1960s

Ralph Lawrence ’61, Spuyten Duyvil, N.Y., recently went on an Honor Flight to Washington, D.C., with 69 other veterans. He attended UM on the Korean G.I. Bill and will turn 83 this June.

E.M. Risse ’61, The Woodlands, Texas, relocated his regional strategy practice from the Piedmont of Virginia to The Woodlands in Texas. He is working on completing his third book on human settlement patterns, and his first two are available from Amazon.

Carl Cain ’62, Missoula, retired from the U.S. Forest Service this past July after 15 years in the Washington State Department of Natural Resources and 41 years of federal service. He plans to stay in Missoula.

David Van Nuys M.A. ’64, Rohnert Park, Calif., received the American Psychological Association Presidential Award for his Shrink Rap Radio podcast, which features more than 600 episodes on everything from psychedelic consciousness to emotional eating. Van Nuys is emeritus professor of psychology at Sonoma State University, where he worked as a department chair for seven years. He also runs a market research consulting business and blog and has served on numerous psychology boards. Van Nuys has led personal growth workshops around the U.S. and world. His podcasts are available online at https://shrinkrapradio.com/all-shows/.

Larry Strate ’64, Hamilton, writing as L. Allen Strate, just published his second book, “From Battlefields to Beet Fields,” a glimpse into the prisoner-of-war camps in the Bitterroot Valley during WWII. Hundreds of prisoners of war – German, Italian and Japanese – were imported to help with the sugar beet harvest. The book details the at-the-time controversial decision to bring in POWs and sets the local story in context with what was going on nationally and internationally at the time.

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Ione and Delbert Unruh ’64, Lawrence, Kan., both alums of the UM theatre department, just published their book, “Forgotten Designers: Costume Designers of American Broadway Revues and Musicals from 1900-1930,” available on Amazon. This is the fifth publication on theatre designers that the two have published, and they are currently at work on a new publication about costume designer Cora MacGeachy. Del is a retired professor of theatre at the University of Kansas and Ione is a retired freelance costume designer.

Monte escorts Lana Richards Batts ’68, Lakeside, during her 50th wedding anniversary party this past August. Lana, a Billings Senior High School graduate, and Joseph Batts ’68, a Flathead County High School graduate, met during college at UM five decades ago and just celebrated their anniversary.

Emma Joki Gebo, M. Ed. ’71; and David Gebo ’65, Pocatello, Idaho; Billie Joki Herrin ’68, M. Ed. ’87, Ed.D. ’91; and Ned Herrin ’74, Sun City West, Ariz., took a Baltic Cruise in August and stopped in Finland for lunch with Emma and Billie’s cousins. This picture was taken in front of the famous Havis Amanda Fountain in Helsinki.