BLESSING THE STONE
Today (Jan. 27) at 2:30 p.m., Carroll’s Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice welcomes Bishop George Leo Thomas in blessing and dedicating our new home of Catholic spiritual vitality, the Cornerstone, in Borromeo Hall. All are welcome at this fellowship-filled event!
CALORIC COMFORT
This Sunday, January 29, Carroll College and our food service provider Sodexo will be participating in the Comfort Food Challenge at the Lewis and Clark County Fairgrounds in Helena, with proceeds supporting Family Promise of Greater Helena, a service for homeless families in our area. From 4 to 6 p.m., Carroll, Sodexo and over 10 other community partners will serve up various wintertime comfort eats, with ticketholders able to sample and vote for the best. Tickets are $10 each, with kids 10 and under admitted free. Family Promise gives housing and meals to homeless families during their transition to finding work and permanent homes of their own. Carroll and 25 local churches support Family Promise both financially and by providing services including meals and lodging.
PROPERTY OWNERSHIP CAN BE TAXING
Next Tuesday, January 31, Carroll’s Business Department Lecture Series brings us two expert advisors on a timely topic, “Property Transactions: The Basics.” Their free, public talk is at 4 p.m. in O’Connell Hall room 107. Presenters Joel Silverman and Spencer Marks, both with the Montana Department of Revenue, will cover common tax issues related to residential and investment properties, including capital gains and losses, installment sales and tax avoidance tactics. The tax consequences of inherited property and land improvements will be among many other matters discussed. Silverman is an attorney who holds an LL.M. in taxation from the University of Washington. He has extensive experience reviewing and litigating federal taxation issues. Marks is a Carroll 2006 accounting and business administration graduate and licensed CPA currently serving as a Montana Department of Revenue tax auditor.
SCRUBBED TO PERFECTION
The Carroll Nursing Department reports that its final 2011 graduate took and passed the NCLEX-RN exam recently, making it official that our most recent nursing alumni clock in with an official 100% pass rate on this tough exam prerequisite to professional nursing. According to Department Chair Dr. Jennifer Elison, “We are very proud of our graduates and recognize that it does indeed take a village. The Nursing Department extends a sincere thank you to all of our colleagues at Carroll College and to our clinical partners for their continued support, expertise, wisdom, and positive influence on our students.”
Dr. Elison was recently an expert featured in a New York Times article on nursing education and the technology influencing the profession—check the story, “A Nurse Need Never Forget,” at: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/education/edlife/a-nurse-need-never-forget.html?ref=edlife
In other nursing news, the Carroll College Student Nurses' Association (CCSNA) has elected new officers for the 2012-2013 school year, continuing the stellar work of the prior administration. Triumphs have included the state nursing student convention, raising awareness for numerous health-related topics, supplying the Helena Friendship Center with an entire car full of donated items, numerous volunteers at the Helena homeless veterans event, Carroll’s annual Shodair Christmas gift drive, free blood pressure screenings, a fundraising event for Childhood Cancer Day, donating items for homeless kids and orphans in Honduras, and more. New officers are President Emily Rabbitt, Vice President Will Lamb, Secretary Tasha Zoanni, Treasurer Sarah Grover, Community Health Rep Monica Nazy, Public Rep Emily Franceschina, Montana Nurses Association Rep Abby Hunthausen, and Student Government Rep Mauren Downey. Former officers are President Sarah Potucek, Vice President Kelsie Hahn, Secretary Chelsea Ford, Treasurer/ASCC Rep Will Lamb, Community Health Rep Jim Myles, and Public Rep Emily Rabbitt.
STUDENT NEWS
Events
Quidditch returns to Carroll this Saturday, January 28, starting at noon on Trinity Hall lawn, in any weather. Our second match is 12:20 p.m., and the games end when the snitch is captured. For anyone slitherin on down to watch the action, you can also join in: we'll get you a broomstick, but the flying is up to you!
This Saturday is the Black Out Swing Dance from 8 to midnight in Guadalupe Hall. For those who hanker for more vertical moves, the Carroll Adventure and Mountaineering Program (CAMP) is holding an open house Saturday at the bouldering wall on St. Charles 4th Main starting at 9 p.m.
CAMP is also leading a full moon night ski on February 7 up on the MacDonald Pass cross country ski trails. All levels are welcome. Skiers leave campus at 9 p.m. To sign up, including ski rentals, contact Grant at gwilliams@carroll.edu.
Academics
Yo hablo todos! Our Academic Resource Center (ARC) is back with tutoring services in a variety of subjects, from the universal language of mathematics to foreign languages like Spanish and French, plus the natural sciences like physics and chemistry, the dismal science of economics, and much more. Check the full schedule at: http://www.carroll.edu/academics/resources/schedule.cc
Special Opps
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, at right) 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. 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. The nomination deadline is March 2. Certificates will be presented to each recipient at the annual Honors Convocation in April.
The last day for Carroll seniors to make their 2012 Senior Grateful Saints gifts to their alma mater in the amount of $20.12 and receive a star on their alumni brick is January 31. Make your gift, and earn your star, today by giving online at: http://www.advancement.carroll.edu/gratefulsaints2012 Donations go to make Carroll the very best education at the most affordable price for future Saints.
For the latest student news and activities, go to www.carroll.edu/students
ALUMNI NEWS
Events
At Graduation 2012, we’ll be honoring our 50- and 60-year Golden Grads, with a reunion of alumni from the classes of 1952 and 1962. Stay tuned for more details on this May 4 -5, 2012, gold-standard event!
Homecoming is September 21-23, 2012, with the big game pitting the Saints against Eastern Oregon and reunions for anniversary class years 2007, 2002, 1997, 1992, 1987, 1982, 1977, 1972, 1967, 1962, 1957, 1952 and 1947!
In the News
At last week’s Helena Area Chamber of Commerce annual awards ceremony, Peter Sullivan, class of 1957, of Sullivan Financial Group was named the George D. Anderson Business Person of the Year. Sullivan began his career in banking before launching his own business in 1963, selling insurance, pensions and other investment products. He is a past Chamber board chair and has volunteered extensively with local organizations and foundations over the decades. A noted fundraiser, Sullivan helped lead a capital campaign which raised more than $4 million for the Cathedral of St. Helena.
Jennifer Knopik, class of 2001, is the new school nurse at Bigfork, Montana, schools, serving K through 12 students. Her past work prepares her well, with experience working with open-heart surgery patients at Rocky Mountain Heart and Lung and on the intermediate care floor at Kalispell Regional Medical Center. For the full story, read: http://www.flatheadnewsgroup.com/bigforkeagle/article_3622f580-3c7b-11e1-b434-001871e3ce6c.html
Carroll 2007 classical studies grad Colleen Rivers (photo left) is presenting an all-new one-woman variety show, “The Colleen Show,” next Friday, February 3, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church (Cruse and Lawrence in downtown Helena across from the Cathedral of St. Helena). Free admission, but donations will be earned, says the artist. Rivers was inspired to craft this amazing new cultural offering after a year of playing the piano, which was her life’s dream. Expect singing, dancing, improv, storytelling and possibly acrobatic feats that will amaze. Rivers was featured in the short film, Piano Spaces, which premiered at the Martin Holt Short Film Festival at the Myrna Loy in 2011. For more info, call 406-465-1870.
Kathryn Stergionis and Matthew Brehe (photo right), both class of 2007, were married September 17, 2011, at the Montana Club in Helena. After a honeymoon to Rome and Florence, Italy, the couple has returned to Seattle, where she is an ICU nurse at Harborview Medical Center and he is a journeyman with Pacific Rainier Roofing.
Joyce Day, class of 2008, earned her master's in organizational leadership at Gonzaga University in December 2011. She is a loan portfolio accounting manager at the Student Assistance Foundation in Helena, Mont.
Matthew Sewell, class of 2011, is graduate assistant in media relations at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, where he is assigned to the cross country and track and field teams. NAU boasts a leading training complex, with one of its runners going on to carry the American flag in the opening ceremonies at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. While at NAU, Sewell is studying for his master’s in communications. Read more at: http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/weeklies-reader-thompson-falls-ballfield-boulders-a-swing-and-a/article_bfb7e4be-3f27-11e1-81ba-0019bb2963f4.html#ixzz1kb1sIc8X
FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS
Professor Belle Marie (right) of the Business Department has been selected to present her paper, "Marketing-Finance Interface and Educational Plan," at the Global Business Development Institute conference. Refereed papers are selected for presentation through a process of double-blind peer review.
Associate Professor of Business and Accounting Melvin L. McFetridge (left) of Carroll’s Business Department attended the January 19 meeting of Montana Board of Public Accountants held in Helena to discuss issues regarding education in the accounting profession. This meeting is invaluable to help Montana’s accounting educators stay abreast of the Uniform Certified Public Accounting examination education requirements and procedures required of students to sit for the exam.
Education Professor Jonathan Matthews was to have competed in last Sunday’s U.S. Olympic Trials 50-kilometer race walk, but due to a confluence of winter weather and airline woes, he missed the chance. Our hearts go out to him, but he will be competing this June as the oldest person to ever qualify for the U.S. Olympic Trials in track and field. At that event, he will be the man to beat in the 20-kilometer race walk.
David Rotness (right), Carroll maintenance worker and Neuman Observatory caretaker/amateur astronomer wizard, and his team captain/wife Barbara will be bowling this Saturday, January 28, in the Big Brothers and Big Sisters annual fundraiser Bowl For Kids’ Sake, and would appreciate your support. You can donate at http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/davidrotness/pirate-bowl and all donations will be securely sent directly to Big Brothers Big Sisters.
CAMPUS MINISTRY
The annual Headlights Immersion Program Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser will be served up on February 11 from 4:30 to 8 p.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Community in Helena. Students will be preparing and serving all of the food, with proceeds going to raise money for 30 students and advisors to spend spring break serving the poor and witnessing Catholic social teaching in action in three US cities: Kansas City, Cincinnati and Rochester (NY).
To raise the needed travel and lodging funds, students are selling Firetower coffee for $12 a bag and raffle tickets, with prizes including gift cards to Silver Star, Brewhouse, Downtown Helena and Firetower Coffee. Raffle tickets are just $1 each or 20 tickets for $15, and will be on sale for the next few weeks during lunchtime in the Campus Center—pick up some coffee bags at the table while you’re buying your raffle tickets. Sales will continue at the basketball home game on February 9. Or, you can purchase now by contacting Headlights Director Colleen Dunne at cdunne@carroll.edu
For the full story on Headlights, go to: http://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.cc
For all Campus Ministry news, Mass and sacraments schedules, homilies and much more, go to: http://www.carroll.edu/ministry/
ATHLETICS
In the News
cFive Carroll College football players were named to the Beyond Sports Network’s All-American team. Senior offensive lineman Zach Zosel (left) and record-setting junior running back Chance Demarais (right) received first-team honors. Junior offensive lineman Connor Goudreau was named to the second team, while senior receiver Matt Ritter and junior safety Brian Strobel rounded out the third team.
Schedule
Basketball and track and field are away this weekend.
Events
The Fighting Saints Football Banquet, featuring Coach Mike Van Diest, his staff and his outstanding scholar-athletes, is Saturday, February 4, in the Carroll Campus Center. Social starts at 6 p.m., dinner at 7. Cost is $35 per person or $60 per couple. To reserve your seats, call 447-4480.
The Saints Athletic Association 2012 Shindig Reverse Raffle and Dinner is Friday, February 10, in the Carroll Campus Center, with registration and cocktails at 6 p.m. and the dinner and raffle at 7. Cost is $100 for a ball and $25 for dinner. For all details, go to www.carroll.edu/athletics/saa/index.cc
For all Athletics news and game schedules, visit www.carroll.edu/athletics
COMING EVENTS
Ongoing: The annual Student Art Exhibit runs through February 17 in the Carroll Art Gallery in St. Charles Hall. Included are over 90 works in painting, drawing and ceramics created by 30 students in recent Carroll art classes taught by Professor Ralph Esposito. The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, closed on weekends and holidays.
January 31: Free presentation on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy by Linda Hoenigsberg, class of 2006, of Intermountain Children’s Services, 12:30 to 2 p.m. in the lower level of the Campus Center. Open to anyone seeking more knowledge about DBT for academic, personal, or professional reasons. The DBT therapy focuses on letting go of the past, overcoming anxiety, coping skills, management of emotions and building healthy relationships. Hoenigsberg holds a master’s in mental health counseling and is a nationally certified counselor through the National Board of Certified Counselors. She has specific training in DBT and has published magazine articles in Psychology for Living and Counseling Today.
February 4: Carroll’s Up ’Til Dawn fundraising crew presents a Zumbathon in the Carroll PE Center from 2 to 4 p.m. Proceeds go to support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital on a perfect day: World Cancer Day. Open to the public, the event is geared to all experience and fitness levels and people of every age. A kid-friendly choreography session occurs from 2 to 2:30, and the rest of the time join the full-out Zumba dancing extravaganza—high energy cool dance moves to the best club and Latin music, led by several different local instructors. Prizes and free t-shirts, all for admission of only $10 per person, $30 per family or group (up to 6), and $50 per team (up to 10 participants). Work up a Latin sweat for the kids at St. Jude! For more info, email uptildawn@carroll.edu
February 9: Megan Parker from Working Dogs for Conservation will present a talk on her organization’s mission with dogs, and special guest pup Pipa will also present at the event. Sponsored by Carroll’s HAB Club and Anthrozoology Program, the lecture begins at 7 p.m. in the lower level of the Campus Center. A brief reception will follow. February 16-26: Lend me a Tenor, a hilarious farce performed by the Carroll College Theatre Dept. directed Carroll alumnus and thespian John Rausch. A sensation on Broadway and in London's West End, Lend Me a Tenor is guaranteed to leave you teary eyed with laughter. Our story: on the biggest night in the history of the Grand Opera Company, world famous tenor Morelli is to perform Otello, his greatest role, at the gala season opener. However, Morelli shows up late and drunk, then appears to drop dead. A nervous amateur takes the star’s place, but Morelli revives and hits the stage, with a grand farce resulting. Shows are Thursdays through Saturdays (Feb. 16-18 and Feb. 23-25) at 7 p.m., Sunday matinees (Feb. 19 and 26) at 3 p.m. In the Carroll College Theatre, Old North, St. Charles Hall. General admission is $10, students/seniors $8. Call 447-4304 for tickets and information.
February 24-25: Parents Weekend, sponsored by the Associated Students of Carroll College, with Parent Appreciation Lunch, entertainment, campus tours, basketball game night, a Mass and more.
February 24: Comedian Johnny Cardinale in the upper level of the Carroll College Campus Center. The 7 p.m. show is free and open to the public. Johnny Cardinale began his comedy career at the world famous Comedy Store in Hollywood, Calif., and has since gone on to perform at all the major clubs in Los Angeles, write and direct a short film that screened at Cannes, and hosted Clean Shots on the Game Show Network. He was also featured on the Emmy Awards in a spoof of the hit show Heroes and has been featured on Chelsea Lately on the E! channel. Often compared to Adam Sandler and Jimmy Fallon, Johnny's act is clean and upbeat.
February 27: Reno 911! stars Carlos Alazraqui and Cedric Yarbrough perform comedy in the Carroll Campus Center starting at 9 p.m. Free.
March 13: Film submissions due for the 2012 Charlie’s Film Festival. Each film should be 20 minutes max—for more details, check the helpful video at: http://youtu.be/ySLe10Dtug4
March 15-25: The Mound Builders, directed by Carroll Theatre Director Chuck Driscoll. This is the final play by the great American playwright Lanford Wilson. Curtain is Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sunday matinees at 3. In the Carroll Theatre, Old North, St. Charles Hall.
March 16: Carroll Engineers Without Borders-USA student chapter’s annual gala fundraiser, the Shamrock Soiree. Great Northern Hotel Ballroom, 6 to 11 p.m., three live bands, live and silent auctions, dancing, lovely food and cash bar. Tickets are $25.
March 22: Carroll Jazz Combo Concert, 4 p.m., in the Campus Center. Free and open to the public.
April 3: “Not One without the Other: Religious Harmony and Political Civility,” a month of free events, beginning with the Talmud Art Show opening in the Carroll Art Gallery, St. Charles Hall, featuring the art of Marc Chagall and Ben-Zion, and a 7:30 p.m. lecture in the Campus Center, “Running Races with God: How (and Why) Our Presidential Candidates Talk About Religion on the Campaign Trail,” by Dr. David Weiss, Ph.D., Professor of Media Studies, Montana State University.
April 10: Traditional Passover Seder, 6 p.m. in the Carroll Campus Center. Hosted by Dr. Barry Ferst, Carroll philosophy professor and department chair. Part of “Not One without the Other: Religious Harmony and Political Civility” monthlong events.
April 12: Charlie’s Film Festival in the Carroll PE Center, 7:30 p.m.
April 12: “America, Islam, and the Holocaust,” the keynote address for “Not One without the Other: Religious Harmony and Political Civility” monthlong free events. The address by Professor Michael Sells of the University of Chicago Divinity School begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Center.
April 13-14: Astronomy Weekend at Carroll. On Friday, April 13, the Neuman Astronomical Society and Helena Astronomical Society team up to present a free screening of The City Dark, a well-reviewed new movie on light pollution. The screening takes place in Simperman Hall’s Wiegand Amphitheatre at 7 p.m. On Saturday, April 14, astronomy activities for the whole family, including solar observing, will occur in the Campus Center from noon to 4 p.m. On Saturday night, guest speaker Dr. Christina Dunn, who will present “Creating the Giant: Fabricating the Mirrors of the European Extremely Large Telescope,” at 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall’s Wiegand Amphitheatre.
April 13-14 and 20-21: The Commedia Puss in Boots by Lane Riosley, a Carroll children’s theatre production, at 7 p.m. in the Carroll Theatre, Old North, St. Charles Hall.
April 17: Pakistani music and performance, Caravanserai: A Place Where Cultures Meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Myrna Loy Center in Helena. Part of “Not One without the Other: Religious Harmony and Political Civility” monthlong free events, this performance is sponsored by the Myrna Loy Center for the Performing Arts and Arts Midwest, Regional Arts Organization.
April 18: Honors Convocation
April 19: Holocaust Remembrance Evening, ceremony and poster display, at 7:30 p.m. in the Carroll Campus Center upstairs lounge. Hosted by Carroll History Professor Gillian Glaes and Hunthausen Professor of Peace and Justice Christopher Fuller. A Shoah display of forty posters on loan from the Montana Association of Jewish Communities (MAJCO), plus a candle-lighting remembrance prayer will be the evening’s focus. A Carroll Honors Scholars and international student panel will discuss inter-cultural civility at the event. Part of “Not One without the Other: Religious Harmony and Political Civility” monthlong free events.
April 20-21: “We the People: Conversations on the Montana and U.S. Constitutions.” Part of “Not One without the Other: Religious Harmony and Political Civility” monthlong free events.
April 21-22: Softball Weekend
April 26: Carroll Jazz Combo Concert, 7:30 p.m. in the Carroll Theatre. Free and open to the public.
April 27: Last Day of Classes
April 30: Dedication of the Carroll College Peace and Civility Wall, noon. Part of “Not One without the Other: Religious Harmony and Political Civility” monthlong free events.
April 29: Carroll College Choirs Spring Concert, “A Time to Dance,” with special guest appearances by Ballet Montana Academy dancers, at 4 p.m., St. Mary Catholic Community (1700 Missoula Ave., Helena). Free admission.
May 5: Commencement
May 19: St. James School of Nursing annual banquet, Quality Inn and Suites (formally the War Bonnet), Butte, Mont. The class of 1962 will be honored. For further information, contact Deanna Thomas at 406-782-4435.