December 16, 2004 QuickNotes

DECEMBER 16, 2004

CARROLL QUICKNOTES
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WE AIN'T LION: THE COUGARS ARE GOIN' DOWN!

This Saturday, December 18, the two-time, defending NAIA National Champ Carroll Fighting Saints will appear in the National Championship game at Jim Carroll Stadium in Savannah, Tennessee, where they plan to declaw the University of St. Francis Cougars for the NAIA football crown. If we win, the Saints will be the only thrice-consecutive national champs in NAIA history, but let’s face it: ONLY a Saint could pull off this miracle! Kickoff is at 11 a.m. MST.

The team enjoyed a great send-off on Wednesday, December 15, at the PE Center. Thanks to all the faithful alums out there who have been sending their well-wishes to the college and rooting for their team!

If you’re not in Tennessee or en route right now, you can catch the action on radio and TV. In Helena, KBLL 1240 AM will broadcast the game live, and College Sports Television will televise the Saints game nationally. CSTV is available on Direct TV channel 610. OMEGA Television, which airs in Montana and northern Wyoming plus a few small markets in Colorado and Utah, will offer full coverage, including pre-game festivities. Here’s the scoop on OMEGA:

9:30 a.m.: "In Your Shoes" show featuring sports analyst Joe McClafferty and various Carroll folks for commentary and replays of the season.

10 a.m.: “The 2004 Season: Carroll College” show featuring Coach Mike Van Diest, Athletic Director Bruce Parker and Joe McClafferty. The program will offer highlights from 10 televised Carroll games this season.

10:30 a.m.: “National Championship Preview Show” featuring Carroll seniors, coaching staff, Butte broadcaster Ron Davis and football analyst/incoming Montana Supreme Court Justice Brian Morris.

11 a.m.: Kickoff.

MANY ARE COLD, FEW ARE FROZEN

Final exams end today, with classes resuming again on January 10, 2005. Carroll wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a long, fun holiday. With the heat wave, it feels like summer vacation. So, catch a wave, get a tan, and we’ll see you next year!

CAUGHT ON VIDEO!

The first-ever Carroll film festival is underway, with students working on their original submissions in anticipation of the February Charlie Awards ceremony for best picture. To get the full skinny on what to expect and how to become Carroll’s own Sergei Eisenstein, find out more at: press release.

MAKING CHRISTMAS

Carroll students are at it again! On December 4 and 5, four Carroll freshmen volunteered with the Helena Food Share food drive at Albertson's grocery store. Jaimie Hedrick, Breanna Pfeifer, Danielle Prindle and Miranda Salsbery helped raise 2,963 pounds of food and $537 in cash donations. This was a huge result for a huge effort.

Carroll's Student Nurses' Association thanks everyone for their support of the candy cane gift tree for Shodair Children's Hospital. Nearly 200 gifts were collected! Also, several bottles of children's vitamins and many small toys were gathered for the children at the orphanage in Oaxaca, Mexico, and will be delivered by senior nursing student Naya Vanwoerkom when she goes home for Christmas. Carroll applauds its students for taking the time to show how much they truly care for others.

Finally, the ski-themed tannenbaum decorated and donated to the Festival of Trees by Carroll’s Honors Scholars students in concert with the Financial Aid and Institutional Research departments was auctioned off for $1,100, with all proceeds benefiting Intermountain Children's Home and Services.

ALUMNI NEWS

Deaths

Thomas C. Power II, age 85, of Helena, Mont., died on December 10, 2004. A descendant of a Montana pioneer family, he was a prominent Helena businessman and served on the investment committee of the Carroll College Board of Trustees for many years. He was an avid Carroll supporter and a beloved, respected friend of the college. For the full obituary, see: obituary.

Boyd Lee "Josh" Burner, age 67, of Phoenix, Ariz., died December 9, 2004. Following his military discharge in 1957, he attended Carroll College from 1957 to 1960. He retired from a career in land sales in 1995 and resided in Phoenix for most of the last 25 years. To read his full obituary, see: obituary.

Alums in the News

Mindi Newman-Wilson, DVM, biology class of 1998, and her husband Patrick Wilson have purchased Thompson Falls Animal Hospital in Thompson Falls, Mont. Mindi graduated from Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine in 2002.

Tiffany Dolder, class of 1999, of Oroville, Calif., sends word that she is working as an elementary and secondary school teacher.

April S. (Fullmer) Hume, M.D., class of 1999, of Spokane, Wash., is in a family practice residency and rural training track in Colville Wash. She treats adults and obstetric patients and hopes to stay in the area when she completes her residency.

Ryan Hansen, R.Ph., class of 1999, is a pharmacist and technology manager in Bothell, Wash.

Sarah Klaus, class of 1999, serves as a director of career services in Denver, Colo.

Ann M. (Rust) Harris, M.D., class of 1999, of Omaha, Neb., graduated from Creighton University School of Medicine and began a family practice residency at Creighton University Medical Center. She is now in the middle of her second year of a general surgery residency. She and husband Jason have two beautiful daughters, Katelynn, age 4, and Emily, age 2.

Rachel (Ashburn) Mattern, class of 2000, of Sunnyside, Wash., graduated from the Physician Assistant Program at Rocky Mountain College in Billings in August 2004 and in September sat for and passed the national boards and became a certified P.A. She now works full-time in Sunnyside (halfway between Yakima and Tri-Cities) in a family practice with obstetrics. She and husband Brian miss Montana but enjoy living in Washington Wine Country.

Kelly McGloin, R.Ph., class of 2000, is a pharmacist in Butte, Mont.

Nicole (Forristall) Derden, class of 2001, and her husband Terry Derden, class of 2002, graduated from the University of Idaho College of Law in Moscow on December 11, 2004.

Amy (Mavencamp) Steinmetz, class of 2001, of Helena, Mont., has been hired as an environmental project manager with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality. She and husband Josh have a three year old, Dylan.

Jennifer Stewart, class of 2001, of Spokane, Wash., will be graduating from Gonzaga Law School with a juris doctorate this spring. She is working hard to graduate magna cum laude. Last summer, she worked for the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, where she was able to work closely with the Department of Human Services and participate in questioning witnesses for a trial. Her goal is to become a child advocate.

Andy Welch, class of 2001, of Helena, Mont., works as the surface water monitoring coordinator for Montana’s westslope (west of the Continental Divide, flowing into Clark Fork River) for the Montana Department of Environmental Quality. His job allows him to travel all summer long and assess streams and rivers for biological integrity and water quality. He bought his first house in spring 2004, loves hunting, fishing, skiing and the outdoors as much as possible, and sends word that his dog Molly is now 6.5 years old and doing well.

Chrissie A. Carpenter, class of 2002, of Missoula, Mont., is working on a Ph.D. in organic/carbohydrate chemistry at the University of Montana. She has only one course left to take and has finished her teaching obligations. In research, she is synthesizing the dilactone form of mannaric acid from mannose and using that to make biodegradable polymers. Eventually the polymers will be used to make chiral stationary phases for HPLC columns.

Carla Staffeldt, class of 2002, works as a laboratory technician at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Mike Vannatta, class of 2002, of Seattle, Wash., is working on his Ph.D. at the University of Washington. He recently joined Dr. Norm Dovichi's research group, where he will be studying bioanalytical chemistry.

Courtney Welch, class of 2002, of St. Paul, Minn., is studying for his dentistry doctorate at the University of Minnesota. He is engaged to be married in May.

Katharine Danielle “K.D.” (Cooney) Uhersky, class of 2003, has moved with her husband Andy from Calgary, Alberta, to Taber, Alberta, “the corn capital of Canada” with a population of 8,000. They bought their first house in July and are enjoying the slower pace of this predominately agricultural community, located one hour north of the Montana/Alberta boarder. While waiting for her permanent residency, K.D. volunteers at the Taber Hospital and the P.A.W. Society (a local animal shelter) and joined the Oil-Wives Club (a community service-based organization). K.D. and Andy are also in the final stage of becoming foster parents and are excited to welcome a child into their home in the near future.

Chris Harada, class of 2003, of Helena, Mont., has been accepted to the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry and will start in the fall of 2005. He currently works as a chemist at Energy Laboratories, Inc., and has been taking histology during the fall 2004 semester at Carroll in preparation for dental school. Chris has also been volunteering at the Cooperative Health Center Dental Clinic for the past eight months.

Nichola (Maurer) Hilkemann, class of 2003, of Helena, Mont., is teaching first grade at Helena Christian Academy.

Erica Pribyl, class of 2003, of Pullman, Wash., is in her second year of veterinary school at Washington State University in Pullman and loves it. In summer 2004, she worked for a mixed animal practice in Great Falls, Mont., where she reports having fun while gaining valuable clinical experience. This summer, she plans to travel and accumulate international veterinary experience.

Dave Souza, class of 2003, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, works in the emergency room at Kootenai Medical Center and is applying to medical school.

Pat Thorsen, class of 2003, is moving back to Great Falls, Mont., where he plans to work at Benefis Hospital while applying to medical school.

Amelia Valasek, class of 2003, of Boise, Idaho, has been accepted to the graduate program at Montana State University in Bozeman. In September 2004, she traveled to Europe with nothing but a backpack and wandered around the continent for three months. She made it all the way from Helsinki, Finland, to Lagos, Portugal, and back again. Prospectively, she plans to spend time snowboarding, performing volunteer work in Boise and traveling the U.S.

Katherine “KT” Baughman, class of 2004, of Jenkintown, Penn., is completing her first semester of optometry school in Philadelphia. She attended her first optometry convention in Atlantic City, N.J., this year.

Kelly Beffert, class of 2004, of Omaha, Neb., is attending to medical school at Creighton University and loves it. She learning to enjoy hockey and tolerate Nebraska football (Cornhusker fans are CRAZY, Kelly says).

Kristine Berg, class of 2004, of Portland, Ore., is attending the School of Dentistry at Oregon Health and Science University.

Amanda Blackburn, class of 2004, of Helena, Mont., works at Energy Labs in the Organics Department.

Kelli Brensdal, class of 2004, of Fort Collins, Colo., reports that, after her graduation from Carroll, she did lab work for Dr. Tom Rovis, spent a lot of time camping and floating the river and now skis in her free time with her fellow graduate students at Colorado State University. This semester, she will be starting a five-year project.

Tim Erpelding, class of 2004, has announced that his student research performed at Montana State University under a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) summer grant has been included in a manuscript accepted for publication in the journal “Biochemistry.” Since graduation, Tim has embarked on a number of adventures, including working at a camp in Montana’s epic Beartooth Mountains (where he met six actual toothy bears), working in a Billings, Mont., emergency room, then journeying to Africa, where he spent two weeks as a medical missionary in Zambia. He is on a December bike-backpack-kayaking sojourn to New Zealand and will continue working in the emergency room upon his return until medical school begins.

Levi Mielke, class of 2004, of West Lafayette, Ind., attends graduate school at Purdue University with a concentration in analytical chemistry. He has been accepted into the Shepson Research Group and will be using tandem mass spectrometry to discern between, and quantify, atmospheric diastereomers.

Daniel Shaub, class of 2004, of Omaha, Neb., attends dental school at Creighton University.

Aubrey Smartt, class of 2004, of Missoula, Mont., attends the University of Montana.

Mike Tierney, class of 2004, of Helena, Mont., is currently applying to dental school and working for the Forest Service. He is engaged to be married this summer.

Marriages

Cortnee (Dees) Gunlock, P.T., class of 2000, of Kalispell, Mont., married Tory Gunlock on June 12, 2004. Cortnee works as a physical therapist in Kalispell and also coaches JV girls basketball at Big Fork, Mont. She and Tory are expecting a baby at the end of July.

Larryn (Krause) Peterson, class of 2004, of Los Angeles, Calif., attends the University of Southern California and, this summer, married Matt Peterson, class of 2004, who works as an engineer recruiter for Aerotek.

Dan Mahlman class of 2002, works for Watson Pharmaceuticals in Phoenix, Ariz., and in September 2004 married Diane Vania in Seattle, Wash. He plans to begin working on his Ph.D. in fall 2005.

Caroline Pharr, class of 2003, of Madison, Wis., married husband Chapin Storrar on July 30, 2004. Caroline is currently in her second year of graduate school at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She officially joined a research group about a year ago and reports that her project is moving along. Chapin started graduate school in January 2004 and is earning his masters in environmental civil engineering.

Kim (Rybicki) Van Wyk, class of 2004, of Meridian, Idaho, married Pat Van Wyk, class of 2002, on October 16, 2004, at the Cathedral of St. Helena in Helena, Mont. After the wedding, they relocated to the Boise, Idaho, area, where they bought a house. Pat is a real estate appraiser and Kim works as a pharmacy technician at St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center. Kim plans to begin pharmacy school in the fall.

Births

Jennifer (Kudar) Tucker, class of 1997, and husband Jim Tucker, Jr., class of 2001, are pleased to announce the birth of their first child, Matthias James, on December 8, 2004. He weighed 9 pounds, 11 ounces and measured 22 inches long. All are doing great!

Greg Bryce, class of 2000, of Helena, Mont., announces that he and his wife Sarah Bryce, class of 2001, have a new baby, Greta Leigh, born on October 29, 2004. They also have a two year old, Ellie, who is doing great with the big change. Greg works as an environmental consultant for Hydrometrics, Inc., where he enjoyed doing groundwater transport modeling this year.

FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS

Carroll Facilities Electrician Al Miller is retiring as of December 31. He has worked for the college for 21 years, during which time he has helped keep everyone out of the dark and done a host of other duties we take for granted, like maintaining screens on the windows and assuring that the vacuums run for the entire college. If you see Al in the hallway over the next couple of weeks, wish him a Merry Christmas and a happy retirement.

SPORTS

Carroll Head Volleyball Coach Amy Heuiser, class of 1995, has decided to resign so that she can focus her time and energy on her daughter Elizabeth and soon-to-arrive sibling. Amy and husband Brian are currently expecting their second child before Christmas. Over her eight years as Carroll’s head volleyball coach, Amy led her team to six-straight Frontier Conference Championships. For the past three years, she was named Frontier Conference Coach of the Year and last year received Region 1 Coach of the Year honors. During the fall 2004 season, she led the team to their highest ranking in school history, 13th in the NAIA, as well as the top seed in Region 1 play. Carroll is sad to see Amy leave but wishes her continued happiness.

The Detroit Lions’ online newsletter recently served up an amusing story about Detroit Lions tight end Casey Fitzsimmons, class of 2004. To read it, check out: detroit lions.

Sports Schedule:

Men’s Basketball: December 16 Montana All-Stars game at the PE Center at 7 p.m.
December 29 Rocky Mountain College Tournament in Billings, at 6 p.m.
December 30 vs. Lethbridge/Augustana in Billings at 6 p.m.

Women’s Basketball: December 29 Whitworth College Classic, Spokane, WA, 8 p.m. December 30 Whitworth College Classic, Spokane, WA, 6 p.m.

COMING EVENTS

December 21: The final Tuesday night, Carroll-discount salsa class of the semester will take place at the Staggering Ox from 7-8 p.m. Regularly, classes are $6 per person, but if you bring your Carroll College ID you can attend the class for only $3. No experience or partner are required. Classes are taught by Jaime Hamlin, professional dance teacher and certified dance instructor, with her husband Bret. Classes will resume with beginning and intermediate salsa on January 25 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Ox. Please call 439-2612 for more information or email .

January 6: The musical holiday season will be brought to a close with a delightful concert, “Musick on Twelfth Night,” presented on the traditional last day of the Christmas celebration. The production will feature Carroll Professor of Fine Arts and organist Joe Munzenrider performing works of Rutter, Bach, Locklaire and Ackerly. Other musical guests joining Munzenrider will include soprano Fay Buness and trumpeter John Gronberg. The concert begins at 8 p.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church, 1000 Helena Avenue, in Helena. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for seniors and students. All proceeds will go to the St. John’s organ fund.

January 12 and 13: Sign-ups for Social Justice Month Community Service Day, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in the Campus Center. Students can enroll to volunteer at God's Love and Helena Food Share

January 17: Social Justice Month Service Day at God's Love and Helena Food Share, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

January 17: Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Forum, featuring Father Anthony Odozi delivering the lecture, “Don’t Give Me a Sanitized Dr. King: How Would He Challenge Us Today?” at 7 p.m. in the lower level of the Campus Center. It is free and open to the public. Born and raised in Nigeria, Father Odozi serves as a priest at St. Brigid Parish in San Diego, California. He plans to discuss the radical nature of Dr. King’s philosophy and teachings and how they have been watered down for popular consumption. A fiery speaker, Father Odozi will include singing “We Shall Overcome” as part of this event. The traditional Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Mass will take place afterwards at 9 p.m. in St. Charles Chapel, featuring music by Jack Oberweiser and Dr. Anne Perkins along with Fr. Anthony Odozi.

January 24: Helena dance instructors Tim and Donna Pattison will be teaching the Hustle (not the disco line dance but a lively swing) on three consecutive Mondays, beginning January 24 and continuing on January 31 and February 7. All take place from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Campus Center. Free to students.

April 21, 2005: Judy Shepard will speak at 8 p.m. on campus. Judy Shepard is the mother of Matthew Shepard, the 21-year-old man murdered in 1998 in Laramie, Wyoming. She speaks to audiences nationwide about what they can do to make their schools and communities safer for everyone, regardless of their race, sex, religion, or sexual orientation.

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