COA THE COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE Volume 12. Number 2 Fall 2016 INTERCONNECTED: COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC & ACADIA NATIONAL PARK Cover: Students in the Summer Field Institute course Wonder of Acadia, one of several COA programs for high school students, join Christie Denzel Anastasia '92, Acadia National Park's deputy chief of interpretation, on the fire tower of Beech Mountain. From left they are Christie, Lily Schaeufele, Camryn Branch, Ingrid Sant, Leanna Laws, Oscar Garcia Maldonado, and Tony Perez. Above: The view from the tower, looking south-southeast toward the Cranberry Islands. On the left, near the horizon is Great Duck Island where COA has O research station P COA The College of the Atlantic Magazine Interconnected College of the Atlantic & Acadia National Park Letter from the President 3 News from Campus 4 INTERCONNECTED 10 Changing So what? to Aha! 12 Seeking Acadia's Bats 15 In Their Own Words . Alumni & the Park 18 Poetry The Stepping Stones 25 Acadia Through the Ages 26 Recent Research 29 Acadia's Nature Center 30 Drawing the Forest & its Leaves 32 The Wild Gardens of Acadia 36 Donor Profile . Neva Goodwin & the Rockefellers 38 Leave No One Behind . Barry Lopez 39 Alumni Notes 44 Farewells 50 Community Notes 52 In Memoriam 55 Our Back Pages Moving . the Dorr 56 HELIO Creating a "New-versity" 57 COA The College of the Atlantic Magazine Autumn has come. There's a fire in our woodstove, an orange glow beneath Volume 12 Number 2 . Fall 2016 the maples, and our pears-gnarled but still edible, as pear expert Henry Hunt '15 promises-are ready to be picked. Houseplants, lush from a summer of light outdoors, now overtake our windows inside. Yet it's still Editorial warm enough that students are sailing off the pier. Editor Donna Gold The nestling of College of the Atlantic among Acadia National Park's Editorial Advice Heather Albert-Knopp '99 John Anderson hills opens glorious vistas for our students, along with opportunities for Lynn Boulger research and exploration that are quite possibly unprecedented. But Dianne Clendaniel Ken Cline there's something even more crucial. Within this surround of nature, our Darron Collins '92 students gain the option and expectation of developing one of the most Sarah Hall Jennifer Hughes essential of human skills: knowledge that comes from observation, from Maxim Lowe '18 sensory awareness. Whether it is the careful examination of leaves and Stephen Ressel Editorial Consultant Bill Carpenter bark by the students in Catherine Clinger's class Drawing Mineral and Botanical Matter in the Forest; the dogged search by Erickson Smith '15, Design night after night, so as to possibly assist Acadia's bats suffering from white- Art Director Rebecca Hope Woods nose syndrome; or the careful counting of species, from fungi to insects COA Administration to salamanders to birds, this acquisition of knowledge takes patience, President Darron Collins '92 Academic Dean Kenneth Hill confidence, and trust in one's own eyes, hands, ears. To make sense of Administrative Dean Andrew Griffiths what one has seen and heard is about as valuable a lesson as one can Associate Deans Chris Petersen Karen Waldron earn from four years of college. This gift of listening, of seeing, smelling, Dean of Admission Heather Albert-Knopp 99 reflecting, and doing enlivens these pages. It is one that has propelled Dean of Institutional Lynn Boulger Advancement Barry Lopez, our 2016 commencement speaker, throughout his writing life. Dean of Student Life Sarah Luke We are honored to publish his talk. We are equally thrilled to present the beautiful vision of Acadia's geology created by Maxim Lowe '18. COA Board of Trustees As with each thematic issue, my most torturous task as editor is to Timothy Bass Jay McNally '84 Ronald E. Beard Philip S.J. Moriarty choose who and what to feature. We would have loved to expand this issue Leslie C. Brewer Phyllis Anina Moriarty to highlight the current exhibit at the George B. Dorr Museum of Natural Alyne Cistone Lili Pew Lindsay Davies Hamilton Robinson, Jr. History, Exploring Acadia: Our Best Classroom, and additional extraordinary Beth Gardiner Nadia Rosenthal alumni, such as Meg Scheid '85, site manager at Saint Croix Island Amy Yeager Geier Abby Rowe ('98) H. Winston Holt IV Marthann Samek International Historic Site. Know that what is celebrated in these pages is Jason W. Ingle Henry L.P. Schmelzer but a sample of numerous senior projects, paintings, drawings, and student Philip B. Kunhardt III '77 Laura Z. Stone Nicholas Lapham Stephen Sullens and alumni research efforts, each representing the interconnections Casey Mallinckrodt William N. Thorndike Jr. between COA and Acadia. Anthony Mazlish Cody van Heerden, MPhil '17 Linda McGillicuddy Life Trustees Trustee Emeriti Samuel M. Hamill, David Hackett Fischer John N. Kelly William G. Foulke, Jr. Susan Storey Lyman George B.E. Hambleton William V.P. Newlin Elizabeth Hodder John Reeves Sherry F. Huber Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. Helen Porter Cathy L. Ramsdell '78 John Wilmerding Dawngold Donna Gold, editor The faculty, students, trustees, staff, and alumni of College of the Atlantic envision a world where people value creativity, intellectual achievement, and diversity of nature and human cultures. With respect and compassion, individuals construct meaningful lives for themselves, gain appreciation of the relationships among all forms of life, and safeguard the heritage of future generations. COA is published biannually for the College of the Atlantic community. Please send ideas, letters, and submissions (short stories, poetry, and revisits to human ecology essays) to: Donna Gold, COA Magazine, College of the Atlantic 105 Eden Street, Bar Harbor, ME 04609 dgold@coa edu Back Cover: Islesford Point, Addison Namnoun '15, oil on canvas, 30"x20." WWW.COA.EDU COA indicates non-degree alumni by parentheses around their class year.