July 25, 2014
Gift of Global Proportions
Gustavo Artaza, President & CEO of International Studies Abroad
Carroll students enjoying their study abroad experience in 2014.
Renovations are underway on the first floor of St. Charles Hall for administrative offices as well as the new home of the Artaza Center for Excellence in Global Education.
Exciting news was delivered to the Carroll campus this summer by way of Austin, Texas.
With one of the largest single gifts in the history of Carroll College, Gustavo J. Artaza, President and CEO of International Studies Abroad (ISA), based in Austin, Texas, has provided $1.5 million to expand our global education initiatives and establish the Artaza Center for Excellence in Global Education at Carroll College.
“Gustavo Artaza is one of the most innovative leaders in international education today. Few people have created more opportunities for education abroad than Mr. Artaza,” said Carroll College President Dr. Tom Evans. “His gift will have an extraordinary impact on Carroll College as it will enable more students and faculty to live and learn abroad. We are most grateful that Mr. Artaza has chosen Carroll College to be the recipient of his generous support that will further our global and digital vision.”
This transformational, first-of-its-kind gift and subsequent creation of the Artaza Center will bring substantial expertise, opportunity and resources to Carroll’s expanding global learning initiatives as is prioritized in the college’s five-year strategic plan.
“Through my friendship with Tom Evans I saw how closely aligned the philosophies of ISA and Carroll College are in the field of international education,” said Mr. Artaza in sharing the motivation behind his gift to Carroll. ”Experiencing other cultures helps prepare students to become our future leaders, which means that we must include an international component in their education. By dedicating one of its strategic initiatives in its Vision 2018 plan to global education, it is clear to me that Carroll College shares the same vision as ISA,” said Artaza.
To learn more about the Artaza Center and what this gift will mean for Carroll’s global initiatives, read the full release here and the coverage in the Helena IR, Carroll College Gets $1.5 M Donation.
Thank you Mr. Artaza for your very generous gift to our college. We look forward to welcoming you to campus in September for the formal dedication of the Artaza Center for Excellence in Global Education.
Helping Our Neighbors
Carroll College teamed up with Family Promise to provide a total of four weeks of housing and meals for homeless families in Helena this summer.
Over 30 college employees provided evening meals for up to three homeless families who were housed in Trinity Hall for four one-week stays this summer as part of the college’s commitment to Family Promise.
Family Promise is a collaboration between 25 and more local congregations and the college to provide shelter and food to homeless families who joined the case-manager facilitated program to find permanent housing and employment.
Carroll employees who served as meal hosts this summer included Shannon Ackeret, Linda Bahr, Candie Cain, Carson Cunningham, Cathy Day, Tom Evans, Mike Franklin, Chris Fuller, Kathy Gilboy, Ed Glowienka, Donna Greenwood, Jim Hardwick, Tammie Hilton, Kerry Jensen, Jamie Jones, Nona Keeler, Erin Kuntzweiler, Sarah Lawlor, Nina Lococo, Doug MacKenzie, Jonathan Matthews, Linda Nelson, Leslie Olsen, Megan Patrick-Thompson, Kay Satre, Kyle Strode, Carolee Stuberger, Annette Walstad and Patty White. Dr. Jim Hardwick, Vice President for Student Life, was the facilitator and coordinator of the program on behalf of Carroll College.
Over the four weeks, Carroll College hosted four families consisting of five adults and eight children—one of whom was born during the stay with us.
This is Carroll's fourth year being involved in the program.
Faculty/Staff News
Hardwick Honored
Dr. Jim Hardwick, Vice President for Student Life, was honored with the Earl D. Rhodes Theta Chi for Life Award last week at the 158th Anniversary Convention of Theta Chi Fraternity in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Theta Chi for Life Award is the organization’s second-highest individual award for service to the fraternity, and the highest award given for service performed on the local or regional level. The award recognizes alumni members who, by their contributions to the organization, demonstrate a lifetime of involvement.
Dr. Hardwick served on the national board of directors for the fraternity from 2008-2012 and oversaw an update of the fraternity’s ritual which had guided the organization since the fraternity’s founding in 1856. He served for ten years on the fraternity’s Leadership and Education Committee planning and implementing national and regional leadership conferences.
Congratulations Dr. Hardwick!
Weight in Mexico
Professor of Engineering, Dr. Willis Weight, spent five days in June teaching at the Instituto Potosino De Investigacion Cientifica y Technologica in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
Weight was team-teaching with Alan Lemon, senior developer and trainer with Aquaveo of Provo, Utah. The course was taught to approximately 30 employees of Pemex Oil and was titled "Modeling Groundwater Flow and Transport Using GMS". (Carroll students learn about the groundwater modeling software GMS in Engineering 424 – Groundwater Flow Modeling.)
Weight arranged this opportunity through Pemex Oil's main environmental engineering company, Ecoterra Servicios Ambientales of Mexico City.
Recently Published
Kevin Hadduck, Director of the Carroll Academic Resource Center, has added two more poems this summer to his 100+ published poems.
"A Note to His Doctor" in the Journal of the American Medical Association, July 2, 2014, Vol. 312, No. 1, p. 98.
"Waving Man, 5th Street and I-35, Waco" also in the Journal of the American Medical Association, July 9, 2014, Vol. 312, No. 2, p. 193.
Annabelle's Arrival
A new Saint has joined the Carroll family.
Cassie Hall, registrar, and Dr. Eric Hall, assistant professor of Philosophy and Theology, welcomed daughter, Annabelle Therese Hall, into the world on July 13, 2014. Everyone is healthy and doing well.
Congratulations to the Halls and welcome to the world baby Annabelle!
Student News
13 for 13 in Scholar Team Recognition
All 13 of Carroll College’s athletic teams earned 2013-14 NAIA Scholar Team recognition. To be eligible for the award, a team must have had a combined grade point average of 3.0 or better (4.0 scale).
The Fighting Saints volleyball team had the school’s highest GPA at 3.59; women’s indoor and outdoor track was tied for second at Carroll with 3.42.
Carroll women’s soccer came in next with a 3.37 GPA followed by women’s golf 3.34, men’s outdoor track tied with women’s cross country (3.27), men’s indoor track 3.25, football 3.21, women’s basketball 3.15, men’s cross country 3.14, men’s golf 3.07 and men’s basketball 3.03.
“For each and every one of our athletic programs to excel academically to the standard set here at Carroll is a great source of pride for the institution. Our student-athletes are great representatives of the college and have shown that they embody the truest sense of what being a student-athlete is,” Carroll College president Dr. Tom Evans said.
This is the sixth season that all of the Saints’ athletic teams have earned NAIA Scholar Team designation and this year, the combined GPA for Carroll student-athletes, which totaled 281 athletes, was an impressive 3.25.
Read the full release here.
The women's volleyball team earned the college's highest team GPA with a 3.59 cumulative GPA.
Trinity Trio Serve as Hosts
Three Carroll College students shared their summer assisting with the Family Promise homeless families program at Carroll.
Tessa Berg '14, Raven Dryden '14, and Megan Planck '15 recently completed their service as overnight hosts for the homeless families with children that the college supported through our local collaboration with Family Promise.
The three women shared a suite in Trinity Hall and provided a ministry of hospitality to the parents and children who were guests of the college for four one-week stays at the college.
For Tessa and Raven, this was their second summer serving as Family Promise overnight hosts.
Raven had this to share about her experience, “Being a part of the Family Promise program for the second summer at Carroll College helped me recognize that we are nothing if we do not take care of the people on our right and on our left. It is so easy to distance ourselves from homelessness and create an "us versus them" mentality. In reality, persons who find themselves in a homeless situation are no different from you or from me. The greatest gift of being a part of this program is witnessing the faculty and staff at Carroll reach out to these people - seeing generosity in action in the midst of the demands of everyday life is humbling and inspires me to continue to serve in my life.”
Alumni News
Giving Back
During a visit to campus this past fall, Dr. Ralph Allen ’62 and his wife, Marian, donated a microscope to the Department of Natural Sciences. The microscope is a Swift Model 1000-D and was acquired by Dr. Allen during his teaching years in Alaska. The microscope will be used by students in the labs and is particularly useful for demonstrations as it can be connected to a camera and images are then projected onto a screen for student observation.
Dr. Ralph Lee Allen spent 40 years as a science educator at high school and college levels. He served as a teacher, principal, and superintendent of a small fishing village school district in Pelican, Alaska for eight adventurous years. His university teaching was done at the University of Montana where he enjoyed preparing generations of teachers to be fine science educators.
Carroll College and Dr. Jim Manion gave Dr. Allen the solid background for this long and fulfilling career. He regards Carroll as his “intellectual and spiritual home” and as Dr. Allen wrapped up his teaching career, he knew he wanted the “special” microscope to go back to Carroll College where it all began.
Thank you to the Allens for this special gift to Carroll.
Dr. Ralph Allen and Professor of Biology Dr. Jennifer Geiger with the Swift Model 1000-D microscope donated by the Allens. Transformational Trek
A. Brandt Henderson, Ph.D., ’75, and Brendan O’Connell ’76 recently completed the Camino de Santiago, the ancient pilgrimage that begins in France.
They walked 500 miles to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, then an additional 100 miles to the coast of Spain to visit the towns of Finisterre (where ancient peoples thought land ended) and Muxia. In total, they walked for 42 days.
Henderson described it as an “utterly amazing and transforming journey.”
Photo: Brandt Henderson '75 and Brendan O'Connell '76 in front of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
Career Moves
Meaghan Brooks ’04, Director of Community Relations and Fan Development for the University of Oklahoma, has been named to the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Leadership Council.
Psychiatrist Mark Mozer ’93 has joined St. Peter’s Medical Group in Helena. He will be treating patients in the area of adult psychiatry. Mozer earned his medical degree from Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. He attended Carroll College for his undergraduate work. Mozer served as a major in the United States Air Force, and was chairman of the psychiatry department at Benefis Health Systems in Great Falls before joining St. Peter’s.
Diane Wehrman ‘04 has joined the Bismarck office of Vogel Law Firm as an associate, concentrating on estate planning, estate administration, real property, energy and land use issues. She has experience in oil and gas law, with an emphasis on federal land use and development issues within Indian reservations. Wehrman graduated with distinction from the University of North Dakota School of Law. She received her bachelor of arts degree in political science from Carroll College.
Montana Department of Revenue director Mike Kadas has appointed deputy chief legal counsel Dan Whyte ’85 to serve as the department’s chief legal counsel. Whyte has been with the department since July 2012 when he started as an attorney in the department’s legal services unit. In September 2013, Whyte became deputy chief legal counsel, and in recent weeks has been acting chief. Whyte has lived in Helena for the past 26 years. He is originally from Idaho Falls. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Carroll College in 1985 and went on to receive a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Idaho in 1988. He worked as an attorney in private practice for 11 years and for various state agencies for 15 years.
IN MEMORIAM
Milton Coutu ‘42 died peacefully on July 13, 2014 in Scottsdale, Arizona at the age of 97. He was born on June 5, 1917 in Helena. He graduated from Carroll College, and Creighton School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, and while in medical school served as a Captain in the Army Medical Corps.
Milt or Doc Coutu as he was known by those he served, practiced family medicine for 18 years in Montana, and 10 years in Mesa, Arizona before ending his career in 1982 serving at the VA Hospital in Helena.
Despite spending many years in Arizona, he considered himself a Montanan, and his fondest memories were of fly fishing in the creeks and rivers around Red Lodge and the Beartooth Mountains with his sons and fishing buddies, Eddie and Draper.
Read more on his life here.
Wade Rea ‘82, passed away on the evening of July 15, 2014, after a gallant battle with multiple sclerosis. He was born on Feb. 7, 1959, in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Wade graduated from Three Forks High and then went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in business and marketing from Carroll College and then a master’s degree in business from the University of Washington.
After graduation from Carroll College, Wade contracted MS and was unable to work physically for six months. He recovered and was active until 2002, during which time he purchased and remodeled numerous properties. He also lived in Utah, Washington and Oregon while pursuing business interests. Wade loved to travel and did so extensively, including trips to Europe with his brother and Israel with a local church group.
In 2002, Wade relapsed with MS and developed chronic progressive MS, which as of now has no cure. He moved in with his parents in 2004, where he spent the rest of his life. He was one of the greatest most generous individuals who always wore a big smile as he tried to accept and deal with the realities of having MS.
Read more on his life here.
Katherine E. Wright ’51 was born Sept. 15, 1929, in Somers, Montana. She passed away peacefully July 4, 2014, in Coos Bay, Oregon.
Katherine was a class of 1951 graduate of the first co-ed class from Carroll College where she received her bachelor’s degree in nursing. She then moved to Livingston, Montana where she put her nursing skills to work in the local hospital.
On Nov. 29, 1952, Kay married John Wright of Livingston, where they made their home for the next 15 years. In 1967, John and Kay moved to Oregon and settled in Coos County. They owned and operated the WigWam Bakery which has been at many locations in Coos County over the years. Kay loved to visit with all of their customers and considered them all friends.
Read more on her life here.
Upcoming Events
Alumni Summer Picnics
Portland Alumni Gathering, July 28, 6:30-8:30 p.m., McMenamins Kennedy School, 5736 N.E. 33rd Ave., Portland
Seattle Alumni Gathering, July 29, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., Aubrey Davis Park Area A Picnic Shelter, 72nd Ave SE, Mercer Island
For more information and to rsvp for any of the events, please contact our Alumni Coordinator, Renee Wall at alumni@carroll.edu.
Fourth Annual Carroll College ASCE Golf Tournament, Sept. 19, Bill Roberts Golf Course, Helena
You have the opportunity to help fund Carroll American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Student Chapter activities and win great prizes in the process. Cost is $80 per person (includes cart) or $320 per 4-person team. Hole sponsorship $150.
For more information and to register visit the Carroll ASCE webpage. For questions, contact Gary Fischer at (406) 447-4571 or gfischer@carroll.edu.
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