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ALUMNI NEWS Events Full Homecoming schedules for all events are now online at http://www.carroll.edu/alumni/homecoming.cc This Saturday, September 3, in Billings, Carroll alumni and friends are cordially invited to the tailgate and game as the Fighting Saints open their 2011-2012 season with a showdown against the Rocky Mountain College Battlin' Bears. The tailgate starts at 11 a.m. on the east side of the field/north end of the parking lot, with brats provided (please bring a salad or dessert to share). Bring your own beverages, but please respect Rocky's dry campus policy. Kickoff is 1 p.m. Involvement Calling all Math Alumni! The week of September 11-15 marks the first-ever math alumni phonathon at Carroll to support student scholarships. If you received your degree in mathematics or a related discipline, this is your opportunity to chat with one of our math faculty or math majors to find out firsthand what's new in the mathematics program at Carroll. Over the past decade, our math faculty have launched a number of exciting academic and co-curricular activities designed to support student recruitment and retention in mathematics and related disciplines, and also to enhance student career preparation. Here is your chance to ask questions about these activities and also to give financially to support math student achievement. Carroll's IMPACT Annual Fund Director, Gayle Agostinelli, says that this is the first time Carroll has conducted a phone fundraising drive focused on the needs of a single department. If you are a math alum and won't be available to talk to a student that second week in September, or if you received your degree in a different discipline but would still like to make a gift to the mathematics program, you can make a contribution by visiting the Carroll website at www.carroll.edu/giving. In the News Annie (Doubek) Young, RN, class of 1977 is teaching a new Carroll course, Rural Nursing Labs, for Carroll senior nursing majors. Young reports that rural nursing has been a neglected area of practice in Montana until she formed a partnership with Carroll Nursing Department Chair Jennifer Elison to begin a clinical program, which began in Philipsburg in 2010 and is now being continued in Carroll's Nursing Department Lab in Simperman Hall. Elison says, "We are expanding our capstone sites to include rural nursing experiences also. So, this is wonderful and cutting-edge nursing education. We are thrilled to have Annie Young onboard as a clinical resource Registered Nurse, as she brings a wealth of expertise regarding rural nursing and critical access hospital nursing." Liz Moore, class of 1991, has been named the Montana Nonprofit Association's new executive director. Moore most recently served as a member of the senior management staff of the Rocky Mountain Development Council in Helena. She recently completed the Master's of nonprofit management degree offered by Regis University, a program that immersed her in public policy and organizational development. Read more: http://helenair.com/business/moore-named-mna-executive-director/article_a85d255c-d395-11e0-87b5-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1Wj84qtOx Holly Perryman, class of 2007, is one of two marine biology and fisheries graduate students at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science who have been awarded three-year Ph.D. fellowships in Population Dynamics by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Perryman is one of only eight students recognized nationally with this prestigious scholarship this year. She works in conjunction with NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) based at the UM's Rosenstiel School, which provides a Center of Excellence relevant to understanding the Earth's oceans and atmosphere. Perryman is focused on developing an ecosystem model of the Gulf of Mexico that will include near-shore and offshore habitats and how they are connected, a feature that many marine ecosystem models lack. Cast for more info at: http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/news-events/press-releases/2011/noaa-rewards-two-rosenstiel-students-with-national-fellowships/ FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS In the News An outstanding story about Carroll artist in residence Sallyann Mulcahy and the Ballet Montana Academy at Carroll was released yesterday, with full details on Mulcahy's life as a professional ballerina now training her protégés to follow in her footsteps and dance with the best of the best. Her epic tale of how she builds dancers is the front page feature of this week's Helena Independent Record entertainment publication Your Time, online at: http://helenair.com/entertainment/building-better-dancers/article_27ed2ebc-d38b-11e0-a9e1-001cc4c002e0.html (Photo right: Mulcahy, at right, with Academy dancers, courtesy Helena IR) Events The IMPACT Faculty/Staff Campaign kicks off this year on September 29, with Computer Science and Math Professor Phil Rose and Registrar Cathy Day serving as co-chairs. Beginning in 2008, this campaign transformed from a mail-only request for support to a peer-to-peer activity gleaning heavy-duty results, all to build student scholarships at Carroll. Approximately 40 of our employees volunteer each year to contact five of their Carroll colleagues during the month-long campaign. Faculty and staff are warmly invited to participate again this year as volunteers-please contact our co-chairs to get involved. The campaign concludes with a celebration at St. Albert's Hall on October 28. Faculty and staff support for our students, encompassing almost every employee at the college, proves that the Carroll community leads the way in sacrificing time and treasure to invest in the future. CAMPUS MINISTRY Sociology Professor Emeritus Fr. Jerry Lowney celebrates Mass at noon in Borromeo Hall's St. Charles Chapel Monday through Friday. All are welcome to attend the ever-popular Sunday Night Mass at 8 p.m. in the Campus Center main lounge, celebrated by Fr. Marc Lenneman, our chaplain and Campus Ministry director. Other Mass times and dates throughout the week, including services and sacraments in Guadalupe and St. Charles Halls, are listed at: http://www.carroll.edu/ministry/worship/mass.cc For all Campus Ministry news, including retreat info, homilies and discussions of Catholic social justice issues, check out: http://www.carroll.edu/ministry/ ATHLETICS Events Carroll Athletics is proud to bring the community a September 10 first home football game "Go for the Gold" celebration to raise awareness for childhood cancer. On the field, the Fighting Saints will be taking on the Eastern Oregon Mountaineers at 1 p.m. Carroll will be passing out 1,000 ribbons for the first thousand fans through the gates. A raffle, silent auction and "pass the hat" will occur during the game, and prizes, Irish dancing, scavenger hunts and more will complete the fun. All money raised will be kept in the community to help families who have a child fighting cancer and will support the new St. Peter's Hospital Cancer Treatment Center, which has cared for many Helena kids. Donations will also go to the Tim Daem Endowment for pediatric cancer patients. On TV As part of the new media package with the Frontier Conference brought to fans by Lyon Productions, the Frontier Conference will have five football games broadcast live on TV via local CW networks statewide (and on the internet through Lyon Productions) this fall, and Carroll tops the schedule. One of those five games will be the September 24 Saints game versus Montana Tech, followed by Carroll versus MSU Northern on October 1. The fourth game on the TV schedule is set for October 15, when Rocky Mountain College visits Carroll for Homecoming, and the final telecast will be October 29, when the Saints travel to UM-Western in Dillon. Upcoming Game Schedule Football: September 3: Season opener Saints football game at Rocky Mountain College, 1 p.m. September 10: Saints football home opener in Nelson Stadium and Saints "Go for the Gold" Childhood Cancer Awareness Day, 1 p.m. Volleyball: September 2-3: At the Concordia (Calif.) Irvine Tourney For more info and other scheduled games for all teams, go to http://www.carroll.edu/athletics/index.cc COMING EVENTS Ongoing to September 30: Carroll Art Gallery (St. Charles Hall) welcomes everyone to view its first 2011-2012 exhibit, "CORITA," featuring works by Corita Kent, a member of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Community. The display is multimedia, with original serigraphs, posters, and videos. Corita Kent, also known as Sister Mary Corita, gained international fame for her vibrant serigraphs during the 1960s and 1970s. She ran the Art Department at Immaculate Heart College until 1968, when she left the order and moved to Boston. Corita's art reflects her spirituality, commitment to social justice, hope for peace, and delight in the world that takes place all around us. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, closed weekends and college holidays, and is always free of charge. This Carroll exhibit is made possible through the support of the Myrna Loy Grants to Artists Program. More info on Corita Kent's art is at: https://www.corita.org/ September 9: Carroll ROTC Open House and Ice Cream Social, 2-5 p.m., with a meet and greet of our ROTC cadets and cadre, at the ROTC House just south of Trinity Hall. Free and open to all. September 11: Hazy Day at the Cathedral of St. Helena, a fundraiser for the Catholic Diocese of Helena's mission in Guatemala, lower level of the Cathedral, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Named in honor of Father Jim Hazelton, class of 1949, now celebrating his 47th and final year of service to the mission, the event features a "Guatemalan Market" of handmade Guatemalan clothing and craft items, original artwork, prints, fresh flowers and plants, children's toys and games, and beautiful religious items. An old-fashioned ice cream social will also be open throughout the day. Information about the mission itself will be on display and Father Hazelton will be in attendance. For further information about the event, or to donate money or saleable merchandise to Hazy Day, please call the Saint Helena Parish office at 442-5825 or Jacqueline McKenna at 442-2751. September 11: Mass of the Holy Spirit for all members of the Carroll community, 7 p.m. at the Cathedral of St. Helena. September 15: Home Ground Radio and Carroll College host a public forum, "Whose Hospital?: St. Peter's and the Role of Hospitals in Montana's Communities" from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the lower level of the Carroll Campus Center. Moderated by Home Ground's Brian Kahn. A panel of speakers and audience questions will explore the unique role and responsibilities of Montana hospitals through an in-depth and balanced discussion of controversies surrounding St. Pete's Hospital of Helena. The recorded forum will result in a later one-hour Home Ground broadcast on Yellowstone Public Radio and Montana Public Radio statewide. September 19: Carroll College and NAMI present "Recovery from Schizophrenia," a talk by Frederick J. Frese, Ph.D., at 7 p.m. in Carroll's Campus Center. Free and open to the public. Dr. Frese is a psychologist who has specialized in the area of schizophrenia for over forty years. Diagnosed with the condition when he was a young Marine Corps officer, he has worked tirelessly as a practitioner and advocate for consumers and their families. Dr. Mike Hogan, chair of the president's New Freedom Commission that is revolutionizing the delivery of mental health services in the United States, has called Frese "a national treasure." A prolific writer and outstanding speaker, revered both for his sense of humor and his remarkable ability to translate research and public policy into usable information, Frese was a panelist on PBS's Minds on the Edge: Facing Mental Illness that aired in October 2009. September 29: IMPACT Faculty/Staff Campaign kicks off, with Computer Science and Math Professor Phil Rose and Registrar Cathy Day serving as co-chairs. Contact either of them to offer your gift to support Carroll student scholarships. October 10-December 9: The Carroll Art Gallery (St. Charles Hall) continues its exhibit series with paintings by religion scholar Lisa Sweet. More info is at: http://academic.evergreen.edu/s/sweetl/ October 10: John Sanchez, whose talk last winter was rescheduled for this fall, will speak on Columbus Day on the topic of Native Americans in the media. His talk, "American Indians: How the News Media Shapes American Indian Identity and Policy in the United States," begins at 7 p.m. in the lower level of the Campus Center. Free and open to the public. In his lecture, Sanchez will focus on public perceptions of American Indian identity in the 21st Century as framed by and dictated by news media and popular films like Avatar, the Twilight series and Dances with Wolves. He will examine what newspaper and TV news editors and reporters think about American Indians and what educators teach in public schools about American Indians, often using popular news media as their source of information. Sanchez will discuss how antiquated ideas about Indian people, including the myth that they are either very poor or very rich from gambling revenues and that they only wear feathers and leather, also affect public policy in Indian country. 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. October 13-23: Carroll Theatre Dept. presents The Women of Lockerbie, a contemporary drama by Deborah Brevoort directed by Carroll Theatre alumna Julia Porter (class of 2005), in the Carroll Theatre. All performances in the Carroll Theatre (Old North, St. Charles Hall). Dates are October 13-15 and 20-22 at 7:30 p.m., with 3 p.m. matinees on October 16 and 23. October 14-17: Homecoming. For all info, to to: http://www.carroll.edu/alumni/homecoming.cc October 20: Dr. Kelly Cline presents "Creating Black Holes in the Lab" at 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre. Free. October 25: Carroll Jazz Combo concert in the Campus Center, 4 p.m. Free. October 27-November 12: Carroll 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. At Myrna Loy Center in Helena. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. on October 27-29 and November 9-12; a 3 p.m. Sunday matinee plays on October 30. 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. November 9: Montana PBS will screen the film Freedom Riders, a production by PBS American Experience, at 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall's Wiegand Amphitheatre. This kicks off a Montana state tour for the film. Carroll student and Gates Milennium Scholar Rachael DeMarce participated in this past summer's 2011 Student Freedom Ride sponsored by 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. December 1: Dr. Kelly Cline presents "Is Pluto a Planet?" at 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre. 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.
September 2, 2011 QuickNotes
BISHOP CARROLL SAYS "KEEP LABOR IN LABOR DAY!" As we head into the big holiday weekend, keep in mind that Carroll's founder Bishop John Patrick Carroll (photo right) was the first Catholic bishop in the U.S. to establish special Labor Day services in the churches of his diocese. In November 1913 in Seattle, he was the first bishop to address a national convention of the American Federation of Labor. In that address, he declared that the Church endorsed the essentials of unionism, and he asked that the labor unions include Sunday rest in their union benefits. More about him, and his respect for organized labor's advancement of workers, including the working poor, was published in the fall 2004 Carroll Magazine in a story by two Carroll faculty members: the Rev. Dan Shea, Ph.D., and the late Sister Annette Moran, chair of our Theology Department. TERROR IN THE AIR Yesterday's Patriot Day lecture, "A Decade of Dust and Disease: A Lingering Legacy of 9/11," by guest speaker Terry Miles (photo left, courtesy Helena Independent Record) brought in a great crowd and got some equally great press on KTVH and KXLH News, Montana Public Radio and the Helena Independent Record. His MPR exchange with News Director Sally Mauk is available online at: http://www.mtpr.net/program_info/2011-08-31-132 (interview starts 7 minutes into the broadcast, or download just the Aug. 31 feature story podcast at http://www.mtpr.net/podcast_details/3) The KXLH story and video are here: http://www.kxlh.com/news/carroll-college-to-host-9-11-presentation/ and the Helena IR front page story is at: http://helenair.com/news/still-health-crisis/article_02ea0b92-d469-11e0-bea7-001cc4c002e0.html Another special guest speaker on a similar topic from a different perspective will be coming to campus on Monday, September 12. American playwright Deborah Brevoort (photo right), author of The Women of Lockerbie, will give a free public lecture, "The Women of Lockerbie: An Artist's View of Terrorism," at 7:30 p.m. in the lower level of the Carroll Campus Center. Her play will be performed this October by the Carroll Theatre Department, which is co-sponsoring her campus visit with the Helena Education Foundation. In her September 12 evening talk, the author will discuss her play and reflect on it in the context of terrorism's aftermath, now thirteen years since the Lockerbie Pan Am 103 bombing and ten years post-9/11. The lingering effects of terrorism on her as an artist and on audiences who have seen her play will be discussed. During her Carroll stay, she will be meeting with the student cast of the upcoming Carroll Theatre production of her play to offer her advice and insights. DRUID SCIENCE The wait is over! Next Wednesday, September 7, Dr. Kelly Cline (photo left), fresh off his yearlong sabbatical in the British Isles, presents the first of his free, public astronomy lectures with "Before Stonehenge: Ancient Astronomy in Britain" at 7 p.m. in the Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre. Thousands of years ago, ancient people living in Britain and Ireland created stone monuments, with many of them aligned to astronomical events, like the risings of stars and the sun during significant points on the calendar. Although Stonehenge is the most famous, many others exist and some predate it. At Newgrange, in Ireland, once a year on the winter solstice the sun shines through a long passageway to light up a chamber in the center of a burial mound. At Callanish in Scotland is a long avenue of giant standing stones which point toward where the full moon sets in midsummer. How did ancient people build these monuments, with their markers sometimes quarried in distant locations then transported to these sites with very low-tech tools? Why was astronomy important to the monument builders? In this public lecture, Dr. Cline will lead his audience on an exploration of these issues, with firsthand accounts of visiting monument sites during his sabbatical. COOL CREATURES, HOT PLANET Next Thursday, September 8, Marty Essen (photo left, with Aussie friend) presents a talk on global warming, "Around the World in 90 Minutes," in the Carroll Campus Center at 8 p.m. Free and open to the public, the program is suitable for all ages, with interesting facts, humorous stories and the best of thousands of photos he took while traveling the world for his book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents. Essen is considered one of the top campus speakers on the college circuit today, so this is one not to miss. Highlights of the Essen show include cuddly wallaroos and spiny walking sticks, charging elephants and howling wolves, deadly snakes and friendly penguins, bizarre creatures and endangered species. Images of Essen swimming with piranhas, kayaking in the rainforest, hiking with the Porcupine caribou migration, rafting with humpback whales and surviving a hippo attack in Zimbabwe round out the program discussion. Check out more details at: https://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=15184 HEAD TO THE BUNKERS! Spots are still open for the September 16 first-ever Golf Tournament fundraiser for Carroll's student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and over 10 hole sponsorships remain available for businesses to promote their company message and logo. We need a minimum of 100 players for an 18-hole tournament-the more, the merrier on the fairways, especially with the gorgeous weather we've been having. Get on the green before the snow flies and drive for a good cause, with all proceeds supporting our future engineers in their outreach teaching and competition this year. To register for this golfing fun, starting at noon on the Bill Roberts Municipal Golf Course in Helena on Friday, September 16, just fill out the form online at: http://www.carroll.edu/academics/engineering/. Entry is $80 per person or $320 per 4-person team. Please contact our ASCE Student Chapter Faculty Advisor Gary Fischer, PE, at 406-447-4571 or gfischer@carroll.edu with any questions. Businesses seeking to become Hole Sponsors for $150 should contact Professor Fischer asap to secure your spot on the choicest flags. HAYNES AT IT AGAIN Longtime Carroll supporters at the Haynes Foundation have come through for our students yet again, with Margaret Woo of Haynes presenting a check for $46,000 this week to college President Tom Trebon and Financial Aid Director Janet Riis. Haynes Scholarships go to Montana resident Carroll students with financial need and a track record of outstanding academic achievement (3.4 GPA and above). Since 1983, Carroll has received around $1.7 million from the Haynes Foundation, with their donations to the college and our worthy students this year totaling $92,000 in direct aid. (Photo left: Woo delivers check to Trebon on Tuesday, Aug. 30, in O'Connell Hall; photo right: Riis) HOPE FOR HAITI, PART 3 Next Saturday, September 10, the Carroll Outreach Team hosts its third annual Hope for Haiti 5K fun run, starting at 10 a.m. at Bill Roberts Municipal Golf Course parking lot, just north of Carroll's campus. Proceeds go to provide medical care and supplies for Haiti's rural people, many of whom would never see a doctor but for COT's outreach service trips. Register at active.com under Hope for Haiti or sign up 9 a.m. on race day at the Carroll PE Center. Entry for students and kids under 12 is only $10 (adult entry is $18), which goes a long way to alleviating suffering in Haiti. Racers and walkers will get free tee-shirts and a chance to win cool prizes from local running stores. Right after the race, amble over to the Carroll pre-football game tailgate! For more info, contact Carroll COT student organizer Ariel Murtagh (amurtagh@carroll.edu) Info and registration links are also online via the Carroll website at: http://www.carroll.edu/students/activities/clubs/outreach/ STUDENT NEWS Each year, between 50 and 70 Carroll students intern around the community with various companies and agencies, and Carroll student-athlete Noah McWilliams (photo right) is one of them. Noah was recently in the news as he described his law enforcement aspirations stoked during his summer internship with the Lewis & Clark County Sheriff's Department. Carroll's Internship Coordinator Nisan Burbridge notes that Carroll interns were also working at the Helena Police Department, the Narcotics Bureau, the Department of Criminal Investigation and the state Department of Justice Gambling Control Division. For more on this Fighting Saint and his fellow students trying law enforcement on for size, check the KXLH news report at: http://www.kxlh.com/news/carroll-college-intern-learns-leadership-skills-in-law-enforcement/