JUMPING FOR JOY
This is the final weekend to see Carroll’s own Man on a ledge in the Theatre Department production of < strong>7 Stories. Carroll student thespian Jessica Belisle stars as“The Man” teetering on a skyscraper’s ledge while contemplating eternity, life and the annoying neighbors. Shows are tonight and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets are free for Carroll students, faculty and staff; otherwise tickets are $10 for general admission and $8 for students and seniors.
YOU ARE ENTERING THE MATH ZONE
Who better to explain great simplicity masking fathomless complexity than our own math and astronomy superstar Dr. Kelly Cline? In tonight’s free, public talk, “Our Fractal Universe,” at 7 p.m. in the Carroll Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre, Dr. Cline will explain how fractals can explain repeating patterns like the human heartbeat, cloud formations, a coastline shore and other elegant designs of nature—from earth and into the vastness of space.
OFF THE CLIFF
This coming Monday, Feb. 25, Carroll’s Business Department Lecture Series answers the musical question “Did the fiscal cliff push the estate tax over the edge?” with guest speakers Joel Silverman of Silverman Law Office, PLLC, and Spencer Marks of Oilfield Tax Services, LLC, outlining critical estate and gift tax changes. They speak at7 p.m. in Carroll’s Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre, with admission free and open to all.
Our speakers know what they’re talking about: Silverman earned his law degree from Lewis and Clark College in 2003 and his LL.M. in taxation from the University of Washington in 2004. He spent three years in private practice in Butte assisting clients with corporate matters, estate planning, wealth transfer, tax planning and property transactions. He then joined the Montana Department of Revenue in November of 2006 reviewing and litigating various federal and state tax and state liquor law issues. In May 2012, Silverman opened his law office focused on assisting individuals and businesses with tax and succession planning. As for Spencer Marks, he is a 2006 Carroll accounting and business administration-finance graduate and a CPA licensed to practice in Montana and North Dakota. He spent five years working as a tax auditor, primarily auditing complex partnership, S-corporation, trust and high-wealth individuals’ state and federal income tax returns. His work in private practice emphasizes planning and developing multi-state pass-through entity businesses structures and consulting services.
ALL EYES ON THE VATICAN
Next Thursday, Feb. 28, Carroll’s Theology Dept. and the Sister Annette Moran Center continue the Be(com)ing Church Between Past and Future series, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Vatican II, with Carroll classical languages and literature professor and historian Fr. Daniel Shea (photo right) presenting, “Sacred Liturgy: How the Church Lives & Shares the Mystery of Christ.” Father Shea presents his talk at 7 p.m. in the Carroll Campus Center. It is free and open to everyone.
ST. PADDY’S SHOULD BE A MONTHLONG THING
Though it’s weeks away, this is fair warning that St. Patrick’s Day will be celebrated Carroll-style at not one but two outstanding events worthy of the holiday this March (hint: mark your calendars now!). First up: Our Engineers Without Borders student chapter is hosting its annual premiere fundraiser, the Shamrock Soiree, on Friday, March 15, from 6:30 to 11 p.m. at the Great Northern Hotel across from campus. Live music, food, a no host bar, plus live and silent auctions will round out the fun. Tickets will go on sale soon. All proceeds support EWB-Carroll in their clean-water and infrastructure projects in Mexico and Guatemala. This coming spring break, a team of nine students, professional mentor Kent Barnes and Engineering Professor John Scharf will head to Mexico and install sprinklers in two of the farm fields created at the Santa Maria orphanage. In May, EWB will send another group of students, professional mentors and faculty to the Helena Diocese mission school in Guatemala to continue the seismic reinforcement of the school building as well as the design and implementation of a reliable clean water system.
Then, on March 27, the champion Irish debaters will be flying in from across the Pond to join the Carroll College Talking Saints (photo right), our championship speech and debate team, for an evening of Irish blarney, song and dance downstairs in the Carroll College Campus Center. It’s free and open to the public. Music and dance begins at 7 p.m., with a debate at 7:30 p.m. followed by more music and dancing at 8:30 p.m. and Irish treats at 9 p.m. The winners of the Irish Times Final, Ireland's most prestigious debating competition, are flying from Dublin to Montana to debate three members of the Carroll Talking Saints team at this event, where sports, politics and more will be heartily disputed in classic Irish oratorical style. Musical group The Brennans, led by Gabe Brennan, will lead a sing-along of Irish melodies accompanied by guitar, banjo, harmonica, mandolin and tin whistle. Irish step dancing will be presented by dancers trained under the expertise of Carroll alumna Jaymie Lewis. Everyone is welcome, says Talking Saints coach Professor Brent Northup, “especially those from Butte, Anaconda and other Irish colonies, for a shamrock evening in tribute to fair Ireland, home of so many of our Montana ancestors.”
STUDENT NEWS
In the News
Over spring break, students from the Carroll Outreach Team will be teaming up with Montana Dental Outreach Program on a trip to Cussi Cussi, Argentina. Cusi Cusi is a poor region with scarce access to dental care, which is exactly why it was chosen. Carroll students Sean McCue, Caroline Cardenas, Rob Brenteson, Tyler Jacobsen, Lindsay Dye, Stuart Allyn, Mike VanArendonk and Charles Sinton will join two dentists and a dental hygienist as they provide dental care for the less fortunate from March 1 through the 10th. This trip follows the Christmas 2012 COT journey of 13 Carroll students, two dentists, a dental hygienist and three physical therapists on a dental and medical outreach mission to Ecuador (team in photo left). They treated around 400 patients, mostly children with mental and physical disabilities and orphans. More about that trip in the spring-summer edition of Carroll Magazine later this year.
February 9 was Carroll's first Service Saturday, organized by our Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice. Over 50 students took part to serve the Helena community at Eagles Manor Retirement Community, God's Love Homeless Shelter, the Helena YMCA, Good Samaritan Ministries Thrift Store, and the S.A.V.E. Foundation. In all, the students donated over 100 total hours of service to the community.
Events
Tonight at 9 is a swing dance in Guadalupe Hall.
Awards
Nomination deadline coming up on March 1! Since 1986, Carroll College has presented the Raymond G. Hunthausen Award for Community Service to deserving students who make outstanding contributions to the college and beyond. The award was named for Archbishop Hunthausen because of his own commitment to peace and justice in his personal life and in his work with the Catholic Church. Nominations of diligent, selfless, service-minded students are due March 1 at 5 p.m. (Friday before spring break), and winners will receive certificates at the annual Honors Convocation in April. The nomination form is available online at https://www.carroll.edu/career-services/hunthausen-award or upon request by emailing rwalsh@carroll.edu
ALUMNI NEWS
In the News
St. Peter’s Hospital in Helena, Mont., has promoted Heather O’Hara, RN, MSN, class of 1994, to vice president of nursing. Heather has served as the hospital’s interim VP of nursing, manager of staff development, clinical nurse educator and surgical/pediatrics/oncology unit director. Since 1994, she has worked as a registered nurse in several positions at both St. Peter’s and Benefis in Great Falls, Mont. She also served as a Carroll nursing professor in 2001-2007. O’Hara also serves as president of the Montana Board of Nursing.
Patrick Manning (standing left in photo right), class of 2009, recently made his debut onto the national media stage reporting live for Fox News on the US/Mexico border. He reported three times and filed one radio story. Patrick is part of the Fox News Junior Reporters program. For more stories he's been working on, check out: http://www.foxnews.com/junior-reporters/online-on-air/Patrick%20Manning
Carroll nursing senior Katie Wood, class of 2013, and Cole Whitmoyer, class of 2010, are engaged to be married. Cole is an emergency department nurse at Bozeman Deaconess Hospital. The couple is planning a June 22, 2013, wedding in Laurel, Mont. (Couple in photo left)
Sierra Olszewski, elementary education class of 2012, and Tyler Butts, nursing class of 2012, are engaged. She is a kindergarten teacher at Cayuse Prairie in Kalispell, Mont., and he is an operating room nurse at North Valley Hospital in Whitefish, Mont. The couple reports they agreed to be wed on September 29, 2012, at Stanton Lake in the Great Bear Wilderness, where it was a beautiful day, a beautiful hike and a perfect proposal. They will marry at Blessed John Paul II Catholic Church in Bigfork, Mont., in July 2013. (Couple in photo right)
In Memoriam
Teresa “Terri” Ann Armstrong (photo left), class of 1994, of Montana City, Mont., died of cancer on Feb. 18, 2013. After starting her family, Terri ambitiously returned to school in her 30s to become an accountant. While in college, she competed on the swim team while remaining actively involved in her two children's ever-busy high school and middle school lives. After graduating from Carroll, she spent the past decade working for the accounting firm Lopach & Carparelli. Read more about her life at: http://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/teresa-terri-armstrong/article_b8d7bf07-be24-57ae-b288-c9d1122d7155.html#ixzz2LdviAydp
Maribeth Smith (photo right), class of 1995, died on Feb. 15, 2013. After raising a family, she worked for Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Montana from 1985 until 1994 in the Medicare Division. While working for Blue Cross, she took classes at Carroll and earned a Bachelor of Arts in health information management. She then went on to work at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs at Fort Harrison as a medical coder. For more on her life, read: http://helenair.com/news/local/obituaries/maribeth-smith/article_2dd171f8-7a56-11e2-89f9-0019bb2963f4.html
FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS
In the News
Computer Science Professor Steve Harper (photo left) marked Lincoln’s birthday last week with a day of outreach as an Abe impersonator. In Helena public schools, Harper wowed the kids with our 16th president’s real-life adventures. This is the 18th year Harper’s been doing this, and his reenactment of the Civil War president’s homespun storytelling just gets better with time. A feature story (the above-the-fold lead on Presidents’ Day this past Monday) appeared in the Helena Independent Record and is online here: http://helenair.com/news/local/abraham-lincoln-visits-helena-elementary-students/article_cceed5ac-795a-11e2-b842-001a4bcf887a.html
Yesterday, History Professor Bob Swartout was one of sevenMontanans recognized during the Governor’s Humanities Awards Ceremony. In addition to his long career at Carroll as both a respected professor and mentor to future historians, Dr. Swartout has published a number of books, leading to his reputation as one of the great historians of Montana and its culture. Until 2008, Dr. Swartout served as the Korean Honorary Consul to the state of Montana. He currently holds the Fr. William F. Greytak Professorship in History and the Humanities. He is also the author of the definitive Carroll history book, Bold Minds and Blessed Hands. (Photo right: Swartout, left, at ceremony with Montana Lt. Gov./Carroll alum John Walsh). For more on the awards, peruse: http://helenair.com/news/local/montanans-to-be-honored-at-humanities-awards-ceremony/article_59a2235e-7a2e-11e2-bcb9-0019bb2963f4.html
Carroll’s Business Office has welcomed Gia Bradley as its new assistant controller. She is the past director of finance at Helena Industries, Inc., and also served as the controller at the engineering firm of Morrison-Maierle, Inc. She brings with her a strong financial background and a focus on customer service.
In Memoriam
After sharing her spiritual, intellectual, and personal brilliance with the world for almost 93 years, Mary Frances (Laird) Jeske died on Feb. 9, 2013. She taught in Carroll’s English Department for over 20 years and started the college’s first Native American Studies program. To begin this novel program, she took a sabbatical and traveled widely to learn directly about Native American culture before starting one of the nation's first such programs at Carroll. She continued to seek out and engage in opportunities to learn more deeply about the Native American culture throughout her lifetime, spending time on Montana’s Crow Reservation in the process. She was recognized and honored in numerous ways over the years by various tribes, including being invited to participate in ceremonies normally closed to outsiders. Many outpourings of love and stories about her are posted online at: http://www.legacy.com/guestbooks/bozemandailychronicle/guestbook.aspx?n=mary-jeske&pid=163014589&cid=full
MINISTRY AND JUSTICE
The Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice’s next free Soup and Substance event, open to all students, faculty and staff, is this coming Monday, Feb. 25, from noon to 1 p.m. in 130 Borromeo Hall. Over a simple meal, participants will discuss“Fairtrade Co-op Links up with Women Farmers.” RSVP by joining the event on the Hunthausen Center Facebook page or e-mailing Kelly Meros at kmeros@carroll.edu.
For all Campus Ministry news, homilies, Mass and sacraments and more, log on to: https://www.carroll.edu/campus-life/campus-ministry
ATHLETICS
Events
Tonight, the Saints Athletic Association’s (SAA) annual Shindig, a reverse bingo event, will begin at 6 p.m. in the Campus Center. The cost is $100 per bingo ball and $25 for the dinner.
This coming April, the SAA Annual Auction, both live and silent, will occur on Friday, April 12, at 6 p.m. in the Carroll PE Center.
Proceeds from all of these events go towards athletic scholarships that give Carroll the winning edge in recruiting the finest scholar-athlete talent. For tickets, contact Jennifer Bingham at 406-447-4480 or at jbingham@carroll.edu
Home Games
This Saturday is Senior Night at the Carroll home basketball doubleheader versus Lewis and Clark State College, with the women’s tip-off at 5:30 and the men at 7:30 p.m. Before the games, Carroll’s Enactus business club will be collecting food for Helena Food Share as part of the club’s Let's Can Hunger drive. Every paying customer who brings three cans of food they will get a free ticket to the game.
COMING EVENTS
Ongoing: The Carroll Art Gallery’s winter exhibit, “Stephen Glueckert: Drawings of Drawing Tools.” The Carroll Art Gallery is located in St. Charles Hall, room 034. Admission is free. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays; closed weekends and college holidays. The exhibit continues to March 1.
February 24: Carroll College Choirs provide service music at the 11 a.m. Mass at the Cathedral of St. Helena.
March 4-8: Spring Break
March 12: Carroll College’s Ethics and Integrity Lecture Series begins with Charlie < strong>Camosy, assistant professor of Christian ethics at Fordham University, presenting “Ethics and Healthcare Rationing,”at 7 p.m. in Carroll’s Campus Center lower level. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by Humanities Montana, Carroll’s Department of Theology and Department of Nursing, PhilosophyNow! Speaker Series, Carroll Student Activities and the Carroll Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice.
March 14: Carroll College astronomy professor Dr. Kelly Cline presents “The Mystery of the Higgs Boson” at 7 p.m. in the Carroll Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre. Free and open to the public. Last summer, after 40 years of searching, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider laboratory in Europe finally discovered the Higgs boson. This strange new particle, sometimes called “The God Particle,” fills our universe, giving all particles their masses. Yet, the measurements of this newly discovered particle are strange and paradoxical. What secrets does the Higgs boson hold, and what does it tell us about the hidden laws of our universe?
March 14: Carroll College’s first annual Lecture in Constitutional Studies features guest speaker Justice Jim Rice of the Montana Supreme Court at 7:30 p.m. in Trinity Hall lounge. Free and open to the public.
March 15: Carroll student chapter of Engineers Without Borders USA presents its annual Shamrock Soiree fundraiser in the Great Northern Ballroom, across the highway from Carroll’s campus.
March 18-22: Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice Interfaith Week.
March 19: The Carroll College Ethics and Integrity Lecture Series continues with best-selling author and corporate whistleblower Cynthia Cooper delivering a lecture, “Ethical Leadership for the 21st Century,” at 7 p.m. in the Campus Center’s lower level. Cooper is an internationally recognized speaker, best-selling author of Extraordinary Circumstances, and a consultant for businesses such as Dell, Bell South, France Telecom, PepsiCo, Raytheon, Walmart and AT&T. Cynthia and her team unraveled the fraud at WorldCom, to date one of the largest corporate frauds in history. She was named one of Time Magazine’s Persons of the Year. Cynthia is a recipient, along with Senator Sarbanes and Representative Oxley, of the Maria & Sidney E. Rolfe Award for contributions to educating the public about economics, business and finance. She was also featured as one of twenty-five influential working mothers in Working Mother magazine. Cynthia has been featured in national periodicals such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CFO Magazine and Business Week and has appeared on major networks including Fox Business, PBS, NBC (The Today Show), ABC (This Week with George Stephanopoulos) and many others. Cooper donates profits from her book to further ethics education for high school and university students.This event is made possible by the Fiehrer Endowed Lectureship in Business, the Mandeville Endowed Professorship in Accounting, and Carroll College Student Activities.
March 20: The 18th Annual Helena Area Career Fair will be held in the Carroll College PE Center from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Freshmen can explore career options and learn about what employers want, sophomores and juniors can network for good summer jobs and internships. Seniors can job hunt for that first professional gig. Open to the public. For information on how to prepare, what to expect and which businesses will attend, go to www.helenair/careerfair.
March 21: Carroll Jazz Combo Concert in the Campus Center, 4 p.m. Free.
March 21:Carroll’s Theology Dept. and the Sister Annette Moran Center continue the Be(com)ing Church Between Past and Future series, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Vatican II, with Carroll Hunthausen Professor of Peace and Justice Chris Fuller presenting, “Perfidious No More: Catholic/Jewish Relations since Vatican II,” at 7 p.m. in the Carroll Campus Center. Free and open to the public.
March 22: The Carroll College Ethics and Integrity Lecture Series continues with guest speaker James A. Morone, professor of political science at Brown University, presenting “Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History” in Carroll College’s Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre at 7 p.m. Free and open to the public. Morone’s first book, The Democratic Wish, was named a “notable book of 1991” by the New York Timesand won the Political Science Association’s Kammerer Award for the best book on the United States. His Hellfire Nation: the Politics of Sin in American History was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book, The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office (written with David Blumenthal, MD) was featured on the front page of the New York Times Book Review. According to unreliable sources, it has been read by President Obama.He has written over 150 articles, reviews, and essays on health care policy, social policy and American history.
March 24: Carroll College Choirs provide service music at the 11 a.m. Palm Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of St. Helena.
March 26: The Carroll College Ethics and Integrity Lecture Series concludes with former Olympic gold medalist and champion professional cyclist Tyler Hamilton giving a free public lecture on doping in high-level sports, including the Lance Armstrong controversy, at 7 p.m. in the Carroll PE Center.
March 27: The Talking Irish join the Carroll College Talking Saints championship speech and debate team for an evening of Irish words, song and dance downstairs in the Carroll College Campus Center. Free admission and open to the public. Music and dance begins at 7 p.m., with a debate at 7:30 p.m. followed by more music and dancing at 8:30 p.m. and Irish treats at 9 p.m. The winners of the Irish Times Final, Ireland's most prestigious debating competition, are flying from Dublin to Montana to debate three members of the Carroll Talking Saints team at this event, where sports, politics and more will be heartily disputed in classic Irish oratorical style. Musical group The Brennans, led by Gabe Brennan, will lead a sing-along of Irish melodies accompanied by guitar, banjo, harmonica, mandolin and tin whistle. Irish step dancing will be presented by dancers trained under the expertise of Carroll alumna Jaymie Lewis.
April 4: Carroll College astronomy professor Dr. Kelly Cline presents “Curiosity: Searching for Life on Mars” at 7 p.m. in the Carroll Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre. Free and open to the public. NASA’s new rover is the largest probe ever to set down on the Red Planet. Crammed with scientific instruments, Curiosity is launching a quantum leap in our understanding of Mars. Could there be life on the fourth planet from the sun? Join us as we explore how Curiosity is going to find out.
April 7: Carroll College Choirs provide service music at the 11 a.m. Mass at the Cathedral of St. Helena.
April 10: Carroll’s Theology Dept. and the Sister Annette Moran Center continue the Be(com)ing Church Between Past and Future series, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Vatican II, with Carroll Theology Professor Brian Matz presenting, “Decree on the Catholic Eastern Churches,” at 7 p.m. in the Carroll Campus Center. Free and open to the public.
April 20-21: Softball Weekend.
May 2: Carroll Jazz Combo Concert in the Carroll Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Free.
May 5: Carroll College Choirs present their annual spring concert, 4 p.m. at St. Mary Catholic Community in Helena. Free admission.
May 11: Baccalaureate Mass and Commencement