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UM FoundationGifts for Mom and Dad Many donors, recalling that their own respect of education and love for UM developed because of their mothers’ and fathers’ influence, choose to honor or memorialize their parents with gifts to the University.
Throughout her childhood and beyond, there were always pharmacy students training in her father’s drugstores, so Betty S. Pew Lohn ’50, Missoula, made a gift to the School of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences in memory of her father, Jack Stoick, a long-time Missoula pharmacist. Lohn spent a lot of time in her family’s drugstores: “As young as 10, I was behind the counter at our store in South Dakota.” When the family moved to Missoula, she still worked in the store and was aware of the many student interns from UM that her father supervised. Through her memorial, the student lounge in the Skaggs Building was named for Jack Stoick. Lohn is very proud that it sees a lot of use by current students. “I feel that I’m perpetuating my dad’s memory through young people today,” she says. “He was very much interested in encouraging those who wanted to have their own drugstores. I think he’d like me to continue to help pharmacy students.” As a widow with two young daughters to support through her teaching, Louise Lilly McBride ’29 knew she needed an advanced degree. To earn that degree, she took classes during her summers breaks from teaching Spanish at Montana School of Mines (now Montana Tech of The University of Montana) and earned a master’s degree at UM in 1951.
Such determination, love of languages, culture and politics inspired her daughter Dorothy McBride Stetson of Boca Raton, Florida, to establish a scholarship in McBride’s memory for UM students to study abroad. McBride’s love of languages and politics had influenced her daughters and Stetson now hopes for others to be influenced by her mother as she and her sister Virginia McBride Altman ’56 were. At their mother’s urging, both women learned foreign languages and studied abroad, Virginia in Paris on a Rotary International Fellowship and Dorothy in Costa Rica, London, and Paris. The Louise Lilly McBride Scholarships will enable foreign language students to develop their skills and knowledge of the cultures of other countries through study abroad. Stetson, also an alumna—class of 1962—is now an associate dean at Florida Atlantic University. Mary Fergus Hoffman ’07 wanted to be a journalist so she studied journalism at UM, but opportunities for women in the news profession were few in those days.
Her “backup” was education and she became a teacher in Butte. Her son, Ripley, who died April 3, 2002, in Edmonds, Washington, remembered his mother’s love for journalism and her influence on two of his cousins who entered the profession. As a memorial to her, he designated a portion of his estate to purchase reference materials for the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library to assist journalism scholars. His gift will establish the Mary Fergus Hoffman Library Endowment for Journalism, the first such fund in support of journalism resources. The man who put UM on the world track-and-field map, Dick Doyle ’52, has been honored by his daughter, Deborah Doyle McWhinney ’77 of Tiburon, California, with a gift toward the renovation and equipping of the athletics facility at Dornblaser Stadium. A discus star during his student days, Doyle was an NCAA discus champion in 1950, track and field All-American in 1950 and 1951, and AAU national discus champion in 1951. His accomplishments were noted at a ceremony last spring during the 2002 Big Sky Track and Field Championships.
Doyle is retired from his careers with Meadow Gold Dairy and the Missoula Athletic Club. He and his wife, Beverly Henne Doyle ’53, live in Missoula. McWhinney, who participated in the ceremony along with other donors to the project, says she is immensely proud of her father’s accomplishments as an athlete, but also that she made the gift to UM to acknowledge “the dedication both my parents have for the University.” Dick and his wife have a history of more than fifty years’ involvement with UM as members and volunteers for intercollegiate athletics, the alumni association, Grizzly Athletic Association, and the UM Foundation. In 1986, they received the Montana Alumni Award for their service to their community and to UM. Foundation Board Elects Officers Newly elected Trustees
Chuck Bultmann ’66,
Colleyville, Texas Foundation Board Elects Officers Deborah Doyle McWhinney was elected chair of the UM Foundation Board of Trustees at the board’s annual meeting held in September in Missoula. McWhinney, of Tiburon, California, has been a UM Foundation trustee since 1993; she will serve a two-year term. McWhinney earned her UM degree in communication studies in 1977 and is president of the Services for Investment Managers division of Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. She succeeds Penny Peabody ’61 of Mercer Island, Washington, as chair of the board. Elected vice chair was John Olson ’62, president of Blue Rock Cos. of Sidney; Warren Wilcox of Missoula was elected treasurer. A 1965 UM graduate, Wilcox heads John R. Daily Inc. To complete the board’s executive committee, McWhinney appointed Betty S. Pew Lohn ’50, Missoula, chair of the nominating committee; Priscilla Pickard Gilkey ’62, Spokane, chair of the committee on gifts; Gwen McLain Childs ’63, Big Timber, chair of the planning committee, and Bob Burke ’54, Missoula, chair of the audit/finance committee. The UM Foundation, established in 1951, is the official fund-raising arm for the University.
TOP 10 Ways to Give to UM
10. Real estate or personal property 1. Check made payable to the UM Foundation
UM Alumni Are True to Their School
• scholarships and awards; There were 15,262 donors to UM last year.
• Alumni gave 41% of the total gifts, com- pared to 26% nationally.
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Louise Lilly McBride
According to UM Foundation audited figures, the Foundation turned over $8.87 million to the University for:
