APRIL 20, 2012
WHAT’S UP, DOC?
Today (April 20), the biennial Manion Symposium concludes with a focus on student research and medical school success, all of which Carroll excels in largely due to the tireless efforts of the event’s namesake, the late Dr. Jim “Doc” Manion (standing in photo right), longtime leader of our biology program. Carrying on the Manion tradition, today at 1 p.m., everyone is invited to hear our students present their grant-funded West Nile Virus research findings in Trinity Hall lounge.
This will be followed in the same location by a Carroll alumni physician panel discussing medical school and the medical profession at 3 p.m. The panel, entitled “Preparing for and Carrying Out the Physician’s Experience,” features Drs. Andrew Gilbert (’99), Jonathan Griffin (’02), Charleen McInnis (’85), John Michelotti (’90) and Justin Thomas (’01) in Trinity Hall lounge.
COOL CATS
Tonight and Saturday, claw your way to the Carroll Theatre (Old North, St. Charles) for the final performances of The Commedia Puss in Boots. This is classic comedy, with plenty of physical humor presented in high energy by our Carroll student thespians and is suitable for the whole family. Curtain is at 7 p.m. Carroll faculty and staff get in free with one guest. General admission is $5, children under 12 are $3.
More cool cats hit the Carroll Theatre stage next Thursday (April 26), when the Carroll Jazz Combo presents its Spring Concert at 7:30 p.m. Free and open to everyone, 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.
TALES FROM THE CRYPTO
Carroll students Jennings Anderson, Forrest Laskowski, and Nate Woods placed third in the Kryptos cryptanalysis contest last weekend. They were one of only four teams to correctly solve all three challenges, with team ranking based on the time that they submitted their solutions. This was Carroll’s first time entering the competition, which saw 60 students on 30 teams from across the Northwest. According to Carroll Computer Science and Math Professor Phil Rose, “Cryptology embraces the entire field of secret writing: creating messages others can’t read, and trying to read secret messages that others have sent who do not want them read by anyone except the intended recipient. Thus, cryptography is the science of trying to ‘break’ secret messages—determine the method used to encrypt the message, and then somehow reverse the encrypted text and obtain the original message.” The official results for the contest may be obtained from the Kryptos webpage at: http://www.cwu.edu/~boersmas/kryptos/Kryptos2_results.html
According to Carroll Associate Professor of Math Holly Zullo, PhD (photo right), “Cryptography is crucial to everything we do: Internet usage, banking, national security, and other daily applications. The students’ success in this contest is definitely resume-worthy, indicating that they have some experience with cryptography, which could definitely be of interest to graduate schools or future employers.” Dr. Zullo was in the news this week for another math-related development: she has received official notification that she has won a $4,400 Dolciani Mathematics Enrichment Grant from the Mathematical Association of America. The grant will help her provide programming for mathematically talented 8th-12th grade students. She has launched a web page with more info at: http://www.carroll.edu/hzullo/mathcircle.cc
OPEN FOR DEBATE
This Sunday, April 22, we get a rare earful of our nationally ranked, regional champion speech and debate stars presenting the annual Night of the Talking Saints performance in Trinity Hall lounge at 7 p.m. It’s free and open to everyone. Almost anything goes as these top talkers extemporize and present their trophy-winning monologues—politics, religion, current events and almost any subject imaginable is fair game. Not suitable for younger audiences, but definitely inspiring, often hilarious, stuff.
THE MAYANS WERE ONLY OFF BY ABOUT 4 BILLION YEARS
Next Friday, April 27, Carroll’s Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series continues with a free, public talk by Dr. Kelly Cline (photo right): “The End of the Earth and Sun,” at 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre. According to astronomical research and scientific calculations (not astrology), several billion years from now, our Earth will be destroyed by our dying Sun. As it reaches the dregs of its internal nuclear fuel supply, the Sun will swell, becoming a red giant star expanding far into the solar system, past Earth’s orbit. Talk about a bad fire season! Find out all the deathly details, and what our solar system will be like, when this scientific prediction comes to pass.
QUAKES AND CANOES
The Carroll student chapter of Engineers Without Borders-USA is heading to Guatemala this coming May 18-29 to safeguard the Diocese of Helena’s mission school from earthquakes by installing reinforcing walls. A KFBB TV news story covered their advance preparations, and you can see the broadcast archive at: http://www.kfbb.com/news/
In other engineering news, Associate Professor of Engineering Gary Fischer and 12 Carroll students will be attending the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Pacific Northwest Student Conference in Seattle next week, April 26-29. At the conference, co-sponsored by the University of Washington and Seattle University, students will compete in racing their handmade concrete canoes and in presenting professional engineering papers. The concrete canoe contest entails preparing a technical report and presentation, a display including a model showing the phases of construction, and the races themselves. Our team canoe has been christened “Sweet Carroll-ine.” Senior Alex McDonald is canoe team captain, with senior Jon Howse and junior Charlie McDonald conducting the concrete mix design. Senior Audrey Knight will be presenting the professional paper on ‘Ethics and Global Engineering’. The student attendees also include Chris Darlow, Shannon Stein, Brittany Crawford, Jessica Knapp, Pat Majerus, AJ (Anthony) Caldarazzo, Steven Zychla and Kyle Demsher.
SAINTS FOR ST. JUDE
After making almost $700 at its rummage sale last weekend, Carroll’s Up ’Til Dawn student fundraising organization for St. Jude has officially raised $24,241, very near this year’s goal of $25,000—yes we’re SO close, and you can send us over the top! To help Up ’Til Dawn reach its goal, contact Jackie Clawson, Carroll assistant director of community living and community outreach coordinator, at 406-447-4379 or email jclawson@carroll.edu.
This cause couldn’t be better from a Catholic social teaching perspective: No family ever pays St. Jude for anything, with the hospital treating about 7,800 yearly. The first institution established for the sole purpose of conducting research and treatment into catastrophic childhood diseases, mainly cancer, St. Jude shares its research findings freely with doctors and scientists all over the world, and St. Jude researchers are more published and more cited than those from any other private pediatric oncology institution in the US.
STUDENT NEWS
Events
It’s finally here, and the weather will be sunny and 70s all weekend long for Softball Weekend at Batch Fields just north of campus. This alcohol-free celebration of life, friendship and the Carroll family has games scheduled on Saturday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. On Sunday, games pick up 9 a.m. to noon, with playoffs 1 to 4 p.m. Water will be provided, as will good behavior all around.
Next Thursday, April 26, is the annual Charlie’s Film Festival in the Carroll Campus Center upper level, starting at 8 p.m. Come watch the awards ceremony and see clips of this year’s cinematic triumphs. “Celebrity” hosts and lots of hijinks, as always, accompany the golden horse trophies for best picture, actor, actress, director and more (and some “worst of show” prizes, too).
In the News
Carroll College seniors Sarah Potucek and Ceron Warfield (in photo right), winners of this year’s Raymond G. Hunthausen Award for community service, were stars in a Helena Independent Record feature story you can find online at: http://helenair.com/lifestyles/
Carroll’s inaugural-year Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) club finished up strong with its Let’s Can Hunger campaign, which exceeded its goal of bringing in 5,000 pounds of donated food for charity. All 5,285 pounds SIFE collected went to Helena Food Share and God’s Love shelter in Helena. The best news of all: SIFE plans to do it all again next year.
Carroll junior Mary Elizabeth Holbrook is engaged to Tyler Jacob Williams, with an October 21, 2012, wedding in Las Vegas planned. Mary will graduate in May 2013 and for now is helping pay for college by working at the Great Northern Best Western as a front desk clerk. (Couple in photo left)
A story on this past Tuesday’s Anthrozoology major/Human Animal Bond graduation ceremony appeared in the Helena Independent Record—fetch details at: http://helenair.com/news/ The graduation was also a feature story on Montana Public Radio’s Evening Edition this past Tuesday night—hear the broadcast (beginning around 6:52 into the show) at: http://www.mtpr.net/program_info/2012-04-17-132
For the latest student news and activities, go to www.carroll.edu/students
ALUMNI NEWS
In the News
Jay L. Larson, MD (photo right), class of 1983, will become governor of the Montana Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the national organization of internists. His term will begin during Internal Medicine 2012, the ACP annual scientific meeting in New Orleans, La., this weekend. Dr. Larson is currently a private practice physician at South Hills Internal Medicine Associates in Helena, Mont. He was the ACP Laureate Award Recipient in 2008. Governors are elected by local ACP members and serve four-year terms. Working with a local council, they supervise ACP chapter activities, appoint members to local committees, and preside at regional meetings. They also represent members by serving on the ACP Board of Governors.
Laurie Flynn, class of 1996, was recently promoted to corporate accounting manager and supervises the internal accounting functions at Anderson ZurMuehlen in Helena. Flynn is a member of the Institute of Management Accountants and has been with Anderson ZurMuehlen since 1998.
Carroll alums Autumn Clausen Lineweaver, class of 2005, and Curt Lineweaver, class of 2006, welcomed their first child, Alex Michael Lineweaver, on March 27, 2012. The family lives in Havre, where Curt is a CPA at Hamilton Consulting Group and Autumn is a project manager at Clausen and Sons. (Lineweaver family in photo left)
FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS
In the News
Professor of Chemistry Ron Wilde (photo right), Carroll’s faculty athletic representative, was recognized last weekend by the NAIA with the 2011 Wally Schwartz Award. The award is presented annually by the NAIA to recognize a conference, regional or national faculty athletic representative who best exemplifies the loyalty, enthusiasm and honesty of the past NAIA Vice President of Legislative Services Wally Schwartz. The award was presented at the 71st Annual NAIA Convention in Newport Beach, Calif., where our Athletic Director Bruce Parker and Registrar Cathy Day represented the college.
Carroll’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology has hired as full-time professor Dr. David McCanna, who hails from University of California at Riverside’s Sociology Department. Beginning his Carroll teaching this fall, Dr. McCanna’s focus will be criminology. His most recent papers for publication are “The Convergence of Two Social Issues: Housing for the Disabled and Crime” and “Anomie on the Rez,” a combination showing his diverse interests.
Dan Case, Carroll’s associate director of learning technology, is hosting a Moodle "moot" at Carroll this May. Last year, Case started this conference and over 65 people attended; this year, he reports that we are expecting over 100 people from around the world, with registrants from all over Montana and as far off as New York, Belgium, England and Canada. It is sponsored by Carroll, Remote-learner.net and the US Department of Education through a US Department of Education Title III grant. Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS), that’s a free open-source Web application for educators to use in creating effective online learning sites. Delivering online classes and enhancing traditional coursework, Moodle is now the largest LMS in the world and is used by major corporations such as Toyota and Intel and also by higher ed and K-12 schools worldwide; almost all Montana schools use Moodle. For more on our Moodle “moot” gathering to discuss the latest developments, check out: http://www.mountainmoot.com
Erin Harris, office manager for the Carroll Wellness Center, will receive her bachelor’s degree from Carroll with a major in classical studies at this May’s commencement. Meanwhile, Kyrie Russ, graduate intern in Counseling Services, successfully defended her thesis, “Why Not Adoption? Understanding Teen Pregnancy Through A Moral Lens,” and will receive her master’s degree in counseling from the University of Great Falls.
Farewells
Everyone is welcome at a reception honoring two Carroll employees who are soon leaving: Dr. John Addis, retiring and granted professor emeritus of biology status, and Maj. Mark McGinley (class of 1988), the head of our ROTC/Department of Military Science, who has been assigned as the S4 (Logistics) officer with the 1889th RSG (Regional Support Group) in Butte. Wish them well next Thursday, April 26, in O’Connell Hall lobby at 4 p.m.
Dr. Rich Lambert (photo left), professor emeritus of philosophy, sends this message from afar: “I have not been fully among you since last May, because I retired from the Philosophy Department as of then. But maybe some of you noticed that I had been especially absent from campus this last month or so. The reason for that is that my wife Barb and I have moved to Barb's home town of Dubuque, Iowa. This is where the two of us met some 35 years ago, when I ventured from the confines of Carroll to Loras College in Dubuque on a faculty exchange. Loras is the parent college of our Hilltop institution, as our founder John Carroll had been president of Loras. In fact, I have been given the special assignment of retrieving Bishop Carroll's desk from the President's Office at Loras—any suggestions on how I do that? We are currently residing in an extended stay motel, and hope to possess our own home soon. Once established here, I intend to use resources in the region to do research, especially on matters of Catholic culture. Dubuque is a dominantly Catholic area, to the point that restaurants routinely advertise ‘Lenten specials.’ (In fact, would you believe that its Catholicism is so traditional that these signs remain up after Easter?) We certainly miss Carroll and Helena, and plan to visit often. For instance, we shall be back this June and July, and hope to re-familiarize ourselves with the campus by staying in Borromeo Hall. I spent my entire career at Carroll, and retain a very warm place in my heart for the institution that enfolded and nurtured me for 41 years. I miss you all, and promise to return to thank you soon.”
CAMPUS MINISTRY
Colleen Dunne, director of Campus Ministry Programs, will host a group of Carroll students and young alumni on a Headlights Immersion service trip to East Los Angeles this coming May. Past trips have provided Carroll Campus Ministry Headlights students unique insights into jobs for gang members, urban renewal, immigration and social justice. More developments on this trip will be reported in future editions of QNs.
For all Campus Ministry news, Mass and sacraments schedules, homilies and much more, go to: http://www.carroll.edu/ministry/
ATHLETICS
In the News
For the third straight year, Carroll College is the winner of the Bandy Memorial All-Sports Award in the Frontier Conference. This is our 10th Bandy, the most by any school. The Bandy Award is presented each year to the conference school that has accumulated the most points based on its league finish in football, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, soccer, women's volleyball and men's and women's golf. Our Saints claimed conference titles in football, women's cross country and tied for the conference championship in women's soccer.
Schedule
Track and field is competing at the Idaho State Classic this Saturday. Golf heads to the Frontier Conference Championships in Missoula, Mont., next Monday.
Events
TONIGHT (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
Ending Today: 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.
Tonight (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 Saturday, 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: Carroll adjunct fine arts professor Ed Noonan, Betty Babcock, Mrs. Helen and Dr. William Ballinger, Carroll Philosophy Professor Barry Ferst, Les Davis and Yvonne Seng. A superb story on Noonan’s history as a humanities hero is online at: http://helenair.com/lifestyles/hometown-heroes/article_f5e155ac-86c1-11e1-83b9-001a4bcf887a.html 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 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 27: Last Day of Classes
April 28: Earth Day celebration, with Carroll’s Dining Services provider Sodexo sponsoring the second annual Clean Helena Day in honor of 2012 Earth Day. Last year, Sodexo had over 30 student and staff volunteers hauling away 97 trash bags full of litter from the Helena area, plus an assortment of discarded tires and rusty auto parts. The clean-up helped safeguard the health and wellbeing of citizens, wildlife, and waterways, and on April 28 we’ll do it again, starting with breakfast and cleanup beginning at 9 a.m. After a few hours of work, they’ll return to campus for a celebration barbeque from 4 to 6 p.m.—free food and the band Whiskey Root will offer a concert. To help spruce up Mother Earth on her day, contact Mason Siddick at mason.siddick@sodexo.com or Allie Winkler at Awinkler@carroll.edu.
April 29: The Department of Fine Arts at Carroll College will present a free concert of choral music, “A Time to Dance,” a special collaboration between the Carroll College Choirs and dancers from Ballet Montana Academy and Carroll College, with choreography by Sallyann Mulcahy. The concert starts at 4 p.m. at St. Mary Catholic Community in Helena. Admission to the concert is free, but an offering will be taken to benefit the music program at the St. Mary Catholic Community. In this rare combination of live choral music and dance, the audience will get to experience a variety of musical styles, according to Carroll Choirs Director Robert Psurny, with Ethan Sperry’s arrangement of the Indian Raga “Desh,” a pas de deux performed by Carroll student dancers, and a featured suite of three “voice dances” by contemporary composer Greg Jasperse. Besides pieces which feature dance, the Carroll Choir will also be performing a variety of music, including works by Felix Mendelssohn, Francis Poulenc, a spiritual by André Thomas, and international-themed pieces from Syria and Bulgaria. The Chamber Choir will perform Allegri’s famous “Miserere mei Deus,” and a program that includes another Poulenc motet, a humorous madrigal, and a popular song by George Harrison of the Beatles.
April 30: Dedication of the Carroll College Peace and Civility Wall, noon. Part of “Not One without the Other: Religious Harmony and Political Civility” month-long free events.
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.