November 19, 2010 QuickNotes

TURKEY CALL  Next week, Thanksgiving Break begins on Wednesday, with QNs planning for its annual descent into the holiday tryptophan-induced haze (slightly worse than the work-induced haze we're normally in). We'll see you after the turkey wears off on Friday, December 3!  STIMULUS FOR THE SMALL Tomorrow (Friday, November 19), Michelle Johnston (photo left), district director for the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA) Montana District Office located in Helena, will present "The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010: What it means for Montana" as the next in Carroll's Business Department Lecture Series sponsored by First Interstate Bank. The presentation begins at 7 p.m. in the lower level of the Carroll College Campus Center. It is free and open to the public. On Sept. 27, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Small Business Jobs Act, the most significant piece of small business legislation in over a decade. Intended to provide critical resources to help small businesses continue to drive economic recovery and create jobs, this new law extends the successful SBA enhanced loan provisions while offering billions more in lending support, tax cuts, and other opportunities for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Learn more about all this from Johnston, who is responsible for the delivery of SBA programs throughout Montana, including a loan portfolio of over 2,500 loans and more than $330 million dollars. SINGING SÉANCE THIS WEEKEND This weekend only, the Carroll Fine Arts Department brings opera to campus for the first time in over a decade with The Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti. This one-hour long opera in English will appear in the Carroll Performing Arts Center tonight through Saturday evening, November 18, 19 and 20, at 7:30 p.m. Mary Holbrook will star as Madame Flora, who pretends to parley with the dead during phony séances. Her costar is opera veteran Tamara Ashley, singing the part of Flora's partner-in-crime daughter. Carroll students will take the opera stage, with Charlotte Alby as Mrs. Gobineau, Chloe Kebble as Mrs. Nolan and Stephen Plummer as Toby, the mute boy. Carroll Associate Professor of Music Robert Psurny, the production's director, will play Mr. Gobineau. Other talent includes pianist June Lee, Associate Professor of Theatre Chuck Driscoll for set design and lights, and Fine Arts Adjunct Professor Nancy Harper, costume designer.  This opera is not suitable for children, due to some violent content. Tickets are $8 for general admission and $5 for senior citizens and students. Carroll students get in FREE TONIGHT (Thursday), and Carroll faculty and staff (with one guest) admitted free for all three shows! See the full feature story on the Helena Independent Record website here: http://helenair.com/entertainment/yourtime/article_08fa61a6-f212-11df-af15-001cc4c002e0.html GOOD FOOD: THE MOVIE Tonight (Thursday, November 18) the Carroll and Helena communities are invited to a free showing of the film Good Food by Bullfrog Films at 6:30 p.m. in Carroll's Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre. The film screening will be followed by a discussion about growing local, organic foods and about food security issues, including improving nutrition for poor families.  Popcorn will be provided for a snack. Good Food offers an intimate look at the farmers, ranchers, and businesses that are creating a more sustainable food system in the Pacific Northwest. This event is sponsored by the Carroll College office of Student Activities and the Carroll Green Team. FEAR IN TIBET, GOD IN PAKISTAN And the campus movie nights continue! Tomorrow (Friday, November 19), anyone craving films with an international perspective but not wanting to deal with long Harry Potter ticket lines can head to Carroll for satisfaction . . . and a tough choice, with two foreign films screened on campus. First up, Carroll's International Programs' celebration of US Department of Education and State International Education Week concludes with two free, public screenings of the critically acclaimed film Khuda Kay Liye (In the Name of God) (Urdu with English subtitles) in Carroll's O'Connell Hall, room 107, at two times: 3:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Both showings are free and followed by a question and answer period with Carroll student Sundus Mehmood of Lahore, Pakistan (where part of this film was shot). Sundus is a Muslim who is studying at Carroll this year courtesy of a U.S. Department of State program called The Global Undergraduate Exchange Program in Pakistan (Global UGRAD in Pakistan) administered by IREX (the International Research and Exchanges Board). Khuda Kay Liye focuses on terrorism, torture and the true teachings of Islam and contains R-rated material. Also on Friday at 7 p.m., the third in Carroll's India study abroad students' film series, Leaving Fear Behind, will be screened in Simperman Hall's Wiegand Amphitheatre, room 101/202. Free admission. The film features native Tibetan Dhondup Wangchen, who interviewed his countrymen about what they thought of the 2008 Olympic Games held in China. Dhondup was caught making this film by the Chinese military and imprisoned, but this footage heroically smuggled out of Tibet sends his voice to the world. PENCILS AND PROTRACTORS UNDER THE TREE  Carroll College's Festival of Trees committee is feverishly finishing up its submission to this year's Festival of Trees, the annual holiday benefit for Intermountain. A nationally recognized Montana nonprofit, Intermountain offers children under severe emotional distress a nurturing, therapeutic environment. The Carroll tree to be auctioned off at the festival will be decked with school supplies to support the Angel Fund, which helps local kids get school supplies their families cannot afford. At the festival, the winning bidder for the Carroll Angel Fund tree will donate all school supply decorations on it and under it to the Angel Fund. Items needed for this effort include notebooks, protractors, lunch boxes, calculators, compasses, backpacks, glue sticks, markers, facial tissues, crayons, erasers, binders, folders, pens, rulers and paper. Donations will be accepted until November 26. Anyone who wants to help fill the blanket beneath our Carroll tree with school supplies (or offer a cash donation to purchase them) can drop donations to: Laura d'Esterre (Carroll's Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice in St. Charles Hall), Sarah Windmueller (Carroll Conference Services downstairs in the Campus Center) or Tina Wagner (Carroll's Financial Aid Office). Boxes are available for donations in O'Connell Hall, the St. Charles Hall faculty lounge, Guadalupe Hall, the Associated Students of Carroll College lounge downstairs in the Campus Center, upstairs in the Campus Center and in St. Charles Hall's Kirchen Ministry offices. For more info, contact Tina Wagner of Carroll's Festival of Trees committee at 406-447-5466 or email twagner@carroll.edu KICKING THE HORNET'S NEST On Thursday, December 2, the Carroll Outreach Team will offer the public a sneak preview of the feature film, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, at the Myrna Loy Center. Proceeds will support the Carroll Outreach Team's ongoing efforts in Haiti, where Carroll students and faculty have served on a number of service trips to provide dental care to hundreds of Haiti's poorest citizens. A reception begins at 6 p.m. in the Myrna Loy lobby, followed by the film screening at 7 p.m. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at the Myrna Loy Center at 15 N. Ewing Street in Helena. Funds from ticket sales will support a collaborative project involving the Carroll Outreach Team (COT) and Carroll College Engineers Without Borders (EWB) to build a community center in the town of Jeremie, Haiti. For more details, read: https://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=14153 CARROLL CAROL WITH A TWIST It's that time of year again, but not what you'd expect. The annual Scrooge story will be offered with a twist this year with the Carroll Theatre Department production of A Christmas Carol in the Performing Arts Center, Old North, St. Charles Hall on two successive weekends: December 2-5 and 9-12. Curtain is at 7 p.m. on Thursdays through Saturdays, with 2 p.m. matinees on both Sundays. The Charles Dickens classic, adapted by Doris Baizley, will be directed by Carroll Theatre Professor and improv troupe director Michael "Mokey" McNeilly. This innovative adaptation of the classic Christmas tale was first performed at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 1977, where it  was shown for six subsequent seasons and is now enjoyed all over the country. It is the story of a company of actors with their 12-foot trunk in a traveling Christmas Carol production. But, a surprise forces some of the actors into certain roles, and what ensues is a fireworks of mime, juggling, singing and dancing. Tickets are $10 general and $8 for students and senior citizens, and Carroll students get in free on Sundays. GET READY FOR PEAK OIL For the spring 2011 semester beginning this January, Carroll College is offering the Energy and the Environment course, with enrollment open to Carroll students, faculty and staff and members of the public. Carroll Engineering Professor Dr. Willis Weight (photo right, at right, with Carroll student), who teaches the course, says anyone with a math background comparable to college algebra would be prepared for the challenges of the class work.  The course will explore the physics of energy so that students can calculate the energy content of a variety of systems, such as gasoline, other fossil fuels, nuclear, solar, wind and biomass. This will lead to discussion of energy's global use and needs, plus the environmental problems that have resulted from energy development. Weight says that students in this course will be in a position to assist in the decisions related to the management of our energy resources and contribute to the policy-making process. For more, read: http://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=14139 STUDENT NEWS On Wednesday, December 1, Carroll's freshman Alpha Seminar students will hold their annual conference, free and open to the public, to showcase their research and reflections on their theme "Individual and Community." Presentations on an array of topics will occur from 6 to 9 p.m. in Carroll's Smperman Hall (just go to Simperman and get the full schedule of talks and presentation rooms on the evening of December 1).  ALUMNI NEWS Events Carroll's Alumni Christmas Party is open to all class years on Wednesday, December 8, starting with a Mass at 5:30 p.m. in Borromeo Hall's St. Joseph's Chapel, then the goodies and libations in the Fortin Science Center Scola from 6:30 to 8 p.m., including an informal dinner, no-host bar, crafts for kids and a visit from Santa. RSVP to alumni@carroll.edu or call Alumni Director Kathy Ramirez at 406-447-5185. Attention 50-year Carroll alumni: Get ready for the Golden Grad Reunion for the classes of 1961 and 1951, celebrated at your alma mater on Commencement Weekend this May 6 and 7, 2011. Trips This spring, Carroll alumni are invited to join Carroll Assistant Professor of History Jeanette Fregulia on her educational trip to the Holy Land of Israel and Jordan. Occuring May 11 - 25, 2011, the journey will include stops at Jerusalem, the Sea of Galilee, the Dead Sea, the Mount of Olives and much more. Dr. Fregulia is an expert on Islam and Middle Eastern history and has lived in the area where her tour group of alumni and Carroll students will visit. For more information, contact Kathy Ramirez at 406-447-5185 or email alumni@carroll.edu In the News Patty Dean, class of 1977, of Helena reports that she recently took a new position as director of community preservation for the Montana Preservation Alliance in Helena.  Founded in 1987, MPA is a statewide nonprofit that works to save and protect Montana's historic places, traditional landscapes and cultural heritage. Patty previously served as curator of history at the Montana Historical Society in Helena.   In Memoriam Doug Lowney (photo left), class of 1977, died on November 13 in Helena after a long battle with cancer. Since 1981, Doug worked as an agent with New York Life. He was active in church ministry and community service, volunteering with Lions Club, Habitat for Humanity, prison ministry and other causes. For more on his life, read: http://helenair.com/news/local/obituaries/article_fe22ddc0-f14a-11df-9a2a-001cc4c002e0.html Lt. Col. Donald John Mahoney, who attended Carroll in 1985-88, died on November 11 in Great Falls, Mont. He was a maintenance squadron commander with the Montana Air National Guard. For more, read: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/greatfallstribune/obituary.aspx?n=donald-john-mahoney&pid=146593140 FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS In the News Associate Professor of Music Lynn L. Petersen (photo right) attended the Montana State Music Teachers Association conference in Missoula on November 4-6. Two of her private piano students won top honors competing with students from across the state in the annual MSMTA Fall Festival.  Katie Beckman, a home-schooled high school senior, took first place in the Solo Program, Senior Classical Division, consisting of a 5-minute memorized piano solo. Capital High senior Stephanie Quist took first place in the Short Program, Senior Division, consisting of a 20-minute memorized program of piano music in three contrasting styles. In Memoriam Joan Holter (photo left), a former member of Carroll's board of trustees, died on November 13. In addition to serving on the board from 1983 to 1987, Joan received a Carroll Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in 2000, gave over $100,000 to Carroll during her lifetime and established a scholarship called the Norman J. Holter Memorial Endowment. Carroll is also named in a charitable remainder unitrust Joan created. More on her life of giving to the arts and to Carroll is in the Helena Independent Record tribute to Joan at: http://helenair.com/news/article_07413a5e-f14c-11df-a004-001cc4c002e0.html Joan's obituary is online at: http://helenair.com/news/local/obituaries/article_f3450bb6-efc5-11df-8d71-001cc4c002e0.html CAMPUS MINISTRY Mass times, ministry links, sacrament information and plans for Headlights service immersion trips are all available online at the Carroll Campus Ministry webpage here: http://www.carroll.edu/ministry/ Father Jerry Lowney is offering Mass Monday through Friday at noon in Borromeo Hall's St. Joseph Chapel. ATHLETICS At noon in Nelson Stadium this Saturday, the Fighting Saints enter the first round of NAIA football playoff contests with a square off against Azusa Pacific University. Women's and men's basketball are both at home this weekend, with a double-header netter this Saturday night. For the men, Friday's tipoff is 8 p.m. as the Saints face San Diego Christian, and Saturday night at 8 versus Eastern Oregon. The women play Holy Names University this Saturday at 6 p.m. in the PE Center. The Racing Saints women's cross country team, and Racing Saint's men's team standout Caleb Dietz, are off to the NAIA nationals in Vancouver, Wash., this Saturday, November 20. Check out the full Athletics schedule and all the latest news on this huge weekend for our Saints at www.carroll.edu/athletics COMING EVENTS Ongoing to December 10: Carroll Art Gallery in St. Charles Hall presents Glacier: Losing a Legacy, a photographic exhibit featuring striking new glacier retreat photographs created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) that visually illustrate the effects of climate change on Glacier National Park. The before-and-after images reveal dramatic glacial decline over a century and are consistent with predictions that all of the glaciers in the park will disappear by 2030. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, closed weekends and college holidays. Free admission. December 14: The Carroll College Jazz Combo performs jazz in the Carroll Campus Center from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. Hear vocal and instrumental versions of standards and jazz classics performed by Brendan Fox, Greta Mannen, Katie O'Leary, Tony Rosales, Skye Summers and Maddie Woodruff, with Professor Ralph Esposito on drums.   December 17: Christmas break begins. AND COMING IN 2011: January 10: First day of classes for spring 2011 semester. January 10 to March 1: The Carroll Art Gallery in St. Charles Hall presents St. Johns Bible, a new exhibition. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, closed weekends and college holidays. Free admission. January 25: Penn State Professor John Sanchez will speak in the Carroll Campus Center at 7 p.m. The talk will focus on American Indian identity in the 21st Century, specifically at the intersection of American Indian cultures and the American news media. 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. 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. 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.