THE PHOENIX FUND PROGRESS REPORT NEWS OF THE PROGRAM TO REBUILD COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC VOLUME 1 NUMBER 1 FEBRUARY 1985 Dr. Thomas S. Hall, to assure that the architecture of the new buildings and surrounding landscaping would Chairman of the Board, work with the existing buildings and exterior spaces. The spectacular site overlooking the ocean, introduces Phoenix Fund composed of nineteenth century formal gardens and terrain, both natural and man-made, is Progress Report fundamental to the overall concept of the plan. "The master planning process was an oppor- The Phoenix Fund Progress Report is a newsletter tunity to build on the existing academic programs designed to keep you-alumni, parents, and other and the in-place physical campus elements, and to good friends of COA-informed of the progress of resolve some of the conflicts inherent in the orig- the Phoenix Fund and the rebuilding program. inal ad-hoc layout of the College," Mr. Scully ex- As most of you know, on July 25, 1983, Kaelber plained. "Effort was made throughout to consis- Hall, the center of campus activity since the tently maintain the interdisciplinary mix which is key College's inception, was totally destroyed by a fire to the COA philosophy of bringing ideas together that began in the early hours of that morning. By rather than separating by disciplines. mid-afternoon, the Board of Trustees had gathered "Several mixed-use buildings are more appro- in an emergency meeting to assess the physical priate to the needs and image of the College than loss and decide a course of action. one larger building," said Mr. Scully. "This ap- Within days of Within days a new vision of COA began to proach is also more appropriate to the sequencing the fire a new emerge. In the smoldering ruins, a parallel was of buildings dictated by the financial realities of vision of COA seen between the ecology of a forest regenerating the College in its rebuilding process. Equally, sev- began to after a fire and COA's future. At the time of the eral smaller buildings lend themselves more read- emerge. fire, literature instructor Susan Lerner pointed out ily to the use of passive solar energy for heating that the Chinese character for the word "crisis" is and for the provision of energy-saving daylight a combination of the signs for danger and oppor- evenly to the spaces. tunity, with the emphasis on opportunity. A tragic "The fire created a huge void in the middle of situation created the opportunity to design and the campus. Ironically, that void opened all eyes build new facilities to better serve the College's to the full wonder of the view to the ocean. The educational mission. best site can be lost by putting a building on it. It A three-year intensive capital campaign to raise is often better to construct a building adjacent to $5 million was organized. The Phoenix Fund, the site in order to preserve its quality." named for the legendary bird who was consumed The planning has shifted the focus of activities by fire and rose from its own ashes, was officially slightly to the south, toward The Turrets, and has launched at a meeting of the Board of Trustees in attempted to leave the northern area undisturbed, New York City on November 15, 1983. as an heirloom too important to be used other Through the The Phoenix Fund is the medium through which the than as it is now. Phoenix Fund College will gain the necessary funds to rebuild the "Previously, there was a perceived distance COA will gain campus and achieve long-term financial stability. between Kaelber Hall and The Turrets," said the necessary As you will see in this first report, substantial Mr. Scully. "Now emphasis is placed on coordi- funds to rebuild progress has been made in the initial year of fund- nating the administrative offices in The Turrets the campus. raising and the first stage of rebuilding is underway. with academic activities and several key class- We hope you will follow our progress with interest rooms. Also, as with the new auditorium, The and give your support to the Phoenix Fund over the next several years. Tom Hall Thomas S. Hall, Ph.D. Chairman of the Board of Trustees The architecture of the new buildings and Master plan approved landscaping is designed to A master plan for the rebuilding program of work with exist- College of the Atlantic was enthusiastically ap- ing buildings proved by the Board of Trustees at their annual and exterior meeting on August 14, 1984. Architect Dan Scully spaces. of Scully/Monahon, Architects designed the plan Architect's plans for Kaelber Hall complex И Turrets is at the edge of the core campus and collection of books to be expanded to 50,000 vol- serves as public and campus meeting area. The umes compared to the former 16,000. Soundproof lower lawn between Kaelber Hall and the Ocean audio-visual booths and reading carrels will pro- serves to connect the two buildings. Rather than vide more than three times the study space for- the existing steep grade, the path will be across merly available. The shingled architectural style is level ground. Year-round vertical access from the consistent with the extraordinary architectural lower lawn to the upper grade elevation of heritage of Mount Desert Island. The location of Kaelber Hall will be made possible by a stairway the proposed auditorium establishes an access to It is hoped that and elevator to all three levels." Kaelber Hall along the north side of the renovated construction of With this master plan, the new Kaelber Hall will Carriage House, now science and art studios. the Kaelber Hall be the functional center of the campus; the new Mr. Scully has been working on the design complex can Thorndike Library will encompass the entire top development for Kaelber Hall and expects to com- begin in floor. In the library, an airy and spacious reading plete this phase in February. It is hoped that the September. room and porch will offer extraordinary views of construction phase can begin in September 1985, Frenchman Bay. Central, yet quiet, the library's provided the $2,400,000 needed to build Kaelber greatly enlarged stacks will allow the permanent Hall and the library has been raised. 11 10 10 6 1 10 2 9 10 3 8 5 4 7 10 Master Plan for rebuilding College of the Atlantic as proposed by Dan Scully of Scully/Monahon, Architects. 1 Kaelber Hall 2 Thorndike Library 3 Gates Auditorium 4 Science Labs 5 Visual Arts Studios 6 Turrets-Administration 7 Pottery/Kiln 8 Wood Shop 9 Maintenance 10 Housing 11 Pier Dan Scully, Architecture Magazine and won the award for the Best Built Institutional/Commercial building at the architect for 1980 International Passive Solar Energy Conference. Mr. Scully was awarded a Prix de Rome Fellowship in 1969. In 1977 he was selected to "40 rebuilding under 40" in Architecture & Urbanism Magazine. He was a member of the Board of Directors of program Total Environmental Action, Inc., from 1978-1981 and was vice president for Design. Dan Scully of Scully/Monahon, Architects, Mr. Scully's academic and institutional projects Peterborough, New Hampshire, was originally have included renovation of the energy education Mr. Scully's hired to design a new auditorium. After the fire, facility at the Fireboat House in New York City work includes Mr. Scully was asked to design a master plan to and renovation of the Music and Arts Center at extensive rebuild College of the Atlantic. Mr. Scully, who the Dwight Englewood School in New Jersey. Mr. experience in received his Masters of Architecture from Yale in Scully, who designed a house for Northeast solar and aca- 1970, has had extensive experience in solar and Utilities, Inc. Project Solar in Connecticut, says he demic design. academic design. prefers to use architecture to solve energy problems His designs have been published in national and rather than use mechanical systems to solve international magazines and in 1972 Mr. Scully problems created by the architecture. was awarded the Progressive Architecture An industrial process building designed by Mr. Magazine Annual Design Citation. His design for Scully as a pilot project for the EPA to clean up the Flat Rock Brook Nature Center in Englewood, one of the worst EPA Superfund hazardous waste New Jersey, was also published in Progressive sites is currently under construction. are proud to have pledges or gifts from every Brecher and Hyman member of our Board of Trustees. We also have proceed with plans pledges totaling approximately "$30,000 from our alumni-almost one-third of their $100,000, three- year goal-and only 40% of the 250 alumni were Building plans submitted by Stewart Brecher, contacted during the first alumni phonathon in architect, and Harris Hyman, P.E., received full March 1984." approval and support of the Board of Trustees at "The Phoenix Fund is crucial to the future well- their annual meeting in August. The proposal for being of the College," adds Mrs. Eno. "It is essential Carriage House renovation included new laborato- that we maintain the enthusiasm and momentum ries, a new and larger greenhouse, new north and that we have achieved SO far." south entrances, and remodeled design studio and classrooms. Hyman and Brecher, both COA facul- ty members, were authorized to complete working $100,000 gift received drawings and specifications which are scheduled to go out to bid early this year. Construction is from Salad King slated to begin this spring. Funded by a grant from the Pew Memorial A major gift of $100,000 was received by the Trust, laboratory construction was actually begun College for the Phoenix Fund from Salad King, in the summer of 1983 before the fire. That project Inc., a company founded by Actor Paul Newman. involved only a new second floor above the "This extremely generous gift, arriving one year Carriage House, creating two labs and four offices. after the fire, is not only a significant addition to Work was halted after the fire, pending reevalua- the rebuilding fund, but heartening to the entire tion of the College's entire building program. COA Commu- By the spring of 1984, Architect Dan Scully had nity," said developed a master plan for construction at COA. Charles Hesse, After reviewing the original plans for the new vice president labs, Scully concluded that they were consistent for Development with the new master plan and Brecher and and Public Hyman were again hired to proceed with the de- Affairs. sign. By then the project included office and stor- In announcing age space as well as four new labs. It had also the gift, Hesse become necessary to develop new entrance noted, "Mr. and systems and plan major renovations in order to Mrs. Newman meet fire and accessibility guidelines and to have shown a produce a cost-effective building. growing interest The extensive Carriage House renovation will re- in COA over the quire changes in other existing campus facilities. past two years. Projected plans for the COA campus this year in- Their support volve moving the present Building and Grounds and encourage- Shop to a site east of the Woodworking Shop; the ment are truly Pottery Studio will move to the existing Green- appreciated." house; and the Greenhouse will be relocated to the All profits from Salad King, the parent company glass-enclosed addition on the south side of the for Mr. Newman's line of "Newman's Own" salad Carriage House. dressings and sauces, are donated to charity. Phoenix Fund co-chairs The Phoenix Fund report on progress Campaign and plans Co-chairs Lawrence C. Hadley and Mrs. Amos GOAL: $5,000,000 Eno have announced that over $1.67 million has been raised in the first year of the Phoenix Fund Faculty Fire Fund $75,000 Campaign. Thorndike Library 1,100,000 "Our goal was $1,600,000 in gifts and pledges by Thomas S. Gates Jr. Auditorium 1,200,000 January 31, 1985, marking the conclusion of the Kaelber Hall Complex 1,300,000 Special Gifts Phase," reports Mrs. Eno. "Although Campus Planning and Improvements 525,000 we will continue to seek special gifts during the Capital Endowment 500,000 entire campaign, we are preparing to reach out to Phoenix Fund Campaign Costs 300,000 a much larger group of prospects during the second phase which begins in February." TOTAL $5,000,000 According to Mr. Hadley, a concerted effort will be made in 1985 to seek grants from foundations and businesses. The Faculty Fund will help ten faculty members "We expect to complete our appeal to local busi- begin to replace their libraries and teaching/ nesses by the spring of 1985," says Mr. Hadley. "It research materials that were lost in the fire. Some is important to demonstrate strong support from faculty received partial compensation from their the community when we approach prospective own insurance; others none. Individually and donors outside the area. For example, we cumulatively, their losses were enormous. The Thorndike Library, named after R. Amory Mr. Robert H. Kanzler and Elizabeth Thorndike, longtime supporters of Mrs. William F. Newbold the College and its library, will replace the library Mr. Charles R. Tyson lost in the fire. It will house an expanded 50,000 volume permanent collection of books, as well as Phoenix Fund Subcommittees classroom and study space, an audio-visual room, and a library-related computer facility. Funds for Mount Desert Island the new library will also be used to restore the Mr. Leslie C. Brewer collection and equipment lost in the fire. Dr. Christopher Brigham The Thomas S. Gates Jr. Auditorium, to be Mr. F. T. Brown named for the College's late Board Chairman and Mr. John Fernald Jr. longtime national public servant, will include a Mr. Lawrence C. Hadley 300-seat auditorium with a stage and projection Mr. H. Lee Judd booth, a dance/exercise area, and supporting fa- Mrs. Harold MacQuinn cilities. Developed for use by both the College and Mr. William McFarland the Island community, the Gates Auditorium will Mr. David B. Paine fill a longstanding need for a meeting, conference, Mr. Michael Smith and performance center. Mr. Robert Suminsby The new Kaelber Hall complex will provide Mrs. Helmut Weber classrooms, kitchen and dining, and science facilities. Although the science laboratories were Alumni only damaged by the fire, they are inadequate for Mr. Wells Bacon the College's growing teaching and research pro- Mr. Bruce Bender grams in environmental science, marine studies, Mr. John Biderman and natural history. The fire halted construction Mr. William Ginn of new laboratory space in a wing of Kaelber Hall; Ms. Sue Inches a trailer is temporarily providing some of this Ms. Megan Godfrey Kraus needed space. Planning and Endowment Funds have been Parents included within the Phoenix Fund Campaign to Mr. Louis Gerald insure that these new College facilities will be part of Mr. and Mrs. Gerrish H. Milliken a carefully designed campus and that permanent funds Mr. and Mrs. Henry Owen will be available to maintain them in the future. Ms. Joanne Woodward Phoenix Fund Foundations and Corporations Mr. Robert H. Kanzler committee members Mrs. William F. Newbold Mr. Charles R. Tyson Phoenix Fund Committee Mrs. Amos Eno, Co-chair Mr. Lawrence C. Hadley, Co-chair All gifts to College of the Atlantic are tax de- Mr. Bruce Bender ductible within provisions of the Internal Revenue Mr. Edward McC. Blair Service Regulations. For further information, write Mrs. Frederic E. Camp the Development Office, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609, or call 207/288-5015. Mr. William G. Foulke Mrs. Thomas S. 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