SKELETON CREW
Campus really goes all out for Halloween, which kicks off today as students from our partner school, Broadwater Elementary, descend on campus to shake us down for goodies. They’re cute, so they can get away with it. On Monday, many of them shall return in costumed droves for our Halloween night Trick or Treating and Haunted House in Guadalupe Hall from 6 to 8 p.m. Free admission as always for the expected 1,000 local little monsters and monstrettes, who will be parading through Guad’s decorated corridors, complete with candy stops.
To prepare for Monday’s invasion, we need candy donations from any fun-loving Halloween fans out there—just drop off bags of treats at the Carroll Student Life Office in O’Connell Hall or at the Student Activities Office downstairs in the Campus Center by Monday afternoon.
SEND IN THE CLOWNS
That’s one of the musical treats you’ll get at the latest Carroll Theatre Production, A Little Night Music, premiering TONIGHT (October 28) at the Myrna Loy Center in Helena. This light opera musical has been brought to us by Carroll’s ebullient Director of Improv Michael McNeilly, who directs Night Music in partnership with the Helena Symphony’s Maestro Allan Scott. With singers hailing from the New York Metropolitan Opera and Nashville Opera, plus top-drawer Montana vocal talent from opera singers Heather Barnes and Kevin Mathews among others, this romp through love triangles and trysts is a can’t miss. This is Helena’s first production of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony-winning musical, and a feature story on the show is online at the Helena Independent Record website: http://helenair.com/entertainment/yourtime/a-little-night-music/article_5812ac2a-ff78-11e0-866d-001cc4c03286.html
All performances occur at the Myrna Loy Center in Helena at 7:30 p.m. on these dates: Friday and Saturday, October 28-29, and Wednesday through Sunday, November 9-13. 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
GOD GREW TIRED OF US
This Sunday, October 30, Carroll will host a free screening of the film God Grew Tired of Us at 6 p.m. in O’Connell Hall room 106. The documentary follows the 25,000 “Lost Boys” who fled their villages and families amid civil war in sub-Saharan Africa and focuses on three of the young men as they journeyed from a UN refugee camp in Kenya to resettlement in the US. Carroll students Byago Diouf (photo right in his Saints men's basketball uniform), from Senegal, and Michael Yamoah of Ghana will lead a discussion following the film. The event is sponsored by Professor Alan Hansen’s Intercultural Communication class. More info on the film is at: http://www.godgrewtiredofus.com/
In a related story, Byago Diouf is also one of four young men who serve as the subject and stars of a new documentary, Elevate, tracing their journey from an African basketball academy to outstanding US schools. Critics are calling it the next Hoop Dreams—it just opened in New York and will be headed for a nationwide run soon—hopefully here at Carroll! More on the movie is at: http://www.elevatethemovie.com/index.php
FOOD FIGHT
The struggle against hunger is a brutal one, worthy of our champion Carroll College Student Nurses’ Association, which on October 16 marked World Food Day by bringing in 560 pounds of food and $85 in cash donations during a 4-hour food drive at Van's Thriftway in Helena. The annual October 16 World Food Day has been observed for three decades to increase awareness, understanding and informed, year-around action to alleviate hunger. The CCSNA thanks Van's Thriftway, Helena Food Share and the entire Helena community for supporting the food drive and helping feed local families.
CCSNA interacts with the Carroll and Helena community through various outreach activities year-round, including blood pressure screenings, healthcare education, fundraisers for the Friendship Center and Florence Crittenton Home, toothbrush drives for local elementary schools and participation in the annual NAMIWalk. (Photo: left to right are CCSNA students Justine Songey, Andrea Gibson, Will Lamb, Sarah Potucek.)
AT CARROLL, WE’RE PRO NIÑO
Next Wednesday, November 2, the Carroll Outreach Team will hold a fundraiser for ProNiño, an organization that cares for street children in Honduras. COT served the organization on a mission last May. The fundraiser occurs in the Campus Center from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and at 4-6 p.m. that same day, when COT will be selling handmade jewelry from the boys at ProNiño as well as bread handcrafted by COT members in honor of the Day of the Dead holiday. The bread is of particular significance, according to COT organizer Sarah Potucek: “I think all of the COT members would agree that we will always remember how sweet and kind all of the boys at ProNiño were and how they shared their handmade bread with us even though they had little themselves. They were all so excited to give us something they had made after we had given them their gifts.”
In May 2011, COT’s student team travelled to El Progreso, Honduras, with 10 duffel bags full of donations, 60 soccer balls, 75 first aid kits and 95 gift bags for ProNiño’s kids, but the charity’s struggles continue. Learn more and get inspired to help COT at: www.pronino.org A slideshow of COT’s Honduran adventures in service is online at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29bop1LY16A
STUDENT NEWS
In the News
Carroll junior Caelan Colyer (photo left) has joined the Montana Department of Environmental Quality’s Remediation Division as a student intern. Her responsibilities include writing and producing fact sheets and news articles, as well as helping organize and implement public involvement and education events. Caelan is majoring in environmental studies and anthrozoology after transferring to Carroll this fall from the University of Idaho. She brings DEQ her two summers of experience interning for the Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group, where she worked with a team conducting stream surveys of wild salmon habitat. She has also worked for the National Park Service as a seasonal ranger at Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in Seattle.
This Saturday, Carroll College is sending 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 includes Jennings Anderson, Nate Woods and Usman Naseer (our student this semester from Pakistan). At the ACM local contest held at Montana State University-Bozeman a few weeks ago, Carroll’s 3-man contingent was among 10 teams; at regionals, the game is much bigger, with students from all over the West vying to win all-expense paid trips to the world contest in Warsaw, Poland. Wish our Carroll computer science and math minds a hearty good luck when you see them today and congratulations when they return next week.
Carroll freshman Steven Cornish was a guest on Helena’s KTVH Beartooth NBC’s public affairs program The Dunwell Report, which was discussing the Occupy Helena movement Cornish is part of. See the program here: http://www.beartoothnbc.com/features/features/dunwellreport/13001-occupy-helena-seg-1.html
Sophomore Raven Dryden (photo right, second from right) is this year’s recipient of the Reverend Frank L. Harrington Scholarship in the amount of $1,000. Hailing from Missoula, Mont., she is pursuing a degree in communication and psychology and volunteers as a campus Kirchen minister, student ambassador and coach for the Helena Figure Skating Club, all while maintaining a 3.87 GPA. The Reverend Frank L. Harrington Scholarship was established in 1987 by the Army, Navy, and Air Force Veterans in Canada, Unites States Unit, to honor Father Harrington, national chaplain of the American Legion in 1947-48. Father Harrington was a spiritual leader, teacher and patriot, as shown by his service to Mount St. Charles College (later renamed Carroll College) as its dean of men and professor of mathematics.
Carroll ROTC students were recently in the news for their leadership in the Army’s fall FTX (field training exercise) at Fort Harrison outside Helena. With an obstacle course and live-ammo M-16s, the exercises get cadets into more realistic training scenarios as part of Grizzly Battalion, a partnership with University of Montana and Carroll ROTC units. Read more at: http://helenair.com/news/local/military/rotc-cadets-take-the-lead-in-field-training-exercise-at/article_06dbd376-fd3f-11e0-9c30-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1c0grHipm
Study Abroad
Today, October 28, learn more about a study abroad semester in Siena, Italy, by hearing our Montana State University-Bozeman affiliate representative Johan Jonsson discuss the opportunities at 2 p.m. in St. Charles Hall room 140.
Events
The fifth annual Senior Etiquette Banquet on November 15 is taking reservations now, and seating has become even more limited since last week’s signups began. 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 -is-at- carroll -dot- edu. Seniors interested in attending—and seating is limited—should contact Rosie Walsh in Career Services at rwalsh -is-at- carroll -dot- edu.
During next week’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 students.
Tonight, Sodexo’s student-led promotions team, Dana Miller, Katie O’Leary, Anthony Rosales, Kaitlyn Connelley and Mason Siddick, are marking Halloween Weekend with a special Freaky Friday Halloween party during dinner in the St. Thomas Aquinas Dining Hall. Prizes are in store for the winners of the Freaky Talent show, costume contest, Dana's Extreme Musical Chairs, and apple bobbing. A first-place $50 Target gift card, best costume award $40 Target card, and gifts are piled high at the STAC for the top contestants.
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 (photo right), 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 -is-at- carroll -dot- edu
In the News
Mark Johnson, class of 1998, was recently awarded the 2011 Award for Global Understanding from the National Council for the Social Studies, which according to his Carroll History Department mentor and professor Dr. Bob Swartout is a prestigious honor. Johnson is a Dave Walter Fellow at the Montana Historical Society. When he accepts the award in Washington, DC, he will also present a conference talk on the Bitzer-Ah Chow project, demonstrating how "old fashioned" rigorous research can be done in new ways using the tools of the 21st century. Mark currently teaches history and literature at Concordia International School in Shanghai, China. He is a former Fulbright-Hays Scholar and Alfred J. Lerner Fellow for the study of the Holocaust and is married to Janet (O'Leary) Johnson, a 1998 graduate of Carroll's Department of Nursing. Mark and Janet have two sons.
Two years after graduating premed from Carroll, Kevin Peterson (photo left), class of 1989, decided to bypass medical school after an epiphany of sorts: his childhood fossil collection. Now an associate professor of biological sciences and adjunct professor of earth sciences at Dartmouth, Peterson calls his work “molecular paleobiology,” using molecular and genetic complements of creatures inhabiting the world today to reconstruct their prehistory and interrelationships over time. Consistent with this, his Dartmouth duties now also comprehend associate professorships in the graduate programs in molecular and cellular biology, and ecology and evolutionary biology. For more on his life of science, read: http://now.dartmouth.edu/2011/10/kevin-peterson-the-evolution-of-a-paleontologist/
This is Montana Week in Japan, sponsored by the Montana International Trade office in Kumamoto. During this weeklong celebration of all things Big Sky, a school fair will take place, featuring information about Carroll, Montana State U and University of Montana. Andrew (Dru) DeMato (class of 2008 grad in TESOL and French), who has been in Japan teaching English since he graduated, will represent Carroll and help judge a smile contest for big prizes, intended to draw interested students to apply to a certain Montana diocesan college ranked number one in the West. For more, check out: www.bigskyjapan.com
FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS
Carroll Engineering Professor Willis Weight (at left in photo left) specializes in hydrogeology and is a featured expert in a recent New York Times story covering the Crow Reservation’s coal resources, water rights and justice in the face of poverty. Read more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/business/energy-environment/rich-in-coal-a-tribe-struggles-to-overcome-poverty.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=energy-environment
Michelle Lewis (photo right), Carroll’s director of International Programs and TESOL is today (Oct. 28) leading an in-service for K-8 public school teachers in Butte and for Butte Central High who have non-native speakers of English in their classes. Dr. Pat Haggarty, the superintendent of Catholic schools in the Diocese of Helena, and Butte Central High Principal Tim Norbeck, class of 1987, invited Lewis to lead the in-service to help teachers learn more about how to help non-native English speakers in their classes. Butte Central High currently has 10 international students, with whom Carroll works closely.
CAMPUS MINISTRY
This is Search retreat weekend. Mass takes place as usual on Sunday night at 8 in the Campus Center.
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
Broadcasts
The Frontier Conference will be broadcasting one final Carroll game live on local CW networks statewide (and on the internet through Lyon Productions): October 29 Saints versus UM-Western in Dillon.
Tonight’s (Oct. 28) Saints basketball vs. Gonzaga in Spokane will be broadcast on ESPN 1410 and in Spokane on NBC affiliates. Tip-off is 6 p.m. Pacific Time. Carroll’s website will be streaming the KBLL radio broadcast through the Carroll website: http://www.carroll.edu/athletics/stream.cc
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
Schedule
Saints soccer is at home in Nelson Stadium vs. Rocky Mountain College this Sunday at 1 p.m.
Cross country is resting and getting ready for the Frontier Conference Championship next week. Volleyball and football are away. Golf is concluded until spring.
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/
October 28-November 13: Carroll College Theatre Dept. presents A Little Night Music, a musical with book by Hugh Wheeler, music/lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, based on Ingmar Bergman's film and co-produced with the Helena Theatre Company. Directed by Carroll Director of Improv Michael McNeilly with music direction by the Helena Symphony’s Maestro Allan Scott, this light opera musical is a first for Helena. All performances at the Myrna Loy Center in Helena at 7:30 p.m. on these dates: October 28-29 and November 9-13. 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.
November 1: President’s Community Appreciation Award Dinner honoring the Florence Crittenton’s Center for Pregnant & Parenting Teens.
November 3: Red Cross Blood Drive, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the lower level of the Campus Center. Sign up online to reserve a spot at www.redcrossblood.org (use sponsor code: gosaints).
November 4: Carroll College President’s Dinner, Campus Center, 5:30 p.m. with social hour followed by the meal and program celebrating the college’s loyal friends and sustaining benefactors. At the event, the college will honor Ray (class of 1969) and Elaine Messer with the Insignis Award.
November 10-11: The 9th annual Carroll Literary Festival with author readings on both days. Science writer and award winning short story author Tom Harpole of Avon, Mont., will give a keynote reading and talk on Thursday, Nov. 10, 7 p.m. in Trinity Hall’s lounge. Author readings will occur in the Corette Library on Friday, Nov. 11, at 1-4 p.m., with open mike from 4 to 5 p.m.
November 11: Veterans Day flag raising at the pole in front of St. Charles Hall, 7:30 a.m. and open to everyone.
November 17: Dr. Joseph Laythe, 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 and talk begin at 7 p.m. in the lower level of the Campus Center, with a reception following. Free and open to the public. A professor at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Laythe will present his premise: In the late nineteenth century, Americans deliberately used gorillas and other primates to blur the relationship between black people and primates so as to distance themselves from both, and, in doing so, create a new sense of order in that chaotic, profoundly different America in which they now found themselves. Using primary sources, scientific texts, and cartoons from the era, Dr. 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.”
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.
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 add