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President
George Dennison (left) with Bruce Forton and his donated
bear.
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Bear
Briefs
Brawn
and Brains-Grizzly football strong safety Vince Huntsberger
has been named a 2001 National Football Foundation and College
Hall of Fame National Scholar-Athlete, the most prestigious
academic award given to senior college athletes. The award
nets Huntsberger an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship and
will be presented Dec. 11 in New York City. His award letter
said, "You should be extremely proud to be among this
elite group of 16 outstanding individuals from across the
country, recognized for accomplishments in the classroom,
on the field and in the community."
Going
International-UM's Montana World Trade Center recently
landed a $400,000 grant to help promote Montana products
in Taiwan and Ireland. The office of U.S. Sen. Max Baucus
helped land the federal money, which will finance a new
program called Partnership for Retailing and Economic Stimulation
Through Technological Outreach. The program will allow small
businesses to introduce products through import outlets
in Taipai and Dublin. The trade center also recently privatized
its management, a move officials say will make the center
more flexible, increasing its entrepreneurial and financial
development potential.
M
Whitening-About 20 UM athletes and Greeks gathered together
to paint the M on Mount Sentinel Oct. 26. The last time
the giant letter was painted was 1996, and the job took
80 gallons of white paint. UM Facilities Services donated
brushes and hauled supplies up the mountain. The project
commemorated "Make a Difference Day." Project
donors were Ace Hardware, Mission Paint and Glass, Columbia
Paint, Sherwin-Williams, Northwest Paint, Missoula Sheet
Metal, 4Gs and Paradise Falls.
Big
Bear-Bruce Forton of Indiana recently donated a stuffed
Alaska brown bear to UM. When alive the bear weighed about
900 pounds. It was shot by Forton on May 16, 1978, during
a hunting trip to the Alaskan Peninsula. The mounted bear
is worth about $25,000, and Forton was convinced to donate
the bear to the University by his son, Paul, who is a UM
forestry student. "It wouldn't fit in our house, so
we thought it would be nice to donate it to UM," said
the elder Forton, who is a furniture manufacturer. The huge
bear now stands in the Adams Center's Grizzly Varsity Club.
Honoring
O'Connor-Coming performances of the play "Our Town"
at UM will be dedicated to the late Carroll O'Connor, who
began his acting career at UM with performances in "Our
Town" and other student productions more than 50 years
ago. The Department of Drama/Dance will present Thornton
Wilder's "Our Town" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec.
11, through Saturday, Dec. 15, in the Montana Theatre of
the Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center. Tickets
are $15 for the general public and $12 for students and
senior citizens. They are available at box offices in the
PAR/TV Center and the University Center. Box office hours
are 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more
information, call 243-4581. One of the best-known and most
timeless tales in American theater, "Our Town"
explores love, loss, family and community to provide a vision
of what is possible in life.
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