"YOU SEE HIM AS A SAINT. I'M FAR LESS AWED; IN FACT, I SEE RIGHT THROUGH HIM. HE'S A FRAUD." MOLIÈRE, TARTUFFE This is your final chance to see the light: tonight through Sunday (Feb. 24-27) Tartuffe: Born Again has its final curtain calls at the Carroll Theatre (Old North, St. Charles Hall). Suitable for teens on up, the classic comedy exposing hypocrisy and idiocy starts at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with 2 p.m. Sunday matinees both weeks. CARROLL STUDENTS ARE FREE ON THURSDAYS AND SUNDAYS! Otherwise, tickets are available at the door: $10 for general admission and $8 for students and seniors. For an eye-opening story on Carroll Theatre Chair Chuck Driscoll's production, check out the Helena Independent Record Your Time feature at: http://helenair.com/entertainment/yourtime/article_2337787a-3f0a-11e0-a017-001cc4c03286.html FEED THE NEED Carroll College's partnership school Broadwater Elementary has 45% of its students eligible for free and reduced lunches, but it recently came to light that the students are running low on snacks, an essential brain food to sustain them during the school day. Well-nourished kids have higher test scores, better attendance and fewer behavior problems. Many Broadwater kids come from struggling homes, and Carroll staff invites the campus community to help them out with a Valentine's month "Have a Heart for Hunger" snack drive. Now through this Monday, February 28, you can donate healthy eats like low-sugar dry cereal, crackers, string cheese, granola bars, fruit snacks, veggies, pretzels, cut apples, yogurt, juice boxes, peanut butter and crackers and such. Donations can be dropped off to Financial Aid Advisor Tina Wagner in Carroll's Financial Aid Office (O'Connell Hall upstairs), and you can contact her for a drop-off at twagner@carroll.edu STUDENT NEWS Awards The Hunthausen Award Committee seeks nominations of students for the Raymond G. Hunthausen Award for Community Service, named for former Carroll president and Saints alumnus Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen (class of 1943) because of his own commitment to peace and justice in his personal life and in his work with the Catholic Church. All Carroll students with a minimum of a 2.0 grade point average are eligible. Nomination forms are available in the Carroll College Career and Testing Services offices in Borromeo Hall, or electronically from Rosie Walsh, the director of Carroll Career and Testing Services, at rwalsh@carroll.edu. Nominations can also be made online at the Carroll website: https://www.carroll.edu/career-services/hunthausen-award This year's nomination deadline is March 4, the Friday before Spring Break, at 5 p.m. Certificates will be presented to each recipient at the annual Honors Convocation in April. For more, read: http://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=14368 Events On the first Tuesday of every month from now through May, Carroll's Education Abroad Office will be hosting general FYI sessions to answer questions about studying abroad for a semester, summer or year. Sessions occur at 12:30 p.m. in St. Charles Hall room 14. Please register in advance by emailing Shannon Ackeret at sackeret@carroll.edu or by calling 447-4469. When registering, please indicate what session you would like to attend and your name, major and phone number. It's Oscar time, and you can own it by competing in Carroll's Oscar Contest now through this Sunday, Feb. 27. Just go to http://www.carroll.edu/students/oscars/ and enter your name, email address and your picks from the 26 categories-you must vote for all 26 categories to be eligible to win. Only one entry per person. Participating students, faculty and staff will be vying for film-related prizes including movie rentals, Cinemark passes, pop, candy, flicks and more. The deadline is 2 p.m. Sunday, so jump on it before the stars hit the red carpet! ALUMNI NEWS Events Phoenix, Ariz., alumni are welcome to attend the March 6 gathering at the home of Dr. Gordon and Marilyn Peters from 1 to 3 p.m., with lunch and refreshments. Please RSVP Alumni Director Kathy Ramirez at 406-447-5185 or alumni@carroll.edu by March 1. Go green on March 17: the Helena-area Carroll alumni St. Patrick's Day lunch in Carroll's Trinity Hall lounge takes place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., complete with corned beef and cabbage. Please RSVP Alumni Director Kathy Ramirez at 406-447-5185 or alumni@carroll.edu by March 15. And, graduation weekend, May 6-7, will feature the annual Golden Grad Reunion, this year honoring our Carroll classes of 1961 and 1951. Mark your calendar now and start planning to go gold on the Carroll Commencement stage. In the News Helena-area fishing guide Mike Ward, class of 2004, was in the news recently for launching a new boat-building enterprise, Adipose Boatworks. More on the story is here: http://helenair.com/lifestyles/article_7bb7119e-3cc2-11e0-b057-001cc4c002e0.html Lauren Manion, class of 2007, is engaged to marry Steve Pierce on July 30, 2011, in Butte. Lauren will graduate in May from Regis University in Denver, Colo., with a doctorate of physical therapy degree. Danielle Allen, class of 2009, is engaged to marry David Fobar, a second lieutenant in the United States Army. Danielle is employed by Helena Vision Center. They are planning a July 2012 wedding in Helena. FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS Carroll's Vice President for Finance and Administration and Treasurer Lynn Etchart has announced her resignation, effective March 15, when she will transition to a new post at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana. Lynn has served Carroll over the past 18 years and is in great part responsible for the college's financial position, among many other professional accomplishments. Prior to the Ides of March, the college will hold a send-off where the community can gather to thank her for all she has done for Carroll and wish her well in her new vocation. Last weekend, at the Montana Student Nurses' Association convention on February 19, at Benefis Hospital in Great Falls, Carroll Associate Professor of Nursing Joni Walton and Adjunct Professor of Nursing Heidi Blossom presented a talk on stress reduction for student nurses and handed out stress-relieving "rice socks" that were made by Carroll nursing students. CAMPUS MINISTRY The Campus Ministry website is now more informative and simply cooler than ever, with videos, audio homilies, a full schedule for weekly Masses and sacraments and much more. See it all at: https://www.carroll.edu/campus-life/campus-ministry ATHLETICS In the News A partial squad of the Carroll College men's and women's track and field teams competed at the MSU Open Indoor track and field meet in Bozeman last Friday night in a final tune-up before the NAIA National Indoor Championships in Geneva, Ohio, March 3-5. Carroll's distance medley relay team had already qualified for the national competition, along with senior Shannon Flynn in the 800 meters, and freshman Sara Lubke in the pole vault. The bulk of Carroll's track and field teams will now begin preparations for the outdoor season, while five members of Carroll's women's team - Flynn, Katlyn Valerio, Elysia Andrews and Rhianna Grossman in the distance medley relay, Flynn in the 800 meters, and Lubke in the pole vault - will prepare for the national indoor meet. For more results, read: http://helenair.com/sports/article_4434ca3c-3bf9-11e0-9bf3-001cc4c03286.html Montana's senior U.S. Senator Max Baucus turned the spotlight on the Carroll College Fighting Saints this week: he got buffaloed while making good on a friendly bet he had with South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson over the Saints' December NAIA championship win over the University of Sioux Falls Cougars. Collecting on Johnson's wager, Baucus took home a box of South Dakota buffalo steaks. (Baucus originally bet a case of Montana microbrew beer from Helena's Lewis & Clark Brewing Company.) Home Schedule Both basketball teams are away this weekend, but you can check out the full Athletics schedule and all the latest news, photos and video at http://www.carrollathletics.com/index.aspx COMING EVENTS Ending Tomorrow (Feb. 25): The Carroll Art Gallery in St. Charles Hall presents a print and book exhibition of The Saint Johns Bible, the first handwritten, illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine Abbey in over 500 years. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, closed weekends and college holidays. Free admission. More about The Saint John's Bible is online here: http://www.saintjohnsbible.org/?gclid=CJHfnvK0y6UCFVVi2godq3I-lw February 28 through March 6: Helena's 50th anniversary celebration of the Peace Corps' founding will include a Carroll College exhibit of photographs, artifacts and memorabilia in the Carroll Campus Center. President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps by executive order on March 1, 1961, and during its 50 years of work, its volunteers have numbered more than 200,000 in 139 host countries. The exhibit in collaboration with Carroll's Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice features photos and items from returned volunteers who served in underdeveloped countries around the world. More than 50 Peace Corps veterans live in Helena, with a number of them professors at Carroll. March 1: Carroll Jazz Combo performs in the Campus Center, 4 to 5 p.m. Free and open to the public. March 7-11: Spring Break. 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. March 15: IMPACT Business Campaign CHEERS Wrap Up party. March 16: Julie Hecht presents "Dogs in Translation: The Science Behind the Dog-Human Relationship," 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall's Wiegand Amphitheatre. Sponsored by Carroll's Human-Animal Bond Club and the Psychology Department, it is free and open to the public. March 18: Shamrock Soiree, a fundraiser for Carroll's student chapter of Engineers Without Borders, 7:30 p.m. to midnight at the Great Northern Hotel Ballroom (Great Northern is across the highway from Carroll's campus). Tickets $25. The night will include hors d'oeuvres, a cash bar, both silent and live auctions, and music by Associate Professor of Mathematics Jack Oberweiser's band Triplecross. Irish entertainment and dancing, and more! Stay tuned for details and ticket outlets in future editions of QNs. March 18: Dr. Doreen Kutufam of Carroll's Broadcast Journalism Program is encouraging Carroll support for a concert fundraiser, with all proceeds going to Compassion Tanzania's mission of providing clean water to remote villages in Northern Tanzania. The concert will star Rob Quist & the Great Northern Band and Mountain Moongrass at the Helena Civic Center Ballroom, 7 p.m., with tickets $20 (children 12 and under admitted free). March 19: Junior/Senior Banquet. March 22: Dr. Doreen Kutufam of Carroll's Broadcast Journalism Program hosts a symposium, "Water for the Rural Poor: Responding to the Challenge" at 6:30 p.m. in the lower level of the Campus Center. Free and open to all, the symposium will offer in-depth discussion of world water crises, especially for the rural poor in developing countries. At this event, participants can also learn more about Compassion Tanzania, a local NGO that provides clean water to remote villages in Northern Tanzania, and support its work. March 24: The Carroll Business Department Lecture Series, sponsored by the generous support of First Interstate Bank, continues with "Whac-a-Mole: From One Crisis to the Next" by William T. Northey, CFA, managing director and senior portfolio manager of U.S. Bank Asset Management Group. At 7 p.m. in the lower level of the Campus Center. Northey will be presenting the current state of the financial markets, with a discussion of asset bubbles that have continued to cause financial crises. Free and open to the public. 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. April 14: The Carroll Business Department Lecture Series, sponsored by the generous support of First Interstate Bank, continues with "Microfinance in Africa: CARE's model," at 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall's Wiegand Amphitheatre. Presenter Brian Larson is the director of Financial Management Systems Project for CARE-USA, which is recognized as one of the world's largest international humanitarian organizations. CARE-USA has fought poverty worldwide for over 60 years, and Larson will be discussing his experience with CARE's pioneering microfinance methodology that has empowered women and lifted families out of poverty in Africa. April 16-17: Softball Weekend April 19: Carroll Jazz Combo Spring Concert in the Carroll Performing Arts Center (Old North, St. Charles Hall) at 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. April 22-24: Easter Break. April 29: Last day of spring 2011 classes. May 4: Carroll Jazz Combo performs in the Campus Center, 10:15-11:30 a.m. Free and open to the public. May 7: Baccalaureate and Commencement. May 11: Summer semester begins. Sessions I and II start on May 11, with Session I running for two weeks and Session II for three weeks. On June 6, Sessions III and IV start and will continue for four weeks and five weeks, respectively.
