THIS FOUNDER NEVER FOUNDERED Today,
November 4, Carroll College recognizes the
Feast Day of our patron, St. Charles Borromeo, as the college's
Founder's Day. Bishop John Patrick Carroll, who founded the college as "Mount St. Charles" in 1909, selected St. Charles Borromeo as our protector, with the first campus structure, St. Charles Hall, also named in his honor. Later, the naming of Borromeo Hall would also pay homage to our heavenly overseer. It was a wise pick: St. Charles Borromeo was the 16th century archbishop of Milan who advanced the concept of diocesan higher ed. He is the patron saint of learning and the arts-hey, that's us! Appropriately, the college's
President's Dinner occurs tonight, and next week's QNs will offer highlights of the evening.
THE FREEDOM RIDE STARTS HERE On 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. Carroll student and Gates Millennium Scholar
Rachael DeMarce participated in this past summer's 2011 Student Freedom Ride sponsored by PBS
American Experience, and she will offer comments about her adventures as a Native American travelling across America with the original Freedom Riders who fought for civil rights in the 1960s. Two of those original Freedom Riders,
Bob and Helen Singleton (photo right), will also attend the Carroll screening and offer insights on their experiences. This event is co-sponsored by PBS and the Carroll Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice.
Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives-and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment-for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws, the Freedom Riders met with bitter racism and mob violence along the way, testing their belief in nonviolent activism.
HARPOLE MARKS LITERARY FEST Next Thursday and Friday, November 10-11, Carroll's
9th annual Carroll Literary Festival hits campus, with a keynote reading on day one and author presentations on the finale. Award-winning science and fiction writer-and 1988 Carroll alum-
Tom Harpole (photo left) will give a keynote reading at 7 p.m. on Thursday in Trinity Hall's lounge. Student, faculty and community authors accepted to the festival will offer readings of their poetry, prose and commentary on Friday afternoon in the Corette Library from 1 to 4 p.m. Afterward, also in the Corette, open mike author readings will take place from 4 to 5 p.m. A full story on the Lit Fest will appear in this Sunday's edition of the Helena
Independent Record (
www.helenair.com) Now, more on Harp: After a career as a logger and explosives engineer, an injury during a timber-falling misadventure pushed Tom Harpole toward a writing vocation. In 1989, at age 40, he published his first article in
Sports Illustrated and has soared to success ever since. To learn more about his new craft, he spent two years at University College at Galway, where he earned an additional degree, and at the Irish National Writer's Workshop. Harpole's fiction has won awards in Ireland and England-his story,
The Last of Butch, won short story of the year in England and Northern Ireland-and his work has been anthologized and included in books published by Faber & Faber in London and Blue Heron Press in Seattle. His writing appeared in
The New Montana Story, a short-story anthology of Montana writers edited by Rick Newby. In the scientific and reporting realm, Harpole has seen his nonfiction published in
Outdoor Life, Outdoor Photograher, Architecture, Businessweek and
Air & Space/Smithsonian and several major daily newspapers' Sunday magazines. In both 1994 and 2010, his articles for
Air & Space were finalists for the National Magazine Award's reporting category. Harpole has read his own fiction on National Public Radio and has taught at the University of Montana's journalism school and the university's MFA program in creative writing.
RED, WHITE AND BLUE DAWN In commemoration of Veterans Day, the college invites the community on
November 11 to a special
flag raising at the pole in front of St. Charles Hall. Carroll's ROTC cadets will raise the flag at 7:30 a.m. that Friday morning and will welcome the community to join them as they lower the flag at 4 p.m. that same day. Carroll is proud that an increasing number of veterans are enrolled as students this year, and the college honors our alumni, students, faculty and staff who have served and the families who love and support them.
(Photo right: Carroll Navy V-12 students lower the flag April 12, 1945, upon the death of President Roosevelt) TRIANGLES AND TRYSTS The latest Carroll Theatre Production,
A Little Night Music, that opened last week and continues next week at Helena's Myrna Loy Center is getting high praise. So, make plans to buy your tickets now for the
final performances on Wednesday through Sunday,
November 9-13. Stephen Sondheim's Tony-winning musical is appearing for the first time in the Queen City, with high-powered talent, including opera singers from major US companies galloping through love triangles, misadventures and trysts. If you didn't read it last week, check out the Helena
Independent Record story about the production at:
http://helenair.com/entertainment/yourtime/a-little-night-music/article_5812ac2a-ff78-11e0-866d-001cc4c03286.html All performances occur at the Myrna Loy Center at 7:30 p.m. Ticket prices are: $18 for general admittance, $15 for Carroll faculty and staff and $10 for Carroll students. For tickets and more information, call the Myrna Loy at 406-443-0287 or order online at:
http://www.myrnaloycenter.com/events.htm OCCUPY THE MEDIA Carroll assistant professor of political science
Jeremy Johnson (photo right) was recently interviewed by
KXLH TV on the international (and Helena)
Occupy movement. Check the story out
tonight (November 4) on channel 9 at 5:30 and 10 p.m. You can also watch the show online and run the show on your Droid and iPhones using the apps at:
http://www.kxlh.com/news/kxlh-your-source-for-free-continuous-news1/ Meanwhile, the Helena
Independent Record ran a heartwarming story about Carroll's conferral of the 2011 President's Community Appreciation Award on the
Florence Crittenton Center for Pregnant & Parenting Teens. Check it out at:
http://helenair.com/news/local/home-honored-for-its-work/article_a4e9eb54-0517-11e1-a8d1-001cc4c002e0.html At the award ceremony, Dr.
Tom Trebon, our president said this:
In these days of 24-7 news, constant emails and texts, amidst what often appears to be simply loud shouting and little listening, we hear constant voices in the national debate over "Life issues" and the imperative to Choose Life. Talk is fine and important, and so are high ideals, but it takes work-24-hour-a-day hard labor-to meet those ideals. Thus, amidst the clamor, the Florence Crittenton Center has quietly gone forward doing the patient, focused, and very often the "hard work", that makes it possible to choose life, to promote the consistent ethic of life, from its very beginning. Again, what is that work? It's to provide food and shelter, education and role modeling; it's to assure intervention for mental illness and substance abuse, job training and, yes, childcare. And there's more: this work and the resources involved, plus a facility and full-time staff, along with ceaseless fundraising, and all of it provided by those inspired by the mission so much that they do all with love, compassion, patience and absolute resolve. STUDENT NEWS In the News Last Saturday, Carroll College sent its first team ever to the regional programming contest of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), held at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colo. Our student team of
Jennings Anderson, Nate Woods and
Usman Naseer and their mentor Professor
Phil Rose are pleased to report that, out of 20 teams, the Carroll contingent finished eighth, which is outstanding given it was an inaugural performance (sort of like starring as Hamlet without any prior Shakespeare plays under your belt). The contest lasted five straight hours and involved 10 problems. Dr. Rose points out that, at the final buzzer, our team was within five to ten minutes of finishing two more problems, which means they could have finished possibly as high as second place had a few extra minutes been theirs. In sum: this was a strong showing portending victory next time around, so stay tuned for next year's stellar results-a year from now in QNs!
Events The fifth annual
Senior Etiquette Banquet on
November 15 is still accepting reservations, so this is last call to sign up! Sponsored by Carroll Alumni Relations and Career Services, this event for graduating seniors starts at 6 p.m. and features a multi-course meal to teach proper eating techniques and conversational behavior in a business social setting. Dining etiquette and cocktail-hour discussion tips will all be led by an etiquette trainer, who can polish your social graces to perfection. Businesses interested in sponsoring a table at the banquet can contact
Kathy Ramirez at
kramirez@carroll.edu. Seniors interested in attending-and seating is limited-should contact
Rosie Walsh in Career Services at
rwalsh@carroll.edu. During TONIGHT'S
President's Dinner on November 4, the
upper Campus Center Lounge will be closed-the
Dining Hall will still be open, but students will need to use the West Entrance. Realizing this is an inconvenience to students, the college asks that you please be patient and keep in mind that the dinner is our campus thank-you to the many donors who support you. These generous Carroll supporters have provided student scholarships and resources that allow Carroll to improve our classrooms, campus technology, and facilities like our library and science labs. These friends of the college also give us the means to support the best professors as they teach and mentor you, our students.
Full coverage of all student events is online at: http://www.carroll.edu/students/index.cc
ALUMNI NEWS
Travel Sail away on the Carroll
Alaskan Cruise this coming July 27, 2012, aboard the Celebrity Millennium. Carroll alumni, parents and friends are welcome to sign up for the epic guided trip, led by Manion Endowed Chair of Biology
Gerry Shields and his wife
Pat, both class of '66, who bring their 25 years' experience with the Alaskan wilderness. Options include a 7-day cruise from Vancouver, BC, to Anchorage, or the cruise plus a 5-day land extension through Talkeetna, Denali and Fairbanks. Visit
www.carroll.edu/alumni/travel for a complete schedule and details, or contact
Kathy Ramirez in the Alumni Office at
kramirez@carroll.edu In the News
James Kelly, class of 2011, recently began his first year teaching middle school and high school math in Bigfork, Mont., and he was featured in a news story focused on his drive to instill a sense of wonder, and nerd pride, in his math students. Read more on Kelly's quest at:
http://www.flatheadnewsgroup.com/bigforkeagle/news/education/article_0d5ea6d0-04d6-11e1-8069-001cc4c002e0.html In Memoriam Donna Kathleen Porter (photo right), class of 1974, of Helena, died on October 27, 2011. After graduating from Carroll, she earned a master's degree in communications with an emphasis in theology from the University of Denver. Donna had a productive and influential career in which she was able to teach and provide for the community by working for the Diocese of Helena and co-founding the Career Training Institute (CTI). Read more about her at:
http://helenair.com/news/local/obituaries/donna-kathleen-dickgraber-porter/article_4e80fa72-0577-11e1-b8c5-001cc4c002e0.html#ixzz1ceg58d6D FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS The 2011
IMPACT Faculty/Staff Campaign kicked off on September 29, and all-told
71 employees made gifts and pledges totaling
$25,465. This represents nearly 30% participation by our hardworking faculty and staff. A special thanks goes out to the nearly 40 campus volunteers who raised these vital scholarship funds, and especially their campus leaders: Registrar
Cathy Day and Professor
Phil Rose.
Ryan Klingaman, Carroll's network support specialist in Information Technology, and wife Debbie became the happy parents of newborn Tori Jade Klingaman on October 19, 2011. She joins brother Tyler in the family tree. Associate Professor of Music Dr.
Lynn Petersen's (photo left) Whirlwind Duo was performed by faculty of the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College on September 30, 2011. Dr. Teresa Bowers, flute, and Felix Hell, organ, presented a recital of contemporary works for flute and organ by Dr. Petersen and five other composers. Bowers is the editor of a forthcoming collection of these works,
Pipings: New Music for Flute and Organ, due to be published by Augsburg Fortress in 2012. Felix Hell is a German organist who has had an active international concert career since the age of nine.
Whirlwind Duo was composed in 2004 with a Myrna Loy Center Grant-to-Artists and has previously presented performances in Helena and Missoula and at the Seattle 2009 AGO (American Guild of Organists) Region VIII Convention. Carroll Associate Professor of Education
Jonathan Matthews set four American records at the USA Track & Field National 30K Racewalking Championships just a few days ago in Valley Cottage, N.Y., and his finishes qualified him for the USA Track & Field Olympic Trials in June. Run, don't walk, for more at:
http://helenair.com/sports/racewalking-helena-s-matthews-qualifies-for-olympic-trials/article_f56c39b8-0514-11e1-ba02-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1cfL9lhoY Philosophy Professor
Barry Ferst (photo right) will have a special guest showing at the Queens of Arts Gallery in Helena for the month of November and the Fall Downtown Art Walk. His artwork features culture kitsch: toys, plastic angels, false teeth, keys, Christmas-Halloween-Thanksgiving-Fourth of July-Wedding Announcement-Baby Shower-Sorry About Your Divorce paraphernalia, and, along with buzzers, lights and motors, all a mélange he crafts into shrines, statuary and wall-hangings. It's not confusing: it's fun! Read more:
http://helenair.com/entertainment/yourtime/around-the-town-nov/article_fe2e55d6-0500-11e1-85bc-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1cfLiUv3t CAMPUS MINISTRY Students who travelled to East LA during the Campus Ministry Fall Break Headlights Immersion will be presenting a slide show and stories from the experience on Tuesday, November 15. Details TBA. 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 In the News The
New York Times recently published a story on John Gagliardi of St. John's University in Minnesota, winningest coach in college football, all starting with his career as Saints football head coach. As of a few weeks ago, Gagliardi had won 482 games in a head-coaching career that covers more than six decades, and his wins surpass those of Penn State great Joe Paterno. Read it all at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/sports/ncaafootball/gagliardi-still-has-paterno-beat.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper Broadcasts Beartooth NBC in Helena also broadcasts Carroll games, with online viewing of
Fighting Saints LIVE at:
http://www.beartoothnbc.com/fighting-saints-live.html KBLL 1240 AM radio in Helena also broadcasts the Saints games, with online listen/watch options at:
http://www.network1sports.com/station/kbll#menus And, the
Carroll website offers live watch options at
http://www.livestream.com/fightingsaints Home Schedule Tonight (Nov. 4) Saints Volleyball takes on MSU Northern at home at 7 p.m. Tomorrow, Volleyball is versus University of Great Falls at 7 for Senior Day-with 7 Saints honored. Seven at seven!
Saturday is the
Saints football rivalry grudge match versus Montana Tech at 1 p.m. in Nelson Stadium. The first 300 students receive a FREE Carroll vs. Tech collectible shirt. This is also NorthWestern Energy Day and Senior Day, recognizing 21 Saints, with NorthWestern giving away a big screen TV. And, though it's away, it's a biggie: Carroll women's basketball heads to Bozeman tonight for a 7 p.m. exhibition game against the MSU Bobcats. For head coach
Rachelle Sayers (photo right), the Cats are a familiar foe-read about her experience taking them on at:
http://helenair.com/sports/college/carroll-college/basketball/womens/carroll-s-women-s-hoops-coach-faces-a-familiar-opponent/article_02aa8a04-06a9-11e1-86e3-001cc4c03286.html 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 17: Dr. Joseph Laythe (photo left), class of 1987, will receive the college's 2011
Alumni Academic Achievement Award and give a 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 talk following immediately, all in the lower level of the Carroll Campus Center. A reception will follow. A professor of history at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Laythe will present his premise: Over a hundred years ago, Americans deliberately used gorillas and other primates to blur the relationship between black people and primates so as to distance themselves from both. Using primary sources, scientific texts, and cartoons from the era, Laythe demonstrates how the image of the gorilla was manipulated to create a new sense of order and how it ultimately led to the caging of human beings and the forced sterilization of the "unfit." For more, read:
http://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=15481 November 17: Dr.
John T. Vandeberg presents the next in Carroll's
Business Department Lecture Series with 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. Vandeberg is the former president and CEO of CERAC Incorporated. More info is online at:
http://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=15488 November 18: November Faculty Colloquium with speaker Dr.
Bill Parsons of Political Science presenting
"Crime, Christianity, and the Challenge of Moral Flexibility" at 4 p.m. in the Maronick Board Room of the Campus Center.
November 19: Special guest lecture by telescope specialist Dr.
Christina Dunn, "Creating the Giant: Fabricating the Mirrors of the European Extremely Large Telescope," at 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall's Wiegand Amphitheater. Free. A new generation of astronomical telescopes is taking shape with giants three or four times larger than the world's current largest telescopes. Bringing these massive designs from theoretical possibility to reality will require a revolution in optical fabrication techniques and technologies, combining the craft traditions of master opticians with the cutting edge in robotic machinery. In this talk, Dr. Dunn will address the challenges of creating a telescope mirror wider than the wingspan of a Boeing 737 aircraft, and the solutions that have been devised to meet those challenges.
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 12: Carroll Jazz Combo concert in the Campus Center, 4 p.m. Free.
