Members of the Deception Island Hot Tub Club on their way to the swimming area in Pendulum Cove, Antarctica. From the exhibition "Appropriating Antarctica: Photographs by Dawn-Starr Crowther." INSIDE: COA NEWS Middle East 2 Reducing Poverty 4 SPRING 1994 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC BAR HARBOR, MAINE Ten Days on a Reef 5 Re-framing Antarctica: White Lies, Eco- COA On the Move tourism and the White Continent by 6 Dawn-Starr Crowther Watsons December 30, 1991 ble in these moonscapes are those damn red coats, and 8-9 Today I became aware of my fellow passengers, clad in the mountains of abandoned how urgently I feel the need ship-issued scarlet parkas. junk left behind by previous New Trustees to photograph these land- There is a kind of despera- human activities. 10 scapes. While ashore, I slog tion bubbling along inside me But there is something Artists-in-Residence here and there, lugging two as I photograph. At first, I more insidious at work here, I 11 35 mm cameras, a medium thought it had to do with the fear. I am too much the prod- format camera, several lenses, fact that every time I set up to uct of a late 20th-century art Museum News miscellaneous photographic make a picture, some tourist school education and its 13 paraphernalia and a ten in a bright red parka bum- accompanying theoretical In Memoriam pound tripod, more than thir- bled into the frame just as I baggage, not to recognize 14-15 ty pounds total. I am pho- snapped the shutter. After something in my own photo- tographing in color because several days of frustration, I Personnel Notes graphic activity akin to that of the landscapes are so mono- 18-19 realized that instead of trying colonial photography from chromatic and any spot of to make pictures of the vast the late 19th century. News Notes color glows like a beacon. untouched continent I had We now know, all too well, 20 Except for their beaks and assumed Antarctica to be, I how photographs have in the feet, which range from bril- COA Bookshelf needed to be true to my expe- past-and still do-function as liant life-preserver orange to 21 rience of the place. That a means of appropriating and salmon pink, even the pen- included tourists like myself, claiming a landscape or Up and Coming guins are black and white. In wandering through the land- indigenous people (and to my 24 fact, the brightest items visi- scape, visible for miles in continued on page 11 COA News A Note from the Editor The Newsletter of College of the Atlantic Since the college was founded and the shores of Antarctica Balkans, tribal warfare in Kenya Spring 1994 25 years ago, COA News has with Dawn-Starr Crowther, vis- or Somalia, or the colonial grown from a four-page iting artist at COA this spring. destruction of native civilizations. newsletter to a 24-page publi- And you'll read about some of But Human Ecology is also PRESIDENT cation. The newsletter has the educational trips made by Rabin and Arafat shaking Steven K. Katona served the greater COA com- college classes this winter. hands, and millions of people CHAIRMAN OF THE munity well, covering the col- yearning and working for peace, BOARD OF TRUSTEES lege and its ever-growing In his inauguration speech equality and freedom of opportu- Edward McC. Blair bounty of activities and this past October, Steve nity. accomplishments. Katona, the fourth president DEAN OF INSTITUTIONAL While the newsletter will of College of the Atlantic, As we go to press, the college ADVANCEMENT continue to provide the news spoke in a compelling manner mourns the passing of John C. Karen Cadbury from the shores of Frenchman about the mission of the col- Dreier, a life trustee of Col- EDITOR: Carl Little Bay, with this issue we will lege, its past, present and lege of the Atlantic. Through make some preliminary moves future, and of its hopes and his distinguished career and WRITERS: Karen Siegwald, toward expanding its hori- dreams and challenges. the classes he taught at the Elizabeth Bachner-Forrest, zons. Thus, feature articles In talking about Human college, Dreier instilled many Marti Garza, Sharon Reiser, include essays on the Middle Ecology, the foundation of a student and colleague with a Carl Little East peace process and reduc- studies at College of the sense of the world beyond ing worldwide poverty. These Atlantic, President Katona Mount Desert Island. Yet he Special thanks to Karen Cadbury. pieces were written by two of provided the audience with also acted locally, serving, for COA News is published three the college's distinguished some very powerful answers to example, as tree warden in times a year. It is circulated to trustees, award-winning jour- the oft-asked question, "What Southwest Harbor where he alumni, students, parents, nalists Philip Geyelin and is Human Ecology?" One of worked to save the ailing elms. and friends of Leonard Silk, who have spent his answers seems especially We dedicate this issue to College of the Atlantic. lifetimes covering their respec- relevant to this issue of the John C. Dreier (1907-1994), PRINTER tive subjects. college's newsletter: benefactor, educator, diplo- In this issue, you'll also mat and great friend of Col- Downeast Printing and Graphics have an opportunity to visit a Today, if anyone asks you lege of the Atlantic. reef off of Key Largo with what Human Ecology is, you can DESIGNER Chris Peterson, who teaches tell them that it is Kuwaiti oil Carl Little, Editor Z Studio marine ecology at the college, fields ablaze, ethnic hatred in the COA's logo: So What, Who Cares: Some Thoughts What does it mean? on Peace in the Middle East by Philip Geyelin On November 3, 1993, Philip nary developments of the last "Who cares?" Or, perhaps, Geyelin, trustee of College of the several months. Yet that is the "Why am I taking this ride?" Atlantic and a Pulitzer prize- topic of discussion that has These are not silly ques- winning journalist, led a discus- been proposed to me-and as tions. It is easier to say "so sion at the college on current somebody who is writing a what" now, with the fizzling Mary K. Eliot designed the events in the Middle East. book about the region and out of the Cold War, when COA logo in 1971 using pre- Geyelin, who is writing a biogra- has wandered out there quite there is no longer the danger Christian symbols found in the phy of King Hussein of Jordan, a bit, the subject strikes me as of a shoot-out in the Middle Book of Signs. was invited to speak by Donald a good one. East triggering a nuclear con- It does, however, take me frontation between the Sovi- Meiklejohn, faculty member in h back to my journalistic child- ets and the United States as public policy at the college. What follows is an excerpt of hood with the Wall Street Jour- there was most notably in Geyelin's remarks, which, despite nal, where the editors had a 1956 and 1973. Nobody can is the symbol for tree the passage of time, remain perti- stern rule that is as valid for talk seriously any longer nent to the ongoing peace process what I am trying to do right about Israel as a "strategic in the Middle East. now as it was for the writing ally." If Desert Storm proved of those long, expository nothing else, it demonstrated for humans and Bass Harbor, Maine, from pieces on the Journal's page that we look after our own where I am sitting right now one. Somewhere very high in interests-and, for that matter, putting these words into a any story-no later than the Israel's, even if those Patriot computer, has an obstructed third paragraph-the writer missiles may have done more for the ocean. view of Blue Hill Bay. It is not must give the reader some harm than good in shielding The three signs are intertwined what you might call the opti- reason for wanting to proceed Israel from Iraqi Scuds. It is in a circle symbolizing the mum vantage point from any further. It was known as easier to say "who cares" earth and the universe. which to assess the chances the "So what?" paragraph, when those Persian Gulf oil for peace in the Middle East although it could just as well resources are no longer a printed on recycled paper in the light of the extraordi- have addressed the question, continued on page 3 COA NEWS 2 SPRING 1994 Geyelin, from page 2 pawn in a global super-power struggle. The answer to the ques- tions is to be found, I would argue, in a hard look at what prompted two of the world's most bitter enemies-Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization-to allow them- selves to be enticed, first into cautious and tentative prob- ings under Norwegian aus- pices, then into a year of the most delicate, difficult and super-secret negotiations. And, finally, to the enormous step of mutually recognizing each other as legitimate part- ners in an agreement that will put the practice of autonomy on trial in the Gaza Strip and Jericho as a prelude to its wider application throughout AP WIDE WORLD PHOTOS/RON EDMONDS the West Bank territories. On its face, this is only an experiment, to be sure. But it is also the start of something President Bill Clinton gestures as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, left, and Palestine Libera- that could lead not only to tion Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands after signing a peace accord, September 13, autonomy-which is to say 1993, on the South Lawn of the White House. home rule-throughout the Israeli-occupied territories, but, at the end of the road, Islamic Fundamentalism is Often lumped as well put his own leadership at risk just conceivably, to an inde- rooted in a profound frustra- under the general heading of by recognizing the Zionist pendent Palestinian state. tion, which is the father of Islamic Fundamentalism is enemy his organization was fanaticism or fatalism or some Hamas, a relatively new, radi- on record as being sworn to The Rabin-Arafat handshake, combination of both. Indeed, cal, extremist organization drive into the sea, then they then, could be the beginning it is not all whose creation was the conse- both must have perceived an of a very big deal. Rapproche- It is not that far quence of the sudden, unex- alternative that was more dan- ment could have only hap- removed pected outbreak in 1987 of gerous to the stability of the pened as a consequence of possible to from the what was called the Intifadah, region than their long-rang- something close to despera- tion on both sides-a sense of ignore responses a self-started flash fire that ing animosity. we see in spread across the tinder of a shared peril about a force as the "so this coun- the occupied territories, leap- It is not possible to ignore threatening, in its way, to the try to the ing from Gaza to the West the "so what" if the Gaza/Jeri- stability of the region and to what" appeal of Bank. The Intifadah led to cho experiment fails. Pales- each side's interests as the multi-mil- the creation of Hamas which, tinian as well as Israeli moder- more familiar dangers inher- if the lionaire TV whether by mass arrests, ation will be discredited. The ent in their ancient Middle Gaza/ evangelists. deportation or increased game will go over to the radi- East quarrel, or in the pres- What is application of force, the cals and the extremists on sures of the Cold War. Jericho popularly Israelis could not crush. both sides, and history tells us The force, it seems reason- called The result, for Israel, was that they will inflame each able to say, is what is all too experiment Islamic at least the impression of other. One can already see loosely known as Islamic Fun- Fundamen- powerlessness. For Arafat, the the fundamentalist challenge damentalism. Islamic Funda- fails. talism in result became an impression to a friendly Egyptian govern- mentalism is too often spoken the Middle of irrelevance to his own ment at peace with Israel. I see no need to labor fur- of as if it were a widely shared East is reg- cause. Thus for two entirely theology or a monolithic ularly associated with the different reasons did two old ther with the argument that movement organized or even mass movement in worship of enemies find, in Hamas, a there's a lot riding on this lat- orchestrated from some the Ayatollah Khomeini in common enemy and, out of est peace process-and a lot power center. What it is-or Iran. It is the sudden emer- that discovery, develop a com- about it that is perhaps more what the Arabists I tend to gence, in Lebanon, of Hezbul- mon interest. promising even than the his- trust tell me it is-more close- lah, the Party of God, an If Rabin and his cohorts in toric breakthrough at Camp ly resembles a state of mind indigenous, extremist the Labor Government could David. Indeed, a case can be that can show itself in many response to the excesses of bring themselves to cut even made that this opportunity different ways at different the Israeli invasion of the beginnings of a deal with for rapprochement is funda- times for different reasons. Lebanon. Arafat, and if Arafat could continued on page 17 COA NEWS 3 SPRING 1994 Reducing Poverty: Solution to Planetary Crisis by Leonard Silk Former economics columnist for the faith that, by working The New York Times, Dr. together, we can overcome Leonard Silk is currently Senior the dangers people all over Research Fellow of the Ralph the world are facing. Bunche Institute on the United Nations at the Graduate School Reducing poverty is central of the City University of New to the solution of the plane- York and Distinguished Professor tary crisis. As important as of Economics at Pace University. overall economic growth is to reducing poverty, it is not, in He recently co-edited A World itself, sufficient. For econom- Fit for People, published by ic growth can be accompa- New York University Press in nied either by a widening or a cooperation with the United narrowing of the gaps Nations. between rich and poor Dr. Silk has been a trustee of nations, and between groups College of the Atlantic since 1985. This winter, he was a Dis- "The Future of Democracy and PHOTO KAREN SIEGWALD within a nation. Poverty is not just physical, tinguished Visiting Lecturer for but also social and psychologi- cal, and so is wealth. Wealth Economics," a course co-taught translates into power, and by fellow trustee Donald Straus poverty into helplessness and and third-year student Sara Yas- subjection; hence, poverty for ner. During his residency Dr. Trustee Dr. Leonard Silk talks about the Clinton administration the masses means shame, Silk gave a public talk on "The in the McCormick Lecture Hall. humiliation, degradation, Clinton Administration's Eco- depression, finally rage. nomic and Foreign Policy Goals." are sweeping over national resources and the environ- In the worst cases, poverty borders and shrinking the ment. takes the form of crime, vio- The hopes for "a new world globe, the forces of industrial- With all the advances in lence, abuse-abuse of others and of oneself. In even the order" of peace and stability ization, population growth scientific and technical knowl- that followed the end of the edge, even the least cynical richest countries, like the and political disintegration Cold War and the Gulf War are worsening world poverty are losing faith in our ability United States, the daily news is full of incidents and have given way to fears that and hunger, breeding con- to cope with the complex cri- flicts among ethnic groups sis-or host of interrelated episodes displaying the we are returning to a world of disorder and social conflict and nations, and increasing crises-we are now facing. entire, diverse pathology of that is bringing out the worst pressures on natural Our greatest need is to regain poverty. Conversely, in rich continued on page 16 in people all around the world. One is compelled to remember the cynical dictum COA Receives Five-Year Development Grant of Adolf Hitler: "Why babble about brutality and be indig- "College of the Atlantic serve anticipated enrollment feature state-of-the-art connec- nant about tortures? The received a major vote of confi- growth. tions to national and interna- masses want that. They need dence as an educational lead- Academic Dean Richard tional organizations, including something that will give them er in the field of human ecolo- Borden said the grant is "the libraries, research centers, and a thrill of horror." gy when it was awarded a fed- most significant support the government and environmen- The United Nations was eral grant of $1.7 million." So college has ever received for tal agencies. The college's created to prevent such a ran the opening of an article curriculum development." career counseling service will world of cynicism and brutali- in the Bangor Daily News on Nine new faculty members also be expanded. ty from ever returning. Is this September 17, announcing will be hired in conjunction According to head of gov- world already back? In the the award of a five-year with the development of pro- ernment relations Ted Koff- midst of the preparatory con- "strengthening grant" by the grams in environmental com- man, who oversaw the writing ferences for the World Sum- Department of Education munication and literature, sus- mit for Social Development, through the Title III Develop- tainable economic develop- of the grant, the Department of Education received Title III one cannot escape the anxiety ing Institutions Program. ment, microbial ecology and that we are facing a crisis as COA President Steve field studies. Searches for five applications from 378 colleges dangerous as the one that Katona called the grant "one new faculty members are cur- and universities throughout gave rise to social despair, of the most exciting opportu- rently under way. the United States and the economic hardship, fascism nities and challenges in the The Title III grant covers Trust Territories. College of and war little more than half history of the college." He the purchasing of equipment the Atlantic was one of 59 a century ago. noted that the grant proposal for new courses and existing institutions chosen for fund- For, despite the astonishing outlines curricular and pro- programs at the college. The ing after a rigorous peer changes in economic develop- gram developments that must grant will help establish a review selection process. ment, world trade, communi- be undertaken in order for comprehensive campus-wide cations and technology that the college to continue to computer network that will COA NEWS 4 SPRING 1994 Ten Days on a Reef: An Undersea Odyssey by Christopher Petersen This past October, Dr. Christo- pher Petersen, faculty member in marine ecology at College of the Atlantic, led a ten-day underwa- ter research project on Conch Reef off of Key Largo, Florida. Eight scientists were involved, from Stanford University, Florida State University, and the Univer- sity of California at Davis, Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara, along with a 12-person support crew. Four researchers worked from the shore, making daily boat excur- sions to the reef, while the remaining four, including Dr. Petersen, stayed in the habitat Aquarius, an undersea laborato- ry currently resting in 47 feet of water on Conch Reef. The group's research focused on fertilization dynamics of tropi- cal reef fishes and was sponsored by the National Undersea The habitat Aquarius, an undersea laboratory, in drydock. Photo courtesy National Undersea Research Center at the University Research Center, University of North Carolina at Wilmington. of North Carolina at Wilming- ton, one of several research sta- Reef, our bodies quickly satu- retreat to the bunk area to clean and dry, aquanauts pass tions supported by the National rated with nitrogen, making find some privacy from fellow through a small science labo- Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin- unplanned ascents to the sur- scientists and from the view- ratory containing microscopes istration's Undersea Research face impossible. However, ers above. and video equipment. This Program. instead of feeling restricted, Using the habitat as our section of the habitat also What follows are Dr. Petersen's we felt liberated from the sur- home base, we made excur- houses the toilet, which works notes on his undersea experience. face and quickly grew accus- sions to many locations on the with a vacuum system and is Our mission using the habi- tomed to diving in and out of reef, guided by polypropylene used very carefully. our small "highways." We often spent The next chamber is the tat Aquarius involved studying apart- the greater part of the day main lock, which contains the mating success in tropical reef and evening in the water, living area and communica- ment. fishes. Specifically this Instead of using an unlimited supply of tions center. The last section Dur- research investigated the tim- feeling air found at scuba tank chang- is the sleeping quarters, con- ing and behavior of fish ing our ing stations placed next to the sisting of six berths barely spawning, and to what degree ten-day restricted in reef at our study sites. In this able to accommodate our uni- fish are successful at fertiliza- stay, we way, we were able to make formly 5'8" frames. tion in natural conditions. our small relied on many observations of fish Soon we fell into a pattern This information is critical for the courtship and spawning from of work, treating the habitat understanding the dynamics apartment, resources dawn to dusk, which would more like a convenient sci- of fish populations, but it has of a sur- been overlooked in the past we felt have been impossible had we ence lab and apartment than face team been diving from the surface. as an underwater chamber due to the fact that scientists liberated to pro- We observed spawning in a filled with gas lines and valves. couldn't spend long periods vide the wide variety of reef fishes, Changing tanks underwater of time at the appropriate from the needed from damselfish at dawn to became routine, and the work depths collecting the neces- life and goatfish, tilefish, seabasses resembled our snorkeling sary data. surface. science and anglefish at dusk. Almost experiences except that we The Aquarius is a unique support. all of the data we collected were in 80 feet of water research platform for living They had not been reported before instead of eight. and working under water, in the scientific literature. We noticed several brought food to us in "pots," when long periods of diving at changes in both our bodies large sealed containers that Life in Aquarius is both com- moderate depths (60-120 feet) and surroundings during our looked like pressure cookers, fortable and challenging. underwater stay. For example, are required. A diver from the and which occasionally leaked. Entering into the habitat from it took several days to acclima- surface can spend about one The price we paid for this sup- an open hatch on the bottom tize to breathing the dense hour diving safely at 60 feet; port was a videocamera that side, you emerge into the wet air-at first you felt as if you we could spend eight hours at almost constantly monitored porch, where diving gear is were experiencing a smoggy that depth every day. scientists in the habitat. More rinsed and stored, and where Living at 47 feet on Conch than once a researcher would there is a hot shower. Once continued on page 16 COA NEWS 5 SPRING 1994 College of the Atlantic on the Move This past winter several College of issues. Ethics," held on January 20-22 up for a trip to Boston in the Atlantic classes took to the road The visit grew out of Cline's at the Nova Scotia Agricultural February. The 28 students vis- on educational trips, visiting the International Environmental College, a small maritime insti- ited the United Nations, Nova Scotia, the Law course, in which students tution located in Truro, N.S. Boston New England Aquarium, the simulate multilateral treaty Thirteen students participated, At the U.N. Aquarium Museum of Modern Art in New negotiations, each of them rep- touring the school's research students where they York City, and the deep woods of resenting a country. facilities, attending the talks received a western Maine. Below are some This year they chose to and taking part in discussions were able behind-the- highlights from a few of these trips. focus on a global treaty on on such issues as how the scenes tour. desertification, an internation- North American Free Trade to meet and Students The International Environ- al accord that grew out of the Agreement (NAFTA) and the were shown mental Law and Policy class Earth Summit. The treaty will General Agreement on Tariffs talk with how the visited the United Nations in help to create strategies for and Trade (GATT) will affect coral reef January to participate in inter- combating desertification and farming practices in develop- delegates tanks are national negotiations on deser- the loss of arable land around ing countries. from around maintained, tification. The 13 students the globe, especially in Africa. Speakers included farmers, and they were accompanied by COA While at the U.N., the stu- academic researchers and poli- the world. were given a faculty member Kenneth dents were able to meet and cy-makers, each speaking sneak pre- Cline, who teaches environ- talk with delegates from the about his or her own sense of view of an mental law, and Johannah countries they represent in an ethical framework for the upcoming exhibition on the Bernstein '83, an environmen- their mock classroom negotia- practice of agriculture. Issues Everglades. They also went to tal attorney who is media coor- tions, including individuals ranged from how a farmer the Museum of Comparative dinator for EarthAction, an from Kenya, India, Japan, might take care of his livestock Zoology at Harvard to look at international non-governmen- China and Argentina. They and land, to how transnational skeletons, dinosaurs and the tal organization (NGO) based also lobbied delegates and corporations dictate agricultur- coelocanth, a lobe-finned fish considered to be a living fossil. sabel Mancinelli's "Architec- tural Design Studio" class went on a field trip to New York City in February to attend the public opening of the exhibi- tion, "Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect," at the Museum of Modern Art. Nine students viewed this landmark retro- spective show, which included more than 350 original draw- ings, 30 models and numerous architectural fragments by Wright, who is considered PHOTO KATHRYN HOUGH '95 America's greatest architect. The group also visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to view a reconstructed music room from a house Wright designed, and the Guggen- heim Museum, the architect's last building, which was com- Student Kris Yaggi '95 holds a bear cub in his arms while Damon Lear '95 watches the bear moni- pleted after his death. toring procedures. Eleven students in Steve Res- in Brussels. Bernstein helped NGOs on certain issues in the al production on a worldwide sel's Ecological Physiology coordinate the visit and set up treaty, such as the terms of basis. class spent a February week- meetings with key delegates technology transfer from The COA contingent was end in western Maine at the and organizations. developed countries to unde- the largest from an American cabin of Bernd Heinrich, The students attended ple- veloped countries and the college to attend the confer- acclaimed sociobiologist and nary negotiation sessions, met global nature of the problem ence. author of several natural histo- with delegates from countries of desertification. ry books, including the best- all around the world, worked Two classes at COA-Func- selling Ravens in Winter. The closely with NGOs from Africa Suzanne Morse's agroecology tional Vertebrate Anatomy, group's first encounter with and South America, and partic- class attended an international taught by John Anderson, and Heinrich occurred when he ipated in efforts to lobby U.N. conference, "Decision Making Natural History of Vertebrates, pulled up behind the COA van delegates on desertification and Agriculture: The Role of taught by Steve Ressel-joined continued on page 17 COA NEWS 6 SPRING 1994 Class Sails Through Caribbean by Sharon Reiser '95 This past December, over win- ter break, 13 COA community Entry from members spent two weeks the Ship's Log aboard the schooner the Har- 8 December 1993 vey Gamage, sailing through the So many contrasts, everywhere Caribbean to study the ecolo- we go! There are the obvious gy, history and culture of the contrasts: between an island islands, as well as to learn sail- such as St. Martin's (developed, ing and navigational skills. The crowded, touristy) and Saba class was team-taught by Mar- (peaceful, mountainous, rain- tin Koeppl, faculty member in forests, safe). The differences in education and media, and Ale- what I learn, and how, are also sia Maltz, associate dean for becoming apparent. On Saba, I advanced studies. visited the medical school, asked In preparation for the trip, questions, saw cadavers ("Looks the group spent the fall term like turkey, eh, Martin?"); went studying a wide range of topics to the elementary school, sat in in environmental science, on a class, talked for a long human studies, art and design time with the sixth grade teach- in relation to the Caribbean, er, met with the principal, including music, education, tourism, marine biology, histo- PHOTO PETE TRAVERS/BAR HARBOR TIMES looked at all their facilities (more computers than at ry, politics and health issues. COA!); and met with the The course combined the woman who is the head of the efforts of more than ten facul- island's AIDS committee. ty members, including artist-in- I hiked into a rainforest. I resident Ashley Bryan, who spoke with people who were has retold West Indian folk born on Saba, and people who tales in his children's books. visited and never left. And, During the trip itself, a wide when I left Saba, I felt as if I range of island residents-from knew it. historians to taxi drivers-came Master steel drummer Neville York demonstrates drumming aboard the Harvey Gamage to techniques to first-year student Galen Guthrie and the Lauriat family of Southwest Harbor. Neville York, master steel teach and meet with students. drummer and head of the Individual student research projects included the class continued to meet on music department at the Uni- views with people from every studies of island architecture, island visited, including a weekly basis throughout the versity of St. Martin's, in the Gates Center auditorium. medical care, AIDS education, priests, musicians, merchants, winter term. The grand finale, boat design, slavery and natu- tourists and teachers. Stops at the end of January, consist- Sharon Reiser is a third-year stu- ral resources. Students became were made on St. Martin's, St. ed of a Caribbean dinner in dent at College of the Atlantic. involved with one another's Croix, Saba, Tortola, Statia, St. the Blair Dining Hall, followed She is currently attending Palacky learning through daily meet- John's, Jost Van Dyke, Buck by a multi-media student pre- University in the Czech Republic ings and informal discussions. Island and St. Thomas. sentation in the Blum Art as part of an exchange program They also conducted inter- Upon returning to COA, Gallery and a performance by with College of the Atlantic. The Thorndike Library Goes Online by Elizabeth Bachner-Forrest '96 As we approach the third mil- nected to Internet, an interna- going online, the connection throughout campus, or even in lennium, the Thorndike tional collaboration of comput- to Internet will allow library their own homes. Library at College of the er networks that spans thirty- users to communicate directly "Being on Internet will five countries. Atlantic is fast becoming a with millions of people around keep COA on the cutting URSUS has expanded the the world. E-mail enables high-tech research and com- edge," notes head librarian munications center with access library's resources by provid- users to have long-distance Marcia Dworak. Student ing up-to-the-minute listings of electronic conversations with to resources throughout the Michael Jancovic agrees, "I nation and world. the holdings of other academic friends, family and colleagues, think Internet will open up the libraries. According to the while computer "bulletin Thanks to funding from entire information superhigh- library's nighttime supervisor, boards" create information the federal Title II and Title III way to COA. It will keep the Tricia Cantwell-Keene, resources by designing various grants, the library now has college up with the times. We "URSUS provides us with real- spaces where people from all access to URSUS (University won't be left behind." time information about library walks of life can confer (anony- Resources Serving Users holdings, and also operates as mously, if desired) about a Elizabeth Bachner-Forrest is Statewide), the online catalog a user-friendly gateway into myriad of topics. Next year administrative assistant to librari- of a number of Maine the Internet." COA community members an Marcia Dworak. Psychology libraries. By May 1994, the In addition to the vast ref- will be able to tap into Internet and literature are the focus of her Thorndike Library will be con- erence potential created by from terminals located studies at College of the Atlantic. COA NEWS 7 SPRING 1994 This past winter, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. (1914-1993), chief executive of for the past 12 years. The first COA Watson Fellow, Peter Wayne '83, IBM from 1956 to 1971 and son of the company's founder, died at age went to Wales, Scotland and Nova Scotia to study the terrestrial ecology 79. Mr. Watson was the founder and supporter of the Watson Fellow- of North Atlantic islands. The most recent Fellow, Patricia Ciraulo ship program, which celebrated its 25th anniversary last year. The Fel- '94, whose award was announced in March of this year, will undertake lowships, awarded through a national competition for seniors, support an oral history of Russia's intellectual class. (See story on page 9.) independent travel and study outside the United States for recipients for In honor of Thomas J. Watson, Jr., we asked two former Fellows to the year following graduation. write about their experiences. College of the Atlantic seniors have benefitted from this fellowship Bicycling the World on a Watson by Jeffrey Desmond-Miller '92 It was one of the worst port. In 1992, I was awarded a typhoons Japan had seen in Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. years. Of course, we-my wife, My project was to study bicy- Erica Desmond-Miller '92, and cling societies around the myself-didn't know it at the world. It was very empowering time. We just knew it was rain- to be given the fellowship, but ing hard and that we were I also knew there would be more than mere witnesses: we plenty of hardships ahead. were rapidly becoming victims. Indeed, when I look back After bicycling in rain much on our 14-month journey, I of the day, my wife and I had realize that personal growth, set up our tent on the first cultural experiences and real available spot, a city park only life education overshadow the a few hundred meters from actual Watson project. On the coast. For six hours we many an occasion, culture watched the puddles around shock, vulnerability, fear, our tent merge into a pond, excitement, disbelief and many and the path in the park turn other emotions overwhelmed PHOTO COURTESY DESMOND-MILLERS into a raging river. us. To come to terms with the By the middle of the night wealth of information and the water was six inches deep experience we accumulated and was flowing around and will take a lifetime. Jeff and Erica Desmond-Miller pause for a photograph during under our tent. Everyone else Perhaps the most important the Netherlands leg of their world-wide bicycle trip. in the town was long asleep, part of the and even if someone had been Perhaps Watson around, we would have had a was the the most the basics-such as customs, invested for a small harvest; hard time speaking with them: sense of diet and education-were fun- and to be privy to the day-to- we knew only ten words in important under- damental to understanding the day concerns and dreams of Japanese and our phrase book standing more complex issues like poli- these wonderful hosts. was pretty soggy. part of the we gained, tics and religion. Fortunately, we were able of differ- Watson One particular friendship, Unexpected experiences like to find a half dozen dockwork- ent peo- which occurred on the south this, common to travel, are ers closing up the port. One of was the ples and of coast of Sri Lanka, stands out deemed worthy and necessary them knew a bit of English, ourselves. in my memory. I struck up a by the Watson Foundation. and we communicated in a sense of This conversation with a local fish- The Watson fostered my seem- body language that resembled under- under- erman, who was working on ingly risky dreams, allowing an an aerobics workout. In a con- standing, his boat, and ended up getting idealist to test the dreams him- voy of company trucks and pri- standing which I a marvelous glimpse of his life. self. It is a brilliant plot: give a vate cars, they escorted us with can only I learned about how he and his college graduate as much our bicycles and sopping gear we gained, define as brother had made a dugout money at once as he has ever to the police station, and even- "human of different catamaran when they were in seen in his life, tell him to do tually to the only hotel in the ecology," their early teens, and how, fif- as he has proposed, and give nearby city that would answer peoples came from teen years later, they still used him the freedom to explore on the phone at 11 p.m. Every- the friend- the same boat daily. his own, at his own pace, what thing worked out fine, with the and of ships we Erica and I were especially he wishes. help of people with whom we made ourselves. pleased when the man invited For myself, the result was couldn't converse! around the us to go fishing with him and my transformation into a real- globe. In his brother. We got to experi- ist. I also gained a sense of The journey began in 1990 each coun- ence sailing in a boat that hope for the future and was when I cycled across the Unit- try we visit- resembled a piece of driftwood empowered to share-and ed States and was enlightened ed, we were taken into the in the open sea; to feel how hopefully realize-my greatest about the potential bicycles homes of at least one family sturdy it was; to share in the dreams. have for providing clean, eco- and sometimes spent a couple rush of catching a lobster; to nomical and sustainable trans- of weeks with them. Learning witness the sweat and time COA NEWS 8 SPRING 1994 A Journey to Gardens of the World: Thoughts on a Watson by Dennis Bracale '88 From June of 1988 till Novem- opportunity to immerse myself ber 1989 my wife, Emily, and I in cultural history as well as to traveled on a Thomas J. Wat- learn the stories which lay son Fellowship. My proposal behind the creation of histori- was titled "In Search of the cal gardens. Garden: Beliefs about Nature." Garden history contains a During the fellowship we trav- living description of a culture's eled to 18 countries, spending religion and its philosophy one year in Asia and six towards nature, as well as a months in Europe, immersing story about a group's impact ourselves in the cultures of the on the environment and the countries we traveled through. people in their society. It is My itinerary of sites to be these stories, which to me are visited in each country was spiritual, that I was most inter- extensive. At each location we ested in learning, stories which would walk around feeling its continually opened up my space and getting to know the interest, and which I feel have history. I would document the relevance to today's environ- site through photographs and mental destruction. writing, and Emily would do a painting or a sketch, and then The Watson Fellowship, more we would be off to our next than any other event in our destination. lives, changed us. It was an this Some- opportunity that filled our times we heads with visions. Since journey PHOTO COURTESY THE BRACALES would be returning, Emily has shared was the compelled to her experiences of daily life in linger, as other cultures with her stu- culmina- when we vis- dents, as an elementary school Dennis and Emily Bracale standing in the Singapore Botanical ited I Ho teacher in a one-room school- Gardens. tion of Yuan, the house on Little Cranberry summer Island. The Watson Fellowship pro- of having and has provided the years of palace in Soon Emily will be sharing vided me with the perfect impetus for a lifetime of explo- searching Beijing, her experiences, through her opportunity to continue my ration. With the passing of Mr. China. We writing and painting, with an search, at a perfect time in my Watson, Emily and I would for spent four even larger audience. During life. It brought about the great- both like to take the opportu- days wander- the trip she completed around est experience we could dream nity to say "thank you"! under- ing through 400 sketches and watercolor standing its labyrinth- paintings, as well as ten jour- like com- nals, which she has turned into Ciraulo Awarded Watson about plexity and a book called Visions of the still didn't World. I am happy to report our cul- Senior Patricia Ciraulo, last summer she studied the see it all. that this illustrated journal of our travels is about to be pub- from Greensburg, PA, has development of Western ture's Some cities been awarded a Thomas J. business interests in St. such as lished! Watson Fellowship. She will Petersburg as a part of her interac- Kyoto, Since coming back to be undertaking an oral his- senior project. Japan, or Maine, I have started a garden tions tory of Russia's intellectual The subjects of Suzou, design business on Mount Desert Island, and have been class for her fellowship pro- Ciraulo's study are people with China, con- ject, traveling to Russia, Fin- who received a high level of tained such a working on a number of large wealth of projects. Though very success- land, Switzerland, Germany, education or training under nature. ful, this year I am planning to France, Cyprus and Israel, the Soviet Government but garden histo- to interview Russians and who, with the change in the ry that we close down the business and return to college. All that the Russian immigrants. centralized government, are would set up Watson Fellowship allowed me Ciraulo is no stranger finding it difficult to prac- a home base and explore the to Russia. She has visited the tice their professions. area for weeks. to experience has created with- country three times, includ- Ciraulo's observations of For myself, this journey was in me a desire to continue doc- ing two five-month stays. For these individuals' persever- the culmination of years of umenting cultural interactions her College of the Atlantic ance under these conditions searching for understanding with nature, using the garden as the central unifying theme. internship two years ago, inspired her Watson about our culture's interac- At some point, I would like to she taught English as a sec- research project. tions with nature. It was an write, lecture and teach. ond language. On her trip COA NEWS 9 SPRING 1994 College of the Atlantic Elects Two New Trustees Trustee Chairman Edward tal problems according to their and Leonard. "The board will be McC. Blair recently announced threat to public health and the greatly strengthened by the addi- the election of Sherry Huber, quality of life in Maine. The tion of these two distinguished executive director of the Maine committee grew out of work ini- and energetic individuals," he Waste Management Agency, tiated by College of the said. and Dr. Neil Leonard, professor Atlantic's ECO/ECO (Ecology of history at the University of and Economics) Forum. Pennsylvania, to College of the Dr. Leonard is a graduate of Atlantic's Board of Trustees. Colby College and Harvard Uni- A former state legislator in versity, where he earned his the Maine House of Representa- Ph.D. He is a world-renowned tives, Ms. Huber, who is from authority on jazz and has Falmouth, Maine, is actively authored two books on the sub- involved with a number of orga- ject, Jazz and the White Ameri- nizations, including the Nature cans and Jazz: Myth and Reli- Conservancy, the Mainewatch gion. He is currently working on PHOTO PETE TRAVERS/BAR HARBOR TIMES Institute, the Portland Commit- a third, called Jazz Performance. tee on Foreign Affairs, the Dr. Leonard's mother was Maine Medical Center and the from Waterville and his father Maine Community Foundation. was chairman of the board at Last year Ms. Huber was sea, he keeps a sailboat on PHOTO COURTESY SHERRY HUBER Newly elected Trustee Dr. Colby College. A lover of the Neil Leonard speaks to Karen appointed by Governor McKer- Cadbury, Dean of Institution- nan to the Maine Environmental Swan's Island, his summer al Advancement, at the Gates Priorities Project Steering Com- home for nearly 15 years. Center dedication. mittee, a group charged with Speaking for the trustees, Newly elected Trustee Sherry identifying, analyzing and rank- Chairman Blair expressed great Huber. ing a wide range of environmen- pleasure in welcoming Huber College of the Atlantic Receives Award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The U.S. Fish and Wildlife in earlier years. More than half Service of the Department of of Maine's population of the the Interior recently presented endangered Roseate tern-65 College of the Atlantic with an pairs-now nest on the island, Outstanding Contribution as well as laughing gulls, Award for its colonial nesting guillemots (which have seabird restoration work on increased from 16 pairs to Petit Manan Island. The project about 150) and puffins, which was one of 59 "Take Pride in are recorded as nesting on the America" initiatives nationwide island for the first time. to receive the award, which will be presented by the regional The Take Pride in America director this summer. National Awards Program was Petit Manan Island is a part created in 1986 to recognize of the Petit Manan Wildlife exemplary stewardship that Refuge, located off the benefits natural, historic and downeast coast of Maine, in the cultural resources. In a letter to town of Milbridge. The U.S. Margaret Anderson of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Fish and Wildlife Service, who (FWS) in partnership with Col- oversees the Petit Manan lege of the Atlantic initiated the National Wildlife Refuge, project in 1984 to restore and Richard M. Smith, acting direc- maintain nesting colonies of tor of the Department of the seabirds on the island. Interior, congratulated College PHOTO STEVEN KATONA As a result of this work, of the Atlantic on its contribu- today more than 1,900 pairs of tion to conserving, restoring terns nest on Petit Manan. This and enhancing America's fish Faculty member John Anderson and a group of students take to number surpasses counts taken and wildlife. the field to conduct seabird research on Petit Manan Island. COA NEWS 10 SPRING 1994 A Trio of Artists-in-Residence With key assistance from a federally-funded Title III strengthening grant awarded the college last summer, three remarkable artists were invited to teach and exhibit at College of the Atlantic during this academic year. Ashley Bryan In November, Ashley Bryan, award-winning children's book illus- trator, author and storyteller, spent several days on campus, guest-lecturing on art, children's literature and the culture of the Caribbean. His residency included a reception for his show in the Blum Art Gallery and a standing-room-only story-telling per- formance in the Gates Community Center. The exhibition, "The Arts of Ashley Bryan," subsequently traveled to the Bangor Pub- lic Library and the Northeast Harbor Library. Bryan's magical presence was the source of much inspiration around campus. Students were heard reading children's books aloud to one another; poems were shared in classes and on back porches; and the art of story telling was tried by many. [Contributed by Sharon Reiser '95] Natasha Mayers This winter Natasha Mayers took up residence at the college, teaching two courses, "Mural Team: Public Art and Graphic Design" and "Art with a Social Conscience." She also gave a lec- PHOTO PETE TRAVERS/BAR HARBOR TIMES ture on "Community and Political Art" sponsored by the Philos- ophy in the Arts class. An exhibition of Mayers' recent mono- types was on display in the Blum Art Gallery during part of her residency. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence and Antioch Graduate School, where she received her M.A.T. in social sciences, Mayers has taught in Nigeria as a Peace Corps volunteer, and in El Sal- vador, Nicaragua and Russia. She also was the first woman hired to teach at the Thomaston State Prison. Since 1982, she has been an instructor at the LINC Social Club, a drop-in center for Storyteller Ashley Bryan in full stride, Gates Community Center. the psychiatrically-labelled in Augusta, Maine. Dawn-Starr Crowther, from page 1 Dawn-Starr Crowther mental checklist I add "exotic" job on another culture, biome animals). I find myself wonder- or landscape. The photographs of this spring's visiting artist, Dawn-Starr ing about my compulsion to December 31, 1991 Crowther, examine issues of eco-tourism and the marketing of race around, framing the land- Yesterday evening provided so-called "exotic" places to tourists. In speaking about her pho- scape and my experiences one of the most exotic experi- tographs, Crowther stated in an interview in the Arizona Daily here through the viewfinder of ences of the voyage: swimming Sun, "I really believe art should say something about the world a camera. I am leery about this in Antarctica. After leaving and its condition." pressing need to capture land- Whaler's Bay, the ship cruised Crowther holds a B.S. in archaeology from the University of scapes, to mediate my experi- across the interior bay of Utah and an M.F.A. in photography from Arizona State Univer- ence through a lens. Deception Island and sity. She has exhibited her black-and-white and color landscape And I've been thinking anchored at Pendulum Cove. photographs throughout the Southwest. She has been working about my role as an eco- This beach is one of the more for the Arizona Commission on the Arts curating several travel- tourist, ever eager to see the thermally active areas of ing exhibitions, and is writing a biography of Mary L. Jobe Ake- rare, unusual, untouched and Deception Island. The water ley, an early 20th-century photographer, explorer, geographer exotic. Fly in, spend a few literally boils. and anthropologist. weeks with the natives (people, We were shuttled ashore in On April 5, Crowther gave a talk titled "Antarctica: Eco- plants, animals, landscapes) the large inflatable Zodiac Tourism and the Last Frontier" in conjunction with her exhibi- and then return home, part of boats, many of us clad only in tion in the Blum Art Gallery. me believing that I've seen the bathing suits, white bathrobes, real wherever or whatever, red parkas and life preservers. and part of me knowing I've just completed a hit-and-run continued on page 16 COA NEWS 11 SPRING 1994 COA Students Team Up with Habitat for Humanity by Marti A. Garza '96 As part of the Outdoor Orien- tation Programs (OOPS) this year, seven COA students pitched in on the construction of a house being built in Sulli- van, Maine, by Hancock Coun- ty Habitat for Humanity. Near- ly all were new students at the college. The seven chose to help build a house for Stacy Spaulding and her son, Zachary, rather than go canoe- ing on the Penobscot River or to participate in some of the other more recreational orien- tation activities offered before classes began. COA's Admission Coun- selor Courtney Llewellyn and Assistant Director of Student Services Ander Thebaud, who organize the OOPS trips, want- PHOTO LETITIA BALDWIN/BAR HARBOR TIMES ed to offer a different option to students wishing to do a community-related activity. The Habitat housing project Sara Yasner and Ngiao Richards lend a hand on Habitat for Humanity building project. provided the perfect combina- tion of outdoor activity and Humanity head Charles Potter eration, and on and on." In of poverty housing. It relies community work. wrote, "The faults with educa- conclusion, Potter stated, largely on the work of volun- tion are batted back and forth "Maybe we don't need to teers, one of the best-known Later in the fall, students all over the country, but it worry so much if COA stu- being former President Jimmy again rolled up their sleeves to seems to me that your students dents are typical of the current Carter. do volunteer work with Habi- last week showed all the qualifi- college students." The Hancock County tat for Humanity, working one cations for leading the society Founded in 1976 by Alaba- Habitat for Humanity and weekend to help renovate the that graduation speakers ma lawyer Millard Fuller, Habi- COA plan to continue their roof of a house of a Tremont intone every spring: willing- tat for Humanity is an interna- partnership, working on sever- resident. ness, common sense, aware- tional grass-roots Christian al more projects throughout In thanking the college for ness, humor, ability to get ministry based in Americus, the year. its participation in these pro- along with others both leading Georgia. The mission of Habi- Garza is a second-year student jects, Hancock Habitat for and following, initiative, coop- tat is to eliminate the problem from San Benito, Texas. Honored Founding Trustee Leslie C. Brewer, second from right, was presented with the Cadil- lac Award, the highest honor of the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce, at the group's annual dinner at the Kebo Valley Club. Brewer was hon- ored for his years of dedicated PHOTO PETE TRAVERS/BAR HARBOR TIMES service to dozens of area insti- tutions and businesses, including College of the Atlantic. With Brewer, from left, are Chamber CEO Ris- teen Masters, presenter David Witham of the Bar Harbor Inn and Chamber President Don Johnson. COA NEWS 12 SPRING 1994 News from the Natural History Museum by April Taylor '95 PHOTO SCOTT HASKELL/ BANGOR DAILY NEWS Student Chris Rose uses calipers to take a measurement of a white-sided dolphin, part of a new Natural History Museum exhibit. This summer the Natural eyes work and where the tail grades five through eight horse-powered farm to identi- History Museum will have a bending point is located. were offered this winter. fying and pressing aquatic new exhibit on display, an They also discovered that Three different courses were plants. The museum also will Atlantic white-sided dolphin construction of such an taught: winter ecology, terrar- offer a series of field-based family. Created in the muse- exhibit takes a great deal of ium construction (for igua- courses for high school stu- um preparation laboratory at time. nas) and pinhole camera pho- dents, for the second year. the college, the exhibit con- The models, which will tography. Seven COA stu- Among the speakers lined sists of three dolphins: an include a framework and an dents led the classes. up for this summer's Natural adult male and female, and a underwater backdrop, will be In December, Dianne History Museum speaker juvenile. The idea for the displayed on the back porch Clendaniel, museum program series are William Curtsinger, exhibit came from Skip Buy- of the museum during the director, traveled with three nature photographer, whose ers-Basso, museum curator summer. Future projects may eleven year olds to an inter- remarkable image of a Hawks- and taxidermy instructor, include a model of the rare national camp in Baguio City, bill turtle graces the cover of who felt that there should be True's beaked whale. Philippines. Sponsored by the December 1993 National more marine-related exhibits Also new in the museum Children's International Sum- Geographic; Bernd Heinrich, at the college. are models of a black fly and mer Villages (CISV), Clen- author of Ravens in Winter; Student and faculty a mosquito, the work of Rick daniel's delegation from and Tony Oppersdorf, who preparators constructed the Stevenson '93. Stevenson Maine represented the Unit- will speak about his travels to models out of foam insula- enlarged these summer ed States. Labrador. Please call the tion, fiberglass and paint. To marauders to science fiction produce accurate, three- This summer marks the 10th museum for more informa- scale. And look for the tion on the summer pro- dimensional models, the class wildlife painting that frames anniversary of the Summer worked from measurements the doorway to the museum's Field Studies Program at the grams. and slides from necropsy outer gallery. It was made college. Young people, Third-year student April Taylor, reports done on white-sided and installed by students in kindergarten through eighth from Manchester, Maine, has dolphins, as well as from pho- Natasha Mayers' mural-mak- grade, once again will be been an administrative assistant tographs and drawings. In ing class this winter. invited to learn about the in the Natural History Museum the process, the students ecology of Mt. Desert Island for two and a half years. She has learned about the dolphin's Saturday morning education- through a wonderful variety been focusing on environmental physiology, including how its al programs for children in of activities, from visiting a studies at the college. COA NEWS 13 SPRING 1994 In Memoriam College of the Atlantic has lost a number of friends this past year. We mourn their passing and offer these tributes. John C. Dreier (1907-1994) The College of the Atlantic community was saddened to learn of the death of John C. Dreier, a life trustee and bene- factor of the college, who lived in Southwest Harbor. He died at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 10. Born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Harvard University in 1928, Dreier was U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American PHOTOGRAPH BY NOREEN HOGAN States (OAS) under President Truman. He also served as director of the Inter-American Center and as professor of Latin American Affairs at the John Dreier with daisies. School of Advanced Interna- the establishment of the col- the middle ground on an Katona noted that John loved tional Studies at Johns Hop- lege's ECO/ECO (Economics issue. "John had great insight people, nature, art and music, kins University. and Ecology) Forum. In a 1977 into human nature," Koffman and shared those loves with In 1973, Dreier became a letter to COA faculty members said, "and he was prophetic in everyone at the college. "His trustee of College of the Richard Davis, Daniel Kane seeing the opportunities for vision, leadership and strength Atlantic, serving as chairman and Samuel Eliot, Dreier collaboration between busi- of character were a great gift and vice-chairman of the wrote, "...it occurred to me nessmen and environmental- to this institution." Board of Trustees and as that COA might advantageous- ists." A memorial service for chairman of the Executive ly address itself directly to the Calling Dreier "one of the Dreier was held in the Gates Committee. He taught "World basic issue which arises in con- kindest, wisest, most generous Community Center at College Political Environment" and nection with most environ- and gracious people I've ever of the Atlantic on April 23. American history at the col- mental policy decisions: bal- known," President Steve lege. He also used his skills in ancing economic demands Richard Lewis diplomacy to help the college with ecological considera- recover during the difficult tions." A year later, in 1978, (1911-1993) times that followed the fire Dreier joined other COA A graduate of Tufts University idea of a college to the Town that destroyed the original trustees in suggesting a meet- where he earned a degree in Council in August 1967. The Kaelber Hall in 1983. ing of business and environ- theology, Richard Lewis next year a committee was Associate Dean for mental leaders in an informal, joined the United States Cus- formed to pursue the idea; Advanced Studies Alesia Maltz private setting where they toms Service in 1941 and members included Leslie called Dreier "an amazing could discuss their varying worked in Houlton, Hull's Brewer, Father James Gower scholar, who took great plea- points of view. The idea for Cove, and Belfast, Maine, and Lewis. Their work led to sure in life." She remembers the ECO/ECO Forum was before retiring in 1977. the naming and incorporation John and his wife, Isa, as a born. Lewis played a key role in of College of the Atlantic on deeply loving couple who had The ECO/ECO Forum the early stages of the college's July 10, 1969. a great sense of fun. Maltz con- eventually grew into the Maine history as a founding trustee. Lewis served on the col- ducted an oral history of Environmental Priorities Pro- Along with like-minded Bar lege's Board of Trustees from Dreier in 1991, focusing on a ject (MEPP). Appointed by Harbor residents, he envi- 1969 to 1975. A testimony of year he spent in Russia in the Governor McKernan in 1992, sioned the establishment of a his commitment to COA was late 1920s. the project's steering commit- college that would benefit the his abiding friendship with A former student of Dreier tee is currently evaluating pos- community and make use of early graduates of the college, at the college, Lisa Hammer sible threats to the health, island resources, such as Aca- from whom he regularly '90 recalls that her teacher was environment and quality of life dia National Park. received letters and visits. "constantly looking into life in Maine. At the invitation of Bernard Remarks by two graduates, and the things of the world Ted Koffman, the college's Cough, who was then presi- Sally Morong-Chetwynd '76 which allow us to experience director of government rela- dent of the Bar Harbor Cham- and Jonathan Gormley 78, life more deeply, more tions, who is acting as facilita- ber of Commerce, Lewis and were read at the memorial ser- intensely, more spiritually." tor for the MEPP, praised his brother, the Reverend vice held in the Gates Center Dreier played a key role in Dreier for his ability to find Robert Lewis, presented the auditorium on December 3. COA NEWS 14 SPRING 1994 They will be published in the Atlantic is now a thriving insti- next issue of The Peregrine, the tution of higher learning," college's alumni newsletter. Katona said, "thanks in large President Katona acknowl- part to the vision and dedica- edged the important role tion of Richard Lewis and his Lewis played in bringing COA colleagues." into existence. "College of the Winthrop C. Libby (1912-1993) A native of Caribou, Maine, Atlantic. "He helped us Winthrop C. Libby worked his tremendously to gain credibili- way up from assistant professor ty with people who had experi- in agronomy to the presidency ence only with more formal of the University of Maine, his and established institutions." alma mater, serving in the lat- COA's Founding President ter capacity from 1968 to 1973. Edward Kaelber called Libby During his distinguished "the idealized version of a per- career, Libby served on nation- son you'd want to meet coming al, state and regional policy- to Maine: kind, sensible, tough making committees, among at the right time." Kaelber them President Johnson's recalled the important role National Advisory Committee Libby played early in the col- on Rural Poverty. He also was a lege's history, which included member of the trustee boards writing a letter to the state leg- of the University of Maine Sys- islature on COA's behalf. He tem, Ricker College and the was, in Kaelber's words, "a pil- Bangor Theological Seminary. lar of strength for COA." Kael- President Katona, who ber remembered Libby once knew Libby well, remembered saying that poverty was the him as "a kind man, gentle and most pressing environmental open, dedicated to education problem. and to teaching and supporting Libby lived in St. Augustine, students in all aspects of their Florida, where he moved in learning." Katona noted how 1973 with his wife, Elizabeth, important Libby's support was after retiring from the Universi- to the fledgling College of the ty of Maine. Douglas Clayton Rose (1973-1993) PHOTO PETER TRAVERS/BAR HARBOR TIMES On October 12, 1993, third-year Eight students attended student Douglas Rose, age 20, Rose's funeral in Wilbraham, died in an accident at Great Massachusetts. In lieu of flow- Head in Acadia National Park. ers, the Rose family asked that Portrait of Founding Trustee Richard Lewis donated to College He was caught by the waves of contributions be sent to College of the Atlantic by the artist, his son David Lewis. the incoming tide as he tried to of the Atlantic to support stud- return from a descent to a sea ies in land-use planning and cave located at the foot of the Geographic Information Sys- Dr. Lewis Thomas precipitous cliff. Climbers usual- tems (GIS), activities which (1913-1993) ly have about three hours Doug especially enjoyed. An between tides to climb within oak tree and a granite bench, Acclaimed author and distin- of Trustees in 1983, invited by the cave, but gale-force winds the latter a gift from Doug's guished scientist Dr. Lewis Judith Swazey, second presi- reduced the amount of time on uncle and aunt, John and Anne Thomas died this past winter. dent of the college. He ten- the day of the accident. Rose, will serve as memorials on Born in 1913 in Flushing, dered his resignation in 1985. A memorial service was held the COA campus, and the New York, Dr. Thomas gradu- In an article in Harvard in the Gates Community Cen- Thorndike Library has estab- ated from Princeton Universi- Magazine, Dr. Thomas wrote, ter's meeting hall on October lished a Douglas Rose Music ty and the Harvard Medical "Up to now we [humans] 20. Many students gave moving Collection, inspired by a dona- School. He went on to work might be counted among the testimony to Doug's spirit and tion from Cadillac Mountain and teach at a number of brilliant successes, but flashy humor and love of life. Several Sports in Bar Harbor toward prestigious medical and and perhaps unstable. We Acadia National Park rangers the purchase of jazz CDs in research institutions, includ- should go warily into the attended, as did friends from Rose's memory. ing Memorial Sloan-Kettering future, looking for ways to be the Bar Harbor community who The college joins Doug's par- Cancer Center in New York more useful, listening careful- had known and admired Doug. ents, Clayton and Suzanne City, where he was president ly for signals, watching our A few days later, a candlelight Rose, and his sister, Karen, and emeritus at his death. step, and having an eye out memorial vigil and walk was their families and friends in Dr. Thomas joined the for partners." held in Bar Harbor. mourning the loss of Doug. College of the Atlantic Board COA NEWS 15 SPRING 1994 Petersen, from page 5 day in Los Angeles. Whistling enabled us to know when required a major blowing events important in fish effort. spawning, such as dawn and When the internal lights dusk, were occurring. were out and we relied on The convenience of doing light through the portholes, research in our "backyard," as we couldn't see red and well as the ability to stay there orange colors: everything had for long periods of time, a soft blue or purple cast. Hot resulted in new data and some water didn't look hot, since unexpected discoveries of reef steam didn't occur until much fish behavior. We quickly higher temperatures in our became full-time scientists, thicker air. Luckily, our sense forgetting that we had not of smell diminished, making seen the sun in a week. When living together in such close we got back to the surface, the quarters easier. Unfortunate- sun felt warm and nice, but all ly, our sense of taste also of us were more impressed diminished, often making with the ocean breeze in our even spicy foods uninteresting faces. and bland. The combination of living in an aqueous envi- The habitat Aquarius provid- PHOTO COURTESY CHRIS PETERSEN ronment and a lack of sun led ed an excellent place for us to to skin rashes, and our cuts live and conduct our research. healed slowly, if at all. Although we missed land, we Left to right: technician Paul Hunter provided "in-house" sup- In spite of these difficul- all enjoyed our experience port to scientists, Dr. Sarah Cohen, Jamie King, Dr. Don Levitan ties, we found life in Aquarius and hope we can use the facili- and Dr. Chris Petersen. to be enjoyable and produc- ty again. tive. Watching the myriad of This summer, when I grant from the National Sci- to have dinner with my wife ence Foundation, I will miss fish swimming just outside the return to St. Croix to contin- and two small daughters every the uniqueness of the habitat. portholes was a constant ue my work on fish reproduc- night. delight. Living on the reef tive biology with the help of a On the other hand, I'll be glad Silk, from page 4 Crowther, from page 11 and poor countries alike, I forgo this dubious pleasure those sensations, our very again, the intake a quieter wealth breeds arrogance, an in order to photograph the lives, will disappear if we do "whoosh" of air. I listen intent- appetite for power, which cor- spectacle of exposed flesh not have evidence to prove we ly as it takes several more rupts, and indifference to oth- splashing about in water that were there, we saw these breaths. It then dives, its back ers, especially toward the ranges from boiling to near things, did this activity? and unmistakable dorsal fin poor, when seen as threats, freezing. Our swimmers lay I am walking around the gracefully arcing through the rather than as victims or, one prone in the shallow water, ship without my cameras swells, followed by the huge would hope, as brothers and and they have to continuously today, feeling suspicious of white-and-ocher flukes that sisters. flap their hands, arms, feet those machines which so read- slide silently back into the sea, and legs in order to churn the ily record, which allow me to returning home. Those preparing for the water into something approach- worry about f-stops, exposure I long for that grace, that World Summit for Social ing tolerable temperatures. and framing, and render what melding of organism with Development will set the alle- Their feet and hands burn I am experiencing into that environment so complete that viation and reduction of on the hot, radiant sand, while which I am picturing, evidenc- every action seems inevitable. poverty at the top of their their backsides are lapped by ing, documenting. I feel agenda. What is most crucial frigid waves. Adding to their lighter than the missing Not once during this tryst did is for national leaders and I reach for my camera. I want- swimming pleasure are hun- pounds of camera equipment nations to transform those dreds of boiled dead krill float- should allow. ed no lens, no frame, between me and the whales. I did not worthy intentions into con- ing in the water. The scene January 1, 1992 crete actions, economic, polit- have to capture them on film resembles a giant steaming We couldn't have had a ical and social. to know I saw them; that they bowl of shrimp bisque, com- more spectacular New Year's saw me. I want to remember This essay originally appeared in plete with floating quenelles. Day. This morning, our last in Today, the hardy souls who them free and swimming, the the February 1, 1994, issue of Antarctica, we were visited by swam were issued "Deception sea a shimmering green blan- The Earth Times, an indepen- a pair of humpback whales. ket over their heads. dent newspaper focusing on sus- Island Hot Tub Club" certifi- We watched them feeding for tainable development and on the cates to commemorate their over an hour. This piece is excerpted from an interrelated economic and social Antarctic plunge. Why do we First the head appears, ris- article that first appeared in the issues of the international system need to embody a lushly sen- ing glistening from the sea, summer 1993 issue of Dry Heat, such as the environment, human sual experience in a two- and then an outrush of breath an Arizona journal of ecology rights, population and trade. dimensional document? Are and vapor puff from the blow- and social issues. we afraid of experience, that hole and the whale breathes COA NEWS 16 SPRING 1994 On the move, from page 6 in his pickup truck and pro- ceeded to unload a butchered horse, which he is using to attract ravens, an ongoing focus of his studies. The stu- dents spent a day snowshoeing with Heinrich, observing win- ter adaptations in birds and small mammals. A few days earlier, the same class visited the nesting den of a female black bear with two cubs. The field trip was arranged by Craig McLaughlin, who monitors the condition of denning bears for Maine's Department of Inland Fish- eries and Wildlife. The den was located just north of Old Town, Maine, sur- prisingly close to residential homes. The students participat- PHOTO KENNETH CLINE ed in collecting various mea- surements and assessing the overall condition of the bears. They also took turns holding Left to right: Rebecca Clark, Melissa Danskin, Mary Harney, Oliver Carley, Becky Aubrey and the cubs in their arms. Neal Antucci speak with Franklin Cardy, director of the Desertification Control Programme Activi- ty Centre at the United Nations. Geyelin, from page 3 Campus Changes mentally more promising it is only a way station on the than Camp David, which road to an independent Pales- Alumni and friends returning to College of the Atlantic these turned out to be, as many tinian state linked in some days will find a number of changes in the physical plant. Some feared at the time it would, a sort of confederation with of the changes are on the grand scale-the addition of the new separate Israeli peace treaty Jordan and even Israel. Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Community Center, for instance, which with the largest and most was featured in the January 1994 issue of Architectural Record. powerful of the front-line Who can tell whether, in Other modifications, small and large, also merit recognition. Arab states. time, peaceful coexistence Beleaguered by disease, the birch tree on the lawn in front of will become such a common- This time the prospects Kaelber Hall came down last summer, but a new birch has are brighter for two reasons. place occurrence that some sprung up from the stump and holds promise of replacing its The impetus has come wholly form of real independence predecessor. Nearby, behind the Turrets, two students, Jesse from Israel and the PLO-this for a Palestinian state will Tucker '95 and Curry Caputo '95, reconstructed a section of is not a United States-bro- cease to be too frightening to the herb garden as their independent study project. kered breakthrough. The first contemplate. How long? I The entire campus has become more colorful through the steps are tiny-which is to say don't even know if it's possi- work of visiting artist Natasha Mayers' mural-making team. This they are easier to take. Confi- ble. We are talking about winter students painted wall pieces for the greenhouse, the Arts dence-building is no less criti- states of mind-or about many and Science Building, Take-a-Break, the Natural History Muse- different states of mind-and cal to success for being a um, the Peach House, Kaelber Hall and the Camp Community cliche; it can work miracles if about how under unknowable Lounge. The team also painted murals for the Bar Harbor it is allowed to work. conditions they may evolve. YMCA; the Emmaus Center, a homeless shelter in Ellsworth; None of this is to underes- The best you can say is what and the Connors Elementary School in Bar Harbor. timate the fragility of it all. Henry Kissinger used to say: A beautiful banister now graces the steps leading up to the One bombed school bus "Peace is a process." central courtyard of the completed Newlin Gardens. A gift of could undermine the peace While peace is proceeding, Trustee Alida Camp, the metal handrail, which incorporates the process. the direction is more impor- COA symbol, was designed by Sam Coplon and made by Steve The key to success, I have tant than the pace. But it has Alsop of Morning Glory Forge in Bar Harbor. always believed, will be in a to be seen as proceeding. Casting your eyes skyward, you'll find a satellite dish situated sort of sleight of hand: to Impasse, neglect, indiffer- on the roof of the Arts and Sciences Building. The dish is linked make the interim goal of ence-history tells us all too to a large screen television in the McCormick Lecture Hall. autonomy for the occupied forcefully that these are the Among other benefits, the hookup allows students to view con- territories continue to look enemies of stability in the ferences originating from sites around the world and to study like the end of the road to the Middle East and that instabili- languages, cooking, the law and many other programs that are Isaelis while simultaneously ty has never been something broadcast daily. holding out the honest possi- about which you can safely say Looking ahead, the college hopes to break ground on new bility to the Palestinians that "who cares" or "so what." campus housing in September. Stay tuned. COA NEWS 17 SPRING 1994 College Welcomes New Faculty Members by Sharon Reiser '95 Martha Dickinson and Steve Dickinson believes that all Ressel joined the college's fac- students need some form of ulty in fall 1993. Dickinson is math in their education. She is teaching math and physics, planning courses designed to while Ressel, a herpetologist, meet different needs and inter- will direct the Natural History ests. In the past years math and Museum and teach several lev- physics courses have been els of biology. taught by visiting faculty. Dickinson was drawn to Col- [Sharon Reiser '95] lege of the Atlantic because of its integrated curriculum and Ressel holds a Ph.D. in ecology ecological focus. Prior to com- and evolutionary biology from ing to COA, she spent two years the University of Connecticut. teaching at He earned a the Ever- B.A. in educa- green State tion and biol- College. She ogy from PHOTO PETE TRAVERS/BAR HARBOR TIMES has also Millersville taught at the University in University Pennsylvania of Califor- and a master's Martha Dickinson (center) accompanied by fellow faculty mem- nia, the City in zoology bers Martin Koeppl and Etta Mooser as they process from the College of from the Uni- inauguration of Steve Katona in October. San Francis- versity of co and Holy Vermont. He people are desperate for renewal of the college curriculum as Names Col- also taught with the natural world." Ressel well as an accessible resource lege. high school is pleased that the Natural His- for the community. After PHOTO LETITIA BALDWIN/BAR HARBOR TIMES science for tory Museum is an integral part earning her three years in doctorate in Lancaster, Ann Peach, Business Office particle PA. physics "Distanc- Manager, Retires from the ing ourselves University from the natu- Friends and College of the one to help him he wanted of Colorado, ral world Atlantic colleagues gathered in "somebody who's really good Dickinson Steve Ressel, new director of the Nat- ultimately January to honor Liane N. because this person is going to did research ural History Museum. leads to cul- Peach, COA's first employee. be College of the Atlantic." at SUNY- tural and Mrs. Peach, "Ann" to just After interviewing half a dozen Albany where she also started a sociological problems," Ressel about everyone, started work- people, Mrs. Peach got the job. Peace Studies Program. She told a reporter from the Bar ing at COA in 1970 as secre- Founding trustee Leslie spent seven years as a member Harbor Times. "Why do New tary to founding president Brewer praised Mrs. Peach for of the professional staff at the Yorkers seek the green of Cen- Edward Kaelber and later the balance she has brought to Geodynamics Corporation of tral Park rather than the concrete became the head of the col- the college over the 25 years of Santa Barbara. and steel of a building? I think lege's business office. its existence. "She served In Such A Frail Bark, an oral under four presidents and a history of the early years of number of chairmen of the Bradstreet Appointed College of the Atlantic pub- board," he said, "and played a lished in 1983, Mrs. Peach vital role in keeping the col- COA Comptroller reminisced about setting up lege afloat." Millard Dority, the first office in the sparsely head of the Campus Planning Clair "Chip" S. Bradstreet, II has been appointed comp- furnished Gate House: "I and Building Committee, put troller at College of the Atlantic. Bradstreet was formerly brought my typewriter and a it this way: "If Ed Kaelber was assistant director for the Department of Internal Auditing card table and a folding chair- the founding father of COA, in the University of Maine System. Prior to that he was no, Les Brewer provided the then Ann Peach was certainly director of finance for the Family Planning Association of folding chair-and there was the founding mother." Maine, Inc. no heat in the building." In a resolution issued by In 1991 and 1992 Bradstreet provided technical assis- Mrs. Peach recalled that the college's Board of tance to the American University of Bulgaria; presented a President Kaelber suggested Trustees, Mrs. Peach was paper to the Leningrad Trade Union; and taught a week- making a list of all the things praised for her dedicated ser- long seminar on the use of internal audit reports in man- they needed to start a college, vice to the college. "Ann agement decision making at the Moscow School of Eco- starting with a coffee pot; enriched this institution and nomics and Social Relations in Russia. Ann's legendary pot of coffee all who worked and studied Bradstreet holds a B.B.S. from New Hampshire College percolated from that day for- here," it reads. The Gate and an M.B.A. from the University of Maine. He and his ward. Kaelber remembers that House has been renamed the wife, Sandra Strahan, an artist, live in Stockton Springs. when he was looking for some- Peach House in her honor. COA NEWS 18 SPRING 1994 Personnel News Dallas Darland, vice-president for development and external affairs, resigned in November to become vice president for institutional advancement at Springfield College in Spring- field, Massachusetts. Darland played a crucial role in the col- lege's long-range planning process and was instrumental in completing the capital cam- paign to build the Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Community Center. Karen L. Cadbury was appointed the new dean for institutional advancement. She oversees the college's development, public relations, special events and alumni pro- PHOTO PETE TRAVERS/ BAR HARBOR TIMES grams. Also joining the develop- ment department are Victoria Savage '80, as special events coordinator and alumni liai- Ann Peach cuts the retirement cake while three of her former employees-Presidents Katona, son, and Suzanne Gabbett, as Rabineau and Kaelber-look on. acting development director. Savage lives in Trenton with tion Systems (GIS) laboratory tals. Also joining the Business programs and government her husband, Steve '77, and has a new director, Gordon Office staff is Shari Kraljic, relations. Horton was formerly their son, Nicholas, and Longsworth '90. Longsworth former patient account repre- employed by Southeast Energy daughter, Anna. Gabbett was received his Masters in Land- sentative at the Maine Coast Development Corporation. director of development for scape Architecture from the Memorial Hospital in She lives in Blue Hill with her the Rhode Island Field Office University of Pennsylvania. Ellsworth. five-year-old son, Tabor. of the Nature Conservancy. Before coming to COA, he Lori Wheelock, the col- Finally, members of the col- She and her husband, Ian, live was project manager for the lege's receptionist, has taken a lege community paid their last in Northeast Harbor with GIS development of an Emer- position at Medical Associates respects to John K. Mitchell, their daughter, Anna. gency Management (911) pro- in Southwest Harbor. Judy Sr. (1924-1993), who died last Through funds from the gram in western Pennsylvania. Lawson, a native of Bar Har- June. As COA custodian from college's Title III grant, the Buildings and Grounds bor who has worked in the 1974 till 1989, Mitchell was "a newly created Office of Intern- welcomes Russell Holway, optical field since 1976, is the fixture at the college," said ships and Career Services, whose time will be split college's new receptionist. Millard Dority, director of directed by Jill Barlow-Kelley, between the Gates Center and Brenda Horton has been buildings and grounds. "He has hired Cathleen Mullen as painting projects around cam- appointed assistant to Ted was just about as good as they career services assistant. pus. Les Clark, who worked at Koffman, director of summer come." Mullen returns to Maine after the college since 1973, retired serving in VISTA in Arizona in November. Clark was and Wyoming. A native of responsible for retrofitting the Vinalhaven and a graduate of junior high school industrial Bates College, she also hap- arts building into a temporary pens to be the sister of Brid- library after the devastating get Mullen '91, M.Phil. '93. fire at the college in 1983. To assist in the installation Sylvia "Bunnie" Clark also of a campus-wide computer retired this past fall. She network, the college has joined the college as recep- appointed Ron Lussier as tionist in 1973, eventually assistant director of computer becoming assistant manager services. He will be working of the business office. She is with Judy Allen, director of Les Clark's wife. Dawn Taylor computer services. Lussier is a has been hired as the office's recent graduate of Northeast- new bookkeeper. Taylor ern University. Originally resides with her husband, from Maine, he moved to the John, and two daughters in PHOTO CYNTHIA BORDEN-CHISHOLM island from Boston in Octo- Salsbury Cove; she worked at ber. the Mt. Desert Island and The Geographical Informa- Maine Coast Memorial Hospi- Les and Bunnie Clark with President Katona. COA NEWS 19 SPRING 1994 News Notes Academic Dean Richard Bor- his partner, Rick Stevenson ter of Library and Informa- to Human Ecology/Wege zur den has been appointed to '93, have reproduced a dog tion Science. Humanokologie, that will be the Commission on Environ- skeleton that was excavated Among visiting faculty this published by the Steiner ver- mental Strategy and Planning last year from a shell midden. winter were John M. Joseph, lag in Zurich. The chapter is of the International Union for The display includes a render- Jr., an associate professor at called "Applied Human Ecolo- the Conservation of Nature ing of the dig site, with vari- Thomas College, who taught gy: College-Community Coop- (IUCN). The commission has ous artifacts and the remains "Global Economics and Envi- eration through Computer- been charged with the evalua- of a fire pit. ronmental Issues," and John Assisted Regional Planning tion and implementation of Skip also gave a talk titled Agenda 21 goals from the Rio "Dead Birds in the Freezer: Earth Summit. He has also The Truth about Salvage and joined the editorial board of a Collecting Permits" at the new academic journal, Human 1994 Maine Bird Conference Ecology Review. held in April at the University Research Associate Bob of Maine, Farmington. Fellow Bowman led a group study faculty member John Ander- workshop on marine mammal son and Catherine Devlin '93 conservation this winter. The presented papers as well. program of speakers included Tom Cipullo, a New York Scott Kraus '77, director of composer, has set to music the cetacean program at the poems from William Carpen- New England Aquarium, and ter's first book of poems, Ted Ames, president of the Rain. They were performed Maine Gillnetters Association. for the Friends and Enemies Meanwhile, Allied Whale, of New Music at the Green- COA's marine mammal wich House Music School in research group, is continuing New York City. Carpenter's basic research on the biology novel, The Keeper of Sheep, will PHOTO PETE TRAVERS of marine mammals using be published in August by photo-identification in the Milkweed Editions. The Ger- Trustee Maurine Rothschild at the inauguration of Steven Katona. north Atlantic and Antarctic. man edition of the book, pub- Three alumni, Matthew Dren- lished last year, will be coming P. Terry, executive director of and Decision Making." nan '86, Megan McOsker '89 out in paperback this summer. the President's Council for Trustee Maurine Roths- and Kim Robertson '88, and Administrative Dean Academic Reorganization at child was elected to the Board research associate Harriet Melville Cote was recently the University of Lowell, who of Directors of the New Eng- Corbett, recently returned elected executive director of taught "Community Psycholo- land Foundation for the from Antarctica. Several the Society for Human Ecology. gy" and "Mainstreaming the Humanities, a consortium of Allied Whale staff members College registrar Sally Exceptional Child." humanities councils from the presented papers at the Tenth Crock attended a meeting of Jill Goldthwait, chair of the six New England states that Biennial Conference on the the New England Association Bar Harbor Town Council, funds programs and makes Biology of Marine Mammals of Collegiate Registrars and and faculty associate Ron grants to programs through- held in Galveston, Texas. In Admissions Officers. The ses- Beard, director of the Univer- out the region. In November April, Allied Whale sponsored sion focused on electronic sity of Maine Cooperative she traveled to Eritrea (for- a marine mammal stranding transmission of transcripts. Extension Service, joined merly Ethiopia) for a confer- workshop with Pat Seward of Thorndike Librarian Mar- forces to teach "Community ence on creating initiatives for the New England Aquarium. cia L. Dworak served on a Planning and Decision Mak- supporting women in develop- William "Skip" Buyers- Maine State Department of ing." Adjunct faculty member ing countries in leadership Basso has been working on a Education Review Committee Hector Diaz returned to teach roles. She led a session on new display for the Abbe to review a request by the Uni- Spanish. how to be politically effective. Museum in Bar Harbor. versity of South Carolina to Head of Government Rela- Research Associate Peter Through his company, Muse- offer a program in Maine that tions Ted Koffmann recently Stevick was a copresenter of a um Display Images, Skip and would lead to a degree of Mas- spoke about the Maine Envi- paper, "The Reaction of ronmental Priorities Project at Humpback Whales to Under- the state meeting of the Maine water Explosions: Orientation, Internship Housing Sought Consensus Project in Augusta. Movements and Behavior," at He also attended an EPA- the Acoustical Society of The internship and career services office at College of sponsored national confer- America conference in Den- ence on urban and state com- the Atlantic occasionally has student interns who ver, Colorado. require short-term housing in Philadelphia, Washing- parative risk assessment pro- Adjunct faculty member ton, D.C., New York and Boston. If you are interested jects held in New Orleans, LA. Candice Stover participated in hosting a student, please contact Jill Barlow-Kelley Faculty members John in the annual Maine Council at 207-288-5015, ext. 303. Anderson, Richard Borden, for English Language Arts Isabel Mancinelli, and Ken- (MCELA) meeting at Bowdoin neth Cline have prepared a College in March. chapter for a book, Pathways COA NEWS 20 SPRING 1994 COA Bookshelf The Rusticator's Journal In his essay "Lest We For- get," Kauffman makes a Tammis Coffin '86, program strong case for remembering director for the Friends of that Acadia National Park was Acadia, has assembled and established as a "nature edited an enlightening and reserve..., first and foremost a entertaining collection of combination of natural fea- essays about Mount Desert tures unmatched anywhere in Island and Acadia National such a concentrated collec- Park under the title, The Rus- tion." His words are backed ticator's Journal. These articles up by many of the other dis- run the gamut of island life, tinguished contributors, including history, legend and among them author Ruth natural wonders. Grierson, television commen- The roster of authors fea- tator Jack Perkins, naturalist tures several COA community Emma Farway, philosopher members, including Coffin, Oliver Quimby and Friends of Glen Mittelhauser '89, Patti Acadia Director Duane Pier- D'Angelo '93, Jan Kendy '94 son. The history of the island and Trustee John Kauffman. is thoroughly covered by The topics range from Cof- Gladys O'Neil, director of the fin's homage to Maine coast Bar Harbor Historical Society, cobblestones to D'Angelo's who contributes ten essays on historical overview of the con- everything from movie-making troversy concerning automo- on Mt. Desert Island to "The PHOTO COURTESY BAR HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY biles on Mount Desert Island. Green Mountain Robbery." Mittelhauser writes about the Proceeds from the sale of harlequin ducks of Isle au the book benefit Friends of 146 Haut, while Kendy "goes to Acadia. The book is available bat" for those "ultimate bug- in the Natural History Muse- Swimming and diving champion Annette Kellerman starred in eating machines," which flit um gift shop as well as in area the William Fox film Queen of the Sea (1917), filmed in Bar about in the island dusk. bookstores. Harbor in 1917. Virginia Higgins of Bar Harbor appeared in the film as a young mermaid. Campus Highlights Theater songs composed by music fac- Island Institute in San Francis- Kate Chappell, co-founders of The Gates Center audito- ulty member John Cooper co and former executive direc- Tom's of Maine, paid a visit to rium was the venue for two introduced Acts I and II of the tor of the Sierra Club, spoke the college. Tom Chappell, theater productions this fall, play. The set included a floor- on the topic, "It's Healing who is the company's presi- Euripides' The Bacchae and to-ceiling map of Europe and Time on Earth." His talk drew dent, met with faculty, staff Shakespeare's Antony and Asia created by art faculty a capacity audience to the and students and spoke about Cleopatra. For The Bacchae the member Ernie McMullen and Gates Center auditorium. "All his book, The Soul of the Busi- stage was transformed into a several of his students. we've done is to slow the rate ness: Managing for Profit and the Greek temple. Director Clark More recently, in April, a at which things get worse," Common Good. Lawrence '92 designed the student production of Jean- Brower remarked. "What we Sandy Ives, director of props, set, costumes, make-up, Paul Sartre's famous existen- really need to do is speed up the Maine Folklife Center and posters and programs. The set tialist play No Exit was per- the rate at which things get a professor of folklore in the was constructed in the base- formed in the Gates Center. better." He also spoke of the anthropology department at ment of the Bar Harbor Inn, The production was directed CPR (conservation, protec- the University of Maine at which donated materials and by Annette Watson '95. tion, restoration) movement, Orono, gave a talk titled "Ger- lent construction tools. which he is now leading. ard Manley Hopkins, French- Antony and Cleopatra was Lectures Wayne Newell, head of man of the Tignish: A Ques- directed by adjunct faculty John Wilmerding, the Passamaquoddy language tion of Continua." The pro- member in drama Lucy Bell- Sarofim Professor of Ameri- program at the Indian Town- gram was sponsored by the Sellers. The cast included stu- can Art at Princeton Universi- ship School at Peter Dana "Modes of Inquiry" class co- dents Jason Harrington '96 ty, spoke on The Education of Point, Maine, spoke at the col- taught by Etta Mooser and and Kim Koenig '95 in the Henry Adams. His latest book, lege on "20th Century Reser- Craig Greene. lead roles; COA students, staff The Artists' Mount Desert, is vations: Religious, Social and Maine guides Garrett and faculty; and a number of expected out from the Prince- Economic Change." The talk Conover '78 and Alexandra guest performers, including ton Press this summer. was part of a fall series pre- Conover '77 gave a slide lec- Founding Trustee Father David Brower, founder sented by the Abbe Museum. ture about their 350-mile win- James Gower. Two original and chairman of the Earth Thomas Chappell and continued on page 22 COA NEWS 21 SPRING 1994 Campus Highlights, from page 21 ter journey across the Ungava reira, former community orga- region of northern Quebec. nizers in the slums of Rio de The talk was presented by the Janeiro, who work with the Maine Audubon Society. Consortium for Worker Edu- John Perlin, author of A cation in New York. The pre- Golden Thread: 2500 Years of sentation was sponsored by Solar Architecture, spoke on the college's Teacher Educa- solar energy and forest issues. tion Program. The talk was cosponsored by The Office of Internship the college and the Maine and Career Services sponsored Solar Energy Association. several guest presentations this Rudolph deHarak, the year, including a talk by Janet 1992 recipient of the Ameri- Bohlen, former director of can Institute of Graphic Arts public information at World Prize, gave a talk-on the histo- Wildlife Fund, who spoke on ry of graphic design in the "Green Careers in the 1990s." McCormick Lecture Hall. An "Acadia National Park Informational Forum" was Workshops held in January; and in April, Marcia Jaquith '88, a Jade Elliott, assistant director fourth grade teacher who has of the Salt Center for Docu- PHOTO CARL LITTLE been working with Vermont's mentary Field Studies in Port- Mathematics Portfolio Pro- land, Maine, visited campus to gram since 1991, returned to talk about intern possibilities Bernice Silk prepares to perform during her solo recital in the her alma mater to lead a work- at her organization. Gates Community Center auditorium. shop on "Teaching Mathemat- ics Through Problem-Solving Music The college hosted a clas- formed works by Bach, Schu- and Using Portfolio Assess- Native American flute sical piano recital by Bernice bert, Debussy and Schumann. Silk Cofounder and coartistic ment". The day-long event was player and maker Hawk Hen- The New England Winds, cosponsored by the college ries gave a concert and talk in director of the New Jersey the woodwind quintet of the and the Union #98 Beacon the McCormick Lecture Hall. Chamber Music Society, Silk Air Force Band of Liberty, School Initiative. The presentation was part of has performed as a soloist gave a performance in the A two-day presentation widely in the United States Gates Center. the Philosophy in the Arts focusing on the work of Paulo course taught by John Visvad- and Europe. She has recorded The Arcady Music Society Freire, the well-known Brazil- with the Chamber Society; presented two concerts at the er. ian educator, took place at the The Mount Desert Island their latest release, of 20th- college. The Kiev Chamber college in the fall, led by Chamber Singers gave their century French classics, was Orchestra performed as part Eleonora Castano Ferreira first public concert at the issued by Premier Recordings. of their first U.S. tour. For the and Joao Paulo Castano Fer- Gates Center this winter. For her concert, Silk per- March concert, Andriano Jor- dao, the internationally acclaimed Portuguese pianist, was a guest artist. Both con- certs showcased winners of the 1993 Arcady Youth Competi- tion. And a number of jazz and rock bands have livened up the Gates Center, including Boiled in Lead and the Eric Johnson Unit. Campus Organizations A newly established Amnesty International chap- ter has become active on cam- PHOTO KAREN SIEGWALD pus this winter. Students meet once a week to write letters in support of human rights world wide. In addition to letter-writ- ing campaigns, students orga- nized an Amnesty Internation- A scene from Euripides' The Bacchae (director Clark Lawrence '92, at right), the first play al Human Rights Day. Artwork was displayed in various spots produced in the Gates Community Center. on campus, and several stu- COA NEWS 22 SPRING 1994 Art an island-wide survey on hous- The Thorndike Library ing needs and preferences; reading room was the venue examined the impact of cur- for two exhibitions. Nancy rent land-use regulations on Earle, a Franciscan nun from affordability; and presented a Bucksport, showed a group of site-specific plan for affordable her acrylic paintings in the fall. housing. Five handwoven wall hangings Two student groups, led by master weaver Julia Schloss, by Anne Kozak, director of of Bar Harbor, were on view the college's Writing Center, in March and April. made a feasibility study for a PHOTO COURTESY MARY HARNEY An exhibition devoted to cruise ship pier in Bar Harbor THE the work of Allied Whale, the and conducted a survey of visi- ATLANTIC college's marine mammal tors to Mount Desert Island research group, was displayed regarding usage of Acadia in the Blum Art Gallery. "A National Park. The latter pro- Celebration of Allied Whale: 21 ject was undertaken in cooper- Years of Research, Conservation ation with Friends of Acadia, and Public Education" was an advocacy group devoted to mounted in October to coin- preserving the park. Left to right: Students Julie Berberian, Pam Bosco, Mary Har- cide with the inauguration of Members of the college ney, Melissa Danskin, Elizabeth Finson and Angela Wartes Steve Katona, fourth presi- community pooled their resting after the AIDS Awareness walkathon in Ellsworth. dent of the college and resources to pay for a score- founder of Allied Whale. board for the new gymnasium dents were "abducted" to help fund the state's com- Several students orga- at the Connors-Emerson Ele- throughout the day, symbolic munity-based AIDS service nized an island-wide student mentary School in Bar Har- victims of political oppression. networks. In the fall, six COA art exhibition in the Blum bor. The Home of the Tigers These events were the result students took part in the annu- Gallery in February. About 20 scoreboard bears the legend of a collective effort to al Maine AIDS Walk in Ells- COA artists took part, along "donated by staff, students increase people's awareness of worth, raising $774 out of a with budding painters and and friends of College of the the political killings and total of over $18,000 pledged. sculptors from the three island Atlantic." abductions which take place The money will be used for elementary schools and Mt. The college sponsored a around the world. funding and continuing the Desert Island Regional High very successful Red Cross [Karen Siegwald '95] work of the Down East AIDS School. The exhibition, titled blood drive in the Gates Cen- Also active on campus this Network (DEAN) in Ellsworth. "Collage of the Atlantic: Student ter. Many students, faculty and year is Social Environmental Mary Harney, who, along with Art from MDI," received an staff rolled up their sleeves. Action (S.E.A.). Focusing its Julie Berberian, coordinated excellent review in the Bar Last but not least, the COA attention on northern forest the COA effort, is interning Harbor Times. basketball team enjoyed its issues, the group has attended with DEAN this spring. best-ever season this winter. At public hearings and initiated The college hosted a benefit COA and press time, the all-student team on- and off-campus activities concert for the DEAN in the the Community had a 5-3 record-a remarkable and networking. In March, Gates Center auditorium. In late fall, students in comeback after a no-win season S.E.A. sponsored an "Automo- Directed by Deborah DeMuro, Isabel Mancinelli's and Ken last year. They play a variety of bile Awareness Day" at COA, the program featured a host of Cline's Advanced Land Use local teams, including the Jack- which included the "maiden female impersonators from Seminar made a public presen- son Lab, using the YMCA and voyage" of a shuttle service around the state, as well as a tation on a proposed afford- the Bar Harbor middle school between the college and Bar variety of musical acts, includ- able housing project in Hulls gyms. Harbor. Community members ing cast members from the Cove. The students conducted were encouraged to use the Unusual Cabaret in Bar Har- shuttle, or to walk, bike, ski or bor. A total of $1,850 was carpool to campus. raised by the event. In April, S.E.A. hosted a In the interest of educating northeast regional "shindig" their peers and members of for the national organization the greater Mt. Desert Island Student Environmental area community, a number of Action Coalition (S.E.A.C.). students will be trained next More than fifty college and fall to be public speakers so high school students came to that they can pass on the mes- campus to participate in a sage about AIDS awareness. weekend of workshops and A new college literary brainstorming discussions on journal, Edge of Eden, was such topics as civil disobedi- launched in March by students ence and alternative trans- Elizabeth Finson and Eliza- PHOTO PETE TRAVERS/BAR HARBOR TIMES portation. beth Bachner-Forrest. The Students have taken part journal will carry poetry, fic- in a number of events focused tion, commentary and original on raising awareness of AIDS graphics. Bat Squirrel Rocket, multi-medium sculpture by Mike Staggs in Maine-and raising money '95, from the exhibition, "Collage of the Atlantic: Student Art from Mount Desert Island." COA NEWS 23 SPRING 1994 Up and Coming at COA Spring and summer are shaping tor of Reconstructing Babylon: May 28-June 5: John Pierrepont." Opening up to be busy seasons at the col- Women and Technology and Annual Senior Art Show. reception, Sunday, July 10, lege. Here are a few events to author of EarthRight: Every June 9-June 30: "Images of 5:00-7:00 p.m mark on your calendar. Please Citizen's Guide. A book on Haiti: Oil Paintings by Mari- August 4-September 1: "A call the public affairs office (288- community gardens in inner lene Phipps" and recent sculp- Photography Invitational." 5015) for information: cities is forthcoming. ture by Richard Beckman. Photographs by Sharon A lecture series on "Spiri- Opening reception and poet- Arnold, Jeremy Barnard, tuality and Human Ecology" SUMMER PROGRAMS ry reading by Phipps, Sunday, George Daniell, Jack Ledbet- organized by Nancy Lowry The Office of Summer June 12, 5:00-7:00 p.m. ter and Linn Sage. Opening '95 features a number of dis- Programs has a busy summer July 7-July 30: "Four Island reception, Sunday, August 7, tinguished speakers, includ- ahead of it. Among returning Artists: Katherine Bell, Ellen 5:00-7:00 p.m. ing Steven Rockefeller and programs are several Elder- Church, Sara Peabody and Father James Gower. The hostel groups, the Maine series is supported by a grant Running Camp, the Maine from the Maine Humanities Geographers Alliance, the Council. German language seminar, COA Brings You "Fresh Air" A fundraiser for humani- and the college's own Family tarian aid for Bosnia, featur- Field Studies by the Sea. New Beginning in February, College of the Atlantic became an ing a host of musical per- this year are a gathering of underwriter for the national program "Fresh Air," hosted formers, including Sviata Girl Scouts for a "Science by by Terri Gross, broadcast weekdays at 4:00 p.m. on Maine Duma, will be held on May 6 the Sea" program and a Public Radio. Opening and closing credits state that Col- in the Gates Center. group of engineers who will lege of the Atlantic has been providing interdisciplinary Anchor of the Soul, a docu- be undertaking a summer- liberal arts education with a human ecological perspective mentary about the history of long study of the bridges in since 1969. If you're in Maine, tune in on Tuesdays (89.7 Blacks in Maine, will be Acadia National Park. Calais; 90.1 Portland; 90.9 Bangor; 91.3 Waterville; 106.1 shown on May 13 in the The annual Native Ameri- Presque Isle; 106.5 Fort Kent). Gates Center. can Festival, traditionally held On Sunday, May 22, bicy- in downtown Bar Harbor, will clists from all over New Eng- take place on the COA cam- land will converge at COA for pus this summer, on July 10; the "Tour de Cure," a benefit and the Surry Opera will be for the American Diabetes Fresh presenting an international Association. production of Aida at the The college's 22nd Com- Gates Center on August 5. mencement will be held on Saturday, June 4. Guest IN THE GALLERY speaker will be Patricia The Ethel H. Blum Art Hynes, associate professor in Gallery has a full schedule of the Department of Urban and with Terry Gross exhibitions planned for the Environmental Policy at Tufts summer. Here's the lineup: University. Hynes is the edi- COA NEWS Nonprofit Organization College of the Atlantic U.S. POSTAGE PAID 105 Eden Street Bar Harbor, ME Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 Permit #47 ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED