Volume 3 I Number 2 SUMMER/FALL 2007 COA VISION LETTER FROM THE EDITOR The faculty, students, trustees, staff and alumni of College of The transition from summer to autumn at the Atlantic envision a world where people value creativity, College of the Atlantic is a passage from glory intellectual achievement and to promise. The flowers in our seaside gar- diversity of nature and human dens fade away, but we who work here all cultures. With respect and summer don't even notice. For in the place of compassion, individuals blossoms come such an array of students- construct meaningful lives sporting bright, clean faces and scruffy for themselves, gain appreciation beards, coifed hair and black nail polish-shy of the relationships among all and bold and confused and confident, some- forms of life, and safeguard the times all at the same time. heritage of future generations. There's an eagerness and an intensity that COA's first year students all COVER: share. Having entered a new world, they are ready to make it theirs. Great Duck Island They are ready to grapple with this thing we call human ecology; to By Virve Hirsmaki '09 make sense of it-and ultimately, somehow, to make a life in it. Mixing untreated and dyed wool with found objects, Virve Hirsmaki In four short years-sometimes less-these students will be creating spent the summer creating a 6-by-8-foot mural illustrating the work that will be comparable to the work that is in this student- ecology of Great Duck Island. centered issue of COA. The cover and story are by undergraduates; Says Hirsmaki, "I have a long- the art spread features a senior project, several students are featured lived interest in the visual arts; at COA I have broadened my hori- in the news section. But can you even tell? zons to include the sciences. The constant search for phenomena Whether it is a passion for economic justice fueling an independent and names by the scientific community furthers the aesthetic study that becomes ground-breaking legislation such as LD 1810, or appreciation of life in all its forms, whether it is a more personal quest for understanding the impact of giving me the inspiration to con- distorted vision that becomes a gallery-full of poetry, theory, painting ceptualize the world in greater depth and dimension. Art has and sculpture combined into a mixed media installation, our students shown me how to see these take their work seriously. Very seriously. phenomena with the appreciation they deserve. The interdisciplinary nature of COA's education allows Thirty-five years ago, the glory of the summer of 1972 turned into the me to combine different, comple- promise of the first term of a brand-new college. It seems that the mentary visions for a fuller and more complex view of the world." idea of basing a college education on democracy and freedom that Hirsmaki created this mural with seemed so radical back then-that still seems radical-really does the help of a Rothschild Grant work. Students step up to the responsibility. They take charge of their given to faculty-student collabo- rative projects at COA. She education, they take charge of their educational institution, and truly, worked with Dru Colbert and they fly. John Anderson. BACK COVER: Donna Gold Katrina Zarate '07 from her senior editor, COA project, "En-Visioning Art, Theory, and Literature." For her project, Katrina Zarate created a multimedia installation of distorted imagery within the Ethel H. Blum Gallery that trans- ported the reader into the dark mysteries of dysfunctional vision and brought us through eye damage to new levels of sight and insight. features COA The College of the Atlantic Magazine Volume 3 Number 2 SUMMER/FALL 2007 EDITOR Donna Gold Greenest College ~ p. 3 EDITORIAL BOARD John Anderson COA Students Create Groundbreaking Legislation ~ p. 4 Sarah Barrett '08 Richard J. Borden Milja Brecher-DeMuro Notes from a Watson year ~ p. 6 Dru Colbert Naveed Davoodian '10 Nikhit D'Sa returns from seeing life through the eyes of street children Noreen Hogan '91 Jennifer Hughes The Dreier Scholarship: A Legacy of Spirit ~ p. 12 Linda Mejia '09 Emma Rearick '08 A donor profile of John and Isa Dreier EDITORIAL CONSULTANT Bill Carpenter COA Alumna Heads for the National Stage ~ p. 14 ALUMNI CONSULTANTS Chellie Pingree '79 vies for First District House seat Jill Barlow-Kelley Milja Brecher-DeMuro Sea Urchins: DESIGN from Gilded Age to COA Campus Center ~ p. 22 Mahan Graphics, Bath, Maine PRINTING In saving an historic building, COA preserves novelist's memory JS McCarthy Printers, Augusta, Maine Katrina Zarate "En-visioning Art, Theory and Literature" ~ p. 30 COA ADMINISTRATION TRUSTEES David Hales Edward McC. Blair, Sr. President Life Trustee Catching the Wind ~ p. 32 David H. Fischer Kenneth Hill Memoir excerpt by Scott Beebe '09 Academic Dean William G. Foulke, Jr. John Anderson Timothy Fuller '03 Associate Dean James M. Gower, for Advanced Studies Life Trustee Sarah Baker George B.E. Hambleton departments Dean of Admission Charles E. Hewett Lynn Boulger Sherry F. Huber Dean of Development John N. Kelly, Trustee Emeritus COA Beat p. 3 Andrew Griffiths Administrative Dean Philip B. Kunhardt III '77 Class Notes p. 42 Susan Storey Lyman, Sarah Luke Life Trustee Associate Dean Faculty & Community Notes p. 47 for Student Life Suzanne Folds McCullagh Sarah A. McDaniel '93 Karen Waldron Annual Report p. 51 Associate Dean Stephen G. Milliken for Faculty Philip S.J. Moriarty In Memoriam p. 63 Phillis Anina Moriarty BOARD OF TRUSTEES Elizabeth Nitze Samuel M. Hamill, Jr. Helen Porter Chairman Cathy L. Ramsdell '78, Elizabeth D. Hodder Trustee Emeritus Vice Chair Hamilton Robinson, Jr. We Started from Square One ~ p. 38 Casey Mallinckrodt Henry D. Sharpe, Jr., Excerpts from an oral history interview with founding faculty member Vice Chair Life Trustee Bill Carpenter Ronald E. Beard Clyde E. Shorey, Jr., Secretary Life Trustee Leslie C. Brewer William N. Thorndike, Jr. Poetry by Craig Kesselheim '76 ~ p. 40 Treasurer Cody van Heerden Rebecca Hancock '97 ~ p. 64 Merchant mariner COA is published twice each year for the College of the Atlantic community. Please direct correspondence to: Honoring Ed Kaelber ~ p. 65 COA Magazine College of the Atlantic 105 Eden Street Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 Phone: (207) 288-5015 email: dgold@coa.edu www.coa.edu This publication is printed on recycled paper. Chlorine free, acid free manufacturing process. LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT AreWeNumberOne? herankingofCollegeoftheAtlanticby GristMagazine asthe"green- T est" collegeoruniversityintheworldhasbroughtwelcomerecogni- tiontoourcommitmenttopracticewhatweteach.Andithasraised eyebrowsaroundtheworld:"Howcansuchasmallschoolberankedhigher thanlargerandbetterknowninstitutions?" Ithinktheanswerisinstructive.Whenevenasmallschool,withlimited resources,takesresponsibilityforitsactions,theinfluencecanextend beyondtherawnumbersoftonsofgreenhousegasesreducedorcubicfeet ofsolidwasteavoided.IfCollegeoftheAtlanticcanachieveNetZerogreen- housegasemissions,socaneveryfamily,businessandcollege. Themessagesentbythefactthatthereisalist,andtheexcellentworkby somanycollegesthatithighlights,isfarmoreimportanthantherankings: themessageisthathighereducation"getsit." Successforanyinstitutionover thenextseveraldecadeswillbedependentuponawholeheartedcommit- menttosustainability.Notonlyisittherightthingtodo,itistheonlysmart thingtodo. Forcolleges,investmentsinenergyefficiencyrenewableenergyandwaste reductionnowmeancostsavingsinthefuture.Forus,thattranslatesinto lowertuitionthanwewouldotherwiseface,andthatisnosmallmatter.Our coremission-thebesteducationthatwecanpossiblyprovideatacostthat ourstudentsandtheirfamiliescanafford-hasnotchangedanditwillhnot.To bethebestcollegewecanbe,wemustbethegreenestcollegethatwecan be.Toprovidethebesteducationwecan,wemustlivethelessonswehope ourstudentsandcommunitieswilllearn. So,arewethegreenestcollegeintheworld?Notyet,Isuspect.Wehave muchtolearnfromothers.Butweareprettydarngood.Andweareworking togetbetter.Overthenextyearorso,wewillinvestheequivalentofthree tofivepercentofouroperatingbudgetinconservationmeasuresthatwillpay forthemselvesquicklyandresultincostsavingsinthefuture.Wewillcontin- uetosharewhatwelearnwithbusinessandfamiliesinourcommunity. Aspresidentofacollegededicatedtothestudyofhumanecology,lwould bedisappointedifweweren'tonthecuttingedgeofcommitmenttoasus- tainableworld.Asanindividual,aparentandgrandparent,acitizenofthe United States,andaninhabitantofthispreciousplanet,lwouldbehappierif atop-twentylistwereimpossibletocompilebecauseeveryinstitutionhad madeacomparablecommitment. Thatdayiscoming;acenturyfromnow,wewillberighthere,stillstudying therelationshipsamonghumansandtheenvironment,andwewillbesharing thechallengeofprovidinghighereducationonlywithothercollegesthat havemadethetransitiontosustainability. DavidHales 2 COA COA BEAT Greenest College Grist Magazine ranks COA #1 of all colleges and universities for greenness US News & World Reports recognizes COA's small classes and large inter- national presence Princeton Review celebrates COA's accessibility, beauty, food and Campus Squeeze ranks COA among the most beautiful campuses in the nation Grist Magazine, the popular environmental online student body ever, 16 percent of those students magazine, issued its first-ever list of top green col- will hail from outside the United States, making leges and universities in the world last August. COA third in the nation for a global presence. College of the Atlantic heads that list. Many of these students come to the college as COA's number one billing recognizes the col- part of the Davis United World College Scholars lege's longstanding focus on sustainability, as well program, funded by Shelby and Gale Davis, which as its pledge of carbon neutrality last October. grants full college scholarships to outstanding Says the article, COA's efforts "kicked off quite a international students at selected US colleges, trend: Now more than 270 other U.S. colleges and COA among them. universities have pledged to do the same as COA was also recognized in Princeton Review's part of the American College & University annual Best 366 Colleges, and earlier, in their Presidents Climate Commitment." America's Best-Value Colleges. Not only are we Of course, what Grist doesn't note is that COA's one of the nation's top schools, we're also gen- carbon-neutral effort emerges from a philosophy erous and a great value, says Princeton Review. that has been part both of our curriculum and our In their latest rankings, COA is noted for en- physical plant since the beginning. Human ecolo- couraging discussions, accessible professors, gists are trained to recognize the impact of all good financial aid packages, acceptance of the their actions. gay community and delicious food. Meanwhile, From Grist to US News & World Report to the both Princeton Review and the online maga- Princeton Review, August is "ratings season" for zine Campus Squeeze placed COA on the colleges. As in the past, COA has been recognized top-twenty list of most beautiful campuses: as being among the top five schools in the nation campussqueeze.com/static/20-Most-Beautiful- for small classes and an international student Colleges.html. body, according to US News & World Report's 2008 edition of America's Best Colleges. With 94 per- www.grist.org/news/maindish/2007/08/10/colleges/ cent of its classes under twenty students, COA ranks fifth in the nation for small classes. As COA prepares to open the school year with the largest COA 3 COA BEAT Once Again, Maine Owes Groundbreaking Legislation To COA Students Independent study leads to first-in-the-nation "big box" bill On June 20, when Gov. Baldacci signed Maine's first-in-the-nation Informed Growth Act, LD 1810, many a COA face glowed, believing that when a large retail store wants to come to town, it makes sense for the community to know what may hap- pen, what kind of impact it will have on the local economy, on its services and on the environment. At COA, the community also knew the back story. They knew that the first draft of the legisla- tion was written by Elsie Flemings '07 as part of an independent study in community organizing she Photo courtesy of the Maine Fair Trade Campaign did the year before. They also knew that her friend and COA classmate Daphne Loring had been Daphne Loring ('07) with Gov. John Baldacci at the signing of working to shepherd this bill through the Maine the Informed Growth Act. State Legislature since January when she took a job at the Maine Fair Trade Campaign (MFTC). impacts are expected to outweigh the positive-it Flemings' independent study came from a cannot be approved. desire to become more involved in community This is a big deal. Within two weeks of Baldacci's organizing, and to see how that related to public signing, even the Wall Street Journal took notice, policy and legislative organizing. Working with carrying an article about the legislation. MFTC members Maureen Drouin, northeast repre- That her independent study would actually sentative of the Sierra Club, and Stacy Mitchell of become groundbreaking law was a surprise to the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, as well as advi- Flemings, who is currently working for Congress- sor Ken Cline, COA faculty member in law and pol- man Zack Space on Capitol Hill and will be return- icy, Flemings brainstormed possible legislative ing to Maine this fall. But, says Loring, "the victory campaigns and wrote the early drafts of a bill is testament to the power of broad-based coali- requiring economic assessment for big-box stores. tions. These stores affect all of us. That labor, envi- "One of the major tools lacking throughout this ronmental, small business and social justice country," says Flemings, "is a structured compre- groups united and rallied behind this bill is some- hensive look at the economic impacts of large- thing the legislature could not ignore. Building scale retail stores." these cross-sector alliances is central to our work Now Maine has LD 1810, the Informed Growth at MFTC and I know Elsie highlighted this strategy Act, requiring independent comprehensive impact early on." studies for all proposed retail stores exceeding Loring passionately believes in organizing for a 75,000 square feet. These studies, which are fund- more just and sustainable economy. She has a ed by a fee assessed to the developer, analyze the history in big-box issues, having done her senior store's projected impact on such factors as jobs, project on community organizing and civic wages, existing businesses, municipal services and engagement, looking at community struggles the environment. Until now, most Maine munici- around big-box-stores. Both she and Flemings palities did not have the legal right to refuse large- worked with the Wise Planning group in Ellsworth scale projects based on economic or fiscal to try to halt a Wal-Mart Supercenter. impacts. Now, if the project is likely to cause An official thanks has gone out to countless "undue adverse impact" if the project's negative people who assisted in the campaign, among them 4 COA COA BEAT COA's own Rep. Ted Koffman, director of govern- glass and plastic from the waste stream. As a stu- ment and community relations, a cosponsor of dent, he began lobbying for the bill, pursuing it the bill. after graduation until it became law in 1976. But a quiet nod must go to COA for nurturing Says Loring, "I had the freedom at COA to do students to do more than study the issues that organizing while I went to school. Equally as concern them, to actually conceive of solutions- important, COA encourages us all to examine the and then make them happen. It's not the first time. interconnectedness of systems and to collaborate In 1972, Bill Ginn '74 had a dream about waste and with people who share a vision to work for posi- recycling. He thought that by charging a deposit tive change. This victory is simply an extension of on beverage bottles, he could eliminate tons of that vision." end of term madness By Naveed Davoodian '10 A S the spring term and the 2006-2007 academic year come to a close, students rush to complete extended home- work, critical papers and final projects before week ten's end. Over-stressed, under-rested and flying on caffeine, the last weeks of the year bring out the idiosyncrasies characteristic of the average COAer. The following documents one investigator's journey into the end of term madness: Transfer students Sam Miller- Elizabeth Nappi '08 spends Casie Reed '10, in sleep-deprived McDonald '08 and Dan Rueters- her nights contemplating the hallucination, attempts to distinguish Ward '08 distract themselves phallogocentric writings of between a delicious popsicle and her from their studies. Jacques Lacan. water sample for Don Cass's environ- mental chemistry class. Matt Maiorana '10 happily decides to put himself out of the week ten Michael Griffith '09 takes a time-out to misery by bludgeoning himself into design the new college logo. unconsciousness. Brett Ciccotelli '09 strikes a COA 5 pose COA BEAT Notes from a Watson Year "Untold Stories, Unseen Lives: Life Through the Eyes of Street Children" By Nikhit D'Sa '06 Photo courtesy of Nikhit D'Sa One of the students came to the Youth Wellness Nikhit D'Sa '07 with children from Jamaica during his Watson Fellowship year. Center this morning with a swollen eye. Her left eye was bloated shut. I couldn't even see her eye- gram for at-risk youth who live on the street, have brows. In the group session with her peers, she substance abuse problems or are deemed social insisted that a bee had stung her, but later I found misfits. I was in charge of a discussion group out that it was a token from a boyfriend's beating about issues that ranged from sexual intercourse the night before. I was stunned. I did not know and relationships to violence and drug abuse. I what to say to her. She was so nonchalant, as if it was exuberant: I could spend umpteen amounts were a normal everyday thing and I could not com- of time talking to the adolescents at the youth prehend what it must be to live like that. I finally center. While not all the students were street chil- managed to mumble, "So did you hit him back?" dren, it was still a fascinating opportunity to learn She looked at me and smiled, "Of course." about at-risk behavior in Jamaica. But after my first discussion group, I was left For the last twelve months I have been on a speechless by a class characterized by misbehav- Watson fellowship, collecting the stories and pho- ior, random outbursts of rage and snide com- tographs of street children in Ireland, Fiji, Ghana ments about everything I did. I felt like I was in a and Jamaica. In this project, "Untold Stories, Hollywood movie about a novice teacher thrown Unseen Lives: Life Through the Eyes of Street into a classroom of inner-city youth who go out of Children," I worked through nongovernmental their way to make the teacher's life hard. I even organizations (NGOs) to get to know street chil- rented a few of these movies in the hope of get- dren, spending months on the streets with the ting some ideas. But no cheesy movie would help adolescents. Though I was surrounded by a wealth me deal with the problems that restricted me from of information and an army of social workers, no actually knowing the students and conducting one could prepare me for the challenges I would my research. face. For example, the NGO I worked with in Intimidated and frustrated, I had to come up Spanish Town, Jamaica, ran an intervention pro- with my own methods to connect with the youth. 6 COA COA BEAT I found my answeri in the 2007 Cricket World Cup "Whatelsedoyoulove?" laskedafterabout taking place in the Caribbean. I started posting an hour of this. Andre looked disappointed. I scores and talking about players and teams; soon had stolen the high that comes from talking enough, some of the students started contribut- about girls. "Well..." he said in his thick ing, disagreeing with me. After the early exit of Jamaican accent, "I love music-come, I'll India (my home country) from the cup, the stu- show you." He bounced to his feet and ran dentshadtheupperhand, whichprovedtobethe downasidestreetlinedwithcardboardboxes. turning point. My country's humiliation got them Hestoppedhalfwayupthisnarrowalley,raised talkingaboutwhy they, the West Indies, deserved his hands in a gesture of welcome and owin.ltookthisopportunitytotalkabouthedif- exclaimed, "Welcome to the home of Andre." ferences between my culture and theirs. He moved aside a few clothes drying on the Surprisingly, they thoroughly enjoyed this and boxandmotionedformetosit.Hetookaseat startedbringingindiscussiontopicslikearranged nexttomeandstartedrummagingintheplas- marriages in India and the practice of voodoo in ticbagthatheldhispossessions. Jamaica. Over the next few minutes he emptied his Gradually, I began talking about growing up in entire bag. In front of us stood a pile of junk India and my second-hand experiences of what thatrangedfrombeerbottlesandsodacansto life on the streets was like. also talked aboutmy a metal sheet, a canvas painting pulled taut friends who have substance abuse issues. over a bowl, and a genuine harmonica. "You Knowingthattenthousandmilesawaytherewere ready?" heasked. Forthenexthalfhour, Andre youthwhohadthesameproblemsgotheadoles- jumpedandbobbedandweavedanddanced. cents to open up about their lives. Over the next He sang and whistled and beat boxes and fewweeks, I heard some disturbing stories about played the harmonica. He rapped and tapped child abuse butalso shared games of table tennis andjangledhiswaythroughsongaftersongof andcricket. Inretrospect, didmorphinto of hisown Jamaicanrapmusic. the Hollywood movie characters in my own way. "Wheredidthatcomefrom?" laskedwhen This ability to connect with the adolescents ewasfinallydone. Helaughed, "Well, when- leave Jamaica, andthe Watsonyear, ever my mom throws me outta the house I with some fascinating experiences that will keep don thavea TVtowatchandsolneedtomake me thinking as I head to a graduate degree in my own rap. You like them?" "Yeah!" I said developmental psychology. Here is my favorite truthfully. "Do you want to be a rap star?" frommytimeinthe Caribbean: "Yeah," he said as he packed the instruments backinhisbag. Onedayyouwillbewatching love girls! I love the way they smell, the TV somewhere in the world and you will see waytheytalk, the way walk, the way they me on MTV." We started walking out of the eat." alley. "So you write these songs because you llooked at Andre. From the very I wanttobeon TVandbefamousandgetlotsof methim,lwasstruckbyhisenergyandenthu- money?" I asked in a presumptuous tone. siasm. He was always willing to go on adven- "No," hesaid, "Iwritemyrapto get the girls." tures,talkabouthimselfandcrackjokesabout Helaughed, "Have toldyou lovegirls?" his problem with drugs. Andre, sixteen, hada home in one of the ghettos around Kingston buthadboutsofstreetlifewhenhewasinone Nikhit Sa Columbia University's TeachersCollegeforanMAindevelopmentalpsychology, of his drug binges or when his mother threw focusingonthepsychologicalimpactsofat-riskbehavior him out of theirramshackle home for stealing amongadolescents.Histuitionwillbecoveredbyahighly herday'swagestoscorecocaine. competitive, Jack Kent Cookescholarship. COA 7 COA BEAT From Red to Green: China's New Revolution? COA professors attend Eco Summit in China "China," say College of the Atlantic professors dents) have been drawn into the center stage of an Richard Borden and John Anderson, "is discover- event of this scale. At the front of the main assem- ing ecology." bly hall, an expansive backdrop displayed an image When China opened its doors to the West in of the ecological future, with SHE fourth on the 1972, ping-pong and pandas were the driving sym- masthead. Human ecology is coming of age! bols. The new keys to China's future are capitalism Anderson was a member of the summit's inter- and it seems ecology! As Beijing prepares for national scientific committee and presented "The the 2008 Olympics, it is refashioning itself as a Challenge of Landscape Sustainability in a world leader in both. Buildings and commerce Changing World." Borden, executive director of have exploded. So has landscaping. Beijing wants SHE, chaired the "Education for Sustainability" to be a great new city; it also wants to be a green symposium, in which higher education models city. Roadsides are being lined with trees, parks are from Europe, Asia, North and South America and being sculpted in and around the towering new Australia were presented and discussed. building complexes. In the center of it all, Beijing A high point for COA's delegation was a plan- will have the largest urban forest in the world. ning round-table with the presidents and execu- Borden and Anderson were tive directors of ESA, BES, the in China last May as delegates ECO International Association of to the Fourth International Eco Summi Ecology and other sponsoring Summit: Ecological Complex- bodies. One-quarter of the ity and Sustainability. The con- organizations present de- ference, sponsored by the clared "human ecology" as Chinese Academy of Sciences, part of their mission; ESA is was led by Rusong Wang, cur- now considering a Human rent president of the Ecologi- Ecology Section within the cal Society of China and cham- Richard Borden (center) and John Anderson (right) greet Alpina Begossi of Brazil at the Fourth society-hopefully in time for pion of its eco-cities move- International Eco Summit: Ecological Complexity and the 2008 ESA meeting. ment; it was co-sponsored by Sustainability, held in Beijing, China. Begossi is cur- At the end of the confer- rent president of the Society of Human Ecology. thirty of the leading interna- ence, Borden was asked to tional ecological organizations, including the Eco- apply his expertise in environmental psychology logical Society of America (ESA), the British as part of team of ecologists and city planners Ecological Society (BES), the Scientific Committee evaluating ten ecological restoration sites in the on Problems of the Environment, the East Asian Mentougou district. This is a remote, rural part of Federation of Ecological Societies, and the Inter- Beijing, heavily mined for coal and limestone for national Association of City and Regional Planners. nearly a thousand years. The district's 230,000 peo- For six days, more than 1,400 leading environ- ple live with some 425 collapsed lime pits and mental scientists from seventy nations focused on nearly twice as many major cracks in the surface of the relationships among humans and their overall their land. For five years, China has been restoring impact on ecologies in a range of scales and set- the blight, turning old mines and limestone pits tings. The summit's theme-sustainability- into parks, even reconstructing a river, all in the resonated with COA's increasing emphasis on the hopes of making the region both attractive and relationships between human ecology and sustain- accessible. When the group returned to the ability. But this was the first time COA and SHE (of conference, each member gave reports via simul- which Anderson and Borden are both past presi- taneous translation to an assembly of district 8 COA COA BEAT commissioners, project leaders and television reporters. Borden, who had last visited China in 1994, was impressed. "I knew that China's growth story was beginning to discover an environmental momen- tum," he said. "But if China makes the right choic- es-if it sets high miles-per-gallon emissions stan- dards for its automobiles, for instance-it could be world-changing. "Ecology is more than a science," Borden adds. "It has to do with inspiration. People are not only moved by economics and science, there are social, aesthetic and spiritual values. Fixing a bro- ken landscape is also re-humanizing it. The land- scapes I visited in China are clear articulations of people getting deeper meaning from ecology and human ecology." ~ John Anderson and Rich Borden Rich Borden and John Anderson in the Forbidden City. Rich Borden Holds First Rachel Carson Chair Rachel Carson, biologist, of issues that face the planet-but both see work- ecologist, eloquent writer ing on these problems as a source for a meaning- and public citizen, is often ful life." called the founder of the Borden studies the relationship between mind modern environmental and nature. Having obtained a PhD in psychology movement. Surely, she is from Kent State University, Borden took a post- one of COA's guiding spir- doctoral fellowship in animal behavior and ecolo- its. In the summer that gy from Ohio State University before hearing that marked the centennial of a truly interdisciplinary college had formed that her birth, COA announced was focused on linking humans and the environ- the creation of the Rachel Carson Chair in Human ment. Borden came East. In addition to serving as Ecology. Rich Borden, who joined the faculty in dean from 1984 until 2004, Borden is co-founder 1979 and served as academic dean for twenty and past president of the Society for Human years, is the first holder of this chair, to be given to Ecology and continues to serve as its executive "an outstanding faculty member working in serv- director. ice to people and the environment who has made "Recognition and appreciation of Rachel notable contributions to COA's mission through Carson by COA is obviously fitting," says Borden. excellence in teaching and scholarly creativity." "We all owe a great deal to her wisdom and Says Ken Hill, COA's academic dean, "Rachel courage. Her way of seeing the world, her concern Carson and Rich Borden are cut from the same for the environment and her approach to educa- cloth. They are highly articulate, broadly educated, tion were all spot on with the mission and prac- passionate about the world, concerned about tices of the college." human influence and convinced that education is To assist with the $224,000 still needed to com- the key for meaningful change. These two idealists plete the funding goal for the Rachel Carson Chair envision a beautiful and complex world. They in Human Ecology, call the Development Office at know that there is not a quick fix to the multitude 207-288-5015. COA 9 Islands Through Time COA piloted a college class for advanced high school students this summer. The eleven students spent ten days traveling around four islands. With COA faculty members John Anderson, John Cooper, Sean Todd and Karen Waldron, and a host of helpers, students plunged deep into human ecology, studying navigation, taking bird censuses, determining the darkness of the night sky, viewing whales, discussing literature, playing keyboard, writing human ecology essays, even creating videos. Whew. The verdict? Human ecology rocks. Make it a longer session next time! Stay tuned: www.coa.edu/islandsthroughtime File Photo www.coa.edu/islandsthroughtime Great Lakes of Africa Merit Scholarship Program New scholarship offered to student from Africa's Great Lakes District A little over a decade ago, Patrick Uwihoreye '06 left his homeland of Rwanda. Trudging across the mountains by foot, eating what he could, the boy lost everything in what he recently described as "one of the most brutal ethnic Photo of Patrick Uwihoreye by Donna Gold conflicts of the last century." On September 9, Uwihoreye returned to College of the Atlantic decked in a shirt and tie, an investment banker working for a top-tier New York City financial corporation. In a moving speech, Uwihoreye, who attended COA on a Davis United World College scholarship, told a group of UWC supporters that he has never yet returned to Rwanda. This fall, he does plan to visit, flying in by plane. In his hand will be a scholarship offer to his alma mater for another young person from his homeland. Samuel M. Hamill, Jr., chair of COA's board of trustees, has announced that he will fund a full, four-year scholarship to COA each year for a person from the "Great Lakes" region of Africa-the countries of Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and Kenya. The scholarship-which Hamill and Uwihoreye discussed extensively-is intended to leverage the college's current Davis UWC Scholars Program, expanding internationalism at the college. Said Hamill, "It's rewarding to see a recent COA graduate take the lead in arranging for another stu- dent to receive the same benefits that provided for his education and set his career path." "It's doubly rewarding to know that Mr. Uwihoreye's initiative helps to fulfill the purpose of multiply- ing the benefits of the Davis United World College Scholars Program," Hamill added. The Davis program funds scholarships at select US colleges for students attending a UWC (high schools offering the interna- tional baccalaureate in a dozen nations). COA currently has 46 students from the program, along with five additional international students not connected with the program. This year's COA student body repre- sents 39 nations. Speaking about the aromatic smells and the green mountains of his homeland, the young banker said he looked forward to sitting by a bonfire and sharing his experiences with his countryfolk when he returns to oversee the first round of applications. Echoing Hamill, Uwihoreye said of the Davis scholars program, that by bringing young people together from around the world, people come to know each other's lives and share a sense of justice and a global sense of belonging. "It sounds like mission impossi- ble, but with the work that the Davises have done, it is totally achievable." 10 COA COA BEAT Summer Songs Kaitlin Palmer '07 analyzes the sounds of the humpback whale By Donna Gold Inset of Kaitlin Palmer by Toby Hollis; humpback whale photo courtesy of Allied Whale Every afternoon last spring, unearthly sounds quency and duration. The calls peaked around came from Sean Todd's office, across the hall midnight with the fewest from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.- from my own. Deep, bellowing sounds. Grunts- an interesting contrast to a 2005 study that found melodic ones. Haunting calls that sounded as if more vocalizations during the day than at night. they came from the depths of the planet. Palmer also found that 34 percent of the total sam- In a sense, they did. These were humpback ple came from two days, July 14 and 15; these days whale calls collected from the Gulf of Maine. Over also produced the highest diversity of calls-more and over again, Kaitlin Palmer '07 would play back than a thousand calls of twelve distinct types- these calls, using specialized computer programs including one quite suggestive of singing. to identify and analyze the various sounds as So, what are these sounds about? Are the part of her senior project, "Humpback Whale whales calling to each other, singing for pleasure, (Megaptera novaeangliae) Vocalizations in Gulf of trying to flush out prey? Are they merely digestive? Maine Summer Feeding Grounds." Or is there something entirely different going on? The calls that Palmer listened to were captured The answer may be a long way off, but Palmer's by two acoustic monitors equipped with hydro- senior project offers the beginning of a baseline phones, preamplifier, computer, disk drive, batter- repertoire for the North Atlantic humpback whale ies, acoustic transponder and more, designed and feeding-ground vocalizations. supported by the Cornell Laboratory of Orni- Palmer is continuing her work with the sounds thology and sunk a few meters off the ocean floor. in each of two locales during the summer of 2007, For eleven weeks during the 2006 summer feeding allowing her to approximate where it was pro- season, the monitors recorded what they heard. duced. Combined with expanded observations, As the whales left for their winter breeding Palmer hopes that when she analyzes this sum- grounds, the monitors were retrieved via an mer's collection, she'll be able to connect location acoustic signal that severs an anchoring tether, and behavior to the sounds. Come November, causing the buoy to "pop up" to the surface for she'll present her work at the Society for Marine data retrieval-hence the name, "pop-up buoy." Mammalogy's Biennial Conference on the Biology Working closely with Todd and others at Allied of Marine Mammals in South Africa, then begin Whale, Palmer determined a number of parame- applying to graduate school. ters to measure each call, including timing, fre- COA 11 DONOR PROFILE THE DREIER SCHOLARSHIPS: A LEGACY OF SPIRIT By Donna Gold Isa and ention John Dreier's name to any participant in COA's M early days and the response is, "John was a hero." Dreier John Dreier was one of COA's first trustees, serving from 1973 to 1994, and as board chair from 1976 to 1978. But it was after the devastating fire of 1983 that John Dreier earned his special COA halo: he made sure that COA continued. Dreier was a diplomat who rose to being ambassador to the Organization of the American States before teaching at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His wife, Louisa Cabot Richardson Dreier (called Isa), was a joyous painter and a founding student at Bennington College, entering in its first class of 1932. Upon Dreier's retirement, the couple moved to an historic family home on Fernald Point, spending increasingly extended time in Maine. Facing page: "Both of them loved young, interesting, bright people," says son John and Isa, Fernald Point, C. 1975 acrylic on oil John Dreier. "They were very excited about people who had creative ideas, who were doing something out of the mainstream. And both loved nature." The fit between the Dreiers and the college was so 12 COA strong that when the Dreier children - John, steered the college toward its essential democra- Susanand Alexander to -notjustgivingopinions. "His they (Johnin and Isain 1995), mannerrubbedoffonusatthecollege." CollegeoftheAtlanticwastheonlychoice. Then came the fire. Founding faculty member Still, the Dreier family didn't know quite how and former president Steve Katona remembers a theywouldmakethismemorial.Theytalkedabout meeting on the back porch of Turrets while the atree, aplaque, abench. old Kaelber Hall still smouldered. John Dreier TheahamomentcamewhenSusanDreier,who stood up, says Katona, "and without any hesita- has a house on Mount Desert Island and stays tion, withoutany other sense or feeling, said, 'Of connected to the college, coursewearegoingtocontinue Therewasnever ation. As honors were awarded in memory of any doubt in his mind. And if there was in any teachers who had passed she realized thatan otherminds,afterthatweneverheardaboutit. annual scholarship could bestow their parents' AsJohnDreierledbylisteningandchallenging, enthusiasm upon each new generation of stu- IsaDreierofferedamodelofgenuinelifeengage- dents, while also gen- ment. "She was essen- uinely helping out the tial,sacrilegious,playful college the Dreiers so artistic-very much a loved. part of the same spirit," Ultimately, the family says Susan Lerner, also decided to offer two anearlyfacultymember. scholarships. The Isa While John Dreier Dreier Scholarship is would come to school given to a COA student dressed in statesman- who "embodies the like tweed, Lerner spirit of joy in the earts." remembers Isa Dreier's The John C. Dreier lavender suit and scholarshipisgiventoa matching hat. "We junior "who has shown leadership in building would sit together at events, chuckling in the community spirit both on campus and in the col- background.Shehadbigwarm,eyesthattwinklec lege'ssurroundingcommunities." so magnificently, a sense of warmth and positive The minute he heard about the scholarship, energy." recalls son Alexander Dreier," said, 'Absolutely.' Herart,compiledinacatalogthatisavailablein COA is a fabulo place and a wonderful institu- the COA library and through the Development tion.Thisgifthonorsmyfather'sdeepconnection, Office, reflects sIsaDreier'spleasureinnatureand andIthinkthekindofplacethatitiswascloseto everydaylife.HerpaintingsshowlohnDreiercut- mymother'ssoulaswell." ting wood, the family's laundry on the line, her Thesenseofrightnesswasunderscoredbythe beloved gardens. Notes COA trustee and Susan stories Susan Dreier hears when she visits COA. Dreier's childhood friend, Phyllis Anina Nitze "They tell me that my father really 'got it.' He Moriarty, nowaspecialistin medieval manuscript embodiedwhatCOAwasabout." illumination,"Shewasethereal,giftedasapainter, Actually, the connection might possibly go the funny, clever, shy, and had a wonderful sense of otherway.Whetherasatrustee,ateacherofinter- color." national affairs or as a deep believer in the All "COA brought out the best of them," adds College Meeting, John Dreier was a powerful lis- Moriarty,whoholdsaPhDinarthistory." Hercre- tener. Says Kaelber, "He was just as interested in ative spirit could flourish here, and so could his. what an eighteen-year-old would say as a sixty- Thisscholarshipwasintendedtoremindstudent year-old." Inthisway, muses Kaelber, hemay have toholdontotheirdreams." COA 13 COA Alumna Heads for the National Stage Chellie Pingree '79 is on the move in Maine By Donnie Mullen '97 t home in an old white farmhouse a stone's A throw from the ferry landing on Maine's North Haven Island, Chellie Pingree '79 serves pan- cakes to her daughters Hannah and Cecily over a black slate countertop that could be a century old. As she drinks coffee from a Ball jar, Pingree is play- fully maternal with her grown daughters (son Asa lives in New York City), chatting about the wheat allergy that she and Hannah share, Cecily's brood of turkeys, the day's headlines - read aloud by Maine District 36 State Representative Hannah. They seem to genuinely enjoy each other's company. 14 COA MainerswillrememberPingreemostrecentlyforherdetermined, if unsuccessful, run against incumbent Senator Susan Collins in 2002 Pingree'sdriveandher"ofthepeople" messageturnedwhatmostini- allydeemedalostcauseintooneofthemostwatchedSenateracesin the nation. Previously, she was a popular state senator who held the District 21 seat from 1992 to 2000, rose to the rank of Senate Majority Leader, and was prevented from pursuing a fifth term by term limits. Over the last four years, she directed Common Cause, anon-partisan Washington, DC,concernedwithpromotingaprop- erly-rundemocracy. Currently, Pingree's name has reemerged in Maine as she sets her sights on the representative seat for the First Congressional District. The current representative, Democrat Tom Allen, is stepping down to runagainst Senator Susan Collins. Toolstopromotechange Asapolitician, Pingreedrawsupontheskills she learned from her thirty-five years of island life. Yet another considerable influ- "Inretrospect, Ididn'trealize ence came from enrolling in a brand-new howinterested Iwasinthe academic institution that championed stu- dent participation as a founding principle. processofdemocracy... COA, shesays,gaveherthetoolsnecessary topromotechangeintheworld. COAfedintereststhatldidn't retrospect, Ididn trealize howinter- ested I was in the process of democracy," knowlhad-thatledto saysPingree. COAfedintereststhatldidn't know -thatledtoeverythingelse. everythingelse." In 1971, freshoutofhighschool, sixteen- year-old Rochelle "Chellie" Johnson (she changed her first name to Chellie in 2000) came to North Haven from Minnesota with a group of friends to visit her friend Charlie Pingree. She neverleft. Fouryears later, Charlieand Chell married, andeven- (theydivorcedin 1994). Havingvisitedthecol- lege before it even started, Pingree applied to COA's inaugural class, thinking she'd become a science teacher on the island. She wrote her application on the back of a sheet cut from a roll of sardine wrapper paper. AlthoughPingreewasidentifiedasagreatmatchfortheschool, it was suggested that - as result of her early graduation from high school she acquire some college credit before entering COA. She accepted the offerasa personal challenge. made reallywant to go," she laughs. She took English and science courses at the UniversityofSouthernMaineandwasadmittedtothecollege'ssecond class. COA 15 File Photo North Haven, Maine While at COA, Pingree studied biochemistry, environmental law, plant science and business. She became botanist Fred Olday's assistant in the greenhouse and later studied farming under the noted four-sea- son organic farmer and former trustee, Eliot Coleman. As her interest in plants and how things grow flourished, her focus shifted from teacher to farmer. Meanwhile, she was an eager participant in the All College Meeting that governs the school. "We were always in some kind of debate," recalls Pingree. Whether it was about what was allowable on campus or where students could live, she realized that when students spoke, the administration actually listened. "If we protested the president, he felt really bad," she smiles. "I got this great fundamental education," she adds. "My classes real- ly did integrate into what became my life, which in many ways has been that of a generalist, interested in how decisions get made, in how sys- tems work and in the process of governing." Farmer, entrepreneur, public servant Pingree returned to North Haven with the vision of becoming a farmer and was soon running an organic vegetable and dairy farm. After a few years, her enterprising spirit transformed the farm into a knitting com- pany that would eventually blossom into North Island Designs. She employed local women to design and knit sweaters that were sold in an island-based shop. Sales quickly spread across the northeast. With an eye on increasing wages and employing more people, Pingree expand- ed the business by creating knitting kits and publishing pattern books for a national market. Pingree authored five of the books herself, color- fully lacing them with her essays of island life. She ran the business for twelve years and cites the experience as fostering her interest in eco- nomic development. 16 COA Inspired by the example of participatory governance at COA, Pingree started getting involved in the governance of her island home. She began speaking up at town meetings-everyone attended-then decided to get her feet wet with a run for tax assessor, a job no one else wanted. Over the years, she became a planning board member, school board chair and ambulance attendant. She founded the Arts and Enrichment Fund for the island school and helped to found the economic development nonprofit North Haven Development Corporation. Her interest in politics remained strictly local until one day in 1991 when she and teenage Hannah attended a political event in Portland that changed her path. The speaker was former Democratic Congresswoman Pat Schroeder of Colorado, who emphatically spoke about the shortage of good people in politics. Pingree thought of her school board work on North Haven, of how people with varying per- spectives were able to produce good decisions. Just as she was consid- ering this, a Democratic Party loyalist approached her, drumming up candidates for the upcoming season. How could she possibly run for office? She was going full steam with her business and raising a family. Yet something resonated. "Hannah," she turned to her daughter, "what do you think?" "Mom, you should go for it!" was the reply. And that she did. Photo by Donnie Mullen Mother and daughter politicians at home on North Haven. Hannah Pingree is in her third term as representative from Maine District 36. She is also Maine's House Majority Leader. COA 17 WINT Maine Rx Pingree's first campaign was as grassroots as they come. She knocked on five thousand doors during what she calls" that incredible political year." Her opponent was well liked, but a debate foible on his part became a turning point. He labeled Pingree "Alice in Wonderland," questioning the validity of North Haven's economy, which resounded as laughable when held against Pingree's successful North Island Designs. ordspreadfast. When shereturnedhome, supporters held up "Welcometo Wonderland" signs. Although Pingreehadn'tplannedforacareerinpolitics,herdogged nature, the genesis of her leadership voice at COA, years of involve- ment with the North Haven community and her knack for relating small-townMainetolargerissues,formasequencethatfeelsgenuine, as the heerwill of the her as vant.Now,havinggainedtheskillsandexperiencetobesuccessfulina legislature, shefeelsobligatedtocontinuethework."I'mnotinterest edinthetitle," shesays,"onlyinwhatlcandowiththejob." In the Maine Senate, Pingree was best known for her attention to health care. In 2000, she tirelessly to pass Maine Rx, aground- eakingbillthatforceddrugcompaniestonegotiateprescriptiondrug prices with the state. The pharmaceutical lobby challenged the law- - arguing that a preauthorization clause could limit Medicaid patients' access to drugs-and won an injunction that postponed the bill's 18 COA implementation. An appeals court then reversed the injunction - a decision that was later upheld by the United States Supreme Court. Maine Rx also generated grumbling at the federal level. "The Department of Health and Human Services didn't want to see states thinking creatively about how to expand Medicaid access," recalls Pingree. Finally, in 2004, a revised version of the bill - Maine Rx Plus wasmadeavailabletoanestimated275,000eligibleresidents Pingree also helped organize bus trips to Canada so Mainers could buy prescription drugs for prices far lower than what was availabl in- state, at savings. She continues to be amazed that theUnitedStatesistheonlyWesternnationthatdoesn'tnegotiatepric- ingwithdrugcompanies. "It's like sitting on an airplane and you're the only one paying full price," shenotes. Standingforwhatshebelievesin Pingree has a knack for passing progressive legislation. In 1998, she championed a bill that forced corporations to make public any tax preaksorsubsidiestheyreceivedfromthestate.Shelaterusedtheb as a means to go after corporate tax shelters. This legislation and the MaineRxlawwerebothusedasmodelsbyotherstates. "The democratic system is hungry for leadership," says Pingree. If you "stand for what you believe in, people will be "It'sasifCOAwastheperfect gratefulthatyoustoodforsomething"- evenwhenyourconstituentsdon'tagree collegeforme.ltwasn'tjust thyou.Politicianshavebecomeknown for their lack of backbone, she says, and thattheytaughtusthisnotion she will have none of it. "Backbone usu- allymeansyouhavetostanduptosome- ofhumanecologyandhow body,evenifit'syourowncolleagues." Asastatesenator,Pingree'ssmalltown everythingisintegrated,we experience-where everyone plays a roleinlocalgovernment-stuckwithher. werelivingitandactuallyhad "You have to be grounded somewhere awaytoeffectchange." when doing public office work," says Pingree, who adds she always kept the thoughts of her neighbors in the back of mind during eryears in the legislature. It was her policy to explain her votes to constituents. They didn' italways agreewith her, but shewas often thanked for clari- fyingherreasoning.andshecontinuedtoholdherseat,thoughherdis- trictwas40percentRepublican,40percentIndependentand20percent Democrat. For Pingree, dedication to her community is a recurring theme. Steve Katona, COA founding faculty member and former president, says that the same poise, confidence and leadership that has been Pingree'ssignatureasapoliticianwaspresentwhenshewasastudent. "Sheisaparagonofhowpeopleshouldbeinvolvedincommunity" he says. Katona recalls Pingree's ability to engage with people who held COA 19 different perspectives than her own in a frontational way. She genuinely wanted to learn something that she could incorporate into herownview. "Ihopesherunsforpresident," headds. Thecallofpublicservice ngree says that she considered her legislative position as the closest thing to a calling she has ever experienced. She thrived on debate, on publicspeakingandontheregularcontactwithherconstituents.ltwas difficult, requiring unconscionably long hours and a thick skin to deal with the requisite political fights and enemies, yet she still woke up excited to go to work every day. When term limits ended her service, shesaysshefeltlikeshehadbeenlaidoff. Pingree chose to work for Common Cause after the 2002 election because," "Youhavetobegrounded wanted to stay in the political fight." somewherewhendoing While at the helm, she was the public face for upholding. a fair democraticsys publicofficework." tem. Although she enjoyed the role and lauds the cause, ultimately she doesn't wanttorunanorganization,shewantsto represent herself, and erconstituents, asane lected official. Pingree's vision for 2008 starts with the premise that Democrats will take back the Whitel Congress. She sees Iraq and the environment as major issues. Opposed to the war from the beginning, she believes the United States' international rela- tions have to be restoredand laments that the international communi- Statesamo Ourrelation- shipwithChina,dependenceonoil,foodtoxicityclimatechange,farm- ing, fisheries. erlistgoeson. "I'm very interested in state and local issues," Pingree says, but she believes that the current political climate necessitates a national and internationalfocus. Health care, she says, is like an eight-hundred-pound gorilla. "I'm tired of dancing around it. I don't want it to distract us for another decade. It's a non-debate. Just do it." She's comfortable supporting a single-payer system butnoted majority of Congress will need to findcommongroundbeforeheadwayismade.YetPingreeisnotafraid topushtheissue.Shecitedthegovernment'scurrentadministration of Medicare- at a lower cost than private insurance-as proof that a wider-reachinghealthcareplancouldbefederallyoverseenaffordably. When held up against the war in Iraq, she says, the argument that we can'taffordnationalcoverageisanobvioushypocrisy. 20 COA Creating policy is beyond smart ideas, it's about garnering support from colleagues and the public, building buzz and following momen- tum. "There's not one perfect formula for policy," she notes, "it's about persistence, strategy and being that nippy dog that won't let go." The successful passing of Maine Rx, she says, was connected to a story in the New York Times, saving the bill from a possible veto by the gover- nor. "Knowledge is critical," Pingree adds, "but understanding the process of change, getting along with others and working as an effective leader is paramount." In 2008, it's likely that the primary will be a more difficult race than the actual election. As result of the Maine Democrats not having a party boss, Tom Allen's seat may bring as many as seven candidates. Only some 60,000 people will probably go to the polls, so the winner could be decided by a minimum of votes. But Pingree enjoys the constant conversation with voters that is the essence of campaigning. "I start in a good position. I have experience campaigning and raising money," she says. "I've spent a lot of time in front of the media and my DC experi- ence is a plus. I'll work harder than anyone else." Back on North Haven, Pingree stands to let out Willie, Hannah's black lab, and continues talking. "It's as if COA was the perfect college for me. It wasn't just that they taught us this notion of human ecology and how everything is integrat- ed, we were living it and actually had a way to effect change." What she learned at COA continues to ring true: "I see the world as a system and we all play a role in that system." Donnie Mullen ('97) is a freelance writer and photographer living in midcoast Maine. Additional photos courtesy of Chellie Pingree. COA 21 sea from Gilded Age gatherings to COA campus center by Donna Gold 22 I COA hins hat joy it used to be to escape from W the ever-increasing stress and tur- moil of our winter home to the sea- girt island of Mount Desert, where we finally built a summer residence at Bar Harbor on the shores of Frenchman Bay, after many confer- ences with our architect, that fine artistic spirit, Mr. Arthur Rotch, of Boston! I called our pictur- esque cottage (which went on from year to year expanding with our needs) Sea Urchins, partly to justify the avowed intention of teaching our lads to know and live the water life of the island and also because in the spot where Mr. Rotch drove the stake for the corner-stone of our dwelling we dislodged a large cache of sea urchins' shells, left there by birds who had flown with them from the shore forty feet away. - Mrs. Burton Harrison (1843-1920) Recollections Grave and Gray, 1911 And so, in 1886, was born Sea Urchins, known to generations of COA students as Ryles, after its previous owners, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ryle, recent home to the campus pool table in the Rathskeller. Sea Urchins is now under reconstruction as Deering Common, COA's new campus center. Photo courtesy of Raymond Strout COA 23 Photo courtesy of Bar Harbor Historical Society With its exceptional stone entrance nook, wood-paneled walls, light- house stairwell and stage-like porch overlooking Frenchman Bay, Sea Urchins carries a storied history of parties attended by, among many others, the magazine impresario Conde Nast, conductor Walter Damrosch and Damrosch's father-in-law, neighbor James Blaine, a United States Senator and Secretary of State. And yet, it took unusual vision, and almost sleight-of-hand creativity, along with flexibility and will-COA hallmarks all-to preserve this historic Rotch and Tilden building from the wrecking ball. 11th-hour save COA needed housing; Sea Urchins, with stairs everywhere, doors leading literally nowhere, seven level changes and a spongelike stucco exterior that seeped up moisture and held it in, was too eccentric, too far from code, to be useable for dorms. With palpable sadness, at a 2004 All College Meeting, the community voted to let it be torn down, allow- ing new, environmentally sustainable housing to be built in its place. Fast forward three years to the week before the college was sched- uled to bring the Kathryn W. Davis Student Residence Village to the Bar Harbor Planning Board. Groundbreaking for the housing complex and the associated razing of Sea Urchins, was already scheduled. It was late on a Sunday night; Millard Dority, COA's director of buildings and grounds, was looking at the Sea Urchins floor plans in his home office. He placed the broad pages on his floor. Was it the late hour? The angle at which the plans lay? Too much coffee? Suddenly Dority saw some- thing he never before noticed: By removing and relocating the 24 COA Sea Urchins 1900; photo courtesy of COA Rathskeller wing (a temporary student lounge project he had been working on with former trustee John Rivers, who now serves as coun- sel to the president on architecture), a number of the level changes in Sea Urchins would just go away. The building could become accessi- ble-maybe it could be saved. Dority then met with Sarah Luke, associate dean of student life, to see if she agreed that Sea Urchins might become the other key piece of COA's campus plan, a longed-for campus center with a café, dedicated offices for counselors, medical practitioners and COA student life staff. She did. It could also hold music practice rooms, senior project space. The elegant, wood-paneled first floor rooms could become COA's living room, a place for students, faculty and staff to gather at any hour of day or night. Dority brought the idea to COA president David Hales. Hales-a deep believer in historic preservation-brought it to the family that had already made a significant donation to the campus center, which was to have been located on the south lawn, between Kaelber Hall and Turrets. The family was delighted. They'd much rather use their money to pre- serve a historic building while also delivering a campus center for COA. The trustees, too, were pleased. On July 28, 2007, COA's board of trustees voted to proceed with the creative re-use of Sea Urchins as Deering Common, slated to open September 2008, along with the new student housing. How breathlessly the first owner of the building, Constance Cary Harrison-better known as Mrs. Burton Harrison-would have written about this last-minute save, this triumph of creativity! COA I 25 Toby Hollis Photo Socialite, southern belle and novelist Harrison was a novelist, socialite and southern belle best known for two striking acts, and her marriage. As a teen-aged BARBOR DAYS girl, she sewed one of the first three Confederate flags raised in battle. Soon after the war was over, she married Col. Burton Harrison, the private secretary to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. The second act came in 1883, when Harrison was a member of New York society, raising money for the Statue of Liberty. She convinced Emma Lazarus to contribute a poem to the fundraising efforts for the Statue of Liberty. Lazarus resisted. According to Harrison, "She declared she could think of nothing suitable, was mutinous and inclined to be sarcastic, when I reminded her of her visits to the Russian and other refugees at Ward's Island, the newly arrived immigrants whose sad lot had so often excited her sympathy. At once her brow cleared, her eye lightened. She became gentle and tender in a moment, and, going away, soon after sent me 'The New BY Colossus" the poem that now graces Liberty's pedestal. MRS. BURTON HARRISON The complexities and contradictions within Harrison's life are certainly apt for a college of human ecology, a college that considers all sides of an issue and examines all assumptions. Yes, Harrison was a staunch Confederate supporter-but her maternal grandfather, Thomas, the ninth Lord of Fairfax, was the first gentleman in Virginia to manumit his slaves. A devout follower of Emanuel Swedenborg, the 26 COA Swedish philosopher, scientist and Christian mystic, Fairfax is said to have taught each of his freed slaves a trade. The self-sufficient ones were sent to Liberia at his expense. Her grandfather on her father's side was a nephew of Thomas Jefferson who married Jefferson's ward. And listen to what Harrison has to say about meeting Abraham Lincoln: "Budding secessionist although I was, I can distinctly remem- ber that the power of Abraham Lincoln's personality then impressed itself upon me for a lifetime. Everything faded out of sight beside the apparition of the new President, towering at the entrance of the Blue Room. He held back the crowd a minute, while my hand had a curious feeling of being engulfed in his enormous palm, clad in an ill-fitting white kid glove. He said something kind to his youthful visitor, and over his rugged face played a summer lightning smile. We passed on, and I saw him no more till he drove past our house in captured Richmond, in an ambulance, with his little son upon his knee." Harrison's lively descriptions illuminate more than two dozen books and a volume of her memoirs, Recollections Grave and Gray, set prima- rily in Richmond during the Civil War. In it, she speaks of the war from a young Confederate woman's perspective. She talks of parties peo- pled by such Confederate luminaries as Gen. Robert E. Lee and President Jefferson Davis-which may be how the young Miss Cary met Davis's secretary, the New Orleans native and recent Yale graduate, Burton Harrison. But she also mentions beginning to write serialized romances for local magazines, and the hours spent in makeshift hospi- tals caring for the wounded of this wrenching war. When the war ended, many a southerner moved away from the ruined South, among them Burton Harrison, who studied for the New York bar and then took Constance Cary as his bride. She was not a beautiful woman. A contemporary biographer wrote of her, "So little distinction is there in her personal appearance that the passer-by would not look a second time at the middle-aged woman in the simple attire, yet such is her mingled grace and charm of manner that to see and know is but to admire with ever-increasing appreciation." Burton Harrison eventually became something of a hi-tech lawyer of his day: secretary and counsel of New York's first Rapid Transit Toby Hollis Photo Commission, as well as counsel to the Western Union Telegraph Company and the New York Telephone Company. Meanwhile, his wife stepped into New York society, studying singing, immersing herself in amateur theatrical events, serving on various charitable boards and resuming the writing career she had begun during the war, always under the name Mrs. Burton Harrison. Clear, sparkling dialogue Though her plots were often formulaic, even wooden, Harrison's prose glows. A contemporary critic, Henry N. Snyder, writing in 1903, com- mented, "For clear, sparkling dialogue-the real talk of real persons- Mrs. Harrison is unsurpassed among writers who are now doing fiction work. Certainly no other American writer makes dialogue sustain so important a relation to the story." And clearly she loved the woods and brooks around Mount Desert Island, featured in at least one short story, "Golden-Rod: An Idyll of Mount Desert" and the novel, Bar Harbor Days. The latter begins at Duck Brook: The place was a deep dell between two wooded hillsides covered with last year's leaves, and decked with ferns and vines and berries of the summer just passed. COA 27 Toby Hollis Photo Through this hollow ran a glorious mountain brook, ice- cold and sparkling from its parent lake above. Starting high amid the hills, it had stolen away under clumps of lady's-slip- pers, ferns, and pitcher-plants growing strong and tall to shel- ter its vagaries, and dashed headlong down the rocks. Here and there its waterfalls would hush their tumult in deep pools where trout lurked, and at midsummer boys rejoiced to plunge in for a swim. Thence, parting in a hun- dred wilful streamlets, it coursed towards the sea, between the mossy rocks that lined its bed, reuniting to laugh, to fret, to foam, to tinkle, until the great deep silenced it forever. Rotch, the architect of Sea Urchins, joined with George Tilden in 1880 to create the firm Rotch and Tilden, which also designed St. Saviour's Episcopal Church, in downtown Bar Harbor. At one time, there were twenty-one Rotch and Tilden cottages in Bar Harbor. Today, only seven survive. The firm also designed many buildings used for educational purposes, including the Meteorological Observatory in Milton, Massachusetts, the Wellesley College Art Museum, and Jesup Hall at Williams College. The firm was known for using native materials in a picturesque, even romantic manner, and for the richly varied treat- ments given to the interiors. Burton Harrison died in 1904. His wife lived on until 1920. Sea Urchins was her favorite place to write, and it was there, in 1911, that she completed her memoirs. The family connection to the island dwin- dled, however. One son, Francis Burton Harrison, became governor- general of the Philippines. After Harrison died, Sea Urchins was sold to Parker Corning, a congressman from Albany, New York, who was also a founder of the Albany Felt Company and a principal of Ludholm Steel. In renovating Sea Urchins for his own use, he involved Beatrix Farrand, who not only made plans for gardens surrounding the cottage, but 28 COA ventured some architectural ideas as well. The last owners, the Ryles, deeded it to the college in 1975. Adapting the historic Sea Urchins into Deering Common will further COA's tradition of reusing historic properties-and continue the cultur- al energy of plays and readings that so engaged the Harrisons. Triumph of human ecology "It's what human ecology is about-building the new, preserving the old," said trustee emeritus Cathy Ramsdell '78, when she heard of the plans to cancel what would have been a brand-new $8.6 million campus center, in favor of historic reconstruction of Sea Urchins. "For 2.4 mil- lion-a fraction of the cost of the original campus center-we can adap- tively reuse this beautiful, historic building and have the facilities we need, right in the heart of the residential part of campus, and through it truly embrace history." With the help of Bar Harbor architect (and former COA faculty mem- ber) Stewart Brecher and architectural designer Barbara Sassaman '78, the creative reuse will preserve such endearing historic details of the original Sea Urchins as the bricked-in entrance, the hefty beams, broad fireplaces and massive windows. Salvaged wood paneling will finish off sections of the remaining structure. The staircase tower will form spe- cial, circular spaces on each floor. With an elevator, regulation staircas- es and additional entrances, the building will be fully accessible. But the centerpiece will be the ground-floor lounge, with its paneled walls and brick terrace overlooking Frenchman Bay, as elegant and storied a hangout as any college student could hope to have. And when students gath- er for the informal talent evenings known as open mics, they'll be playing their flutes and guitars where Walter Damrosch once performed, alongside poets and actors who graced the salons of Paris and stages of New York City. Furthermore, Deering Common will showcase the latest in the adaptation of green technology to historic reuse. All Toby Hollis Photo windows will be triple-paned, except for those of historic importance, which will be double-paned. Two inches will be added to the interior of every exterior wall, thus accommodat- ing six-and-a-half-inches of insulation to better conserve heat, which will come via hot water heated by wood pellets. All energy used in the building will be renewable. Wall finishes will have few or no volatile organic compounds. All the college lacks now is for Mrs. Burton Harrison to stitch the COA logo on a flag to fly from the roof of her beloved Sea Urchins, soon to be renamed Deering Common, a task she would probably have taken up with great energy and an accompanying story or two. This article could not have been written without the help of Jane Hultberg, Trisha Cantwell-Keene and Ingrid Hill of COA's Thorndike Library. COA 29 katrinazarate From her senior project, "En-Visioning Art, Theory, and Literature" n the morning when she I awoke she saw the infec- subject's experience of things out tion float by as black dots. A gray-to-black curtain falling in lying. her left eye that blocked out everything but her own body. This curtain was her retina and each day she watched it lower Dying is th as if it were the end of a play, ubject's movement toward disin the play of her vision. Being forced to stare at the theater of her own body made the world outside her harder to under- lying is the future death is tl stand. When others would try to speak to her, her vision got in e dead is a past act. the way. The curtain of her body continually distracted and muf- fled the sounds of those out- Death is interlocked with side. All she could do was to watch the fluids rush in and the memory spark retina detach, to look inward as the acts unfolded and the cur- "re-member tain came down. She decided to paint her eyesight, not what she lying bast an saw but how she saw it. Whatever painting resulted would be tinged with her body. -KZ 30 COA "Katrina Zarate's study of vision, ze can be grasped through alter memory and blindness became a mixed-media installation that st there to see. filled the Ethel H. Blum Gallery choice to overflowing last spring with original paintings, prose-poems, and the mechanisms of distor- tion that reflected her own basses both inward and outward encounter with optical dysfunc- tion and recovery. Her works betwe took the viewer into the cross- is roads of time and theory that lie when ody or behind the distorting eye, bring- ing us through eye damage to a white Massing and body this who new levels of sight and insight." ~Bill Carpenter, Advisor and co-teacher with Dru Aduse th Colbert of the Spring, 2007 COA class, "The Eye and the Poet," where parts of Zarate's project were ecom presented and refined. or kes be named when outward S ht se 7 I am attemptin to alter the Land and. Details from Katrina Zarate's senior project; mixed media: painting, sculpture, writing, distortion COA 31 32 | COA catching the wind always refer to wrestling season as the dark age. It occurs during By Scott Beebe '09 I winter when there is minimal light. I walk to school in the morning as the sun rises and leave wrestling practice well after the sun sets, so I would hardly ever feel the sunbeams grace my skin. Maybe on a weekend if there wasn't a wrestling tournament, but even so I would usually stay cooped up at home like an angry, emaciated hermit. Being with others who could be happy with their full bellies just pissed me off even more. In the darkness I am possessed with turning my faucet on high and constantly draining my body, sucking myself clean. Before winter clouds settle I am a lean one hundred thirty pounds, almost every ounce of it skin, bone, guts and muscle. Less than a week and a half into season, I am one hundred three pounds, every ounce of it pale skeleton. Pale except for violet raccoon rings around my eyes, dark bruises and deep red scratches all across my starchy skin. I even cut weight while I sleep. Before collapsing into bed, I slide on a pair of long underwear. And then I pull another pair of long under- wear over that along with a pair of cotton socks. To this base-layer of insulation I add three pairs of sweatpants and three sweatshirts, the out- ermost a hoodie. Tightly tucking all but the hoodie under four or five waistbands I finish with two pairs of woolen socks over the cotton, a winter hat on my head with hoodie tied over tight and knit gloves on my hands so the small bubble of my face is the only skin exposed. I posi- tion my bed in the direct flow of the heat vent, not so close that the mat- tress blocks the stream of warm air, but just close enough so the stream pours from the vent and drifts over to engulf my body on its swirling journey to the highest reaches of my room. I cocoon my padded self inside a heap of thick blankets over flannel and lie wondering if sleep will ever smother the flames. This is easy weight loss, I shrink overnight. But my dreams are brilliant orange and yellow, purely embers, coals and flames, as if gazing into a wood burning stove. I dream Hell, but that seems reality right now, night or day, sleep or awake. And Hell is so intense I fall to only the superficial layers of sleep Facing page: Reunion, detail 8 x 4 x 3 feet deep, mixed media From the series Mythological Stages By Jason Harrington '96 COA I 33 I wake in the morning wearing a saline tepid all my wrestling gear, I bypass the kitchen. I can't pond. The wad of wool and cotton has swelled face the temptation. If I go in there I know I'll take between one pound and two, leeching some of a swig of orange juice or shove a handful of the depleted waters from my body. I strip the lay- gummy bears into my mouth and if I taste a taste, ers of clothes all at once, which takes much effort I won't be able to stop until I have a few tastes since all the elastic bands team against my jelly more. muscles. I make for the shower to rinse the cello- I walk to school against hostile winds, satu- phane sensation of cold sweat and evaporated rated with snow, overburdened with my pack of salts from my skin. Cool, clear water streams over hardcover texts and wrestling gear. Every two my face and runs little rivulets over my parched, steps it seems the wind blows me back one. My splitting lips. My swollen sandpaper tongue tries boots slip in the inches of slush and I watch them to deceive me, and as dehydrated as I am, it takes intently, for if I look up I'll get a face full of cold, my full and active concentra- wet snow and some will proba- tion to keep my lips locked, to bly blow down the neck of my keep from drinking the water. If shirt too. It will lodge between I fade from that concentration "Right now | could my chest and shirt and the cold for an instant, my lips will open will drip down my belly as it to allow that soothing, divine eat cardboard and melts. By the time I reach liquid to slip inside. Cutting Styrofoam and my school, my skin is dripping melt weight is mind over body, mind water and my jacket, pants and away, banished from body. I body would utilize bags might as well be of a step out of the shower and every nutrient, snowman built by automobiles attempt to open my floodgates. spinning their tires towards a Pushing as hard as I can in that every molecule." collective heap. My homeroom special delicate way, I feel a is on the third floor. I drag each spurt of thick, deep yellow foot slowly and deliberately up urine expel. Its passing burns. I each of the seventy-two steps. I try to make myself shit. I push count each one in my mind, and push and push, grunting like a pig trying to fit every ascent. Each one tortures my burning thighs his rotund body through the little square door of and calves. My muscles burn for water, but all I can a chicken coop. But like the childhood toy with give them is more lactic acid. At the summit, my different shapes and a hammer, you can't force a back hunches over, my shoulders hanging a foot circle through a square and you can't shit unless beyond my toes. I reach my locker and shrug my you eat enough for your body to find extra stuff it shoulders, simply allowing my bags to slip off and doesn't need. Right now I could eat cardboard and crash on the floor. My body is dead worn and it's Styrofoam and my body would utilize every nutri- not even first period yet. ent, every molecule. Classes pass in a dizzy haze, my jaw hangs Over in my parents' bathroom I step on the loosely open, my eyelids half shut and my mind scale with conservative anticipation. 108. I have to forgets to blink regularly, so my eyes fog over and lose five more pounds for tomorrow's meet, suck I see everything through a rain-covered wind- back down to 103. This realization relieves my shield. When lunchtime rolls around I go to the metabolism; five pounds is a moderate weight to library. I would become miserable watching hun- drop in a day. Gathering my books for school and dreds of fat, chubby kids shoving their greedy 34 COA mouths full of sandwiches and pizza and tacos, him in the ribs. I crossface his nose and grind my potato chips and fries, cookies and candy, guzzling forearm into his cheek. juice, milk, and soda. Everyone whose ribs aren't After two and a half hellish hours on the mat so prominent you could play the bones like a xylo- we clean up and head to the hallways to run. After phone and whose cheeks aren't so cavernous a practice on the mat I can't believe there is anything mouse might find them a cozy spot to nest if their left in me to run, but my body moves despite my head was tilted sideways, is a bloated walrus to me. disbelieving mind. We run up the hall, up the As soon as the day's final bell rings I prepare stairs, down the hall above and down the stairs in myself for the whistles of my coaches, dreaded a continuous loop. We usually run about twenty whistles that make me run, sprawl, shoot, perform minutes. I run the hardest and lap everybody, the countless other surprises. In the locker room I faster kids only once or twice and the fatter kids strip down and check my weight. I drifted two enough to lose count. When my coaches decide pounds during the day, rather we have run enough, they stop substantial I'd say. At one hun- us one by one and I am usually dred six, if I lose three pounds "Every second the first allowed to stop since I during practice I can gain a during practice run the hardest. But today the pound tonight, drift that pound coaches have a different idea. overnight, and be back down to | am ready to lie After fifteen minutes, Coach one hundred three by morning down and die, but Bauer begins to run with us. He for weigh-ins. is fresh since he hasn't been I'll have to wear sweats for something inside running, practicing, and most practice to lose three pounds, urges me on, notably, he doesn't starve and which I'm not fond of because although I'm really dehydrate himself. The game I'd rather be able to focus on my today is this: when we pass technique than a fiery inferno. I pissed for having Coach Bauer, we're allowed to wear my hoodie even, so I can to do so." stop running and are done for trap all the heat trying to escape the day. One by one the other from my head. Wrestling stress- kids gradually catch up to him. es every muscle and even tiny movements in my They haven't been running as hard as me, so they dehydrated, emaciated state require tremendous burst with the last of their energy and reach him. effort and inspiration. I fucking hate my coaches By now though, I'm so empty it's hard for me to get for every whistle they blow, commanding me like a near him. When I do almost reach him, he speeds bumblebee drone to take another shot or lift my up a little and makes some distance between us. I partner clear off the mat up and down, up and push hard with any remaining energy and will I no down and so on. Every second during practice I am longer have and get close again, but he speeds up ready to lie down and die, but something inside even more. This silly game continues for about five urges me on, although I'm really pissed for having minutes. My vision blurs to black and back again, to do so. My partner is a good partner too, he then back to black. With every bound I expect my makes it hard for me; he makes me try with all I knees to give way and my body collapse on the have every time. He's detestable. So I fly at him in hard linoleum floor. I never realized my wrestling a carefully designed fury. I drive him down on the coach was pure evil until now. I hope he trips and mat and when he won't let me turn him I punch smashes his face on the fucking floor. But he does- COA 35 n't falter, he maintains his twisted game. By now consumption without pleasure. I eat a bowl of he's let everyone else catch up to him, even our fat pasta with just enough sauce to sense the taste. kid. They all look on as I throw each foot ahead of The pasta is probably three or four tenths of a me, death on my face and desperation in my flail- pound. Now I need some protein. I take the path ing limbs. of liquid since that is all my body really wants. A I've had enough. I search deep inside and glass of milk is about another half pound. I cherish discover a hidden reserve of anger that fuels my every sip, quenching my parched mouth. I feel the stamina and I speed up. I get close and my vision cold of the liquid drain down my throat and pass gives way as my body focuses its energy to my legs through the veins of my chest. I feel it inside, trav- and arms. I finally catch him right before a turn, eling its path all the way to my belly. It is so good I but there's nothing left in me to stop my momen- can't help myself from drinking more. I drink a tum. I weakly raise my arms in front of me and whole Gatorade and guilt by gluttony consumes close my eyes to brace for impact. My weakened me all the while. I'm still thirsty but I can't indulge arms do nothing but contract like accordions as I anymore. That Gatorade probably pushed my collide with the wall. The anger weight above the limit. I check flows through me into the wall my weight on my parents' scale. as I crunch and land on the One hundred five. I won't drift floor. "Once again two pounds overnight, espe- "Yeah I'm fine." I don't | lock my lips cially when I'm so emaciated know if I think it or say it, and if and sucked out. So I draw a hot I do say it who knows if there is or my mouth will bath, steaming hot. I turn a enough strength in my voice for start drinking portable heater on high and him to hear me. We jog slowly shut the door, turning my bath- back to the rest of the team, the hot sweat room into a sauna. I put on a who all lean exhausted against as it drips down winter hat and dip my toe in the the wall. As the coaches give their final spiel about the meet my face." water. It burns so bad. I slowly immerse myself in the hot tomorrow, I keep my hood soup; my body boils but after a pulled tightly over my head and minute it just turns to hot. I pace back and forth, bounce up soon start dripping with sweat and down, trying to keep my sweat going to lose as in the steamy room. Once again I lock my lips or much weight as I can. I have a little more energy my mouth will start drinking the hot sweat as it now that practice is over and I can finally go home. drips down my face. Every second in the bath is We go back to the locker room and I strip off my torture. My body just can't take the heat any sweaty clothes and step on the scale. One hun- longer. I go to my room, lie in front of the open dred two. Fuck yes! I lost four pounds during prac- window and cover my body with icepacks as the tice and I will be able to consume a little more winter windows blow over me. The cold carries my tonight than I had originally planned. imagination to images of the icy deserts of At home I fix some pasta. My body desper- Heaven. ately needs the carbohydrates for some energy for In the morning I immediately strip and check tomorrow's meet. I drain it viciously, trying to my weight on my parents' scale. If I'm over, I'm shake every last drop of water from the noodles. going to have to run their treadmill before I leave Every drop will add more weight, and it's weight for school. But I'm dead on. The walk to school will that I won't really feel as I eat-wasted weight- probably even get me slightly under-which is 36 COA good because our school nurse does the morning probably drink the blood straight from her weigh-ins and she doesn't let us drop our boxers wounded forehead, I'm so thirsty. anymore if we're a point or two over. That hap- She pops back out with a handful of en- pened once with our two hundred fifteen- velopes and flyers and walks to the office door. pounder and by God she made sure it wouldn't When I hear the click of the unlocking, all the happen again. I get to school at least a half hour violent pressure building in my veins releases. We before homeroom starts and sit in the main hall all crowd the door trying to get through first, get- across from the locked nurse's office. She doesn't ting stuck and squeezing through the corporal usually arrive until right before first bell, but I'm blockade one at a time. We all pile in the back definitely going to be here the minute she gets in. room and get undressed. It isn't easy, a pack of After the morning weigh-in, we receive a three- wrestlers untying ties, unbuttoning shirts and pound allowance to gain during the day before the untying nice shoes-our dress for meet days. meet begins and I'm fiending for some of my There's not much room and everyone's bumping lunch and some juice like a doper locked in into each other, hopping on one leg trying to pull prison. My feet shake at the off the other pant leg. We race ankles like a pair of maracas each other to be in the front of and I grind my teeth loud the line to weigh in so we can enough to hear five feet away. "My feet shake get back and dig into our food, Soon almost the whole team at the ankles like still in our underwear. If we all lines both sides of the hall weren't in so much of a hurry where the expensive and super- a pair of maracas this would go much quicker. accurate wrestling scale waits, and | grind my We walk in our boxers to where cord ready to be jammed into the socket. We all watch intent- teeth loud enough the scale is, pushing and budg- ing each other out of the way ly down the far end of the hall to hear five feet trying to get closest to the scale. that leads from the teachers' away." But no one really bothers me. parking lot and as soon as she I'm cutting the most weight so I turns the corner we jump like stand right in front while the wild dogs on a piece of bloody others fight for positioning raw meat. She comes down the hall and a eupho- behind me. We hear the nurse from the other ria of anticipation surges through my body. That room, "You guys ready for me in there?" bath last night left me really dehydrated; I could "Yes!" Another moment passes and she practically peel my whole lips right off. The nurse enters timidly with her notebook. I step on the comes towards us, but suddenly she turns into scale. 102.9. I made it by a few drops of water. the main office, probably checking her mailbox, that numb inconsiderate woman. If she were as Scott Beebe wrote this piece as part of a longer autobiography half-starved as us she wouldn't even have the written in the Winter, 2007 "Autobiography" class taught by energy to get out of bed and make herself some Bill Carpenter. food. One minute she's in there, then two, Jason Harrington is a professor and filmmaker teaching film and video at Framingham State College. An earlier piece in this three-who's she fucking talking to? The nurse series is on display in the stairwell next to COA's Ethel H. Blum needs to realize her priorities. Every second my Gallery. Harrington recently screened his latest film, The Tree blood boils another degree. I want to bust in the With The Lights In It, at COA's Earth Day Alumni Film Festival. It can viewed online at www.digifestival.net. Or visit his web- office and crack her head against a desk. I'd site, www.sophiaproductions.com. COA 37 We Started from barren, crops won't grow-a real environmental wasteland and the mysterious answer to why it was happening was in the human heart-it was Square One something that humans had done wrong." DG: And so eventually you were hired. And that was for the 1971 pilot program? Excerpts from an oral history with founding faculty member Bill Carpenter BC: Yes. I was co-teaching with Sam Eliot. We Interviewed by Donna Gold taught Literature and Ecology in the old library, which was essentially a sun porch. The students had just said their names and suddenly Ed Kaelber's cat rushed in with a chipmunk in its jaws. I jumped up, released the chipmunk, batted the cat a few times and sat down again. Half the stu- dents said, "You shouldn't have done that." And half of them said, "That was great." And that was the first discussion of human intervention in nature that I know of at the college, based on a real world experience. DG: I was wondering how the early faculty shaped the school, and how you learned to teach human ecology? BC: Ed had the idea that the education would stem Photo by Donna Gold not from a theoretical matrix like "liberal arts," but would arise from real world problems. He called it "the art of acquisition of knowledge." The big thing we did, I think, was without ceasing to be a liberal arts college, to open the liberal arts up for further evolution. Bill Carpenter had a tenure-track position at the Then, in the summer of 1972, before the doors University of Chicago when he heard about COA. opened, the first faculty members were paid to be Intrigued, he joined the 1971 summer pilot pro- on campus together and plan-Linda Swartz, Dan gram, then took a leave of absence from Chicago Kane, myself and Steve Katona-without any stu- to become one of COA's four founding faculty dents at all. With the others that were around that members. He never left. summer-Ed, Mel Cote, Sam Eliot-we hammered out a curriculum, a plan of approach, an educa- Donna Gold: How did you hear about COA? tional philosophy. Bill Carpenter: I read about it in the Maine Times. DG: Where did you start? In the summer of 1970, they announced that a col- lege was being founded for human ecology. What BC: We started from square one and examined a concept. And I already worried that it was going every single element of a college's educational to be a science school, so I wrote and said, "I hope structure as it was brought back in. We considered that along with ecology, you are thinking of the everything. We considered not having any sched- humanities and of literature and how important uled classes; the college would be more like a pla- they are." The upshot of that was a visit from Ed tonic institute in which students and teachers and Pat Kaelber in Chicago. Ed said, "How in the would meet up with each other on spontaneous world would you connect literature to ecology?" occasions. That was hotly debated but lost out- And I said, "I would begin with Oedipus Rex. Look we were not averse to normalcy if it was useful. at the opening: the women can't have children, When the students arrived-and these were the cattle don't give any offspring, the land is thirty-two very strong personalities and gifted 38 COA students-theytookalookatwhatthefacultyhad whowritesasonnetorcomposesasonatarealizes doneandthefirstthingtheysaidwas, "Let'srevis- the liberation of form. I think what we had done iteverything!" So the actual shape of the college withoutreallyknowingitwasgivenformtoeduca- was really more of an amalgamation of what we tion,whichwasreallysufferinginitsformlessness. had conceptually worked out as faculty the first Itcouldnothandlethecrisesofthetime,theenvi- summer,andwhatthestudentsbroughtinduring ronmentalcrisis, the Vietnamcrisis. those first ACMs, becausethereweretumultuous andfrequentACMsinthebeginning. DG: Sodidyouevertrytodefinehumanecology? One group of students actually wanted to get credit for living in their apartment. They felt that BC: We knew right from the beginning that it the human ecology of their home was such a big be toouradvantagenottohave tdefined, challengethatitwascredit-worthy.Wehadamany toleaveanairofmysteryinit.ltgaveusanunsolv- anacademicpolicymeetingonthat,andwedecid- able theoretical problem to organize our school edyes, thattheycould. around, which has now. be solved. DG: Andhowdidthesenseofdemocracybeginat COA,thesenseofequality?Whostartedthecon- DG: There's something extremely poetic about ceptofACM? having a college defined by a concept that's not defined.Diditdemandanewkindofteaching? BC: That was actually laid down in the first sum- mer. In order to keep the students on an equal BC: I still think it does. It demands a teaching in basis, ACM would be one person, one vote. We whichimmediatelytheteachershavetosurrender alsodecidedthatwedidn'twantacurriculumwith their customary authority. Since at the time separatedisciplinesorafacultywithdepartments. nobody held a degree in human ecology, every Weconstruedhumanecologytomeantheoverly- single student was on the level of every teacher. ingequalityofallpartsoftheinstitution.Wewant- Noneofushadbeentrainedashumanecologists; ed to horizontalize, to wipe out the hierarchy the education we didn' have was what stu- structureofthetraditionaluniversity.Thecommit- twould begetting. So they in a position tee structure was a great part of this. All those to critique us, and they did! Nobody knew any committees leveryone to nvolvedand morehumanecologythananyoneelse,studentor haveaneffectivevoice. teacher.Wewerereallyco-learning. And I'm happy to say each year, don't know DG: Itsoundslikewhatyoucallthedemocracyof anythingabouthumanecology,let'sstartover." the college-the interdisciplinary, non-competi- tive,no-ranksnatureofthecollege-wasallwith- DG: Atthetime,youhadtakenaleaveofabsence intheconceptofhumanecology? from Chicago. Whatconvincedyoutostay? BC: Yes, we thought we were inventing human BC: My own first classes. They were a joyous ecologyanditseemedtoconferasenseofequal- changefromtheUniversityofChicago,wherethe ity. The old, orthodox liberal arts curriculum was studentswereverygood;butCOAstudentswere basicallysaying, "Thisiswhatknowledgeis, these unconstrained. The unique views that they arethesevenofficialbranchesofknowledge. "We broughtandpapersthattheywrotereallysnowed began all over again with problems in the real me. The efirstwinter, been Othello world. And we also had an over-arching, intellec- in one of my classes and a student wrote a paper tual theme. I don't think any other experimental showing that Othello and lago-those eternal collegetriedthat. enemies-were two halves of the same person. Thiswasaneighteen-year-oldCOAfreshman,Fran DG: Did you ever find it intellectually limiting to t'77.l'dneverreceivedapaperlikethatatthe havehumanecologyasCOA'smission? university. When gotthis paper Isaid, "I'm stay- inghere." BC: Anyartistknowsthatlimitationandexpansion are the same thing. The more you limit the form, thebroaderyoucanexpandthecontent.Anybody COA 39 poetry craig kesselheim '76 The day the lure of returning broke When I turned off the track that pierced the woods There was the forest itself. When I became still, crouched on a giving moss floor, stopped counting minutes, pulses, intervals the micro-moths on their business, the ants in their rigid trails, the Craig Kesselheim '76 impossible spruces only high as shoes, were all. lives with his family in Southwest Harbor and When I stayed beyond the patience of body, works on secondary the lure of returning, education reform for the there was a meal of bones, tissues George Mitchell Institute there was burrowing, egg-laying, feasting, fighting. in schools throughout the state. His wife, Beth It was no news at all. Dilley, who teaches at Mount Desert Island No hand, no lightness, no dream, no angel intervened High School, was diag- and I was returned, pulled by the lure that pierced this sensible life. nosed with leukemia in 2000 and is approaching her fifth year since receiving a stem cell transplant. Their daugh- ter is in college in New York, and their son will graduate from high school in the spring of 2008. 40 COA We need to be out here Purpose We need to be out here On my bicycle's passage You say on our walk the old woman Because we are animals in her yard is all I see You and I. Our bond has been the high cairns Not noting my own importance inukshuks, loons in arctic colors Inattentive to where my career muskoxen (their woolen skirts wild in a tundra wind) may lead and what the scrape of leaf on skin in deathfall its swath the scared shouldering over mountain passes dangerous with skree, define hail, wind She has ventured far Feeding our selves on water, cheese, each other. upheld on a Naming, loving, knowing the world, then seeking other corners. pronged cane well off the paved walk Our dog knows this woods road There is a sycamore leaf Walk ahead, you say to me now Alone Our dog runs up and back, crossing the space between us It fouls her pristine lawn. (Whom to shepherd?) Our separation lengthens A mile on, briefcased and creased Still the one road is our road nearly home I feel as the dog does I see her yet Our bond The cane knocks the leaf The leaf skitches on its points This thing that has slowed you - this cancer catches and settles would have taken an actual animal Her feet shuffle twice more by now. This is what she is doing today. But not you. My love. My wilderness partner. We need to be out here. COA 41 CLASS NOTES Josephine Todrank'76 isbackinMaineandwillstartafellowshipinthefieldof experimentalpsychologyresearchforretraininginolfactoryneuroscienceljustfoundl outthatmygrantproposaltostudycodingofcomplexsocialodorsinmicewillbe fundedbytheNationalInstitutesofHealth," shewrites. KarenRoy'77hasbeeninvolvedinscientificresearchinNewYorkState'sAdirondack Parkformorethantwentyyears,firstonthescientificstaffoftheAdirondackPark Agencyand,forthepastfiveyearsasaresearchscientistfortheNewYorkState DepartmentofEnvironmentalConservationandtheAdirondackLakesSurvey Corporation.KarencoauthoredAcidRainintheAdirondacks:AResearchSummary in 2005.ThephotoshowsKarenassheandprogrammanagerJedDuket(left)acceptthe 2006ConservationistoftheYearawardfortheAdirondackLakesSurveyCooperation fromBrianHouseal,AdirondackCouncilexecutivedirector,recognizingtheirmany yearsofintensiveandextensiveacidrainresearchintheAdirondacks. GarretConover's'78firstfictionbook, Kristin'sWilderness waspublishedinJune,2006. ItreceivedtheMaineLibraryAssociationsLupineAward. SajitGreene'80spenttwelvedaysontheColoradoRiverraftingthroughtheGrand Canyon."iIttrulywasagrandadventure.lreturnedtoDenverfeelingdeeplyinspired andrevitalized." Sajitcontinuestodevelopherpracticeasaprofessionalastrologer Shealsohelpspeoplecreatememorableweddingceremonies. FrankTwohill'80 worksasaspecialpublicdefenderattheBridgeportCriminalCourt nddoeshabeascorpusworkforConnecticutprisoners.RecentlyFrankhasreturnec ojuvenilelaw,whichheloves,atthejuvenilecourtinWaterford.AsCOAAlumni AssociationGoverningBoardmember,heiscommittedtoimprovingCOAalumni affairs.Thephotoshowsmembersoftheboard, MiljaBrecher-DeMuro, COAalumni relations-developmentcoordinator, HeatherMartin-Zboray'93,FrankTwohill'80, MichaelBoland'94,NoreenHogan'91,MikeStaggs'96,andKerriSands'02. Frank occasionallywriteshisCOANews,Views&GossipcolumnfortheCOATribeYahoo group.Stopby:franktwohill@hotmail.com;203-982-3099. unetBiondi81hasbeenlivinginMt.Shasta,Californiawithher14-year-olddaughter, Tessa,operatingBiondiAnglingArt&Apparel,anartandt-shirtcompanyusingfish printsoftroutspeciesprinteddirectlyoffofthefishinthetraditionofthegyotaku Japaneseprintingtechnique.Janetalsopublisheslimited-editionprintsofwildlife andlandscapepastels:www.biondiarts.com,andworksforCetos,colectingdataon whalesfortheNavysonarprogramonboardthesailingvessel,Dariabar,outof Honolulu. LizCunningham'82 andherhusbandCharliehopetogobacktoBelizeinDecemberto fish,diveandvisittheruinsatTikalinGuatemala.TheyareenjoyinglivinginWildcat CanyoninBerkeley,California,gettingouttothecoastwhentheycan.Bothofushave beenbusywithwritingprojects.Myworkontwochildren'sbooksisgoingwelland1 willhaveseveraldrawingsinanexhibitattheOaklandMuseumlaterthisyear" Pam(Cobb)Heuberger'83 istheowneranddirectorofthechildren'sCampRunoia. "Thecampbusinessisgreat-weprovideasafesummerplaceforagirltounplugand connectwiththegreatoutdoorsofMaine. Pamandherhusbandjustcelebratedtheir secondweddinganniversarywithaten-daysailingschoolcourse. Katrin(Hyman)Tchana'83 isaclinicalcasemanagerprovidingindividualandgroup 2008 EARTH DAY therapyinNewHampshire.In2006shepublishedthebook ChangingWomanandHer &ALUMNIWEEKEND Sisters:GoddessStoriesfromAroundtheWorld ,illustratedbyhermother. APRIL 18-20, 2008 KirstenBackstrom'84 isthedirectorofCompassPoints,offeringspiritualdirectionand Send usyourart, supporttothosecopingwithillness,lossorlifetransitions.Shehasrecentlystarted photography, film &videowork graduateschooltostrengthenthiswork."l'velivedaveryquietlifewithmypartner, for the alumni exhibit Holly,sincemytreatmentforHodgkin'sdiseasetwelveyearsago,"writesKirsten. and film festival. Musicians, findoutaboutperformance ChrisHamilton'85 returnedtohisWhitefield,Mainefarmlastfallaftertwoyearsinthe opportunitiesatthesecond BahamasasthedirectoroftheBahamasNationalTrust(seeCO Summer2005).Heis annual COA-PaLooZa. InowdirectorofdevelopmentatTheLifeFlightFoundation,Maine'semergencymedical MiljaBrecher-DeMuro: helicopterservice. MILJA@COA.EDU 207.288.2944x268. 42 COA TenyBannick'86 isvolunteeringforGreenEnergyOhio,achapteroftheAmerican olarEnergySociety,helpingtoprepareforitsannualconferenceinCleveland.Teny son,Remi,isnow28andmarried.Hergranddaughter,Brooke,justgraduatedfromhigh school. COA AlumniRelations EdwardMonatIII'88 (seephotowithMikeStaggs'96) hasstartedtheLeagueof Alumni:Stayin Touch! UnderwaterSuperheroesand,islivinghappilywithhisfivedogs,twocats,three Updateyourcontact horses,seventy-sixchickens,onegoat-andmywifetoo." information, tellusofchanges inyourjoborlifeorfindout LaurenGilson'88 isincentralFloridaworkingwithendangeredavianspeciesona aboutregional largesectionoffederalland.'Despitedevelopment,Floridahasanamazinglybeautifu alumnievents anddiverseecology,withmanyrareandsensitiveorganismsassociatedwithecological andotheralumni refugiaalongaridgesystem." services: MiljaBrecher-DeMuro LauraCohn88writes,'IstilllivejustoutsideofPhiladelphiawithmyhusband,Bill,and AlumniRelations-Development my9-year-oldson,Daniel,teaching,painting.gardeningandmigratingbacktc Coordinator288-2944x268 Indonesiaeachyear." www.FromBalitoBala.com. ormbrecher-demuro@coa.edu. OnMay6,2007DorieStolley'88 gatheredwithfamilymembersandfriendsatthe lorfolkBotanicalGardeninVirginiaforherweddingtoEricWalberg.Despitethe rewingoftropicalstormAndrea,afuntimewashadbyall.MiriamaBroady(88) and GwynPeterdi(89) sangduringtheceremony;Gwynledcircledancingafterthe reception. rueCOAfashion,thehappycouplefirstlaideyesuponeachotherinthe romanticsettingofameetingonfecalcoliforminthelocalwaters!Fromlefttoright, backrow:NoreenHogan'91, JiffBlansfield'89 holdingdaughterMadelaineBlansfield, Miriama, Dorie, Eric, ElizabethLaverKacergis, MikeKacergis'91,Gwyn.FrontRow:Ned Ormsby'91 withhischildren,CharlieHuntOrmsbyandJaneHuntOrmsby.Theirmom, isnotinthepicture. DavidVickery'89 (marriedtoBethVickery'91),ispaintingfulltimeandhaslaunched thewebsitedvickery.com.HeisrepresentedbyGallery357inRockland,Maine LibbyDean'89 isfinishingherthesis,CommunicatingwithYounglnuitWomenAbout EnvironmentalContaminants,Food,andHealthlssuesinNunatsiavutaspartofher MAinenvironmentalstudiesatDalhousieUniversityinNovaScotia.Libbyparticipated IntherecentSocietyforHumanEcologyconferenceatCOA,winninganawardforher posteronthesametopic.Inadditiontoherworkwithriskcommunicationandthe Career&InternshipServices environment,Libby'sessayaboutthecollisionofshamanisticinuitculturewith Alumni: Wecanhelp! Christianityatthetimeofcontactwillappearintheupcomingcompanionbookforthe +CareerInformationand film TheJournalsofKnudRasmussen (byapredominantlyInuitteamwhomade Guidance acclaimedfilmAtanarjuat:theFastRunner). +SearchableDatabase +GraduateSchoolInformation LindaGregory'89 islivinginSanRafael,Californiawhereherhusband,Jeffisworking +JobSearchSkills asanopenspacerangerinMarinCountylamafull-timemomto3-year-oldMatthew. +ResumeReview InmysparetimelamworkingoncreatingapictorialfieldguidetotheplantsofAcadia +RelocationGuidance NationalParkwithGlenMittelhauser'89 andseveralotherMainecolleagues." InJune, +EmploymentWebsites LindareturnedtoCOAtoseeherstepdaughter,MenemshaGrey'07,graduate. LastSeptemberatGayHeadLightonMartha'sVineyard,JeremyT.Norton91 married Interestedinproviding VineyardresidentJaneBelangerNorton.janeandIhavedecidedtomovebacktothe aninternship? island.Ihavetakenapositionastreatmentmanagerforasubstanceabuseprogramfor Workingwith offenders," writesJeremy.Hehasalsoresignedashostandproducerofthe"Nightof prospectivestudents? theLivingDead"radioshowonWFRD99.3FM,broadcastingoutofDartmouthCollege. Mentoringcurrentstudents Jeremyadds,"IcametoDartmouthin1995toenrolinthemasterofliberalstudies andotheralumni? programwhereIstudiedphilosophyandethics.MythesiswastitledAristotle,Aquinas andtheirfriendinNarcoticsAnonymous." jtnorton@mac.com ContactJillBarlow-Kelley,Director oflnternshipsandCareerServices, AttheBarHarborWhaleMuseum,NatalieSpringuel91 presented"ImagesandVoices romtheGulfofMaine:Development,FisheriesandlssuesalongtheEdgeoftheGulf" atjbk@coa.eduor288-5015ext.236 basedonafive-monthseakayakingexpeditionfromCapeCod,Massachusettstc CapeSablelsland,NovaScotia,inwhichshehighlightedtheissuesoftheregion: development,fisheries,coastalaccessandsustainabletourism. Beth(Heidemann)Vickery'91 (marriedtoDavidVickery89) isteachingatCushing hoolinCushing,MaineandvolunteeringfortheFamilyLiteracyProjectandListenUP invironmentalActionResourcesGroup."lveattendedtwohighschoolgraduationsof nyformerkindergartenstudents.l'malsoprettybusyparenting.Mydaughterattends theRileySchoolinRockportandisadedicatedviolinstudentandyouthorchestra member." COA 43 TimCase('92 )andhiswifearebackinMaine,havingrestoredanoldhomeinkittery Point. Fortenyears,TimhasworkedforPB,aglobalplanningandengineeringfirm.He sseniorassociate,leadingtheirGlSpractice.Tim'sspecialtyis3Dmodeling.Heheads aninternationalstandardsworkinggroupthatenablesnew3DtoolssuchasGoogle Earth,CAD,andGIStoworktogether:www.opengeospatial.org. MarkTully'92 rites"Afterathirteen-yearrundoinginner-cityyouthandcommunity organizinginfivecities,l'vewithdrawnbacktoMassachusettswhere-thanksto advancesincivilrights-mymothercanfinallynagmeaboutgettingmarried Markis workingwithotherstodeveloparuralqueersanctuaryinsouthernVermontandis seekingadomesticsanctuaryforhimselfintheregion."Lovetoyouall-mayyouthrive andswiminwatersofpeace." OnAugust12,2006, DianaPapiniWarren'92 welcomedherfirstdaughter,AnelaRose Warren.HernamemeansAngelinHawaiian. EricWolf'93 isastoryteller.Forapodcastgotowww.ericwolf.orgorwww.storytelling- withchildren.com/podcast/storycast.xml MelissaOssanna'93 andherhusbandPeterwelcomedtheirfirstchild,Bela,in2005."Ive beenteleworkinginmedicalcommunicationsforalmostfiveyears-thecommuteof twentyfeetsavesalotofgasandtimeeachday!" MelissaandPeterarebuildinga houseonMountDesertlslandthattheyhopetofinishlaterthisyear. MichaelBoland'94 andDeirdreSwordsbecametheproudparentsofZoeAnastasia BolandonAugust24,2006inBarHarbor. Geneva(Chase)Langley'94 andherhusband,Kevin,welcomedababydaughter, MadelineRose,onMarch4,2007."Sheissuchajoyl writesGeneva. Tiffany(Wagner)Cozzolino'94 movedtoWesterly,Rhodelslandin1995toattendgradu- ateschoolattheUniversityofRhodelsland,wheresheobtainedanMAinsecondary Englisheducationin1998.ShebeganteachingatAttleboroHighSchoolinAttleboro, Massachusetts,andhasbeenteachingEnglishatStoningtonHighSchoolinPawcatuck, Connecticutsince2000.Tiffanywasmarriedin1998toWesterlynativePatrick Cozzolino.Theyhavethreechildren:Anna,5,andtwinsMarcoandSofia,age2. essicaFriedland'95finishedherresidencyinneurologyatEmoryUniversityinAtlanta thisJuneandiscurrentlyfinishinghertrainingwithaone-yearfellowshipinclinical neurophysiologyatEmory."lwasmarriedlastsummertoawonderfulmannamedJosh whosharesmyloveofhikingandthemountains.Weareexpectingasoninearly October." Formerclassmates,pleasewrite:jesspf32@yahoo.com Isaac'96andSuzanne'95Wagner movedtoBrattleboro,Vermonttobegingraduate school.SuzanneistillworkingfortheStateofVermontasavocationalrehabilitation counselor.Isaacworksasprojectcoordinatorforthelow-incomehousingdevelopment oftheBrattleboroAreaCommunityLandTrust.Webothloveournewjobs.The childrenaregreat,Hazelwillbeginkindergartenthisfall." ShelaghHarvard'96 isworkingforBlueMarbleGeographics,aGlSdataconversion oftwarecompany.ShejustpurchasedahomeinPittston,Maineandisbaskinginthe glowofhomeownership." likeStaggs'96says,"InthepastsixmonthslvebecomeaDedimuslusticeforthe tateofMaine,anUnderwaterSuperhero,acertifiedrescuediverandCOAAlumni Associationpresident.LearnmoreaboutMike'sadventuresfromthislink: http://mdislander.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2786< ChrisWitt'97 isanassistantprofessorofbiologyandcuratorofbirdsattheUniversity ofNewMexico'sMuseumofSouthwesternBiology. TraciHickson'98 isbackinWestVirginiaworkingwiththeinternationalnonprofit Future Generations.l'mparticularlyexcitedaboutournewestinitiativeinChina,the GreenLongMarch.Inpartnershipwithforty-threeuniversities,wearesponsoringrelay eamsofstudentstoconducttenmarchescoveringthemajorecologicalzonesof China." TheopeningceremoniestookplaceonJuly7,2007attheGreatHallofthe eople.www.future.organdwww.greenlongmarch.org. 44 COA RyanBoduch'98andHannahFogg'99boughtahouseinRichmond,Vermont.Hannah writes,"Wespentagooddealoftimelastyearputtingthree-footwideflowergardens aroundourhouseandpaintingtheentireinsideofthehouse." Laura(Imundo)Snyder'99andKaneSnyderbecametheproudparentsofKaseArcher Snyder,bornFebruary22007inWilliamsport,Pennsylvania."He'safastgrowergoing romfourpounds,nineouncesatbirth(fullterm)toovertenpoundsatsevenweeks!" KasejoinsMya,thechocolatelab,whokeepsaneverwatchfuleyeonhim!" Afterworkingforanunderwaterconstructioncompanyforfiveyears, OzlemUzTezer '99 hasmovedbacktolstanbul,Turkey.Shemarriedalmostsixyearsagoandis urrentlyworkingforoneofthebiggestconstructioncompaniesinTurkey."lam workingatthehomeofficeofthecompany,sonomoremovingaround." ozlemuztezer@yahoo.com JessicaDamon'99 isworkingforasmallenvironmentalconsultancybasedinNewport News,Virginia,andalsoworkingonsiteatNationalNavalMedicalCenterinBethesda, Maryland.ViaEnvironmentalManagementSystems(EMS),I'mhelpingtoachievea greenerwayofdoingbusiness.James,myhusband,isintheArmyworkinglocally.It's reallynicetobelivingtogetheragainafterhereturnedfromlraq." Jessicaandher husbandhavealsobuiltacabininLubec,Maine-tryingtogoofthegridbyinstalling solarandotherenergysources.TheyarebothcompletingtheirMAdegreesatthe UniversityofMaryland,hersinenvironmentalmanagement.damonjessica@yahoo.com JaimeDuval'00 andpartnerRobBeranekareoneyearoutofgraduateschool, celebratinglifeinGrandTetonNationalPark,workingasfacultymembersinthe graduateprogramattheTetonScienceSchoolsinkellyWyoming,whereJamie nentorsgraduatestudentsthroughtheirteachingpracticum.Living,workingano playinginthisbeautifulplacehastaughtusmanylifelessons.Wefinallyhaveourown gardenandarecontinuallyamazedatthemoose,bison,anddeerthatwalkthrough ourbackyard!" GiulanaGelke'00 beganmedicalschoollastfallandlovesit."Clinicworkisthebest. Ilgetinterestedinanewspecialty." Sheisgettingmarriedthiscoming Centurion. "Wearehavingtwoweddings! Onein Cincinnati, OhioandoneinUruguaywithhisfamily." AnneMyers'00 defendedhermaster'sthesisandwillbeworkingfortheOregor DepartmentofFishandWildlife.Ihavetakenupflyfishingandlamenjoying gardening,cycling,andcookingwithveggiesfromthelocalfarmer'smarket' TanyaLeeHiggins'00 ranherfirstmarathonlastAprilandwasmarriedinJune.She worksasaprojectplannerdevelopingcomprehensiveplanningandenvironmental reviewatDesign,CommunityandEnvironment,aconsultingfirmprimarilyforpubli sectorclientsinBerkeley,California. ToriLeeJackson'00 and MichaelFrench'00 weremarriedonSeptember10,2005. ToriworkswiththeUniversityofMaineCooperativeExtensionprovidingadviceto agriculturalproducersregardingcropinsurance. Shawn'00andSarah'05Keeley write,"Newhouse,newgardens,freshveggies!" Son NoahturnedtwoinAugust.Sarahcontinuesherdoulaworkandhasanewjobwiththe lorthernForestAlliance.ShawncontinueshisworkwiththeGreenMountainClub "Wejustread Animal, Vegetable, Miracle byBarbaraKingsolverandithasquickly becomeoneofourfavoritebooks.StillmissingtheAcadiancoastbutenjoying Vermont.Greetingstoall!Wethinkofyouoftenwithhappinessinourhearts.Com visitusinMontpelier!" AftersixyearsofwritingandeditingforMaineAudubon, MarieMalin'01 isbackin schoolforamaster'sofdivinityatthePortlandcampusoftheBangorTheological Seminary.ShealsowritesamonthlycolumnonMainenatureforMaineBoats,Homes& Harbors online:www.maineboats.com/correspondents-voices-field.Iyoutoldmeeve sixmonthsagothatl'dbegoingbacktoschooltobecomeaminister,lwouldhave laughedoutloud-butherelam!" COA 45 WingGoodale,MPhil'01 ,isaseniorresearchbiologistandcoastalbirdprogram directoratBioDiversityResearchInstituteinGorham,Maine.Hesurveysbirdson Maineislands,studiescontaminantsinbirds,andsetsuplivelnternetcamerason nestingeaglesandospreys.HeservesontheFalmouthShellfishandConservation commissionsandtheMaineBoardofEnvironmentalProtection. DenaAdams'01 justreceivedherMAinmuseumstudiesfromGeorgeWashington JniversityandiscurrentlyattheSmithsonianInstitution/sNationalMuseumofNatural listoryworkingonhistoryforthemuseum'smusic,sports,andentertainmentdivision. SarahGrasso'01 marriedPennyWitherbeeinSeptember2006inMontauk,NewYork. heyhavepurchasedahomeinBrattleboro,Vermont,wherePennyisapoliceoficer. SarahispursuingherMAincounselingpsychologyandclinicalmentalhealthat AntiochUniversityinKeene,NewHampshire./'lwillgraduateinMay.Dancingisstill whatmovesme(ha,ha)andIlhavebeenteachingandperformingatlocaldance schools,thePutneySchoolandMarlboroCollege." KendraNoyesMiller'01 islivinginSuffolk,Englandwithherhusband,Jake,whois rvingwiththeU.S.AirForce.Meanwhile,KendraisworkingonherMBAwiththe of enix.Theyrecentlyspenttwoweeksonaself-guidedsafarin Namibiaasabelatedhoneymoon./WeenjoylivinginEuropeforitstravel opportunities,butmissMaineandtheRockies!" TreenanSturman02marriedElaineGrehlinSeptember2005andisworkingasthe educationoutreachcoordinatorattheChicagoBotanicalGardens. Drake(Windsor)'03andFinn'02Pillsbury welcomedJacobHawkes,theirfirstchild. DrakeispursuingadegreeininterdisciplinarygraduatestudiesandFinnaPhDin animalecology. EdwardStern'03 workstemporarilyfortheLeslieHarrisCentreofRegionalPolicyand DevelopmentinNewfoundlandasfisheriesresearchcoordinator'l'mengagedto /alerieMaherofSt.John's,Newfoundland,andwillofficiallybecomethefatherofher 11-year-oldboy.Whenlcan,Iheaddowntowntobeatonthedeadgoat(skin)withthe fiddlesandthepipesoverapintorthree.Mystudentvisaexpiresthisfall.lfilto indfull-timeworkinmyfield,I'IlprobablyheadbacktosoutheastAlaskatogetaboat andbecomeafull-timeAlaskanfisherman.TherestofmyNewfoundlandfamilywill comeonoutaswell." VolhaRoschanka'04 isworkingasaresearchanalystforGlobalForestWatchProgramat theWorldResourcesInstituteinWashington,DC. AllisonRogersFurbish'04 marriedherlongtimepartner,ShawnFurbish,lastMarch ranofftoSouthCarolinaandelopedbarefootonthebeach(theministercharges moreifyoumakehimwearshoes!). Theylatercelebratedtheirmarriagewithfriends ndfamilyinNewHampshire.'Wereverymuchenjoyingmarriedlifeandjustmoved intoournewhomeinCanaan,NewHampshire.Coyotesandowlssingustosleepat night." AllisonisstillworkinginmediarelationsatKingArthurFlour LaurenGilhooley'05 isteachingpiano.Herdaughter,Samara,wasbornJuly9,2006. Samarawasbornpeacefullyathomeunderthewatchfuleyeoftwoamazingmidwives andfellowCOAalumSarahKeeley'05 -bestfriendanddoulaextraordinaire!" AmandaZych'06 recentlycompletedtheAmericorpsprogramoftheStudent ConservationAssociationatHomesteadNationalMonumentofAmerica.Inspringshe novedtoJapantoteachEnglishforayearattheKakogawaBranchSchoolofAeon AmityCorporation.www.amity.co.jp/school/english/2820.html JasonChilders'06 isnowafieldtechnicianworkingfortheComprehensiveEverglades Restoration Project,"athirty-year,elevenbilliondollarprojectthatwillalterthe hydrologyregimeinthe'gladesbacktowhatitwasbeforeseveraldecadesoffarming andhabitatdegradation," writesJason."lamteachingsailingandparticipatinginas manyracesaslcanintheFloridaKeysandenjoyingthesunwhilelpreparetoattend CornellUniversityforgraduateworkthisfallwillbegettingmymaster'sinteaching, specificallybiology." 46 COA Corrections TwoerrorsfoundtheirwayintothenotessectionsoftheWinter200/COA. ttheSHEConference,wemisidentifiedaposterwinner.ItwasPeterJenkins. HousematesfromtheKennebecStreetHouseof1981-1982wereunderstandablycon- fusedbythecaptiontotheirphoto.Thephoto(whichranonpage45)wasof Timand ElizabethSpahr'86,HollyDevaul'84 whoworksfortheDigitalLibraryforEarthSystem Education(www.dlese.org)andJenniferSchroth'84.Andyes, JonEllsworth'87 isan alum.(MarionHarriswasnotinthephoto.) AlumnidesignatedwithaparenthesisaroundtheirdatesdidnotgraduatefromCOA. FACULTY NOTES Thisspring,JohnAnderson,facultymemberinbiologywaselectedaFellowofthe inneanSocietyofLondon,whereCharlesDarwinfirstoutlinedhisideasonevolution. HealsoservedonthescienceadvisorycommitteefortheFourthEcoSummitinBeijing Chinaatwhichhepresentedapaper.HepresentedattheAssociationofField OrnithologistsinBostonandreceivedafellowshipfromL.L.BeanthroughtheNational ParkServicefortheprojectitled"SeabirdCensusandCensusProtocolDevelopment andEvaluationforSchoodiclsland."AdditionallyAndersongaveatalk,"TheWonders ofSeabirds," duringtheDorrMuseum'ssummerSenseofWonderseriesandjoinedthe editorialboardofthe JournalofNaturalHistoryEducation The maPlumeTrilogy,byNancyAndrews (seethelastissueofCOA,Winter2007), hacultymemberinvideoandperformingart,wasfeaturedatTheTaiwanInternational AnimationFestivalinSeptember.ThisfestivalshowcasesthebestofTaiwaneseand nternationalanimatedfilmsanddrawsadiverseaudienceofover30,000people eachyear. RichardBorden waschairofthe"EducationforSustainability" symposiumlastMayat theEcoSummit2007inBeijing,China.Thefour-hour,opening-dayeventinvolvedter resentersfromsevencountries,includingtheexecutivedirectoroftheEcological ocietyofAmericaandchairoftheboardoftheCommonwealthHumanEcology Council.Borden'spresentationatthesessionwasWhenScienceMeetstheHeart: Education,Sustainability,andaChangingWorld." HeisalsocoauthorofARiverRuns hroughIt:College-CommunityCollaborationonWatershed-basedRegionalPlanning andEducation" withfacultymemberinlawandpolicy, KenCline,TravisHussey'00, GISlabdirectorGordonLongsworth91 andfacultymemberinplanningandlandscape architecture, IsabelMancinelli. Thearticleappearedinthesummer2007issueofHuman EcologyReview.Richservesontheeditorialboardofthe JournalofHumanEcology and the HumanEcologyReview Facultymemberinchemistry, DonCass,servesontheboardoftheSomesMeynell WildlifeSanctuaryandAcadiaSeniorCollege.Hegaveapresentationonclimate scienceatCOA'sClimateSummitinFebruaryThissummerhetaughttwoweeksof environmentalchemistrytomiddleandhighschoolteachersaspartofCOAssummer graduateprogram. KenCline,facultymemberinlawandpolicy.continuestoserveasajudgeforthe MorrisK.Udallnationalscholarshipcompetitionforthebestenvironmental undergraduatesinthecountry.Hespentasabbaticalterminlndia,wherehe researchedwaterqualityandgaveapresentationatthelndiraGandhiCentrefor HumanEcologyattheUniversityofRajasthaninJaipur,aswellasattheMahindra UnitedWorldCollegeofIndia.Healsoattendedtheweddingof SanjeevShah'04 and RachaelRapacz'04 inNepal.Uponhisreturn,hegaveapresentationatCOAsHuman EcologyForum, 'InSearchoftheSacred:TravelsinIndia. Graupel:anoperaofevents,setontheiced-inSomesPondlastMarch,wascreatedby DruColbert,facultymemberindesignandmuseumissues,withacastofdozensfrom COA.Theperformancepieceofsmallvignettes,iced-insculpturesandodd eatures,waswitnessedbyexpansivecrowdsandfeaturedinseveralnewspapers. COA 47 JohnCooper, facultymemberinmusic,servedasartistinresidencelastspringatboth MattanawcookAcademyinLincoln,Maine,andGeorgeStevensAcademy,inBlueHil Maine.Heiscurrentlyfield-testingonCOAstudentsajazzimprovisationtextheis creatingincollaborationwithDenisDiBlasioofRowanUniversityformermusical directorfortheMaynardFergusonBand. 2006, Dave Feldman ,facultymemberinphysicsandmath,servedasco-directorof theComplexSystemsSummerSchoolinBeijing,China,sponsoredbytheSantaFe nstituteincooperationwithTheInstituteofTheoreticalPhysicsandChineseAcademy of Sciences.Feldmanoversawallaspectsoftheschool,whichwasattendedbyfifty DROPKICK graduatestudents,halfofwhomwerefromChina.Healsopresentedaseriesoflec- turestitled, "SomeFoundationsinComplexSystems:ToolsandConcepts,AnAdvanced Introduction." InAugust,FeldmanservedonthefacultyattheFrenchComplexSystems Summer SchoolinParis.TheschoolwassponsoredbytheInstitutdesSysten ComplexesParisIledeFrance.Feldmangaveatwelve-hourlectureseriestitled,Some FoundationalToolsandConceptsforComplexSystems:Entropy,Information,and Statistical Complexity.TheFrenchsummerschoolwasattendedbysomethirtygradu- atestudents,mainlyfromEuropeandSouthAmerica. Facultymemberinbiology HelenHess, published"ScaryCritters?" in Wavelength Magazine thisspring.SheservesontheboardoftheMountDesertlslandWater Quality Coalition, for forgirls.org),presentedonbiomechanicsandmarineinvertebratesattheEmerson SchoolandofferedclassesinbiomechanicsatCOAssummerprogramforteachers. healsotaughttheMarineAdventuressessionforfifthandsixthgradersinCOAs SummerFieldStudiesprogramandgaveatalk,"TheWondersofMarinelnvertebrates," attheDorrMuseum'ssummerSenseofWonderseries. KenHill,academicdeanandfacultymemberineducationandpsychologycompleted two-weektrainingatHarvardUniversitysInstituteforEducationalManagement,a competitiveprogramtargetedforseniorcollegeadministratorssuchasprovosts, presidentsandchiefacademic/financialofficers.Ken/sclasshadonehundred participantsfromthroughouttheworld,includingBrownU/niversityWestPointMilitary Academy,CarletonCollege,ZayedUniversityintheUnitedArabEmerates,andEdith Cowan UniversityinAustralia.Inaddition,Hillwasaskedtopresenton'Collegeofthe Atlantic' sRetentionEfforts" toMELMACduringitsMaypeerlearningconference. HillisvicepresidentoftheSocietyforthePreventionofCrueltytoAnimalsin lancockCountyandontheboardofKid'sCorner. Facultymemberinhistory, ToddLittle-Siebold,andChristaLittle-Siebold,alongwith olderbrotherPedro,welcomePabloAntonio,bornAugust1,intotheworld.Todd recentlywroteareviewofBrentMeltz' book, Ch'orti'-MayaSurvivalinEastern Guatemala, toappearin The Americas. IsabelMancinelli,facultymemberinplanningandlandscapearchitecture,completed the MasterGardener'sCertificationwiththeUniversityofMaineCooperativeExtension andwaselectedtotheboardoftheBeatrixFarrandSocietyinBarHarbor.Mancineli servesontheboardoftheMDICenterforHistoriclandscapesandisalsoonthe advisoryboardoftheMaineOlmsteadAlliance.SherecentlyexhibitedworkatShaw Gallery'sLocalArtistsShow. hrisPetersen,facultymemberinbiologywasinvitedtothesymposium,Fishoutof Water:TestingtheAdaptiveSignificanceoflntertidalSpawningintheEstuarineFis Fundulusheteroclitus," inhonorofBillMcFarlandattheEcology,Ethologyand EvolutionofFishesmeetinginCalifornia.HewasalsopartoftheMaineMaritime cademyvisitinglectureseries,presentingthetalk,"FertilizationinMarineOrganisms." nApril,hechairedasessionatheMaineBiologicalandMedicalSciencesSymposium neetingatMountDesertIslandBiologicalLaboratory.Petersonpublishedthearticle, "Sexual and inthe JournalofIntegrativeandComparativeBiology 46:439-448.Healsoconductedclamflat surveysforBarHarborandalewifesurveysfortheSomes-MeynellWildlifeSanctuary ndassistedwithBarHarbor'sgrantapplicationforaseagrasstransplantationproject fundedbytheGulfofMaineCouncil.Additionally Chrisreviewsgrantsandmanu- scriptsasassociateeditorof American Naturalist andreviewspapersforhalfadozen otherorganizations. 48 COA Facultymemberinbotany,NishantaRajakaruna'94 presentedtwopostersattheMaine SpaceGrantConsortiumannualmeetingatheUniversityofSouthernMaine.Onewas "PlantLifeOnMetal-EnrichedSoilsInMaine:InvolvingUndergraduateStudentsh EcologicalResearch." Nathaniel Pope'07,LauraBriscoe'07,AndrewThrall07 andadjunctfacultymemberinbotany, FredOlday.Theotherwas'Plant-SoilRelationsonSerpentineOutcropsofDeerlsle, theastern UnitedStates" with Kathleen Tompkins '08,PeterPavicevic'07 andHarris.Additionally,Rajakaruna,HarrisandOldaypresented LichensofaPeriodotiteOutcropinEasternNorthAmerica:AnInvestigationintothe Lichen-SerpentineRelation" attheBotanyannualmeetinginCalifornia.Rajakarunahas lsoreviewedmanuscriptsfornearlyadozenscholarlypublications,andspokeat COA'sHumanEcologyForumonBotanizingOnKookySoils:EncountersWithPlants WithMettle." SteveRessel,facultymemberinbiologyworkingcollaborativelywithprofessionalcon- servatorRonHarveyofTuckerbrookConservation,recentlycompletedatwo-yearproj- ctfundedbytheInstituteofMuseumandLibraryServicestopreserveandprotecthe bermanentexhibitsandteachingcollectionsoftheGeorgeB.DorrMuseumofNatura History.Thisprojectculminatedinanundergraduatecourseincollectionscareby ResselandHarveyduringSpring2007inwhichstudentsaddressedissuessuchasenvi- onmentalmonitoring.short-andlong-termpreservationstrategiesforexistingcollec- onsandspecimenidentificationandclassification.Theresultsoftheseclassprojects, inturn,wereforwardedtolMLSinWashington,DCaspartofafinalreportonproject activitiesandfuturedirections. Facultymemberineducation,BonnieTai, took SamDrazin'10 and CarlyImhoff'10 totheannualmeetingoftheMaineCivilRightsTeamsorganizedbytheattorney general'soffice.TheyledtwoworkshopsforthreehundredMainestudentscalled "What'sFair," thathadbeengiventolocalschoolchildrenatConners-Emerson.Taials completedaPassamaquoddycurriculumteachers'workshopattheAbbeMuseumin BarHarbor. .Incollaborationwith JudithCox, whodirectsCOAseducationstudies program,TairanSpringQuest,anexperientiallearningsessionforlocalchildrenduring Aprilschoolvacation. Davis STaylor,facultymemberineconomics,spentthesummerasanorganicfar hpprenticeatMandalaFarminGouldsboro.Taylorbecameinterestedinlocalfoodpro- uctionaspartofhisteachingandresearchinbuildinglocalsustainableeconomies. Theone-hundred-acrediversifiedfarmisownedandoperatedbyGenioBertin'97 and rahFaull98.Taylor'sfarmchoresrangedfromhillingpotatoestocastratinggoatsto sellingproductsatlocalfarmersmarkets. AstheWomen'sNationalBookAssociationawardchair, KatharineTurok,adjunctfaculty memberinwritingandliterature,gaveatalkandpresentedabookawardtoPeriklass, professorofjournalismandpediatrics,attheNewYorkSocietyLibraryinNewYork City.Turok'sgrantproposalforDowneastAudubonEducationresultedinfundsfrom theMaineCommunityFoundationforHancockCountyschooltripsforstudentsto atendnaturalhistoryprogramsatCOAsGeorgeB.DorrMuseumandEllsworth's Birdsacre.Turokhasalsoco-coordinatedaseriesoforalhistoryprogramscalled"Way BackWhen,"co-sponsoredbytheBagaduceWatershedAssociationandtheWilson Museumin Castine. Facultymemberinlanguages,CamilleVandeBergwasaninternationaljuroratthe titutdeFormationInternationale,abusinesschoolassociatedwiththelUniversityof Rouen.Shewasamemberofapanelevaluatingseniorprojects.Otherjurymembers verebusinessexecutivesfromlrelandandGermanyabusinessprofessorfromSouth Korea,andtheprovostofabusinessschoolinFinland.VandeBergalsowasaninvited isitortotheDrakeUniversityLanguageAcquisitionPrograminlowa. KarenWaldron co-presented"CollaboratingontheScholarlyEssay" with JuliaGregory '07 ataroundtableonfaculty-studentcollaborationattheNortheastModernLanguage AssociationannualconferenceinMarch,andagainatthePopularCultureAssociation annualconferenceinApril.Shealsodevelopedandbeganimplementationofanew bookseriesfortheMaineHumanitiesCouncil"LetsTalkAboutit"programentitled "RefreshingtheWhodunnit." COA 49 COMMUNITY NOTES TheeffortsofJudyAllen,directorofinformationservices,andregistrarDavidBaldwin esultedina$134,000grantfromtheDavisEducationalFoundationtoupgradeCAMS atheacademicmanagementsoftwareusedbytheregistrarsandfinancialaidoffices. Amongotherimprovements,theupgrade,CAMSEnterprise,includesintegratedcourse managementandonlineregistrationandgrading. AlliedWhale,withthehelpofdirectorandCOAfacultymember Sean Todd, receivedits seventhPrescottMarineMammalHealthandStrandingProgramaward,for$97,800. Fundsareusedtopayforourstrandingresponseactivity,includingsalaryforthe strandingcoordinator.COAwillupgradetheresponsevehicletoaheaviergradediese ehiclethatcanhaulourboatandtrailersystemsmoresafely.AlliedWhalealso eceiveda$50,000grantfromananonymousfoundation.Fundswillsupportfield researchinthesecondyearofafive-yearstudytoquantifyuseofcriticalhabitatby argewhalespeciesinthenorthernGulfofMaine,aswellascontinuedsupportforthe NorthAtlanticHumpbackWhaleCatalog. DavidBaldwin, registrar,.isafoundingmemberofTheDowneastRailHeritage PreservationTrust,workingondevelopingtheDowneastScenicRailroad,especiallyth WashingtonJunction/EllsworthtoGreenLakesectionoftheCalaisBranchLinetocre- ateatwenty-four-mileroundtripexcursionridewithexceptionalviewsofwetland marshes,LittleRockyPondandGreenLake,plusanoccasionalospreyormoosesight- ing.http://www.downeastscenicrail.org. COAstudentsandalumniparticipatedinQuarryographyafull-lengthdancecomplete withexcavatorataStoningtonquarrythisAugust. TawandaChabikwa'07 wasaguest ancer.AlsointheperformancewereformervisitingstudentScottSpringer andcurrent student SamanthaHaskell. WhenteenagersconnecttothewatersoffthecoastofMaine,learningtofendfor 68 KNOTS themselvesandreachouttoothers,theircollegechoicecanbenoneotherthan CollegeoftheAtlantic-atleastaccordingtoanewyoungadultnovel,68knots, vrittenbyMichaelEvans,UniversityofIndianajournalismprofessor. DonnaGold,directorofpublicrelations,completedaseriesofnineoralhistoriesof mdenseniors,publishedasindividualbookletsfortheCamdenPublicLibrary hroughagrantfromMBNA.Shealsopublishedtwopamphletsbasedonoral historiesconductedinStocktonSpringsonagrantfromtheStephenand TabithaKingFoundation. LynnHavsal,directorofmuseumprogramsattheDorrMuseum,participatedinshore- birdbandingontheInternationalHeritageSiteofDelawareBaywhereshorebirdsfeed nroutefromSouthAmericatotheirArcticbreedinggrounds.Sheworkedwithar nternationalteamcoordinatedbytheStateofDelawareandopenedthewayforCOA studentstojointhisinternationaleffort.Havsallalsoreceivedafullscholarshipfrom BatConservationInternationalandagenerousdonationfromaCOAtrusteetocover firfaretoattendaBatConservationandManagementWorkshopattheAmerican MuseumofNaturalHistory'sSouthwesternResearchStationinPortal,Arizona.The DorrMuseumwillbeworkingwithAcadiaNationalPark,COAstudents,MountDesert Islandschoolsandparkneighborstoimprovebathabitat. JaneHultberg,ThorndikeLibrarydirectoralongwiththeentireCOAcommunitysend eepthankstoformerNewYorkCitydramacriticNormanNadel,r nowlivingpart-time in Trenton,Maine,fortheexcellentcollectionofartbooksdonatedtothelibraryMore thantwohundredfineartsandphotographybooksarenowpartofourcollection, includingalimitededitionofChristo:ValleyCurtain,Rifle,Colorado,agorgeouslarge- formateditionofBenShahn'swork. 50 COA FROM THE CHAIR annual report OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES On behalf of the Board of Trustees-indeed of the entire College of the Atlantic community-my heartfelt thanks goes to all of you who have so gener- ously supported this institution in the past fiscal year, 2006-2007. "Philanthropy," according to my dictionary, means "an effort to increase the well-being of humankind, as by charitable aid or donations." Your support for COA fits that definition. Betterment of our local, regional and global commu- nities is an institutional mission. We share this value with our students. We aspire to make the world a better place for nature and humankind. And we value our role as one of Mount Desert Island's anchor institutions This year, contributions to our annual fund totaled $1.02 million. This cru- cial source of income made the COA experience accessible to qualified stu- dents who could not attend without financial assistance; it supported the salaries of our superb, hardworking faculty and staff; it was crucial to main- taining the buildings and grounds that constitute our campus, voted this year as one of the twenty most beautiful in America. The Annual Fund grants us a margin of excellence that other income sources cannot provide. In the past fiscal year, the college also received an impressive $7.27 million in capital gifts and pledges. These funds have supported such landmark proj- ects as the Kathryn W. Davis Residential Village, providing on-campus living for fifty-one additional students; Deering Common, the renovation of an his- toric building as a campus center; a suite of landscape improvements that enhance the beauty and functionality of the campus; the Katona Chair in Marine Studies, and initiation of a special endowment fund intended to enhance faculty and staff compensation, provide for professional develop- ment and foster excellence in teaching and research. It was a fine year for College of the Atlantic. We particularly value your interest in the college and your financial support. Many thanks from the entire College of the Atlantic community. With best wishes, sm Htmit Samuel M. Hamill, Jr. Trustee Chair COA 51 FROM THE ADMINISTRATIVE DEAN annual report FISCAL YEAR 2007 was a very good year for the college from the finan- cial perspective. The financial operations report on the following page shows that our total fund balance increased from $27.7 million to $32.3 million. Our endowment grew by almost 18 percent to $20.2 million due to both gifts and investment returns after allocations to the operating budget. The plant and equipment fund grew by over 15 percent to $12.7 million, largely due to capi- tal gifts for our housing and campus improvement projects. The operating fund held steady at a deficit of $879 thousand. We were able to keep very close to our strategic objectives in the operating budget. Our revenues increased by almost 5 percent to $14.8 million, largely due to a modest increase in enrollment, resulting in an average of 290 stu- dents. From this we netted an 8 percent increase in our most important rev- enue source, tuition and fees, which represents more than half our total rev- enue. The annual fund fell short of its goal of $1.3 million, but we exceeded last year's level while also receiving major support for our housing and cam- pus capital projects, not reflected in the operating budget. Most of our other revenue line items showed modest growth, including Beech Hill Farm, whose revenues increased by 22 percent due to farm management initiatives, aided by some very good weather. On the expense side, we had an overall increase of 6 percent. Our largest expense line, student aid, rose by 9 percent primarily due to the larger enroll- ment. Like most institutions, we experienced increases in health insurance, causing a 12 percent rise in our payroll and fringe benefit expenses. We also had one-time expenses from last year's presidential transition. This spring, we broke ground on the Kathryn W. Davis Student Residence Village. We are currently on budget and on schedule to open this fifty-one- bed complex in September 2008. Our new housing will not only improve the campus experience for many students and relieve them of the ever-increasing challenge of finding housing in Bar Harbor, it will also have a positive impact on the operating budget. With related housing and dining fees, and additional room for summer programming, this new space will more than offset the car- rying costs. It is also an important part of our recruitment strategic plan. Overall, we feel confident that we are meeting the financial milestones in our strategic plan, which calls for gradual increases in enrollment, controlled growth of student aid and continued growth in both annual giving and endowment revenue. Andy Griffiths Administrative Dean 52 COA ANNUAL REPORT FinancialOperationsReport (unaudited) OperatingRevenues FY2005-2006 FY2006-2007 TuitionandFees 7,580,000 8,233,000 Contributions-annualfund 1,037,000 1,080,000 Contributions-restricted 2,136,000 1,796,000 Investmentandendowmentincome 547,000 767,000 Governmentandothergrants 799,000 601,000 Studenthousinganddining 782,000 760,000 Summerprograms 543,000 511,000 Researchandprojects 467,000 767,000 BeechHillFarm 137,000 167,000 Other 115,000 141,000 TotalRevenues 14,143,000 14,823,000 OperatingExpenses Instructionandstudentactivity 2,811,000 2,974,000 Studenthousinganddining 465,000 467,000 Summerprograms 454,000 417,000 Financialaid-unrestricted 2,921,000 3,183,000 Financialaid-restricted 2,444,000 2,340,000 Generaladministration 1,177,000 1,239,000 Payrolltaxesandfringebenefits 1,291,000 1,443,000 Developmentandadmissions 932,000 952,000 Buildingsandgrounds 586,000 684,000 Interest 184,000 198,000 Grants,researchandprojects 819,000 1,019,000 BeechHillFarm 145,000 163,000 TotalExpenditures 14,229,000 15,079,000 ExcessRevenue(Expense) (86,000) (256,000) TransferandCapitalExpenditures 86,000 256,000 NetOperatingSurplus(loss) - - FundBalances(endofyear) Operating (879,000) (879,000) Plantandequipment 10,800,000 12,700,000 Endowment 17,495,000 20,177,000 Other 267,000 267,000 TotalFundBalances 27,683,000 32,265,000 COA 53 ANNUAL REPORT Annual Giving for fiscal year July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007. With deep gratitude and appreciation we acknowledge the generosity of our alumni, trustees, staff, faculty and friends. THE CHAMPLAIN SOCIETY The Community Foundation for Gordon Iver and Dorothy Brewer FOUNDER $10,000 + Palm Beach and Martin Counties Erikson Fund of the Greater Mr. Edward McC. Blair Mrs. Sigrid Berwind Worcester Community Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Louis Cabot Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Blanchard III The First Mr. William Carey Mr. Charles Butt Drs. Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis Estate of Amos and Alice Eno Cadillac Mountain Sports and Merton Flemings Mr. and Mrs. David Fischer Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Will Gardiner Mr. Samuel Hamill, Jr. Mr. Francis I.G. Coleman Dr. and Mrs. Philip Geier Mr. and Mrs. Melville Hodder Mrs. Bernard Cough, Jr. Ms. Susan M. Getze Ms. Sherry Huber T.A. Cox Mrs. Philip Geyelin Elizabeth and Peter Loring Ms. Sally Crock Susan Dowling and Andrew Griffiths Mrs. Marcia MacKinnon Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dickey, Jr. Mrs. Anne Stroud Hannum Ms. Casey Mallinckrodt Mr. and Mrs. William Dohmen Richard Gordet and Sonja Johanson '95 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Milliken Eaton Vance Management Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Johnson III Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Pierce Mr. and Mrs. William G. Foulke, Jr. Steven K. Katona and Susan Lerner James Dyke and Helen Porter Fr. James M. Gower Mr. Arthur Keller Mr. and Mrs. George Putnam Mr. and Mrs. Richard Habermann Ms. Joanne S. Kemmerer '02 Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Robinson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George B. E. Hambleton Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Kogod Ms. Abby Rowe/ Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Huber Mrs. Francis Lewis Rowe Family Foundation Machias Savings Bank Ms. Katharine Gates McCoy Dr. and Mrs. Peter Sellers Mr. and Mrs. Grant G. McCullagh Mrs. Donald G. McLean Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. Mrs. John P. McGrath Mr. and Mrs. A. Fenner Milton Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Stewart Laura Ellis and David Milliken Mr. and Mrs. Philip Moriarty Mr. and Mrs. William Wister, Jr./ Mr. and Mrs. Gerrish Milliken Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Nicholas III Margaret Dorrance Strawbridge Mr. and Mrs. David E. Moore Ms. Judith S. Perkins Foundation Mr. and Mrs. G. Marshall Moriarty Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson E. Peters Rev. Albert Neilson Mrs. Eben W. Pyne PATHFINDER $5,000-$9,999 Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin R. Neilson Mr. and Mrs. John R. Robinson Mr. and Mrs. James Blaine Mrs. William Norris Mrs. Walter M. Robinson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie C. Brewer/ Ms. Sandra Nowicki Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. Roy ABL Fund of the Maine Mr. and Mrs. Jay Pierrepont Mr. and Mrs. William M. Rudolf Community Foundation Dr. Richard G. Rockefeller Mr. and Mrs. W. Tom Sawyer The Virginia Wellington Cabot Fdn. Mr. and Mrs. Hartley Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Richard Scott The Estate of Mrs. Frederic E. Camp Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop Short Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Shafer Michele and Agnese Cestone Fdn. Southern Maine Wetlands Conservancy Mr. and Mrs. John Grace Shethar Mr. and Mrs. Paul Growald Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Straus Mrs. Allan Stone Barbara McLeod and David Hales Swan Agency Insurance Ms. Caren Sturges Mr. and Mrs. John N. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. William Thorndike, Jr. Mrs. Joseph B. Thomas IV Mrs. Louis Madeira Ms. Katherine Weinstock '81 Mr. and Mrs. W. Nicholas Thorndike Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. J. Moriarty Mr. Douglas Williams Mr. and Mrs. William C. Trimble, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. I. Wistar Morris III/ Mr. John Wilmerding Patrick and Mary Ann Tynan/ The Cotswold Foundation Winky Foundation The Tynan Family Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. William V. P. Newlin Mr. David J. Witham Jack Ledbetter and Helen Tyson Lynn and Willy Osborn Julia Merck and Hans P. Utsch Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Eliot Paine/ EXPLORER $1,500-$1,999 Mr. and Mrs. Christiaan van Heerden The Puffin Fund of the Maine Linda Shaw and Jeffrey Bakken Mr. and Mrs. Rodman Ward, Jr. Community Foundation Mr. Ron Beard Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Weg Mr. and Mrs. John P. Reeves Dr. and Mrs. H. Keith Brodie Mr. and Mrs. Harold White III David Rockefeller, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Chappell Ms. Christine Witham Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Shorey, Jr. Susanna Porter and James Clark, Jr. Sweatt Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Tristram C. Colket, Jr. ANNUAL FUND GIFTS Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha Wade Mr. and Mrs. Philip DeNormandie Mrs. James Abeles Mrs. F. Eugene Dixon, Jr. Mr. Christopher Aberle DISCOVERER $2,000-$4,999 Mr. and Mrs. George H. P. Dwight Dr. and Mrs. Murray Abramsky Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Mrs. John J. Emery Acadia Senior College Bar Harbor Whale Watch Dianna and Ben Emory/ Ms. Heather Albert-Knopp '99 Peter Neill and Mary Barnes Ocean Ledges Fund of the Maine Dr. Mary Elizabeth Alexander Mr. and Mrs. William E. Benjamin II/ Community Foundation Mr. William Allen '87 William E. Benjamin Il Fund of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Erikson/ Ms. Judith Allen 54 COA ANNUAL REPORT Richard and Heather Ames Mrs. Louise Blodget Mr. and Mrs. William Daniel Dr. and Mrs. Richard Faust Arnold and Peggy Amstutz Ms. Edith Blomberg Ms. Elizabeth Davis Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Felton Mrs. Diane Anderson Mr. and Mrs. John Bloom Ms. Julia Davis '03 Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Felton Mr. John Anderson Sharon Teitelbaum and Ms. Livia Munck Davis '88 Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Ms. Karin Anderson, PhD ('84) Jonathan Bockian Mr. and Mrs. Shelby M.C. Fenton Ms. Wendy Anderson ('80) Ms. Sally Boisvert '04 Davis Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Schofield Rev. Paul Boothby '88 Stan and Jane Davis Fernald Andrews III Ms. Sarah Boucher, MPhil '06 Ms. Rachel Deans Ms. Cynthia Jordan Fisher '80 Mr. and Mrs. Stockton Tim Garrity and Mrs. Charles Dennison Kochis Fitz Andrews Lynn Boulger Elisabeth Rendeiro and John and Marie Fitzgerald Timothea '94 and Neal Ms. Frances Bowne Steven Depaul Mr. and Mrs. William M.G. Antonucci '95 Mr. Dennis Bracale '88 Ms. Holly Devaul '84 Fletcher Rev. and Mrs. Jonathan Ms. Jessica Bradshaw '03 Janet Redfield and Mrs. Ruth Fraley Appleyard Milja Brecher-DeMuro and Scott Dickerson, Mr. and Mrs. W. West Ms. Evelyn Ashford ('83) Tony DeMuro MPhil '95 Frazier IV Ms. Jennifer Atkinson '03 Ms. Emilie Bregy Closey and Whit Dickey/ Mr. Bernard Fuller Atwater Kent Foundation, Inc. Ms. Virginia Brennan Hardy Hill Fund of the Diane Lokocz '03 and Wendy Knickerbocker and Mr. Thomas Broussard New Hampshire Tim Fuller '03 David Avery '84 Ms. Carla Burnham '84 Charitable Foundation- Ms. Allison Fundis '03 Ms. Lelania Prior Avila '92 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Burton Il Upper Valley Region Mr. David Furholmen Ms. Jennifer Aylesworth '94 Roc and Helen Caivano '80 George and Kelly Dickson, Mr. Donald Gagner Mr. Alan L. Baker Ms. Julie Cameron '78 MPhil '97 Galyn's Galley Bangor Savings Bank Ms. Mary Cantwell Ms. Angela DiPerri '01 Carla Ganiel and Ms. Carrie Banks '01 Ms. Frances Carlin Prof. and Mrs. Arthur Dole Garrett Curry Bar Harbor Lobster Bakes Ms. Liza Carter '76 Janet Anker and Charles Alma Boylan and Bar Harbor Motel Ms. Jean Cass Donnelly Jennings Garnett Bar Harbor Savings & Loan Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cawley Mr. Millard Dority Mr. and Mrs. Murray Association Mr. Erin Chalmers '00 Mr. and Mrs. John Dreier Gartner Barbara Tennent and Lucy Hull and Mrs. William Drury Ms. Lucretia Gatchell ('85) Steven Barkan E. Barton Chapin Mr. and Mrs. E. Bradford Mr. and Mrs. Jon Geiger Ms. Danuta Barnard David Chiang Du Pont, Jr. Ms. Laurie Geiger Mr. and Mrs. Edward Barnes Ms. Judith Chiara Mr. Larry Duffy Ms. Amy George '98 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mrs. Katherine Kaufer Ms. Michelle Catherine Ms. Kirsten George Edelglass Barnhart Christoffel Dumont '02 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen George Ms. Patricia Barton Ms. Cecily Clark Mr. Scott Durkee '84 Ms. Anne Giardina Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bass Ms. Katherine Clark '91 Susan Taormina and Mr. and Mrs. Alan Gladstone Ms. Kate Baxter Ms. Kim Clark Timothy Durrant Ms. Jillian Glaeser Mr. H. B. Beach Hannah S. Sistare and Mr. and Mrs. Dr. and Mrs. Donald Glotzer Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Beal, Sr. Timothy B. Clark William Eacho III/ Mr. Robert F. Goheen Drs. Wesley and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Eacho Family Foundation Mr. Paul Golas Terrie Beamer Clendenin Mr. Alden Eaton/Territa M. Donna Gold and Mr. Bruce Becque '81 Mr. Kenneth Cline Eaton Trust Bill Carpenter Dr. and Mrs. Robert Mrs. George Cluett, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Laura Arm Goldstein Beekman Ms. Janis Coates Watha Eddins, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Good Kathleen Belfiglio Ms. Tammis Coffin '87 Mr. Joseph Edes '83 Marie Malin '01 and Wing Mr. Noel George Belli Mr. and Mrs. E. Judson Cole Wendy Rodger and Goodale, MPhil '01 Mr. Bruce Bender '76 Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Colson Henry Elliott ('76) Ms. Abigail Goodyear '81 Ms. Serra Joan Benson '02 Mr. Douglas Coots '83 Ms. Carol Emmons Ms. Elizabeth Gorer Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Berlin Richard and Susan Corey Carol and Jackson Eno Dr. and Mrs. Robert Gossart Jason Bernad, MD '94 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Ms. Julie Erb '83 Mr. and Mrs. John Gower Mr. John Biderman '77 Corkins Mrs. Sylvia Erhart Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Grant Mr. and Mrs. David Billings Dick Atlee and John and Therese Erianne Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Gray Ms. Janet Biondi '81 Sarah Corson Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Ervin Graycote Inn Mrs. Edward Birkenmeier Dr. and Mrs. Melville Cote Ms. Lynne Wommack Linda Green and Mr. and Mrs. Francis Blair Mr. Donald Cowie Espy '93 Claude Grazia Mr. Edward McC. Blair, Jr. Mr. Edward Crane, Jr. Mr. Richard Estes Mrs. Bo Greene Ms. Susan Thomas Blaisdell Mrs. Rose Cutler Ethos Marketing and Design Ms. Katherine Griffin '00 Hon. and Mrs. Robert Blake Ms. Lisa Damtoft '79 Dr. and Mrs. William Evans Ms. Mary Griffin '97 Mr. Jerry Bley Mr. John Allen Dandy ('84) Sarah and Preston Everdell COA 55 ANNUAL REPORT Mr. and Mrs. Michael Mr. Nishad Jayasundara '05 Ms. Amanda Lazrus- Ms. Terra Anna Merry '98 Gumpert Mr. Peter Jeffery '84 Cunningham '02 Ms. Jessica Messere '00 Mr. Max Hall Ms. Catherine Johnson '74 Dr. and Mrs. David Mrs. Jean Messex Ms. Briana Hall-Harvey '02 Mr. and Mrs. Harry M.K. Lebwohl Ms. Pamela Meyer Stephen Sternbach and Johnston Kathryn Harmon and Mr. and Mrs. Alan Miller, Jr. Lisa B. Hammer '91 Mr. and Mrs. William Jordan Rob Ledo '91 John McDonald and Ms. Rebecca Hancock '97 Jordan-Fernald Andrew Kimbrell and Donna Miller Mr. Matthew Hare '84 Mr. and Mrs. H. Lee Judd/ Kaiulani Lee Mr. Jeffrey Miller '92 Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Judd Charitable Fund Dr. and Mrs. Leung Lee Mr. and Mrs. Henry Millon Hargraves Ann Sewall and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sen. and Mrs. George Mrs. Nancy Harris Edward Kaelber Leisenring Mitchell Mr. Tanner Brook Harris '06 Mr. and Mrs. William Kales Ms. Caroline Leonard '01 Mr. Frank Mocejunas Ms. Sonja Hartmann '88 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kates Ms. Alice Levey '81 Edna Martin and Mr. and Mrs. John Hassett Mr. Michael Kattner '95 Mr. Aaron Lewis '05 Eddie Monat '88 Mr. and Mrs. Larry Hayes Sarah '05 and Jessie Greenbaum '89 and Mr. Peter Moon '90 Dr. and Mrs. Leonidas Shawn Keeley '00 Phil Lichtenstein '92 Adam McPherson '00 and Hayes Dr. James Kellam '96 Mr. James Lindenthal Chelsea Mooser '00 Ms. Lois Hayes '79 Jill and Bobby Kelley Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lipkin Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Atsuko Watabe '93 and Mr. and Mrs. James Kellogg Dr. John Long, Jr. '86 Morgenstern Bruce Hazam '92 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kelly Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Mrs. Lorraine Morong Ms. Barbara Hazard Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lee Longsworth Mr. William Morris Mike Zwirko '01 and Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. William Lord II Morris Yachts, Incorporated Erin Heacock '04 Mr. and Mrs. Moorehead Mrs. Susan Lyall Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ms. Mary Heffernon Kennedy Mrs. Ronald Lyman, Jr. Morrison Ms. Barbara Hendry Kent-Lucas Foundation, Inc. Ms. Mayo Lynam Mount Desert Symposiums Kate Russell Henry and Ms. Ann Noel Kesselheim Ms. Fleury Mackie Mr. and Mrs. John Moyer Eric Henry ('76) ('81) Mr. James MacLeod Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Mudrak Mr. Merton Henry Lorraine Stratis and Mrs. Constance Madeira Ms. Anne Mulholland Ms. Patty Herklotz Carl Ketchum Ms. Melinda Magleby '00 Dr. Alice Murphy Ms. Katherine Hester '98 Margaret V. and Robert Meg and Miles Maiden '86 Dr. Victoria Murphy Charles and Jackie Hewett Kinney/E. Robert and Maine Community Fdn. Ms. Bethany Murray '03 Highbrook Motel Margaret V. Kinney Fund Ms. Deborah Mandsager Mr. and Mrs. Olin Eugene Ms. Barbara Hill of The Minneapolis Wunderman '89 Myers, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David Hill Foundation Ms. Pamela Manice Ms. Barbara Nalley Mr. James Hill Bethany and Zack Klyver Ms. Alice Mann Mr. Michael Nardacci Ms. Barbara Hilli ('90) Eduardo Bohorquez and Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Nash Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Hirsh, Jr. Bruce Beaton and Nancy Manter Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ms. Margaret Hoffman '97 Lisa Knapp Ms. Nichole Marks ('83) Nathane, Jr. Dr. Kathleen Hogan '81 Ms. Barbara Knowles Mrs. Elizabeth Hulbert Mrs. Harry Neilson, Jr. Ms. Noreen Hogan '91 The Knowles Company Marler Mr. and Mrs. William Mr. and Mrs. David Ms. Aleda Koehn Mr. Robert Marshall '87 Neilson Hollenbeck Mr. and Mrs. S. Lee Mr. Erik Hilson Martin '98 Mr. and Mrs. John Newhall Ms. Betsey Holtzmann Kohrman/S. Lee & Ms. Kathleen Massimini '82 Tammy McGrath '97 and Homewood Benefits Margery S. Kohrman Adele Ursone and George Philip Nicholas '98 Mrs. J. Brooks Hopkins Philanthropic Fund of Matteson Mrs. A. Corkran Nimick Mr. and Mrs. John Houbolt The Jewish Community Wyatt Matthews, MPhil '07 Mrs. Marie Nolf Ms. Patricia Hubbard Federation of Cleveland Mrs. Anne Mazlish Mr. and Mrs. David Noyes Mr. Reginald Hudson Ms. Anne Kozak Jon and Sarah McDaniel '93 Ms. Kendra Noyes Miller '01 Ms. Sarah F. Hudson Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Mr. and Mrs. Clement Mrs. Elizabeth Higgins Null Ms. Jennifer Hughes Kranzler McGillicuddy/The Ms. Hope Olmstead Ms. Jane Hultberg Mrs. Franz Kraus Fiddlehead Fund Hannah and Judd Olshan '92 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Kugel Mr. lan Scott Mclsaac '76 Ms. Whitney Wing Huntington Margi and Philip SFC Lenorah McKee Oppersdorff Ms. Evelyn Mae Hurwich '80 Kunhardt III '77 Mr. Donald K. McNeil Mr. Benoni Outerbridge '84 Ms. Susan Inches '79 Mrs. Philip Kunhardt, Jr. Mr. Clifton McPherson III '84 Mr. and Mrs. James Owen Island Realty Mr. Ross La Haye Ms. Jeanne McPherson Ms. Beth Paris Ms. Jamien Jacobs '86 Ms. Heather Lakey '00 Ms. Carol Mead '93 Mr. and Mrs. Donald Parrot Alison and Joplin James '84 Ms. Judith Lamb '00 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Meade Mr. Robert Patterson, Jr. Mr. William Janes Ms. Carrol Lange '99 Ms. Rebecca Melius '01 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Paul 56 COA ANNUAL REPORT Mr. George Peabody Mr. Coltere Savidge '06 Ms. Patricia Tanski Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Mr. and Mrs. G. David Dr. Davis Taylor Wright Peabody Savidge Ms. Katrin Hyman Tchana '83 Ms. Jingran Xiao ('89) Mrs. Stephen Pearson Mr. and Mrs. John Schafer Ms. Karla Tegzes Ms. Sara Yasner '95 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ms. Margaret Scheid '85 Mrs. Robert Thomas Mrs. Diana Young Pennington Mr. and Mrs. Fred Scheiner Mr. and Mrs. Widgery Mr. and Mrs. Louis Zawislak Ms. Anne Peterson Mr. Noah Scher '04 Thomas, Jr. Mr. Fred Zerega Ms. Alexa Pezzano '00 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. John Thorndike Mrs. Jane Zirnkilton Ms. Susan Pierce Schindler Anais G Tomezsko '04 and Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Ms. Meghan Piercy '91 Mr. and Mrs. Hans Seeberger Noah Scher '04 Zirnkilton Ms. Teresa Pijanowski Ms. Ellen Seh '75 Dr. and Mrs. T. Michael Toole Ms. Chellie Pingree '79 Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Sellers SR Tracy, Inc GIFTS IN MEMORY Mr. Andrew Pixley '01 Mr. and Mrs. Roland Ms. Elena Tuhy '90 > In memory of Mr. Shiva Polefka '01 Seymour Mr. Frank Twohill '80 Peter G. Barton Anne and Bruce Pomeroy Ms. Peggy Irwin Shattuck Union Trust Company Ms. Patricia Barton Mr. and Mrs. Ben G. M. Priest E.L. Shea, Inc. Mr. John Van Dewater > In memory of Mr. Charles Provonchee Mrs. Margaret Sheldon Ms. Katrina Van Dusen William H. Drury, Jr. Ms. Sheila Sonne Pulling Ms. Clare Shepley Ms. Claire Verdier '80 Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Esther Pullman Mr. and Mrs. Donald Shire Ms. Anne Vernon Goelet Mona and Louis Rabineau Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Shubert Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Dr. James Kellam Dr. Nishanta Rajakaruna '94 Mr. and Mrs. John Viechnicki Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha Wade Ms. Cathy Ramsdell '78 Sienkiewicz John Viele ('81) Ratke, Miller, Hagner & Co. Ms. Fae Silverman '03/ Dr. Robert Vincent > In memory of Alice Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Rea Little Elf Fund Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Partee Stewart Eno Mr. and Mrs William Reiser Richard and Alexandra Volkmann '90 Mrs. James Abeles Mr. and Mrs. John Simis '90 Mr. William Wade '76 Mr. and Mrs. Stockton Rensenbrink Mr. Kenneth Simon Ms. Amanda Jane Walker '98 Andrews Anita and John Repp Mr. Mark Simonds '81 Ms. Hua Wang '04 Ms. Danuta Barnard Mr. Andrew Rice Mr. and Mrs. John Sims Ms. Gretchen Warner Mr. Noel George Belli Ms. Emmie Rick Dr. and Mrs. Theodore Sizer Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Mrs. Louise Blodget Mr. and Mrs. John Rivers Mr. and Mrs. Wickham Watson Mr. and Mrs. John C. Bloom Mr. and Mrs. David Robbins Skinner Mr. Michael Weber '83 Ms. Frances Bowne Mr. Joshua Robbins Ms. Susanne Slayton Ms. Lydia Ann Webster '05 Mr. and Mrs. Leslie C. Brewer Mr. and Mrs. Owen Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smalley Mrs. Constance Weeks Mrs. George Cluett, Jr. Dr. Jennifer Roberts '94 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Smith Ms. Maria Weisenberg '81 Mr. Francis I.G. Coleman Mr. C. W. Robinson, Jr. Ms. Harriet Soares Mr. and Mrs. E. Sohier Welch Mr. Edward Crane, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Kay and Robert Soucy Bradford and Alice Wellman Ms. Sally Crock Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Mr. David Wersan '79 Mrs. Charles Dennison Drs. Paul and Ann Rochmis Spector Ms. Jane White Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mr. David Rockefeller, Jr. Mrs. June Spencer Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Dickey, Jr. Ms. Sydney Roberts Lynne and Michael Staggs '97 Whitehead Carol and Jackson Eno Rockefeller Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Stedman Ms. Joan Williams Alma Boylan and Ms. Allison Rogers Furbish '04 Sheridan and Barbara Steele Mr. Peter Williams '93 Jennings Garnett Dr. Burt Adelman and Ms. Lisa Stewart Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Mr. and Mrs. Murray Gartner Ms. Lydia Rogers Stewart Brecher Architects Williams Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gilfillan Ronald and Patricia Rogers Ms. Marie Stivers Dawn Lamendola and Mr. Robert Goheen Mr. W. David Rosenmiller '84 Ms. Marion Stocking Josh Winer '91 Mr. and Mrs. John M. Good Ms. Volha Roshchanka '04 Ms. Kirsten Stockman '91 Mrs. George Winship, Jr. Mr. Merton G. Henry Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Ross Mrs. John Frederick Stockwell Ms. Betsy Wisch '83 Ms. Barbara Hill Mr. and Mrs. Max Rothal Ms. Dorie Stolley '88 Ms. Mary Witherbee Mr. James S. Hill Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dr. and Mrs. Sidney Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Witt Mr. and Mrs. John Houbolt Rothstein Strickland Ms. Anna Wlodarczyk '04 Ms. Anne M. Kozak Ms. Elizabeth Rousek Ayers '95 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ms. Susan Woehrlin '80 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mr. and Mrs. William B. Sullivan Ms. Katia Wolf '92 Leisenring Russell Mrs. Robert Suminsby Ms. Carolyn Wollen Ms. Fleury Mackie Roger and Patricia Samuel Mr. Stuart Dickey Summer '82 Woodard & Curran Mr. and Mrs. Alan Miller, Jr. Ms. Kerri Sands '02 Ms. Joan Swann Richard Bullock and Mr. and Mrs. Gerrish Mr. Daniel Sangeap '90 Dr. Douglas Sward '96 Carol Woolman Milliken Mr. Charles Savage Mr. Gilbert Sward Mr. and Mrs. David Moore COA 57 ANNUAL REPORT Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Nash > In memory of Ms. Sara Yasner '95 > In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Lois Gauthier Ms. Margaret Youngs '96 Sarah Steinberg '07 Parrot Lois M. Gauthier Ms. Alice Mann Mrs. Stephen Pearson Charitable Trust GIFTS IN HONOR > In honor of Mr. C. W. Robinson, Jr. > In honor of > In memory of Donald B. Straus Ms. Peggy Irwin Shattuck Edward McC. Blair Philip Geyelin for the Donald B. Straus Mr. and Mrs. Donald T. Shire Acadia Senior College Mrs. Philip Geyelin Seminar Room Mr. and Mrs. John Mr. Jeffrey Clark Ms. Pamela Meyer Carolyn Gray and Gray Cox Sienkiewicz Mr. Edward McC. Blair, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Ressel Mrs. June Spencer > In memory of > In honor of Dan Thomassen and Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Stewart Irving Gold Leslie C. Brewer Bonnie Tai Mr. and Mrs. Richard Donna Gold and Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Davis Taylor Sullivan Bill Carpenter Gordon Erikson Susan Bennett and Mrs. Robert Suminsby > In memory of John Visvader Mrs. Robert Thomas Craig Greene > In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Widgery John and Karen Anderson Sally (Morong) MATCHING GIFTS Thomas, Jr. Chetwynd '76 AXA Foundation Ms. Gretchen G. Warner > In memory of Mrs. Lorraine Morong Boeing Gift Matching Ms. Jane N. White Tom Hall Ms. Joan Williams > In honor of Program Mrs. Oliver Lowry Kenneth S. Cline Chubb Corporation Ms. Mary Witherbee > Ms. Carolyn Wollen In memory of Drs. Elizabeth ten Freeport-McMoRan Dr. Edward J. Meade, Jr. Grotenhuis and Foundation > In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Meade Merton Flemings GE Foundation William G. Foulke, Sr. John Hancock > Dr. Mary Elizabeth In memory of > In honor of S. Lee & Margery S. Robert Stafford Kidwell Alexander Kathryn W. Davis Kohrman Philanthropic Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bass Mr. and Mrs. John Merrill Mr. and Mrs. William Fund of The Jewish Ms. Kate Baxter > In memory of Trimble, Jr. Community Federation Mr. and Mrs. David Billings Joseph B. (Tommy) In honor of of Cleveland > Ms. Emilie Bregy Thomas IV William G. Foulke, Jr. Microsoft Matching T. A. Cox Mrs. Ruth Fraley Dr. and Mrs. Philip Geier Gifts Program Mrs. Nancy Harris Mrs. June Spencer Morgan Stanley Mr. and Mrs. Harry > In honor of PJM Corporation M. K. Johnston > In memory of Mr. and Rowen Gorman '07 United Technologies Mr. Arthur Keller Mrs. Amory Thorndike Mrs. Constance Weeks Bruce Beaton and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas GIFTS TO THE Schindler > In honor of Lisa Knapp KATHRYN W. DAVIS Mr. and Mrs. W. Nicholas George B.E. Hambleton Ms. Anne Kozak STUDENT RESIDENCE Thorndike Mr. William P. Carey Mrs. Louis Madeira VILLAGE Mr. and Mrs. William In memory of Jesse > In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Bass > V.P. Newlin Tucker '95 Laura Johnson Barbara Damrosch and Mrs. Stephen Pearson for the Jesse Tucker Mr. Kenneth Cline Eliot Coleman James Dyke and Memorial Mr. and Mrs. Roderick H. > In honor of Helen Porter Cushman Ms. Cedar Bough Saeji '93 Daniel Pierce Ratke, Miller, Hagner & Co. Mr. and Mrs. Winfield Mr. Peter Baldwin Freeman Mrs. Kathryn W. Davis/ Mr. and Mrs. David Robbins Brooks Shelby Cullom Davis Mr. Charles Savage Coplon Associates > In honor of Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shafer Ms. Jennifer Del Regno '95 Dr. Walter Robinson III Fr. James M. Gower Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ms. Heather Dority '96 Ms. Emmie Rick Mr. and Mrs. George Sullivan Tobin and Valerie Mrs. Walter M. Robinson, Jr./ B. E. Hambleton Mr. and Mrs. William Peacock '95 Margaret Ann & Walter Mr. Samuel Hamill, Jr. Wister, Jr./ Toby Stephenson '98 and Robinson Foundation Mr. and Mrs. G. Bernard Margaret Dorrance Hamilton Andrea Perry '95 > In honor of Strawbridge Foundation Ms. Elizabeth Rousek Mr. and Mrs. Melville Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. Hodder Ayers '95 Mr. Peter Baldwin Freeman Ryan Ruggiero '96 Ms. Sherry Huber Ava Moskin '95 and Mr. and Mrs. John N. Kelly Bogart Salzberg '96 58 COA ANNUAL REPORT Mr. and Mrs. Grant G. Ms. Lynn Horowitz/ Chris Wasileski Foundation McCullagh Rosengarten-Horowitz Mr. Rick Wilson Mrs. Anne Mazlis Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Fund Ms. Sara Yasner '95 Roger and Patricia Samuel Milliken Ms. Sherry Huber Ms. Margaret Youngs '96 Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Mr. and Mrs. G. Marshall Dr. James Kellam '96 Sharpe, Jr. Moriarty Mr. and Mrs. John Kelly GRANTSRECEIVEDFOR Ms. Elena Tuhy '90 Mr. and Mrs. Philip S.J. Margie and Philip Kunhardt SPECIALPROJECTS Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Moriarty III '77 Acadia Partners for Science Williams Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Mme. Christine Lavallee & Learning Mr. John Wilmerding Neilson Mr. Jon Leahy Barbro Osher Pro Mr. and Mrs. William V. P. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Loring Suecia Foundation GEORGEB.DORR Newlin Ms. Casey Mallinckrodt Cabot Family MUSEUMOF Mr. and Mrs. Peter Nitze Jon and Sarah McDaniel '93 Charitable Trust NATURALHISTORY Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Pierce Jennifer Reynolds and Cricket Foundation Ms. Madge Baker/Katharine James Dyke and Jay McNally '84 Cruise Industry Charitable Baker Charitable Lead Helen Porter Mr. and Mrs. John Merrill Foundation Unitrust Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. Gerrish Healthy Acadia Coalition Mr. and Mrs. Leslie C. Robinson, Jr. Milliken Maine Space Brewer Mr. and Mrs. Christiaan Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Grant Consortium Mrs. Bernard Cough, Jr. van Heerden Milliken Mark Woolman Horner Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Felton Mr. and Mrs. G. Marshall Music Education Fund Mr. and Mrs. John Gut INDIVIDUAL GIFTSFOR Moriarty of the Maine Community Mr. and Mrs. Paul Haertel SPECIALPROJECTS Mr. and Mrs. Philip S.J. Foundation Ms. Alma Homola Mr. Ron Beard Moriarty MELMAC Education Fdn. Institute of Museum and Ms. Cedar Bough Saeji '93 Rev. Albert Neilson Mount Desert Island Library Services Tony and Milja Brecher- Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Biological Laboratory Downeast Chapter of DeMuro Neilson Quimby Family Foundation Maine Audubon Society Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Brewer Mr. and Mrs. William V.P. The Virginia Wellington Mr. and Mrs. George Marcus Mr. and Mrs. Winfield Newlin Cabot Foundation Mrs. Anne Mazlish Brooks O'Naturals The Woodcock P. Fdn. Jennifer Reynolds and Jay Mr. Frederick Cabot Valerie ('98) and Tobin University of Maine Sea McNally '84, Lily and Cathance River Education Peacock '95 Grant Program Rose Besen-McNally, Alliance Toby Stephenson '98 and US Dept. of Education Dana and Michael Borge Christopher and Miriam Andrea Perry '95 Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Collins Mr. Andrew Peterson ALLIED WHALE Eliot Paine Coplon Associates Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Pierce PROGRAMS Mr. and Mrs. George Carolyn Gray and Gray Cox James Dyke and Abercrombie & Kent, Inc. Putnam Chris Crowley Helen Porter Rev. and Mrs. Jonathan Ms. Clare Shepley Leah and Gary Davis Ms. Cathy Ramsdell '78 Appleyard The Swan Agency - Mr. and Mrs. Shelby Mr. and Mrs. John Bar Harbor Whale Watch Insurance M.C. Davis Rensenbrink Barbara Tennent and Mrs. Edwin Deans Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Ressel Steven Barkan SUMMERPROGRAMS Mr. and Mrs. George Deans Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Mr. Edward McC. Blair Ms. Tamara Bannerman Ms. Jennifer Del Regno '95 Robinson, Jr. Michele and Agnese Jennifer and Brian Booher Ms. Heather Dority '96 Dr. Walter Robinson Cestone Foundation Ms. Jennifer Bridgers Mr. and Mrs. William G. Ms. Elizabeth Rousek Mr. and Mrs. J. Staige Davis Douglas and Foulke, Jr. Ayers '95 Mr. Walter Goodnow Kimberly Childs Diane Lokocz '03 and Ava Moskin '95 and Marisla Foundation Manley and Karen Dolley Tim Fuller '03 Bogart Salzberg '96 Penobscot Marine Museum Dr. David Painter and Garden Club of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Straus Ms. Donna Seymour Dr. Mary Dudzik Mount Desert Dan Thomassen and State of Maine Treasury Mrs. John Emery Fr. James Gower Bonnie Tai Dept. Dr. Verity Frankel Kendall Guyette Dr. Davis Taylor US Dept. of Commerce Mr. Matthew Gerald '83 Mr. and Mrs. George B. E. Mr. and Mrs. Christiaan Kirsten and Stephen Henry Hambleton van Heerden FRIENDSOFTHEARTS Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hill Mr. Samuel Hamill, Jr. Susan Bennett and Mr. and Mrs. Leslie C. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hyam Charles and Jackie Hewett John Visvader Brewer Catherine and Timothy Jones Mr. and Mrs. Melville Caroly Vogt Friends of the Arts Fund Mr. James Kadin Hodder Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha Wade of the Maine Community COA 59 ANNUAL REPORT Dr. and Mrs. Mark Mr. and Mrs.A. Irving Forbes Paul Newman and ADOPT-A-WHALE Kandutsch Ms. Nadine Gerdts '76 Joanne Woodward Ms. Shirley Ailes Racheal Wallace and Mr. and Mrs. Philip Alice Blum Yoakum Ms. Marianne Albergo Douglas Kiehm Grantham, Sr. Scholarship Fund Mr. Rick Alexander Ann Dorward and Mr. Samuel Hamill, Jr. of the Maine Ms. Cindy Allen Steven King Ms. Katherine Hazard '76 Community Foundation Mr. Allen Baldwin Ms. Elizabeth Libby Charles and Jackie Hewett Mr. and Mrs. Steven Ms. Martha McCluskey Mr. James Houghton REBECCA CLARK '96 Barrows Paul Girdzis and Mr. and Mrs. Michael Huber MEMORIAL Mrs. Eleanor Bechtle Adrienne Paiewonsky Ms. Sherry Huber SCHOLARSHIP FUND Black Bear Graphics Ms. Karen Pooler Ms. Jennifer Hughes Mr. Kenneth Cline Ms. Karen A. Bringelsen Ms. Caroline Pryor Ms. Laura Johnson Ms. Sally Crock Ms. Evelyn Burr David Rockefeller Fund, Jordan's Restaurant Mrs. Philip Geyelin Mrs. Rosanne Burrell Incorporated Mr. David Katona Francisca Drexel and Martin and Rachael Sharp Mr. John Kauffmann JOHNANDLOUISA Tom Caliandro Joel Graber and Shawn '00 and DREIERSCHOLARSHIPS Mr. Mark Chimsky-Lustig Lindsay Shopland Sarah Keeley '05 Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Ms. Doris Combs Ms. Lisa Stewart Bethany and Dreier Ms. Judith Conley Mr. and Mrs. William Zack Klyver ('90) Mr. and Mrs. John Dreier Mr. John Conover Thorndike, Jr. Mr. Scott Kraus '77 Ms. Susan Dreier Mr. Thomas Cook Karin and Jonathan Warren Jon and Sarah McDaniel '93 Mr. and Mrs. G. Marshall Dick Atlee and Sarah and Michael Wilson Ms. Donna McFarland Moriarty Sarah Corson Jennifer Reynolds and James Bogrett and THORNDIKELIBRARY Jay McNally '84 EDWARDG.KAELBER Sharon Crane Ms. Patricia Barton Mr. and Mrs. Gerrish SCHOLARSHIP FOR Mr. and Mrs. James Curry The Camden Conference Milliken MAINESTUDENTSOF Ms. Jenniffer Daparma Mr. and Mrs. Jacob V. Null Mr. and Mrs. G. Marshall OUTSTANDINGPROMISE Mrs. Rebecca Deangelis Dr. Karen E. Waldron Moriarty Ms. Nevin Bengur Thomas and Jill Deans Ms. Anna Murphy William C. Bullock Jr. Mrs. Karen Deterding UNIONRIVER Newman's Own, Inc. Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. A. Edward WATERSHEDCOALITION Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Mr. and Mrs. Edmund R. Dragon Southern Maine Wetlands Eliot Paine Davis Ms. Karen Drake Conservancy Mr. Bruce Phillips '78 Dead River Company Ms. Tamara Duff Mr. C.A.A. Storer Dr. and Mrs. Richard Ms. Peggy Dulany Drs. Jeffrey and Linda Dunn Mr. Jeremy Strater Pierson William Ginn '74 and Ms. Missy Eckstein US Gulf of Maine Assoc. Thomas and Patricia June LaCombe Ms. Carin Edwards-Orr Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Pinkham Ms. Sherry Huber Dawn and Gerald Freeman Welch Ms. Cathy Ramsdell '78 Steven K. Katona and Senior Judge Hilton Fuller Cynthia Livingston and Susan Lerner Ms. Anne Gaddy ENDOWMENTGIFTS Henry Schmelzer Mr. and Mrs. William L. Ms. Carla Ganiel Acadia Senior College Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Kraushaar Ms. Lois Gardner John and Karen Anderson Sharpe, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Mr. Matt Gaulin Mr. Jeffrey Clark Jean and Bill Sylvia Payson Prof Walter Gerolamo Mr. Peter Baldwin Freeman Ms. Elena Tuhy '90 Ellen Pope and Pat Welch Dr. and Mrs. Donald Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goelet Mr. John Wilmerding Robert and Giulianti Mr. Samuel Hamill, Jr. Ms. Joanna Young Maurine Rothschild Fund Mr. and Mrs. Neil Mr. and Mrs. Melville Henry L.P. Schmelzer and Greenwald Hodder SCHOLARSHIP GIFTS Cynthia Livingston Ms. Allison Hale Estate of David McGiffert Mr. and Mrs. Shelby Mr. Richard J. Warren Harrison Middle School Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Pierce M. C. Davis Andrea and Richard Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha Wade Davis United World CAMPAIGNFOR Henriques College Program EXCELLENCEAND Mrs. Julie Indge STEVENK.KATONA CHAIR Lois M. Gauthier SUSTAINABILITY Ms. Pam Jamieson INMARINESTUDIES Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. John P. Reeves Mr. and Mrs. Edward John and Karen Anderson The Agnes M. Lindsay Trust Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Stewart Johnson III Ms. Carolyn Berzinis Maine Community Mr. and Mrs. William Mrs. Robert Kanzler Mr. Kenneth Cline Foundation Wister, Jr Terri and Matthew Kelsey Mr. and Mrs. Mr. Charles E. Merrill, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Gordon Erikson Kimmelman 60 COA ANNUAL REPORT Ms. Phyllis Kinzie GIFTSTOTHE McKay's Public House William Allen '87 Corey Kubat SENIORCLASS Norman Nadel Karin Anderson, PhD ('84) Ms. Barbara Lambach Aleksandra Aljakna '07 North Woods Ways Peter Anderson '81 Ms. Jan Lanning Sarah and David Baker Reel Pizza Wendy Anderson ('80) Mr. Michael Lasser Tony and Milja Brecher- Mr. and Mrs. Fred Scheiner Timothea '94 and Neal Ms. Brenda Leemann DeMuro Dr. and Mrs. Peter H. Sellers Antonucci '95 Ms. Carlene Lemay Jonathan Busko '07 Sherman's Book Store Evelyn Ashford ('83) Cecily and Chelsie Lent Trisha Cantwell-Keene Stone Soup Jennifer Atkinson '03 Mrs. Virginia Leppanen Colin Capers '95 Summer Festival of the Arts Wendy Knickerbocker and Ronnie Lesser Barbara and Vinson Carter SustainUs David Avery '84 Mrs. Michele Levine Kenneth Cline Wallace Tent Lelania Prior Avila '92 Ms. Nan Lincoln Melissa and Frederick Cook Carol Woolman and Richard Jennifer Aylesworth '94 Ms. Kathy-Jo Lonergan Carolyn Gray and Gray Cox Bullock Carrie Banks '01 Mr. Edward Longville John Deans '07 YWCA MDI Bruce Becque '81 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Maass Alexander Fletcher '07 Bruce Bender '76 Sunshine Marino Cherie and Chad Ford GIFTSOFTIME Ms Serra Joan Benson '02 Rohan Mario Carla Ganiel ANDTALENT Jason Bernad, MD '94 Pam Martin Donna Gold Carrie Banks '01and Mrs. John Biderman '77 Ms. Carolyn Mason Ms Anna Goldman '07 Philip Banks Janet Biondi '81 Cheryl McDonald Barbara McLeod and Michael Blair '95 Jerry Bley ('78) Ms. Susan McGuiness David Hales Michael Boland '94 and Sally Boisvert '04 Mr. Nathan McKnight Kayla Hartwell '07 Dierdre Swords Pamela Bolton '79 Phyllis and Stan Minick Atsuko Watabe '93 and Colin Capers '95 Rev. Paul Boothby '88 Shawn Meyer Nabors Bruce Hazam '92 Tony DeMuro Sarah Boucher, MPhil '06 Ms. Mary Olson Juan Pablo Hoffmaister '07 Cerissa Desrosiers '00 Cedar Bough Saeji '93 Ellen and Michael Ornaf Laura Johnson Kelly Dickson, MPhil '97 Dennis Bracale '88 Ms. Kelly O'Sullivan Jill and Bobby Kelley Alexander Fletcher '07 Jessica Bradshaw '03 Mrs. Janine Pariente Mr. and Mrs. Ted Koffman Tim Fuller '03 Carla Burnham '84 Maple John Razsa Virginie Lavallee-Picard '07 Jon Geiger Jonathan Busko '07 Valerie and John Razsa Sam Coplon and Isabel Matt Gerald }83 Skip '83 and Rebecca Ms. Lois Rhea Mancinelli Mary Harney '96 Buyers-Basso '81 Karen and Fred Royer Donna McFarland Peter Heller '85 Roc and Helen Caivano '80 John and Nancy Sawin Jamie McKown Dianne Helprin Julie Cameron '78 Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Amy Mitchell Susan Hersey Colin Capers '95 Schenkenberger Anna Murphy Noreen Hogan '91 Liza Carter '76 Karen and Jack Skidmore Sean Murphy Eamonn Hutton '05 Erin Chalmers '00 Ms. Eva Soalt Benjamin Nimkin ('07) Shawn Keeley '00 Katherine Clark '91 Ms. Sarah Solnick Elisheva Rubin '07 Donna LaLiberte Tammis Coffin '87 Ms. Joanne Sousa Erin Soucy '07 Heather Martin-Zboray '93 Douglas Coots '83 Ms. Marcia Stern Darcy Allen Whitten ('07) Morning Glory Bakery Lisa Damtoft '79 Kelly Stock Barbara Neilly John Allen Dandy ('84) Elizabeth and Paul Sunde GIFTSINKIND Tammy Packie '97 Julia Davis '03 Ms. Heidi Tair Alternative Market Dina Petrillo-Herz '89 Livia Munck Davis '88 Benjamin Tengwall Ardea Expeditions Adam Rabasca John Deans '07 Mr. Matt Tocknell Atlantic Oakes-by-the-Sea Allison Rogers Furbish '04 Jennifer Del Regno '95 Ms. Rosanne Tousignant Avena Botanicals Kerri Sands '02 Holly Devaul '84 Mr. Harry Tucci, Jr. Bakers Café Fae Silverman '03 Janet Redfield and Scott Ms. Wendy E. Turner Bar Harbor Inn Lynne and Michael Staggs '97 Dickerson, MPhil, '95 Ms. Kathy Venegas Burning Tree Brian Stan/Morris Yachts of George and Kelly Dickson, Mr. and Mrs. William Cadillac Mountain Sports Trenton MPhil '97 Whitener China Joy Frank Twohill '80 Angela DiPerri '01 Ms. Alesia Williams William D. Craig Melita Westerlund Heather Dority '96 Meghan Williams, DVM Mrs. Rudolph DeHarak Matthew Young '93 Michelle Catherine Ms. Patricia Wooldridge Green Store Dumont '02 Mr. John Wurdemann Havana's SPECIALTHANKSTOOUR Scott Durkee '84 Jordan's Restaurant ALUMNIDONORS Alden Eaton (SP) Landvest, Incorporated Beverly Agler '81 Joseph Edes '83 Maine Mycological Heather Albert-Knopp '99 Wendy Rodger and Henry Association Aleksandra Aljakna '07 Elliott ('76) COA 61 ANNUAL REPORT Julie Erb '83 Peter Jeffery '84 Adam McPherson '00 and Dr. Douglas Sward '96 Lynne Wommack Espy '93 Richard Gordet and Sonja Chelsea Mooser '00 Katrin Hyman Tchana '83 Cynthia Jordan Fisher '80 Johanson '95 Bethany Murray '03 Noah Scher '04 and Anais Alexander Fletcher '07 Catherine Johnson '74 Michael Nardacci (SP) Tomezsko '04 Diane Lokocz '03 and Michael Kattner '95 Tammy McGrath '97 and Elena Tuhy '90 Timothy Fuller '03 Sarah '05 and Shawn Philip Nicholas '98 Frank Twohill '80 Allison Fundis '03 Keeley '00 Benjamin Nimkin ('07) Claire Verdier '80 Lucretia Gatchell ('85) Dr. James Kellam '96 Kendra Noyes Miller '01 John Viele ('81) Laurie Geiger (SpP) Joanne Kemmerer '02 Carol '93 and Jacob Null '93 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Amy George '98 Ann Noel Kesselheim ('81) Judd and Hannah Olshan '92 Volkmann '90 Kirsten George Edelglass ('95) Bethany and Zack Klyver Benoni Outerbridge '84 William Wade '76 Matthew Gerald '83 ('90) Valerie ('98) and Tobin Amanda Jane Walker '98 Nadine Gerdts '76 Aleda Koehn (SpP) Peacock '95 Hua Wang '04 William Ginn '74 and June Scott Kraus '77 Toby Stephenson '98 and Michael Weber '83 LaCombe Margi and Philip Andrea Perry '95 Lydia Ann Webster '05 Ms Anna Goldman '07 Kunhardt III '77 Alexa Pezzano '00 Katherine Weinstock '81 Mrs. Laura Arm Goldstein Heather Lakey '00 Bruce Phillips '78 Maria Weisenberg '81 (SpP) Judith Lamb '00 Meghan Piercy '91 David Wersan '79 Marie Malin '01 and Carrol Lange '99 Teresa Pijanowski (SpP) Peter Williams '93 Morgan Wing Goodale, Virginie Lavallee-Picard '07 Chellie Pingree '79 Dawn Lamendola and MPhil '01 Amanda Lazrus- Andrew Pixley '01 Joshua Winer '91 Abigail Goodyear '81 Cunningham '02 Shiva Polefka '01 Betsy Wisch '83 Mrs. Therese Goulet '78 Kathryn Harmon '94 and Dr. Nishanta Rajakaruna '94 Anna Wlodarczyk '04 Katherine Elizabeth Griffin Robert Ledo '91 Cathy Ramsdell '78 Susan Woehrlin '80 '00 Caroline Leonard '01 Dr. Jennifer Roberts '94 Jingran Xiao ('89) Mary Griffin '97 Alice Levey '81 Allison Rogers Furbish '04 Sara Yasner '95 Joseph Grigas (SP) Aaron Lewis '05 W. 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Marion Harris '88 Pamela Manice (SP) Daniel Sangeap '90 Tanner Brook Harris '06 Nichole Marks ('83) Coltere Savidge '06 Everyefforthasbeenmade Sonja Hartmann '88 Robert Marshall '87 Margaret Scheid '85 toensureaccuracyin Kayla Hartwell '07 Erik Hilson Martin '98 Noah Scher '04 preparingourdonorlist.lfa Lois Hayes '79 Kathleen Massimini '82 Ellen Seh '75 mistakehasbeenmadein Atsuko Watabe '93 and Wyatt Matthews, MPhil '07 Fae Silverman '03 thewayyouoryourfamily Bruce Hazam '92 Dr. Robert May '81 Richard '88 and Alexandra isidentified,orifyourname Katherine Hazard '76 Jon and Sarah McDaniel '93 Simis '90 wasomitted,weapologize. Michael Zwirko '01 and lan Scott Mclsaac '76 Mark Simonds '81 Toensurethatfuturedonor Erin Heacock '04 Jennifer Reynolds and Jay Erin Soucy '07 listsreportyournamesas Kate Russell Henry and McNally '84 Lynne and Michael Staggs youprefer,pleasenotify Eric Henry ('76) Donald K. McNeil (SP) '97 theDevelopmentOfficeat Katherine Hester '98 Clifton McPherson III '84 Kirsten Stockman '91 207-288-5015,ext.329 Barbara Hilli (SP) Jeanne McPherson (SpP) Dorie Stolley '88 withanychanges. Juan Pablo Hoffmaister '07 Carol Mead '93 Stuart Dickey Summer '82 Margaret Hoffman '97 Rebecca Melius '01 Dr. Kathleen Hogan '81 Terra Anna Merry '98 HelpMakeaDifference! Noreen Hogan '91 Jessica Messere '00 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC welcomes gifts of all kinds to support Jean Howell (SP) Mr. and Mrs. Olin Eugene our work of educating students to make a difference throughout the Evelyn Mae Hurwich '80 Myers, Jr. (VS, '80) world. Please consider including the college in your annual giving. Susan Inches '79 Jeffrey Miller '92 Equally as important, to ensure COA's future, consider becom- Jamien Jacobs '86 Edna Martin and Edward ing part of our planned giving program. Bequests, charitable gift Alison and Joplin James '84 Monat III '88 annuities, charitable reminder trusts and other similar programs William Janes (SpP) Peter Moon '90 help the college while also offering you income tax benefits. Visit www.coa.edu/html/givetocoa or call the Development Nishad Jayasundara '05 Office at 207-288-5015. 62 COA COA IN MEMORIAM Brooke Astor Albert "Al" Stork March 30, 1902-August 13, 2007, COA supporter July 18, 1928-February 21, 2007 COA's first head of buildings and grounds Brooke Astor was a COA Natural History great friend to COA. Big Al: straight, plumb, level and true-he touched my Among her many gifts life in a way that gave it meaning and purpose at a time to the college, she when I need both. I have yet to meet another human helped to make our with his talent and drive. For COA, he was the right man new George B. Dorr at the right time; he transformed the old Kaelber Hall Museum of Natural from a summer cottage to a functioning institutional History a reality. We building. He taught me so much. I think of him often. are delighted to think ~ Millard Dority, Director of Campus Planning, that she remembered Buildings, and Public Safety COA when making out her will, and especially that she thought to Donald B. Straus help Maine students come to the college. June 28, 1916-September 3, 2007, Trustee 1974 to 2007 Brooke Astor cuts the ribbon at the Don Straus was a Human Ecologist. He worried about opening of the new George B. Dorr the fate of the planet and the people on it long before Museum of Natural History in 2001. that was stylish. He was always working on ways to bring people together, to get people talking with each other and recognizing common goals. Bernard "Sonny" Cough Don loved students, and we were all his students. He July 12, 1927-March 24, 2007, Trustee 1970 to 1971 had enormous energy and insight. Most of all, Don Sonny, Les Brewer and Father Jim Gower were old loved COA. If he had one major flaw, it was that he saw friends. When the idea of starting COA came about, the distant future much better than the immediate pres- Sonny came on board as one of the founding trustees. ent. Don saw what we could become: a Light among the He was a respected local businessman, which meant a Nations. I have spent twenty years running to try to lot as we were seeking to gain community acceptance catch up with him, but again and again I find that when for COA. I reach a spot I see his footprints in the sand before me and realize once again "Gosh, Don was right." ~ Ed Kaelber ~ John Anderson William G. Foulke, Sr. Don Straus was one of the most welcoming people to Nov. 20, 1912-March 30th, 2007, Trustee 1985 to 1990 me in my first year at COA. Whether attending a dinner at his house or working closely with him on the Governance Initiative Liaison Committee. He lived in the world of ideas and loved conversation and debate; Bill Foulke Sr., he had a spark that made intergenerational dialogue with his daughter- work. He believed in a new way of thinking and making in-law Wendy decisions and an educational framework that would Foulke, grand- bring about necessary change. daughter Leah Henzler and Bill ~ Nathaniel Keller '04 Foulke, Jr., current trustee. Bill was a very unusual person, a true Renaissance man. Don Straus' courage, the intensity of his curiosity and The only time he missed a trustee meeting was when the intellect-and his constant delight in the world around Shakespeare Society of Philadelphia held a special event him, shaped the college. As a sailor, it was fitting that his for his birthday. Bill was dedicated in a quiet way and a last day was one of strong winds, bright sun and intense gentleman in a real sense, a person who cared about all promise. people. A person of that quality has an impact on many ~ Donna Gold people, including his family-the Sellers, Newlins and Foulkes-who have since become involved in the col- lege. Beyond that, Bill handled the business of auditing with aplomb-no fuss or bother. ~ Lou Rabineau Photos courtesy of Rebecca Hancock merchant mariner When Rebecca Hancock '97 goes to Rebecca Hancock '97 Q. What's it like to be a woman work, it's for sixty days at a time. Her officer? office? The pilothouse of a thousand- foot freighter, the M/V Stewart J. Cort. If A. Most of the guys I work with treat it's headed through the locks, she might me more like a sister, with a certain stand forward, reporting to the captain as level of teasing and good-natured to how close the sides of the ship-the insults. It's one of the things I enjoy length of three football fields-is getting most-helps me to keep my sarcastic to the lock walls. And if it's unloading its wit well-sharpened. Once I estab- four cargo holds while she's on watch, lished that I am willing to do any of she's in charge of the deck operations. the work the guys do within my job Hancock is second mate, third in com- description and everyone realizes mand, on a ship that plies America's that I'm one of the crew, there are Midwestern waters. There are twenty- very few problems. two other souls aboard. The only other woman works in the galley. Q. How did you come to be a merchant mariner? Q. Do you feel you use your degree in Human Ecology? A. I did an internship as an environmental educator on the Hudson River sloop Clearwater in Pough- A. Human Ecology is part of the way that I look at keepsie, where I grew up, and worked on the eighty- things. I credit the way I was taught with how I can five-foot Bay Lady in Bar Harbor. I remember seeing examine everything that I come into contact with. Out my first carrier when I was working at the USS Arizona here, I'm tearing down the boundaries between the memorial in Hawaii. It was a moment of awe. It did outside walls and myself. I'm subject to whatever something to me and I had to pursue that feeling. Mother Nature chooses to throw out. If we're going After one of the captains of the Bay Lady went to the through the Soo Locks in blowing snow, it can get Great Lakes Maritime Academy in Traverse City, to be pretty frigging miserable. But eventually my Michigan, I applied and got in. watch and overtime ends and I can take a hot shower and daydream about the money I just made while Q. What are you carrying? cursing my impending frostbite. Looking out over water as smooth as glass, I realize A. We load about 52,000 tons of taconite-iron ore that I'm a part of things. If I'm lucky, I'll catch a glimpse pellets-in Superior, Wisconsin and take it through St. of the aurora borealis over Lake Superior. It is in these Mary's River, down Lake Michigan to Burns Harbor, moments that our existence is given meaning. Indiana, close to Chicago. 64 COA Honoring Ed Kaelber Reprinted from the Bangor Daily News editorial pages July 13, 2007 tarting this fall, a succession of promising Maine students S will benefit from a new scholarship program named for the founding president of both the College of the Atlantic and the Maine Community Foundation. Friends of Ed Kaelber gathered Thursday afternoon, July 12, to pay their respects to Mr. Kaelber and hear details of the Edward G. Kaelber Scholarship for Maine Students of Outstanding Promise. Each year, one incoming freshman student at the College of the Atlantic "who has demonstrated a high degree of achieve- ment in academic and community work" will be selected for support up to $7,500. "Graduated support" is planned for each scholarship winner through his or her four years of study. A partnership of the college and the foundation is endow- ing the new scholarship to "provide opportunities for Maine students who possess the potential for the kind of bold com- mitment and leadership Ed Kaelber personifies and who will use their skills and talents to bring about change in their com- munities in equally significant ways." The Community Foundation will hold and manage the Photograph by Noreen Hogan '91. scholarship fund. The initial goal is one million dollars, and additional gifts and grants are expected. Mr. Kaelber was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and grew up on Long Island. He graduated from Harvard and attended Harvard Business School. He first visited Maine in the early 1950s, when he was running a lumber busi- ness in New York. He came to Maine to buy lumber and liked what he saw. Many years later, after serving as associate dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, he was intrigued by plans to create a new college in Bar Harbor. He helped develop the College of the Atlantic and its core course of "human ecology" and became its first president. He was an avid sailor, cruising the Maine coast on his original Friendship sloop, the Amos Swan and helped Ralph Stanley, the Southwest Harbor builder of boats, organize his boatyard company. At the age of 83, what does he do to occupy himself these days? He says, "Nothing but playing, reading, gossiping, arguing and entertaining" with his wife, Ann Sewall, at their home in Bar Harbor. But he is always ready to take on short-term projects, and the college and the foundation both continue to make use of his wisdom and skills. Courtesy of the Bangor Daily News. Readers are encouraged to submit poetry, short stories, and human ecology essays to COA. Please send your work to dgold@coa.edu or Donna Gold, COA Magazine, 105 Eden Street, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609. COA 65 Non-Profit College of the Atlantic U.S.Postage PAID life changing. world changing. Augusta,ME 105 Eden Street PermitNo.121 Bar Harbor, ME 04609