COA Volume 4 I Number 2 Fall 2008 The College of the Atlantic Magazine COA VISION Letter from the Editor The faculty, students, trustees, staff and alumni of College of As I write this, I'm on a train from New York the Atlantic envision a world to Boston, from there to take a bus home to where people value creativ- Maine. Outside, the Atlantic Ocean laps at ity, intellectual achievement the shores of Mystic, Connecticut. An egret Photo by Bill Carpenter. and diversity of nature and stalks the shoals, its long neck leading the way. Somewhere in the train, a phone rings. human cultures. With respect and compassion, individuals A phone. How difficult it is for us to be alone. How nearly scary it is to be separate from the familiar. construct meaningful lives for themselves, gain appreciation And I think of the excerpts from the senior project of Carmen Phillips '08, of the relationships among all who spent seven weeks in the Virginia woods, having learned over the years to read the environment, forge new understandings-and survive on forms of life and safeguard the her own. heritage of future generations. Carmen faced many difficulties in her journey, not the least of which was being truly alone. As phones ring around me, and passengers huddle- like me-over computers, I realize that the ability to be alone, to learn for ourselves, is something we are daily losing through constant access to COVER: familiar voices over the phone, familiar sounds on iPods, and familiar facts embryo, from sabertooth, 2008, through the Internet. a video by Colin Capers, BA '95, MPhil '08, lecturer in writing and COA surely celebrates connectivity. But one of our lesser-heralded film studies. (S-VHS/MiniDV) teachings-perhaps because it is just so basic-is self-reliance. Our students are expected to observe and learn from the world that is around and within This still from sabertooth, Capers' us. Whether researching birds out on Great Duck Island, whales on Mount videoart evocation, was created Desert Rock or the flora of Acadia National Park, whether combining through intensive manipulation of Greek drama and contemporary dance as student Dan Mahler '11 did last up to eighty layers of video and year in his production of The Bacchae, or pursuing any number of artistic, audio. Using both ambiguous scientific, literary and human studies endeavors-including planning their and recognizable images, Capers own course trajectory-our students learn to rely on themselves. encourages viewers to find their own meaning within this In this way, innovative possibilities emerge, such as those featured in these tightly controlled aesthetic pages: understanding a child's special awareness of the moment, launching environment-a window into his a school curriculum linking children with local farms, promoting legislation human ecological vision of the to make biking safer and carbon emissions more costly. These visions keep world. us caring as individuals, as a community and as a college. As the world negotiates the crashing waves of financial instability, I am BACK COVER: taken by how solidly the feet of our alumni are planted in what matters, and by how the greater COA community is truly focused on moving ourselves Danielle Kristi-Ann Meier, '08 and the world toward more rational, sustainable lifeways. I am taken by from her senior project, A Study our students, who within two weeks of moving into the new Kathryn W. of Friendship & Thyroid Cancer Davis Student Residence Village strung delightful spiderweb clotheslines, Through Vector Graphics making these buildings even more sustainable. Or by the many alumni who Having faced thyroid cancer sent in photos of themselves on a bicycle-as if the bike were the natural while a junior at COA, Meier transportation of the COA graduate. Or by the class notes, which more decided to focus her senior than anything else prove that COA attracts creative thinkers who leave the project on raising thyroid cancer college ready to fashion amazing, fascinating and unusually independent awareness and honoring those lives for themselves that also make the world better for others. who helped see her through the treatments. The images on the Donna Gold back cover are a reconfiguration Editor, COA of a life-size portrait exhibit containing digital prints of some of the many friends who supported her. features COA The College of the Atlantic Magazine Volume 4 Number 2 Fall 2008 Letter from the President p. 2 EDITOR Donna Gold COA's firm financial footing EDITORIAL GUIDANCE Nancy Andrews COA launches new programs p. 5 Geena Berry '10 Richard Borden Green & Socially Responsible Business is here, Heather Candon '99 Trans-Atlantic Food Systems program coming Ken Cline Naveed Davoodian '10 Fungi Funded p.7 Jennifer Hughes Student Naveed Davoodian '10 receives EPA fellowship EDITORIAL CONSULTANT Bill Carpenter Big Shoes Filled p. 8 ALUMNI CONSULTANTS Jill Barlow-Kelley Karen Waldron passes faculty dean torch to Ken Cline Dianne Clendaniel PROOFING Jennifer Hughes Summertime, Summertime p. 10 DESIGN Rebecca Hope Woods Working the summer on MDI by Naveed Davoodian '10 PRINTING JS McCarthy Printers Phoebe: Living from the Inside Out Augusta, Maine p. 11 An essay by Lisa Hammer '90 COA ADMINISTRATION David Hales Andrew Griffiths Wilderness Ways p. 12 President Administrative Dean By Carmen Phillips '08 Sarah Baker Kenneth Hill Dean of Admission Academic Dean COA Alumnae Win National and State Offices p. 14 Lynn Boulger Sarah Luke Dean of Development Associate Dean of Ken Cline Student Life Bill Foulke: Beaming with Pride p. 15 Associate Dean Sean Todd A donor profile of COA's new board chair for Faculty Associate Dean for Advanced Studies Reports from the Sustainable Edge p. 17 BOARD OF TRUSTEES COA alumni raising the bar on balanced living William G. Foulke, Jr., Ronald E. Beard, By Amanda Witherell '00 Chairman Secretary Elizabeth D. Hodder, Leslie C. Brewer, sabertooth p. 27 Vice Chair Treasurer Casey Mallinckrodt, Images from a video by Colin Capers, BA '95, MPhil '08 Vice Chair With an appreciation by Abby Balmer '10 XXX Edward McC. Blair, Stephen G. Milliken Life Trustee Out on Rounds: Exploration with Large Animals p. 30 Philip S.J. Moriarty T. A. Cox Selections from a senior project by Amanda Spector '08 Phyllis Anina Moriarty David H. Fischer William V.P. Newlin, M. Wing Goodale, Life Trustee departments MPhil '01 Elizabeth Nitze James M. Gower, Helen Porter Life Trustee George B. E. Hambleton Cathy L. Ramsdell '78, Class Notes page 41 Trustee Emeritus Samuel M. Hamill, Jr. John Reeves, Charles E. Hewett Life Trustee Faculty & Community Notes page 46 Sherry F. Huber Hamilton Robinson, Jr. John N. Kelly, Henry L.P. Schmelzer Annual Report page 50 Trustee Emeritus Henry D. Sharpe, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III '77 Life Trustee Susan Storey Lyman, Clyde E. Shorey, Jr., Life Trustee Life Trustee Poetry p. 36 Suzanne Folds William N. Thorndike, Jr. McCullagh Cody van Heerden By Stefan Calabria '08 and Melody Brimmer '08 Sarah A. McDaniel '93 John Wilmerding, Present at the Creation p. 38 Jay McNally '84 Trustee Emeritus Excerpts from an oral history with Steven Katona COA is published twice each year for and Susan Lerner the College of the Atlantic community. Please direct correspondence to: Speaking Facts to Power p. 64 COA Magazine Wing Goodale, MPhil '01 College of the Atlantic 105 Eden Street, Bar Harbor, ME 04609 Human Ecology Essay Revisited p. 65 (207) 288-5015, dgold@coa.edu Radical Human Ecology in an Ordinary Life www.coa.edu By Nikki Grimes '96 This publication is printed on recycled paper using vegetable-based inks. Letter from the President COA's firm financial footing The current financial crisis forces all of us-individuals, families and institutions- to look at how our plans are protecting our families, our institutions, our businesses, and our very dreams. College of the Atlantic started this process long before credit default swaps became a household word. In the fall of 2006, a select working group of David Hales. Photo by David trustees and staff began preparing a financial sustainability strategy. The Camburn. Financial Sustainability Report led to the adoption of five strategic financial priorities and twenty-two recommendations. The fundamental purpose of this effort was to ensure that our core mission-an excellent education for our students-was based on a firm financial footing. With full confidence,l can say that it is. We achieved a balanced budget last year, are firmly on track to balance our budget this year and despite the financial crisis, can conservatively project that progress into the future. Since our expenditures are purposely focused on our academic program, our financial stability translates into educational excellence. This does not mean we are not concerned. But we have transformed our concerns into questions, and these into fact-based analysis. My confidence relies not on wishful thinking but on objective analysis, as you can see below: We are focused on our educational mission; every dollar received in tuition supports academic programming. Our endowment proceeds are used to reduce costs to students and their families. Our goal is to ensure that no student who should be here is turned away for financial reasons. We continue to meet more than 98 percent of need and provide financial assistance to some two-thirds of our students, leading to our being ranked eighth in the nation in student satisfaction with financial aid. We see no signs of loan funding shortages, in part because of the way we work personally with students and their families, and the extreme care we take in analyzing loan providers. While the value of our endowment varies with the overall economy, we are conservatively invested, with real assets underlying our portfolio. This we review constantly to ensure that the return from endowment that we need to support our students and academic programs is ample and predictable. The tangible investments we have made-in new student housing and a new campus center, for example- directly improve the student experience at College of the Atlantic, with direct benefits to academic accomplishment, the strength of our academic community and our financial base. Interest in COA from potential students is increasing. Visits to campus and inquiries are soaring, in part because of our national and international visibility as an institution that puts its fundamental values into practice. Finally, our financial supporters are deeply committed and convinced that their gifts to COA are wise investments in tomorrow's leaders. Though early in our fiscal year, our annual fund support is ahead of last year's. There are strengths to being small. We are about as lean as an educational institution can be, we track revenues closely, and we manage our budget carefully. We are far more agile than most in our ability to plan for contingencies and react to changing circumstances. Sustainability starts with a healthy bottom line. During our recent reaccreditation a member of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges' team commented, "College of the Atlantic has made frugality a virtue." Because we do practice the sustainability we teach, COA remains a great value for its students-and not incidentally, a sure investment for those committed to a more sustainable world. David Hales 2 COA COA BEAT THE WORD IS OUT! COA IS GREEN-AND MUCH, MUCH MORE by Donna Gold Most of you reading these pages know that College of the Atlantic as an insti- tution-and its students, staff, faculty and trustees as individuals-truly be- lieve that what we do matters. We care about our environment; we care about our neighbors-whether near or far; we understand that small actions reverber- ate into large ones. From 1969 until to- day, COA's mission has never faltered, not even in the 1980s and 1990s when, let's face it, the environment was not high on most people's list of concerns- including those of academia. But now it is, and College of the Atlantic's steadfast focus on recognizing that actions have implications may mean that we are no COA students are finding the Kathryn W. Davis Student Residence Village longer a "best kept secret." wonderfully homey, as well as unusually sustainable. Photo by Donna Gold. Since the turn of this century, colleges and universities This interest follows upon Grist.org, which came out have understood that our particular role in training future with a list of worldwide colleges that cared about the generations demands a certain amount of responsibility environment in 2007. COA headed that list (which toward the world they will live in. Hence, colleges was not alphabetical). In fact, the only major list COA and universities are becoming more sustainable. This did not appear on was the one published in Sierra, the movement toward greenness has been celebrated magazine of the Sierra Club. Why? They deemed that recently by several media outlets, including The any college in the Eco League had an unfair advantage, Princeton Review which added a "green rating" to The and so excluded us all. Best 368 Colleges, its 2009 survey of higher education. Eleven colleges and universities received the Review's Only two colleges appear on the lists made by Forbes, highest possible score of 99, COA among them. Grist.org, Kaplan and The Princeton Review: COA and Harvard University. Other media sources developed their own lists, including Forbes Magazine, which based its research on an annual "College Sustainability Report Card." Produced The Princeton Review created its green rankings in by the Sustainable Endowments Institute, the report consultation with ecoAmerica (www.ecoamerica. grades schools with the highest endowments on such org), a non-profit environmental marketing agency. factors as administrative commitment to sustainability, The criteria covered three broad areas: energy policies and investment priorities. While COA's healthy and sustainable quality of life on campus endowment is much too low to be considered in that list, the college's undeniable commitment to the preparation of students for employment and environment could not be overlooked. COA received a citizenship in a world defined by environmental challenges special Sustainability Innovator Award for striving, "to reduce carbon emissions and its overall footprint on the overall commitment to environmental issues planet." such as energy use, recycling, food, action plans for buildings and transportation, and goals Kaplan College Guide 2009 also chose a list of twenty- concerning greenhouse gas emission reductions five "green colleges" based on the Sustainability Report To read about COA's steps toward sustainability look Card, along with campus projects, initiatives and for our sustainability pages on www.coa.edu. courses. COA is on it. COA 3 This achievement is proof, says President David Hales, that sustainability is not a frill. "If a college with 320 students and a small endowment can become carbon neutral and lead the way toward a truly sustainable environment, so can any college-or business or institution or home. Commitment is much more important than wealth-you don't have to be rich to do the right thing." The Princeton Review's survey also included its typical rankings of academic and student life. In those essential to the mission of the school, COA placed eighth-this is of the top colleges in the nation-for "Students Happy with Financial Aid" and tenth in the nation for both "Class Discussions Encouraged" and "Most Accessible Professors." US News & World Report's 2009 edition of "America's Best Ben Goldberg '90, right, and Abe Noe-Hayes '00, beside him, our composting toilet engineers, offer instructions Colleges" also came out with its rankings in August. The on the care and maintenance of the system installed in magazine lists three essential criteria for judging schools, our new residences and community center to Mike Kelly, among them the category titled, "Highest Proportion of COA carpenter, along with other members of the COA community. Photo by Donna Gold. Classes Under 20." With 97 percent of its classes under twenty students, COA ranks third in the nation for small classes and fourth in the nation for percentage of international students. Let's consider this for a moment. COA has 320 students, fewer than 1,600 alumni. We're not even forty years old. Our endowment was just twenty million at the end of September. Remember, only about 15 percent of the four- year colleges in the United States and two Canadian colleges are even chosen for The Princeton Review, and yet COA ranks among the nation's top twenty colleges for much that matters in education. The Princeton Review also noted COA's achievements in a few other, non-academic aspects of college life: #8 for "Gay Community Accepted," #18 for "Best Campus Food"-thanks to chefs Lise des Rochers and Ken Sebelin '92-and also #18 for "Most Beautiful Campus." Oh, we're also #3 on their list of "Nobody Plays Intramural Sports"-but that's only because their reviewers haven't seen the resounding cricket games on the pathway to Kaelber Hall, or our faculty-staff-student tug of wars after the last All College Meeting of the year. We Are So Very Proud COA students and recent graduates receive multiple honors in 2008-and the year hasn't even ended. Laura Briscoe '07 Katarina Jurikova '08 Matthew Maiorana '10 Sixth International Conference KW Davis Projects for Peace Udall Scholar on Serpentine Ecology Student Award Poster Award Ana Maria Rey Martinez '08 Michael Keller '09 Watson Fellowship Brett Ciccotelli '09 Humanity in Action Fellowship Udall Honorable Mention Global Engagement Summit Lauren Nutter '10 Garden Club of America Udall Scholar Scholarship Udall Honorable Mention Anna Perry '10 Naveed Davoodian '10 Neith Little '09 Goldwater Scholarship Environmental Protection Goldwater Scholarship Agency Grant Juan Carlos Soriano '11 Margaret Longley '10 Global Engagement Summit Nikhit D'Sa '06 KW Davis Projects for Peace KW Davis Graduate Projects for Award Peace Award 4 COA COA's Green and Socially Responsible Business Program A first for the Northeast College of the capitalize on social responsibility to gain competitive Atlantic is now advantage and increase valuation while benefiting the first under- society and the environment," according to the course graduate college description. in the Northeast Photo by Donna Gold. to offer a "green" Additionally, Davis Taylor, faculty member in business curri- community sustainability and economic development, culum. With is teaching a course on sustainability, examining its the launching often conflicting conceptions and definitions. of our Green COA has been building its Green and Socially and Socially Re- Responsible Business Program since 2004, consulting sponsible Business Program, COA joins only seven with alumni, students and business leaders to other United States colleges and universities providing understand the needs of the market and this new field. a comprehensive program to undergraduates, according Senior Nick Jenei has been deeply involved in planning to a survey by the Association for the Advancement of the program, and served on the search committee for Sustainability in Higher Education. Friedlander's position. "It is impossible to understand Jay Friedlander, former chief operating officer of the complex world we find ourselves in with out a deep O'Naturals, and "one of Maine's most famous socially understanding of business," says Jenei. "Whether we responsible businessmen," according to Maine's have great faith in the power of the capitalistic model business newspaper, Maine Biz, has been chosen to to change the world for the better, or whether we fear run the program. He now holds the Sharpe-McNally its means and want to transcend its selfish motives, Chair in Green and Socially Responsible Business. we must be comfortable with business. The world is a product of the great wealth and massive poverty that During his first full week at COA-after traveling capitalism has created." to Washington for the Society for Human Ecology conference-Friedlander met with several students Ultimately, Friedlander hopes, students will obtain interested in starting businesses. "COA is a remarkable the skills and experience to practice business using place with a palpable energy for positive change," sound economic, social and ecological principles so he says. "I have been impressed by the quality and students can do well-financially-by doing good: thoughtfulness of the students here." ecologically and socially. According to Friedlander, who has previously taught courses in leveraging social Friedlander was instrumental in catapulting O'Naturals responsibility into a competitive advantage at COA and into the nation's first organic and natural fast-food at the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson chain. Under his leadership, the company opened College, "Green and/or socially responsible business fifteen restaurants and franchise locations, along with is what people want to do. They don't necessarily a partnership with the $19.5 billion Compass Group, understand how to do it." bringing O'Naturals to colleges, businesses and hospitals nationwide. The program was originated by Henry Sharpe, a life trustee of the college and former president of the A former Peace Corps volunteer, Friedlander likes machine tool company Brown & Sharpe, along with to say to gatherings, "Business is essential to human his wife, Peggy. It has been strongly supported by ecology and fundamentally impacts our world. Look COA trustee and alumnus Jay McNally, founder of the around you, everything you see is made by a business." electronic discovery firm Ibis Consulting, Inc. Friedlander now hopes to train students to leverage these businesses to also contribute to the well-being Friedlander holds an MBA from Babson College, of the world. He is beginning with a class in Twenty- where he was valedictorian. He says that much of his First Century Entrepreneurship. By looking at specific life has been focused on trying to bring about positive case studies of recent entrepreneurial businesses, the social change, so taking the step to COA follows class examines the challenges and pitfalls of creating in this continuum. "At COA, people have a greater a socially responsible venture. It also "offers new understanding of sustainability. COA is here to give frameworks for creating entrepreneurial ventures that students the skills to help make a better world." COA 5 COA Launches Sustainable Food Systems Program by Donna Gold Food. It's a universal. But finding nutritious, safe food that doesn't deplete Earth's resources is becom- ing increasingly difficult. College of the Atlantic students are deep- ly aware of this and increasingly concerned. To educate students to better understand-and possibly serve-the nutritional and ener- getic needs of an ever-expanding world, COA is initiating a food systems program that addresses lo- cal issues within the global trends of food production. The international aspect of this program is the Trans-Atlantic Part- nership in Sustainable Food Sys- tems, connecting students and fac- ulty at College of the Atlantic with the Organic Research Centre at Elm Farm, United Kingdom's primary center for research into organic food systems, and Germany's University of Kassel, a premier graduate program in organic agriculture. The local part is equally exciting. COA will be hiring a new faculty member who will hold the Sustainable Food Systems chair. The entire package is being funded by a $3.5 million donation from the Partridge Foundation. "This unique and innovative program will link some of the best minds in food systems research on both sides of the Atlantic," says David Hales, president of COA. "With food issues making headlines across the globe, the need for training critical and creative thinkers in the field of sustainable agriculture is absolutely essential. We envision this program as a platform for national and international leadership in meeting the needs of providing healthy and affordable food in the twenty-first century, in understanding the role of international trade and finance, and in transforming the way that higher education approaches this subject." Students at COA will be able to conduct research at the UK's Organic Research Centre (ORC); those who wish to obtain a master's degree in topics ranging from the specifics of organic farming to global food policy, can apply to study at the University of Kassel's graduate school and receive full funding for their education. Researchers at Kassel and the ORC can come to COA's Beech Hill Farm to study organic practices in the United States, or to meet with COA faculty, students and advisors. Faculty exchanges among the institutions have already begun, as has work on an international conference in sustainable food systems for next fall. Photos of Beech Hill Farm by Donna Gold. 6 COA Fungi Funded Naveed Davoodian '10 Receives One of Fifteen EPA Grants to US Undergraduates Fungi. Pronounced fun-ji, toxic," says Davoodian. with a soft g. Though it's "But specific organisms do the passion of third-year inhabit them." student Naveed Davoodian, he didn't learn to pronounce Says Rajakaruna, "Naveed's it in the American academic success in securing way until he attended the America's annual meeting in Photo by Casie Reed '10. this highly competitive Mycological Society of grant not only shows his academic accomplish- ments but also the Baton Rouge, Louisiana last importance of his research year. in the natural sciences. Davoodian, whose activist Fungi are major players in father was forced to leave Iran five years before shaping the world around us. Understanding how Naveed was born, might be better known in this plants and fungi interact in stressful environments magazine for the dry humor of his campus photo can have major implications for habitat restoration, essays. That was before he was nominated for a agriculture, biodiversity conservation, even Goldwater Scholarship-which he didn't receive- evolution. This grant allows Naveed to combine his and then found a notice for fellowships offered research interests in mycology with my interests in by the Environmental Protection Agency. Since exploring the ecology of extreme environments." Davoodian already had most of the necessary As Rajakaruna suggests, Davoodian's focus is not the paperwork from the Goldwater application, he plants that live in extreme soils, but the mycorrhizal decided to try for the EPA grant. fungi that live on their roots. These grow either inside As one of only fifteen national recipients of the or outside of a root in a symbiotic relationship with EPA's Greater Research Opportunities Fellowships the plant. By collecting such roots from Pine Hill, a for Undergraduate Environmental Study, much of small rise on Maine's Deer Isle that happens to have Davoodian's tuition is covered for his last two years heavily metallic soil, Davoodian has been able to at COA, along with his books and other expenses. analyze and compare the response of various fungi That's not all. The slight young man with dark to different soil types. eyes and long eyelashes will receive a stipend to Ultimately, this work will help determine whether continue his research into the use of fungi in the plants heavily imbued with mycorrhizal fungi are cleansing-or bioremediation-of highly metallic more useful in phytoremediation-the cleanup soils through next summer. practice of growing specific plants on polluted soil to concentrate and remove the minerals-than "I'm getting money basically to be myself-to study, do an internship and pursue projects with Nishi," he plants without a large fungi load. says, referring to former faculty member in botany, While some metallic soils are natural, like those at Nishanta Rajakaruna '94. Though Rajakaruna Pine Hill, others are the results of mining and are moved on to pursue research opportunities at San deeply toxic, needing the extraordinary cleanup Jose State University this fall, the botanist continues measures of the federal Superfund program. to mentor COA students. Phytoremediation is a possible-and relatively natural-means of cleansing these polluted soils. Davoodian modestly acknowledges that the work that makes him "himself," is independent, ground- Ask Davoodian how he got focused on fungi and breaking research on a level far beyond what most he just laughs. "That's like asking someone what undergraduates attempt. It involves investigating their favorite flavor of ice cream is-and why." It's plants growing on soils with high levels of not the value of fungi, not their role in remediation magnesium and iron, a kind of soil technically that concerns him. Davoodian is a scientist. His known as ultramafic. "These soils are generally fascination is with fungi, pure and simple. COA 7 Big Shoes Filled Ken Cline Takes Over From Karen Waldron As Associate Dean For Faculty This summer, after ten years as faculty dean, having successfully navigated the college through its ten-year reaccreditation from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Karen Waldron, faculty member in literature, stepped away from administrative duties. The call of students, of literature, of the classroom was too strong to keep her tethered to a life of meetings and policy papers. And yet, though her work as dean took up endless hours, she always had time for students. Here is an appreciation from just one of her companions in the classroom, Poorva Rajaram '10. Is tireless a good word, or is it too incriminating? Likewise: open, composed, wise, comprehending. No matter how we describe her, I don't know what COA would do without Karen (or perhaps I have some idea and it makes me afraid). I wonder at all the possible (and impossible) situations diffused and grudges set grudgingly aside because Karen is always willing to talk. I imagine all the moments of clarity, all the people mobilized for Good Causes, and all the grasping toward a deep certainty that could never have occurred-or worse, gone wrong-without her presence on campus. She somehow manages not to take herself too seriously, even while helping us to discover and unearth parts of ourselves we could scarcely have imagined without her instruction, counsel, friendship. In my moments of frustration I question whether classrooms should be turned into safe spaces where all views can be aired. Yet, everyone finds a way to contribute to Karen's class. There are those of us who talk Karen Waldron. Photo by Toby Hollis. constantly, those that prefer a well thought through sentence here and there and even those who may not think themselves knowledgeable about the discipline. I can only marvel at that and realize that I've yet to encounter another classroom quite like hers. There seems to be forethought in everything she says, yet she never lectures. Nothing seems arbitrary, yet there is always something spontaneous in class discussions. If method and madness were ever to find a happy equilibrium it would probably be in one of Karen's classes. To both love and be critical of COA is an extremely fraught balance that all of us fight to keep. That balance seems inherent in her interaction with the place; yet, somehow, she succeeds in humoring the tumult that others go through at the college. I just hope that in handholding a cantankerous COA through all of its struggles she doesn't always-like Mrs. Dalloway-have to buy the flowers herself. ~ Poorva Rajaram '10 Also stepping down from the deanship is John Anderson, William H. Drury, Jr. Chair in Evolution, Ecology and Natural History who had been Associate Dean of Advanced Studies. Replacing him is Sean Todd, Director of Allied Whale and Steven K. Katona Chair in Marine Studies. Additional changes include Sarah Luke, who had been Interim Associate Dean of Student Life and is now Associate Dean of Student Life; Sarah Baker continues in admission, but is now Dean of Admission; and Lynn Boulger is Dean of Development. 8 COA Convocation 2008 by Ken Cline, faculty member in environmental law and public policy, COA's new associate dean for faculty When I came here in 1989, COA didn't have a Although I was the convocation as such. Instead we had a tradition of product of a solid lib- permanent and visiting faculty telling the assembled eral arts education, student body about their planned courses for the year: that education was what they would be teaching and how it all fit together. parceled into separate Ken Cline. Photo by Jennifer Hughes. We were a smaller faculty in those days-and perhaps disciplines with the ar- less long-winded. tificial walls of majors and without the means As one of the newest kids on the block and less than a of integrating different ways of understanding into the week away from my previous job in a large law firm- world. As I encountered various environmental and with its modicum of economic security-I listened political issues in my work, it became increasingly to clear that the world didn't really fit into the neat disci- plinary boxes of my training. A philosopher talk about finding a turtle on the road on his trip down to the college that morning from There weren't environmental problems separate from northern Maine. Through that encounter, he poised social problems, economic problems, legal problems, sweeping questions about existence, our relationship aesthetic problems. There were just problems. The to nature, our place in the universe. world needed people who could see these issues in all their complexity, and begin to solve them. I then watched as an artist took a beat-up flip-flop off his foot, held it up and proceeded to wax eloquent But where do you find such people? H.G. Wells once about the design process and the beauty of the physical remarked, "Human history becomes more and more a form. race between education and catastrophe." The world needs people who are not limited by disciplinary He was followed by an ecologist who challenged thinking but can master disciplines and move beyond everything I thought I knew about ecology and them. This is the great promise of COA for me; it offers nature. a vision of education that can move beyond where traditional education systems leave off. And we need Not to be outdone, an education professor then that desperately. proceeded to rip apart the idea of homework and deplore the debilitating influence of public schools. For those of you who are new to this place: be forewarned, you will not be given this education. You Perhaps the most memorable was a scientist who will need to claim it. It will not come printed out on a questioned how it is that we know things in the world. form where you merely have to check off boxes. You He dropped his keys and hypothesized that perhaps will have to work for it, search for it, take risks for it, his keys fell to the ground not because of gravity, but perhaps even sneak up on it. You will need to talk to because invisible little men jumped up and down on faculty, friends, staff and yourself as you seek the skills them causing them to fall. He challenged students to and substance that will help you build your education. disprove his hypothesis through science. Along the way, we may hold out flip-flops or invisible little men to help you think about the paths you have As I said, I had just left a promising legal career, and I chosen. You can embrace them or challenge them, wondered what had I gotten myself into? but you will need to be deliberate with them. It is an exciting challenge, but a challenge just the same. Even in my dazed amazement, I already had a partial answer. I had come to a place where people would I will close with the blessings of one of my favorite challenge me and make me look at the world in com- crusty environmentalists, Ed Abbey: pletely new and different ways. Every faculty member May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, was asking questions that I hadn't ever thought of be- dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May fore. I was coming to this place to learn as much as to your mountains rise into and above the clouds. teach. And I have continued to learn; not just from fel- low faculty but also from students and the dedicated I wish you that and more as you embark-or continue- staff here at the college. upon your study of human ecology. COA 9 Summertime, Summertime, Working the Summer on MDI by Naveed Davoodian '10 Photos by Naveed Davoodian '10 Sinda Karklina '10, Jamie Liepolt '09, and Casie Reed '10. While many COA students' summer pursuits beyond the pale of academics proper lead them to the eccentric and the exotic flaunting facial hair machismo in Europe, midwifing in Southeast Asia, unicycling across the United States), some COAers opt to stay on the island for MDI's elusive "on- season." Here's a look at what some downeast denizens did this past summer When he was not hard at work selling tickets at the Criterion Theater, Niles Baldwin '10 could be seen dutifully attending his post at the Lompoc Cafe. Upon being asked what his secret was to successfully juggling two jobs during Bar Harbor's hectic summer months, Niles simply smiled and said, "I have a beard." Casie Reed '10 spent her summer exploring her interest in conservation biology by becoming involved in an eelgrass restoration project through the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory. "It's so rewarding to be able to work outside and take care of the environment at the same time," she said. "The money is pretty rewarding too." Zev R '11 worked on a trail crew in Acadia National Park. His responsibilities included shoveling gravel, raking gravel and lifting gravel with a backhoe. He also spent much of his time warning visitors not to eat unfamiliar things found growing in the forest. Jason Bosworth '10 worked grounds at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden. While visiting Jason, I continually expressed how moved I was by This photograph was not taken at the disarming beauty of the place, to which he reciprocated, "You realize the Abby Aldrich you can't publish any of these pictures, right? You probably shouldn't Rockefeller Garden. even have that camera in here." Hank '11, COA's first canine student, just completed his internship at the "field by the abandoned building," where he spent his time retrieving sticks, barking and urinating on power tools. Hank is hoping to apply the skills he has learned this summer to his senior project, which he is completing with the assistance of pet psychic Thaddeus Frapping. The project is to be the first-ever legitimate canine memoir: I Tried to Dig a Hole with a Shovel, but I Can't Use a Shovel because I'm a Dog. The man pictured, allegedly COA student Naveed Davoodian, was working at the Jackson Laboratory earlier this summer. He mysteriously disappeared after releasing several hundred mice into the wild, hampering priceless research in mammalian genetics. The mice, of course, died from dehydration, predation and collision with automobiles. If this man is spotted, contact the Bar Harbor Police Department immediately. 10 COA Phoebe: Living from the Inside Out An essay by Lisa Hammer '90 Phoebe is seven years old, the youngest of my four discarded, no place quite right. All three older children children, and has come to define my life. I also have vied to have their desire favored, their restaurant cho- identical twin boys who are twelve and a daughter who sen. is eleven. Phoebe has a mild, unique, form of cerebral palsy/neurological disorder, affecting her speech, gross As we huddled outside one cozy-looking eatery, and fine motor skills, and her abstract and cognitive I turned to see Phoebe at the door of the restaurant, thinking. Sometimes I think she has no concept of the looking through the glass at the hostess who was past or the future, living an absolute present which any making funny faces out at her. The two were laughing student of Zen would strive a lifetime for. She simply and looking at each other. A man sitting at a table does not remember (or cannot represent through window was drinking a glass of wine and reading the language) what happened from the morning to the paper; he, too, was looking at them, interested. There afternoon; she could go to the circus and see wondrous was a sweet playfulness between them and it brought things and later look blankly at you if you asked her bright smiles to the hostess and Phoebe alike, as if they what she did that day. knew one another through that moment. Phoebe tried to open the door and go in, as if to say, "This restaurant, So often my thoughts about Phoebe are filled with I like it here." The contrast of our furrowed brows layers of dread that have come about from the sheer and dissatisfied airs to Phoebe's look of easy joy and difficulty and complexity of caring for her. The physical pleasure shook me completely. It was that pure being and emotional weight of her disabilities goes with me that is Phoebe and it made my heart sing! everywhere. "She has a secret," I thought, "a secret way of being But then, there is the "pure" Phoebe! That being who in the world that I am unable to access." And it is her exists in a way that no one else I know exists. Sometimes gift, something she gives to others, something she has that "pure" Phoebe is more unfettered by the ego's that moves her through life on a wave all her own. I imperfections than the common child. She cannot hurt envied her in that moment: every day is a new and another person's feelings or wound another's heart; she different day, not burdened by expectation. Through has no dark intentions; she forgives instantly and forgets Phoebe I have come to a true ecology of being, entering the hurt done to her. Her ego does not assert itself in an environment of the self that is unanticipated and destructive, selfish ways, something amazing to behold unknown; I have had to adapt my sense of being over as a parent of three "typical" children whose egos wax and over because her world goes by a different pattern. and wane and struggle and rest. I simply have to remain in a state of love for her in order to move through my own world with grace. I have to be sure to watch for this true Phoebe. She is easily missed. But one winter Sunday all six of us were Being the mother of a child with such special, special walking around the North End in Boston looking for needs has hidden within it little treasures which only a place to have lunch. Phoebe was mimicking all that Phoebe can show. I have begun to watch her as we the other children did, which put her into some pre- go to the store, sit in a restaurant or watch a soccer carious paths, slipping on snow and following tourists game, to see how she turns the common into the with their cameras. The cold was uncomfortable and I sublime, how she lives from the inside out; the lessons was tense having to she teaches me come from a depth to which none of hold tight to Phoebe my other children have ever taken me. This is such a at every moment; strange phenomenon, to glean metaphysical insights the older children from one who is considered so outside the normal. But complaining and perhaps being "outside" allows a sliver of vision into only really wanting raw human being-timelessness and ego-less being, to eat. The tenor of exposed through a trauma of the brain. It is her dys- the group was testy function that reveals my own calloused way in the urgency, hunger world and I thank her daily for making me slow down and chill causing us and live the moment, find the meaning, which is my all to want to move life. along, find the right restaurant, relieve Lisa Hammer lives in Camden, Maine with her four the body. Such bick- children, Jeremy, Emile, Lucy and Phoebe, where ering as every spot Phoebe attends the Seton School, a new school for Photo courtesy of Lisa Hammer '90. was examined and children with special needs. COA 11 Wilderness Ways by Carmen Phillips '08 In the fall of 2007, Carmen Phillips '08 entered the September 21 wilderness of Virginia's Briery Creek with the clothes on her back, a knife, some fish hooks and line, a couple Yesterday I set out to the big beaver meadow of Little of field guides, one pot to cook in and one to hold Briery Creek to gather willow to make a fish basket. water. She built a shelter-a wickiup-from saplings I nibbled raw goldenrod roots for the first time-a and leaves, and for seven weeks, most of it alone, she "tonic nibble." They made me feel really good-like an foraged and fished for food, cooking on fires kindled uplifting inside of me. I collected the leaves and flower with the bow-drill she made. The following excerpts heads to dry for an astringent for wounds. I've got so are from Phillips' senior project, "Living Nature: An many scratches on me! It's called Briery Creek for a Experimental Field-based Wilderness Project." reason! But it's a good awareness upkeeper. I also tried raw strawberry leaves for the first time-not bad. And I Introduction peeled a raspberry stalk and chewed it-not the best. My entire life, I have loved spending time in nature. can't find my pouch of fishhooks. They must have When I was fourteen, I began learning about primitive fallen out of my bag. It had really been bothering me skills, an exciting turning point, because I could learn and I realized I was afraid. I only had one fish hook how to live in the natural world, turning my childhood left. But I questioned why that fear was there and I games of making random "plant soup" into real meals realized it was because I didn't have any assuredness of chickweed and dandelion leaves. that I could make my own hooks. This is why there is In designing my final project for COA, I knew it must so much fear in modern society-people are dependent be in line with my passions and life's vision. I knew I on so many outside sources and know that if it were up wanted to continue to teach the skills of the wilderness to just themselves, they would be dead after I graduated and that the best teachers teach from I studied some rabbit tracks for awhile, once again experience. After eight years of practicing primitive realizing how much can be learned just from staring at skills, I wanted some feedback from nature on where the ground. That's what I love about tracking-the more my abilities lay. The objective of my senior project was you do it, the more mysteries are revealed. I wound my simple, to become as "primitive" as possible. way downhill to a beautiful swampy area, nibbling on September 19 jewelweed and smartweed. Today I filled holes in the wickiup. I would go inside, I made it to a willowy area and stopped to eat some see where the holes were, then stick an ailanthus stalk fruit and nuts. I then decided to harvest willow another through and go outside to patch it up. Later, I gathered day. The heavy clouds and cool breeze said rain to me. some yarrow for a poultice to heal a wound from a I wanted to be closer to camp if it started. deep thorn poke on the ball of my foot. It healed right up. Tonight I poulticed yarrow on a couple of infected I collected some grasses-I have an idea for layering the cuts. inside of the wickiup with grasses for waterproofing. Winter Camping Expedition For twenty-eight years, in summer and winter, by canoe and snowshoe, Maine Guides Alexandra '77 and Garrett Conover '78 Katelyn Costello '11 lived in the wilderness, following their deep knowledge of the pulls a toboggan of natural world, the first of many COA students to live this way. supplies for a five- day winter camping In January 2008, a group of COA faculty, staff and students joined journey. Photos by Noreen Hogan '91. them, spending some of the year's coldest days snowshoeing through Maine's north woods, cooking food on a portable stove inside canvas tents. The Conovers have since retired from North Woods Ways, but continue teaching the ways of the north woods to a wider group of people as assistant managers of the Borestone Mountain Audubon Sanctuary in Elliotsville Plantation, Maine. 12 COA One thing that has resonated is how much care and Fishing in the afternoon yielded a huge sunfish! I tucked attention shelter takes. Even in my second week, I am the fish into my willow fish basket, filled with glee at the still making improvements. ease with which a meal was just pulled from the water. I started a fire and finished the doorway awning on Alone-ness the wickiup. I then went down to the lake to clean Humans are social animals. We like to be around and gut the fish. I feel like an otter when I clean fish, others. When you are by yourself, you have much squatting at the water. There was a lot of meat on that less leisure time because you have no one to help you fish! Afterwards, filled with energy, I climbed a pine with the necessary tasks of the day. But beyond this I in my camp and watched the sun go down. Later, believe humans like to be together. I often struggled with I worked on burning a bowl. It cracked-badly. Next loneliness tugging at my soul. I came to really enjoy time, I won't collect wood like that. I stayed by the dreaming because it was my chance to interact with dwindling coals in the fire pit and sang. other "people." The fire became a great companion. Conclusion Then I ran into Ginger. How refreshing to talk to When I returned to my life in society, it became another human, even if only for a short moment! I told apparent that my experience at Briery Creek had her she was the first person I had seen in a week and changed me forever. No matter where I am, I can her reaction was, "Oh! Isn't it nice! I mean how summon that "woods mind" I adopted, helping me to is it?" Her reaction put into perspective how lucky I move at a slower pace and enjoy every moment of life. was to have all this time to myself. I had been telling I could feel off balance living in society and then run myself it was my choice to feel lonely or not. Yet I still to the woods and be overtaken by an incredible sense struggled. of peace. I realized that the feeling of spending time in My bouts with that nagging feeling of loneliness did nature was not something I gleaned from nature, but not magically stop. However, they lasted only for short something inside me that nature helped to bring out. periods. I became used to being alone. My perceptions I can walk down a busy city street and still maintain of the personalities of all the animals and plants around the peace of mind I found in the wilderness. I am more me became enhanced. Just the sound of a crow was grounded now than I have ever been, more in touch such a welcome voice. with who I am and why I am here. Once I was back around people, I realized how I had To those who love the wilderness, I recommend setting come to appreciate being around others' company. All aside time to live in it. Bring what you need according our personal plans and desires are nothing compared to to your skill level, but bring as little as possible. The less the relationships we have with one another. you bring, the more you will immerse yourself. October 15 The wilderness has a way of knowing exactly what you need to learn and it will teach you, provided you Yesterday morning I went in search of wood for making are open to it. Slow down. Have no expectations. Enter a bowl. I also collected more grasses for the debris with an empty cup; it will be filled in ways you may hut-it got really cold the night before. never expect. COA students cross the frozen, snow-covered Onawa Lake. Rebecca Abuza '11 uses a match to start a fire in a portable stove the Conovers use to heat the canvas tent. COA 13 VICTORY TO COA ALUMNAE! Chellie Pingree '79 is now Maine's First Congressional District representative to the United States Congress (receiving 56 percent of the vote)-and COA's first alumna in national office. Elsie Flemings '07 won 64 percent of the vote to become Mount Desert Island's District Thirty-five Elsie Flemings '07. representative to the Maine State Legislature. Chellie Pingree '79. Photo by Noreen Photo by Donnie Hogan '91. Mullen ('97). Paul Newman TEAK Nancy Andrews Wins Guggenheim January 26, 1925 - EEKION September 27, 2008 Photo Peter Schroeder/drrnet. The College of the Atlantic community mourns the passing of gifted actor, proud parent, champion race-car driver, bountiful Ghosts 2008 from On a Phantom Limb by Nancy Andrews. philanthropist and devoted COA supporter Ink and pencil on paper. Paul Newman, who died on September 27. Newman's daughter Elinor, better known as Nell, was a 1987 graduate. Her mother, Nancy Andrews, COA faculty member in video and actress Joanne Woodward, delivered performance art, received a Guggenheim Fellowship last that year's commencement address. The spring, one of the most prestigious awards given to artists community extends its condolences to and scientists. The fellowship allows Andrews the time Newman's family. and funds to complete her next movie, On a Phantom It is said on campus that when Nell Limb, an autobiographical fictional piece about a cyborg introduced her father to the late COA superhero. faculty member in political science, Andrews' work combines drawn animation, puppetry, Donald Meiklejohn, after Newman had collage and live action, creating scenarios that are just sat in on one of his classes, the venerable the other side of plausible, as in these words, taken from professor asked Newman what he did her application to the foundation: for a living-delighting the actor, and impressing many with his humility. "For the cyborg, the interstices are thin-the membranes that separate dream and reality, the original and the The Newman family and its Newman's artificial, the body and the machine. Time has collapsed. Own Foundation have been especially The nights are endless, darkness seeps from everywhere. generous to the college, donating funds The cyborg lies at the bottom of the bottomless well. She for scholarships, for the college's Sharpe- is driven by a force that is outside herself: electrical cords, McNally Chair in Green and Sustainable rubber tubing, breathing contraptions, water running in Business and for scientific research, in- the walls and ceiling, crimes being committed all around, cluding, adds Ste- relentless wind." ven Katona, former COA president, In receiving a Guggenheim, Andrews joins such luminaries "money to buy a as Ansel Adams, W. H. Auden, Aaron Copland, Martha beautiful new mi- Graham, Langston Hughes, Vladimir Nabokov, Isamu croscope that re- Noguchi, Linus Pauling, Philip Roth, Derek Walcott, ally advanced the James Watson and Eudora Welty, individuals, according work of faculty to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and students." showing "stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment." 14 COA DONOR PROFILE Bill Foulke: Beaming with Pride by Donna Gold On recent summer mornings, Bill Foulke would find himself awakened at 5:30 a.m. to a reveille of grandbaby wails, closely followed by the shrieks of a daily wrestling match between older grandsons. Still, by the time he'd get himself over to College of the Atlantic, where he has just taken on the role of chairman of the board of trustees, Foulke would be as relaxed as any man savoring the joys of retirement, as cheery as if he'd awoken to Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. Foulke clearly relishes his family. He beams when he speaks of his wife, Wendy, a teacher of English as a second language, their visiting children and grandchildren, and his musical and service-oriented mother, the late Louisa Foulke. And he proudly names the COA pedigrees of family members: his Shakespeare- loving and equally service-oriented father, the late William G. Foulke, Sr., a COA trustee for five years; his sister Louisa Newlin, who teaches Photo by Donna Gold. Shakespeare at the college and is married to trustee Bill Newlin; and Newlin's own sister Lucy Bell Sellers, who teaches theater at the college and is married to former trustee Peter Sellers. Yes, Foulke is eager to talk about his family, but our new board chair does not like talking about himself. There are a few other things he doesn't like-especially long meetings and loose agendas. What Foulke does like is College of the Atlantic, its gravity in relation to the environment, its interdisciplinary approach and international component. And yet, despite being surrounded by COA through his family, it took the late COA trustee Alice Eno to get Foulke involved with the college, sometime around the turn of this century. The timing was right. In the late 1980s, when Foulke, Sr. served on the board, his son was still busy with family and career. A decade or so later, when Eno called to "introduce" Foulke to the college, he was ready. With Sam Hamill stepping down as board chair earlier this year, and Foulke having already served six years as a board member, he says, "You kind of know whether you want to take more responsibility or not." Foulke decided he did. COA 15 DONOR PROFILE It would take commitment, yes, but he didn't think it would overwhelm him. "We have a great many good people on the board and I have a great deal of confidence in the president and in the administration and the faculty," he says. "Many hands make light work." And Foulke smiles, a happy, round-faced, ultimately sweet smile, and adds, "I find it exciting to be associated with a college which is growing in stature." The college's environmental focus is an essential reason for "I find it exciting to be associated with Foulke's interest, along with the fact that it is, as he says, a college which is growing in stature." "one of the essential institu- ~Bill Foulke tions of Mount Desert Island." And that means a lot to Foulke, because MDI is the one consistent place the Foulke family has called home. As with many, Foulke's concern for the environment began with his own love of being outdoors, especially sailing and fishing. "Over time you realize there has been a degradation of fresh and saltwater environments-you don't have to be a scientist to notice it. It leads one to a conclusion that you ought to do something about it," he says. Raised in Philadelphia, Foulke attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, before going on to study English literature at Princeton University. After college, he served in the navy. "The navy gave me a good sense of management and leadership and gave me some confidence in dealing with people from all over," a skill that he frequently relied on during a career spent in international business. "I'm very interested in institutions which draw together people from a lot of different parts of the world," he says. "International involvement is an essential portion of higher education in the twenty-first century-" yet another connection between him and COA. Foulke sees the most important issue for the college as continuing to attract funding, "so that we can invest in the intellectual capital of the college and also keep the cost of education as reasonable as possible-consistent with our high standards of education." A second focus is the alumni community that is increasing by the year, and becoming increasingly prominent. "It is important to recognize the accomplishments and intellectual energy that flow from the alumni back to the college and vice versa-it would be my hope that the college would be one of the key networks used in the lives of the alumni as their careers develop," he adds. Though modest, even self-effacing, when Foulke is called upon to discuss the college, that same sweet, beaming smile comes onto his face as when he talks about his family. Clearly, for Foulke, COA has attained family status, and when he speaks of it, the pride is evident. "It's a wonderful opportunity to be involved in a unique educational institution," he says of his connection to COA. "And to continue using my mind-continue learning things-and have exposure in a meaningful way to younger people who are being educated. It's really a Photo courtesy of Foulke. privilege." 16 COA REPORTS FROM THE SUSTAINABLE EDGE COA alumni raising the bar on balanced living By Amanda Witherell '00 Ancient Arctic ice is melting into an ocean where fish stocks are plummeting. Eastern mountaintops are being carelessly cut into valleys to expose their energy-rich coal deposits. Western mountains stand bare of snow, beacons of the ongoing drought. Developing nations are picking up old petroleum habits at a time when oil and gas discoveries are plateauing. Demand for safe food, clean water and cheap fuel is increasing, but supplies seem to be slipping away. So how do we wisely use what is left? Making the world live within its means isn't easy. Sustainability requires massive restructuring, not only of how we use resources and do business, but also how we think and approach our work and our lives. It means rebuilding our energy infrastructure so it's based on renewables, redesigning streets to include space for cyclists and pedestrians, reforming the typical American school lunch so it favors local and fresh over far-away frozen: Herculean efforts on all levels. Many years ago, the founders of College of the Atlantic saw the writing on the wall and started to erase it by educating students on the principles and practices of sustainable living. Now it finally seems like the rest of the world is beginning to speak the native language of COA. Terms like green, organic and sustainable are peppering the front pages of the mainstream media. Composting and car-free living are moving from fringe to fact of life for more and more people, heralding the zeitgeist of the twenty-first century: how to deal with the now unquestionable problem of climate change. As COA eases toward its fortieth year of educating for a sustainable future, we visit the annals of graduates to feature just a few of those who are raising the bar in the many areas that may ultimately bring us that better world we are all seeking. COA 17 ARCHITECTURE & URBAN PLANNING Moving Beyond LEED, Returning to Form Following Culture Richard Epstein '84 What if an entire city were constructed with long-term environmental sustainability as its functional premise? Ask Richard Epstein. He's currently designing such a city for sixty thousand people in the United Arab Emirates on a twelve-hundred-acre site between Dubai and Abu Dhabi. "It means a more compact community," says Epstein. One that's more in tune with its environment. "We're trying to use the natural principles of Arab cities that are pedestrian-friendly, shaded and pleasant to walk through." The city is Richard Epstein '84. Photos courtesy of Epstein. pedestrian-based, with a transit spine linking a series of unique but connected villages. Streets are oriented so they funnel the ocean breezes into public spaces-and these spaces are shaded from the west and south to stave off the intense heat. Though Epstein, who works with RNL, an architectural firm concerned with sustainability with offices in Denver, Colorado, Phoenix, Arizona, Los Angeles, California and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, recognizes he's part of a building boom, he's critical of the rapid-pace development occurring in places like the UAE and China. Too frequently, he says, "one lot doesn't talk to the next lot and there's really nothing that ties it together as a place. And it's built entirely around the car-" a premise at odds with long-term environmental and human health. "They have taken the suburban approach of this country and amplified it," he adds. "My whole practice is really focused on sustainable architecture and design," particularly in urban areas, says Epstein. Indeed, the roots of what he does go back to the time he spent in rural Maine and his senior project at COA-a solar-powered house for a low income family that lived across Frenchman Bay. After graduating in 1984, Epstein spent a year as a Watson Fellow, traveling around the world at the 40 degree line of latitude studying vernacular architecture. "I looked at a lot of traditional villages. What are the facts that shaped them?" He says many were very practical and specific responses to the impact of climate and often are powerful examples of culture meeting function, like houses in Japan with veiling screens and open spaces Richard Epstein's straw bale, masonry and stucco home in for catching breezes, constructed from local timber. Boulder, Colorado. After his Watson, Epstein pursued a graduate degree in architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and spent his final year designing a recycling center for Phoenix that also became a functional public art project. "Originally it was designed as a big box structure with trucks around it and a little place off to the side where people could go. It had nothing to do with the natural site." Working with an artist-based design team, Epstein sunk part of the structure into the ground for natural cooling and opened it up into an amphitheatre that is focused on the building to showcase the recycling process inside. "That becomes part of the whole experience, educating people about the process and what it takes." He says he became attracted to the melding of industrial sites and public space, and the idea that public infrastructure can be a pleasant, educational place to be. He's now working on a new recycling center for Boulder, Colorado. Epstein is accredited as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, professional. But though his office at RNL is gold-certified LEED, his experience has bred some cynicism. "I did a parking garage in Denver that was LEED-certified, but we didn't have to do that much different except a lot of paperwork." Many of the projects on which he's working now far exceed the boundaries of LEED. 18 COA "There's a lot of talk about LEED as a ridiculous scorecard system. Zero energy, zero carbon, zero waste, that's the next wave. How do you go to zero carbon emissions for a whole city? That's some of the new approaches we're exploring." A New York native, Epstein and his wife, an immigration lawyer, now live with their two sons in Boulder, Colorado in a house he designed with straw bale walls and passive heating and cooling. Epstein usually commutes by bus and likes to spend free time cycling in the canyons near his home. "Even though I'm in a field that can often generate negative impacts," he reflects, "I couldn't just do conventional work and support conventional values. That human ecology idea still runs through everything. Change is at the heart of COA and I try to bring that idea of Phoenix, Arizona recycling center designed by Richard Epstein how can you build a better world into my work." '84 to facilitate understanding of what happens within. A Better Vision Teak Wall '01 "We're systems thinkers," says planner Teak Wall of her work with Portland, Oregon- based Cogan Owens Cogan, LLC. "Our firm is very focused on sustainability in our core values and our internal operations. We would never take a job that wasn't in line with our values." Working on an economic stability plan for Clackamas County, a rural county near Portland, Oregon, Wall took into account the needs of small-scale farmers. Her firm worked with the county to plan a Green Economy Center where growers can share space to process foods or test new products, with demonstration areas for more sustainable living. "It's human ecology," says Wall. "How to make a place sustainable isn't just recycling, it's looking at the whole system. Does the zoning code make a city look in line with its values?" Teak Wall '01. Photo courtesy of Wall. Wall mostly consults with municipalities, where she says the biggest asset is sustainably minded leadership. "I grew up out here and it doesn't seem like it would be sustainably focused because it's so rural, but the leadership really is." She participates in many public meetings asking for on-the-ground input from stakeholders and considers her governance work with COA's All College Meetings seminal to her job. When she assisted in the creation of a governance model for rural areas in Oregon that lacked representation, she says, they established "a town hall system that's similar to ACM." PIONEERS "Every single day I feel like the stuff I work on I naturally gravitate toward because of how things connect," she adds. Take the concept of civic ecology, which looks at maximizing resource flows through rural and urban areas: "Waste equals food, basically. Our garbage can be compost that can go to farms that can produce food for us," says Wall, as if reciting from COA class notes. "Civic ecology-it's this cool new concept, but it's old news to me to think about the world as a system and how all your decisions impact how things function." Teak Wall, in the green jacket, meets with members of A Sustainable Clackamas County. Photo courtesy of Wall. COA 19 ALTERNATIVE ENERGY Bogwind Glen Berkowitz '82 Back in 2005, Glen Berkowitz was finishing up as his Boston loft (with its rooftop tomato garden) down traffic milestone manager for Boston's Big Dig. For to Buzzard's Bay to sail his J-24 boat every summer years, he had applied his human ecological training to weekend, recalled the cranberry bogs that he passed humanize-or at least minimize-the inconvenience along the way. of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority's Central Artery Project, all the while harboring dreams of He didn't know anyone in the cranberry industry, so he getting beyond gas-and into the wind. "For two contacted the University of Massachusetts Cranberry decades I kept file folders on renewable energy Research Station and was told that a cranberry bog projects, even while I was working on the Big Dig." owner had recently come in wondering about pairing bog land with wind turbines. Berkowitz found the Berkowitz had trans- cranberry farmer; soon after, Beaufort Windpower ferred to COA in was born. 1979, taken a class in alternative ener- Politics poses the biggest challenge to success gy with former fac- for windpower in New England, where pristine ulty member Harris mountaintops and coastlines are often the breeziest Hyman-and kept locations. "The economics are simple but the politics dreaming. When he are intense because those very locations are the few left the Big Dig, he remaining unspoiled areas," says Berkowitz, who researched the six acknowledges that bogs aren't the most blustery largest wind projects places. He's hoping the wind will be "just good under construction enough," and by using open spaces and established in New England, roads and access points, he'll reduce costs and and found they were minimize environmental impact. all as problematic But harnessing the wind of a bog is not only about as the work he had energy. It's also about preserving agricultural land just left: "I was like, and keeping a local crop going. Half the cranberry gosh, I can't believe farmers in North America live in Massachusetts, and something as envi- most are small family farmers. Though cranberries are ronmental sounding a fifty-million-dollar industry in the state, development Glen Berkowitz '82, in the blue hard and benign sound- has been a Tantalus for cash-strapped farmers. Says hat, and co-worker lain Ward watch ing as wind power a 197-foot meteorological tower go Berkowitz, "This project is half about generating up on a cranberry bog. The tower, could be getting so clean, renewable energy and half about increasing shown behind the print on this page, much controversy." and stabilizing the economic vitality of traditional measures average wind speeds and direction for the Bogwind Project. In 2005 he traveled agricultural life for a key industry in Massachusetts." Photo courtesy of Berkowitz. to Denver, Colo- A $243,000 loan from the Renewable Energy Trust rado for an Ameri- of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative can Wind Energy Association gathering and was jump-started the Bogwind Project. Currently, surprised to discover Midwestern farmers rubbing meteorological towers are gathering five thousand flannelled elbows with Wall Street executives. Part- pieces of wind data a day at two pilot Wareham bog nerships between growers, utility companies and in- sites, providing key information for the engineering vestors have become increasingly popular as farmers and economic analyses for what he's hoping will be look for new income sources and capitalists cash in a ten-turbine, fifteen-megawatt, thirty-million-dollar on the rising popularity of renewable energy. "On the project on four sites. An initial analysis indicates that plane coming back from Denver I was thinking: how erecting just three of seven proposed turbines in one can I combine wind power in New England with agri- two-hundred-acre bog would double the net income culture?" Berkowitz, who drives a Mini Cooper from for the fourth-generation cranberry farmer who owns 20 COA the land. At the same time, the electricity generated will green the power grid in Massachusetts, which has a goal of using 15 percent renewable energy by 2020. Berkowitz says he's received a lot of support from farmers and unanimous approval from the town of Wareham, but environmental groups and avian activists have been skittish. "I've learned that I should wear my COA t-shirt under my suit jacket so they know I'm as much of an environmentalist as they are," he says. And though funding is still a work in progress, he's optimistic. "I guess I'm at a point in my professional life where I realize if you're trying to do really good things there are risks. My biggest risk is economic. I'm taking a gamble that the price of electricity will continue to rise and I'm delighted to take that risk," he says. "I'm confident that the concept is worth the effort." Manufacturing Negawatts Lars Henrikson '89 It was Amory Lovins who first coined the term "negawatts," referring to the cheapest form of energy: the megawatts that are saved through conservation and efficiency. Lovins, a longtime renewable energy advocate, first dropped the word during a speech in Montreal back in 1989, just as Lars Henrikson was graduating from COA. Almost twenty years later, Lovins is still on the soft energy warpath and Henrikson is busy delivering those negawatts through his job in the community conservation sector of Seattle City Light, a municipally owned electric utility company serving 738,000 customers in the Seattle, Washington area. "Our big goal is to make it so that Seattle City Light doesn't have to buy any more power beyond what we buy now," says Henrikson. That's a challenge in a city where efficiency and conservation have long been a cornerstone of its power profile. "We've already picked most of the low-hanging fruit," Henrikson adds, pointing out that the average American home uses eleven thousand kilowatt hours of electricity a year, but the average Seattle resident uses only nine thousand. "So to get more efficiency we have to dig a little deeper." That still means encouraging customers to install compact fluorescent light bulbs and upgrade home appliances, but Henrikson is also testing three different home Lars Henrikson '89. Photo courtesy energy monitors. These "home dashboards" allow customers to track-and so of Henrikson. curb-their energy use from different sources at particular times. Energy use meters-those little disks spinning in the grey boxes mounted on the sides of buildings-haven't changed much over the years, but recent technological advances make it possible for customers to learn more about their energy use. "With home energy monitors people typically save about 12 percent, though it ranges from 5 to 20 percent, just because you're able to know more about how you use electricity," says Henrikson. "It's a very new field. I'm one of the experts at City Light and I haven't been there for very long." Henrikson says COA classes in alternative energy and green building design prepared him for the work he does today, which is always changing. "There are new technologies coming all the time. We have no idea what they will be, but we're willing to look at anything." In the meantime, they're employing some of the suggestions Lovins posed so many years ago. Seattle City Light encourages customers to become their own energy producers by paying a premium for any surplus juice they generate and possibly, in the near future, offering incentives to purchase solar panels. "If you can make it so we don't have to build a new power plant, we'll pay you for that." COA 21 Burning Biodiesel Mike Staggs '96 Biodiesel has a bad reputation with many environmentalists. Done wrong, it sacrifices forests for cropland, turns potential food sources into fuel, and uses more energy than it produces. Done right, it can convert agricultural waste into a viable domestic fuel source and has the potential to reduce overall global warming pollution. Most of the biofuel produced in the United States comes from corn and soy and is-at least in part-to blame for increasing prices for these two staple food crops. But when biodiesel is made from used cooking oil, it's a different story. For the past seven years Mike Staggs has been brewing his own diesel fuel from wasted fryer oil he collects from restaurants. "Years ago my wife and I looked at ways to be sustainable with our fuel use," says Staggs, who now churns out enough to heat his home ten months of the year and keep the gas tanks topped off in his two diesel cars. Every week he makes another fifty-five gallon batch and any extra he donates to fuel the "dive-in theatre" boat of fellow alumnus Eddie Monat '88. When Staggs started, restaurants Photos by Noreen Hogan '91. were paying people ten cents a gallon to take the oil away. This year, wasted french fry oil has Mike Staggs '96 with the ingredients of his biofuel become a hot commodity. "Now production. restaurants are asking for money for it," he says, and sometimes the pails of grease left out back by the dumpsters aren't there when he goes to pick them up. "There's been oil theft occurring." In the past it has cost him about fifty cents a gallon to purchase the other ingredients to make the fuel. Though this year production price doubled, it's only a fifth of what he'd pay at the pump for a gallon of regular diesel and it keeps old vegetable oil out of the waste stream. Still Staggs says, "I'd love to be able to go up to the pump and just put biodiesel in my car." For that to happen, though, "We need to have an oil company like Dead River buy it from an out-of-state supplier and ship it here," using existing infrastructure and distribution channels to move a cleaner, more sustainable fuel. Commercial Biofuel Kevin Crandall '93 Kevin Crandall '93 has tried to do something like that, bring mass-produced biodiesel to Bar Harbor. He runs MDI BioFuel, selling high-quality biodiesel that's better for late-model cars still under warranty. Made from tallow, it doesn't impact food prices, but Crandall says, "I run into some trouble with PETA folks and vegans for selling fuel made from animals." He's currently looking for a buyer who can invest more in the business. Though he calls this a "boutique" fuel that isn't quite green, he still thinks it's a viable fuel source. "It reduces emissions dramatically and increases fuel economy due to a higher energy content." 22 COA TRANSPORTATION Real Wheel Power Jeff Miller '92 It's hard to think of a mode of transportation that's The alliance is currently involved in Complete Streets more sustainable or human ecological than a bicycle. legislation, which would require all states to consider "Individual health, community health, environmental pedestrians and bicycles in their transportation planning. health-bicycling benefits every one of those aspects of "To be able to have communities and roads that are health," says Jeff Miller, the newly appointed president bike-friendly is the greatest satisfaction," he says. Just and chief executive officer of the Washington DC-based around the corner is the formidable challenge of the Thunderhead Alliance for Biking and Walking, a coali- federal transportation bill. tion of state and local bicycle and pedestrian advocacy organizations across North America. "I'm pretty off the deep end myself about biking," he adds. The move from Augusta to DC will mean he has Miller figured that out way back in 1990, during a to give up some of the rides in his "one-car, ten-bicycle cross-country bicycle odyssey between his third and garage." But the switch from rural to urban also means fourth years at COA. After graduating in 1992, he spent he and his partner can sell their Honda hybrid and go fourteen months as a Watson Fellow studying bike car-free. policy, advocacy and infrastructure in places where it's a keystone of the transportation planning. Miller With rising gas prices and consciousness about carbon pedaled through Japan, China, Sri Lanka, Holland, footprints, Miller is not alone: a recent survey by Bikes Denmark and many other Asian and European cities Belong Coalition of one hundred fifty bicycle shops in and countries, meeting with government officials and forty states found that 75 percent reported increased advocates, observing firsthand the role that bicycles sales this year and 95 percent say customers were played in the places he visited. "It was my graduate pointing to gas prices as the reason. school in bicycle advocacy." It's unfortunate that high fuel costs are what may draw He returned to Maine and spent a couple of years people out of their cars and onto their bicycles, says working at the Bar Harbor Bike Shop and as an Miller, but he hopes that it will be an opportunity for admissions counselor for COA, and ultimately applied them to realize that bicycles can provide more than just for a job that he wasn't confident he was fully qualified recreation. "To me, utilitarian cycling is nirvana, it's the for-the first executive director of the nascent Bicycle highest calling." Coalition of Maine. (Jeff Miller can now be reached at 202-445-4415 or He got it and spent twelve years putting bicycling on jeffreybcmiller@gmail.com.) the transportation and planning agenda in Augusta and throughout Maine. Successes have ranged from getting bike racks installed in public places, to implementing a statewide school bike safety education program, to blocking bills that would have harmed cyclists and passing others that have helped-most recently, a bill mandating cars pass cyclists with a hefty three-foot buffer. During Miller's tenure, membership bloomed from a few hundred to over six thousand; in 2007 the coalition was recognized as one of the most successful bicycling advocacy groups in the country. Now Miller is moving his skills to the Thunderhead Alliance for Biking and Walking, a national organiza- tion which functions as a taproot of information and resources across the continent (www.thunderheadalli- ance.org). "What we're trying to do is share best prac- tices and innovations so our member organizations don't have to reinvent the wheel," says Miller. They Jeff Miller and Will Greene, twelve, son of Craig assist communities looking to start bicycling advocacy Greene, late faculty member in botany, on a bike trip groups, support those that already exist and work on from Cobscook Bay State Park to Bar Harbor. This is Will's first loaded ride, using panniers made by his dad. improving federal policy and legislation in both the US Photo by Lotte Schlegel. and Canada. COA 23 SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE Teaching A Better Food System Dustin Eirdosh '04 Is it possible to change how the world eats by giving kids to show them that pop- better food education at school? Dustin Eirdosh thinks so corn doesn't come from a and is making that happen in schools throughout Maine sack in the grocery store. by establishing a service-learning curriculum around Dustin Eirdosh '04. Photos courtesy of Eirdosh. It's an area rife with chal- food. More locally, he's working with the Healthy Acadia coalition on the Farm to School Initiative for lenges as food attitudes Washington and Hancock counties. often vary. "It's difficult to talk about issues of food quality related to agriculture because it doesn't always It began when he was still at COA. "I started working go by US Department of Agriculture standards," he for the schools through my senior project, doing says. "A lot of times what we talk about is not on the sustainable agriculture education at MDI High School," radar of the administration or the students." says Eirdosh. Using a curriculum he established, For example, in early 2007, when the nation's largest students built a school garden and started a food service recall of red meat affected Mount Desert Island schools program called Farmer's Choice, which they run as a along with schools in most other states, "The prevailing business, purchasing raw ingredients and preparing attitude was that the USDA can and does ensure safe healthy meals and snacks as alternatives to the school food, and that issues such as growth hormones and lunch program. "We accounted for 15 to 25 percent antibiotic residues aren't really something schools can of the school's food sales, all with whole foods, a lot or should deal with. It wasn't exactly clear to many of it local, and all student-designed," says Eirdosh. administrators that things could be different." Smoothies, pizzas and cheesesteak sandwiches are prepared by students who help source the ingredients But what should change? "The kids actually created new and track profit and loss by managing spreadsheets. recipes for hamburger meat that reduced the quantity "It's a full miniature business." to one-tenth of what the schools were serving before. Now we can use small amounts of ground beef so we At COA, Eirdosh had focused on community can afford higher quality." Before, most of the schools' development and agriculture, and never intended to beef was coming from the USDA commodity system- pursue teaching. "I took my first education course my products subsidized by the government and redirected last term," he says. As the service learning coordinator to public programs. "The schools were getting it for Union 98, integrating lesson plans with hands-on essentially for free so it was impossible to justify buying work, Eirdosh's work blends all three interests. meat. But now we're purchasing a significant portion He sees food as an of beef from local sources"-strengthening the island's engaging strategy for economy, lessening its carbon footprint and teaching children where food comes from. teaching the mandat- ed curriculum. When Eirdosh also does private consulting on curriculum and it was time for sixth food systems for other educators through his company, graders in Southwest Acadian Angus. He offers lesson plans for growing Harbor to learn frac- sustainable protein sources in the form of mushrooms, tions and percent- called "The Garden of Inquiry" and making sustainable ages, they decided to school lunches, lessons which, says Eirdosh, "can and make healthy spiced should be used nationally." popcorn for the school's snack cart. Because Eirdosh also produces food on MDI, some have The recipe required questioned his motives, but he stands by his curriculum, varying amounts of which, he says, encourages critical thinking applied to spices. "They liter- accurate information. "So much in food education today A student from the Mount Desert Elementary School's Garden Club ally had to do the boils down to nutritional dogma, or propaganda from in Northeast Harbor consults math right to make either corporate agribusiness or local food advocates. with Dustin Eirdosh in the school the popcorn right." The goal is to help students make accurate decisions garden as part of a service-learning about what's important to them-an approach I call element within the science But Eirdosh also takes curriculum. All food is used by the food systems literacy." (See www.acadianangus.com school cook. kids back to the farm for Eirdosh's curriculum.) 24 COA Healthier Communities Heather Albert-Knopp '00 Dustin Eirdosh isn't acting alone. Another COA grad, Easing local concerns has been the support of the Maine Heather Albert-Knopp, works as the Farm to School Department of Education, which now encourages all coordinator in Hancock and Washington counties, state schools to host a yearly Maine Harvest Lunch connecting school cooks with nearby farmers. Some featuring local foods. Last year, students in all the Union days she's setting up purchasing agreements, other days 98 schools went to Beech Hill Farm for a day of picking she's coordinating events between schools and farms, the produce that became their lunch. or sharing recipes. "We try to use food as the inroad to the sort of work Dustin does, getting kids engaged with The potential benefits are immense, says Albert-Knopp. where their food comes from," she says. "Kids eat more fruits and vegetables when they know where their food comes from-especially if they're Farm to School blossomed after it became clear that the involved in producing it. And local food supports community was interested both in improving school local businesses." Schools, she adds, "are a large lunches and in local foods. In 2005, a collaboration potential wholesale market for farms-a way that farms with the national nonprofit, Community Food Security can connect with more families and people in their Coalition, led to a regional workshop coordinated by communities." Allison Gladstone '00, bringing together local school food service people, teachers, farmers and others Agriculture was interested in food issues. a significant Hill part of Albert- Farm Afterwards, Healthy Acadia, where Albert-Knopp and Knopp's COA Tim Fuller '03 were working, received a ten-thousand- Certified education. Organic dollar grant from the USDA, funding a two-year pilot "Food is the program with Mount Desert Elementary School in perfect vehicle Northeast Harbor as one of the initial sites. The school for thinking began small, buying carrots from COA's Beech Hill Farm; about human soon kids were eating three times more carrots from the ecology. Poli- salad bar than they had been. Now more than fifteen tics, economy, schools across Hancock and Washington counties are culture all come working with the project to incorporate local foods, and together to de- island schools are purchasing fresh produce from three termine what farms, eggs from a nearby homesteader and surplus we eat and its bread from Little Notch Bakery for breadcrumbs and impact on the croutons. environment." Local efforts were recently boosted by a three-year, It also ties back Heather Albert-Knopp at COA's Beech seventy-five-thousand-dollar grant with private donors to basic health. Hill Farm. Photo by Noreen Hogan '91. coordinated by the Maine Community Foundation The number of obese children ages six to eleven dou- to reach more schools, farms and children across bled from the 1970s until 2000, and tripled for ages downeast Maine, along with another one-year grant of twelve to nineteen. "Fresh fruits and vegetables are the ten thousand dollars from the USDA for similar efforts. first thing to drop away when there's less money to Still, there's the challenge of the sometimes higher spend," says Albert-Knopp. "The result is they're eating price of local foods. Integrating one local product, like fewer things that are good for them." carrots, is a way to ease into the system. Recently, Albert-Knopp has taken on other community Another challenge is getting beyond what can be an health endeavors, including work on a bicycling and industrial mindset. "Some school cooks think it's illegal pedestrian plan for Ellsworth. She says it often feels to use local foods, that things have to be inspected by like a Sisyphean task to get leaders and citizens doing some sort of federal agency and things that come off a community planning to consider what makes an area SYSCO truck must be okay because they seem official," a healthy place to live, but to her the definition has says Albert-Knopp. A visit to COA's kitchen by school to be holistic. "A healthy community involves access food service workers helped, along with a conversation to healthy foods, a thriving local economy, communi- with co-chef Ken Sebelin '92, who cooks COA meals ties that are walkable and bikeable, and clean air and from scratch. water." PUBLIC POLICY Acting on Climate Change Ted Koffman and Andrea Lani '95 Maine isn't waiting for the nation to do something emissions that Maine is now allowed to generate will significant about climate change. It has joined with nine be sold off in thousand-ton blocks that anyone can bid other New England and Mid-Atlantic states to establish on-from a fossil-fuel-burning power plant that needs the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI- them to continue operating, to a local environmental pronounced "Reggie"-a market-based cap-and-trade organization that wants to take the emissions out program that limits the amount of CO₂ that can be of commission, to an investor looking to hold the emitted and creates financial incentives for industries allowances and sell them later at a higher price. Any to invest in cleaner energy production, thus reducing power plant that generates more than twenty-five greenhouse gases. Sales of emissions allowances aren't megawatts of electricity is required to participate. "You cheap-resulting in funds to finance renewable energy basically have to buy allowances or reduce emissions," and efficiency projects statewide. Lani says. "The objective of the The first CO₂ allocation auction between RGGI states RGGI program is to re- was in September; they will be held throughout the ten- duce CO₂ emissions state region at least four times a year. Over time, the steadily over time by re- number of allowances will be reduced, forcing power quiring generators burn- plants to scale back emissions. If all goes as planned PATC ing fossil fuels to either the ever-increasing amounts of CO2 emissions will purchase emission al- stabilize, then start to tick backward, with a 20 percent lowances through a re- reduction by 2019. gional auction, or trade allowances to compa- "One of the hopes for some of us is to see our model used nies that can't achieve nationally," says Koffman, who says they've evaluated these targets," says Ted the failings of the European cap-and-trade system Koffman, longtime COA and worked to mitigate against them-specifically by Ted Koffman. Photo courtesy of Koffman. staff member. Koffman ensuring that the allocations have a public benefit. represents much of Mount Desert Island in the Maine Koffman feels confident the right people have been at State Legislature, though term limits end his tenure at the planning table. "There's a dark cloud of dirty energy the close of this session. Until then, Koffman serves users and producers who will try to trip the system up on the Natural Resources Committee, and last year and halt or stall it in co-sponsored the bipartisan RGGI bill. "Ten to thirty court. Ican only imagine million dollars a year can be generated through auc- the amount of money tion sales," he says. "The proceeds will be devoted to dirty coal can spend energy-efficiency measures for industries, commercial to stop the program and residential users, including low-income homeown- from succeeding. It's ers. We want to target investments that make the big- a challenge. While gest difference." our economic system While Koffman gets credit for greasing the legislative is strongly biased to wheels at the statehouse, 1995 alumna Andrea Lani is protect the status quo, working on how to actually implement a cap-and-trade we're banking on RGGI's market-based system to reduce the six million tons of CO₂ that industry in Maine currently contributes to the atmosphere. approach to move the country in the right Andrea Lani '95. Photo courtesy Lani works in the Bureau of Air Quality at the Maine direction." of Lani. Department of Environmental Protection doing program planning. "I've been living and breathing RGGI for the last year," she says. She's been writing the Amanda Witherell eats local food and lives car-free in administrative rules that will move RGGI from paper California, where she is a reporter for the San Francisco to product, including provisions for how the auctions Bay Guardian, covering homelessness, energy, first are run. "Anyone who's submitted an application can amendment and environmental issues. She can be participate," she says, and the 5.9 million tons of CO₂ reached at awitherell@gmail.com. 26 COA sabertooth a video by colin capers, ba '95, mphil '08 horn, still from sabertooth, 2008. Last May, Colin Capers screened his extraordinary video, sabertooth, at College of the Atlantic. The thirty-minute piece, a series of linked and deeply layered images which Capers painstakingly assembled, is almost impossible to describe-and yet it is absolutely familiar, like a dream whose narrative eludes us. Fleeting images of fields, a person, a baby, even surgery pass by, and then the images get lost in Capers' meticulous, deeply artistic manipulations, for each frame contains as many as eighty layers of video and audio (primarily using Adobe Premiere Pro), and there are thirty frames in every second. The result, combined with an ethereal score, is a sensory experience that echoes the way thoughts, visions, ideas, memories get layered and then lost within our own minds. As a final paper for the class "Philosophy at the Movies," taught by Capers, a lecturer in film and writing at COA, and John Visvader, faculty member in philosophy, student Abby Balmer wrote about sabertooth. The following is an excerpt from her eloquent essay. The images on this and subsequent pages are stills taken from Capers' work. ~ DG COA 27 cocoon, still from sabertooth, 2008. Appreciation by Abby Balmer '10 cinema has the ability to carry its audiences into realms that would otherwise be left untouched and unseen by human eyes. In sabertooth, I see the faces of the inhuman and yet I look for my own reflection. The magic evident in the unfolding of these images lends itself only to the workings of the intuitive heart. Its title alone is at once beautiful, dangerously seductive and profoundly enigmatic. It does its duty perfectly: it captivates me and welcomes me to the content of the video and also allows me to see that much of what is contained within it is not of this world. I am, it seems, in contact with a cold and foreign entity. Yet somehow it feels alarmingly familiar. I've traversed this land before, perhaps only in my dreams. sabertooth carries me to a place of genuine and amplified reflection, but also forces me to become aware of the alien impulse within my own being. These images, when in motion, are accompanied by subterranean sounds speaking violently, hauntingly and poetically. In this way, sabertooth seems to be asking its viewers to face and reflect on the foundations and structure of the human condition. We are invited to return to the primordial experiences which philosopher Martin Heidegger claims have formed us. 28 | COA COA I 29 hunger, still from sabertooth, 2008. fall, still from sabertooth, 2008. Out on Rounds Explorations with Large Animal Veterinarians in Maine and Québec By Amanda Spector '08 Photos of Maine and Québec dairy farms by Amanda Spector. The author on Mont Saint-Hilaire, a mountain rising above the Saint Lawrence River Valley in southern Québec. What do you want to be when you grow up? I want to be a veterinarian. Unlike many enthusiastic young people, I arrived at this answer only after thirteen years of primary and secondary school, two years of college, and nineteen years of life with humans and other animals. I had wanted to study conservation biology, the science of rare and endangered organisms, but over time I decided to focus on the science and medicine of domestic animals. With domestic animals come the people who care for them, and I am fascinated by the diverse relationships between animal owners and their non-human dependents. This fascination has taken me into explorations with different veterinarians at home and abroad, but until the fall of 2007 I had never spent time with a large animal or food animal practitioner in the United States. The United States is currently facing a shortage of food animal veterinarians. In comparison to small or companion animal medicine, the career of a large animal vet is non-lucrative, dangerous, exhausting and apparently unappealing to most recent graduates of veterinary schools. The number of food animal vets in the US has decreased from near six thousand in 1990 to fewer than forty-five hundred, according to a February 2007 article in The New York Times. The decline of small-scale agriculture and family farming has contributed to this change, but enough demand remains that some owners struggle to find practitioners to treat their animals, especially in isolated areas. As I was reading about the shortage of vets in the United States and in Maine, I was inspired to explore large animal veterinary medicine not only as a curious aspiring vet but also as a concerned citizen. I wanted to understand the challenges of the profession on an intimate, human level and from social, biological, economic and historical perspectives. At College of the Atlantic, we call this integrated approach to understanding and problem-solving human ecology, the subject of our degree. For my final project, I designed an interdisciplinary, 30 COA participatory exploration of large animal veterinary medicine, spending six weeks shadowing veterinarians in different Maine practices-observing, taking notes, learning to assist and interviewing the practitioners and their clients. I continued my exploration in the Canadian province of Québec for seven more weeks at four different clinics. Though Québec is just a few hours' drive from Maine, it is a dramatically different society with a much stronger animal production sector and much more government intervention in farming and farm animal veterinary services. These thirteen weeks, from which the following vignettes are excerpted, were a journey of awkward learning, acting and assimilation; of internships and interviews, often with the challenges of translation; of excitement and boredom; of death, birth, blood, milk and manure. The links are the routines of the veterinarians, their clients and their animals. The ring of a cell phone. The banter of a regular visit or the tension of a late-night emergency. The rhythmic chewing of cud. At the end of each call, the quick boot-scrubbing and leftover drips of soapy water. And then, always, the road rolling away behind, under the wheels. Bobby Veinote On a warm day in early September, Simon pulls his Bobby has "used every vet who did COW work in the truck into the driveway by the old peeling sign for Silver Newburgh area" but always had fallings-out with them. Mountain Farm. His new associate, Dr. Laura Leighton, When Simon responded to Bobby's emergency call one is with us today. In the dooryard, invasive Japanese day, he felt sorry for him and decided to do his vet work. knotweed swarms around rusting farm equipment. But Bobby has a different take; by employing Simon, he Inside the milk room there are two large milk tanks, is helping him to start up his new vet practice. milking equipment, COW figurines, framed photographs, certificates, newspaper articles and plaques with Bobby bought the land that is now Silver Mountain interesting proverbs, including "Cows may come and Farm in the 1950s: one hundred twenty acres of woods COWS may go but the bull here goes on forever" and "As for one hundred twenty dollars. He built up a herd from you go through life, 2 rules never bend-never whittle two Jersey COWS and began breeding registered Holsteins toward yourself or pee against the wind." The place has with one of his two sons. His boy tragically drowned in a feeling of the past about it, as tangible as a layer of dust the 1980s and "when the son died, the heart went out of or cobwebs lurking in corners. Bobby Veinote," says Simon. "He's still sort of farming for his son." Dr. Simon Alexander of Bangor, Maine jokes that working for Bobby Veinote is his penance. Bobby Veinote is a Simon also tells me that "some of the things on the Bob- seventy-six-year-old dairy farmer in Newburgh, one of a by Veinote farm are done the same way they used to few old-timers who just won't quit. He owns thirty-five be done." The barn does not have a milking parlor or COWS with names that still go out to pasture every day even a system of pipes to pump milk from each stall to during the summer and come into the run-down tie-stall the tank. Instead, the milk runs from the automatic milk barn at night. Bobby loses money by calling the vet for machines into a metal can, is poured into a small cart, simple things he ought to be able to handle himself- and then is pumped through a single pipeline across the milk fever, ketosis, dehorning. According to Simon, barn into the milk tank. He has one farmhand who helps Bobby Veinote and his farmhand, Holly, milk the COWS of Silver Mountain Farm the old-fashioned way. COA 31 him around the barn, including milking at the odd mastitis in one infected quarter of her udder. Bobby hours of ten o'clock in the morning and ten o'clock at gave her injections of antibiotic and anti-inflammatory night. They still use a wheelbarrow and shovel to haul drugs last night, and Simon says these treatments may silage to the stalls and probably to remove manure as have saved her life. The COW looks remarkably well well-Bobby's automatic despite her high fever and gutter system has been bro- even clambers to her feet ken as long as Simon can when Laura puts her halter remember. Bobby does not on. Laura places the IV and use hormone injections; all starts the fluids, which are his COWS are bred at their supportive therapy: "the natural heats, either by ar- COW has to basically live tificial insemination (a.i.) or or die on her own," says by his bull. When his COWS Simon. die, Bobby does not send them down the road to the Back in the milk room, two butcher but buries them out feed company representa- tives have arrived to col- back on his own property. lect payment from Bobby Dr. Simon Alexander, right, stands with clients John and Bobby Veinote is bent over Joyce Cummings of Sherman, Maine in southern Aroostook for helping him seed one of and wiry but even when he County. Their heifers are in the background. his fields. After Simon intro- straightens up he is only duces Laura, the conversa- slightly taller than I am. His belt is hitched tight to hold his tion turns to the gender of veterinarians. pants on his waist and he wears large shabby shoes. One of Bobby's knobby fingers is wrapped in medical tape. "Women are better vets," says Bobby. "I've known that His face is marked by eye wrinkles and a pointy chin. for a hundred years." "Hello, Bobby!" calls Simon. "At least a hundred," Simon says. Bobby greets him in return. "So, you've got some Bobby smiles slightly. "At least." women along with you today, aren't you lucky. Two Bobby Veinote will only hire female farm hands, for of 'em!" he believes women have a special touch with COWS Simon introduces us and explains briefly what I'm and make them produce more milk. Bobby and Simon doing for my project. agree that women do a better job than men at raising calves. I ask Bobby to help me with my project and he Bobby says, "That's how you learn a lot, riding with a agrees to let me come back and interview him. "Let me vet, I tell you. Ain't no way better than that. You'll learn give you my phone number," I say. more riding with a vet than you've ever learned from your books." "Oh, it's not every day that happens, a girl gives me her number!" Simon agrees. "That's right, I keep telling her, 'Don't let your schooling get in the way of your education.' "Well, I'll write down yours first," I say. We all laugh. How's your cow?" Bobby shows me some photos of his registered Holsteins in his cluttered office. Some are advertised "She's not dead. She's not alive, either." for astronomical prices in shiny catalogs. "The place "I gathered that." doesn't look like much now," he tells me. "I had a boy die a few years back." Bobby encourages me to We walk on a tired green carpet from the milk room go and take a look at his bull. Most larger dairy farms into the barn. Bobby moves surprisingly quickly. The don't have bulls because they are hard to manage and cows' stalls stretch down each side of a wide aisle, because a.i. makes them superfluous, but Bobby has a on the other side of the gutters. Although the barn is huge one who lives in a spacious box stall in the corner dilapidated, fresh cedar dust has just been laid down on of the barn. The bull's hooves are curving up, but he is top of rubber stall mats, and clean, sleek COWS with well- portly and his coat gleams. He probably weighs over built bodies are chewing their cud contentedly. Each a ton. I tell Bobby, "You've got one hell of a bull out COW is attached to the front poles of the stalls by a collar there." and chain, long enough for her to lie down comfortably; this is a tie-stall barn. The COW we have come to see Bobby pays his vet bill in cash, ridding himself of his has a raging temperature of 107 degrees Fahrenheit- previous debt and paying extra so he has a seven dollar normal is around 101-and she probably has toxic credit. Meanwhile, Laura and I look closely at the 32 COA framed photographs and certificates on the far wall of the milk room. A live cricket is stuck under the glass of one frame. In another frame, a certificate from 1980 states that Dennis Veinote has successfully completed a course in artificial insemination-that must have been Bobby's late son. There is a crack in the glass that covers this certificate, this piece of history. On the windowsill below, a COW figurine is overturned. I set it upright. Jean-René Paquin Even in early November, the alfalfa fields in the Saint Farmers throughout Québec pay standardized prices Lawrence River Valley are green and lush. The trees for veterinary services and drugs regardless of where have lost their brilliant colors, though, and most of the they live. cornfields are harvested and plowed, stiff with frost. Farmers are out with their corn choppers, leaving The landscape near Rivière-du-Loup looks pretty remote chunks of rich earth on the roads. These country routes on this gray afternoon as I drive through small towns, cross rivers on one-lane bridges and wind through small past recreational climbing areas, by rocky cliffs and towns, each with their church and municipal building. their stunted evergreen trees. As I approach the town, Outside the towns, pastures with frosted grass stretch however, all the signs of civilization reappear, including all the way to the riverbanks and cattle have worked a golf course. The road that takes me to the home of Dr. brown paths into the earth. Jean-René Paquin passes a Wal-Mart. I turn onto Rue Jonquilles, a suburban street at the edge of town lined The city of Rivière-du-Loup is less than a two-hour with condominiums. The one independent house on the drive from Fort Kent, the northernmost town in Maine. end of the street is as gray as the afternoon with a gray The river it is named for, "River of the Wolf," empties brick driveway and attached garage. It is immaculately fiercely into the Saint Lawrence by the town's series clean. When I knock, a dog starts barking. of waterworks. Rugged hillsides, rocky outcrops and windswept fields characterize this side of the Saint At 1 Rue Jonquilles I am greeted by Jean-René, his wife Lawrence, while the other side is dominated by Mariette, and their dog Charlot. The humans are fit- dramatic, snow-covered mountains. Rivière-du-Loup's looking, middle-aged parents whose grown children side of the river has enough fertile plains to support have moved out of the house. Mariette is petite, with productive agriculture despite a shorter growing season highlighted, wavy blond hair pulled back in a ponytail. than areas farther south. This part of Québec was Her husband is of medium height, mostly bald with a traditionally valued for its timber resources as well as small amount of short hair, and he wears glasses over its strategic position on the province's waterways. a serious-looking face. He immediately starts helping me bring in things from the car. Mariette shows me Québec's Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food downstairs to a guest room with a large bed and tells (MAPAQ) has been encouraging veterinary practice in me to make myself at home. regions like Rivière-du-Loup, régions éloignées that are far from the economic centers in the southern part of The phone rings around five o'clock p.m. Mariette the province. MAPAQ subsidizes new veterinarians answers and seems to be discussing something with a in such isolated areas, in addition to compensating horse client. But at five-fifteen, Jean-René and I climb vets for traveling longer distances to reach clients. into the spotless, new-smelling vet truck and back out of the warm garage into the artificially illuminated night of Rivière-du-Loup-to see a cow. We drive uphill into the old part of town to get something from the vet clinic. Pedestrians are preparing for a Saint Nicolas Christmas parade tonight; the citizens of Rivière-du-Loup want to have their festivities before the weather gets too bitter. About twenty minutes from the clinic Jean-René works for, twenty-five kilometers east of Rivière-du-Loup, we arrive at dusk in L'Isle Vert at a dairy farm in the middle of the evening milking. Jean-René introduces me to the farmer, or producteur, a bearded man in navy blue coveralls. In the warm tie-stall barn are plenty of young helpers, including most of his six children. A bright blond-haired boy chases the cat and bangs a friendly Collecting embryos from a donor cow. COA 33 goat on its head with a foam mallet, and a girl, two I answer their questions about my life. I apologize for young women and a young man are busy milking. One talking too much and say we should probably go see of the girls is studying in an animal health program; I the cow. Jean-René says in his gravelly voice that no, listen to her tell the producteur how much milk a COW we'll finish dinner first, and even our mugs of tea. has produced. In addition to these energetic humans, there is also a large shaggy dog, barn cats, a beagle and We arrive at Ferme Laplante about thirty-five kilome- the inquisitive goat. The producteur explains to me that ters west of Rivière-du-Loup. Despite the increasing they use the goat as a superstitious indicator of future chill, Jean-René still works in a collared shirt and short- luck-if the goat gets sick, something could go wrong sleeved coveralls, wearing only a fleece vest as he walks in the herd. from truck to barn. His forearms are bare and hairy and he wears a silver watch. Jean- Jean-René examines a sick Jer- René is accustomed to carrying sey COW very thoroughly. The "One of the brothers his equipment himself. All he COW has diarrhea, and her tail asks if I am from a farm gives me to hold is a mesh sack and hind end seem partially containing "J-Lube" powder. I paralyzed. She is hypocalcae- family, and I swell with am introduced to two Laplante mic, he thinks: milk fever. He draws blood for a test in case pride even as I say no- brothers and their two sons, all of whom are wearing consider- the milk fever treatment does perhaps I do not look like ably fewer layers than I am. not work and they need to find a new diagnosis. To rule out a complete ignoramus Jean-René determines that the udder infection, he performs in a cow barn now after calving heifer has a uterine tor- a California mastitis test. He eleven weeks out on sion. As he gathers his equip- squeezes milk from each teat ment and puts on a durable into the four round circles of a rounds.' plastic gown, I help the farm- white tray, then adds a purple ers break open bales of hay to reagent that should clump after ~Amanda Spector '08 distract the other heifers. One a few seconds of swirling if the of the brothers asks if I am from COW has mastitis. Jean-René ex- a farm family, and I swell with plains all of this, speaking slowly and clearly for my pride even as I say no-perhaps I do not look like a benefit, and expertly administers two bottles of calcium complete ignoramus in a COW barn now after eleven and other minerals in an IV solution. Meanwhile, he weeks out on rounds. One of the producteurs jokes that listens to the Jersey's heart with his stethoscope to make it is good they have a feminine touch here tonight. sure it is handling the calcium well. He has plenty of First Jean-René tries to turn the calf with his gloved spectators: the goat, one of the girls, the big dog, the hands. He mumbles something, takes a long line, and producteur and me. casts the COW all by himself, bringing her to her left The COW rises sprightly to her feet, confirming Jean- side. We roll the cow, but Jean-René has an interesting René's diagnosis. As Jean-René prepares the bill on his variation on this method. As the men, boys and even I computer, the producteur tells me that he was offered push and pull, Jean-René walks like a circus performer a high-paying job as a security guard this past year, but up a plank laid over the cow's abdomen. His bare arms he turned it down to continue farming. Dairy farming reach out to the sides for balance, and only his baseball is a family thing, a lifestyle. In the barn office I look at hat conceals his bald, clown-like pate. the ribbons and certificates that his children have won in cattle shows. After the COW finally flips they try to get her up; she won't budge. I decide to try a technique that I read In the truck on the way home, Jean-René tells me that about in a bovine surgery book: I walk up behind the there are not many family farms like that one left. In patient and slap her with both hands along her back spite of this, Rivière-du-Loup has managed to maintain and spine as I dig my knees into her rump. For whatever its dairy farming and agriculture perhaps better than reason, the COW decides to get up, and I open my hands other regions of Québec that are less eloignées, but wide and joke about the feminine touch. farming is changing as inexorably as the Saint Lawrence flows to the Atlantic. Jean-René palpates the cow, finding that he has untwisted the uterus but that the cow's birth canal is not Jean-René and I go home to 1 Rue Jonquilles for dinner yet dilated. Then, in a flush, her last membrane breaks before we head south and west to a dystocie, for a all over his gown and spills a puddle at his feet. He calving case. Mariette serves us a delicious dinner, and directs the farmers to push the COW into a straw-filled 34 COA pen, tells the young son and me to stand out of the way, and prepares to use the calf jack, the best tool for vaginally delivering a calf that does not want to come out. You can try to pull a stuck calf manually using chains and handles in concert with the cow's contractions, but the calf jack gives much more power. It is a long metal pole with a U-shaped end that fits against the cow's buttocks, held there by a strap over her rump and assistants behind her. On the metal pole, a sliding ratchet with a handle is attached to the chains around whatever part of the calf is available, usually the legs. The ratchet is cranked gradually to move it away from the COW down the pole, increasing the tension on the calf and sliding it along. Lubricants like J-Lube can help things move along as well. Almost like a priest in his durable plastic gown, Jean-René directs the brothers holding the metal pole of the calf jack. This is a method I've seen elsewhere: two pumps on the ratchet, bear down on the pole, let up, repeat. Jean- René works at the cow's vagina, his plastic sleeves covered in lube and uterine juices. With one last heave, the calf slides out, dead, onto the straw. As the farmers lug it away with the chains, Jean-René carefully pulls the placenta from the cow, picks it up, and throws it in a concrete pit. The boy who is my fellow spectator puts down the cat he's been holding and asks me my name. "Amanda," I say with French pronunciation, the inflection on the last syllable. I am different from the person I used to be, somebody with a different name who has learned to watch dead calves hit the ground without flinching. But here I feel like a child, shivering in the cold next to a farm boy who knows more about COWS than perhaps I ever will. Amanda Spector '08 is working as an assistant at a veterinary clinic in Baltimore, Maryland while she applies to veterinary school. FERME LAPLANTE (Top photo) Ferme Laplante, a thriving family dairy farm not far from Rivière du Loup, with (bottom photo) four of the LaPlante producteurs, or farmers, standing outside one of their barns. COA 35 poetry 2008 graduates Stefan Calabria and Melody Brimmer continue a strong tradition of senior projects in creative writing. These two poets, in particular, show the creative diversity of COA students, proving that high literary quality reveals itself in many forms. Melody Brimmer '08 I heard that George Washington broke his teeth cracking walnuts in them at a party Having this image in my mind helps me feel good about shotgunning a beer at a party, knowing that the father of our country was not above parlor tricks. I think if he were here, He'd be proud. I think if he were here, He'd push me to do better, He'd loom over me, bending near double to reach my ear and whisper, "Why stop at one? You're an American!" What a figure the first president made among college kids, in his powdered wig and military garb, my modest wingman Sprinkling salt on the back of my hand and fetching fresh lime wedges as I did tequila shots. Later, as I lay curled up on the bathroom floor, sick, unlike my real father would have, George Washington patted me on the back and said "You gave it your all." And though he complained about redcoats and Martha's cooking, when a great man holds your hair out of your vomit for you, you don't nitpick about political correctness or which century it is. The next day Mr. Washington even came to check on me, brought me water and saltines. The buttons on his waistcoat strained as he sat on the edge of my bed, pointed to the jagged broken stumps of his teeth and said: "If you want to achieve greatness, you have to be willing to Go Big." And when I had to excuse myself to go throw up again, he shrugged and admitted that he did find his teeth rather sensitive to cold now, and anyway that he preferred almonds. 36 COA nude there's something I want to get away from something I want to get to I'm done with the encumbrance of me so goodbye t-shirt bra with the one wire that pokes I'm pulling off boots wiping away mascara there's even a row of buttons running down my back seams up my calves, like a pinup's nylons the zipper's catching but I think I can escape this yes! epidermis piled on the floor I'm taking it all off tonight, pulling apart muscle groups like they're orange segments pieces of my meat drop wetly to the floor I'm down to bones, light as a bird's but full of marrow, enough to sustain me there's a secret in my skeleton and I'm going in after it Stefan Calabria '08 Petit Manan Island, Maine Still Life Glass thick, bill and bone so delicate, A tiger swallowtail a bird, a female Redstart; butterfly scooped from flashes of olive and yellow feathers Shenandoah's Skyline Drive, deflect off the lantern room panes. body stilled in summer, wings half-open, Wedging her in the palms of my hands, proboscis flaccid, bent. body tense, spring-loaded, Shards of metal, dark eyes watery and bulged, fearing death? Certainly not salvation. jagged, transfigured by cars, heavy machinery, Vibrations trail through my nerves, into wings, serpents, beating hard, her pea-sized heart, faces of long-lost loved ones, hands open, fast, fast she flies, holding memories, wings set to the gusts. stories, the way pink and white scars do on skin. COA 37 Present at the Creation Excerpts from an oral history with Steven Katona and Susan Lerner HGRTH Photo by Tom Bettman. In 2006, when Steve Katona and Susan Lerner retired from College of the Atlantic, there was a great temptation to sit them down for an interview right then and there as part of COA's ongoing oral history of the college. But wiser minds advised waiting until each one of their combined sixty-eight years of history with COA could come clear-not just the last one or two or thirteen years, during which Katona served as president of the college and Lerner taught classes and then became director of the gallery, but also the early years, when both were instrumental in shaping COA. The following is a small portion of an ongoing interview. ~ Donna Gold 38 COA Donna Gold: What was it that first intrigued you about COA and the idea of a holistic education? Steve Katona: I went to a classical high school-we both did. And then to Harvard for undergraduate and graduate degrees and then to work at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. There was something big and impersonal about those places. You did what you could, which was often quite a lot, but it was not necessarily in collaboration. I didn't want to go to a standard institution, COA was new, small, synthetic. People were dreaming big dreams. And it seemed as if the place was set up in a way that people could think together and work together and dream up new ways to do things without Steve Katona and Susan Lerner in the early days of the college. boundaries. Photo by Walter Compton. Susan Lerner: Yes, all the movements of the late SK: I think the main thing that was so compelling sixties were afoot and there was a great revolutionary was the relationship between the students and the feeling that it was time for change. The women's professors, and not just academically, but also in terms movement was taking shape. It was an opportunity to of decision-making of all kinds. That engagement in take your young life and direct it toward something that a non-hierarchical way-or as non-hierarchical as was really important-and fun! possible-was really very different from anything that any of us had encountered. So that was a great source Remember, there was an energy crisis then, too, and of richness, and lots of fun. so the concept of being in a place where you really could go back to the land was very powerful. Here SL: It was part of the zeitgeist: this is how you learn. on the island, you could go down to the beach and It was really an actively engaged learning community get mussels, you could grow your own food because where everybody is learning from each other. And there was actually soil here and open land, and you students who came here weren't trying to go someplace could heat with wood. All of those thoughts were very where they could just be spoon-fed information. powerful at a time when it seemed as if things were DG: And teaching outside your discipline must going to explode or fall apart. reinforce that lack of hierarchy and underscore the value of teachers learning side-by-side with students. DG: Was it a difficult decision? Here you are, Steve, a Harvard PhD. Did people think you were throwing SL: Whatever you could contribute was very away your education-or your life-going to this place appreciated. At the time there was hardly any that didn't even exist? information about women. I had been at California Institute of the Arts-CalArts-working with Judy SK: I never asked them, so I don't know I don't Chicago and Miriam Shapiro; feminist consciousness think so. People were doing some unusual things and there was a general feeling that academia really hadn't had taken shape in me, and incipiently in the US and the world. Integrating that into what COA was becoming grappled with the environment in any way and it was made sense. People said, "Please, will you teach us quite clear to me that the environment was on the verge about that?" So with a background in literature-not a of serious challenge, maybe collapse. PhD-I made it happen. If I'd have been a finished product, and if I'd have SK: There really weren't very many of us, either on the known what it was that I wanted to teach, perhaps this faculty or on the administrative staff-or for that matter, wouldn't have been the best place for me. But both of on the board of trustees. There were more students us had opportunity to develop in new fields, do things that we would never have had the chance to do at a than anybody else, and some of them were pretty bright and experienced. We needed all hands at the traditional university-or it would have been much pumps planning this thing together. When it came to harder. Susie did the same thing with women's studies and the arts. the different procedures and protocols, we didn't know how to do it and there weren't enough of us to have any DG: So much was happening in those early years. kind of a structure to enforce, the only alternative was When you look back, what stands out most? to have everybody plan this together. And that's really COA 39 what happened. The first year was devoted to planning we did have to watch out. What that's about is the what the committee structures would be and how they adolescence of an institution. All of a sudden, you have would operate and what the operating model was for to start dealing with some larger issues. The systems the All College Meeting, and so forth. Some of that that you'd relied on, which were home-grown, you've stuff is still not squared down perfectly-but it works outgrown. You can't just do things in the same old pretty well. ways. And so there's a shakeup. In this case, President Judith Swayze was trying to figure new ways to do Probably the major thing that allowed the enterprise things-putting aside whether they would've worked, to work was that Ed Kaelber, our founding president, could've worked, should've worked-they were had enough confidence in the school, the people and challenging to the institution. the ideas, to give us the freedom to give birth to this new college and these new ways, even though he came It calmed down, and we got Lou Rabineau as president, from traditional training, too. an experienced patriarch from education who brought some new perspective and respect from people from SL: And he attracted great people- the broader educational world. And there was a period SK: Yes, that really was the of what you might call con- fertile soil out of which all solidation, building a new of the wonderful fruits of "All the movements of the late foundation. When my turn this college have grown. Ed sixties were afoot and there came, I think the college took placed a great premium on a chance on leadership from people and that gave him the was a great revolutionary within. We tried some new confidence that things were feeling. It was an opportunity things to really put some ac- going to be okay. And then, tion and teeth in our human too, there was the faculty's to take your young life and ecology mission-adding the willingness to not just teach, direct it toward something research islands, Beech Hill though being socialistic and that was really important- Farm, bringing in United non-hierarchical takes a toll. World College scholars, and COA is a seriously busy place and fun!" initiating the green design in with a very heavy teaching ~Susan Lerner our new housing, our zero- load and no real clear path waste graduation and a tan- for personal advancement, gible emphasis on sustain- but the faculty's been willing to continue shouldering ability. I think David Hales is having good success in that load, and slowly over time, picking up more sense building on that and the college is gaining every day. of personal exploration through research or creativity. The adolescence is behind us. The next stage, which And that's been, I think, very, very healthy. occurred during my administration, was trying to re- SL: It would have been very hard to have that at the solve the confusion between this egalitarian administra- beginning, when COA was like an infant. You can't say, tive governance engagement with the students and the "Well, goodbye infant-I'm going to lock myself in my All College Meeting: How did that relate to the more room and do my own thing for the next twenty-four patriarchal role of trusteeship? Who's in charge here? hours. You just couldn't." All you need to do is acknowledge that the All College Meeting is advisory to the board in matters over which DG: You said at one point that the faculty and students the board of trustees has authority. It's so simple and so were one. Did you later notice a gulf, especially small, but it has caused some continued friction. between the administration and everyone else? DG: So here you are, starting a college, and then SK: It's about a life cycle. Institutions are like people. twenty-two years later, Steve, you're president of this As Susie said-they're like infants and they need a lot very odd mishmash of tradition and institutionality and of care and mothering and fathering and then they go happenstance. What was it like to be in control of all- through their terrible twos and threes-and they do! SL: The mess we made. You start out, you're held together by a dream, you've got this vision, there's great energy, and then you DG: Yes, exactly! realize that it's taking an awful lot of your time and, SK: It works! The board members get surprised every what's more, you can't get things done and so you time they come to an All College Meeting. They say have a little thrashing around. The first of the accreditors "Wow, that was a fabulous meeting. That's the best All told us this, they said, "You're doing great now, but College Meeting I've ever seen!" Well, they say it the watch out in ten years." Guess what? In ten years next time they come, too. 40 COA CLASS NOTES Sally Morong Chetwynd '76 is living in Wakefield, Massachusetts with her husband, Phillip, and working to broaden an "already strangely varied" career into wetland science. Outside interests in the American Civil War and fife-and-drum continue as Sally tries to learn the bugle to provide live Taps for military funerals. She'd be happy to hear from other COA folks at alincoln@erols.com. Frances Pollitt '77 works at the Maine Historical Society in Portland, Maine. Her book, Historic Photos of Maine, was released by Turner Publishing of Nashville, Tennessee earlier this year. "My human ecology education/degree continues to play a part in my evolution" writes Marc Jenossa '80. Social work has become his focus although wife, Jenifer, and children, Samuel and Noel, are most important. After twenty years as a carpenter/ contractor, Marc recently completed a master's degree in social work and is clinical COA Alumni coordinator of outreach services at New Beginnings in Lewiston, Maine, providing Relations services for homeless youth. http://www.coa.edu/html/ Lois (Bundy) Van Aken '81 is a family nurse practitioner at the student health center alumni.htm at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon. She bikes to work every day and her daughter, 13, has either biked or walked to school her entire life. Writes Lois, "It Keep in Touch! is our small way of helping and keeping healthy at the same time." Update your contact information. Lauren McKean '83 works as a planner at Cape Cod National Seashore where, she writes, "We are making incremental gains in sustainable actions and hoping to build Tell us of job changes. on that and also join efforts to become a climate-friendly park." Tell us of life changes. Since 2004, Peter Heller '85 has been happily running two businesses in New York Find out about alumni City: consulting with non-profits on fundraising strategies and producing independent events. films. He is finding interesting film projects, including The Way, an African martial Find out about alumni arts drama, and A Girl's Best Friend about a dog that turns into a man after his owner services. gets dumped by yet another boyfriend. Tammis Coffin '87 is living in the Berkshires and has a new position with the Get Involved! Trustees of Reservations. She coordinates outreach and education for thirteen Help organize regional natural and historic sites. The best part of her job, she says, "is inviting creative alumni events. responses to these landscapes from the community and sharing the creations- Volunteer for the exhibits, performances and publications-with others. I feel lucky to be here." Alumni Board. After moving from Machiasport, Maine to Fort Collins, Colorado with sons Conor, 11, and Liam, 6, Lori Gustafson '87 is now a veterinary epidemiologist for the United Contact Dianne Clendaniel, States Department of Agriculture's National Surveillance Unit. Her work ranges from Alumni Relations and the Washington mussel farming industry to developing cross-border viral hemorrhagic Development Coordinator septicemia surveillance plans with Canada. In October she traveled to Chile to join at 207-288-2944, ext 268 or an international team addressing Chile's infectious salmon anemia. Husband Mike dclendaniel@coa.edu. Kimball '89 finished as the University of Northern Colorado's Robert O. Schulze Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies and accepted a faculty position as director of the university's Center for Honors, Scholars, and Leadership. michael.kimball@unco. edu. Jared Crawford '89 lives in Pasadena, California with Annaly and Miles, 11, and works at eSolar as a technical writer. He finally has a dream job that combines his experience with renewable energy, construction, writing and photography. Libby Dean '89 is senior project coordinator in the Health and Environment Department at Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, representing Inuit concerns, especially northern food security and maternal and child health issues. In August she presented her thesis results at an International Polar Year social sciences conference in Greenland. Earlier this year her essay "Doubt and Enduring" was included in the book The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: A Sense of Memory and High-definition Inuit Storytelling (Montreal: Isuma. 2008). esdean@dal.ca. COA 41 CLASS NOTES On May 1, Jessie Greenbaum '89 was featured in an article about massage and hospice care in the Mount Desert Islander and Ellsworth American: http://ellsworthmaine. com/site/index.php?option = = view&id = 14364<emid = 134. "I live in Seattle, Washington, with my fabulous wife, Denise, and charming infant daughter, Lida, born last Halloween," writes Lars Henrikson '89. He works in the Conservation Resources Division of Seattle City Light, the only US electrical utility to be net carbon neutral. See page 21. "I have lived in Washington DC for eighteen years," writes Deborah Mandsager Wunderman '89. Daughter Essi, 8, loves animals. Husband Rick works at the National Museum of Natural History on erupting volcanoes. "I continue to freelance write foundation grants and have helped organizations raise over seven million dollars. I am ready to try my hand at an environmental thriller. If you have some ideas, I'd love to hear from you." Deb recently visited Maine and took Eddie Monat's '88 boat trip, leaving from COA. "Ed was the first person I met at COA and he talked me into to joining a group study dive course, which meant diving in the cold New England waters from September to December!" debam@cavtel.net. Elena Tuhy '90 married Carl L. Walters II on July 21, 2007 in Columbus, Ohio in a blended Quaker-Protestant ceremony. They live in Columbus where Carl works as an engineer and project manager. Elena continues to practice law in Newark, Ohio, primarily representing children in dependency, delinquency and domestic relations cases. They enjoy getting back to Mount Desert Island each October to visit, hike and attend closing night at Elmer Beal's and Alison Martin's '88 The Burning Tree. elenatuhy@juno.com. In October, Lelania (Prior) Avila '92 celebrated her ten-year anniversary with husband, Kyle Avila, and exhibited her calligraphy (www.heartcraftcalligraphy. com) at Bar Harbor's Jesup Memorial Library. She is currently homeschooling her children Rosie, 8, and Elijah, 4, cultivating future human ecologists. Lelania writes that she is dedicated to a mindfulness practice and yoga, has joined a nonviolent communication study group and is still working on a puppet show version of Large Marge's Garbage Barge. Jennifer DesMaisons '93 is in her third year as director of college counseling at The Putney School in southern Vermont. "After having spent ten years in college admissions, this is a wonderful opportunity to help students learn more about COA, which has a similar mission to The Putney School," she writes. Son Andrew is a freshman in high school and son Tyler starts third grade. Cedar Bough Saeji '93 worked on a dissertation pilot study in Korea this summer on a grant from the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies. Heather Martin-Zboray '93 is working as Democratic regional field director to Hancock and Waldo counties. She's thrilled to see Elsie Flemings '07 elected as House District 35 representative. Her real job, however, revolves around second grader Eilon, 7, and Tobiah, 4. Husband Mike Martin-Zboray '95 is assistant principal of Conners-Emerson in Bar Harbor where he delights in the antics of wily eighth graders and kindergarteners alike-entertaining them on the guitar. Mike is often seen hiking and canoeing with Eilon and Tobiah and a dog or two. Andrea Perry '95 and Toby Stephenson '98 are loving their family, Liam, 4, and Brynn, 1, and their new "old" home in Ellsworth. Andrea is in her third year as a foundations consultant, focusing on the environment and sustainable agriculture. Toby is in his sixth year curating the Bar Harbor Whale Museum and working as a captain. They love walking to town, having friends for dinner and traveling. 42 COA CLASS NOTES "My short story 'Mick and Keith, Tom and Huck' is in the anthology, Wreckage of Reason: An Anthology of Contemporary Xxperimental Prose by Women Writers [edited by Nava Renek and available on amazon.com]," says Elizabeth Bachner '96. Her one-act play Pretty Pretty was performed at the Gene Frankel Theater. Elizabeth writes regular features for www.bookslut.com. Of her largely autobiographical piece she writes, "One big, white-hot orgy of sex, drugs and rock n' roll." "Now I know that you are all aware of my Photoshop skills, but this is the real deal," writes Scott Bishop '97. Stoss Landscape Urbanism (where Scott is senior associate), was a finalist for this year's Cooper-Hewitt Design Awards in Landscape Design. The award led to meeting First Lady Laura Bush at the White House, and "double-fisting champagne." Left to right: Jill Desimini of Stoss, Scott, First Lady Laura Bush, Chris Reed, principal owner of Stoss, and Paige Scott Reed, of Stoss' board of directors. Kelly Dickson, MPhil '97 and former COA systems administrator George Dickson are enjoying life in Cambridge, England. George is a software programmer for Aveva. Kelly is managing a campaign for the Great Fen Project, a nine-thousand-acre wetland reserve for rare fen plants. Both have had great experiences but miss friends on Mount Desert Island and would love more visitors (like the one in the photo). Email kelly@ takuskohouse.com or call 011-44-01223-701631. In April, Tammy McGrath '97 and Philip Nicholas '98 had their third child, John Carter Nicholas. The Brooklyn, New York family also includes William Nicholas, 6, and Josephine Nicholas, 3. Philip has been working for The Trust for Public Land as a project manager, putting together land conservation transactions for about eight years while Tammy raises their kids to be human ecologists. Tammy Packie '97 exhibited photographs of fishermen and sardine packers from the Herring Project at the Bar Harbor Savings and Loan gallery during the Legacy of the Arts festival this spring, then took photographs and worked with the nonprofit Alliance Exchange in Ecuador, teaming up with the Kallari Association to foster cultural and economic strategies-and chocolate sales-between Ecuador and the US. Dylan (Gabby) Bosseau '98 finished a dual-degree graduate program in social work and education with an emphasis in early development-infants and toddlers-and families. Dylan's partner of six years, Barb O'Neill, earned a doctorate in early childhood special education. They live in Brooklyn, New York and spend vacations outdoors-most recently backpacking the Overland Track in Tasmania, Australia (see photo). Dylan also studies acrobatics and static trapeze. dylanboss@gmail.com. As Future Generations director of communications, Traci Hickson '98 is partnering with fifty-eight universities to launch the Green Long March, an environmental youth movement in China. www.greenlongmarch.org. Tracey Teuber '98 married veterinarian Kirk Winger on April 26 and moved to Germany for three years. tracey_teuber@yahoo.com. Lara Burns LaPerle '99 and husband, Bryan, have a new baby girl, born February 22, 2008: Ava Burns LaPerle. They live in Heber, Utah, where Lara works as an office manager and medical assistant for Spring Creek Family Practice. Isaac Jacobs '99 and his wife began Peace Corps service in La Chumicosa, Panama, working in sustainable agriculture in an extremely deforested area with very poor soil. They love e-mail: sagacity@lycos.com. Chelsea K. Mooser '00 was recently a co-first author on a paper in the journal Cancer Research titled "Rin1 is a Breast Tumor Suppressor." cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/ content/abstract/67/24/11510. COA 43 CLASS NOTES Jennifer Prediger '00 is senior producer making green videos for Sprig.com, an eco site that is a part of Washington Post/Newsweek Interactive. Her first online video is very silly, she says: sprig.com/videos/instant-parks-quarter about "the scoundrels turning precious city parking spaces into parks for mere quarters!" Leah Stetson '01, MPhil '06 writes about wetland science and policy for the nonprofit Association of State Wetland Managers. Her newsletters and articles are web-based, saving paper and conserving resources. Topics range from Clean Water Act Section 404 permits to climate change. Leah can walk to work, hike trails and get to the water's edge to paddle away in her canoe. Find her work at www.aswm.org. Gabriel Willow '01 painted endemic birds, led eco-tours and did environmental consulting in the Yucatan before moving to New York City. He now teaches at the Prospect Park Audubon Center, designing exhibits and leading tours. He also leads tours out to the city's Harbor Heron Islands and DJs at various bars. And one of his bird paintings will be on the cover of January's The Auk, the journal of the American Ornithologist's Union; another will be on the cover of a forthcoming CD of recordings of Mexican birds. Rickie Bogle '02 lives in Portland, Maine with her boyfriend and puppy and is program coordinator at Westbrook's Mission Possible Teen Center, teaching sexuality education classes to reduce teen pregnancies. Rickie graduated as a licensed massage therapist from Waldoboro's Downeast School of Massage November 1. Gideon Culman '02 works for Creative Associates International, Inc., www.caii. com, delivering education, stabilization and civil society transformation to war-torn communities. "I am spearheading the company's efforts to reach out to the private sector to create sustainable partnerships for international development. Creative has trained tens of thousands of teachers in Iraq and Afghanistan." See his work at youtube. com/watch?v=jUYkVuwZhY8 and youtube.com/watch?v: = KuRcoexVOBs&NR = 1. On May 17, 2008 Brianne Press '02 married her boyfriend of six years, Brian Jordan, a second-year law student at Villanova University School of Law in Pennsylvania. Wedding guests included Cameron Douglass '02, Nikolai Klibansky ('02) and bridesmaid Jen Dupras '02. Brianne is project manager for GeoDecisions of Newark, Delaware, creating customized GIS mapping applications. Her clients include the California Division of Recycling, Delaware State Police and the Surface Deployment and Distribution Command of the US Military. Tora Johnson, MPhil '03 is principal investigator on a three-year $743,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a statewide geospatial technology education initiative. The project involves three UMaine System universities, three community colleges and others with an interest in GIS in Maine. "We'll be starting new GIS degree and certificate programs and improving existing ones," and holding workshops for geospatial educators in Maine, she writes. The Environmental Leadership Program has selected twenty-two emerging environmental leaders from the New England region for a yearlong fellowship program aimed at enhancing the capacity of the environmental movement. Among W those on the "cutting edge of environmental thought, policy and action," is Allison Furbish Rogers '04, media relations coordinator for King Arthur Flour in Norwich, Vermont and a key member of the company's stewardship team. UNIVERSITY WISCONSIN April Mauro '04 graduated from the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin on June 16, 2008 and has already accepted a position as an equine vet for the following Californian racetracks: Santa Anita, Hollywood and Del Mar. April and Rohan Chitrikar '04 live in Pasadena, California, where Rohan works as a freelance cinematographer and photographer: www.rohanchitrakar.com. 44 COA CLASS NOTES Julia Morgenstern Hefner '04 lives in Vallecito, Colorado, with Red, her husband of two years, and son, Wyatt Alexander Hefner, born April 15, 2008, at 9 pounds 7 ounces. She writes, "He is a big beautiful boy and doing wonderfully!" After her first year of graduate school in conservation biology and sustainable development at the University of Maryland, Volha Roshchanka '04 spent the summer working with a conservation organization on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica. Jacquelyn Gill '05 defended her master's thesis in geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is working on a National Science Foundation-supported PhD thesis investigating the causes and ecological impacts of the North American megafauna extinction at the end of the last ice age. Her poster of this work received the E. Lucy Braun Award for Excellence in Ecology at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in San Jose, California. Special Ed and the Short Bus, the bluegrass group for which Aaron Lewis '05 plays fiddle, received a coveted Herald Angels award at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. & Herald Angels A Herald Angels Wrote The Scotsman: "Bluegrass, old-time, skiffle, jug band stir them up vigorously, throwing in elements of zany vaudeville, add some unpredictable tics, then stand back and watch Special Ed and the Shortbus go as bluegrass fiddle champion Aaron Lewis, violin tucked beneath his beard, sets the pace with a hell-for-leather breakdown. With Aaron in this image from the Glasgow Herald are Josh Bearman, banjo, Ed Brogan, guitar and Jake Sellers, washboard. Micheala Senek '05 works in Brussels, for the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, IFOAM, a grassroots, democratic organization of groups from one hundred and eight countries. Its work ranges from the development of standards to the facilitation of organic agriculture in developing countries. www.ifoam.org/ about_ifoam/around_world/eu_group/about.html Marjolaine Whittlesey '05 is in her second year of teaching French for the Maine Coast Semester at the Chewonki Foundation where she discusses grammatical structures, organic agriculture and the history of French in Maine with engaged sixteen-year-olds. She spent the summer leading students through Brittany, France, exploring issues of sustainability while working on farms and building eco houses. "Intercultural dialogue, green building and great food-all in one!" Julia Clark '06 works for Scientific Certification Systems in San Francisco, which offers third-party verification of product claims. She oversees Starbucks' C.A.F.E. Practices Program in the corporate social responsibility department, a voluntary program for coffee suppliers in exchange for price premiums and purchasing preferences. According to Julia, C.A.F.E. Practices looks at quality, financial viability, economic accountability, social responsibility and environmental leadership. Brittany Quinn '07 was recently accepted to the University of California Los Angeles' School of Theater, Film and Television's highly competitive MFA screenwriting program. To date she has written a novel and four feature-length screenplays and could not be happier about relocating to the west coast. The research poster, "Materials Characterization of Nest Cell Linings of Bees from the Family Colletidae (Colletes inaequalis)," co-authored by Dechan Angmo '08 and Debbie Chachra, materials science assistant professor at Olin College of Engineering, and Olin students Margaret McCahon and Christopher Morse, was presented at the Materials Research Society meetings. Dechan, a Davis scholar from Ladakh, India, is working on a master's degree in science teaching at the University of Maine Orono. Sean Berg '08 and Heather Lea Nazarewicz '08 were married in Green, Ohio just after graduation. Standing behind the happy couple are Lindsay Baker '10, Peter Jenkins '09, Amanda Spector '08, Charlie Fischer '07, Jay Guarneri '07, Sabrina Robertson ('08), Laura Howes '09 and Emma Rearick '08. (Class years in parentheses refer to alumni who did not graduate from COA.) COA 45 FACULTY & COMMUNITY NOTES Beyond receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship, Nancy Andrews, faculty member in video and performance art, is participating in a new audio website: www. integr8dmedia.net/viralnet and has received one of LEF Foundation's 2008 Moving Image Fund Awards, supporting, "experimental film and video works across all genres that express the unique artistic voice and personal vision of the filmmaker." Nancy is now creating her next film, On a Phantom Limb, an autobiographical fiction about a cyborg superhero. John Anderson, faculty member in biology and the William H. Drury, Jr. Chair in Evolution, Ecology, and Natural History, and Rich Borden, faculty member in psychology and the Rachel Carson Chair in Human Ecology, drafted a mission statement and bylaws for the creation of a human ecology section in the Ecological Society of America. The two also co-chaired a founders meeting at the annual ESA meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in August. On March 31, Rich and John shared the microphone on Maine Public Radio Network, where they were interviewed for Irwin Gratz' Morning Edition program on their participation in the EcoSummit meeting in Beijing, China (see the Summer/Fall 2007 edition of COA). You can still hear them at mpbn.net/search/results.asp, "China: Economy, Ecology, and the Olympics." Rich also co-authored the chapter "New Directions in Human Ecology Education" with Rob Dyball of Australian National University and Wolfgang Serbser of the German Society for Human Ecology for Current Trends in Human Ecology, edited by Priscila MacCord and Alpina Begossi (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2008). In July, John also organized and attended the first Eco League teaching retreat, along with Steve Ressel, faculty member in biology. See the whole Eco League crew in the photo, from left, bottom row: Lisa Floyd-Hanna, Prescott College; Leslie Cornick, Alaska Pacific University; Meriel Brooks, Green Mountain College; second row: Steve; Mark Jordan, Green Mountain College; Jim Paruk, Northland College; David McGivern, Alaska Pacific University; Tom Fleischner, Prescott College; and behind them all, John with son David Anderson. COA founding trustee Leslie Brewer was the latest recipient of the Paul Harris Fellowship Award by the Rotary, one of the organization's highest honors. It is given to Rotarians or community professionals for outstanding contributions that exemplify Rotary's highest ideal of service above self. Les Brewer was cited as a tireless worker for the community, instrumental in planning Mount Desert Island High School and founding College of the Atlantic. He was also responsible for Bar Harbor's implementation of a capital improvement projects fund and is still working hard on the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. Dianne Clendaniel has stepped down from her job as education director of the George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History-but she's not gone far. She's now on the second floor of Turrets, serving as the new alumni relations and development coordinator. "I am loving the opportunity to be in touch with alumni and to build more connections within a COA alumni community that reaches around the globe," she says. Ken Cline, faculty member in law and public policy, and new faculty dean, spoke on "Water as a Human Right" at Middlebury College last April as part of Water Week 2008. He also gave a talk titled, "Opportunities for College Watershed Partnerships" at the 2008 National River Rally in Huron, Ohio in May. Presenting with him were Jasmine Smith '09 and Brett Ciccotelli '09. Finally, Ken served again as a reader for the 2008 Morris K. Udall Scholarships. Dru Colbert, faculty member in museum studies and graphic and three-dimensional design, recently presented on contemporary museum practices to the Acadia Senior College. She also gave a talk titled "The Visual Display of Culture" to the Friends of the Maine State Museum in Augusta. 46 COA FACULTY & COMMUNITY NOTES Gray Cox, faculty member in social theory, political economics and history, talked at the Ellsworth and Bangor Unitarian Universalist churches on "Quaker Process and a Culture of Peace." As a board member of the Quaker Institute for the Future, he oversaw the development of its new website: www.quakerinstitute.org. Gray's workshop, "Imaging a Dramatically Better World," brought members of the greater Hancock County community and COA students to a three-day session. This summer, Gray attended the annual World Futures Society conference in Washington DC, and took part in pre-conference workshops on Futures Studies and on the Future of Education. He also performed original songs at Hammond Hall in Winter Harbor, Maine. In February, Dave Feldman, faculty member in math and physics, gave two lectures at the University of Warwick's Mathematical Interdisciplinary Research forum (MIR@W): "An Introduction to Statistical Complexity" and "The Objective Subjectivity of Complexity." As in 2007, Dave served as director of the Complex Systems Summer School in Beijing, China, sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute in cooperation with The Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also gave a series of five lectures at the summer school titled, "Some Foundations in Complex Systems: Tools and Concepts." In addition, Dave spoke at the Computational Mechanics Group of the University of California, Davis on "Two-Dimensional Information Theory and Complexity Measures." Along with Sam Heller '09, he presented a talk for COA's Human Ecology Forum called "Emergent (Non) Majors: Connection and Community at an Interdisciplinary College." Lynn Havsall, George B. Dorr Museum's director of museum programs, attended the annual meeting of the Josselyn Botanical Society in Edmunston, New Brunswick, connecting with botanists and naturalists from northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. She also worked with Acadia National Park on the fourth BioBlitz, co-sponsored by the Dorr Museum, looking at the order Heteroptera, and studied fungi at Humboldt Field Research Station at Eagle Hill. Read about her obsession with mushrooms in the Mount Desert Islander: http://mdislander.com/site/ index.php?option = = = 7134<emid = 39. WHY Helen Hess, faculty member in biology, served as a resource for the Chewonki ANI Foundation at its new girls' camp (www.chewonki.org/girlscamp/default.asp), directed WHY ARE by Genell Vashro, sister to Courtney Vashro '99. Helen and Courtney portaged along ANIMALS the chain lake system from Fourth to Second Debsconeag Lake in northern Maine, where they joined a group of 12- to 14-year-old girls and their counselors, including Jasmine Smith '09 and Becca Abuza '11. The group looked at macro-invertebrates WHY ARE ANIMALS in ponds and streams, discussing diversity, ecology and life cycles. Helen also participated in the salt-water session for 8- to 11-year-old girls in Wiscasset, bringing a cooler of marine invertebrates, some courtesy of Diver Ed (Eddie Monat '88). At Chewonki, Helen met Marjolaine Whittelsey '05 and Lucy Hull, development director and mother of Miles Chapin '10. Helen also served as a science consultant on a series of books for young children published by Enslow Publishers, Inc. COA's night watchman, James "Howdy" Houghton was profiled in the May/ June issue of Orion Magazine: http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/ article/2971. He and Elmer Beal appear in the book Sharing the Ocean: Stories of Science, Politics, and Ownership from America's Oldest Industry, written by Mike Crocker with photographs by Rebecca Hale, co-published by Tilbury House and Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance in June, 2008. Find more at http://www.namanet. org/SharingTheOcean.html. Howdy's photo courtesy of Rebecca Hale. COA has received a $100,000 grant from the Partridge Foundation to support Beech Hill Farm. Lara Judson '04 (photo) and Diane Lococz '03, co-managers of the farm, will use the funds to improve facilities by installing an additional irrigation system and supplying heat to the new greenhouse during the colder months, thus increasing the farm's ability to provide the college and greater community with a range of greens and cold-hardy crops throughout the winter. The grant will also help to improve soil, open more acreage to cultivation, provide farm work experience to island high school students and purchase supplies. COA 47 FACULTY & COMMUNITY NOTES The Maine Development Foundation has presented Representative Ted Koffman, COA's director of government relations and summer programs, along with several other Maine legislators with the 2008 Main Street Hero Award for their work on the Historic Tax Credit, a bill submitted by Ted (D-Bar Harbor). The bill offers financial incentives to developers investing in technically challenging and financially risky historic renovation projects. Ted and Sue Inches '79 were also among the recipients of a Historic Preservation Honor Award from Maine Preservation. This marks Ted's last term representing Bar Harbor, due to state-imposed term limits. Todd Little-Siebold, faculty member in history, was in Europe as part of his sabbatical this fall, attending a conference organized by the European Association of Latin American Historians in Leiden, Netherlands, to present a paper called "Articulating Local Identities: Calidad, Clase y Casta in Colonial Guatemala." He also visited the United Kingdom and Germany to meet our counterparts in the college's new Trans- Atlantic Partnership for Sustainable Food Systems (see page 6) and stopped by the United World Colleges in Italy and in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to meet with prospective students. Gordon Longsworth '90, GIS lab director, participated in the 2008 ESRI International GIS User Conference in San Diego, where COA received a Special Achievement in GIS award. Recipients were submitted by ESRI staff from thousands of organizations worldwide. These are reviewed and selected by ESRI's president. According to ESRI, "By embracing GIS technology, these organizations have made extraordinary contributions to our global society and set new precedents throughout the GIS community." Suzanne Morse, the Elizabeth Battles Newlin Chair in Botany, is working with local middle school students in the Community for Rural Education Stewardship and Technology, or CREST team, which is collaborating with the Pesticide Free Island project she started three years ago. The students are developing surveys, web sites, GIS maps and movies about current home use of pesticides and possible alternatives. Working with them is Zimmerman Cardona '11 who is developing a baseline GIS map of commercial applications in Bar Harbor and collecting information on current uses and needs. Additionally, Suzanne is completing her fifteenth growing season in the community garden. Plots established this year in the Theory and Practice of Organic Gardening class included a massive pumpkin patch, a cutting garden for COA's development office, an herb and vegetable garden for the kitchen and a garden for the Bar Harbor Food Pantry. Suzanne also participated in the 2007 conference of Sustainable Agriculture Education Association at Cornell University, dedicated to post- secondary sustainable agriculture education. Last October, Suzanne was an invited speaker at the Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium conference, presenting "Food Mile Epiphanies: How can colleges and universities make the most of them?" In addition, she performed in Black, a dance concert by Tawanda Chabikwa '06 and Oscar Chanis, visiting faculty member in dance. Chris Petersen, faculty member in biology, gave a talk on estuarine fishes at Bowdoin College as part of a symposium on the State of Maine Marine Ecology, and on hermaphroditic fishes in Stuttgart, Germany as part of the workshop, Analogies in the Evolution of Gender Expression and Sexual Strategies in Animals and Plants. His work with Charlie Wray at Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory and Chris Lage from the University of Maine at Augusta, among others, on dogfish shark multiple paternity has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Fish Biology. Chris stepped down from the editorial board of The American Naturalist and was appointed chair of the Bar Harbor Marine Resource Committee. He's been working with Sarah Drerup '09 collecting data and performing experiments to study the biology and conservation of clams on Mount Desert Island. Chris Petersen and Helen Hess attended one of many alumni focus group for the academic program renewal, this in California. Photo, back row: Greg Rainoff '81, Susan (Boughter) Sullivan ('95), Chris, Amy Sims '84, Liz Miller '00; front row: Helen, host Cedar Bough Saeji '93, Chelsea Mooser '00, and Kevin Stack '96. 48 COA FACULTY & COMMUNITY NOTES Nishanta Rajakaruna '94, former faculty member in botany, is now pursuing research opportunities at San Jose State University. Before Nishi left, he presented the paper "Serpentine Outcrops of Eastern North America: Model Habitats for Geoecological Studies" with Tanner Harris '06 and E.B. Alexander, which won the best botany- related oral presentation at the conference, and the poster "A Study to Characterize the Flora of Vernal Pools, Acadia National Park" with Brett Ciccotelli '09, both at the Northeast Natural History Conference X in Albany, New York. He also published a technical report for the National Park Service with P.D. Vaux, S.J. Nelson, Glen Mittelhauser '89, K. Bell, B. Kopp, J. Peckenham and Gordon Longsworth '90: "Assessment of natural resources and watershed conditions in and adjacent to Acadia National Park" (Fort Collins, Colorado: Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/HTLN/ NRTR-2006/001). In press at Rhodora: The Journal of the New England Botanical Career & Internship Club, Volume 111 are two more articles: the senior project of Laura Briscoe '07, with Services for Alumni Tanner, Eve Dannenberg '09, visiting student W. Broussard, Fred Olday, adjunct faculty member in botany, and Nishi: "Bryophytes of adjacent serpentine and granite We Can Help! outcrops on the Deer Isles, Maine, USA," and with Tanner, "Serpentine geoecology of eastern North America: A review." Finally, Nishi's "Edaphic Factor" article written Career Information with R.S. Boyd has been published in General Ecology. Vol. 2 of Encyclopedia of and Guidance Ecology, edited by Sven Erik Jørgensen and Brian D. Fath (Oxford: Elsevier. 2008). Searchable Database The George B. Dorr Museum received a set of conservation books, DVDs and online Graduate School Information resources from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, to help conserve its collections, according to Steve Ressel, the Dorr's academic director. Job Search Skills Resume Review "New Challenges Facing Agriculture Require New Approaches," a letter by Doreen Stabinsky, faculty member in environmental politics, and Reyes Tirado, was published Relocation Guidance in Science in February: www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/318/5849/359. Employment Websites Bonnie Tai, faculty member in education, spoke at the National University of Tainan and National Taitung University in Taiwan on "Education for an Ecological Volunteer! Humanity" and spoke at the COA Human Ecology Forum on "Pirates, Pigs, and Politicians: A Human Ecology of Taiwan." She also organized and convened the first Provide an annual meeting on Critical Exploration in Teacher Education at the Harvard Graduate internship School of Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is an evaluation consultant for Work with Healthy Acadia's Food Stamp Nutrition Education projects in Hancock County. prospective students Mentor current Allied Whale, College of the Atlantic's marine mammal research arm, received two students and other grants to continue its marine mammal stranding response, says Sean Todd, the Steven alumni K. Katona Chair in Marine Studies and associate dean for advanced studies. Through the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program, the National Contact Jill Barlow-Kelley, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration awarded the college's stranding Director of Internships and program $92,308 to cover Maine's mid-coast/downeast region for the next year. Career Services, at Combined with $15,500 from the Michele and Agnese Cestone Foundation, most of 207-288-2944, ext 236 or the costs of running the stranding program will be covered. Working with Sean on jbk@coa.edu. the grant were Allied Whale researchers Judy Allen and Rosemary Seton, along with veterinarian Kathleen T. Prunier. "An Editor of One's Own," an essay by Katharine Turok, lecturer in writing and comparative literature, was recently published in Jeff Herman's annual Guide to Book Publishers, Editors, & Literary Agents 2008, co-authored by Ruth Greenstein and A. Rosengard. Her essay will also appear in subsequent editions. Last April, Karen Waldron, faculty member in literature and feminist theory, and former associate dean for faculty, chaired the panel "From the Country to the City: Literary Ecology in American Realism and Naturalism" at the Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference in Buffalo, New York. She presented a paper titled "Desire and Danger: Negotiating the Real Reader through Representations in Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple." Karen serves as co-chair for the mystery/ detective fiction area of the Popular Culture Association and presented a paper at its annual conference last March in San Francisco: "Travels in Tibet with Eliot Pattison." COA 49 ANNUAL REPORT From the Dean of Development As Dean of Development for COA, I am living proof that if you love your job you never work a day in your life. I work with a remarkable faculty who meet students where they are and coax, cajole and challenge them forward; a board of trustees whose passion for this institution is revealed in their dedication; a devoted administrative staff who work way beyond the bounds of normal workload (Normal workload? What's that?); and intelligent, creative students whose commitment to a better world rubs any last jot of jadedness out of even the most curmudgeonly. Photo by Donna Gold. But wait! There's more! I also work with those people who want to be part of this college in another way: through philanthropy. As I often say, the kind of people who give to COA are similar to those who choose to work here, or come here to school, or teach here, or volunteer for the board: those who not only believe a better world is possible, but who want to work towards social justice, peace and a healthy environment. In many colleges and universities, the development office is called the office of advancement. It's an apt title. Philanthropy allows institutions of higher education to make great strides forward in hundreds of ways every year. The more philanthropic support, the more the institution advances. Here are a few examples of how philanthropy aids College of the Atlantic: Upgrades in technological capacity, infrastructure, laboratories and library resources, which are necessary to keep us current every year. On-going support of student and faculty research to further the exciting projects embarked upon by our community. Creation of new buildings and facilities to meet the growth and needs of the student body. Sufficient financial aid and scholarship support to maintain an affordable level of tuition for all families. Tuition does not come close to covering the cost of a student's education and the associated services he or she receives as a member of the COA community: internet services, library, housing, trips, lectures, meals, to name a few. It is philanthropy that closes the gap. Investments in COA allow us to offer a high-quality education for hundreds of students each year. And they do more: philanthropy creates a forward momentum for us, allowing COA to remain on the leading edge of education in human ecology. COA students-the entire COA community-work hard every day to make a difference in this world, to improve in some way, as our mission says, the relationships between human beings and our social and natural communities. More than ever, this mission is worthy of support. Lynn Boulger Dean of Development 50 COA ANNUAL REPORT From the Administrative Dean Fiscal year 2008 was extraordinary from the financial perspective. By June 2008 we were near completion on two major construction projects-the Kathryn W. Davis Student Residence Village and the Deering Common campus center-both of which are now finished. These projects came in on time and slightly under budget, allowing for further allocations to address our most important capital budget needs. We secured six million dollars in tax-exempt financing, enabling us to complete the construction projects, invest in energy conservation measures, and address other important issues such as replacing roofs and boilers. The 2008 fiscal year was also the first since 2003 that we balanced our operating budget without any special allocation from the endowment. Several factors led to the balanced budget. We continued to increase enrollment and Photo by Sarah Barrett '08. manage the growth of student aid. Although we fell short of an ambitious goal for our annual fund, the shortfall was much less than the three hundred thousand dollars we had set aside as a revenue contingency. We also ended the year with net savings-as compared to our budget-at Beech Hill Farm, and with our dining service and student housing. Our total fund balances, or net worth, decreased slightly from $32.30 million to $32.21 million. Our funds invested in plant and equipment increased slightly to $13.35 million, but our endowment decreased from $20.00 million to $19.48 million. On staffing matters, we continued to have a low staff and faculty turnover rate. We filled the Sharpe-McNally Chair in Green and Sustainable Business, welcomed the arrival of a new dean of development, and filled three other vacancies in the development office. While this may seem like considerable change, the overall turnover of fulltime staff and faculty was well under 10 percent, a very low number. As we look to fiscal year 2009, we have been projecting a balanced budget while allotting funds to address many issues. With a generous gift toward salary and benefits, we will implement much needed salary increases for staff and faculty, improve the college pension plan and support augmented staff and faculty professional development. We will continue to allocate funds to meet our commitments to the environment and to reduce our carbon footprint. We have increased funds to address deferred maintenance and to pay for anticipated rises in fuel costs. We have also budgeted the additional cost of supporting the new buildings, which have greatly improved student life and have created a sense of excitement on campus. At this writing, we have not seen the impact of the international financial crisis, but we are closely monitoring the status of our endowment, annual giving patterns and, most importantly, the potential impact on our students and their ability to stay in school. Overall, faculty, staff and students seem extraordinarily dedicated and hard-working. The belief in our mission continues to be the glue that keeps the school vibrant. Andrew Griffiths Administrative Dean COA 51 ANNUAL REPORT Financial Operations Report (Excerpts from audited statements and rounded to nearest $1,000.) Operating Revenues FY 2006-2007 FY 2007-2008 Tuition and Fees 8,233,000 9,057,000 Contributions 2,618,000 2,868,000 Endowment Earnings and Transfers 744,000 662,000 Government and Other Grants 705,000 646,000 Dining and Housing 815,000 900,000 Summer Programs 511,000 601,000 Research and Special Projects 669,000 680,000 Other Sources* 325,000 347,000 Total Operating Revenues $14,820,000 $15,761,000 Operating Expenses Instruction and Student Activities 2,731,000 2,887,000 Library 229,000 241,000 Buildings and Grounds 678,000 791,000 Dining and Housing 598,000 533,000 Summer Programs 265,000 296,000 Dorr Museum and Blum Gallery 141,000 144,000 Beech Hill Farm 165,000 208,000 Financial Aid 5,523,000 5,565,000 General Administration 1,255,000 1,113,000 Payroll Taxes and Fringe Benefits 1,443,000 1,557,000 Institutional Advancement 953,000 1,128,000 Interest 98,000 74,000 Grants, Research Projects 1,000,000 778,000 Total Operating Expenses $15,079,000 $15,315,000 Operating Surplus, before fund transfers (259,000) 446,000 Transfers to/(from) plant and other funds* 265,000 (445,000) Surplus after transfers 6,000 1,000 Net Assets at June 30, 2008 Endowment 19,999,000 19,480,000 Plant 12,892,000 13,351,000 Operations and other funds (592,000) (617,000) Total Net Assets $32,299,000 $32,214,000 *Other sources include revenue from the sale of farm produce and miscellaneous sales and fees. *Interfund transfers include depreciation and write-off of property losses to plant fund. MAKE A DIFFERENCE. College of The Atlantic welcomes gifts of all kinds to support our work of educating students to make a difference throughout the world. Please consider including the college in your annual giving. Equally important, to ensure COA's future, consider becoming part of our planned giving program. Bequests, charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder trusts and other similar programs help the college while also offering you income tax benefits. Visit www.coa.edu/html/givetocoa or call the development office at 207-288-5015. 52 COA Annual Giving for fiscal year July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008. With deep gratitude and ANNUAL REPORT appreciation we acknowledge the generosity of our alumni, trustees, staff, faculty and friends. THE CHAMPLAIN SOCIETY DISCOVERER: $2,000-$4,999 EXPLORER: $1,500-$1,999 FOUNDER: $10,000+ Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Schofield Andrews III Anonymous American Arbitration Association Mr. and Mrs. John Anthony Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Bass Mr. Ron Beard Peter Neill and Mary Barnes Mr. Edward McC. Blair *Mrs. Sigrid Berwind Lynn Boulger and Tim Garrity Mr. and Mrs. Leslie C. Brewer/ ABL Mr. and Mrs. James G. Blaine Mr. Charles Butt Fund of the Maine Community Fnd. Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Blanchard III Susanna Porter and James M. Clark, Jr. T. A. Cox Mrs. Charlotte T. Bordeaux Mr. and Mrs. Tristram C. Colket, Jr. James Deering Danielson Foundation Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Shelby M.C. Davis Estate of Mrs. Amos Eno Mr. Frederick C. Cabot/ Paul & Mrs. F. Eugene Dixon, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David H. Fischer Virginia Cabot Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. William Dohmen Mr. and Mrs. James M. Garnett, Jr. Linda K. and John H. Carman/The Mr. and Mrs. George H. P. Dwight Mrs. Philip Geyelin Howard E. & Mildred Kyle Fund Mr. and Mrs. William Eacho III/ Mr. Samuel M. Hamill, Jr. Mrs. Bernard K. Cough The Eacho Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Melville Hodder Ms. Sally Crock Mrs. John J. Emery Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation Dead River Company Joel and Arline Epstein Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Kogod Mr. and Mrs. Philip DeNormandie Gordon Iver and Dorothy Brewer Mr. and Mrs. Peter Loring Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dickey, Jr. Erikson Fund of the Greater Worcester Ms. Casey Mallinckrodt Drs. Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis and Community Foundation Jay McNally '84 and Jennifer Reynolds Merton Flemings The First Mr. Roger Milliken Mr. Edwin N. Geissler ('75) Mr. David Fogg Rebecca and Steve Milliken Fr. James Gower Mr. and Mrs. Will Gardiner Mr. and Mrs. G. Marshall Moriarty Mr. and Mrs. Philip Grantham, Sr. Dr. and Mrs. Philip Geier Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. J. Moriarty Mr. and Mrs. Richard Habermann Mr. and Mrs. Jorgen H. Heidemann Mr. and Mrs. William V.P. Newlin Mr. and Mrs. George B. E. Hambleton Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hinckley Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Pierce Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Huber Richard Gordet and Sonja Johanson '95 James Dyke and Helen T. Porter Ms. Sherry F. Huber Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Johnson III Mr. and Mrs. George Putnam Mr. Peter Hunt/The Point Harbor Susan Lerner and Steven Katona Dr. Walter Robinson Fund of the Maine Community Fnd. Mr. Arthur J. Keller Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Robinson, Jr. Mr. Orton P. Jackson, Jr. Ms. Joanne S. Kemmerer '02 Rosengarten-Horowitz Fund Margi and Philip Kunhardt III '77 Mr. John L. Kemmerer III Ms. Abby Rowe ('98)/ Rowe Family Fnd. Mr. and Mrs. Clement E. McGillicuddy/ Mrs. Burks Lapham Peter and Lucy Bell Sellers The Fiddlehead Fund Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lipkin Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David E. Moore Machias Savings Bank Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Shorey, Jr. Dr. Frank Moya Ms. Pamela Manice ('77) Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Stewart Rev. Albert P. Neilson Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. McCoy Mrs. Donald B. Straus Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin R. Neilson Jon and Sarah McDaniel '93 Julia Merck and Hans Utsch Mr. and Mrs. Peter Nitze Mrs. Donald G. McLean Mr. and Mrs. William Wister, Jr./ Ms. Elizabeth F. Nixon Laura Ellis and David Milliken Margaret Dorrance Strawbridge Fnd. Mrs. William Norris Mr. and Mrs. Gerrish Milliken Dr. and Mrs. Richard N. Pierson Linzee Weld and Peter Milliken ('76) PATHFINDER: $5,000-$9,999 Dr. Richard G. Rockefeller Mr. and Mrs. A. Fenner Milton Mr. and Mrs. Louis Cabot Mr. and Mrs. William B. Russell Mr. and Mrs. Philip E. Moriarty II Estate of Mrs. Frederic E. Camp Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop Short Mr. and Mrs. William L. Neilson Ms. Barbara Danielson State Street Corporation Ms. Sandra Nowicki Diversified Communications Sweatt Foundation Ms. Whitney Wing Oppersdorff Mr. and Mrs. William G. Foulke, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. W. Nicholas Thorndike Ms. Judith S. Perkins Mr. and Mrs. Paul Growald Kathy Bonk and Marc S. Tucker Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson E. Peters Barbara McLeod and David F. Hales Jack Ledbetter and Helen Tyson Susan Erickson and Bruce Phillips '78 Mr. and Mrs. John N. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Christiaan Van Heerden Mr. and Mrs. Jay Pierrepont Mr. and Mrs. Grant G. McCullagh Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Weg Mrs. Eben W. Pyne Mr. and Mrs. I. Wistar Morris III/ Ms. Katherine Weinstock '81 Mrs. Dora L. Richardson The Cotswold Foundation Mr. Douglas Williams Mr. and Mrs. John R. Rivers Mr. and Mrs. William Osborn Mr. John Wilmerding Mrs. Walter M. Robinson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John P. Reeves Winky Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William M. Rudolf Mr. David Rockefeller Mr. David J. Witham Mr. and Mrs. W. Tom Sawyer Mr. and Mrs. Hartley Rogers Cynthia Livingston and Henry Schmelzer Mr. and Mrs. William N. Thorndike, Jr. Ms. Caren Sturges Ms. Pennell Whitney Rodman and Susan Ward Mr. and Mrs. Harold White III COA 53 ANNUAL REPORT ANNUAL FUND GIFTS: $1-$1,499 Ms. Teisha Broetzman '88 Mrs. William Drury Anonymous (five) Mr. and Mrs. Charles Burton Il Mr. Lawrence Duffy Acadia Senior College Mr. Jonathan Busko '07 E.L. Shea, Inc. Ms. Beverly Agler '81 Anne and Frank Cabot Mr. Alden Eaton Ms. Heather Albert-Knopp '99 Mr. Henry Cabot '97 Mrs. Kirstin Edelglass Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Alie Ms. Julie McLeod Cameron '78 Mr. Joseph Edes '83 Ms. M. Bernadette Alie '84 Ms. Heather Candon '99 Mr. David Emerson '81 Ms. Judith Allen Sarah and Oliver Carley '96 Ms. Mary Emerson Mr. William Allen '87 Donna Gold and William Carpenter Ms. Carol Emmons American Conservation Association Suzanne Taylor and Don Cass Dr. Richard Emmons '92 Richard and Heather Ames Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cawley Carol and Jackson Eno Arnold and Peggy Amstutz Mr. Erin Chalmers '00 Mrs. Bertha Erb Mrs. Diane Anderson Ms. Kim Cherry '94 Ms. Julie Erb '83 Mr. John Anderson Mr. David Chiang Mr. and Mrs. Charles Erhart Ms. Karin Anderson, PhD Ms. Sanae Chiba '94 John and Therese Erianne Mr. and Mrs. Stockton Andrews Ms. Taj Chibnik '95 Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Ervin Kristofer and Genevieve Angle '00 Dr. Sarah Chisholm-Stockard '86 Dr. and Mrs. William Evans Rev. and Mrs. Jonathan Appleyard Hannah S. Sistare and Timothy B. Clark Tony and Sarah Everdell Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Aronson Ms. Cecily Clark Ms. Lisa Farrar '90 Ms. Jennifer Atkinson '03 Mrs. Sarah Clark Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Fecho Atwater Kent Foundation, Inc. Ms. Katherine Clark '91 Sam and Elise Felton Wendy Knickerbocker and David Avery '84 Ann Clemens '96 Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Felton Ms. Lelania Prior Avila '92 James and Dorothy Clunan Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fernald Ms. Jennifer Aylesworth '94 Jan Coates Cynthia Jordan Fisher '80 Mr. Alan L. Baker Ms. Tammis Coffin '87 Mr. Thomas Fisher '77 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Baker Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Cohen John and Marie Fitzgerald Mr. Jeffrey Baker '77 Ms. Barbara Cole Mr. and Mrs. William M. G. Fletcher Bridgette Chace Kelly Ball Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman Mr. and Mrs. A. Irving Forbes Bar Harbor Lobster Bakes Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Colson Dr. and Mrs. Richard Fox Bar Harbor Savings & Loan Mr. Douglas Coots '83 Ms. Sarah Fraley Barbara Tennent and Steven Barkan Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Corkins Mr. and Mrs. W. West Frazier IV Mr. and Mrs. Edward Barnes Dick Atlee and Sarah Corson Ms. Susan Freed '80 Dr. and Mrs. Richard Barnhart Dr. and Mrs. Melville Cote Mary Jo Brill and Peter Freedman Mr. H. B. Beach Carolyn Gray and Gray Cox Gary and Glenon Friedmann '86 Allison Martin '88 and Elmer Beal, Jr. Ms. Judith Cox Ms. Allison Fundis '03 Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Beal, Sr. Ms. Elizabeth Coxe Mr. David Furholmen Ms. Marcia Becker Jennifer '93 and Kevin '93 Crandall Mr. Timothy Pierce Gale '87 Dr. and Mrs. Robert Beekman Mr. Jared Crawford '89 Mrs. Robert Gann Mr. William Beinecke Mr. Stefan Cushman Garden Club of Mount Desert Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Berlin Mrs. Rose Cutler Lois M. Gauthier Charitable Trust Jason Bernad, MD '94 Mr. and Mrs. William Daniel GE Foundation Mr. Eric Bernstorff '08 Mr. Arber Viktor Davidhi '04 Ms. Laurie Geiger Deodonne '06 and Ranjan '04 Bhattarai Ms. E. Nicole D'Avis '02 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen George Mr. John Biderman '77 Jane and Stan Davis Ms. Amy George-Olson '98 Ms. Janet Biondi '81 Ms. Julia Davis '03 Mr. Matthew Gerald '83 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bird Ms. Jaird De Raismes Ms. Anne Giardina Mr. and Mrs. Francis Blair Mr. John Deans '07 Ms. Lauren Gilson '88 Mr. Edward McC. Blair, Jr. Rev. and Mrs. Gary DeLong Drs. Alan and Wendy Gladstone Ms. Susan Thomas Blaisdell Mr. Robert DeSimone Dr. and Mrs. Donald Glotzer Hon. and Mrs. Robert Blake Ms. Holly Devaul '84 Mrs. Hope Goddard Mr. Jerry Bley Mrs. John Devlin Graham and Erin Goff '92 Ms. Edith Blomberg Mr. Robert Dick Gerda Paumgarten and Larry Goldfarb Mr. and Mrs. John R. H. Blum/ The Mr. and Mrs. S. Whitney Dickey/ Mr. and Mrs. Alan Goldstein/ Berkshire Taconic Community Fnd. Hardy Hill Fund of the New Ocean Reef Foundation Sharon Teitelbaum and Jonathan Bockian Hampshire Charitable Foundation Mrs. Laura Arm Goldstein Patricia Honea-Fleming and Richard Borden George and Kelly Dickson, MPhil '97 Mr. and Mrs. John Good Mr. Dennis Bracale '88 Prof. and Mrs. Arthur Dole Marie Malin '01 and Tony and Milja Brecher-DeMuro Mr. Stephen Dolley M. Wing Goodale, MPhil '01 Ms. Virginia Brennan Janet Anker and Charles Donnelly Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goodman Judith Tharinger and Daniel Breslaw Wendy and Michael Downey Ms. Diane Gordon 54 COA ANNUAL REPORT Ms. Elizabeth Gorer Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huntington Mrs. Oliver Lowry Nina '78 and Jonathan '78 Gormley Ms. Anna Hurwitz '84 Ms. Sarah Luke Dr. and Mrs. Robert Gossart Mr. and Mrs. John Inch, Jr. Mr.and Mrs. Lewis Lukens Mr. and Mrs. John Gower Ms. Susan Inches '79 Ms. Andrea Lynn '90 Mr. P. Heeth Grantham '94 Mr. and Mrs. R. Duane Iselin Mr. James MacLeod Mr. Samuel P. M. Gray Mr. and Mrs. David Jacks Achtenberg Michael Mahan Graphics Graycote Inn Mr. John Jacob '81 Meg and Miles Maiden '86 Ms. Linda Gregory '89 Ms. Jodi Lyn Jacobs '06 Maine Community Foundation Ms. Mary Griffin '97 Jennifer and Michael Jancovic '96 Mr. David Malakoff '86 Susan Dowling and Andrew Griffiths Ms. Patricia Jennings Col. and Mrs. Robert Mangum Mr. Jay Guarneri '06 Ms. Catherine Johnson '74 Ms. Christine Manzey Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gumpert Mrs. Rosa Marie Johnson Mr. and Mrs. George Marcus Ms. Elizabeth Gustavson '94 Ms. Eliana Johnston '06 Ms. Sandra Marr Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Guttentag Ms. Leslie Jones '91 Rob Marshall '87 Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Hailperin Mr. and Mrs. William Jordan Mr. Erik Hilson Martin '98 Mr. Max Hall Jordan-Fernald Ms. Kathleen Massimini '82 Ms. Briana Hall-Harvey '02 Mr. and Mrs. H. Lee Judd Mrs. Anne Mazlish Mr. Christopher Hamilton '85 Ann Sewall and Edward Kaelber Mr. and Mrs. Francis McAdoo Stephen Sternbach and Lisa B. Hammer '91 Laura Fisher and Michael B. Kaiser '85 Mr. William McDowell '80 Mr. and Mrs. John Michael Hancock Mr. and Mrs. William Kales Mrs. John McGrath Ms. M. Rebecca Hancock '97 Mr. and Mrs. David Kane Mr. J. R. McGregor Ms. Mary Harney '96 Steve and Ali Kassels Suzanne Durrell and lan Scott Mclsaac '76 Mrs. Nancy Harris Bob and Ellie Kates Mr. Donald K. McNeil Mrs. Penelope Harris Mr. John Kauffmann Ms. Gabrian McPhail '97 Mr. Tanner Brook Harris '06 Mr. John Kebler Mr. Clifton McPherson III '84 Ms. Holly Hartley Dr. James Kellam '96 Ms. Jeanne McPherson Ann and John Hassett Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Keller Mr. and Mrs. Robert Meade Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hatfield Il Mr. and Mrs. James Kellogg Mrs. Jean Messex Ms. Anne Hawley Mr and Mrs. Leslie Kelly Ms. Pamela Meyer Ms. Barbara Hazard Kent-Lucas Foundation, Inc. Mr. Jeffrey Miller '92 Ms. Katherine Hazard '76 Mr. David Kessner Mr. and Mrs. Keith Miller Ms. Mary Heffernon Lorraine Stratis and Carl Ketchum Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Miller Jeffrey Jones and Lisa Heimann The Kiel Family Sen. and Mrs. George Mitchell Kate Russell Henry and Eric Henry Mr. and Mrs. Neil King Mr. Frank Mocejunas Julia Moore and John Herron, Jr. Bethany and Zack ('05) Klyver Edna Martin and Eddie Monat '88 Dr. Josephine Todrank Heth '76 Ms. Barbara Knowles Ms. Penelope More Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hewett The Knowles Company Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Morgenstern Barbarina '88 and Aaron '87 Heyerdahl/ Mr. and Mrs. S. Lee Kohrman Mrs. Lorraine Morong Seventh Generation Fund of the Maine Ms. Anne Kozak Rachel '00 and Brenden '98 Moses Community Foundation Mr. Scott Kraus '77 Diane Blum and Robert Motzkin Ms. Barbara Hilli Mrs. Philip Kunhardt, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Moyer Tom and Daphne Hinchcliffe Dr. Barbara Kent Lawrence Dr. Victoria Murphy Sam and Kendra Hodder Lucille Aptekar and Gerald Leader Kimberly Austin Nathane '04 Mr. Juan Hoffmaister '07 Kathryn Harmon '94 and Rob Ledo '91 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nathane, Jr. Ms. Margaret Hoffman '97 Barbara Lee Family Foundation Rolando and Alexandra Negoita Ms. Amy Hoffmaster '06 Dr. and Mrs. Leung Lee Mr. and Mrs. Robert Neuman Ms. Noreen Hogan '91 Ms. Alice Leeds '76 Ms. Elinor Newman '87 Tom and Eduarta Holl '05 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Leisenring Tammy McGrath '97 and Philip Nicholas '98 Mr. and Mrs. David Hollenbeck Mrs. Susan Shaw Leiter Mrs. A. Corkran Nimick Homewood Benefits Ms. Caroline Leonard '01 Mrs. Marie Nolf Mrs. Mark Hopkins Dr. Eugene Lesser '78 Mr. Thupten Norbu '06 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoppin Ms. Mary Levanti-Cuellar Merideth C. Norris, D.O. and Family Dr. and Mrs. William Horner Mr. James Lindenthal Northrop Grumman Foundation Robert and Flavia Horth Ms. Mary Lindsay Ms. Kendra Noyes Miller '01 Horton, McFarland & Veysey Peg Beaulac and Carl Little Mrs. Elizabeth Higgins Null Mr. and Mrs. Winchester Hotchkiss Ms. Abigail Littlefield '83 Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Nyhart Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hubbard Dr. John Long, Jr. '86 Ms. Hope Olmstead Ms. Sarah F. Hudson Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Longsworth Hannah and Judd Olshan '92 Ms. Jennifer Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lord Mr. and Mrs. Tollef Olson Ms. Jane Hultberg Mr. and Mrs. William Lord Il Mr. W. Kent Olson COA 55 ANNUAL REPORT Mr. Benoni Outerbridge '84 Tom and Susanna Meade Schindler Verizon Foundation Jim and Suzanne Owen Ms. Chrystal Schreck '03 Ms. Anne Vernon Ms. Kaitlin Palmer '08 Ms. Ellen Seh Mr. John Viele Mr. Peter Papesch, AIA Mr. and Mrs. Roland Seymour Elizabeth and Thomas Volkmann '90 Ms. Sarah Pappenheimer Mr. Samuel Shaw Ms. Anna Waddell '99 Ms. Pamela Parvin '93 Mrs. Margaret Sheldon Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha Wade Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Patrie Mr. and Mrs. John Grace Shethar Richard Hilliard and Karen Waldron Mr. Robert Patterson, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Shubert Stacy Hankin and Benjamin Walters '81 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Paul Ms. Carol Silverman Mr. and Mrs. Burt Wartell Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Peabody Ms. Fae Silverman '03/ The Little Elf Fund Alexis '93 and Patrick '93 Watson Mrs. Stephen Pearson Lilea '90 and Richard '88 Simis Mrs. Cecile Watson Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pennington Mr. Mark Simonds '81 Ms. Joan Weber Ms. Margaret Pennock '84 John and Fran Sims Mrs. Constance Weeks Toby Stephenson '98 and Andrea Perry '95 Ms. Susanne Slayton Diane Metzger and Edward Weisberg Shoshana Perry '83 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Smith Jean McHugh Weiss '81 Mr. Gordon Peters Victor Amarilla '06 and Carolyn Snell '06 Bradford and Alice Wellman Stowe C. and Charlton Y. Phelps Fnd. Mr. Mark Snowden Mr. and Mrs. David West Ms. Susan Pierce Mr. and Mrs. R. Charles Snyder Mrs. Joan Whitehill Mr. and Mrs. Edward Pinkham Ms. Harriet Soares Ms. Grace Whitman Thomas and Patricia Pinkham Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Soloway Raymond and Laurie Williams Ms. Melissa Pinney '01 Mr. and Mrs. Philip Soosloff, Jr. Williams Family Foundation Ms. Carole Plenty Ms. Erin Soucy '07 Ms. Nellie Wilson '04 Jean Fleming and Arthur Posey Ms. Kyra Sparrow-Pepin Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Witt Ms. Eleanor Powers Wendy and Leonard Spector Ms. Susan Woehrlin '80 Mr. and Mrs. Ben G. M. Priest Mrs. June Spencer Richard Bullock and Carol Woolman The Prospect Hill Foundation Ms. Sarah Spruce '07 Rick and Wanda Wright Mr. Charles Provonchee Ms. Linda St. Onge Leis '80 Deborah Wunderman '89 Mr. and Mrs. Hector Prud'homme Lynne and Mike Staggs '97 Ms. Jingran Xiao Ms. Kipp Quinby '07 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Stedman John Mahoney and Sara Yasner '95 Dr. Nishanta Rajakaruna '94 Mr. John Steele Mrs. George Younger Ms. Cathy Ramsdell '78 Ms. Lisa Stewart Mr. and Mrs. Louis Zawislak Robin and David Ray Ms. Marion Stocking Mr. Fred Zerega Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Rea Ms. Dorie Stolley '88 Mrs. Jane Zirnkilton Carolyn Reeb-Whitaker '92 Ms. Florence Stone Ms. Rebecca Renaud Mr. Bradford Straus GIFTS IN MEMORIAM Mr. Andrew Rice Dr. and Mrs. Sidney Strickland For Esperance Anderson Stephen and Emmie Rick Ms. Silvija Strikis Mr. John K. Anderson Ms. Andrea Roberto '92 Susan Shaw and Cynthia Stroud For Sigrid Berwind Mr. and Mrs. Owen Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sullivan James Dyke and Helen Porter Drs. Paul and Ann Rochmis Mrs. Robert Suminsby Dr. Jennifer Rock '93 Stuart Dickey Summer '82 For Alice Stewart Partee Eno Dr. and Mrs. Steven Rockefeller Dr. Douglas Sward '96 Ms. Barbara Danielson Hilda and Thomas Roderick Mr. Gilbert Sward George and Kelly Dickson, MPhil '97 Ronald and Patricia Rogers Mr. Jeffrey Swersky Mr. and Mrs. David E. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Rosenfeld Jasmine Renee Tanguay '98 Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Sullivan Ms. Gail Rosenkrantz Dr. Davis Taylor For William C. Foulke, Sr. Drs. Stephen and Pamela Ross Katrin Hyman Tchana '83 Mr. and Mrs. William V.P. Newlin Mr. and Mrs. Max Rothal Ms. Karla Tegzes The Combs Family Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rothstein Tracey Anne Teuber '98 Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. William Russell Mr. and Mrs. John Thorndike Ms. J. Paige Rutherford '06 Ms. Ellen Reid Thurman For Lois Gauthier Cedar Bough Saeji '93 Sean and Carolyn Todd Lois M. Gauthier Charitable Trust Ms. Blakeney Sanford '02 T. Michael Toole For Philip L. Geyelin Mr. Daniel Sangeap '90 Ms. Kristen A. Tubman '03 George and Kelly Dickson, MPhil '97 Ms. Barbara Sassaman '78 Elena Tuhy-Walters '90 and Carl Walters Mr. and Mrs. G. David Savidge Mr. Frank Twohill '80 For Irving Gold Mr. and Mrs. John Schafer Donna Gold and Bill Carpenter Patrick and Mary Ann Tynan Ms. Margaret Scheid '85 Mr. and Mrs. David Vail Mr. and Mrs. Fred Scheiner Mr. John Van Dewater Ms. Judith Schenk '80 Ms. Katrina Van Dusen 56 COA ANNUAL REPORT For Hamilton Gray Gerald and Tami Cayer Evelyn Mae Hurwich '80 Mr. David Congalton Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Dommermuth Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Kogod Col. and Mrs. Robert A. Mangum Mr. and Mrs. Ron Duplisea Jon and Sarah McDaniel '93 Mr. and Mrs. David West Jonathan and Wendy Hallenbeck Mr. and Mrs. Gerrish Milliken Mr. Michael Kattner '95 Dr. and Mrs. Richard N. Pierson For Tom Hall Ms. Elizabeth Leonard Mrs. Oliver H. Lowry For Julie Pancoe Doug and Alma Matthieu For Daniel H. Kane, Jr. Shoshana Perry '83 Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ogden Mr. and Mrs. David H. Kane Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ponitz For Helen Porter and Jim Dyke Mr. Ryan Ruggiero '96 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davis For Dr. Edward J. Meade, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Meade Ms. Julie Shores Richard and Susan Sims Smith Ms. Michelle Smallman '95 For Dr. Walter M. Robinson III For Alice Caldwell Porter Ms. Karen Stubbs Lynn Boulger and Tim Garrity Mrs. Walter M. Robinson, Jr. The Village Inn Mr. and Mrs. William G. Foulke, Jr. Susan and Daniel Walters For Doug Rose For Donald B. Straus Dr. Douglas Sward '96 American Arbitration Assoc. GIFTS IN HONORARIUM For Fae Jolie-ge Silverman Ms. Marcia D. Becker For Ashley Adler Ms. Carol Silverman Mr. William S. Beinecke Ms. Diane Gordon For Marie Stivers Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Blanchard III For Edward McC. Blair Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. John R. H. Blum/ The Mr. Edward McC. Blair, Jr. Berkshire Taconic Community Fnd. For Bruce Tripp Ms. Pamela G. Meyer Anne and Frank Cabot Anonymous Ms. Elizabeth Coxe For Lynn Boulger Ms. Mary Emerson Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Hatfield Il MATCHING GIFTS Mr. Samuel P. M. Gray Merideth C. Norris, D.O. and Family Biogen Idec Foundation Ms. Anne Hawley For Lynn Boulger and Tim Garrity The Boeing Company Julia Moore and John Herron, Jr. Donna Gold and Bill Carpenter Fidelity Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hubbard Jennifer Hughes Freeport-McMoRan Foundation Mr. and Mrs. David Jacks Achtenberg GE Foundation For Leslie C. Brewer Lucille Aptekar and Gerald C. Leader Johnson & Johnson Matching Gifts Program Barbara Lee Family Foundation Rev. and Mrs. Jonathan Appleyard Morgan Stanley Ms. Mary Lindsay Gordon Iver and Dorothy Brewer Northrop Grumman Foundation Erikson Fund of the Greater Worcester Mr. and Mrs. Francis A. McAdoo The Prospect Hill Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Miller Community Foundation Verizon Foundation Ms. Penelope S. More For Colin Capers Wellington Management Company, LLP Stowe C. and Charlton Y. Phelps Fnd. Ms. Mary Heffernon The Prospect Hill Foundation THORNDIKE LIBRARY For JoAnne Carpenter Ms. Florence Stone The Camden Conference Ms. Abigail Goodyear '81 Mr. Bradford P. Straus Mr. John Deans '07 Margaret Dorrance Strawbridge For Cherie Ford Carol '93 and Jacob '93 Null Foundation of Pennsylvania Anonymous Dr. Karen E. Waldron Mr. Jeffrey Swersky For William G. Foulke, Jr. GEORGE B. DORR MUSEUM OF For Etel Thomas Dr. and Mrs. Philip Geier NATURAL HISTORY *Mrs. Sigrid Berwind For Samuel M. Hamill, Jr. Dorr Foundation Mr. Peter P. Papesch, AIA Mr. Ron Beard Mr. and Mrs. John Guth For Etel and Joseph (Tommy) Thomas Mr. and Mrs. William G. Foulke, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George B. E. Hambleton Ms. Sarah Fraley Ms. Sherry F. Huber Institute of Museum and Library Services Mr. and Mrs. John N. Kelly Mrs. Anne A. Mazlish For Joseph (Tommy) Thomas Margi and Philip Kunhardt III '77 Mr. and Mrs. Gerrish Milliken Ms. Jaird De Raismes Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. J. Moriarty Ms. Helen Porter and Mr. James Dyke For Elizabeth Thorndike Mr. and Mrs. William V.P. Newlin Peter and Lucy Bell Sellers Tom and Susanna Meade Schindler Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Robinson, Jr. For Mr. and Mrs. R. Amory Thorndike Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Shorey, Jr. SUMMER FIELD STUDIES PROGRAM Mr. and Mrs. Christiaan Van Heerden Mr. and Mrs. W. Nicholas Thorndike Ms. Tamara Bannerman For Steven K. Katona CFC of Maine For Jesse Tucker '95 Nancie Atwell and Dugald McLeod Dr. and Mrs. John Anderson Ethan Foote and Susan Dickey Dan Bookham and Jessie Davis '00 Mr. and Mrs. Philip Grantham, Sr./ Dr. David Painter and Dr. Mary Dudzik Curtis Hall Foundation Mr. Matthew Gerald '83 Donald and Patricia Bassett COA 57 ANNUAL REPORT Harry Dietz III and Ada Hamosh Moving Image Fund Award Peter and Lucy Bell Sellers Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hill LEF Foundation Ms. Julie Shores Dr. and Mrs. Mark Kandutsch Ms. Michelle Smallman '95 Supporting Early Success in College Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Libby Richard and Susan Sims Smith MELMAC Education Foundation Ms. Stacey Mason Estate of Henry and Priscilla Smith Ms. Joann Mendl Maine Sea Grant Program Ms. Karen Stubbs Mr. and Mrs. Michael Modeen University of Maine Sea Grant Program The Village Inn Mr. and Mrs. Steve Moore Seabird Census Susan and Daniel Walters Mr. Paul Girdzis and Acadia Partners for Science and Learning Turrets Seaside Garden Ms. Adrienne Paiewonsky Biomechanics Workshop Garden Club of Mount Desert Mr. David Rockefeller Mr. Michael Ross Maine Space Grant Consortium Kathryn W. Davis Student Paul Richardson and Marisela Santiago Title VI - Doing Human Ecology in Residence Village Ruth Cserr and Robert Savell Global Context The Combs Family Joel Graber and Lindsay Shopland US Department of Education Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Cushman Susan and Ronald Smith Ms. Sherry Huber Ms. Frances Stehman Osmoregulation Project Jon and Sarah McDaniel '93 Illinois State University Ann Dundon and Prentice Strong III Rebecca and Steve Milliken Dan Thomassen and Bonnie Tai Applied Ecology Project Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Neilson Tapley's Convenience & Grill Maine Space Grant Consortium Mrs. Donald Straus Drs. John and Mary Telsey Deering Common Community Center Lucy Hodder and Robert Thompson INDIVIDUAL GIFTS TO SPECIAL Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Mr. and Mrs. William Thorndike, Jr. PROJECTS James Deering Danielson Foundation Dugald McLeod and Nancie Atwell Davis Family Foundation BEECH HILL FARM Donald and Patricia Bassett Mr. John Kauffmann *Mrs. Sigrid Berwind *Mrs. Sigrid Berwind Machias Savings Bank Nina Goldman and Douglas Legg Mr. Edward McC. Blair Ms. Casey Mallinckrodt Gerald and Tami Cayer Drury Memorial Research Library Rebecca and Steve Milliken Dan Bookham and Jessie Davis '00 Mrs. Hope Goddard The Partridge Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davis Presidents' Climate Commitment Mr. and Mrs. Shelby M.C. Davis Henry P. Kendall Foundation SCHOLARSHIP GIFTS Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Dommermuth Union River Watershed Coalition Mr. and Mrs. Shelby M. C. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Ron Duplisea Davis United World College Scholars Prg. Estate of Mrs. Amos Eno Ms. Nancy Alexander Dr. and Mrs. Robert Beekman Lois M. Gauthier Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. William G. Foulke, Jr. Mr. Kenneth Cline Estate of Henry and Elizabeth Guthrie French American Cultural Exchange Ms. Donna Davis The Agnes M. Lindsay Trust Douglas Legg and Nina M. Goldman Drs. Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis Maine Community Foundation Susan Dowling and Andrew Griffiths Maine Space Grant Consortium Mr. and Mrs. John Guth and Merton Flemings Ms. Helen Geils Mr. Charles Merrill, Jr. Jonathan and Wendy Hallenbeck Mr. and Mrs. Melville Hodder Thomas Ramey and Perrin Ireland Sidney Stern Memorial Trust Ms. Tonia Kittelson Mr. Michael Kattner '95 Richard and Norah Davis Mr. and Mrs. Ted Koffman Scholarship Fund Keuhlthau Family Foundation Ms. Elizabeth Leonard Ms. Carol Tweedie Korty Ms. Norah Davis Valerie and Tobin Peacock '95 Maine Community Foundation Rebecca Clark '96 Memorial Mr. James Pendleton Ms. Casey Mallinckrodt Scholarship Fund Mr. Gordon Peters Maney Publishing Mr. Kenneth Cline Maryland Native Plant Society Ms. Janet Plotkin Ms. Sally Crock Ms. Bonnie Preston Doug and Alma Matthieu Rebecca and Steve Milliken Jane Rosinski and Gordon Russell Sidney and Hazel Bahrt Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Smith Scholarship Fund Mr. and Mrs. Philip S.J. Moriarty Estate of Sidney and Hazel Bahrt Mr. and Mrs. William V.P. Newlin Ms. Martha Spiess Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ogden State of Maine Treasury Department GRANTS FOR SPECIAL PROJECTS Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Eliot Paine Steven and Cecily Wardell Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Wardell Comprehensive Academic Management Mr. Andrew Peterson System (CAMS) Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Pierce GIFTS TO THE SENIOR CLASS Davis Educational Foundation Mr. Shiva Polefka '01 Chris Aaront '08 Martha and Donald Ponitz IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Robinson, Jr. Sean Berg '08 and Heather Nazarewicz '08 Excellence (INBRE) Mr. Ryan Ruggiero '96 Chandra Bisberg '08 National Center for Research Resources, NIH Lynn Boulger and Tim Garrity 58 COA ANNUAL REPORT Melody Marie Brimmer '08 Rachel Carson Chair in Dawn and Gerald Freeman Donna Gold and Bill Carpenter Human Ecology Maggine and Matthew Fuentes Barbara and Vinson Carter Peter and Lucy Bell Sellers Mr. Matthew Fujinaka Ms. Judith Cox Dara Gall Philip L. Geyelin Fund in Elizabeth Danylevich '08 Ms. Carla Ganiel Government and Polity Zinaida Dedeic '08 Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Garcia Mrs. Philip Geyelin Leah Erlbaum '08 Ms Michele Gates Melissa Gates '08 Russell Wiggins Chair in Prof Walter Gerolamo Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Hill Government and Polity Ms. Cali Elizabeth Geyer Ms. Jennifer Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Robert Estabrook Mrs. Kimberly Gillis Natalia Ilyashenko '08 Mr. Walter Goodnow Katarina Jurikova '08 GIFTS TO ALLIED WHALE Dr. Gutman Ashlesha Khadse '08 Acadia Property Corp. Barbara McLeod and David Hales Lombe Simon James Lojogo '08 Mr. Rick Alexander Ms. Tracy Hallett Ms. Sarah Luke Ms. Cindy Allen Harrison Middle School Jay McNally '84 and Jennifer Reynolds Mr. Christopher Anderson Andrea and Richard Henriques Ms. Anna Murphy Ms. Paulette Arel Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hickman III Kayla Pease '08 Mr. Allen Baldwin Mr. Dave Hills Kate Sheely '07 Bar Harbor Whale Watch Ms. Sue Hubbell Amanda Spector '08 Barbara Tennent and Steven Barkan Ms. Lori Hutton Sarah Steinberg '07 Mr. and Mrs. Steven Barrows Melissa and Jeffrey Ingalls Christiana Swanson '08 Ms. Mary Lee Bayne International Whaling Commission Megan Tate '08 Ms. Carol Bellman Mr. Kevin Kelly Hua Wang '04 Mr. Ricardo Bellon Killingly Public Schools Darcy Allyn Whitten '07 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bennett Ms. Eileen Kimmich Mary Wildfeuer '08 Barry and Judith Bermudez Ms. Martha King Jayasimha Murthy and Shikha Bharaktiya Mr. Ronald King GIFTS TO THE ENDOWMENT Mr. Edward McC. Blair Dylan and Mitch Kinsella Alden General Endowment Ms. Janet Blair Ms. Suzanne Julian Kirchner John and Karen Anderson The Boeing Company Ms. Johanna Lane Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Thomas IV Tim Garrity and Lynn Boulger Mr. Michael Lasser Ms. Hua Wang '04 Mr. Robert Bowman Martin and Jacqueline Leiter Ms. Dashanda Bringelson Linda and Richard Lewis Beth and Donald Straus Bucksport Middle School Innovator Award Mr. Wallace Lovejoy Ms. Alicja Burns Mrs. Donald Straus Ms. Laura Lyell Mira and Bruce Busko Mr. and Mrs. William Lyons President's Discretionary Benefit and Ms. Erika Butler Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Maass Compensation Fund Ms. Linda Cadran Mr. Jeffrey Mabee Ms. Maria Lis Baiocchi '07 Ms. Barbara Capener Ernest and Charlene Machia, Jr. Mr. Samuel Hamill, Jr. Ms Kathryn Carrier Maine Coast Sea Vegetables Dr. James Kellam '96 Ms. Sandra Cleary Maine Community Foundation William Drury Research Fund Ms. Margareta Colmore Marisla Foundation Ms. Doris Combs Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goelet Marlton Elementary School Dr. Ellen Spain Mr. David Congalton Richard Gillam and Gale McCullough C. Christopher and Sandra Connelly Ms. Kathleen McGlinchey Craig Greene Memorial Fund Dick Atlee and Sarah Corson Ms. Susan McGuinness John and Karen Anderson Mrs. Joanne Crawford Ms. Leanne McNeely Allison Martin '88 and Elmer Beal, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. J. Staige Davis Ms. Lesa Miller Steven K. Katona Chair in Ms. Sarah Dehler Ms. Aimee Moffit-Mercer Marine Studies Mr. and Mrs. A. Edward Dragon Ms. Adela Montoya John and Karen Anderson Ms. Tamara Duff Shawn Meyer Nabors Evelyn Mae Hurwich '80 Melissa and Eric Eckstein Ms. Tracy Nichols Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Kogod Mr. David Edson Ms. Jennifer Onufer Jon and Sarah McDaniel '93 Edward and Elisabeth Emblom Norman and Dorothy Ouellette Mr. and Mrs. Gerrish Milliken Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Enstrom Ms. Cynthia Perkins Cynthia Livingston and Mr. Thomas Fernald, Jr. '91 Ms. Marjory Quin Henry L. P. Schmelzer Ms. Cheryl Figg Ms. Jill Raymond The Woodcock P. Foundation Fisheries and Oceans Canada Maple John Razsa Ms. Ann Marie Fogarty Mr. Philip Reidy Franklin Historical Society Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Reynolds COA 59 ANNUAL REPORT Ms. Kathy Reynolds Mr. Juan Hoffmaister '07 Ms. Elizabeth Danylevich '08 Ms. Lois Rhea Ms. Noreen Hogan '91 Mr. Arber Viktor Davidhi '04 Ms. Amy Riddell Mr. Nathaniel Keller '04 Ms. E. Nicole D'Avis '02 Ms. Dianna Rine Mr. Tom Lawrence Dan Bookham and Jessie Davis '00 Mr. Mark Rioux Mr. Michael Martin-Zboray '95 Ms. Julia Davis '03 Mr. Steven Roberti, Sr. Mr. Doug Michael Mr. John Deans '07 Mr. Patrick Rocco Edna Martin and Eddie Monet '88 Ms. Zinaida Dedeic '08 Ms. Abby Rowe ('98)/ The Rowe Ms. Cynthia Ocel Ms. Holly Devaul '84 Family Foundation Ms. Linda Parker/ Mount Desert Island George and Kelly Dickson, MPhil '97 Ms. Tana Scott Ice Cream Mr. Nikhit D'Sa '06 Ms. Lauren Smith Mr. Adam Rabasca Mr. Alden Eaton (SP) Mrs. Kathleen Sparkes Mr. Santiago Salinas '05 Mrs. Kirstin Edelglass ('92) Ms. Pamela St. Onge Ms. Kerri Sands '02 Mr. Joseph Edes '83 Ms. Sharon Staz Ms. Janis Strout Mr. David Emerson '81 Melissa and Paul Steen Dr. Richard Emmons '92 Doug Sulzarulo SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR Ms. Julie Erb '83 Ms. Bette Swanton '88 ALUMNI DONORS Ms. Leah Erlbaum '08 Ted and Ellen Swirsky Mr. Chris Aaront '08 Ms. Lisa Farrar '90 Ms. Marlene Tallent Ms. Beverly Agler '81 Mr. Thomas Fernald, Jr. '91 United States Department of Commerce Ms. Heather Albert-Knopp '99 Mr. Gabriel Finkelstein '07 Mr. Christopher Wells Ms. M. Bernadette Alie '84 Ms. Cynthia Jordan Fisher '80 Ms. Barbara Wheelock Mr. William Allen '87 Mr. Thomas Fisher '77 Mr. and Mrs. William Whitener Ms. Wendy Anderson ('81) Ms. Susan Freed '80 Mr. James Willard Ms. Karin Anderson, PhD ('83) Ms. Katie Freedman '05 Erin Willett Kristofer and Genevieve Angle '00 Gary and Glenon Friedmann '86 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Williams Ms. Jennifer Atkinson '03 Ms. Allison Fundis '03 Mrs. Meredith Wilson Wendy Knickerbocker and David Avery '84 Mr. Timothy Pierce Gale '87 Ms. Maribeth Ann Wolff Ms. Lelania Prior Avila '92 Ms Melissa Gates '08 Ms. Suzanne Woo Ms. Jennifer Aylesworth '94 Ms. Laurie Geiger (SP) Ms. Angela Wunderle Ms. Maria Lis Baiocchi '07 Mr. Edwin Geissler ('75) Ms. Tara Zahn Mr. Jeffrey Baker '77 Ms. Amy George-Olson '98 Heather Nazarewicz '08 and Sean Berg '08 Mr. Matthew Gerald '83 GIFTS IN KIND Jason Bernad, MD '94 Ms. Lauren Gilson '88 Atlantic Oakes-by-the-Sea Mr. Eric Bernstorff '08 Ms. Jessica Glynn '06 Bowden Marine Service Deodonne '06 and Ranjan '04 Bhattarai Graham and Erin Goff '92 Mr. Paul Douglas Mr. John Biderman '77 Mrs. Laura Arm Goldstein (SP) Ms. Abigail Goodyear '81 Ms. Janet Biondi '81 Marie Malin '01 and Ms. Laura Lyell Ms. Chandra Bisberg '08 M. Wing Goodale, MPhil '01 Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. J. Moriarty Mr. Jerry Bley ('78) Ms. Abigail Goodyear '81 Dr. Frank Moya Ms. Sally Boisvert '04 Nina '78 and Jonathan '78 Gormley Mr. Norman Nadel Mr. Dennis Bracale '88 Mr. P. Heeth Grantham '94 Ms. Linda Robinson Ms. Melody Marie Brimmer '08 Ms. Linda Gregory '89 Ms. Teisha Broetzman '88 Ms. Mary Griffin '97 GIFTS OF TIME AND TALENT Mr. Jonathan Busko '07 Mr. Jay Guarneri '06 Mr. Rick Barter Mr. Henry Cabot '97 Ms. Elizabeth Gustavson '94 The Bayview Ms. Julie McLeod Cameron '78 Ms. Briana Hall-Harvey '02 Ms. Raney Bench Ms. Heather Candon '99 Mr. Christopher Hamilton '85 Ms. Pamela Bush Sarah and Oliver Carley '96 Stephen Sternbach and Lisa B. Hammer '91 Ms. Dominique Clark Mr. Erin Chalmers '00 Ms. M. Rebecca Hancock '97 Mr. Jim Coffman Ms. Kim Cherry '94 Ms. Mary Harney '96 Mr. Darron Collins '92 Ms. Sanae Chiba '94 Mr. Tanner Brook Harris '06 Mr. Brian Cote Ms. Taj Chibnik '95 Ms. Katherine Hazard '76 Mr. Nikhit D'Sa '06 Dr. Sarah Chisholm-Stockard '86 Kate Russell Henry and Eric Henry ('74) Edenbrook Motel Ms. Katherine Clark '91 Dr. Josephine Todrank Heth '76 Mr. Gabriel Finkelstein '07 Ms. Ann Clemens '96 Barbarina '88 and Aaron '87 Heyerdahl Ms. Katie Freedman '05 Ms. Tammis Coffin '87 Mr. Juan Hoffmaister '07 Mr. Jon Geiger Mr. Darron Collins '92 Ms. Margaret Hoffman '97 Ms. Jessica Glynn '06 Mr. Douglas Coots '83 Ms. Amy Hoffmaster '06 Mr. Don Grieco Jennifer '93 and Kevin '93 Crandall Ms. Noreen Hogan '91 Ms. Susan Hersey Mr. Jared Crawford '89 Tom and Eduarta Holl '05 60 COA ANNUAL REPORT Ms. Evelyn Mae Hurwich '80 Ms. Jeanne McPherson (SP) Ms. Erin Soucy '07 Ms. Anna Hurwitz '84 Mr. Jeffrey Miller '92 Ms. Amanda Spector '08 Ms. Natalia Ilyashenko '08 Linzee Weld and Peter Milliken ('76) Ms. Sarah Spruce '07 Ms. Susan Inches '79 Edna Martin and Eddie Monat '88 Ms. Linda St. Onge Leis '80 Mr. John Jacob '81 Rachel '00 and Brenden '98 Moses Lynne and Mike Staggs '97 Ms. Jodi Lyn Jacobs '06 Ms. Kimberly Austin Nathane '04 Mr. John Steele (SP) Jennifer and Michael Jancovic '96 Ms. Elinor Newman '87 Ms. Sarah Steinberg '07 Mr. Peter Jeffery '84 Tammy McGrath '97 and Ms. Dorie Stolley '88 Ms. Patricia Jennings (SP) Philip Nicholas '98 Mr. Stuart Dickey Summer '82 Richard Gordet and Sonja Johanson '95 Mr. Thupten Norbu '06 Ms. Christiana Swanson '08 Ms. Catherine Johnson '74 Ms. Kendra Noyes Miller '01 Ms. Bette Swanton '88 Ms. Eliana Johnston '06 Carol '93 and Jacob '93 Null Dr. Douglas Sward '96 Ms. Leslie Jones '91 Hannah and Judd Olshan '92 Ms. Jasmine Renee Tanguay '98 Ms. Katarina Jurikova '08 Mr. Benoni Outerbridge '84 Ms. Megan Tate '08 Laura Fisher and Michael B. Kaiser '85 Ms. Kaitlin Palmer '08 Ms. Katrin Hyman Tchana '83 Mr. Michael Kattner '95 Ms. Pamela Parvin '93 Ms. Tracey Anne Teuber '98 Dr. James Kellam '96 Valerie and Tobin Peacock '95 Ms. Kristen A. Tubman '03 Mr. Nathaniel Keller '04 Ms. Kayla Pease '08 Ms. Elena Tuhy-Walters '90 and Ms. Joanne Kemmerer '02 Ms. Margaret Pennock '84 Carl Walters Ms. Ashlesha Khadse '08 Toby Stephenson '98 and Andrea Perry '95 Mr. Frank Twohill '80 Bethany and Zack Klyver ('05) Hale Powell and Shoshana Perry '83 Mr. John Viele ('77) Mr. Scott Kraus '77 Susan Erickson and Bruce Phillips '78 Elizabeth and Tom Volkmann '90 Margi and Philip Kunhardt III '77 Ms. Melissa Pinney '01 Ms. Anna Waddell '99 Ms. Amanda Lazrus-Cunningham '02 Mr. Shiva Polefka '01 Stacy Hankin and Ben Walters '81 Kathryn Harmon '94 and Rob Ledo '91 Ms. Kipp Quinby '07 Ms. Hua Wang '04 Ms. Alice Leeds '76 Dr. Nishanta Rajakaruna '94 Alexis '93 and Patrick '93 Watson Ms. Caroline Leonard '01 Ms. Cathy Ramsdell '78 Ms. Katherine Weinstock '81 Dr. Eugene Lesser '78 Robin and David Ray ('79) Ms. Jean McHugh Weiss '81 Ms. Mary Levanti-Cuellar ('77) Ms. Carolyn Reeb-Whitaker '92 Ms. Grace Whitman ('77) Jessie Greenbaum '89 and Ms. Rebecca Renaud ('75) Ms. Darcy Allyn Whitten '07 Phil Lichtenstein '92 Ms. Andrea Roberto '92 Ms. Mary Wildfeuer '08 Ms. Abigail Littlefield '83 Dr. Jennifer Rock '93 Ms. Nellie Wilson '04 Mr. Lombe Simon James Lojogo '08 Ms. Abby Rowe ('98) Ms. Susan Woehrlin '80 Dr. John Long, Jr. '86 Mr. Ryan Ruggiero '96 Ms. Katia Wolf '92 Ms. Andrea Lynn '90 Ms. J. Paige Rutherford '06 Ms. Deborah Wunderman '89 Meg and Miles Maiden '86 Cedar Bough Saeji '93 Ms. Jingran Xiao ('86) Mr. David Malakoff '86 Mr. Santiago Salinas '05 John Mahoney and Sara Yasner '95 Ms. Pamela Manice ('77) Ms. Kerri Sands '02 Mr. Fred Zerega (SP) Ms. Christine Manzey (SP) Ms. Blakeney Sanford '02 Mr. Robert Marshall '87 Mr. Daniel Sangeap '90 OUR FRIENDS WHO HAVE PASSED Allison Martin '88 and Elmer Beal, Jr. Ms. Barbara Sassaman '78 AWAY THIS YEAR Mr. Erik Hilson Martin '98 Ms. Margaret Scheid '85 Mrs. Sigrid Berwind Mr. Michael Martin-Zboray '95 Ms. Judith Schenk '80 Mr. Gordon H. Falt Ms. Kathleen Massimini '82 Ms. Chrystal Schreck '03 Mr. Christopher Fremont-Smith Jon and Sarah McDaniel '93 Ms. Ellen Seh ('75) Mrs. August (Claude) Heckscher Mr. William McDowell '80 Ms. Kate Sheely '07 J. Robertson Inch ('83) Suzanne Durrell and Ms. Fae Silverman '03 Mrs. Beth Lyons lan Scott Mclsaac ('76) Lilea '90 and Richard '88 Simis Mr. Paul Newman Jay McNally '84 and Jennifer Reynolds Mr. Mark Simonds '81 Mrs. George W. (Margaret) Pepper III Ms. Gabrian McPhail '97 Ms. Michelle Smallman '95 Clare French Shepley Mr. Clifton McPherson III '84 Victor Amarilla '06 and Carolyn Snell '06 Mrs. Joseph (Etel) Thomas * Refers to donors who have died during the 07-08 year. () Refers to the expected year of graduation of those who have not completed their degrees at COA. SP Refers to students from one of COA's summer programs. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy in preparing all donor lists for this annual report. If a mistake has been made in your name, or if your name was omitted, we apologize. Please notify the development office at 207-288-5015, ext 329 with any changes. COA 61 Time and Time Again Consistent. Loyal. Reliable. Aren't those great qualities in a friend? We think so! COA is recognizing the following individuals who give to College of the Atlantic year after year. Size doesn't matter here, nor does the fund (annual, capital, endowment). We want to recognize and thank those people whose steadfast support of COA helps us achieve our mission. If you'd like to join COA's friends below, you can start by sending in the enclosed envelope, or give online at coa.edu/donate. A note: We have captured below the names of those who have given to any fund for fifteen years and up to twenty-five years and over. Why the vagueness of "over twenty-five years?" Why not thirty years, or thirty-five? After all COA will be forty years next year! It's because all records prior to that time were lost in the 1983 fire that destroyed the old Kaebler Hall. ~ Lynn Boulger, Dean of Development More than 25 Years Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Mrs. Ruth B. Fraley Mr. and Mrs. John P. Reeves Mr. Edward McC. Blair Mr. and Mrs. John M. Good Mr. David Rockefeller Mr. and Mrs. Leslie C. Brewer Fr. James Gower Peter and Lucy Bell Sellers *Mrs. Frederic E. Camp Ann Sewall and Edward Kaelber Ms. Marion Stocking *Mr. and Mrs. Amos Eno Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Eliot Paine Mr.* and Mrs. Donald B. Straus The First Mrs. Eben W. Pyne Ms. Joan H. Swann 20-24 Years Mrs. Diane H. Anderson Kate Russell Henry and Eric Henry ('74) Mrs. Marie Nolf Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Bass Mr. and Mrs. Melville Hodder Ms. Sandra Nowicki Mr. H. B. Beach Dr. Kathleen Hogan '81 Mrs. Elizabeth Higgins Null Mr. John O. Biderman Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Huber Mr. Benoni Outerbridge '84 Hon. and Mrs. Robert O. Blake Mr. Reginald D. Hudson Amb. and Mrs. Henry Owen Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Blanchard Ms. Catherine B. Johnson '74 Mrs. Sara Weeks Peabody Mr. Jerry Bley Laura Fisher and Michael B. Kaiser '85 Mrs. John I. Pearce Ms. Letitia Brewster Mr. John M. Kauffmann Susan Erickson and Bruce Phillips '78 Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Burton Il Mr. and Mrs. John N. Kelly Mona and Louis Rabineau Roc and Helen Caivano '80 Mr. and Mrs. Neil J. King Ms. Cathy L. Ramsdell '78 Ms. Julie McLeod Cameron '78 Mr. and Mrs. E. Robert Kinney Mr. David Rockefeller, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kogod Hilda and Thomas Roderick Mr. and Mrs. Gerald E. Colson Mr. and Mrs. S. Lee Kohrman Mr. Robert F. Rothschild Dr. and Mrs. Melville P. Cote Ms. Anne M. Kozak Ms. Ellen Seh Ms. Sally Crock Ms. Andrea Lepcio '79 Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Shorey, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Roderick H. Cushman Mrs. Marcia MacKinnon Mrs. Robert Suminsby Ms. Norah D. Davis Mrs. Henry L. Macul Mr. and Mrs. John L. Thorndike Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dickey, Jr. Mrs. Constance B. Madeira *Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tyson Prof. and Mrs. Arthur A. Dole Mrs. Louis C. Madeira Union Trust Company Dr. and Mrs. William E. Evans Mr. J. R. McGregor Mr. John E. Viele Ms. Cynthia Jordan Fisher Mrs. Donald G. McLean Stacy Hankin and Ben Walters '81 *Mrs. Patricia Q. Foley Mr. Charles E. Merrill, Jr. Ms. Katherine Weinstock '81 *Mr. and Mrs. William G. Foulke, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Gerrish H. Milliken Bradford and Alice Wellman Mr. and Mrs. W. West Frazier IV Mr. Roger Milliken Mr. Douglas Williams *Mr. Louis Gerald Mr. and Mrs. G. Marshall Moriarty Mr. and Mrs. William Wister, Jr. Jill and Sheldon Goldthwait Mrs. Lorraine B. Morong Mr. David J. Witham Bruce Mazlish and Neva Goodwin Mr. Frederick S. Moss Prof. and Mrs. W. Howard Wriggins Jonathan '78 and Nina '78 Gormley Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin R. Neilson Mrs. Jane S. Zirnkilton Mrs. Mary T. Hall Mr. and Mrs. William V.P. Newlin Ms. Katherine W. Hazard '76 Mrs. A. Corkran Nimick 62 COA 15-19 Years Dr. and Mrs. Murray Abramsky *Henry & Elizabeth Guthrie Mrs. Harry R. Neilson, Jr. Acadia Corporation Cyrus and Patricia Hagge Mr. and Mrs. John H. Newhall Dr. and Mrs. Peter T. Adler Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Hailperin Dr. and Mrs. Lewis E. Patrie Mrs. Robert Amory, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George B. E. Hambleton Mr. Robert W. Patterson, Jr. Mr. John K. Anderson Mr. Samuel M. Hamill, Jr. Mr. George L. Peabody Atwater Kent Foundation, Inc. Mr. Brian A. Harrington Ms. Judith S. Perkins Mrs. Robert H. Avery Mrs. Nancy G. Harris Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Pierce Mr. Jeffrey Baker '77 Ms. Lois Hayes '79 Mrs. John Pierrepont Bar Harbor Savings & Loan Mrs. Barbara B. Henry Mr. and Mrs. Ben G. M. Priest Mrs. Mary Barnes *Mr. Charles T. Hesse Mr. and Mrs. George Putnam Mrs. Alfred P. Barton Barbarina '88 and Aaron '87 Heyerdahl Mr. and Mrs. Bayard H. Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Elmer L. Beal, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Horace A. Hildreth Mr. and Mrs. Owen W. Roberts Mr. Bruce D. Bender Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hinckley Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Robinson *Mrs. Sigrid Berwind Mr. and Mrs. David M. Hollenbeck Dr. Richard G. Rockefeller Mrs. Edward Birkenmeier Bob and Lisa Holley Dr. and Mrs. Steven C. Rockefeller Mr. and Mrs. Francis I. Blair Mr. and Mrs. James Holley Ronald and Patricia Rogers Ms. Edith Blomberg Ms. Betsey Holtzmann Mr. W. David Rosenmiller '84 *Mr. Robert E. Blum Mrs. Adrian S. Hooper Drs. Stephen and Pamela Ross Ms. Pamela L. Bolton *Mr. James R. Hooper *Mrs. Elizabeth S. Russell Mrs. Charlotte T. Bordeaux Mrs. Mark Hopkins Mr. Daniel Sangeap '90 Mr. Herbert D. Brewster *Mr. and Mrs. John Howard Mrs. Walter W. Sargent III *Mr. Willard W. Brown Ms. Sherry F. Huber Ms. Barbara Sassaman '78 Becky '81 and Skip '83 Buyers-Basso Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Hunting Ms. Margaret Scheid '85 Donna Gold and William Carpenter Ms. Susan B. Inches '79 Dr. Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen Ms. Barbara C. Cole Mr. and Mrs. James P. Jacob *Dr. J. Paul Scott Mr. and Mrs. E. Judson Cole Alison and Joplin James '84 Mrs. Lois V. Seamon Mr. Francis I.G. Coleman Ms. Esther R. Karkal '83 Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Tristram C. Colket Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kates Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop A. Short Dick Atlee and Sarah Corson Susan Lerner and Steven Katona Mrs. Leonard Silk Mrs. Elizabeth H. Damrosch Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kelley III Mr. Irving I. Silverman Ms. Lisa Damtoft '79 Mr. and Mrs. James M. Kellogg *Mrs. Caroline T. Simmons Mr. John Allen Dandy Dr. Craig Kesselheim '76 Mr. Grant G. Simmons, Jr. Dead River Company Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Kiorpes Mr. and Mrs. Wickham Skinner Mr. and Mrs. S. Whitney Dickey Mrs. Franz Kraus Mrs. June Spencer Mrs. F. Eugene Dixon, Jr. Margi and Philip Kunhardt III '77 Dr. Elizabeth Kellogg and Mrs. William H. Drury Ms. Alice J. Leeds '76 Dr. Peter Stevens Mr. Lawrence Duffy Dr. Eugene A. Lesser '78 Ms. Dorie S. Stolley Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dworak Ms. Alice Levey '81 Mrs. Allan Stone Ms. Mary K. Eliot Ms. Miriam Linder Ms. Elena V. Tuhy-Walters '90 Mr. David Emerson '81 Dr. John H. Long, Jr. '86 Mr. John Van Dewater Mrs. John J. Emery Dr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Longsworth Ms. Claire E. Verdier '80 Carol and Jackson Eno Mr. and Mrs. William G. Lord Il Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha Wade Mrs. Bertha E. Erb Mrs. Oliver H. Lowry Mr. William Wade '76 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Erhart Mrs. Ronald T. Lyman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Rodman Ward, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon I. Erikson *Ms. Elizabeth Madeira Mrs. Cecile Watson Ms. Lynne Wommack Espy Ms. Kathleen C. Massimini '82 *Mr. James Russell Wiggins Ms. Joan Feely '79 Dr. Robert A. May '81 Mr. John Wilmerding Mr. William Fenton Mrs. Anne A. Mazlish Ms. Jane M. Winchell '82 Mr. and Mrs. William Foulke, Jr Mrs. Martha I. McCormick Mrs. George P. Winship, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Richard R. Fox *Ms. Gertrude L. McCue Ms. Betsy Wisch '83 Ms. Susan E. Freed '80 Mr. William B. McDowell '80 Ms. Susan G. Woehrlin '80 Mrs. James L. Gamble, Jr. David E. McGiffert Ms. Jingran Xiao Mr. Edwin N. Geissler Suzanne Durrell and lan Scott Mclsaac Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Yoakum Mrs. Philip Geyelin Jay McNally '84 and Jennifer Reynolds *deceased Mrs. Arthur G. Gilkes Ms. Jeanne McPherson Mr. Jackson Gillman '78 Mrs. Jean P. Messex We strive for perfection, but mistakes June Lacombe and Bill Ginn '74 Mr. and Mrs. Keith Miller do happen. If you think we've made Mr. and Mrs. William D. Ginn, Sr. Mrs. Minot Milliken an error, please let the development office know and we'll correct it in our Dr. and Mrs. Donald J. Glotzer Mr. Peter W. Moon '90 Mr. Paul M. Golas next publication. Contact Lynn Boulger, Dr. Victoria T. Murphy Dean of Development, 207-288-2944, Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Growald National Park Tours & Transport ext 350. COA 63 Speaking Facts to Power Wing Goodale, MPhil '01 After receiving an MPhil from COA in 2001, Wing Goodale went to work as a research biologist, directing the coastal bird program at the BioDiversity Research Institute in Gorham, Maine. His work, looking for chemical contaminants in birds and bird eggs, has already received national attention, including articles in The New York Times and online at Forbes. Though this research is purely scientific, Maine legislators used the results to help pass two first-in-the-nation bills protecting consumers from toxic chemicals. In July, Goodale became a COA trustee. COA: Why did you come to COA? COA: Tell us about your research- Wing Goodale: I grew up in Maine in the Lincolnville WG: We looked at birds living in all major habitats of area and went to Colorado College. Afterwards, I worked the state. All twenty-three species and sixty samples in in Costa Rica, Hawaii and Brazil-the globe-trotting life every habitat had traces of from fifty to one hundred of a young biologist. I came to realize that science alone different chemicals: PCBs, DDT, mercury and two could not create positive change and that scientists emerging chemicals of concern: PBDEs-flame need to understand the complexities of economics retardants, and PFCs-stain and water repellent used to and politics-and who was I, a fortunate American, to make Scotchguard, Teflon, Gortex and coat fast-food even have an opinion about how these areas should containers. be handled from a conservation standpoint? I felt that I needed to come home. Here, where my family is from, COA: Haven't many of these chemicals been banned? I am justified in having an opinion. WG: They could be coming from water treatment I also saw that science isn't an answer; it's a tool. You centers, landfills, incinerators-and other nations. need an understanding of politics, economics, law- Flame retardants are in everything: couches, bed foam, the multi-disciplinary approach-which is why I was computers. They've been found at the North and South attracted to COA. I took a crash course in environmental poles, so there's a global circulation going on: the economics, spent a lot of time in Ken Cline's policy Leach's storm petrels, which nest out on Great Duck classes, and worked on research and hypotheses with Island and feed on fish that live up to one thousand John Anderson, Chris Petersen and Sean Todd. meters down, they had the chemicals in their bodies. COA: What went through your mind when you were COA: So how do you live with this information? asked to be a trustee? WG: I'm a glass half-full guy. I have a lot of faith in WG: COA's education is vital. To be taught in little human ingenuity. I like to tackle problems, to be able to boxes just isn't practical. I'm using multiple skills and provide information on what's around us. Knowledge is looking at things in multiple different ways every day. very important. It's surprising that more schools haven't looked to COA COA: And what do you do with this knowledge? as the way. WG: Our role is to collect data. We do not engage in I left COA feeling that I had gotten a rounded education, advocacy. But our data is public and on our website, using GIS, engaging with lawyers and environmental www.briloon.org, and folks can do with it what they engineers, reading legal briefs-which is useful, since I like. sit on the Maine Board of Environmental Protection. 64 COA The Human Ecology Essay Radical Human Ecology in an Ordinary Life By Nikki Grimes '96 In June, a man scaled the steel and glass façade of a fifty- grandiosity of free-climb- two-story building, unfurling a banner that read, "Global ing a skyscraper to make warming kills more people than a 9/11 every week." As a point, and that's okay. people chain themselves to trees or drive SUVs that run The truth is that we each on used fry oil, I'm reminded that life as a human ecologist have to start with our own is not exactly what I expected. self. As a young human ecologist, I wanted to save the world. Ask yourself: When do I Everywhere I looked was a problem that needed fixing. take the easy way? When I wrestled over how I could have the most impact and could I plan better and discussed this with our philosophy professor, John drive fewer miles? When Visvader. John may not remember the conversation, but do I say "plastic" rather he planted the seed that eventually bloomed into a full than walk back to the car Photo by Audrey Ranieri. life. I asked John, "How can I pay my student loans and for a canvas sack? Why do save the world, too?" I buy supermarket vegeta- bles when I could visit the John's answer was, "Do what you love-the money will farmer's market? Why don't I put pencil to paper, do the follow." math, and say to the boss, "I ran the numbers. Using the Do what you love ? double-sided print feature would save $1,500 a year."? I'd like to say that I was transformed in that instant, but The slogan, "Think Globally, Act Locally" reminds me I loved fiction writing-how would that help anyone? It that to be the best human ecologist I can be, I need to wasn't radical enough. Instead, I flailed, wanting to salve start really local: with myself. Vietnamese Zen Buddhist every one of the world's wounds. I was paralyzed-where monk Thich Nhat Hanh has written, "If in our daily life does one person start? we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic One person starts by stopping. One person starts with kind of peace work." herself. Somehow, this all relates back to John's deceptively Among the most radical things we can do as human simple instruction, "Do what you love..." Embedded in ecologists is to put our busy lives on hold for a minute, or that instruction is the unspoken trust that when a human even an hour, and offer that time to the earth. I work in ecologist goes into the world and does what she loves, a corporate environment and one day I noticed the trash she positively impacts people around her. and wondered, "Why don't people recycle the plastic trays from their frozen meals?" It took under ten seconds That day in John's cottage I rejected fiction writing to answer, "There's no recycling bin near the microwave." because it seemed like it would please only me and I The kitchen is too small and crowded to accommodate a didn't imagine how it would have an impact. Today, I've recycling bin, but there is a bulletin board and in about finally embraced my truest passion and write fiction on one minute I scanned an image of a plastic tray and posted weekends. I even submit stories to a writers group online. a sign by the trash can. It reads, "Did you know you can Recently we received an email from a reader. She wrote, recycle this?" " strong female characters empower us to become better people." If you have an hour and you want to be really radical, do something extreme: look inside and tell the truth. The I happen to think that's pretty radical. truth is that all too often we use the nearest trash recep- tacle rather than cart our boxboard to a recycling bin in Nikki Grimes '96 lives in Vermont and works in the the next room. The truth is our lives are busy: we have business side of higher education. She holds an MFA in jobs, kids, school, hobbies and a mile-long to-do list. The writing and is finishing a new master's thesis on law and truth is that most of us don't have lives conducive to the the neuroscience of addiction. This fall she begins the submission process for her novel, Tricky Terrain. COA 65 NON-PROFIT College of the Atlantic U.S. POSTAGE life changing. world changing. 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