September 18, 2009 QuickNotes

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

Campus just got a whole lot easier to navigate with outstanding new signs and campus maps up at the Getchell Street entrance and in front of campus buildings to help residents and visitors find our many public lecture sites and performing arts venues. At Getchell, check out the two stone monuments that will herald our great name to the world, and a row of trees plus lovely shrubbery will be planted on both sides of this entranceway off Highway 12 as part of this beautification coup. Meanwhile, our accessibility ramp into the Scola and Americans With Disabilities Act access to the Civil Engineering Building are now also being completed with railings and plantings, just in time for Homecoming.

Bravo to Carroll's Community Relations and Facilities administration and staff for making these much-needed upgrades and aesthetic enhancements to our gorgeous campus.

"THOSE OF US WHO HAVE RESOURCES HAVE TO SHARE THEM. WE CAN'T JUST KEEP THEM TO OURSELVES. . . YOU HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER." CARDINAL THEODORE MCCARRICK

His Eminence Cardinal Theodore McCarrick had an exciting few days here at Carroll. Not only did he appear at the Mass of the Holy Spirit, he also witnessed the Noble Fire breaking out north of the city and gave two outstanding talks on campus as part of our centennial celebration. The Cardinal served as Carroll's own noble fire, sharing his strong words about our responsibility to the poor and to each other under Catholic Social Justice teachings. He's now one of us, having received an honorary doctorate and joining the ranks of our esteemed Carroll alumni. Full coverage of the Cardinal's visit is available online at: http://www.helenair.com/article_48402b00-a1b1-11de-9f44-001cc4c03286.html and at: http://www.helenair.com/news/local/article_4383cd90-a1bd-11de-9f45-001cc4c03286.html

The Cardinal's Centennial Catholic Lecture is also being aired on Helena Civic Television, channel 11 in Helena. Starting next Wednesday, check listings for broadcast times in the Helena Independent Record, the Queen City News and the HCTV website here: http://www.helenacivictv.org/schedule.php HCTV also broadcasts the Carroll "Saints and Scholars" show every Wednesday night at 8.

LIVING THE CARDINAL'S WORDS

This weekend, our Alpha freshmen are sponsoring a fundraiser to assist a clinic serving the poorest people of rural Haiti. The fundraiser, "Helping Hands for Haiti," will take place this Saturday, September 19, from 7 to 11 p.m., in the Carroll Campus Center's lower level, with a silent auction and dancing to the music of Triple Cross (featuring the talents of our own Dr. Jack Oberweiser, himself a veteran of a Haiti outreach trip). At the event, Carroll students from last spring's dental service mission (including Carroll senior Louis Bartoletti, photo right) to Haiti will present a slide show on their adventures providing health care to over 300 Haitians in a destitute area of the island. Admission to Saturday night's fundraiser is just $2-and this amount of money goes a long, long way down in Haiti, so your attendance and modest donation will really make an impact on lives in peril. All proceeds directly support Partners in Health, which runs a clinic for poor Haitian citizens and was begun by humanitarian physician Dr. Paul Farmer, the mentor and colleague of next week's Alpha Seminar speaker Dr. David Walton. 

To cap off all this activity, next Wednesday, September 23, Partners in Health physician Dr. Walton (left) will present his inspiring Alpha talk that is free and open to everyone.  In "Living a Purpose Driven Life" at 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Center, Dr. Walton will tell the story of how a few young docs banded together to build a clinic to serve Haiti's poorest, and how this healthcare ministry has spread to other continents. His talk will complement the year's Alpha Seminar reading of "Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer," by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder. Dr. Walton's talk is expected to echo the message of Cardinal McCarrick delivered on campus earlier this week in regard to healthcare. As the Cardinal so powerfully stated during his talk before faculty, staff and students on Monday afternoon, "I hope the healthcare debate does not get so involved in politics that we forget the millions of Americans with no healthcare. You must take care of the poor. People with resources have to take care of the poor. You can't walk away from people with no healthcare."

For more on Dr. Walton's forthcoming campus visit, read the full press release at: http://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=12394

FEELING WEEK?

One week and counting! Next Friday through Sunday, September 25-27, don't miss the grandest alumni event ever: Centennial Homecoming 2009. The full Homecoming schedule, including the alumni art reception, performances of "Spoon River Anthology," a 5K fun run, entertainment for all class years, class pictures, and much, much more, is all available online at: www.carroll.edu/alumni/homecoming.cc

Register for Homecoming events online at https://www.advancement.carroll.edu/SSLPage.aspx?pid=277 or call Alumni Director Kathy Ramirez at 406-447-5185 to get in on the Homecoming festivities.

SPOONING IT UP

One alumni extravaganza slated for Homecoming is the Performing Arts Department's revival of a Carroll classic, complete with Carroll cast: "Spoon River Anthology" will play on Homecoming Weekend only, September 24 -26, with curtain at 7 p.m. daily in the Carroll Performing Arts Center. A Sunday, September 27, matinee will be offered at 3 p.m. as the final showing.

Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology"was an immediate commercial success when it was published in 1915, and made the best sellers list. To expose the hypocrisy of small-town American life, Masters based his work on the epitaphs of 244 deceased residents of a fictional small town, Spoon River, Illinois. In their post-mortem life stories, these residents tell the honest facts about their lives without the spin veneer. They represent the entire cross-section of society and weigh in on just about everything: love and hate, culture, economics and religion.

This play has a long history at Carroll. The first campus production occurred in 1966, just three years after it opened in New York, and was directed by Heather McCloud. That production impressed Dorothy Harper, longtime professor of theater and speech, who directed the second Carroll "Spoon River" in 1975.  Now, Carroll Director of Theatre Chuck Driscoll is collaborating with fellow faculty member Jodi Mattson, music director, in reviving it to mark the centennial. A cast of eleven students and faculty members will present over 100 different roles (suitable for a 100th birthday). Two cast members are veterans of the 1975 production: the previous director, retired faculty member (and current student) Dorothy Harper, has agreed to play some of her favorite roles, and her son, Carroll Computer Science Professor Steve Harper, will join her.

Tickets are $11 general admission, $8 for seniors and students, with Carroll students admitted free on Thursday and Sunday. Faculty and staff get in free for all performances. Call 447-4304 and leave a message to reserve tickets. For more, read: https://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.php?id=12454

WALK, DON'T RUN, FOR STARBUCKS

Today, September 18, the coffee czars of Starbucks will have a camera crew on campus filming a potential commercial spot, featuring faculty, staff and students engaging in a mock race-walking contest. Race-walk "training" by experts begins at 2:30 p.m., with the "race" starting around 3, all right outside the Campus Center, with the race course set up between the Campus Center and O'Connell Hall. You can just show up for this opportunity to be "discovered" and become a star for Starbucks-just wear Carroll apparel, be ready to sign a release form agreeing to be in the shoot, and have fun. Sources tell QNs that the filmed material is planned for a web series of Starbucks commercials showing the coffee team doing unusual things at interesting venues across Canada and the U.S.

THE WALKING CONTINUES

On Homecoming Weekend, our Saints for Hope team will be raising awareness and funds for the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI). Carroll community members involved so far include Counseling Director Mike Franklin, Associate Professor of Nursing Kim Garrison, Associate Professor of Math Jack Oberweiser and Psychology Club President Julianne Festine. Any alumni who want to join in the effort can assemble with the Saints for Hope at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 27,at Memorial Park (across from YMCA and big flag in Helena). Jazz and Irish music, a performance by vocalist Shelly Raine accompanied by the Edward James Band, food, kids' activities and much more will be offered at the NAMI event. This year, the goal is to have 1,500 walkers, in hopes of raising over $100,000. To get involved in this annual shindig, contact Mike Franklin at 447-5559 or email .

STUDENT NEWS

Announcements

Fever, chills, fatigue: these are just some of the symptoms of the H1N1 flu, sometimes confused with the symptoms of falling desperately behind in your classes. For the flu, you need professional medical care, but for a bad case of bad grades, seek help immediately from our experts at the Academic Resource Center (ARC), which has tutoring schedules now online at: www.carroll.edu/academics/resources/schedule.cc Take the cure!

If Helena's local radio offerings are the number one reason you own a zune, don't write FM off yet: only YOU can change the local broadcast music scene. Be a KROL 88.5 FM D.J.! Our new station manager John Butts is looking for radio personalities and staff to continue KROL's reputation as quality college radio. To learn more and get involved, contact John at:

In the News

Carroll biology junior Erica Mannix and her family was recently in the news for their family ranching business that stresses respect for their cattle and the land, innovation, and producing meat for local buyers, including Missoula's Good Food Store. Read the socially responsible yet mouthwatering story, and rustle up an appetite, at: http://www.missoulian.com/lifestyles/territory/article_ab256f22-9f0f-11de-af01-001cc4c03286.html

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

GRACE IN GIVING

You know you want to make a lasting legacy at Carroll but aren't sure if the time is right for you now? Planning is everything. You can join the many others across the nation who have made a commitment to the cause of their choice by including planned giving in their life and estate strategies. Learn more and get the latest news by subscribing to Carroll's free, no-obligation weekly educational newsletter at: http://www.carrollgift.org/contact.jsp?P=2&WebID=GL2005-0460.

If you would like to ask a question about giving to Carroll, whether right now or sometime in your future, contact Carroll Director of Development Daniel Minor at 406-447-5528 or by email at:

ALUMNI NEWS

In the News

Thom Peck (left), class of 1988, was recently in the news for assuming his new dream job as principal of Three Forks High School. Since he began his 20-plus years in education, Thom has taught in Rio Blanco, Colo., South Kitsap, S.D., Quincy, Wash., and Kalispell School District No. 5. At Hamilton (Mont.) High School, he was assistant principal and activities director from 1998 to 2002, while also serving as president and secretary of the Western A conference. His tenure in Bigfork included that school's first-ever Montana High School Association Academic Excellence Award in 2003. For more, read: http://bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2009/09/13/news/30principal.txt

Demelza V Stoudt, class of 2000, reports that she graduated on August 3, 2009, from Marymount University in Arlington, Va., with two master's degrees: community counseling and forensic psychology. On August 10, 2009, she joined the team at Kolmac Clinic, an intensive outpatient program for chemical dependency in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she is a chemical dependency counselor while she works toward licensure.

Zach Fisher, class of 2001, married Kara Irving on July 18, 2009, in Logan, Utah. Fellow Carroll 2001 grads Chris Oliveira and Steve Strothman were groomsmen, while another groomsman was Mark Cahill, son of Pat and Edna (Walsh) Cahill (both Carroll class of 1972). Zach and his new bride live in Logan, where they both work for the Utah State University Athletics Department.

Dr. Ryan Schwanke, class of 2002, is now a family practitioner with the Billings Clinic.

Megan (Kerzman) Blake, class of 2004, tells QNs that she married her husband, Keenan Blake, class of 2002, on June 27, 2009, at the Cathedral of St. Helena. They live in Lewistown, Mont. Megan recently graduated from the University of Montana with a Master of Arts in school psychology and will be starting her professional career with the Central Montana Learning Resource Center Cooperative (CMLRCC) in Lewistown.

Greg Mengel, class of 2009, has been hired as a Carroll admission counselor. Welcome aboard!

FACULTY NEWS

Dr. Kelly Cline made recent news for this week's astronomy lecture on time travel, both forward and backward. He delivered a spirited talk before a standing-room crowd in Simperman Hall. Check out the tale at: http://www.helenair.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/article_b71c0476-a1c1-11de-8017-001cc4c03286.html

STAFF NEWS

Gerald Landby (right), Carroll's director of Grounds, was elected to join the national board of directors of the Professional Grounds Management Society (PGMS) and was installed as the new Northwest Regional Director. Landby will formally take the position in October during the PGMS annual business meeting in Louisville, Ky. Gerald and his Grounds crew proved their design and landscape maintenance excellence when they were awarded a 2008 Green Star Grand Award in the Athletic Fields category from PGMS.

MASS SCHEDULE

Campus Center: Sunday at 8 p.m.

St Joseph's Chapel (Borromeo):

Tuesday-Thursday at 12:05 p.m.    

Friday at 11:45 a.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

Bruce Parker (left) has done it again-he's this year's Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year for the western region of the NAIA. For more, read the full press release at: http://www.carroll.edu/athletics/newsitemview.php?id=12190

Highlights

Saints volleyball takes on UM-Western tonight at the PE Center (7 p.m.). Soccer, football and cross-country are away.

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 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), 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.

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."

Ongoing: 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. 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.

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. Past e-waste events have collected up to 80,000 pounds of outdated electronics. Check out the new S.A.V.E. videos online at: http://www.savemobile.org/plastics/

September 21: Senior accounting students are invited to vie for a job with the firm of Altman and Rogers, which will have representatives on campus 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 .

September 26: A Homecoming reception for "Carroll Connected: Alumni" exhibit in the Carroll Art Gallery (St. Charles Hall) from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to meet the artists and the exhibit curator, Carroll Fine Arts Professor and Gallery Director Ralph Esposito.

September 29: Carroll Graduate and Professional School Fair, with recruiters from a variety of graduate programs from across the nation, Campus Center lobby, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

September 30-October 1: Workshop, "Strategies to Gain Admission to Competitive Graduate Programs," offered to students onWednesday, September 30, at 3 p.m. and again on Thursday, October 1, at 3:30 p.m., both days in the Hoff-Kavanagh Room of the Campus Center. To sign up for the workshop, email   and indicate which date you prefer.

September 29: Panel discussion, "Healthcare: Privilege or Right?" sponsored by the Carroll Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice, 7 p.m., lower level of the Campus Center. This interdisciplinary panel of Carroll faculty will discuss access to healthcare in America and will include: James Cross, Ph.D. (Theology), Rev. Jeremiah Lowney, Ph.D. (Sociology), Elvira Roncalli, Ph.D. (Philosophy), Maria Brosnan, MSN, ACNP-BC (Nursing), Zachary Callen, Ph.D. (Political Science), and moderator Christopher Fuller, Ph.D. (Theology). Free and open to the public.

October 1: Carroll German instructor Gwynn Mundinger, junior history major Lindsay Ward, and Assistant Professor of History Gillian Glaes will host campus commemoration marking the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall and Velvet Revolutions. The celebration begins with a screening of "The Promise," a film that looks at life in the eastern-bloc countries from 1961 through the 1980s, on Thursday, October 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheater (101/102).  This is the first film in a series of three to be shown this academic year.

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: Public showing of the all-new telemark ski movie, "The Freeheel Life," by "Telemark Skier Magazine" editor Josh Madsen, as part of a 50-date US tour, in Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre, room 101-202, 7:30 p.m., presented by Madsen and sponsored by the Carroll Adventures and Mountaineering Program (CAMP). Free admission, thanks to Carroll Student Activities. Official movie trailer is here: http://freeheellife.com/

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 help. 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 right-hand side of the second block.

October 30: President's Dinner, with Carroll presidents, Centennial Campaign leaders, alumni and faculty honoring our heritage, our history and the annual Insignis Award recipient.

November 4: Founder's Day (Bishop Carroll, photo right).

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.

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.

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.

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 9: IMPACT Business Campaign Kickoff Breakfast

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.

February 16: IMPACT Friends and Parents Spring Phonothon begins

February 16: Lowney-Hunthausen Lecture by Ken Wooden, Ph.D., a sociologist and the celebrated author of "Weeping in the Playtime of Others: America's Incarcerated Children." Ken Wooden has appeared on ABC News "20/20," CBS "60 Minutes," and NBC News. As the founder of Child Lures, Ltd., a firm dedicated to developing strategies for protecting children from sexual exploitation and abduction, he has testified before Congress several times. Sponsored by Sociology Professor, Fr. Jerry Lowney.

March 9: IMPACT Business Campaign Wrap Up CHEERS Party.

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 junior 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 and "Carroll Theatre History," a performing arts review of Carroll shows from 1913 to present in a multi-media production with 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