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Welcome to Carroll's electronic newsletter QuickNotes, a weekly (and in summer, bi-weekly) synopsis of the news and happenings around Carroll College. QuickNotes is intended to keep Carroll's students, alumni, friends and employees in touch with college accomplishments and activities. It is not a message board but an informational resource for the Carroll community and its supporters.

Please forward your copy of QuickNotes on to alumni and friends of Carroll to keep them up-to-date about campus events.

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SEMI-SWEET

Tomorrow, Dec. 6, the die will be cast as the Carroll Fighting Saints meet the Lions of Lindenwood (Mo.) University at noon MST in Nelson Stadium for the NAIA semifinal playoff extravaganza. The next step for the winner, of course, will be the national championship game. But, what about the preceding step of the quarter-finals? Ah, that was the game that wasn't: as most of you already know, the scheduled Nov. 29 quarterfinal playoff between Carroll and Northwestern Oklahoma State was cancelled by the NAIA due to its determination that our opponent had to forfeit due to the use of ineligible players. As a result, the Saints got an automatic wave-through to the semifinals.

This weekend's clash will be televised live statewide on KTVH in Helena, KBGF in Great Falls, KHMT in Billings and on Bresnan cable channels in Bozeman (22), Butte (61), Kalispell (67) and Missoula (13).

PLAYOFF PAYOFF

Meanwhile, the Saints' semi will offer a rallying point for a good cause, with local businesses and community members being asked to support Helena Food Share. For the "Let's Make the Playoffs Pay Off" food drive, a Food Share truck will be parked outside Nelson Stadium to take donations of non-perishable grocery items. You don't have to be attending the game to participate. In addition to Carroll, businesses pledging to bring 5,000 or more cans of food by Saturday include Blue Cross and Blue Shield, NewWest Health Services, the Great Northern Town Center, the Helena Regional Airport, and Stahly Engineering, Valley Bank, American Federal Savings Bank, and Service Employees International Union 775. According to Helena Food Share executive director Ann Waickman, demand is climbing to record numbers, with the average number of requests for monthly grocery boxes per day up 31 percent in November compared to a year ago. For more on Food Share's pressing needs, read: http://www.helenair.com/articles/2008/12/04/opinions/top/irview_081204.txt. And, check out Waickman's op-ed piece at: http://www.helenair.com/articles/2008/12/03/opinions/yourturn_081203.txt.

A FACE MADE FOR RADIO

This weekend only, tonight and Saturday, ride your one-horse open sleigh over to the Performing Arts Department's performance of "A Carroll Family Christmas Program," featuring an old-time radio-style "broadcast" shown live in the Carroll Performing Arts Center starting at 7 p.m. This hour-and-a-half program brings us the radio play (complete with sound effects magicians) "Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus," followed by Professor of Music Robert Psurny and the Carroll College Choirs presenting holiday carol favorites. The show concludes with Theatre Professor Michael McNeilly's recitation of "A Child's Christmas in Wales"-and expect some funny surprises by this master of improv. Admission is $7, or opt for $5 if you bring a non-perishable item for Helena Food Share.

THE CAMPAIGN CONTINUES

Carroll's campus-wide Toys for Tots campaign is underway and will continue until Dec. 13 with a competition between buildings for the most gifts donated. The winning building will be rewarded with an ice-cream social. Here is the breakdown of campus locations and their corresponding age groups of kids to cheer this Christmas season:

Guadalupe Hall: 6- to 9-year-olds

St. Charles Hall: 3- to 5-year-olds

Trinity and Borromeo Halls: Newborn to 2-year-olds

O'Connell Hall/St. Albert's Hall: 10- to 15-year-olds

Simperman Hall/Campus Center/Corette Library: Donations for any age group

MANY CALLED, FEW CHOSEN

On Thursday, December 11, Political Science Professor Erik Pratt will host a panel presentation, "Working for Development," open to all students who may be interested in doing service work in the Developing World or other intercultural venues. Confirmed panelists include Kevin Downs (left, class of 2003) and Michelle Radosevich (right, class of 2002).

After graduating from Carroll, Kevin worked with the disabled community at L'Arche in Belfast, Northern Ireland and Farm of the Child in Honduras. Michelle was a Peace Corps volunteer helping Guatemalan women develop business plans. Other panelists will also participate. You can bring a lunch to this 12:30 to 2 p.m. event, taking place in the Campus Center's Avila-DeSmet Room.

A TIME TO MOURN AND A TIME TO DANCE

Shed those stock-market blues and head down to the Carroll ASCC-sponsored Jingle Bell Jam Dance this Saturday, Dec. 6, in the Helena Civic Center Ballroom from 7 to midnight. With live music by The Clintons, complementary yummies and a no-host bar, this semi-formal affair is part of the annual Festival of Trees, the major fund-raiser for Intermountain Children's Home. Tickets for students are discounted to $10 and are available in the ASCC office downstairs in the Campus Center. Tickets for non-students are $15 in advance/$18 at the door and are available at any Valley Bank location, Sugar Hair Salon, and the Helena Independent Record.

CHORALE FOR MORALE

Mark thy calendar: on Sunday, Dec. 14, Carroll's Choir and Chamber Choir will present a free concert of music for Advent and Christmas at 4 p.m. in the Cathedral of St. Helena.  With a "Mysteries of Christmas" theme, the concert will feature a broad variety of music in many languages, with our glorious Saints voices conducted by Music Director Robert Psurny of the Fine Arts Department. For more on the list of chorale hits you'll be feasting your ears on, see the press release at: https://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=10997.

CC TV

Helena Civic Television, channel 11, airs the 30-minute Carroll show, "Saints and Scholars," every Wednesday night at 8, with encore performances. This coming week, Carroll student volunteers for the Florence Crittenton Home will talk about their service work and its joys. HCTV will also be airing Carroll public events throughout their weekly lineup: check out the website for programming details at http://www.helenacivictv.org/schedule.php.

STUDENT NEWS

In the News

On Nov. 23, Carroll freshman Crystal Ann Curry led the young ladies of the Helena Figure Skating Club during its two-hour annual Christmas show on silver blades. Performers ranged in age from 2 to 20, with Curry and Helena High senior Aislinn Munck, who have skated together for 13 years, choreographing many of the routines. For more on Helena's holiday on ice (not to be confused for our roads and sidewalks) check out: http://www.helenair.com/articles/2008/12/01/top/53lo_081201_skating.txt.

Carroll ROTC senior Ben Barille's commissioning ceremony will take place on Thursday, Dec. 18, in Trinity Hall. The social hour begins at 4:30 p.m., with the ceremony beginning at 5.  This semester, Ben is completing his degree and ROTC requirements and will become a 2^nd lieutenant in the U.S. Army, assigned to the Montana Army National Guard. He is a combat veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.  Before becoming an ROTC cadet, he deployed for 15 months as an enlisted member of the Montana Army National Guard's 163^rd Infantry Battalion. Upon his return, he resumed his studies at Carroll College and chose to become an ROTC cadet on a three-year dedicated National Guard ROTC scholarship.  He married his wife Kari last summer and currently serves as the Saints' Cadet Company commander, the senior cadet in charge of our program. He will return to the 163^rd Battalion as an armor officer assigned as a platoon leader. The guest speaker for the ceremony will be Col. Steven Martinka, chief operations officer of the Montana National Guard.

Announcements

Ski tickets to Great Divide are on sale now in the Student Activities Office downstairs in the Campus Center. Lift tickets are $15 for students and faculty/staff, limit of four tickets per person per week and non-refundable.

Book buy-back for fall semester tomes is four days only, Dec. 15-18, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily in the Saints' Shoppe. Meanwhile, for spring, books will be available for online purchase beginning Jan. 2. While you're in the Shoppe, check out the 20% off sale during Finals Week, with prices on all clothing and gift items slashed.

ALUMNI NEWS

Alumni Events

For the latest news on alumni events, make www.carroll.edu/alumni your home page. Alumni are encouraged to keep in touch with Carroll and their fellow alums by contacting Director of Alumni Kathy Ramirez at alumni -is-at- carroll -dot- edu or by calling 406-447-5185.

Deaths

Vincent R. Keiley, who attended Carroll in 1940-41 and 1946-47, of Missoula, Mont., died on  Nov. 30, 2008, at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula. Born in Deer Lodge, Mont., he graduated from Cathedral High School in Helena in 1940 and served the Navy in World War II on the USS Independence. After his honorable discharge, he attended Carroll, then worked at Elk River Concrete for 10 years and the Montana Department of Highways for 28 years. For more on his life, read: http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/12/03/obits/03tue/11_dec2.txt.

John Spalding, who attended Carroll in 1993-95, died on Nov. 23, 2008, in his West Seattle home after a four-year battle with cancer. He was 33. In life, John wrote music, with his songs detailing his love of his wife and his fight with cancer. His friends hope to release an album of his work soon to help pay the medical bills. For more on his life as an artist and as an avid "foodie," read: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008444789_spaldingobit28m.html.

In the News

Robert J. McCarthy (left), class of 1976, of Oklahoma City, Okla., recently received the Fern Holland Courageous Lawyer Award from the Oklahoma Bar Association. This award recognizes a member who has courageously performed in a manner befitting the highest ideals of the legal profession. McCarthy graduated from the University of Montana School of Law in 1988 and has been admitted to practice in Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Oklahoma. Last year, McCarthy testified in the long-running Cobell v. Kempthorne class-action suit that sought accounting of Indian trust funds held by the government. The action was filed in 1996 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of some 300,000 Native Americans for whom the government held trust funds derived mostly from leases of Indian lands and minerals over the course of 120 years. In the wake of his disclosures, he testified that he was harassed, including being locked out of his office and threatened with dismissal. Thanks in part to McCarthy's integrity, the court recently awarded the plaintiffs judgment in the amount of $455 million. Recently, McCarthy has also served as a field solicitor for the Department of the Interior in both Oklahoma and California. He has written numerous scholarly articles, including most recently a comprehensive history and analysis of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, published in 2004 by the Brigham Young University Public Law Journal. For more, read: http://www.okbar.org/news/news08/awardwinners08.htm.

Class of 1979 nursing graduate Terri Temple, R.N., of Helena, Mont., has received St. Peter's Hospital's first DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. Temple is an operating room registered nurse who supports mothers who lose their babies and spends her own time and money giving comfort. She takes photos and hand prints of babies who have died and gives them to their parents along with prayers and educational materials. Temple is often found holding the hands of dying patients and talking to them to provide comfort even when they cannot respond. The DAISY award is presented in collaboration with the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) and is part of the Glen Ellen, Calif.-based DAISY Foundation program to recognize the efforts nurses perform every day. Each quarter, a nurse will be selected by St. Peter's nursing administration to receive this honor.

Anderson ZurMuehlen recently announced that Carrie Ritter, class of 2007, is joining the firm as marketing coordinator for the Helena and Butte offices. She was formerly a recruiter at UM-Helena.

Carissa Schutter, class of 2007, of Newberg, Ore., is engaged to marry Joel Henderson of Salem, Ore., on Jan. 2, 2009, at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Salem. A nursing graduate, Schutter works in the emergency room at Salem Hospital. The couple met at a singles' Bible study in Salem.

FACULTY NEWS

Associate Professor of English Loren Graham (right) has been selected to receive a $25,000 literature fellowship in creative writing from the National Endowment for the Arts for 2009. Graham was one of 42 American poets chosen for the fellowship this year from a pool of over 1,000 applicants. One of Graham's outstanding poems, his photo, and a short biography will also appear on the NEA website early next year under the "Writers' Corner" link. Another bit of Graham news: he was recently accepted as a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts for May of 2009.

Dr. Lauri Fahlberg, associate professor of Community Health and chair of Health Sciences, will be beginning her tenth year as a contributing editor for "Montana Woman" magazine.  She writes a monthly column entitled "Well Being," in which she addresses a wide range of health topics.

While the first pangs of the global credit crisis were felt in the subprime mortgage market, much of the problem stems from the fact that Americans have borrowed too much for too long, said Carroll College economics instructor Ann Spehar at the Dec. 3. annual meeting of the Montana Business Assistance Connection. "We've been spending too much. We've got to stop spending and start saving," she said as she addressed a crowd of several dozen business and community leaders. At the meeting, she shepherded the audience through the alphabet soup of securities (credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligations and more exotic debt) that have plunged in value and led us into recession. For more, read: http://www.helenair.com/articles/2008/12/04/local/80lo_081204_mbac.txt.

STAFF NEWS

Carroll's Registrar's Office is sending off longtime employee, woman of wisdom and beloved Carroll family member Karen Armstrong, who is retiring at the end of the fall semester (against popular demand). Karen's reception will be Friday, December 19, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the O'Connell Hall lobby. Everyone is welcome to attend.

FAITH MATTERS

Mass schedule:

Campus Center: Sunday at 8 p.m.

St. Joseph's Chapel (Borromeo): Monday-Friday at 12:10 p.m. and Monday, Tuesday, Thursday at 4:20 p.m.

St. Charles Chapel: Monday, Tuesday, Friday at 11:10 a.m. and Wednesday at 9:30 p.m.

Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel: Saturday at 10 a.m. (subject to change based on certain weekend events)

Confession:

St. Charles Chapel: Wednesday from 8:15-9:15 p.m.

St. Joseph's Chapel: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday 4-4:20 p.m.

Confession is also available by calling Fr. Marc at 447-4869 or by emailing him at mlenneman -is-at- carroll -dot- edu.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament:

St. Charles Chapel every Wednesday from 8:15 to 9:15 p.m. before Mass.

Pray the Rosary:

At the Grotto on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 10 p.m. and on Wednesdays just after Mass.

ATHLETICS

News

On Nov. 19, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) announced that Carroll College is among 199 colleges and universities named Champions of Character institutions for the 2007-08 academic year. These institutions share the NAIA's commitment to high standards and to the principle that participation in athletics serves as an integral part of the total education process. The mission of Champions of Character is to restore character values and raise a generation of students who understand and demonstrate respect, responsibility, integrity, servant leadership and sportsmanship.

Schedule

Men's Basketball

Dec. 5 and 6: vs. U. Calgary in the PE Center, 8 p.m. both nights

Dec. 13: Alumni Game (exhibition) in the PE Center, 8 p.m.

Women's Basketball

Dec. 6: vs. Lewis Clark State College in the PE Center, 6 p.m.

COMING EVENTS

Ongoing: Now on display in the hallway cases outside of the Carroll Art Gallery (room 034 St. Charles Hall) are paintings by artists from Bulgaria. This second in a series of three displays is entitled, "The Fulbright Connection: Contemporary Bulgarian Artists, living in the U.S." This past summer, after receiving a Hays-Fulbright 2008 Summer Seminar grant, Fine Arts Prof. Ralph Esposito traveled to Greece and Bulgaria, where he learned of a group of Bulgarian artists living in the Chicago area who call themselves Bulgarian Artists Abroad. Founded in 2007, Bulgarian Artists Abroad promotes Bulgarian culture throughout the world and aims to unify all artists of Bulgarian origin who live outside their home country. Carroll is fortunate to have works on loan from these painters to share with this community. Art on display now includes paintings by Kosta Georgiev, Jordan Ivanov, and Milena Pramatarova.

Ongoing: Carroll College Art Gallery (room 034 St. Charles Hall) exhibit, "Excellence and Degrees II," the second in a series of three exhibits featuring the work of faculty members from colleges and universities across Montana. This installment highlights the personal artistic accomplishments of professional artists who are also pro educators, including Bradley Allen, James Bailey, and Mary Ann Papanek-Miller from University of Montana-Missoula; Eva Mastandrea from UM-Western; Julia Becker from University of Great Falls; Joel Soiseth from MSU-Northern; and Josh DeWeese, Sara Mast, and Harold Schlotzhauer from Montana State University-Bozeman. The exhibit ends December 12. The gallery is open weekdays 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; closed weekends and college holidays.

December 10: "A Night of One Acts," presented by the students in the Directing class, in the Merton Acting Studio (lower level of the Campus Center), free admission.

 

December 14: The Department of Fine Arts at Carroll College will present a free concert of music for Advent and Christmas at 4 p.m. in the Cathedral of St. Helena.  The concert will be presented by the Carroll College Choir and Chamber Choir and features a wide variety of music. For more on the concert, whose theme is "The Mysteries of Christmas," see the press release at: https://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=10997. For more information, contact Dr. Robert Psurny at 447-4807.

AND IN 2009:

January 12: Opening for Carroll College Art Gallery (room 034 St. Charles Hall) exhibit, "Excellence and Degrees III," which runs through March 6. The last in the three exhibits featuring the work of faculty members from colleges and universities across Montana. Artists included include Mary Ann Bonjorni, Beth Lo, Bobbi Tilton, and David James from University of Montana-Missoula; Mark Moak from Rocky Mountain College; Joel Soiseth and Norton Pease from MSU-Northern; Gesine Jasmine and Jeffery Conger from Montana State University-Bozeman; and Brian Cast and Lea Zoltowski from MSU-Billings. The gallery is open weekdays 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; closed weekends and college holidays.

January 30-31: Senior showcase performance of "American Roulette" by Chris Evans, a Montana playwright. Revolving around a high school shooting, this is a series of vignettes about the people involved and affected. Directed by Carroll senior Jocelyn Bjornstad in the Performing Arts Center.

February 7: Annual Campus Ministry Headlights Spaghetti Dinner at St. Mary's Church, 4:30 p.m., to raise funds for the spring break service trips to Rochester, NY, and Cincinnati, Ohio. Students will begin fundraising for these trips over Christmas break by asking for sponsorships and selling raffle tickets. Ten students and one Carroll leader will attend each trip.

February 19-March 1: Performing Arts mainstage production of William Shakespeare's "As You Like It." Directed by Carroll Theatre Director Chuck Driscoll. Carroll faculty and staff free admission and Carroll students admitted free on Thursdays and Sundays. Performing Arts Center.

February 23: Carroll will host the 2009 state "We the People" competition, with teams of high-school seniors from around the state vying for trophies and glory in a simulated congressional hearing. The winning team will advance to the national competition in Washington, DC. "We The People: The Citizen and the Constitution" is a nationally recognized program of civic education created by an act of Congress and funded by the U.S. Department of Education. For more information, read: https://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=10905.

March 9-13: Spring Break.

March 21: Junior-Senior Banquet.

March 27: Niel Brandt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University and American Astronomical Society Shapley Program sponsored speaker, will be the keynote star of Carroll Astronomy Weekend. An expert on high-energy astrophysics, x-ray astronomy and black holes, he will give a lecture, "X-raying Active Galaxies: Exploring the Environments of Supermassive Black Holes," at 7 p.m. Free and open to the public.

March 27-28: Senior Showcase of the play, "When the Rainbow Bends," directed by Carroll senior Ryan Danielson. A powerful story about the lives of three people when one of them contracts AIDS. Merton Acting Studio in the Campus Center.

April 3-4: Senior Showcase performance of "The Lion in Winter," work for mature audiences about the intrigues of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, in the Merton Acting Studio (Campus Center).

April 18-19: Softball weekend.

May 1: Last day of classes.

May 9: Centennial Celebration Kickoff at Baccalaureate and Commencement.

May 14-17: Basic Preparation Course for Parish Nurses and Health Ministers. The class will be held on the Carroll campus at the Parish Nurse Center in Simperman Hall. The cost is $390 and includes educational materials and lunches. Lodging will be available on campus at a reduced rate. The Basic Preparation Course follows the curriculum of the International Parish Nurse Resource Center, St. Louis, Missouri. If interested in this course, please contact Cynthia Gustafson at 406-447-5494 or cgustafs -is-at- carroll -dot- edu.