COA Volume 1 Number 2 SUMMER 2005 The College of the Atlantic Magazine COA MISSION COA ~ LETTER FROM THE EDITOR College of the Atlantic enriches the liberal arts tradition through It's summer at COA and the campus has blos- a distinctive educational philo- somed. Between the Touchstones outdoor sophy-human ecology. A human ecological perspective integrates sculpture exhibit and Eamonn Hutton's resur- knowledge from all academic rection of Turrets Sea Side Garden, COA is a disciplines and from personal wonder to explore. Sculptures, flowers, but- experience to investigate, and terflies and birds of a summer's day grant the ultimately improve, the relation- ships between human beings college a sense of overwhelming plenty. and our social and natural com- The sense of plenty is also present even munities. The human ecological during those dark February weeks when the perspective guides all aspects sun never seems to rise, but the campus of education, research, activism and interactions among the teems with student activity and COA visitors. college's students, faculty, One such week last winter, artist Robert staff and trustees. The College Shetterly presented the series of portraits he of the Atlantic community en- has been touring around the country, courages, prepares and expects Americans Who Tell the Truth. Along with his images of Walt Whitman, students to gain the expertise, breadth, values and practical Sojourner Truth, Amy Goodman ('79), and other heros of the nation, experience necessary to achieve was a painting of educator and education critic Jonathan Kozol, cham- individual fulfillment and to help pion of the right of all Americans, rich and poor, urban, suburban and solve problems that challenge rural, to get a genuine education. I am perhaps betraying my urban communities everywhere. background, but when I saw his image, I realized that I found what I had COVER IMAGE: missed in the rhetoric of the day: who looks to the children? More par- Gathering Storm, Ocean Drive 2003 ticularly, the children of the inner city? I decided that in this issue I by COA art professor Ernest McMullen. Oil on canvas, 30" X 40". would feature COA alumni engaged in what I considered the most essential work of the world: educating the next generation. INSIDE FRONT COVER: Jim Cole has been doing that for fifteen years in the heart of New Queen's Scepter by Constance Rush, part of the Touchstones show on York City. Ed Haynsworth, who wrote about Jim, has just begun. They're exhibit on campus through making a difference where the living is not always easy or elegant. But September 30, 2005. Photo by Mauro Carballo '07. what is truly amazing, what eclipses even the bounty of a COA summer, is that each of these alumni has turned the story around. They talk not BACK COVER: about what they do, but what they have learned-beginning with COA The View from Above: A watercolor plan of Turrets Sea Side Garden and continuing with the students that sit in front of them right now. And by Eamonn Hutton '05. so, in this community's ongoing quest to understand what it is we are Watercolor, 9.5" X 11". saying when we speak of human ecology, the sense of plenty at COA In fulfillment of his senior project, expands even further, for as Father Jim Gower explains and our faculty Eamonn Hutton '05 spent more than a year renewing the 4,000-square- members demonstrate in the following pages, what human ecology is foot Turrets Sea Side Garden, about is the search, the flower that continues to blossom, layer after researching its needs, designing layer of petals revealing new depths and further connections. beds, and planting flowers appropriate to the garden's history and location, perched on a ledge ~ Donna Gold over Frenchman Bay. Editor, COA features COA The College of the Atlantic Magazine Volume 1 Number 2 SUMMER 2005 EDITOR Donna Gold EDITORIAL BOARD Making Things Happen ~ p. 12 Sarah Barrett '08 Richard J. Borden Life Trustee Edward McC. Blair Nicholas Brazier '06 David Camp Noreen Hogan '91 Poetry ~ p. 14 Shawn Keeley '00 Poems by Elizabeth Bachner-Forrest '96 Andrea Lepcio '79 EDITORIAL CONSULTANT Bill Carpenter Repetition Produces Results ~ p. 16 ALUMNI CONSULTANTS Nishad Jayasundara '05 takes on diabetes Jill Barlow-Kelley Shawn Keeley '00 Human Ecology in Action ~ p. 20 COPY EDITOR Making a Difference in New York City: Jim Cole '89 Jennifer Hughes PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSISTANT Form, Light and Spirit ~ p. 26 Mauro Carballo '07 Paintings of Mount Desert Island by Ernest McMullen DESIGN Mahan Graphics PRINTING BY Checking Myself ~ p. 30 JS McCarthy Printers, Augusta, Maine Short story by Charles Bishop '07 "The only thing I'm interested in is starting a COA ADMINISTRATION TRUSTEES Steven Katona Ronald E. Beard college for peace" ~ p. 34 President Edward McC. Blair, Sr. A conversation with Father Jim Gower Life Trustee Karen Waldron Kelly Dickson '97 Academic Dean, Alice Eno Human Ecology and the Spirit ~ p. 36 Associate Dean for Faculty David H. Fischer John Anderson William G. Foulke, Jr. COA's ongoing dialogue on the meaning of human ecology Associate Dean for James M. Gower Advanced Studies Life Trustee George B. E. Hambleton Andrew Campbell Sherry F. Huber Associate Dean for departments John N. Kelly Student Life Elizabeth & Peter Loring David Feldman Susan Storey Lyman Associate Dean for Life Trustee Community Voices Academic Affairs Suzanne Folds p. 2 McCullagh Kenneth Hill Sarah A. McDaniel '93 COA Beat p. 3 Associate Dean for Jay McNally '84 Academic Services Stephen Milliken Class Notes p. 40 Daniel Pierce BOARD OF TRUSTEES Helen Porter Samuel M. Hamill, Jr. Faculty Notes p. 44 Cathy L. Ramsdell '78 Chairman John Reeves Elizabeth D. Hodder John Rivers Community Notes p. 46 Vice Chair Hamilton Robinson, Jr. Walter Robinson, M.D. Casey Mallinckrodt Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. Vice Chair Life Trustee William V. P. Newlin Clyde E. Shorey, Jr. Secretary Donald B. Straus Life Trustee Remembering ~ p. 48 Leslie C. Brewer Ann F. Sullivan Treasurer Mitchell Carter '80, Rebecca Clark '96 Cody van Heerden John Wilmerding Student Perspective at College of the Atlantic's The COA Magazine is published twice each year 33rd Commencement ~ p. 49 for the College of the Atlantic community. Please direct correspondence to: Nishad Jayasundara '05 COA Magazine College of the Atlantic 105 Eden Street Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 Phone: (207) 288-5015 email: dgold@coa.edu www.coa.edu This publication is printed on recycled paper. Chlorine free, acid free manufacturing process.