August 28, 2009 QuickNotes

THE PRESS IS ON: FALL SEMESTER 2009

Carroll was in the news this week for the start of its centennial academic year. The Helena Independent Record and local TV featured us for days, including one story on how our residential students are a perfect match, thanks to the college's roommate compatibility policies and research on social networking websites. Get that story here: http://www.helenair.com/articles/2009/08/23/weekly_features/helena_life/top/50hl_090823_dorm.txt

WE PUT THE "ROCK" IN SHAMROCK

Imagine yourself in verdant Ireland, surrounded by fellow Saints alumni and listening to colorful yarns by none other than Carroll's Ireland-expedition veteran and master storyteller, Professor Murphy Fox (photo left). All this and more can be yours by signing on NOW to Carroll's upcoming centennial trip to the Emerald Isle. On October 2-12, Fox will lead participants through famed stops in Galway, then on a Lough Corrib cruise, followed by tours of Aughnanure Caste and Kylemore Abbey and a breath-taking views at Cliffs of Moher. For a complete schedule and details visit www.carroll.edu/alumni or contact Kathy Ramirez at 406-447-5185 .

FOUR WEEKS AND COUNTING: HOMECOMING 2009

Centennial Homecoming is just around the corner, and all you alumni out there are invited to celebrate a century of memories on the weekend of September 25-27. Just to whet your appetite: Alumni and Athletic Hall of Fame awards will be presented at the Friday night banquet--this year's Alumni Hall of Fame honorees will be Harriet Hunthausen, class of 1949, Gene Boyle, class of 1964, and Ray Messer, class of 1969. Athletic Hall of Fame awardees include: the 1941 football team, Mike Calnan, class of 1989, J.D. Esteban, class of 1987, Trish Rennaker, class of 1999 and Kevin Van Nice, class of 1999. The Warren Nelson Award will be presented to Steve and Pam Jones.

Saturday night will include dinner, an entertaining tour of life at Carroll over the past 100 years and music and dancing to Rob Quist. For a complete schedule of homecoming activities and registration go to www.carroll.edu/alumni/homecoming.cc

Special hotel blocks and rates have been set up at local hotels: ask for the "Carroll Homecoming Block." These blocks will be released on September 1, so make your hotel reservations today before the block disappears! A list of hotels offering special rates and rooms for Saints is available at www.carroll.edu/alumni/homecoming.cc

And, how about transportation? Anyone from the Portland/Seattle area interested in taking a charter bus to Homecoming should contact Kathy Ramirez in the Alumni Office at or call 406-447-8157.

ALUMNI PASTICHE

The Carroll Art Gallery is now displaying the first in its centennial series, "Carroll Connected: Alumni," now through October 2, featuring ceramics, sculpture and painting by Carroll alumni who work as professional artists from coast to coast. You are invited to view original works by: Yumi Kiyose (class of 1983), Mary Larson Mahar (class of 1995--painting photo right), Michele Firpo-Cappiello (class of 1986), Cole (Karwhite) Adams (class of 1998) and Andrea (Waitt) Bonifacio (class of 1993). The gallery, located in St. Charles Hall, is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays; closed weekends and college holidays. Admission is free. Call 406-447-4302 for information.

A Homecoming reception for this alumni art display will take place on September 26 in the Art Gallery from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to meet the artists and the exhibit creator, director and curator, Carroll Fine Arts Professor Ralph Esposito.

SPOON RIVER

Tonight, August 28, is the final evening of auditions for the first Performing Arts production of the year, "Spoon River Anthology."  Interested students, faculty and staff of all ages can try out for roles in the Merton Acting Studio (lower level of the Campus Center) at 7 p.m. The cast requires six actors, two to four singers and men and women spanning the generations, so you're not too old or too young to vie for a part!

 For more information about auditioning (or to pre-read the script), contact Carroll Director of Theatre Chuck Driscoll at 406-447-4309 or email . "Spoon River Anthology" will be performed one weekend only, September 24 -27, and is directed by Prof. Driscoll, with musical direction by Jodi Mattson. In the Carroll centennial spirit, the production delves the lives of Spoon River residents, who live around the time of our college's founding.

HIGH SEAS HIJINKS

If you don't want to dip into "Spoon River," auditions are coming up on September 9-10 for the world premiere of Michael McNeilly's "Pirate Play." This all-new musical comedy will take the stage this November 5-15 and will need the talents of pirates both good and evil. Auditions will occur in the Campus Center's Merton Acting Studio at 7 p.m. on both September 9 and 10, and it is open to members of the Carroll community and the public at large.

FILL THE YAWN WITH ICE CREAM

Fight the Yawn-get involved with Carroll's exceedingly successful annual St. Jude Children's Research Hospital fund-raiser, Up 'Til Dawn. Faculty, staff and students have brought in over $100,000 over the past three years of this effort on campus, and we're kicking off the 2009-2010 campaign this coming Monday night, August 31, with an ice cream social. It's free: just come on down to the lower level of the Campus Center at 7 p.m., meet in the Associated Students of Carroll College (ASCC) office, and be ready for fun, energy and satisfying work to help kids struggling against cancer. For more information, email Meredith and Lani at .

THIS AIN'T NO WHITEWASH

Due to the generosity of Carroll's Business Advisory Group, money was provided this summer to freshen up the Business Department in Simperman Hall. Cuyler Tonkovich, class of 2008, of College Pro Painters volunteered many long hours at night and on weekends to repaint an office, a classroom and the entire hall area of the department. With some help from Ryan Marxer, class of 2009, Tonkovich transformed plain walls to alluring spaces highlighted in hues of gray and burgundy. Says Carroll Associate Professor of Accounting, Business and Economics Beth Wilson, "It was a monumental task and a job well done and much appreciated." While there is still time to get some outdoor painting done, Cuyler is accepting indoor home improvement jobs-get a Saint on your paint by calling 406-459-8180.

SAINTS ON THE TUBE

Lots of Carroll facetime is on your local Helena television stations, and here's the latest:

Carroll's biweekly "Saints and Scholars" program on Helena Civic Television, cable channel 11, airs each Wednesday at 8 p.m. For the next two weeks (September 2 and 9), the guest will be Father Jerry Lowney (right) of the Sociology Department discussing the upcoming speaker Dr. Thomas Garrity, who will be coming to campus in September to discuss healthcare.

Saints sports gets regular coverage on KTVH Beartooth NBC, channel 12 in Helena, and everyone is invited to be part of the studio audience for the Saints Wrap Up show. It's filmed at the Brewhouse, just across from campus, every Sunday from 11 a.m. to noon. This fall, the Brewhouse is offering fans the chance to order up breakfast/brunch from 10 a.m. to noon and be amply entertained by watching our coaches and players offering commentary as cameras roll. The show airs starting this Sunday, August 30, at 10:30 p.m.

CASH FOR DEBUNKERS

Students who question the myth that there's no money left for college are in for a gratifying discovery: It's not too late for Montana college students to get help with this year's tuition, as over $1 million in access grants are available through the Student Assistance Foundation. This money goes out annually to post-secondary students in private, public, tribal and two-year schools, and out of the $1.2 million this year, over $35,000 will go to Carroll College and MSU-Northern.

STUDENT NEWS

The Myrna Loy Center continues its discounts for Carroll students, faculty and staff (with Carroll ID) during its popular Tightwad Tuesdays, with $2 film admission. On non-Tuesdays, tickets are just $4.50 for Carroll audience members. Films now showing include the Iraq-War rattler "The Hurt Locker," Woody Allen's "Whatever Works," and the woman-directed naughty guy comedy "Humpday." Discount tickets for top acts live on the Myrna stage are also available to the Carroll community, with students admitted for $7 and faculty/staff for $15. Find the Myrna on 15 N. Ewing Street, just off Broadway Avenue and across from the courthouse. Check out the Loy schedule at www.myrnaloycenter.com.

Senior accounting students are invited to try for a job with the firm of Altman and Rogers, which will have representatives on campus Monday, September 21, to interview for staff accountant positions. Last year, this firm hired three of our graduating seniors. Those in the know say that accounting firms hire in September and October for the following June, so your best professional job opportunities are likely to occur this semester. To sign up for an interview, please contact Rosalie Walsh in Career and Testing Services, 447-5530 or email at .

Much more info on upcoming entertainment, retreats, student-only specials and more is listed and updated constantly on the Carroll student webpage: http://www.carroll.edu/students/activities/index.cc

ALUMNI NEWS

In the News

Larry Gebert, class of 1978, has been a  meteorologist and system administrator for the computer networks at KTVB-TV News Channel 7 in Boise, Idaho, since 1992. He began his broadcasting career in 1977 working for a radio station while he was completing his degree at Carroll and started his professional work in television sportscasting the following year in Great Falls, Mont., where he eventually became a news director in 1980. He also worked in Billings, Mont., for three years before moving to Boise in 1983.

The latest Carroll Magazine featured a story on Dr. Nicki Verploegen (class of 1978--photo left) and her outreach in Africa through the nonprofit TATENDA International, and she has now announced a new and spectacular website for her organization. Check it out at: www.tatendainternational.org

Dr. Christian S. Kuhr, class of 1984, a transplant surgeon at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Wash., has been named one of that city's top doctors by Seattle magazine and Seattle Metropolitan magazine. Specializing in kidney and pancreas transplantation, he is a graduate of the University of Washington Medical School. Also on the Seattle Metropolitan top docs list is Dr. Matthew P. Horton, class of 1986, who is a physician at Seattle's CellNetix Pathology.

St. Andrew School in Helena has three new Carroll-educated teachers on board this year: Jen Ahmann, class of 1996, is the new kindergarten teacher; Carolyn Smillie, class of 2008, teaches 5th grade; and Kate Ferrie, class of 1998 is the 7th grade instructor.

Dr. Lindsay Tverdy, class of 2001, has joined the Boise, Idaho, medical staff at St. Luke's Hospital. Dr. Tverdy earned her medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine. She completed her residency through the Boise track of the University of Washington residency program, and she is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Christina Collins, sociology class of 2005, has been accepted to John F. Kennedy University's master's program in the School of Holistic Studies, where she will be concentrating on integral theory. Says mentor Father Jerry Lowney, "One factor in her acceptance was that she had not only completed the Carroll sociology criminal justice track but had also joined us on the summer study-abroad course in the criminal justice system of Ireland."

Kelli Kenik, class of 2009, is a new technician at the Montana State Grain Lab in Great Falls and is currently studying and training to become a licensed grain inspector. He boldly begins work during the busy fall harvest rush.

FACULTY NEWS

Former Faculty In the News

Rick Reese, who taught political science at Carroll in 1970-74, was recently in the news for his role in the famous high-altitude Grand Teton rescue of Aug. 22, 1967, which is now being made into a movie. His role in what is called the "ultimate Tetons rescue" 42 years ago, achieved a flawless result after a grueling three-day struggle to save a fallen climber stranded on the rocky fang. Reese reached the injured climber first and provided initial care. He would go on to found the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. Reese and the rest of the rescue team earned the Valor Award from the U.S. Department of the Interior, and their "immaculate rescue" is being immortalized in the new film "North Face, 67 - The Movie." For the bracing tale, read: http://www.sltrib.com/features/ci_13169395 (Photo left: Reese, third from left, with other living members of the rescue team. Picture taken on 8/11/09 by Peter Pilafian)

Athletic Achievements

Carroll Associate Professor of Education Jonathan Matthews shattered two national records by huge margins in his two gold-medal wins at the Senior Olympics National Championships at Stanford University, August 8 and 10. Matthews, age 53, earned a rarely achieved 96-percent age-graded rating in the second of his races. In the 5,000-meter race walk, competing against 120 qualifiers from across the country, Matthews finished with a time of 22:57, beating the old record of 23:37 set in 1997. Two days later, in the 1,500 meter race walk, Matthews' winning time of 6:18.02 cut 33 seconds off the old record time of 6:50.94 set in 2001.

At the Wyoming Senior Olympics in Rock Springs, Wyo., July 23-25, Carroll Physical Education Professor Gloria Lambertz, age 56, won 13 gold medals in swimming and track and field events, including the football throw in her age group.

Academic and Artistic Milestones

Sociology Professor Rev. Jerry Lowney reports that, as one of the eight members of the International Council for Alpha Kappa Delta sociological honor society, he actively participated in the recent annual meeting. At that conference, he was nominated for another three-year term on the council, and he took part in important discussions regarding the problem of increasing grade inflation. At the meeting, he and other council members unanimously approved a change in the requirements for honors status for students from 3.0 GPA to 3.2 GPA. Grade inflation was also discussed in the American Sociological Association meeting, which he also attended.

The Montana Arts Council recently awarded six Artist's Innovation Awards of $3,000 each to standouts including Carroll Fine Arts adjunct professor Phoebe Toland, who is teaching Introduction to Art this semester. Toland is a contemporary painter and sculptor from Helena, whose modernist "three-dimensional paintings" respond to issues such as urban sprawl and rapid growth in our cities. She holds a master's degree in fine arts in education from Montana State University-Bozeman. Her work has been exhibited and honored nationally, including solo exhibits in Montana, New York, Oregon, Washington and Pennsylvania. Her art is in permanent collections at the Holter Museum of Art in Helena, the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings and Paris Gibson Square in Great Falls, and also in private collections across the country. In addition to being a full-time studio artist, she is a collections specialist for the Holter Museum.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Holly Zullo (right), Ph.D., reports that, in April 2009, she was invited to speak at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock about the use of "clickers" (remote control devices) to create more interactive, active-learning mathematics courses. As a result of her visit, that university's math department has purchased a set of clickers, and several faculty members are planning to incorporate them into their classes this fall. Dr. Zullo was also invited to speak at the Project NExT meeting in Portland, Ore., on August 4. Project NExT is a national professional development program for new faculty members in mathematics, supporting about 80 new fellows each year. At the meeting, she gave a presentation titled "Classroom Voting in Linear Algebra" to about 35 of this year's NExT fellows.

STAFF NEWS

Events

On Monday, August 31, join in thanking our hard-working Facilities and Grounds staff for keeping everything running smoothly and cleanly all year long by attending the reception in Borromeo Hall from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. If the weather is fair, meet at the Sladich Fountain outside Borro, and if it's inclement, meet just inside the Borro entrance nearest the fountain. This event will give you a chance to see the recent work our crew has accomplished to revitalize Borromeo Hall.

In the News

Carroll extends a warm welcome to its new web programmer/developer Andy Allord, who has joined the Carroll Information Technology team and replaces Jerrad Zitnik, who left Carroll in June. Andy comes to Carroll from Shawano, Wis., where he worked as a web architect for the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, developing the tribal government website and Intranet. 

Carroll Human Resources Director Renee Hill recently got married and now has a new last name: McMahon. Congratulations!

MASS SCHEDULE

Campus Center: Sunday at 8 p.m.

St Joseph's Chapel (Borromeo):

Monday-Friday at 12:05 p.m.         

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday at 4:20 p.m.

St. Charles Chapel:                   

Monday-Friday at 11:10 a.m.

Wednesday at 9:30 p.m.

Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel (Guad): 

Saturday 10 a.m. (This Mass time is subject to change based on certain weekend events such as retreats, service trips, etc.)

Confession is offered at St. Charles Chapel on Wednesday, 8:15-9:15 p.m. and at 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 email at .

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament occurs in St. Charles Chapel on Wednesdays, 8:15-9:15 p.m.

NEW this year: Praise and Worship led by David Casey takes place in Guadalupe Chapel on September 10, October 1, November 5, and December 3.

ATHLETICS

News

Tonight, August 28, recently retired men's basketball coach Gary Turcott (right) will be roasted in the Carroll PE Center, with special guest ceremony master, former Montana Governor, former Carroll board of trustees member and Carroll Athletic Hall-of-Famer Marc Racicot, class of 1970. It's for ticketholders only and no doubt will rock the house.

The American Volleyball Coaches Association has recognized the Saints squad with the Team Academic Award for the Saints maintaining a team grade point average greater than 3.30. The team's GPA for the 2008-2009 school year was 3.49. "This is a new award for us, and we are always happy to brag about our outstanding student athletes," said Coach Maureen Boyle. Earlier this summer, the NAIA also recognized Carroll volleyball as an NAIA Scholar Team. The volleyball team has received this honor each of Moe Boyle's four seasons with the Saints.

Highlights

Get down to Nelson Stadium this Saturday for a double home opener: Fighting Saints Football versus Azusa Pacific at 1 p.m. and Saints Women's Soccer versus St. Xavier at 4:30 p.m.

For everything purple and gold, check Carroll's colorful new Athletics website, where you'll find news, schedules and much more! Click it and get with it at: http://www.carroll.edu/athletics/

COMING EVENTS

Ongoing: The Corette Library now has on exhibit an interesting new Centennial Archive Display of historic Carroll images and documents, created by Laura Ottoson, who provided the photo research and editing for Dr. Bob Swartout's "Bold Minds and Blessed Hands." This display will be added to throughout the year-check it out during regular summer library hours: now through July 17, open weekdays 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; closed Memorial Day and July 3 for the holidays.

August 28: ROTC Open House, 2-6 p.m. in the ROTC House near Trinity Hall. Free and open to all. Reception will follow a brief cadet award ceremony at 2:30 p.m.

August 28: Fourth-annual Slip-N-Slide Night and Barbeque Extravaganza, Guadalupe Hill, 5-8 p.m. Free and open to the Carroll community.

August 29: Carroll Night at Helena Brewers baseball game, starting at 7:05 p.m. Get in free with Carroll ID at Kindrick Field (within a mile of campus, east on Lyndale/Highway 12).

September 4-7: S.A.V.E.'s next plastics recycling drive at the YMCA field just east of Carroll College, daylight hours. As always, please give your bottles a quick rinse, toss the lids in the garbage, and sort the plastics by type. S.A.V.E. accepts Type 1 clear, Type 2 solid color (laundry detergent, orange juice bottles), and Type 2 translucent (milk jugs).  No yogurt containers or motor oil containers, regardless of type. This event always needs volunteers--call 406-449-6008 or go to www.savemobile.org and sign up.

September 13: Mass of the Holy Spirit, with His Eminence Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington (photo right), at 7 p.m., Cathedral of St. Helena. Open to Carroll students, faculty and staff. The Carroll College Choirs will provide music.

September 14: Centennial Catholic Lecture Series begins with the honorary doctorate conferral ceremony on His Eminence Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, followed by the cardinal's address on social justice issues, starting at 7:30 p.m. in the Carroll Campus Center. Free and open to the public.

September 15: Brown bag lunch with Thomas Garrity, Ph.D., of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine's Department of Behavioral Science, Hoff-Kavanagh Room in the Campus Center, 12:30 p.m. Free and open to everyone interested in health care and the future of medicine in the U.S.

September 15: The first Lowney-Hunthausen Lecture, with Thomas Garrity, Ph.D., of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine's Department of Behavioral Science, presenting "Healthcare Challenges in Appalachian Kentucky: Current Strategies for Meeting Unmet Needs Through Medical Education," lower level of the Campus Center at 7 p.m. Hosted by Fr. Jerry Lowney, professor of sociology. Free and open to the public.

September 16: Auditions for "A Night of One Acts," in the Merton Acting Studio downstairs in the Campus Center, 7 p.m.

September 16: Dr. Kelly Cline (left) kicks off his annual astronomy lecture series with "Time Travel: Loopholes from Einstein's Relativity," 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall's Wiegand Amphitheatre, room 101-202. Free and open to the public. In his talk, Dr. Cline will explore how Einstein's theory of relativity means that time travel into the future could really happen, and he will show that laboratory experiments demonstrate how it actually works on a small scale. Time travel into the past is a harder question, yet some scientists have proposed ideas about how even this might be done.

September 18-19: S.A.V.E. Erase Your E-waste electronics recycling event, with most electronic items from old computers, TVs and fax machines and more accepted. September 18 from 3 to 7 p.m. and September 19 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Kmart parking lot in Helena. Costs and other details will be posted at Savemobile.org website.

September 23: Dr. David Walton (right), a Partners in Health doctor and key associate of humanitarian Dr. Paul Farmer, be the official Alpha Seminar speaker, presenting "Living a Purpose Driven Life," 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Center. Walton's visit will cap off the freshman Alpha Seminar summer reading assignment, "Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer," which details Farmer's bold and revolutionary health care ministry in Haiti.

September 25-27: Carroll Centennial Homecoming.

September 24-27: Centennial Showcase of the play, "Spoon River Anthology," by Charles Aidman; a dramatic piece based on the work of Edgar Lee Masters. Through the poetry of Edgar Lee Masters, we meet the former inhabitants of Spoon River, and learn the lessons of their lives, spent during the years around the founding of Carroll College. September 24 -26 at 7 p.m. with a September 27 matinee at 3 p.m. Directed by Chuck Driscoll, with musical direction by Jodi Mattson. In the Carroll Performing Arts Center, Old North, St. Charles Hall. Tickets $11 general admission, students/seniors $8, Carroll faculty and staff always free and students free on Thursdays and Sundays. For the complete Performing Arts season details, go to: http://www.carroll.edu/academics/theatre/season.cc

October 5-9: Fall Break, no classes.

October 13: Second in the series of the Lowney-Hunthausen Lectures brings us a forum on alcohol and drugs, hosted by Fr. Jerry Lowney, professor of sociology.

October 14: Telemark Ski Film, Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre, room 101-202, 7:30 p.m., presented by Josh Madsen and sponsored by the Carroll Adventures and Mountaineering Program (CAMP).

October 16: Dr. Kelly Cline presents, "Comets: Messengers from the Past," 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall's Wiegand Amphitheatre, room 101-202. Free and open to the public.

October 17: The Carroll College Choirs will provide music for the 5 p.m. Mass at the Cathedral of St. Helena. For more information, contact Dr. Robert Psurny at 447-4807.

October 22: Tim O'Brien, author of "The Things They Carried," which was a finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, will give a reading and presentation in the lower level of the Campus Center in the late afternoon, open to the public. He will also be speaking later in the evening at the Helena Middle School. His visit is sponsored by the Lewis and Clark Library's "Big Read Under the Big Sky III" program, with Carroll College as a partner for the event.

October 24: Good Samaritan Ministries and Thrift Store 7th Annual Style Show, entitled "Hooray for Hollywood!" At the Gateway Center (1710 National Avenue in Helena). Noon silent auction, with style show down the runway starting at 1 p.m. Models and displays will wow fashion fiends with clothing and accessories spanning the decades, all of which has been donated to the Good Sam store throughout the year. All proceeds of the show and auction benefit the Assistance Ministry, serving over 900 people annually with financial and in-store assistance. Fiscal year 2008-2009 financial assistance totaled $145,000. With the current state of our economy, the increased cost of living, loss of jobs, and other needs, the number of families needing help is soaring, and this is a festive way to assist them. To find the Gateway Center, turn right off Last Chance Gulch onto National Ave., pass Wheat Montana, and you'll spy the center on the second block (if you hit the RE-Store you've gone too far).

October 30: President's Dinner, with all living presidents of Carroll College and guests along with the annual Insignis Award Recipient, recognition of the Centennial Campaign leaders and supporters and more.

November 4: Founder's Day.

November 4-6: Interfaith Symposium, "To Each a Key: Unlocking the Door to Interfaith Harmony," sponsored by Carroll's Departments of Theology and Philosophy. This three-day event will explore the keys that open beliefs of Christians, Muslims, and Jews to interreligious harmony. Keynote speakers include: Mohamed Elsanousi, director of communications at the Islamic Society of North America; Jill Carroll, executive director of the Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance; and Joseph Subbiondo, the president of the California Institute of Integral Studies. Entertainment and an opening night 13th-century Mediterranean buffet.

November 5-8 & 12-15: Mainstage world premiere of "Pirate Play" written and directed by Carroll Improv Master Michael McNeilly. Curtain is 7 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays with a 3 p.m. matinee each Sunday. All shows in the Performing Arts Center, Old North, St. Charles Hall. Mokey McNeilly directs his own highly entertaining musical creation, starring good pirates, bad pirates, pirates in love and hijinks on the bounding main. Aaarrrgh! Tickets $11 general admission, students/seniors $8, Carroll faculty and staff always free and students free on Thursdays and Sundays. For the complete Performing Arts season details, go to: http://www.carroll.edu/academics/theatre/season.cc

November 15: The Carroll College Choirs will provide music for the 11 a.m. Mass at the Cathedral of St. Helena. For more information, contact Dr. Robert Psurny at 447-4807.

November 18: Dr. Kelly Cline presents "Infinity and Beyond: From Mathematics to the Big Bang and Black Holes," 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall's Wiegand Amphitheatre, room 101-202. Free and open to the public.

November 22: The Carroll College Choirs will provide music for the St. Cecilia Day Mass at St. Mary Catholic Community in Helena. For more information, contact Dr. Robert Psurny at 447-4807.

December 2: Alpha Seminar Conference, Simperman Hall, 6-9 p.m.

December 10: "A Night of One Acts" by Carroll Performing Arts students, in the Merton Acting Studio downstairs in the Campus Center, 7 p.m.

December 12: Choreography recital by Carroll choreography students at 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center, St. Charles Hall, Old North.

December 13: Carroll College Choirs Christmas concert, Cathedral of St. Helena, 4 p.m. Free. The program contains a cappella selections and carols for Christmas and features larger works by Giovanni Gabrieli and Daniel Pinkham for choir, brass quartet, and organ. For more information, contact Dr. Robert Psurny at 447-4807.

AND, COMING IN 2010!

January 18: MLK Day, no classes. Annual service day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day Forum sponsored by Father Jerry Lowney.

February 5-7: Centennial Showcase performance of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" at 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center. With guest director Katie Wright, this Senior Showcase project for senior Bryan Ferriter will feature myriad talents of Carroll student thespians. This is an edited version, a revival of a 1994 version of Shakespeare's classic tale of revenge.

February 6: Headlights Spaghetti Dinner, St. Mary's Church, 5-8 p.m. Fund-raiser for the upcoming service abroad trip to the Guatemala Mission.

February 10-13: Carroll hosts the Rocky Mountain Theatre Association Youth Festival, a week of workshops, guest artists, and a variety of shows at theatres throughout Helena.

March 18 -21 & 25-28: Centennial mainstage play, "A Piece of My Heart," by Shirley Lauro, featuring guest director and Carroll performing arts alumnus Peter Ruzevich, class of 1993. This true drama brings us six women-five nurses and a country-western singer--who have returned from Vietnam and shows us each life affected by war, ending with a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. This play's selection was inspired by the Carroll College Nursing Program and the college's connection with Captain Diane Carlson Evans, U.S. Army Nurse Corps, R.N., the founder of the Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation, who received an honorary doctorate from Carroll last May. Curtain is 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center, St. Charles Hall, Old North.

April 16-17 & 24-25: Carroll Theatre for Children series presents "Charlottes Web," based on the classic and beloved book by E.B. White, featuring direction by senior Kelly Clavin and design by Kailey Portsmouth. Curtain is 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center, St. Charles Hall, Old North.

April 25: Carroll College Choirs spring concert, St. Mary's Catholic Church, 4 p.m.

April 26: Honors Convocation, 7 p.m., Campus Center.

May 6-7: Theatre Alumni Reunion & "Carroll Theatre History," a performing arts review of Carroll theatre from 1913 to present in a multi-media show that includes archive photos and reenactments of selected plays and music from our past. Curtain is 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center, St. Charles Hall, Old North.

May 8: Commencement and Centennial Gala.

Many more Centennial events are listed on the Carroll website at: http://www.carroll.edu/forms/about/history/calendar.pdf