500 YEARS IN THE MAKING
This coming Monday, January 10, is not just the first day of class for the spring semester but also the opening day for an all-new exhibit in the Carroll Art Gallery: The Saint John's Bible, displaying pages from the first handwritten, illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine Abbey in over 500 years. The exhibit will remain at Carroll until February 25. The Carroll Art Gallery, located in St. Charles Hall, is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, closed weekends and college holidays. Admission is free. In addition to prints from the Bible, on display will be volumes of the publication for visitors to handle and peruse.
It all started with calligrapher Donald Jackson, English scribe to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's Crown Office, and his dream to produce his calligraphic version of the Sistine Chapel. In 1998, he was commissioned by the Benedictine Monks of Saint John's Abbey and University in Collegeville Minnesota to fulfill his vision. Writing manuscripts by hand is a Benedictine tradition dating back to the earliest centuries of the Church, and Jackson employed the old-school method, using a hand cut quill and century-old hand-ground stick ink to write on vellum. Thus began the first hand-written and -illuminated Bible since the invention of the printing press. Among its modern images are strands of DNA woven into the illumination of the genealogy of Christ at the beginning of Matthew's Gospel. As a contemporary example of forgiveness, the image of the Twin Towers is used in the illustration of the Prodigal Son parable. Artistic renderings of Hubble Space Telescope images and satellite photos of the Ganges River Delta are used in the Genesis creation illumination. More about The Saint John's Bible is online here: http://www.saintjohnsbible.org/?gclid=CJHfnvK0y6UCFVVi2godq3I-lw
Complementing this art exhibit will be three public lectures and activities open to the public. The first of these is a January 27 talk by Tim Ternes, director of The Saint John's Bible, who will discuss its creation. See Coming Events listings at the end of this QNs edition for more.
RALLY 'ROUND MCLAIN Carroll Director of Admission and Enrollment Services Cynthia Thornquist's eight-year-old daughter, McLain (both in photo right), is currently being treated for bone cancer metastasized to her lungs, and with medical expenses soaring a community benefit is being held to assist the family. The benefit will take place on this coming Sunday, January 9, from 1 to 4 p.m. at Hawthorne Elementary School in Helena. A silent auction, carnival games and food will be part of the fun, with admission only $5 and all money going to help the Thornquist family pay for their daughter's lifesaving medical care. NOT FOR SCHOOL, BUT FOR LIFE; NOT FOR LIFE, BUT FOR A LIFETIME On Monday, January 17, Carroll's annual Martin Luther King Day celebration will take place, with 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 left), 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 and State Sen. Carol Williams, the minority leader of Montana State Senate. The event takes place at 7 p.m. in the Campus Center. 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, his work with teens in the California drug culture, his efforts against Montana's death penalty, his witness to the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, and more. Questions from the audience will be entertained by the speaker and responders. THE SOCIAL NETWORK The Carroll College Department of Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science has set up a Facebook page for students and alumni to connect. Check out the link at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carroll-College-Math-Department/143106872411677 A LinkedIn group is also online to keep the connections strong-check it out, and while you're doing so, scan the Carroll College Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/carrollcollege On it, you'll find links to other Facebook sites devoted to specific Carroll departments. Don't forget to "Like" us, and feel free to "Friend". 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 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. ALUMNI NEWS In the News University of Arkansas head football coach Bobby Petrino (photo right), class of 1984, was recently named Arkansas Business' 2010 Newsmaker of the Year (not to mention his leading the Razorbacks to a fine showing in this year's Sugar Bowl). For more, read: http://www.arkansassports360.com/22808/arkansas-business-razorbacks-petrino-named-newsmaker-of-the-year The Omaha, Neb., Jaycees will be honoring this year's Ten Outstanding Young Omahans on January 26, and among the award recipients will be a Saint: Mike Battershell, class of 2000, who serves as an account executive at Bergman Incentives. His civic and professional affiliations include: Midtown Neighborhood Alliance, Hanscom Park Neighborhood Association, South Omaha Neighborhood Alliance, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, I-80 Cosmopolitan Club, YMCA and the Catholic Youth Sports League. And he is a founding member and organizer of the Democratic Professional Network. Patrick Manning (photo left), class of 2009, reports that for the past few months he has been working as a multimedia journalist at WAOW-TV, the ABC affiliate in Wausau, Wisc., and just before Christmas was hired by the Fox News Channel to work as a junior reporter. He will be reporting for Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, and their respected websites, and he will be based out of El Paso, TX. After training in New York, he will be on his beat by the end of the month. This is a return to Fox for Manning, who prior to his hiring in Wisconsin had a media internship on the Fox News channel's Your World with Neil Cavuto. ATHLETICS In the News Carroll College senior Andy Fjeseth (photo right) has been selected as the 2010 Rimington Award winner, making him the Most Outstanding Center nationwide in the Saints' football sub-division. More info is online here: http://www.krtv.com/news/carroll-s-fjeseth-named-country-s-best-center/ A school-record fifteen Carroll cross country student-athletes earned Frontier Conference All-Academic Honors for fall semester 2010. Several of the athletes are also members of the Frontier Men's and Women's All-Conference Cross Country Teams. For more, read: http://www.carroll.edu/athletics/newsitemview.php?id=14320 Carroll Fighting Saints quarterback Gary Wagner was recently named the Helena Independent Record's Male Athlete of the Year. For the full write-up on his Saintly history and the national championship he helped win, read: http://helenair.com/sports/football/college/article_47ede87e-0f36-11e0-895b-001cc4c002e0.html Home Schedule Women's and Men's basketball have a home double-header Friday night (Jan. 7) versus Rocky Mountain College. The women tip-off at 6 and the men at 8 p.m., all in the PE Center. Check out the full Athletics schedule and all the latest news at www.carroll.edu/athletics COMING EVENTS January 7-8: Montana's Energy Future, a two-day conference sponsored by NorthWestern Energy, the Burton K. Wheeler Center for Public Policy, the O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West and Carroll College, in the Carroll Campus Center. About 200 people representing utilities, energy producers, conservation groups, consulting firms, state government, state legislators and other interested parties will attend. For more information, go to: http://www.energyfuturemontana.org/ The full agenda is online here: http://www.energyfuturemontana.org/Energy%20Summit%20Agenda.pdf 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 and book exhibition of The Saint 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. January 17: Martin Luther King Day celebration all day long. At noon, a special Martin Luther King Day Mass will occur in Borromeo Hall's St. Joseph Chapel, 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 place in the Campus Center, with guest speaker the Rev. Jerry Lowney presenting "Social Justice: For Life, For a Lifetime" featuring two responders: Montana Lieutenant Governor John Bohlinger and State Sen. Carol Williams, the minority leader of Montana State Senate. January 25: Penn State Professor John Sanchez will present "American Indians: How the News Media Shapes American Indian Identity and Policy in the United States" in the Carroll Campus Center at 7 p.m. The talk will focus on public perceptions of American Indian identity in the 21st Century as framed by and dictated by news media and popular films like Avatar, the Twilight series and Dances with Wolves. He will examine what newspaper and TV news editors and reporters think about American Indians and what educators teach in public schools about American Indians, often using popular news media as their source of information. Sanchez will discuss how antiquated ideas about Indian people, including the myth that they are either very poor or very rich from gambling revenues and that they only wear feathers and leather, also affect public policy in Indian country. 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. 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 Minnesota., 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. 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 is $80 and to enroll contact Ralph Esposito, Professor of Art at resposit -is-at- carroll -dot- edu and call 406-447-4302. 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. 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. 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.