Colorado College | Bulletin

	Dean Storey Heads for Montana
	By Peter Rice '05

Dean Richard Storey is bidding a fond farewell to Colorado College after accepting the post of chancellor at the University of Montana-Western at Dillon.

“It’s been a great ride,” says Storey, who taught in CC’s biology department from 1978 to 1999, when former President Kathryn Mohrman named him dean of the college and faculty. He and his wife, Martha, will move north in July.

Storey says he will miss working with students on biology projects, and also teaching summer classes to minority students through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He also enjoyed serving the college as dean.

Any regrets? “Well, I can’t take the hockey team with me,” he says with a grin.

Along with his belongings, Storey will take a few CC traditions to Montana. As the top on-campus official at Western, he plans to hold open office hours for students, a practice he picked up from CC President Richard F. Celeste. He also wants to be heavily involved in the admissions process, calling prospective students and traveling around to promote the university.

As part of his new job, Storey will help implement Montana’s latest academic import: the Block Plan. Over the next two years, Western will phase in an eight-block school year patterned partly after CC’s. It will be the first public university in the country to live life in 31¼2-week increments. “They’re set to make big advances, and I think it’s going to be exciting,” predicts Storey.

And there’s excitement of another kind waiting in Dillon, tucked in the southwestern corner of the Big Sky state: it offers one of Storey’s great passions, fly fishing.

“I’ve heard that rumor,” he says.