COA Volume 1 I Number 1 WINTER 2005 The College of the Atlantic Magazine COA MISSION COA~LETTER FROM THE EDITOR College of the Atlantic enriches the liberal arts tradition through I will never forget the still evening, a distinctive educational philo- looking out from Turrets, that I first saw sophy-human ecology. A human the full moon rising over Frenchman ecological perspective integrates Bay. As the moon shimmered in waters knowledge from all academic bathed by the rose glow of the setting disciplines and from personal sun, there was a moment of absolute experience to investigate, and radiance. Then the tide turned, or the ultimately improve, the relation- wind came up, the waters grew agitated, ships between human beings and work called me back. and our social and natural com- When I think of COA, I think of that munities. The human ecological moment: the luminous fullness of the perspective guides all aspects moon and the agitation of the sea. This is a place where every part- of education, research, activism icipant: students, faculty, alums, staff and trustees, all have a vision of and interactions among the the absolute beauty of this world we live in - and agitate to get us there. college's students, faculty, We study it, reflect it, bask in it and then we try to make change happen. staff and trustees. The College We intend to make a difference in this world. of the Atlantic community As editor of COA, the magazine, I have attempted to reflect the encourages, prepares and spirit of COA, the college-the humor, passion, creativity, intelligence, expects students to gain the and wholeness of the way people here grasp onto the world. It wouldn't expertise, breadth, values and practical experience necessary have been possible, of course, without the peregination of students to achieve individual fulfillment who have matured and flown before now, nor without The Peregrine, and to help solve problems COA's alumni magazine for seventeen years. As editor, I am deeply that challenge communities grateful for the gift of confidence COA alums have placed in me and in everywhere. this magazine that cannot be called anything but what it is: COA. Donna Gold editor, COA BACK COVER: Fire Dance, Sarah Anderson '04 photograph by Thupten Norbu '05. After six months of working with and documenting street performers in Mexico, Sarah Anderson's senior project culminated in a fire dance performed at COA's sun shrine. She is now creating a performance troupe that can continue the street theater tradition in the northeast and beyond. She can be reached at oruga@riseup.net. features COA The College of the Atlantic Magazine Volume 1 I Number 1 WINTER 2005 EDITOR Donna Gold Mission Impossible ~ p. 3 EDITORIAL BOARD Convocation 2004 Sarah Barrett '08 Richard J. Borden Doing Well By Doing Good ~ p. 12 David Camp Patricia Ciraulo '94 The industrial ecology of Henry and Peggy Sharpe Dru Colbert Noreen Hogan '91 Shawn Keeley '00 Interview with Ed Kaelber ~ p. 14 Andrea Lepcio '79 "I heard that people wanted to start a college" Erica Maltz '07 EDITORIAL CONSULTANT Trying Out Their Wings ~ p. 16 Bill Carpenter Learning by doing on Great Duck Island ALUMNI CONSULTANTS Shawn Keeley '00 Jill Barlow-Kelley Nepal, A Journey Home ~ p. 20 COPY EDITORS Photographs by Rohan Chitrakar '04 Jennifer Hughes Richard MacDonald On Bat Pee and De-Globalization ~ p. 24 PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSISTANT Thupten Norbu '05 Six months in the life of Peace Corps DESIGN volunteer Cait Unites '03 Mahan Graphics PRINTING BY Cells ~ p. 32 JS McCarthy Printers, Augusta, Maine Short story by Jamie Frank '04 COVER PHOTO Boatman, Rohan Chitrakar '04 The Grandest Narrative ~ p. 38 A dialogue in four voices COA ADMINISTRATION TRUSTEES Steven Katona Ronald E. Beard President Edward McC. Blair, Sr. Life Trustee Poetry ~ p. 46 Karen Waldron Kelly Dickson, M.Phil., '97 Poems by Josie Sigler '99 Academic Dean, Alice Eno Associate Dean for Faculty David H. Fischer John Anderson William G. Foulke, Jr. Associate Dean for James M. Gower Advanced Studies Life Trustee departments George B. E. Hambleton David Feldman Sherry F. Huber Associate Dean for John N. Kelly Academic Affairs Susan Storey Lyman Community Voices p. 2 Kenneth Hill Life Trustee Associate Dean for Suzanne Folds COA Beat p. 4 Academic Services McCullagh Sarah A. McDaniel '93 Book Talk p. 30 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Jay McNally '84 Samuel M. Hamill, Jr. Stephen Milliken Chairman Daniel Pierce Class Notes p. 48 Cathy L. Ramsdell '78 Elizabeth D. Hodder John Reeves Faculty & Community Notes p. 50 Vice Chair John Rivers Casey Mallinckrodt Hamilton Robinson, Jr. Vice Chair Walter Robinson, M.D. Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. William V.P. Newlin Life Trustee Secretary Clyde E. Shorey, Jr. Annual Report ~ p. 54 Leslie C. Brewer Donald B. Straus Treasurer Life Trustee Appreciating our donors Ann F. Sullivan John Wilmerding Remembering ~ p. 64 COA is published twice each year for Clark Fitz-Gerald, Phil Geyelin, the College of the Atlantic community. Craig Greene, and Maurine Rothschild Please direct correspondence to: COA Magazine College of the Atlantic The Meaning of Freedom ~ p. 65 105 Eden Street Philip Kunhardt III '77 and the Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 International Freedom Center Phone: (207) 288-5015 email: dgold@coa.edu www.coa.edu This publication is printed on recycled paper. Chlorine free, acid free manufacturing process. COA~COMMUNITY VOICES Off the Wall-in place and time Donna, Creation of the new COA magazine presents a number Some decades ago, last century, in fact, a couple of of exciting opportunities-o is that it may begin wide-eyed, wild-eyed COA students thought there breaking down the perceived separation of alums, should be some forum for discussing things on our students, and donors. I see tremendous potential for minds. We thought that instead of things posted up articles that hold interest for the whole spectrum of for view, like a poster or broadside, that the words the college's constituent groups. should come off the wall and be freely distributed. Looking at Galen's photo (that I sent you a few Besides, the title was a cool, warped expression of minutes ago) and thinking about her work in Africa, what we were feeling. One was from Boston, one it occurs to me that one such article might be about from Tennessee. One was a feminist, a lesbian, an alums involved with the Peace Corps and/or other artist. One was a liberal, a heterosexual, an activist. international organizations (both large and small). Both were educators. Both were outspoken. They Alumni/ae, students (current and future), and parents were commonly unique. (past, present and future) would be interested to hear Andrea Lepcio and David Winship both headed about the work itself as well as the human ecology of home after COA. Andrea settled in New York City, it the social, environmental and economic impact. eventually becoming a playwright and a teacher. David settled in southwest Virginia and became ~ Nikki Grimes '96 a school librarian, as well as a weekly columnist for a local newspaper. The writing continues in a different format. This is Off the Wall, revived for the twenty-first Hi Donna, century. We're looking for the edge that cuts, the I was glad to get the recent copy of Peregrine and hear salve that soothes. We're seeking the voice that about all the changes. Change is good, when needed. resonates, the shout that calms the troubled soul. I have a few items to input for your questions about We're looking for the words that wonder, that future alumni news items. As an alum who hasn't done wander, that follow that long and winding road. anything to "stand out in the crowd," I'd be interested Will you share with us, as you may have over in hearing from other grads/alums who are living lives the years with OTW? Let us know what you're that are not as remarkable as those stories that are thinking, what you're doing, how you've changed written. Human ecology is not just for Type A human and how you've stayed the same. Let us know about ecologists, coffee achievers, remarkable people. the differences children make in your lives. Talk to There are a lot of us who are living quiet, orderly us about marriage and its meaning, that we hold it or messy lives, and who are contributing to the better- in such high esteem beyond the ceremonial contract. ment of the planet one neighbor at a time, one co- What is it to be a partner with or without ceremony? worker at a time or one week's load of recycling at a What is it to be single, still or again? Tell us about time. Maybe a survey or a questionnaire would be your role in economics, and your role on the earth. useful, with questions like: What is your favorite eco- What does it matter that we continue to discover logical act of your life (besides going to COA)? What new species on the earth and in the sea? Is it possible is one human ecological habit that you do every day? that the "hokey pokey" IS what it's all about? What educational act are you most proud of? What Whether by pen or keyboard, share with us what's have you taught your child/ren or your parents about on your mind. OTW always was an open forum. We're baaack! ecology? What is an ecological practice that you can think of that has become common since you were a ~ David Winship '77 student at COA? Or other questions. david@winship.us I really like hearing about and acknowledging the common person. I really like reading the personal pro- files; those are lots of fun. Thanks for your great work. ~ Evelyn Ashford '83 2 COA Mission Impossible Excerpts from COA president Steve Katona's speech at Convocation 2004 Everyone who studies at College of the Atlantic is responding to a thirst for learn- ing. But we are aware that you could have quenched that thirst at many other institutions. I believe you chose COA for its distinctive qualities, such as small size, personal attention, interdisciplinary perspective and hands-on method- ology, but I know you were also strongly attracted by our mission. I think that the Class of 2008, and others of us in the room, are here because College of the Atlantic's vision and mission are more ambitious and reflect the fact that this planet is in trouble and needs our help. In some ways, your journey may recall the one taken almost ninety years ago, when explorer Ernest Shackleton set out to cross the Antarctic continent. Here's how he advertised for his expedition party: MEN WANTED: For Hazardous Journey. Small Wages, Bitter Cold, Long Months of Complete Darkness, Constant Danger, Safe Return Doubtful. Honour and Recognition in Case of Success. ~ Sir Ernest Shackleton That was truth in advertising, as any of you familiar with the ensuing saga know. On our quest together to save the world, the wages may also be low, it does get cold and dark here in winter, but this is a journey we must undertake, because there will be even more hazards and dangers if we don't. While your safe return is hardly in doubt, College of the Atlantic and its mission ask much more of you than most colleges do. This is not a place where you choose a major, take the required courses, get good grades on tests, collect your diploma and take your assigned seat in the workplace. At times you may wish it were. Instead you will often confront the dark side of freedom: personal responsibility and the need to make intelligent choices-continually. You will grapple with complex and intertwined concepts that have many dimensions. You will be confused. You will despair to find the world in such a mess. And you will be frustrated with the limits of your ability to help. College of the Atlantic's vision and mission urge individuals to gain personal fulfillment, but also to serve others. Each person must find that balance on her own, because each person is different. I want to thank all of you who have heard the call and had the courage and boldness to undertake this quest and choose College of the Atlantic. I am hon- ored to be president of a college whose students, alumni, faculty, staff, trustees and advisors are willing to do whatever they can and whatever it takes to advance its mission and to guide ourselves, our communities and the world to a more beneficial, sustainable future. I hope you will always feel proud and privileged to be part of this institution and that ambitious mission. Thank you very much, Steve Katona COA 3 COA~COA BEAT Endive Indeed GARDEN Last summer's exhibit at the Ethel H. Blum POTTERY Gallery, "A Place to Take Root," was probably BY E.E. SODERHOLTZ Rid Manu the first to document the history of flower pots. At the opening on August 15, visitors crowded into the gallery to ponder the place of pots in the garden and marvel at the gra- cious urns recalling the grand old days of Bar Harbor, when E.E. Soderholtz constructed 500-pound pots for Beatrix Farrand's gardens. The crowds spilled out into Gates Center where guest artist Guy Wolff had set up his electric potter's wheel in front of a pile of what looked to be ancient flowerpots. Wolff, who spends most of his time in a western Connecticut studio banked with bales of hay, creates contemporary versions of historic pots for the likes of Smith & Hawken, along with many a garden in Connecticut and Long Island. At 6 p.m., visitors left the gallery en masse to watch Wolff at work. A large man sporting a green shirt and bright blue bandana, Wolff is also a banjo player and something of a storyteller. For a good half hour, he effortlessly turned lumps of red clay into squat, thin-walled, rose- colored vessels, royal cousins to Agway's clay pots, while confessing his absolute inability to ever grow any kind of plant. When the audito- rium reached its peak crowd, he threw another lump of clay on the wheel. Leaning over it, he hugged the mass between his forearm and hand, turning the formless lump into yet another circle. It wobbled for a moment, then rose into a full-bodied, bell shape. "A rhubarb warmer," Wolff declared, used to help the plant ripen swiftly. Taking another look at the clay on his wheel, he realized it would have to be for something smaller. Lettuce, maybe. No, not lettuce. What was he thinking of? Wolff looked helplessly out at the assembled crowd. With quiet authority, a woman standing beside the doors called out "endive," giv- ing it the appropriate French pronuncia- tion, "ahn-deev." "Thank you, Martha," said Wolff. Using a wire to cut the endive warmer off the wheel, he pressed his stamp into one side of the pot, then took a wooden chisel and wrote-was it inside a heart?- - "For MFS," for Martha Stewart, and set it by the window to dry. 4 I COA COA~INTERVIEWS COA Inquiring Photographer Sarah Barrett '08 did some sleuthing for the magazine during her first term at the college, asking incoming students for the real story on coming here: "What did your parents say when you told them you were going to earn a degree in human ecology?" Dominic Mutanga '04 (right) speaks to visitors at his opening at the Blum Gallery "Their response was a blank stare and a nod of the head, as if to insinuate that they International Initiation knew what I was talking about. But they had no idea." Life was busy for Dominic Muntanga '04 last June. ~ Kelly Enberg '08 Six days after he graduated, Muntanga presided over the opening of the Blum Gallery's "They asked me, 'What is that? I have "Unmasking Tribal Africa," an exhibit of never heard of it before.' And I said, 'It's masks used in initiation ceremonies from a liberal arts degree that teaches students the Makishi dancers of Victoria Falls, to become environmentally and socially Zimbabwe. "This exhibition is a way to responsible citizens. It combines art, eco- expose myself to the rich culture of nomics, human studies and environmental my homeland," said Muntanga, who sciences together to make a difference; hails from Victoria Falls. "It is my way to make the world a better place.' So they to discover what the masks stand for." answered, 'That's interesting." Then it was off to the United Nations ~ Simon Lombe '08 in New York City where Muntanga accepted an Award of Distinction from the Ars "Their first response was, 'What is human Electronica Festival at a June 23 ceremony hosted by ecology?' It is funny though, because right UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The award was now I still don't know although in general I for Tonga. Online, a project bringing internet tech- guess I am getting the idea, so as I get nology to rural Zimbabwe, which Muntanga helped more filled in, I phone home and tell my create during his internship at the Austria- parents and they feel pretty good about it." Zimbabwe Friendship Association. It is focused on ~ Sean Berg '08 digitally uniting Tonga communities that were divid- ed by the building of the Kariba Dam fifty years "My parents accepted the idea because ago. When the villages were resettled, the Tonga, they knew that it was a way that I could who are known for their unusual and complex have a career in many different fields. It music, were separated by a river and portioned wasn't as limiting as a career in only biolo- into two countries. By bringing computer centers to gy or environmental science. Having a degree in human ecology could be molded the remote regions along the border between into whatever I wanted it to be." Zimbabwe and Zambia, the Tonga can talk among themselves, despite their physical barriers. ~ Kathleen Tompkins '08 Though Muntanga has great plans for Victoria Falls, including creating a cultural center, he is cur- "Human ecology I guess you'll rently gaining the political experience he expects be going to graduate school then." to need by working at City Hall in downtown ~ Kathryn Hasset '08 Manhattan. Life Changing, World Changing The Jo'burg experience When Thupten Norbu '05 was a young boy, he Atlantic where he has focused on gaining the tools used to watch refugees streaming from Tibet that he will need to make a difference. He hopes into his home village in the province of Sikkim, in to work for an organization teaching about issues northeastern India. He'd talk to them as they came of environment and development in Tibet. If no from his ancestral homeland, asking why they left. such organization exists by the time he finishes Children would say they were coming for a good his schooling, Norbu is prepared to create one, education; teachers told him they were hoping studying not only policy and science, but also to be able to teach in freedom. All wanted to see nonprofit marketing and graphic design. Just after the Dalai Lama. Still, the crossing of the Himalayas his freshman year, this goal also brought him to was so arduous that many refugees would arrive Johannesburg, South Africa, where Doreen crippled by frostbite and injuries, demolishing all Stabinsky, Ken Cline and Gray Cox had arranged hopes for a better life. for Norbu and five other students to be official Norbu, himself the child of Tibetan refugees, observers at the World Summit on Sustainable vowed to change that scenario. This slight young Development, held in late summer 2002 on the man with a quizzical smile grew up determined to tenth anniversary of the Rio de Janeiro Earth improve living conditions of Tibetans while also Summit. protecting the environment. This is important not Going to Johannesburg affected the lives of just for Tibet, says Norbu, "but for much of Asia," every one of the students who attended. For for Tibet is home to the headwaters of so many Norbu, it altered how he would approach his next Asian rivers that what happens in Tibet affects an years at COA. In Jo'burg, as those familiar with estimated third of the world's people. the city call it, Norbu met Gabriel Lafitte of This goal brought him first to Kalimpong School Australia's Victoria University, an expert in Tibetan in West Bengal, then to the Mahindra United environment and development. "He is not only World College in Pune, India, as the first Tibetan one of the worldwide experts on Tibet," says in the UWC system, and finally to College of the Norbu. "Because of him-and some others-in 1999, the World Bank halted consideration of a loan to China that would have allowed it to reset- tle major Chinese populations on the grasslands used by nomadic Tibetans. Had they not stopped this, the landscape and culture of the area would have been drastically changed." Lafitte invited Norbu to Australia and designed a curriculum, The Human Ecology of the Tibetan Plateau, just for this young, dedicated Tibetan. Come February, Norbu hopes to be studying with him in Melbourne. Meanwhile, Lafitte created a four-volume anthology of articles to prepare him, which he's reviewing as part of an independent study with anthropology professor Dave Camp. "I hear a lot about what's going on inside Tibet," says Norbu. "I get messages both from the Tibetan In Johannesburg, Norbu '05 spent much of his time with the government in exile, which could be reliable, but Tibetan delegation. From left: Norzin Dolma, researcher, Tibet Center for Human Rights and Democracy, Thupten Norbu '05, China criticizes as biased, and from China, which Ngawang C. Drakmargyapon, liaison, Tibet Bureau for UN gives opposite messages. My goal is to learn to Affairs, Jampal Chosang, H. H. the Dalai Lama's Representative to South Africa and Phutchung, Tibetan monk. conduct the research myself." 6 COA return from jo'burg "The summit was amazing, being in South Africa was amazing, hearing speakers was amazing. I felt really empowered," recalls Jessica Bradshaw '03, one of the seven College of the Atlantic students attending the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in July, 2002. Muktar Amin '04, a United World College student from Ethiopia, also attended. He recalled the summit in his graduation speech last June, saying, "It was because of the opportunities COA has to offer that I was able to go to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Jo'burg in 2002 where I met so many people devoted to solving the unprecedented environ- mental problems that our planet faces today." Amin came to COA with the hope that someday, somehow, he could make a difference in his homeland. His area? The not very small realm of world hunger. COA in Jo'burg (from left, back to front): Jessica Bradshaw '03, In Jo'burg, Amin made the initial contacts that Ken Cline, Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, Tom Allen, Maine Representative to Congress, Thupten Norbu '05, Chrystal ultimately led to his senior project investigation into Schreck '03, Max Woodfin '03 and Kati Freedman '05. how pharmaceutical and other companies might compensate developing nations for their use of medicinal plants and other biological resources. The conference also had a strong impact on Kati Freedman '05, Chrystal Schreck '03 and Max Woodfin '03, who along with Bradshaw, Norbu and Amin, were given the observer status of non-governmental organi- zations, allowing them to observe official negotiations. Noah Scher '04 also attended, as part of Greenpeace. "It wasn't just governments coming together," says Stabinsky of the decision to take the students as part of the course, The Politics of Sustainable Development. "There were thousands and thousands of people from NGOs from around the world. Fifteen thousand people gathering in various spots around town. The students got to see the whole process, from the official negotia- tion of a document, to what it ultimately would mean to people on the ground." Students were busy night and day, going to forums on good practices in genetic resources, water and fisheries usage, then connecting with people who were doing the actual work in those areas. "You can sit in a room and read and talk about At the Earth Dome in Jo'burg, Thupten Norbu '05, Gray Cox and Muktar Amin '04. it, it's a completely different thing to go and experience it," continues Stabinsky. "These students saw what intergovernmental relations looks like. It's not something you can describe in a classroom." coa makes top five U.S.News Foreign students & small classes Best College of the Atlantic has been recognized by US News & to more than fifty outstanding inter- Colleges World Report's 2005 Survey of Best Colleges for its small national students a year at selected 2005 classes and number of international students. COA placed United States colleges. Clearly, this third among liberal arts colleges for its large percentage has enriched the campus, as COA of classes with fewer than twenty students. The college Academic Dean Karen Waldron noted when asked about placed second among liberal arts colleges for its percent- the recognition. "As a small but distinctive college," she age of international students. said, "COA is delighted to be recognized for two of our Some sixty students, eighteen percent of COA's strengths. With our diversity of cultures, every student student body, hail from other nations. Many of these who comes to COA can now recognize themselves as students come to the college as part of the Davis United a global citizen. COA also prides itself on small classes World College Scholars program. Funded by Shelby and because our culture of faculty mentoring helps each indi- Gale Davis, this program grants full college scholarships vidual student prepare for their own particular future." Coming Full Circle COA Alum Becomes COA Botanist Nishanta Rajakaruna '94 vividly recalls his first day in North America. He left Sri Lanka in August 1990, arriving at Craig Greene's home at 1 a.m. after a thirty-hour journey. "When I woke up the next morning, Craig was making blueberry pancakes. I had never seen a blueberry in my life. I had never had maple syrup. My first morning in America I was already learning plant taxonomy and economic botany!" This fall, the young student who had never tasted a blueberry, now Dr. Rajakaruna with a doctoral degree in botany from the University of British Columbia and a postdoctoral fellowship from Stanford University, takes over the place left by Greene's death in October 2003. Rajakaruna is the first COA graduate to hold a position on the perm- anent faculty of the college. What inspired Rajakaruna as a scholar brought him back as a pro- fessor: "At COA I can continue learning and growing with the same kind of academic freedom I had as a student. If I had gone to any other university, I may have ended up teaching evolutionary ecology, because that is my expertise. But I'm interested in everything that has to do with plants, including plant-human interactions. Here, I can pursue those interests by teaching, and teaching is the best way of learning. I know I'm going to have a lot of fun." Though much has changed since Rajakaruna's student days, COA's essence remains the same. "The enthusiasm I felt as a student is what I see in students today: the sparkle in the eye, people impassioned about what they are doing, what they are learning. These students are excited about life, about what goes on in the world. I hadn't seen that to this extent in bigger universities." With expertise in evolutionary ecology and plant taxonomy, Rajakaruna's most popular fall class was Edible Botany. "They couldn't eat their peanut until they knew that a peanut is, botanically speaking, not really a nut." 8 COA "At COA I can continue learning with the same kind of academic freedom I had as a student I can pursue those interests by teaching, and teaching is the best way of learning. I know I'm going to have a lot of fun." ~ Nishanta Rajakaruna Chaos Managed COA Paints Mount Desert Rock Lighthouse Painting a house on a rock twenty-five miles out to sea is not an easy pro- position. Painting it within the needs of a sustainable campus ratchets up the difficulty still more. Then there's the problem of getting there. No dock, just a long landing ramp built on slippery rocks with two- and three- foot waves bathing the landing crew in forty-seven degree water. Perhaps that's why, when College of the Atlantic decided to paint the Edward McC. Blair Marine Research Station out on Mount Desert Rock, it called upon Joel Richardson of Portland, owner of Chaos Management. COA knew it could be pretty darn chaotic getting the people and materials out there. COA also knew there was no time to lose. Not only was the 1893 keeper's house getting to look quite dreary and rundown, the integrity of the structure was at risk. To keep within the college's sustainability goals and to better pre- pare the buildings, Richardson used fully biodegradable walnut meal as a paint remover. His crew blasted this meal at the buildings through a hose attached to an industrial-sized compressor that had been barged out to the island and lifted off by a crane in the midst of rising sea swells. Not easy, but it worked. The meal, made from ground walnut shells, abraded the old paint in record time. With additional scraping and sanding, Chaos Management had a clean surface on most of the house. Trim was another matter. Lighthouse keeper after keeper had painted over the trim without ever scraping it off. Richardson swears there were sixty-five layers of paint in places. Hard work, good weather, careful coordination and support from the mainland and the crew of researchers on the island helped Chaos Management complete the painting of the keeper's house in short order. Next up was the top of the lighthouse, seventy-five feet over the rocks. Afterwards, Richardson reflected, "We needed to be rapid action commando painters to get this job done, and we did it, on budget and on schedule, while whales dove in the water below-but it wouldn't have been possible without a hand from the weather gods and the shoreside support of Ann Zoidis and Capt. Andrew Peterson." ~ Ann Zoidis 10 COA Wind Energizes COA's Electricity COA receives EPA Green Power Award in recognition of bold energy commitment With some pomp and a lot of pride, President Steven Katona accepted a Green Power Leadership award from the United States Department of Environmental Pro- tection, US Department of Energy and the Center for Resource Solutions on October 4. This competitive award recognizes out- standing environmental achievements. Later that week, on October 8, COA received the National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology Recognition award.* Both acknowledgments were due to COA's unprecedented twenty-year contract for wind power for all COA's energy needs on Mount Desert Island. The contracts were signed in a public ceremony Erika Morgan of the Maine Green on Earth Day, April 22, 2004. Power Connection watches as According to Pam Bloch Mendelson of the US Department of Energy, Steve Katona signs a twenty-year contract for wind-generated electricity "COA is the first award winner with a twenty-year commitment to from Redington Mountain Wind Farm. wind power. This far-reaching dedication is most impressive, indicative Mark Good photo, courtesy of Mount Desert Islander. of the notion that COA realizes wind power is here to stay." COA was the only private educational institution to receive this award in 2004. The college's wind connection is a two-step process. It currently offsets the atmospheric emissions produced by all of the college's electrical WindBuilders Business that Partner This recognizes energy use on Mount Desert Island College of the Atlantic Bir Harbor, Maine (942 MW a year) through green tag purchases from Native Energy via the Rosebud Sioux Tribe's St. Francis Wind Farm in South Dakota. Ultimately, COA has committed to purchasing all of its mainland electri- From that will cal energy needs locally, as soon as 2004 Endless Energy Corporation's Reding- townd 1 ton Mountain Wind Farm opens. NativeEnergy ELEAN * See http://www.nwf.org/campusEcology/dspYearbook.cfm COA 11 COA ~ PROFILE DOING WELL BY DOING GOOD The industrial ecology of Henry and Peggy Sharpe here does the shape of a person's life really W begin? Is it in the little dams built by a girl in a fishing stream in western Pennsylvania while a father casts for trout? Is it in the freedom beloved by a boy let loose among the woods, water and energetic cousins of a summer colony in Maine? When Peggy and Henry Sharpe look back on their lives, memories of summers they each spent in the northern woods beckon. Peggy Sharpe, raised in Florida, eventually came to Rhode Island School of Design in Providence to study landscape conservation. There she met Henry Sharpe, a recent graduate of Brown University, where he had been co-editor of the college newspaper. 12 COA Peggy Sharpe recalls walking in the woods with industrial ecology. To further that aim, in 2004 the Henry on an early date. "One of the first gifts he Sharpes created a one-million-dollar endowment, gave me was a tender little oak leaf, partially the Fund for Organizational Stewardship. It will unfurled and very beautiful. He was involved in begin by bringing speakers to campus and eventu- the industrial world but I don't think we would ally be used to provide teachers to train and have married each other if there hadn't been some inspire students to think creatively about environ- deep understanding and appreciation for such mental solutions to real-world industrial prob- natural things." lems. Though they lived in Rhode Island, where In small part, the endowment will also be used Henry Sharpe had followed his father as head to help the college achieve its own environmental of the family machine tool company, their summer goals, established when COA became the first col- experiences as children nourished a deep and lege member of the Maine Department of abiding love for the natural world. Appreciation Environmental Protection's Smart Tracks for led to involvement as concerns Exceptional Performers and about the environment began "It's chastening, this late in Upward Performers, or STEP-UP, emerging. the game, to think that not Program. Peggy Sharpe served on the But the emphasis is on increas- national board of governors of only should our generation ing opportunities for students. The Nature Conservancy and was have been more responsible As Henry Sharpe says, "We've one of the founding members of sought to have the most impor- stewards, but that we also, the Rhode Island chapter board. tant aspect of the program focus She also worked closely with perhaps, missed great on teaching young people who groups such as the Conservation want to work in business or opportunities by which we Law Foundation to find environ- industry to do so in an ecologi- mentally sustainable solutions to might conceivably have cally satisfactory manner-and regional problems. In recogni- been able to gain profit!" make more money doing it!" tion of her efforts, she received "It's neither economics, nor a Lifetime Achievement Award ~ Henry Sharpe ecology," adds Peggy Sharpe, "but from the Environmental Protec- both together." tion Agency last spring. The Sharpes have also pledged an additional Henry Sharpe's environmental involvement $250,000 to the college to help round out the came later. Toward the end of his industrial career, $1,500,000 cost of the program, provided it can be and especially after becoming a COA trustee in matched by other donors by the end of 2006. "I 1992, he came to focus on how few people were know there's a lot involved in getting from here to asking the right questions about industry's part in there," says Henry Sharpe, "but I think it can help environmental degradation. "I began wanting to the college attract promising young students know how people can operate businesses in an along with a certain class of corporate supporters ecologically satisfactory manner and make more who might be seeking ways to help their own money doing so," he says. "It's not about making organizations achieve sustainability. Putting these business sacrifices. It's chastening, this late in the thoughts together makes a win-win situation for game, to think that not only should our generation the whole world." have been more responsible stewards, but that we The Sharpe grant was announced on Earth Day also, perhaps, missed great opportunities by 2004, as COA achieved one of its own major STEP- which we might conceivably have been able to UP goals: signing a contract to have all its electric- gain profit!" ity supplied by new, renewable, wind energy. At COA, the couple began encouraging creative "Maybe it's a sign of things to come," the environmental leadership in business and indus- Sharpes add as they take a moment together to try, urging the college to consider increasing its appreciate the busy crickets, singing on a late curricular emphasis on what Henry Sharpe calls summer morning in Maine. COA 13 "I heard that people wanted to start a college up in Bar Harbor Excerpts from a conversation between Donna Gold and Ed Kaelber In December of 1969, when College of the Atlantic was but an idea, Ed Kaelber was hired by the board of trustees as its first president. After he left COA in 1982, he went on to found the Maine Community Foundation. In anticipation of the foundation's twenty-fifth anniversary in 2008, the MCF commissioned COA editor Donna Gold to conduct an oral history of the foundation. The MCF has generously permitted COA to publish this excerpt from the interview with Ed Kaelber. Donna Gold: How did you first get involved with COA? Ed Kaelber: I heard that people wanted to start a college up in Bar Harbor. I don't think there was any competition for the job, I mean, there wasn't anything here! They had no real estate, they had no staff, you had to raise your own salary. All that they had was ten thousand dollars in cash and ten thousand dollars in pledges and a vague idea- a good idea-but it was not fleshed out. They got interested in some- thing called ecology, and then because of Cushman McGiffert as much as anyone, they added "human" to it. That's about where it stood. DG: So you came up in December of 1969 and talked about this college. What was it that struck you about it? EK: Oh, I think that probably the first thing was that it was an entrepre- neurial challenge for me. Take what you've learned and figure out how to make it happen. That was pretty exciting. You could argue that we don't need any more colleges in this country; we've got three thous- and undergraduate colleges. It also seemed to me that liberal arts undergraduates weren't well-served. When I went to Harvard College, we had to get the big picture of the world: language, mathematics whatever, and only after you have the big picture can you pick your little niche in the world, your major. It didn't work, I don't think. Photographs by Noreen Hogan '91. If you could start with a kind of a microcosm of the big picture, which is the environmental problem, and get people excited in that, then you could say, don't lose sight of this big problem that you're excited 14 COA about but in what part of it can you make your I said, "None of us know anything about starting a contribution? Let's say you opt for biology and college, but we all know what we want. This is a want to become the best damn biologist in the very intelligent, committed group of people. I world. If you try to go it alone, you just won't make think we ought to think for ourselves. If we get it. It's an environmental problem and therefore stuck and we can't handle it we can always go to complex by nature. You've got to figure out how the consultant-but let's not start out hiring some to talk to and understand the perspective of the 'expert' to tell us how to do it." So we didn't hire politician, the poet, the economist. You all must anybody. I think that we probably spun some work together if a complex problem must be wheels and had some growing pains we might not understood, much less resolved. If I had to reduce otherwise have had, but I couldn't imagine any- human ecology to one word, it would be interde- thing that would be more stultifying than to have pendence, and that was something I got from some expert come here and tell us what to do. Rene Dubos, who was a professor at Rockefeller University and an early trustee. DG: Who was the instigator of the school's administration system, that the faculty and I was more interested in College of the Atlantic students be such a strong part of running for the educational possibilities than the environ- the college? mental thrust. I recognized the importance of environmental problems, that everything is tied EK: I don't know if it was my idea, I liked the together, and I realized that if you're really going ideas of mixing things up. to deal with these problems, you're going to have to train people with a new point of view. Maybe There was always talk about governance. Once a the environment would be a wonderful starting year, because there were always new students point around which to build a liberal education. around, I would talk about how the college runs. I said, "First of all, you've got to realize that this is a DG: So you were hired by that original group of legal corporation. There's a board of directors who trustees of the college, Father Jim, Les Brewer, are the trustees of the college. The only power Cushman McGiffert and the others, and they that this board of directors has is they can approve brought it to you and you said? all expenditures, they raise all money and they make all appointments. Our job inside the college EK: What's that mean? is to arrange our affairs among the staff, faculty and students, so that the trustees keep out of our DG: [LAUGHS] And they said? hair. Because any time we can't do that, they can move right in." And they should. EK: "Go figure it out!" Let me tell you a funny story. When we were We had the first meeting of the Board of Trustees talking about starting the college, we had some of College of the Atlantic on January second, 1970. meetings down at Ted Sizers's office in Cambridge They asked for my idea of the college, and I said with Tibby Russell, Seldon Bernstein, Ted Sizer, there were enough colleges, so if it wasn't awfully Mel Cote and maybe Jim Gower and myself. We damn good there was no point in starting it. I were talking about student involvement. It mean who needs another college to turn out sixty seemed to me that students should be involved, or seventy people a year who are mediocre? The after all, they're the customers, they're paying, board agreed. Another thing that I had to scotch they ought to be part of the process. But as we got was that someone knew of a consultant out in closer to starting the college, I began to wonder, Michigan who helped start colleges. By that time "Gee, What's going to happen, maybe all hell's I had gotten Tibby Russell, Bob Patterson, Rene going to break loose." And Sizer looked over at Dubos, Ted Sizer and others to come on the me, and said, "What's the matter Kaelber, you board, and I thought that would be a big mistake. losing your nerve?" COA 15 Great black-backed gull chick. Trying out Their Wings Patricia M. Ciraulo '94 ollege of the Atlantic junior Sarah Drummond recalls many dank, foggy days from her summer spent on Great Duck Island. Days when the bio-diesel generator was ominously quiet and propane delivery, for hot water, impossible. Days when the research students, sniffling from head colds, huddled around the barbecue grill attempting to make a warm dinner despite the damp mist. Those memories pale, however, in contrast to her recollection of one magical evening that occurred on the heels of a particularly long, solid week of fog. 16 COA As the day drew to a close, the fog lifted, flooding the landscape with warm, much longed-for light, rewarding the island's inhabitants with a triple rainbow. As Drummond describes it, the herring gulls that she had studied all summer shared the students' exhilaration by taking to wing, many of the young chicks joining the adults for their maiden flights. Drummond was one of seven students who conducted independent research projects on Great Duck during the summer of 2004. Located five miles south of Mount Desert Island, the 265-acre island is home to approximately twenty percent of Maine's nesting seabirds, featuring large colonies of Leach's storm-petrels, black guillemots, herring gulls and great black-backed gulls. Formerly used for sheep grazing, the remote island is infrequently visited today and then only by fishermen and Coast Guard officials who come to check the island's automated lighthouse. When COA was granted use of the island for field research in 1998, professor John Anderson immediately recognized Above, clockwise from the study opportunities offered by the site and its seabirds, top: Marianna Bradley '06, allowing students the kind of hands-on research that leads Jessica Lach '07 and Sarah Drummond '06 band birds. some to call COA a graduate school for undergraduates. Like other professors at COA, Anderson sees his role as Left: Sarah Drummond removes a Leach's storm- encouraging students to figure where they want to go with petrel chick from its their work, then helping them get there. He hopes students burrow for banding. will design their own research project in their first year at the college, then use further studies to enhance their cho- sen path. Making these decisions can be more daunting than jumping through the set hoops of a traditional pro- gram, Anderson acknowledges. Recalling his early years at the University of California at Berkeley, he says, "Students never worked one-on-one with a professor. We were assigned textbook exercises with foreordained outcomes. There was always a 'right' answer." It's not easy to do self- designed research, warns Anderson. "Students discover that the world is not patterned logically; the birds haven't read the textbooks. When the freedom to discover this through field research works, it's an amazing outcome. When it doesn't work, we need to have the parachute ready to assist the student in finding the right path." Often, though, it's the errors that bring about the learn- ing. For Drummond, the great lesson of the summer was recognizing the flaws in her project's initial design and the mistakes she made in its actualization. Jessica Lach, starting her second year at COA, had a similar experience. "Working with John this summer was one of the greatest experiences COA 17 of my life. I am so happy that he had faith in a bird- and deer-lov- ing first-year student who struggled with his brain picking and almost constant human ecological questions and often grew frustrated because of them. I was nervous about the project at first because all he did was give us a bird species option and pretty much let us loose to find out all we can about them. It was often frustrating to have so much freedom, especially because I've never done anything like this before. All the frustration, however, was worth it. Being thrown into the water like that was the best thing he could have done to have me learn as much as I did." At times, Lach found herself more immersed in her work than she expected. "I was out in one of the gull colonies and I was catching, weighing and banding chicks with two colleagues," she recalls. "I was trying to catch a fleeing chick when the parent decided the chasing needed to stop. It hit me on the back of the head with an open beak. I had two large scabs and quite a headache for about a week. I found it rather entertaining to have had such a close interaction with my black- backs. It also brought a new aspect into the field ecology experience for me: these animals are not just study specimens, they are to be respected and observed cautiously." Anderson is clearly proud of the students who have worked on Great Duck. There is Mike Shepard '03, who spent two summers on the island and presented the findings of his study on petrel vocalizations to the Association of Field Ornithologists. With him were graduate students from other universities. Says Anderson, he "looked better getting messy Studying gulls is not a neat while the chicks ran from the nest and clean proposition. To and hid in the tall grass. These conduct her research on little creatures, sometimes just a great black-backed gull few weeks old, were so good at nestlings on Great Duck hiding that Lach and the others Island, Jessica Lach first sometimes had to resort to guid- had to find which were their ance from students observing nests, and which were those from the top of the lighthouse, of the herring gull. "I'd stand directing them to hiding places via by the nest and see who's walkie-talkies. Meanwhile, adults Above: Marianna attacking." Whoever got were dive-bombing students with Bradley holds a gull closest, "that's the nest I all their weaponry, from beaks to chick while Jessica Lach bands its leg. was in." To study the gulls, backsides. "We got really messy," Lach needed to band them, laughs Lach. "And when you get but when she'd try to catch the chicks, they sit there with huge, them, the birds would do a wide-open mouths, and they bite "dread": The adult gulls you, so you give them one of your would fly into the air, circle fingers to clamp onto so they won't the interlopers and scream bite the person doing the banding!" 18 COA than them all." Shepard is now studying wildlife in Wyoming. Another COA graduate, Elizabeth Deliso '02, is doing her graduate work at Yale after being told by a less prestigious university that no program would accept her without the traditional textbook courses on her transcript. "It's an example of the networking that happens when real research gets into the community," Anderson explains. "I encourage the students to present their research, to initiate a dialog. It may be hard for COA students to get into second rate graduate schools, but they are welcomed into the best." John Anderson cradles Both Drummond and Lach plan to build on their Great a guillemot chick Duck Island research. Drummond hopes to combine her artistic talent with the observation skills she sharpened on the island as she studies the expedition work of early natural history illustrators. Lach intends to continue doing field ecology research, eventually preparing her work for museum exhibition. Her experience with the great black-backed "I was nervous about the gulls on Great Duck has generated other research topics. "One of my present interests is how towns or communities develop around the project at first because present indigenous animals or 'mega-fauna' of the area. The project on all John did was give us Great Duck was like my first set of field ecology training wheels." Like the seabird chicks on Great Duck Island, Anderson's research a bird species option and students are fledgling creatures just trying out their observation, pretty much let us loose research and analysis wings. But while both Drummond and Lach spoke sadly of chick mortality among the colonies they studied, in to find out all we can about Anderson's approach, there is no failure. As Lach says, "There was a them. It was often frustrating time when I thought for sure that my project was a failure because of to have so much freedom. large gaps in my data and I knew that I couldn't go back to get them since it was too late in the season. I was beginning to get very discour- All the frustration, however, aged. I told John about it. He told me that that's exactly how I should was worth it. Being thrown feel and that half the reason for doing this project is to make mistakes. As long as I've realized my mistakes and know how to avoid them in the into the water like that was future, the summer has been successful. That really helped me, and the best thing he could have gave me the courage to ask more questions about my gulls than I may find answers for." done to have me learn as Lach focused on territoriality and aggressive behaviors displayed much as I did." between the black-backs and other nesting birds, raising questions regarding the selection of nesting location, alterations in aggression ~ Jessica Lach '07 patterns relative to chick age and developmental stage, and an evalua- tion of the impact of a black-back colony on an adjacent herring gull population. Along with mapping the island's black-back nests with Global Positioning Systems equipment, Lach calculated the ratio of black-backs to herring gulls and monitored nesting success, chick development and mortality factors. When she added studies of the island's history, including human habitation and visitation, Lach gained insights into gull behavior that may not have been apparent through field observation alone. Patty Ciraulo '94 is currently a COA graduate student. COA 19 Rays and Roofs A View from Nepal Last winter I visited Nepal, my home country. I was amazed at how many interesting visual narratives I found in almost every glance, from street vendors to vast mountain landscapes. I was fascinated just to look at the rich heritage unfolding before me. It was part of me, yet it was so far apart from me. I looked with curiosity and I looked for meaning to find Nepal, to find myself. ~ Rohan Chitrakar Kerosene COA 21 Children Rohan Chitrakar '04 is currently studying film production at Boston University. He has a website where more of his photos can be seen: www.shantimarg.org/rohan. Lord Buddah Winter Nap COA 23 OOn Bat Pee De-Globalization Six months in the life of Peace Corps volunteer Cait Unites '03 FEBRUARY 1-ISH, 2004 Ambohitsilaozana, Madagascar Well, it has been a quiet week in Ambohitsilaozana, where the women are strong, the men have no teeth and the chil- dren are malnourished. I've been at site here in Madagascar for about three weeks. I spend my mornings observing at the clinic. This morning was a zoo because it was vaccine day. I actually administered vaccines to the pregnant women. I refused to vaccinate babies. I'm afraid I'll pop them or something. Each morning has a task: vaccines, family planning, prenatal con- sultations. The nurse collects all the medical records from the patients, does the paperwork, then herds the people in groups. There is no such thing as privacy; the one pelvic exam I've seen was done with the door wide open and chickens wandering in and out. Vaccine day is definitely the craziest: it takes the nurse over two hours to do the paperwork, while babies and mothers wait outside in sun and rain. The doctor kind of scares me. She is a tiny woman who chain smokes and wears heavy suits. She always makes me look like an idiot because she talks really fast to me and I have no clue what she is saying. Yesterday, I saw the skinniest child I've ever seen. His bones jutted out, his eyes were so sunken that he could barely blink because the skin was pulled tight. He made little gulping noises, as if he were incapable of crying. He was eleven months and I weighed more when I was born. In the United States, this child would be declared a ward of the state and immediately hooked up to feeding tubes and IV lines. Here, the doctor just reprimanded the mother for not giving the child more fluids. FEBRUARY 14, 2004 The malnourished and dehydrated child was back at the clinic this week. This time he got fluids via IV. He'd been having diarrhea and vomiting for more than a week. I found myself angry with the parents and all the family members who came to the hospital to gawk. I don't understand how you can let a child get so near death from malnutri- tion and dehydration. Perhaps my frustrations are misplaced. With one out of ten kids in Madagascar dying before their first birthday, it now makes sense to me that the burial rituals are different and a child isn't really thought of equally until their first birthday. FEBRUARY 28, 2004 It hasn't been the best two weeks in Madagascar. The malnourished, dehydrated boy with the IV died. It wasn't surprising, just sad. I've thought about him a lot. It's frustrating that someone can die of dehy- dration when there is plenty of clean water to be found, and it really doesn't take that much to feed a child: a little rice, some produce and a little oil should give a kid a good start. The average Malagasy person lives on less than a dollar a day, so it is difficult to afford food. Most manage by growing their own rice and COA 25 veggies. Clean water is not a huge problem. The Malagasy eat rice with every meal and then fill the rice pot with water and make a burnt rice tea which is actually quite good. They boil the water so it is safe to drink. Infant mortality is generally a result of diar- rhea, dehydration and childhood diseases that can be prevented with vaccination. This boy's diarrhea could have come from unclean food, poor sanitation, worms. The mother didn't give him enough fluid soon enough and the doctor waited over a week before starting an IV. Waiting outside in sun and rain. In the last two weeks, my contributions have been: further diversifi- cation of the local economy (a local store now carries spaghetti and the powdered juice that I like), beautification of the clinic (I put up health posters), the administration of oral polio vaccines, and the weighing of seventy-eight babies. That's in an hour and a half. I also attempted to help with paperwork for prenatal consultations by interviewing patients, but I confused them because I always mix up the Malagasy for 'Do you have a spouse?' and 'Do you eat rice?'. MARCH, 2004 Well, I finally have a house and I've moved in. Anyone have any tips on getting rid of the smell of bat pee? I also have termites, an ant problem, a leak in my roof and a bizarre indoor latrine, but the house is my own, and that is the important thing. APRIL 12, 2004 Happy Easter Everyone! I'm gradually settling into life here. With my bike propped up next to the doorway and my shelves crammed with books, clothes and food, this small cement house looks like the average college dorm room, though smaller. I eat well here, though I have basically become vegetar- ian because I still haven't grown accustomed to the idea of meeting my Cait Unites says she no longer notices the bat smell. food alive before I cook it. My home still stinks, but I'm adjusting. I got some letters from my fourth grade pen pals: They had three boy mice that smelled really bad, so they traded them in for girl mice. I think I had lots of boy bats. I rigged up a Peace Corps oven out of a huge pot and some dirt that I heat on my gas stove, so now I can bake. Everyone in town loves my banana bread and I'm working on chocolate chip cookies. The oven has made me infinitely happier. I just finished reading The Lexus and The Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. It made me worry about Madagascar. It isn't anti-global- ization. It's de-globalizing. There were once good roads, electricity, telephones and a train in my town. Ten years ago, it all deteriorated. People are so resigned to having no control over their lives that it hasn't really occurred to anyone to try to get it back. It is kind of eerie: There are wires and light bulbs in the ceilings as if everyone is just wait- ing for someone else to take care of it. 26 COA thoughts from togo "Premierement mon papa m'a laisse un grand champ First my father left me land, so I needed a wife to help me, then children to work the land, then another wife to help the first wife and more children as some died and the fields are big," explained Komi, a school director in Tseni, Togo. School is five thatched open-air huts, some with benches, for 215 children ages five to twenty. Tseni is a large cotton and corn farming village in Togo, wedged between Ghana and Nigeria. I've lived here now a year as a Peace Corps Galen Guthrie '97 and volunteer Julianna Phillips practice carrying babies, a skill most Togo girls learn at age five. health and AIDS volunteer. I sleep-or try to-to beating drums and the pounding of yams and corn. I wake to more Since 1992, Togo has been under international embargo drums, roosters, rooting pigs and the daily procession past to put pressure on the thirty-seven-year reigning president my one village latrine to do business in the bush. When I'm Eyadema to hold democratic elections, have a free press not entertaining villagers by hoeing cotton at one-twenty-fifth and allow opposition parties a safe voice. West Africa has their amazing speed, wandering through villages with my wealth: phosphates, timber, diamonds, oil, fruit, coffee and cot- wooden penis pushing condoms, tasting grilled locust rumps ton. The president flies to France for dental work, but and bush rat the children toast like weenies I think, and clinic workers have to buy their own needles and suture thread think some more. before a wound can be treated. Even though studying human ecology at COA seems like I try to teach youth about sexual responsibility, but a a delicious, million-mile dreamworld away, I carry its greatest condom here costs four cents, about the price of a plate gift: the ability to see with an open mind the connections of food. So the choice is often this: "Do I eat for the day, between humans and their surroundings. Africa didn't choose or buy a condom?" to suffer from drought, civil wars, epidemics, poverty and over- Every action has a subsequent reaction. We are joined across population, nor did these crises occur in a vacuum. Every former oceans, finding similarities and solutions. Let the colonial nation, every developed country with vested interest, world in and when doubtful come feel the joy of dancing every subsidized cotton farmer in the United States, every bobo to the pounding tam-tam drums of Togo. child in Paris, every well-meaning and confused Peace Corps ~ Galen Guthrie '97 volunteer and finally all African youths play a part. Those of September 8, 2004 us lucky to be educated in interconnectedness have to help others understand without prejudice and blinders. MAY 28, 2004 AIDS. It's not as widespread here as it is on the mainland, but it is get- ting there. I believe the AIDS rate is reported as something like 1.4 percent, but that doesn't mean much since there are only a few test- ing centers. The closest facility to my site is an eight-hour taxi ride. No one can afford to make the trip. Last November, Population Services International, an amazing NGO, tested fifty pregnant women at a nearby hospital. Four tested positive for HIV. That's eight percent in a group that is primarily married and low risk. Even if you tested positive, there are no drugs currently avail- able in country. Madagascar is where mainland Africa was ten to fifteen years ago. I'm afraid that it will explode in the next few years. I often carry condoms in my bag and hand them out when I am bargaining in the market. They work well as gifts. When they come to give birth, the mothers are generally accompa- nied by a flock of female relatives who haul and heat water, coach and clean the room after the birth. The women are responsible for bringing all their own clothes, towels, bedding and food. They also bring buck- COA 27 ets to fetch water. Malagasy women are incredibly strong and are dis- couraged from making any noise during childbirth. I often don't know when a baby is being born in the next room until I hear it cry. The aver- "The vision of age woman has 6.6 kids. I talk quite a bit about birth control, but a standard Malagasy blessing at a wedding is, "May you have seven sons and seven daughters." pairs of men JUNE, 2004 with huge I'm passing through Ambato on my way back from helping Tam with an AIDS presentation to 180 security guards in training. The vision of pairs of men with huge bananas working together to figure out how bananas to use a condom while the chief gendarme struts around to inspect their skills is something I will treasure forever. working JULY, 2004 It's been eight months and I am still trying together to to figure out my role here. As a health volunteer, I am charged with educating people about things like hygiene, malaria, figure out vaccinations and family planning. I help out at the village clinic every morning and how to use I weigh babies in neighboring villages a few afternoons a week. It will be a big change if I can get the baby weighers to inform mothers when their a condom children are in the danger zone and to suggest ways to improve the child's health. I am in the process of organizing a monthly training for while the chief local health volunteers and I am writing a proposal to fund a set of health films. I would like to start a monthly film screening and dis- cussion group at a local movie house that runs a TV and VCR off a car gendarme battery. I am slowly adjusting to "Malagasy time." Nothing happens very quickly. struts around But I am trying to get the nurse to at least wear gloves when she is reaching into a woman after delivery to grab the placenta (FYI: you should deliver the placenta naturally). Recently, she's gotten a little bet- to inspect ter about gloves because the clinic now has her size. Perhaps the biggest lesson I have learned is how lucky I am. Many Malagasy kids have dropped out of school by the age of ten because their skills supplies are expensive and they are needed to help in the rice fields or to take care of younger siblings. It is normal to see small children is something playing hopscotch with a baby tied to their back. The equivalent of the fifth grade in the local school has kids ranging in age from nine to sev- enteen. The kids sit tightly packed on narrow benches and diligently I will treasure copy what is written on the chalkboard into their notebooks. Classes are so mind-numbing that kids never learn how to think or make con- forever." nections, so that the kids that I teach English to seem unable to grasp the simple concept that 'April' sounds a lot like the French 'Avril' and Malagasy 'Aprily'. Students do not read novels or write essays until they get to university, but few stay in school that long. They are never encouraged to think critically. Creativity is a completely foreign idea. No wonder development has slipped backwards here. 28 COA peace corps volunteers Julia Ambagis '02 Deborah Keisch '96 Cait Unites '03 Niger Phillipines Madagascar Christie Denzel Anastasia '92 Jean McHugh Weiss '81 Claire Verdier '80 Senegal Togo Central African Republic Neal Antonucci '95 Justin Nathaniel Mortensen '01 Paul Isaac Wagner '96 Solomon Islands Panama Lesotho Christopher Cousins '90 Andrew Moulton '04 Suzanne Martin Wagner '95 Senegal Honduras Lesotho Scott R. Durkee '84 Frances Pollitt '77 Raymond P. Wirth '82 Nepal Palau, Micronesia Sierra Leone Galen Guthrie '97 Mark Simonds '81 Amy Zader, M.Phil. candidate Togo Ghana China Edward Hugh Haynsworth III '98 Katrina Hyman Tchana '83 Elmer Beal, faculty Nepal Cameroon Bolivia Jodi Jacobs, M.Phil. candidate Timothea Sutton-Antonucci '94 Bonnie Tai, faculty Burkina Faso Solomon Islands Botswana COA~BOOK TALK John Anderson, Alan Mainwaring and researchers on Dave Feldman's "Synchronizing to Periodicity: The Great Duck Island were featured in the April, 2004 Transient Information and Synchronization Time of issue of IEEE Spectrum, "The Secret Life of Birds," by Periodic Sequences," co-authored with J.P. Crutchfield, Jean Jumagai. His work was also the subject of "The is to be published in early 2005 in Advances in Ultimate on-the-fly Network," an article by Martha Baer Complex Systems, a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary in the December 2003 issue of Wired Magazine. journal published by World Scientific. Earl Brechlin, adjunct faculty Bygone Goastal Maine Trustee David Hackett Fischer published two in journalism, published books with Oxford University Press of Great Bygone Coastal Maine: 1 Britain in 2004, Washington's Crossing in A Postcard Tour from Kittery to T EFTER February and Liberty & Freedom: A Visual Camden, through Down East History of America's Founding Ideals in Press of Camden, Maine November. in 2004. In December 2004, COA editor Donna Gold issued the Bill Carpenter had poems published first in a series of ten chapbooks based on oral in The Breath of Parted Lips: Voices histories of Camden: To Me That's the Smell of Money: from the Robert Frost Place, Alice Alley and the Knox Mill, through her Northern THE WOODEN NICKEL Volume II edited by Sydney Lea Light Press of Stockton Springs, Maine. and published by CavanKerry Press of New Jersey, in 2004. Amy Goodman's Exception to the Rulers Included in the volume was - was released in April 2004 by Hyperion RULERS former director of public rela- Press of New York to national acclaim tions, Carl Little, who remains on and an extended book tour that includ- COA's Council of Advisors. Poems by the two were ed a standing-room only visit to COA also included in The Maine Poets: An Anthology of on May 15. Goodman was a visiting Verse edited by Wesley McNair and published by student at COA in 1979 and 1980. MYGOODMAN Down East Books in 2003. Also in 2003, Carpenter's GODEMAN novel, The Wooden Nickel was released in paperback by Little, Brown & Co. of Boston and New Tora Johnson, M.Phil. '03, who has been York. Finally, a German translation of his teaching Geographic Information Systems poems was published in the anthology, Nach at the college since 1998, will be publishing Wörteralgen Taucht der Dichter: Lyrik aus vier Entanglements: The Intertwined Fates Jahrzehnten, edited by Astrid Wintersberger of Whales and Fishermen, through the and Günther Eisenhuber and published in University Press of Florida in March 2004 by Residenz Verlag of Salzburg, Austria. Entanglements 2005. The book is a human ecological assessment of North American plans to reduce large whale entanglements In 2004, Dorn Publishing of Medfield, in fishing gear. Massachusetts published John Cooper's "Variations on a Noble Theme," "Silver Rain," "Burn Ma Soul," and "Objectivist's Dance" for saxophone quartet. It also President Steven Katona provided the introduction for published "Eluengations" and "Sonata No. 2" for alto Nan Lincoln's memoir about caring for an orphaned saxophone and piano, "The Seventh Tangent" for wind seal, The Summer of Cecily, published in May 2004 ensemble and two psalms for sacred choir. In 2003, by Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc. of Charlestown, Dorn published "The Third Temperament," "Lullaby Massachusetts. and Lexicon Dance" and "Acadia Rag" for saxophone quartet and "Caprice" for tenor saxophone and piano. 30 COA PLINT ADAPTATION Gordon Longsworth has had several articles With Jeannette Whitton, new faculty mem- published on his Geographical Information ber Nishanta Rajakaruna '94 wrote "Trends Systems work, among them, "Collaborative in the Evolution of Edaphic Specialists with Community Planning for Sustainable Land Use," an Example of Parallel Evolution in the on COA's collaboration with MDI Tomorrow, Lasthenia californica complex," published published in the Community Viz fall newsletter, in In Plant Adaptation: Molecular Genetics produced by the Orton Family Foundation, which and Ecology, ed. by Q.C.B. Cronk, J. Whitton, R.H. Ree, helps small communities cope with rapid change. and I.E.P. Taylor, NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, The ESRI Map Book, Volume 19: GIS The Language of 2004. With A.J.M. Baker, Rajakaruna wrote "Serpentine: Geography, published in 2004, included Longsworth's A model habitat for botanical research" in Sri Lanka's map series and his article, "Comprehensive Planning- Ceylon Journal of Science, V. 32, 2004. Finally, in the Town of Vinalhaven Island, Knox County, Maine." It 2004 International Geology Review, Volume 46, was chosen from 3,000 exhibits at the 2003 ESRI Rajakaruna contributed "The Edaphic International User Conference. Factor in the Origin of Species." Steve Mullane '81 wrote Discovering In May 2003 Roxana Robinson, a mem- WHALES Whales of the East Coast published ber of COA's Council of Advisors, wife sweetwater in 2004 by Elan publishing of of trustee Hamilton (Tony) Robinson Charlottesville, VA. and great friend of the college, published the novel Sweetwater through Random House Publishing KONANA In November 2004, Susi Newborn '90 Group of New York. published A Bonfire in My Mouth: Life, Passion and the Rainbow Warrior with HarperCollins. Adjunct faculty member Candice Stover has Newborn, a committed environmental activist, an essay on Somes Pond in Maine Voices: was one of the founding directors of Green- A Celebration of the People of Maine and peace UK. The book was originally published in the Places They Love, edited by Jeremy New Zealand, www.realgroovy.co.nz. Sheaffer, Sarah Cecil, and Steven J. Holmes, and published in 2004 by Milkweed Editions of Minneapolis, Minnesota In March 2003, Nell Newman '87 published through The Wilderness Society of The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Washington, D.C. She also has poetry Life: Simple Measures that Benefit You and the Place in the summer 2004 issue of Writing Nature. You Live with Joseph Dagnese through Random House Publishing Group of New York. Trustee John Wilmerding published two books through Yale University Chris Petersen recently published an article on sculpin Press of New Haven, Connecticut, reproduction from his sabbatical work in Friday American Art in the Princeton Harbor, Washington in the Journal of Fish Biology. University Art Museum: Volume 1: Katrina Zarrella Smith '03, who did an internship with Drawings and Watercolors in Petersen in Washington, was a coauthor on the paper. October 2004, and Signs of In 2003 and 2004, Petersen and his research assistants the Artist: Signatures and Self published results in the Bulletin of the Mount Desert Expression in American Paintings Island Biological Laboratory. The work was led by COA in October 2003. In April 2004, The National undergraduates Santiago Salinas '05, Yaniv Brandvain Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. published '04, Allison Fundis '03 and Smith. Petersen has also the catalog of Wilmerding's collection, American been coauthor on four other publications in the Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John MDIBL Bulletin, many with COA students. Wilmerding Collection. COA 31 K S OF MC The ells Jamie Frank '04 " o be honest, I've forgotten what it's like to be T healthy." Even though Leeann's gaze, as she spoke, was on the wall of her hospital room, and specifi- cally on a space slightly to the left of her newest social worker, the man's appearance was set in her thoughts: graying hair and mustache, a paunch beneath a plaid dress shirt that hung in a fold over the top of his Dockers; shoes that were brown leather, semi-dressy, and socks that were a lighter shade of brown and only visible because he was seated. Her mind-she sometimes thought-was like a mold for details such as these, and what was caught - or perhaps poured in-was - arbitrary. The Dream, 2004 (detail) JoAnne Carpenter COA 33 His name was Richard. Not Dick, Rich, Dickie, or for some elaboration, a story, a clue, or for shovel- Richie. Not to her. He had introduced himself by ing some substance that might fill up time. Time his first name (to reinforce the absence of threat in left vacant is sharp and lethal, but the edges round their relationship and that they were equals in it), out otherwise. This is as clear as the fact that idle but Leeann had only learned his last name- hands are the devil's playground. But it's funny, moments before, accidentally-from an envelope because they-the hands-are empty. There are that rested between his thumb and forefinger. no rings, no monkey bars, not even an inexpensive The return address was a PO box without a and flimsy plastic swing-set. A devil's playground name-probably a credit card company, a phone needs no equipment. Her infusion pump beeped, company, or a bank. Personal information, she and she touched the appropriate keys to reset it so thought, but totally impersonal, like a diagnosis. that a second bag of fluid would flow through Leeann could speculate further. For example: some plastic tubing and into her vein. that he had picked up his mail on his way to meet She hoped that Richard wouldn't remark and/or with her, had maybe rushed in and out of a door or chuckle about how she was able to do this task, walked to the hospital or absentmindedly kept the part of a nurse's job. Nevertheless she instantly envelope in his hand. She knew he was real and inwardly rehearsed her response-just in because he had a last name and a mailbox with his case. It would be to shrug and say it was less of a last name on it somewhere. Richard Chilton. 89 hassle this way, that the nurses were busy, that she Walnut Street. She avoided dwelling on these had seen them do it a thousand times and that it minutiae, thinking that she wasn't meant to know was no big deal. for sure. But she was relieved that he said nothing and His eyes, when she forced herself to look at that there was only a pause in which she noticed them (only because eye contact signifies credi- or imagined the scent of aftershave emanating bility, honesty, confidence, comfort, just as simply from Richard's chin. She thought that he must as crossing one's arms and looking away means shave every day. He looked as if he were always fear, defensiveness, aggression), were pools of clean-there were creases in the front of his shirt, deep concern cut with helplessness, or some bisecting each pocket, and his fingernails were emotion more obscure. Leeann imagined a name- trimmed-but he was, of course, not wealthy, not less emotional tablet had dropped into his eyes at proud, and did not seem particularly intelligent, some uncertain point-maybe years before, insightful, or enthusiastic. Not anymore, not now. maybe all at once, or perhaps bit by bit, as an accu- Now he looked tired. mulation of tiny sufferings-and that it was and Leeann was certain, though, that there had had been slowly dissolving and spreading out- been a time in the past in which he could have this was the way toilets were cleaned in some turned into anything in the future, anything apart advertisements-coloring his perception and his from what he had become; it was a remembered character. She watched his lips part and wondered time, the kind that might have never happened, which would emerge first, the word or the sound, how most times are once they have passed. and if it would ever be possible to separate the There had been a day when he had decided to be two. Like a someday separation of an electron into called Richard and decided to grow a mustache equal parts of nothing. and decided to go to college to become a social "You don't remember what it was like at all?" worker. All of these probably hadn't happened on Richard rearranged her sentence into a question, the same day. But they could have. adding a subtle clarifying point: a tool for digging 34 COA And she remembered how she wasn't sure if people like Leeann. An analogy would be this: she had ever looked at his face at this thought "God has a plan," her mother said, and imper- would be the reverse of the mirrorless memories fection is an illusion condoned by small-scale she had of her own facial expressions (or some- scrutiny, a.k.a. human nearsightedness. Some- times of her whole body, from above, as if she times the eyes were even crossed. Coincidentally, were watching herself from a helicopter). She was, the medicine cups on the tray in front of her were in fact, still looking at his fingertips resting on the shifting with her focus and then splitting into two khaki, faded knee of his pantleg. And then she like a single cell reproducing. An urge to touch the stumbled into the memory of the future being illusory one with her fingers, causing it to dis- always now. And now. And now again. appear, was slight and thus not hard to restrain. But she still remembered to answer, not exactly Leeann continued, following her explanation to out of choice and maybe out of habit. She said, the end: "And I guess it's true. I've heard of it hap- "Not really," while her eyes flicked pening to other cancer patients. to the muted television, not exactly "Remission," she flipped It's hard to remember what hap- out of choice and maybe out of the channel. "And then pened yesterday, let alone, you habit. Television has a need to be know, how I felt eight years ago or relapse and all the chemo watched as air has a need to be whatever." Her throat tightened breathed. Both are non-living and in between, you know. with the embarrassment, the sor- thus completely indifferent. Or, at The drugs," she paused. row of this admission and strained least, it was impossible to tell her voice, a little painfully, as her "They've, um, affected whether or not they cared. But thumb compressed a button in Leeann could recognize an enter- my brain." order to change the picture. Her taining program within the first thoughts shifted as quickly as the moment the flash of its image touched her optic stations, and she tried to hang onto the one where nerve, just as automatically as a child would know she noticed how quickly her consciousness two eyes, a nose and a mouth was a face, or as iron focused and refocused and then the thought that would bind to oxygen to make hemoglobin. surfing the channels was like being God, or a god, "I've been in and out of the hospital for almost but only like being God, or a god; it gave her a seven years," she went on. "Remission," she sensation of omniscience and control, which flipped the channel. "And then relapse and all the she resented, knowing it was false, but also appre- chemo in between, you know. The drugs," she ciated, as long as her eyes didn't ache, as they did paused. "They've, um, affected my brain." She at the moment. But she didn't close them, as detected a twinge of chagrin, felt it pierce her Richard was still in the room. abdomen and run upward into her nose, at how There was a moment of what might have been vague her last statement sounded. She could only silence if Leeann hadn't known better-she could find it acceptable because she wasn't really hear Richard breathing and shifting in the blue supposed to know anything about herself, nothing vinyl armchair that was supposed to make the about the mechanics, nothing "objective." tiny cluttered room feel more like home or, more "That's what the neurologist says anyway," accurately, a home. It reminded her of a set on Leeann qualified, half-deferentially and half to television. A bed a chair, a window, a vase and underline a lack of precision in medicine, which, flower. An IV pole. purportedly, was a field of exactitude. Or maybe The décor was essential but secondary to the doctors only chose to reveal generalities to lay plot. In her case the plot consisted of treatment COA 35 and procedure. These consisted of drug protocols, an actual physical or psychic energy or simply an surgeries, tests, and sometimes psychoanalysis idea she had constructed given an already estab- and counseling. All of these were methodologies lished verbal context: an assumed cause and for a) continuing to live and b) justifying the state effect. of living. Like anyone, she was coping. Only the She stared at her knees poking beneath the evidence of her coping was more striking; the white woven blanket and concentrated. Explaining struggle was more condensed. She could think of was difficult. Her explanations never sounded a few allegories- person marooned on an empty real. She didn't feel real. She wasn't sure if looking island in a vast ocean or trapped in a spaceship like a ghost made her somehow believe she floating in a lifeless solar system- she lay gaunt, should feel like one, too, or if that this was just weak, pale, and barely distinguishable from a how ghosts were made: through a death that's pile of white sheets and blankets in a hospital gradual so that at the end, or even somewhere in that might as well have been anywhere but hap- the middle, the ghost doesn't know whether it's pened to be in a small city near some factories and alive or not. restaurants. The head of her bed was raised at a "When I try to remember," Leeann began, "I see 45 degree angle to, theoretically, permit her to this kind of white blank in my head. I feel like converse with Richard with their eyes on an equal nothing's there in my head. It's not like seeing level and occasionally meeting. just a color, but it's like this pressure inside of my "When you 'can't remember," Richard set- mind. Kind of like a wall that's real. But it's not like tled on the phrase uncertainly, using Leeann's I'm just looking at a wall, not like looking at this words out of respect but wanting, she hoped, to wall, you know," she nodded to the one in front of find some that were more precise. Maybe he her. understood, or maybe he was just doing a job, "I mean, it's sort of the same color, but I can feel tracing the grooves in a familiar pattern of thinking the wall, the one in my head. I can feel it sort of sit- and thus defeating the point of thinking, really ting in there. Her eyes searched the blanket for thinking, in the first place. "What um hap- words. "And then I kind of feel like nothing is real, pens? You seem like a very intelligent young lady," but no, not even like that, like I'm not really here, he added quickly. "So that's why I guess I don't but I am, but it's strange that I am here?" She understand. Can you explain more?" looked up at Richard. His body was leaned slightly People often cited Leeann's intelligence. She away, like a windblown field of wheat. Maybe, thought that it was mostly to reassure her and unconsciously, he knew something about the believed that most people could find the words shadows that, when she was alone, moved across for what others wanted to hear so naturally and so the walls, and needed no source of light; maybe rapidly that they could never be sure what their he was listening for coming terror and preparing own opinions actually were. And maybe trying to himself to bolt. Sometimes some things-the find out was useless anyway. unreal things that existed nevertheless-fright- "Sure. I guess." Leeann's eyes dropped to her ened her into believing that she would forget the lap, and she exhaled once, still impatient with world she had known and maybe that would be Richard's casual use of "intelligent," which seemed bad. Or at least irreversible. Or both. And some- a completely relative and useless adjective, based one like Richard might be able to tell her if she had on the biases and interests of an impassive elite, to forgotten or if she were lost, even if he didn't which she belonged, she supposed. And maybe know, by leaving her alone in her mind. Richard did, too. She could feel him waiting and But Richard nodded, which encouraged her to wondered if her perception of his expectation was continue. "I watch myself doing things," she said. 36 COA "Like the other day I put some margarine on a nothing. I have no desire to be connected, no piece of toast and then dropped the toast and regret, nothing. I have no opinion, no feeling. Or then I felt weird like I had no idea why that set the feelings I have don't ever reach me. They are of circumstances would be happening at that sec- there, but I never feel them." She paused, gazed ond, or what relationship I had with this piece of out the window at clouds of black smoke puffing toast, piece of bread, the margarine, or how the from a dirty chimney on the roof of the hospital's margarine had gotten out of the container or how other wing. the container had gotten from the store, or why "So many details all the time and none of my mother had bought that particular tub of mar- them seem to matter. I can see them all, but there garine and not a different but identical one? And is nothing to hold them together, nothing to dis- why wasn't she still driving with it from the store, tinguish them. There is no focus." She turned her why was it back in the refrigerator opened, not head to the side, with the intention of looking him unopened? Why had I picked up the toast now, in the eye, but turned away again instead, glancing picked it up at all, been near it ever? Why was now between the television screen and the clock on now? What is now?" She stopped the wall. 4:45. Not that the time and breathed. "Things happen, and I really mattered. In about fifteen There was a relative silence in watch them. And I don't minutes someone would bring in which Leeann calmly waited for know why I keep watching a tray of food that she probably Richard to judge her or leave or wouldn't touch. It was a dilemma. them. And it doesn't matter ask more questions. She felt she Her doctor had told her they had done her part or had done as that they happen. They would start feeding her through a much as she could do and thought have nothing to do tube again if she didn't gain that the two might be different with me " weight. The idea of eating sick- things. And that they might, on the ened her, all that tearing of tissue, other hand, be the same. A purple sky was framed the swallowing of whole cells. It was a ghastly and by the window and cut into pieces by mini-blinds ugly process. So much death to sustain such tem- that no one had raised that day. porary life. She could barely stand it. "So you don't know why you do things?" And although she didn't mind receiving her Richard asked. nutrition intravenously, she knew it made it seem "No, not exactly. It's that I don't do things at all." as if she had given up. And people might start She cocked her head to the side, meeting his eyes. believing that she had and then they might let her "Things happen, and I watch them. And I don't drift away. She was only eighty pounds; there was know why I keep watching them. And it doesn't very little to anchor her. matter that they happen. They have nothing to Richard coughed. do with me or at least nothing more than any- Leeann flipped through the television chan- thing else does so it feels like nothing." nels-words and faces, faces and words, distin- "So you feel disconnected," Richard said, but guishable by configuration, color, and meaning the word was too common, and she could almost that floated ghostlike and uncertain, especially of hear the flipping open of a category that she itself-waiting for a polite time to turn the sound didn't want to be inside, as she was already stuck back on. somewhere else. Jamie Frank '04 wrote the novel Starfish for her senior "No." Leeann was firm. "It isn't like that. I don't project and also gave the Student Perspective talk at feel anything. There is no disconnection because graduation. Currently, she is working and writing in there is no connection to compare it to. There is Portland, Maine. COA 37 38 I COA the grandest narrative? A Dialogue in Four Voices O ne afternoon last spring, Rich Borden, Dave Camp and Bill Carpenter were sitting around at lunch dis- cussing human ecology and postmodernism. The discussion heated up; I longed for a tape recorder to capture it all. Lacking that, I asked Bill if he would launch an argument for the others to answer. A month or so later, Andrea Lepcio '79, who was in town and present at one of the magazine meetings, jumped in. Behold, the search for the inclusive circle. ~ Donna Gold Bill Carpenter begins In our early years, 1973 or '74, I attended a college conference in Washington, D.C. Each school was assigned to a peer group, and, since COA was brand new and absolutely unique, I worried that I'd be the only one in my room. When I got there, however, every chair was occupied - by priests and nuns! I was the only one without a habit or clerical collar. I was only startled for a moment, then I realized the organizers' wisdom. They recognized that human ecology was already a contender in the search for a new "grand narrative" that would unify and validate our existence. The old religious narratives were unable to integrate progress, and the old political narratives of the Cold War were expiring in each other's death grip. Human ecology was a small voice from a remote place, but it offered an integration of spirit, art and science, and it had come at the right time. Back on campus, at an Academic Policy meeting, we were visualizing human ecology and someone drew a circle on the board, another stood up and drew an intersecting oval, then another, faculty and stu- dents alternating, and finally Roc Caivano leapt to the board and drew the ultimate circle around all the intersecting shapes to complete the Illustrated by Ariel Springfield '06. COA 39 picture: Art and science, creativity and evolution; each other by their separate "discourses." At COA, humans and non-humans, self, society and nature. our intersecting-circle orgies rapidly fell off. Boundaries, limitations and differences had no Resource areas divided faculty energies. Teachers place in our vision of a whole person encounter- met separately. Traditionally distant roles of pupil ing the wholeness of the world. No departments, and professor were reestablished in the name of no faculty hierarchies, scarcely a distinction "appropriateness." between the roles of student and teacher as we set The same process of breakdown and fragment- about constructing the new discipline. ation was striking the outside world. In Eastern Our mentors and heroes were the large-scale, Europe and Russia, a century of Marxist effort to freewheeling, modernist thinkers who had pione- unite differing peoples through workers' libera- ered the synthesis of humanism and natural sci- tion disintegrated into a Babel of competing ence. Alfred North Whitehead and Carl Jung were and hostile ethnic states. At home, on other cam- on the list, along with Lewis Thomas, lan McHarg, puses, the doctrine of irreducible differences Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Loren Eiseley, Rachel raised new unbridgeable boundaries of gender, Carson, Rene Dubos, Suzanne Langer and Joseph race, and class. Postmodern "critiques of science" Campbell. Moreover, we closed stifled cooperation between the " the ivory-tower gap between ROC Caivano leapt to the aesthetic and the empirical. The thought and action. Human board and drew the ultimate elegant and encompassing theory ecology would be applied in real of natural selection was reduced time to change the course of a circle around all the inter- to a bourgeois, male Caucasian divided society and a damaged secting shapes to complete fantasy, as if every class and ethnic environment-starting on our group should have its own, own campus, where the equities the picture: Art and science, equally valid version of the origins of natural ecology justified a par- creativity and evolution; of life. Academic departments ticipatory campus democracy became gated communities with humans and non-humans, unheard of at other colleges. their own passwords, signs and Students and teachers at estab- self, society and nature. languages. Disciplines such as lit- lished universities dropped Boundaries, limitations and erature became priesthoods everything to come to Bar indoctrinating students into Harbor and participate in build- differences had no place in opaque and specialized jargon, as ing a fresh, radical synthesis that our vision of a whole person if you couldn't understand Oliver reunited thought, value and Twist without knowing dialogics action. encountering the wholeness or heteroglossia. Human ecology had set about of the world." Luckily, the non-departmental, building a grand narrative that ordinary-language origins of would synthesize the "two ~ Bill Carpenter human ecology have resisted the cultures" of science and aes- extremes of postmodernism while thetics into a comprehensive world view that keeping the best of it. The "local narratives" that grounded human effort and Lyotard approves of are alive and well at COA. existence in the natural world. In mainstream Women's studies and Native American literature academia, however, the trend was opposite. ensure that the mainstream is not the only stream. Jean-Francois Lyotard's Postmodern Condition, The "critique of science" has brought social theo- published in 1980, proclaimed that "the grand nar- ry and empiricism into dialogue. We've learned ratives are dead." In the postmodern condition, from postmodernism the importance of the mar- "irreducible differences" of gender, class and race ginal and a skepticism of mere dominance posing prevented the search for human universals, not to as the truth. mention human ecology's grand hope to unite our That does not mean, however, that we should cause with the other species. The world broke into accept the cynical, medieval and fatalistic thesis locked subgroups barred from comprehending that humans are permanently separated by the 40 COA differences of birth. It is the optimism of human needed. As human ecologists we should remem- ecology that differences will be overcome in the ber the importance of gathering in a single room common project, including the solecism that so we will all be there when someone leaps up, human beings are somehow different from our Roc-like, to draw a big circle around everything. fellow species and exempt from the laws of We will have to get unsophisticated and de- nature. professionalized, find our childish naivete, our It would be easy for COA to follow other uni- amateur spirit, our capacity for belief, and rededi- versities on the road to the localism, relativism cate ourselves to the uncool commonalities that and multiculturalism that characterize the post- make us one. modern condition. Postmodernism was the right accompaniment for the disintegration of Cold War dialectics, the ethnicities and localisms of the late twentieth century. But now we have turned the corner of another century, the 757s of Jihad have Andrea Lepcio '79 replies challenged the towers of globalization, the reli- Bill's question of the grand narrative arrived in my gious right has captured a presidential election, mailbox just in time. The Republicans were com- and the world has again become a theater of grand ing to town-talk about storytelling. They spent a narratives. To understand and participate, human week making pretend they were our saviors while ecology must rediscover the "big picture," as it pushing New Yorkers out of the way, buzzing says on the course evaluations. Not that we want us with aircraft reminiscent of the days around to encourage France-bashing, but it's time to put 9/11, and otherwise disrupting the flow of com- Lyotard aside and resume work on human ecology merce and art. The citizens responded with an as a new grand narrative that will allow humans abundance of protests and happenings. In to see their commonality again. Otherwise the search of New Yorkers' stories, some friends and subgroup narratives will go on destroying each I conducted random interviews throughout the other into the new millennium. We need to work city in the month leading up to the convention. out a universalizing discourse that will reassert Inspired by Martin Luther's posting of ninety-five complete human interdependence linked with the theses five hundred years ago, we sought to demands of our material co-existence on this exhibit the concerns of ninety-five New Yorkers planet. The new technologies have given us the (www.95voices.org). My favorite interview was illusion that humans can transcend the limits of Keith, who asked of the terrorists: "What do they nature. Stem cells and cloning, plastic surgery, need?" Need, after all, is the beginning of every Viagra, liposuction, extreme makeover, steroids story. All narratives-grand or humble-have and Botox-it suddenly looks like we can buy our authors. As the election demonstrated, who is way out of natural selection and live as "cyborgs" telling the story matters. What is being told and in a nature of our own. OK, let's go to Botox not told matters. Any story can embrace or isolate, Night, but in the morning let's remember that delude or liberate, depending on the writer's bodily decay and death are among the highest objective. order of universals that bind us to one another In the fall of 1976, my first year at COA, a magi- and to the earth. cal gathering occurred in Susie Lerner's Women The greatest gift of this century to COA is the in Nature class. I'm missing a few names, but Cathy presence of students from all over the globe. They Ramsdell '78 and Loie Hayes '79 were there along will be indispensable in assuring that the new with visiting students Teri Goldberg and Jennifer human ecology will be culturally and philosophi- West. John O. Biderman '77 was the sole man. cally inclusive. Once it might have been possible Beauties all, glistening with wonder and hope, for a Harvard-educated Boston Brahmin sub- we came together ripe for questioning and dis- urbanite to find the truth all by himself, looking covering. We read Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, beneath the surface of Walden Pond; but the Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Gail Sheehy (now world is more complex now and teamwork is an acquaintance in New York). We responded COA 41 from our guts, our hearts, our loins, writing poet- my students are highly motivated. Ranging in age ry, songs, essays or mere snippets of thoughts- from their late teens to their forties, most of them which in my case, Susie reminds me, were deliver- have experienced disruptions and turmoil in the ed on odd scraps of paper. Ah, youth. past and still face significant obstacles in the pres- Just recently, John and I emailed some middle- ent. My students include women who graduated aged reflections on life, relationships, disappoint- from high school despite getting pregnant and ments and joys. He called me brave for coming who must study around an active toddler; former out that fall. In fact, I didn't have a choice. More drug dealers and gang bangers who still live in than I understood at the time, it was the equiva- close proximity to their past associates; and immi- lent of confessing I have curly hair. Yet, he is grants, some of whom find our streets and citizens correct, unfortunately, that it required bravery calm in comparison to their countries, who must to admit that I was different both from what I acclimate to new environs and language. was raised to be and from the socially-accepted Just as Bill acknowledges that students from norm. I had to go through a process beginning around the globe are the greatest gift to COA, I with meeting other gay men and would argue that these students of lesbians; becoming politically "I seek to find the common- mine would equally be a gift if aware of the feminist and gay alities and embrace the COA could come up with the liberation movements; and resources it needs to bring them exploring sexual identity and differences in all of our in. To me, they are the future. They behavior both intellectually and, stories. I, too, long for the are the ones that will keep me safe as I matured, physically. While I or, if ignored, put me in danger. I remembered distinctly the way day when someone leaps approach each new group with my best friend in high school's up to draw a big circle the same idea: Any one of them, in hair flowed when she shook her twenty or more years, could be head, my self-control kept that around everything, and president, or, if foreign-born, a image from oozing into desire. truly includes us all." member of the Cabinet. I am That fall, though, permission was teaching them the English they in the air and my mind finally let ~ Andrea Lepcio '79 will need not only to succeed in the rest of me go. There was a their chosen profession, but to girl, see (there's always a girl), and finally the time make the world they see fit. I am teaching them was right. Sometime later, November or so, I was how to speak and write while at the same time cel- sitting writing in my journal in the lounge-or ebrating the brilliance of their native tongues, whatever we called it-and suddenly I knew, deep whether hip hop, Latin or otherwise inflected. I down, that I was a lesbian. It was no longer an idea, tell them they, and the artists they gravitate to, are it was my reality. making up words as needed in the same way that I must, therefore, take exception to Bill's catego- Shakespeare and poets of every era must to tell rization: "The world broke into locked subgroups their truth. Speaking of heteroglossia-which I barred from comprehending each other by their had to look up-one of my students said, "We're separate "discourses"." I appreciate his later clari- teaching you our English." fication: "We've learned from postmodernism the When I am in the classroom, I seek to actively importance of the marginal and a skepticism of make room for my students' stories just as Susie mere dominance posing as the truth." Again, I did for me in those early days. I embrace Bill's didn't learn this from postmodernism, I learned it notion that "differences of birth" ought not keep from the dialectic that is the daily reality of anyone us apart. I agree that those wishing to destroy the who is different from the majority. other have committed some of the worst crimes One of the great joys of living in New York City of history. Living together denying difference is is the lack of majority. We are all others, as well as equally destructive. My training as a human ecolo- New Yorkers. I teach English at Katherine Gibbs, a gist taught me to recognize difference not as career-oriented associate degree college where unbridgeable, but as distinct, valid, beautiful, 42 COA powerful and life affirming. I seek to find the com- Despite the freewheeling modernist thinkers monalities and embrace the differences in all of who pioneered the synthesis of humanism and our stories. I, too, long for the day when someone natural science, modernism has never been simply leaps up to draw a big circle around everything, an intellectual movement aimed at reuniting and truly includes us all. thought, value and action. The modern project was predicated on the central premise that knowing autonomous subjects arrived at truth by establishing a direct correspondence between the external objective world and epistemological judgments. To my mind, such a thing is impos- Dave Camp chicken dances in. sible. We simply have no access to something called reality apart from our own linguistic and "Things are more like they are now than conceptual constructions. The self-assured real- they ever were before." ism of modernism, with its accompanying grand ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower narratives and notions of truth, ignores the fact There's trouble afoot amongst that cadre of aca- that we have no access to reality apart from the demics, educators, students, and other cultural way in which we represent that reality in language critics of sorts who rely on the analytical frame- and discourse. work of human ecology to investigate the norma- Of course, another way to say this is that it is tive and regulatory fictions that underpin, indeed only in terms of some worldview that we experi- affirm, material practices. The trouble came ence the world. Life is perspectival in character hunch-squealing out of the bowels of mid-Maine and everyone, I hope, recognizes that access to where a god of sharkskin britches and a trouble- the world is mediated by our varying perspectives; maker to boot-a jealous god, don't you know, the way we see the world invariably shapes our who suffers no false god before him-emerged epistemological judgments. Worldviews, however, from the erebosian buffer between event and dis- come and go. They are, after all, human con- course to dance the chicken-twist across the pages structs, as Bill demonstrates when he offers up of three books of poetry, two novels and various human ecology as the new contender for an over- and sundry essays, columns, blurbs, and composi- arching, guiding and directing vision of life that tions-including his latest, "Human Ecology: The allows for the encountering of the wholeness of Grandest Narrative?" To say "Bill did it," then, is an the world. Worldviews are nothing more than obvious conceit (he's been blamed for a lot of received cultural assumptions about the way stuff)! But what exactly has Bill done that's the world is supposed to work-ideological con- causing so much trouble? For that we need a his- structs perceived as natural facts. tory lesson, of sorts. Or are they? Not only are worldviews human I want to discuss a couple of things more or less constructs; they are more particularly social con- together: first, in response to being frequently structs. Inevitably, this means that they are always labeled a postmodernist-a label I admit I've occa- someone's or some group's construction of the sionally applied to myself and sometimes even way the world is supposed to work. And once we take seriously-some old questions raised by the grant the epistemological point that we relate to nagging currency of "narratives," both meta- and the world, know it, make a home in it and order grand; second, some aspects that historically it according to our particular and historically con- situate postmodernism and suggest new possible ditioned social constructions, then we need toask, directions for its use; third, some professional Whose social constructions? Perhaps as Bill sug- concerns related to the above matters and having gests, we have cast off the ghosts of Brahmins past, to do with nihilism, negation, human ecology, and but women's studies, Native American literature, how to live not as an object of history but as a sub- the "critique of science," and a smattering of diver- ject of history. sity across the student body doesn't change the answer to that question. It is still a privileged, COA 43 largely white, completely Western construction- we accept this possibility-that the world may be the progress myth wrapped up in human ecology nothing-do we prepare the ground for new acts trappings and no more capable today of demon- of creation. Damn the (S)tate, damn god, damn strable epistemological success than it ever was. capitalism and the home and the family and all Moreover, positing human ecology as the grand- those other things that are not natural facts but est narrative is nothing less than the typically ideological constructs: things that real people- Western desire to, as Jane Flax argues, "master the you and me-have made and therefore can world once and for all by enclosing it within an change. The world is the way it is because we have illusory but absolute system" that dissolves the made it that way. And because we have made it, we complex heterogeneity of the world into a total- can change it. This of course is the great lesson of izing vision of commonality. No thank you! Marx. But don't look to another meta-narrative of Totalizing visions have given us about as much truth to provide transcendent justification for terror as we can take. such an act-just live your lives every day as if What are the consequences for us when we you're engaged in an insurrection; live your lives come to repeat or represent our mantras as as if something actually depends on your actions. objects of a truthful narrative? Well, for one thing a human "The self-assured realism ecology whose claim to legit- of modernism, with its imacy is founded on the possibil- ity of representing true dramas accompanying grand and believing in them runs the narratives and notions of Rich Borden sums it up: risk of becoming nothing more It is fitting that Bill grounds his truth, ignores the fact that than a spontaneous simulator of reflections on human ecology the very relations of power and we have no access to reality with a story from a faculty discus- desire and authority it seeks to apart from our own sion. In the early years, there was change. How long will it be a lot of debate about the college's before we feel compelled to linguistic and conceptual mission. There needed to be. mimic the very things we seek constructions. It is only in COA was a brand-new institution so desperately to change? More- delivering an untested challenge terms of some worldview that over, now that we are aware of a to higher education. The mandate human ecology worldview as a we experience the world." was to invent an entirely new worldview, of its particularity, philosophy-not only to guide subjectivity and limitations, of its ~ Dave Camp interdisciplinary education, but socially constructed character, to embrace all of life. As Roc we are left with nothing. An arbitrarily chosen Caivano's "ultimate circle" symbolized, the aim worldview can scarcely function as a worldview was all-inclusive. The whole of humanity and anymore. nature lay within the orbit of ecology-from the first spark of life billions of years ago, down to the What's left? In the words of Johnny Rotten: ailing environments and educational landscapes NO FUTURE NO FUTURE of the modern world. From there its gaze leveled NO FUTURE FOR YOU unflinchingly to the future. For it was the future of NO FUTURE FOR ME the world that posed the most urgent of all prob- lems. I know that's glum, but if the postmodern turn Philosophical discussions in those days were leads to nihilism (as many of its critics claim), then often led by Dick Davis and Dan Kane. Dick was perhaps that self-consuming impulse will make it COA's first philosopher. At about the time that Ed self-evident that the world is not as it seems, that Kaelber stepped down as the college's founding nothing is true except our conviction that the president, Dick was appointed academic vice- world we are asked to accept is false. Only when president. Dan was an environmental lawyer with 44 COA a background in physics. As undergraduate room- a multicultural curriculum or absorb the decon- mates at Yale they shared a passion for Alfred structionist critique of knowledge. The traditional North Whitehead's process philosophy. They were disciplines have given way to even further sub- a masterful team who brought speculative meta- divisions. Irreversible splits separate younger and physics to life in classes, over lunches, and late old-guard faculty over stands on structuralism and into the night on faculty retreats. At the beginning post-structuralism, essence versus interpretation, of the fall term in 1982 Dick died unexpectedly. sameness fighting difference and so on. None- The shock was shared by everyone; it left an enor- theless, COA has found a path through this prick- mous hole in the faculty. ly labyrinth. Human ecology and postmodernism One of COA's first encounters with "post- have discovered a way not only to co-exist, but to modernism" came the following spring during be enlarged by the dialog and grow together. the search for a new philosopher to replace Dick. I am reminded of a hand-written explanatory [Bill Carpenter and I were members of that com- note by Whitehead himself near the end of his mittee, and I think we both have an indelible career. A facsimile of the letter is included as a memory of the events.] Some of the applications preface to The Library of Living Philosophers vol- came from people whose areas ume on his life work. "The pro- of expertise were unfamiliar, so "Now, as in the beginning, gress of philosophy," he said, Dan served as a consultant to COA upholds the commit- "does not primarily involve re- the committee. He reviewed all actions of agreement or dissent. the resumes and gave us his ment that everyone will be It essentially consists in the thoughts. One bit of advice at the table. Whether this is enlargement of thought, whereby projected a hint of mystery: contradictions and agreements "Beware," he cautioned, "of called a grand narrative or are transformed into partial as- trendy French philosophy." His a great discourse may have pects of wider points of view." reference was to the blossoming more to do with who is chair There will always be a need to new phenomenon of "decon- think critically, to interpret and re- struction," which ironically be- of that day's meeting. The interpret theories or institutions came one of the very issues reason seems to lie in the or texts. Complexities will inevit- over which the committee grew ably unfold. Contradictions will increasingly divided. The search robust openness of our arise forever. So, too, will a need stalled and had to be terminated. founding philosophy." to put things back together. Now, No one was hired. as in the beginning, COA upholds Another three years passed ~ Rich Borden the commitment that everyone before the position was finally will be at the table. Whether this filled. It took John Visvader's broad-minded phi- is called a grand narrative or a great discourse may losophy and commitment to human ecology to get have more to do with who is chair of that day's things going again. John helped to relaunch a new meeting. The reason seems to lie in the robust philosophical core for COA from the classical openness of our founding philosophy. From the roots of eastern and western thought to the front outset, the intent was to eschew orthodoxy, to edges of postmodern criticism. Many more ideas remain bigger than any "ism," and above all to hold and methodologies-from critical theory, contem- to the distinctiveness of a genuinely interdiscipli- porary feminism and postmodern interpretation- nary foundation. The circle is unbroken-now were added by Karen Waldron, Etta Kralovec, including wider points of view. Suzanne Morse, Todd Little-Siebold, Kate Frank and David Camp. These and other faculty have filled out the next generation of inquiry and con- Rich Borden, Dave Camp and Bill Carpenter are on the tinue its transformation and enrichment. faculty of College of the Atlantic. Andrea Lepcio, '79 Many institutions have been wracked by is a playwright and teacher living in New York City. attempts to revise the traditional canon, to create COA 45 poems by SAVING THE BUFFALO SKIN From Peeling the Buffalo We aren't sure why we do it. We don't even like the look of it. The space it takes in the closet. But it's what our mothers taught. class of '99 I try to fold the skin, get neat creases in the hide. I'm at the closet crying, Josie Sigler '99 recently received a first prize for her poem, "My Mother's trying to fit the box Blood" in Clackamas Literary Review, and has been published in The when you come in American Journal of Poetry and The Spoon River Review. She is current- tired from working all day ly writing, teaching and studying as a Ph.D. candidate at the University and say: just lay it down. of Minnesota. But it floats on its own. And they avoid that table FLIGHT DREAMS during yard sales, pass over it for landscape paintings This morning we're out on the porch talking the rules & you say and old spice racks in which Run fast push your arms down in the wind Fuckin' A you're flying the spices waited so long & I say hold your breath too You look at me your eyes that way they lost their pungency. you always wanted a woman who got you the sun bleeds all over the roofs of these trailers & I make another pot of coffee No one wants the object bang the screen door just as the little retarded girl rides her bike past of your shame. Trying to comfort us, I say I heard you and Jeff laughing at her the other day You squint our buffalos straggle ahead What? Heard you saying she gives head for free You light up a smoke to the table to pour the milk. I say she don't know any better that's what as you light mine too Thirsty, we take what we get. I didn't mean nothing by it for Christ's sake you say & I remember If buffalo blood coats this story about Icarus in a flat spin out to sea trying to escape a prison the entire country of linoleum, he flew too close to the sun the wax wings his daddy made him melted we come with our mops. That's life, we say. You would say God, if only he turned his palms a bit just like I woulda done in his case If only they made the wings outta something We smile a little nervous stronger but maybe I think he did it on purpose I shake my head while we smear the floor clean; he ain't even real but the girl is & her bike ain't a fucking dream I say what'll the neighbors think? That's her life you're talking about She can't be more than thirteen They wave from their small & you say Shit it was just a joke Give me a break I stand up yards and the man comes to chat weather. That girl don't know the first thing about flying & here you are factory man who can lift things so heavy You hate faggots so I say After he leaves you say: Telling me there's somebody here who don't take it in the mouth for free? What's that dreadful thing he carries For a little love? You always wanted a pocket knife too & you finally got one all the time like a child's blanket? heavy & metal so we still believe in it though it's been lost for weeks You shake your head, & I say God, if only you'da held your breath we ain't got the same rules A grown man, too. 46 COA YOUR KIND From Away from Here At an old friend's apartment, Grand Island, Nebraska, I sleep in the room of the sixteen-year-old daughter whose books are all stolen from public libraries and schools. Her family moves a lot and roads open a young body: nipples bud in their halter, woman-hips swell in faded jeans. She rolls her eyes, tells me she has a dirty mind, she wants to touch the boys she sees. Her mother slips meds under her tongue and she swallows as if nursing- She doesn't remember what made her this way. Smoke creeps under the door of her small bedroom from the living room where the grownups play as she sleeps on the couch because I am in her bed, reading her books, charting her course by the wide black stamps: Boston, Cleveland, Omaha, weeping. I sit before the opened window, my hands out; the first snow touches my wrists- - I don't know what happened to me, either. A whole year I could not bear, A whole decade, even, but it's almost November: time of the shut-ins. This girl and I, we're almost like everyone else, now, remembering the old stories: I walked with her once on a wooded path; in the hush of trees her voice came: "Today I feel very kind inside." Her cheeks flushed when she said that; I should have known then- - In my own collection I cannot tell you how many cities, how many towns a mother tossing things in boxes, the noise, the police at a door you're forbidden to answer so you never forget something on the outside pushing and something on the inside wrong- but it's all you've got. You still feel a strange hope as the old station wagon pulls out. Maybe the road itself will take you safe away or even back again but you've aged twenty years at this window tonight. You've conjured a world where everyone's a saint who'd never hurt you or a demon who would-Your shoulders are cold, your stories untrue. But tomorrow you'll make your way to Rapid City in a snow storm. You're looking for the Badlands, for the lover who waits to unbraid your spine one heavy notch at a time- you're seeking salvation, selfish, you know, but you're in the car: shut-in, breathless, your kind, that girl. You imagine there's nothing but road, nothing but a twice-stolen Steinbeck whose pages whisper against your clenched thigh when you shift gears. You speed like you could drive her away from here. COA 47 COA ~ CLASS NOTES Sarah Bolduc-Ignasiak '03 had a daughter, Peregrine Abbie Bolduc-Ignasiak, on February 18, 2004. She also adopted Autumn Lynn Bolduc-Ignasiak on January 5, 2004. Judy Books '98 writes, "I have just completed nearly two years working at a COA ALUMNI SERVICES residential YMCA Camp near Port Jervis, New York. In that position, I taught mostly fifth and sixth graders such subjects as aquatic and forest ecology, wildlife studies and other environmental topics. This summer I am working Alumni: Stay in Touch! as a seasonal naturalist at a nature center in New Jersey. I am thinking of becoming a Montessori teacher in the future." To update your contact inform- ation, share class notes in Jessica Bradshaw '03 is working for Project Vote Smart, a non-profit voter upcoming publications, tell research organization based in Philipsburg, Montana. us of changes in your job or Sherman Burson '83 writes, "I am living in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, working as life, find out about regional an acoustic ecologist for Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks. Quite alumni events and for other different from Alaska." alumni services, please contact Becky Buyers-Basso '81 writes, "After devoting a year to a creative writing Shawn Keeley of Alumni project, I am now working as a reporter for the Mount Desert Islander, Relations at sakeeley@coa.edu. a weekly newspaper started three years ago by its sister paper, the Ellsworth American. I cover Bar Harbor politics, police, spot news and write the occasional art or music review. I love my new job. It's social, community- oriented, fast-paced and I get paid to take pictures! In my spare time, I am making revisions to my novel. The working title is Rootbound." Becky's husband, Skip Buyers-Basso '83 works at a family-owned hardware business and their daughter, Marisa, is a first year student at Bucknell University where she is studying engineering. Geneva Chase '93 writes, "In May, I received my master's degree in ecology and environmental sciences from the University of Maine in Orono. I am also recently engaged to be married to Kevin Langley, who also works at Acadia National Park. We are planning a June 2005 wedding!" Emily Clark '03 writes, "I have opened a restaurant and a pub/pool hall with my uncle in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. The menu will feature seasonal, organic produce from local farmers. Our grand opening was November 14, 2004. My son, Hayden Blue, was born on July 21, 2004 at the Madison Birth Center. We live in Fitchburg, a suburb of Madison." Jill Cowie-Haskell '83 was accepted into the Master of Divinity program at the Andover Newton Theological School in Newton, Massachusetts. She began course work in January 2004 on a part-time basis. Jill also served as the chair of the Housing Partnership Committee for the town of Marshfield. She was successful in getting the town to approve affordable housing land and funding a position to implement the plan. Patti D'Angelo '92 married Jim Juachon in September in California. She practices Chinese acupressure and massage therapy in Berkeley, California. Libby Dean '89 writes, "I am getting a master's from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 2005 at the School for Resource and Environmental Studies. My thesis is on communicating about environmental contaminants (like POPs and PCBs) in traditional wild food in an Inuit community in Labrador. I welcome visitors to Halifax until at least April 2005!" You can write her at: esdean@dal.ca. Ardrianna French '02 writes, "Hello! I'm now working as a park guide for the National Park Service at Pecos National Historical Park in Pecos, New Mexico. I recently transferred from a permanent position with the Forest Service to a permanent position with the National Park Service. My fiancé, Shawn McLane, lives with me and our two cats in Santa Fe." 48 COA Allison Garoza '03 writes, "This photo is of my friend Allison and me after we fin- ished the Muddy Buddy Race Chicago. Despite any misgivings you may have, crawling through a fifty-foot-wide mud pit actually feels quite pleasant. The race is a two-person, one-bike team, six-mile relay race involving running, biking, conquering obstacles and crawling through a mud pit on your stomach to reach the finish line, naturally. It's basically leap-frogging. I biked and did the first obstacle (monkey bars), left the bike and started running. Allison ran to the monkey bars then got the bike and then we switched at the wall, cargo net, and giant slide. The mud felt so nice (I highly recommend it) and cool on that 90 degree day, I could have stayed there all day but I didn't." Andrea (Jacobsen) Griffin '94 married Arthur Griffin on June 5, 2004, in Hancock, Maine. About two years ago she started her own graphic design company, Efi L Design (created from her son Leif's name). Leif is now fourteen years old and just entered Ellsworth High School. He continues to excel in academics, athletics, music and extra-curricular activities. She and her family reside in Ellsworth, Maine. Mary (Nelson) Griffin '97 is living in Corning, New York. She is currently working as a dietitian in an HIV clinic that serves the southern tier of New York State. In June 2004, she married Matt Griffin, her grad school sweetheart. Mary is happy to hear from anyone from COA and can be reached at maremare5@hotmail.com. Nikki Grimes '96 has recently been promoted to senior strategic analyst in the development office at Dartmouth College. In January, she will begin work on a second master's degree through the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth. She writes, "The MALS is an interdisciplinary, issues-driven program and will allow me to focus my studies on my deepest interests. Working in fundraising, I have become increasingly interested in giving opportunities and programs that benefit women, minorities and children in the areas of poverty, education and healthcare. I am also interested in the spiritual and religious nature of giving, the economics of philanthropy and the impact of class and social structure on giving and inclination." Tanya Higgins '00 is beginning a graduate program in Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley this fall. Sarah Hubert Ricker '01 writes, "My husband Sam and I have a wonderful nineteen-month old. George was born on October 6, 2002. I am teaching now at the Pray Street School in Gardiner, Maine." Pam Humphreys '01 writes, "I have been working for the Key Program, which is contracted by the Department of Children, Youth and Families in Rhode Island. The program provides services for youth and their families. My official title is Outreach and Tracking Caseworker. Among my clients' issues are truancy, probation, neglect, abuse, mental health problems and everything in between. I have been in this position since March 2002." COA 49 Travis Hussey '00 writes, "What a trip to be back at the college after four years of temporary environmental monitoring and education work! I'm the new coordinator for the Union River Watershed Coalition, a public outreach group formed through the Center for Applied Human Ecology. One thing I've learned is that there's more to a job than its title. I've been swamped with work since I started in September! Come visit me in the Davis Center when you're on campus!" Joe '01 and Jill Kiernan, '99 welcomed Avery Kiernan into their family November 2003. They are currently living in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Caroline Leonard '01 writes, "My husband and I are now living on Vinalhaven, an island in Maine of 1,300 year-round residents. I spend my time raising our boys. Field is now six and Addison was born on the island last summer." Jeffrey Miller '92 has been selected for the "Adventure Cycling" board, based in Missoula, Montana. He continues working in Augusta for the Bicycle Coalition of Maine. Heather Martin-Zboray '93 seen here with (from left to right), US Congressman Mike Michaud, State Representative Hannah Pingree, Governor John Baldacci and State Senator Dennis Damon, has been named Coordinator for the Hancock County Democratic Headquarters. Diana Papini '92 writes, "Aloha from Maui. I I am developing a mobile science and technology lab to support K-12 schools on Maui. See www.digitalbus.org." Melissa Rea '00 and Matt Carroll '99 are engaged to be married in May at COA. Matt just finished his second year working as a smokejumper based out of McCall, Idaho. Melissa is in her first year of veterinary school at Washington State University. Jennifer Rock '93 writes, "I am still pursuing a career in environmental physiology and evolutionary biology but recently returned seriously to an old COA passion of combining art and biology and am now showing (and even selling!) etchings and other prints of Welsh natural history." Meg Scheid '85 writes, "Hello Friends! Still guiding tours in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in the summer and working for St. Croix International Historic Site by winter. Visit our company's website at www.novascotiatours.com." Mark Simonds '81 writes, "I am currently the chairman of the town of York, Maine, Open Space Committee. With increasing development in southern Maine, protecting valuable natural resources is a challenge. In my own backyard a new development is planned where deer, bear and wild turkey currently roam freely." Stacy Smith '92 married Gregory D. Jardine at home in Wisconsin on August 21, 2004. They are living in Orienta, Wisconsin. Amy Toensing '93 recently had work published in the August 2004 issue of National Geographic entitled: "Wild on the Jersey Shore". COA FACULTY NEWS & NOTES John Anderson was a guest lecturer at the University of North Wales last October, speaking on "The Mote in a Petrel's Eye: Micro-environmental Sensing in Ecology," focusing on his work on Great Duck Island. He also presented his micro-environmental work at the American Ornithologists' Union meetings in Quebec last August. Also presenting at that meeting was graduate student Sarah Boucher. 50 COA Nancy Andrews received a $15,000 grant from LEF Foundation to support production of The Haunted Camera, the third film in her trilogy featuring the character Ima Plume. The first two films, Monkeys and Lumps (2003) and The Dreamless Sleep (2004), were screened at New York's Museum of Modern Art in December, one month after the museum reopened. Monkeys and Lumps (narrated by Elmer Beal with music by John Cooper) was chosen for the Ann Arbor Film Festival in March. Both were shown at Gates in May. Last November, Rich Borden, Ken Cline and Isabel Mancinelli gave an hour-long presentation at the annual meeting of the Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) in Washington, D.C. The symposium, "A River Runs Through It: College-Community Collaboration on Watershed-based Regional Planning and Education," presented a model of applied human ecology ongoing in the community. On October 14, Bill Carpenter was one of six poets invited to read at a gala celebration for Claiborne Pell at the Pell Center in Newport, Rhode Island. The gala commemorated the publication of The Breath of Parted Lips: Poetry from the Frost Place and the work of Senator Claiborne Pell, founder of the National Endowment for the Arts (which funded the anthology). In addition to doing readings around Maine from his novel, The Wooden Nickel, and for the recently-issued collection, Maine Poets Anthology, Carpenter was a visiting artist at Searsport District High School last May and in July chaired the "Film and Fiction" panel at the Maine Film Festival in Waterville. Ken Cline has joined the board of the Frenchman Bay Conservancy, an organi- zation promoting the conservation of the Frenchman Bay watershed. Dru Colbert, an adjunct faculty member since 1999, is now a full-time, con- tinuing faculty member teaching 3-D, graphic arts, interpretive design and visual communication. In addition to developing several new artworks, she is currently working with curators and educators at the Maine State Museum in Augusta to plan a major exhibition on Maine home life, coupled with public programming and a Maine Public Broadcast series. The project, scheduled for 2007, is tentatively called "At Home in Maine." John Cooper and the Maine Saxophone Quartet premiered "Variations on a Noble Theme," for Phil Geylin, to a standing ovation at Gates in August. In October, he judged the Maine All State Jazz Auditions and appeared live on Rich Tozier's Jazz Show on Maine Public Radio with the Pat Michaud Jazz Orchestra. In November, he was a guest artist at Hampden Academy and in January, he conducted the Maine All State High School Jazz Combo. In August 2003, Gray Cox served as co-clerk at the Quaker Consultation on Economics and Ecology of Pendle Hill, Pennsylvania and at a follow-up conference establishing a Quaker think tank in Bar Harbor. At the Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School in Qingdao, China, in July, Dave Feldman gave a series of five lectures called, "Some Foundations in Complex Systems: Tools and Concepts." Some sixty graduate students were at this interdisciplinary summer school, half from China. While many were in the sciences, there were a handful in sociology, political science and philosophy of science. In October, Feldman was invited to speak on "The Complexity of Simple Periodic Sequences: The Unpredictability of Synchronizing to Periodic Pattern" at the Colby College Physics Colloquium. Ken Hill presented the paper "Early Giftedness and its Relation to Future Promise" at the Center for Talented Youth of Johns Hopkins University. With Bonnie Tai, he developed "From Cell to System," a pilot professional development program for inquiry-based environmental and life science education in regional K-12 public schools, funded by the Carnegie Corpor- ation of New York. Saer Huston '02 is the coordinator for this two-year project. Faculty member Helen Hess and adjunct faculty member Scott Swann '86, M.Phil. '93 led two multi-day workshops for K-8 teachers last summer. COA 51 Anne Kozak received a second place award last fall from the Maine Press Association for her investigative article in the Mount Desert Islander on the Maine statewide 511 information system. Suzanne Morse was named the Elizabeth Battles Newlin Professor of Botany at COA. In April 2003, faculty member Chris Petersen and students Yaniv Brandvain '04, Santiago Salinas '05 and Nina Therkildsen '05 attended the Benthic Ecology Meeting in Mobile, Alabama. Petersen spoke on reproduction in temperate rocky shore fishes while Brandvain and Salinas presented a poster on their work on mummichog reproductive biology in Northeast Creek. The students offered a similar poster at the 2004 Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium at Mount Desert Island Biology Laboratory in May. In January 2005, Peterson gave a talk on his work on simultaneously hermaphroditic fishes at the Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology meeting in San Diego. Salinas also attended the meeting and gave a talk on his work with Petersen on salt marsh fishes. Among other activities, in 2004 new faculty member Nishanta Rajakaruna '94 gave talks at the California Botanical Society Lecture Series at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Keene State College in New Hampshire and offered a year-long course called "Botanical Hikes: Trees in the Four Seasons" to the Downeast Senior College of Ellsworth, Maine. An article in the May 22 National Journal, "Issues & Answers: Profiles of more than 100 people whose ideas will help shape the debates over 10 important issues of the day," featured Doreen Stabinsky for her work opposing genetically modified foods. A part-time COA faculty member and part-time campaigner for Greenpeace International, Stabinsky gave an invited presentation to the Pontifical Academy of Justice and Peace at the Vatican in November 2003. In February 2004, she headed a Greenpeace International delegation to the First Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Last October, she presented before the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research in Mexico City, Mexico. Academic dean Karen Waldron spent her sabbatical working on a thousand- plus page collection of short stories by nineteenth century American women. She is co-editing this volume with Monika Elbert, associate professor of English at Montclair State University. It will be published by Ironweed Press of New York. COMMUNITY NOTES The Maine Student Conference on Global AIDS, organized by Marcin Matuszek '07, Maria Lis Baiocchi '07, Juan Pablo Hoffmaister '07 and Andres Jennings '07 brought dozens of Maine college students and others to campus on October 15 and 16. Afterwards, a nursing student from University of Southern Maine wrote, "I have never in my life seen a group of students more dedicated to a cause. The conference not only held strong, it seemed to gain momentum as each event occurred." Last September, COA and Nokomis High School in Nokomis, Maine, were given a tractor-trailerload of mounts (or prepared animals) from the Smith- sonian Institution. Faculty member Steve Ressel and COA students helped unload and store the animals, some of which will be used in classes and at the George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History. Others will be offered on loan to educational institutions around the state. "Oh my God!" gasped Jessica Lach '07 as she removed a deer specimen, "He is so beautiful! I've been looking forward to this for a long while." Holding a massive hippopotamus skull, Ressel added, "Seeing these animals allows students to understand the immensity of the diversity of mammals. There's nothing like this in Maine." 52 COA CAREER AND The Society for Human Ecology held its twelfth meeting in Cozumel, Mexico, INTERNSHIP SERVICES in February 2004. The topic was "Tourist, Travel and Transport: A Human Ecological Perspective on Mobility." Several members of the COA community, Alumni: We can help! and all students in the Yucatan program participated. Faculty member Rich Borden and Janet Redman, former Union River Watershed Coordinator, pre- College of the Atlantic's Office sented "A River Runs Through It" on the Union River watershed's collabora- tion for planning and education. Faculty members Gray Cox and Davis Taylor of Internships and Careers gave individual papers. Jenn Atkinson '03 presented her senior project, "If offers internship and job oppor- Mahahual were Costa Maya What would the fisherman do? A human tunities on the college's website: ecological study of the Costa Maya tourism corridor development project." At the meetings, John Anderson, faculty member and associate dean for www.coa.edu/internships. advanced studies, was elected first vice president. At the October 2005 Feel free to contact Jill Barlow- meetings in Utah, he will be president. Borden, co-founder of SHE in 1981, Kelley, Director, at jbk@coa.edu is executive director. In 2006, College of the Atlantic will be the site of the XIVth international conference. or 207-288-5015, ext. 236 for these services: Faculty member John Cooper performed his "Eleungations for Flute and Career Information Piano" on May 19 in Gates, along with students Herman Lueng '04 on flute and Guidance and Kate Gilchrest '06 on piano. The concert also included pieces performed by violinist Eli Martin '06, pianist Cait Verdier '08, and singers Alice Wilkinson Graduate School Information '07 and Elisheva Rubin '07. Job Search Skills Resume Review Working with artist Frances Whitehead of the Art Institute of Chicago, visiting faculty member Tora Johnson M.Phil. '03 has been helping to turn GIS maps Relocation Guidance into artworks. The two women met when Whitehead was artist-in-residence Employment Websites at the 2003 LandEscapes Symposium in the Arts at COA. Johnson created Mentoring of Current maps that Whitehead transformed into a garden design in Chicago's Lincoln Students and Other Alumni Park. Johnson's maps of Lake Michigan conform to the 25-by-90-foot flower beds. They detail such data as the temperature in various areas around the lake on a single July day, the discharges into the lake from major tributaries, even the spread of zebra mussels in the lake. Johnson also designed a build- ing-sized map for a collaborative installation with Whitehead and other artists for the 2004 Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. The partnership continues involving students from both institutions in a "monster class" focused on yet another GIS sculptural installation at the 2005 Spoleto Festival USA. The 2004 Maine Democratic Convention had a healthy contingent from the COA community. Student Anne Czechanski '06, alums Becky Buyers-Basso '81, Noreen Hogan '91, Heather Sisk '93, Heather '93 and Michael Martin-Zboray '95 and faculty members Gray Cox and Bill Carpenter were delegates, while son Daniel Carpenter-Gold launched his political career, serving as page. Rep. Ted Koffman, Director of Government Relations and Summer Programs at COA handily won his third term to the Maine Legislature, representing Southwest Harbor, Cranberry Islands, Bar Harbor, and part of Mount Desert. Student Nikhit D'Sa '06 is a founder and advisory board member of Ashraya Initiative for Children, a non-profit organization based in India striving to help children. Located in Pune, India, AIC is an international effort started in 2004 by seven college students across the globe. Contact Nikhit at nikhit@ashrayainitiative.org or ndsa@coa.edu, or visit the website at www.ashrayainitiative.org. Rosemary Seton, a research associate with Allied Whale, was an invited speak- er at the First International Whale Conference last September in Rosscarbery, County Cork, Ireland. The conference, "Míol Mór," or Big Whale, was hosted by the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group, a contributor of humpback tail photos to Allied Whale's North Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalog. Seton spoke on "Photo-Identification of Humpback and Fin Whales of the North Atlantic" and was asked to stay on for a week of whale research off Ireland's ruggedly dramatic southwest coast. COA 53 COA ANNUAL REPORT W elcome to the first edition of Financial Operations Report FY: 2003-2004 COA and to the 2003-2004 annual report of donors included within. Operating Revenues The year had many successes. As you've no doubt read, we have Tuition and Fees $6,219,469 contracted to convert all our elec- Contributions - annual fund $1,080,295 tricity to wind power, joined Maine's Contributions - restricted $1,957,943 STEP-UP program and received Investment and endowment income $365,744 environmental awards from the Government and other grants $632,764 Environmental Protection Agency Student housing and dining $683,599 and the World Wildlife Fund. We've Summer programs $359,671 been noted for our small classes Museum, Summer Field Studies & Blum Gallery $75,418 and international students. Our fac- Research and projects $213,678 ulty and students have enriched the Beech Hill Farm $140,366 wider community through efforts Other Sources $71,659 ranging from mentoring young musicians to GIS mapping and Total Revenues $11,800,606 planning. With the graduation of the first class of United World College students in 2004, the mission of the Operating Expenses college is spreading across the globe. But the year also brought Instruction and student activities $2,261,529 some financial reversal, particularly Library $223,056 disappointing after the upturns of Student housing and dining $553,438 2002 and 2003. The shortfall is the Summer programs $247,140 result of not increasing enrollment Museum, Summer Field Studies & Blum Gallery $220,492 as swiftly as we hoped and not Financial aid $4,017,959 reaching our goal in special con- General and administration $1,004,162 tributions toward capacity building. Payroll taxes and fringe benefits $1,123,040 We will not make those mistakes Development $927,961 again. Early results for 2005 sug- Buildings and grounds $478,681 gest fine progress. Interest $91,598 I thank all of you for the gener- Grants, research and projects $501,381 ous help you have given us finan- Beech Hill Farm $172,201 cially and in so many other ways. College of the Atlantic is an extraor- Total expenditures $11,822,638 dinary institution. Its mission is urgent, vital to Maine and to the Excess Revenue (Expense) ($22,032) world. I am certain that its future is Transfers and capital expenditures ($147,391) bright. Thank you for all you do to Net operating surplus (loss) ($169,423) help us achieve that future. u.Filly 54 COA COA~ANNUAL REPORT It is with deep gratitude and appreci- DISCOVERER $2,000-$4,999 EXPLORER $1,500-$1,999 ation that we acknowledge the gen- Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co. Mary Dohna '80 and Wells Bacon '80 erosity of our alumni, trustees and Mr. and Mrs. Leslie C. Brewer/ Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Blanchard III friends. This Annual Report recog- ABL Fund of Maine Community Susanna Porter and James Clark, Jr. nizes all those who made gifts to Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Gifford Combs College of the Atlantic from July 1, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Cabot Melissa and Frederick Cook 2003 through June 30, 2004. Cadillac Mountain Sports Ellie and Wyatt Courtemanche Mr. and Mrs. Francis I. G. Coleman Ms. Sally Crock THE CHAMPLAIN SOCIETY Estate of Mrs. Lawrence Cutler Mr. and Mrs. Roderick H. Cushman The Champlain Society honors Ms. Barbara Danielson Dead River Company individuals of vision and commitment Tina and Philip DeNormandie Mr. and Mrs. George H. P. Dwight who contribute $1,500 or more to the Mr. Larry Duffy Mr. and Mrs. James T. Dyke college's Annual Fund. Ellen and John Emery Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Erikson First National Bank of Bar Harbor Ms. Deborah Evans '82 FOUNDER $10,000 + Mr. and Mrs. David H. Fischer Mrs. Patricia Q. Foley Mr. Edward McC. Blair, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. William G. Foulke, Jr. Mr. William G. Foulke, Sr. Mrs. Charlotte T. Bordeaux Mrs. Philip Geyelin Mr. Albert Francke Mrs. Amos Eno Rev. James M. Gower Dr. and Mrs. James C. A. Fuchs Mr. and Mrs. James M. Garnett, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Grantham, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Will Gardiner Mr. Samuel M. Hamill, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Horace A. Hildreth, Jr./ Mr. Edwin N. Geissler Claudia Besen and Jay McNally '84 Seal Bay Fund of the Maine Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Growald Mr. and Mrs. John N. Kelly Community Foundation Mr. and Mrs. George B. E. Hambleton Ms. Casey Mallinckrodt Mr. and Mrs. Melville Hodder Mrs. Anne Stroud Hannum Mr. Roger Milliken Ms. Sherry F. Huber Mr. and Mrs. James B. Harrison Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Milliken Barbara and Peter Hunt/ Mrs. Denholm M. Jacobs Paul Newman and The Point Harbor Fund Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Johnson III Joanne Woodward of the Maine Community Susan Lerner and Steven Katona Lynn and Willy Osborn Foundation Kenduskeag Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Pierce Ned and Sophia Johnston Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Kogod Dr. Walter Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Peter Loring Mr. and Mrs. Keith Kroeger Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. Mrs. Marcia MacKinnon Mr. and Mrs. Anthony A. Lapham Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Shorey, Jr. Mrs. Louis C. Madeira Mrs. Francis A. Lewis Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Stewart Mr. and Mrs. David Milliken Mrs. Ronald T. Lyman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David E. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Finlay B. Matheson PATHFINDER $5,000-$9,999 Mr. and Mrs. G. Marshall Moriarty Mr. Francis H. McAdoo, Jr. Jeffrey Bakken and Linda Shaw Mr. and Mrs. I. Wistar Morris III/ Grant and Suzanne McCullagh Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Bass The Cumberland Mountain Fund Jon and Sarah McDaniel '93 Ms. Jennifer Bicks Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Eliot Paine/ Mr. David E. McGiffert Estate of Mrs. Frederic E. Camp The Puffin Fund of Maine Mrs. Donald G. McLean Michele and Agnese Cestone Community Foundation Mr. Charles E. Merrill, Jr. Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson E. Peters Mr. and Mrs. Gerrish H. Milliken Mr. and Mrs. F. Eugene Dixon, Jr. Mr. Bruce A. Phillips '78 Ms. Emily Neilson Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Gagnebin III Mr. James Stewart Polshek Nickerson & O'Day, Incorporated Mr. Louis Gerald Mr. and Mrs. George Putnam Ms. Sandra Nowicki Mrs. Robert H. I. Goddard Mr. and Mrs. John P. Reeves Amb. and Mrs. Henry Owen Mr. and Mrs. John Guth John and Carol Rivers Ms. Judith S. Perkins Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Guthrie, Jr. Nancy Anderson and Mrs. Dora L. Richardson Mr. and Mrs. Richard Habermann Richard G. Rockefeller Mr. and Mrs. Allan Stone Cyrus and Patricia Hagge Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Rosenfeld Ms. Caren Sturges Hon. and Mrs. Charles A. Heimbold Mrs. David Scull Ms. Ellen Reid Thurman Mr. and Mrs. John L. Kemmerer III Jane Tawney and Samuel Shaw Douglas and Priscilla Williams Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin R. Neilson Mr. Winthrop A. Short Mr. and Mrs. James M. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. William V.P. Newlin Mr. Kenneth Simon Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Robinson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Straus David Rockefeller Fund, Incorporated Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sullivan Dr. and Mrs. Peter H. Sellers Mr. and Mrs. Rodman Ward, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William Wister, Jr./ Ms. Katherine Weinstock '81 Margaret Dorrance Strawbridge Mr. John Wilmerding Foundation Mr. David J. Witham COA 55 ANNUAL REPORT ALUMNI, BUSINESSES, Mr. Dennis Bracale '88 Ms. Judith Cox Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Eder PARENTS AND FRIENDS Ms. Jessica C. Jennifer '93 and Kevin Ms. Stacey J. Eder '01 Anonymous (2) Bradshaw '03 Crandall '93 Mr. Joseph Edes '83 Ms. Andrea Abrell '96 Mr. Eric Brady '95 Steve and Suzanne Crase Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Acadia Senior College Ms. Virginia Brennan Mr. Jared Crawford '89 Ehrlich Dr. and Mrs. Peter T. Adler Ms. Letitia Brewster '75 Criterion Theatres, Mrs. Catherine Elk '82 Ms. Heather M. Ms. Teisha Broetzman '88 Incorporated Mr. David Emerson '81 Albert-Knopp '99 Mr. George I. Brown III '97 Ms. Lisa Damtoft '79 Ms. Carol B. Emmons Ms. Cathy Albright Ms. Marion Fuller Brown Mr. John Allen Dandy Dianna and Ben Emory/ Ms. Judith M. Allen Ms. Dawn Cherie Ms. Melissa Danskin '94 The Ocean Ledges Fund Mr. William W. Allen '87 Brownrout '93 Ms. Kate Darling '76 of the Maine Mr. Glenn Alper '93 Ms. Carla Burnham '84 Mr. Adam Dau '01 Community Foundation Mrs. Diane H. Anderson Mr. Sherman L. Mr. Andy Davis '97 Jennifer and Thomas Mr. J. K. Anderson Burson III '83 Stan and Jane Davis Englerth Ms. Genevieve M. Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Mrs. Carol B. Stevens Eno Angle '00 Burton II Davis Mrs. Bertha E. Erb Mrs. Grace W. Arnold Mr. Robert E. Cahill '84 Ms. Libby Dean '89 Ms. Julie A. 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Thomas and Carroll Fernald Ms. Alison Belding Villoo and Sohrab Choksey Dinsmore Mr. Thomas W. Mackey '95 Ms. Cecily G. Clark Ms. Angela DiPerri '01 Fernald, Jr. '91 Mrs. Bobbie Belkin Mr. and Mrs. P. Hamilton Ms. Chiara Dolcino '86 Mr. and Mrs. Russell Finn Ms. Katherine M. Bell Clark Prof. and Mrs. Arthur A. Ms. Cynthia Jordan Robin '80 and Paul Hannah S. Sistare and Dole Fisher '80 Beltramini '79 Timothy B. Clark Mr. Stephen H. Dolley Cynthia and Thomas Ms. Barbara Simon and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Mr. Millard Dority Fisher '77 Mr. Bruce D. Bender '76 Clendenin Ms. Becky Mendenhall Mr. and Mrs. William M. G. Mr. and Mrs. William E. James and Dorothy Clunan Dorwart '83 Fletcher Benjamin Il Ms. Janis Coates Down East Enterprise, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. A. Irving Mr. Glen A. 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B. and Dawn Mr. Daniel Sangeap '90 Sullivan, Jr. Mrs. Jean P. Messex Pelletier '89 Ann and Walter W. Mrs. Robert Suminsby Mr. Jeffrey Miller '92 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sargent III Ms. Joan H. Swann Mr. and Mrs. Keith Miller Pennington Ms. Barbara Sassaman '78 Mr. Gilbert L. Sward Mira Monte Inn and Suites Kim and Keating Pepper Victoria '80 and Steve Ms. Sally C. Swisher '78 Sen. and Mrs. George J. Philanthropic Collaborative Savage '77 Ms. Jasmine Renee Mitchell Mrs. John Pierrepont Mr. and Mrs. George Tanguay '98 Mr. Frank Mocejunas Dr. and Mrs. Richard N. Savidge Tapley Pools Mr. Peter W. Moon '90 Pierson Ms. Susanna Saxton '78 Raymond and Jane Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Daniel The Honorable Rochelle Mr. and Mrs. John H. Ms. Flyma Thompson Morgenstern Pingree '79 Schafer Ms. Lynn Mrs. Lorraine B. Morong Sally McLendon Pitkin Ms. Margaret Scheid '85 Thompson/Mainescape Mr. Justin Nathaniel Ms. Penelope Place Amy '97 and Ryder A. Mr. and Mrs. John L. Mortensen '01 Ms. Frances L. 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Newlin and Mary Miller Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Ms. Laura Johnson Ms. Mary Katherine Linda and John Carman Watson Ms. Anna Karavangelos O'Brien Dr. Peter M. Wayne '83 Ms. Anne M. Kozak Dr. Helen Hess and > In honor of Ms. Joan Weber Mr. Donald R. Larrabee Dr. Christopher Petersen Sally Morong '76 Mr. Arthur Edward Mrs. Wadsworth Larson Mr. Daniel Pierce Webster, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur K. Dr. Stephen Ressel Mrs. Lorraine B. Morong Celia and Robert Weil Mason Ms. Jean Sylvia Mr. and Mrs. E. Sohier Mr. Joseph A. Minott Dr. Bonnie Tai MATCHING GIFTS Welch Mr. and Mrs. Jack Nelson Dr. Davis Taylor AT&T Foundation Ms. Alice N. Wellman Mr. John P. Reeves Dr. Sean Todd Bank of America Mr. David Wersan '79 Dr. John Visvader Chubb & Son Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Ms. Carolyn Reeb Rosenfeld Dr. Karen E. Waldron Fidelity Foundation Whitaker '92 Mr. James J. Russell Ford Motor Company Fund Mr. and Mrs. Harold White Mr. and Mrs. Richard > In memory of Dr. Edward GE Foundation Mrs. Joan B. Whitehill Seamon J. Meade, Jr. Georgia Pacific Ms. Grace Whitman Ms. Helen B. Stern Hewlett-Packard Company Mrs. Edward P. P. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Mr. Harry E. Thayer Microsoft Matching Meade Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Mr. George E. Watson III Gifts Program Williams Mr. and Mrs. Edwin M. Northern Trust Ms. Jane M. Winchell '82 > In memory of Yoder, Jr. PQ Corporation Richard H. Lewis Mr. Joshua I. Winer '91 United Technologies Mr. David B. Winship '77 Verizon Foundation > In memory of Ms. Martha Higgins Ms. Betsy Wisch '83 Craig Greene Washington Mutual Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Witt Foundation > In memory of Ms. Susan G. Woehrlin '80 Ms. Judith M. Allen Valerie Rough Dr. and Mrs. Otis D. Wolfe Dr. John Anderson ADOPT-A-WHALE Mr. Jeff Wooster Ms. Jill Barlow-Kelley Mr. Peter Dyer Mr. Rick Alexander Prof. and Mrs. W. 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Sims Mr. Walter H. Goodnow Daniel Blattler Ms. C. Joyce Kleffner Mr. Keith Smith Homeland Foundation Ms. Julie C. Day Mr. Zackary R. Klyver Mr. and Mrs. Philip Maine Coast Sea J. H. De Bruija Mr. and Mrs. William R. Soosloff, Jr. Vegetables Ms. Donna Delaware Knauss Ms. Emily Stannard Richard Gillam and Mr. Michael A. Dlugos Ms. Shari Kraljic Sheridan and Barbara Gale R. McCullough Margaret and Gregory Ms. Petra Kretschmann Steele Mr. Scott Mercer Donnellon Mr. Ross LaHaye Stevens High School Dr. Meg Model Ms. Tamara Duff Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Streibig Ms. Sarah Spruce Ms. Priscilla Dupont Lozowski Ms. Eve Stwertka US Department of Mr. Mark Dyer Ms. Barbara Mabry Ms. Pauline Sulentic Commerce Mr. Daniel A. Edlavitch Ms. Cindy Mackin John and Judith F. Sullivan Mr. Dick Wisshack Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Mr. Michael Maffesoli Cheryl Crider and Joseph Ehrlich Mr. and Mrs. Ledalle Swift FRIENDS OF THE ARTS Mr. and Mrs. Joel Ellis Mangham Lisa Golizio and Ronald Bar Harbor Garden Club Ms. Alice Endre Ron Manilla and Diana Taglieri Ms. Barbara Simon and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Estes Marchibroda Terrell Independent Mr. Bruce D. Bender '76 Mr. Donald Esty Ms. Patricia L. Marks School District Ms. Carolyn Berzinis Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Ms. Deborah A. Masse Ms. Claudia Tietze Mr. and Mrs. James G. Fecho Dr. Pamela P Maxfield Ms. Cindy Tillett Blaine Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Ms. Cynthia McAuley Mr. Douglas Tipton Blue Poppy Garden, LLC Feldman Mr. Thomas Mendez Ms. Susan Trafton Mr. Dennis Bracale '88 First Step Recreation Inc. Ms. Francene G. Mertins Mr. and Mrs. George Ms. Joan S. 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TerraCotta Stylish Stuff Isabel Mancinelli and Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Goodman Mr. and Mrs. Christiaan Sam Coplon Kogod Dr. and Mrs. Robert van Heerden Ms. Maureen Corr Ms. Anne M. Kozak Gossart Ms. Ann Staples Waldron/ Ellie and Wyatt Mr. Donald R. Larrabee Mr. and Mrs. John Guth Spirit Fund of the Courtemanche Mrs. Wadsworth Larson Mr. Samuel M. Hamill, Jr. Maine Community Gray Cox Todd Little-Siebold Sturgis Haskins Foundation Mr. Walter Cronkite Mr. and Mrs. Jenkin Lloyd Ms. Lisa Heyward Mr. Wally Warren H. King & Jean Cummings Jones Dr. and Mrs. John P. Hoche Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Charitable Fund of the Mr. Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Williams Maine Community Longsworth '91 Hodges Mr. and Mrs. William Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Ms. Betsey Holtzmann Wister, Jr. Mrs. Rose Cutler Lyons Ms. Jennifer Hughes Mr. Jeff Wooster/ Mr. and Mrs. Lewis S. Mr. Richard MacDonald Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Cornerstone Group Dabney Ms. Isabel Mancinelli Hutchins Mr. Philip Eaton Arthur and Jane Mason Ms. Laura Johnson ANNUAL Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Mrs. Anne A. Mazlish Mr. and Mrs. H. Lee Judd SCHOLARSHIPS Ehrlich Grant and Suzanne Ann Sewall and Ed Kaelber Mr. and Mrs. Alfred P. Wendy Rodger and McCullagh Mr. and Mrs. William R. Barton Henry C. Elliott Vincent and Nancy Kales Davis United World College The Ellsworth American McKusick Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kates Scholars Program Mrs. Ruth M. Epstein Mr. Ernest McMullen Mr. and Mrs. John N. Kelly Dr. Margaret Dulany Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ms. Patricia Whitney The Kimball Shop Lois M. Gauthier Charitable Estabrook Messler Ms. Barbara Knowles Trust Mr. Jim Evans Mr. Joseph A. Minott Mr. Thomas F. Leddy The Agnes M. Lindsay Trust Doreen Stabinsky and Dr. Suzanne Morse Mrs. Paulus Leeser Maine Community David Feldman Mr. Frederick S. Moss '79 Mr. and Mrs. Carl Little Foundation Margaruitte V. Foisie Trust Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Neill Mr. and Mrs. George Lord Mr. Charles E. Merrill, Jr. Mr. Bud S. Fukei Barbara Matusow and Mr. and Mrs. John Lynch Dr. Bonnie Tai Mr. Ernest B. Furgurson Jack Nelson Alden C. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Mr. and Mrs. William V.P. Maine Community ENDOWMENT GIFTS George Newlin Foundation Ms. Judith M. Allen Georgetown Day School Paul Newman and Joanne Mr. and Mrs. John John and Karen Anderson Mr. Neil R. Goltz Woodward March, Jr. '76 Mr. John Anderson Mrs. Craig Greene Ms. Mary Katherine Mr. and Mrs. Finlay B. Bar Harbor Banking Ms. Marion Guggenheim O'Brien Matheson & Trust Co. Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Ms. Kathryn J. Olmstead Ms. Karen McDonald Mrs. Jill Barlow-Kelly Haakenson Mr. Marvin Ott Mr. and Mrs. Keith Miller Allison Martin '88 and Ms. Marion T. Hamilton Helen Hess and Dr. and Mrs. David D. Elmer Beal, Jr. Ms. Nancy P. Hiestand Christopher Petersen Myers Mr. Glen A. Berkowitz '82 Ingrid and Ken Hill Estate of Barbara W. Piel Kim and Keating Pepper Jean and Jim Bodine Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Pierce Dr. and Mrs. Steven Price Ms. Jean R. Bower COA 61 COA~ANNUAL REPORT Mr. and Mrs. John P. Bruce Mazlish and Mr. Thomas R. Dr. Sean Todd Reeves Neva Goodwin Eberhardt '04 Ms. Debra Van Runkle Dr. Stephen Ressel Nina '78 and Jonathan Mr. Samuel T. Edmonds Mr. Beniamino Volta '04 Mr. Chalmers M. Roberts Gormley '78 Mr. and Mrs. Lyman B. Ms. Hua Wang '04 Mr. Edward A. Rodgers Ms. Kathryn Hodges Feero, Jr. Ms. Jennifer D. Stephen and Barbara Ms. Audrey W. Homer Doreen Stabinsky and Warnow '04 Rosenfeld Mrs. Annette Klaver David Feldman Ms. Lydia Ann Webster '04 Vicki Vandenburgh and Ms. Mary K. Lausier Thomas and Carroll Fernald Ms. Katherine E. James Russell Ms. Linda Levesque Ms. Cherie Ford Wegner '04 Estate of Mr. Charles W. Ms. Judith H. Loebl Ms. Jamie L. Frank '04 Willowind Therapeutic Sawyer, Jr. Claudia Besen and Ms. Katherine E. Hahn '04 Riding Center Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jay McNally '84 Ms. Erin L. Heacock '04 Ms. Nellie E. Wilson '04 Seamon Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ingrid and Ken Hill Ms. Anna Wlodarczyk '04 Dr. and Mrs. Peter Sellers Merhar Ms. Jennifer Hughes Mr. Samuel J. Wustner '04 Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Paul Girdzis and Adrienne Ms. Tara E. Jensen Sharpe, Jr. Paiewonsky Ms. Laura Johnson RESTRICTED GIFTS Mrs. Eleanor D. Soseman Valerie and Tobin Ms. Erin Eileen Ms. Betsy Aron Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Peacock '95 Kavanagh '04 Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Stedman Mr. and Mrs. Michael Sarah and Shawn Becton, Jr. Ms. Helen B. Stern Saxenian Keeley '00 Mr. Edward McC. Blair, Sr. Jean and Bill Sylvia Lynda Slepp Mr. Nathaniel H. Keller '04 Mr. Anselm Hitchcock Dr. Bonnie Tai Mr. and Mrs. Anthony X. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Bradford '02 Christy and Bob Tanner Uliano Koffman Mr. and Mrs. Leslie C. Dr. Davis Taylor Ms. Anne M. Kozak Brewer Ms. Michele Whitney Telfer 2004 SENIOR Ms. Lee Kuck '04 The Chart Room Mr. Harry E. T. Thayer CLASS GIFTS Ms. Heather D. Lakey '00 Ms. Barbara Danielson Dr. Sean Todd Ms. Judith M. Allen Mr. Herman H. Leung '04 James Deering Dr. John Visvader Mr. Muktar Amin '04 Ms. Sara M. Levine Danielson Foundation Dr. Karen E. Waldron Ms. Sarah B. Anderson '04 Ms. Nicole M. Libby '04 Mr. and Mrs. Shelby M.C. George and Louisa Ms. Jill Barlow-Kelley Ms. Blaise Maccarrone '01 Davis Watson III Allison Martin '88 and Natalie Springuel and Deering Foundation Ms. Katherine Elmer Beal, Jr. Richard MacDonald Mrs. Amos Eno Weinstock '81 Ms. Carolyn Berzinis Ms. April Joy Mauro '04 Mr. Daniel Farrenkopf '93 Donald and Lois Wiese Mr. Ranjan Bhattarai Mr. Brandon Joseph Mr. and Mrs. William G. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Dr. Richard Borden McDonald Foulke, Jr. Williams Mr. Yaniv J. Brandvain '04 Ms. Donna McFarland Dr. and Mrs. James C. A. Mr. John Wilmerding Mr. Colin Capers '95 Mr. Raphael T. Fuchs Mr. and Mrs. Edwin M. Donna Gold and McGuire '04 Mrs. Philip Geyelin Yoder, Jr. William Carpenter Ms. Julia Pierce Rev. James M. Gower Mrs. Jane S. Zirnkilton Ms. Laura Carroll '04 Morgenstern '04 Mr. Samuel M. Hamill, Jr. Dr. Donald Cass Mr. Andrew J. Moulton '04 Healthy Acadia Coalition NATURAL HISTORY Mr. Rohan Chitrakar '04 Mr. Dominic Muntanga '04 Ms. Sherry F. Huber MUSEUM & SUMMER Mr. Edwin M. Claflin Ms. Kimberly Austin IBIS Consulting, Inc. PROGRAM Ms. Dianne Clendaniel Nathane '04 Mr. and Mrs. John N. Kelly L. Schellie Archbold Mr. Kenneth Cline Ms. Darlene Nolin Ms. Dorothy Wills Knapp Ms. Tamara Bannerman Nancy Andrews and Ms. Lindsay E. Parrie '04 Ms. Suzanne Knecht '86 Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Dru Colbert Helen Hess and Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Bartley Melissa and Frederick Cook Christopher Petersen Kogwood Julie Meltzer and Ellie and Wyatt Mr. Zachary Reidman '04 Maine Space Grant Jonathan E. Bender Courtemanche Dr. Stephen Ressel Consortium Ms. Diane C. Bonsey Ms. Judith Cox Ms. Allison E. Rogers '04 Ms. Casey Mallinckrodt Ms. Phoebe Boyer Mr. Gideon Bezalel Ms. Volha Roshchanka '04 Grant and Suzanne Mr. and Mrs. William Clark Culman '02 Ms. Katlin P. Saltzer '04 McCullagh Mr Frederic Driscoll III Mr. Arber Viktor Mr. Benjamin James Ms. Christine McHenry Dr. Mary Dudzik Davidhi '04 Snyder '04 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Ms. Hannah Webber and George and Kelly Mr. Zachary Steele Milliken Mr. Greg Forrest Dickson '97 Dr. Davis Taylor Dr. Frank Moya Ms. Jillian Glaeser Ms. Briana M. Duga '04 Mr. Troy Adam Mr. and Mrs. William V.P. Thibodeau '04 Newlin 62 COA COA~ANNUAL REPORT Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Pierce Ms. Shelli Bishoff for the Union River Watershed Project Ms. Cathy L. Ramsdell '78 Cadillac Mountain Sports for the Union River John and Carol Rivers Watershed Project Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Robinson, Jr. Carnegie Corporation of New York Dr. Walter Robinson for From Cell to System Program Grant David Rockefeller Fund, Incorporated Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, Dr. Burt Adelman and Ms. Lydia Rogers U.S. Department of Education for a College- Dr. and Mrs. Peter Sellers Community Watershed Curriculum for Regional Ms. Mary Meek Semler Planning Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Shorey, Jr. Illinois State University for Osmoregulation in Euryhaline Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sullivan Fish: Physiology, Ecology and Molecular Biology The Swan Agency-Insurance LEF Foundation for film project United Way of Eastern Maine Hancock County Fund of the Maine Community Mr. and Mrs. William Wister, Jr. Foundation for the Union River Watershed Baseline Study GIFTS IN KIND Maine State Planning Office THORNDIKE LIBRARY for the Union River Watershed Baseline Study Mr. Sidney Bahrt Partnership for Environmental Technology and Dr. and Mrs. Richard R.Fox Education for the Union River Watershed Project A. Myrick Freeman III, PhD Surdna Foundation for Eco-Eco Smart Growth Forum TANGIBLE GIFTS AND GIFTS OF TIME AND TALENT Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy in pre- Atlantic Oakes-by-the-Sea paring our donor list for this annual report. If a mistake Mr. Michael C. Boland '94 has been made in the way you or your spouse or partner Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bromage is identified, or if your name was omitted from the donor Mr. Jason R. Bryson-Alderman '91 list, we apologize. Ms. Martha Davis '83 Bruce Mazlish and Neva Goodwin With your help, we can ensure that future donor lists Mr. Bill Huston report your names as you prefer. Please notify the Jade Trade Development Office at (207) 288-5015, ext. 329 with Mount Desert Spring Water any changes in the way your gifts should be reported. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Moyer Victoria '80 and Steve Savage '77 FUNDS RECEIVED FOR SPECIAL PROJECTS PLANNED GIFT OPPORTUNITIES You can help ensure that College of the Atlantic's future is both secure and successful by becoming part of our Planned Giving program. Bequests or lifetime income arrangements (Charitable Gift Annuities or Charitable Remainder Trusts, for example) offer superior methods of helping the college while also providing you with income and tax benefits. One easy way to support our work is to name the college as a beneficiary in your will. If you wish to do this, we ask that you and your attorney consider using the following language: "I bequeath (amount or remainder interest) to College of the Atlantic, a not-for-profit institution of higher learning incorporated in the state of Maine, and with the business address of 105 Eden Street, Bar Harbor, ME 04609." We also offer ways to restrict bequests to particular purposes or programs at the college and to make life income gifts-offering you a lifetime income, current income tax deduction and the avoidance of capital gains tax. For further information about any of these Planned Giving options, please contact the Office of Development at (207) 288-5015. COA 63 REMEMBERING MAURINE ROTHSCHILD to give of himself. Those of us who had the privi- May 11, 1919-February 20, 2004 lege of hearing Phil speak, of reading his exquis- itely crafted sentences and listening to that twin- Donna and I have separate but equally powerful kle of brilliance will miss him, very much. memories of Maurine Rothschild. Maurine was Donna's teacher at the Fieldston School in New ~ Karen Waldron York, where she would illustrate her classes on CRAIG GREENE Greek antiquity by sharing artifacts from her own collection. In this way, she embedded the glories May 29, 2004-October 2, 2003 and ideals of ancient civilization in the wonder of I don't think I'll ever understand how time can be objects that students could see and touch. At so weird, rushing by and standing still all at once. COA, Maurine was also a teacher, one with an Craig was just here and Will just got done saying, unerring sense of the college's underlying "Night, night, Dada. I love you." But Will and I beliefs. In every one of the controversies that have been on our own forever, too. We've decid- shaped us over the years, she would find and ed on menus and bike rides and stories too many articulate the essential principle that moved us times to remember when we didn't have to do it forward. She was an educator with her heart in alone. We have missed Craig so many times we're the deepest classical roots of learning and she sure he must have been gone for more than a believed in this little college as a place where the year. highest ideals of education could be rediscov- As this first year rolls by I find myself deeply ered and practiced without compromise. The grateful for all that Craig taught me both out- same gift she brought to Donna's classroom, a doors and in, for the incredible gift of Will, who passion for finding the core that can be touched is an awful lot like his dad, for the way that Craig and held, she brought to the college as a trustee. died, for those people who helped him find his She was an irreplaceable friend of the college, way peacefully and for those who continue to who constantly challenged us to articulate and help Will and me find our way. Keep thinking practice our ideals. The best way we can honor about Craig; keep talking about him to each her memory is to make this college live up to her other and to us. Breathe in Craig's spirit out- vision of what we are and what we can become. side and toast a beer to him while you're at it. ~ Bill Carpenter Tomorrow will be a year, a complete cycle of all Donna Gold the seasons he loved so much. Tomorrow I will be awakened again by the call of his crows, PHIL GEYELIN so much the same and so damn different. February 27, 1923-January 9, 2004 ~ Bo Greene How can I possibly capture the brilliant twinkle October 1, 2004 that was Phil Geyelin's presence at College of the Atlantic: his intellectual agility, his mode of caring, a history that included time with the Washington Post, the Vietnam War, Russ Wiggins, everyone he touched, and of course, College of the Atlantic. One of Phil's many gifts was the graciousness CLARK FITZ-GERALD to be grateful to us, to this institution to which June 18, 1917-October 18, 2004 he gave so much intellectual energy, inspiration and wisdom. Phil was a Pulitzer Prize winner who The college is deeply grateful for was immediately present on campus: curious the gift of Clark Fitz-Gerald's hanging sculpture about what we were up to, challenging of every "Kelp," donated to the college in the summer of last detail of thought. Phil's willingness to let our 2004. Fitz-Gerald was a COA trustee from experiences and ignorance enrich his life was our 1972-1977. We mourn his passing. great fortune. Others can speak eloquently to his accomplishments and distinctions, this was a man filled with human goodness and the ability 64 COA WHAT DOES FREEDOM MEAN? COA~THE BACK PAGE his question, which lies at the soul of our nation and at the heart T of every social justice movement is one that Philip Kunhardt III '77 asks every day. Kunhardt is posing this question to individuals around the globe as he prepares for his role in creating what may be the most important new museum of the decade, the International Freedom Center, focusing on the pursuit of freedom everywhere. This museum, one of four institu- tions chosen in June 2004 as part of the new cultural center planned for Ground Zero, is in its very beginning stages. At 250,000 square feet, with multiple stories, it will serve as a gateway to the memorial where the World Trade Center once stood. Kunhardt's brother, Peter, and Tom Bernstein of Chelsea Piers, president of the board of Human Rights First, created the proposal for the site. As editorial director, Kunhardt is overseeing the development of the stories the center will tell. The team has involved a world-class roster of international scholars and leaders who can reach out to people across the globe to ask what freedom means. Among them is Nobel Peace Prize recipient Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who says of the museum, "The Freedom Center will symbolize the indomitable spirit of the people of this land. It will be a testi- mony to their resilience as they rise like a proverbial phoenix from the ashes." Describing freedom is no simple task. As Kunhardt delves into the issue, not only of freedom, but the absence of it-in this country and around the world-he realizes how fraught it can be. "People can mean very different things when they use the word freedom," he says. "After all, the Civil War was called a war for freedom-on both sides, the freedom of slaves, or the freedom to own slaves." A member of COA's first entering class, Kunhardt is accustomed to wrestling with complex issues. After completing his senior project, "Human Ecology and Christianity," he went to divinity school and currently serves as an Episcopal priest on the staff of St. Mark's Church in Mt. Kisco, New York, and as a trustee of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. He coauthored Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography, P.T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman and The American President. As a partner in Kunhardt Productions, he wrote and co-produced the ABC mini-series Lincoln, Discovery's Barnum documentary and PBS's The American President. Having the confidence to start things up is one legacy of COA, Kunhardt says. Others are the ability to see the large picture, to understand the inherent complexities of an issue and to synthesize knowledge from many sources. Yet one additional inheritance is Kunhardt's eagerness to take a concept-be it freedom or human ecology-and examine it from all angles. Earlier in this issue, Ed Kaelber noted, "If you're really going to deal with the problems [of the environment], you're going to have to train people with a new point of view." COA will be following Kunhardt as he applies that theory to freedom, offering new ways of looking at this essential human right from around the globe. COA 65 Non-Profit U.S.Postage College of the Atlantic PAID life changing. world changing. Augusta, ME Permit No.121 105 EDEN STREET BAR HARBOR, MAINE 04609