APRIL 13, 2012
OUR CUP RUNNETH OVER
The spring 2012 edition of Carroll Magazine has been published, and the digital version is online now for everyone’s enjoyment—check out the feature story on the Hoff chalice and much, much more at: http://www.carroll.edu/alumni/magazine
HE’S THE MANION
Next Thursday and Friday, Carroll honors one of its legendary professors, Dr. Jim “Doc” Manion (photo left), with the biennial Manion Symposium. It starts with the April 19 student research poster session from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Fortin Science Center Scola. On Friday, April 20, students will present their West Nile Virus research findings in a talk starting at 1 p.m. in Trinity Hall lounge.
This will be followed by a physician panel discussion on medical school and doctor careers at 3 p.m.: “Preparing for and Carrying Out the Physician’s Experience,” featuring Drs. Andrew Gilbert (’99), Jonathan Griffin (’02), Charleen McInnis (’85), John Michelotti (’90) and Justin Thomas (’01) in Trinity Hall lounge. All symposium events are free and open to the public; call 406-447-4491 to register in advance.
More science and scholarly celebrations coincide with Manion, with the Wednesday, April 18, inaugural Student Undergraduate Research Festival from 1 to 5 p.m. Get a spectacular line-up of the student discoveries being discussed, and the specific rooms and times, at: http://www.carroll.edu/academics/research/festival/ . Following the fest is the annual Honors Convocation at 7 p.m. downstairs in the Campus Center—an evening celebrating our honors students.
EARLY TO BED AND EARLY TO RISE ALLOWS A ST. JUDE KID TO GROW UP TO FULL-SIZE
Tomorrow (April 14) is the annual Up 'Til Dawn Rummage sale to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, with shoppers welcome as early as 6 a.m. in the lower Campus Center to peruse used goods including clothing and books, sports stuff, household items and more. The sale ends at 2 p.m., and Up ’Til Dawn hopes this will put them over the top in this year’s fundraising goal. Totals will be announced in a future edition of QNs.
LUCKY 13
What better way to mark a Friday the 13th than with Carroll’s 13th annual Astronomy Weekend starting tonight, with a free showing of a superb new documentary, The City Dark, focusing on the economic, environmental and health costs of light pollution. The screening takes place in Simperman Hall’s Wiegand Amphitheatre at 7 p.m.
More astro fun’s in store tomorrow (April 14), with solar observing, a telescope array, an astronomy display prepared by students of Dr. Kelly Cline, and some meteorites, all in the Campus Center from noon to 4 p.m. At 1 p.m., David Rotness of the Neuman Astronomical Society will lead a “build-a-comet” workshop for kids of all ages, also at the Campus Center. A special birthday cake will be served to mark the 75th anniversary of our Neuman Observatory (photo right), which will be open for touring. On Saturday night, the weekend concludes with Dr. Christina Dunn, a scientist from Bozeman, presenting “Creating the Giant: Fabricating the Mirrors of the European Extremely Large Telescope,” at 7 p.m. in the college’s Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre. Dunn’s talk will cover her experience working on the world’s largest telescope under construction—the mega scope will be stationed in Chile, where it will view distant earth-like planets and material spiraling into black holes. (ELT scope design photo left)
AN UPLIFTING DOWNSY
This Sunday, April 15, is Downsy Day, our annual tribute to the late and beloved Carroll Psychology Professor John Downs (photo right). To mark the occasion, all you need to do is commit a random act of kindness, just as John always did. Enjoy how the world glows a little brighter on the 15th with good works blooming all around you.
A CAT’S GUIDE TO CAREERS AND DATING
Tonight (April 13) is the opening for Carroll Theatre’s final play of the academic year, The Commedia Puss in Boots. Like so many of us, the protagonist in this comedy consults a witty feline in fancy footwear to guide him through the pitfalls of wealth acquisition and marriage. Carroll senior and stage veteran Ace Etchart is the show’s director, with her troupe including Carroll freshmen Sydney Hayward, Axel King, Brian Hybner, Sabrina Harding and Ruth Lerum, and sophomores Cat (this is not a typo!) King and Stephen Plummer.
Shows are 7 p.m. tonight and Saturday and again next weekend, April 20-21, in the Carroll Theatre, Old North, St. Charles Hall. Carroll faculty and staff get in free with one guest. General admission is $5, children under 12 are $3.
“HOPE IS LIKE PEACE. IT IS NOT A GIFT FROM GOD. IT IS A GIFT ONLY WE CAN GIVE ONE ANOTHER.” ELIE WIESEL
Next Tuesday, April 17, Carroll’s “Not One without the Other: Religious Harmony and Political Civility” monthlong free events continue with a Pakistani music performance, Caravanserai: A Place Where Cultures Meet, at 7:30 p.m. in Trinity Hall lounge. This event is sponsored by the Myrna Loy Center for the Performing Arts and Arts Midwest, Regional Arts Organization.
“Not One without the Other” continues next Thursday, April 19, with a Holocaust Remembrance Evening at 7:30 p.m. in the Carroll Campus Center upstairs lounge. Hosted by Carroll History Professor Gillian Glaes and Hunthausen Professor of Peace and Justice Christopher Fuller, the event includes a Shoah display of forty posters on loan from the Montana Association of Jewish Communities (MAJCO), plus a candle-lighting remembrance prayer. A Carroll Honors Scholars and international student panel will discuss inter-cultural civility as well.
SIMPERMAN=SUPERMAN
Five Carroll College medical-school hopefuls from Montana have been named recipients of the 2012-2013 Elsie P. Corette Memorial Scholarship. Nine other Carroll math, science and nursing students were named recipients of the 2012-2013 Roy F. Simperman Science Scholarship. Both scholarships are generously funded annually by 1962 Carroll grad Roy Simperman (photo left), chairman and chief executive officer of Semaphore Corporation. To date, 18 Carroll students have won Simperman Science Scholarships in that program’s four years of existence, with more than $245,000 awarded. Since 1973, approximately 152 Corette Scholarships have been conferred, totaling over $820,000, with almost all recipients going on to become medical doctors. All awards from both Simperman Science and Corette Scholarships total over $1,000,000.
The Corette Scholarship is available to Carroll pre-med majors from Montana, with awards based on financial need and promise of success in medical school. The Roy F. Simperman Science Scholarship provides immediate funds to exceptionally needy Montana students majoring in math, nursing or science with a minimum 3.5 grade point average. It is intended to equalize the cost of attending Carroll relative to Montana public colleges and universities.
Corette Scholarship winners for this year are: Kegan Cunniff, $9,000, sophomore biology major from Choteau; Elizabeth Duty, $10,000, sophomore biology major from Dutton; Shelby Kramer, $8,000, sophomore biology major from Billings; Jordan Marquis, $13,000, sophomore biology major from Frenchtown; and Caitlin Newton, $10,000, junior biology major from Columbia Falls.
Recipients of the 2012-2013 Roy F. Simperman Science Scholarship are: Mattie Casey, $7,000, junior biochemistry/molecular biology major from Libby; Sydney Philipps, $10,000, a junior math major from Conrad; Amber Cordeiro, $6,000, a junior nursing major from Great Falls; Megan Cordeiro, $6,000, a junior nursing major from Great Falls; Elizabeth Henderson, $3,000, junior nursing major from Billings; Whitley Hudyma, $12,000, junior nursing major from Helena; Samantha Pierson, $16,761, junior nursing major from Helena; Darbi Brady, $7,000, junior nursing major from Fairfield; and Elizabeth Brubaker, $10,000, sophomore nursing major from Choteau.
STUDENT NEWS
Tonight (April 13), Carroll students, faculty and staff can get in at a discount price to a CD release party starring country singer-songwriter Jason DeShaw (photo right), class of 2003. Tickets are only $12 for entry to the concert celebrating his fifth album, Atmosphere, with the fun night held at the Gateway Center, 1710 National Drive in Helena. A no-host food and bar menu are available at 5:30 p.m., with the concert at 7:30. Carroll discount tickets are available at the Student Activities Office downstairs in the Campus Center. Otherwise, tickets are available at Leslie’s Hallmark stores and Capital Sports & Western and online www.legendaryET.com. Check Jason crooning on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU-vcLb8n2o
For the latest student news and activities, go to www.carroll.edu/students
ALUMNI NEWS
In Memoriam
Mike Connolly (photo left), class of 1962, died on April 4, 2012, in his home in Phoenix, Ariz. Mike received his master’s degree from Montana State University in Bozeman and started his professional career with IBM, which moved him around the country. He later spent many years in the San Francisco Bay area working for various tech companies. He has been a resident of Phoenix for the past five and a half years and thoroughly enjoyed his current job as a benefits checkup project coordinator with Arizona Division of Aging and Adult Services. For more on his life, read: http://helenair.com/
FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS
In the News
Today, Associate Professor of Nursing Donna Greenwood (photo right) is receiving the Montana Center to Advance Health through Nursing (CAHN) 2012 CAHN Nurse Award for demonstrating the ability to lead change and advance the health of Montanans. She receives this great honor tonight at a gala event held at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman.
Events
Next Tuesday, check into better health at two April 17 Nordic walking workshops for all employees. Two sessions are available, starting at 1 and 3:30 p.m. in the lower Campus Center, with both led by seven-time walk-across-America veteran, author and acclaimed fitness expert Robert Sweetgall (photo left). Everyone is welcome to join one or both hands-on sessions for free, with all equipment provided. Brought to us by Payne Financial and the Carroll Health Care Task Force.
CAMPUS MINISTRY
This Sunday, Bishop of Helena George Leo Thomas leads our celebration of the Sacraments of Initiation at 7 p.m. in the upper level of the Campus Center. All are welcome. Student candidates for sacraments are as follows:
Baptism: Frederick Collins, Christina Marie Frederick, Tessa Berg, Stephanie Parnell and Latecia Howell
Full Communion: Devan Hromcik, Sophia Johnston and Carlando Pierini
Completion of Sacraments of Initiation: Alexander Haberkorn, Matthew Carey and Chelsea Ford
For all Campus Ministry news, Mass and sacraments schedules, homilies and much more, go to: http://www.carroll.edu/ministry/
ATHLETICS
In the News
Saints track and field is pounding the pavement to qualify for nationals—get the latest on our newest qualifiers at: http://helenair.com/
Schedule
This weekend, track and field competes in Missoula. Golf is bye.
Events
April 20 is the 30th annual Saints Athletic Association Auction in the Carroll PE Center, raising money for scholar-athlete scholarships. This year’s theme is “Under the Big Top: The Greatest Show on Earth.” Silent auction starts at 6 p.m., live auction at 7. On the block are trips, a cruise, jewelry, a hot tub and original art, plus one lucky winner will get a cool $5,000. This is the largest fundraiser for Saints Athletics, with funds supporting student-athlete scholarships.
For all Athletics news and game schedules, visit www.carroll.edu/athletics
COMING EVENTS
Ongoing: Talmud art show, featuring over 40 prints combining the Biblical work of two of the most important Jewish artists of the 20th century: Marc Chagall and Ben-Zion. The images are commentaries on the scriptural text in the best of the Talmudic tradition. The exhibit is the first in the “Not One without the Other: Religious Harmony and Political Civility” series of events on campus this spring. See the exhibit in the Carroll Art Gallery, St. Charles Hall, through April 20. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, closed weekends and holidays. Free admission.
April 20: The 30th annual Saints Athletic Association Auction in the Carroll PE Center, raising money for scholar-athlete scholarships. This year’s theme is “Under the Big Top: The Greatest Show on Earth.” Silent auction starts at 6 p.m., live auction at 7. This is the largest fundraiser for Saints Athletics, with funds supporting student-athlete scholarships.
April 20-21: “We the People: Conversations on the Montana and U.S. Constitutions,” a series of moderated discussions brought to us by Humanities Montana, in the Carroll Campus Center’s lower level. Held in conjunction with “Not One without the Other: Religious Harmony and Political Civility” monthlong free events at Carroll. A luncheon honoring constitutional delegates from Montana’s 1972 convention and featuring Chuck Johnson’s talk on “A Reporter’s Perspective: How the 1972 Constitution Changed Montana” will take place at noon on April 21. Following the conference is an award ceremony and reception in the Campus Center at 5 p.m. on April 21, honoring local Humanities Heroes: Ed Noonan, Betty Babcock, Helen and William Ballinger, Barry Ferst, Les Davis and Yvonne Seng. Conversations are free and open to the public. The luncheon is $20. For the full conference schedule, and to purchase tickets for the luncheon, visit www.humanitiesmontana.org/wethepeople/ or call Humanities Montana at 406-243-6022.
April 21-22: Softball Weekend at Batch Fields near campus. An alcohol-free celebration of life, friendship and the Carroll family.
April 22: Night of the Talking Saints, a splashy performance by our nationally ranked forensics team. In Trinity Hall lounge at 7 p.m. Free and open to everyone.
April 26: The 9th annual Study Abroad Sash Ceremony, celebrating graduates who have participated in a Carroll study abroad program, starting at 12:30 p.m. in Trinity Hall Lounge. Open to all, and light refreshments will be served.
April 26: The Carroll College Jazz Combo will give their Spring Concert in the Carroll Theatre, Old North, St. Charles Hall, at 7:30 p.m. The program includes big band era favorite “A String of Pearls,” Duke Ellington’s “Caravan,” Lalo Schifrin’s theme from the TV series “Mission: Impossible,” and Thelonious Monk’s quirky “Straight No Chaser.” The Combo will also perform a Dixieland rendition of “Shine On Harvest Moon,” a bossa nova version of “If I Should Lose You,” and a “little big band” arrangement of the tune “Solar,” from the Miles Davis album “Walkin’.” The Combo’s two vocalists join the band on the standards “Bewitched,” “Cry Me A River,” “Good Morning Heartache,” “Love Me Or Leave Me,” and “When Sunny Gets Blue.” The Jazz Combo is directed by Dr. Lynn Petersen and has thirteen members this semester, including ten Carroll students and three faculty members. Admission is free and open to the public. Call 447-4303 for more information.
April 26: Charlie’s Film Festival in the Carroll Campus Center upper level, starting at 7:30 p.m. Come watch the awards ceremony, and see clips of this year’s cinematic triumphs, while witnessing our best actor and actress thank the academy.
April 27: Carroll Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series presents a free, public talk by Dr. Kelly Cline, “The End of the Earth and Sun,” at 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre. The Earth and Sun will not last forever: Earth will be destroyed, and recent astronomical calculations tell us exactly how and when. Several billion years from now, our Sun will run out of fuel and swell up to become a red giant star, so large that it will swallow up the Earth completely, and our world will die in the solar fires. Join us for a startling preview of these “end times.”
April 27: Last Day of Classes
April 30: Dedication of the Carroll College Peace and Civility Wall, noon. Part of “Not One without the Other: Religious Harmony and Political Civility” monthlong free events.
April 29: Carroll College Choirs Spring Concert, “A Time to Dance,” with special guest appearances by Ballet Montana Academy dancers, at 4 p.m., St. Mary Catholic Community (1700 Missoula Ave., Helena). Free admission.
May 5: Commencement
May 19: St. James School of Nursing annual banquet, Quality Inn and Suites (formally the War Bonnet), Butte, Mont. The class of 1962 will be honored. For further information, contact Deanna Thomas at 406-782-4435.