NOVEMBER 11, 2011
FLAGGING THE DAY In commemoration of Veterans Day, the college ROTC cadets raised the flag in front of St. Charles Hall this morning and they invite everyone to join them as they lower it today at 4 p.m. Also to mark the day, Carroll students, faculty and staff are welcome to say thank you to a soldier by dropping by the Campus Center during the lunch hour to sign a card, provided free by Montana Supporting Soldiers. These cards will be distributed to make sure as many soldiers as possible know we're thinking of them and are thankful for what they're doing over the holiday season. BUSRIDE THROUGH HELL This coming Monday, November 14, Montana PBS will screen the documentary film Freedom Riders, a production of PBS American Experience, at 7 p.m. downstairs in the Carroll Campus Center. It's free and open to the public, and the event kicks off a Montana state tour for the film. Freedom Riders focuses on the 400-plus black and white Americans who rode on busses and trains through the Deep South over 6 months in 1961, with many of them savagely beaten and jailed for violating Jim Crow laws. Two of those brave riders, Bob and Helen Singleton (photos right), will speak at this Monday night event, as will Carroll student Rachael DeMarce, who participated in this past summer's 2011 Student Freedom Ride sponsored by PBS American Experience. For more, read: http://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=15482 POETIC LICENSE Today, November 11, Carroll's 9th annual Carroll Literary Festival wraps up with author readings of poems, literary criticism and short fiction submitted by students, faculty and community members in the Corette Library all afternoon. Last night, award-winning science and fiction writer-and 1988 Carroll alum-Tom Harpole gave the keynote reading, and in case you missed out, a feature story on Harp's life of extreme living and extreme writing is online at: http://helenair.com/lifestyles/tom-harpole-to-give-keynote-at-carroll-college-literary-festival/article_637b2a34-0779-11e1-b7af-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1d2R4Pxi3 The full schedule of author readings today is online at: http://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=15519 THE MUSIC ENDS THIS WEEKEND This is your final weekend to enjoy A Little Night Music, the light opera musical presented by Carroll Theatre and underway at Helena's Myrna Loy Center. Final performances are tonight through Sunday, November 11-13, all at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $18 general admission, $15 for Carroll faculty and staff and $10 for Carroll students-bring your Carroll lD to assure your discount! For tickets and more information, call the Myrna Loy at 406-443-0287 or order online at: http://www.myrnaloycenter.com/events.htm GORILLAS ARE US Next Thursday, November 17, Dr. Joseph Laythe (photo left), class of 1987, will receive the college's 2011 Alumni Academic Achievement Award and give a stirring talk, "Gorilla Americanus: Race, Primates, and the American Search for Order." The award ceremony, approximately 15 minutes in length, begins at 7 p.m., with the lecture following immediately, all in the lower level of the Carroll Campus Center. A reception will finish the night. A professor of history at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Laythe has followed in the footsteps of his Carroll mentor, Dr. Bob Swartout, who will introduce his protégé at the event. The talk sounds pretty hot, with Laythe proposing that Americans deliberately used our view of gorillas and other primates to justify caging human beings and forced sterilizations of the "unfit." Laythe also has a new book due out this year about women who kill. For more on Laythe's imminent talk and accomplishments, read: http://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=15481 COMMUNICATION AT WARP 10 Also on November 17, Carroll's Business Department Lecture Series brings us guest speaker Dr. John T. Vandeberg, class of 1962, an business expert on semiconductors and precision optics, presenting a free public talk, "‘High Tech-High Touch': Enabling Speed of Light in Fiber Optic Communication Around the Globe," at 4 p.m. in Simperman Hall's Wiegand Amphitheater. A native Montanan, Vandeberg is the former president and CEO of CERAC Incorporated of Milwaukee, Wisc., a manufacturer and supplier of specialty inorganic chemicals and materials for the semiconductor, ophthalmic, precision optics (thin film coatings), security, and core inorganic chemical markets. More info is online at: http://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=15488 MAKING GIANTS A week from tomorrow, on Saturday, November 19, Carroll math and astronomy professor, Dr. Kelly Cline, brings to campus a special guest lecturer, telescope specialist Dr. Christina Dunn, presenting "Creating the Giant: Fabricating the Mirrors of the European Extremely Large Telescope," at 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall's Wiegand Amphitheater. Free and open to the public. Dr. Dunn recently moved to Montana and brings with her years of research into the new generation of gargantuan telescopes-we're talking telescope mirrors wider than the wingspan of a Boeing 737! It takes a village of genius scientists of all kinds to pull off this technological miracle, and Dunn will explain it all in detail, including what these behemoths might show us beyond our current understanding of the universe. We shed more light on the subject at: http://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=15542 BEEN SAVING IT UP? Now through Monday, the S.A.V.E. Foundation and its Helena and state community partners will host the next plastics recycling event at the YMCA parking lot just east of campus (1100 N Last Chance Gulch) from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. They'll be accepting type 1 and 2 plastics-water and soda bottles, clear clam shell trays, milk jugs, distilled water and orange juice containers, detergent bottles and the like. Motor oil containers are not accepted, and cooking oil containers should be thoroughly rinsed beforehand. No lids! STUDENT NEWS Carroll's literary magazine Colors is asking for submissions of poetry and short stories and visual art for its next publication. Submit your work at: colors@carroll.edu or at the Colors office in the lower Campus Center. The deadline is next Tuesday, November 15.Full coverage of all student events is online at: http://www.carroll.edu/students/index.cc
ALUMNI NEWS
In the News
During the Carroll College annual fall board of trustees meeting held on November 3-5, five new members were appointed to the board and a new board chair was elected, and all are Carroll alumni. The four new board members beginning their terms are Annie (Bartos) Goodwin and Bill War of Helena, Dr. Albert Olszewski of Kalispell, Mont., Tom Walsh of Missoula, Mont., and Gene Mallette of Denver, Colo. The new board chair, Mark J. Semmens (right), class of 1982, is the managing director for investment banking for D.A. Davidson & Co., in Great Falls, Mont. He has served on Carroll's board of trustees since 2007. From 2000 to 2007, Semmens served on the Montana Board of Regents, the governing board for Montana's public colleges and universities. From 2000 to 2009 he served as member and chair of the Montana Higher Education Student Assistance Corporation, the state's student loan financing organization. His father was long-serving Carroll English Professor Dr. John E. Semmens. Annie (Bartos) Goodwin (left), nursing class of 1981, served as Montana commissioner of banking and financial institutions from 2001 to 2010. Prior to that appointment, she served as chief legal counsel of the Department of Commerce, including the Montana State Bank Board Banking and Financial Institutions Division. She is currently in private practice in Helena with a focus on banking and regulatory law. A University of Montana Law School graduate, she also retains her nursing license. Bill War (right), class of 1965, currently serves as an owner and a principal in the William T. War & Associates and Executive Alliance Group consulting firm, providing project development services to the energy industry. After graduating from Carroll, he went on to receive a master's in chemical engineering and has worked nationally and internationally in the field of chemical engineering, with particular interest in petroleum exploration, production and distribution. Most recently, he has served on the Carroll College Business Advisory Council, advancing initiatives in the college's Business Department. Tom Walsh (left), class of 1981, currently serves as president of Montana Rail Link with corporate offices in Missoula. As a Carroll business/accounting graduate, he was first employed by a leading national accounting firm (KMPG) in Montana, becoming one of the few Carroll students to be placed in a leading firm at the time. He went on to join Montana Rail Link soon after its purchase by and incorporation within the Washington companies, and he filled a number of positions there, primarily in the finance area, before being named CEO. Gene Mallette (right), class of 1971, is the president and CEO of Alpine Air Express. While selling aircraft throughout the western United States in the 1970's, Gene was named general manager of Alpine Air based in Provo, Utah, in 1979 and purchased the company in 1986. Alpine Air is the third largest regional all-cargo airline in the US. Alpine Air became a public company in 2001, and in 2009 Mallette was recognized as Utah's CEO of the Year for small public companies. Dr. Albert Olszewski (left), class of 1984, has 18 years of experience as a board certified orthopedic surgeon and currently practices at Flathead Valley Orthopedic in Kalispell. After graduating from Carroll, he earned his M.D. from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 1988 and entered the US Air Force as a flight and orthopedic surgeon. He received the Air Force Commendation Medal for his role in providing medical support for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 1996 air disaster in Manta, Ecuador. In 1998, Olszewski entered private practice at Flathead Orthopedics in Kalispell, where, as a pioneer of minimally invasive knee replacement surgery, he has taught the technique to over 300 orthopedic surgeons from North and South America. In January 2010, Olszewski provided early response trauma care to earthquake victims in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In other news, in the past week's elections, Carroll 2002 grad Matt Elsaesser (right) won a second term on the Helena City Commission. The full tally is discussed at: http://helenair.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/elsaesser-haque-hausrath-win-commission-seats/article_413c3090-0aa2-11e1-ba8c-001cc4c002e0.html In Memoriam Carol Bruno (left), class of 1987, of Helena died on Nov. 1, 2011, in an auto accident. After earning her economics degree from Carroll, she pursued her artistic talents at the Kansas City Art Institute, where she received a BFA in ceramic arts. She was a vice president at Valley Bank and enjoyed working there for nearly 20 years. For more on her life, read: http://helenair.com/news/local/obituaries/carol-bruno/article_f865327c-083f-11e1-9ec6-001cc4c03286.html FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS Professor Belle Marie of Carroll's Business Department recently presented a lecture entitled "The Socioeconomic Impact of Gender in India" to the Helena Sunrise Rotary Club. The presentation was based upon research completed during her 2005 Fulbright Scholar work in India. For those who missed the TV news report featuring Assistant Professor of Political Science Jeremy Johnson (right) discussing Occupy Wall Street, the backlash and the political ramifications, check it out online at the KXLH website at: http://www.kxlh.com/news/occupy-movement-could-shape-montana-politics/ This weekend's Helena Fall Art Walk will not only feature the works of Philosophy Professor Barry Ferst at the Queens of Arts Gallery in Beads Extraordinaire at 433 N. Last Chance Gulch (discussed in last week's QNs) but also the photography of our Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen Endowed Professor of Peace and Social Justice Chris Fuller (left), who will have a display at the offices of Headwaters Covenant Church in the basement of the YWCA on W. Placer Ave. in Helena. On Friday, November 18, Carroll's November Faculty Colloquium will feature Dr. Bill Parsons of the Political Science Department presenting "Crime, Christianity, and the Challenge of Moral Flexibility" at 4 p.m. in the Maronick Board Room of the Campus Center. CAMPUS MINISTRY Next Tuesday, November 15, the 13 students from our Campus Ministry fall Headlights immersion journey to East Los Angeles will present the highlights of their service learning and life-changing experiences at 12:45 p.m. in Trinity Hall Lounge. Feel free to bring your lunch. Opening at the Myrna Loy Center in Helena this weekend is Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen's new movie The Way, about humanity and faith. Campus Ministry will be making tickets available to students for the Tuesday night showing next week. To learn more about the movie, visit: http://blog.americancatholic.org/2011/11/07/new-movie-the-way-offers-insights/ For all Campus Ministry news, including Mass, sacraments, retreat info, homilies and discussions of Catholic social justice, check out: http://www.carroll.edu/ministry/ ATHLETICS Home Games Lady Saints volleyball has a home playoff in the PE Center tonight at 7 p.m. vs. MSU-Northern. The Saints play again tomorrow, Saturday at 1 p.m. and the championship is Saturday night, with ALL the conference rivalry rockin' the Carroll PE Center! Student tickets, courtesy of Carroll Student Activities and the Athletics Department, are available at the PE Center. Check the playoff and championship schedule at: http://www.carroll.edu/athletics/newsitemview.php?id=15540 Soccer is also at the Frontier Championships, held in Salt Lake City this weekend. Football is away, cross country is bye. For more Saints Athletics info and scheduled games for all teams, go to http://www.carroll.edu/athletics/index.cc COMING EVENTS Ongoing to December 9: The Carroll Art Gallery (Carroll College's St. Charles Hall) continues its exhibit series with paintings by religion scholar Lisa Sweet. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, closed weekends and college holidays, and is always free of charge. More info is at: http://academic.evergreen.edu/s/sweetl/ November 22: Tobacco Forum for students and employees to discuss campus tobacco policy changes, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the lower Campus Center. Treats provided. December 1: Dr. Kelly Cline presents "Is Pluto a Planet?" at 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheater. Free. December 1: Carroll Jazz Combo Fall Concert in the Carroll Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. December 5 and 6: Theatre Showcase A Gaggle of Saints, a one-act play by Neil Labute taken from Bash, a collection of three of Labute's dramatic one-acts. In this showcase performance, a couple of juniors at Boston College recount a trip to New York to attend a big "bash" and celebrate their anniversary. The evening takes an unexpected twist, resulting in a "bash" of a different kind. This is a very dramatic and compelling piece addressing hate crimes and deals with the character's acceptances, denials and trials when faced with inner demons. Directed by senior theatre major Ace Etchart. In the Merton Acting Studio at 7:30 p.m. General admission $5, with Carroll students, faculty and staff admitted free. December 12: Carroll Jazz Combo concert in the Campus Center, 4 p.m. Free. December 16: Fall ROTC Commissioning Ceremony, Montana state capitol rotunda, 10 to 11:30 a.m., with guest speaker Captain Diane Carlson Evans. Honorees include second lieutenants Natasha Aberth and Kristina Christensen, US Army Nurse Corps. The public is welcome, and a reception will follow.