Alumni Notes - October 2, 2009
Deaths
George James Bettle of Irving, Texas, who attended Carroll under the Navy V-12 Program in 1943-44 and later again in 1946-47, died on May 23, 2009. After the military, he earned a bachelor's degree from Montana State University in Missoula and a master's degree from the University of Oregon in Eugene. His career included working as an administrator, coach and teacher in public schools around the nation. For more on his life, read: http://billingsgazette.com/.
Clayton "Sug" R. Dalin of Helena, who attended Carroll in 1949-50, died on Sept. 23, 2009. A Helena native, he played basketball at Carroll and went on to become a respected salesman for many years at Capital Ford and Pioneer Mutual Insurance Company, earning numerous awards and recognition. He also was an entrepreneur and independent businessman, owning and operating the Branding Iron and RV Park and Mr. Gumball. He served in the military for 27 years in the Montana Air National Guard and retired as a major and company commander of 163rd Armored Calvary Troop N Air. For more on his life, read: http://www.helenair.com/
Virginia (Ginger) Marie (Raths) Kinsey of Roundup, Mont., who attended Carroll 1971-72, died on Sept. 26, 2009. She attended Carroll College and MSU and later graduated from the Highway Patrol Academy in 1988. She continued this career which she loved for the next 20 years until health issues forced her to retire in the spring of 2008. For more on her life, read: http://billingsgazette.com
In the News
Alaska Governor Sean Parnell reappointed John H. Clark, Ph.D., class of 1971, to the Pacific Salmon Commission's Transboundary Panel. The Transboundary Panel provides technical and regulatory advice to the Pacific Salmon Commission relating to management of salmon stocks originating in the Alsek, Taku and Stikine rivers, for both in-river and terminal area fisheries. Clark has worked with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game since 1975 in positions including fishery biologist, fisheries scientist, interior Alaska regional supervisor and Pacific Salmon Treaty specialist. He is author of numerous technical fisheries publications, and has won numerous professional honors, including a Meritorious Service Award from the American Fisheries Society's Alaska chapter, the Governor's Recognition Award for negotiation of the Pacific Salmon Treaty and a Conservation and Management Service Award from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. After graduating from Carroll, Clark earned master's and doctoral degrees in fisheries biology from Colorado State University.
Dr. Kevin Peterson, class of 1989, is an associate professor of biological sciences at Dartmouth College and recently published a paper showing how he and his colleagues are solving evolutionary questions by using the small, non-coding RNAs to resolve conflicting theories on the evolution of annelids. QNs can't even decipher this for non-scientists, so you'll have to see his story on the genomeweb at: http://www.genomeweb.com/ After graduating from Carroll, Clark earned his Ph.D. in geology from UCLA in 1996 and went on to his postdoc work at California Institute of Technology from 1996 to 2000.
Kristen Fausey, class of 2003, has announced that she is marrying Dale Joy on October 16, 2009, at John Paul II Catholic Church in Bigfork, Mont. The couple will live in Kalispell, Mont., after they marry.
