2007 PRESIDENT'S REPORT

2007 Highlights

UM Athletes Win President’s Cup

The University was awarded the 2006-07 Sterling Savings Bank Big Sky Conference President’s Cup, an award that honors the institution with the most successful student-athletes in the classroom and on the field.

Team grade-point averages, graduation rates, number of all-conference performers with a GPA above 3.0 and regular-season standings for all sports help determine the conference winner.

Montana finished with a cumulative GPA of 3.11. Thirty All-Conference athletes earned at least a 3.0. UM women’s tennis and women’s cross country teams tied for the best GPA at 3.39.

Kimmitt Family Leaves Legacy

The high-powered Kimmitt family came to UM to honor their father, the late Joseph Stanley Kimmitt, a Montanan who served as secretary of the Senate.

Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt and Deputy Assistant Secretary Mark Kimmitt were joined by siblings Mary Laxton, Jay Kimmitt and Judy Rainey. Announcing the J. Stanley Kimmitt Public Service Lecture and Internship, the family spoke to students and presented a panel discussion.

Kimmitt attended UM and took a class from Sen. Mike Mansfield, under whom he eventually served as secretary of the majority.

Law School’s 10-Year Streak

For an unprecedented 10th year in a row, a UM School of Law team advanced to the final rounds of the National Moot Court Competition in New York City.

The UM team of Erica Grinde, Sabrina Hansen and Angela Wetzsteon advanced to finals after finishing second in the Northwest regional competition. The Northwest region includes teams from law schools in Montana, Washington, Oregon and Idaho.

Montana’s 10-year streak of advancing to the national finals is by far the longest of any law school in the country.

Wildlife Student Snags $80,000

A doctoral student who works to save endangered bighorn sheep in California’s Sierra Nevada received an $80,000 scholarship from the 2007 Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program.

Heather Johnson, a wildlife biology major from Bellevue, Wash., was one of only four winners selected from a pool of 150 applicants.

Johnson is employed by the Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Recovery Program in the California Department of Fish and Game, where she works to preserve a bighorn sheep subspecies that is distinct from the Rocky Mountain bighorn found in Montana.

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