COA Volume 4 I Number 1 SPRING 2008 The College of the Atlantic Magazine COA VISION LETTER FROM THE EDITOR The faculty, students, trustees, features COA The College of the Atlantic Magazine Volume Number SPRING 2008 staff, and alumni of College of You would think that it would be simple to the Atlantic envision a world cover a college the size of COA, with its three EDITOR where people value creativity, Donna Gold hundred-odd students, thirty-two-odd faculty Academic Program Review - p. 4 intellectual achievement, and EDITORIAL GUIDANCE members, thirty-five years of history and By David Hales Nancy Andrews diversity of nature and human fewer than two thousand alumni. Richard Borden Lvnn Boulger cultures. With respect and com- Think again. At COA, everyone is an indi- COA Leads the World by Going Carbon Neutral - p. 5 Ken Cline passion, individuals construct Naveed Davoodian '10 vidual. Everyone has a story. There really Noreen Hogan '91 meaningful lives for themselves, COA's Astoundingly Sustainable New Housing - p. 6 Jennifer Hughes aren't groups-and though college guides gain appreciation of the relation- EDITORIAL CONSULTANT may try to reduce our students to types, they Bali Buzz: p. 8 Bill Carpenter ships among all forms of life, and are such adamant individualists that they rise 30+ hours of youth life at the UNFCC ALUMNI CONSULTANTS safeguard the heritage of future beyond characterization. As I grab a salad at lill Barlow-Kelley lunch, I see some first-year students who managed to raise $2000 for the The People Behind the Dike ~ p. 10 Milja Brecher-DeMuro generations. COPY EDITOR Juan Hoffmaister '07 reports from his Watson year Heifer Project at the end of winter term, another first-year student who Jennifer Hughes COVER: Pitkin Interior choreographed a compelling dance from the perspective of Gertrude, DESIGN We Wanted to Form Our Own School ~ p. 13 Mahan Graphics by David Vickery '89 Hamlet's mother, for her Shakespeare midterm, some committed poli- Excerpts from an oral history with Fran Pollitt '77 of PRINTING 2007, oil on linen, 20" X 15" cy analysts who were at the United Nations Framework Convention on COA's first class IS McCarthy Printers, Augusta, Maine BACK COVER: Climate Change in Bali, others who were at the convention in Nairobi, The Beach Hill Farm Gang, and those who devote their analysis to the energy use on campus-a Horizons Only, No Lines ~ p. 15 COA ADMINISTRATION A tribute to JoAnne Carpenter David Hales David H. Fischer August 2007 well as avid researchers of birds and whales and lizards and mush- President William G. Foulke, Jr. Photo by Alexander Lane Kenneth Hill James M. Gower, Portland Monthly rooms. But what is so amazing to me is the brilliant writer who is Samuel Hamill, Jr. Ardent Environmentalist ~ p. 20 Academic Dean Life Trustee intending to go to veterinary school, the pre-med student who is also A donor profile of COA's devoted board chair John Anderson George B. E. Hambleton Michelle Soto '10, Alisha Associate Dean for an artist and writer, the sustainability expert who has just co-authored a Charles E. Hewett Advanced Studies Strater, Isabella Perkins '10, botanical paper. And that's just the current students. COA Teaches Lifelong Learning - p. 22 Sherry Huber Sarah Baker farm manager Lara Judson Whether it's the COA graduate who has chosen to instill a family Alumni making a difference in science John Kelly, Dean of Admission Trustee Emeritus '04, assistant farm manager Lynn Boulger Diane Lokocz '03, Dawn with the mission of human ecology as a stay-at-home parent or Dave Philip B. Kunhardt III '77 Human Ecology as a Discipline - Two Views ~ p. 30 Dean of Development Matlak, Phoebe Van Vleet Susan Storey Lyman, Feldman, faculty member in math, going off to China each July to teach Essays by Bill Carpenter and Maxwell Coolidge '05 Andrew Griffiths Life Trustee '08 and Tess Faller '09 Administrative Dean in the Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School in Beijing, Suzanne Folds pause during a day's work Sarah Luke McCullagh on the farm. COA offers an ever-changing multitude of stories two thousand Culebra, selections from a novella ~ p. 32 Associate Dean Sarah A. McDaniel '93 for Student Life of them! My story list is already impossibly long. By Erica Maltz '08 Stephen G. Milliken Karen Waldron SUSTAINABLE PRINTING In this issue, we are featuring science alumni who are making a mark Associate Dean Philip S. Moriarty COA is printed on recycled, Poetry p. 37 for Faculty Phyllis Anina Moriarty in medicine, conservation, even in the military. Also check out the back FSC-certified paper with By Candice Stover BOARD OF TRUSTEES William V.P. Newlin, vegetable-based inks at J.S. of the magazine for the work David Malakoff '86 is doing on the science Samuel M. Hamill. Jr., Life Trustee Chairman McCarthy, which purchases desk of National Public Radio as one of the co-creators of the station's Elizabeth Nitze Elizabeth D. Hodder, Helen Porter windpower credits for all its year-long Climate Connections series, broadcast to as many as twenty- electricity. McCarthy recy- departments Vice Chair Cathy Ramsdell '78. cles more than 100 tons of five million people. Casev Mallinckrodt, Trustee Emeritus Vice Chair John Reeves waste paper and cardboard One more note. After thirty-five years, College of the Atlantic has its COA Beat p. 5 Ronald Beard, Hamilton Robinson, Ir. each month and continues first faculty retiree. JoAnne Carpenter, who taught at the college almost Secretary Henry D. Sharpe, Jr., to work to reduce wastage. Class Notes since the very beginning, retired at the end of the fall term. The artwork p. 38 Leslie C. Brewer, Life Trustee It has also substituted envi- Treasurer Clyde Shorey, Ir., ronmentally friendly products on this issue's cover, like that within the spread, is part of a tribute to Community Notes p. 42 Edward McC. Blair, Life Trustee for most of its hazardous Carpenter by those who were deeply influenced by her sweeping intel- Life Trustee William N. Thorndike, lr. chemicals and recycles and ligence and her attention to artistic detail. We wish her a deeply cre- Cody van Heerden reuses its press wash, the ative retirement. only remaining hazardous Financial Operations Report Revisited ~ p. 45 COA is published twice each year for the College of the Atlantic community. waste generated. Please direct correspondence to: Expanding Horizons ~ p. 46 COA Magazine Donna Gold College of the Atlantic David Malakoff '86 and NPR's climate change series 105 Eden Street editor, COA Bar Harbor. Maine 04609 Human Ecology Essay Revisited - p. 47 Phone: (207) 288-5015 email: dgold@coa.edu By Greg Rainoff '81 www.coa.edu Printed recvcled paper powered by windpower.