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Doug MacCarter '67, Kalispell, received the Outstanding Conservation Achievement Award from the Flathead Chapter of the National Audubon Society, along with his identical twin brother, the late Don MacCarter ’66. The MacCarters won the award for decades of monitoring raptors – notably ospreys – in northwestern Montana through UM’s Flathead Lake Biological Station. The brothers earned master’s degrees in wildlife management from Humboldt State University in California, using their osprey research as the subject for their dissertations. UM journalism graduate Jane Stahl MacCarter ’67, Don’s wife for more than 50 years, accepted the award on his behalf.

Michael Cuffe ’69, Eureka, is serving in the Montana Senate after four terms in the Montana House of Representatives. This summer, he was elected president of Pacific Northwest Economic Region, an association of legislators from five Northwest states and five Canadian provinces.

Ronald Schleyer ’69, M.A. ’78, St. Paul, MN, is an independent researcher in philosophy. “Hearty greetings to my J-school classmates and to acquaintances who may remember me from my time in Missoula,” he says. “I learned to write in Missoula, and this proved key to all my future (and now present) happiness. One can’t ask an Alma Mater for more!”

These UM grads took their Griz fandom to the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, in October: Ernie Ratzburg '64, Mary Lou Salveson Ratzburg '64, Frank Thomas '69, Cheryl Thomas, Keith Urbach '67, along with his Bobcat wife and a good sport, Sue Urbach. All are from Polson.

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