Kids’ Chance believes that we can make a significant difference in the lives of all children affected by a workplace injury by helping them pursue and achieve their educational goals. The mission of Kids’ Chance of Montana is to provide scholarships to children of workers who have been injured or killed on the job. Collectively, Kids’ Chance organizations have awarded 5,593 scholarships across the country, totaling over $16,592,000 dollars.
Virginia Reeves is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. Her fiction has appeared in The Common and The Baltimore Review and has been short-listed for the Tennessee Williams Fiction Contest. After seven years in Austin, Texas, she recently returned to her hometown, Helena, Montana, with her husband, two daughters, and their three-legged pit bull. Her first novel, Work Like Any Other, has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
"My name is Ted Olenick and I am currently in medical school at ICOM in Boise, ID. I grew up in Pocatello, ID, before ultimately deciding to make the move up to Montana to attend Carroll. The decision to choose Carroll was by no means an easy one, but turned out to be an excellent one. There are many options for schools that will provide a fine education for continuing onto medical school, but seldom will you find schools that prepare you academically, spiritually, and professionally to face many of the challenges you will face.
B.A. Philosophy 2014
Philosophy, to me, is lived. It’s interactive. One of the most important things I took leaving Carroll College is that, no matter how much you read philosophy, write about it, think about it, (all great things!) the basis of philosophy remains in the day to day, simple interactions with other people and with the world. To quote David Hume, “Be a philosopher, but above all be a man.”
"I’m not a theologian in the traditional sense, but the person I am today and work that I do is largely the result of studying theology at Carroll. I chose to major in theology because I found that the classes and the professors challenged me to formulate questions about life and existence. I graduated knowing that I would spend my life exploring, learning about, and participating in larger conversations about faith.
Sarah's Moment
As part of my program I worked at Montana Wild Rehab Center. I just remember waking up early one morning and realizing that I was actually happy to be getting up that early, because going in there didn’t feel like work. It was a privilege knowing that the work I was doing was helping to get an animal back out into the wild where it belongs.
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Degree: Civil Engineering - 2009
Current Work: Transportation Planning Manager, DOWL HKM, Helena, MT
Previous Work: Planning/Environmental Services Department Manager for Western Montana Region, DOWL HKM, Helena, MT
