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Greetings!
Welcome to TGIF News. This e-mail
newsletter is provided weekly, except
during the summer and scheduled academic
breaks, to subscribers that include
students, alumni, employees and friends
of The University of Montana.
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Easter Eggstravaganza March
22
The eighth annual Missoula Easter
Eggstravaganza will be held at
1 p.m. Saturday, March 22, on
the UM Oval.
The Easter Bunny and UM's mascot,
Monte, will make special appearances
during the region's largest egg
hunt, which includes more than
20,000 prize eggs and 25,000 pieces
of candy.
The event is free and open to
the public with separate sections
for age groups 0-2, 3, 4-5, 6-7
and 8-9 years old. Kids who find
maroon, silver and gold eggs will
be rewarded with top prizes.
Students who would like to volunteer
to help distribute candy and eggs
on the Oval for the event should
call University Relations at 406-243-2522.
A Bunny Story Hour will be held
from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday before
the egg hunt at The Bookstore
at UM, located in the University
Center. It also is free and open
to the public.
This year's Eggstravaganza is
sponsored by Missoula Federal
Credit Union, Community Medical
Center, UM's President's Office
and University Relations, Pacific
Steel, Southgate Mall, The Bookstore
at UM, Montana Rail Link, Merrill-Lynch
(Roth/Woolhiser Team), US Bank,
102.5 Mountain FM, KPAX-TV, A
Carousel for Missoula, Missoula
Flagship and Missoula Phoenix.
University
Relations
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Native American Author To
Read At UM
Janet Campbell Hale will read
from her latest novel, "Frog in
the Moon," at The University of
Montana on Thursday, March 20.
The event begins at 7:30 p.m.
in Gallagher Business Building
Room 123.
Hale earned a degree in rhetoric
at the University of California,
Berkeley, in 1974. She received
a master's degree from the University
of California, Davis, where her
thesis was the novel "The Jailing
of Cecelia Capture." Nominated
for a Pulitzer Prize in 1985,
it was first runner-up to "Lonesome
Dove" for the Western Writers
of America Award.
Hale's other books include "Women
on the Run," "The Owl's Song"
and "Bloodlines: Odyssey of a
Native Daughter," a winner of
the 1995 American Book Award in
creative nonfiction.
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