COA Volume 7 Number 2 | Fall 2011 qa greas city, like theres, for a quick little Wildermend THE COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE COA Vision The faculty, students, trustees, staff, and alumni of College of the Atlantic envision a world where people value Letter from the Editor creativity, intellectual achievement, and diversity of nature and human cultures. Just as COA was being formed, the generation With respect and compassion, of 1992-President Darron Collins' individuals construct meaningful lives generation-was being born. Like the college, for themselves, gain appreciation of these children came into a chaotic world. the relationships among all forms of Nineteen sixty-eight, the year Les Brewer life, and safeguard the heritage of answered Father Jim Gower's question about future generations. what could be done for the people of Mount Desert Island with the definitive, "Let's start a college," was the same year Martin Luther King Front Cover and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated. It Marketa Doubnerova '13 was also the year students shut down Columbia University, the University of "In the middle of a great city, like Chicago went on strike, and the University of California Berkeley erupted. Paris, one wishes for a little bit of Education was in total upheaval-and by 1970 the unthinkable happened: green wilderness." Watercolor on at Kent State University four students were killed by members of the Ohio paper. National Guard. While protests against the war, against segregation, against authoritarianism, Back Cover and for women's liberation continued, while Ohio's Cuyahoga River actually Andrea Molina '13 caught fire due to the pollution within, a quiet group of COA's first trustees "El Arbol." Ink on paper. and founding president Ed Kaelber pondered just what kind of education was needed for those troubled times. These images were created during a COA term in Vichy, France last Clearly this college would need to train students to fathom, and work to spring with art faculty members Dru resolve, some of these terrible rifts-not only for humans, but also for the Colbert and Nancy Andrews. Nine plants and animals that were here long before we were. A college devoted to students studied French, French film, viewing the world as an integrated whole didn't only make sense-it seemed and created artistic travel journals, essential. or carnets de voyage. The images on the front and back covers were shown Much of this magazine is devoted to the alumni of our middle generation, at exhibits in Vichy in May and at the college's Ethel H. Blum Gallery in the men and women who-whether in Switzerland, Hawaii, or Maine- October. were born with COA. As COA's founders were exploring education, the generation featured in these pages were infants beginning to examine their world with eyes and ears and tongue and hands. What is ultimately SO brilliant about COA is that the approach favored by our founders is focused on encouraging and channeling the adventurousness, curiosity, and enthusiasm that is SO apparent among children, and SO likely to be educated COA is published biannually for the out of adults. College of the Atlantic community. Please send ideas, letters, and submissions (short stories, poetry, and Read through the profiles of Darron's generation at COA, and the celebration revisits to human ecology essays) to: of Lou Rabineau, COA's third president, who led us through those years. The original COA mission-based on a passion for learning and doing, and basic COA Magazine College of the Atlantic respect for the world and for each other-is clearly embodied in this middle 105 Eden St, Bar Harbor, ME 04609 generation, those who have come of age along with the college. dgold@coa.edu Damn gll Donna Gold, COA Editor PRINTED WITH CERTIFIED Paper WIND POWER Printed on recycled paper with vegetable-based inks on equipment using 100% wind-generated power. Letter from the President 2 COA NSSE Survey: COA Students are Constant Learners 3 The College of the Atlantic Magazine Volume 7 Number 2 Fall 2011 Notes from the Classroom 5 Bronwyn Clement '13 on Karen Waldron's Nature of Narrative EDITOR EDITORIAL GUIDANCE Behind the Eyes 6 Donna Gold Rich Borden An excerpt from a comic book by Nancy Andrews Lynn Boulger EDITORIAL CONSULTANT Ken Cline Bill Carpenter "Sauntering Towards Bethlehem" 7 Julia De Santis '12 DESIGNER Danielle Meier '08 An excerpt from from an essay by John Anderson Rebecca Hope Woods Jabulile Mickle Molefe '14 COA's Capital Campaign 8 PRINTER PROOFREADERS J.S. McCarthy Printers Jennifer Hughes Donor Profile: The Maine Brewing Company 12 Augusta, Maine Jabulile Mickle Molefe '14 ALUMNI CONSULTANTS Julia De Santis '12 Jill Barlow-Kelley GENERATION '92 Dianne Clendaniel PROFILES BY SARAH HAUGHN '08 President Darron Collins '92 14 COA ADMINISTRATION An interview with Bronwyn Clement '13 PRESIDENT A Conversation with the New Ms. Frizzle 16 Darron Collins '92 Diana Papini Warren '92 DEAN OF ADMISSION Sarah Baker Intimacies of Artifice 18 DEAN OF DEVELOPMENT Heather Sisk '93 Lynn Boulger Plants, Pages, and Passersby 19 ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR FACULTY Ken Cline Clark Lawrence '91 ADMINISTRATIVE DEAN Andrew Griffiths From Sharks to Spills 21 Jean de Marignac '91 ACADEMIC DEAN Kenneth Hill How to Become a Loving-Kindness Secret Agent 22 ASSOCIATE DEAN OF STUDENT LIFE Mark Tully '92 Sarah Luke ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR ADVANCED STUDIES A Head Full of Legs 24 Sean Todd Richard Emmons '92 The Art of Strategic Ambivalence 25 COA BOARD OF TRUSTEES Leslie Jones '91 CHAIRMAN BOARD MEMBERS Aristotle Goes to Jail 27 William G. Foulke, Jr. Leslie C. Brewer Jeremy Norton '91 VICE CHAIR Nikhit D'Sa '06 Elizabeth D. Hodder Education on the Rocks 28 George B.E. Hambleton VICE CHAIR Bridget Mullen '91, MPhil '93 Philip B. Kunhardt III '77 Amy Yeager Geier Suzanne Folds McCullough SECRETARY Alumni Artists 30 Ronald E. Beard Sarah A. McDaniel '93 David Vickery, Jr. '89 and Joshua Winer '91 TREASURER Linda McGillicuddy Short Story 34 William N. Thorndike, Jr. Jay McNally '84 Our Weekend on Shelter Island by Eric Wolf '93 Philip S.J. Moriarty LIFE TRUSTEES Phyllis Anina Moriarty Poetry 37 James M. Gower Monhegan Woods by Patti D'Angelo Juachon '92 Samuel M. Hamill, Jr. Hamilton Robinson, Jr. Sweet Honey and You by Jeff Wells '92 John N. Kelly Walter Robinson Susan Storey Lyman Nadia Rosenthal What's New and What's Good 38 William V.P. Newlin Marthann Lauver Samek Louis Rabineau: COA President 1984-1993 John Reeves Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. Henry L.P. Schmelzer Oral History 40 Clyde E. Shorey, Jr. Joan Van der Grift Steve Thomas Director of Admission 1989-1998 Paul Van der Grift TRUSTEE EMERITI Cody van Heerden Alumni Notes 42 David Hackett Fischer Sherry F. Huber Faculty & Community Notes 46 Daniel Pierce Helen Porter Q&A with Ben Hitchcock '15 52 Cathy L. Ramsdell '78 By Julia De Santis '12 and Donna Gold John Wilmerding COA in Our Hearts 53 WWW.COA.EDU