Kathy Casey story
Great Falls 02/14/2010, Page P20
Skating coach Kathy Casey has roots in Great Falls
Just 18 days before the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Spokane hosted the National Figure Skating Championships, filling the city with elite skaters and coaches.
The athletes performed dizzying spins, triple Axels, twizzles, and a few quad jumps, while thousands of fans looked on in awe.
One of those on hand was Kathy Casey, a world-renowned coach and past president of the United States Figure Skating Professionals. Casey has served on the board of directors of the United States Figure Skating Association and on the U.S. Olympic Coaches Committee. She has been the official figure skating coach for three Olympic games and conducts seminars all over the world.
She’s also a Great Falls native.
Between commitments in Spokane, Casey reminisced about her early days in Great Falls and her first moments on ice.
“The Sieben family took Terry and I to a public session on rental skates,” she said of an outing with her brother.
Casey was hooked from her first wobbly glide and came home to tell her mother that she wanted to take lessons.
At the time, she was 12, “already, over the hill,” she said.
Yet, she entered some competitions, making it to a sectional event.
Her ultimate goal was to become a coach. And it wasn’t long before her dream came true.
In 1962, she became the assistant coach at the Lakewood Winter Club in Tacoma, Wash. In 1990, she was offered the position as skating director for the Broadmoor Skating club in Colorado Springs, Colo. She directed that program until 2000.
During her years in Tacoma and Colorado Springs, Casey coached many famous skaters, including Great Falls’ own Scott Davis, who went on to become a United States National Figure Skating Champion, World Figure Skating Champion and Olympic silver medalist; Rosalynn Sumner s, Nicole Bobek, Scott Hamilton, and the reigning U.S. Senior Ladies gold medalist, Rachel Flatt.
She said she taught Davis through trial and error.
Casey could see other countries were way ahead of the United States then, through weight training and exercise. Casey had little information on the biomechanics of jumping so she went to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs and enlisted their help.
Collaborating with the research team — they rewrote how to do a triple Axel 18 times — they came up with excellent results. Her studies helped her earn the 2005 U.S. Olympic Committee Sports Science Coach of the Year.
Today, skaters learn to jump using a pole harness, a pole with a contraption that wraps around the skater. Holding the pole, the coach skates along with skater, preventing serious falls during an attempted jump.
Another innovation is the dart fish, a machine similar to a video camera that replays the skater’s jump, detailing how long they have to be in the air to reach the desired number of revolutions.
Casey’s coaching colleagues nominated her for the 2009 Sonja Henie Award. She received the honor at a dinner. As her name was announced, Casey came down the aisle dressed as the legendary Norwegian figure skating champion in high top skates and vintage costume.
Today, after some 35 years as a successful coach, Casey conducts skating seminars in Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, Australia and the United States. She has given presentations for the International Skating Union and conducted developmental ice skating camps in Finland, Slovenia and China.
While she will have no official duties at this year’s Olympics in Vancouver, she will be on the sidelines cheering on skaters she knows through her years of coaching.
When not traveling the world, Casey ofte n comes back to Great Falls to visit her 98-year-old mother.
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Kathy Casey
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Joe Halko Show Galerie Trinitas
Joe Halko story
Great Falls 01/22/2010, Page L01
‘A Tribute to Joe Halko’
Galerie Trinitas to host show honoring late artist
By POLLY KOLSTAD For the Tribune
Joe Halko was an artist, a taxidermist, a wildlife lover and a gentle man who was right at home in Montana.
On Sunday, a show in his memory, “A Tribute to Joe Halko,” opens at Galerie Trinitas on the University of Great Falls campus.
“He always really admired Sister Trinitas and enjoyed her enthusiasm,” Joe’s widow, Margaret, said. “He liked helping her on her projects and learned a lot from her. She improvised and so did Joe.”
Halko died in March at the age of 68.
Early in his career, Halko left Montana for the Fisk Studios in New York and then for the Scottsdale (Arizona) School of Art. But he never forgot his roots.
He eventually returned to the area he loved: the ranch he grew up on near Stockett, his high school alma mater in Centerville, and the University of Great Falls, where as a stu& shy;dent he studied art under Sister Mary Trinitas Morin.
His artistic inspiration often came from the wild things — bears, deer, antelope, rabbits and geese — he saw outside his home in Choteau.
“Joe understood the anatomy of animals; he knew their bodies,” Margaret explained. “He worked outside or in the studio every day.”
Halko began as a taxidermist at the Great Falls Sporting Goods store. It was during this time that he started creating sculptures with his colleague and friend, Tuffy Berg. “My father, Cliff Rumford, taught Joe how to be a taxidermist,” said Leslie Stafford, recalling the early years at the family store.
Halko was a lifelong friend to the Rumfords. Among the Halko memorabilia the Rumfords treasure is a bronze of a pigmy owl and a picture of the family’s first dog that Joe did.
Halko was involved in the C.M. Russell Art Auction for years and was recognized as the Peoples’ Choice sculpture award winner in 1979 and 1983.
A year ago, Halko completed the Stations of the Cross bronzes installed in the Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Great Falls.
According to Carol Fitzpatrick, her husband, Stan, bought the first piece Halko ever put in an auction. It was a pen and ink drawing of a herd of elk.
The Fitzpatrick family farmed in the Stockett area
See HALKO, 2L
TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO/STUART S. WHITE
Joe Halko describes his sculpture at the 2005 Russell Auction at the C.M. Russell Museum.
POLLY KOLSTAD PHOTO
A show in Halko’s honor opens Sunday at Galerie Trinitas.
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Great Falls 01/22/2010, Page L01
‘A Tribute to Joe Halko’
Galerie Trinitas to host show honoring late artist
By POLLY KOLSTAD For the Tribune
Joe Halko was an artist, a taxidermist, a wildlife lover and a gentle man who was right at home in Montana.
On Sunday, a show in his memory, “A Tribute to Joe Halko,” opens at Galerie Trinitas on the University of Great Falls campus.
“He always really admired Sister Trinitas and enjoyed her enthusiasm,” Joe’s widow, Margaret, said. “He liked helping her on her projects and learned a lot from her. She improvised and so did Joe.”
Halko died in March at the age of 68.
Early in his career, Halko left Montana for the Fisk Studios in New York and then for the Scottsdale (Arizona) School of Art. But he never forgot his roots.
He eventually returned to the area he loved: the ranch he grew up on near Stockett, his high school alma mater in Centerville, and the University of Great Falls, where as a stu& shy;dent he studied art under Sister Mary Trinitas Morin.
His artistic inspiration often came from the wild things — bears, deer, antelope, rabbits and geese — he saw outside his home in Choteau.
“Joe understood the anatomy of animals; he knew their bodies,” Margaret explained. “He worked outside or in the studio every day.”
Halko began as a taxidermist at the Great Falls Sporting Goods store. It was during this time that he started creating sculptures with his colleague and friend, Tuffy Berg. “My father, Cliff Rumford, taught Joe how to be a taxidermist,” said Leslie Stafford, recalling the early years at the family store.
Halko was a lifelong friend to the Rumfords. Among the Halko memorabilia the Rumfords treasure is a bronze of a pigmy owl and a picture of the family’s first dog that Joe did.
Halko was involved in the C.M. Russell Art Auction for years and was recognized as the Peoples’ Choice sculpture award winner in 1979 and 1983.
A year ago, Halko completed the Stations of the Cross bronzes installed in the Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Great Falls.
According to Carol Fitzpatrick, her husband, Stan, bought the first piece Halko ever put in an auction. It was a pen and ink drawing of a herd of elk.
The Fitzpatrick family farmed in the Stockett area
See HALKO, 2L
TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO/STUART S. WHITE
Joe Halko describes his sculpture at the 2005 Russell Auction at the C.M. Russell Museum.
POLLY KOLSTAD PHOTO
A show in Halko’s honor opens Sunday at Galerie Trinitas.
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Gallery 16 is 40 years old
Great Falls 01/29/2010, Page L01
Nine women started Gallery 16 — 40 years ago
Group of female artists still operating Central Avenue mainstay; anniversary celebration gets under way on Feb. 5
By POLLY KOLSTAD For the Tribune
Gallery 16 is officially over the hill and its members couldn’t be prouder.
Forty years old this year, the gallery got its start in 1970, made up of nine women looking for an opportunity to show their work. Most were working at home at their dining room tables. Judy Crowder, Jean Halverson, Lela Tonkin Hamley, Muriel Kittock, Sam Borchers, Marilyn Christ-Janer, Kay DeMille, Pat Hoiland and Val Knight were the founding members, taking over Contemporary Ideas. The gallery, at 309 16th St. N., was run by a group of men who were ready to give it up.
“So in we went, a gutsy move,” recalled artist and Gallery 16 member Judy Ericksen.
“They were all beginning artists, except Val Knight who was enormously accom& shy;plished,” Ericksen said of the original members. “She was the lightning rod, the spark plug.”
The gallery’s founding members drew up incorporation papers, chipped in $15 a month for rent and enlisted the help of their husbands to build display furniture. Because it was located on 16th Street, they called it Gallery 16.
Gallery 16 grew and moved across the street from the C.M. Russell Museum in about 1972. Eventually they were drawn to a location downtown, next door to a popular restaurant at the time, Green Goods, which is now the Penington Place.
From there, they moved to 319 Central Ave., and in the 1980s, when they outgrew that location, relocated to the current site, 608 Central Ave.
“We have decided it’s going to be feet-first, if we have to move again,” Ericksen said.
Gallery 16 had a satellite shop for a time at Paris Gibson Square but soon realized they didn’t have the staff to o perate both.
While the artwork is the backbone of the gallery’s four decades of success, the artists’ tight bond has held it all together.
“It’s a wonderful family,” Ericksen said.
“We get to talk up other people’s art. We are one of the few incubator shops — a place for people to start and grow,” President Joyce Ranum said. “We are friendship, a family, a big support network, not just a 9 to 5. We are all there for each other.”
Today, the gallery features 10 to 12 shows a year, show
See GALLERY 16, 2L
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Gallery 16 members from left, Pat Erickson, Judy Ericksen, and Marcia Hocevar show works by Mary Ann Young, Jean Halverson and Alice Chambers Paige, three of the original nine artists of Gallery 16. The gallery will celebrate its 40th anniversary Feb. 5, from 5 to 9 p.m.
Gallery 16 features not only a several artists, but also a variety of media.
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Nine women started Gallery 16 — 40 years ago
Group of female artists still operating Central Avenue mainstay; anniversary celebration gets under way on Feb. 5
By POLLY KOLSTAD For the Tribune
Gallery 16 is officially over the hill and its members couldn’t be prouder.
Forty years old this year, the gallery got its start in 1970, made up of nine women looking for an opportunity to show their work. Most were working at home at their dining room tables. Judy Crowder, Jean Halverson, Lela Tonkin Hamley, Muriel Kittock, Sam Borchers, Marilyn Christ-Janer, Kay DeMille, Pat Hoiland and Val Knight were the founding members, taking over Contemporary Ideas. The gallery, at 309 16th St. N., was run by a group of men who were ready to give it up.
“So in we went, a gutsy move,” recalled artist and Gallery 16 member Judy Ericksen.
“They were all beginning artists, except Val Knight who was enormously accom& shy;plished,” Ericksen said of the original members. “She was the lightning rod, the spark plug.”
The gallery’s founding members drew up incorporation papers, chipped in $15 a month for rent and enlisted the help of their husbands to build display furniture. Because it was located on 16th Street, they called it Gallery 16.
Gallery 16 grew and moved across the street from the C.M. Russell Museum in about 1972. Eventually they were drawn to a location downtown, next door to a popular restaurant at the time, Green Goods, which is now the Penington Place.
From there, they moved to 319 Central Ave., and in the 1980s, when they outgrew that location, relocated to the current site, 608 Central Ave.
“We have decided it’s going to be feet-first, if we have to move again,” Ericksen said.
Gallery 16 had a satellite shop for a time at Paris Gibson Square but soon realized they didn’t have the staff to o perate both.
While the artwork is the backbone of the gallery’s four decades of success, the artists’ tight bond has held it all together.
“It’s a wonderful family,” Ericksen said.
“We get to talk up other people’s art. We are one of the few incubator shops — a place for people to start and grow,” President Joyce Ranum said. “We are friendship, a family, a big support network, not just a 9 to 5. We are all there for each other.”
Today, the gallery features 10 to 12 shows a year, show
See GALLERY 16, 2L
TRIBUNE PHOTOS/ RION SANDERS
Gallery 16 members from left, Pat Erickson, Judy Ericksen, and Marcia Hocevar show works by Mary Ann Young, Jean Halverson and Alice Chambers Paige, three of the original nine artists of Gallery 16. The gallery will celebrate its 40th anniversary Feb. 5, from 5 to 9 p.m.
Gallery 16 features not only a several artists, but also a variety of media.
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