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Enrollment Continues to Climb!

Over 30 years ago when I attended UM, we were blessed with a new president named George Dennison, who was just beginning his 20 year tenure in 1990. And our alma mater flourished under his leadership as enrollment increased to new record levels, and new state-of-the art forestry, journalism, and business schools, etc. were built on campus. When I met with President Dennison for 30-45 minutes, he was warm, friendly, gracious and laid back-mellow--he seemed to be really comfortable in his own skin and I left that meeting very impressed with him.

After President Dennison retired, I thought his replacement Dr. Engstrom did not particularly do a good job--our enrollment started to decline, and I did not appreciate his knee-jerk reaction to the accusation against Jordan Johnson and his decision to terminate both Coach Pflugrad and AD Jim O'Day. I think President Engstrom threw both Pflu and Jim under the proverbial bus instead of letting due process take its course, which resulted in the acquittal of Jordy.

I think we once again now have an energetic, dynamic, charismatic president with Seth Bodnar, the West Point grad, Rhodes Scholar, former Army Special Forces officer, and GE executive, and the faculty, student body, alumni and Missoula have bought into his vision for UM, and once again our enrollment is increasing and UM has achieved a rarity: a Tier 1 research university without an engineering achool, like MSU, a medical school, or both, like the University of Iowa and the University of Minnesota !!!

I think our alma mater is in good hands !!!
 
billingsgriz said:
Over 30 years ago when I attended UM, we were blessed with a new president named George Dennison, who was just beginning his 20 year tenure in 1990. And our alma mater flourished under his leadership as enrollment increased to new record levels, and new state-of-the art forestry, journalism, and business schools, etc. were built on campus. When I met with President Dennison for 30-45 minutes, he was warm, friendly, gracious and laid back-mellow--he seemed to be really comfortable in his own skin and I left that meeting very impressed with him.

After President Dennison retired, I thought his replacement Dr. Engstrom did not particularly do a good job--our enrollment started to decline, and I did not appreciate his knee-jerk reaction to the accusation against Jordan Johnson and his decision to terminate both Coach Pflugrad and AD Jim O'Day. I think President Engstrom threw both Pflu and Jim under the proverbial bus instead of letting due process take its course, which resulted in the acquittal of Jordy.

I think we once again now have an energetic, dynamic, charismatic president with Seth Bodnar, the West Point grad, Rhodes Scholar, former Army Special Forces officer, and GE executive, and the faculty, student body, alumni and Missoula have bought into his vision for UM, and once again our enrollment is increasing and UM has achieved a rarity: a Tier 1 research university without an engineering achool, like MSU, a medical school, or both, like the University of Iowa and the University of Minnesota !!!

I think our alma mater is in good hands !!!
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Ursa Major said:
Yeah, I got home from work yesterday and my wife was holding a martini with an olive in it and wearing nothing but Saran Wrap. It totally sucked, she knows I like two olives in my martinis.
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are you trying to tell us that your wife doesn't look good wearing nothing but saran wrap? oh my.
 
The island of Lebsos in Greece has 14 million olive trees. We may go there in a few months on a bigger trip to Turkey and elsewhere, so I was researching.
 
mthoopsfan said:
The island of Lebsos in Greece has 14 million olive trees. We may go there in a few months on a bigger trip to Turkey and elsewhere, so I was researching.
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Based on the previous replies in the thread, my dyslexia initially saw this as the island of Lesbos and thought, dammmmmmnnnnnnn, hoops is gettin' it! 🤣
 
MissoulaMarinerFan said:
Based on the previous replies in the thread, my dyslexia initially saw this as the island of Lesbos and thought, dammmmmmnnnnnnn, hoops is gettin' it! 🤣
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“Lesbos (also called Lesvos or Mitilini) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey. It’s famous as the birthplace of the ancient Greek poet Sappho. Lesbos is also known for its ouzo (an anise-flavored liqueur).” Most ouzo is made there. “ “[Sappho’s] association with female homosexuality has unwillingly caused the gifted poet to be somewhat exiled from the pantheon of great personalities of the island.” Some of her poems were about women and homosexuality. Aristotle lived on the island at times. We will probably do a boat trip on a Turkish gulet in the Turkish riviera instead.
 
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