COA Volume 2 I Number 1 WINTER 2006 The College of the Atlantic Magazine COA VISION LETTER FROM THE EDITOR The faculty, students, trustees, staff, and alumni of College of There is a moment at the end of summer the Atlantic envision a world when, engrossed in a leisurely bike ride, or where people value creativity, a quiet hike, a breath of an autumn breeze intellectual achievement, and comes through. Surprisingly, despite the diversity of nature and human glory of the summer's day, that scent of fall cultures. With respect and com- is so powerful that I find myself wistfully passion, individuals construct longing for autumn's crisp excitement and I meaningful lives for themselves, feel physically torn between the moment and gain appreciation of the relation- the future. ships among all forms of life, and As we say goodbye to one president and safeguard the heritage of future hello to another, I know I'm not alone in feel- generations. ing this odd split. For thirty-three years, for as long as COA has been a college teeming with students, Steven K. Katona has put his heart into this institution, working to shape it as a vibrant community of participa- tory, active, insightful learning. As a teacher, as founder and director of Allied Whale, and as COA's fourth president, leading this institution for COVER: thirteen years, Steve has been integral to COA. Convergent Evolution, Benjamin Nimkin '07 This issue of COA pays tribute to the careers of both Steve and his wife and partner, Susan Lerner, as they prepare to end their formal Created for Biology through the Lens taught by COA connection with the college at the end of June and move on to new video professor Nancy pathways. It's hard to say goodbye. Andrews and vertebrate But saying hello is thrilling. With this issue, we briefly welcome the biology professor Stephen man who will be COA's fifth president, David Hales, who will take office Ressel, Fall 2005. As a means of defense, on July 1. Look for more about him come summer. each of these species- There is one other moment to recall during this intense winter of from invertebrates to warm- change; a moment of stasis between goodbye and hello, a moment blooded hedgehogs to reef-dwelling fish-have when the soul of COA shone, with no president present. On Saturday, developed spikes or spines January 21, the day after the last of three presidential candidates visited or other forms of sharp body the college, the day before the search committee made their decision, parts to prevent predation, the COA community-students, staff, faculty, alumni-were asked to defend territory or threaten rivals. See page 35. share their insights on the three presidential finalists. For four hours, beginning at noon, people stood one at a time, and talked. With much Ben Nimkin '07, is from Salt Lake City, Utah. He is study- eloquence, great humor, strong perceptions and deep thought, the ing film, graphic design community spoke and the search committee listened, furiously writing and ethnography at COA. notes. This moment of democracy, this recognition of community, will While his future plans blaze as a touchstone for the All-College Meeting for years to come. It, include filmmaker, lobster- man, graduate student, too, is human ecology. professional wonderer and Donna Gold film teacher, for the moment he enjoys eating pears. editor, COA BACK COVER: While in Uganda studying the anthropology of develop- ment, Marcin Matuszek '06 took this picture of a woman walking through reservoirs from which salt is extracted. features COA The College of the Atlantic Magazine Volume 2 Number 1 WINTER 2006 EDITOR Donna Gold COA's Fifth President ~ p. 3 EDITORIAL BOARD Noted Environmentalist, David Hales John Anderson Sarah Barrett '08 Of Graffiti, Graft & Green Business ~ p. 14 Richard J. Borden Nicholas Brazier '06 Jay McNally '84 and the Human Ecology Noreen Hogan '91 of Electronic Discovery Shawn Keeley '00 EDITORIAL CONSULTANT From Undersea Chemistry to COA Presidency ~ p. 16 Bill Carpenter ALUMNI CONSULTANTS A Personal Look at Steve Katona's Legacy Shawn Keeley '00 by Gregory Stone '82 Jill Barlow-Kelley COPY EDITOR Taking on the Big Picture ~ p. 26 Jennifer Hughes Allied Whale "Graduates" Move into Environmental Policy DESIGN Mahan Graphics The Colors of Susan Lerner ~ p. 28 PRINTING BY JS McCarthy Printers, Augusta, Maine A Pause for Reflection A Conversation with Leslie C. Brewer ~ p. 32 COA ADMINISTRATION Eliot Coleman Steven Katona Kelly Dickson, M.Phil., '97 The Man Who Has Made Things Happen from the Very Beginning President William F. Dohmen Alice Eno Kenneth Hill David H. Fischer Haeckel Project ~ p. 35 Academic Dean, William G. Foulke, Jr. Associate Dean of The Artistry of Nature, the Natural Science of Art Timothy Fuller, '03 Academic Services James M. Gower John Anderson Life Trustee Falling ~ p. 38 Associate Dean for George B.E. Hambleton Advanced Studies Charles Hewett A Short Story by Becky Buyers-Basso '81 Sherry F. Huber Andrew Campbell John N. Kelly Associate Dean Philip B. Kunhardt III '77 Poetry ~ p. 43 of Student Life Elizabeth & Peter Loring Poems by Shamsher Virk '07 David Feldman Susan Storey Lyman Associate Dean for Life Trustee Academic Affairs Suzanne Folds McCullagh departments Andrew Griffiths Sarah A. McDaniel '93 Administrative Dean Jay McNally '84 Karen Waldron Stephen G. Milliken Associate Dean of Faculty Philip J. Moriarty Letter from the President p. 2 Phyllis Anina Moriarty BOARD OF TRUSTEES William V.P. Newlin COA Beat p.4 Samuel M. Hamill, Jr. Daniel Pierce Chairman Helen Porter Class Notes p. 44 Cathy L. Ramsdell '78 Elizabeth D. Hodder John Reeves Vice Chair John Rivers Faculty & Community Notes p. 49 Casey Mallinckrodt Hamilton Robinson, Jr. Vice Chair Walter Robinson, M.D. Ronald E. Beard Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. Life Trustee Secretary Remembering ~ p. 51 Clyde E. Shorey, Jr. Leslie C. Brewer Donald B. Straus Josh Jones, Samuel Hamill, Treasurer Life Trustee Jesse Tucker, David McGiffert Ann F. Sullivan TRUSTEES Edward McC. Blair, Sr. Cody van Heerden Life Trustee John Wilmerding Annual Report ~ p. 52 Letter from the Board COA is published twice each year for Scenes from a Homecoming ~ p. 64 the College of the Atlantic community. Please direct correspondence to: Amy Toensing '93 Follows the Colorado Lynx COA Magazine Restoration for National Geographic College of the Atlantic 105 Eden Street Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 Grinning in the Garden ~ p. 65 Phone: (207) 288-5015 The Human Ecology Essay Revisited email: dgold@coa.edu www.coa.edu This publication is printed on recycled paper. Chlorine free, acid free manufacturing process. LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Susie and I arrived at campus in our freely as intellect and circumstance twenties and by now have spent more directed. We found joy and value by than half our lives here. Here we have exploring connections between sci- grown up, learning from years of teach- ence and politics, art and nature, litera- ing, learning to be a president or direct ture and all of the above. By tending an an art gallery, learning to explore the organic garden, we came to under- fertile nexus of Human Ecology togeth- stand plants in ever richer ways. We er, challenged to be the best people we felt boundaries dissolve in the special could be. Sharing this adventure deep- moments when science discovers, intu- ened our relationship on a daily basis ition speaks or art moves, when orange as we immersed ourselves in purpose- feels, a poem tastes, the ocean speaks. ful learning, made cherished friend- We learned the beauty of people and ships with students and colleagues, the value of difference ever more and merged our energies into the deeply and happily as students from all exciting task of bringing a college to life. over the world joined our college. These people, Our sons, David and Nick, were born here, and these pleasures, these tangled currents nourish us their lives will be forever enriched by this communi- daily as we go about the difficult work of making our ty's mission, intellectual curiosity, tolerance, kindness societies, our ecosystems, our fellow humans whole and caring. Deeply imprinted in their souls are the and healthy again. natural attractions of this beautiful campus that they What a privilege it has been to be part of a com- explored as boys. munity that cultivates these values, skills and goals. Here we gladly entered the immense web of rela- Amidst the confusion, tension, corruption, violence tionships that connect each of us to all that exists, and disorganization that command perhaps too past, present and future. We felt privileged to teach many headlines, it is deeply reassuring that College and learn about the evolutionary drama of life and of the Atlantic is successfully teaching another, bet- our role in preserving its rich diversity, from ter, more hopeful, respectful and sustainable path. microbes to whales. What could be more engaging None of us present in the college's earliest days than investigating the distinctive cultural legacy of foresaw what we could together achieve. Optimism our own species and its role in the drama? And what and naiveté invariably shielded us from dwelling on could be more satisfying than contributing to the obstacles that could sink this frail bark, but thanks to growth and success of this vibrant community and the extraordinary work of our students, alumni, fac- the success of the urgent mission we share? ulty, staff, trustees and a great many friends, we Today's student cannot imagine the gulf that pre- slipped past most of them. What a magnificent voy- vailed between human and ecology when the college age it has been, and what marvelous vistas lie began. Innumerable debates plumbed whether we beyond. were part of nature or not, whether animals thought, Everyone asks what our next personal vistas will loved or felt pain, or whether there was any genetic be. We will travel and refresh for the first few continuity between the social behaviors of animals months, visiting close friends and looking at issues and us. Making Human Ecology whole, acknowledg- of sustainability in the U.S. and abroad. By early ing our common relationship and responsibility to all next year we will choose our next positions. We of nature, will be remembered as one of the col- are excited by the challenge of helping the world lege's, and humanity's, deepest accomplishments. in new ways. We intend to keep our home and base That essential awareness enables us, requires us, to on Mount Desert Island, and look forward to con- begin repairing the damage we have caused, perhaps tinuing the personal and institutional relationships ultimately becoming worthy of the responsibility that that have meant so much to us here. consciousness necessarily confers. A distinctive Susie, Dave and Nick join me in thanking the birthright of our college was avoiding other gulfs College of the Atlantic community, past and present, too, particularly those engendered by traditional aca- for changing our lives and remaining a beacon of demia between modes of inquiry and ways of know- hope for education and for the world. ing. Without departments and without boundaries between disciplines, theory and practice, we ranged 2 COA Noted Environmentalist to Become COA's Fifth President It doesn't take much for David Hales to once again hear the wind howl and taste the grit in his teeth from the dust storms that blew across the small west Texas town where he was raised. As a boy, the storms would come so thick and strong that no matter how many rags and clothes his family stuffed into the cracks of doors and windows, dust still blew right through his home. But it wasn't long before Hales noticed something else about these storms: Eventually they stopped. Though created by poor environmental management, they were resolved by getting people to think differently about their approach to land and water. This fact is central to Hales' career as an environmental leader. Come July 1, Hales will bring his skills as a leader and team manager to College of the Atlantic, where he will serve as the college's fifth president. Hales was chosen from among thirty-six applicants by COA's board of trustees on February 4, 2006. A lifelong environmentalist, Hales has had numerous positions promoting sustainable development nationally and internationally. Most recently, he held the position of Counsel for Sustainability Policy at Worldwatch Institute, an independent research organization focused on energy, resource and environ- mental issues. As counsel, Hales advised policymakers on sustainable approach- es to global issues. Under the Clinton administration, Hales was director of the Global Environment Center of the United States Agency for International Development where he was charged with integrating environmental concerns into all development decisions. Earlier, under the administration of Jimmy Carter, Hales was a deputy assistant secretary at the United States Department of the Interior, with responsibility for the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Between these times, Hales served in academia, holding the Samuel Trask Dana Chair of Natural Resources at the University of Michigan. Underscoring his belief in the ability of humans to make good decisions and hence truly make a difference, Hales believes in the power of education. "We are facing a time of tremendous opportunity and unavoidable change in the twenty- first century," said Hales shortly after being chosen for the COA presidency. "The role of higher education has always been to envision the best possible future and enable society to achieve that future. I believe that COA, with its excellent faculty and students, will be a fundamental institution in charting that course." A search committee of trustees, faculty, staff and one student had worked since spring to review applicants. Says literature professor Karen Waldron, a member of the search committee, Hales "is a vibrant link between COA's mission of human ecology-its interdisciplinary, problem-solving approach-and its ongoing effort to create, through its graduates, a world that is sustainable and just. His belief that education fosters our shared responsibility for world citizenship will help COA enrich and extend its learning community." COA's current president, Steven K. Katona, plans to retire June 30 after 34 years at the college, beginning in 1972 as a founding faculty member. Katona is thrilled with Hales. "With his distinguished record in administration and his lifelong engagement in issues of natural resource conservation and sustainable develop- ment, David Hales will be a superb leader," says Katona. "The college is fortunate indeed to have attracted a person of his quality. When I turn over presidential duties to David, it will be with full confidence for a very bright future." COA 3 COA BEAT The Montreal Stomp By Brett Ciccotelli '09 and Sarah Neilson '09 I was not expecting so many other youth to show up, but I was acutely underestimating the In late November, six COA students headed to dedication and passion of my peers. Remember- Montreal for the United Nations Framework ing this passion now makes my heart explode into Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and bright silver hope. the first meeting of the parties under the Kyoto As part of the Youth Expression theater group, I protocol. The conference coincided with the first met ten or twelve others inside the busy, fluores- commitment period of the protocols, in which cent halls of the Palais des Congres at noon every countries agreed to more drastically cut green- day to solidify our plan for the daily theatrical house gas emissions and actively engage in all of event that we put on at the bottom of the escala- the political, economic and social processes tors. These events attracted delegates and pressed entailed in mitigating and adapting to climate our message of the need for post-2012 commit- change. ments from both those who have signed the Kyoto The COA group, Elsie Flemings '07, Juan Pablo Protocol and those that have not signed on, such Hoffmaister '07, Sarah Neilson '09, Henry Steinberg as the current U.S. administration. On this day, we '06, Kathleen Tompkins '08 and myself, are all had come up with the idea to "take the steps." We members of the Maine branch of SustainUS, choreographed a Stomp- a nonprofit youth organi- like routine to perform zation promoting sus- on the empty staircase tainable development. beside the escalators. As Drawn to Montreal by we moved up the stairs in a concern for the future, our clapping and stomp- we were hoping to see ing routine, each of us how the U.N. works, net- took our turn turning work with activists and around and shouting out policy makers, and learn a step we were taking in from this historic event. our own communities We quickly found out and lives to mitigate dan- how much there was to Sarah Neilson '09, second from the left, joins other youth in gerous climate change: "I the Montreal Stomp. do. commit to making my Our group had a strong presence on the youth voice heard in my local government!" I commit to lobbying team. Through this we were able to meet riding my bike to work!" "I commit to educating with many delegates, including the U.S. delega- my peers!" Clad in the t-shirts of various youth tion, gaining New York Times coverage. One of our and non-governmental organizations, our peers major goals was to convince delegates to address cheered for us, creating a flare of noise that global deforestation's impact on climate change. seemed to infiltrate the hearts of everyone pres- As youth representatives, we worked alongside ent, speeding up their beat. As we moved into our scientists, environmental groups and indigenous grand finale chanting, "We're taking our steps, you peoples to demand that action be taken by the take yours! all the youth joined in. Suddenly, in a countries of the world to slow global climate bout of collective consciousness that still gives me change and ensure a stable future. With so many a rush of adrenaline, we stormed the stairs-sixty people from such different places with different or seventy young people who feel in their very ideas about how to manage the planet, it became pores the potential for a sustainable future- obvious that to secure a safer environment we shouting our chant, running up the stairs as peo- must work together. Saving the world looks a lot ple in business suits and security guards in blue easier when the world is with you. stood in what seemed to be momentary surprise ~ Brett Ciccotelli '09 and shock. 4 COA the planet is our heritage Juan Pablo Hoffmaister '07 advises the U.N. on youth When Juan Pablo Hoffmaister was La Conference des Since 1999, the UNEP has facili- Nations Unies sur les fifteen, he went to Nicaragua to tated the election of fourteen inter- changements help rebuild a community that had climatiques national student advisors to act as been leveled by a hurricane. There The liaisons, representing youth interests United were three young children in the to the UNEP and UNEP interests Clim household, Hoffmaister recalls; to youth. One of Hoffmaister's first each one of them was sick. "One duties was to attend the United child was seven, but he looked Nations climate change conference like he was four years old. We in Montreal last November. In talked a lot. One day we talked February, he flew to Dubai, United about trees, about how important Arab Emirates for the Global Minis- it is to take care of trees." terial Environment Forum. As a Having finished building the youth advisor, says Hoffmaister, "I house, Hoffmaister got ready to return to his native feel that what we're doing is to make room for youth Costa Rica. For a moment, though, the boy detained action within a huge social institution. We're trying to him. "He gave me the seed of a tree. He said it was so facilitate change that benefits not only youth, but the that | could have clean air wherever I went." world that we're going to inherit. After all, the planet is When Hoffmaister thinks of the future of the planet, our heritage." he thinks of this boy and children like him, children who Ultimately, Hoffmaister plans to be working in will be breathing the air of the late twenty-first century international public health, focusing on water and and suffering the dramas of climate change. sanitation. In the meantime, he hopes to help unify But now, Hoffmaister has a wider audience. the growing youth environmental movement in the At a recent youth conference in Bangalore, India, United States and to begin to bridge these efforts the twenty-one-year-old COA junior was elected with youth elsewhere in the world. to represent North American youth to the UN ~ Donna Gold Environmental Programme, or UNEP. Above: Kathleen Tompkins '08, Brett Ciccotelli '09 and Juan Pablo Hoffmaister '07 take a moment's pause during an intense week at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal last November. I now see that this energy is what the Montreal each of us took our turn youth embodied in both numbers and passion. As young people, we are as important as anyone. We turning around and shouting are currently the ones most affected by climate out a step we were taking in change; each subsequent generation will be expo- nentially more affected. Individuals can make a our own communities and lives difference in the health of our planet. I am starting now; we are starting now. Everybody carries with- to mitigate dangerous climate in their spirits the love it takes to bring us all change: "I commit to making together in this process of healing the earth and ourselves. my voice heard in my local - Sarah Neilson '09 government!" "I commit to riding my bike to work!" "I commit to educating my peers!" COA 5 beech hill farm $35,000 grant makes outreach possible cultivates education It's the quiet season at College of the Atlantic's Beech Hill Farm. Next season's garlic is planted, this year's root crops are out. Having seeded the plots with cover crops to hold the soil, build organic matter and suppress weeds, Lara Judson '04 is taking some time off. Come summer, Judson wakes before dawn and commits at least seventeen hours to managing the farm and farm- stand, while also weeding, tilling and seeding each day. Last summer Judson became the interim farm man- ager of College of the Atlantic's organic farm. To some extent, she comes by her job naturally. Raised on a 112-acre farm in Nipanos Valley, near Williamsport, Pennsylvania, she grew up with angora goats, sheep and gardens. The very first week after she came to COA, Interim farm manager Lara Judson '04 distributes seeds from a sunflower to kindergarten students at the Connors-Emerson School in January 1999, she headed to the farm, pruning apple in Bar Harbor. Photo by Sarah Hinckley. trees in three feet of snow. Though she worked as a field biologist on farm has received a $35,000 grant from the Woodcock P. Fire Island and at COA's Allied Foundation to host classes from local schools and cre- Whale, she realized she wasn't ate educational outreach programs on food, health and happy accumulating data. sustainable agriculture. Judson has already gotten some She wanted to produce experience in educational outreach, thanks to a five hun- something. Farming was in dred-dollar grant from Healthy Acadia that brought local her blood. A year ago, when elementary school children to the farm last fall. assistant farm manager Among other items, the Woodcock grant includes Maggie Smith left to start her funds for multimedia programming, the purchase of own farm, the college ran a sheep and sheep fencing, and special food production search for an assistant farm workshops on such topics as making apple cider and manager. Judson was cho- four-season vegetable production. Keeping a connection sen. Within nine months, to local, organic food is essential says Judson. "You Lucien Smith, the former can't hold a human ecological perspective without manager moved on and supporting organic, sustainable agriculture. That's key in Judson, just twenty- terms of the health of ourselves and the environment." four, stepped into And yet, Judson acknowledges that despite trans- his shoes. portation costs, organic food from California is cheaper: "I'm still learning all the scale is larger and wages are lower. The economics the time," Judson of local agriculture is just one issue that COA's new farm says, and yet, having committee, composed of faculty, staff, trustees and experienced a few community members, is currently pondering. "If we can't summers, she feels solve this problem here, within our campus," says confident in her skills. Judson, "it can't be solved anywhere. This is local Come summer, organic food. If were going the route of trying to figure these skills will be out the problems of the world, we need to figure it out in in even greater own backyard." demand, as the Kindergartner Karin Eloyan is delighted with his potato. Photo by Sarah Hinckley. Human Ecologists of the World The Society for Human Ecology comes to COA in In his talk, Borden spoke passionately about October 2006 conservation psychology and the value of interdis- ciplinary studies. "There is great beauty in mixing "Ideas really do change the world," says Richard academic knowledge and human compassion," Borden. As a COA psychology professor for twen- Borden said, comparing conservation psychology ty-six years and the founder and executive director to the harmonizing of biological science and of the Society for Human Ecology, Borden has human sympathy. "Environmental conservation is watched human ecology become part of a fervent essentially an extension of the healing tradition. dialog around the globe. At the twentieth anniver- Instead of focusing on a human individual or sary meetings in Salt Lake City, Utah last October, group, its subject matter enlarges to include other Borden also saw COA's own John Anderson, facul- species, critical habitats, significant landscapes, or ty member in biology and dean of graduate stud- even the sustainable potential for all future ies, elected president of the society in anticipation beings." of COA hosting the next meetings, from October By interdisciplinary thinking, continued Borden, 18 to 21, 2006. The theme will be Interdisciplinary "ideas are thrown into fresh combinations new Integration and Practice: Reconciling Humans solutions are found, people listen with new ears." and Nature. Many a new ear at COA eagerly awaits the The 2005 Utah meetings had a strong COA pres- upcoming solutions and discussions coming in ence, with presentations by Anderson, Borden, October, so stay tuned. The society is now gather- Ken Cline, Davis Taylor and John Visvader as well ing initial proposals for the Bar Harbor meetings. as by student John Deans '07 and graduate These may be sent to the society's website, or to students Christie Mahaffey and Amy Zader. The the COA conference address for Anderson and theme was Human-Environmental Interactions: Borden, humanecology@coa.edu. Research and Practice. Bruce Babbitt, former Secretary of the Interior presented the keynote Please visit www.societyforhumanecology.org address, while the mayor of Salt Lake City, Ross for more information on how to submit your "Rocky" C. Anderson gave the welcoming address proposals. shortly after he became known as the antiwar mayor. COA INTERVIEWS Inquiring Photographer Sarah Barrett '08 took a random sampling of students and asked: "How do you describe COA?" "I would describe COA as an overwhelmingly "A place where really talented and inspired enjoyable and eye-opening experience." people come to pursue their passions and interests in a way that relates to something - Stefan Calabria '08 about human ecology and live in a way that uses discourse and love and relation to change community and the world as we know it." - Sophie Pappenheim '08 "COA is a tool. You can use it as little or as much as you want and you use it for exactly what you want to achieve. If you "A small school where students feel use it correctly you can achieve exactly empowered to be individuals and have what you want." their voices heard." ~ Jessica Lach '07 - Ben Nimkin '07 April Boucher '06, Jessica Lach '07 and Laura Briscoe '07, left to right, test for the presence of arsenic, often found in historic animal mounts. Saving the Study Skins Conservation comes to the George B. Dorr humidity, temperature and light levels in exhibi- Museum of Natural History with help from the tion and storage spaces, while also determining if IMLS there are any toxic materials from early taxidermy methods. "You need to know what conditions you With some 2,500 catalogued artifacts, COA's Dorr have in order to know how best to deal with the Museum of Natural History is the state's primary collections," says Harvey. year-round museum dedicated to natural history. Understanding how to deal with toxic older In addition to the scenes of animals in action specimens and safely conserve new items- that delight children and adults alike-a racoon slurping from a soda can, or an owl snagging a mouse-the museum's teaching collection includes study skins, birds of all sizes, bones small at sea for art's and large, eggs, amphibians, reptiles and much more. These items are often used in classes, COA artist and art teacher Ernest McMullen doesn't always whether they are outreach programs to local ele- travel in packs, but last August, when he wanted to take mentary schools, summer programs for teachers some photographs out at the Edward McC. Blair Marine or COA's own students. "It's an invaluable collec- Research Station on Mt. Desert Rock, a boatload of friends tion," says Ronald Harvey, a noted private museum came along for an adventurous night twenty-five miles off- conservator based in Lincolnville, Maine, who is in shore in the light keeper's house. demand across the nation. From left, back row: Marine ecologist Judy Perkins; Sean Todd, Thanks to a major conservation grant from the COA professor of marine biology; Sam Hamill, chair of the COA Institute of Museum and Library Services, Harvey board of trustees; Tara Stevens '08, who works at Allied Whale; will be a frequent visitor to the Dorr Museum over Anne Zoidis, Allied Whale research associate; Bethany Holm '03, Allied Whale research assistant and Boykin Rose, COA friend and the next year and a half, guiding students and staff art collector. Front: Margo Rose, COA friend and art collector, Allied as they inventory and properly conserve the col- Whale research assistant Jessica Sharman '05, Perry and lection. Currently, Harvey, along with a team of Bill Trimble, cousins to the Roses, Ernie McMullen and his wife, Svetlana McMulllen. students, staff and faculty, is involved in recording 8 COA generally through a freezing process-is essential According to the IMLS, 65 percent of the for students, says Harvey. "These students are nation's collecting institutions have experienced going out into the world. Some will work with damage to their collections because of improper museum collections. If we can introduce collec- storage; 40 percent of such institutions have no tion management skills and raise their levels of funds allocated for preservation or conservation. awareness about protecting materials, students Yet, says the IMLS, the health of these collections are going to come away with a much better educa- "is vital to our democratic society. They inform and tion-and a healthier life." inspire our children, and they advance scientific The $18,600 grant will also be used to design discovery. They help us celebrate achievement and implement long-term environmental monitor- and resolve that our generation will do better." ing strategies for the museum's galleries and The grant also funds a class in museum manage- storage space, stabilize museum specimens and ment that will be team-taught by Harvey and upgrade storage. The Dorr Museum was one of Ressel in the spring of 2007, the first collection forty-nine museums chosen by the IMLS from 189 management class taught in Maine, possibly the applications. Though conservation is behind the only class devoted to natural history collections scenes, says COA biology teacher Stephen Ressel, taught in New England. who has spearheaded this effort, it's essential. This grant holds special meaning for Harvey. "Collections care and management is the life- Having visited COA and the museum over the blood of museums. Good management ensures years, he had always hoped to teach at the college. that exhibitions happen." Given the global decline From just a few encounters at COA, he's found his of species, he adds, collections such as those held expectations rewarded. Though he has taught by the Dorr may be vital: "Scientists have extracted graduate students in dedicated museum pro- DNA from century-old specimens to better under- grams en route to museum careers, Harvey has stand biodiversity," he says. "They've also used nat- found COA's human ecology students among the ural history collections to establish baseline data most eager he has ever encountered: "They have regarding environmental pollution." a hunger for broader concepts, for seeing how things interact or relate." sake how to rate a college There's a better way, say the Carnegie Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts and Washington Monthly What makes a college desirable? Look over how some national ratings are gathered and you find it's about how much money alumni give, how much faculty members get paid and how many students apply but don't get in. None of these criteria says much about how much stu- dents learn, how exciting a class is, or what impact graduates have on the world. HOW STUDENTS LEARN Working with COA botany professor Recently, other measuring devices have been developed. Six years ago, Nishanta Rakajaruna '94, Nate Pope '06 the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Pew and Kathleen Tompkins '08 look for plants that thrive on soils steeped with Charitable Trusts teamed up to find a more meaningful way to measure heavy metal. Such plants, known as college excellence-a way to judge how well students are learning and hyperaccumulators, might prove useful in cleaning up superfund sites. A recent how engaged they are with their classrooms-and in the process, also NASA grant ensures the continuation of give schools ways to improve. That instrument is now known as the this research in 2006. National Survey of Student Engagement, NSSE, or "Nessie" for those close to it. College of the Atlantic's commitment to intellectual development has been extraordinarily confirmed by the results of a study conducted by this nationally-known research organization, now admin- istered by Indiana University's Center for Postsecondary Research. After surveying some 204,000 freshmen and sen- iors from more than five hundred colleges and universities, NSSE ranked COA in the top ten percent of colleges in most of the categories and the top twenty percent in all cate- gories. Among the colleges surveyed were Bates, Bryn Mawr, Carleton, Colby, Marlboro, Swarthmore and Williams. To measure educational quality, the study focuses on five areas: academic challenge, active and collaborative learning experiences, student-faculty interaction, enriched educa- tional experiences and supportive campus environment. COA faculty members were particularly gratified to see that students recognized the college's close student-faculty connections. In questions about access to faculty members, Dressed in protective gear, COA President Steve Katona makes a call such as whether students discussed ideas generated by during the annual faculty-staff-student the classes with faculty members beyond classes, or worked with facul- tug-of-war that raises money for the ty on research projects outside of class requirements, COA scored senior gift. For the second year in a row, COA seniors reached a perfect more than five percentage points higher than most of the top schools 100 percent giving. who took this survey. 10 COA Students Santiago Salinas '05, Marjolaine J. Whittlesey '05 and Sarah Bockian '05 record water quality statistics for the Whitewater and Whitepaper: Canoeing and River Conser- vation class taught by COA law professor Ken Cline and COA zoology professor Helen Hess. In the category of supportive campus environment, in which COA students were asked about the quality of relationships with other stu- dents and with faculty, and whether the environment provides the aca- demic, social and other supports a student needs, COA first-year stu- dents similarly placed the college high in the top 10 percent of colleges. Some other differences are especially indicative of the kind of education COA offers. At COA, 80 percent of first-year stu- dents said that they contributed to class discussions as opposed to 77 percent of students in other colleges; 87 percent of seniors said they put together ideas or concepts from different courses when completing assignments, vs. 66 percent of the national norm of students; and 86 per- cent said they discussed class ideas out- side of class, vs. 72 percent of students elsewhere. COA students rehearse for the annual Cultural Fandango show. COA 11 SSSSAM Marianna Bradley '06 and Jessica Lach '07 work together to band chicks as part of their summer research on the Alice Eno Field Research Station on Great Duck Island. WHAT STUDENTS DO In September, just after the spate of annual college guides and rankings came out, Washington Monthly decided to ask a whole different set of questions. In their first "Washington Monthly College Guide" the editors wrote, "While other guides ask what colleges can do for students, we ask what colleges are doing for the country." The editors decided to examine three categories: the social mobility of college students, the research efforts of the institution and their community service outreach. After doing so, COA weighed in as number 27 among all colleges in the United States. Visit Justin Feldman '08 and Megan Smith www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0509.collegeguide.html '90 listen to a classmate's novel in cre- ative writing and literature professor Bill Carpenter's class, Starting Your THE TRADITIONAL RATINGS Novel. And then there are the traditional rankings. For the second year in a row, when U.S. News & World Report created its Survey of Best Colleges, COA was singled out for two very distinctive aspects of the college experience. It was rated as having the largest percentage of international students in the nation and placed within the survey's top-ten list of schools with the most classes under twenty students. As in the past, COA also appeared in Princeton Review's best colleges and in Princeton Review's America's Best Value Colleges. 12 COA A Day in the Life of a Coffee Cooperative COA students get first-hand lesson in international commodity production by Kati Freedman '05 SAN LUCAS TOLIMAN, Guatemala-For months now, the eight students in College of the Atlantic's inaugural Guatemala program have been immersed in the life of this land. We have felt the weight of people's faith in patron saints as we carried their images on our shoulders, moving to the rhythm of a religious procession in which we were honored to partake. We have explored learning the Kaqchikel language, allowing us to walk through doors we never thought we could open. Yet our mission to bridge theoretical and practical learning can best be represented by one day spent with a commonly consumed product: coffee. Though we all arrived with some under- standing of international commodity markets and their impact on those who labor in them, it took a mountain, a mission, and a man named Hector to Shade-grown coffee in the bag. Top row: Amanda Muscat '06, Galen really drive the lesson home. Ballentine '08, Mauro Carballo '07, Katarina Jurikova '08, Simon The day began with a tour of lja'tz (pro- Michaud '08, Grace Grinager '08. Bottom row: COA historian Todd nounced "ee-hots"), a workers' cooperative locat- Little-Siebold, Hannah Semler '08 and Ana Maria Rey Martinez '08. ed in San Lucas Toliman, a small town on Lake Photo by Kati Freedman '05. Atitlan across from the tourist hub Panajachel. The orga- nization's mission is to perform all the tasks along the on coffee alone, even fair trade coffee. As Hector coffee production chain, right up to selling its beans on explained, people cannot live off of coffee in San the international fair trade organic market, with the goal Lucas Toliman, they all have second jobs as carpen- of ensuring a living wage for its members. ters, construction workers and other positions. This We started the climb at midmorning with the idea isn't surprising, given that a fair trade coffee picker that we would be harvesting organic shade-grown cof- earns about three dollars per hundred pounds of fee, without knowing what that would entail. The steep coffee, about the maximum yield of one person in a hike proved to be fairly strenuous; as we arrived at the day. About half that would go towards the tortillas plot we were to harvest, we began to wonder what that necessary to feed an average-sized family, leaving walk must mean for someone who does it every day. little for medicine or education. The coffee came in two varieties, one red and one We descended the mountain, each of us carrying yellow, both brilliantly colored and similar in size and about ten pounds of coffee, slipping on the steep shape to the cranberry. Hector, our guide, divided us slopes, exhausted from the heat and the harvest. As into pairs and told us to go down each row, one person men began to pass us carrying one hundred pounds on either side of each plant, picking all of the ripe on their backs, supported only by a strap on their fore- berries and placing them in the grain bags that we had heads, we came an inch closer to understanding how tied around our waists. A small child would come much inequality there is in the coffee industry, how through later to get any berries we missed. much the culinary privilege of the north shapes it and We picked for several hours, a task that proved to be how fair trade can be a step toward solving the prob- more difficult than it first appeared, at least for us. The lem. Being at the top of the coffee production chain, easiest plants to harvest were ones that were abundant as consumers of this labor-intensive product, we were with fruit; plants with scarce berries required a meticu- beginning to see how much work goes into one cup lous search through the thick leaves to find just a few. of coffee. We had already learned how our sips of Our impatience with the scarce plants quickly led to our coffee intimately linked us to the people that grow it, buddy system falling apart-but we had the privilege obliging us to consume responsibly. At lja'tz we met of being choosy, of skipping plants, of taking those people, sealing our commitment. breaks. We were only students in the field; we were not there to earn a living or feed a family. Kati Freedman '05 is spending this winter working as It quickly became clear that those program assistant to COA's 2006 Guatemala Program. two goals are not easy ones to achieve COA 13 COA - PROFILE OF GRAFFITI, GRAFT & GREEN BUSINESS: Jay McNally '84 and the human ecology of electronic discovery By Donna Gold hen government investigators get McNally has since advised members of the W ready to look into the deep files House and Senate on the impact of the Sarbanes- of a company like Enron, one of Oxley Act of 2002, worked with the chief inform- the first people called is Jay ation officers of homeland security departments McNally '84. McNally's electronic discovery firm, to help understand how to bring spy data into the Ibis Consulting, Inc., has been charged with both open and investigated numerous high profile safeguarding and finding data. What the invest- insider trading matters including the investiga- igators find, should they meet McNally, is an icon- tions that linked Arthur Andersen, LLC to Enron oclast with a deep, grey-eyed gaze and a long Corporation's fraudulent acts. Today, McNally, ponytail, someone whose early rebellion lingers who has been a trustee of the college since 2002, on with a certain amount of sadness and gravity. insists that many of the skills he uses in these tasks Having dropped out and left home while in high were learned at COA. school, McNally applied to only two institutions Though McNally's livelihood depends on his of higher education: COA and a plumbing school. computer skills, computers were not his focus Despite his 1.8 GPA, COA took a chance and while at COA. Art was. His senior project was a McNally accepted; there was mandatory atten- multimedia extravaganza. "I wrote music and dance at plumbing school. enlisted a bunch of students to be in a band, do 14 COA painting, dance and sing," he explained one warm After graduating and moving to Boston, McNally fall afternoon after a board meeting. This was took on a temporary job supplying services to law during the years when faculty and students were firms involved in litigation, drawing on lessons in dismayed at the changes COA's second presi- psychology as well as literature. After all, he says, dent, Judith Swayze, was making. McNally didn't "tracking and analyzing corporations is a lot about shy away from the politics. "A lot of my senior understanding plot." The human drama of litiga- project was about galvanizing anti-administration tion was just another aspect of human ecology. sentiment; we liked what we had, we didn't want In the days of 1980s excess, one litigation job to see the school be traditionalized." He and his got so intense that he found himself with a staff friends protested with graffiti, painting "Swayze of 120 in three cities and hired a catering company Hall" on the trailers used as classrooms after the to bring five meals a day to the workers. But when fire. "But we were COA students," he notes, "we asked to lay off staff just before Christmas, spray-painted Styrofoam, we didn't want to dam- McNally objected to the inhuman-and inhuman- age anything." ecological-demand and decided to launch his Those were the post-fire years. There was no own business. Quitting his job, he applied for campus library, no internet and just one computer. every credit card he was offered and built Ibis Students carpooled to Orono for research. But Consulting. The secret ingredient in Ibis is anoth- though the facilities were grim, the camaraderie er harvest of interdisciplinary thinking, a program was intense, with little division based on feline night vision that between faculty and students. "I was "COA faculty have can classify documents through intellectually curious, I didn't like a unique way of images, thereby distilling from lit- the social homogenization that I erally millions of pages the precise found in most schools," McNally causing you to look information lawyers might need. explained. At COA, he found the in the mirror in a non- Even before McNally became a kind of intellectual honesty he was trustee, he was a COA donor. "I seeking. "I learned a lot about how threatening way." don't know where, and I don't to learn, how to engage people, how know why, but I always had a sense to communicate. COA faculty have a unique way that I should give back to institutions that gave to of causing you to look in the mirror in a non- me-and COA gave me a rare and precious gift." threatening way." He also felt that by concentrating his gifts on a few While studying psychology, philosophy and sta- institutions, his donations would be worth more. tistics with Rich Borden and taking writing courses At COA, McNally feels that his money helps pro- with Bill Carpenter, McNally developed his com- duce better stewards for non-profits and business- puter skills on his own, using an old digital PDP es with missions consistent with COA. McNally 11. At one point, he recalls, "the students decided furthermore seeks ways to spur giving to the col- they needed a real college experience. We prac- lege. When Nat Keller '04 decided to strive for full ticed drinking for a few weeks, then we went down participation in the senior class gift, McNally to Colby. In the first fifteen minutes it was so clear promised to match the gift. Currently, with life that we were totally outclassed by them in drink- trustee Henry Sharpe, he is focusing on COA's new ing that we got into the car and went back." green business leadership program. The intensity of the time, and his work with "COA is in really good shape," says McNally. governance at the college, led to a fascination with "The board is very strong, morale is high, we are how a collection of people becomes a strong addressing real issues that I think are going to help group. This, he says, isn't far from what he does the college over a broader horizon. Trustees are now, leading and encouraging the hundred-odd encouraged by what they see and are energized by people that McNally is very proud to employ as students and faculty," he says, adding, "COA rocks, head of Ibis. it always has, it has a lot to offer, it needs more ambassadors, more people telling its story." COA 15 fromundersea to Coa chemistry presidency by Gregory Steven K. Katona came to College of the Atlantic as a founding faculty member in 1972. In 1993, he became COA's fourth pres- ident. As Katona plans to retire, the tiny institution that began on a twenty-acre campus now has ten times as many students, a nine-fold increase in endowment and more than five times as much land, encompassing twenty-five acres of shorefront, ninety acres of farmland, ten acres of island research sta- tions-and the educational scope of the world. Through Katona, COA began its transformational link with the Davis United World Scholars program, bringing an excep- tional array of international students to campus. Thanks to a broadening of the COA curriculum during Katona's presidency, students may now study the human ecology of coastal Mexico and highland Guatemala, spend a year at like-minded ecological institu- tions through the EcoLeague and study organic farming at COA's Beech Hill Farm. Students can learn the intimate details of bird life on Great Duck Island, now the Alice Eno Field Research Station, or observe whales on Mount Desert Rock, now the home of the Edward McC. Blair Marine Research Station. From observations of the largest mammals, students can turn to some of life's smallest particles, joining research teams at the Jackson Laboratory and the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory as a partner in the government-sponsored Idea Network for Biomedical Research Excellence, or INBRE program. But as the college expands, its environmental footprint lessens. The col- lege holds a ten-year contract for wind energy, new buildings incorpo- rate innovative green design and gatherings are becoming waste-free, following the lead of COA's zero-waste graduation ceremony in 2005. While numerous minds and still more hands have gone into shaping the college, COA is what it is in part because a young professor filled with intellectual curiosity came here with a dream of saving the ocean and never stopped believing in the power of one small college-or one individual-to make the world a better place. ~ DG HEY DAD, CAN I BORROW THE KEYS? On a summer day in 1981, fellow College of the Atlantic student Eric Roos '87 and I decided to go SCUBA diving in Frenchman Bay. It was a Friday. The ocean was flat and calm; the sky was clear and blue. Our plan was to photograph and study the marine life off Bald Porcupine Island. We had access to the twenty-foot COA Boston Whaler, but we needed a vehicle strong enough to tow it to the Bar Harbor town boat ramp. Knowing Steve Katona's Toyota Land Cruiser was in the COA parking lot, his keys under his seat, we figured he wouldn't mind if we borrowed it for an hour or two. We knew he was leaving for the week- end that day using his other car. So without asking, Eric and I headed off for a day of diving with Steve's vehicle and the COA boat. But on the boat ramp that day, the brakes on the jeep failed and the whole rig-boat, trailer and Land Cruiser- went into the sea. Standing on the ramp, I watched in horror as the front and back seats filled with water, Eric still at the wheel. I called out to him to get out. He crawled out the window and onto the roof where he curled up in the fetal position as the Toyota began to drift out to sea, buoyed up on one end by the boat, which was still attached to its trailer. I ran into the freez- ing water, trying to push and pull the vehicle, but it was useless. Meanwhile, a large crowd gathered at the town wharf shouting suggestions. Eventually, a passing boat picked Eric up and towed the Toyota, boat and trailer back to the wharf. Because there is a sharp drop-off at the bottom of the boat ramp, we could not simply pull the boat and jeep back out of the water, and the closest ramp or beach where that could be done was a half- mile away. The jeep needed to be lifted up somehow. There were now about three hundred people gathered on the wharf and sitting on the grass of the park watching while we tried to figure out what to do next. Then Steve arrived. To this day, I can still see him cross the parking lot while the crowd parted between us. It was one of the very lowest moments in my life. But where others would have been angry or shocked, Steve immediately took in the situation, includ- ing what was happening to Eric and me inside. As we walked toward each other Steve called out, "Hey Dad, can I borrow the keys?" He ended up selling the jeep for seven hundred dollars to local fish- erman Perley Fogg, "where she lay." Eventually the jeep was plucked from the ocean with a clever series of pulleys and winches by Perley and soaked in a lake for a few days to leach out the salt water. It worked fine for many more years. A couple of days later Eric and I were walking on campus in front of Turrets when we sighted Steve walking out the front door. I called out, asking if we could borrow his remaining car, and Steve replied, without missing a beat, "Sure, the life jackets are in the back seat." 18 COA FROM THE SMALLEST OF CREATURES TO THE LARGEST Steve Katona measures a whale skull with Matt Gerald '83 and former COA professor Sentiel Rommel. I don't usually write about people. I guess you could say that my beat is the ocean. It is easy for me to write about the sea because I have a con- suming passion for it and everything in it-and there is one person, a great mentor and teacher, largely responsible for focusing this obses- sion, for developing my career in ocean science and my ability to com- municate. That guy is Steven Karol Katona. The first class I had with Steve was in 1976. He was thirty-three years old, trimmed out in a thick black beard. The welcoming twinkle in his eyes was topped by full eyebrows and a crown of curly hair. I was nine- teen years old: a freshly-minted SCUBA card in my pocket, a generous financial aid package in hand (thank you, COA), an interest in science and a sense that the world's environment was in some kind of trouble. The class was in the southeast corner of the old COA building that later burned, facing the ocean from the third floor. With the sun stream- ing through the window, Steve was teaching us about marine biology, chalk in hand, tapping away food chain diagrams vertically on the black- board-shrimp eat plankton, fish eat shrimp, whales eat fish-and life cycle diagrams in a circle. Steve taught us what we needed to know about the ocean and the earth, what humans were doing to it and how we all might be able to make things better-the human ecology part that we were trying to figure out. COA 19 Steve Katona dissecting a white-sided And in those early years we all had a lot to figure out and Steve dolphin with Brad Barr. helped us, like few teachers can, by nurturing the individual assets each student arrived with and guiding us into our respective careers and lives. Before I came to COA, I worked summers as a dishwasher. Building on this experience, my first job at COA was washing the glassware in the chemistry lab. As I labored nights and weekends in the lab for my work-study funds, Steve saw some potential in me that even I could not yet discern, and offered me the job of running the Mount Desert Rock Whale Watch research station, a major coup and opportu- nity for a first-year student who had never even seen a whale. It gave me my first research experience. Having never traveled beyond my home state of Massachusetts, spending the summer on a small island twenty miles off the coast of Maine provided my first taste of real adventure, an experience that would eventually lead to exploring and diving in Antarctica and in every ocean of the planet. Because he devoted far more time and attention to finding out about us than talking about himself, it was a while before I learned Steve's own background. Later, I found that he was from Cincinnati, Ohio with a brother named Gene. Steve had considered medicine, like his own father, and it was a big turning point, a family decision, when he decid- ed on a career in marine research. In the late 1960s, Steve could be found walking the streets of Boston, Cambridge and Cape Cod with long hair, legendary beard and a plank- ton net slung over his shoulder. He had just finished his undergraduate degree, cum laude, at Harvard and stayed on to work under the renowned George Clark for his Ph.D. Steve was researching the way tiny shrimp-like animals called copepods used chemicals, called 20 COA pheromones, to locate each other for reproduction. He collected these Steve Katona, Lisa Baraff '84 and copepods in his plankton net by filtering the water rushing under Greg Stone '82. bridges along the coast, in Nahant and even in the estuarine parts of the Charles River. He then brought the tiny creatures into his laborato- ry where he isolated and reproduced their life cycles and conducted detailed experiments, separating the flea-sized female and male cope- pods, then putting them through a maze to discover how they found Harp Seal on pack ice in Bar Harbor. each other by "smell." Photo by Mindy Viechnicki. To this day, Steve's Ph.D. dissertation and later scientific papers on this topic remain seminal references in marine bio- logy, then in its adolescence as a science. While pheromones had been documented for land creatures, it was the first time such reliance on chemicals for sexual behavior was docu- mented in the sea. Plankton, and most marine animals, were not looked at as individuals, but more like commodities. Steve teased these tiny animals out of the immense oceans, describ- ing them as individual creatures with sex lives they chose. Even though he researched this topic forty years ago, Steve still remembers the smallest details of his research, brighten- ing when he talks about it because he enjoyed the work so much. He even made a short film depicting their successful search that ended when one copepod swam down the final pathway to his/her intended, accompanied by animated fire- works that Steve laid into the film. COA 21 He was awarded a prestigious Fulbright scholarship in 1967-68 so that he could extend his plankton studies at the University of Southampton in England. With Susan Lerner, his high school girl- friend who later became his wife and partner at COA, he went to Europe on the Queen Mary and came back on the Queen Elizabeth, carrying samples of plankton in each direction. After a brief post- graduation stint on the west coast at the California Institute of the Arts, followed by a very cold research expedition to the Alaskan Arctic, Steve was drawn to COA as a founding faculty member. He felt that COA's environmental mission could better address the world's prob- lems. But the art and design students he encountered on the west coast prepared him well for the eclectic COA students he would spend the next thirty-four years guiding. Upon arriving in Maine, it wasn't long before Steve's incessant curiosity leaped from his early studies of one of the smallest creatures in the sea, to founding a research program on whales, the earth's largest creatures. A PILLAR OF MODERN WHALE RESEARCH How it came about is a legend in itself. One day, so the story goes, in COA's first month, Steve led a cruise on a Coast Guard boat into the fog for a field trip to Mount Desert Rock, about twenty-five miles south of Finback whale with a blow hole view. Bar Harbor. Each and every one of the thirty-two students the college had enrolled was with him. They landed, tromped around on the tiny rock without much to report, and were about to leave when a half dozen sixty-foot finback whales barreled by like B-1 bombers, bursting their warm breath thirty feet high in clouds of spray. Steve's interest in whales crystallized. With the students of the day, he created Allied Whale, founded to improve the relationship between whales and humans, a relationship that was significantly troubled at the time by commercial whaling. It was his human ecological vision to mend the relationship. Allied Whale's activities led to research, education and policy initiatives, and Breaching humpback whale. is credited with the foundational studies of whales, dolphins and seals 22 COA Ed Blair, life trustee and former chairman of the board, Steve Katona and George Page, former host of the PBS program Nature, on a whale-watching adventure. in the Gulf of Maine and later around the world. Steve's resultant Field Guide to the Whales, Porpoises, and Seals from Cape Cod to Newfoundland, co-authored by Valerie Rough and David T. Richardson, was first published by COA in 1977. It was since picked up by Smithsonian Books and went into four editions. As Steve was working on the book, he got together with Roger Payne, Judy Perkins and founding student Scott Kraus '77, to project photographs of humpback whale flukes on a screen. They reckoned that each one was unique, like a fingerprint, and that the photographs could be used to study the animals by taking pictures of the same animals at different times and places. Scott took it on as his senior project with Steve as his advisor. Their work became the world's first humpback whale fluke cat- alogue. Today, everyone seems to know humpback whales can be identified individually with photographs of the undersides of Moira Brown, former COA professor their tails, but it was a pioneering idea of the day. of marine biology, Scott Kraus '77, Steve Katona and Judy Allen, director The humpback whale catalogue is now a model for humpback stud- of information services, on a teaching ies. The effort consolidated a field of science into a standard powerful trip to Nova Scotia. technique. Steve's scientific credibility and welcoming personality became the center point for this project because he was able to get the diverse and independent-minded humpback scientists of the western North Atlantic Ocean to work together, sharing their data because they trusted him. This was my first glimpse of Steve's extraordinary leader- ship ability, which later blossomed in his COA presidency. Prior to this, every researcher held on to their photographs and refused to con- tribute them to one central location. Once consolidated at College of the Atlantic, the data on individual humpbacks led to breakthroughs in understanding their biology. As in his early copepod work, Steve's insights struck through to the heart of what was essential. His scientific contribution remains a pillar of modern whale science. COA 23 Steve Katona, Susan Lerner, former COA president Louis Rabineau, his wife Mona and their daughter Elizabeth. RENAISSANCE MAN Fast-forward a decade or so to January 1985. Steve's black hair is short- er and beginning to show flecks of silver; the beard will soon be gone. He is seventy miles north of the Dominican Republic on a twenty-five square-mile coral reef system named Silver Bank. Steve is leading an expedition of scientists and students on the 100-foot sailing research vessel Regina Maris. By now I've graduated from COA. Steve and I are on Silver Bank because it is the winter breeding ground for humpback whales, the same whales that spend summers thousands of miles north near Mount Desert Island, swimming down and back each year. We are on a smaller skiff deployed from the larger ship. As Steve settles in the bow, I sit in the stern, man- ning the boat with a small sputtering outboard engine. The sun is hot and high in the sky and we are surrounded by thousands of humpback whales. As we glide across the aquamarine waters, passing the colorful shadows of coral heads, seeing whale The Edward McC. Blair Marine Research Station at Mt. Desert Rock. flukes and blows popping up and disappearing like surprise targets at a carnival game, Steve points towards a group of seven or eight male whales, rolling and jumping as they all converge and compete for one female. I idle the engine as Steve dons a diving mask. He carefully low- ers himself into the ocean to photograph the whales underwater. After our work on Silver Bank, Steve and I began a series of forays to the Caribbean and Bermuda, tracking what at the time were truly mys- terious giants. Through his leadership, a group of scientists in the Atlantic pooled their efforts and laid the foundation for understanding humpback whale distributions in the entire ocean basin. Somewhere between our moment on Silver Bank, washing glass- ware in the COA chemistry lab, my early days on Mount Desert Rock, diving in Frenchman Bay, the multidisciplinary view Steve gave me of the oceans and the earth-somewhere amidst this and much more, my career and life in expeditionary marine conservation science was forged. 24 COA Steve has now left most of the whale field work to others while he has gone on to new things, most notably guiding the College of the Atlantic for thirteen years. His scientific, educational and fundraising abili- ties have firmly established the college as one of the most important and unique environmental colleges in the world. Even during this busy time, Steve has main- tained his hand in some research and offered his lead- ership to dozens of national and international efforts too numerous to mention, including the advisory board for the Marine Conservation Action Fund, pres- ident of the Maine Independent Colleges Association, president of the Maine Higher Education Council, scientific advisor for the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, international scientific advisor for the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute, chairman for the scientific advisory committee of the Society for Marine Mammalogy, president of the American Cetacean Society and co-chairman of the National Marine Fisheries Services Humpback Whale Recovery Team. Steve Katona and Greg Stone '82 at a A renaissance man with a balanced armament of intellect, interests reception at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute. and interpersonal abilities, Steve initiates and loves discussions about ideas more than anyone I know. Even though his research specialty is the oceans, Steve can talk about anything and he celebrates anyone's accomplishments or interests. The home of Steve and Susan Lerner and their two sons, David and Nicholas, has always been a beehive of gath- erings with student travelers, artists and people from all walks of life. The artifacts in their home, gathered from their many travels and received as gifts from their many friends and admirers, are a partial record of their eclectic interests. Their home is a veritable museum, which always enriches these gatherings. What struck me about Steve that very first class I had with him so many years ago was the way he gazed around the room, connecting with individual students. He viewed each person with great respect and kindness. Amazingly, with all that has been on his plate while COA's president, that warm personal thoughtfulness can still be felt today and is even stronger. Gregory S. Stone '82, Ph.D., is vice president for global marine programs at the New England Aquarium, a Pew Fellow for marine conservation, editor of the Marine Technology Society Journal from 1997-2003, member of the Explorers Club and chairman of the scientific advisors for the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute. Since graduating from COA, where he worked closely with Steve Katona, Greg has logged over five thousand SCUBA dives, lived in an underwater research station for thirty days, explored the ocean down to twenty thousand feet in deep sea submersibles, and has worked and lived in Japan, New Zealand, and Fiji. His 2003 Antarctic book, Ice Island, about his expedition to B-15, the largest iceberg in history, won the National Outdoor Book Award. His fourth article in National Geographic Magazine, on his expedition to study the effects from the Sumatra tsunami on the coral reefs of Thailand, appeared in the December 2005 issue. COA 25 taking on the big FLYING POLICY AROUND THE GLOBE FROM ALL-COLLEGE MEETING Nicole Cabana at NOAA TO NEW ENGLAND FISHERMEN Scott Kraus Seeks Solutions In her first year at COA, Nicole Cabana '99 wrote a paper con- Scott Kraus '77 was one of the first demning the killing of harp two COA students to spend a two- seals. While the seals stayed on week stint on Mount Desert Rock, her mind, Cabana worked at recording whale sightings as part of Allied Whale, dedicating many the fledgling Allied Whale and getting hours to cataloging humpback to know the Coast Guard men sta- whale tails for its Years of the tioned there. "They were young like us North Atlantic Humpbacks, or but their attitudes were very different YoNAH, project. The more she from the New England politics of envi- learned about whales and ronmentalism and human rights that I'd been steeped in," seals, the more she realized said Kraus. Sharing the close quarters, even staying secure that policy should be based on hard data, rather than, as she during a hurricane on the Rock, taught Kraus a great deal says, "an emotional attachment to a charismatic species." about the importance of toleration and accepting people for Eventually Cabana traveled to Newfoundland to meet their actions as much as for their ideas. sealers and see the harvest in person. This research trip Kraus found that COA's All-College Meeting was another became the basis for her senior project. Her conclusion ran great exercise in listening and working to find a solution. contrary to her earlier beliefs, supporting the way the harvest "Town meetings had such a diversity of viewpoints. It was was being managed by the Canadian government. Thinking like combining a debating society with a course in logic and about that time now, she reflects, "What surprised me most another in politics." In many ways, the research training was my change in world view. Before coming to COA, I had Kraus received through Allied Whale, along with his partici- been very closed-minded and set in my viewpoints. I had a pation in COA's self-governance, served as the perfect train- hardnosed, definite position one way and totally changed by ing for his work at New England Aquarium, where he is cur- the time I finished at COA in 1999." rently vice-president for research. "There are many more After graduation, Cabana wanted to find work that allow- players in the marine environment than there were twenty ed her to travel and continue learning. A chance encounter years ago," he noted. "Often a government agency talks to introduced her to the Commissioned Corps Officers of all the interest groups and then takes years to impose some- the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or thing no one likes. Sometimes you get to feel that it's not NOAA. This uniformed group of roughly three hundred indi- worth doing anymore." viduals serves NOAA as ship and aircraft operators on envi- To counter the slow pace and lowest-common-denomi- ronmental and scientific missions. Though she feared that a nator quality of bureaucratic policy writing, Kraus finds inspi- "military mentality" might dominate the corps, she was ration in working directly with stakeholders such as fisher- pleased to find her fellow officers to be scientists and engi- men and shipping companies. "They want to have control neers like herself, committed to impartiality in their research. over their own lives. If you show them proof of a problem, The corps has fulfilled its promise of travel and educa- they will test and adopt new tactics, often quicker than if you tion. Of her six years in a NOAA uniform, Cabana has spent had to wait for regulations to force compliance." One exam- four in the Pacific, both on ship and shore assignments, and ple of this approach is Kraus' current work with chemists has conducted research in the Atlantic from the Bay of and engineers to test rope that glows in the dark, reflects Fundy to the Dominican Republic. As her experience has sound, becomes stiff when submerged, or dissolves upon grown, Cabana has also been introduced to the political side contact with blubber. "The forces of modern chemistry of NOAA through a short stint in Washington, D.C., where haven't been brought to bear on fishing gear. It could open she expects to be assigned in the future. She looks forward a door that will allow us to make progress." to bringing to her policy work the open-mindedness that she Scott recalls the contentious discussion during COA's has won through hard questioning of her own biases. first year about the name of the workshop that eventually was called Allied Whale. While it might seem trivial now, even the process of choosing a name can be a step foward, Loie Hayes '79 is a freelance editor and writer, still grate- even when reconciliation and mutual recognition seem ful for the reading and writing skills she learned at COA. impossible. 26 COA For more than thirty-three years, Allied Whale has produced scientists who have studied everything from the diet to the courting behavior of picture marine mammals. But many of COA's Allied Whale "graduates" have gravitated toward environmental policy, taking on public policy and planning positions, trying to make a difference in large and small con- servation efforts throughout the world. Loie Hayes '79 profiled four such graduates: Scott Kraus '77, Greg Stone '82, Katrina van Dine '82, and Nicole Cabana '99. DISCERNING THE DIVINE ENGAGING A BROAD AUDIENCE IN NATURE'S CONSTELLATIONS Greg Stone and South Seas Conservation. Katrina van Dine and the devilish details of ocean governance. The college "woke me up," says Greg Stone '82. Transferring after a stultify- Kate van Dine '82 was twenty years ing first semester at a major universi- old and had tried two other colleges ty, COA's hands-on learning thrilled before finding COA. Feeling "ready him. "Suddenly we were out on the to be asked to think through stuff on ocean or mucking around on the sand my own and not be talked at," van bar-that connected for me in ways Dine immediately resonated with the no other academic experience ever curiosity she found animating COA. had. If it weren't for COA, I'm not sure Faculty not only avoided dictating the I ever would have become as academically engaged as I answers to life's spider web of puz- have in my career and life." zles, they were "not even telling you that there was an Stone experienced a "visceral, emotional immersion in answer." The qualities she found among COA's community the ocean" through his work with Allied Whale at COA. -being generous of heart, asking a lot of questions, having Reading Tolstoy, Melville, Marge Piercy, Thomas Hardy, and good humor, listening well and being willing to argue-have Mary Shelley, studying philosophy and writing, aren't stan- served her well in her professional and personal pursuits. dard parts of a biologist's training but they were important One of van Dine's first memories of COA is of being "knee parts of Stone's education as a human ecologist. He credits deep in a minke whale carcass," she says. "Water has COA's interdisciplinary model with helping him build his always been my draw," van Dine continues. As a member of second career-as a journalist, as well as a scientist. Allied Whale, she pondered a conundrum that fascinates her Much of Stone's time in recent years has been spent still: whether, "we, the human animal, will accept our role as working to protect New Zealand's Hector's dolphins. Using within the natural system or whether we will always be try- "pingers" developed by COA alum Scott Kraus '77 and ing to stick our foot on the top of the pile." While van Dine's satellite tags, Stone has worked with commercial and re- instinct tells her that humans are too restless to fit in, she creational fishers, native Maori communities, the dolphin intends to keep arguing against the urge to dominate. tourism industry, and the government to find new ways to As research counsel with the Marine Affairs Institute of protect the dolphins in what he calls New Zealand's Roger Williams University School of Law and Rhode Island "increasingly urbanized" marine ecosystem. Sea Grant Legal Program, van Dine now focuses on ocean Another very complex project that Stone is involved with governance through regional structures. Building on is the creation of a marine conservation area around the decades of work by groups like the Gulf of Maine Council, Phoenix Islands within the territory of Kiribati. This nation of the value of an ecosystem perspective is increasingly recog- 100,000 Micronesians has domain over thirty-three islands nized at all levels of governance. Yet as van Dine strives to spread over a territory larger than the United States. With turn ecosystem theory into regional practice, the devil virtually all of the national welfare dependent on the selling remains in the details. of commercial fishing licenses, Kiribati's survival depends With a wry tone of understatement, van Dine reports that on finding ways to sustain its marine productivity. Borrow- it is "hard to be a visionary in the political process." Still, she ing a tactic that's been used on land-the buying of dev- believes that creative thinkers, along with courageous man- elopment rights to keep farmland and forests from being agers, can foment a shift from vacuuming ecosystems clean turned into subdivisions and strip malls-Stone is leading toward true sustainability. While she hesitates when asked a team setting up the first market-based solution to ocean about how quickly we might get there, she remains encour- resource degradation. "It's the most complex thing I've aged by the example of COA and by the caliber of its stu- ever been a part of," he says. "We've got dance contests, dents and staff. She emphasizes the enormous gratitude posters, fundraisers, research cruises, economists valuing she now feels for the room that COA accorded her to follow natural resources, lawyers writing legislation We're key- her own, still ongoing, process of emotional, spiritual and ing into biological, social and financial systems. Some intellectual maturation. In thinking about the faculty she conservationists have just one objective and no awareness worked with in the late seventies, she muses, "What a con- of the social issues involved. COA taught me to see the stellation they made." While the devil might be in the details, big picture." the divine can be discerned in the larger patterns. COA 27 Artist, tist, writer, teacher, dancer, feminist, A Women's Studies pioneer, she shows how Chopio's nature lover, Susan arrives ready Awakening leads to Woolfs Room shorn of Gilmans and invites us to dance. Yellow Wallpaper ready for Sheehy's Passages 05 opening COA'S door to feminist scholarship and female ILLINOIS scholars. we In 3 traveler, gardener, cook, Engage her Partner, mother, Listen, always. show up. men approach: conversation with and old, and in women, affluent and hardscrabble. and Organizing, beliefs: protesting, SUSAN Justice for women means revealing, Susan justice forwards for all." WAS LERNER human's EQUALITY wission FOR one WITSN WAS 2 COLORS Now inviting MUNT stretching, exploing, creating pl trusting. BIRTH CONTRING C 13 alsbrating gettering, Susan nurtures friendships with and between students, faculty, trustees, island residents, visitors, and all. 0 ffering meringue mushrooms, Susan asks each guest in turn: "Tell US how you celebrate at home?" Picking up a drum, she starts a beat. Sons Nick and David add melody. 28 COA CAR E and collector, Painter, create printmaker, curator, environmental beauty, often in leads unexpectedind us artist, to places. channels renaissancethers for woman, she see opens and NW feel me know Susan is the glad literature and to tobe harvest To know in troduced taken or and and life by will whom To eat to the someone be earth's hand you'll glad to in be know To you. bathe solutions. To in wonder. To To sweat, face face in the injustice good fruits. and 30 ДЗРА devise the youse is to be invited one's feacs and fears toil of II repairing know To Lepcio -79, illustrations by todance. Emily pawer. what writing by Andrea Bracale '90, S. with special thanks to Loie Hayes '79 and Borikiss '02 2006 IT Ambassador, III First Lady, Citizen of the College, the Island, the World, Susan in inspires usto "find the place beneath the surface where things connect." COA 20 Dusan erner A PAUSE FOR REFLECTION Compiled by Andrea Lepcio '79 A journey has been taken; a road discovered and followed to its end. A pause before the next path begins; a time to reflect on the experience of learn- ing from and discovering through Susan Lerner. Loie Hayes '79: I remember a conversation she and Borbala Kiss '02: Brightness was flickering in her | had about writing. It was probably the first time eyes when we met. A heartbeat is all it took. An that a teacher had challenged me about the authen- intuition. Like a sculptor working with living clay ticity of my voice. | didn't understand at first and felt she just listened first. A chill in the back. Becoming anxious about having failed to please her. She was almost hurts. Daring to say. Listen again. Magic very gentle and patient in her Socratic way, asking happens. The clay expresses itself. Endless possi- me to think about how I might talk about the sub- bilities. Did the artist create another artist? ject if I were in a class. It's a lesson that has been foundational for me to present myself as simply and Sara: Susie taught by example and I came to know honestly as possible in all my dealings. this as the most effective and joyful way to change the world. I see now how lucky I am to have been Bill Carpenter, COA faculty since 1972: Susie was under the guidance of this wise woman. very much a part of the Big Bang of 1972-75 that coalesced into COA, bringing liberated art forms Loie: Susie's so curious about people-how they and cutting-edge feminist theory into the human think about their experiences, how they choose to ecology mix. She foresaw that COA would become construct their lives, how the natural and human a mecca for progressive young women and laid the context shapes us and we shape them. intellectual groundwork to make it possible. There was a certain pressure in those days for a narrowed, Bill: Susie was our strongest believer in the unity pragmatic environmentalism; Susie insisted on a and loving coherence of the COA community. Susie wider vision that included dance, arts and crafts, provided the "glue"-as we called it back then- alternative health and especially women's studies. that held it all together. Sara J. Wendt '85: I remember the sound of her Thupten Norbu '06, gallery assistant: As an inter- voice, steady, powerful and confident in its soft- national student, I owe a big thank you to both ness. She talked straight to me as if I were an equal, Steve and Susie for inviting us to dinners during a powerful woman, me a girl of nineteen. major American celebrations. They really cared about us and made us feel part of the community. 30 COA Melita Brecher, artist: Susie's personality, playfulness, wit and creativity are expressed in her work at the Blum Gallery. She can transform almost anything into an exciting exhibit. Susie has the natural skill to connect with visitors, students and exhibiting artists, making all feel welcome and special. Elisa Hurley, Blum Gallery visitor: The first time I met Susan I was bringing her a piece of art made by my six- year-old son for an upcom- ing show. Susan was de- lighted. When she met my "Koi, for my father" by Susan Lerner, paint on silk. son at the opening a week Philip B. Kunhardt '77, trustee: Susie has been later, she talked with him, artist to artist. She intro- a passionate, engaged teacher with a flair for life duced him to people in the gallery. She asked his and a true interest in her students. Sparkling, opinion. He has never forgotten that. mellowed, statelier than ever, what a person! Ashley Bryan, artist: I sing to the sun of my good friend Susan! She has enlivened my home on Mary-Sherman Willis, poet: In the spring of 1973 I Islesford with visits from COA students. I sing of audited Susan's (and COA's) first women's literature Susan's installation of my puppets, the ingenious course. Suddenly I'd found another Virginia Woolf way in which she stood the puppets in the gallery enthusiast-but it didn't stop there. I'd done some space as if they were guests at the show! modern dance, so had she: Let's do some choreog- raphy! I had work in my studio: Let's have a show! Ev Shorey, trustee since 1985: Susan, since its found- Susan's fluid artistry has been a fund of creative ing, has been a major resource for COA as a faculty possibility for those of us lucky enough to know member, gallery director and tremendous support her. Today, two of her monoprints hang above my for Steve, which has meant so much. writing desk, testimonials of an art-making woman. Casey Mallinckrodt ('75) artist, trustee: Susie has Steve Katona: In all her work, and at every scale, tremendous enthusiasm for engaging people in the Susie enables nature, insight, passion, form, humor mission and life of the college. | cannot count the and political message to meld in new combinations. times | have run into Susie introducing someone to Watching her make that magic each day, often in the campus, farm, gallery, to find out later that this ways that surprise, is one of the joys of my life. curator, potential student, author, famous actor, was someone she met the day before at a party, or Emily Bracale '90 teaches art classes and workshops, home perhaps at the counter of Pectic Seafood, and schools Hana, 10, and John Henry, 2, practices Reiki and energy brought into the circle of the college. clearings, and celebrates lives in art. mamaly@verizon.net. New York playwright Andrea Lepcio '79 took classes with Susan from 1976-79. The two have been friends ever since. COA 31 Photograph by Noreen Hogan '91. You have to accomplish something to get people to want to join you. A conversation with founding board member Leslie C. Brewer In our continuing history of College of the Atlantic, COA talked with Les Brewer, 83, the Bar Harbor businessman, town coun- cilor, school board member and much more who was COA's first chairman of the board and still remains our treasurer, a man who has barely missed one board meeting in thirty-four years and who has always been instrumental in making things happen. - DG 32 COA Donna Gold: Before we launch into talking DG: Why a college? about COA, can you tell me a bit about your background? LB: Basically we were trying to find another eco- nomic resource for the community. We felt we Les Brewer: I'm a fifth-generation Mount Desert needed stimulation to the economy of the area Island resident. My forefathers have done some on a twelve-month basis and not the hospitality shipbuilding and other businesses. I grew up here, business. of course, and went to the local schools. At that particular time, it was a little easier than it had been in prior years, because the legislature DG: You and Father Jim Gower were both on had just passed a bill permitting the Maine the football team, right? Father Jim remembers Department of Education to grant an organization you as being very studious- the right to use the word college in their name without going before the legislature. So, we went LB: We were quarterbacks but we both did our down to Augusta, the five of us: Father Jim, Bob own thing. I was valedictorian, maybe because Smith, who worked in Augusta, Sonny Cough, other people who were very smart went to other who was a local businessman, Richard Lewis and schools. I then went to the University of Maine I, and made a presentation that we'd like to start ROTC program and was in the service in Europe. a college on Mount Desert Island. I came back and finished college, went to Boston When we came back, we had a corporation to work a year and then I chose to come back to and the right to use the word college in our the island and go into the family business and name, but we had to have the location. Father Jim enjoy what I've always enjoyed-living on Mount and myself went to Ellsworth one day to lunch Desert Island. with Charlie Sawyer and Mike Garber who owned a certain portion of this campus. At the end of DG: And, as I understand, COA was launched that luncheon, we had a five-year contract for after a chance encounter between you and one dollar a year to use this campus as a location. Father Jim? Within the five years we contracted to buy it. So, when the Board of Education came from LB: Father Jim was reassigned to work here on Augusta in the spring of 1969, they visited this site the island. If he hadn't been, this college might and gave us the right to use the word college in never have happened. We just happened to meet our name and gave us the go-ahead. I remember on Cottage Street, right in front of my business one of the people saying that a college is a tough and he just happened to say, "I'd like to do some thing to get started. I said, "Yes it is, but I'll tell work outside of my church, is there something you one thing. You will not have to come and tell we can do together?" I said, "The Chamber of us we are not successful. If we recognize that Commerce has been trying to start a school here we're in an uphill battle, we'll come and tell you." on the island but they can't seem to get going." Whether that convinced him to give us the ok, Father Jim asked a couple of friends and he and I don't know, but we got the ok. We then had a I with two other people met in his house one location and a name. With that we raised seed night and talked it over. It seemed like there money, about $65,000. was a possibility that we could explore. COA 33 DG: And, so, at that time it was just a college, DG: You really seemed to have known exactly no mission or- what COA needed, the open-endedness of it- LB: We did choose the mission of ecology. LB: Don't try to read too much into that, because I don't believe that is the case. It's the DG: What made you decide to have that focus? many different people all coming together and willing to work together that accomplished what LB: It just came out of the discussions that we we have. No one person developed all of the had at our board meetings. We felt we had to right ideas. I can't think of a member of this have some connection to the ocean. We were establishment, whether it be faculty, or staff, thinking of marine biology, similar to the Woods or a member of the board, or a student that Hole Oceanographic Institute. hasn't in their own way left something here to bring us to where we are today. There's over DG: Did you always conceive of COA as being a fourteen hundred students out there that have very small college? graduated and they left part of themselves here too. And don't ever take away the value of the LB: A lot of those things never came up, early friends of Mount Desert Island. This college on. As I said, you have to accomplish something could not have happened without those friends, in order to get people to want to join you. The starting right off in the beginning with Betty next thing we did is we hired a president. Thorndike and Charlie Tyson and Bob Blum and Somewhere, it was identified that there was a Amos Eno and on. The feeling for this location man from Harvard who was looking for a new and for a good idea is so strong and they have position: Ed Kaelber, of course. Father Jim and I helped so much. And they wouldn't have helped had breakfast with him at the Bar Harbor Inn. if we didn't have a person like Ed Kaelber as the I can almost remember the table. When he chose first president. to come here, that was a big boost for our mov- ing forward, that was the about the fourth step DG: So what is it that motivates your involve- of real major sequences. ment in COA all these years? DG: What was it that attracted you to Ed LB: I'd like to leave the community as well off as Kaelber? it can be left after I move along. I love the place. And I like to see things happen. I feel that there's LB: I think his philosophy and his ease of talking a way to accomplish everything that needs to be and exploring a question. I don't think that a per- done, and there are other people that will help. son who had all the answers and was quick to This college is a perfect example. take a position would have fit here. Ed was a per- fect fit. He'd been in business as well as educa- tion and had a lot of friends in and around Harvard, and that network proved very helpful. Many of his friends joined the board. 34 COA haeckel project THE ARTISTRY OF NATURE, THE NATURAL SCIENCE OF ART he compositions on these pages came out of T the course Biology Through the Lens, taught by Stephen Ressel, COA vertebrate biologist, and Nancy Andrews, COA video and performance artist, in the fall of 2005. In this project, students were asked to look at the work created by German biologist and artist, Ernst Haeckel, who published his Art Forms in Nature in 1904. Haeckel's one hundred plates in the volume display the artistry of nature, the natural sci- ence of art. "The primary purpose of my Art Forms in Nature was aesthetic," wrote Haeckel. "I wanted to provide an entry, for a wider circle of people, into the wonderful treasures of natural beauty hidden in the depths of the sea, or only visible as a consequence of small size, under the microscope. But I also wanted to combine these aesthetic concerns with a scientific goal: to open up a deeper insight into the wonderful architecture of the unfamiliar organization of these forms." In this project, as with the entire class, students were challenged to meld art and science, to examine how far, as scientists, they could enhance the aesthet- ic quality of their work without compromising the scientific or biological content of the organisms with which they worked. COA 35 Keratin Ariel Springfield '06 I was attracted to the variety of forms that keratin can take in the natural world, and to the texture, reflective quality and the possibilities in the repetition of form. Ariel Springfield '06 studies visual arts and biology. Biology is her inspiration; the visual arts are her chosen form of expression. 36 I COA Eggs Jamus Drury '08 I chose eggs because I've always liked the different sizes, shapes and color patterns of eggs, with their specific reasons for each. While I thought about placing them in back- grounds similar to where they would be found in the wild, I feel that here you can see their unique differences and appreciate their patterns. Seabirds are on the bottom: guillemots, gulls, terns and petrels. Shorebirds are in the middle, with the loon in the center and two different rail eggs (crow eggs are on the left). Arboreal birds are on top for the most part. There's a bluebird, catbird, flycatcher, wren and oriole. Jamus Drury '08 grew up on Green's Island near Vinalhaven. He has been studying science and ecology and hopes to return to Green's while also becoming a field ecologist in the bird world. COA 37 " SHORT STORY falling By Becky Buyers-Basso '81 e didn't mean to fall asleep, but the sun felt SO H nice and warm on his face that Mike Merrill thought he'd close his eyes for just a minute. An air of inevitability hung about the family farmstead. Although most of the acreage had been sold off over the years to pay taxes, the core was still there- the gabled house, Dutch barn, two hayfields and what remained of the orchard. Every surviving tree seemed to be John on Tractor, 2005 by Carolyn Snell '06, missing a limb. Twisted trunks and gnarled branches cast 17" by 22", oil on canvas. intertwining shadows across the ground, but the old man This painting is part of my senior project entitled "Portraits of Maine didn't notice. Farmers: A Senior Project in Oil Paint." Because / grew up on a farm in Buxton, Mike was a boy again, small and lithe as a cat, climbing Maine, the thrill of growing food and one of those trees. On a branch hanging high above him, flowers is always with me. Through my exploration of human ecology, with a he spied an apple he wanted. Droplets of dew on the fruit's focus on writing and literature, art and painting, / have come to further appreci- rosy skin reflected the morning sun. He had to have that ate the sparkle of humanity that shines in farmers. In this project, / attempt to apple. It was perfect, and nothing less than perfection capture that humanity in farmers, whether in their fields or their living would do. No worm holes. No bruises. Apples this perfect rooms. John is my dad, and he is doing could only be found in the tree, still growing. one of his favorite things-attentively unearthing russet potatoes. COA 39 Scrambling up the trunk to the branch below Mike Merrill opened his eyes and found himself the one that held the apple, he grabbed hold of gazing into the heart-shaped face and hazel eyes of another branch for balance and began tiptoeing his mother. Tears spilled from his eyes and rolled towards it. Mike felt the branch sag under his feet, down his cheek. shaking loose ripe apples onto his sisters below. I almost had it he began. "I wanted. " He let go of the upper branch and crouched down Lila tucked a stray curl into the kerchief she on one knee. The branch teetered, but Mike man- wore around her head and pursed her lips. aged to keep his balance. "Here's your applesauce, Pop," said. She spoke "Mamma, Mikey's throwing apples at us!" louder than she needed to and the baby began to Molly cried. cry. "Hush now, Bobby," she cooed, smoothing the "Yeah, and one hit me on the forehead," tender curls on his head. Martha whined. Her father appeared not to hear her. He was "I didn't mean to," Mike protested. staring across the dooryard toward the orchard. "Be careful, Mike, or I'll have you down here Lila followed his gaze, noticing the trees' lengthen- picking up drops with your sisters," Mrs. Merrill ing shadows. The sun would be setting soon. A scolded. wind raised goose bumps on her bare arms and Cautiously, the boy moved forward and she hugged her whimpering son closer. stretched his arm toward the apple. He couldn't "It was all for you," Mike burst out angrily. "Don't quite reach it. Just a little further and he'd have it. you know? I would have done anything for you " Loosening his grip on the upper branch, he "Hush, Poppa," Lila said, her voice rising again. crouched and inched forward one more step, and "I used the Macs and put in lots of cinnamon and then there was a snap sugar, the way Mom used to make Mike felt it." She still got a lump in her throat "Poppa?" when she spoke of her mother. "The Lila stepped through the screen his body way Nana taught her." door onto the porch. A pretty Jiggling the baby, Lila stood shiv- woman with curly dark hair, she bal- weightless ering until her father took a spoon- anced a pudgy baby boy on one hip ful of the applesauce. She could see and held a dish of applesauce in her as the branch he liked it, though he'd never tell her free hand. so. She kissed the baby on his fore- "Wish / could sleep sitting up," gave way." head as he fussed and wriggled in Lila muttered. her arms. Her father sat upright in a plastic lawn chair, "It's time for Bobby's bath," she said finally. "Do arms folded tightly across his narrow chest, his you want to come inside? It's getting chilly. Or I " stubbly chin resting on the corduroy collar of his could bring you a blanket jacket. His snores were audible over the sound of "I'm fine," the old man snapped. the breeze tearing leaves off the trees in the Bobby stopped fussing and looked at his grand- orchard. father with open-mouthed curiosity, drool spin- "I brought you your dessert," Lila announced. ning from his lower lip. The two stared at each She set the dish in front of him and shifted her son other for a long moment. onto the other hip. "I know what you want," the old man croaked, holding up a spoonful of the applesauce with a that sounded like a rifle shot. Mike felt his body shaky hand. The boy giggled and kicked eagerly. weightless as the branch gave way. Still reaching, Lila took a step closer so he could maneuver his he lost sight of the apple on his way down. He greedy lips around the offering, and then whisked seemed to be falling forever, as in a dream, but him away. the laws of gravity allow no exceptions. He hit the "Come in when you get cold, Pop," she called ground with a thud that made his sisters scream over her shoulder. and his mother come running, her beautiful face contorted by fear. 40 COA Mike gobbled up the rest of the applesauce, "On my way home. There's a blow-down block- then let the taste of it linger in his mouth. He imag- ing the County Line Road." ined his wife Eliza in her apron standing at the "Sweet Jesus," Lila exhaled. stove, the steam from a pot of cooked apples curl- "The wind came out of nowhere. I called the ing the stray hair around her temples and the nape sheriff's office but I don't want to wait for a crew to of her neck, the rest pinned up in a bun. Her strong come out. I've got my chainsaw in the truck so I'm hands turned the food mill, pressing the hot messy gonna take a whack at it. Just knock off enough mixture of apple flesh, skins, seeds and cores into branches to get by." something delicious, filling the house with the "How long will that take?" aroma of autumn. Mike inhaled deeply and "Can't say exactly." reached for his wife but she evaporated into a "Okay, cut up the damn tree and get your butt cloud of steam. home. I need another able-bodied adult in the "Don't leave me!" he cried. Then he closed his house." eyes, hoping to catch another glimpse of her. Storm clouds gathered over the Merrill farm and Apples again. In this dream he was older, a the houses on the hillside hastening the twilight. teenager working in the orchard. His father was The wind was shifting from the south to the north- collecting disability then, so it fell to his mother to east. It moved in great gusts, turning the leaves on inspect the crop. Mrs. Merrill walked by each row the maple inside out and making the orchard of trees, pausing to peer down at the baskets of tremble. Mr. Merrill still dozed on the front porch, fruit lined up waiting to be hauled away. She was his worn corduroy jacket providing inadequate busy. She was always busy, it seemed. She rarely protection. Cool, dank air found its way down his smiled, but when she did it was like the sun com- collar. He awoke with a stiff neck and numb legs. ing out after the rain. Her whole face lit up, making Alarmed by the darkness and the rising storm, him feel that everything would be all right, even if he tried to stand but couldn't. Leaning hard on the it wasn't. Mike was trying to make her smile but she flimsy arms of the plastic chair, he muscled him- wouldn't. He picked up an apple from a basket at self up, then stamped his feet to get some feeling his feet. But she rejected it because it was lopsided. to return, inadvertently kicking the chair over. He handed her another; it had a scab. On the third When he turned to pick it up, he lost his balance, she found a soft spot. On the fourth, a worm hole. tripped over the chair, bumped his head on the The fifth, she said, was too small. He handed her a railing and then tumbled down the porch steps hundred apples but not one was good enough into the dooryard. Upstairs in her bedroom Lila heard the noise Upstairs, Lila was running the water for her son's coming from the front porch and smiled. "Daddy's bath. Bobby was by her side, all bare, standing home," she cooed, as she wrestled Bobby into a unsteadily on chubby legs, using the side of the pair of one-piece pajamas. She smoothed the little tub to balance himself. She turned off the water bit of hair on his head with her fingers, then kissed and slid him into the tub with his rubber ducky and him on the cheek. "Can you say Daddy?" a toy boat. He splashed and played as she washed "Da da da dadada," Bobby babbled, making his his hair. mother smile. The phone rang and Lila groaned. "Steve, that Lila scooped him up, settled him on her hip and better be you," she muttered. She reached to pick walked to the top of the stairs. up the baby but he slipped out of her soapy hands, "We're up here, Steve," she called. "C'mon up. falling hard on his bottom. He howled. Grabbing You've got to hear this." a towel, Lila wrapped Bobby in it, under protest, and carried him like a soggy football to the bed- The fall should have killed him, but it didn't. room phone. Steve's voice came on the answering Mr. Merrill rubbed his throbbing head and felt machine. a lump already beginning to rise. He moved his "Hon, are you there? Lila?" She picked up the legs and discovered they weren't broken. Working phone and punched a button to stop the feedback deliberately, and breathing very hard, he rolled in her ear. onto his hands and knees and pulled himself up. "Where are you?" she demanded. Bobby was The strength of the wind nearly knocked him still crying. over again. COA 41 "Be careful!" he heard his mother warning him. "Pop, it's me, Lila," she said, shining the light on The voice, high-pitched and urgent, came from the her face. The wind gusted again, parting the clouds direction of the orchard across the lane. He took a momentarily. Moonlight spilled around them cast- few steps toward the voice, leaning into the wind. ing ghostly shadows. "Only you know how hard I tried," he continued Lila hummed a little as she picked up wet towels in a sorrowful voice Lila had never heard him use and toys in the bathroom, found the baby's pacifi- before. "All, all I wanted was to make Mamma er in their bedroom, rinsed it off and then headed smile. I couldn't stop the branch from breaking. to the nursery. It was time to put Bobby down for You never blamed me, Eliza, and I love you for the night. that." "Steve?" she called again but received no Lila squirmed as her father's eyes followed the answer. What was that noise she had heard earlier? line of her neck down to her shoulders and She went to a front window and looked into the breasts. She pulled Bobby in close to her and dooryard. Steve's truck was nowhere in sight but directed the light back onto her father. she saw a man moving slowly toward the edge of the orchard. Before she died, before she Hurrying out of the room, Lila surrendered to the cancer that descended the narrow staircase "He handed her turned her body into an overripe two steps at a time, heedless of fruit, Eliza Merrill took her daugh- Bobby's bobbling head. She a hundred apples ter aside. switched on the porch light, and but not one was "Be kind to him, Lila, even then burst through the front though he doesn't always deserve door. Her father's empty chair was " good enough it," she implored. "He's carried a upside down on the steps. great grief his whole life." "Poppa!" she screamed, but Mrs. Merrill told her then what her voice was lost in the howling of the wind. she hadn't known before, what happened after the Frantic, Lila went back inside for a flashlight, branch snapped: how the noise of it made the girls cursing under her breath as she rummaged scream and how their screams startled their father through drawers, flung open and slammed closet who was working the cider press at the time. He doors. By the time she found a flashlight that caught his arm in the conveyer belt and it got man- worked, the baby was crying again. gled so badly he lost the use of it. "Oh, Bobby, not now," she begged, as she "Mike only broke his leg when he fell from the wrapped him in a quilt. tree but his father's accident broke his spirit. His Outside clouds scudded across the sky, eclips- mother blamed Mike for everything bad that hap- ing the rising moon. Lila directed the flashlight pened, from that day on. And he never got the toward the road and held her breath as she shined chance to tell her what he was after in that tree." the light as far as it would reach in both directions. "What was he after?" Lila asked, but her moth- Nothing, thank God, she thought. er's answer hadn't made much sense to her, until Lifting her light again, she moved the beam in an now. arc from the dooryard, across the driveway to the "Let me help you out of the tree, Pop." edge of the orchard. She spotted her father crouched on a low branch of one of the craggy old apple trees. She recognized that particular tree. It was lopsided, with one side completely shorn. That Becky Buyers-Basso '81, took a second degree, in journal- was the tree, her mother had told her, where the ism, from Carleton University and forged a career at the inter- accident happened. section of print journalism, philanthropy and college adminis- "Liza," the old man said when he saw her com- tration. She currently works as a reporter for the Mount ing towards him. Desert Islander in Bar Harbor and enjoys creative writing in her spare time. 42 COA Spring Rain Beards sprout in spring as the skin, dry from winter, opens to let in the rain. Head cocked back and chin up to the sky with a pride that makes the heavens shudder and all its cheap change drops on my cheap cheeks, for all it's worth. Rooftop gutters take all the credit for catching the blues. Quiet down, I say to their silver platter up on high showered with praise. Go on, take your fill and piss the rest away. Leave holes of black mud for worms to die in. I've had enough of these clean machine-cut cookie dough houses. If this grass grows up, I'll cut it down, smother my boots, I'll cut it down: drop a blade and cackle and spit lawnmower-like. This green smell in the air won't leave me alone: get off my face and out my shirt. I better go get my coat or drown out here and take you down with me. Apology I've eaten your apple steak with no apologies but this one before me. | would trade my Shamsher hurt for swollen plums but blood's a sour, fickle thing that doesn't grow on trees. There's no wait in the shady butcher's shop. Always another drop of neck juice from a foul unfeathered fleshy peach, gashed out of the sun and falling into the raw light. There's no said to say that won't come to you after I'm a rotten core; Shamsher Virk '07 my weight dusted coal is from Victoria, and shivering guilt. I'll thank you Vancouver Island, for giving away precious little. British Columbia, Canada, third rock That chewed enough throat apple from sun, Milky let slide to stomach. For what I owe Way. the flesh parlour will be ripe picking at the bone. Hogs head the herd senseless through the cotton fields. Wool caught on barbed bushes. Hen feet in the face of your embrace. COA 43 CLASS NOTES COA ALUMNI SERVICES After eighteen years, Bruce Bender '76 has moved from Vermont to Santa Fe, New Mexico for a change of job, scenery, lifestyle and marital status. He is work- Alumni: Stay in Touch! ing at the New Mexico Department of Transportation, running the planning div- To update your contact inform- ision: "The politics are even more amusing than they were in Vermont," he says. ation, share class notes in "Having a wonderful time working at the Maine Historical Society in Portland upcoming publications, tell as photo curator and cataloger on the statewide history project, Maine Memory Network," writes Frances Pollitt '77. fpollitt@mainehistory.org us of changes in your job or life, find out about regional Still flying for American Airlines, Steve Savage '77 was recently appointed pro- gram director of Conscience International, bringing relief and medical supplies alumni events and for other to Sudan and Kashmir. alumni services, please contact "I have a boat building business that has recently moved to a shop in view of Shawn Keeley of Alumni the drawbridge in Mystic, Connecticut. We are currently replacing the deck on Relations at sakeeley@coa.edu. a 53-foot 1907 Herreshoff cutter for her hundredth birthday," writes Rick Waters '77. rwmcnoank@aol.com Sue Inches '79 moved to the Maine State Planning Office as deputy director in June 2004. "It's been a whirlwind year and a half since I arrived, getting to know a whole new group of people and a different set of issues. I have learned a lot about trying to get things done in a political environment." "I finally moved back to Maine in 2000 with my family," writes Barbara Boardman '80. "We live in an old place in Waldoboro, where our son, Damir, 8, has lots of room. Husband Chris is a painter." Barbara works on architectural projects, home renovations and garden design. "COA still has a warm place in my heart -though I hardly recognize it! Wondering what has happened to Sally that drew the loons and went into training dogs, Peter with the long ponytail and the car that was too small, and Gandalf's owner, Jan." boardman@midcoast.com Sajit Greene '80 writes, "In August, I resigned from my position as a mental health therapist with survivors of torture and I went on a spiritual quest to the West and Southwest. The highlight was my time on Mt. Shasta. Now I am back in Denver and offering my services as an astrologer and teacher of sacred dance. Visit: www.sajit.net or sajitgreene.blogspot.com." Anne Patterson '80 is launching her kids into the world. Ben, 19, works with a computer business in Searsport, Maine. Erin, 17, is planning on going to Maine Maritime Academy. Anne received a master's degree in education in June 2004. Her business, The Learnwise Center, offers tutoring, consultation and family support for students at risk. Charlie Hutchison '81 just moved to the woods of Lexington, Massachusetts with his wife Lucy, an acupuncturist and Oliver, 4, a poster kid of alternative health care. Charlie has been a progressive and Waldorf educator and currently runs National Science Foundation-funded programs to develop informal science projects from the Education Development Center, Inc. in Newton, Massachusetts. He's happy to network on fatherhood, prostate cancer, informal science education, how to get these liars out of government, and more. Pam Cobb '83 married Mark Henberger on May 14 in Harvard Square. With them are Julie Erb '83, Pam's daughter, Jai Ebonstarre, Pam's father, Phil Cobb and Peter Wayne '83 on the left; Steve Katona and Susan Lerner on the right. 44 COA "I live in Eugene, with my sweetie of fourteen years, Julie Trippe," writes Ker CLASS NOTES Cleary '84 (formerly Rachael Merker). A psychotherapist, offering a Buddhist- based approach to well-being, Ker found the Buddhist focus of her graduate school, Naropa University, a bit like human ecology. "I specialize in inexplicable degrees — human ecology, contemplative psychotherapy. A big shout to the old Roach Ranch Deluxe gang, the Town Farm crew, and Off the Wall cohorts, Nasty Music and the Bad Manners." ker@efn.org; contemplativepsychotherapy.com Scott Durkee '84 is a self-employed carpenter also working at the Andrew Will Winery on Vashon Island, Washington. His goals are to spend time with his children, Jeevon, 16, and Kerewyn, 10, and to enjoy the mountains. Scott also promotes renewable energies. His VW Jetta diesel runs on biodiesel. After Katrina, he loaded an old transit bus converted to run on vegetable oil with supplies and drove it to the Gulf Coast. "Each year I try to own a little less and when I do buy something, I consider it like voting. I never shop at Walmart!" Sara Wendt '85 has just released her fourth CD, Here's Us, available at cdbaby.com. Besides being a singer-songwriter, Sara is a clinical hypnotherapist specializing in sleep disorders, a meditation teacher and the director of Chakrasambara Buddhist Center in New York City. "I am living on New Island, in the far western corner of the Falkland Islands, with my husband and children," writes Kim Chater '88. "It's a stunningly bea- utiful and remote place." The Chaters take tourists on expedition cruise ships to see black-browed albatross, rockhopper, gentoo and Magellanic penguins, occasional Peale's dolphins and sei whales. "When not being a full-time mom, I pull out the dusty watercolor brushes and paint." Despite the wild and windy climate, they mostly live off the land with Jack, 4, and Rosie, 2. tony.kim@horizon.co.fk Mike Kimball '89 and Lori Gustafson '87 have been living in Machiasport, Maine, since 2001. Mike is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Maine Machias and Lori's a veterinary epidemiologist for the Department of Agriculture in Eastport, having completed her Ph.D. in population medicine. Son Conor, is 9; Liam is 3. They live off the grid in a solar-powered home in Machiasport overlooking the East Machias and Machias rivers and love visitors. "After getting my M.A. in marine affairs from the University of Rhode Island, I moved around the country working as a park ranger in environmental con- sulting and then in government jobs," writes Rebekah Resnick Padgett '91. "For the last five years, I have been working for the Washington State Department of Ecology, recently as a federal permit coordinator for coastal projects involving in-water and wetland work. It's great to be working in my field! My husband John and I bought our first home here in Seattle and are fixing it up." Tim Case '92 recently moved back to Maine with his wife Kim. They have reno- vated a home in Kittery Point with assistance from Ryan Higgins '06. Tim contin- ues to enjoy nearly a decade with global planning and engineering consulting firm, Parsons Brinckerhoff. In 2005 he became deputy chief technology officer, leading the firm's geospatial, a.k.a. GIS, practice. Darron Collins '92, Karen, Maggie '23, and Molly '25 can't wait for the spring rains to swell Washington's mighty Potomac and bring the river back to a rushing tor- rent, full of lively play spots for kayaking. Darron recently presented his paper, Who are the Q'eqchi'-Maya and what are they doing in my living room? to the American Anthropological Association, exploring the public perception of the Maya through a quantitative analysis of Google search hits. Angie DelVecchio '92 writes, "I have been working as a family nurse practitioner in Bar Harbor for the past year. Chris and I were in central Maine, working in rural health care, but it is wonderful to be back on MDI! We are partially responsible for the ever-overgrowing world population, Eliza is 5 and Samuel is almost 2. We have been traveling to Ecuador to do health care." COA 45 CLASS NOTES Clark Lawrence '92 celebrated the ninth anniversary of the founding of Reading Retreats in rural Italy. In 2003, he moved from a 17th century villa to the 14th century castle of Galeazza, north of Bologna. Living and working in a castle may not be as great as it sounds; half of the castle is crumbling. "With acres of wood- land and gardens to renovate and maintain, it's a challenge to keep things going and growing," Clark writes. Come visit! www.galeazza.com "I now serve on the New England Grassroots Environmental Fund's grant selection committee where I share an advocate's perspective and help fund hundreds of great grassroots programs across the region," writes Jeffrey Miller '92. Regional COA alumni involved with a grassroots organization should visit www.grassrootsfund.org. This is his tenth year as executive director of the Bicycle Coalition of Maine. Those interested in making their communities more bikable and walkable can call Jeffrey at 207-623-4511. Gina Platt '92 writes, "After graduating, I lived in Texas, Oregon and New York City, where I worked as a custom color printer and photographer. In 2001, I returned to Maine, becoming a founding member of the nonprofit, member- supported Bakery Photographic Collective, www.bakeryphoto.com." Gina has a master's in American and New England Studies and is now the education coor- dinator at the University of Maine Museum of Art. Her photography was most recently shown at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. "Aloha from Hawaii. I got married last May and bought a home here in upcoun- try Maui," writes Diana Papini Warren '92. "For the last three years, I have been developing and coordinating The Maui Digital Bus project (www.digitalbus.org), a mobile science education program for K-12 schools, coming full circle and becoming the human ecologist I was meant to be," working with students and teachers in the wetlands, forests and coastlines of Maui facilitating hands-on, high-tech scientific investigations. She'd love to hear from COA alumni. Leo Vincent '92 writes, "I live in Ithaca, NY with my wife Jenny Pickett, who I mar- ried in 2002. We had Nikhit D'Sa '06 as a roommate during the fall, while he was completing an internship at Cornell." Leo is getting a master's of science in teaching for childhood education at the State University of New York, Cortland and is a graduate assistant for the childhood education department. "I enjoy being back in school and look forward to becoming an elementary teacher. People coming to Ithaca or the Finger Lakes region should look us up." "I'm just finishing the third term of my master's degree in Korean studies here in Seoul," writes Cedar Bough Blomberg '93. "At the end of January I'm speaking at a conference in Australia. When I finish my degree, my husband and I plan to walk from his hometown to Lhasa, about three months of solid walking." Jennifer Crandall '93 continues as department head of the Compass Rose program of the Mount Desert Island High School. Conor and Nolan attend school in Bar Harbor. Their dad, Kevin Crandall '93, is working to bring biodiesel to Mount Desert Island so the boys don't have to breathe so much petroleum diesel exhaust from school buses. Kevin is the owner of MDI BioFuel LLC, the island's only licensed biodiesel distribution company dedicated to bringing certified biodiesel to Down East Maine. Visit www.mdibiofuel.com. Heather Martin-Zboray '93 is executive director of the Hancock County Democratic Committee, having run campaigns for the 2004 election and the county-wide effort of Maine Won't Discriminate in 2005. Michael Martin-Zboray '95 enjoys his position as assistant principal at Conners-Emerson Elementary School in Bar Harbor. Heather and Mike live in Surry and welcome visitors. "Staying warm in Majia is next to impossible," writes Roy Doan '94 from China. "It's pretty cool and sunny when the sun is shining, but at night, it's as cold and windy as Embarrass, Minnesota. I'll have my last oral exams after Christmas. After that we'll have a three-day New Year. I took my students for a hike to the Kan Jing Temple on the mountainous side of Yang-En University. There are small temples and shrines, awesomely beautiful." 46 COA "The biggest event in my life at the moment is that I'm planning on graduating CLASS NOTES with my master's in architecture this spring from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee," writes Anne Gustavson '94. "After that, I hope to move to Seattle where my interests in sustainable design can thrive and I won't have to deal with snow. No marriage or kids, just happily living with my boyfriend of seven years, who has just completed his MFA in film." Matt Baskey '95 writes, "I am in London running a website programming business. I'm at mbaskey@gmail.com." CAREER AND INTERNSHIP SERVICES "The past few years have brought many changes to my life," writes Michael Blair '95. "In 2003, I married Marnie Colarusso, bringing an additional son to my life. There's Nicholas 11, Andrew, 10, and Tyler, 5. In 2004, Marnie and I started an Alumni: We can help! internet technology business, Blair Technologies, streamlining solutions for small business." Having moved into a 250-year-old house in Richmond, New College of the Atlantic's Office Hampshire, they work from home with space for boys and dogs to play. of Internships and Careers offers internship and job oppor- "I just got engaged to Matt Ayers," writes Elizabeth Rousek '95. "The wedding will be in September at my mom's house. We purchased some land in Dills- tunities on the college's website: burg, Pennsylvania and plan to start building in April. I finished my first year www.coa.edu/internships. as head gardener on an estate in Reading, very rewarding and challenging." Feel free to contact Jill Barlow- Doug Sward '96 is a physician in the emergency medicine residency program Kelley, director, atjbk@coa.edu or at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. He's married, no kids. 207-288-5015, ext. 236 for these services: In September Judy Books '98 began working as a science educator at The Career Information Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey, teaching children from urban areas, leading tours of the museum's dynamic earth gallery and offering classes on and Guidance rocks and minerals, insects, the immune system, the adaptations of plants and Graduate School Information animals and other topics. "Graduating from work as a naturalist to museum edu- Job Search Skills cation has been an exciting change. I have made friends with people who are close to my age and have found them to be good mentors." Resume Review Relocation Guidance Katie Hester '98 graduated as a naturopathic physician and family nurse practi- Employment Websites tioner and began working at Country Doctor Community Clinic in Seattle. The mission is, "to improve the health of our community by providing high quality, Mentoring of Current caring, culturally appropriate primary health care that addresses the needs of Students and Other Alumni people regardless of their ability to pay." She and her partner Sarah were recent- ly in New Zealand for five weeks, followed by four weeks of medical Spanish immersion in Guatemala. Laura Imundo '99 is recently engaged and planning a wedding for May on the land she shares with fiancé Kane and a four-month-old chocolate lab, Mya, on the outskirts of Muncy, Pennsylvania. Laura works in a local high school with developmentally-challenged teens. landk@chilitech.net "I will be entering my last semester at Antioch New England in Keene, New Hampshire, a candidate for a master's degree in environmental studies with a concentration in environmental education," writes Jaime Duval '00. She complet- ed an internship at an organic farm in New Hampshire and continues to work doing outreach education as a core group member. Cerissa Desrosiers '00 writes, "I live with my partner, Jessica, in southern New Hampshire. I am a doctoral student at Antioch New England studying clinical psychology. I work with at-risk boys at a therapeutic residential facility. I would love to hear from other alums: cerissa_d@yahoo.com." Corinne Harpster '00 is in her second year of naturopathic medical school at Bastyr University in Washington State and working as a massage therapist. Noah Sabur, son to Shawn Keeley '00 and Sarah Cronin Keeley '05 was born August 18, 2005. Shawn continues his work as alumni coordinator at COA and Sarah is working as a stay-at-home mom. COA 47 CLASS NOTES On September 18, 2004, Wing Goodale, M.Phil '01 and Marie Malin '01 got married in Rockport, Maine. They live in Falmouth; Marie is communications coordinator at Maine Audubon, www.maineaudubon.org, and editor of its journal, Habitat. She was featured in the Portland Press Herald for leading Maine Audubon's use of biofuel. Marie is on the board of Maine Interfaith Power and Light. A research biologist for the nonprofit BioDiversity Research Institute (www.briloon.org), Wing looks into mercury's impact on birds. His work was featured in The New York Times, Boston Globe and the Washington Post and he recently became a national fellow of the Explorers Club. Pam Humphreys '01 is currently assistant program manager for the supervised adolescent living program of Child and Family Services of Newport County in Newport, Rhode Island. She's also in her second year of the Ralph R. Papitto School of Law at Roger Williams University in Bristol. "It's been exciting and challenging, to say the least. Not much time for extra curriculars, but I still go to the YMCA regularly and go dancing whenever I can." "Before I moved to England, I worked in North Carolina for a nonprofit organi- zation monitoring a population of endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers," writes Kendra Noyes Miller '01. "I held the position for a year and a half and was exposed to all sorts of complex human versus bird habitat issues. I also got to climb pine trees and band days-old woodpecker nestlings! It was pretty neat." Writes Blaise Maccarrone '01, "I am currently living in Oakland, California and working for East Bay Habitat for Humanity, one of the only Habitat affiliates that has made sustainable and green building part of their mission of building homes in partnership with low-income families. It's great to be working with an organization that is proving that green building and environmental aware- ness is not just an option for the well-off. I have recently been joined by Amanda Witherell '00, Jenn Atkinson '03 and Chrystal Schreck '03." Bori Kiss '02 is about to sail around the world on the Maggie B, a 62-foot fusion schooner. Visit www.coveyisland.com, current projects, to see the ship and read updates. Launching was January 3, 2006, with fireworks. On September 10, 2005, Ardrianna French McLane '02 and Shawn T. McLane were married at Moose Point State Park in Searsport, Maine overlooking Penobscot Bay. They recently moved to Corpus Christi, Texas for Ardrianna's job as a park ranger in interpretation and volunteer coordinator at Padre Island National Seashore, which has launched a huge Kemps Ridley Sea Turtle Recovery Program. They feel very lucky to have new jobs, new marriage and a new life. Kerri Sands '02 lives in Portland, Maine and is still working for Coastal Enterprises Institute. She has been promoted to program director of the Farms for the Future program. "I am currently working on a master's degree in culture, ecology and sustainable community with an emphasis in activism and social change at New College of California," writes Chrystal Schreck '03. "The program is an excellent follow-up to human ecology! I'm looking into possible intersections of ecofeminism and queer theory-it's exciting work! I live in San Francisco in a collective house with seven others, and am finally feeling like I have a good community of support, maybe for the first time since COA. COA transplants, keep coming!" A day away from a five-week residency to teach scuba diving off Belize, Fae J. Silverman '03 writes, "This will be the first time I teach my senior pro- ject-designed communication diver course in international waters. When not working on that project, www.communicationfordivers.com, I'm working as a sign language interpreter around Portland, Maine and writing guidelines for Maine interpreters working in education. I am now the chair of the Maine RID Educational Interpreter Committee, still with Joel, still driving my '96 green VW." Briana Duga '04 is living in Atlanta, Georgia and attending chiropractic school with her fiancé Seth. They will be getting married this summer in Maine. 48 COA "After working a carpentry job for several months I have temporarily retired and CLASS NOTES have moved into a small cabin in the Catskill Mountains of New York, hibernat- ing for the winter," writes Adam Czaplinski '04. While installing a small solar panel and building a woodworking shop, he is trying to live Edward Abbey's work-only-six-months-a-year idea. Future plans possibly include graduate school, internships, or starting a small grow-for-market farm. Organizing open mics, etc. are a given. "I just got engaged to be married to Jeremy 'Red' Hefner, my boyfriend of four years" writes Julia Morgenstern '04. "We're planning a June wedding in a moun- taintop meadow with the reception in the backyard of our new home in Vallecito, a tiny town of around 200 year-round residents, northeast of Durango, Colorado. While I miss the ocean terribly, Vallecito is on a big lake that strikingly resembles Somes Sound, just with more snow! We've got a spare room and awesome camping space." FACULTY NOTES A paper by biology professor John Anderson and his wife, Karen Anderson, "An Analysis of Band Returns of the American White Pelican, 1922 to 1981," came out in Waterbirds 28 (2005). In January, 2006, John Cooper published a new quartet, A Box with False Bottoms, with Dorn Publication, Inc. of Medfield Massachusetts. He also completed the music score for the final film in the trilogy created by COA film and performance art professor, Nancy Andrews, The Haunted Camera. In September of 2005, Cooper served as a judge for the Maine All-State Jazz auditions. Dave Feldman spent a second summer teaching at the China Institute for the Santa Fe Institute. In 2006, he will serve as director of the China Institute. Visit www.santafe.edu/education/indexCSSS.php Additionally, in December, Feldman spoke at Bates College's Olin Auditorium on "Racial Segregation in U.S. Cities: Using Computational Models to Understand the Gap between Individual Preferences and Neighborhood Outcomes." This was a reprise of a talk he gave at COA last spring. COA zoologist Helen Hess and marine ecologist Chris Petersen attended the Western Society of Naturalists meeting in California last November. Hess's work discussed the results of research on the cleaning behavior of coral reef fishes conducted by the COA Tropical Marine Ecology class in Akumal, Mexico. Coauthors included Allison T. Fundis '02 and Max Overstrom-Coleman '02. Both developed aspects of this research for their senior projects. Overstrom-Coleman, now in graduate school at Moss Landing Marine Lab in Santa Cruz, presented a paper on his thesis work on the effects of severe storms on kelp forest communities. Petersen's presentation, supported by a National Science Foundation grant, outlined a collaborative project of eco- logical research on a local estuarine fish. Field assistants included Marianna Bradley '06, Yaniv Brandvain '04, Jason Childers '06, Erica Maltz '06 and Nina Therkildsen '05. www.wsn-online.org/meeting.html COA botanist Nishanta Rajakaruna '94 was named visiting scientist at the Institute of Fundamental Studies of Kandy, Sri Lanka for a period of three years. He also traveled to Auburn University in Alabama to give the Depart- ment of Biological Sciences Seminar Series. His talk was titled, "Plant-soil relations in the Lasthenia Californica Complex (Asteraceae): A Model for Studies in Evolutionary Ecology." He has also presented two talks about plants on extreme soils. At the Humboldt Field Research Institute of Steuben, Maine, Rajakaruna spoke on, "Plants on Extreme Soils: Evolution to Remediation." At the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka, the talk was titled, "Plants on Extreme Soils: A Model for Studies in Plant Evolution." He gave a second talk at Peradeniya, this to the Postgraduate Institute of Science of the department COA 49 FACULTY NOTES of botany, on "Ecology of Metal Hyperaccumulation and the Emerging Field of Phytoremediation." Professor Doreen Stabinsky was part of a panel discussing the movie, The Future of Food, a documentary about genetically altered plants on October 23 at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Also present were filmmaker Deborah Koons Garcia and Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet and Hope's Edge. This fall, professor Karen Waldron led a series of book discussions at the Abbe Museum and Jessup Library in Bar Harbor for the Maine Humanities Council's "Let's Talk about It" book discussion series. COMMUNITY NOTES COA faculty, staff, students and alumni were responsible for ten abstracts at the Marine Mammal Biennial in San Diego in December. Among them were staff members Judy Allen, Alexandra Ertl, Rosemary Seton and Ann Zoidis, grad- uate students Kara Johnson and Christie Mahaffey, students Julianne Kearney '06 and Zack Klyver '06, alumni Dan Danto, '91, now also a senior researcher at Allied Whale, Bethany Holm '03, Tora Johnson, M.Phil. '03 and Jessica Sharman '05, and COA biology professor Sean Todd. Four COA undergraduates and one graduate student were invited to present papers at the Waterbird Society Meeting on Jekyll Island, Georgia last October. These are April Boucher '06, Jamus Drury '08, Sadie Spruce '07, Sandra Walczyk '06 and graduate student Sarah Boucher. Walczyk and Sarah Boucher have been invited to present their work at the International Ornithological Conference in Hamburg, Germany this August. COA community members are deeply involved with the committee to launch a cooperative food market on Mount Desert Island. Professors Dave Feldman and Davis Taylor have both joined the interim board of the MDI Storefront Co-op, which comes out of the research Kati Freedman '05 did for her senior project and the internship of Emily Weiss '06 with Healthy Acadia, a support- ing organization of the co-op. Also involved are Shawn Keeley '00, now the alumni coordinator and Matt Bachler '08. Joining the board are Michael Boland '94 and Bob DeForrest '94. The New England Botanical Club's journal, Rhodora 107 (October 2005), includes a survey of the flora of Acadia National Park conducted by the late COA botany professor Craig Greene. Additional authors are Linda Gregory '89, Glen Mittelhauser '91, and COA research associates Sally Rooney and Jill Weber. COA graduates and students spanning four decades gathered for Thanks- giving at the Bar Harbor home of Noreen Hogan '91 and COA botany pro- fessor Suzanne Morse. From left, Shamsher Virk '07, Betts Swanton '86, Brooke Brown Sarracino '05, Noreen, Suzanne, Jose Perez Orozco '09, and Omudi Bonface '09; in front, Barbara "Sass" Sassaman '78 and Matt Gerald '82. Botany professor Dr. Nishanta Rajakaruna '94 received a grant of $17,000 to research heavy metal-contaminated sites in Hancock County and the possibilities of phytoremediation, using plants to clean up heavy metals. Additionally, Andrew Thrall '06 and Kathleen Tompkins '08 received $2,500 each for supporting research. The grant comes from the Maine Space Grant Consortium, which receives its funds from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Working with Rajakaruna will be Laura Briscoe '07, Tanner Harris '08, Pete Pavicevic '07, and Nate Pope '08. CORRECTIONS: The correct spelling of former COA philosophy professor is Richard Slaton Davis. 50 COA REMEMBERING JOSH JONES JESSE TUCKER 1982-2005 1973-2006 Josh Jones ('07) had twinkling eyes, a wry smile Jesse Tucker '95 was a gentle boy with an infec- and a quick mind. He faced the new with curiosi- tious laugh who designed the building that is ty and delight and sought to make it his own. now David Camp's office and built the steps lead- He touched many hearts with his quiet self- ing to the Turrets garden. The dry streambed of confidence, his love of life and his deep kind- moss-covered rocks in the Wild Gardens of ness. Josh died in a car accident in Arkansas. Acadia that looks like it's been there forever was his creation. Jesse had a master's in landscape ~ Elmer Beal and Andrew architecture from Rhode Island School of Design Campbell and had won a national design competition before dying in a car accident. Talented, kind and much loved, Jessie will be forever be in our SAMUEL HAMILL hearts and in the landscape. 1976-2005 ~ Isabel Mancinelli Samuel Hamill, a COA student in 1995, the son of (COA is planning a memorial Samuel Hamill, Jr., chairman of the COA board in the Seaside Garden.) of trustees, died after a long struggle with heroin and other addictions. Sam had recently formed The Sullivan Granite Company with two friends. DAVID McGIFFERT Kind and generous, he loved and valued his fami- 1926-2005 ly and many friends. His family hopes that his death can help others understand the devastation David Eliot McGiffert was a former senior caused by alcohol and drug abuse and move peo- Pentagon official, Washington lawyer and devot- ple to support groups that mitigate their effects. ed birdwatcher. He was also a longtime friend of the college, a member of COA's Council of ~ Sam Hamill Advisors, active on several trustee committees, (Contributions in Sam's and the son of founding trustee Rev. Cushman memory may be sent to McGiffert. At COA, David taught courses in law The MDI Alcohol and policy focused on Constitutional philosophy and Drug Group, Inc. and the separation of powers. All who knew P.O. Box 616 David will treasure memories of his wisdom, Southwest Harbor, ME 04679) warmth, good humor and generous spirit. ~ Steven Katona (David's family asked that gifts in his memory be sent to College of the Atlantic.) COA 51 LETTER FROM THE BOARD Dear Friends, Steve Katona will conclude his service as president of College of the Atlantic this year. An inspiring member of our founding faculty, Steve played an important role in shaping the college's ideals as well as its teaching in human ecology. As president, he has worked tire- lessly to ground the college on a solid institutional footing. The trustees are grateful to Steve and to his wife Susan Lerner for their total commitment to COA. Thanks to their work, we can view the future with confidence. During the early weeks of January, the college interviewed the three prospective suc- cessor presidents that were recommended by a search committee, ably led by trustee Hamilton Robinson. This was an unusual opportunity for the college community to gather for extended discussions of our past, present and future. Students, alums, staff, faculty, trustees and friends came away with a renewed respect for each other and our respective roles in advancing the college's mission. To lead us in that venture, the trustees have appointed David F. Hales, who will take office on July 1. David comes to the college with broad experience-in teaching and re- search at the University of Michigan, in governmental service at the state, national and international levels, and at non-profit organizations, most recently Worldwatch. He will lead the college as a teaching institution, and work to extend our presence on Mount Desert Island, our collaborations with regional organizations and our service to the world beyond. We are fortunate to have him as our next president. The college has gained momentum in other ways during the past year. We have estab- lished an endowment fund to improve faculty and staff salaries. We are planning and fund- ing new teaching programs with associated chairs in marine biology, green business lead- ership, government and policy, and farm and food systems. We are improving the appear- ance and function of the campus. We are in the final stages of design for a campus center, a residential project for fifty students-of which half will be international-and the restora- tion of Turrets, the historic centerpiece of our campus. Finally, we are preparing for reaccredidation by the New England Associations of Schools and Colleges in 2007. It has been said that transitions can be times of unusual energy and creativity. That is so at College of the Atlantic today. Founding faculty member Bill Carpenter observed that our new presidency commences "Chapter Two" in the history of the college. We will retain our core educational values and institutional commitment to the betterment of the planet and the communities that surround us. But we will also be alive to new means of achieving our mission and address it with new energy. It has been a rare privilege to serve as chairman of the College of the Atlantic Board of Trustees. We on the board thank you, our donors and friends, for your abiding faith in the transformative role of higher education, in the betterment of communities nearby and across the globe, and for your support of our distinctive institution. With best wishes, SAMULLM. HAMMI, Jr. Samuel M. Hamill, Jr. Chair, Board of Trustees 52 COA LETTER FROM THE ADMINISTRATIVE DEAN Those acquainted with College of the Atlantic know that students receive an exceptional education and are uncommonly challenged to become inde- pendent thinkers and leaders. However, tucked as we are at the edge of the nation, COA is too frequently known as one of the nation's best-kept secrets in higher education. COA has taken on this challenge, investing in admissions efforts to become more visible, investing in the academic program to become more expansive and investing in campus life to improve retention. In the 2004-2005 fiscal year, these efforts have been rewarded. COA has exceeded its goals for admissions, increasing the numbers of full-time students by 10 percent. As a result, not only were we able to be more selective in our stu- dent body, but in 2005 our annual tuition and fees grew to $6.7 million from the 2003-2004 level of $6.2 million. Like other small, independent colleges, COA is challenged by keeping annual revenues in step with unavoidable operating increases, from escalating fuel prices to modest cost- of-living raises. Also common to many small, private colleges is the dilemma of controlling the amount of student aid. This problem has been exacerbated by the recent economic downturn. Our student aid, shown in the accompanying operating expenses, has two approximately equal components: aid to students from the college's unrestricted funds and aid to United World College students from a restricted grant supported by the Davis United World College Scholars Program and the U.S. Committee for United World College Schools, Inc. Total student aid amounts increased from $4 to $4.7 million over the last two years. While the Davis scholarships cover part of this rise, the college's student aid expense still grew by about $400,000, partially offsetting the gains we might have expected from increased enrollment. COA is now addressing the need to manage net tuition. We believe that with the increas- es we see in application and retention rates, we will continue to see a growth in revenue from tuition and fees while limiting the growth rate of student aid. The second biggest source of operating revenue, after net tuition, is the annual support from donors to both the annual fund and our capacity development initiatives. We are heartened by the support shown for the college from our many generous donors, includ- ing trustees, alumni, corporations and other friends. With their support, we were able to balance the operating budget in fiscal year 2005 while also increasing our net worth, includ- ing a growth of the endowment from $14.8 to 15.7 million. As we all know, the current fiscal year, 2005-2006, will be one of many changes; bitter- sweet, perhaps, but also exciting. We look forward to new growth, new ideas and contin- ued striving toward excellence in our academic and financial performance. Calow & Andrew Griffiths Administrative Dean COA I 53 ANNUAL REPORT Financial Operations Report Operating Revenues FY 2003-2004 FY 2004-2005 Tuition and Fees $6,219,000 $6,741,000 Contributions-annual fund $1,080,000 $941,000 Contributions-restricted $1,958,000 $2,534,000 Investment and endowment income $366,000 $473,000 Government and other grants $633,000 $806,000 Student housing and dining $684,000 $713,000 Summer programs $360,000 $432,000 Museum, Summer Field Studies & Blum Gallery $75,000 $68,000 Research and projects $214,000 $419,000 Beech Hill Farm $140,000 $135,000 Other Sources $72,000 $79,000 Total Revenues $11,801,000 $13,340,000 Operating Expenses Instruction and student activities $2,262,000 $2,269,000 Library $223,000 $207,000 Student housing and dining $553,000 $512,000 Summer programs $247,000 $274,000 Museum, Summer Field Studies & Blum Gallery $220,000 $159,000 Financial aid $4,018,000 $4,728,000 General and administration $1,004,000 $1,104,000 Payroll taxes and fringe benefits $1,123,000 $1,197,000 Development $928,000 $1,105,000 Buildings and grounds $479,000 $530,000 Interest $92,000 $98,000 Grants, research and projects $501,000 $806,000 Beech Hill Farm $172,000 $161,000 Total expenditures $11,823,000 $13,150,000 Excess Revenue (Expense) ($22,000) $191,000 Transfers and capital expenditures ($147,000) ($91,000) Net operating surplus (loss) ($169,000) $100,000 54 I COA ANNUAL REPORT It is with deep gratitude and appreci- David Rockefeller Fund, Inc. Mr. William Foulke, Sr. ation that we acknowledge the gen- Dr. Richard Rockefeller Dr. and Mrs. James C. A. Fuchs erosity of our alumni, trustees and Dr. and Mrs. Peter Sellers Mr. and Mrs. Paul Growald friends. This annual report recognizes Ms. Mary Hall all those who made gifts to College DISCOVERER $2,000-$4,999 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hinckley of the Atlantic from July 1, 2004 Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Mr. and Mrs. William P.H. Hoar through June 30, 2005. Hon. and Mrs. Robert Blake Mr. and Mrs. Edward Johnson III Mr. Charles Butt Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kelley III THE CHAMPLAIN SOCIETY Cadillac Mountain Sports Kenduskeag Foundation The Champlain Society honors Tina and Philip DeNormandie Mrs. Francis Lewis individuals of vision and commit- Eaton Vance Management Ms. Pamela Manice ment who contribute $1,500 or Mr. and Mrs. David H. Fischer Sarah '93 and Jon McDaniel more to the college's Annual Fund. Mr. and Mrs. James M. Garnett, Jr. Mrs. Donald McLean Fr. James Gower Mr. and Mrs. Gerrish Milliken FOUNDER $10,000 + Mr. and Mrs. George B. E. Hambleton Mr. and Mrs. A. Fenner Milton Mr. Edward McC. Blair, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Hildreth, Jr./ Mr. P. Andrews Nixon Mrs. Charlotte Bordeaux The Hildreth Family Fund of the Ms. Sandra Nowicki Mr. William Carey Maine Community Foundation Jim and Suzanne Owen Mrs. Amos Eno Ms. Sherry Huber Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Paneyko Mr. Samuel Hamill, Jr. Barbara and Peter Hunt/ Ms. Judith Perkins Mr. and Mrs. Melville Hodder The Point Harbor Fund of the Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson Peters Mr. and Mrs. John N. Kelly Maine Community Foundation Mr. Michael Phillips Mrs. Marcia MacKinnon Ned and Sophia Johnston Dr. and Mrs. Richard Pierson Ms. Casey Mallinckrodt Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kogod Mrs. Dora Richardson Mr. Jay McNally '84 Mrs. Louis Madeira Mrs. Walter Robinson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Milliken Mr. David McGiffert The Swan Agency/Insurance Mr. and Mrs. I. Wistar Morris III/The Mr. and Mrs. David Moore Mr. and Mrs. Christiaan van Heerden Cotswold Foundation Dr. Frank Moya/Frank Moya Mr. and Mrs. Rodman Ward, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Pierce Charitable Foundation, Inc. Douglas and Priscilla Williams James Dyke and Helen Porter Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Neilson Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Robinson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Eliot Paine/ ALUMNI, BUSINESSES, Dr. Walter Robinson The Puffin Fund of the Maine PARENTS AND FRIENDS Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. Community Foundation Ms. Elfriede Abbe Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Shorey, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John P. Reeves Dr. and Mrs. Murray Abramsky Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Stewart Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shafer Acadia Senior College Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Straus Mr. Winthrop Short Mrs. Janet Jordan Additon Mr. and Mrs. William Wister, Jr./ Mr. Kenneth Simon Dr. and Mrs. Peter Adler Margaret Dorrance Strawbridge Richard and Ann Sullivan Mrs. J.H. Michael Agar Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William Thorndike, Jr. Ms. Beverly Agler '81 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Weg Ms. Heather Albert-Knopp '99 PATHFINDER $5,000-$9,999 Ms. Katherine Weinstock '81 Ms. M. Bernadette Alie '84 Linda Shaw and Jeffrey Bakken Mr. John Wilmerding David Zuk and Caroline Allen Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bass Mr. David Witham Mr. William Allen '87 Mr. and Mrs. Leslie C. Brewer Mrs. Diane Anderson Estate of Mrs. Frederic Camp EXPLORER $1,500-$1,999 Mr. J. Anderson Michele and Agnese Cestone Mr. and Mrs. O. Kelley Anderson, Jr. Mr. Peter Anderson '81 Foundation Mr. Ron Beard Mr. and Mrs. Schofield Andrews III Mr. and Mrs. F. Eugene Dixon, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James Blaine Mr. and Mrs. Stockton Andrews Mr. and Mrs. William Foulke, Jr. Susanna Porter and James Clark, Jr. Ms. Genevieve Angle '00 Mr. Louis Gerald Mr. and Mrs. Francis I.G. Coleman L. Schellie Archbold Mrs. Philip Geyelin Mr. and Mrs. Tristram Colket, Jr. Mrs. Grace Arnold Mr. and Mrs. Edward Guthrie, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Cushman Ms. Bethany Aronow '83 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Habermann Mr. and Mrs. Shelby M.C. Davis Ms. Evelyn Ashford Hon. and Mrs. Charles Heimbold Dead River Company Ms. Jennifer L. Atkinson '03 Mr. and Mrs. John Kemmerer III Mr. and Mrs. George H. P. Dwight Atwater Kent Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Loring Mrs. John Emery Wendy Knickerbocker and Grant and Suzanne McCullagh Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Erikson David Avery '84 Mr. and Mrs. William V.P. Newlin The First Awards Signage & Trophies Lynn and Willy Osborn Mr. David Fogg Ms. Amelia Grace Ayer '98 COA 55 ANNUAL REPORT Ms. Jennifer Aylesworth '94 Mr. Catalino Botero Ms. Sarah Louise Janet Anker and Louise and Steven Bachler de Green Cochran, DVM '78 Charles Donnelly Mary Dohna '80 and Wells Ms. Kathleen Bowman Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Cohen Ms. Becky Mendenhall Bacon '80 Ms. Grace Boyd Ms. Laura Felice Cohn '88 Dorwart '83 Mr. Alan L. Baker Mr. Dennis Bracale '88 Ms. Barbara Cole Mr. Cameron Hale Bangor Letter Shop Mr. Anselm Hitchcock Mr. Francis Cole III '81 Douglass '02 Ms. Tenia Bannick '86 Bradford '02 Mr. Timothy Cole '88 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Bar Harbor Lobster Bakes Ms. Jessica Bradshaw '03 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Downey Bar Harbor Motel Ms. Virginia Brennan Coleman Mrs. William Drury Mr. Steven Barkan Ms. Jennifer Bridgers Mr. Darron Collins '92 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mrs. Mary Barnes Ms. Marion Fuller Brown Alexandra '77 and Du Pont Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ms. Dawn Cherie Garrett '78 Conover Ms. Lucinda Nash Dudley Barnhart Brownrout '93 Ms. Lisa Conway '91 Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Barton Eugene and Chase Bruns Mr. John Cooper Dudley Devitto Bastien Mr. Jason Bryson- Ms. Sandra Cooper Mr. Larry Duffy Mr. H. B. Beach Alderman '91 Isabel Mancinelli and Ms. Jennifer Dupras '02 Mr. and Mrs. William Ms. Carla Burnham '84 Sam Coplon Mr. Peter Dyer Beadleston Ms. Lara Burns Laperle '99 Mr. Barclay Corbus Mr. and Mrs. William Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Beal, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mrs. Anne F. Cori Eacho III Ms. Alana Beard '03 Burton Il Dick Atlee and Ms. Kimberly Eason '95 Ms. Emily M. Beck Becky '81 and Skip '83 Sarah Corson Mr. Thomas Eberhardt '04 Mr. Bruce Becque '81 Buyers-Basso Mr. and Mrs. Melville Cote Mr. and Mrs. Watha Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ms. Nicole Monique Ms. Ellie Courtemanche Eddins, Jr. Becton, Jr. Cabana '99 Steve and Suzie Crase Mr. Joseph Edes '83 Paul '79 and Robin '80 Mr. Robert Cahill '84 Mr. Jared Crawford '89 Mr. George Ehrhardt, Jr. Beltramini Roc and Helen '80 Caivano Ms. Moira Creaser Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Mr. Bruce Bender '76 Ms. Julie Cameron '78 Criterion Theatres, Inc. Ehrlich Mr. and Mrs. William Ms. Mary Cantwell Ms. Sally Crock Mr. Jacob Eichenlaub '99 Benjamin II Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Ms. Carter Cunningham Mr. David Emerson '81 Mr. Glen Berkowitz '82 Carley '96 Mr. Blair Foster Currier '02 Ms. Carol Emmons Ms. Jericho Bicknell '03 Donna Gold and Ms. Lisa Damtoft '79 Dr. Dianna and Mr. Ben Ms. Janet Biondi '81 William Carpenter Mr. John Allen Dandy Emory/The Ocean Ledges Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bird Mrs. Eleanor Casey Mr. and Mrs. William Fund of the Maine Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cawley Daniel Community Foundation McC. Blair, Jr. Mr. Erin Chalmers '00 Ms. Melissa Danskin '94 Carol and Jackson Eno Mr. and Mrs. Francis Blair Ms. Marcia Chapman Mr. Adam Dau '01 Mrs. Bertha Erb Ms. Susan Thomas Blaisdell Patricia and Samuel Chase Mr. Hans Ivory Ms. Julie Erb '83 Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ms. Kim Cherry '94 Daubenberger '03 Mrs. Sylvia Erhart Blanchard III Ms. Sophia Chiang Mr. Andy Davis '97 Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Ervin Ms. Courtney Ms. Taj Chibnik '95 Ms. Julia Davis '03 Ms. Lynne Wommack Blankenship '94 Mr. Rohan Chitrakar '04 Ms. Norah Davis Espy '93 Ms. Jennifer Blansfield '89 Mrs. Katherine Kaufer Stan and Jane Davis Dr. and Mrs. William Evans Mr. Jerry Bley '78 Christoffel Mr. and Mrs. William Davis Mr. Preston Everdell Ms. Cedar Blomberg '93 Ms. Cecily Clark Ms. Deanna Day Mr. Todd Ewing Ms. Edith Blomberg Ms. Katherine Clark '91 Ms. Holly Devaul '84 Ms. Lisa Farrar '90 Mr. Jonathan Bockian and Mr. and Mrs. P. Hamilton Ms. Catherine Devlin '93 Ms. Sally Faulkner '96 Ms. Sharon Teitelbaum Clark Mrs. John Devlin Dr. and Mrs. Richard Faust Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ms. Patricia Clark '86 Mr. Scott Dickerson '95 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Fecho Boduch Ms. Sarah Clark Mr. and Mrs. S. Whitney Ms. Joan Feely '79 Hannah Fogg '99 and Mrs. Sarah Clark Dickey Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Felton Ryan Boduch '98 Hannah S. Sistare and Kelly Dickson, M.Phil. '97 Mr. William Fenton Ms. Ann Bohrer '95 Timothy B. Clark and George Dickson Thomas and Carroll Fernald Ms. Sally Boisvert '04 Ms. Ker Cleary '84 Ms. Angela DiPerri '01 Mr. Thomas Fernald, Jr. '91 Mr. Michael Boland '94 Mr. Paul Clough Mr. and Mrs. William Mr. and Mrs. Russell Finn Ms. Pamela Bolton James and Dorothy Clunan Dohmen Ms. Cynthia Jordan Ms. Judith Elizabeth Ms. Janis Coates Ms. Chiara Dolcino '86 Fisher '80 Books '98 Ms. Pamela Cobb '83 Prof. and Mrs. Arthur Dole Mr. Thomas Fisher '77 Ms. Joan Bossi Mr. and Mrs. Philip Cobb Mr. Stephen Dolley Mr. and Mrs. William M.G. Fletcher 56 COA ANNUAL REPORT Mr. David Flynn '85 Ms. Mary Griffin '97 Dr. and Mrs. John Hoche Mr. John Kebler Mr. and Mrs. A. Irving Susan Dowling and Ms. Jean Hoekwater '80 Sarah '05 and Forbes Andrew Griffiths Ms. Margaret Hoffman '97 Shawn '00 Keeley Ms. Peggy Forster Mr. Joseph Grigas Dr. Kathleen Hogan '81 Dr. James Kellam '96 Dr. and Mrs. Richard Fox Ms. Nikole Grimes '96 Mr. William Hohensee '81 Mr. Arthur Keller Mrs. Ruth Fraley Robert Grosshandler Mr. and Mrs. David Mr. and Mrs. James Kellogg Mr. Albert Francke Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hollenbeck Ms. Joanne Kemmerer '02 Mr. and Mrs. W. West Gumpert Mr. and Mrs. James Holley Mr. and Mrs. Edward Frazier IV Ms. Elizabeth Gwinn '01 Bob '79 and Lisa '80 Holley Lee Kennedy Mary Jo Brill and Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Ms. Betsey Holtzmann Ms. Ann Noel Kesselheim Peter Freedman Hafkenschiel Homewood Benefits Dr. Craig Kesselheim '76 Mr. James Frick '78 Ms. Barbara Hagan Mrs. J. Brooks Hopkins Lorraine Stratis and Ms. Jessica Friedland '96 Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Mrs. Mark Hopkins Carl Ketchum Mr. Bruce Friedman '82 Hahn Howe & Company Mr. and Mrs. Steven Kiel Mr. Bernard Fuller Mr. Max Hall Ms. Jean Howell Mr. and Mrs. Kyung Kim Ms. Allison Fundis '03 Mr. Christopher Mr. and Mrs. Michael Huber Mr. Peter Kim '01 Furbush-Roberts Hamilton '85 Ms. Norene Hunter Mr. and Mrs. Neil King Printing Co, Inc. Stephen Sternbach and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Margaret V. and Mr. David Furholmen Lisa B. Hammer '91 Huntington Robert Kinney Ms. Carla Ganiel Mr. and Mrs. John Ms. Evelyn Mae Ms. Amy Kitay '81 Mr. and Mrs. Will Gardiner Michael Hancock Hurwich '80 Ms. Barbara Knowles Mr. and Mrs. Jon Geiger Mr. Matthew Hare '84 Ms. Anna Hurwitz '84 Ms. Aleda Koehn Mr. Kevin Geiger '88 Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Mr. Travis Hussey '00 Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Koenig Ms. Giuliana Gelke '00 Hargraves Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Ms. Anne Kozak Ms. Amy George '98 Mr. Judson Harmon Hutchins Mrs. Franz Kraus Ms. Susan Getze Mr. and Mrs. Henry Harris Mr. Charles Hutchison '81 Mr. Scott Kraus '77 Ms. Anne Giardina Ms. Marion Harris '88 Mr. Samuel Hyler Dr. and Mrs. Julius Krevans Ms. Valerie Giles '89 Ms. Holly Hartley Ms. Laura Ann Imundo '99 David and Rebecca Krueger Mr. Jackson Gillman '78 Ms. Sonja Hartmann '88 Mr. and Mrs. John Inch, Jr. Ms. Cynthia Krum '83 Mr. and Mrs. Alan Mrs. E. Louise Hartwell Ms. Susan Inches '79 Ms. Lee Kuck '04 Gladstone Ann and John Hassett Mrs. R. Duane Iselin Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Kugel Ms. Allison Gladstone '00 Mr. John Hay Mr. Orton Jackson, Jr. Margi and Philip Dr. and Mrs. Donald Mr. and Mrs. Larry Hayes Mr. and Mrs. James Jacob Kunhardt '77 Glotzer Ms. Lois Hayes '79 Mr. John Jacob '81 Ms. Judith Lamb '00 Ms. Elizabeth Marie Atsuko Watabe '93 and Mr. Isaac Jacobs '99 Ms. Angela Lambert '83 Godfroy '98 Bruce Hazam '92 Ms. Jamien Jacobs '86 Mr. David Lamon '91 Mr. Lyman Goff Ms. Barbara Hazard Alison and Joplin James '84 Dr. Geoff Korn and Mr. Paul Golas Ms. Erin Heacock '04 Mr. Thomas Jamieson '87 Dr. Lynda Lane Ms. Jennifer Goldman Ms. Mary Heffernon Mr. William Janes Frank Langella Mrs. Laura Arm Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. Jorgen Mr. Peter Jeffery '84 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony A. Jill and Sheldon Goldthwait Heidemann Ms. Patricia Jennings Lapham Mr. Ira Gooch '03 Jean and Lane Heimer Ms. Catherine Johnson '74 Mr. Clark Lawrence '92 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ms. Mary Jane Helfrich Ms. Laura Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Donald Goodman Ms. Suzanne Hellman '82 Mr. Bruce Jones '81 Lawson-Stopps Mr. Walter Goodnow Ms. Lorraine Henning '02 Ms. Leslie Jones '91 Dr. and Mrs. David Lebwohl Bruce Mazlish and Mr. Lars Henrikson '89 Ms. Constance Jordan Dr. and Mrs. Leung Lee Neva Goodwin Ms. Patty Herklotz Jordan-Fernald Ms. Alice Leeds '76 Ms. Abigail Goodyear '81 Ms. Katherine Hester '98 Mr. and Mrs. H. Lee Judd Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mr. Geoffrey Gordon Ms. Susan Hester Ann Sewall and Ed Kaelber Leisenring Ms. Elizabeth Gorer Dr. Jo Heth '76 Laura Fisher and Mrs. Susan Shaw Leiter Jonathan Gormley '78 and Barbarina '88 and Michael B. 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GIFTS IN KIND of New York Bequests, charitable gift annuities, charitable reminder Acadia Refrigeration Mr. Erin Chalmers '00 trusts and other similar programs help the college while Atlantic Oakes-by-the-Sea Ms. Rebecca Clark '96 also offering you income tax benefits. Mr. George Drexel Isabel Mancinelli and For more information, see www.coa.edu/html/givetocoa Dr. and Mrs. Robert Gossart Sam Coplon or call the Development Office at 207-288-5015. Ms. Casey Mallinckrodt Ms. Barbara Danielson COA 63 A protective lynx mother defends her den from biologists hoping to handle her kittens long enough to implant microchip IDs so reseachers will know if the animals survive. Photo by Amy Toensing/National Geographic Magazine. Scenes from a Homecoming COA: How did you start out? BY AMY TOENSING '93 AT: | photographed in high school. When I was at COA, I did a semester at SALT Institute for Amy Toensing '93 photographed the Documentary Studies. That's when | did a piece on the story, "Of Lynx and Men: Scenes from broccoli pickers of Aroostook County. I loved it; I a Homecoming" for the January 2006 didn't think it was going to be a career, but after COA, issue of National Geographic. The arti- I worked at my hometown paper and then I met Nancy cle followed the trapping of lynx in Lee, the director of photography of the New York Canada to be set free in Colorado in an Times. We were all at a workshop and on our way to attempt to restore the U.S. lynx pop- an assignment when her car broke down. I knew how ulation. Having never done wildlife pho- to jumpstart her car. She liked my pictures, but I think tography, Toensing says that she was chosen for this she was more impressed by my survival skills and story because it was really about human impact on the wanted me to work for her. So I went to work in animal world-a perfect subject for a human ecologist. the Washington bureau, getting a nose for the news until I decided to go to graduate school. COA: Do you think you see things differently because you're a human ecologist? COA: What is your current project? AT: Definitely. To me, human ecology is about AT: I am on the way to work on a story on urban approaching the world with the understanding of the parks for National Geographic about the future impact and influence we as humans have on every- of green spaces in the face of population growth. thing, including how we look at the world. Really, we I was just in India, doing a story about widows, are very small in the grand scheme of things. As an part of a long-term project I'm working on for artist and a photographer, I find myself constantly myself, on women living on the edge of society. looking at the human condition and trying to under- For my own sanity, I try to find the time to work on stand something about it. personal projects. 64 COA THE HUMAN ECOLOGY ESSAY REVISITED Grinning in the Garden: A Human Ecological Journey FINN PILLSBURY To this day my fondest memory is have known destitution so long of overturning rocks on a rainy they don't dare hope for anything Sunday after church, muddy tie better. And I was counting fish in askew, soaked to the bone with a the Ohio River? goofy grin on my six-year-old face. I began volunteering with a I was always a nature-loving city community garden organization. It kid. I'm not sure how it happened. made me happy to feel my hands in It certainly wasn't the result of my the dirt again, to see the apprecia- fastidious Danish mother, who tive smiles of curious neighbors donned diamonds for breakfast. It and involve kids from the neigh- may have been my father, although borhood. I loved seeing their faces our weekends spent outside were when they put two and two togeth- probably more a consequence of er: "You mean, carrots grow under- my crowding his tiny Telegraph ground?!" Hill apartment than anything else. One morning some of the kids Whatever the reason, I was kindled found a garter snake slithering with a curiosity about the natural through one of the gardens. Hear- world, one that transcended the ing shouts of "Eww, gross!" and affinity most boys have for the "Kill it! Kill it!" I rushed over, gently weird and the novel. picked up the snake and showed As a teenager, this fascination Finn Pillsbury '02 with Dorothy Darden, them how the snake can "taste" the metamorphosed into a passion for matriarch of the Over-the-Rhine People's air and unhinge its jaw to eat. wilderness and found new purpose Garden of Cincinnati, Ohio. Photo credit: Repulsion yielded to fascination as in environmentalism. With an ado- Drake Windsor '03, from her senior project, they all gingerly reached out to lescent's embryonic intellectual "Over-the-Rhine: A Portrait of a Community." touch it. One volunteered to place sophistication I sought to eschew it back in the grass, and so I handed the urban landscape and focus on the wilderness, it to him. He looked up at me with a goofy grin that I where nature was supposed to be. After all, wilder- still remember, and I smiled back. ness was nature the way God intended it; the urban As the snake slithered through the earth toward forests and parks I had loved as a child were nature an old woman teaching her grandchildren to grow out of balance, a crumpled husk of the real thing. tomatoes while butterflies flitted about, pollinating So, I left the city kid behind and packed my bags vegetables and flowers while looking for nectar, I felt for a tiny college on the Maine coast, a bright-eyed a renewed sense of wonder and purpose. I began to nascent ecologist heading out to the wilderness to see that conservation and community can be insep- study ecology where it ought to be studied. arable: urban green space providing physical and I soon realized that nature did not act like it was spiritual nourishment, the community providing supposed to. Coastal Maine had been inhabited for stewardship and support for nature. millennia, its "wild" islands managed for game, pas- This is my passion. My purpose. What I have been ture, and settlement. Acadia National Park was actu- working toward, consciously or not, since that rainy ally a fragmented amalgamation of parcels cobbled Sunday two decades ago. If I do nothing else with my together by robber barons less than a century ago. I life, this nature-loving city kid would like to inspire started to wonder: if humans are such an integral just a few more goofy grins before I go. part of nature in coastal Maine, what does that mean for cities? Could nature really exist there too? Upon graduation, human ecology degree in hand, Finn Pillsbury '02 is finishing an M.S. in Ecology and circumstance landed me in the heart of Cincinnati. I Evolutionary Biology at lowa State University, where he has had never spent time in a city reeling from decades been studying the ecology and conservation of amphibians in of white flight: block upon block of shattered win- urban landscapes. He and his wife, Drake Windsor '03, live in dows and empty lots; huddled groups of young men an old house with a big garden in the center of town. on every street corner, eyes shrouded with bitterness Readers are encouraged to submit poetry, short stories, and anger. and human ecology essays to COA. Please send your work Guilt began to set in. Guilt for choosing a seem- to dgold@coa.edu or Donna Gold, COA Magazine, 105 Eden ingly self-indulgent field like ecology when there Street, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609. are people in every city in America who don't know where their next meal is coming from, people who COA 65 Non-Profit U.S.Postage PAID College of the Atlantic Augusta, ME lile changing. world changing. 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