August 8, 2014
A Saintly Summer Read
Be on the lookout for the “saintly” summer issue of the Carroll Magazine, which is hitting mailboxes now.
Check out this latest issue replete with stories on a variety of saints including the Carroll kind as well the Papal kind. Learn about the personal pilgrimage of Professor Elvira Roncalli to Rome to experience the canonization of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII; view highlights from the 2014 commencement ceremonies; enjoy interviews with three Carroll alumni detailing the interesting work they are undertaking in their professional lives; read a first-person account of a Carroll grad’s experience joining a dental outreach service trip to Argentina; and see the caliber of student-athlete Carroll attracts.
Can’t wait for your hard copy? The online version will be uploaded soon and in the meantime you can view back issues here.
Five Under Forty
Carroll alumni were very well represented in the annual Helena IR’s "Helena's 20 Under 40: The Faces of Helena's Future" special issue.
Congratulations to our five Carroll graduates that are doing exceptional work in the Helena community and making us proud to be your fellow Saints.
Loren Brown '04 - Senior Vice President and Cashier, Mountain West Bank
Dan Byrd '10 - Accountant, Anderson ZurMuehlen
Brenna Manion '09 - Charge Nurse, Emergency Department, St. Peter’s Hospital
Kari Parmer '04 - Director of Oncology, St. Peter’s Hospital
Laura Snellman '05 - Manager & Owner, Helena Athletic Club
Faculty/Staff News
Recently Published
Photo courtesy of Canisius College
Carroll College’s new Assistant Professor of History, Dr. Dean Pavlakis, recently published an article, titled “Reputation and the Sexual Abuse of Boys: Changing Norms in Late Nineteenth-century Britain” in the summer 2014 issue of Men and Masculinities (vol. 17, no. 3, p. 325-346).
Dr. Pavlakis received his Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo (State University of New York at Buffalo), completing fields in Modern European History, Modern British History, and Atlantic History, with additional special attention to colonial and post-colonial Africa.
He will begin teaching at Carroll this fall and his courses for the 2014/15 school year include: 19th-Century Europe, 20th Century Europe, Modern Africa, Modern British History, Modern German History, and Western Civilization 2.
Award Winning Words
Congratulations to Colleen Dunne (’94), Carroll grad and former Director of Carroll College Campus Ministries, who recently won a 2014 Catholic Press Award.
Dunne won second place in the “Best Feature Story–National Newspaper” category for her article in the National Catholic Reporter, Kansas City, Missouri, "Transformations follow after nuns take in mother and child," Dec. 21, 2013.
You can read her award-winning article here.
At the time of the article, Dunne was a Bertelsen intern in editorial and marketing for the National Catholic Reporter. She is now the Development Director for De La Salle Blackfeet School in Browning, Montana.
Another Saint Enters the Mix
Jamie Jones, Senior Assistant Director of Admission, and her husband, Sol, welcomed a baby girl, Amelia Elizabeth, on August 4, 2014.
Amelia joins big brother Cayden to round out this lovely family.
Congratulations on your newest bundle Jamie and family!
Student News
A Commitment to Service
With minds and hearts devoted to service, three recent Carroll graduates have committed to a year of service in several different capacities.
Raven Dryden (’14) and Matt Harrison (’14) will be joining De La Salle Development Director Colleen Dunne (’94) in serving the children of Browning, Montana at the De La Salle Blackfeet School.
Raven Dryden is from Missoula, Montana and graduated this May with a degree in communication studies. When discussing her motivation to serve in Browning, Raven shared the following:
The response to the psalm reading during the class of 2014 Baccalaureate Mass at the Carroll College commencement was, “How shall I make a return to the Lord, for all the good He has done for me.” I was drawn to “a year of service” because I saw it as an opportunity to grow in my understanding of how God is calling me to be a steward in the world as well as a way to make a return to Him for all the ways I’ve been blessed. I had a desire to serve in education and chose De La Salle because of the opportunity to build relationships with the students and the community in a small, rural setting. School has always been an environment where I’ve felt safe to be myself and my past teachers have impacted my life by offering me hope. I believe education is liberating and I am excited to be a part of that transformation in the lives of the children in Browning.
Matt Harrison is from Missoula and graduated with a degree in biology this spring. Matt shares the story behind his decision to serve in Browning for the year:
While I did short snippets of volunteer work throughout my summers and education, I was never able to make service the number one priority in my life. It became apparent to me that this “year-off” was a time to make this a priority. Little did I know when I began to search for service opportunities across the United States and internationally that God would lead me right back to Montana, and of all places, to a school…the very thing I thought I had a year away from. Retrospectively looking at the decision to freely give a year as a teacher to the De La Salle Blackfeet School makes perfect sense to me. Why am I searching across the globe for ways to volunteer when there is a huge need in my home state that I love? While teaching middle school will have its challenges, I can’t wait to encounter new relationships and become immersed in the Blackfeet culture. Please keep the school and children in your prayers as well as the volunteers.
Logan McLean ('14) graduated this spring with a degree in psychology and has committed to spending a year as a Saint Joseph Worker for Catholic Volunteer Network in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
During her time at Carroll, Logan was actively involved in the Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice, Campus Ministry and Carroll College Christian Fellowship activities. She was also this year’s recipient of the Raymond G. Hunthausen Outstanding Collegiate Citizenship Award.
You can follow her experiences as a Saint Joseph Worker by reading her blog: 
http://beyondtheblueblog.wordpress.com/.
Matt Harrison and Raven DrydenJanuary 2013Carroll service trip to the Blackfeet Reservation. Raven and Matt are pictured on the far right.
Logan McLean
Golf Duo Honored
Connor HausauerTaylor Ratliff
Carroll College golfers Connor Hausauer (’15) and Taylor Ratliff (’14) were named as Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholars by the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA). They were two of only 11 NAIA athletes who received this distinction.
In order to earn this recognition players must be a junior or senior academically, have competed in at least three full years at the collegiate level, participated in 50 percent of his team’s competitive rounds, and have a stroke-average under 77.0 in NAIA. Additionally, these student-athletes maintained a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.2.
Athletes who receive Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholar status also need to display high moral character and be in good standing at his college or university.
Hausauer claimed the Frontier Conference Tournament Championship this season and Ratliff was All-Frontier Conference and was a member of the 2012 team that reach the NAIA National Championship Golf Tournament.
Not only were Hausauer and Ratliff honored, but also the Carroll College Men’s Golf Team earned All-Academic team recognition for the 2013-2014 academic year by the GCAA. In order to receive this distinction golf teams needed a combined GPA of 3.0 or higher.
Read the full release here.
Alumni News
Gettin' Hitched
Susan Metzger (’14) and Erik Wood were married at the First Assembly Church in Helena.
Susan graduated from Billings West High and from Carroll College in Helena with a B.A. in Health Sciences. She will attend the School of Physical Therapy at the University of Montana in Missoula this fall.
Erik graduated from Helena Capital High and is an estimator for Rick’s Autobody.
The couple honeymooned in Maui, Hawaii and live in Missoula.
Career Moves
The University of Wisconsin Colleges named Joe J. Foy (’99) as associate vice chancellor for academic affairs at UW Colleges. Foy is currently an associate campus dean at UW-Waukesha, where he also is an associate professor of political science.
Foy graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science and international relations from Carroll and also earned a Ph.D. in American government and comparative politics and a master’s degree in comparative politics and international relations from the University of Notre Dame.
IN MEMORIAM
Longtime Anaconda educator and legislator, William Thomas “Red” Menahan (‘63), died in a Billings hospital on July 26, 2014, after a brief illness (pulmonary fibrosis). Red, as he was widely known, was born in Anaconda on Aug. 16, 1935.
As a boy, Red worked as a newsboy, selling papers (the Anaconda Standard) to smeltermen on the streetcar during shift changes. After finishing high school, Red worked on the section for the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway before attending Carroll College in Helena.
During his time in Helena, Red clearly developed a love for politics. And more importantly fell in love with Shirley Jackson, a Helena native. The couple married in the Cathedral of Saint Helena.
While attending college in Helena, the couple had three children, Patrick, Kara and Mike. Red graduated from Carroll College in 1963 with a B.A. in history and English and a young family.
Red worked his way through college by tending bar at Higgins Cigar Store and the Rialto (in Helena), the 919 (in Anaconda) and the Mint (in East Helena.) He also worked at a laundry, Eddy’s Bakery and as a janitor at the Capitol, where he first observed the art of politics.In 1966, he moved to Anaconda, where he began a 34-year career in the Smelter City as a teacher and coach, finishing his work as an educator as a principal at Lincoln School.
Red was elected as a Democrat to the Montana House of Representatives in 1970, where he began a 30-year career, serving 15 terms. Red’s sometimes acerbic and always entertaining wit was a well-known highlight of the debates during his legislative years and was very much a part of his private life.Red had a talent for telling a story and shared the gift of laughter liberally.
Red’s warmth, humor and his efforts to help the less fortunate will continue to inspire those who knew him.
Read more on his life here.
William Joseph Shupe (’69) was born on June 4, 1947, in Caldwell, Idaho and passed away on July 30, 2014, from cancer.
He graduated from Caldwell High School in 1965 and earned a degree in political science from Carroll College and a master’s degree from the New School for Social Research in New York City.
Bill spent his junior year of college attending Gonzaga in Florence, Italy, and his summers working on a hotshot fire suppression crew for the Payette National Forest in McCall, Idaho.
After settling in the Helena area, Bill spent the next 25 years teaching adult basic education. He believed in the value of a strong public education for everyone, regardless of age, background or social status.
He was an avid skier, golfer and a voracious reader. He also enjoyed hunting, fishing, traveling, writing, science, NASA and astronomy.
He continued to pursue a variety of interests after retiring in 1998, taking up scuba diving and pottery. He has been an enthusiastic supporter of the Archie Bray and the local ceramics community for years.
Bill had a constant thirst for knowledge and was pursuing new learning opportunities up until his death.To his family, he was a masterful storyteller, a vital source of wisdom, funny, iconoclastic, adventurous, knowledgeable and will be so terribly missed.
Read more on his life here.
Upcoming Events
Fall Semester Schedule:
Aug. 21: New students arrive
Aug. 23: Returning students arrive
Aug. 25: Classes begin
Picturing Paradise: Cuadros from Peruvian Women for Visions of Hope Exhibition, Sept. 1 – Oct. 9, Carroll Art Gallery, St. Charles Hall, Carroll College
Curated by Rebecca Berru Davis, PhD, Picturing Paradise is an exhibition that features embroidered and appliquéd fabric pictures called cuadros, created by the women of Compacto Humano and Manos Anchashinas, two art cooperatives located in Pamplona Alta, a shantytown situated on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. The exhibition places emphasis on the women as artists and the way their art reflects creativity, resilience, and hope despite the harsh conditions of their lives.
The gallery will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays and is closed weekends and college holidays. For more information, visit the Visual Arts Current Gallery webpage or call 447-4302.
Fourth Annual Carroll College ASCE Golf Tournament, Sept. 19, Bill Roberts Golf Course, Helena
You have the opportunity to help fund Carroll American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Student Chapter activities and win great prizes in the process. Cost is $80 per person (includes cart) or $320 per 4-person team. Hole sponsorship $150.
For more information and to register visit the Carroll ASCE webpage. For questions, contact Gary Fischer at (406) 447-4571 or gfischer@carroll.edu.
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