HAPPY EASTER EDITION!
EMPTY TOMB
The holiest season of the year is at its apex, with Easter Sunday preceded by Carroll Campus Ministry’s final Holy Week services:
Holy Thursday: Mass of the Lord’s Supper in Guadalupe Hall Chapel at 8 p.m. An all-night adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will follow until 7 a.m. Good Friday morning.
Good Friday: Celebration of the Lord’s Passion and Death, Guadalupe Hall Chapel at 3 p.m.
Easter Vigil: Great Vigil of the Lord’s Resurrection, Cathedral of St. Helena at 8 p.m. A group will be meeting on the steps of the Campus Center at 7:15 p.m. to walk to the Cathedral together.
Classes are on Easter vacation from Good Friday through Easter Monday.
FROM SEDER TO SHOAH
Faith traditions continue at Carroll next week, with Tuesday’s (April 10) Traditional Passover Seder at 6:30 p.m. in the Campus Center, hosted by Dr. Barry Ferst, Carroll philosophy professor and department chair. Part of “Not One without the Other: Religious Harmony and Political Civility” month-long events, the Seder requires reservations: call 406-447-4324.
“Not One without the Other” continues on Thursday, April 12 with a keynote address, “America, Islam, and the Holocaust,” by Professor Michael Sells of the University of Chicago Divinity School, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Center. It’s free and open to everyone. Check Coming Events listings at the end of QNs for more “Not One without the Other” happenings in the coming weeks. A feature story on these events appeared in the Helena Independent Record this week—read it at: http://helenair.com/news/local/programs-on-tap-at-carroll-college-coincide-with-election-season/article_31cbcc32-7bc3-11e1-bc7b-001a4bcf887a.html
SIFE SOARS
Last weekend, Carroll’s Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team won regionals and took rookie of the year honors in this, its inaugural year, at the SIFE USA Regional Competition in Seattle, Wash. Carroll’s team now advances to the SIFE USA National Exposition in Kansas City, Mo., May 22-24. In all, seven of Carroll’s 12 SIFE students and their faculty advisor, Dr. Annette Ryerson, attended the Seattle regionals. Our regional champs include Michael Yamoah, Blake Deshaw, Megan Gretch, Nikole Drummond, Allie Winkler, Claire Miller and Conor Summers.
Carroll College SIFE is one of the nearly 600 such programs in the US. SIFE students use business concepts to develop community outreach projects that improve the quality of life and standard of living for people in need. During this academic year, the Carroll College SIFE team organized two projects in the Helena community, including the Let’s Can Hunger food drive, a partnership with Campbell’s Soup, which brought in 5,000 pounds of nonperishables for Helena Food Share. The second project was Free Enterprise, designed to help educate and empower small businesses on Montana laws, including employer-employee disputes. With a grant from American Free Enterprise, SIFE students organized two public seminars at Carroll. The culmination of the SIFE program is an annual series of competitions, including the recent regionals, where teams present the results of their projects and are evaluated by business leader judges. (Photo top right [left to right]: Conor Summers, Blake DeShaw, Allie Winkler, Annette Ryerson, Megan Gretch, Claire Miller, Nikole Drummond and Michael Yamoah.)
PUT YOUR USED GOODIES TO GOOD USE
Saturday, April 14, is the annual Up 'Til Dawn Rummage sale to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and donations are being accepted through next Friday, April 13—welcome are all manner of used goods, from clothing and books to sports stuff, household items and just about anything but underwear and toxic waste. On the 14th, the sale will take place in the lower level of the Carroll Campus Center starting at 6 a.m. and going to 2 p.m. Carroll’s Up ’Til Dawn student club hosts fundraising events all year long for St. Jude, and this is one of the biggest, with all proceeds helping kids fighting cancer. Donations can be dropped off at the collection boxes in any residence hall or in the Associated Students of Carroll College office downstairs in the Campus Center.
OFF THE BRIDGE
Next Wednesday, April 11, national motivational speaker Kevin Hines will offer insights on mental illness and the fight for mental wellness at a 7 p.m. free, public talk, “Suicide: Never the Solution,” in the Carroll Campus Center’s lower level. Sponsored by Carroll College and NAMI-MT, the event will take audiences on the journey that started when Hines attempted suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. Since surviving the ordeal, he has dedicated his life to finding peace and health and helping others along this path. He has spoken to over a quarter a million people on his speaking tour, and his story was featured in the film The Bridge.
HAPPY 75th BIRTHDAY, NEUMAN!
Carroll’s Neuman Observatory, Montana’s oldest operating astronomical observatory, is marking its 75th anniversary on Carroll’s 13th annual Astronomy Weekend, April 13-14. The stellar weekend starts with a Friday night, April 13, 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.
On Saturday, April 14, astronomy activities for the whole family will occur in the Carroll Campus Center from noon to 4 p.m.: solar viewing, astronomy displays, an astronomy scavenger hunt, and a "telescope alley" array are all in store, and Carroll’s Neuman Observatory will be open for touring. On Saturday night, Dr. Christina Dunn, a scientist from Bozeman, presents “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 the technological feat of constructing the world’s largest telescope, able to view distant earth-like planets and material spiraling into black holes.
A BANDERAS-FREE PUSS IN BOOTS
Next week, look what the cat will be dragging in: April 13 is the debut of Carroll Theatre’s final big splash of the academic year: children’s classic The Commedia Puss in Boots. Written by Lane Riosley, the story follows a miller’s foolish son, who takes the advice of a clever cat in extraordinary footwear to achieve nobility and a fine marriage. Carroll senior and stage veteran Ace Etchart is the show’s director, with her troupe including freshmen Sydney Hayward, Axel King, Brian Hybner, Sabrina Harding and Ruth Lerum, and sophomores Cat King and Stephen Plummer. Sure to draw crowds and cat-calls, the show was featured in today’s Helena Independent Record, with the story online at: http://helenair.com/entertainment/
The show goes on two successive Fridays and Saturdays, April 13-14 and 20-21, at 7 p.m. nightly 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.
MAKING THE CUT
At last weekend’s fund drive for St. Baldrick’s and “hair-raising” for Locks of Love, over $5,500 was raised to help children battling cancer, and heads were shorn to provide wigs to kids who are coiffure-challenged due to medical conditions. Clip out the story online at: http://helenair.com/
KEEP IT CLEAN
Carroll’s food service provider Sodexo once again is acquitting itself a responsible corporate citizen, with Linda Bahr, Sodexo’s general manager of Carroll Dining Services, announcing this week that they’ll be sponsoring the second annual Clean Helena Day in honor of 2012 Earth Day. Last year, Sodexo had over 30 student and staff volunteers (photo left) 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 be asked to join the fun again. On that Saturday, Sodexo will serve volunteers a hot breakfast, then all will head out to pick up around town starting at 9 a.m. After a few hours of work, they’ll return to campus for a celebration barbeque. To help spruce up Mother Earth on her day, contact Mason Siddick at mason.siddick@sodexo.com or Allie Winkler at Awinkler@carroll.edu.
STUDENT NEWS
Scholarships
Thanks to our spunky Spring Phonothon student callers, led by Carroll Annual Giving Officer Kellie Goebel, the fund drive for student scholarships has ended in a blaze of glory. Students worked almost 800 hours, making over 14,000 calls, and brought in over $50,000 in pledges, far and away exceeding the $31,000 goal. Thanks to the 680 donors—businesses, parents, alumni and friends—who stepped up for our students this spring!
In the News
Carroll communication and public relations junior Courtney Jones (photo left) of Bozeman announced last week that she has been selected as a summer intern for Fox News, which will be giving her eight weeks of hands-on newsroom experience in New York City. For over a year, Courtney has hosted Carroll’s regular Saints and Scholars programs on Helena Civic Television, which proved pivotal in her selection (and being editor in chief of the Carroll Prospector newspaper and minoring in TV production and marketing didn’t hurt either). At Fox, she’ll be working for the program Cost Of Freedom, doing everything from editing, booking guests, content researching, and writing Web site content and scripts to creating graphics, attending show tapings and even pitching story ideas.
Carroll’s ROTC program, including the seven cadets who will receive Carroll diplomas May 11 as our largest ROTC class to gradate yet in the program’s 11-year history, was recently in the news for its unconventional collegiate experience. Read more at: http://helenair.com/
Events
Tonight, Carroll’s Colors literary magazine has its public debut and readings from authors at the Red Atlas (in the Lundy Center at the Staggering Ox, 400 Euclid Ave., in Helena), from 6 to 8 p.m.
For the latest student news and activities, go to www.carroll.edu/students
ALUMNI NEWS
In the News
Lon Whitaker (photo left), class of 1997, is the vice president for finance and administration at Eastern Oregon University. He formerly served as vice president of business affairs at Salish Kootenai College in Montana, where he was a leader in budgeting and planning, information technology, auxiliary service planning, physical plant and equipment resources, and also oversaw many construction projects. He holds an MBA from the University of Montana.
Sarah Carrigan, class of 2004, is engaged to Chad Galloway. She is employed as a revenue accountant for oil and gas exploration company Luff Exploration in Denver. The couple is planning an August 2012 wedding in Grand Lake, Colo. (Couple in photo right)
In Memoriam
Marikae Kinross-Wright, class of 1969, died on March 27, 2012, in Missoula. After attending Carroll for two years, Marikae spent her junior year in Paris at the Sorbonne. This was in 1968, the year of the Paris student riots. She loved the Parisian lifestyle, and would return to Montana to graduate from Carroll as a devout Francophile. After receiving her undergraduate degree from Carroll, she earned her master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin. She had a 25-year career with Darigold in Bozeman as information technology manager. For more on her life, read: http://missoulian.com/
James Todd Merrell (photo right), class of 1989, died on March 31, 2012. After Carroll, he went on to complete his doctorate in communications at the University of Southern California. During his college years, he was also involved in the debate team, earning numerous national awards. He later moved to the Seattle area and spent most of his working career at Microsoft. For more on his life, read: http://helenair.com/
FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS
Carroll’s Anthrozoology Program adjunct professor Tom Brownlee was in the news this week for his students’ work training shelter dogs to serve as professional service and rescue animals. Fetch video footage at: http://www.kxlh.com/news/carroll-college-rescues-trains-shelter-dogs/ In more news from the program, Carroll’s Human-Animal Bond canine graduates of 2012 will be hosting a special graduation ceremony on April 17 at 7 p.m. in the Fortin Science Center Scola. In all, nine students and eight dogs will receive their pigskin. Meet the students and their critters, and enjoy refreshments at this pawerful event.
Carroll’s Sexual Safety and Wellness Educator Kelly Parsley, a faculty member in Health Sciences, was interviewed by the Helena Independent Record for an article, “Carroll Highlights Sexual Assault Prevention Program,” published March 24, 2012. She was also interviewed on the KTVH Dunwell Report for a program on domestic violence that aired March 24-31, 2012. Parsley also published an article entitled “Real College Knowledge” in the March 2012 issue of Youth Connections Magazine.
Dr. Lynn L. Petersen (photo right), associate professor of music, has a new collection of compositions published by Augsburg Fortress entitled Thankfulness and Praise: Ten Organ Settings. The collection contains arrangements of ten hymn tunes spanning five centuries, including hymns by American, English, French, German and Spanish composers. The publication is intended for use by church organists. More information on Dr. Petersen’s publications with Augsburg Fortress can be found at http://store.augsburgfortress.org/store/contributor/5173/Lynn+L.+Petersen.
Accounting Professor Belle Marie of the Business Department was recently appointed by Bishop George Leo Thomas as a member of the Blue Ribbon Finance Committee of the Diocese of Helena.
Humanities Montana is celebrating its 40th anniversary by honoring a handful of Helena-area residents as Humanities Heroes, and among them is Carroll adjunct fine arts professor Ed Noonan and Philosophy Professor/author/artist Dr. Barry Ferst.
CAMPUS MINISTRY
For all Campus Ministry news, Mass and sacraments schedules, homilies and much more, go to: http://www.carroll.edu/ministry/
ATHLETICS
Schedule
This Saturday, track and field’s outdoor season continues at the MSU Open in Bozeman. Next Monday and Tuesday, Carroll golf tees off at the Lewis-Clark State Invitational in Lewiston, Idaho.
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. 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 13: Jason DeShaw, class of 2003, stars in a CD release party for his fifth album, Atmosphere, with the concert at the Gateway Center, 1710 National Drive in Helena, begin at 7:30 p.m. with a no-host food and bar menu available at 5:30 p.m. DeShaw has entertained in 35 states, Canada, and Europe. Tickets to the April 13 release party and concert 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
April 14: Up 'Til Dawn Rummage sale to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., in the lower level of the Carroll Campus Center.
April 17: Pakistani music and performance, Caravanserai: A Place Where Cultures Meet at 7:30 p.m. in Trinity Hall lounge. Part of “Not One without the Other: Religious Harmony and Political Civility” monthlong free events, this performance is sponsored by the Myrna Loy Center for the Performing Arts and Arts Midwest, Regional Arts Organization.
April 18: Scholar Day and Honors Convocation
April 19-20: Manion Symposium, with a student research poster session Thursday, April 19, 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, followed by a physician panel discussion 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.
April 19: Holocaust Remembrance Evening, ceremony and poster display, 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. A Shoah display of forty posters on loan from the Montana Association of Jewish Communities (MAJCO), plus a candle-lighting remembrance prayer will be the evening’s focus. A Carroll Honors Scholars and international student panel will discuss inter-cultural civility at the event. Part of “Not One without the Other: Religious Harmony and Political Civility” monthlong free events.
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 26: Study Abroad Sash Ceremony, noon to 2 p.m. in Trinity Hall Lounge.
April 26: Carroll Jazz Combo Concert, 7:30 p.m. in the Carroll Theatre. Free and open to the public.
April 26: Charlie’s Film Festival in the Carroll Campus Center upper level, starting at 7:15 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.