FROND REMEMBRANCES
For this weekend’s Palm Sunday, the Carroll College Choirs will be singing for the 11 a.m. Mass at the Cathedral of St. Helena. Meanwhile, the usual 8 p.m. Sunday Mass in the Carroll Campus Center promises a packed house. Easter’s almost here.
HELLFIRE TONIGHT!
Tonight (March 22), nationally acclaimed author and political scientist James A. Morone (photo left) presents a stirring free, public talk, “Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History” in Carroll’s Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre at 7 p.m.
The lecture is part of Carroll’s Ethics and Integrity Lecture Series and this is one event you don’t want to miss: Morone is a commentator who appears on NPR, PBS NewsHour and other national outlets and, as a professor, he is one of the most popular lecturers at Brown University, with his undergraduate courses usually enrolling more than 600 students—because no lecture hall can accommodate the gigantic waiting list. Morone’s book 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. He has published op-eds in The New York Times and other leading newspapers and makes regular contributions to The London Review of Books and The American Prospect.
STOCKING OUR PRAY< strong>
Interfaith Week, sponsored by our Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice, concludes today with the noon-hour unveiling of the new Interfaith Prayer Room in the Hunthausen Center (Borromeo Hall, room 231). Blessings, refreshments and cultural food will be served.
GET THE DOPE ON THE POPE
With Pope Francis making worldwide news, Carroll Theology Professor Brian Matz has put together an illuminating discussion, “Colloquium super papatum” (A Discussion about the Papacy), this coming Monday, March 25 in Carroll’s Trinity Hall Lounge starting at 6:30 p.m. With Dr. Matz as moderator, the panel of experts will include Dr. Paul Dietrich of the University of Montana presenting “Theology of Benedict XVI,” Fr. John Robertson of the Diocese of Helena Chancery presenting “What Canon Law has to say about Conclaves and the Papacy,” Fr. Marc Lenneman offering “Reflections of a ‘Roman’ during the 2005 Conclave,” and Carroll Theology Department Chair Dr. John Ries concluding with “The Papacy in Contemporary (and Future) Perspective.” It’s free and open to the public.
SAYING NOPE TO THE DOPE
Next Tuesday, March 26, the month-long Carroll College Ethics and Integrity Lecture Series concludes with former Olympic gold medal cyclist Tyler Hamilton (photo left) giving a free, public lecture, "The Secret Race: The unwritten rules of a doping culture and the price of winning at all costs,” at 7 p.m. in the Carroll PE Center. The author of bestselling The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-Ups, and Winning at All Costs, Hamilton started his career with the US Postal Service team in the 1990s and quickly rose to become Lance Armstrong’s most trusted lieutenant and a member of his inner circle. For the first three of Armstrong’s record seven Tour de France victories, Hamilton was by Armstrong’s side, clearing his way. But just weeks after Hamilton reached his own personal pinnacle—winning the gold medal at the 2004 Olympics—his career came to a sudden end: he was found guilty of doping and exiled from the sport.
Hamilton was forced to come to terms with his past in 2010, when the federal government launched an investigation into systematic doping on the US Postal Service team. Hamilton was subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury and for the first time broke the code of silence that had protected the sport’s hard truth for so long. His testimony chronicled a shocking culture of performance-enhancing drug use encouraged and aided by team doctors, managers and coaches, and the dark lives of deception led by the sport’s champion athletes. Hamilton raced professionally from 1995 to 2008 and now lives in Missoula, Mont., and runs his own training business for cyclists of all levels, Tyler Hamilton Training LLC, in Boulder, Colo.
SISTERHOOD CELEBRATED
Also next Tuesday (March 26), Carroll presents a community party, "Montana and Kumamoto: Celebrating 30 Years of Sister Statehood," at 5 p.m. in the lower level of the Campus Center. Free and open to everyone, this event will feature a discussion of the 30th anniversary celebration from members of the Montana delegation who traveled to Kumamoto for the festivities. Presenters will include Mako Sakaguchi, Montana's representative in Kumamoto, Ian Marquand, the president of the Japan Friendship Club of Montana, and Satsuki Ibaraki, a Kumamoto Gakuen University exchange student attending Carroll. Hosted by Carroll College and Michelle Lewis, director of Carroll’s International Programs. Apropos of Japan, Carroll President Tom Evans recently returned from visits to that area of the world, including Kumamoto, and made a big splash with an enthusiastically received speech he delivered in flawless Japanese. (Evans, photo right, in a Japanese newspaper clipping about his Kumamoto visit)
ST. PATRICK SEZ: “IT AIN’T OVER”
Next Wednesday, March 27, fete St. Patty like he’s never been feted before: join Carroll Talking Saints Coach Brent Northup as he hosts a night of Irish dancing, food, song and debate, with free admission to everyone in the lower level of the Carroll Campus Center. Northup is flying in three Irish Times Final debate champions from Dublin, Ireland—John Engle, Kate Brady and Liam Brophy (photo right), all of Trinity College—to take on Carroll’s regional champ and national standout top talkers Megan Towles, Chris Axtman and Ryden Meyer. The quite serious topic will be “O'Reilly, O'Malley, O'Bama.”
In our splendorous Celtic-adorned hall, Irish music and step dancing begins at 6:30 p.m., formal dancing and an Irish sing-along at 7, with the Dublin vs. Carroll debate at 7:30 p.m. followed by more music and dancing at 8:30 p.m. and Irish treats (soda bread and green punch). Carroll alum Jaymie Lewis leads the Irish step-dance troupe, and Gabe Brennan is the master musician behind The Brennans, who’ll be playing Irish classics on guitar, banjo, harmonica, mandolin and tin whistle.
BIG BUCKS FOR BIG BRAINS
Carroll College’s Natural Sciences Department has just received a $50,000 grant, payable over two years, from the M.J. Murdock Trust of Vancouver, Wash., under the trust’s Murdock College Research Program for the Life Sciences. The grant will support the life science research of Assistant Professor of Biology Stefanie Otto-Hitt (photo left) and three biology students, Kyle Cleasby, Shelby Kramer, and Caroline Cardenas, starting this summer. The Carroll research under the award is entitled “Molecular Control of Synaptic Function,” which in layman’s terms means that Dr. Otto-Hitt and her team will be examining mechanisms related to brain development. The M.J. Murdock Trust’s mission is to enrich the quality of life in the Pacific Northwest by providing grants and enrichment programs to organizations seeking to strengthen the region’s educational, spiritual, and cultural base in creative and sustainable ways. This includes Carroll’s world-class undergrad research.
Dr. Otto-Hitt explains that our brains are composed of billions of cells, called neurons, which communicate and transmit electrical signals at specialized sites of cell-to-cell contact, called synapses. Presynaptic neurons transmit their information, in the form of neurotransmitter-filled synaptic vesicles, to postsynaptic neurons, which receive this information through a variety of receptor proteins expressed on the cell surface. This mechanism of communication between a pre- and post-synaptic neuron governs the majority of excitatory synaptic transmission in the brain and is a key component of synaptic plasticity, a phenomenon referring to the remarkable ability of neurons to alter the strength of their communication. “The ultimate goal of my research lab is to identify and characterize novel proteins that regulate the stability of synapses in the brain,” says Dr. Otto-Hitt.
STUDENT NEWS
A Night on Us
Tonight, Carroll’s Office for Enrollment is sponsoring A Night on Us, bringing prospective students to campus for a Carroll-style college experience. Everyone is welcome to join all the fun and show our visiting high school students what it’s like to be a Saint. It starts with free lattes 5:30-8 p.m. outside the Campus Center. From 6 to 8:30, we’ll have an indoor rock climbing session sponsored by the Carroll Adventure and Mountaineering Program at the Bouldering Cave on St. Charles’ fourth floor; simultaneously at 6 p.m. is Ultimate Frisbee on the Scullon Football Practice Field and, from 6 to 7, Improv Night with the Carroll Masquers of Improv troupe in Trinity Hall Lounge.
A Night on Us powers forward with a 7 p.m. stage show by comedian and high-energy juggler extraordinaire Charles Peachock (featured a record six times on America’s Got Talent, photo right), sponsored by Student Activities in the upper Campus Center, followed by an 8 to 10 p.m. “Making Memories Last” photo booth fun session in Guadalupe Hall, with karaoke and a nacho bar in the nearby Guad lounge. At 9 p.m. is laser tag in the lower Campus Center, then a 10 p.m. Campus Center concert by the band Stumbling Free. At midnight, finish off the festive night with a Glow Stick Capture the Flag contest on the Campus Center’s lawn. It’s all free, from food and drink to entertainment and photos.
Service
Carroll’s STTI Nursing Honor Society Chapter is holding a drive to help Helena’s estimated 600 homeless residents. Our future nurses are collecting new socks, new underwear for all ages (including new bras) and new warm stocking caps. The best guideline is to buy your own size (they currently have plenty of children's underwear donated). Donations will be accepted now through the end of April in the drop boxes located in the Campus Center and the fourth floor of Simperman Hall in the Nursing Department.
Get your gently used goodies ready for a send-off in style: the annual Up ’Til Dawn rummage sale fundraiser to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is coming up on April 6. Immediately after Easter Monday and continuing until Friday, April 5, donations of household goods, clothing, shoes and whatnot will be accepted in the lower level of the Campus Center in the ASCC student government office area.
Events
This Sunday, everyone is invited to the Carroll Intramural Basketball Championship in the PE Center. Games begin at 4 p.m., with a second session at 5. Each game will feature half-time contests, and spectators will be entered in a drawing for prizes, including Easter baskets and gift cards.
ALUMNI NEWS
In the News
Eric Johnson, MD, class of 1977, themedical director of Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Medicine at St. Alphonsus Hospital, Boise, ID, is featured in the April 2013 edition of Outside Magazine as an adventure physician tending to patients on Mount Everest. Spoiler alert: the story opens with Johnson and the Everest ER team saving the life of a climber who’s been doping to get to the summit. The riveting story, “Climbing’s Little Helper,” is online at: http://www.outsideonline.com/fitness/Climbings-Little-Helper.html. And, watch for a high-altitude feature story on Dr. Johnson in the spring edition of Carroll Magazine!
At last weekend’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade in Helena, sponsored by the Thomas Francis Meagher chapter of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the parade grand marshal was Rev. Stuart Long (photo left), class of 1986. At Carroll, he played football, later became Montana’s heavyweight boxing champion, went on to hook small Hollywood movie roles and then received the calling to become Catholic and, ultimately, a priest. He earned a master’s degree at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, went on to Mount Angel Seminary in Oregon and was ordained in 2007. A pot of gold details on his colorful life is at: http://helenair.com/lifestyles/community/fr-long-to-lead-st-patrick-s-day-parade/article_d4842302-8d33-11e2-87c9-001a4bcf887a.html
Karen Pérez-Da Silva (photo right), class of 1995, gave up her studies in medicine to become a kindergarten teacher at Barnes Elementary in Beaverton, Ore., where she is gaining attention for her special efforts motivating young children and their parents, especially minorities, to become interested in college. Pérez-Da Silva was born in El Salvador and moved to the US at age 7 after her family received political asylum. She is working on her doctorate in education at Lewis & Clark College and has taught at Barnes since 1998. For more, read: http://www.oregonlive.com/beaverton/index.ssf/2013/03/kindergarten_teacher_karen_per.html
Dr. Kate Krebsbach (photo left), class of 2004, a second-year resident and graduate of Des Moines University (Iowa) medical school, has embarked on a unique family medicine residency at RiverStone Health Clinic in Billings, Mont., which has received a national seal of quality for its primary-care delivery. RiverStone, along with its clinics in Bridger, Joliet and Worden, were cited last month for transforming the way they deliver care and were recognized for revolutionizing healthcare into “what patients want it to be.” Doctored-up details are at: http://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/riverstone-health-trains-physicians-to-spread-gospel/article_a40297b2-9e96-5219-9161-ff0d634c33c3.html#ixzz2O6dJO58r
Ceron Warfield (photo right), class of 2012, graduated this past December with a degree in elementary education and has accepted an offer to begin his career this August in the national Teach for America program, which places educators in high-need fields such as inner-city, rural and special education. Ceron will be teaching elementary English language learners in Nashville, Tenn., under a two-year contract. Students in his class will come from families in which English is not their primary language.
In Memoriam
Edward Cornelius Dennehy (photo left), class of 1950, of Butte, Mont., died on March 15, 2013. He served in the infantry during World War II and was awarded the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star and the Silver Star for gallantry in action in the Battle of the Bulge. He attended Carroll College on the GI Bill, served as captain of the basketball team and became an All-Conference guard his senior year. He and wife Virginia Faye Kelly were married over 65 years. Edward began his teaching career at the Blaine School in Centerville, Mont., where he also coached basketball and football. He then taught at the East Junior High School and later became its vice principal. He attained his master’s degree in education administration from Western Montana College, was the first principal of the West Junior High School, and retired after 34 years in education as the assistant superintendent of schools. He was a past president of the Butte Retired Teachers Association, a member of the Teachers Union, the Teamsters Union, the American Legion, and the Catholic Community North. For more on his life, read: http://mtstandard.com/news/local/obituaries/edward-dennehy/article_30070bec-8e9a-11e2-ae87-0019bb2963f4.html
Dr. Patrick Robins (photo right), class of 1963, died on Friday, March 15, 2013. After graduating from Carroll, Pat continued his education at Marquette Medical School, followed by an internship at Swedish Hospital in Seattle. He joined the US Air Force as a flight surgeon and from 1968 to 1970 was stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz. He flew airplanes, served as a navigator in the F4 Phantom jet, and held the record for flying hours logged by a flight surgeon in his squadron. From 1970 to 1974, Pat completed a residency in orthopedic surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., then returned to Montana where, in 1974, he joined Missoula Orthopedic Associates, the present Missoula Bone and Joint. He retired from surgical practice in 2003 and became the medical director of orthopedic surgery at St. Patrick Hospital for three years. Pat retired in 2006. For more on his life, read: http://missoulian.com/news/local/obituaries/patrick-robins/article_93082042-8f2f-11e2-bcb7-001a4bcf887a.html
James Vernon O'Fallon, class of 1972, of Pullman, Wash., died on March 13, 2013, at Pullman Regional Hospital in the arms of his beloved wife of 42 year, Elaine. After graduating from Carroll with a chemistry degree, he completed his master's and doctorate in biochemistry at Washington State University. In 1977, he started his professional career in research at WSU in the Animal Sciences Department. (James and Elaine, photo left) For more on his life, read: http://helenair.com/news/local/obituaries/james-vernon-o-fallon/article_34d459fc-905e-11e2-96f7-0019bb2963f4.html
FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS
Dr. Lauri Travis (photo right), the professional archaeologist who leads Carroll’s annual summer archaeology field school, reports that a portion of the research conducted during the 2011 field school formed the basis of a newly published article “Late Holocene Climate Change at the Beaver Creek Rock Shelter, Southwestern Montana,” in Plains Anthropologist 57(223):275-289. The article was co-authored by Travis and two field school student researchers: Kristen Rausch (class of 2012 graduate, now attending Montana State University) and Katherine Williams, who both assisted with the analysis of artifacts and paleoenvironmental data from the site.
This summer, Carroll’s 2013 Archaeological Field School will introduce students to basic archaeological field methods and research design in one of the most beautiful settings in the western US, the Helena National Forest, located in the northern Big Belt Mountains about 20 miles northeast of Helena. Offered June 10-19, the field school will be a 4-credit class that can serve as natural science core or social science credits. Students will be camping for eight nights along with full days of digging and hiking in Montana’s scenic backcountry.
MINISTRY AND JUSTICE
Get ready to mow it all down! April 6 is our annual Carroll St. Baldrick’s fundraiser, this year called Brave the Shave, with proceeds going to cure childhood cancer. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Campus Center’s upper level, get your hair sheared, with your fundraising sponsors daring you to go bald for St. Baldrick. Get enrolled and start gathering sponsorships here or contact kschut@carroll.edu. This year’s fundraising goal is $6,000.
For all Campus Ministry news, homilies, Mass and sacraments and more, log on to: http://www.carroll.edu/ministry/
ATHLETICS
In the News
Carroll’s women’s basketball team made it to the Sweet 16 in the national tourney last week, which is quite an achievement. Check out the team’s season finale among the nation’s best at: http://helenair.com/sports/college/carroll-college/basketball/womens/carroll-women-ousted-by-lee/article_2eae88ee-8dfd-11e2-b8bf-0019bb2963f4.html
Meanwhile, senior women’s basketball team member Torrie Cahill (photo right) was named to the NAIA All-American third team. Cahill led Carroll in scoring and rebounding this season and was 33rd in the country in field-goal percentage. This is her first All-American award. More is online at: http://helenair.com/sports/college/carroll-college/basketball/womens/cahill-earns-naia-all-american-status/article_94349bd4-91e7-11e2-9d28-001a4bcf887a.html
Events
The Saints Athletic Association Annual Auction will occur on Friday, April 12, at 6 p.m. in the Carroll PE Center. Proceeds go towards athletic scholarships that give Carroll the winning edge in recruiting the finest scholar-athlete talent. For info and to donate auction items,contact Kaelynn Olsen, interim executive director of the Saints Athletic Association and interim associate director of athletics, at KOlsen@carroll.edu. For tickets, contact Jennifer Bingham at 406-447-4480 or at jbingham@carroll.edu.
COMING EVENTS
Ongoing: Carroll Art Gallery (room 34 St. Charles Hall) exhibit, “Gabrielle Bakker: Drawings and Paintings,” featuring the visually stunning works of 2010 American Academy of Arts and Letters award recipient Gabrielle Bakker. In these works lurks a mystical world where minotaurs mingle with geishas and various mythical characters. With free admission, the gallery is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, closed weekends and college holidays, and the exhibit continues until May 3.
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 6: Up Till Dawn Rummage Sale to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. In the lower level of the Campus Center, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
April 6: Brave the Shave, a St. Baldrick’s hair shearing event to benefit children with cancer, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the upper level of the Campus Center. More info on the St. Baldrick’s Foundation is here and fundraising/sponsorship info is here. Help Carroll College reach its goal of $6,000.
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 11: Movie screening of “Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World” at 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Helena. A discussion follows after the film. Part of the National Endowment for the Humanities grant-funded Muslim Journeys project—carrollcollegelibrary.org.
April 12: Opening night for Carroll College Theatre for Children series production of < strong>Robin Hood, directed by Carroll College seniors Caroline Schafer and Jessica Belisle. Shows are April 12, 13, 14 and 19 at 7 p.m. in the Carroll Theatre (Old North, St. Charles Hall). School matinees by appointment: call 447-4309. Seating is first-come, first-seated, with the house opening 30 minutes before showtime. Tickets are $5 general, $3 for children under 12.
April 13: Carroll’s Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice sponsors its second Service Saturday, from 9 a.m. to noon, with volunteers meeting first in the upper Campus Center. From there, they head out to help the S.A.V.E. Foundation, Hunter's Pointe retirement community, ExplorationWorks museum, Prickly Pear Land Trust, and the Friendship Center.
April 18: Carroll’s 2013 Student Undergraduate Research Festival, showcasing original research and the arts, from 1 to 5 p.m., followed by the annual Honors Convocation at 7 p.m.
April 18: “Connected Histories,” a panel discussion made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities grant, Muslim Journeys, that the Carroll Corette Library was awarded this year, takes place at 7:30 p.m. in the Corette Library. “Connected Histories” will address the interconnected past that the West shares with Islam, as well as how this shared past continues to resonate today. At this time of deep divisions, misunderstanding and often animosity, this event will be an opportunity for the panel and attendees to engage in a conversation about the rich, complex history we share, and how a better understanding of this past might move us toward a deeper appreciation for what unites us. Moderated by Library Director Christian Frazza, the panel will include Carroll Associate Professor of History Jeanette M. Fregulia, Philosophy Professor Barry Ferst and Rev. Marianne Niesen, the senior pastor of St. Paul’s Methodist Church in Helena.
April 20-21: Softball Weekend.
April 24: Carroll College and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Montana chapter host a free screening of the documentary film< strong>Of Two Minds, on bipolar mental illness, at 7 p.m. in the lower level of the Campus Center. The movie is co-written, directed and produced by Lisa Klein, who will be at this event.
April 25-27: Students from the Carroll College American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) student chapter will participate in the concrete canoe and technical paper competitions at the 2013 ASCE Pacific Northwest Student Conference at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore. The three-day event will include various contests between students from 16 university and college ASCE student chapters in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and British Columbia.
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
July 14-20: The 30th annual Carroll College Gifted Institute, an in-residence program for gifted students entering 5th through 9th grades.