April 1, 2011 QuickNotes

GET BARGAINS, GET BALD, GET RID OF CANCER On Saturday, April 2, Carroll College invites the community to two fundraisers benefitting cancer research and treatment. From 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., the annual Carroll College Up 'Til Dawn Rummage Sale to support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will take place in the lower level of the Carroll Campus Center. Also on Saturday in the Carroll Campus Center, everyone is welcome to participate in a cancer-research fundraiser for the St. Baldrick's Foundation starting at noon. Show your St. Baldrick's spirit and solidarity for those battling cancer by having your hair close cropped while bringing in donations from family and friends willing to sponsor your bold new look. As an alternative, those with longer hair can have it cut and donated to Locks of Love, a nonprofit that provides free and low-cost hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children who have lost their hair because of a medical condition. Carroll freshman Kechia Bejarano, who is battling acute lymphoblastic leukemia, will be participating in the St. Baldrick's fundraiser. "I firmly believe in giving support to people undergoing something as difficult as cancer, and I'm paying forward all the support I received from strangers," she says. Help out by donating online at the St. Baldrick's Carroll College event website: http://www.stbaldricks.org/events/mypage/eventid/6291/eventyear/2011  Or, you can give today, (Friday, April 1), when Carroll's longtime Facilities boilerman and St. Baldrick's fundraising veteran Wayne Hennessey (photo right) will be in the upper level of the Campus Center collecting donations in anticipation of his Saturday shearing. Just like last year, he's grown a poofy hairstyle and beard for "donation" to St. Baldrick's. To learn more about St. Baldrick's, head to this site: http://www.stbaldricks.org/about-us/ For more on Locks of Love, including requirements for hair intended for donation, cut over to: http://www.locksoflove.org/donate.html IT'LL TICKLE YOUR BUNNY BONE Easter bunnies take the stage next weekend, with the debut of the Carroll Theatre Department's production of The Tale of Peter Rabbit (and Benjamin Bunny). Showtimes are two successive Friday and Saturdays, April 8-9 and 15-16. This musical version of the children's favorite is corny, mushy, heartwarming and suitable for even the youngest audiences. Curtain is 7 p.m. each day in the Performing Arts Center, Old North, St. Charles Hall. General admission is $5; children (under 12) get in for $3. It is directed by Carroll senior theatre and education double-major Kelly Clavin, who recently appeared on the Carroll stage in the Theatre Department production of Tartuffe: Born Again. Hop on over to more details at: https://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=14683 14 BILLION CANDLES ON THE BIRTHDAY CAKE The universe, we're told, is nearly 14 billion years old, but how do we know? Find out next weekend, as Carroll's annual Astronomy Weekend commences with the Friday, April 8, keynote lecture by Dr. Terry D. Oswalt (photo right), astronomy researcher and head of the Physics and Space Sciences Department at Florida Institute of Technology, presenting "It's Later than You Think: How Astronomers Measure the Age of the Universe." The free, public talk begins at 7 p.m. in Carroll College's Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre (room 101/202). Dr. Oswalt is coming to Carroll under the American Astronomical Society's Harlow Shapley Visiting Lectureship Program. This is the fourth time in as many years that Carroll has won a Shapley lectureship, which are great honors for any college to receive. In his talk, Oswalt will examine our nearly 14-billion-year-old universe, whose genesis has been derived by several methods, including measuring the oldest stars known and tracing backward the universe's expansion since the Big Bang. On Saturday, April 9, Astronomy Weekend continues from noon to 4 p.m. at ExplorationWorks museum in the Great Northern Town Center (across the highway from the Carroll campus), with the Helena Astronomical Society and Carroll College Neuman Astronomical Society offering safe sun observing through filtered telescopes. See sunspots, solar storms and those massive ejections that can set off auroras visible in Montana. Club members will also be open to astronomy questions and inquiries about telescopes and how to use them. Star charts and other astronomy goodies will be available for giveaway. David Rotness of the Carroll and Helena clubs will lead a build-a-comet workshop and explain comet mechanics. The popular meteor-impact activity for kids will also be offered outside ExWorks, weather permitting, along with a lecture on spring's stars and constellations inside the museum. Astronomy Weekend events and activities are free and open to the public. Observe more details at: https://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=14687 NOT A SOLE IN SIGHT Next Tuesday, April 5, go barefoot to raise awareness about kids worldwide who have no shoes. It's a huge issue: millions of kids daily are victims of injury and disease because they have to walk barefoot several miles each day for work, school, water and medical care. Prevention begins with shoes. Be a part of the solution next Tuesday, when Sole Sisters in Helena is sponsoring the Helena-area One Day Without Shoes event, part of an annual worldwide awareness-raising day sponsored by TOMS Shoes. Just spend part of the day or all of it without your shoes on, experience a bit of what it's like for millions of kids the world over, then join the barefoot march from Carroll's Founder's Corner to Sole Sisters (downtown at 327 N. Last Chance Gulch near the Helena Walking Mall) at 4 p.m. Participation is free. At Sole Sisters, you can pick up a custom designed One Day Without Shoes t-shirt for $10 (available now in advance of the event) and even opt to purchase a pair of TOMS shoes-with every pair sold, TOMS will donate a pair of shoes to poor kids who don't have any.  No purchase necessary-the most important point of the day is to live in solidarity with the poor and let others know why your feet are in their birthday suits. As of September 2010, TOMS has given over one million pairs of new shoes to children in need through Giving Partners around the world. For more information, step over to: http://www.onedaywithoutshoes.com You can log in to the Helena Sole Sisters event at: http://www.onedaywithoutshoes.com/node/13882 HORSE LAUGHS GALORE Movie critics, this is the last weekend for you to judge this year's comedy, drama, sci-fi and documentary submissions to the annual Charlie's Film Festival. Judging is the essential precursor to the fun-filled Charlie's awards ceremony on April 19, complete with bestowal of the coveted golden Charlie Horse statues to the best director, actor, actress and film (and a few "worst of" prizes as well). The final Charlie's film judging will occur this Saturday, April 2, in the Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheater at 1 p.m. Short movies by student filmmakers will play back-to-back, and your expertise is essential to glean the oats from the hay. See you at the movies! ROT, IT IS NOT The votes are in and the students' voices have been heard: the new name for Carroll's Campus Center Dining Hall, which up until recently was luridly referred to as "the Rot," is now the St. Thomas Aquinas Commons (or, in textspeak: STAC). Congratulations to Carroll student Chris Kiefer for submitting the winning name entry. TAG WITHOUT THE GRAFFITO  TAG (Tribute to All who Give) Day is Wednesday, April 6, a chance for Grateful Saints students to write letters thanking the donors whose generosity made Carroll education possible for so many on our campus. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on TAG Day, stop by the Campus Center for cookies and donuts to munch on while you pen your thank-you note. Then, enter the TAG Day Photo Contest for a chance to win an iPod, a gift certificate to Brewhouse and a gift card to Target. To participate, just head out on campus with your digital camera or phone and snap a shot of yourself with one or more of the 10 "gift tags" posted around campus buildings-these tags highlight the donors who have impacted student life at Carroll. What you do with the pictures will determine your prize-see Carroll's Annual Giving officers for details on TAG Day. Meanwhile, more information on the Grateful Saints can be found at www.carroll.edu/giving/gratefulsaints STUDENT NEWS Plenty of dances and concerts are scheduled this weekend, with tonight (Friday, April 1) starting it off with the Equestrian Swing Dance and concert by the band Whiskey Root in the Campus Center. Whiskey Root will play from 8 to 9:30 p.m., followed by the swing dance until 11 p.m. A $2 donation is suggested to raise money for Carroll's Equestrian Club, which competes statewide. Then, on Saturday, April 2, don a white t-shirt and head over to the Highlighter Dance from 8 p.m. to midnight in the lower level of the Campus Center. Funky lights will set your tee eerily aglow at this popular dance happening. Also on Saturday night, the Carroll Outreach Team is hosting a fundraiser concert by Stumblingfree at the Staggering Ox/Red Atlas in the Lundy Center just west of campus. From 6 to 8 p.m., feast your ears on Stumblingfree and bring a $2 donation to support COT's mission of providing health services and supplies to the poor in Honduras. COT will also be selling cupcakes during lunchtime in the Campus Center next Wednesday, April 6, and the following Wednesday, April 13, to raise money for building Easter baskets to donate to the homeless at God's Love shelter in Helena. COT will deliver the baskets full of items the shelter residents need, including toothbrushes and toothpaste, on April 21. For more info, or to help COT in its outreach work to the poor both local and worldwide, contact Jesa Marsh at 406- 596-1128. ALUMNI NEWS Events For all alumni events listed below, please RSVP to Alumni Director Kathy Ramirez at alumni@carroll.edu or call/text her at 406-461-3214: Golden Grad Reunion: Classes of 1951 and 1961 as special honored guests during Carroll Commencement on May 6-7 Homecoming 2011: October 14-17-stay tuned for more details! For a complete schedule of Alumni events, visit www.carroll.edu/alumni/reunion/index.cc In the News The Diocese of Helena has a great new video documenting the story and daily reality of its mission in Guatemala and includes commentary by mission director Fr. Jim Hazelton (photo left), class of 1949, and mission clinic co-founder Sheila McShane, class of 1964. The video was created by Montana Catholic reporter Eric Connolly during a journey to the mission this past February. See it online at: http://www.diocesehelena.org/resources/multimedia/behind-the-story/guatemala-2011.html At the Myrna Loy Center in Helena, this week begins the Montana debut and three-week run of the critically acclaimed August: Osage County, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for drama plus five Tony Awards, including best play. The story of family dysfunction stars plenty of Carroll talent, including John Rausch (class of 1986), Carroll Improv Director Michael "Mokey" McNeilly, Pete Ruzevich (class of 1993), Carroll student Ace Etchart, LaRayne Yaeger (class of 1985) and Gordy Higgins (class of 1990). For more, read: http://helenair.com/entertainment/yourtime/article_763349c6-5a96-11e0-a583-001cc4c03286.html FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS A superb story on Associate Professor of English Loren Graham's (photo left) literary success, including his new book The Ring Scar, appeared in the March 31 edition of the Helena Independent Record's Your Time. Get versed on Graham's accomplishments, including his rise from poverty to poetry, at http://helenair.com/entertainment/yourtime/article_6d2e1c60-5a97-11e0-a5fd-001cc4c03286.html Dr. Brian Matz (photo right), Carroll assistant professor of theology, was recently invited by Doctors in Training to tape three hours of lectures about the national healthcare law. The lectures will be used to provide technical training and test preparation to physicians and hospital staff. Doctors in Training contacted Matz because of his leadership in establishing Carroll's first-in-the-nation class devoted solely to the one-year-old Affordable Care Act. He is taping these lectures in Dallas, Texas. Carroll has hired Lori Ladas as interim controller, a post that will begin on April 18 and continue until June 30, 2012. Lori is a Certified Public Accountant and a graduate of Montana State University with a bachelor's in finance. She is currently a senior manager with Anderson ZurMuehlen & Co., P.C., and has been employed there for over 10 years. She is the lead auditor for the annual audits of property and casualty companies, captive insurance companies, insurance guaranty associations and nonprofit organizations, including Carroll College. Ladas also served as director of finance and internal auditor for New West Health Services and as the controller at Robert Peccia & Associates, Inc. CAMPUS MINISTRY The ever-popular Sunday Mass takes place at 8 p.m. in the Campus Center. The Carroll Campus Ministry website is now more informative and simply cooler than ever, with videos, audio homilies, a full schedule for weekly Masses and sacraments and much more. See it all at:  http://www.carroll.edu/ministry/ ATHLETICS In the News Three Frontier Conference men's basketball players have earned NAIA All-America honors, including Carroll forward Andy Garland, who was named to the second team. This is Garland's third NAIA All-American honor: as a freshman, he was honorable mention All-America and last season made the third team. Meanwhile, Alysha Green, a guard on Carroll's women's basketball squad, earned honorable mention All-American. Net more details at: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/2011-03-23-2083116649_x.htm and at http://helenair.com/sports/college/article_64a2900e-55d7-11e0-a524-001cc4c03286.html More NAIA accolades: Carroll College women's basketball players Amy Allen and Jackie Gebhardt have been named 2011 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes. Allen, a junior, and Gebhardt, a sophomore, are both health science majors at Carroll. They join men's basketball players Andy Garland and Jordan Reyes as Scholar-Athlete honorees. In order to be nominated by an institution's head coach, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 and must have achieved a junior academic status to qualify for this honor. Carroll College had the third most Scholar-Athletes in the Frontier Conference, with Carroll's women's team now posting eight NAIA Scholar-Athletes over the past two seasons. Score more at: http://helenair.com/sports/article_b4d287f2-5512-11e0-831f-001cc4c002e0.html And, there's more! The Frontier Conference has named 46 women to its academic all-conference basketball team, with six Carroll scholar-athletes on the list: Amy Allen, Kelsi Brekke, Alex Dunn, Jackie Gebhardt, Alysha Green and Jill Jagelski.  To qualify, a player must be at least a sophomore, have a 3.0 or better grade-point average and be enrolled the previous two semesters. The Montana Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame have named National Football Foundation's Montana Chapter 2011 scholar-athletes, with Carroll senior defensive back Pat Regan among the honorees. Home Games Saints Soccer spring games continue on April 9 in Nelson Stadium with Saints versus North Idaho College at 11 a.m. and versus University of Great Falls at 3 p.m. Check out the full Athletics schedule and all the latest news, photos and video at www.carroll.edu/athletics COMING EVENTS Ongoing: Sallyann Mulcahy, Carroll artist in residence and the director of Ballet Montana and Ballet Montana Academy, also in residence at Carroll, is offering for the first time an adult ballet class open to men and women of all ages. Classes take place each Monday from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. in the Arthur Vining Davis Dance Studio downstairs in the Campus Center. Ballet training prepares you for a healthy, beautifully lived life, with poise, grace, balance, refinement and wellness. Ballet is exercise that offers fitness and skills that translate to almost every other activity, from running a race to standing in line, from hiking a hill to climbing the stairs, from walking to waltzing. And, it's open to people of all ages and body types. Classes began this past Monday, and newcomers are very welcome. The cost is $15 per class or $140 for a 10-class card. For more information, contact Mulcahy at 447-5508 or email thelifedancer@gmail.com Ongoing to April 27: The Annual Carroll College Student Art Show in the Carroll Art Gallery, room 034 St. Charles Hall, featuring recently created work by over 50 students in art classes, including photography, paintings, drawings, and ceramics. As a special addition, the display will include work created by 12 Carroll and community students who participated in the February Decorated Letter Workshop led by professional calligrapher Theresa Leland--examples of their work and photos are located in one of the display cabinets just outside the Art Gallery. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, closed weekends and college holidays. Free admission. For more information, call 447-4302. April 8: "What Are Professional Learning Communities?  How Do They Work?" a lecture by Janel Keating (Carroll class of 1986), deputy superintendent of the White River School District in Buckley, Wash., at 4 p.m. in Carroll College Simperman Hall room 331. This presentation will focus on the specific practices and procedures that must be in place if a school is to become a professional learning community.  Additionally, participants will receive examples of resources designed to assist teacher teams in embedding the work of improving student learning into the daily culture of schools and districts. Keating has co-authored a number of publications with Dr. Bob Eaker, professor of educational leadership at Middle Tennessee University.  Together, they just completed an invited opening chapter for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Yearbook and in August will release A New Way to Lead published by Solution Tree. She has also co-authored a resource titled The Journey to Becoming a Professional Learning Community with Eaker, Dr. Rick Dufour and Rebecca Defour. Janel works with approximately 50 school districts across the US every year and regularly presents at nationwide professional learning community institutes. April 11: Carroll College and the Helena Education Foundation sponsor a special guest lecture, "Reinventing Helena's Economy from the Local-Up," by Gailmarie Kimmel, founder and co-director of Be Local Northern Colorado. The talk begins at 7 p.m. in the lower level of the Carroll Campus Center and is free to the public. For more, read: http://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=14709 April 12: Carroll College and the Helena Education Foundation sponsor a special guest lecture, "Inspiration in the Darkest Places: Creating a Sustainable Peace in Northern Ireland" by Dr. Bill Timpson, a professor at Colorado State University. The talk begins at 7 p.m. in the lower level of the Carroll Campus Center and is free to the public.  For more, read: http://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=14709 April 14: The Carroll Business Department Lecture Series, sponsored by the generous support of First Interstate Bank, continues with "Microfinance in Africa: CARE's model," at 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall's Wiegand Amphitheatre. Presenter Brian Larson is the director of Financial Management Systems Project for CARE-USA, which is recognized as one of the world's largest international humanitarian organizations. April 15: April Faculty Colloquium with Carroll Assistant Professor of Sociology  Jamie Dolan presenting Native Nation Building: The Red Lake Walleye Recovery Project at 4 p.m. in the Rogers Board Room in the Campus Center. April 16-17: Softball Weekend at Batch Fields near campus. April 17: Night of the Talking Saints, with presentations and performances by our nationally award winning forensics team stars, details TBA. April 19: Carroll Jazz Combo Spring Concert in the Carroll Performing Arts Center (Old North, St. Charles Hall) at 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. April 19: Carroll College annual Charlie's Film Festival awards ceremony at 7 p.m. in the Carroll PE Center. Free admission. April 21: The Carroll College Education Abroad Office will continue a Carroll tradition by recognizing graduating seniors who have studied abroad at the Eighth Annual Sash Ceremony, with faculty, staff and alumni invited to attend. The ceremony begins at 12:30 p.m. in the lower level of the Campus Center. April 22-24: Easter Break. April 27: Students in Drs. Zac Callen and Brian Matz's class devoted to studying the nation's new healthcare law will present a community forum free and open to the public at the Lewis and Clark Library from 7-8:30 p.m. Details TBA. April 29: Carroll College Arbor Day celebration at 1 p.m. Songs and more by students from Carroll's partner Broadwater Elementary School will complete Arbor Day fun, including recognition of Carroll as a Tree Campus USA, a tree planting and refreshments. More details in future editions of QNs! April 29: Last day of spring 2011 classes. May 4: Carroll Jazz Combo performs in the Campus Center, 10:15-11:30 a.m. Free and open to the public.    May 7: Baccalaureate and Commencement. May 11: Summer semester begins. Sessions I and II start on May 11, with Session I running for two weeks and Session II for three weeks. On June 6, Sessions III and IV start and will continue for four weeks and five weeks, respectively.