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Agreement Preserves Detention Camp Area
With the outbreak of World War II, sleepy Fort
Missoula became home to about 1,000 Italian
nationals, a similar number of Japanese and
Peruvian-Japanese aliens and a few Germans.
They were housed in the fort's Alien Detention
Camp from 1941 to 1944.
The camp inmates were all men, and none
were American citizens. Most of the Italians
were from impounded Axis ships or the New
York World's Fair. The Japanese had been
living on U.S. soil, and many were among the
most prominent members of their communities.
Perhaps they would have liked to become
citizens but were prevented by U.S. Alien
Exclusion Laws.
The forced detention of these people in
Western Montana created a strange and
fascinating chapter in Missoula history. And
now that history will be protected by a new
agreement among UM, Missoula County and
the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula. The
parties in the agreement own property once
used for the Alien Detention Camp, and they
have signed a memorandum of understanding
to preserve, interpret and maintain the former
camp barracks area.
In addition, they will cooperate to obtain
National Landmark Status for Fort Missoula.
Then in 2011 they will jointly sponsor a
conference about the alien internment period
to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the
United States' entry into World War II.
"We feel a responsibility to preserve this
historic area and what occurred there for the
benefit of future generations," UM President
George Dennison said. "Scholars still work to
unravel the full story of the camp. Certainly
some of the detainments must have seemed
unavoidable, while others remain very much in
doubt, suggesting lessons for leaders, now
and in the future."
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Charter Day Festivities This Week
UM will celebrate its 116th birthday with a
noon-hour party and the Charter Day awards
ceremony and reception on Thursday, Feb.
12. The birthday festivities are held each year
to honor the University and its dedication to
excellence. All events are free and open to the
public.
The noon-hour birthday party will be held in
the University Center Atrium. The annual
Charter Day awards ceremony, which begins
at 5 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom, will
recognize exemplary campus and community
members.
Missoula Mayor John Engen will attend the
awards ceremony to present an official
proclamation of University of Montana Day. A
reception will follow the ceremony.
UM Provost Royce Engstrom will preside over
the presentation of the following 2009 Charter
Day awards:
- Montana Alumni Award: William
Jones, who has practiced law at the Missoula
firm Garlington, Lohn & Robinson for 50 years.
Jones, who has earned much recognition in
the last half-century as a trial lawyer, was one
of 16 who graduated from UM's law school in
1959.
- ASUM Student Service Award:
Jessie Davie, ASUM sustainability coordinator.
Davie is pursuing a master's degree in
environmental studies and was the main
author of UM's first-ever Greenhouse Gas
Inventory.
- Neil S. Bucklew Presidential Service
Award: James and Joy Mariska of Billings.
The Mariskas have been actively involved in a
variety of UM and community organizations
that better the lives of Montanans. James is a
UM business alumnus.
- George M. Dennison Presidential
Faculty Award for Distinguished
Accomplishment: Regents Professor Jakki
Mohr, UM School of Business Administration.
Mohr was named Montana's first woman
Regents Professor at a ceremony held at UM
in November 2008
- George M. Dennison Presidential Staff
Award for Distinguished Accomplishment:
Jodi Johnson Moreau, off-campus events
coordinator, UM Office of Alumni Relations.
Moreau has worked at UM for 15 years and
joined the alumni office staff in 2000. Since
then she has coordinated more than 50
tailgates. She also coordinates alumni
relation's successful House of Delegates.
- Montana Faculty Service Award:
Professor Jean Luckowski, UM School of
Education. Luckowski, who joined the
education school faculty in 1983, has served
on and chaired several University committees
and the Faculty Senate, as well as
representing UM throughout Montana and the
nation.
- Robert T. Pantzer Presidential
Humanitarian Award: Associate Professor
Phil Condon, UM Environmental Studies
Program. Condon, who received a master's in
fine arts, creative writing, from UM, works to
provide forums for environmental and nature
writers and opportunities for students to write,
read, present and publish in the field.
For more information, call the Office of Alumni
Relations at 243-5211.
Office of Alumni Relations
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Montana PBS Premieres New Documentary
Girls' basketball has a long history in Montana,
dating back to the earliest organized game
played at an Indian boarding school at Fort
Shaw in 1897.
A new historical documentary -- "Playing for
the World" -- recounts the adventures of 10
young women who made up an early team
from the school. The documentary will
premiere statewide on Montana PBS at 7 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 15.
The Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School,
located in the Sun River Valley outside Great
Falls, was one of the first schools in Montana
to feature basketball as a recreational sport
for girls. In 1902, 10 girls formed a team that
would become renowned for its skill, tenacity
and the maturing young women's dignity -- on
and off the court.
Montana PBS television co-producers John
Twiggs and Alison Perkins interviewed team
descendents, tribal historians and authors
Ursula Smith and Linda Peavy, who wrote a
history of the team, "Full Court Quest." The
documentary also includes archival film and
photographs, re-creations of basketball games
featuring extras in period dress and young
women in heavy wool uniforms modeled after
the originals worn by the Fort Shaw players.
"John and Alison have a special talent to tell a
story in a compelling, respectful manner," said
William Marcus, general manager for
KUFM-TV/Montana PBS. "This documentary
introduces you to a remarkable group of
young women and helps you understand their
times and their triumphs in a very personal
way."
Montana PBS
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Smithsonian Features McKeown's Research
UM anthropology Assistant Professor Ashley
McKeown's research that involves skeletons of
early 17th-century Jamestown, Va., colonists
will be featured in an exhibition at the
Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of
Natural History.
"Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the
17th-Century Chesapeake" will be at the
Washington, D.C., museum from Feb. 7, 2009,
through Feb. 6, 2011.
Founded in 1607, Jamestown was the first
permanent English colony in the New World.
During a three-year postdoctoral fellowship
prior to joining the UM faculty, McKeown
worked with anthropology curator Douglas
Owsley of the Smithsonian museum and
archaeologists at the Association for the
Preservation of Virginia Antiquities' Jamestown
Rediscovery project to excavate and analyze
more than 75 burials from Jamestown.
Her work revealed bone biographies of some
of the earliest colonists -- many nameless
men,
women and children who made the colony
succeed.
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Publications
Adams, A.S., D.L. Six, S.A. Adams and W.E.
Holben. 2008. "In Vitro Interactions Between
Yeasts and Bacteria and the Fungal
Symbionts of the Mountain Pine Beetle
(Dendroctonus ponderosae)." Microbiology
Ecology.
Inderjit. J.L. Pollock. R.M. Callaway and W.E.
Holben. 2008. "Phytotoxic Effects of
(±)-Catechin in Vitro, in Soil and in the Field."
PLoS ONE, 3(7):e2536.
Morales, S.E., T.F. Cosart, J.V. Johnson and
W.E. Holben. 2009. "Extensive Phylogenetic
Analysis of a Soil Bacterial Community
Illustrates Extreme Taxon Evenness and the
Effects of Amplicon Length, Degree of
Coverage and DNA Fractionation on
Classification and Ecological Parameters."
Applied and Environmental
Microbiology,
75:668-675.
Morales, S.E., T. Cosart, J.V. Johnson and
W.E. Holben. 2008. "Supplemental Programs
for Enhanced Recovery of Data from the
DOTUR Application." Journal of
Microbiological
Methods.
Sriraman, Bharath. 2009. "A Historic Overview
of the Interplay of Theology and Philosophy in
the Arts, Mathematics and Sciences."
ZDM-The International Journal on
Mathematics Education, 41(1 & 2):75-86.
Sriraman, Bharath (co-author). 2009. "Does
Interdisciplinary Instruction Raise Students'
Interest in Mathematics and the Subjects of the
Natural Sciences?" ZDM-The International
Journal on Mathematics Education, 41(1 &
2):231-244.
Sriraman, Bharath. 2009. "On the Identit(ies)
of Mathematics Education." Interchange: A
Quarterly Review of Education,
40(1):119-135.
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Department of Mathematical Sciences
Professor Bharath Sriraman was
appointed to the editorial board of The
Mathematics Educator, the official national
journal of the Association of Mathematics
Educators in Singapore.
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