Montana State University - Sentinel Yearbook (Missoula, MT)

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THE NORTHERN Rocky Mountain Roundup of Regional Arts, under the direction of the late Joseph Kinsey Howard, offered again this summer a unique program aimed at cultural en- richment of life in the Northwest. A joint project of the University, Music School Foundation, Montana Institute of the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foun- dation, the Roundup was designed to provide, through an integrated series of lectures, workshops, seminars, recit- als, demonstrations and professional performances in several fields, the stim- ulation, expert counsel and leadership training needed by anyone interested in intellectual or artistic achievement. The Writer ' s Conference, one phase of the Roundup, hod as featured lec- turers, two Pulitzer Prize winners. They were Bernard DeVoto, author of Across the Wide Missouri, and A. B. Guthrie, Jr., author of the Pulitzer Prize novel of 1950, The Way West. Other activities of the Roundup in- cluded a Symphony Workshop at which Eugene Andrie conducted the Rocky Mountain Symphony. TOP — Stoff of the Comp Crier, paper printed during the summer session for the high school students who were ot- tending the Publications Pow Wow. MIDDLE — Claude Lord demonstroting the operation of a linotype machine to high school students attending Pow Wow. BOTTOM — Staff of the Summer Session Sun, weekly newspaper published dur- ing summer session. Left to right: George Friedman, Wllma Ellis, and Ken Poyton. — (News Service Photos)

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DRAMATIC productions on the campus ranged from the Drama department ' s presen- tation of William Saroyan ' s, The Beautiful People, and a series of three one-oct plays, to the Lockrem John- son chamber opera, A Letter to Emily. A scene from the modern opera shows George Peckham as Edward Dickinson, and Alice Cav e OS Emily. ' i« ! « ISSAw-a..- ' . V!»ift3«™«fess.. .. Ss ' ssa j! ■ «lS« ' «S Si? HIGH SCHOOL Music and Journalism students had on opportunity this summer to study under educators from MSU and other parts of the country. Music students performed and studied at the two week session of the High School Music Camp. JOURNALISM students attended the Publica- tions Pow Wow, a two week session conducted by the School of Journalism. Not all of the time was spent in study and many of the high school students took time off to dance in the Gold Room of the Student Union.

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Photo by Herb Titter, Great Foils JOSEPH KINSEY HOWARD (1906-1951) spent most of his life writing about Montana. He is best known for his book Montana — High, Wide, and Handsome. In 1944, after spending twenty-one years on the staff of the Great Falls Leader, Howard resigned from his job as News Editor to become Research Associate for the Montana Study, a project of the Rockefeller Foundation and Mon- tana State University. Until his death this summer, he was Director of the Northern Rocky Mountain Roundup of Regional Arts, sponsored by the University and the Rockefeller Foundation.