COA THE COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE Volume 9. . Number 1. . Spring 2013 WAYS OF WELLNESS OA The College of the Atlantic Magazine Ways of Wellness Letter from the President 3 News from Campus 4 Food for Thought Surya Karki 16 7 Wellness 11 The Yin and Yang of Peter Wayne '83 12 Human Ecology on Steroids Three Alumni Doctors of Emergency Care 15 Bloodlines and Bodywork Carmen Bedard-Gautrais '07 18 An Integrative Life Christopher Todd Kitchens 06 21 The Art of Honnie Goode, MPhil 06 23 Re(de)fining Global Health Rachel Snow 81 26 My Brain Cancer Diary Bogart Salzberg '96 28 The Search for Balanced Imbalance Perspectives from Student Life 32 Research Successes Steven King 80 and Clifton E. McPherson 84 34 Aoife O'Brien '05 Babycatcher 37 Discovering Cures 38 A Life of Kindness, A World of Hope Father James M. Gower 41 Alumni and Community Notes 44 To Erris Human Year After Year Donors 53 Japanese Beetles Poetry by Anneke Hart 16 56 John Anderson's History of Natural History 57 COA students Rachel Drattler 14 and Will Fuller '16 practice tai chi (see page 12). Photo by Becca Haydu 16 COA The College of the Atlantic Magazine Volume 9 Number 1 Spring 2013 There is little that has given me as much pleasure over the past nine years as talking to students about a project, a play, a future, or simply hearing their Editorial enthusiasm - their love - for this college. Editor Donna Gold Editorial Guidance John Anderson Sarah Baker But what does it mean to love COA? Yes, there are the moods of Frenchman Marni Berger '09 Rich Borden Bay, the shifts in the ocean's color; there are the friendships begun, and the Lynn Boulger insights gained. But I think loving COA is more even than that - more akin to Dru Colbert Ken Cline loving something sacred within ourselves - a love of learning, yes - but also Michael Griffith '09 Sarah Haughn '08 a recognition that learning is about awareness, about attending to the world Helen Hess with our whole beings: mind, body, soul. It is working hard, and laughing hard Jennifer Hughes Katharine Macko usually about ourselves; it is heading into Acadia National Park for a brisk Danielle Meier '08 Editorial Consultant Bill Carpenter bicycle ride and returning to work and think and talk and laugh some more. Alumni Consultants Jill Barlow-Kelley Dianne Clendaniel This fluid intensity shaped at COA is what ultimately forms the healthy Design balance of a human life. This may have been something I knew - but it Art Director Rebecca Hope Woods took a conversation with five wise students resident advisors all to COA Administration articulate it. Actually, I believe it took the conversation "The Search for President Darron Collins '92 Balanced Imbalance" (see page 32), for all six of us to articulate it. This very Dean of Admission Sarah Baker Dean of Institutional Lynn Boulger possibly explains the essence of a COA education, and why we appreciate it so Advancement Associate Dean for Faculty Ken Cline much. None of us knows where learning will emerge: From books? Solitude? Administrative Dean Andrew Griffiths Classes? A moment on Dorr Mountain? A talk with friends? Some painful Academic Dean Kenneth Hill Dean of Student Life Sarah Luke hurt? A joyful recognition? At COA we recognize that the spark that generates Associate Dean Sean Todd for Advanced Studies comprehension most likely comes from some combination of all of the above. COA Board of Trustees COA's idealism, the belief that lives can be creative, useful, productive, lovely Becky Ann Baker Sarah A. McDaniel'93 Dylan Baker Linda McGillicuddy and healthy - has had a powerful impact on many, including me! With this Ronald E. Beard Jay McNally '84 Leslie C. Brewer Stephen G. Milliken magazine, I am choosing a different form of balanced imbalance, leaving my Alyne Cistone Philip S.J. Moriarty Phyllis Anina Moriarty full-time position as COA's public relations director, retaining only my role as Nikhit D'Sa '06 William G. Foulke, Jr. Hamilton Robinson, Jr. editor of this magazine, on a very part-time basis. Thanks in part to the constant Amy Yeager Geier Walter Robinson George B.E. Hambleton Nadia Rosenthal reminders by students that life is about more than working, I am choosing time Elizabeth D. Hodder Marthann Lauver Samek Philip B. Kunhardt III '77 Henry L.P. Schmelzer to notice the ocean, take walks, read long novels, write, tend plants, and talk Anthony Mazlish William N. Thorndike, into the night with friends, as I so often did when I was a student like them. I Suzanne Folds McCullagh Cody van Heerden hope in this way, I can better shape and model my own imbalanced balance. Life Trustees Trustee Emeriti Samuel M. Hamill, Jr. David Hackett Fischer John N. Kelly Sherry F. Huber Susan Storey Lyman Daniel Pierce William V.P. Newlin Helen Porter John Reeves Cathy L. Ramsdell '78 Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. John Wilmerding Clyde E. Shorey, Jr. 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 Donna Gold, COA editor 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. 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