APRIL 19, 2013
NO ROOM FOR DEBATE: WE’RE WORLD-CLASS
In its first season ever in world debate style of competition, Carroll’s Talking Saints forensics team finished with one of the best weekends in school history by recording three runner-up finishes in three national championship events held at the University of La Verne on April 13-15. Seniors Chris Axtman of Portland, Ore., and Megan Towles of Huntington Beach, Calif., began the weekend by reaching the championship round of the America’s Cup, a by-invitation-only event featuring 16 exceptional teams from the United States and abroad. Carroll was the only undergraduate team to reach the America’s Cup final round. (Axtman and Towles in photo right)
Next came the United States Universities national championship tournament. Axtman and Towles again reached the championship round in the 154-team event, losing only to Yale University in the final bout. Towles was named the ninth best speaker among the nearly 300 debaters.
Earlier that same day, the Carroll freshman team of Ryden Meyer of Portland, Ore., and Mark Schmutzler of Helena finished second in the novice national championship final round, losing the national title on a split 3-2 vote. Schools entered included St. Johns, Claremont, Vermont, Cornell, USC, UCLA, Stanford, Harvard and Yale. Joining Carroll in the final championship round were Yale, Stanford and Loyola School of Law. For more details, check the press release at: http://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.cc
SPRING RUNWAY REPORT: HOODIES AND TIGHTS
Tonight (Friday,April 19) is the final night of Carroll’s Theatre for Children series production of < strong>Robin Hood, with curtain at 7 p.m. in the Carroll Theatre (Old North, St. Charles Hall). Seating is first-come, first-seated, with the house opening 30 minutes before showtime. Tickets are always free for Carroll students, faculty and staff, otherwise $5 for general admission and $3 for students and seniors.
AFRICA, ANIMALS AND AIDS
Next Tuesday, April 23, the Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice is sponsoring an artist’s talk, “Impressions of Africa: Reflections on Animal Conservation and the AIDS Epidemic,” by photographer Kenton Rowe. The talk is in the Campus Center’s lower level starting at 7 p.m.Rowe is a freelance photographer based in Helena since 2007. His editorial, commercial, and fine art images have been widely published in the International Times, Wall Street Journal, Outdoor Life, Country Woman, Montana Outdoors, Montana Magazine, Montana Quarterly and many other regional magazines. His personal projects include a recent two-year photographic chronicle of the experiences of five people with cancer.
VIVA ENCHILADA!
On Saturday, April 27, Campus Ministry students traveling to Guatemala this coming May will be hosting a special enchilada dinner fundraiser and silent auction at St. Mary’s Catholic Community in Helena, 4:30-7:30 p.m. Admission to the dinner is by donation. Carroll alum Sam Hunthausen, who participated in the 2010 Campus Ministry Headlights Guatemala trip, will be the chef, serving enchiladas with avocado-lime crema, chips and salsa, roasted chicken, rice and beans, a vegetable mélange of bell pepper, corn and zucchini, plus fried ice cream topped by a spiced caramel sauce.
All of the raffle tickets for the Glacier getaway to raise money for the Guatemala trip have been sold. Thanks to everyone who supported Headlights, and don’t miss this rare South of the Border fiesta!
GOING TWO EXTREMES
Take your best day and your darkest moment, then multiply by a million: this comes close to the sort of extraordinary lives, struggles and successes experienced by some of the five million-plus Americans living with bipolar disorder. Next Wednesday, April 24,Carroll College and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Montana chapter host a free screening of the documentary film on bipolar illness,< strong>Of Two Minds, at 7 p.m. in the lower level of the Campus Center. The movie is co-written, directed and produced by Lisa Klein, who will be at this event to answer questions. The film follows the painful and sometimes painfully funny experiences, frustrating medical mazes, discrimination and social stigma of the new generation coming out of the "bipolar closet." Get a preview of the film at: http://www.oftwomindsmovie.com/trailer/
CLEANING UP HELENA’S ACT
Next Saturday, April 27,Carroll’s dining services partner Sodexo presents the third annual S=CT squared (Sodexo=Clean Today, Cleaner Tomorrow) trash clean-up day in Helena, marking Earth Day. Students and college employees will meet at the Campus Center for a free breakfast at 8:45 a.m. then fan out across town to pick up garbage in Helena—look for these Saints wearing custom designed Montana Mud tees. The volunteers will return to campus around noon, and they and their “finds” will be gathered for a photo opp at 12:30 to 12:45 p.m., outside the Carroll Campus Center near the Sladdich Fountain. Later on, the volunteers will be treated to a special BBQ at the Campus Center—to sign up and get in on a juicy charbroiled steak, contact Sodexo Marketing and Promotions Supervisor Mason Siddick at msiddick@carroll.edu or 406-447-5193. This event is sponsored by Pepsi, Qwik Signs & Classic Creations along with Sodexo.
Speaking of Earth Day, the SAVE Foundation, born at Carroll College, will be celebrating Earth Day for a full month, starting this weekend. Check all the SAVE outreach and fun at: http://www.savemobile.org/
STUDENT NEWS
In the News
Carroll student Nicole Broden has won the Michaela Farnum Memorial Scholarship, worth $1,000. Nicole is a double major in French and chemistry, and the scholarship will help cover the cost of her studying French language and culture for eight weeks this summer at the Catholic U of Paris with one of Carroll’s affiliates, International Studies Abroad (ISA).
Carroll student Myunghoon (Hoonie) Kim and Carroll Chemistry Professor Caroline Pharr traveled to the National American Chemical Society Conference in New Orleans, La., in early April, where Hoonie presented the results of their research. A junior chemistry major, Hoonie is interested in pursuing medical school or medical research and has been working with Dr. Pharr in her research group since summer 2012.
Today, April 19, Carroll’s Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) club members will once again be participating in the Day of Silence to protest the act of silencing LGBT individuals through harassment, bias, bullying and abuse in schools. Please support them in their mission to advance respect for human dignity.
Events
This weekend, April 20-21, is Softball Weekend at Batch Fields, north of campus. A record-breaking 63 teams are enrolled. Saturday games are 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. All info is online at: http://www.carroll.edu/students/activities/softball.cc
Next Thursday, April 25, is Carroll’s 10th annual Sash Ceremony, honoring new graduates who have participated in a study abroad program. Everyone is welcome to attend, starting at 12:30 p.m. in Trinity Hall Lounge. Light refreshments will be served.
Service
Carroll’s STTI Nursing Honor Society Chapter’s “base layer” (socks, underwear and hats) clothing drive to help Helena’s estimated 600 homeless residents got yet more press coverage this past week—check the Beartooth NBC feature at:http://www.beartoothnbc.com/features/lifestyles/34069-lifestyles-clothing-drive.html The drive is over halfway to its goal and continues until month’s end—drop your donations into the collection box on the fourth floor of Simperman Hall (the Nursing wing) by April 30.
Employment
Carroll Career Services will host the annual Speed Networking Event for business and communication majors next Thursday, April 25, at 5:15 p.m. The event allows students to practice their networking skills in a safe environment that offers expert advice from professionals in a variety of fields. Students will move through timed interactions practicing their “elevator speech” to sell themselves to hypothetical employers. The event will wrap up with a general networking appetizer session. Professionals in finance, marketing and medical sales are encouraged to participate as network “mentors” at this event: to participate, contact Nisan Burbridge, Carroll internship coordinator, at nburbridge@carroll.edu or 406-447-5465. Speed Networking is sponsored by Anderson ZurMuehlen, Galusha Higgins & Galusha, and Heidi S. Currey.
ALUMNI NEWS
In the News
John Maloney, class of 1965, former Carroll football coach and director of admission, is being inducted to the Helena Sports Hall of Fame’s class of 2013. He was a Big Sky Conference football referee for 31 seasons, from 1976-2006, during which time he officiated two NCAA Division I-AA national championships, 14 Division I-AA playoff contests, and six Bobcat-Grizzly games. He also refereed Montana high school football and basketball for 25 years (1972-97), working 12 state title games. His name was mistakenly omitted in last week’s QNs covering the Hall of Fame inductees.
In Memoriam
Dr. William Inkret, Jr. (right), class of 1951, died on February 26, 2013, in Denver, Colo., after a four-year battle with cancer. Bill was born in Butte and after graduating from Carroll attended the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. Bill served four years of active duty in the US Army in Fort Riley, Kan. In 1964, Bill and his family moved to Denver, where he had a private practice in gynecology until 1996. He retired from the Army Reserve as a colonel. Bill and his wife, Bunkie, served as medical missionaries in Thailand, the Marshall Islands and with the American Indian Health Service in the southwestern United States. (Photo: Bill in Costa Rica in 2005 at 76 years of age, participating in advanced zip-line activities with his family)
FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS
In Memoriam
James “Jim” Evan Tresner (left), a Carroll Facilities employee for 22 years, died on April 12, 2013, after a short, courageous battle with esophageal cancer. He enlisted in the Army in 1972 and was honorably discharged in 1975. He spent his 22-year Carroll career primarily in St Charles Hall, keeping the building clean and safe for our faculty, staff and students, and he kept working hard right up to the day of his death. For more on his life, read: http://helenair.com/news/local/obituaries/james-jim-evan-tresner/article_46ed1350-a589-11e2-bb1e-0019bb2963f4.html
In the News
At last weekend’s Boy Scout Merit Badge University held at Carroll, President Tom Evans (right), an Eagle Scout, proudly wore the colors (which last week’s QNs inaccurately predicted would be blue, when indeed these were khaki scouts). “Eagle” Evans and the rest had a frolicking good time, as evidenced by the story in the Helena Independent Record here: http://helenair.com/news/local/boy-scouts-earn-wide-variety-of-merit-badges-at-carroll/article_d82d1808-a4c9-11e2-a25a-001a4bcf887a.html Simultaneously last Saturday, the 11 Montana high school women on campus for a day of math and computer modeling and awards for their prowess in both specialties was also in the newspaper—check the story and photo here: http://helenair.com/news/local/education/female-high-school-computer-wizzes-honored/article_c742adc2-a4ca-11e2-ae1c-001a4bcf887a.html A video of Dr. Evans welcoming these whiz women is on the Carroll Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=400747866689299&set=vb.136391504465&type=3&theater
Last Monday, April 15, Carroll students and employees showed their support for military family youth by participating in the Purple Up! Campaign. April is the Month of the Military Child: kids who sacrifice for their family’s military service and deployment. Purple represents all the branches of the military, as it is the combination of Army green, Marine red, and Coast Guard, Navy and Air Force blue. It’s also a pretty fitting color on this campus. The event was sponsored by the Montana National Guard Child & Youth Program.
MINISTRY AND JUSTICE
Today, April 19, Carroll Campus Ministry is hosting a group of eighth graders from De La Salle Blackfeet School in Browning, Mont., led by its new president Brother Dale Mooney. Once yearly, Campus Ministry sends a Headlights service group of Carroll students to the Blackfeet school, and this exchange visit will allow the kids from Browning a college experience and a chance to spend time with Carroll students in their element. Today, everyone is welcome to join the Campus Ministry and Blackfeet School group during a special 4 p.m. Mass in St. Charles chapel.
For all Campus Ministry news, homilies, Mass and sacraments and more, log on to: http://www.carroll.edu/ministry/
COMING EVENTS
Ongoing: Carroll Art Gallery (room 34 St. Charles Hall) exhibit, “Gabrielle Bakker: Drawings and Paintings,” featuring the visually stunning works of 2010 American Academy of Arts and Letters award recipient Gabrielle Bakker. In these works lurks a mystical world where minotaurs mingle with geishas and various mythical characters. With free admission, the gallery is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, closed weekends and college holidays, and the exhibit continues until May 3.
April 25-27: Students from the Carroll College American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) student chapter will participate in the concrete canoe and technical paper competitions at the 2013 ASCE Pacific Northwest Student Conference at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore. The three-day event will include various contests between students from 16 university and college ASCE student chapters in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and British Columbia.
May 2: Carroll Jazz Combo Concert, “One For the Road,” in the Carroll Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Free. Fourteen students directed by Dr. Lynn Petersen will perform jazz standards by Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Red Garland and Horace Silver. The program also includes Tito Puente’s Ran Kan Kan, Dixieland tune Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue andThomas “Fats” Waller’s Ain’t Misbehavin’. Additional songs featuring the band’s vocalists include Big Spender, Can’t Help Falling In Love, Dream a Little Dream of Me, Old Devil Moon, and One For My Baby.
May 5: The Department of Fine Arts at Carroll College will present a free concert of choral music at 4 p.m. at the St. Mary Catholic Community in Helena. The theme is “Love, Peace, and Harmony,” as this concert features numerous choral works on these subjects. The Carroll College Choir will open the concert with a setting of Peter Tchaikovsky’s Tebe Poem, a paraphrase of a portion of the Gloria text in Old Church Slavonic, and will continue with three sacred Latin pieces. The men of the choir will follow with a beautiful contemporary setting of the Easter anthem Christ the Lord is Risen Again by Mark Templeton. Next, the Carroll College Chamber Choir will present selections by Duarte Lobo, Arvo Pärt, and an arrangement of the jazz standard Here’s That Rainy Day, featuring Carroll Professor Dr. Lynn Petersen on piano. The women of the choir will present a variety of pieces, including a Finnish folk song, the beautiful double choir setting of Ave Maria by Gustav Holst, an Iraqi Peace Song, and the meditative Shanti (Sanskrit for “peace”). The full mixed choir will regroup to present the final three works, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, Knut Nystedt’s setting of Peace I Leave With You, and the lively gospel selection Clap Praise by Dr. Diane L. White. The concert will feature guest musicians Dr. Petersen at both the piano and organ, Linda Kuhn on cello, Carroll Professor Joy Holloway on harmonium and numerous student soloists. Admission to the concert is free, but an offering will be taken to benefit the music program at the St. Mary Catholic Community. All choirs are directed by Dr. Robert Psurny Jr., Carroll associate professor of music.
May 11: Baccalaureate Mass and Commencement
June 14-30: Carroll Summer Theatre presents Fox on the Fairway, 7:30 p.m. all performances, in the Carroll College Theatre. Directed by Chuck Driscoll. A tribute from Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo, Shakespeare in Hollywood) to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940s, The Fox On the Fairway takes audiences on a hilarious romp which pulls the rug out from underneath the stuffy denizens of a private country club. This is a fast-paced and high energy evening filled with mistaken identities, slamming doors, and over-the-top romantic shenanigans; it's a furiously paced comedy that recalls the Marx Brothers' classics. A charmingly madcap adventure about love, life, and mankind's eternal love affair with golf.
July 14-20: The 30th annual Carroll College Gifted Institute, an in-residence program for gifted students entering 5th through 9th grades.