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1972 Constitutional Convention celebration to be held at MSU – Daily Montanan

['Daily Montanan Staff', 'More From Author', '- February']

Date: 2022-02 

A celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Constitutional Convention will take place March 22 at Montana State University in Bozeman, MSU announced Thursday in a news release.

MSU said former U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus, former Gov. Marc Racicot, former state Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau, 1972 Montana Constitutional Convention delegate Mae Nan Ellingson and longtime state political journalist Charles S. Johnson will participate in a panel discussion at an event that’s free and open to the public.

Moderators for the discussion will be bestselling author Sarah Vowell and John Adams, founder and editor-in-chief of Montana Free Press, which is sponsoring the event along with MSU, according to the news release. The event will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Ballroom A of the Strand Union Building and also will be livestreamed by MSU on YouTube and recorded for later viewing.

“The event will feature the first-person accounts of Ellingson, who was the Constitutional Convention’s youngest delegate, as well as convention staffer Baucus and reporter Johnson,” said the news release. “Adams and Vowell will also present new video interviews with the surviving convention delegates and staff. Racicot and Juneau will discuss the Montana Constitution’s legacy.”

“The Montana Constitutional Convention of 1972 is one of the most consequential events in Montana’s history, and arguably the most inspiring,” Vowell said in a statement provided by MSU. “The 100 delegates, who arrived at our state Capitol from across Montana to frame a new future, shared a sense of purpose, a spirit of nonpartisan cooperation, and a devotion to the public good that is worth remembering and celebrating in these quarrelsome times.”

Adams, who has covered seven legislative sessions and three special sessions as a statehouse reporter, said he, too, is awed by what the delegates to the 1972 “ConCon” accomplished, according to the news release.

“This was an era of immense societal and cultural change in the United States, and Montana was on the leading edge of reforming state government in a way that empowered the public and restricted the influence of well-heeled special interests,” he said in a statement from MSU. “The results of that monumental effort are evident throughout our body politic today, and we are grateful for the opportunity to help to inform a new generation of Montanans about the remarkable bipartisan achievements of these selfless public servants.”

MSU is creating an archive for the video recordings and their transcripts in the Archives and Special Collections of the MSU Library. The collection will be available through the MSU Library’s website after the event.

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