PRESIDENTIAL HEADLINES Today, March 4, at a press conference held at the Carroll College Campus Center, Carroll President Tom Trebon and Carroll board of trustees chair Ray Messer announced that the board has accepted Dr. Trebon's request to retire at the end of his contract term ending on June 30, 2012, and for a presidential search to commence. Among Dr. Trebon's achievements during a presidency that began with his inauguration as Carroll's 14th president on Oct. 26, 2001, he led the centennial celebration effort and the first comprehensive campaign in the college's history. That campaign, recently concluded, raised $34 million and wrapped up months ahead of schedule beyond the campaign's initial fundraising goals. In late February, the college learned that the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities had reaffirmed Carroll's accreditation, based on the results of the college's 2010 Year-Seven Evaluation. Dr. Trebon, age 67, indicated that the time was ripe for a transition in his own life that coincided perfectly with the college's plans. With the campaign's conclusion, Carroll is now engaged in strategic planning for the next decade, with the prospect of a second comprehensive campaign beginning during that time period. With family around the globe, he said that he and his wife Scottie are looking forward to spending more time with their grandchildren as he shifts into a new role as a professor and president emeritus, an honorary role allowing retired faculty and presidents to continue assisting Carroll as needed. Statewide media are covering this story extensively, and more details are online here: www.carroll.edu/news/press-release THAW SHUCKS This weekend begins our weeklong Spring Break. QNs will be sunning itself with the rest of the Saints revelers but stay tuned for future news from everyone's favorite Catholic college in Helena, MT. For a regular fix of updated Carroll news and coming events, make the Carroll website your homepage: https://www.carroll.edu/ Classes will resume March 14. During the break, Carroll's Campus Ministry Headlights Immersion trips will take 13 students to Rochester, NY and 12 students to Kansas City, Mo., where they will all be serving the poor. Follow the Headlights students on their adventures, and see their reflections of each day's experiences, at: http://carrollministry.wordpress.com/
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On Wednesday, March 16, Carroll College's Psychology Department and its Human-Animal Bond Club will host a free, public lecture by Julie Hecht, who will present "Dogs in Translation: The Science Behind the Dog-Human Relationship" at 7 p.m. in the Carroll Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre. In her lecture, Hecht will explain dog science and why it matters, including the process of designing and executing a dog-science experiment. Anyone who loves dogs and wants to learn more about them will particularly enjoy this talk, suitable for general audiences. For more, read: http://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=14576 STUDENT NEWS Awards DEADLINE TODAY! 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, 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 a 2.0 grade point average are eligible. Nomination forms are due today, March 4, at 5 p.m. and can be submitted online at the Carroll website: https://www.carroll.edu/career-services/hunthausen-award 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 The Father Butko Awards in Freshman Writing, recognizing top-quality student essays, are available to all students enrolled in ENWR 101/ENWR 102 during the 2010-2011 academic year. Up to five winners will receive scholarships, valued at $250 each, based on essays submitted (along with a completed submission form) to the Academic Dean's Office in O'Connell Hall. The deadline is 4 p.m. on Monday, March 28. Winners will be notified by the Department of Languages and Literature and recognized at the Honors Convocation on Wednesday, April 27. For more information, contact Joan Stottlemyer, the director of Carroll's Academic Resource Center, at jstottle@carroll.edu ALUMNI NEWS Events For all alumni events listed below, and there are plenty nationwide, please RSVP to Alumni Director Kathy Ramirez at alumni@carroll.edu or call/text her at 406-461-3214: PHOENIX: Sunday, March 6, gathering of alumni, parents & friends at the home of Dr. Gordon & Marilyn Peters, 1-3 p.m. HELENA AREA: Thursday, March 17, St. Patrick's Day Luncheon, with all alumni invited to drop in any time between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to enjoy a corned beef and cabbage lunch. Free but please RSVP. SEATTLE/TACOMA: Thursday, March 24, gathering for alumni, parents, friends and families at 6-8 p.m. at the Adriatic Grill, 4201 South Steele St., Tacoma, with cost $20/person for dinner and no-host bar SEATTLE/TACOMA: Friday, March 26, gathering for alumni, parents, friends and families at 1-3 p.m. at F.X. McRory's, 419 Occidental Ave. S., Seattle, with cost $15/person for lunch and no-host bar Golden Grad Reunion: Classes of 1951 and 1961 as special honored guests during Carroll Commencement on May 6-7 For a complete schedule of Alumni events, visit https://www.carroll.edu/alumni Awards Carroll is now accepting nominations for the following awards: The Young Alumni Award, presented at Homecoming and honoring graduates from the past 10 years who best exemplify Carroll's tradition of service, academic excellence/career advancement and meaningful stewardship. The Alumni Hall of Fame, presented at Homecoming and honoring alumni for outstanding contributions of stewardship - time, talent and treasure - in distinguished service community and to Carroll. To nominate alumni for the Young Alumni Award or the Alumni Hall of Fame, please send an e-mail to alumni@carroll.edu describing how your nominee qualifies. Please include the nominee's name, your name, address and phone. Supporting materials are optional. Nominations need to be received by May 1, 2011, to be considered for the 2011 alumni awards. The Alumni Academic Achievement Award presented during Founder's Day festivities in early November and honoring alumni who distinguish themselves academically or artistically, are influential in their field and have made significant impact either through research or career achievements. To submit a nomination for the Alumni Academic Achievement Award, send an e-mail to alumni@carroll.edu describing how your nominee qualifies. Please indicate evidence of the nominee's publications, research or honors, and include your name, address, phone and any supporting materials. Nominations for the Alumni Academic Achievement Award must be received by July 1, 2011, to be considered for the 2011 award. Nominations may also be mailed to the Alumni Relations Office Carroll College 1601 N. Benton Avenue Helena, MT 59625. For more information, visit www.carroll.edu/alumni The Wendy's of Montana, Carroll College Athletic Hall of Fame, awarded at Homecoming, honors outstanding achievements by Saints student-athletes. A minimum of ten years must have passed since the nominee's last season of competition, and nominees must have been, at a minimum, a member of the first or second team All Conference. A completed nomination form is required, including statistics and other supporting material. The Warren Nelson Award, conferred at Homecoming, was established in 1986 to honor Mr. Warren Nelson for his years of supporting Carroll College athletic programs. Nominations for this award should include evidence that an individual exemplifies the unselfish goodness of Nelson in assisting, promoting and otherwise supporting the Carroll College Saints. Recipients of this award do not have to be alumni of Carroll College. In the News Monte Kohler, class of 1982, was recently inducted to the Washington State Football Coaches Hall of Fame for his achievements as O'Dea High School (Seattle, Wash.) athletic director and head football coach. Under his leadership, his O'Dea football teams have won 20 league titles and three state championships and were named academic state champions three times. Kohler's track and field teams won 17 league championships and three state crowns. Janet Brunsvold, class of 1987 (photo right), was in the news for starting an innovative new enterprise to help families save on funeral expenses. Brunsvold's Caskets and More a Discount Store launched last October in Billings, Mont., and offers an array of services, including arranging funerals and cremations, home services and even pet caskets. After earning her nursing degree from Carroll, she worked for many years in emergency room care, home health, orthopedics and hospice, setting the stage for her new business. The story is buried online at: http://billingsgazette.com/business/features/article_20732c37-d65c-5dc0-953b-17b54f5218a7.html Katie Coombs, class of 2005, married Casey Hutchinson (couple in photo left) on August 14, 2010, at Saint Paul's United Methodist Church in Helena, with a reception at Carroll College. Katie is obtaining her Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience at Arizona State University, and the couple resides in Phoenix. In February 2011, Krista Lowary, class of 2009 (photo right), appeared on NBC's Minute to Win It and won $125,000, with fellow Carroll grad (and her boyfriend) Robbie Simons, class of 2009, watching her get her minute of fame. She won the prize by accomplishing a seemingly impossible feat: stacking three golf balls on top of each other. She plans to spend part of her winnings on a trip to Cabo San Lucas, a Jeep Cherokee and a nice donation to the American Cancer Society. Details are precariously balanced at: http://www.eastoregonian.com/news/minute-of-fame/article_57cf104a-4052-11e0-a17b-001cc4c03286.html?mode=story Nikki Mills, class of 2010, is currently working at an orphanage in Damongo, Ghana, home to 46 kids. She writes, "At first it was very difficult and sobering experience for me, but I quickly came to realize they think they have it made, though they have lost so much. They get three meals a day. They get to play all day and get as dirty as they want. Naps wherever and whenever. They can run around naked if they want to, and they have a family. These children have a bond no one can break and one they will never experience again in their lives. It reminds me so much of our Carroll family." (Photo left of Nikki's kids, all Saints fans, in Ghana) In Memoriam William Stanford Duncan, a Carroll WWII Navy V12 Program veteran and resident of Silverton, Ore., died on December 19, 2010. John F. Neuman, class of 1964 (photo right), died on February 20, 2011, in Bozeman, Mont. John was the eldest son of Dr. E. W. "Doc" Neuman, a legendary former Carroll professor who helped build the college's biology program to the prominence it continues today. After graduating from Carroll, John attended graduate school at Washington State University and spent his entire professional career as an analytical chemist. He worked for the USDA laboratory in Wenatchee, Wash., and with private laboratories in Colorado. After moving to Bozeman in 1981, he worked for the Montana Department of Agriculture laboratory and later the Montana State University Fisheries Bioassay Laboratory. John was the long-time laboratory manager for the Center for BioFilm Engineering at MSU until he retired in 2009. For more on his life, read: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bozemandailychronicle/obituary.aspx?n=john-f-neuman&pid=148808101&fhid=7190 FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS Carroll Associate Professor of History Gillian Glaes (photo left) has been accepted to the highly competitive Fulbright German Studies Seminar "Ethnic Diversity and National Identity" to be held this coming June 15-25 in Germany. She plans to use the experience she gleans there in her fall course, Contemporary Europe since 1945: The Cold War in Historical Perspective, while also incorporating material from the seminar into her research. Only 15 scholars from U.S. universities, colleges and community colleges with full-time teaching appointments and a terminal degree in the field of German or European Studies were accepted to this Fulbright seminar. Carroll was recently recognized by the Montana National Guard for the college's faculty participation in the Guard's cross-cultural workshops conducted in December 2009 and on September 11, 2010. In the workshops, Carroll's Director of International Programs and TESOL Michelle Lewis, Assistant Professor of History Jeanette Fregulia, Academic Dean Paula McNutt, Professor of History Bob Swartout, and assistant professor of communication studies Doreen Kutufam presented illuminating talks to soldiers at Helena's Fort Harrison. Presentations spanned the gamut, from cross-cultural communication, Afghanistan/Pakistan culture and Islam to cultural and political profiles of Ghana, Korea and the Middle East. (Photo right: left to right are Lewis, Fregulia, Colonel Bradley Clair, Kutufam and Swartout) This week, the comic production of Saturday Night Live! Helena, plays at the Myrna Loy Center through tonight, under the madcap direction of Carroll's own Theatre Department professor and Director of Improv Michael "Mokey" McNeilly. A spoof on the Montana Legislature, the show is pretty easy to produce, McNeilly says: "We don't have to make up anything. This Legislature is providing us with raw and real comedy. It's pure comedic material." For more on SNL-Helena skits, songs and commentary, read: http://helenair.com/news/article_5c75aada-449b-11e0-b56a-001cc4c03286.html 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 Carroll College's Shannon Flynn (photo right) and Sara Lubke (photo left) didn't waste much time joining the NAIA track and field elite. The two Saints, who are on opposite ends of their collegiate careers, will be in action today through Saturday at the NAIA Indoor Track and Field National Championships in Geneva, Ohio. For more info, vault over to http://helenair.com/sports/article_b82cf3e2-4568-11e0-9042-001cc4c03286.html Carroll College women's basketball coach Shawn Nelson earned his 200th career victory this past Tuesday and became the fastest to reach that benchmark in Frontier Conference men's and women's basketball history. Score more details at: http://helenair.com/sports/basketball/article_e176b3f8-456a-11e0-b072-001cc4c03286.html Last Tuesday, Carroll College football coach Mike Van Diest and the Carroll Fighting Saints helped raise money for the Children's Miracle Network and Helena's Shodair Hospital by stacking hotcakes during National Pancake Day festivities held at Helena's IHOP. As part of this national fundraiser, hungry Helenans lined up for the all-day pancake feed, which included free short stacks, with donations welcomed. All told, the four IHOP locations across Montana raised $8,300, with the Helena IHOP leading the pack by generating $2,750-proving yet again that the Fighting Saints take the cake when it comes to drawing record crowds. More facts are on the griddle at: http://helenair.com/news/article_60ec6072-449b-11e0-8a9c-001cc4c03286.html Saturday, February 19, was Military Appreciation Night at the Carroll PE Center, with a moving tribute as Old Glory unfurled. Check out the full Athletics schedule and all the latest news, photos and video at http://www.carrollathletics.com/index.aspx COMING EVENTS Ending this weekend on 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 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 18: Entertainment extravaganza for students, with Twister, Sumo wrestling and inflatable fun at 6:30-9:30 p.m. in the PE Center; open swim in the PE Center pool at 6:45-8:45 p.m.; open bouldering cave fun, sponsored by Carroll Adventure and Mountaineering Program, from 7 to 11 p.m. in the Bouldering Cave on the fourth floor of St. Charles Hall; Improv Night with the Carroll Masquers of Improv 7:30-8:30 p.m. in Trinity Hall Lounge; live music by Dan Hunthausen, sponsored by Student Activities, from 9 to 11 p.m. in the upper level of the Campus Center; a movie and popcorn night at 9:30 p.m. in Simperman Hall's Wiegand Amphitheatre; nacho bar and karaoke sponsored by Campus Ministry at 10:30 p.m. to midnight in Guadalupe Hall Lounge; capped off by Capture the Flag at midnight in the upper level of the Campus Center. 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 8: Astronomy Weekend at Carroll begins with guest speaker Terry D. Oswalt, head of the Physics and Space Sciences Department and associate provost for research, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Fla. Details TBA. April 9: Astronomy Weekend continues with science activities, telescope observing and more all afternoon for the whole family. Details TBA. 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.