"I HAVE DECIDED TO STICK WITH LOVE. HATE IS TOO GREAT A BURDEN TO BEAR." DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
This coming Monday, January 17, Carroll's annual Martin Luther King Day celebration will take place, with noontime Mass followed by community service in the afternoon, capped off with the annual evening forum and lecture. This year's speaker, Fr. Jerry Lowney (photo right, above), Carroll professor emeritus of sociology and the inspiration for the college's MLK Day observances over many years, will present "Social Justice: For Life, For a Lifetime" featuring two responders: Montana Lieutenant Governor John Bohlinger (photo left) and Senator Carol Williams (photo right, below), the minority leader of Montana State Senate. The event takes place at 7 p.m. in the Campus Center. A sociologist and published author, Fr. Lowney has taught for many years at Carroll College and is now a professor emeritus of sociology.
In his talk, Father Lowney will recount some of his experiences working for civil rights and social justice in the US, including his encounters with violent racism and discrimination in the South during desegregation (including being attacked by the Ku Klux Klan), his work with teens in the California drug culture, his efforts against Montana's death penalty, his presence at the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, and more. Fr. Lowney's involvement in creating Montana's child labor law and his activism on behalf of labor rights will also be discussed. Questions from the audience will be entertained by the speaker and responders. Pizza will be served after the lecture and comment period. Monday's Martin Luther King Day celebration at Carroll begins with a noon-hour Mass, celebrated by Fr. Lowney, that is open to the public and will occur in St. Joseph Chapel in Carroll's Borromeo Hall. Afterward, Carroll students, faculty and staff will be volunteering at local charities from 1 to 3 p.m. Father Lowney reports that, during sign-ups this week, a record number of students enrolled to volunteer on MLK Day, with almost 40 students headed for Helena Food Share and nearly 40 more to assist at God's Love homeless shelter. WE CAN'T CONTAIN OUR JOY Recyclers of plastic containers, take heed: the SAVE Foundation and its community partners are holding the next plastics recycling drive this weekend, starting today, January 14, and continuing through Monday, January 17, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. It takes place at the usual location: 1100 N. Last Chance Gulch (YMCA parking lot, just east of Carroll's campus). Accepted items include: Type 1 beverage containers (e.g. water and soda bottles), Type 1 clear clam shell tray (e.g. the heavier duty, less "crackly" trays that often contain fruit, but not those that contain cookies), Type 2 natural color containers (e.g. standard milk jugs, distilled water containers), and Type 2 color plastics (e.g. orange juice containers, white milk jugs, detergent bottles). NO motor oil containers, and all cooking oil containers must be thoroughly rinsed beforehand. Rinse and remove all lids before you recycle. These regular recycling events involve the cooperation of SAVE with Carroll College, the City of Helena and City-County Sanitation, Pacific Steel and Recycling, General Services of the State of Montana, Headwaters Recycling, the Montana Beverage Association and CampusCorps. All future 2011 plastic recycling dates are as follows: March 11-14, May 13-16, July 8-11, September 9-12, and November 11-14. EAT YOUR GREENS Carroll's Sodexo Dining Services has plenty to report in its efforts to be greener and leaner. First off, Mason Siddick, class of 2010, continues working for Sodexo's sustainability efforts and will be developing a new Dining Services Facebook account, in addition to steering some of the special events Sodexo has planned. Freshman Nikole Drummond has been hired as Sodexo's new student manager in the Café, and she arrives with loads of fresh ideas to respond to student needs. Students Dana Miller, Althea Luhm and Katie O'Leary have returned as Sodexo's promotions and sustainability interns. Sodexo is also offering china service to those wanting to order in the Café or have a made-to-order sandwich or soup. Bioware is still available for takeout items, but china is always an option and creates far less throwaway for the landfill. In another new development, Dining Services is selling 100% fair trade coffee this month, and you can have yours served in a china mug. No more paper cups will be available in the Dining Hall, and feel free to bring your reusable mug if you have to take your coffee to-go. Finally, last semester, over $200 of Helping Hands Food Donation Bags purchased by Carroll students, along with about $350 of produce and milk, was delivered to God's Love homeless shelter in Helena on December 20. Closing down for the winter break always presents Dining Services some unused produce and dairy products, and these items went to good use at God's Love, where it was most appreciated. HUNTHAUSEN SEASON OPENS Know someone who quietly serves others without seeking recognition? It's time to out them, and in the process give the community a living example of what it means to be selflessly committed to peace and social justice. The Hunthausen Award Committee seeks nominations of students for the Raymond G. Hunthausen Award for Community Service, named for Carroll alumnus and former Carroll president Archbishop Hunthausen (photo left) 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 2.0 grade point average are eligible. Nominate a student with a form available in Career & Testing Services offices in Borromeo Hall, or electronically from Rosie Walsh at rwalsh@carroll.edu. 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. CHANGE OF VENUE The Carroll College Outreach Team, whose plans to offer dental care in Haiti over Christmas break were cancelled due to Haiti's recent safety and health issues, switched gears briskly and sent seven students to Colombia over the holidays instead. As part of the Montana Dental Outreach Team, the students were led by three dentists: Drs. Tom Bartoletti, J.P. Walters and Stephen Walters, plus dental hygienist Frannie Bartoletti and Carroll Mathematics Professor Jack Oberweiser. The group traveled to the city of Ibague, Colombia, as part of a joint effort with the volunteer organization Manos Amigas of Let's Go Volunteer. The group worked for four days, during which time they treated over 250 children and adults in one of the most underserved and impoverished urban areas of the country. Everyone returned safely and inspired with love of Colombian culture. COT hopes to maintain a relationship with Manos Amigas for future volunteer opportunities. STUDENT NEWS Deadlines are fast approaching for spring and summer study abroad opportunities across the globe, with financial aid available to those who qualify. Here are highlights: Application deadline is January 17 for "Exploring America's Political Institutions" journey to Washington, DC, led by Professor William Parsons on March 5-12, 2011 Application deadline is January 17 for "An Elusive Peace" journey to Israel and Jordan, led by Professor Jeanette Fregulia on May 11-25, 2011 Application deadline is February 1 for "Spanning the Ages" journey to Athens, Rome, Florence, Paris, Northern Wales and London, led by Professor John Scharf on May 10-26, 2011 Application deadline is February 1 for "Treasures of Greece" journey led by Professor Chuck Driscoll on May 15-27, 2011 For more information, or to apply for financial aid to go on these study abroad experiences, please contact Shannon Ackeret in St. Charles Hall room 14 or at 447-4469. Now for Sports and Weather: The City of Helena is offering a free ice skating day this Saturday, January 15, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Memorial Park Warming House and Ice Rink, just east of the YMCA (which is just east of Carroll's campus). For snow lovers, Carroll Student Activities still has Great Divide ski passes available in the Student Activities Office downstairs in the Campus Center. Passes are only $20 for students and faculty/staff (regular price at the hill are $28 to $32). You must show a Carroll ID to purchase, and the limit is four passes per person per week. ALUMNI NEWS In the News Kathryn "Sam" Campana (photo left), who attended Carroll in 1966-67, was recently named 2010 (Phoenix) Valley Leadership Women of the Year. As founding director for the Rio Salado Audubon Center, Ms. Campana was able to put her political clout to good use by raising enough money to develop Phoenix's first LEED Platinum building. As mayor of Scottsdale, she advocated for arts and habitat preservation and continues to stand for those platforms with an impressive record for raising funds and implementing vital programs to educate the growing urban population. She has held leadership positions in organizations including the US Arts in the Embassies, International Women's Foundation, State Arts Advocacy League of America, Scottsdale Leadership and the Scottsdale Foundation for the Handicapped. Troy Gleeson, class of 1994, is the author of "Canvas Falcons," a work chosen as a finalist for the National Musical Theater Conference at the O'Neill Theater in Waterford, Conn. The winner will be announced in April. A July 30, 2011, wedding is being planned by Benjamin Ejli Noland (with fiancee in photo right), class of 2008, and wife-to-be Hallie Grace Shiner. Both are veterinary students at Colorado State University. Brian Reardon (with fiancee in photo left), class of 2008, is engaged to marry Anna Dreyer on August 27, 2011, in Helena. Brian is a mechanical engineer and project manager at Radiant Engineering Inc. in Bozeman, Mont. In Memoriam Barbara J. Fisher-Senger, class of 1973, of Great Falls, Mont., died of cancer on January 7, 2011, at Peace Hospice in Great Falls, Mont. After graduating from Carroll, she earned a master's in education from the University of Montana-Missoula. She held several positions as a civil servant at Malmstrom Air Force Base, but the one she enjoyed the most was that of childcare coordinator. For more on her life, read: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20110109/OBITUARIES/101090332 FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS In the News Last weekend's Arms Around McLain Benefit for McLain Thornquist, the eight-year-old daughter of Carroll Director of Admission and Enrollment Services Cynthia Thornquist (with McLain in photo right), raised nearly $20,000. The money will assist the Thornquist family in offsetting the expenses of chemotherapy, surgery, radiation, and travel for McLain's cancer treatments. If anyone was not able to attend but would like to support the Thornquist family, a benefit account has been set up at Wells Fargo Bank in Helena. There is also a website www.caringbridge.org/visit/mclainthornquist where you can read more about McLain's journey and leave her a note of encouragement. The annual Mathematical Contest in Modeling and Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling will see up to nearly 40 Carroll students competing for a grueling 96-straight hours, and their mathematics professors send out a call for volunteers to feed the teams dinner on any one of the contest nights: Friday, February 11, Saturday, February 12, or Sunday, February 13. Each team consists of three students, and giving a team a nourishing meal helps give them the edge in competition, plus a welcome break from computer programming and numbers crunching. In past years, we believe the meals made a difference: last year alone, one Carroll team took the top 1% prize, making them a worldwide phenomenon, and this was the third time in six years that a Carroll team has won the top spot in this competition. (Last year's winning Carroll team of Brittany Harris, Kyle Perkins and Chase Peaslee in photo left, left to right) If you would like to host a team and be partially responsible for this year's math triumph, please contact Dr. Phil Rose at prose@carroll.edu or 447-4456. In Memoriam Sheila Sullivan (photo right) , who led Carroll's Theatre Department from 1961 to 1964, died on January 7, 2011, in Helena. With solid theatre education and experience, she was committed to bringing more to Carroll's Theatre Department than just the Broadway rage of the moment. A single Sullivan season would see eclectic productions, mixing Adolf Hitler with Our Town. Carroll thespians produced their plays in the Sullivan years at The Little Theatre in St. Charles Hall's former library area (where the college art studio is today). The Little Theatre would continue as the venue for Carroll stagecraft for three decades. Because of surging student interest in performing arts during her tenure, the college created an academic program in theatre, with classes in subjects like acting and directing. In addition to her groundbreaking work at Carroll, Mrs. Sullivan was a founding member of several vital community organizations including The Grandstreet Theatre. In 1992, she received the Carroll College Community Service Award. For more on her life, read: http://helenair.com/news/local/obituaries/article_4d18a0ac-1bbe-11e0-b403-001cc4c03286.html ATHLETICS In the News Carroll College football coach Mike Van Diest (photo left), who led the Saints to a sixth national championship last month, has been named the NAIA football coach of the year by the American Football Coaches Association. Van Diest was honored Tuesday evening at the AFCA Coach of the Year dinner in Dallas, where he also formally accepted the Saints' latest national championship trophy. For more, read: http://www.carroll.edu/athletics/newsitemview.php?id=14364 The Carroll College women's soccer team nearly filled the board for the All-Frontier Conference Academic squad, with 17 of a possible 18 student-athletes making the list. To be eligible for the team, the student-athlete must be at least a sophomore in standing and maintain a 3.0 GPA. For the full list of scholar-athletes on the roster, read: http://helenair.com/sports/soccer/article_16f03684-1af6-11e0-b4f3-001cc4c002e0.html Students at St. Mary's Catholic School in Rome, Ga., were treated to a special visit from the Fighting Saints football team just before the big national championship game in December. After the classroom visits were over, Carroll's football heroes headed to the school chapel for Mass celebrated by Carroll College Campus Ministry Director, Chaplain and Team Chaplain Father Marc Lenneman. (Photo from St. Mary's at right) For the full story, read: http://www.georgiabulletin.org/local/2011/01/06/saintmarywelcomemontanasaints/ Our new men's and women's track and field teams will compete in five meets for the indoor season before the NAIA National Championship on March 3-5, and they will also enter six outdoor meets before the final NAIA National Championship on May 26-28. The excitement begins this weekend, with Carroll's track and field scholar-athletes at the University of Washington Open in Seattle on January 14-15. Go Saints! Home Schedule Home basketball games on January 15: Saints vs. Lewis Clark State College double-header with the women's game at 6 and the men at 8 p.m. in the PE Center. It's '80s Night in the PE Center, so dig out those parachute pants, get your big hair on and start channeling Duran Duran and Cyndi Lauper. Check out the full Athletics schedule and all the latest news at www.carroll.edu/athletics COMING EVENTS Ongoing to February 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 Complementing this art exhibit will be three special events open to the public (see listings below for Jan. 27, Feb. 11 and Feb. 12-13). January 27: "From Inspiration to Illumination, an Experience of The Saint John's Bible," a free public lecture presented by Tim Ternes (photo right), director of The Saint John's Bible at the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library in Collegeville, Minn., 7:30 p.m. in Carroll's Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre. Ternes works directly with the artistic team for the Bible project, facilitating planning and exhibitions for the original pages and reproductions as well as curating and caring for the original folios of the Bible. Through video, reproduction and rich visual images from the project, participants are guided through the story of The Saint John's Bible, including the processes, tools, methods and materials behind its creation. Participants also get to handle vellum samples and a quill, and have the opportunity to turn the pages on full-size, museum-quality art reproductions of the original Bible. For more, read: https://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=14348 January 28: Saints Football Banquet, celebrating our 2010 NAIA National Champions, 6 p.m. social hour, 7 p.m. buffet dinner. Featuring Coach Mike Van Diest, his coaches and outstanding championship team, cost $35 per person or $60 per couple, limited seating. RSVP by Monday January 24, at 406-447-4480 or at jbingham@carroll.edu February 5: Headlights Spaghetti Dinner Fund-Raiser to gather donations for Headlights student trips to serve across America during spring break. St. Mary's Catholic Community in Helena, 5 to 8 p.m. For more information, and to support Headlights service immersion experiences for our students, contact Colleen Dunne at cdunne@carroll.edu February 11: Free lecture and slide show, "Lindesfarne Gospel Legacy," held in conjunction with The Saint John's Bible display in the Carroll Art Gallery, at 7:30 p.m. in room 034 St. Charles Hall. Bozeman calligrapher Theresa Leland will give a presentation on the historical, social and calligraphic traditions that produced one of the world's greatest manuscripts, The Lindesfarne Gospels, written about 720 AD on a tiny and isolated island located in the North Sea off the coast of England. The four gospels of the manuscript are highly decorated with stunning Celtic knotwork, intricate "carpet pages" resembling oriental prayer rugs and large decorated initials. These painted labyrinths are jeweled masterpieces of sacred calligraphy, and Leland, a professional calligraphy teacher and professional for 25 years, was one of twelve in her profession invited to participate in a Calligraphic Study Tour focusing on this manuscript. Several of her teachers are part of the calligraphic team producing The Saint John's Bible, which follows in the Lindesfarne calligraphic manuscript tradition. February 12 and February 13: Decorated Letter Workshop, held in conjunction with The Saint John's Bible display in the Carroll Art Gallery. Times are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Feb. 12 and 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 13, with both days' events held in room 034 St. Charles Hall. Calligrapher Theresa Leland will teach participants easy-to-follow steps to create the beautiful decorated letters and illuminations used in the old manuscripts, which before the printing press were written, illuminated and bound by hand. Participants will design 7th- and 15th-century decorated letters, examine modern variations, then create a simple hand-bound book of their work. These beautiful letters are stunning when used to decorate handmade greeting cards, or scrapbook and journal pages. No prior calligraphy experience is necessary to master this class, which is recommended for teens through adults. Registration, including all materials, is $80 and to enroll contact Ralph Esposito, Professor of Art at resposit@carroll.edu and call 406-447-4302. February 15: IMPACT Business Campaign Kickoff Breakfast. To support IMPACT or join the volunteers for this spring's Business Campaign, contact Gayle Agostinelli, Director of Annual Giving (406) 447-4492 or gagostinelli@carroll.edu February 17-20, 24-27: Carroll College Theatre Department presents Tartuffe: Born Again, translated and adapted by Freyda Thomas from the original French by Moliere (photo left). 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 Carroll College Performing Arts Center, Old North, St. Charles Hall. Curtain time is 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday Evenings. Sunday matinees are at 2 p.m. General admission is $10, students/seniors are $8. For more information, call 406-447-4304. February 22: 16th Annual Helena Area Career Fair, Carroll PE Center, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 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. 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.