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Class Notes are compiled by Joyce H. Brusin, M.F.A. '85. If you would like to submit information, please drop a line to the Alumni Association, Brantly Hall, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812-0013. Or send your news via e-mail to: alumnote@selway.umt.edu

PASSION PLAY

by Maria Healey

Chris Evans
Chris Evans (right) as a sophomore in 1993's You Can't Take It with You.

Chris Evans likes drama, even off stage. He levels his gaze and pauses for emphasis, conscious of the performance. "One thing I'm very big on--and this was passed down to me from UM--is passion for what you do, above everything. You can be committed to what you do. You can have all the technique, all the looks. Unless you love it" -- here's the pause -- "It doesn't mean squat." Evans gets his point across.

A 1995 drama graduate, Evans is passionate about theater, devoting himself as actor, producer, director and playwright. Having just directed an Eric Bogosian one-act for the Young Rep, of which he is associate artistic director, he is co-writing a new play titled American Roulette. This spring his company will produce the play, inspired by the recent spate of high school shootings, and he will direct.

As a sophomore Evans received attention for his performance of Bogosian monologues. "I've never been a starry-eyed fan of anyone before," says the married father of two. "Except this guy. I'm fascinated with people who take a look at the world and say, 'This is wrong.' Bogosian is a fearless social critic."

Evans came to UM originally as a radio/TV major but "kept drifting over to the drama building.

"I figured if I'm going to direct or act, I'd better know what I'm talking about," he says. "UM gave me the experience I needed. The program is one of the best." He credits the drama department with a fearlessness of its own, producing material that's considered controversial.

Evans himself seeks out provocative work. Recently, under the Young Rep, he wrote, produced and directed The Other Side of the Road, based loosely on the life and death of Sam Kinison. Before that he mounted a one-man series of Bogosian monologues; he directed the Montana Players' 1995 production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, starring as the ill-fated McMurphy; and last year he played Farley Mowat in UM's premiere of A Whale for the Killing. Such credentials suggest a complex artist and a follower of passionate impulses.

Passionate theater is what Evans wants for the Young Rep, a vision he shares with his mentor, Greg Johnson, UM drama professor and director of the Montana Rep (see "Tour de Force," feature).

"We wanted to start something where anyone can come," Evans says. "Anyone can bring an idea and have the resources [to make it happen]. Students, professionals, artists, anyone from the area who wants to be involved with the fire, with the passion." He pauses. "There's something about this state and its artists that's stunning."

OTHER CLASS NOTE STORIES:

  • COMING HOME
    by Joyce H. Brusin

  • DON OLIVER REPORTS BACK
    by Joyce H. Brusin

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    '30s

    Class of 1939: Watch for your 60th class reunion May 13, 14 and 15, 1999.

    Jay Ellis Ransom '34 writes, "I have sold my home of twenty-six years in The Dalles, Ore., and moved my entire writing office into a travel trailer in order to 'follow the sun.'" Jay spent sixty years as a field anthropologist in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest and published his research in journals of anthropology, Native American linguistics, folklore, education and archaeology. He also has worked as a technical writer for the missile and aerospace industry and has published four hundred feature articles in over 100 magazines. Of his numerous books, seven were published by Harper & Row. Jay fondly remembers that his first publication was a poem in UM's literary magazine, Frontier, accepted by editor and English department faculty member H. G. Merriam in 1933.

    Harold G. "Hal" Stearns '36 received the Montana Historical Society Board of Trustees Award for his years writing and telling Montana history in newspapers and classrooms.

    Florence Bakke-Reil '37 was named Missoula County Senior of the Year by Missoula Aging Services. She has donated more than six thousand hours of her time to area organizations.

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    '40s

    Class of 1949: Watch for your 50th class reunion May 13, 14 and 15, 1999.

    Mary Kay Fickes Forsyth '40 is president of the National Association of Citizens' Crime Commissions. She is executive director of the San Diego Crime Commission and serves on the executive board of San Diego Crime Stoppers.

    R. D. Peterson '41 of Polson retired as a colonel from the U. S. Marine Corps. He rides horseback annually into the Bob Marshall Wilderness, accompanied last year by his son, grandson and nephew.

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    '50s

    Orville E. Vinge '52 retired after thirty-four years with Amoco Production Co. He lives in Arvada, Colo.

    G. George Ostrom '53 and his son, ranger Shannon Ostrom, published a book of photos and stories, Wondrous Wildlife: A Different Look.

    Ward A. Shanahan '53, J.D. '58, received the tenth annual William J. Jameson Award for Professionalism from the Montana State Bar.

    Robert Laumeyer '58, M. Ed. '61, published a book of poetry, The Song of the Hunter, with Watermark Press.

    Glenn Whittle '58 returned from his home in England this summer to visit the United States after an absence of thirty-three years. "Everything seemed changed beyond recognition until we reached Missoula," he writes. "Although changed, the campus seemed so welcoming that one wanted to get in a line and register for the fall term!"

    Edwin H. Jasmin '59 of Bigfork serves as vice chair of the Montana Board of Regents.

    John Lepley '59, M.Ed. '60, received the Montana Preservation Association President's Award for his work establishing and directing the Museum of the Upper Missouri and the State of Montana Museum of Agriculture, both in Fort Benton.

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    '60s

    James E. Barrett '61, M.A. '90, has been reelected to the national council of the American Guild of Organists. He is organist and director of music for the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes in Spokane, Washington, where he manages the concert series, Music at Lourdes. James also serves on the Spokane Arts Commission and owns The Hymnary Press.

    Guy Connolly '61 retired from the USDA Animal Damage Control program following a thirty-five-year career in wildlife research. He received the 1998 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Jack H. Berryman Institute for Wildlife Damage Management at Utah State University in Logan. Guy and his wife, Helen Hancock Connolly x'63, live in Lakewood, Colorado.

    Felicia Hardison Londre '62 has been named to the College of Fellows of the American Theatre, one of fewer than 150 theater professionals to receive the honor in the last thirty years. Felicia has taught theater history and playwriting at the University of Missouri-Kansas City since 1978. She received UM's Distinguished Alumni Award in 1998.

    Dorothy McBride Stetson '62 teaches political science at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, where she has been on the faculty since the late 1960s. In July 1997 she became associate dean of the university's Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. The second edition of her book, Women's Rights in the U.S.A., was published by Garland Press in 1997.

    William C. "Bill" Boettcher '63 of Polson spent the winter of 1997-98 with his wife, Teri Babich Boettcher '68, at Ross Medical University on the West Indies' island of Dominica. "We are administrators for a medical test review program for graduates that assists them in passing the U.S. Medical Boards," he writes. "A fun gig that keeps us out of the cold."

    Gerald R. Zachary '65 of Olympia, Washington, has retired from his job as the state's top banking regulator and formed a consulting company to provide community banks with a range of services, including bank/regulator mediation, strategic business planning and executive searches.

    Ken W. Hurt '66 received the 1998 "Bowl of Hygeia" award from the Montana Pharmaceutical Association for outstanding community service by a pharmacist. Ken is a former mayor of St. Ignatius, where he owns and operates Mission Drug and currently serves on the town council. Ken and his wife, Patricia, have two children.

    Ralph Pomnichowski x'66 chronicled the histories of seventy-nine farm and ranch families across Montana who have managed to keep their agricultural properties in the same family for 100 years or longer. His account is available from the Montana Farmers Union in Great Falls.

    Roger Towne '66, M.A. '72, heads the Department of Communication Disorders at Northern Michigan University in Marquette.

    Paul Eichwald '69 is senior vice president, financial consultant and branch manager in the Missoula office of D.A. Davidson and Co. Paul and his wife, Linda Bowers Eichwald '77, have two children, Paul and Morgan.

    James D. Harrington, M.A. '69, is president of the Butte Historical Society. He teaches part time at Western Montana College of The University of Montana, Dillon, and Montana Tech of The University of Montana, Butte. His article, "A Reexamination of the Granite Mountain--Speculator Fire," appeared in the Autumn 1998 Montana: The Magazine of Western History.

    Carol M. Brown-Mills '69 is one of 120 Minnesota teachers to receive a 1998 Golden Apple Achiever Award for teaching excellence. Carol teaches K-8 music at St. John the Baptist School in New Brighton. She credits her own philosophy of music education to the instruction she received at UM from Kurt R. Miller.

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    '70s

    The courtroom of the new law center at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii has been named in memory of Lt. Col. Katherine M. Kennedy '76, J.D. '80, who served sixteen years as an Air Force attorney in the Judge Advocate General's Department. Kennedy began her Air Force career in 1980 as an assistant staff judge advocate at Loring Air Force Base in Maine. She died of cancer in 1997 at age forty-two. The dedication ceremony program reads: "Colonel Kennedy served in several highly selective positions and was greatly admired by many in the Department. Her presence will be missed and she will be fondly remembered."
    James E. Bailey '70 retired as chief psychologist of the Spokane Veterans Administration Medical Center in September. James will continue as a medical consultant to the Washington Department of Disability Determination Services in Spokane.

    Larry G. Dobb '70 of Great Falls retired from the Air Force Reserve as a lieutenant colonel in July, after more than twenty-eight years of active and reserve service. He works as a range technician for the Lewis and Clark National Forest.

    Madilyn "Sody" Bell Jones '70 is serving a second term on the Montana Arts Council. She lives in Billings with her husband, James L. Jones '67, J.D. '70.

    Michael A. Kilroy '70, J.D. '73, renewed his annual alumni association membership and writes from Tokyo, "I'm an attorney on active duty with the Air Force, serving as a circuit riding criminal trial judge. My circuit is the Pacific Rim."

    Pearl Yeadon McGinnis, M.M. '70, toured Scandinavia in July and August as a soprano soloist with the Missouri Chamber Players. She is director of the opera workshop at Southwest Missouri State University, where, this past April, she produced and directed the premiere of the opera Many Thousand Gone.

    Larry R. Payne '71 works out of the U.S. Forest Service's Washington, D.C., headquarters, where he is assistant deputy chief for state and private forestry. Responsible for fire and aviation management, forest health protection, cooperative programs with state and community foresters, and partnerships with tribal governments, Larry began his career on the UM campus in 1970 as a hydrology assistant in the Kootenai, Flathead and Helena national forests.

    Kay Witherspoon '72 has won the 1998 American Academy of Equine Art Founders' Award for her oil painting of a polo pony and rider. The award was presented to Kay at the International Museum of the Horse in Lexington, Kentucky.

    Robert Graves "Bob" Bakko '73 is president of the American Mental Health Counselors Association. He is a past president of the Montana Clinical Mental Health Counselors Association and has been the executive director of Northwest Counseling Centers, Inc. in Billings since 1984.

    Eileen Ferrari '73 received her Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Mills College, near her home in the wine country north of San Francisco. She is at work on her second novel, a murder mystery set in Reno, Nevada, which is familiar to her from her fifteen years in the casino industry.

    Thomas M. Fitzpatrick '73 serves on the American Bar Association Board of Governors, where he represents Alaska, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Tom lives in Seattle and practices with the commercial litigation firm, Stafford Frey Cooper.

    Jennifer A. O'Loughlin '73, M.S. '80, is a communications specialist for the American Association of Retired Persons in Montana. She lives in Dillon with her husband, Kenneth High.

    Lynn Morrison-Hamilton '74 of Havre was appointed by Gov. Marc Racicot to fill a vacancy on the Montana Board of Regents.

    Michael Fiorito '76 counsels students at Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences, a private college preparatory school.

    Mary Logan Hastings '76 returned to Missoula last fall to present a lecture and recital titled "Strauss, Mahler, Schoenberg: Alexander Zemlinsky?" for UM's 1998-99 President's Lecture Series. Mary directs the undergraduate opera workshop at the University of Maryland in College Park.

    Jay Kohn '76 is assistant news director and news anchor for KTVQ-TV in Billings.

    Garry South '76 managed the successful campaign of Lt. Gov. Gray Davis for governor of California. Garry has worked on campaigns for twenty-six years. He was special assistant to Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland during the Carter administration and served as communications director for Ohio Gov. Richard Celeste. Garry grew up in Miles City, and while at UM served as student body president and Montana Kaimin reporter.

    Mary Sue Schneider Engel '77 was honored this past April with a Golden Apple Award for her third-grade teaching at Alkali Creek School in Billings. She and her husband, Jeff, have three children.

    Janet Finn '78 published her book, Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata, with the University of California Press, Berkeley. An excerpt, "Intimate Strangers: The Interlocking Histories of Butte, Montana and Chuquicamata, Chile," appears in the Autumn 1998 Montana: The Magazine of Western History, published by the Montana Historical Society. Janet teaches social work and anthropology at UM.

    Timothy J. Kato '78 is senior financial consultant in the Missoula offices of D.A. Davidson and Co. Tim and his wife, Dawn Matulevich-Kato '79, have three children, Logan, Dillon and Laurel.

    James E. Larcombe '78 has joined DADCO's corporate communications department in Great Falls as media and public relations coordinator.

    W. Daniel Edge '79, M.S. '82, Ph.D. '85, is Mace Professor of Watchable Wildlife, a new endowed chair in the fisheries and wildlife department at Oregon State University in Corvallis. He represents the Northwestern states on The Wildlife Society Council.

    Sharon McDonald Morrison, J.D. '79, of Whitefish has been elected a fellow of the International Society of Barristers. She practices in the firm of Morrisons, McCarthy & Baraban and has served as co-chair of the Women Members Committee of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

    Russell D. Yerger '79 has opened a law firm in Billings where he specializes in personal injury and commercial litigation, bankruptcy, and mediation/arbitration services.

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    '80s

    John Baken '80, M.F.A. '90, and his wife, M. B. Baken, returned to the United States in February 1998 after spending four years teaching in Tokyo. This fall John will teach English composition at St. Louis University, St. Louis Community College at Meramec and Belleville Area College in Belleville, Illinois.

    H. Michael Johnson '80 is vice president/investment officer for Dain Rauscher Investment Services in Salem, Oregon.

    Brian Lannan and his Lhasa Apso


    Brian J. Lannan '82 writes, "I am currently a Sr. Associate with PMA Consultants LLC, an international construction management consulting firm. My wife, Alexis, and I were blessed with our daughter, Lindsey Paige, on June 27, 1997. We enjoy living in Phoenix, although the growth over the past couple of years has been overwhelming. In our spare time we enjoy showing and breeding Lhasa Apsos. The enclosed photo was taken at the Southern California Lhasa Apso Specialty where our puppy bitch 'En Vogue at Lannan' took best puppy. Her father won Best of Breed at Westminster in February."

    Randa Siegle '80 was chosen Montana's Outstanding Technology Educator of the year by the Montana Council for Computers in Education.

    James Bruggers '81, M.S. '87, is spending the 1998-99 academic year as a Michigan Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is a board member of the Society of Environmental Journalists.

    R. Scott Thompson '83 and his wife, Janet Keefer Thompson '84, send greetings from Tucson, Arizona, where they own and operate Arizona Health, a fitness consulting and advisory firm. "This year," they write via e-mail, "we'll be celebrating fourteen years of marriage and thirteen years of being business owners." Scott retired from strength and conditioning training in 1997 to become a consultant for corporate wellness. "We both miss our U of M days, but feel very fortunate that our U of M educations prepared us for where we are now."

    Verlena Orr, M.F.A. '84, published a chapbook of poetry, Woman Who Hears Voices, with Future Tense Press.

    Tammy L. Lacey '85, M.Ed. '91, is among sixty-one educators named as a 1998 National Distinguished Principal. Tammy has been principal of Fairfield Elementary since 1991.

    Susan Brooks Swimley '86, J.D. '89, is chief deputy county attorney for Gallatin County. She lives in Bozeman with her husband, Brett, their son, Kurt, and daughter, Rachael.

    Henry Owen "Hank" Worden '87, an investment executive for Edward Jones in Ephrata, Washington, was named Volunteer of the Year by the Columbia Basin Foundation for his work establishing twenty-four of the foundation's endowment and special project funds.

    William F. "Bill" Borchers '88 owns and operates his own marine service shop in Polson, where he and his wife, Brenda, live with their three daughters. In the Fall 1998 "Class Notes" we erroneously reported Bill to have spent the winter working for Ross Medical University in the West Indies. Our correspondent had confused Bill with another UM alumnus in Polson, Bill Boettcher '63. While fiction writing is a noble pursuit, we at "Class Notes" hope this will prove our last foray into it. We apologize to Bill and Brenda, and we wish them well in all their endeavors.

    Linda Eichhorn '88 lives in Santa Rosa, California, with her husband, Tom Laudari.

    Matt Jore '88 joined with his father and brother to found Jore Corp., a manufacturer of hand-tool and power-drill accessories, shortly after his graduation with a degree in political science and economics. Today the firm employs 310 people in Lake County and received a Sears "Partner in Progress" award last year for its marketing performance, quality of production and quality of vendor service.

    Jerry Paulson '88 lives in Iowa, where he has just completed the Doctor of Chiropractic program at Palmer College of Chiropractic. He hopes to move to Arizona with his family.

    Murland Searight, J.D. '88, celebrated fifty years of marriage to his wife, Virginia, in September. Murland's legal practice, created after his graduation from law school at age sixty-three, has been almost exclusively pro bono publico for Montana Legal Services. He and Virginia travel extensively in their leisure time, including trips to Kenya, Egypt, Israel, New Zealand, Japan and India.

    Walter R. Muralt '89 is general manager of Muralt's Travel Plaza outside Missoula. He is chair of the government affairs committee for NATSO, Inc., the national organization representing America's travel plaza and truckstop industry, and represents Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washingon on NATSO's board of directors.

    Traci Rasmusson '89 has returned to practice in Missoula after obtaining a Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Western States Chiropractic College in Portland, Oregon.

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    '90s

    Frank D'Angelo '90 and his wife, Rae Lynn McCarty D'Angelo, live in Missoula, where Frank is senior financial consultant at D.A. Davidson and Co.

    Chad Thompson on the trail
    Chandler P. "Chad" Thompson '97 set out on the Appalachian Trail in northern Maine on February 14, 1998, and emerged 2,168 miles later on July 7 near Dahlonega, Georgia. Accompanied by his dog, Kassidy, Chad realized his dream of a "through-hike" on the trail in five months, instead of the usual six. He averaged eight to ten miles a day at the beginning but had shaped up to twenty to twenty-five miles a day by the last one thousand miles. Chad entered law school at the University of Georgia in August.
    Matthew Cooper '92, J.D. '96, writes, "I was in private practice in Missoula until this summer. Now I am a first lieutenant in the Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps. After finishing my basic course at the JAG School at the University of Virginia School of Law, I will be permanently assigned to Fort Lewis, Washington."

    Amy Elizabeth Harper '92 received a Fulbright Student Award to spend the 1998-99 academic year in Berlin, Germany, researching her dissertation, Belonging in Germany: Constructions of German Identity in Immigration Discourse. Amy is a doctoral student in anthropology at the University of Massachusetts--Amherst.

    Laurie Ann Jerin '92, M.A. '95, attends the LaFollette Institute for Public Management at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, where she is studying for a master's degree in policy analysis.

    Christine Mitchell '92 graduated in June from the University of Washington School of Medicine. She lives in Spokane., where she is in the first year of a residency in family practice.

    Lisa A. Rodegheiro '92, J.D. '95, and William John Speare, J.D. '94, were married in Billings in June. Lisa is with the Brown Law Firm and Bill is with Moulton, Bellingham, Longo and Mather.

    Emily Hazelton Wells '92 directs regional sales for Promus Hotel Corporation in Vancouver, Washington.

    Matthew P. Grupp '93, J.D. '96, received a L.L.M. from New York University in 1997 and is a tax attorney with Deloitte and Touche in Los Angeles.

    Matthew Jones '93 received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and is an attorney with the firm of Brickfield, Burchette and Ritts in Washington, D.C. He is the son of James L. Jones '67, J.D. '70, and Madilyn "Sody" Bell Jones '70.

    Casey Anne Kriley '93 premiered her film, A Rock and a Daisy, in June at Missoula's New Crystal Theatre. Casey wrote, directed, co-produced and edited the twenty-six-minute film for her master's thesis at Cal Arts in Los Angeles. Casey is the daughter of James Kriley, former UM dean of fine arts, and Mary Kriley, M.B.A. '93.

    Tyler M. Noble '93 is vice president of Bigelow & Company, an investment banking firm in Denver.

    William R. Barber '94 was presented with the "Wings of Gold" and designated a naval aviator while serving with his training squadron at the naval air station in Meridian, Mississippi.

    Gregory J. Fine '94 manages state and federal relations at the Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition in Washington, D.C.

    Janet Skeslein '94 will spend this year teaching English conversation in Mulhouse, a city in the Alsace--Lorraine region of France.

    Jeana-Marie Fiumefreddo '95 studies in the Master of Divinity program at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.

    Jane P. Makich '95 works for the prints and photos division of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., where she coordinated the collection of Depression-era farm photos on the library's Web site at memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html.

    The collection of more than forty-seven thousand images, titled "America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information 1935-45," includes photos from Fairfield, Glasgow, Butte and other Montana communities.

    Lisa K. Vanek '95 received a master's degree in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University. She hopes to pursue a career assisting employees of companies that face mergers, acquisitions and downsizing.

    Elizabeth Kraft '96 received her commission as a naval officer after completing officer candidate school in Pensacola, Florida.

    Gillian B. Glaes '97 writes from the University of Oregon in Eugene, where she is studying for a master's in European history with an emphasis in migration and nationalism, "I'm happy to report that I survived my first year and even did fairly well. I taught discussion sections for world history and western civilization, which proved to be a challenging experience, but I loved it! ...And although I've enjoyed being a Duck, I'm still a Griz at heart!"

    Kathleen Jones '97 was among students from 105 colleges and universities who participated in the 1998 Hearst Journalism Awards Program. Now an employee of KULR-TV in Billings and KFBB-TV in Great Falls, Kathleen placed twelfth in the television category.

    Amy Miller '97 is in her first year of full-time teaching at Missoula's Big Sky High School. Accompanied to class by her service dog, Ashke, Amy teaches freshman English, yearbook and two English classes in the school's alternative learning center.

    Curtis Nelson, M.B.A. '97, is a finance and tax manager for Town Pump Corporation in Butte.

    Rochelle Ohman '98 is a first-year student at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

    In Memoriam

    The Alumni Office extends sympathy to the families of the following alumni, friends and faculty:

    Ethel B. Brockway Grieve '22, Redmond, Wash.

    Mary L. Nicol x'24, Missoula

    Esther Simon '24, Carmel, Calif.

    W. H. Swearingen x'26, Clinton

    Mary Joe Dixon Hills '27, Baltimore

    Ermel Askins '28, Honolulu

    Marjorie Louise Leonard '29, Gwynedd Valley, Pa.

    Georgian M. Eckley Allard x'30, St. Ignatius

    Margaret Jean "Peg" Punnett '30, Chico, Calif.

    Ryland Walford '30, Missoula

    Vera Louise Anderson '31, Laurel

    Walter B. "Junior" Dean III '31, Forsyth

    Myles F. Flood '31, Missoula

    Mary Kinniburgh Shephard '31, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

    Dorothy Lee Stark '31, Longview, Wash.

    Dorothy Rawn Westfall '31, Glendale, Calif.

    Hazel Amelia Larson Anderson '32, Helena

    Nemesio C. Borge '34, Walnut, Calif.

    William A. Disbrow x'34, Milltown

    Peter Meloy, J.D. '36, Helena

    William B. Ahders '38, J.D. '41, Midland, Texas

    Vivian Hansen '38, Billings

    Ira A. Kopelman x'38, Ronan

    Kathryn R. Agler '39, Kalispell

    Florence Skogen Deschamps '39, Missoula

    Julia "Judy" Armstrong Johnson '39, Belt

    James F. Spelman '39, Red Lodge

    Robert Baker Young '39, Denver

    Manzer J. Griswold '40, Seattle

    Mary A. Hansen '40, Benicia, Calif.

    William David James '41, Great Falls

    Robert E. Newcomer '41, Boise, Idaho

    Mary Jean Yardley Salmon '41, Livingston

    James E. Short '41, Dillon

    Helen Holloway Voelker '41, Billings

    Hazel Hayden Wilson '41, Kingsport, Tenn.

    Glen B. Nelson '42, Ferndale, Wash.

    Steven A. Holland '44, Portland, Ore.

    Marian Hogan McGreevy '44, Billings

    John J. McQuirk x'44, Kalispell

    Neal A. Rasmussen '47, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

    William S. Mather, J.D. '48, Billings

    C. George Forsyth '49, Great Falls

    Kenneth W. Skemp '49, Dallas

    Lois M. Toplarski '49, Butte

    Stanley Emory Wayman '49, Billings

    L. Robert James '50, Sun City West, Ariz.

    Alvhild J. Martinson, M.Ed. '50, Missoula

    W.O. "Bill" Noland '50, Hamilton

    Edward Eugene "Gene" Shaw x'50, Missoula

    John D. Webster '50, Wrentham, Mass.

    Thomas J. Corbett '51, M.Ed. '54, Mulino, Ore.

    Leslie P. Donovan '51, Las Vegas

    Virginia "Ginger" Brown Fosland x'51, Scobey

    Norman C. Robb, J.D. '51, Missoula

    Dale R. Tash '51, Dillon

    Peter. M. Teigen '51, Teigen

    Oscar H. Biegel '52, Harlowton

    Jane E. Gaethke Brandt '52, Milwaukie, Ore.

    Robert "Lefty" Byrne '52, Laurel

    Joe O. Luckman '52, Cascade

    Lester M. Ormiston '52, Kalispell

    Marilyn J. Gillette Hauge '53, Missoula

    Samuel Sheradsky, J.D. '53, Miami

    Eric Skibsted '53, Missoula

    Ben J. Wuerthner '53, Springfield, Va.

    Harry W. Griffiths '54, Boise, Idaho

    Floyd C. Miller '54, Bellevue, Wash.

    Charles L. Courchene '56, Allen, Texas

    Frank Harley Diener '56, Billings

    McKinley T. Anderson Jr., J.D. '58, Bozeman

    Richard A. Jones '58, Great Falls

    James D. Weaver '58, Stedman, N.C.

    Donald E. Wiser '58, Billings

    Kenneth M. Eide '59, Billings

    Roy W. Mattson '59, Missoula

    Hazel Jean Polich Blakely '60, Missoula

    Arthur W. Ayers '61, Medford, Ore.

    Roy Buffalo, M.Ed. '61, Laurel

    Kenneth W. Miller '62, Portland, Ore.

    Walter R. Winslow '62, Mckinleyville, Calif.

    Russell L. Anderson '63, Billings

    Donald D. Gall, M.Ed. '63, Junction City, Ore.

    Dennis A. Holden '64, Kalispell

    Ronald L. Martin '64, J.D. '71, Havre

    Eunice C. Isaacson, M.A. '66, Polson

    Velma Glazier Warner '67, Kalispell

    Robert C. Patterson '70, Vancouver, Wash.

    James L. Tillotson 71, J.D. '76, Ballantine

    Douglas J. Hanson, M.S. '75, Polson

    Katherine M. Kennedy '76, J.D. '80, Chicago

    Michael W. Fairchild '78, Kalispell

    Robert Paul Bowers '79, Polson

    Thomas M. Dwyer '81, Missoula

    Paul M. Homuth '81, Missoula

    Laurel Sue Patton Dalton '85, Shelley, Idaho

    Kurt Arlo Osen '88, Glasgow

    Warren S. Barce, M.B.A. '89, Havre

    Robert W. "Robbie" Hurly Jr. '90, Glasgow

    Morris Brown Myerowitz '94, Bonner

    Brian Keith Fleshman '95, Missoula

    Donna Ray Goodman, M.I.S. '95, Great Falls

    Jennifer Cherish Henderson '95, Marion

    Ken Byerly, Lewistown

    Charles E. Dahlstrom, Missoula

    Joseph P. Durso Jr., Victor

    A. Copeland Hill, St. Petersburg, Fla.

    Marlice McMahon, Missoula

    Betty Marie Ridnour, Polson

    Hulda Smith, Kalispell

    Dr. Vernon F. Snow, Jamesville, N.Y.

    Gordon P. Summers, Missoula

    In Fall 1998 James W. Spangelo, J.D. '76, of Havre was erroneously listed as "deceased." We sincerely apologize to James and his family for any distress and inconvenience this may have caused.

    In Memoriam requires a printed newspaper obituary or a letter of notification from the immediate family for names to be included.

    Births

    Rebecca Emily to David Andrew Goldfarb '78 and Beth Rochelle Gabai Goldfarb, August 4, 1998, in Cleveland.

    Augustus Alfred to John Baken '80, M.F.A. '90, and M. B. Berger Baken, August 9, 1998, in St. Louis.

    Chandler Wallace to Maj. Glenn J. Barr '86 and Janet Barr, August 21, 1998, in Fort Irwin, Calif.

    Rachael Anne to Susan Brooks Swimley '86, J.D. '89, and Brett Swimley, May 4, 1998, in Bozeman.

    Shay Matthew to Darcy Anne Field Dantic '91 and Matthew Craig Dantic '91, June 14, 1998, in Billings.

    New Alumni Association Life Members

    Cyrus Austin '55, Corvallis, Ore.

    Donna Bryggman '48, Salinas, Calif.

    James R. Comstock '75, Pacifica, Calif.

    Thomas DeBoer '85, Spokane, Wash.

    Raymond Dvorak '81, Rapid City, S.D.

    Joseph G. Marra '77, Seattle

    June McPhail '43, Phoenix, Ore.

    Lesley E. Schreck '97, Novato, Calif.

    John Shaffner '74, Los Angeles

    Encourage other UM friends to become a Life Member of the Alumni Association. They may call us at 1-800-862-5862 or fax us at 406-243-4467. Send e-mail to alumni@selway.umt.edu.

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