THIS IS ONE SCALY MUSICAL
Carroll’s Theatre Department is in weekend two of its new musical, < strong>George and the Dragon, with shows tonight and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Carroll Theatre (Old North, St. Charles Hall), plus a Sunday 3 p.m. matinee. Last weekend, audiences were wowed by the play’s world premiere in the Carroll Theatre, with fabulous star power beaming forth from our leading knight errant Michael McNeilly as George. If you didn’t see it last week, check out the feature story on this madcap production at: http://helenair.com/entertainment/yourtime/musical-clash-of-past-and-present/article_8b5f932e-1299-11e2-81e9-0019bb2963f4.html The show continues next weekend, October 26-28. Admission is ALWAYS FREE for Carroll students, and also free to Carroll faculty and staff plus one guest each—bring your ID! Otherwise, general admission is $10 and students/seniors $8.
CODE CRACKERS WILL BE SERVED
Next Wednesday, Oct. 24, Carroll math and astronomy professor Dr. Kelly Cline (photo left) continues his popular astronomy lecture series with "Cryptography: The Secret Science of Codes," at 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall’s Wiegand Amphitheatre. How do modern codes work? How do computers keep your credit card number secure when you’re ordering things on the Internet? In this talk we will explore the history and the current practice of cryptography. Learn how the British cracked the German Enigma code machines during World War II, and explore the mind-boggling mathematics that computers use every day to keep our information secure as it is sent around the Internet.
NURSING THREE BACK FROM THE DEAD
On Saturday, Oct. 27, the Carroll College Nursing Department presents national touring, award-winning performer Pippa White (photo right) presenting a one-woman show, < strong>Into Possession of Myself, at 2 p.m. in the lower level of the Carroll Campus Center. Into Possession of Myself is a fascinating and surprising drama from the diaries, journals, and letters of legendary nurse heroes Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton and Dorthea Dix. This production, which has toured nationwide, has drawn praise for its inspiring, entertaining mix of emotional energy and educational quality in bringing the courageous stories of the three history-making women to life. The performance is approximately 65 minutes long. White has received several awards in recognition of her work, including two Individual Artist Fellowship awards from the Nebraska Arts Council.
The general public, and all nurses, are cordially invited to attend this free event. For nurses seeking continuing education credit for attending, RSVP to Carroll Nursing Department assistant Terri John at 406-447-5491 or tjohn@carroll.edu. The event is sponsored by the Zeta Upsilon Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International nursing society as part of the chapter’s 30th anniversary. For a preview of White’s unique show, see http://www.pippawhite1co.com/perf_possession.htm
NO PROBLEMS, ONLY SOLUTIONS
At last weekend’s Association of Computing Machinery (the largest educational and scientific computing society in America) competition held at Montana State University in Bozeman, 10 teams competed, including two from Carroll. After five hours and five mathematical problems, the Carroll team of Dane Bullen, Matt Heinze and Bill Vilwock finished second, and our other team of Colin Willett, Austin Powell and Rachel Riitano came in fifth. According to their coach, Computer Science and Math Professor Phil Rose (photo left), there was a little drama in this contest of the rational. The winner was determined based on the most problems solved, with the tie-breaker being the total minimum time spent solving problems correctly. For most of the contest, Carroll’s Bullen-Heinze-Vilwock team was ahead. At exactly 3 p.m., the contest was called and all teams were told to stop working: at that moment, 7 teams—including both of Carroll’s—had correctly solved 3 problems, but our Bullen-Heinze-Vilwock squad led the pack because of the tie-breaker, having taken the least time. However, seconds before the 3 o’clock deadline, two nearly late submissions slipped in from other colleges, and one turned out to be correct, pushing Carroll’s squad into second place at the very last instant. A nail-biter for sure, but as always our Carroll students acquitted themselves with graciousness and professionalism.
Professor Rose adds that Nate Woods, who with Dane Bullen was a student competitor on last year’s first-ever Carroll ACM team that finished fourth in Bozeman and went on to take eighth place at regionals, was unable to enter this year’s contest due to other obligations. Woods still put in plenty of time preparing this year’s Carroll contestants and gave them excellent software that he had written and used in 2011.
HEROES HOLIDAY
Carroll Veterans Services invites the community to send holiday cheer to US service members deployed worldwide and recovering from injury. Participating in the Holiday Mail for Heroes effort by the American Red Cross is easy and heartwarming: just send a special message on a holiday greeting card of your choice or your own making with your name and home state (but do not include email or home addresses). No envelope is needed, and a generic greeting of “Dear Service Member” is best. Cards with no glitter are essential, due to sensitivity of some service members undergoing medical care. Please: no letters, photos or other inserts. A group of friends or a whole family can sign a card for a service member—the more the merrier. A stash of donated cards is also available for signing in the office of Carroll’s Veteran Services Coordinator Brandy Keely or with Tina Wagner in Financial Aid (both are in O’Connell Hall’s upper level). Cards can be dropped off to either of their offices. The deadline is December 1.
A MOVEABLE FEAST
The Carroll Student Ambassadors’ Gold Team is sponsoring a campus-wide food drive to support the Helena Food Share. Donations can be dropped off at any of the crates placed around campus—they’re located in the Campus Center, O'Connell Hall, St. Albert's Hall, and each floor of Carroll residence halls. Helena Food Share is grateful for any non-perishable donation. They specifically need canned fruit, canned milk, Jell-O/pudding, stuffing, and peanut butter. ’Tis the season to make Helena a hunger-free community.
STUDENT NEWS
This is Parents Weekend at Carroll! The action starts this afternoon with registration in the Fortin Science Center Scola, where a reception will be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Opt to take in the Friday night showing of < strong>George and the Dragon. Rise and shine on Saturday with a brunch in the upper Campus Center, followed by our home football game in Nelson Stadium. A special Parents Weekend Mass is Saturday at 4:30 p.m. in St. Charles Chapel with Fr. Marc Lenneman as celebrant. Saturday night, choose between the Carroll volleyball game in the PE Center or a reprise of George and the Dragon. More info is online at: http://www.carroll.edu/students/activities/parents/index.cc
Next Thursday, Oct. 25, Carroll Career Services will sponsor its annual Meet, Greet & Eat: Networking & Dining Etiquette for the New Professional at 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the lower Campus Center, for Carroll seniors who want to learn proper etiquette and manners to use at formal business meals. The dinner is preceded by a networking session with hors d'oeuvres and punch; during the multi-course main meal, a professional etiquette trainer guides participants through the fine dining experience. Free to seniors, the dinner is courtesy of our corporate sponsors, who send company representatives to the dinner to mingle with prospective future hires. This event is free, but seating is limited; to register send your name and major to careers@carroll.edu.
For all student news on events, club activities, retreats and much more, go to www.carroll.edu/students.
ALUMNI NEWS
In the News
Stephanie Lincoln and Benjamin Kolar (photo right), both class of 2011, were married on June 30, 2012, at Risen Christ Catholic Church in Kalispell, Mont. Father Marc Lenneman , Carroll’s chaplain and director of Campus Ministry, officiated the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. Stephanie graduated from Carroll with a major in elementary education and now teaches second grade at Peterson Elementary in Kalispell. Benjamin majored in computer science at Carroll and is employed by Kalispell School District as an IT specialist, and with the Montana Air Guard.
FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS
Dr. Gillian Glaes (photo left) of the Carroll History Department has published an article in a French journal, Migrance 39, the theme of which is immigrant mobilization for decolonization in France, 1930-1970. Her article, en français, is entitled “Sally N’Dongo, immigration africaine et aspects politiques du néocolonialisme en Afrique de l'Ouest et en France” (i.e., “Sally N’Dongo, African Immigration, and the Politics of Neocolonialism in West Africa and France”).
Professor Belle Marie (photo right) of Carroll’s Business Department recently presented “Consumers’ Mental Models of Financial Literacy” at the Nineteenth Annual Conference on International Business and Contemporary Issues in Business held in Deadwood, South Dakota. Professor Marie’s research uses the Government Accountability Office’s definition of financial literacy: "The ability to make informed judgments and to take effective actions regarding current and future use and management of money. Financial literacy encompasses both financial education and consumers' behaviors as it relates to their ability to make informed judgments." In presenting her talk, her research addressed the broad question of what consumers' thoughts and feelings about financial literacy are and how financial literacy affects their lives. Her presentation illustrated how cognitive thoughts of financial literacy were connected to deeper emotional aspects.
FAITH AND SERVICE
The popular Sunday night Mass in the Campus Center continues this weekend at 8 p.m.
Fr. Jerry Lowney will be in the Holy Land over the next two weeks and will not be celebrating his customary daily Mass in Borromeo Chapel. He will resume Mass upon his return the week of Oct. 29. Fr. Jerry sends word that he will be praying for all of us at Carroll during his time in the Holy Land.
For all Campus Ministry news, Mass and sacraments schedules, homilies and much more, go to: http://www.carroll.edu/ministry/
ATHLETICS
Saturday is Saints on the field and the court: Carroll football vs. MSU-Northern is in Nelson Stadium starting at 1 p.m. and Saints volleyball vs. MSU-Northern serves it up at 6 p.m. in the PE Center.
Our other teams are away or bye.
COMING EVENTS
Ongoing: The Carroll Neuman Observatory is open for planetary and deep-sky viewing through the college’s 14-inch computerized scope every Thursday that is cloudless, clear and without high winds. Observing in October takes place an hour after sunset, or by 8 p.m.—whichever comes last. It is led by Carroll Neuman Astronomical Society advisor David Rotness, an avid and accomplished amateur astronomer who also is a leader of the Helena Astronomical Society. Viewing is always free and open to the public.
October 30: The Carroll Jazz Combo will give a free concert in the Campus Center from 4 to 5 p.m. Thirteen students directed by Dr. Lynn Petersen will present a program including Dixieland tune Alabama Jubilee, Henry Mancini's theme from The Pink Panther, Moten Swing, Comin' Home Baby, Eddie Harris' funky Listen Here, and blues tunes by Jimmy Heath and Nat Adderley. The Combo’s two vocalists join the band on Watch What Happens, a cha cha version of Pick Yourself Up, Cole Porter's Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye, and others. The concert is open to the public.
November 3: Carroll students start Inauguration Week off in perfect style at the 11 a.m. Founder’s Day Flurry on St. Charles Hall hill, with “top secret” (for now) adventures races. We can tell you this: the challenges will involve “historic” dining hall trays, balloons and the storied Charlies steps. Registration is ongoing through noon on Oct. 24 at noon and must be turned in to Patrick Harris in the Student Activities Office downstairs in the Campus Center. Each four-person team will vie for the coveted title of Carroll’s first-ever Flurry Champion! Registration is free.
November 5: As part of our inaugural week celebration, Carroll faculty present “Learning for Life: An Academic Symposium,” free and open to the public in the Campus Center’s lower level. A continental breakfast will be served from 8:30 to 9 a.m., followed by a 9 a.m. panel discussion by distinguished Carroll alumni: internationally acclaimed photographer Dr. Richard Buswell; Director for the North Slope Borough Health & Social Services Department (Alaska) Doreen Fogg-Leavitt, RN; former CEO of Memorial Health System (Colorado Springs, Colo.) Dr. Larry McEvoy Jr.; White House-recognized entrepreneur Alex “Papu” Rincon Jr.; and attorney/Carroll Moot Court coach Tara Harris. The keynote speaker, educator and author Janel Keating, a national expert on public education, will present a talk at 10:30 a.m. See the full biographies of all these speakers at: http://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.cc?pid=3357
November 5: The Inauguration Ceremony for Dr. Thomas M. Evans, Carroll’s 16th president, starts at 2 p.m. in the Carroll PE Center. The ceremony is free and open to the public, as is the reception afterwards in the Campus Center.
November 8: Carroll Literary Festival, part of the Carroll presidential inauguration celebration, will feature keynote speaker Paula Marks, PhD, historian of the American West, of St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. Her keynote talk, " ‘Attached Ever So Lightly’? History, Fiction, and Lives Pulled from the Past” in the Campus Center begins at 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public. In her presentation, Marks will explore how historical figures are used as central characters in popular fiction and literature, how we can find examples of such imaginative recreation in the field of Western literature, and what we can learn from these stories about this way of interweaving history and fiction. When a creative writer takes as a subject a real historical figure, what challenges, responsibilities, and opportunities come with attaching fiction to life? This keynote talk will be introduced by Carroll President Tom Evans.
November 10: Inauguration Week concludes with a 9 a.m. Community Mass at the Grotto that is open to the public, followed by a special Tailgate outside Nelson Stadium at 10 a.m. preceding the Fighting Saints vs. Dickinson State University game, kickoff 1 p.m.
November 15: Carroll Theology Dept. and the Sister Annette Moran Center present the next in its Be(com)ing Church Between Past and Future series celebrating the 50th anniversary of Vatican II, with Carroll Theology Department Chair and Professor John Ries presenting “Coming to Be Church in and through the World: Lumen Gentium and Gaudium et Spes” at 7 p.m. in the Carroll Campus Center. Free.
November 30: Dr. Kelly Cline presents, “The Kepler Mission: Discovering 2,000 Planets" at 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall’s Wiegand Amphitheatre.
November 30: Carroll’s November Faculty Colloquium features Dr. Jeremy Johnson of the Political Science Department presenting “Supplanting the New Deal? The Republican Party Confronts the Welfare State” at 4 p.m. in the Campus Center’s Maronick Board Room.
November 30: Carroll Theatre premieres < strong>A Christmas Pudding, created, edited and adapted by David Birney and directed by Carroll Theatre Director Chuck Driscoll. A holiday confection of songs, stories, poems and tales of the season by Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Frank McCourt, Emily Dickinson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, A. J. Carothers, and many others spiced with a host of traditional carols and holiday songs. This piece provides a perfect evening to warm hearts, stir memories and give laughter during the holiday season. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays Nov. 30-Dec. 1 and Dec. 8.; Sunday 3 p.m. matinees are Dec. 2 and 9. All in the Carroll Theatre.