A Report to the people of Montana

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)NTANA COMMITTEE FOR THE HUMANITIES

SPRING 1992 • VOL. 18 NO. 2

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by Margaret Kingsland

Most readers of this newsletter
are familiar with the grant-making
activities of the Montana
Committee for the Humanities. In
addition to these activities, MCH
funds also support diverse
services to the field. Taken as a
whole, the MCH's grants and
services are designed to add up
to a varied array of humanites-
centered programs for citizens of
all ages in all corners of the state.
Together, they are organized to
meet our goals of connecting
people and ideas.

Our grant programs include
planning grants, minigrants,
general grants, research and
scripting grants for media projects,
media production grants, and oral
history grants.

Equally important are our
numerous services to the field.
These include packaged
humanites programs and
Committee-conducted projects
such as the following:

♦ MCH Media Collection and
Distribution The MCH Media
Catalog lists dozens of humanities
films, videos, and exhibits which
are available free of charge to
non-profit groups in Montana.
Over the past 20 years schools
have been our largest category of
users, followed closely by citizens
groups.

♦ MCH Speakers Bureau The
Speakers Bureau has been in
existence for more than ten years.
This year it is supported in part by
funds from Montana's Cultural

Trust matched by Treasury funds
from the National Endowment for
the Humanities. More than 100
citizens groups host speakers
each year.

♦ READOm MCH Reading
and Discussion Series For the
past three years the MCH has
used funds from The Book Group
and the National Endowment for
the Humanites to circulate books
and humanites discussion leaders
to communities wishing to read
books on themes such as "Trails"
and "The Common Good."
Libraries are generally the
sponsors of these packaged
programs.

♦ MCH Conferences and
Public Meetings In September,
1992, the MCH will host an in-
depth look at the Lewis and Clark
Expedition in Montana. Titled
American Encounters: Lewis and
Clark, the People, and the Land.
the conference links the Age of
Exploration which began with the
Columbian Voyages of the
fifteenth century to the nineteenth
century exploration of this remote
corner of the continent by Euro-
Americans. Other public meetings
this year have included
presentations by humanites
scholars such as Mary Clearman
Blew, Bill Bevis, Dale Harvey, and
Harry Fritz in our Twentieth
Anniversary celebrations in
Helena, Missoula, Bozeman, and
Great Falls.

♦ MCH Teacher Programs For
the past nine years the MCH has

NOTICE OF CHANGES IN

APPLICATION CALENDAR

AND AMOUNTS

Please note that as of
November 1, 1992, MCH
will review on a monthly
basis all grant requests
for $3,000 or less
Requests for more than
$3,000 will be considered
quarterly. This will also
apply to all projects
scheduled to take place
after November 1, 1992.

Deadline for submission
will remain the 20th of the
month for
requests
under
$3000.
Larger
requests
will be due
October 20,
December 20, March 20,
and August 20. Phase II
Media grants will continue
to be reviewed together in
January and have a
December 20, deadline.
Phase III Media
"distribution" grants may be
reviewed at any of the
quarterly meetings.

made special efforts to encourage
and support improved humanites
research and teaching in grades
K-12. We have hosted

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Montana Stale Library

Montana Committee
for the Humanities

ACADEMIC MEMBERS

Michael Beehler

Bo/eman

Tim Bernardis
Crow Agency

WilllatTi Chaloupka

Missoula

George Dennison

Missoula

Ken Egan

Billings

Walter Fleming

Chair

Bozeman

David Karnos

Billings

Paul Monaco
Bozeman

Mary Murphy

Bozeman

David Walter
Helena

PUBLIC MEMBERS

Ron Bibler*

Great flails

Judy Browning
Helena

Ann Cogswell*

Great flails

Jamie Doggeft'
Vice Chair

White Sulphur Springs

Larry Kravik

Richland

Sara McClernan
Butte

Twylla McPherson

Glendive

Lee Hostad*

Martinsdale

Bruce Toole

Bilhngs

"Governor's Appointees

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COMMITTEE UPDATE

MCH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
RECEIVES HONORARY
DOCTORATES

Margaret Kingsland, MCH's Executive
Director for the past 1 7 years, will receive an
honorary Doctor of Humanities from Montana
State University on May 16th The University
is recognizing Dr Kingsland's longtime
leadership in humanites and public programs
in Montana.

Dr. Kingsland will deliver the Honors
Lecture at MSU's Honors Banquet on May
15

In December, Dr Kingsland also received
an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from
the University of Montana.

MCH WELCOMES NEW STAFF MEMBERS
Adrienne Fershee is the new MCH

Secretary/Receptionist She has been
working at the MCH since December.
Originally from Michigan, she spent two years
studying at The American University in
Washington, DC before emigrating to
Montana

Joan Yanagihara joined the staff in
March as a half-time Development Officer, a
new postion She graduated from the
University of Hawaii at Hilo in 1973. Before
moving to Montana in 1990, she worked as a
development officer for the University of
Hawaii Foundation and as Development
Coordinator for the Bishop Museum in
Honolulu.

TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATION CONTINUES

MCH is marking its Twentieth Anniversary
with a series of regional programs across
Montana.

In January the Committee recognized 27
community leaders and organizations from
the Bozeman, Livingston, and Butte areas at
a ceremony at the Museum of the Rockies on
the Montana State University campus.

The CM. Russell Museum played host for
the Great Falls anniversary celebration on
April 24th Forty-two institutions and
individuals were singled out to receive MCH
certificates of appreciation. They came from
the Great Falls, Havre, Helena, and
Lewistown areas.

Billings will host the MCH's final
anniversary program on Friday, November 6.

President George Dennison of the U of M presents
Margaret Kingslad with her Honorary Doctor of
Humane Letters.
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dozens of summer seminars, week-long
institutes, and weekend institutes. In the
current academic year the White Sulphur
Springs School District has hosted an
experimental Scholar in the Schools program
featuring the work of philosopher Louise
Porzig and cooperative ventures with
classroom teachers. Weekend Institutes
have taken place in Charlo, Bozeman,
Forsyth, and Poison.

All of these programs and services are
organized through the cooperation of
scholars, MCH staff, and the host
communities whose in-kind contributions are
critically important to their success.

Plans for 1 992-1 995 call for the
development of additonal services to
Montana, including:

•a weekly humanities-centered TV
discussion series to debut in January and air
state-wide;

•technical assistance to small museums
and historical associations;

•an experimental Scholar in the Tribe
program;

•a new Speakers Bureau line-up; and

•expanded opportunities for community-
hosted READ OA// programs

The MCH receives many more requests
for program grants and service than it can
support with its limited funds from the
National Endowment for the Humanites and
Montana's Cultural Trust. Your support for
public programs for Montanans is a crucial
component of our success. Please join our
important work and become a Friend of the
Humanities. You'll be helping the Montana
Committee for the Humanities to spark
learning and literacy, build community and
empower citizens groups, enrich public
debate and discourse, strengthen community
values and intellectual inquiry, develop local
resources and talents, and stimulate funding
for cultural programming for all our citizens.

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American Encounters

Lewis and Clark, the People, and the Land

The Montana Committee for the Humanities is
coordinating a regional conference entitled American
Encounters: Lewis and Clark, the People, and the
Land in Missoula on September 10-13, 1992. Co-
sponsors for the conference
include the Montana Committee
for the Humanities, the
University of Montana's Series
on the Rocky Mountain West,
and the Traveler's Rest Chapter
of the Lewis and Clark Trail
Heritage Foundation. Funding is
provided by the National
Endowment for the Humanities
and the Montana Committee for
the Humanities.

The conference is one of
three National Endowment for
the Humanities funded
conferences on the Lewis and
Clark Expedition scheduled this
year as part of the Columbian
Quincentenary commemoration.
The other two conferences, in
St. Louis, Missouri, and Lincoln,
Nebraska, took place this spring
and focused on the Lewis and
Clark Expedition and the Great
Plains and the Missouri River.
The Missoula conference will focus on the Expedition
and the peoples and lands of the Rocky Mountains and
the Columbia River.

The speakers at the conference include nationally
recognized Lewis and Clark scholars.

♦ Gary Moulton of the University of Nebraska
Lincoln and editor of the 11 -volume Journals of the
Lewis and Clark Expedition will deliver the key-note
address entitled "Lewis and Clark: Journals, Editors,
and Editions."

♦ Robert Carriker of the Department of History at
Gonzaga University will speak on "Enlightenment
Scholars Among the Native Americans: Lewis and
Clark Visit the Pacific Northwest Indian Tribes."

♦ Gary Holthaus of the Center of the American
West in Boulder, Colorado will examine the conflict
between explorers and indigenous people in North
America. In addition to the journals of Lewis and Clark,
he will draw from the diaries of explorers who preceded
and followed Lewis and Clark.

♦ William Lang, Director of the Center for Columbia

Lewis and Clark at Traveler's Rest, Stan Hughes, 1991

River History and formerly Director of the Montana
Historical Society, will focus on what the explorers' view
of the landscape tells us about the exploration
experience in his presentation entitled "Looking at the
Columbia."

♦ David Nicandri,
Director of the Washington State
Historical Society, will put the
Lewis and Clark Expedition in
perspective by examining events
which preceded and followed the
Expedition in his presentation
"The Opening of the Northern
West."

Several Montana scholars
will round out the program-
Harry Fritz of the University of
Montana, Stuart Knapp of
Montana State University and
Vice President of the Lewis and
Clark Trail Heritage Foundation,
and Betty White, Director of
Sqeliz'u/Aqicmaknik Cultural
Center of the Confederated
Salish and Kootenai Tribes of
the Flathead Nation.

The Committee is
investigating with the Office of
Public Instruction the possibility
of offering Teacher Recertification Credits for teachers
attending the conference.

For more information on the conference, please
complete the form at the bottom of this page. We will
send you a registration form and conference schedule
as soon as they are available.

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Please send me more information on the
MCH conference American Encounters:
Lewis and Clark, the Peopk, and the Land.
My name and address are:

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Mail to: MCH, P.O. Box 8036, Missoula, MT 59807

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FINANCIAL REPORT

SUPPORT:

Fund Balance 11/1/90
NEH Appropriations
MT Cultural Trust
Gifts- Regrant
Gifts-Other
Publications
Program
Interest Income

$41,000.00

$413,820.00

$6,250.00

$42,576.00

$5,389.00

$3,588.00

$193.00

$1,350.00

EXPENSES:

Regrant $255,906.00

Sen/ices to the Field
and Administration $209,029.00
Fund Balance 11/1/91 $49,231.00

TOTAL

$514,166.00

TOTAL

$514,166.00

The statement of cash revenue and expenses tells less than half the story. As the pie chart
shows, 54% of the costs of l\/ICH programs and grants are borne by in-kind and cash
contributions not reflected in MCH's operating budget. (Percentages are based on the most
recent audited grant period.)

Regrant projects

23.3%

Rgnt cost-share
48.0%'

Adm/Ser to field

22.0%

Gifts cost-share

Admin cost-share

6.1%

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P.O. Box 8036, Hellgate Station. Missoula. MT 59807

1992 Friends

of the Humanities

BENEFACTORS

William Chaloupka
Susan Scott Heyneman

Foundation
Lee Rostad

PATRONS

Rose Marie Aus
James and Gen Berry
Judy Browning
Ann Cogswell
Sara McClernan
Twylla McPlnerson
Louis or Mary Menl<
Montana Federation of
Teacfiers

ASSOCIATES

Dorcie Dvarsfikis
James McGarvey
Yellowstone Historical
Society

CONTRIBUTORS

Tim Bernardis
Ron Bibler
Maxine Blackmer
Joan Haefer
Elizebeth Hall
Patricia Helvey
Laura Newman
Willard and Lois Ramsett
Joel Scfiechter
Bonnie J Wischmann

MCH STAFF

Margaret Kingsland
Executive Director

Adrienne Fershee

Secretary' Receptionist

Yvonne Gritzner

Administrative Assistant

Nancy Uaxson

Program Assistant

Mary Thamarus

Fiscal Officer

Joan Yanagihara
Development Officer

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NOTE: CHECK LOCAL
PUBLICITY FOR LOCATIONS
AND SPONSORS

Bozeman

August 15, Speakers Bureau "The

World Within, the World Without." Lowell

Jaeger. Hellgate Writers

Butte

May 19. Speakers Bureau "Stories of

Creation; Bear Chief Tells Why." Harold

Gray, Friends of the Butte-Silver Bow

Library

Condon

June 29. Speakers Bureau "Thomas

Meagher: Stranger in a Strange Land."

McCarthy Coyle, Swan Valley Chapter

AARP

Corvallis

May 20, Wendell Berry at the Teller

Wildlife Refuge, UM Dept. of English

Deer Lodge

May 16. Speakers Bureau "Montana

Memories: Folk Songs of Oral History."

Kathleen Guehlstorff Crichton and Scott

Crichton. MOHA

May 25. Unlocking Minds Behind Bars,

Heartland. Then and Now: Western

Women in Film. Annick Smith, Women's

Correctional Center

June 8. Unlocking Minds Behind Bars.

Women Artists of the West. Laura Millin.

Women's Correctional Center

June 22, Unlocking Minds Behind Bars,

Women and Art History. Joy DeStefano,

Women's Correctional Center

Dillon

May 31, Speakers Bureau "Montana

High. Wide, and Hollywoodized," Sue

Hart, Elderhostel Program

June 18. Speakers Bureau "Columbus

and the Quincentenary." Robert Lindsay,

Western Montana College

June 18. Speakers Bureau "1492:

Indian Views of Europeans, European

Views of Indians," Billy G. Smith,

Western Montana College

July 16, Speakers Bureau "Mark Twain

and Montana," Dale Han/ey, Carson

Library, Western Montana College

Great Falls

May 14, Speakers Bureau "Plenty

Coups: An Aged Warrior in a New Age,"

Dean Bear Claw, Paris Gibson Square

Museum of Art

June 17, Spea/cersSureaL/ "Brother Can

You Spare a Dime''" William Rossiter,

Cascade County Historical Society

June 26-28, Lewis and Clark Festival.

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center

Association

Hamilton

May 14, Speakers Bureau "Writing a

Western Life," Julia Watson, Bitterroot

Public Library and The Ravalli Republic

Helena

May 20, Speakers Bureau "Montana

High, Wide and Hollywoodized," Sue

Hart, Montana Historical Society

Lewistown

August 14. Speakers Bureau "The

World Within, the World Without," Lowell

Jaeger, Hellgate Writers

Libby

May 19, Speakers Bureau "That Russian

Thing," Don Clark. Friends of the Library

Livingston

May 16. Thrown So Often on Her Own

Resources: a Look at the Western

Woman's Life, Livingston Depot Center

Missoula

June 25-26, Domestic Violence 2001.

YWCA

August 6, Speakers Bureau "Where Did

all the Indians Go?" Ron Therriault,

Historical Museum at Fort Missoula

September 10-13. American Encounters:

Lewis and Clark, the People and the

Land. Montana Committee for the

Humanities

Plenty Coups State Park

July 6-12, Montana Quincentennial

Project, American Friends Service

Committee

Sidney

June 12, Speakers Bureau "American

Indian Value Systems-Culture and

Traditions," Barney Old Coyote. Eastern

Montana Historical Society

Yellow Bay

August 16. Speakers Bureau "The

World Within, the World Without." Lowell

Jaeger. Hellgate Writers

Telecast of MCH Funded Media
Productions

May 14, KSPS, "The Wolf, Real or
Imagined"

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