THE WHOLE ENCHILADA
This Saturday, April 27, Carroll 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 from 4:30 to 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. And, there will be prizes! Students who donate at the dinner can enter to win a pair of Native Eyewear sunglasses. Faculty and staff donations qualify for a chance to win a $50 gift certificate to Benny's Bistro.
NO BAG LIMIT
Also this Saturday, Carroll’s dining services partner Sodexo and a bevy of eager student volunteers will be making the Queen City sparkle during the third annual S=CT squared (Sodexo=Clean Today, Cleaner Tomorrow) trash clean-up day in honor of Earth Day. A record 99 student and Carroll employee volunteers are already signed up—and you can join them! Volunteers should meet at the Campus Center for a free breakfast and free event t-shirt at 8:45 a.m. then head out to pick up garbage around town. Clean-up sites include Lincoln Street area, North Montana (near Macy’s), Custer Avenue, a small section of I-15 (adopted by Carroll Green Honors students), Green Meadow Drive and the Carroll campus. They’ll all return to the Campus Center around noon to 12:30 p.m. and will display their mountain of bagged refuse outside near the Sladdich Fountain. To get in on this good work under a bright springtime sun, contact Sodexo Marketing and Promotions Supervisor Mason Siddick at msiddick@carroll.edu or 406-447-5193.
Later that afternoon, from 5 to 6:30 p.m., everyone is welcome to celebrate the clean Helena project at a special barbeque outside the Campus Center, with free music by Triple Cross. S=CT squared volunteers eat free, and everyone else is welcome to enjoy the BBQ for the cost of simply offering a clothing item or FLEX donation, all of which will go to clothe and feed Helena’s homeless community. The weather is supposed to be outstanding, so come on down to grab some vitamin D and give some hope to the less fortunate. (Photos left and right: Sodexo's Earth Day volunteers over the past 2 years)
A SUNDAY TALK SHOW WORTH WATCHING
You’ve heard about their supernatural feats all year, now it’s time to meet our demons of debate: This Sunday, April 28, the nationally award-winning Carroll Talking Saints forensics team will give a rare Helena performance during its annual “Night of the Talking Saints” starting at 7 p.m. This free, public event takes place in the Carroll Campus Center’s lower level and will feature top speech and debate talent, with impromptu, humorous and fast-paced delivery of oratory on politics, current events and much more. Carroll’s team recently returned from three national events that brought four members top trophies and one Saint ranking ninth in the nation.(Photo left, standing left to right: Carroll Talking Saints national award winners Megan Towles, Chris Axtman, Ryden Meyer and Mark Schmutzler)
LAST CHANCE TO SEE CONCRETE FLOAT
Right now through the weekend, Carroll College American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) student chapter members are contestants in the concrete canoe and technical paper competitions at the 2013 ASCE Pacific Northwest Student Conference at Oregon State University. 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. The concrete canoe our students created to best the pack this year is christened the “Last Chance,” an allusion to Helena’s historic gold-boom find on Last Chance Gulch (not an assessment of Carroll ASCE’s long-term prospects). We’ll have a report on the outcome (i.e., will our canoe win gold or sleep with the fishes?) in next week’s QNs!
THIS COULD STOP TRAFFIC
Next Tuesday, April 30, Carroll’s Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice and Carroll senior Kari Rice host a symposium on human trafficking. The event, exposing the worldwide epidemic of sexually enslaving women and children, starts at 6 p.m. in the upper level of the Campus Center. Anti-trafficking activists Lowell and Tami Hochhalter of Find, Rescue, Embrace, Empower (F.R.E.E.) will speak, as will Montana legislator Sarah Laszloffy (R-Laurel), who has fought against human trafficking, and a trafficking survivor will give her personal story. Last summer, Rice worked to free women from sex slavery in Belgium, and she continued this work during New Orleans’ Super Bowl week—the biggest human trafficking event in the US. Look for a story on Rice’s unique work in the upcoming edition of < strong>Carroll Magazine, which should arrive in mailboxes in just a few weeks.
ONE FOR THE ROAD
Next Thursday, May 2, the Carroll Jazz Combo will present its final free, public concert of the semester, “One For the Road,” in the Carroll Theatre at 7:30 p.m. 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.
WE COULD USE A LITTLE LOVE, PEACE AND HARMONY
In more music news, on Sunday, May 5, Carroll’s choir and chamber choir will offer a free concert, Love, Peace, and Harmony,” at 4 p.m. at the St. Mary Catholic Community in Helena. Our 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 chamber choir will present selections by Duarte Lobo and Arvo Pärt plus an arrangement of the jazz standard Here’s That Rainy Day, featuring Carroll Professor Dr. Lynn Petersen on piano. The choir’s women 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 for 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.
KUDOS FOR CORETTE
Carroll’s Corette Library has been recognized with the 2013 Excellent Library Service Award, given by the Montana State Library Commission to libraries demonstrating a high level of community service. The commission based its decision on library collection development, information access, policies, planning and evaluation, fiscal management, board accomplishments, continuing education for staff and outreach to the public.
STUDENT NEWS
In the News
Two Carroll students recently presented research talks at the spring meeting of the Montana Section of the American Chemical Society in Butte. Emily Orenstein and her collaborators at North Dakota State presented “Organic Solar Cells: A Sustainable Solution,” and Myunghoon Kim with her Carroll Chemistry Professor Caroline Pharr gave the audience “Synthesis and study of a novel family of conjugated carbazole centered compounds with potential applications in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs).”
In other science news, last weekend 15 Carroll students on 8 teams were hard at work in the 2013 Kryptos Cipher Challenges contest, involving three problems centered around the breaking, or cryptanalysis, of ciphers (secret writing) into an English plain-text message. The field of competitors included 105 students from 47 teams representing colleges, universities and academies from coast to coast. Seven contestants reached the Babbage level of achievement (proficient codebreakers—those who solved two challenges), including the Carroll team of Justine Courville, Matt Heinze and Nate Woods. These ciphering students and the other Saints codebreakers took Dr. Phil Rose’s Introduction to Modern Cryptography class this semester.
On April 18, the Carroll Business Department held their induction ceremony for Sigma Beta Delta, the Business Honor Society. Inducted this year were Jerraca Allhands, Chris Puyear, Colter Rood, Alicia Booth and Kramer Schutz. Mark Semmens, class of 1982, was inducted as an honorary member. The keynote speaker was Jerry Loendorf, class of 1961, who was inducted last year.
At last week’s Honor’s Convocation, the winners of the Hunthausen Award for Community Service were also announced: Galen Mills, a Carroll senior pre-med major and football athlete, and nursing senior Amy Surbrugg. In addition to the work that led to his recent acceptance to med school, Mills has done extensive volunteer ministry outreach on campus and off and has participated in a missionary trip to Africa, where he helped in construction and working at a Christian school; he also spent a week at an orphanage in Guatemala (where he plans to return) doing gardening, tutoring students in math and geography, and aiding in the toddler house. As for Surbrugg, she most recently assisted in providing dental care to orphans and children with disabilities in Ecuador over Christmas break through the Carroll Outreach Team and has volunteered over the years with Camp Mak-A-Dream and camps for children suffering from arthritis, muscular dystrophy, blindness and other afflictions. She has also participated in Campus Ministry Headlights trips to Browning, Mont., and East LA. After graduation, she’ll be pursuing a career as a pediatric oncology nurse. Two Hunthausen honorable mention students with extensive service to their credit include Emily Rabbitt and Mariah Ramirez. (Photo right, standing left to right: Career Services Director Rosie Walsh, Mills, Ramirez and Surbrugg) For photos of the big night, go to: http://www.carroll.edu/academics/honors/convocation.cc
Events
This Saturday, April 27, students in Carroll’s Anthrozoology program are sponsoring a Pet Pawgeant from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Women’s Park in Helena, near the highly popular Farmer’s Market. Enter your dog to win prizes from PETCO and other local businesses, plus watch the canine obedience freestyle routine, get in on the tennis ball doggie game, and check out the dog paw-paintings. Prizes for best looking canine will be awarded.
Softball Weekend last Saturday and Sunday saw record numbers of students at play in blizzard conditions, with white-outs not preventing eagle-eyed catchers from fielding fly balls. In all, 101 games took place over the two-day winter-weather-advisory extravaganza. Among the hearty contestants, one of the 64 teams stood out: the Santa Fe Sleeve Monsters (photo right) are our 2013 champions.
Leading up to Softball Weekend was TAG (Thanks to All who Give) Week, where students entered a photo contest and wrote personal thank-you notes to Carroll donors who make our facilities and student scholarships possible. Thank-you letters were double the count from last year’s TAG Week. Photo contest winners are posted online at: And, a quick film about Carroll students giving thanks is posted on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbAt-lkxqq4
Service
Ending next Tuesday, April 30, is Carroll’s STTI Nursing Honor Society Chapter’s “base layer” (new socks, underwear and hats) clothing drive to help Helena’s estimated 600 homeless. Drop your donations into the collection box on the fourth floor of Simperman Hall (the Nursing wing) and help our students reach their goal of 1,000 individual items for the local poor.
ROTC
Carroll ROTC cadets recently joined their peers from across the state at the Lubrecht Experimental Forest for a three-day training exercise aimed at developing their leadership skills and honing their proficiency in the field. Members of the Grizzly Battalion, a combined program of the University of Montana and Carroll College, met others from Montana State University-Billings and members of the Montana National Guard’s Officer Candidate School for the weekend drill. Carroll senior Melissa Burkett was featured in a story about the ROTC adventure—she described herself as fourth-generation military, with proud service dating back to her great-grandfather’s days in the Army, her grandfather’s time in the Marines, and her parents’ service in the Air Force. Report for details at: http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/grizzly-battalion-rotc-cadets-train-at-lubrecht-forest/article_0497c082-a970-11e2-93a2-001a4bcf887a.html
ALUMNI NEWS
Travel
Registration is now open for three fabulous Carroll alumni, parents and friends 2013 travel opportunities:
Glacier Park Weekend: On July 26-27, explore one of Montana’s great outdoor treasures, with options of river rafting, boating, hiking, scenic tour, outdoor Mass, campfire, BBQ and more. Camping and lodging accommodations available. Make it a family adventure and travel by train from the east or the west using Amtrak’s special Carroll fare code X37N-966. Walla Walla Wine Tour: This October 11-14, enjoy Washington wine country at harvest time, with limousine transportation to the wineries, exceptional food and wine pairing, and accommodations at the historic Marcus Whitman Hotel. Christmas In Bethlehem: On December 20-30, tour the Holy Land with Carroll history professor Dr. Jeanette Fregulia. Tour destinations will include the Sea of Galilee, the Mount of Olives, Jericho, Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, the Garden of Gethsemane and the Church of the Nativity. Hotel accommodations are right in Bethlehem for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
For more information on these and other Carroll alumni events visit www.carroll.edu/alumni.
Graduation
Golden Alumni from the classes of 1943, 1953 and 1963 will gather for a special Golden Reunion on May 10 and 11. For a complete reunion schedule, visit www.carroll.edu/alumni
In the News
Big Screen Entertainment Group has hired Isaac Marble, class of 2011, to its growing sales and marketing team. A five-year member of the film industry, Marble has been hired as the assistant director of sales and acquisitions. After graduating from Carroll, Marble began his career in production with a feel-good indie comedy, My Favorite Movie, followed by the vampire thriller Crimson Winter and serving as principal photography on his third feature, What Separates Us. He moved to Los Angeles, where he was hired by Big Screen Entertainment to help grow the domestic and international sales division as well as provide marketing and production support.
Sean McCurry, class of 2012, is engaged to marry Carroll class of 2015 nursing student Jessica Greenwald. He is employed by Rocky Mountain Credit Union of Helena. The couple is planning June 2013 wedding in Helena. (Couple in photo left)
In Memoriam
After a tenacious 15-month battle with a rare form of leukemia, Melissa Aida Torres, class of 1998, died at the Puget Sound VA Hospital in Seattle on April 11, 2013, from complications of pneumonia. She attended the University of Arizona before enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1988. At various times in her distinguished military career with the active Army and Army National Guard, she served as a flight medic, personnel officer, recruiter and TAC officer. After retiring from the military, Melissa worked in a consulting business and for Literacy Bridge, a nonprofit organization providing Talking Books throughout Ghana. She earned her degree in sociology from Carroll then went on to study law: At the time of her diagnosis, she was enrolled in Concord Law School, having completed two years of study. (Photo right: Torres and her children) For more eon her life, read: http://helenair.com/news/local/obituaries/melissa-aida-torres/article_dc0956d8-a97b-11e2-8505-001a4bcf887a.html
FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS
Sallyann Mulcahy (left), director of dance at Carroll since 1994 and founding director of Montana’s professional ballet company, Ballet Montana, must take a respite due to hip-joint attrition that has caused significant pain requiring surgery. She will be undergoing this surgery in the coming weeks, and a fundraiser to help cover the thousands of dollars for the procedure will be hosted by Carroll’s Fine Arts Department and the Myrna Loy Center this coming July 11. More details in future editions of QNs.
Health Sciences Program Chair Kelly Parsley (right) will be traveling to Mumbai, India, this summer to learn more about public health issues in developing countries as well as gender equity issues. The two-week program consists of travel and lectures in Mumbai and surrounding villages and will focus on the challenges of public safety when faced with both rural and inner-city issues. Lecture topics will include healthcare, transportation, urban infrastructure, economics and sustainability. The program will also include site visits with local NGOs. Parsley will travel with 16 other US faculty members from around the country. The program is run by the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), the leading non-governmental international education organization in the U.S.
Dr. Ron Stottlemyer (left), professor of Languages and Literature, has been selected to participate a summer seminar on ancient Greek lyric poetry. The seminar, limited to 10 participants, will be held at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC from June 9 to 14, 2013. Directing the seminar will be Professor Gregory Nagy, the Francis Jones professor of classical Greek literature and professor of comparative literature at Harvard University and the director of the Center for Hellenic Studies. He will focus participants on developing a course on the ancient Greek lyric for Sunoikisis: A National Consortium of Classics Programs. Professor Nagy is a world-renowned scholar on ancient Greek literature, publishing eight ground-breaking studies of Homer, Pindar and other Greek writers and well over a hundred articles and book reviews. Initially, Dr. Stottlemyer plans to use the experience gleaned from the seminar to teach the Greek lyric in his Carroll classical literature course, particularly the works of lyric poets from the seventh and sixth century BC. He will also use the seminar experience to further his knowledge about how the ancient Greek lyric plays a part in the Homeric epic, Greek tragedy, and the Homeric hymns. This latest award builds on those he has received in the past: Dr. Stottlemyer is a three-time winner of National Endowment for the Humanities awards to participate in NEH seminars. These included “The Literary Traditions of Medieval Women” at Rice University in 1997; “Anglo-Saxon England” at Trinity College, Cambridge (UK), in 2004; and “Homer’s Readers: Ancient and Modern” at the University of Michigan in 2008. More recently, he was accepted to participate in the Herodotus Histories as Literature Seminar sponsored by the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC, in August 2010. This current award will be his second trip to study with Professor Nagy at the Center for Hellenic Studies.
Russ Cargo, adjunct faculty member in the Carroll Business Department and a senior fellow at the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at the Bloch School of Management, University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC), was invited by the Nonprofit Assistance Fund of Minneapolis, Minn., to present a workshop, “Ethical Boards: Solutions to the Moral Challenges of Governance” to nonprofit organizations in Itasca County, Minn. His talk occurred in Grand Rapids, Minn., on April 17 before 60 nonprofit board members and executive directors from a variety of different organizations from northern Minnesota. This was one of four workshops arranged by the Nonprofit Assistance Fund to strengthen nonprofit organizations and was funded by Minnesota’s Blandin Foundation. Cargo is a principal in the consulting firm Third Sector Services, LLC, located in Helena, Chapel Hill (NC) and Phoenix.
MINISTRY AND JUSTICE
Father Greg Boyle is a Jesuit priest who has welcomed Carroll Campus Ministry Headlights students over the years to his East LA Homeboy Industries, which makes peace between gang members through a novel jobs program and ministry. This weekend only, tonight through Sunday, a documentary film on Fr. Boyle’s work, entitled < strong>G-Dog, will show at the Myrna Loy Center in Helena, and Carroll Campus Ministry students encourage the community to join them at the movie. Showings are in the Myrna Loy auditorium tonight (April 26) at 6:30 p.m., Saturday at 6:15 and 9 p.m., and Sunday at 4 and 7 p.m.
Homeboy Industries is the largest, most successful gang intervention and rehab program in the country. Called G-Dog by his homies, Fr. Boyle began Homeboy inspired by a powerful idea: "Nothing Stops a Bullet like a Job." G-Dog's unstoppable compassion has transformed the lives of thousands of Latino, Asian and African American gang members. With a global influence, Homeboy Industries has a 70% success rate at redirecting kids away from gang life through tattoo removal, job training, counseling, yoga, fatherhood and substance abuse classes, all free.(Photo right: Fr. Boyle meets Carroll Campus Ministry students during the previous Headlights trip to East LA)
For all Campus Ministry news, homilies, Mass and sacraments and more, log on to: http://www.carroll.edu/ministry/
ATHLETICS
Carroll’s men’s and women’s golf coach Bennett MacIntyre led his teams to complete the second half of the Frontier Conference season with a third-place finish for the men’s team and two All-Conference players and a fourth-place finish for the women’s squad.
Carroll College has been named the 2012-2013 recipient of the George Bandy Memorial All-Sports Award as the top athletic program in the Frontier Conference. This is the fourth year in a row that Carroll has received this award and our fifth recognition in the past six years. Points are awarded based on finishes in conference seasons for football, women’s volleyball, women’s soccer, women’s cross country, men’s cross country, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, men’s golf and women’s golf.
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.
May 11: Baccalaureate Mass and Commencement. This year’s honorary doctorate will go to Dr. Carolyn Woo, the CEO and president of Catholic Relief Services. The Borromeo Award will be conferred on the Rev. Bernard Peter Byrne, class of 1951, who in 1956 joined the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers and embarked on a lifetime of caring for poor children in Peru.
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 10-12: Carroll presents its third annual Mountain Moodle Moot conference on campus. This event has become one of premiere Moodle conferences in the US. This session will see over 120 attending from all over the US and the abroad. Already confirmed are speakers from New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, South Carolina, Indiana, North Dakota, England, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. This year features two main tracks focusing on Moodle, both in the K-12 environment and in higher ed. For oodles on Moodle, go to http://www.mountainmoot.com or follow through Twitter @mtmoot.
July 14-20: The 30th annual Carroll College Gifted Institute, an in-residence program for gifted students entering 5th through 9th grades.