dow—were working at the bar, flipping for when you play your first NFL game. burgers, and pouring drinks, listening to For Dow and Anderson, just as it was old stories about Grizzly lore and retelling for Scrafford and Gragg, for men like some of their own.

Tuff Harris, Dan It doesn’t stop here!

And so when the Carpenter and Visit www.umt.edu/montanan bad news came down, Kroy Biermann, to see an exclusive behind-thewhen Dow learned and for those who scenes video of our cover shoot from the Bengals paved the way like with Colt Anderson and Colin Dow. medical staff that two Guy Bingham and vertebrae in his back Tim Hauck— were beginning to fuse together and three Grizzly football is a brotherhood. Even disks were bulging, that his NFL career was when your own journey ends, the dream over before it had even begun, he knew his lives on in others, almost as if they were first phone call would be to Anderson. family.

“And then there was one,” was all Dow’s voice mail said, and even before he Kevin Van Valkenburg '00 is a returned the call, Anderson understood feature writer for The Baltimore what his friend meant. Dow’s football Sun newspaper and a former career was over.

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UM research brings money, jobs, innovation to state

By Jacob Baynham Photos By Todd Goodrich

Frank Rosenzweig, associate professor in the Division of Biological Sciences, studies yeast growth and its role as an alternative fuel source.

At the end of a recent work week, University of Montana researcher Frank Rosenzweig is in Missoula’s Kettlehouse Brewing Co., leaning against a shelf of 50-pound sacks of caramel malt on the humming fringe of a crowd clinking glasses, slapping backs, and unwinding for the weekend.

He’s a lanky man with a drooping moustache, and in his hand he holds a pint of Double Haul IPA. As an evolutionary biologist, he understands that his 16 ounces of refreshment is the happy metabolic consequence of one self-serving organism just trying to get by and multiply: yeast.

“A very great biologist, Jacques Monod, once said, ‘The dream of every cell is to become two,’” he explains in his leisured Tennessee drawl. “And that, in fact, sums up life on the planet Earth. The dream of every yeast cell is to become two yeast cells.”

Rosenzweig specializes in yeast.

Nothing novel there, he says. Mankind has been specializing in yeast for about 10,000 years.

“We domesticated yeast about the same time we domesticated wheat, so we’ve basically been interested in drinking as long as we’ve been interested in a reliable food source,” he says. “But we were only taking advantage of what [yeasts] do on their own.”

Yeasts’ alcoholic waste product, ethanol, is the reason cultures from the Neolithic to now have used the fungi to ferment mixtures of grain, water, and hops. Ethanol also is the reason Rosenzweig reels in hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money from federal agencies and private

corporations. He’s researching its role as an alternative fuel source.

Yeast has given much of itself already (think wine, cheese, and sourdough pancakes), but if Rosenzweig has his way, the microorganism also will relieve us of our dependence on fossil fuels. With the help of a top-secret “genetic trick” (patent pending), he and his colleagues are using some of the same breeding and selection techniques that gave us Angus cattle, durum wheat, and Braeburn apples to create a highly efficient “super yeast” that can boost ethanol production.

Most yeast can only function at moderate temperatures (30 to 32 degrees Celsius) and alcohol concentrations.

Yeasts generate heat as they ferment sugar, and those increased temperatures, along with the ethanol they produce, can inhibit and even kill them. These metabolic problems complicate yeasts’ ability to cheaply and efficiently transform the 6-carbon sugars of corn and sugarcane into ethanol.

But Rosenzweig’s hybrid yeast can withstand temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius and alcohol concentrations of 17 to 18 percent. He’s also working to develop yeast that can metabolize more recalcitrant 5-carbon sugars, such as those in plant stalks and other biomass. This yeast could efficiently turn seasonal agricultural waste (such as barley and wheat stalks in Montana) into fuel.

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Ric Hauer, professor at UM’s Flathead Lake Biological Station, stands near current sensors located on top of and in the water for research.

The new sensors that will stream information to researchers as a result of a $6 million National Science Foundation grant will look similar to those shown.

Rosenzweig envisions a future where bio-refineries using such yeast dot the country, especially in agricultural states. “I view bioethanol as a critical stepping-stone technology toward a green energy future,” he says.

The Research Economy

Rosenzweig’s quest for a “super yeast” is just one example of the research conducted at UM. The University, known for its liberal arts education, is quickly gaining recognition for cuttingedge science. The scale and variety of research at UM has grown exponentially during the last twenty years.

The equipment, personnel, and space to conduct research projects cost a lot of money—far beyond what could ever be garnered from student tuition and state appropriations.

Rosenzweig’s yeast lab, for example, employs four to six people at any given time, most of whom are paid a salary equal to Missoula’s median family income. His lab is just one of about 1,000 ongoing UM research projects, which employ 640 non-faculty personnel.

In fiscal year 2008, UM collected a record $62.2 million in grants. (An additional $2 million of research support came from the UM Foundation.) Most of the grant money came from federal government agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Energy, and www.umt.edu/montanan

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others. The jobs created by these grants form a pivotal part of the local and state economies, says UM Vice President for Research and Development Daniel Dwyer.

“All those folks pay state and federal taxes,” he says. “They buy homes. They buy automobiles. They go out to restaurants. And so it’s an important chunk of money that’s coming into the state.”

Beyond jobs, university discoveries also have generated massive economic growth in this country, Dwyer says. For everything from semiconductors to computers to Gatorade, we have university research to thank. (The latter was invented by a University of Florida researcher in 1965 and brings millions of dollars in annual royalties at that university to this day.)

“America’s university research system is the strongest in the world and has been responsible for the remarkable growth of the economy of the United States since World War II,” Dwyer says.

“The private sector is wholly and totally dependent on universitybased research to produce new products and new business opportunities.”

But how does a university researcher go from a quiet epiphany at the breakfast table to implementing a multimillion-dollar grant from Washington, D.C.? It’s a months-long process of grant writing that starts at a computer, and ends—if successful—with the resources to tackle science’s unanswered questions.

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Research Expenditures: More than

$62.2 million in research money came into UM through grants during fiscal year 2008.

Here is how the support breaks down.*

State

$4,296,272

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$39,695,433 *Note: Graph does not include Facilities and Administration costs

SPACE-AGE SCIENCE

Ric Hauer of UM’s Flathead Lake Biological Station has just been through all of that. He recently landed a $6 million, threeyear grant to study water resources in conjunction with Kentucky through the National Science Foundation’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).

EPSCoR was founded in the late 1970s to help smaller, poorer states stay competitive in scientific research. Montana was one of the original five states to receive funding. Today twenty-five states comprise the program.

Hauer’s grant will fund an innovative cyber infrastructure project that could radically change the way field research is conducted.

It involves placing permanent data sensors in Flathead Lake and surrounding waterways that will stream information back to the lab

via wireless Internet. The sensors will collect data twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year. Think of it as the space age of field research.

“It is literally taking water resources and bringing it into a truly modern realm that would not have even been possible five years ago,” he says.

Those sensors will transmit volumes of data so large, however, that the major challenge is managing them. Cisco Systems, a large Internet router company, will partner in the project as part of its own research and development in the transfer of field data to laboratories. To help present the information in a practical way, Hauer has turned to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, which specializes in highend 3-D visualization modeling.

Hauer chose Kentucky as a partner state because it is the home of the largest reservoir east of the Mississippi River—Kentucky Lake, which hosts a biological station similar to that at Flathead’s Yellow Bay. Flathead Lake is the largest natural lake west of the Mississippi. Both states will place sensors in their bodies of water and share their data.

“This is a cyber infrastructure grant, and therefore it shouldn’t matter, physically, where you’re located,” Hauer says. “What’s important is what you’re doing.”

The information will be valuable on several levels, he says. Big bodies of water are one of the best places to observe long-term trends in climate change. Hauer also imagines some of the data being posted on a Web site so fishermen can check on the latest lake conditions before they make a trip. Montana’s Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks also could use the information to help manage Flathead Lake.

But it’s impossible to tell how many people and agencies will find applications for the data. “It’s sort of like predicting who would possibly want to use the Internet,” Hauer says.

Wherever the data goes, scientists will keenly observe the first example of permanently deployed sensors conducting continual field research. Though the same approach may eventually be used by researchers of all disciplines, Hauer is pleased that the technology will be the first used for Montana’s water resources.

“What could possibly be more important than water in Montana to agriculture, industry, municipalities, and recreational opportunities?” Hauer asks. “You can’t get anything more basic to life and the quality of life than water.”

BRIDGING THE COMMUNICATION GAP

Behind the scenes and paving the way for all UM research is the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.

“This office is an on-ramp to help the faculty members do their research,” says Judy Fredenberg, interim director of the ORSP. “There are indeed hoops that have to be hopped through and Ts to cross and Is to dot. The ORSP helps the principal investigators do what needs to be done so that they can focus on their research.”

Seventeen staff members are packed into the ORSP’s cramped office space. They serve as liaisons between the researchers and the funding agencies, helping them iron out the fine details of the grants’ conditions and ensuring they don’t run afoul of any federal or state regulations.

It’s a full-time job for all of them. “We don’t just make this up,” Fredenberg says. “There are a lot of federal regulations that have to be followed.”

Infographic by Eileen Chontos with illustration by Bruce Harms, istockphoto.com

“You write a grant because you want to succeed,” says Andrij Holian, professor of biomedical and pharmaceutical science and director of the Center for Environmental Health Sciences at UM. “It’s competition, just like running a track meet or [playing] a soccer match. You do what it takes to be successful with it, and that’s putting in a lot of time.”

Holian would know. He was UM’s top grant earner in 2008, when he collected $3 million to finance his research on chronic inflammation and bring new infrastructure to UM. He will likely earn even more in 2009. A good grant earner, he says, stays current with national trends, networks with potential collaborators in different disciplines, and adapts quickly to changes in science.

Those scientists who can’t adapt suffer the same fate as any other organism, he says: They get left behind.

Holian has used grants to pay his salary for all of his nine years at UM, and he’s currently writing yet another proposal. It’s for a $1.5 million, three-year grant made available by President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill. The stimulus money has university scientists around the country submitting proposals as fast as they can write them. Competition is especially fierce, but Holian is in his element.

The preparatory stages of planning, experimentation, data gathering, and hypothesis development can take six months before Holian even begins writing the body of the twenty-five-page proposal. After colleagues review the completed product to find holes, he rewrites it. When the proposal finally reaches the funding agency, an initial review takes four months. If he’s successful, he says, it will be December before he receives the money from a grant he applied for in February.

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Fredenberg is a Montana native. Her computer screen saver rotates images of elk and grizzlies. She’s proud of the campus research she helps facilitate.

She points out Jerry Bromenshenk’s project to train honeybees to sniff out land mines. (“Who woulda thought?”) And Brent Ruby’s work to improve the performance of wildland firefighters, the findings of which are applied to U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. (“I think that’s huge.”)

But growing up in rural Montana as she did, Fredenberg also knows plenty of people who work hard for their living and are uneasy about universities spending their tax dollars on research that can seem trivial. She recognizes this as a major communication gap between the University and the state’s taxpayers.

“My dad was a rancher east of East Helena,” she says. “And I swear, if somebody from the institution would have come to him at the end of the day with a six-pack of beer and a PowerPoint presentation and sat down at our table and said, ‘I want to show you what’s going on,’ that would have made quite an impression.”

Fredenberg thinks students are good advocates for the University when they return to their hometowns and explain the opportunities they have here. But she says the faculty researchers themselves are the best equipped to lead the discussion.

“They have the fire in the belly,” she says, “and that can only be contagious.”

Infographic by Eileen Chontos with illustration by Bruce Harms, istockphoto.com

A TRAGEDY AT TREE LINE

Diana Six has pulled in four grants totaling $1 million in the past nine months. The money arrived none too soon. Six researches mountain pine beetles—the species that is rapidly chewing its way through major swaths of Western forests—and she says the major funding agencies in Washington often don’t approve a grant until the problem is critical.

“We know a lot about beetles when they’re at epidemic phase, because that’s when people will give you money to look at them,” she says. “What we really need to understand is what happens before they get to the epidemic.”

Six is unusual in that she researches not only the pine beetles, but also the fungi that act as their nutritional supplements. In a classic symbiotic relationship, the beetles rely on these fungi to turn nutrient-poor wood into a sustainable diet. The fungi, in turn, are happy for the place to stay.

The devastation pine beetles wreak on lodgepole forests is readily apparent in the West. Although the Forest Service and the public are concerned about this, Six sees the beetles like she sees fire—as a natural, native component of a lodgepole forest. In that way, she focuses her research not on stopping the beetles, but on predicting where they will move next.

“Once you get an outbreak going, there’s nothing you can do,” she says. “The conditions are there to support the beetles. The beetles are in big numbers, and the trees are stressed, typically by drought. There’s nothing you can do to stop that.”

The real tragedy, in Six’s eyes, is unfolding at the tree line with the slow demise of the whitebark pine. Once upon a time, any pine beetles that ever made it up to that subalpine ecosystem couldn’t WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN

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Professor Diana Six survive the winter. Now temperatures are warmer, and beetles the size of bloated grains studies mountain pine of rice are strengthening their hold on a very beetles, a species that is wreaking havoc on delicate and important tree. forests throughout “They’re developing outbreaks so rapidly the West.

I can’t even keep study sites going,” Six says.

“They work through an area in three years, from a few red trees to 100 percent mortality.”

There have been outbreaks of beetles in the past, during periods of high temperatures, such as in the 1930s and 1970s. This time it’s different. “This isn’t a pulse of heat, this is chronic. It’s going to continue, and so the beetles are pretty much up there to stay,” she says.

The whitebark pine is a keystone species to the subalpine ecosystem. It helps anchor the snowpack. It employs Clark’s nutcrackers to spread its seed, feeding the birds in the process.

Grizzly bears eat hidden caches of the cones to fatten up for the winter. Cone scarcity will drive the bears to lower elevations, closer to people. When the beetles start killing trees, the nutcrackers will move elsewhere, setting into effect a disastrous chain of events. “After a cycle like that, that’s probably the end of those trees, which also is the end of our entire subalpine ecosystem in the West,” Six says.

Six is in the process of writing another proposal. It’s for a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to collaborate with several African universities to study beetle symbiosis. If she’s successful, it will mean more people working in her lab, more money for equipment, and eventually more answers to quandaries that have befuddled forest scientists for decades.

Six looks at her watch. It’s almost time for her lab assistants to start their shifts. She’s watched plenty of undergraduates grow smitten with research over the years, and has seen plenty of eureka moments as they stumbled upon something valuable. A fleeting wistful look crosses her face.

“Everybody hears about the scientists getting all of the money,” she says, “but we don’t actually get to do much of the fun stuff.

We’re writing grant proposals all the time.”

Jacob Baynham graduated from the UM School of Journalism in 2007. He spent the following year freelancing in Asia—from Hong Kong to Afghanistan—publishing his stories and photos in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Toronto Star, the San Antonio Express-News, and Newsweek.

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his young sons past the skateboard park in Great Falls, which was then having finishing touches put on it by a few dust-covered laborers wailing on grinders, smoothing the cement.

“One of them bails up out of the hole and said, ‘Hey, you’re Pete Fromm,’” he chuckles. “I said, ‘I know.’”

With all due self-deprecation, Fromm admits figuring that in a Cascade County meeting between a cement monkey and a celebrated regional author he would be the more famous. Then his dusty admirer introduced himself. Jeff Ament. Bass player for Pearl Jam, one of America’s premier rock bands, whose record sales roughly equal Montana’s population times sixty.

“He said he loved my book As Cool As I Am and asked if there was anything he could do to help,” Fromm says. “I’d never met him, and here he was saying he wanted to write a good blurb for me.”

To Ament’s friends, Fromm’s story is typical of the hard-working, culturally aware dude who grew up in Big Sandy and kicks out the jams to support people who empathize with the kind of folks he grew up around. To many of Ament’s fans and even his fellow Missoulians, he remains a curiosity. Resident rock star. Benefactor. Skateboarder. Prodigal Montanan.

A man who fled the confines of Montana for Seattle and then returned—his wildest dreams realized— because what was once his constriction transformed into his anchor.

“Moving back meant that I would always have friends, a place to hang, write, and a place to get back in contact with who I was,” Ament says from his home in Missoula.

All photos courtesy of Jeff Ament

alumni profile Jeff Ament ’85 may only have attended UM for a short time, but in those years he discovered the bass guitar and the seeds to grow his wildest dreams.

Author Pete Fromm tells a story of walking

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Do The Evolution

Ament was born in March 1963 in Havre, the first of George and Penny Ament’s five children. Two months later the family moved to Big Sandy, populated then by only 800 residents. George Ament, the town barber, learned fast that his family couldn’t eat on hair clippings alone, so he also drove a school bus, sold insurance and shoes, and raised cows, pigs, and chickens. His eldest son often worked alongside him, sometimes on a farm next to future Sen. Jon Tester’s.

This instilled in him an ethic he later applied to music.

“My dad taught me that you’ve got to work your ass off in order to survive,” Ament says. “I sort of despised him for it at the time, but I have him to blame for a lot of the good things that happened to me because I have a lot of drive, and I’m not afraid to work hard.”

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he took a few guitar lessons, though he preferred the energy of punk to the jangle of the folk chords he learned. A cool cousin in California turned him on to skateboarding, and Ament took to the sport so wholeheartedly he became the first kid in Big Sandy, possibly in the state, to build a ramp in his backyard.

A gifted athlete, Ament says he was lucky to live in a community small enough that he could be both the star high school hoopster and the town punk.

“I wouldn’t have had the freedom to do that if I’d lived in a larger place,” Ament says. “Like Havre.”

Penny Ament remembers her firstborn as hardworking, adventurous, and expressive.

“He was definitely an achiever and had so many talents, whether it was taking part in all the sports he loved, riding his skateboard, listening to music, or creating a piece of his art,” she wrote in an e-mail.

Ament remembers that he dreamed of one day designing album covers for rock bands.

Suffice to say, he got his wish.

Left: Jeff Ament at Yellowstone National Park; Right: Ament in his Missoula recording studio

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Nothing As It Seems

In spring 2009 Pearl Jam played in Missoula, but the only audience was the four walls of Ament’s home near Blue Mountain. Some songs that the band hammered out—“Supersonic,” “Force of Nature,” “Got Some,” and “Amongst the Waves”—appear on the band’s new album Backspacer. The band convened at Ament’s house not at his urging, but after lobbying by guitarist Mike McCready.

“Mike’s been doing the sales pitch that this is a good place to get stuff done,” Ament says. “Sometimes in Seattle there are a lot of distractions.”

Those distractions, including scores of other artists, rock havens, museums, theaters, and a steady flow of groundbreaking bands, drew Ament to Seattle from Missoula in the early 1980s.

Inspired by album covers, Ament enrolled at UM in the fall of 1981 to study graphic design, but quickly realized he didn’t like the program’s direction. No longer in a tiny town where he could easily bridge the gap between arts and sports, he didn’t go out for any UM athletic teams. Much of his time was spent skateboarding the humps outside the University Center, which were then brick and are now grass. He also traded his guitar for a bass and on the sixth floor of Jesse Hall, began to play.

With some skating buddies he formed his first band, Deranged Diction, probably Montana’s first hardcore band, and quickly set about making tapes and playing gigs.

“Things weren’t working out in school the way I wanted them to,” Ament says. “I was running out of money, my student loans were piling up, and it just wasn’t making sense to me. I thought I’d play basketball and be an art student, and suddenly I was more of a punk rocker getting a band together having more fun skateboarding.”

Erik Cushman, co-founder of the Missoula Independent, met Ament at the UM dining hall in 1982. The pair bonded over punk rock, and two weeks later, sporting what Ament called “Joe Strummer Mohawks,” road-tripped to Seattle to see The Clash, The Who, and X. “There wasn’t a profound moment in Seattle where he said, ‘This is it,’” Cushman says. “He didn’t have to say it; there just wasn’t any opportunity for him to make it in Missoula as a musician.”

After two years at UM, Ament moved to the Emerald City in 1983 and got a full-time job at a coffee shop. He brought Deranged Diction with him, but then went on to form protogrunge outfits Green River and Mother Love Bone. Exhibiting the drive he brought from Big Sandy, Ament pushed his bandmates hard.

“I had something to prove to myself, to my dad—I was going to make something out of this, even if it was just making a handful of records and traveling around the states,” Ament says. “Going home with my tail between my legs was the last thing I was going to do.”

Ament fostered that attitude within guitarists McCready and Stone Gossard. Then they met a singer named Eddie Vedder. When their talent and work converged, everything changed.

“Be careful what you wish for,” Ament says.

Man Of The Hour

Before Pearl Jam’s encore at Washington-Grizzly Stadium in the summer of 1998, Ament took the microphone and thanked his friend Truxton Rolfe, then student director for UM Productions, for making possible the big gig in front of around 20,000 fans.

Most people never stand in front of a crowd that vast. For Ament, it’s just another day at the office.

“There’s no way to explain what it’s like, the magnitude of it,” Rolfe says. “If you haven’t been there, you’ll just never know.”

Things got weird for Ament in 1992. After four months touring in support of Pearl Jam’s booming debut album, Ten, he returned, exhausted, to his home in Seattle and got . . . stares. Shopping at his local grocery store. Buying coffee. Reading the newspaper.

“It would be insane,” Ament says. “All these people would be staring at me.”

Around this time the only solace Ament got was when he visited his family in Montana. He said he retraced places where he felt comfortable as a kid—Flathead Lake, Glacier Park, Missoula. In Ament tunes his guitar during a soundcheck at the Gorge Ampitheatre in George, Wash.

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moments stolen from Pearl Jam’s rigorous schedule, Ament went on hikes and mountain bike rides. He floated the Blackfoot and sailed Flathead. Nobody stared.

“Every time I came back to Montana, I felt like I got grounded,” he says. “I felt like I was actually dealing with everything we were going through better than the rest of the guys in the band.”

Ament reconnected with college pal Cushman. The two took a Sunday drive down the Bitterroot, talked real estate, and took pictures. One that Ament snapped of a goat wound up on the cover of Pearl Jam’s second album, Vs., which sold 7 million copies. Cushman introduced Ament to Tim Bierman, then a local musician and fixture at Rockin Rudy’s.

“He just knew Missoula was where he needed to be,” says Bierman, a close friend who today is president of Pearl Jam’s fan club.

In April 2009 Ament made headlines when he was tackled by a knife-wielding attacker outside a recording studio in Atlanta, the jarring security video of which is on YouTube.

Though Ament says he’s fine and downplayed the incident by adding he was mugged at gunpoint within six months of moving to Seattle, it goes without saying that such events are unlikely in Missoula.

“As soon as we got our first check for $90,000,” Ament says, “I was like, ‘OK, I’m going to buy a house out here.’”

EVEN FLOW

Pearl Jam last rocked the Missoula public in support of Big Sandy native Jon Tester’s successful 2006 Senate run. While the band has a reputation for political activism, the connection to Tester was all Ament.

“Jeff was literally the first person I called when I decided to run for Senate,” says Tester, who added that Ament’s father gave him his first trademark flattop. “Without Pearl Jam early on in that campaign, we would never have been able to stay afloat.”

Though Ament moved back to Montana to lead a more anonymous life, settling in with his longtime partner, Pandora Andre–Beaty, he gives money and time, and uses his name when necessary, to boost people and organizations that he believes make the community better.

Chris Bacon, president of the Montana Skatepark Association, says Ament helped the group secure a $50,000 grant through Pearl Jam’s charitable foundation to build the park in Missoula, which opened in 2006. Association Secretary Ross Peterson called Ament a “silent caregiver” most comfortable in the guise of regular guy, not rock star.

“He even seemed embarrassed a few summers ago when he was recognized by a fan while helping direct traffic at a Missoula Skatepark concert fundraiser,” Peterson wrote in an e-mail. “(Yes, he volunteered his time wearing a reflective vest and standing in the hot sun, just like everyone else.)”

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Clockwise from top:

Ament with his family; Riding down a halfpipe during a 1979 skate contest in Helena; With his longtime partner, Pandora, at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro; With his Big Sandy freshman basketball team in 1977 (seen back row, far left).

Tom Webster, director of UM’s University Theatre and an adjunct professor in the business school, routinely invites Ament to guest lecture, which his students love.

“It would be like when I was in high school and they brought in John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin to talk to us,” Webster says.

Ament credits his level of involvement to growing up in Big Sandy and wanting to make sure kids have the things he wishes he’d had.

“It comes from being in a small town, watching both my parents be super-involved with the community, whether it was kids needing swings or getting a basketball hoop up at a grade school,” he says.

“Plus I’ve always had a magnet that’s pulled me toward giving kids things to do, whether it’s basketball courts or camps or skateboard parks.”

Author Fromm relishes telling the epilogue to his story. Shortly after Ament sent him the book blurb, Fromm received a large box in the mail. Inside were two It doesn’t stop here! nice skateboards and a note.

Visit www.umt.edu/montanan It read, “Hey, I thought to read a Web exclusive your kids could use some Q & A with Jeff Ament. decks. Jeff.”

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 Manhattan and sings in a band called the New Heathens.

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Scholarship Spurs Journalism Careers

Illustration courtesy of The Wall Street Journal

J C ’         . Born in Butte, he was

The intent of the $2,000 annual scholarship is to inspire the same high standards of journalism for students who have demonstrated Jeff’s traits of tenacity, accuracy, eagerness to learn, and loyalty to the profession.

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tough and competitive, but fair. His credibility, tenacity, and likeable personality earned him access to information from sources others would fail to crack.

Those characteristics led the UM School of Journalism graduate to a career at The Wall Street Journal.

It was those same traits that his wife, Maria Cole, had in mind when she, along with friends and family, established the Jeff Cole Memorial Scholarship in 2003.

The intent of the $2,000 annual scholarship is to inspire the same high standards of journalism for students who have demonstrated Jeff ’s traits of tenacity, accuracy, eagerness to learn, and loyalty to the profession. Seven students have received the award since the scholarship was established.

Jeff was killed in a plane crash near Denver in 2001 while on assignment for WSJ, a month after he and Maria began building their dream home near Stevensville.

Maria, who was married to her “soul mate” for seventeen months after a long friendship, says her husband was “charismatic, gregarious, and a force of nature.

“Jeff had a way of connecting with people, and you felt like you were the only one in the world,” Maria says. “He loved that connection with people and their stories because that is what he believed life was made of.”

Chelsi Moy ’04, the first student to receive the Jeff Cole Memorial Scholarship in journalism, says she didn’t

recognize the full meaning of the award until after she became a professional journalist.

“The many stories I’ve now heard about Jeff and the type of reporter he was—the man from Montana who went to work for The Wall Street Journal—are an inspiration,” says Moy, now the higher education reporter at the Missoulian, covering news about UM. “As a Jeff Cole scholarship recipient, you would like to see yourself rise to the same level that he attained,” Moy continues. “It has been over time that I realized the impact and significance of this award.”

Maria also established a Jeff Cole Distinguished Lecture at UM to attract world-class financial journalists to campus each year. In March, Cole’s former WSJ managing editor Paul Steiger, who is now editor-in-chief at the nonprofit ProPublica, gave the inaugural lecture and spent days on campus talking with faculty and students.

Each spring, Maria hosts an elaborate dinner at her picturesque log home on 20 acres for the Montana Kaimin staff.

She says scholarship recipients have become family to her. The students bring their acoustic guitars, play games, tell stories, and spend time outdoors against a backdrop of the Bitterroot Mountains. A bocce ball competition on the front lawn is now a tradition, regardless of the weather.

Maria says it has been an amazing experience to

Maria Cole, recruitment manager in UM’s Human Resource Services, started the Jeff Cole Memorial Scholarship in 2003 to honor her husband’s memory and inspire the high standards in journalism Jeff exhibited as a Wall Street Journal reporter.

Inset: Jeff Cole’s WSJ byline illustration

spend so much time with the students, to stay in touch with them, and to follow their career progress.

Former Great Falls Tribune reporter Zachary Franz ’07 called the scholarship a “huge honor.”

“When you’re young and starting out, it is hard to have confidence,” Franz says. “The award was a big encouragement and allowed me to concentrate on journalism.”

These are the stories that continue to inspire Maria Cole.

They are proof that Jeff ’s legacy lives on at UM. To learn more about the Jeff Cole Memorial Scholarship, or to make a contribution, visit www.SupportUM.org or call 800-443-2593.

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

about alumni ’40s

The seventieth reunion for the class of 1940 will be held May 13-15, 2010.

You can see photos and watch a video from this year’s class reunions by logging on to our Web site, www.grizalum.com, and following the “Events/Class Reunion” links.

President

Sharilyn McGuire Campbell ’87 Redmond, WA

President-elect

Thomas J. Dimmer ’85 Williamston, MI

Vice President

Bernd A. Schulte ’65

Ocean Ridge, FL

Past President

Patrick M. Risken ’81 Spokane, WA

Board of Directors

*Alina Alvarez ’99 Denver

James Bartell ’63

Kildeer, IL

Ryffels

*Shane Bishop ’86

Jacksonville, OR

Eric D. Botterbusch ’87

Everett, WA

Brandon Byars ’93 Portland, OR

Craig W. Crawford ’79 Darien, CT

Susan C. English ’72

Billings

Scott Horsley ’73

Scottsdale, AZ

Dawn Craven Lochridge ’85

Missoula

Jon I. Mathews ’84 Boise, ID

Erin Rogge Niedge ’05

Miles City

Marnie McMeel Prigge ’73 Butte

Robert D. Ross ’71 Salt Lake City

Zane G. Smith ’55

Springfield, OR

Gregory K. Stahl ’82

Missoula

*Greg Sundberg ’01, ’03

Missoula

*Paul Tuss ’88 Havre

*Pat Weber ’73

Yardley, PA

*Denotes new member

UM Alumni Association

Bill Johnston ’79, ’91 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 406-243-5211 877-UM-ALUMS www.grizalum.com

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’57 spun cowboy tunes as the Bob is pictured here in February 1974 with voice of Buffalo Bob on afternoon radio Catherine Hearst, wife while at UM. “Imagine the wake-up call I of Randolph Hearst and got this morning [October 19, 2008] as I’m mother of Patty Hearst, lying in bed listening to ‘Weekend Edition’ who had been kidnapped on National Public Radio,” he wrote. “They just days earlier by the were doing a segment on an old cowboy Symbionese Liberation band very popular in the Pacific Northwest Army. Hearst is showing in the 1950s, the Snake River Outlaws. I am photos of Patty to Bob, the announcer on those fifty-five-year-old who was covering the radio tapes! I was a student at UM working story for NBC. my way through college as an announcer on the Z-Bar Network, a chain of five stations in Montana. I announced the Saturday night live broadcasts for KXLL radio from the Sunshine Bar on the corner of Woody and Alder. Had a great time doing the shows, really enjoyed the music and the guys who played it. As a footnote, I never got out of broadcasting. A fifty-two-year career, half of the years with the local NBC affiliate here in San Francisco.” Bob began his radio days in his hometown of Butte, attended graduate school in journalism at Columbia, and worked in broadcasting until he turned seventy.

To hear Bob and the digitally remastered Snake River Outlaws, live from Missoula’s Sunshine Bar, Google the NPR broadcast/date or “Snake River Outlaws.” Listen to what the Western Folklife Center describes as a “sound capsule of a time when cowboys, railroaders, college students, college ladies, and vagabonds all hoisted mugs of beer to fine music and western sociability.”

BOB LAZICH

Keep Us Posted. Send your news to Betsy Holmquist, 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 1, 2009. 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.

GEORGE G. RYFFEL ’41 and RUTH HUGOS RYFFEL ’42 celebrated their sixtyseventh anniversary this summer and are enjoying their home of fiftyfive years in Arlington, Va. “We come back to Montana (Monarch and Belt) for a few weeks each summer to refresh and recharge,” George writes.

JOYCE GAUTHIER STEVENS ’49 and her husband, STAN STEVENS ’49, Billings, attended their sixtieth class reunion in May. They shared graduation festivities with their grandson, HARRISON STEVENS ’09, who received his bachelor of arts degree in English, with honors.

’50s

The sixtieth reunion for the class of 1950 will be held May 13-15, 2010.

You can see photos and watch a video from this year’s class reunions by logging on to our Web site, www.grizalum.com, and following the “Events/Class Reunion” links.

DONALD C. ORLICH ’53, Ed.D. ’63, has written Out of Butte, published MONTANAN FALL 2009 |

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Letter From Alumni Board President

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he University of Montana Alumni Association is the gateway for alumni to “Get connected . . . Stay connected.”

UMAA is your lifelong connection to UM. All of us can remember the very first day when we arrived on campus and began our UM experience. As students we were privileged to receive an excellent education on a beautiful campus at the base of Mount Sentinel and Campbell in the heart of Western Montana. Our UM experience holds many memories, friendships, and experiences that shaped and continue to enhance the Grizzly alumni we have become. Our time at UM not only provided us with a degree, but equally important, with the lifelong friendships, skills, and opportunities that have shaped us into well-rounded and loyal supporters of UM. Upon completion of our wonderful time on campus, we all embarked in pursuit of our individual dreams, with each of us creating a unique adventure—yet always mindful of the spirit of our UM experience. We may not always be able to get back to campus, attend UM events, or participate in alumni functions, but we can stay connected—and that is where UMAA excels—fostering connections in the spirit of our UM experience.

UM alumni provide valuable connections in extending the spirit of the University through their relationships with future and present students, other alumni, and the many friends of UM. Numerous avenues exist to get connected and stay connected—serving on volunteer boards and committees, assisting prospective students, attending UM events such as Homecoming, linking with former classmates, and contributing your time and talent to the University. Through our own unique UM experiences, along with our past, present, and future connections, the spirit of UM harkens each of us to proudly attest “Once a Grizzly, Always a Grizzly.”

Sharilyn McGuire Campbell ’87, a Great Falls native, earned a degree in accounting with honors from the School of Business Administration. She is a certified public accountant and has lived in the Seattle area for twenty-two years. Sharilyn worked in public accounting at Ernst & Young and is presently the vice president of finance at Premera Blue Cross. She is married to UM alum and Helena native Glen Campbell ’86, M.B.A. ’87. They have two children, Alec, twelve, and Ambria, nine.

by Washington State University’s University Publishing. The memoir includes many escapades of Don and his peers, the East Butte Owls. Teaching Strategies: A Guide to Effective Instruction, one of Don’s fifteen published academic books, is in its ninth edition. Don and his wife, PATRICIA REND ORLICH, M.Ed. ’61, live in Pullman, Wash.

JOHN STIPE ’59 and KAY LEFEVRE STIPE ’59, WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN

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Spokane, Wash., attended their fiftieth class reunion in May. A special event was watching their grandson, BRYAN RIGGS ’09, receive his bachelor’s degree in criminology.

John and Kay wore their reunion caps and gowns to Bryan’s ceremony. A wide receiver for the Griz for four years, Bryan is finishing up work this fall on his teaching credentials. His plans Stipes and Riggs include teaching special education or teaching in alternative schools and coaching basketball and/or football.

’60s

about alumni

Stew writes. “Bill was from Great Falls, Bob [Lucas] was from Miles The fiftieth reunion for the City, and I was from class of 1960 will be held Missoula. Other students May 13-15, 2010. You included REX REIKE from can see photos and watch Wolf Creek, RUSS BLUEL a video from this year’s from Canada, BRINTON class reunions by logging MARKEL from Helena, on to our Web site, www. and PAUL THOMAS from grizalum.com, and folAugusta. JILLIAN SMITH lowing the “Events/Class was our vocalist. We have Reunion” links. followed with interest STEW MAGEE ’61 (left) and BILL RUTAN ’61(right) the career of Bill’s old roommate, ERIC BRAEDEN are pictured here at the (Hans Gudegast to us), Cobb Galleria Center in who has had great success Atlanta, Ga. They were in Hollywood. [See winter playing for the 2008 2008 Montanan] Bill and U.S. 10K Classic, their I both enjoy receiving the fourteenth year perMontanan and rememberforming at this annual ing our youth and good fundraiser for children’s times at UM.” Listen charities. Stew and Bill to their Dixieland jazz and read more about their activities at http:// stewmagee.tripod.

Magee and Rutan com/id1. html.

DENIS HOFFLANDER ’67 began playing in 1958 and his wife, Susan, celin the basement of the ebrated their thirty-ninth old College Inn on camanniversary in July at their pus. “We played with Island Park, Idaho, home the BOB LUCAS Sextet near West Yellowstone. at weekly jam sessions,”

’64 (back sent this photo of UM alumni and spouses who traveled to Southeast Asia last February. Pictured at Angkor Wat, Cambodia, are, left to right, standing: JUDI WEYER PANTZER ’66, San Francisco; Emmette May, Polson; MAGGIE NEWMAN ’68, Polson; Cheryl Thomas, Polson; BOB PANTZER ’64, San Francisco; and Mary Ratzburg. Kneeling, left to right are FRANK THOMAS ’70, Polson, and ERNIE RATZBURG ’64, Polson.

MARY LOU SALVESON RATZBURG row, far right)

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Denis retired in 2000 following a career teaching high school biology.

Denis and Susan split their time between their Island Park home and their home in Sioux Falls, S.Dak. Denis backpacks, does some river running and short triathlons in the summer, and is a pheasant hunting guide at Torrey Lake, S.Dak., in the fall.

“The spring months are filled with training and competing with wirehaired pointers in field tests,” he writes.

’70s

MICHAEL E. COOPER,

J.D. ’70, Ellensburg, Wash., was honored for twenty years of service as Kittitas County superior court judge at this year’s Washington State Association for Justice Law Day. In 1978, Michael and his family moved to Ellensburg, where he was a general practitioner for ten years.

He is past chair of the Rural Courts Committee and served three terms on the Judicial Ethics Committee—as member, then as president-elect, president, and past president of the board of trustees.

DEE DANIELS ’70, North Vancouver, B.C., received an honorary doctorate of fine arts at Capilano University in June. “Dee has worked for many years with guest artists WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN

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and student vocalists in Capilano’s Jazz Series and has been a role model for young, aspiring singers everywhere,” says Greg Lee, Capilano’s president and vice chancellor.

Dee has performed in eleven African countries, Australia, Colombia, Hong Kong, Japan, and throughout Europe and North America. At Homecoming 1997 the UM Alumni Association presented Dee with a Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2001, she was the recipient of the FANS Award (a North Vancouver, B.C., Arts Council presentation); was nominated as Vocalist of the Year; and had her Love Story CD nominated for Best Jazz CD of the Year by West Coast Music Awards. In 2002, Dee was inducted into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame and a plaque was installed on Vancouver’s Walk of Fame. In 2003, she received the Commemorative Medal Daniels

for the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and was inducted into UM’s School of Fine Arts Hall of Honor. Her JAZZINIT CD was in the Top Ten CDs of 2007 on several different polls. “I’ve always felt that as a professional musician who has been blessed, I have a joyful responsibility to share, to pay the blessings and information forward.

To be acknowledged for doing so is icing on the

’75, Bethel Park, Pa., checked in with the Office of Alumni Relations the morning after the sixteenth annual Western Pennsylvania Alumni Gathering: “The Steelers just drafted Hood for the new season, the Penguins just beat the Flyers in Philly to move to round two of the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Pittsburgh Marathon is next weekend, and we thought all the excitement at the Pittsburgh Southside Works Cheesecake Factory was for the annual UM alumni dinner! It was a blast! The ten of us enjoyed the evening greatly. We made plans for our Griz/Bobcat game and talked a bunch about the days in school and return trips to Montana.”

Bill, an emeritus member of UMAA’s House of Delegates, and his wife, Annette, have hosted this event for several years. Pennsylvanians attending the dinner included front row, left to right: ELLEN MARKUS FREDRICKSON ’67, Murrysville; Annette Volbers; Ruth Stoll, Pittsburgh; and Esther Sain, Indiana. Back row, left to right: BOB FREDRICKSON ’65, M.B.A. ’67, Murrysville; K.J. COLLAMER ’68, Latrobe; ROD STOLL ’73, M.B.A. ’75, Pittsburgh; Arlene Collamer, Latrobe; RON SAIN ’69, Indiana; and BILL VOLBERS. BILL VOLBERS

cake!” Dee says.

SARA WOOD SHEFFIELD

’71, and her husband, Wayne, of Bigfork and Brunswick, Ga., have opened the first two Five Guys Burgers & Fries in Montana—in Kalispell and Missoula.

Sara’s daughter, HEATHER DRAGSTEDT ’04, is the general operations manager of Montana Burgers Inc., which has the franchise rights for the restaurants in Montana and eastern Washington. Sara’s brother, MIKE WOOD ’69, Kalispell, heads up the Montana division and is the general manager for the Kalispell store.

Mike plans to attend his fortieth class reunion at Homecoming. UM alum PATRICK CARLS ’05 is a manager in both Kalispell and Missoula and will

manage the Washington area.

KHELLY WOOD ’72, writes, “I saw UM’s Crown of the Continent e-mail and found it a delightful trip through my homeland.

For fun I volunteer for the Aquarium of the Pacific, one of the top ten aquariums in the world.

To be an education interpreter (teacher), I had to graduate from Critter College. I then took advanced shark training so I could hang out with the sharks. No, Virginia, there are no shark cages.

Most sharks are under six feet long and eat off the ocean bottom.

They are not interested in people food. I continue to be senior physician and director at the Center for Healing Life in Long Beach, Calif.”

[Enjoy UM’s Crown of the Continent online magazine at http://issuu.com/ crown_of_the_continent/ docs/spring2009] BOB BRONSON ’77, Great Falls, is the 2009 recipient of the Montana Society of CPAs George D. Anderson Distinguished Service Award. “To get to this place a person needs help, and I had a lot of it,” Bob said when receiving his award.

“My partners at Hamilton Misfeldt Bronson & Company, my family, and UM Professor Teresa Beed helped shape my career.”

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about alumni his involvement in community, charitable, and civic activities.

MELISSA KWASNY ’77, M.A. ’99, M.F.A. ’99, Jefferson City, has written a poetry collection, Reading Novalis in Montana, released this spring by Milkweed Editions. Melissa is an award-winning author of two previous books of poetry, Thistle and The Archival Birds. Albert Goldbarth, author of The Kitchen Sink, writes that Melissa’s work “serves as a brilliant tonic, reminding us of the essential gravitas of poems of distinction.”

UMAA Launches New Online Community

In July the UM Alumni Association launched the UM Alumni Online Community at www.alumniconnections.com/umontana. This exciting new online presence provides all UM alumni with permanent e-mail forwarding, discussion groups, class note entries, and social networks such as My Friends. Dues-paying members of the Alumni Association also will have access to job networking opportunities, a résumé bank, and career mentoring.

To join this new online community, go to www.alumniconnections. com/umontana and click on “Register now.” Step three asks for your ID number. Use the nine digit number beginning with “0” or “@” found on the mailing label of this Montanan. For registration assistance call the Alumni Association at 877-UM-ALUMS or use the “complete this request form” link on the site. Hope to see you soon—online!

’80s

JEANETTE HORTICK

’80, M.A. ’92, Dillon, writes that TwoDot Publishers has released a revised edition of The Champion Buffalo Hunter: The Frontier Memoirs of Yellowstone Vic Smith. Jeanette edited this edition, which contains new stories and photos, an updated preface and introduction, and a more comprehensive index. Vic Smith’s original manuscript was discovered in 1990 in the Houghton Library at Harvard.

PRODGERS

KELLY M. JOHNSON

’82 took command of Virginia’s Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval installation on March 20. Captain Johnson had been the base’s executive officer since September 2006. He has served in the Navy for twenty-six years.

BRIAN J. LANNAN ’82, Claremont, Calif., is the resource planning and performance manager for Engineering and Technical Services with Southern California Edison. Before joining SCE in July 2005, Brian WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN

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was a principal with PMA Consultants LLC, a privately held international construction management consulting firm.

DAVID J. RICHTER ’84, Cumming, Ga., participated in an episode of ABC Extreme Makeover Home Edition as one of five project leaders. He writes, “We tore down a 1,700-square-foot home and built a 5,200-squarefoot home in its place in a little over four days from start to completion. It was the definition of controlled confusion and mass energy. With more than 2,000 people involved in the process, it was a coordination feat to say the least.”

PAUL A. CRAFT ’88, Columbus, Ohio, has written Civilians in Peace, a novel about National Guardsmen and reservists fighting the global war on terror. A school administrator, Paul serves as a

colonel in the Ohio Army National Guard. He served in Afghanistan in 2003 and 2004 and is scheduled for activation in 2009. Details on his novel can be found at www.civiliansinpeace. com.

back to active duty from 2004 to 2006. Ron has twenty-eight years of military service and was recently promoted to lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. He has served as dean of students at Eldorado Preparatory

MARY MCLEOD CRAIGLE

’88 writes from Helena, “I was selected the new bureau chief for the Census and Economic Information Center at the Montana Department of Commerce. Part of my duties include encouraging participation in the 2010 Census. For every individual counted in Montana, it is estimated the state receives $3,000 in funding.”

’90s

RONALD J. KASTELEIN ’90 moved from Spokane to Las Vegas, Nev., in 2002 to teach math at Rancho High School until called

Kastelein

Academy in Las Vegas since January 2008.

MICHAEL C. BOKEN ’91, M.B.A. ’92, Bryn Mawr, Pa., runs the marketing effort for Vyvanse, Shire Pharmaceuticals’ new ADHD prescription treatment. In 2008 Pharmaceutical Executive magazine recognized

Mike as one of the top forty-five pharma industry executives under fortyfive years of age. Mike and his wife, Patty, have two sons, Michael, nine, and Patrick, six.

CYNTHIA BRENDEN FRITCH ’91, vice president, financial consultant at the Missoula branch of D.A. Davidson & Co., has earned the certified financial planner certification.

Cynthia joined the firm in February 1992.

SHELLEY NORDTOME REED ’92, Oregon City, Oreg., spoke at the April meeting of the Pacific Northwest Regional American Academy of Religion about the religious origins of many North American rock art sites and images. Her lecture introduced new emic methodology for interpreting rock art and included a two-minute, original film. Shelley is a holistic wellness counselor, writer, and public speaker on American Indian religions.

SCOTT M. NORDBERG

’93, Issaquah, Wash., was named a Five Star: Best in Client Satisfaction Wealth Manager for 2009 in the April issue of Seattle magazine. A managing partner with Nordberg Hammack Kolp & Cash PS in Bellevue, Scott was noted for his customer service, integrity, knowledge/expertise, communication, value for fee charged, meeting of financial objectives, post-sale service, quality of recommendations, and overall customer satisfaction.

ALI STERN SIMARD ’94, her husband, AARON SIMARD ’95, and fiveyear-old son, Ethan, welcomed daughter, Daisy Sophia Simard, on March 2, 2009. “No time for maternity leave,” MONTANAN FALL 2009 |

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about alumni Ali writes. “I continue to run the Los Angeles office for my family’s New York-based PR firm, Stern & Co., which promotes a variety of alternative energy, green technology, and finance companies.

Aaron is a producer at E! True Hollywood Stories.”

PHILLIP MELTON ’96, San Antonio, Tex., received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Kansas in fall 2008.

His research focused on the genetic history of American Indian populations inhabiting the Caribbean regions of Nicaragua and Costa

Melton

MacCarter

Middle of Here, available through Amazon. com. Since 2004, Kent has lived in Australia, where he earned a master’s degree in creative writing/ poetry at the University of Melbourne. Married to Australian native Penny Goodes, Mark is the coordinator of Web content for an international insurance consortium. He gives poetry readings throughout Australia and was one of the featured readers at the Queensland Poetry Festival in Brisbane in August. Kent’s parents, JANE STAHL MACCARTER

Rica. Phil is pictured here with the Rama Indians of Nicaragua.

STEPHEN M. ROTH ’96, Columbia, Md., was promoted to associate professor with tenure in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland.

Steve conducts research into the genetic aspects of physical activity and health. He and his wife, NANCY LAMB ROTH ’96, have three children, Nels, nine, Ellyn, six, and Anna, three.

CHRISTINA M. WILLIS ’96 finished her Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Texas, Austin, in December 2007. An assistant professor, Christine began teaching linguistics this fall at Rice University in Houston.

KENT MACCARTER ’97, Melbourne, Australia, has written a collection of poetry, In the Hungry WWW.UMT.EDU/MONTANAN

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’67 and DON MACCARTER ’66, Livingston, sent a gift copy of his book to UM’s Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library along with Kent’s wishes: “I’d like to think there are some copies nestled into Montana libraries for somebody, someday, to stumble across. Poetry books can be patient.

(It’s) part of their trade.”

E-mail Kent at kmaccarter@gmail.com.

VERENA F. RATTLER ’98 writes from Browning: “I worked for the Blackfeet Community College as a human resource specialist until 2006. I became disabled and am on Social Security disability. Since 2007, I’ve been writing weekly articles about my personal experiences growing up on the Blackfeet Reservation for my hometown newspaper, The Glacier Reporter.

My column, ‘Remember

When...,’ can be viewed at www.GlacierReporter. com. I especially would like to hear from other Native American writers.”

KEVIN C. SULLIVAN ’99 graduated from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences with a Doctorate of Medicine degree and accepted a residency in anesthesiology at the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque.

RYAN T. WRIGHT ’99, M.B.A. ’01, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at Washington State University in April.

Ryan and his wife, ELIZABETH WERTZWRIGHT ’04, moved in June to San Francisco, where he has accepted a tenure track position at the University of San Francisco. They are expecting a baby in September.

’00

ROBIN HENSLEY BLAZER

’00 and WILLIE BLAZER ’00, Ennis, had their business, Willie’s Distillery, profiled on MSN’s Business on Main series.

“It all started with a silly 200-word essay, ‘What is your business challenge?’ that I submitted on a whim,” Robin writes.

“A few days after submission, they called to make sure we were real people.

Then, they began calling regularly. Eventually, I received release forms and then a congratulatory e-mail. We were one of twelve businesses across the nation to make it all the way through. A film crew arrived in Ennis mid-May to check out the area and to interview me.

I eventually met with Jim Koch, brewer and founder of Sam Adams, at the

Boston Beer Company.”

Watch Robin’s episode on www.businessonmain. msn.com. Select “Business Fantasy Camp” and then Jim Koch’s icon.

KELLY DICKINSON ’00, Montgomery, N.Y., writes, “My partner and I welcomed the newest Griz on Halloween 2008, ten weeks prematurely. Twins Cree and Reilly came in with a fright but are doing wonderful. I work as a senior case worker in the Child Protective Services Unit for Orange County.”

JACKIE SERFASS HEINERT

’01 writes, “After graduation I took several different jobs with the Forest Service, moving around, and finally ending up in Lincoln. I still work for the Forest Service. I got married in a giant barn in 2007 to my husband, Shawn, who is an MSU Bobcat alum but has always been a Grizzly fan. We have a son, Tyler, who was born August 2008. He already has a Grizzly jersey to wear to the games.”

BIRTHS Brynn Marie Oldenburg to Amy and ANDY JON OLDENBURG ’03, May 13, 2009, Portland, OR Katerina Renae Chaffin to CORRIE NICOLE CHAFFIN ’06 and RICHARD ALLEN CHAFFIN ’05, February 25, 2009, Florence Madyson McKenzie Martin to ERIN MAGEE MARTIN ’01 and Robert Martin, December 15, 2008, Butte Cormick Burke Keilman to BRITTNIE BURKE KEILMAN ’01 and DANIEL J. KEILMAN ’04, May 11, 2008, Missoula

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 Web site: www.grizalum. com. The Alumni Association thanks them for their support.

This list includes all new lifetime members through June 30, 2009.

KEVIN P. BROWN ’97, Sammamish, WA LORA REDMAN BROWN ’97, Sammamish, WA RICH CLOUGH ’67, Choteau CHRISTOPHER T. COLLINSON ’94, Palo Alto, CA BETH C. DELANEY ’02, Missoula DONELDA GINALIAS, Great Falls JAMIE PHAIR HURLY ’77, Ridgefield, WA MICHAEL E. JOHNS ’81, Deer Lodge HEATHER R. KIEDROWSKI ’02, St. Paul, MN ROBERT W. LEGENHAUSEN ’69, Lake Mary, FL KELSEY CRAWFORD MOTES-CONNERS ’07,

New York City

DONALD E. OLSSON,

J.D. ’49, Ronan

CHRIS J. RAGAR ’82, J.D. ’85, Bozeman NEAL J. RIDER ’84, Atlanta, GA

MARY H. SEXTON ’74, M.Ed. ’88, Choteau GRAHAM A. SCOTT ’08, Topsfield, MA CALEB SHIELDS, Poplar JANET L. STEVENS-DONAHUE,

M.B.A. ’01, Missoula

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about alumni in Montana, Colorado, Minnesota, and with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

SAMUEL T. STEINMETZ

Johnson S. WADE JOHNSON,

J.D. ’01, Littleton, Colo., is a patent partner in the Intellectual Property practice group and member of the Patent and IP Litigation groups for Dorsey and Whitney LLP. He practices in the areas of patent preparation and prosecution, patent litigation, patent opinions, and intellectual property licensing and acquisition. Wade is admitted

’01 received his juris doctorate and certificate in environmental law from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in May. Graduating with Public Interest Honors, Samuel works in Washington, D.C., with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Enforcement.

SARAH MARIE CROW ’03 returned to the United States this summer after completing a ten-month Fulbright Research Fellowship in Ukraine.

Her research focused on the introduction of new models of forest landscape

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Griz/UC Davis Tailgate, Davis, CA Black Studies Reunion/Missoula ATO Reunion, Missoula Griz/NAU Tailgate, Flagstaff, AZ Homecoming Week 2009 Homecoming Kickoff Celebration, Southgate Mall Pep Rally, Singing on the Steps, Bonfire, Fireworks House of Delegates Annual Meeting Distinguished Alumni Awards, Class Reunion 1969, Kappa Alpha Theta 100 Years Reunion, Kappa Kappa Gamma 100 Years Reunion, Burgundy Students Reunion, Forestry Mid-70s Reunion, All Alumni Reunion and Dance Homecoming Parade, Football-Griz vs. Cal Poly, Homecoming TV Tailgate UMAA Board of Directors Meeting, Missoula Griz /SAC State Tailgate Sacramento, CA Griz/Idaho State Tailgate, Pocatello, ID Griz/Cat Football, Bozeman Satellite TV Parties Nationwide

For more details, call the Office of Alumni Relations, 877-UM-ALUMS, or visit www.grizalum.com.

Fishers

’02 and Cameron Fisher were married on February 28, 2009, at The Lodge at Whitefish Lake. Stacia writes, “I went on to get my master’s in social work at Eastern Washington University in 2003. I work as an emergency department social worker for Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. My husband is from Auckland, New Zealand, and is a graduate of the University of Auckland’s bachelor’s and master’s programs in marine science. He currently works as a biologist for an environmental consulting company, Ecology & Environment Inc. We plan to remain in Seattle and make it back to Missoula for Griz games whenever we can!”

STACIA ROHER FISHER

governance for sustainable development in the post-socialist context.

Sarah earned a master of science degree in natural resources at the University of Vermont in 2008 and lives in Charlotte, Vt., with her partner, ANDREW JOHNSON, also a 2003 graduate of UM’s forestry program.

NOAH FRANCIS BULLOCK

’04, Usulután Province, El Salvador, and JEFF H. HAMMOND ’04, Santa Cruz, Calif., researched and created That a More Humane World Might Be: A Study of Poverty and Self Development in El Salvador. This narrative and photographic essay documents the Salvadorans’ struggle for social justice, aiming “to educate the public and lay the groundwork for organizations and individuals to support the poor in their constant struggle for a more just society.”

Noah has been living in

El Salvador since August 2005 working as director of community development for the Episcopal missions in Usulután. Jeff first visited El Salvador in 2006 to teach English and music in a community on the outskirts of San Salvador. He began documenting the community and its events with his camera and has returned multiple times. See Jeff ’s photos, read about his and Noah’s research, and learn how to support their project at http:// ElSalvadorProject.wordpress.com.

SARAH M. SEGAL, M.Ed. ’04, Hood River, Oreg., traveled to South Korea this past summer as one of sixty participants in the Korean Studies Workshop for American Educators.

An eighth-grade social studies and mathematics teacher at Hood River Middle School, Sarah visited Seoul and Gyeongju, the historical capital

of Korea. Participants attended lectures, visited sites to learn about Korean history, economics and culture, and met students and teachers at Goyang Foreign Language High School to learn about the Korean educational system.

JED FIEBELKORN, M.S. ’05, landed a television gig as a co-host of Fly Fisherman, a thirteen-episode instructional television show in its inaugural season on the Sportsman Channel. The show took Jed and his co-host to Chile, Texas, and Florida, as each episode features instruction in fishing in cold water, warm water, and salt water. Jed, his wife, Shannon, and twoyear-old son, Owen, live in Florence, where Jed is a full-time fishing guide.

GRACE E. PRICE ’06 obtained her doctorate in physical therapy from Regis University in Denver, Colo., in May. Grace writes that she is “working with children ages birth to three in their

Price

homes in Denver and hope to open my own practice someday, possibly in Montana’s Big Sky Country. During my time in PT school, I travelled to Ethiopia to treat impoverished children with polio. My passion has always been working with children, and I am excited to begin my professional career.”

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about alumni IN MEMORIAM

To be included in “In Memoriam,” the UM Office of Alumni Relations requires a newspaper obituary or a letter of notification from the immediate family. We extend sympathy to the families of the following alumni, faculty, and friends. Names without class or degree years include UM alumni, employees, and friends.

ETHEL HAUGEN JACOBS ’28, Washington, D.C. ELEANOR BOLES PRESTRUD ’32, Kirkland, WA ALICE TAYLOR SNOW ’33, West Lafayette, IN FLORA SPOONER DWYER BROWN ’35,

Hamilton

MARGARET PIERCY JENSEN ’35, Billings JOHN D. “JACK” WAITE ’35, Kingston, NY ROSEMARY GILLIE BROWN ’36, Bellingham, WA PHYLLIS KIGGINS FOSHAY ’36, Billings EUNICE MAE ANDERSON ROYER ’38,

Savannah, GA

BYRON M. LEE ’39, Seattle MIDGE SEIDENSTICKER DUMKE SHAW

Dillon

LUVERNE SERVICK TACKLIND

Santa Cruz, CA

’39,

’39,

JOYCE GRUEL GRAFT ’40, Plano, TX JOHN T. LOUCKS ’40, Rapid City, SD JUDITH JUNE O'BRIEN MERRICK ’40, Helena ERLING K. KARLSGODT ’41, Jamul, CA J. H. “HARRY” BANKS ’42, Billings WANDA GEELHART DAWES HOAG ’42, Billings HELEN MARIE PEARSON TESTER ’42, Hayden, ID ROBERT H. FISHER ’43, Tucson, AZ ROBERT J. GREENE ’43, Anaconda SIDNEY PEARCE KURTH ’43, J.D. ’49, Billings PHYLLLIS SCHELL WEBER ’43, Helena BARBARA WARDEN MCKENZIE ’44, Butte CECILIA BOLD KINCAID BATES ’45, Great Falls BETTY MADISON PYPER ’45, Centralia, WA W. B. “BILL” WELTY ’45, Fort Benton HELEN LEE ATKINSON DAVIDSON ’47,

Jamesville, NY

SHIRLEY K. LARSON ’47, Tucson, AZ JAMES F. MACINTOSH ’47, San Marino, CA JOHN FRANKLIN METCALF ’47, Seattle JANE SOLVIE REUTERWALL ’47, Bozeman HENRY E. RYBUS, M.Ed. ’47, Redmond, WA MARJORIE LANDSRUD SCHARRER ’47,

Great Falls

JEROME “JERRY” ANDERSON, J.D. ’48, Helena FRANK CHAFFEE MCELWAIN ’48, M.Ed. ’63,

Missoula

DALE BURNETT RYAN ’48, Big Sky JERRY H. BREIDENFELD ’49, Ashburn, VA MARCIA MACDONALD CALLAGHAN ’49,

Sun City West, AZ

MILA HARLEY “MICKEY” THERRIEN

Hamilton

VIRGINIA LAVELLE TODD

Bozeman

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Webster Groves, MO

JEAN COMTE KING ’59, Missoula THOMAS LEE MCEACHERON ’59,

Santa Maria, CA

SHEILA CONNOLLY BICKLE ’60, Ismay MONTANA L. BOCKMAN ’60, Ronan ANTHONY CHRISTOPHER GINALIAS, M.A.

Great Falls

THOMAS R. KENNEDY,

Thurmont, MD

FL

’49,

’49, M.Ed. ’57,

’60,

J.D. ’60,

JOAN DRAZICH WILLIAMS ’60, Dickinson, ND KENNETH JESSE BANDELIER, M.Ed. ’62, Ph.D.

’67, Dillon

STEPHEN H. FOSTER, J.D. ’63, Billings ROBERT L. STORCH ’63, Delta, CO GEORGE TKACH ’63, Eden Prairie, MN RICHARD GERALD WHITE ’63, Stockton, CA ALBERT C. FINLEY, M.Ed. ’64, Spokane, WA BARBARA JEAN SHENK ’64, Seattle K ROLLAND ADAMS ’66, Frenchtown KENNETH GENE KNOCHE ’67, M.S. ’68,

Great Falls

Falls Church, VA

LAWRENCE J. CASEY ’49, Cheshire, OR JOHN P. FRANKENFIELD ’49, Bradenton, JACK E. JEFFRIES ’49, Redmond, WA EDWARD RALPH SMITH ’49, Payson, AZ JOE FREDERICK STARK ’49, M.Ed. ’57,

ROGER N. YOULDEN ’49, Lacy, WA JOHN J. CAVAN, J.D. ’50, Billings LLOYD E. DAVIS ’50, Hemet, CA CHARLES K. GEORGE ’50, Missoula BARBARA JEAN HARDIE HANSEN ’50, Billings JAMES A. ROBBIN ’50, Bellevue, WA MARVIN W. TSCHUDIN ’50, Missoula GLADYS C. FERGUSON BLOOM ’51, Helena DONALD W. BROSS ’51, Great Falls RICHARD J. CARSTENSEN, J.D. ’51, Billings BILLIE LOU BERGET KELLY ’51, Butte JOHN P. SPIELMAN ’51, Haverford, PA DOLORES TUBBS TREMPER ’51, Missoula HAZEL JEAN WALDROP ’51, Camarillo, CA PATRICIA CARROLL WOODS ’51, Billings RAYMOND DOCKSTADER ’52, Washington, D.C. RUDY F. FIRM ’52, M.Ed. ’62, Henderson, NV THOMAS I. GETTER ’52, Casper, WY EDWARD J. GRYCZAN ’52, Lakewood, CO GARFIELD O. MUNSON ’52, M.Ed. ’57, Helena GEORGE MADISON SMARTT II ’52, Great Falls JAMES PATRICK FARGO ’53, Bloomington, IN ROBERT WILLIAM KEMLER ’53, Lakeside BRICE TOOLE ’53, Pasadena, CA FRANK. W. BEDEY ’54, M.Ed. ’67, Hamilton L. E. “GENE” CARLSON ’54, Pasco, WA DONALD E. HINTON ’54, Missoula GORDON RAY TRAVIS ’54, Vadnais Heights, MN ROBERT A. ZEIGLER ’56, Lolo WILLIAM EARL ROGERS ’57, M.A. ’58, Seattle WILLIAM ROLSHOVEN, M.Ed. ’57, Missoula GERALD R. CARPENTER ’58, Casper, WY JACOB C. KLESSENS, M.Ed. ’58, Escalon, CA HOWARD M. RABONE ’58, Harrison, AR GLENN L. EVANSON, M.Ed. ’59, Great Falls JOSEPH POWER KELLY ’59, M.A. ’59,

WILMA KING MCCLARTY,

Collegedale, TN

Ed.D. ’68,

MARY ELIZABETH MUNSELL

Billings

’69, M.B.A. ’79,

JAMES RICHARD WEBER ’69, Richland, WA ARTHUR L. WEYDEMEYER ’69, M.A. ’79, Fortine EDWARD J. LEARY ’70, Atlanta, GA ROSEMARY ANDERSON LEWIS ’70, Lewistown RICHARD J. LLEWELLYN, J.D. ’71, Boulder MARK CHARLES MITZMAN ’71, Billings

BARBARA KEELY LOEB,

North Plains, OR

M.A. ’72, Ph.D. ’78,

ROBERT P. NYHUS ’72, Scobey ICHIO IBUKI, M.Ed. ’74, Lethbridge, AB MCDONALD “DON” BLACKBURN ’75, North

Sebastopol, CA

PHYLLIS MADILON MCDONALD,

Helena

M.Ed. ’75,

JASON L. WEISSER, M.Ed. ’76, Duvall, WA KENNETH A. BREWER ’77, Juneau, AK DEBRA DOERFLINGER, M.Ed. ’77, Twin Bridges DIANE GESEK DELANEY ’79, Missoula ELBERT STANLEY HATCHER ’79, M.Ed. ’81, Havre CHARLES E. COULTER ’83, Portland, OR TIMOTHY JOHN GARRITY ’83, Great Falls JEFFREY DEAN HILLIER ’83, Kalispell MELVIN T. KNUDSON ’83, Plains MARK ANTHONY TRUEX ’83, Parker, CO JANE ANN REILLY HARTE ’88, Missoula DEBRA THATCHER GILCREST, J.D. ’90, Missoula MARIE HIGHTOWER REED ’90, Missoula MICHAEL SHAWN SPRAGUE ’91, Great Falls JOEY ALEXANDER JASPERSON ’92, Missoula PHILIP HAYNES LUTES ’93, Arlee ROBERT JOHN BLUMHAGEN, M.B.A. ’94,

Whidby Island, WA

JASON W. SCHAFFER ’96, Missoula THOMAS FRANCIS BLAZ ’99, Butte MARGARET “MEG” HAHR ’01, Munising, MI JULIE KOPITZKE MEITZEL ’01, Billings BRIAN GILMORE STANCIL, Pharm.D. ’03,

Bozeman

KEITH ALBRIGHT, Kalispell LEONARD LEROY BETTS, Great Falls BETTY GRAY BLADES, Longview, WA BRUCE L. BLAKESLEY, Forsyth PAUL B. BLOMGREN, Missoula TARA REISTAD BOWMAN, Bozeman KENNETH CRAIG BRETT, Missoula ROBERT L. “BOBBY” CAHOON, Beaverton, OR CHARLOTTE COOPER, Biloxi, MS KATHRYN LOUISE “KAY” DAGUE, Missoula JACKIE MOSSEY DEMARS, Lewistown BILLIE MARGARET BERINGER EMBODY,

Cut Bank

RALPH EMMETT FILCHER, East Helena BRUCE H. GILMORE, Alberton RICHARD GOTSHALK, Sheridan BRADLEY P. HEINRICH, Ronan FREDERICK ROBIN HOOD, Superior EDWARD L. HUTTON, Indian Hill, OH WILLIAM WINSLOW LAYMAN, Billings BROOKE BILLLINGS LEONARD,

Gaithersburg, MD

MARY CORBITT LEWIS, Butte AARON D. LIKERIC, Missoula LINDA MILLER BENNETT LLEWELLYN, Florence WILFORD J. LUNDBERG, Chinook DAVID WAYNE MADSEN, Phoenix CLIFFORD ROBERT MINNER, Missoula JO-ANNE MUSSELMAN, Missoula CARLY ANN NELSON, Helena WILMA O'GARA, Missoula ROBERT PETER JOSEPH ROGERS, Seeley Lake BRETT VAUGHN SHAFER, Helena CONNIE MARIE STAUDOHAR, Bozeman BETH CURTIS BURNETTE WEIS, Hamilton CLARENCE D. WESTBROOK, Sheridan, WY MONTANAN FALL 2009 |

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Students prepare to plant a tree on campus during Aber Day in 1986.

Lipstick and makeup are banned at Aber Day.

The Mansfield Library sponsors an Aber Day run.

The UM Speech and Debate Team holds a daylong Aber Day debate tournament.

1986

Caker Day is held, along with campus cleanup, tree planting, a letter writing campaign to alumni and legislators, fun runs, and cake served on the Oval.

1982

1977

UM President Robert Pantzer barbecues a buffalo on the Oval. Campus cleanup and tree planting are again held, along with raft races, Frisbee, and a flycasting tournament.

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1969

1955

1954

1953

1940

Cleanup duties include painting campus lampposts and polishing their globes.

Liquid Assets, Inc. sponsors the first library fundraiser, raising thousands of dollars for what was then called the University Library (now the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library).

The Spurs meet a water barrage when entering Jumbo Hall to awaken male students. Jumbo Hall, which was erected in 1946, is University no longer around. It Day is held in was torn down in lieu of Aber Day. 1960.

Lunch is served on the Oval.

Foresters rebuild the M for Aber Day. Future Aber Days canceled.

1939

1929

1918

April 16, UM’s first Aber Day. Male students build three tennis courts, lay out a new baseball diamond, and repair the boardwalk connecting UM to the Van Buren Street Bridge. Female students serve nearly 1,000 sandwiches, beans, ice cream, and cookies on the Oval.

Students, staff, and faculty participate in community service projects, including the Clark Fork River cleanup and Mount Sentinel weed control.

The day ends with a concert in Caras Park.

2009

The traditional Aber Day pie-eating contest is won by Don Orlich.

1972

The Kaimin reports that graduate student A.G. Somers withdrew from UM after twice brandishing a gun when harassed by lettermen for not participating in Aber Day events.

1915

beautification resulted in a revered tradition of UM students and faculty spending a day doing the same.

Efforts to resurrect and reinvent Aber Day continue. From fun runs to fundraisers, from tree plantings to the Clark Fork River cleanup, “Daddy” Aber’s presence still pervades campus.

Bonnie Raitt appears at Aber Day festivities.

Clarence Prescott stands in front of the newly completed Aber Hall, named after William “Daddy” Aber built in 1967.

1947

THROUGHOUT THE DECADES

For forty years UM students and faculty conducted an annual spring cleaning of campus. By the midfifties, however, many students found an April day of canceled classes too tempting and sneaked off to their own activities. Traditional shamings for those who sought other fun no longer held sway, and the event, first held on April 16, 1915, to honor William “Daddy” Aber, one of the University’s original faculty members, was canceled in 1954. Aber, who taught Latin and Greek, was a self-appointed campus custodian. Known to dig up trees on Mount Sentinel and replant them on campus, Aber’s dedication to campus

2006

A QUIET APRIL MORNING suddenly bursts alive with the bells of Main Hall. Classes are canceled, A campus and by 8 A.M. beautification day all students morphed throughout and faculty are expected on the the years, but one Oval—ready thing is certain— for the annual Aber Day will forever cleanup. There carry a spirit can be no excuses. of service Morning activities include raking, tree planting, painting, and rubbish gathering.

Primary elections for student body offices are held, followed by lunch on the Oval. Afternoon includes a pieeating contest, sack and wheelbarrow races, student-faculty softball and tennis games, and class tug-of-war competitions. Most everyone returns for the evening barbecue and dance.

Another Aber Day becomes memories.

1987

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Aber Day Deeds

Lamppost painting, The Sentinel, 1929; Makeup removal, The Sentinel, 1939; Clarence Prescott in front of Aber Hall, UM’s K. Ross Toole Archives, 69273-04; Bonnie Raitt, Norm Olson; Aber Day run, K. Ross Toole Archives, UM93-0362; Aber Day tree planting, UM’s K. Ross Toole Archives, 506806-5.

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Lamppost painting, The Sentinel, 1929; Makeup removal, The Sentinel, 1939; Clarence Prescott in front of Aber Hall, UM’s K. Ross Toole Archives, 69273-04; Bonnie Raitt, Norm Olson; Aber Day run, K. Ross Toole Archives, UM93-0362; Aber Day tree planting, UM’s K. Ross Toole Archives, 506806-5.

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