ABOUT ALUMNI
Class Notes are compiled by Betsy Brown Holmquist ’67, M.A. ’83. Submit news to the UM Alumni Association, Brantly Hall, Missoula, MT 59812. You may fax your news to (406) 243-4467 or e-mail it to support@UMontanaAlumni.org. Material in this issue reached our office by January 14, 2005. Please contact UMAA with all name and address updates at the above addresses or phone 877-UM-ALUMS.
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 Judy Stocking Doxtater ’67, Kalispell, and Heidi Clark Harsha ’67, Columbus, were UM roommates more than forty years ago. This past summer they paired up again—spending two months volunteering at an orphanage in Balama, Mozambique, Africa. Judy set up a preschool—the first of its kind in Balama District. “It’s incredible what she’s given the people of Balama,” Heidi writes. “I was her right-hand man in this and I worked at the nutrition center with malnourished women and children. I also taught some English to the pastors and their sons.” The women lived without electricity, running water or mail deliveries. “There wasn’t a piece of paper to be found or pencil or crayon,” Heidi writes. Both women have been involved with social work and missions throughout their lives. “We’ve wanted to contribute like this for some time now,” Heidi concludes, “and we decided we needed to do it before we start falling apart!” Judy has returned to her twenty-four year career as a kindergarten teacher in Kalispell. Her younger son, Jed, is a senior at UM. Heidi, and her husband, Wayne Harsha ’67, are completing a move from San Antonio, Texas, to Columbus, Montana. |
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’20s Florence C. Prendergast Wilson ‘27 celebrated her 100th birthday on November 21, 2004, at a community party in Toledo, Oregon. “Keeping active has a great deal to do with longevity,” Floss reports. Her daughter, Pat Prendergast Curry ‘53, adds: “Mom doesn’t waste any time. ‘Let me get my shoes on,’ she’ll say. ‘Where are we going?’”
’50s Ted Hilgenstuhler ’50, Simi Valley, California, has written Super-Chips in the Big Sky, a one-hour play about two GIs who meet after twenty-five years, and Just Between Us, a TV series and book chronicling forty-five years of journalism. Watch clips of both at www.wgn.net/~hilgy/.
Ivan L. O’Neil ’50 was recognized as the 2004 Businessman of the Year by the Kalispell Chamber of Commerce. Co-founder of Western Building Center and Three Rivers Bank, Ivan was noted for his “unmatched work ethic and energy” and for the balance he maintains among work, family, and faith.
Dan G. Block ’53, M.S. ’55, Ed.D. ’73, Dillon, had the Office-Classroom Building at UM-Western named in his honor, the Daniel G. Block Hall. A professor of biological sciences at UM-Western from 1961 to 1985, Dan was noted for his pioneering work in outdoor classroom teaching, for securing a grant to establish an emergency medical technician program at Western, and for developing the college’s first drug education class and four-year Natural Heritage degree program. Following retirement, Dan taught classes in Western’s Elderhostel program, authored several books, and was chosen Emeritus Professor of the Year for his work as senior editor on the Western Montana College Centennial History. “I have been greatly honored by the support of former students, faculty, friends, and family,” Dan writes. “UM deserves credit for having provided me with the background to build on. I owe a lot to many outstanding professors and regret that they are no longer present to thank in person.”
R. Charles “Chuck” Robbin ’55, Great Falls, has logged more than 1,000 hours as a volunteer at the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center. Following college, Chuck was a navigator with the U.S. Air Force and ran the Officers Club and food squadron at Malmstrom Air Force Base. He taught history for twenty-seven years at North Middle School and Skyline, retiring in 1995. Chuck served twenty-three years with the Montana Air Guard and has held volunteer and board positions with United Way, the Food Bank, and Boy Scouts.
Dean Hellinger ’56, Devon, award-winning photographer and horse-radish grower, has created note cards featuring a composite of Grizzly booster license plates. Dean is currently producing a video honoring the centennial of the Enlarged Homestead Act of 1909. This act increased the acreage allotment from 160 to 320 acres, changing forever the dry land frontier in eastern Montana. Dean is looking for black-and-white photos of eastern Montana from 1900 to 1930 to use in the video. Contact him at deanhellinger@mac.com
’60s
Joanne Hassing Ritvo ’64, M.A. ’66, and her husband, Jonathan Ritvo, were elected by their peers as two of the top 205 doctors in the Denver metro area. Profiled in the October 2004 issue of 5280: Denver’s Mile-High Magazine, the Ritvos practice at Denver Health. Joanne specializes in eating disorders and Jonathan in inpatient substance abuse. Both are senior examiners for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Joanne is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado Medical School and for three years chaired the American Psychiatric Association Assembly. The Ritvos have three children, all currently attending college.
Paula Latham Wilmot ’67 observed her thirty-fifth anniversary as a Great Falls Tribune reporter/writer in October 2004.
Nancy R. Marmont ’69, M.A. ’72, is in her third year of teaching French at the Anglo American School of Moscow, Russia. Nancy teaches children of diplomats and international business people from more than sixty countries. A former French teacher at Missoula’s Sentinel High School, Nancy traveled extensively while based in Moscow—from Siberia, Poland, and Estonia to Vietnam, Thailand, Italy, France, and Egypt. This spring she will visit Kenya and Berlin, returning to Missoula in June.
Carey Smith ’69, M.S. ’78, and his wife, Kandi Bisson Smith ’70, live in Vancouver, Washington. Cary retired in January 2004, following thirty years as a federal employee, and now owns an environmental consulting firm. His earlier career spanned years as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force and as an employee of the Fish and Wildlife Service. In 2004 Carey received the Ducks Unlimited Conservation Achievement Award. The Smiths have two sons—Kyle, who attends law school at the University of Oregon, and Chadd, who manages endangered species habitat for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on the Island of Kauai, Hawaii. Carey and Kandi send best wishes to their UM friends and report that they will try to attend Homecoming this fall.
’70s
George C. Manner, M.F.A. ’73, Santa Fe, New Mexico, has written a chapbook of poems, My View of the Mountain, available from Red Wing Press.
James R. Shrosbree, M.F.A. ’73, is an associate professor in the School of Arts at Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa. He held a one-person exhibition of his works, most of them made from clay, at the Des Moines Art Center Downtown this past fall. James’s work also has been shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Honolulu, and the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Dale R. Harris ’74, Missoula, received a $10,000 ChevronTexaco Corporation Conservation Award in September for his work on the proposed Great Burn Wilderness on the Montana/Idaho border. Dale co-founded the Great Burn Study Group, which is seeking national wilderness designation for this 300,000-acre area.
Roger L. King ’74, North Hollywood, California, has been an art director, set designer, construction coordinator, and prop maker in motion pictures and television for eighteen years. He received an Emmy for art direction in 1994 for the HBO production Carnivale. Currently Roger is working on the HBO series Big Love.
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P.J. Wright—UMAA’s Charter Day Award Winner 2005 By Betsy Holmquist P.J. Wright, a.k.a. Patti Jo Shaw ’62, received this year’s Montana Alumni Award at Charter Day. Born in Butte and raised in Deer Lodge, P.J. won campus hearts early. As a freshman she was Miss M.S.U., later winning campus, state, and national Miss Wool pageants. A serious journalism student, P.J. is most proud of editing Venture, the campus literary magazine. “I patterned it after the New Yorker,” P.J. says, “and one of my contributors was Mary Clearman Blew ’62, M.A. ’63.” P.J. was the women’s editor for the Anchorage Times, a feature editor for the Charlottesville, Virginia, Progress, and a board member of the American Newspaper Women’s Club. She spent seventeen years in Washington DC as an account executive with an all-women public relations firm. While there she became the first woman member of the Federal City Club and served two terms as president of the Montana State Society. Later she was director of sales for the Miami Dolphins football team. Today she works her public relations magic from an office off the lobby of the Holiday Inn Parkside in downtown Missoula. For the past ten years she’s been its director of sales and marketing. Not much goes on around Missoula or campus that skirts P.J. Phone calls flow daily between her office and UM’s many departments as arrangements are made—and often remade—for dignitaries, adjudicators, visiting teams, parents, reunion attendees, and always Homecoming. “The good thing about being this age and in this job is that I know most of the alums who come back now for Homecoming,” she laughs. “I’m really comfortable with my work. Homecoming is a big deal for the city as well as for the University. We want people to come back and we do everything we can so they will.” |
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Kathryn C. “Kit” Herndon ’74 writes from Boise, Idaho, where she works in the family-owned business, Peasley Transfer & Storage/Allied Van Lines, “I’m very active in waterskiing, snow-skiing, tennis, biking, swimming, a little golf, and whatever else I can find to do. I’m very proud to tell others I’m a Griz alum and appreciate correspondence from the University.” Before returning to Boise, Kit used her recreation degree from UM as a pool manager in Farmington, New Mexico, as a boating director in Chicago, and as an after-school sports director in the Bronx, New York. She has two grown children, Chad and Brittany. “Call me if I can help you with a move!” she concludes.
Lynn M. Hansen ’76 wrote to identify her mother, Dorothy Lazarus Hansen ’56, as one of the Aquamaids (third from the left) in the large photo on page 40 of the Winter 2004 Montanan. “Mother married Dick Hansen ’53 in 1954 and still lives in Worden.” Lynn is manager of protocol for the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Denver. “It’s a great job and I love living in Denver,” she writes. “I got married last August to David Kipp, a Cal State Fullerton grad. Watch for my niece, Mom’s granddaughter, Mandy Morale—she’s a freshman on the Lady Griz!”
Mary Robert Dann ’77, Richland, Washington, was named the Southeastern Washington Teacher of the Year. A music teacher at Sacajawea Elementary School in Richland, Mary helped develop a music curriculum for the district, was a member of Richland’s task force, coordinated the district’s elementary music program, and served on the school’s building improvement committee. She also is an adjunct professor at Washington State University at Tri-Cities. Recently Mary achieved National Board Certification as an early and middle childhood music teacher.
David R. Hunt ’77 retired two years ago as vice president and director of technology for A.G. Edwards in St. Louis and moved to Whitefish with his wife, Linda, and their two children. Since 2003 David has donated his time and aircraft to flying needy patients to medical care, first with AirLifeline and now with Angel Flight West. David is the wing leader for Angel Flight West, taking over for his friend, Jim Long, who was killed flying in September. David hopes to expand the grassroots team of support pilots. “It’s been humbling,” he says. “It minimizes your own problems and has made me thankful for what I have.”
John P. “Mickey” McKenna ’78, a retired U.S. Air Force major, administered the oath of service to his son, Mike McKenna, a Navy aviator, during the Christmas holiday at the McKenna family home in Anaconda. Mike’s older brother, Lt. Col. John P. “Chip” McKenna Jr. ’87, an endocrinologist for the Air Force, had traveled from Fairfield, California, for the event. Mickey taught Mike how to fly at the Missoula airport when Mike was nineteen. Mike has now recorded 420 landings atop aircraft carriers. “My dad has always set an amazing example for me as a military officer and as a person,” he commented.
Craig W. Crawford ’79, was appointed January 1 to the International Federation of Accountants’ International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board. Craig will work with IAASB members worldwide, determining how auditors can best meet the needs of the public. Craig lives in Darien, Connecticut, and is a partner in KPMG LLP’s national office.
’80s
Douglas B. Troost ’80 taught music for twenty-one years in Wolf Point before moving to Lakeside. He reports he “sets out most days in search of a musical encounter.” Doug teaches chorus at Thompson Falls High School and at Spring Creek Lodge Academy outside Thompson Falls. His combined chorus from the two schools has a repertoire that includes sacred music, madrigal, pop, classic rock, and gospel—performed with choralography, hand and body movements Doug teaches to correspond to the songs. Some days he’s off to Polson and Ronan to teach private guitar and voice lessons. Other days he’s the traveling sales rep for JMar Music in Great Falls, selling band instruments across western Montana. Then, there’s his weekend and summer DJ business, Extremely Tuned, its name a spin-off of his former high school rock band,
Tucson Ned. Need music? Call Doug!
Bob Sanderman ’81, Whitefish, is manager of the Stillwater State Forest for the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. Beginning January 1, he is also a Type 1 Incident Commander for one of the nation’s seventeen elite disaster-response teams. In this position, Bob travels the country, managing responses to wildfires and other disasters such as hurricanes. Bob is most proud of his near thirty-year fire fighting career. The day he turned eighteen, he joined the night crew and fought the Pattee Canyon fire outside Missoula. It was the first day he was legally allowed to fight fire.
Lucy Hicks Denham ’82 and Kristi Kliber Larsen ’83, pictured here last October in Venice, Italy, meet often in Europe. Kristi teaches at the American School on the NATO base outside of Brussels and Lucy travels to Europe as a director with Carnival Corporation. Lucy’s home is in Wayzala, Minnesota.
John G. Connors ’84, Medina, Washington, has joined Ignition Partners LLC, a venture-capital firm founded by former executives from Microsoft and McCaw. John is the former chief financial officer for Microsoft.
John F. McCann ’86, ’88 writes from Lake Forest Park, Washington: “After almost twenty years, I am finally utilizing my communication and business degrees by being a business manager for Aramark.” John recently received his M.B.A. degree from the University of Phoenix.
Shane Bishop ’87, a producer for Dateline NBC, received an Emmy for the program’s coverage of the Elizabeth Smart abduction, producing an hour-long TV magazine two days after she was found that detailed her abduction and safe return. “The quick turn-around time on the piece may have impressed the judges,” Shane says. Before receiving the Emmy, Shane had been in Athens, Greece, where he produced coverage of the Olympic games. Shane and his wife, Erika Colness Bishop ’89, live in Jacksonville, Oregon, with their three children.
Lisa M. Fosbender ’87, M.A. ’97, Ph.D. ’99, has been appointed associate professor of psychology at Gulf Coast Community College in Panama City, Florida. Lisa writes that since graduation she has “taught at colleges in Pennsylvania, New York, and South Carolina, as well as working one winter selling trolley tickets in Key West and a summer as a tour guide in Charleston, South Carolina.”
Mike Nordstrom ’89 and his brother Tim, a.k.a. Montana Tunesmith, have recorded the albums Under Yellowstone Skies and Life is for the Living. They live in Red Lodge, where Mike is an X-ray technician. Tim commutes to Billings, where he’s coordinating a Homeland Security grant to train healthcare professionals in bioterrorism and disaster preparedness throughout the state.
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From Alaska With Love Andrea Greene has a passion for Russian and for her native Alaska. Having studied Russian through her high school years, Andrea chose to attend UM because of its Russian language program. On campus she tutored students in the Russian language and became a member of Phil Maloney’s Russian Roundtable. During her senior year, Andrea lived and studied at the Institute of Youth in Moscow, Russia, where she ranked first in the program. Andrea returned to UM, finished her bachelor’s degree in Russian, and received the Presidential Medal for Outstanding Senior of Foreign Languages in 1999. Barbie Easley ’98, Florence, met Andrea in a Russian class and they have remained close friends. “I expect her to run the country some day,” Barbie says, citing Andrea’s commitment, communication skills, focus, professionalism, and intellect. Andrea’s good looks, a blend of Inupiaq and Aleut, seem to run in the family. She was named Miss Arctic Circle, a title held by her great aunt in the late 1940s. Andrea’s off to law school this fall at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where she’ll focus on environmental and natural resource law. She eventually wants to practice in Alaska, “to protect the health and welfare of Alaska natives and our lands,” she explains. For now, she’s home in Kotzebue, thirty miles north of the Arctic Circle, working for the Northwest Arctic Borough. |
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Joseph R. Whittinghill ’89, director of employee learning and development for Microsoft Corporation in Seattle, was interviewed in Connections, a publication of the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University, where Joe received his master’s degree in 2000. In the article Joe speaks about the need for employees to imagine new technologies, new solutions, and new possibilities for themselves. Joe is a past president of the UM Alumni Association Board of Directors.
’90s
Brian D. Bizzano ’92 e-mailed us just days after the Indian Ocean tsunami to report that, as a major in the Marine Corps Reserve, he was activated as a logistics operations center watch officer for Combined Support Force 536. He was helping coordinate supplies into Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Thailand. Currently based in Okinawa, Brian’s home is Bel Air, Maryland, where he is the director of trading controls for the Constellation Commodities Group in Baltimore.
Eric D. Borggard ’92 joined A.G. Edwards & Sons after twelve years with D.A. Davidson. He lives in Great Falls with his wife, Brenda, daughter, Quincey, and son, Kellen.
William F. Burns ’92, a negotiator for El Paso Corporation, writes from Ohio: “We will be moving soon to Indianapolis. I still play pick-up basketball at noon like I used to at McGill Hall. Now I spend most of my spare time with my family [wife Lisa, children Zach, Ryan, and Abby], write music, and play my acoustic guitar. … The best friendships I ever established were at UM. I love the Griz and keep up with the football and basketball programs.”
Jim Joyner ’92, Missoula, e-mails, “Although I didn’t win the Missoulian’s fan of the year contest, I won the EA Sports Show Us Your Game Face contest! (See story on page 12.) Jim’s brother, Tim Joyner ’93, who accompanied him to Chattanooga, gets the credit for Jim’s creative game faces. An artist in Hamilton, Tim has done everything from airbrushing Jim to making plaster casts of his head in this winning endeavor. Watch for more to come from the Joyner brothers.
Morgan Kinross-Wright ’92, Owatonna, Minnesota, is director of the Undergraduate Business Career Center at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. Previously, Morgan was associate director of corporate services at the Carlson School.
Kathrin Larson Youngberg ’93 and Leif Youngberg, Portland, Oregon, announce the November 26, 2004, birth of their son, Niklas Ralph Youngberg. Just weeks before his birth, Kathrin won the Portland chapter of the Public Relations Society of America’s Ron Schmidt Community Involvement Award for outstanding use of public relations to support community improvement. Kathrin is vice president and director of client services for Maxwell PR and leads the firm’s efforts for three large nonprofits.
Eathan J. Guler ’94, Kenosha, Wisconsin, develops character education and job-to-work programs for Learning for Life, an independent subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America. Eathan earned his M.Ed. in educational leadership from National-Louis University in 1999 and is pursuing a master’s degree in organizational leadership from Capella University.
Michael Francis ’97 and his wife,
Jennifer Kleffner ’98, live in Bayfield, Colorado. Michael is a biologist with the Bureau of Reclamation doing wetland and wildlife mitigation work for water development projects. He also is pursuing a master’s degree in natural resource development with Texas A & M. Jennifer is an environmental educator with the nonprofit organization Durango Nature Studies. “Thanks to UM for being a great springboard,” Michael writes.
Jason D. Westfal ’98 and
Tana Lozeau Westfall ’95 live in Kiowa, Colorado, where Jason is a principal for Kiowa Elementary and Middle School. Jason recently completed his M.A. in education administration and supervision from the University of Phoenix. He and Tana have been married twelve years.
New Life Members
The following alumni and friends have made a commitment to the future of the UM Alumni Association by becoming life members. You can join them by calling 877-862-5867 or visiting our Web site, www.UMontanaAlumni.org. Annual memberships and payment plans are available. The Alumni Association thanks them for their support.
Stephen Peter Attardi ’67, Bayonne, NJ
Donn Thomas Ault ’00, Richland, WA
Eric D. Botterbusch ’87, Everett, WA
Christine E. Brummer ’81, Ann Arbor, MI
Ronald W. Brunell ’71, Missoula
Clifford F. Christensen, Portland, OR
Michael J. Covey ’80, Roswell, GA
Tyler J. Disburg ’03, Missoula
Peter B. Donovan, M.P.A. ’92, Helena
Jacqueline A. Elam ’97, Missoula
Edna LaFrance Finholm ’66, Missoula
Darris R. Flanagan ’73, Fortine
Kristine L. Foot ’80, J.D. ’85, Missoula
Kristi Lynn Frank ’02, Rochester, MN
Gary L. Graham, J.D. ’69, Missoula
C. Gail Guntermann ’60, Tempe, AZ
Bernard E. Hale ’67, Asheville, NC
Brenda Weyermann Hanson ’90, Kalispell
Eric J. Hanson ’95, Kalispell
Donde Hayes, Great Falls
Thomas M. Hayes ’99, Great Falls
Lila A. Isbell ’87, Columbus, OH
Nicole L. Jennings ’98, Anchorage, AK
Bernard J. Klouda ’75, Anchorage, AK
Mary Brick Knowles, M.A. ’78, Traverse City, MI
Vasilios G. Koures ’84, Missoula
Joseph M. Leimkuhler ’81, Mandeville, LA
Geri M. Lincoln ’88, Haugan
Alice Cook Madison ’77, Golden, CO
April Marsh Markovich, M.B.A. ’01, Butte
Lino A. Marsillo ’57, J.D. ’61, Missoula
Sherry Coll Marsillo, M.Ed. ’75, Missoula
Carolyn Cordwell McCarthy ’69, Tucson, AZ
Randall L. Mee, M.B.A. ’89, Missoula
Dennis Scott Miller ’99, Hamilton
Donald R. Murphy ’72, Stevensville
Akiko Priscila Oncken ’00, Gaithersburg, MD
Scott A. Oncken ’00, Gaithersburg, MD
David Dominic Petelin ’73. M.S. ’76, Missoula
Kathryn Fenner Pritchard ’77, Missoula
Ralph K. Pritchard ’78, Missoula
Lacey E. Rieker ’01, Missoula
Patrick M. Risken ’81, Spokane, WA
Judith B. Rollins ’62, M.A.’63, Salt Lake City
Fred I. Root ’71, Las Vegas
Christopher W. Ruff ’93, Bothell, WA
Katie Rupert Ruff ’93, Bothell, WA
Meg Ratzburg Sampson ’97, M.P.A. ’99, Missoula
Nellie R. M. Sherman, M.Ed. ’81, Butte
Janelle M. Swenson ’88, Missoula
Brandie Lynn Terpe ’01, Missoula
Gordon Eric Terpe ’99, Missoula
Dianna K. Tickner, M.B.A. ’92, Collinsville, IL
Tim M. Turman, Denver
David D. Urie ’71, The Woodlands, TX
Bradley C. Veis ’83, Fairfield
Dirk A. Williams ’80, J.D. ’85, Missoula
Matthew W. Woodcock ’03, Missoula
Judith Tait Zundel ’78, Anchorage, AK
Robert M. Zundel ’82, Anchorage, AK
In Memoriam
To be included in In Memoriam, the Alumni Association requires a news-paper obituary or a letter of notification from the immediate family. We extend our sympathy to the families of the following alumni, faculty, and friends.
’20s
Pearl Leonard Marsh ’28, Portland, OR
’30s
June Donaldson Akin ’30, Cheyenne, WY
Mary Davenport Deeney ’31, Portland, OR
Beth Manis Gannon ’32, Freeland, WA
Adelaine Stillings Midgett ’33, Missoula
Joy Browning Warden ’33, San Diego
Gordon C. Buck ’36, Glendale, CA
Elbert H. Cosman ’36, Billings
Harriet Calhoun Geden ’36, M.Ed. ’56, West Bloomfield, MI
Virginia Bode Lohmiller ’36, Crosslake, MN
Bernice Granmo McDonald ’37, Missoula
Eleanor Lux Terrill ’37, Helena
Ken A. Ingram ’38, Reno, NV
Isabel McClintock Bitz ’39, Box Elder
Alberta Flatten McKinnon ’39, Missoula
Cyril Murray Morrison ’39, Havre
’40s
Margaret Carlson Julius ’40, Boise, ID
Robert T. Pantzer ’40, J.D. ’47, Missoula
Harold G. Paulson, M.A. ’40, Homewood, IL
William “Bud” Rolston ’40, Forsyth
Lois Bauer West ’40, Billings
Mora Doherty Wiprud ’40, Great Falls
In Memoriam continued
Elsie Hanson Anderson ’41, Dillon
Frances Simons Purvis Batenburg ’41, Princeton, NJ
Geraldine James Markytan ’41, Woodinville,WA
Jean Holzknecht Anderson ’42, Bonner
Orian “Ode” Cusker ’42, Glendive
Bernard Gerard Shepherd ’42, Helena
Gene Maurice Barsness ’43, Laurel
Philip M. Yovetich ’43, Missoula
J. Stanley Kimmit ’44, McLean, VA
William V. Moore, J.D. ’44, Billings
Bud Rosar Hayhurst ’45, Sublimity, OR
Lester Grant Sooy ’46, Bryant, AR
Edwin G. Kellner, M.A. ’48, Helena
Lola Falkenhain Nichols ’48, Lamar, CO
Doris Swords Poppler, J.D. ’48, Billings
Gerald M. Smeltzer ’48, E. Wenatachee, WA
Clovis L. Birdsill ’49, Dillon
Joseph Maitin ’49, M.Ed. ’59, Ennis
’50s
Beverly Way Bemis ’50, Coeur d’Alene, ID
John A. Forsythe, J.D. ’50, Billings
Donald R. Knoll ’50, Billings
Russell H. Lukens ’50, Wenatchee, WA
June Cummins Merley ’50, Albuquerque, NM
Douglas A. Solvie ’50, Spokane, WA
Emmet T. Walsh ’50, LL.B. ’51, J.D. ’53, Seattle
William J. Allen ’51, Hazel Crest, IL
James B. Farrell ’51, Kalispell
Elmer J. Hotvedt ’51, Ennis
Jerome Levine ’51, Highland Park, IL
Peder Moe ’51, ’53, LL.B. ’55, Billings
Helen M. Nelson ’51, Oceanside, OR
Gayle Sweedland Bauer ’52, Forsyth
Joseph H. Small ’52, Spokane, WA
Robert Bradley Abbott ’53, Helena
Peggy Ann Eder Fitschen ’53, Ronan
Charles R. Gansel ’53, Cottage Grove, OR
H. Richard Hansen ’53, Worden
Alta Standiford Kuehn ’53, SeaTac, WA
Jack W. Olsson ’53, Ronan
Dave A. Weistaner ’53, Coeur d’Alene, ID
Richard A. Faurot ’54, Park Falls, WI
Philippe G. Hammerness ’54, San Jose, CA
Marlyn G. “Huz” Jensen ’54, Kalispell
Rosemary Laing Erickson ’55, Helena
Richard D. Jaraczeski ’55, Great Falls
Rudy John “Skip” Stoll ’55, Whitehall
Joyce Hickey Redding ’56, Stevensville
James D. Owens ’57, Miami, FL
John Allen Cannon ’58, Stevensville
Joyce DeCock Hert ’58, Billings
Odin C. Vick ’58, M.S. ’60, Hamilton
Joseph Edward Hughes ’59, Helena
Ivan E. MacDiarmid ’59, Port Orchard, WA
’60s
Donald George Bloom ’61, Helena
Barbara Tippett Jones ’61, Helena
Vernon G. Nelson ’61, Port Orchard, WA
Ruth Gardiner Buck ’62, Hot Springs
Valarah Jelley Johnson ’62, M.Ed. ’69, Missoula
John E. Kenneally ’62, Issaquah, WA
Jack R. Mehlhose ’62, Clancy
Werner Held ’63, Lynnwood, WA
Carl R. Schwertfeger ’63, Plymouth, WI
Sandra Piccinini Smith ’63, Missoula
Linda Storm Fredericks ’64, Lafayette, CO
Florian “F.J.” Gies III, M.Ed. ’65, Green Valley, AZ
Roy Allen Lanier ’65, Billings
William H. Walter ’65, Walnut Creek, CA
John Paul Wilson ’66, Missoula
Lorena Horner Normandeau ’68, Missoula
Sheila Hanley Roberts ’68, Renton, WA
Douglas Kimmerle McLure ’69, Red Lodge
Thomas Francis O’Brien, M.A. ’69, Great Falls
’70s
Jerry N. Olson ’70, Dutton
Gregory Alan Ammerman ’73, Missoula
Ken Rasmussen ’73, Kirkland, WA
Cynthia Cook Kingston ’76, Missoula
Michael A. DeGuire ’77, McMinnville, OR
Stephen J. Fleming ’79, Amboy, IL
Ellen Ditzler Meloy, M.S. ’79, Bluff, UT
Christine Clemo Near ’79, Whitehall
’80s
Donald Neil Klaudt ’80, Post Falls, ID
Mary Ellen Houtchens Horton ’82,
’84, M.A. ’86, Boulder
Gregory Lee Mitchell ’82, Great Falls
Glenn R. Janes ’83, Deer Lodge
’90s
Robert Allen Tollefson ’90, Missoula
Scott Warren Aikins ’92, Missoula
Kenneth John Crowley ’92, Missoula
Angela Northey Bauer ’98, Florence
In Memoriam continued
’00s
Brandon Jack Speth ’01, Bozeman
Nathaniel Elisher Stevens ’02, Missoula
Bryan George Nelson ’03, Lolo
Franklin Hanus Blackmer, Helena
William Skelly Burford, Dallas
James D. Daniel, Missoula
Lenus John Ekstrand, Missoula
David Merrill Fisher, Pleasant Grove, UT
Margaret Hammill, Missoula
Doris A. Keith, Missoula
Richard G. Landini, Terre Haute, IN
Eddie Keith McElroy, Missoula
Mitsuru “Jim” Nakamur, Missoula
Darby Lee Nelson, Seeley Lake
Lee A. Paris, Excelsior, MN
Leonard Edgar Porter, Pullman, WA
Lisa Renee Roybal, Missoula
Jared Quin Shorter, Atlanta, GA
Carl J. Urbach, Clinton
Frank Ursich, Helena
Robert E. Vallance, Missoula
Margaret Moser Wallace, Missoula
Roy Emerson Wenger, Missoula
Frank A. Zuerner, Madison, WI
Births
Marin Elise to Kari Culbert Buffington ’92 and Jack Buffington, December 10, 2003, Denver
Nicholas Sherman Sennett to
Frank R. Sennett, M.F.A. ’93 and Heather Lalley Sennett, February 2, 2004, Liberty Lake, WA
Lorna Elizabeth Schuckert to
Kathey Cummings Schuckert ’95 and
Scot M. Schuckert ’95, March 31, 2004, Ames, IA
Henry George Ballinger to Britt Streets Ballinger ’97 and William C. Ballinger ’92, July 20, 2004, Missoula
Josiah Roman Cuaresma to Jen Zellmer Cuaresma ’98 and Nito Cuaresma, November 20, 2004, Missoula
Noah Frederick Wastcoat to John B. Wastcoat ’93 and Valerie Wastcoat, December 20, 2004, Needham, ME
Carter Bennett Durkin to Lisette F. Carter ’90 and Tim Durkin, January 3, 2005, Spokane, WA
Benefactors Society of the UM President’s Club
New members, whose lifetime giving reached the $100,000 level since the Fall 2004 Montanan was published, include:
Platinum Level
($1 million or more)
Lloyd G. and Betty Schermer
Copper Level
($100,000 or more)
Ted R.’49 and Juanita Kugler ’52 Burton
George M. ’62, M.A. '63 and Jane I. Dennison
Ted Hilgenstuhler ’50
Gold Level
($500,000 or more)
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Silver Level
($250,000 or more)
Gilbert Milllikan ’59 Estate
Alice Pollner
