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S 5:00 P.m.–8:00 P.m. Exhibit reception Join the Montana Museum of Art & Culture on the University of Montana campus for the opening of its new exhibit, War Torn: The Art of Ben Steele, depicting paintings and drawings from the Bataan Death March. During World War II, Steele endured 41 months of starvation, dehydration, hard labor, torture, and Japanese “hell ships” while crippled Tayabas Road, Ben Steele, charcoal on paper, n.d. by dysentery, pneumonia, malaria, blood poisoning, and beriberi. The artist—now a resident of Billings—miraculously survived and later created a vast aesthetic and historical record that pays tribute to those who did not survive and offers a message of peace. Enjoy light hors d’oeuvres and a no-host bar before making the short walk over to the University Theater for the evening’s keynote address. For more information on the exhibit and related programming visit: www.umt.edu/montanamuseum or call 406-243-2019. S 8:00 P.m.–9:30 P.m. Keynote address, University Theater, UM Campus In conjunction with the Montana History Conference, the University of Montana’s Presidential Lecture Series will present Dr. John Dower discussing The Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq. Dower—Professor Emeritus of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Pulitzer Prize-, Mellon Prize-, and National Book Award-winning author—has been hailed as being “without question . . . America’s foremost historian of the Second World War in the Pacific.” His Dr. John Dower most recent book, The Cultures of War, provides a groundbreaking comparison of four definitive acts of violence in our time, beginning on December 7, 1941, and continuing through the current war in Iraq. Books will be available for purchase and Dower will sign copies after his lecture which is free and open to the public. 18 Montana Museum of Art & Culture
Saturday, September 24 S 7:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m. Conference registration S 7:45 a.m.–9:30 a.m. Concurrent sessions (include breakfast) The War against Disease Dr. Marshall Bloom, Associate Director for Science Management, Division of Intramural Research, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, will tell the tale of Battling Yellow Jack in the Bitterroot during World War II. Bloom will discuss efforts to establish a yellow-fever vaccine production facility at the National Institute of Health’s Hamilton laboratories where, after 1942, all yellow-fever vaccines for members of the U.S. armed forces—up to 100,000 doses per week—were produced. Ellen Leahy, Director of the Missoula County Public Health Department, will talk about the worldwide influenza epidemic as it affected the Garden City and the role of Fort Missoula in the spread of the disease in her presentation on Our Hour of Proof: The 1918 “Spanish” Influenza Pandemic in Missoula. This session on the Treasure State’s medical history is sponsored by Dr. Volney Steele, Bozeman. The Cold War in Montana In his presentation, Keep Watching the Skies, Montana Department of Transportation Historian Jon Axline, Helena, will tell the story of Operation SKYWATCH and the Montana Ground Observer Corps. Beginning in 1952, the Air Force trained thousands of Montana civilians to scan the skies, report on unidentified aircraft, and plot their positions in case of a Soviet sneak attack. They were on the front line of the Cold War until the Air Force established radar stations throughout the state in 1958. In her talk, Nuclear Montana, Molly Holz, editor of the MHS Publications program, will recount the history of Minuteman missiles in Montana and show how the missiles thrust a remote and rural state into the center of international affairs during the Cold War. Today, 150 Minuteman missiles dot the state. Although the missiles themselves have been upgraded over the years, the launch structure—the silos, the launch control facilities, and the cabling system connecting these with Malmstrom Air Force Base—has Minuteman Missile Installation, June 7, 1962 19 PAc 84-91, U.S. Air Force Photog.
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