December 3, 2010 QuickNotes

COLD WEATHER, HOT GRIDIRON The five-time national champion Fighting Saints have done it again, advancing to the NAIA football semifinals this Saturday at home in Nelson Stadium, as we play host to St. Xavier starting at noon. Television broadcasts of this Saturday's semifinal will be available in the Helena area on Channel 10. You can also view the game live on the webcam at www.carroll.edu/athletics.  If we win this one, the Saints will be headed off to the National Championship game in Rome, Ga., on December 18 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time, and you can see it live by grabbing a ticket for the booster charter departing Helena on Thursday, December 16. For more information about the charter, contact 406-447-4480 or look for a special announcement early next week, in the event of a Saints semifinal win. THE NUMBER CRUNCHES WORKOUT PROGRAM In addition to football championship action, this Saturday will see 17 Carroll math brainiacs competing in the 71th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, America's premiere undergraduate math contest. Top math minds in the US and Canada will spend all day tomorrow tackling a six-hour examination, with prizes including scholarships and cash for the top students and top schools.  The competition was founded by Elizabeth Lowell Putnam in memory of her husband, who was an advocate of intercollegiate competition.  The exam has been given annually since 1938 and is administered by the Mathematical Association of America.  Carroll's 17 contestants include Ben Dill, Ian Lyon, A.J. Allen, Brittany Harris, Sam Schaefer, Grant Williams, Scott Harmon, Nick Ryhajlo, Greg Janysek, Dane Bullen, Shannon Bench, Dave Swenson, David Connolly, Kelsey Hunt, Marielle O'Hara-Hulett, Sarah Marie Reehl, and Myunghoon (Mi-young) Kim. They are dedicating their participation this year to the memory of Dr. Jim Trudnowski, who died last week after many years of devoted teaching in the Mathematics Department. HUMBUG INFESTATION ON CAMPUS Tonight through Sunday, Scrooge, Marley, Tim, Bob and the gang will be headlining the Carroll Theatre Department production of A Christmas Carol in the Performing Arts Center, Old North, St. Charles Hall. The play will curtain this weekend and next, December 3-5 and 9-12. Curtain is at 7:30 p.m. tonight and Saturday and also next Thursday through Saturday. On Sundays, you can enjoy the 2 p.m. matinee. A feature story on the production is available on the Helena Independent Record website at: http://helenair.com/entertainment/yourtime/article_e13eb188-fd1c-11df-af0f-001cc4c002e0.html Tickets are $10 general and $8 for students and senior citizens, and Carroll students get in FREE on Thursdays and Sundays. Carroll faculty and staff (plus one guest apiece) are admitted free for each performance. COME TO THE CABARET, OLD CHUM Next Thursday, December 9, the inaugural Carroll College Christmas Cabaret fundraising event will take place in the Campus Center's lower level at 6:30 p.m. Admission is your pick: one canned food item, one unwrapped toy or a monetary donation. All "admission" gifts will support Adopt a Family, the Salvation Army's program matching poor families with sponsors to provide for their tangible needs at Christmas. A talent show, wreath auction, goodies from local bakeries, photos with Santa and a special performance by the kids from Broadwater School will round out the fun. In other holiday celebration excitement, Carroll alum Travis Grotbo, class of 2008, and his band Stumblingfree will be playing tonight, December 3, at Helena's Riley's Irish Pub starting at 8:30 p.m. In addition to Travis, the band also features another Saint: Carroll student David Connolly. HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING-OR IS IT THE CARROLL CHOIR? Mark thy calendars for the Carroll Christmas music spectacular you've been waiting for! On Sunday, December 12, the Carroll College Choirs will present their annual Christmas Concert in the Cathedral of St. Helena at 4 p.m. The concert theme is "Christmas Around the World," with choral works from Norway, Denmark, Spain, France, The Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Canada and the US. Selections will include works by William Billings, Ola Gjeilo, Brian A. Schmidt, Philip Stopford, Niels La Cour, Abbie Betinis and others. The concert is free and open to the public, but an offering will be accepted to support the music fund at the Cathedral. For more information please contact Dr. Robert Psurny at 447-4807. ". . . AND AN ENGINEER IN A PEAR TREE" Now through December 31, you can make the holidays bright by donating to the Carroll student chapter of Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA), and your donation will be matched 100% by our corporate advocates: Google, Turner Construction Company, CDM, CH2M HILL, and the EWB board of directors. One donation, twice the support, all going to improve the lives of children around the globe through Carroll EWB students' work building water and infrastructure projects in Mexico and Guatemala. (Photo right: Carroll EWB installing a wastewater treatment system in Mexico) Donations from $25 to $1000 are eligible for the match: here's how to donate and change the world: 1. Go to the EWB-USA website by clicking on https://www.ewb-usa.org/2010giving/ or by copying the URL into your web browser. 2. Complete the form. 3. On the form, you must type "EWB-USA Carroll College Student Chapter" in the Allocation box in order for your contribution and matching funds to be designated for use by the Carroll EWB chapter. 4. Forward a copy of your EWB-USA email acknowledging your donation to Carroll EWB mentor and professor Dr. John Scharf at jscharf@carroll.edu to notify us of your contribution. 5. Feel great about what you just did. Your support will directly fund the ongoing Carroll EWB projects underway at a Mexican orphanage and at the Diocese of Helena's mission school and clinic in Guatemala. BOTTLE BAN? Carroll's dining services partner Sodexo wants to know what you think about banning bottled water sales at Carroll. Already, Sodexo has changed the way it offers food services by reducing waste, getting rid of trays in the dining hall and reducing the number of plastic water bottles purveyed at catered events. Under the principle of subsidiarity, these changes must come from the grassroots level with the community on board and involved. Following that principle, next Wednesday, December 8, Sodexo will host a "town hall" meeting on the subject of water bottles, with the listening session starting at 7:30 p.m. in O'Connell Hall room 107. Light refreshments and snacks to warm you on a cold eve will be available. This year, Sodexo has hired four go-getting Carroll students to implement its leaner, greener initiatives on campus: freshmen Althea Luhm, Dana Miller and Katie O'Leary and class of 2010 graduate Mason Siddick.  These students have been working with Sodexo this semester to aid in the collection of data, assist with special events and come up with new ideas to improve sustainability and communication efforts. They will lead the December 8 meeting and be open to Q and A. RIDE, HIKE AND BIKE, BUT DON'T FIGHT How can horse users, hikers, and bicyclists work together to protect wild country?  Find out this coming Monday, December 6, when the Montana Wilderness Association (MWA) and Carroll Adventure and Mountaineering Program (CAMP) will host a panel discussion featuring Bradly Maddock, co-chair of CAMP; Eric Grove, the owner of Great Divide Cyclery; Vice President of the Last Chance Backcountry Horsemen Dennis Milburn; and John Gatchell, the conservation director for the Montana Wilderness Association. Free and open to the public, the panel begins at 7 p.m. downstairs in the Campus Center and will start off with a series of questions from student CAMP members to the panelists, followed by open conversation with all audience members. Find common ground, and learn about how quiet trail users are working together to protect land and preserve access on the Continental Divide. THE CURE FOR EMPTY STOCKINGS Carroll is again serving as a Toys for Tots donation location, with a marked container in almost every campus building to accept new, unwrapped toys for kids in need. Guadalupe Hall will accept donations of toys suitable for kids age 0-3, St. Charles for years 4-7 and Trinity Hall for ages 8-12. Donation boxes in all other buildings are for any age group. Last year, the Carroll community donated over 500 toys for local kids of struggling families, and we're out to beat ourselves this year. For questions, or to help in this annual holiday cause, contact Megan Rennie at mrennie@carroll.edu And, there's more! The Carroll College Student Nurses Association (CCSNA) has embarked on its annual drive to gather Christmas gifts for the children and adolescents at Shodair Hospital. Shodair is a residential psychiatric treatment facility in Helena and serves as a clinical site for Carroll's nursing students. To help CCSNA's effort, first visit the tree in the Fortin Science Center Scola (lobby) to pick out a tag or choose one of the items on the list below.  Please return the unwrapped new gifts to drop boxes in the Scola, O'Connell Hall front desk, or the Nursing Department office (Simperman Hall room 415) by Tuesday, December 14. Wish list from the patients at Shodair: art supplies, puzzles and board games, trading cards like Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh, LEGOs, Lincoln Logs, K'NEX and other building toys, Beanie Babies, My Little Pony toys, Nerf balls, footballs, soccer balls, basketballs, books for ages 5-17 (teen patients would enjoy Twilight series and Harry Potter books), action figures and Transformers, Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars, small hand-held games (like Connect Four, 20 Questions, Bingo), DVDs (G and PG movies, nature and science movies), and for boys and girls ages 5-17: hats, gloves, slippers, socks, t-shirts and hoodies. Personal care items are welcome; gift cards are also wonderful. Please, no sharp items or breakable ceramic items like ornaments or figurines, or items like Easy Bake Ovens. CAFFEINATE FOR A CAUSE Carroll Campus Ministry will be selling fresh roasted and fair traded coffee from the Firetower Coffee Shop as a fundraiser for the spring Headlights service trips to Rochester, NY, and to Kansas City, Mo. Caffeinated Guatemalan and Mt. Helena blends are available for sale, with a Honduran blend as a decaf option. Bags are only $12 each, with half of sale proceeds donated to the service trips. If you've got a java lover on your Christmas list, your gift search is over! To purchase your coffee, contact Colleen Dunne at cdunne@carroll.edu. Meanwhile, Campus Ministry recently announced that it plans a return Headlights service immersion trip to East Los Angeles, Calif., in fall 2011. More details in future editions of QNs. (Photo right: Campus Ministry trip to Guatemala last spring) ARMS AROUND MCLAIN A few days before the Thanksgiving vacation, Carroll Director of Admission and Enrollment Services Cynthia Thornquist announced to the Carroll community that her eight-year-old daughter, McLain, was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma, a tissue and bone cancer that is attacking her right upper arm bone and metastasized to her lungs. After the first round of treatment at Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City, the family has returned to Helena to continue the fight against cancer, which they have named "Arms Around McLain" because of where the cancer was discovered and certainly because it fits the warm response the Thornquist family has received from friends and family in the Carroll community. The Thornquists send their thanks for the meal offers, uplifting messages, love and many prayers. Please keep the prayers coming as McLain continues her chemotherapy under the care of Helena oncologist Dr. Thomas Weiner this winter. STUDENT NEWS Great Divide ski passes are available weekly to students, faculty and staff in the Student Activities Office downstairs in the Campus Center for only $20 (a $12 savings on lift tickets) A limit of four tickets per person per week is in effect, with a Carroll ID required. The Carroll Adventure and Mountaineering Program (CAMP) will sponsor another of its highly popular Winter Survival weekend events on December 11-12. For more details, contact Conrad Addison at caddison@carroll.edu ALUMNI NEWS Events Carroll's Alumni Christmas Party is open to all class years on Wednesday, December 8, starting with a Mass at 5:30 p.m. in Borromeo Hall's St. Joseph's Chapel, then the goodies and libations in the Fortin Science Center Scola (Science Building lobby) from 6:30 to 8 p.m., including tasty treats, a no-host bar, crafts for kids and a visit from Santa at 7. RSVP to alumni@carroll.edu or call Alumni Director Kathy Ramirez at 406-447-5185. Trips This spring, Carroll alumni are invited to join Carroll Assistant Professor of History Jeanette Fregulia on her educational trip to the Holy Land of Israel and Jordan. Occuring May 11-25, 2011, the journey will include stops at Jerusalem, the Sea of Galilee, the Dead Sea, the Mount of Olives and much more. Dr. Fregulia is an expert on Islam and Middle Eastern history and has lived in the area where her tour group of alumni and Carroll students will visit. For more information, contact Kathy Ramirez at 406-447-5185 or email alumni@carroll.edu In the News Heather Marie Cady, class of 2010, and Kyle Joseph Moore, class of 2008, (Photo right) have chosen July 30, 2011, as the date of their wedding. Cady is a student at Creighton University School of Dentistry in Omaha. Moore is in his third season as defensive line coach for the Fighting Saints. In Memoriam Dr. John Creighton (Bud) Kall (photo left), who attended Carroll in 1951-53 and again in 1955-57, died on November 18, 2010. Bud attended Carroll College before serving as a corpsman in the U.S. Navy, after which he returned to Carroll and subsequently was admitted to St. Louis University Dental School, graduating in 1961. He began his dentistry career in Helena that summer and practiced for 33 years until his retirement in 1994. For more on his life, read: http://helenair.com/news/local/obituaries/article_6ef0c0e4-f470-11df-9727-001cc4c002e0.html Edward (Ed) Walters, who attended Carroll from 1957-1959, died on November 17, 2010, in Great Falls Peace Hospice. In 1962 married Kay Murphy, Carroll class of 1960. He worked as an office manager for construction firms in Seattle, Alaska, the Aleutians, the South Pacific, and then on the missile sites in Conrad, Mont., and Langdon, N.D. Moving to Great Falls in 1973, he worked as business manager for the School for the Deaf and the Blind, then was self-employed as a business and property manager until retiring in 1995. For more on his life, read: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/greatfallstribune/obituary.aspx?n=edward-g-walters&pid=146702023 Richard "Dick" Huckfeldt (photo right), who attended Carroll in 1960-63, died on November 24, 2010, in Portland, Ore. He worked with great compassion within the mental health community. His twin brother Andy graduated from Carroll in 1964. FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS In Memoriam Dr. James "Jim" Andrew Trudnowski (photo left), Carroll mathematics professor emeritus and the college's former dean and academic vice president, died on November 23, 2010, at his home on Helena's Canyon Ferry Lake. He was a 1957 Carroll graduate and basketball Hall of Famer who devoted his professional career to his alma mater, teaching and serving as an administrator at Carroll for over 40 years. This fall, Jim was honored with the college's Warren Nelson Award for his devotion to Saints Athletics. His is remembered fondly by his students from his math, education and Alpha Seminar courses; his student-athletes who valued him as a basketball coach and mentor; and his colleagues on the faculty and staff who valued his lifelong commitment to Carroll. His widow, Kathleen Joyce Trudnowski, RN, serves as the director of the Carroll Wellness Center. For more on his life, read: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20101128/OBITUARIES/11280316 Gail Babcock, who served as the general manager of Carroll's Dining Services from 2007-2010, died on November 21, 2010. Gail had learned a few weeks before the college's Centennial Gala last May that she had been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease. Her last night of work for the college became the Centennial Gala, where she beat her personal best with a stunning dinner and handcrafted chocolate desserts for 1,000 guests. A memorial service will be held in Lolo, Mont., today at 1 p.m. at the Lumberjack Saloon which had been built by Gail's father. CAMPUS MINISTRY Carroll Campus Ministry has a longstanding relationship with the De La Salle Blackfeet School in Browning, Mont., and based on that connection has received a call for help from the Browning Medicine Bear homeless shelter. Campus Ministry now asks for others to heed the call: Because of the cold weather, a few people have reportedly died from exposure in the past two weeks in Browning, leaving the shelter scrambling to find sleeping pads, sleeping bags and blankets. There appears to be little room left at the inn: the shelter's rooms are full, all beds and blankets are taken and the overflow clients sleep on the floor. Donations of sleeping pads, bags and blankets to keep shelter visitors warm at night can be sent to: De La Salle Blackfeet School, C/O Toni Running Fisher, 204 1st Ave. N. W., P.O. Box 1489, Browning, MT 59417. (Photo right: Campus Ministry Headlights students at De La Salle Blackfeet School) Mass times, ministry links, sacrament information and plans for Headlights service immersion trips are all available online at the Carroll Campus Ministry webpage here: http://www.carroll.edu/ministry/ Father Jerry Lowney is offering Mass Monday through Friday at noon in Borromeo Hall's St. Joseph Chapel. ATHLETICS In the News Carroll quarterback Gary Wagner (photo left) has been named one of two co-offensive Frontier Conference offensive players of the year. Carroll College linebacker Thomas Dolan (photo right) was named the defensive player of the year for the second straight year. Freshman Rhianna Grossman placed 62nd and the Carroll College women's cross-country team finished the season 20th at the NAIA national championship on November 20 at Fort Vancouver, Wash. This ended a stellar season of historic racing firsts: the women's cross country Saints were ranked in the top 25 nationally for the first time, beating another ranked team for the first time, and winning the Frontier Conference championship, another first. For much more on the cross country finale, read: http://helenair.com/sports/college/article_5023052e-f541-11df-b5cb-001cc4c002e0.html Football Head Coach Mike Van Diest wrote a Thanksgiving reflection that was published last Thursday in the Helena Independent Record. Read it here: http://helenair.com/sports/article_39b03464-f858-11df-abe0-001cc4c03286.html Check out the full Athletics schedule and all the latest news on this huge weekend for our Saints at www.carroll.edu/athletics COMING EVENTS Ongoing to December 10: Carroll Art Gallery in St. Charles Hall presents Glacier: Losing a Legacy, a photographic exhibit featuring striking new glacier retreat photographs created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) that visually illustrate the effects of climate change on Glacier National Park. The before-and-after images reveal dramatic glacial decline over a century and are consistent with predictions that all of the glaciers in the park will disappear by 2030. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, closed weekends and college holidays. Free admission. (Photo right: Grinnell Glacier, courtesy USGS) December 11: Carroll College Army ROTC and the Montana National Guard host a big-screen showing of the 111th annual Army-Navy Game. Kickoff at 12:30 p.m. in the Carroll Dining Hall, with the first 100 students entered in a pool for a chance to win prizes (awarded at the end of each quarter). Free and open to the public, with free food beverages courtesy of the Guard. Unwind before the holidays (and final exams) with good times at the military's answer to the Super Bowl. December 14: The Carroll College Jazz Combo performs jazz in the Carroll Campus Center from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. Hear vocal and instrumental versions of standards and jazz classics performed by Brendan Fox, Greta Mannen, Katie O'Leary, Tony Rosales, Skye Summers and Maddie Woodruff, with Professor Ralph Esposito on drums.   December 17: Christmas break begins. AND COMING IN 2011: January 10: First day of classes for spring 2011 semester. January 10 to February 25: The Carroll Art Gallery in St. Charles Hall presents a print exhibition of The St. Johns Bible, the first handwritten, illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine Abbey in over 500 years. More on this work of art that unites an ancient Benedictine tradition with the technology and vision of today, illuminating the Word of God for a new millennium is online here: http://www.saintjohnsbible.org/?gclid=CJHfnvK0y6UCFVVi2godq3I-lw. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, closed weekends and college holidays. Free admission. (Photo left: The Garden of Eden, Donald Jackson with contribution by Chris Tomlin, Copyright 2003, The Saint John's Bible and the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Order of Saint Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota, USA.) January 17: Martin Luther King Day celebration all day long. At noon, a special Martin Luther King Day Mass, followed by students and faculty/staff invited to volunteer at God's Love homeless shelter and Helena Food Share from 1 to 3 p.m. At 7 p.m., the annual Martin Luther King Day Forum and Lecture will take the stage in the Campus Center. For more information, contact Fr. Jerry Lowney, 447-5407 or 449-7786. January 25: Penn State Professor John Sanchez will speak in the Carroll Campus Center at 7 p.m. The talk will focus on American Indian identity in the 21st Century, specifically at the intersection of American Indian cultures and the American news media. Professor Sanchez was recently named one of the leading scholars in the field of intercultural studies by The Communication Institute for Online Scholarship, and he is a Freedom Forum Teaching Fellow. His tribal affiliation is Yaqui/Apache. Free and open to the public, the event is sponsored by the Carroll College Education and Sociology Departments, the Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice, and the Helena School District. February 17-20, 24-27: Carroll Theatre Department presents Tartuffe: Born Again, translated and adapted by Freyda Thomas from the original French by Moliere.  Directed by Chuck Driscoll.  A modern treatment of the classic comedy by the French Renaissance master, where Tartuffe is posing as a televangelist. In the Performing Arts Center, Old North, St. Charles Hall. March 14 to April 27: The Carroll Art Gallery presents the annual Student Art Show in the gallery located in St. Charles Hall. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, closed weekends and college holidays. Free admission. April 7-10, 14-17: Carroll Theatre Department presents The Tale of Peter Rabbit (and Benjamin Bunny) by R. Eugene Jackson and music by David Ellis. A musical version of the children's favorite just in time for Easter takes place in the Performing Arts Center, Old North, St. Charles Hall.