Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Community Center Groundbreaking Groundbreaking ceremonies for the 8,300-square-foot Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Community Center took place on August 22. Participating in this historic event were President Louis Rabineau; Anne Gates, widow of Thomas S. Gates, Jr.; and Polly Norris Ober, the Gateses' granddaughter, and her husband, David Ober. A number of trustees were on hand, including Chairman of the Board Edward McC. Blair, Leslie Brewer, Robert Suminsby and Philip Geyelin, MICHAEL MAHAN STUDIO and many members of the COA commu- nity took part in the ceremony. The center is named for Thomas S. Gates, Jr. (1906-1983), a former chair- man of the board of COA, Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of Defense. In the latter position, Gates is credited with College of the Atlantic President, Dr. Louis Rabineau. modernizing the Defense Department and Pentagon-a task considered so crit- ical and so effectively accomplished that President Eisenhower awarded him the Medal of Freedom. The career of this COA NEWS continued on page 3 Also in This Issue WINTER 1992/93 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC BAR HARBOR, MAINE Presidential Search 2 President Rabineau to Step Down Kresge Challenge Grant Met 4 Drury Fund Established 4 At the board of trustees meeting on Octo- resource areas have been strengthened. New Committee Chairs 4 ber 10, Dr. Louis Rabineau announced Notable faculty appointments have been that he will step down as president of Col- made; and faculty salaries have risen, Tribute to Elizabeth Thorndike 5 lege of the Atlantic effective June 30, enabling the college to attract and retain 1993. In his statement to the board of Faculty Associates Appointed 6 top quality teachers. trustees and in his announcement to the In addition, in the last nine years the Jazz Great at the College 7 community, President Rabineau said that college has raised over $12 million in thanks to the efforts and performance of annual and capital funds. COA has had a Allied Whale Around the World 8 trustees, faculty, students, alumni, staff, balanced budget in each of the last six Czech Professor Visits 9 and the greater COA community, the col- years. lege had accomplished more than anyone Rabineau came to the college in Maxine Greene Visits COA 10 thought possible. September 1984 as an interim president, a "Since 1984, we have achieved, or post he expected to hold only one year; Sewer Fee Task Force Meets 10 exceeded, major goals," said President but following a nationwide search, he was Art Exhibitions at the Library 11 Rabineau. "Now COA has the potential to offered the permanent post of president. move ahead still further and to realize its In acknowledging Rabineau's plan to Staff Positions Filled 12 fondest hopes." retire, Chairman of the Board Edward During Rabineau's tenure, enrollment McC. Blair said that, while he regretted Great Cranberry Project 13 has doubled, applications have tripled, the decision, the college had been fortu- Newsnotes 14 and the percentage of students from other nate in having him as president for nine countries has increased appreciatively. At years. Blair made special note of A Terrific Tartuffe 16 the same time, the environmental sci- Rabineau's vital role in helping the col- ences, human studies, and arts and design lege rebuild after a fire destroyed a major continued on page 2 President Rabineau continued from page 1 portion of its facilities in July 1983. "Not cess in enlisting faculty, staff and students role with AED, one of the most prominent only has Lou Rabineau helped COA move in the enthusiastic pursuit of the college's nonprofit organizations engaged in the from disaster to real stability, he has also central mission. It is a privilege to have improvement of educational institutions led the college to achieving national and been a faculty member during his watch." and human services in the U.S. and international recognition." Before coming to COA, Rabineau was throughout the world. Citing Rabineau's "inspired leader- chancellor of higher education for the Rabineau and his wife, Dr. Mona ship," Trustee J. Mason Morfit seconded state of Connecticut and senior vice-presi- Rabineau, plan to continue to reside in Blair's praise. "I think Lou's triumph has dent of the Academy for Educational Southwest Harbor, Maine. been to rescue COA from the brink of dis- Development (AED). Among future aster and grow it against the odds for plans, Rabineau will assume a more active almost a decade. If there's some kind of CASE award for turnaround situations, An Excerpt from President Rabineau's Letter to Lou would be a great candidate." As president, Rabineau has overseen Edward McC. Blair, Chairman of the Board of Trustees: the reconstruction of the Arts and Science building and the rebuilding of Kaelber October 9, 1992 Hall, which includes the Blair dining Dear Ed: room, the Thorndike library, the Camp I write to tender my resignation as President of College of the Atlantic, effective community lounge and the Goodwin com- June 30, 1993, or at a mutually agreed upon time when a successor has been cho- puter center. This past August the college sen. broke ground for the 8,300-square-foot I believe that a college presidency is not a position that one person should fill for Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Community Center, too long a time. In my view, a presidency conjures up a picture of a relay race in scheduled for completion in June 1993. which a succession of the most capable and appropriate people a college can find The center, which will include a meeting run as fast and as hard as possible for a given period. I have tried to run both hard hall, a lecture hall, an art gallery and fac- and fast. If I have been successful in doing so, I owe so much to so many people. ulty offices, will enable the college to For the privilege of serving as President, I extend deepest thanks to the dedicated, expand educational and cultural opportu- adventurous and extremely able faculty; the hundreds of outstanding, original and nities for the COA community and for purposeful students who have been at COA during my tenure; the devoted, involved residents of Mt. Desert Island. and resourceful staff; the impressive and loyal alumni who continue to bring distinc- "Since Lou Rabineau has come to tion to themselves and COA; and the many who make up the greater COA communi- COA, the college has consistently grown ty on and off the Island. in size and quality," said Dr. Richard Bor- My period at COA has been one of the liveliest, happiest and most fullfilling den, academic dean. "We now have new times in my 45 years in education. I wish you and the College the very best. buildings, an expanded faculty and stu- Sincerely, dent body, and an internationally recog- Louis Rabineau, President nized curriculum in human ecology-all the result of Lou's steady guidance and leadership." Search for New President Under Way In praising Rabineau, faculty member Donald Meiklejohn emphasized the At the board of trustees meeting on Octo- 16th, Chair of the Search Committee departing president's leadership. "During ber 10, Edward McC. Blair, chairman of Edward Meade outlined the manner in his presidency at COA," Meiklejohn said, the board, announced the formation of a which the search will be carried out. "Lou Rabineau has achieved signal suc- search committee to begin the selection Views solicited from the entire COA com- process for a new president. Members of munity regarding the kind of vision, quali- the board appointed to the search commit- ties, skills and experiences to be sought in COA News is published three times tee were Edward Meade, chair, John candidates for the presidency will be a year. It is circulated to alumni, Kelly, J. Mason Morfit, Cathy Ramsdell reviewed by committee members who will parents, and other friends of '78, Peter Sellers and Edward McC. Blair in turn develop selection criteria and fash- College of the Atlantic. (ex-officio). ion a position description to be circulated All College Meeting Moderator and advertised widely. Editor: Carl Little Heather Martin '93 was requested to join The committee will accept nominations Writers: Anne Kozak, Carl Little, the committee. Two faculty members, Etta and applications from within and outside Sharon Reiser, Yazmin Zupa Mooser and Kenneth Cline, and Director the COA community. The identity of nom- of Government Relations Theodore Koff- inees and applicants will remain confiden- Special thanks to Anne Kozak, man were also selected. Registrar Sally tial within the search committee. The com- Cynthia Borden-Chisholm, Dallas Crock will serve as Koffman's alternate, if mittee hopes to close the period for appli- Darland and Laura Parlee for their need be, in his absence. cations by the end of February, at which invaluable assistance. With the concurrence of President time it will start its review of candidates Rabineau, the committee asked Melville and thereafter submit a slate of finalists to Printer: Furbush-Roberts Cote, administrative dean, to act as secre- the board of trustees. Candidates will be Designer: Z Studio tary to the committee. Patricia Ciraulo will invited to visit COA prior to the decision be his assistant. printed on recycled paper by the board, which is expected to be In a statement issued on November made in the spring. COA NEWS 2 WINTER 1992 Gates Center continued from page 1 Update on Gates long-time summer resident of Northeast offices, and an art gallery named in honor Center Construction Harbor was also distinguished by a com- of Ethel Halsey Blum, the late wife of mitment to education and philanthropy. COA Life Trustee Robert E. Blum. By mid-December, work on the The Gates complex was designed by Jill Goldthwait, chair of the Bar Har- Gates Community Center was well Turner Brooks, named one of the 100 bor town council and president of the under way, with the rough framing best architects in the world by Architec- Maine Municipal Association, described nearly completed and the meeting tural Digest in the 1991 edition of Ad the construction of the Center as one hall trusses set in place. "The build- 100. The two-story center is being con- more way by which the college is ing should be fully enclosed by early structed by Nickerson & O'Day of strengthening its ties to Bar Harbor and January," campus planner Millard Brewer, Maine. the greater Mt. Desert Island community. Dority reported. He is encouraged by When completed, the building will She referred to the Gates Center as the the progress, and expects the new include a 300-seat meeting hall, a 55-seat "the last piling in the bridge between the complex to be finished by June 1, the lecture hall, a music room, faculty college and the community." date set for completion. CARL LITTLE ANNE KOZAK (Clockwise from top left) Chairman of the Board Edward McC. Blair and President Louis Rabineau look on as Anne Gates breaks ground for the Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Community Center. Lobby and meeting hall of the Gates Center under construction in November. Gates Center architect Turner Brooks sports fit- ting headwear for the groundbreaking ceremony. ANNE KOZAK Anne Gates conversing EARL BRECHLIN, courtesy The Bar Harbor Times with COA Trustee Philip Geyelin at the Gates groundbreaking. COA NEWS 3 WINTER 1992 Kresge Challenge Met Clyde E. Shorey, chairman of the devel- lenge grant is the first the college has nearly $48 million, 100% of his compa- opment and public affairs committee, received from The Kresge Foundation. ny's after-tax profits, to a wide variety of announced at the October 10th trustees At the end of the fiscal year on June educational and charitable causes. He meeting that the college had successfully 30, the college had closed to within and his wife, actress Joanne Woodward, raised in gifts and pledges the $1.75 mil- $85,000 of the $1.75 million goal. By the have been very supportive of COA. lion necessary for the construction of the July board of trustees meeting, the col- Their daughter Nell Newman graduated Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Community Center. lege was so close that the board elected from the college in 1987. In so doing, the college also met the to begin construction during the summer. At the groundbreaking ceremony terms of the $150,000 challenge grant At the time of the August 21 ground- Chairman of the Board of Trustees from The Kresge Foundation. breaking ceremony, $32,000 remained to Edward McC. Blair emphasized that the In announcing the Kresge grant late be raised. college and its trustees must continue to last April, President Rabineau said that A pledge of $50,000 in July from raise funds for the Gates Center. "My payment of the grant was contingent Newman's Own, the all-natural food personal goal," Blair said, "is to raise $2 upon the college's raising the additional products company founded by actor Paul million so that we can begin to build an $368,795 needed to reach the $1.75 mil- Newman, enabled work on the project to endowment for the maintenance of the lion goal by January 1, 1993. This chal- begin. Since 1982, Newman has donated Gates Center." Sharpe and Shorey William H. Drury, Jr. Assume Committee Memorial Fund Established Chairmanships To honor an inspiring teacher and mentor and to further Bill Drury's seminal At the board of trustees meeting in Octo- work in ecology, a $1 million Memorial Fund has been established at College of the Atlantic. The fund will make ber, it was announced that Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. would be chairman of the possible the publication of Drury's 1992-1993 Annual Fund, replacing book-length manuscript on natural Clyde E. Shorey. Shorey in turn has history and ecology, the establish- ment of an endowed chair in his become the new chair for the Develop- honor, and the continuation of his ment and Public Affairs Committee, suc- studies of birds and plants on ceeding William V.P. Newlin. The trustees thanked Newlin for the time and coastal islands. Drury passed away last March after a brief illness. energy he devoted to running the com- mittee for the past four years. Alice Eno The campaign committee and Tina Hinckley will continue as co- includes Bill's widow, Mary Drury, who is acting as Honorary Chair- chairs of the Champlain Society. person; their son Peter Drury; fac- Sharpe is Chairman of the Board of ulty member Dr. John Anderson, Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Compa- who will begin editing Drury's ny, the nation's oldest independent pro- ducer of metalworking capital goods and manuscript this year; and founding president Edward Kaelber. Also on tools. The company is headquartered in the committee are trustees Alice North Kingston, Rhode Island. Eno, John Biderman '77 and Cathy A native of Providence, Sharpe gradu- Ramsdell '78, Richard Borden, aca- ated from Brown University, which also demic dean, Rob Marshall '85 and awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. He currently serves as Secretary of Emily Wade, a longtime friend of Drury's. the Corporation of Brown University and is a member of its Board of Fellows. He is As a further honor, a colloquium is being planned for sometime in late involved in a number of industry and civic spring that will focus on significant issues raised by Drury's research. The organizing committee, consisting of Anderson, Kaelber and Mrs. Drury, activities. Sharpe joined the COA Board of Trustees last year. He and his wife, plans to ask six of Bill's colleagues to make presentations at COA on the topic of "Ecology for Natural Historians." Peggy, summer in Sorrento. The new chairman voiced the hope Finally, the 1991-1992 Annual Report, recently released by the College, is that the Annual Fund would do better dedicated to Bill Drury and his work. "Drury epitomized the caliber of facul- than ever. "We're acutely aware of the ty at the college," writes President Louis Rabineau in the report. "He played importance of annual giving to the whole a major role in shaping the college's curriculum and defining its mission. We picture," Sharpe said, "and we will shoot owe much to the spirit and presence of Bill Drury." continued on page 6 COA NEWS 4 WINTER 1992 In Memory of Elizabeth Thorndike (1908-1992) On October 15, the College of the Atlantic community received the sad news that Elizabeth Thorndike had passed away at age 84 after a long ill- ness. A long-time resident of Bar Har- bor and a Life Trustee of the college, Mrs. Thorndike and her husband, R. Amory Thorndike, an investment banker who died in 1972, were recog- nized for their civic accomplishments and philanthropy. For many years, Mrs. Thorndike served as vice-chairman of the col- lege's executive committee. She was an enormous help to the college after the 1983 fire, which destroyed the library that only two weeks before had been named for her "We will and her husband. As Marcia be inspired by Dworak, the col- lege librarian, her generosity recalls, "Betty spent countless of spirit and hours with a hair her abundant THE BAR HARBOR TIMES dryer drying books saved by the fire- men." capacity for Mrs. Thorndike love." also pitched in in the aftermath of the 1947 forest fire, Elizabeth Thorndike. which destroyed much of Bar Harbor, including her home. She headed a group of volunteers who responded to Some Tributes to Betty Thorndike over 1,500 inquiries about residents displaced by the fire. Edward Kaelber: "Even before COA was an idea, Betty and Amory were interested in During World War II, she coordinat- ed and trained volunteers to counsel starting or supporting an educational institution on the island. I first met with the families of service men and women, Thorndikes in 1970. They were supportive and enthusiastic about the college from the and at the time of the Korean War, she beginning, and opened all kinds of doors. She was instrumental in guiding COA in its set up community donor centers. In earliest days." recognition of her extensive service, Mrs. Thorndike received a citation Father James Gower: "As a kid growing up in Bar Harbor, I remember the Thorndike from the American Red Cross in 1986. family as always being concerned and helpful to the people of the town, with Betty the In 1945 she became the first woman presiding spirit. She worked with a wide range of organizations, any place where she to be named to Maine's State Parks could be of help. She was a nurse, and had this human services attitude starting a long Commission. She was also the first way back." woman elected to the Bar Harbor town council. "Both my aunt and uncle were Dr. Edward Gilmore: "When I arrived at the MDI Hospital 21 years ago, in 1971, Mrs. extremely interested in local govern- ment and contributed considerable time Thorndike was the social worker at the hospital-she was the social services department. and energy to insuring that decisions She dealt with a full range of work-the elderly, children with social problems, etc. She were made equitably and wisely," retired from the position around 1974-'75. She was very helpful." recalled John Thorndike, a nephew. An avid gardener, Mrs. Thorndike Leslie Brewer: "Betty sat on boards both at COA and at the Jackson Lab-I don't know co-founded the Wild Gardens of Aca- of anyone who had done that. She was very interested in what was happening in the com- dia in Acadia National Park in 1961. munity and she followed through." continued on page 6 COA NEWS 5 WINTER 1992 Heads of MDI Labs and Acadia National Park Appointed to Faculty At its board meeting in October, the P. Peters Award of the American Society In addition to lecturing at many insti- trustees appointed Dr. Franklin Epstein, of Nephrology for outstanding contribu- tutions throughout the United States and president of the MDI Biological Labora- tions to the understanding of mechanisms abroad, Dr. Paigen has served on the edi- tory, Dr. Kenneth Paigen, director of the of kidney disease. In 1988, Dr. Epstein torial boards of Developmental Genetics Jackson Laboratory, and Mr. Robert was named a fellow of the American and Biochemical Genetics. Reynolds, superintendent of Acadia Association for the Advancement of Sci- A long-time summer resident of Long National Park, as faculty associates of ence. Pond, Dr. Paigen has participated regu- College of the Atlantic. larly in the summer short course on In approving the appointments, Chair- Dr. Kenneth Paigen biomedical genetics, sponsored jointly by man Edward McC. Blair noted that facul- A renowned geneticist and teacher, the lab and Johns Hopkins. His daughter, ty associates are distinguished individu- Dr. Paigen was appointed director of the Jennifer, recently spent a year at COA as als who are invited to teach courses at the Jackson Laboratory in 1989 and is credit- a visiting student. college. Faculty associates who current- ed with overseeing the rebuilding of ly teach on a regular basis include Ron Morrell Park, the lab's mouse breeding Mr. Robert Reynolds Beard, Trustee Donald Straus, Priscilla A 22-year veteran of the National Smith and Walter Litten. Park Service, Reynolds was appointed "For a number of years now, COA We have much superintendent of Acadia National Park students and faculty have worked on in April 1991. He previously had served projects and with personnel in all three as superintendent of a number of western institutions," said President Rabineau. "I to gain from parks, including Bryce Canyon in Utah, thought it was time we officially recog- Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota, and Sand nized the individuals who head those them as Dunes National Memorial in Colorado. institutions and invite them to join the Since coming to Acadia, Reynolds has COA faculty. We have much to gain teachers and overseen the final development of the from them as teachers and consultants." park's General Management Plan, including the public response. Dr. Franklin Epstein consultants." Part of a fact-finding team of four, The William Applebaum Professor of Reynolds last December visited two Medicine at Harvard since 1981, Dr. parks in southeastern Poland to assess Epstein was appointed a trustee of the their training, management and interpre- MDI Biological Lab in 1970 and became tive needs and to determine how the president in 1986. He is associate editor National Park Service and other environ- of the New England Journal of Medicine facility, which was destroyed by fire in mental organizations can, over the next and a member of the editorial board of May 1989. few years, help them develop their the Quarterly Journal of Medicine. Following a 27-year tenure at Roswell resources. Throughout his long career as a teach- Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., The trip was sponsored by a consor- er and researcher at Yale and Harvard, 10 of which were as chairman of the tium of environmental organizations Dr. Epstein has been honored with department of molecular biology, Dr. under the aegis of the World Wildlife numerous awards. In 1963 he received a Paigen in 1982 assumed the chairman- Organization, and was funded by the research career award from the National ship of the department of genetics at the World Wildlife Fund and US Aid for Institutes of Health and in 1985 the John University of California, Berkeley. International Development. Thorndike continued from page 5 She received numerous horticultural be inspired by her generosity of spirit nephews as well as great-great nieces awards, including the New England and her abundant capacity for love." and nephews, and one great-great-great Wildflower Society's medal for out- Mrs. Thorndike leaves 18 nieces and niece. standing achievement in conservation nephews, numerous grandnieces and -Anne Kozak and, in 1989, the Massachusetts Horti- cultural Society's silver medal for pre- Chairmanships continued from page 4 serving native plants. for a higher goal. Our adopted 1992- American Way and former vice presi- After her husband's death, Mrs. 1993 Annual Fund goal is $830,000." He dent for public affairs and a board mem- Thorndike succeeded him to the board reported that initial response to the ber of the March of Dimes. He was of trustees of the Jackson Laboratory. appeal had been very encouraging. named "Man of the Year" by Philan- Until 1990, Mrs. Thorndike served as a Shorey also emphasized the impor- thropy Monthly in 1983. Shorey holds an trustee of the Laboratory along with tance of increasing the amount of the A.B. from Yale and an LL.B. from her nephew W. Nicholas Thorndike. Annual Fund. At the same time, his com- Columbia. He has served as a COA "She was a gracious lady who mittee plans to meet the current capital trustee since 1985. He and his wife, served the college tirelessly," President requirements of the institution and deal Joan, divide their time between Wash- Rabineau said at a service held in the with future needs as they arrive. ington, D.C., and Great Cranberry Camp Community Lounge. "We will Shorey is a director of People for the Island, Maine. COA NEWS 6 WINTER 1992 New Guide to Top U.S. Colleges Gives COA High Ranking College of the Atlantic made a strong showing in The Student Access Guide to the Best Colleges, published by the Princeton Review this past summer. This "Buyers' Guide to College," compiled from interviews with 30,000 students attending the top 250 colleges in the country, gave high honors to COA in over a dozen categories, including "The best quality of life" (2nd), "Happy students" (7th), "Most politically active" (8th), "Class discussions encour- aged" (10th), and "Most interest- ANNE KOZAK ing teachers" (15th). As one of the youngest colleges represented, COA elbowed out Cecil Payne, sax, and John Cooper, piano, play some jazz in the Great Hall of the Turrets. many an established institution in the various rankings. The college Jazz Great Cecil Payne Visits COA came in second in "Great food" Students, faculty and staff were treated to audience, "was Dexter Gordon. I thought (only Sweet Briar College can an impromptu concert by jazz legend it was Lester Young, only playing better." boast better fare) and number one Cecil Payne, who visited the College on Strapping on a baritone sax, Payne in the category "Campus like November 6. Payne held musical court in played several tunes, accompanied on a Eden," where it beat out the likes the Great Hall of the Turrets, answering few numbers by COA campus planner of Wellesley, Princeton, Dart- questions about jazz and how he got Millard Dority, on electric guitar, and mouth and Williams. This last started playing music as a kid in Brook- music professor John Cooper, on alto sax honor was most fitting, consider- lyn, New York. He also did some remi- and piano. Payne came to the campus at ing the college is located on Eden niscing about his encounters with the the invitation of Cooper, who has played Street, in what was once known as likes of Dizzy Gillespie (with whom he with him before, in the musician's adopt- the Town of Eden. played for three years) and Lester Young. ed home city of Philadelphia as well as at "The first record I heard when I got out the Left Bank Cafe in Blue Hill and at the of the army," Payne told a captivated Grand Auditorium in Ellsworth. Jacob Holdt Presents American Pictures More than 100 COA community mem- Holdt met and interviewed during his racism, and with a sense of responsibility bers gathered in the Camp Lounge in travels. A book of the same title, contain- for this problem. "I do this show out of early October to view-or, better, experi- ing the photos and script from the responsibility to my friends in the ghet- ence-Jacob Holdt's American Pictures, slideshow, was also produced. tos," Holdt told the COA audience, "to try a powerful slideshow dealing with racism For the last several years Holdt has and improve their situation today." in the United States. been traveling to college campuses across American Pictures was brought to the A citizen of Denmark, Holdt hitch- the U.S. to present the slideshow and con- college in conjunction with the Environ- hiked throughout the South, taking pho- duct racism workshops. "In this show," mentalism and Justice class co-taught this tographs which bear witness to the states Holdt, "there is no outlet for the fall by faculty member Suzanne Morse oppression he found in the region. He defenses of the audience. For four hours and senior Dianne Riley. The class grew decided that these pictures should be they cannot justify their prejudices; they out of issues raised by many community shared with middle-class Americans in must sit and listen and see the oppression members last spring regarding racial order to help them understand how racism existing in this society." diversity on campus, how racism should and prejudice are perpetrated in this coun- Holdt hopes that viewers will come be dealt with from a human ecological try. The result was a four-hour slideshow, away from his presentation with a better standpoint, and racial awareness at COA. complete with tape recordings of people understanding of the complexities of -Sharon Reiser COA NEWS 7 WINTER 1992 Around the World with Allied Whale COA graduates Kim Robertson '88, Megan McOsker '89 and Matt Drennan '86 are working on board the M/V World Explorer in the Antarctic. Beverly Agler, Director of the Finback Catalogue, will also be headed that way on a National Oceanographic and Atmosphere Associa- tion survey vessel. Staff members Ann Zoidis and Tim Cole will be traveling to Kauai to participate in a global warming research project being conducted in part by the University of Hawaii. Allied Whale Director Steve Katona recently presided over the 25th Anniversary of the American Cetacean Society, of which he is president, held in Monterey, California. Last April he pre- sented a public lecture at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research and helped lead a daylong whale watching cruise. In the Winter 92/93 issue of Allied Whale News, Associate Director Peter Stevick reports on the ongoing YONAH (Years of the North Atlantic Humpback) project, "the broadest ranging, most extensive study ever undertaken of a marine mammal species in a whole ocean basin." Allied Whale hosted an interna- tional meeting of YONAH in October, with members from as far away as Scan- dinavia traveling to COA to discuss ways in which to manage and analyze data col- lected by YONAH participants. Stevick also gives a firsthand account of whale ANNE KOZAK research in Newfoundland. In the same issue COA senior Jen- nifer Rock reports on her efforts to col- lect and analyze whale breath (or Distinguished Professor Donald Meiklejohn receives a reproduction of the Bill of Rights from "Snarge" as Allied Whale affectionately Suzanne Morse at COA Convocation. calls it). Analysis of samples gathered in the Gulfs of Maine and St. Lawrence is being assisted by Dr. Mark Kandutsch Donald Meiklejohn Honored and Michelle Pru at the MDI Hospital. Closer to home, Allied Whale staffers at College Convocation helped disentangle a whale and a seal in two different incidents this August in the waters around Mt. Desert Island. Accord- Since faculty member Donald Meikle- tem, Meiklejohn has encouraged stu- ing to the group, the incidence of marine john was unable to attend graduation dents to question political processes." mammal entanglements in fishing gear is last June to receive a certificate from Professor Meiklejohn was presented on the rise globally. the board of trustees naming him a Dis- with a reproduction of the Bill of Finally, the future of Allied Whale's marine mammal and bird research station tinguished Professor, fellow faculty Rights. A Professor Emeritus of Philos- member Suzanne Morse did the honors ophy and Social Science at Syracuse on Mount Desert Rock is up in the air at convocation in September. Part of University, Meiklejohn has taught at since the Coast Guard announced in early the award citation reads: "Through his COA each fall since 1979. In 1986, the October that they plan to sell the island. inspirational teaching of a variety of college awarded him an honorary B.A. The Rock serves as a vital platform for a public policy courses and his leadership in Human Ecology. large body of the research Allied Whale undertakes in the Gulf of Maine. in the college's self-governance sys- COA NEWS 8 WINTER 1992 REPORT FROM DORCHESTER: A Month of Contrasts by Sharon Reiser This past summer I took part in a pro- soothe his mother's temper. His brother panied by dandelions. gram in the Boston area called Volun- was hyper, loud, and energetic. He loved We were on the subway going to a teers in Mission. I lived with nine other startling people and playing jokes. Red Sox game. A woman in the next car women in a rented convent in Cambridge One day they were digging in the dirt was calling out, "Someone hold the door. and worked each day at a family shelter and came across some worms. The Please hold the door, I can't walk very in Dorchester. The month was full of younger one picked them up and ran fast. Someone help me, please." We contrasts in human nature, and my views around trying to scare everyone. He could see through the glass that the car of the world were constantly challenged. brought them over to me and I picked was full of people, none of whom made Here are a few moments that struck me them up and told him I loved worms. I any move to help her. My thoughts as meaningful. looked over and saw his brother soothing flashed to one of the children I knew. He There were two little boys who lived the children who had been scared by the was four years old, and had been home- at the shelter, brothers, four and five worms-he who had already seen more less all his life. He built huge buildings years old. The older one was quiet, violence than most people see in a life- with blocks: houses, towers, hospitals, thoughtful, and diplomatic. He loved to time. Every day after that the boys and stores. Never once did he forget to build with Legos and always tried to brought me worms, occasionally accom- continued on page 12 Czech Ecology Professor Visits Professor Pavel Novacek, senior lecturer in the Department of Ecology at Palacky University in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia, met with faculty, staff and students dur- ing his recent two-day stay at COA, one leg of an eight-week Eisenhower Fellow- ship trip he made across America. Active in the "Czechoslovakia in the 21st Century" project, which is sponsored by the Institute for 21st Century Studies in Arlington, VA, Novacek met with U.S. environmental experts to discuss and exchange ideas for developing what he called "desirable prognoses," which might aid governments in formulating future-oriented policies. Novacek was very impressed with the community spirit at COA and by the opportunity the college offers students to consider issues of local and global impor- tance. "In Czechoslovakia," he said, "the students are given a lot of information; they are overworked, and are given little time to think." This was Novacek's second visit to COA. He came to the college last spring to help set up a student exchange program between COA and his university. This fall Dagmar Boryskova is taking classes at the college while her COA counterpart, Ted Bartles, attends Palacky University. Novacek voiced the hope that such exchanges would continue and that a fac- ulty exchange might take place some time in the future. For the final two weeks of his trip, Novacek was joined by his wife, Helena CARL LITTLE Novacek, an elementary school biology teacher. Mrs. Novacek visited the Con- Czech Professor Pavel Novacek and his wife, Helena, join exchange student Dagmar Boryskova nors-Emerson School in Bar Harbor. (center) in front of Kaelber Hall. COA NEWS 9 WINTER 1992 Maxine Greene Speaks on "Imagination, Community and the Schools" Dr. Maxine Greene, a nationally known educator, author and mentor, stressed the inseparable relationships between imagi- nation, empathy, community and the self in a talk she gave at the college on September 25. Greene linked imagination to both "the sense of possibility and the ability to respond to other beings, to look, as it were, through their eyes." For more than a decade, Greene has been the William F. Russell Professor at Columbia University's Teachers' College, has directed that college's Lincoln Center project in the arts and humanities, and has served as philosopher in residence for the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education. In addition, she has written five books and scores of articles on educational topics. Quoting from a number of literary sources ranging from Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" to Toni Morrison's Beloved, Greene eloquently illustrated her thesis. "Imagination," she said, not only "enlarges experience, opens windows in the actual, discloses new perspectives; it ANNE KOZAK sheds, as Marlow [from "Heart of Dark- ness"] put it, 'a kind of light." Distinguished educator Dr. Maxine Greene addresses the College community. Imagination, in Greene's conception, "allows us to encounter the other as dis- Greene's words, "to affirm plurality and they look together and dance together in closed through an image of that other's difference while working to build commu- their space within the world." face-the face of the hurricane survivor, of nity." However she feels a school's com- The morning after her talk, Greene led the Somalian child, of the homeless mitment to creativity can encourage chil- a lively discussion on educational issues woman sitting on the corner." dren to explore who they are, which in turn with COA faculty and students and a num- Advocating engagement, Greene helps them understand other people. ber of area educators at the home of Etta believes that "the more engaged we are, "We must give children time for telling Mooser, teacher education faculty mem- the more likely we are to realize that it is their stories," Greene stated, "or dancing ber. This was Greene's second visit to the only through others that we gain true them, or singing them, for transmuting college; she was guest speaker at COA's knowledge of ourselves." them imaginatively into formed content, 14th commencement on May 31, 1986. Within the classroom it is difficult, in into something new in the world so that -Yazmin Zupa Sewer Fee Focus of COA Problem-Solving Committee In an ongoing effort to share its research and COA Trustee Donald Straus. The participants have begun gathering on problem-solving technology with the "One of the group's objectives," said data about the present sewer system, Mount Desert Island community, mem- Cline, "is to understand in greater depth, which will be entered into a computer. bers of College of the Atlantic's Center and more clearly, physical, financial and Using this information, the computer will for Applied Human Ecology have joined other impacts of the present sewer system show graphically the impact of a specific with four town of Mt. Desert residents to on the town of Mt. Desert." use of the system. With the help of Mike develop a computer model which may aid The technology which the team is Toole, a doctoral candidate at MIT, the town officials and residents in reaching a using is made possible by a grant to the task force hopes to develop a model or consensus on the sewer fee problem. college from the U.S. Office of Educa- models which can illuminate certain The task force includes town residents tion's Fund for the Improvement of Post- aspects of the sewer fee issue and thereby John Fernald, Gerard Haraden, Brian Pol- secondary Education (FIPSE). The grant help in its resolution. lard and Rick Savage, each of whom rep- supports an ongoing partnership between After achieving as much consensus as resent different views on this controver- COA and Massachusetts Institute of possible, the task force will test the sial issue; COA faculty members John Technology's Laboratory on Modeling acceptability and applicability of the Anderson, Kenneth Cline and Isabel for Negotiation Management. This lab model through presentations to select- Mancinelli; Director of Computer Ser- was established to develop new comput- men, the warrant committee, citizen vices Judy Allen; students Becky Aubrey, er-based tools to assist negotiators in groups, and possibly cable TV Angela Dearborn and Scott Dickerson; reaching agreement on complex issues. audiences. COA NEWS 10 WINTER 1992 Thorndike Library Exhibitions: Debra Goldman and Robert Shetterly Two exhibitions in the Thorndike Library this fall offered visual intrigue and provo- cation. "Bearing Witness," a group of photographs by COA Artist-in-Residence Debra Goldman, was followed by "Speaking Fire at Stones," a selection of etchings by Surry, Maine, artist Robert Shetterly. Goldman's selinium-toned photo- graphs explore the ephemeral qualities of myth and law. Organic and human forms are combined with sentence fragments drawn from over three centuries of envi- ronmental and wilderness law. "This jux- taposition," notes Goldman, "allows me to create poetic interpretations of other- wise rigid scientific and governmental writing." Last June "Bearing Witness" was part of a three-artist exhibition at Chica- go's Museum of Contemporary Photog- raphy. Chicago Tribune critic Abigail Foerstner likened Goldman's images to "ancient legal tablets as eroded as barely remembered dreams." Closer to home, Bar Harbor Times reviewer Nan Lincoln found the work "both primitive and terri- bly sophisticated." Goldman has received numerous awards for her photographs, including fellowships from the Siskind Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has had five solo shows since 1988, and was included in a group exhi- bition, "Bilder," at the Fotogalerie Wien in Vienna this past summer. Shetterly's etchings are among 60 Setting It Right, drawing by Robert Shetterly. From Speaking Fire at Stones reproduced in the book Speaking Fire at (Tilbury House, Gardiner, Maine, 1992). Stones, a collaboration between the artist and poet William Carpenter, who teaches literature and writing at COA. To cele- brate the publication of their book, Shet- But it's his wife that the man's talking to, really, stuck terly and Carpenter presented a joint slide in the whale's throat with her electronics. He's saying show\reading in the Camp Community Lounge in early November. pray, darling, have faith, things will work themselves out. A founder of the Union of Maine He speaks, hears a sound, listens: Visual Artists, Shetterly is a regular con- tributor to The Maine Times. He has illus- only her tape deck playing an old love tune, trated several books written by his wife, so distant he can't even tell who it's for. Susan Shetterly, including New Year's Owl. They have a new children's book, -William Carpenter, "Setting It Right" Muwin and the Hare, due from Atheneum this fall. The first library exhibition of the Winter Term will be a selection of wood engravings by Deer Isle artist Siri Beckman. COA NEWS 11 WINTER 1992 Contrasts cont. from page 9 New Faces in the Turrets: put a handicap access ramp on his cre- Cadbury and Little Join COA Staff ations. A man sat across from us on the train Two staff positions at the college were who will be attending Mount Desert one day and told us jokes for several min- filled this fall. Karen Cadbury was High School. utes. Right before his stop, he asked us named Director of Development, Prior to assuming the public affairs for money to buy prescription medicine. replacing Gary Friedmann; and Carl position, Little was editor at Windswept We'd all agreed not to simply hand peo- Little became Director of Public House Publishers in Somesville and, ple money, but rather to try and help Affairs, taking Elena Tuhy's place. earlier, associate editor of Art in Ameri- them in other ways. The six of us got off ca Magazine in New York City. He the train with the man, and offered to go graduated from Dartmouth College in with him and buy his prescription for 1976 and holds an M.A. in French from him. He refused. We offered him food we Middlebury College and an M.F.A. in had with us, as well as Burger King gift writing from Columbia University. He certificates. He again refused, saying, if is the author of two books, 3,000 we didn't trust him, he didn't want any- Dreams Explained, a collection of thing from us, and why didn't we just poems, and Paintings of Maine, an art give him money? book. With difficulty I turned away, and saw Little lives in Somesville, Maine, a man taking a stroller away from a with his wife, Peggy Beaulac, a school woman with a baby. He was screaming at and public health nurse, and their two her, telling her she didn't deserve any- children, Emily and James. Their new thing from him. The woman was crying neighbors on Oak Hill Road? The Cad- and said she never wanted to see him burys. again. The man stormed off with the stroller and the diaper bag. The baby's cries were drowned out by the man ANNE KOZAK behind me yelling that he'd rather eat garbage than accept money from us. As we stood waiting for the next train, we could see him digging scraps of food out Carl Little, Director of Public Affairs. of the trash. Five days later, Cheryl and I Cadbury attended Bryn Mawr Col- saw him in a bar in Cambridge. lege, Temple University and Johns On the plane home to Seattle, I kept Hopkins. She comes to COA via the thinking back to all the people who had University of Pennsylvania where for changed my perspective in some way. the past ten years she has been involved There were those I had only met in a wide range of activities, many relat- briefly-the man at Bowman's Bakery in ed to fundraising. Among the posts she Salem who gave us free bags full of won- held were administrative coordinator for derful cookies, the Argentinian sailors the International Classroom (part of the who spoke no English but who told us University Museum of Anthropology great stories. And there were the people I and Archaeology); assistant editor of CARL LITTLE lived with, with whom I shared a very The Compass, Penn's newspaper; and, powerful time of realization. most recently, assistant manager and Sharon Reiser is a senior at College director of development for WXPN- Karen Cadbury, Director of Development. of the Atlantic FM, the University's public radio sta- tion. Cadbury has also worked as a free- lance fundraiser and public relations consultant. "Crossing Lines" Exhibition When not involved with educational activities, Cadbury writes fiction and A photographic exhibition titled "Cross- Maine Humanities Council, the exhibi- weaves. She has a long-time Maine con- ing Lines: Histories of Jews and Gen- tion coincided with the publication of nection through her husband, David tiles in Bangor, Mt. Desert Island and Somesville resident Judith Goldstein's Cadbury, whose father ran the Audubon Calais, Maine" was on display in the book, Crossing Lines: Histories of Jews Camp on Hog Island. They have sum- Blair Dining Hall this past summer. The and Gentiles in Three Communities mered in Maine for more than 20 years. show provided a pictorial profile-with (Morrow, 1992). The show was also David is a sculptor, boatbuilder and ren- over 150 images-of two cultures in seen at the Bangor Historical Society, ovator of old houses; he has also done three Maine communities from the the Calais Free Library and the Portland postgraduate work in landscape archi- Gilded Age through the Civil Rights Public Library, and will be on view at tecture. The Cadburys have two chil- movement of the 1960s. the University of Maine Museum of Art dren, Benjamin, who attends Guilford Partially funded by Jewish Commu- in Orono this spring. College in North Carolina, and Rachael, nity Endowment Associates and the COA NEWS 12 WINTER 1992 Great Cranberry Island Focus of COA Photography Project As part of her advanced photography course at COA this fall, Artist-in-Resi- dence Debra Goldman organized "The Great Cranberry Island History Project." Twelve students set out to record one sea- son in the life of the island, largest of the TANJA WALDHEIM five Cranberry Isles. Along with extensive photographing, several class members Clockwise from top: interviewed island residents. The Ways As part of the project, a number of chil- (Great Cranberry Island). dren from the Cranberry island elementary school were given cameras and black-and- Tud Bunker of white film so that they might document Great Cranberry. the island through their own eyes. Gold- Chuck Liebow of man instructed the schoolchildren on how Great Cranberry. to use the cameras, and encouraged them to take photographs on a daily basis of whatever captured their fancy. The film was developed in the COA darkroom. Goldman brought contact sheets and prints back to the island and spoke with the children about their experi- ences with the cameras. A selection of the students' and chil- dren's photographs was exhibited in the Visiting Artist's Studio at the end of the semester. In addition, a handmade book featuring some of the work from the Great Cranberry Island project was created. Copies of it have been given to the COA LEAH ZUCKERMAN Library, the Cranberry Island Library and JACOB VANDESANDE the Island Institute in Rockland, Maine. On Great Cranberry I came to Maine when I was twelve, to a summer camp on an a course by them, looking for a route that would show me the island close to the mainland. I came from my home in Con- essential places of his life on the island, and the time in which necticut and stayed for ten days, and decided in those ten days he has lived. Tud's words revealed a terrain unkown to me, and that Maine should be my home. Eventually I went to school with some difficulty I picked my way along, trying to recall a here in Bar Harbor, and was thrilled when I could finally say I place by the memory of his stories. And when I could not rec- had lived in the state for one full year. ognize these places, I became homesick. When the opportunity arose to begin collecting stories and Tud drove me to the dock in his '63 pickup after our inter- oral histories from the older residents of Great Cranberry view ended. On the mailboat, a man who has a summer home Island, I quickly accepted. The personal recollections of indi- on Great Cranberry spoke to me a bit. He asked if I was from viduals can relate an intimate history of any place, and Great the island, then from Maine. But I told him about Connecticut, Cranberry has been the base from which many generations described the foothills of the Berkshires; the small town where have shaped their lives. I grew up; the dairy farms that have since turned into neighbor- I had been to Great Cranberry Island only once before, to hoods. I can't hold claim to any place except for an old orchard interview Tud Bunker, a life-long resident and a central pres- that bore the scent of manure when they dug the foundation for ence in the daily life of the island. I had walked the length of my family's home. the quiet island road, not fooled by the seeming emptiness of I left Great Cranberry with a large sense of the outsider that the houses, feeling for a rhythm of the place that would reveal I am, and could sense the containment of this community the way things worked there. And I was aware that no one real- beyond the visible borders of water and stone. I felt a little like ly likes to be revealed, for the obvious reasons: our own limita- I had peeked into the window of somebody's home. I had seen tions and the limits that an island imposes on a community. something beautiful and almost familiar, but something I could When I talked to Tud Bunker in the living room of his not hold as my own. home, his words became a landscape for me, and I had to chart -Patti D'Angelo '92 COA NEWS 13 WINTER 1992 Newsnotes Rich Borden and Steve Katona awareness, appreciation, knowledge and Research Associate Beverly Agler, were invited participants at the Sigma stewardship of water resources." who directs the North Atlantic Finback Xi Colloquium on Environmental Patricia Ciraulo is back from teach- Research and Education held in Whale Catalogue, presented a paper at ing English in Russia this past summer, the American Society of Mammalogists Raleigh, NC, in September. Rich also completing her COA internship in St. meeting in Salt Lake City in June. participated in the conference "What Petersburg. She has resumed her posi- Environmentalists Need from tion as assistant to President Rabineau. Zoology faculty member John Anderson and wife Karen are the happy Economists," which took place at Tufts COA was well represented at the parents of Clare Bradford Anderson, University's Fletcher School of Law Sixth Meeting of the Society for Human born October 21, 1992. Trustee John and Diplomacy in November. Ecology (SHE) held at Snowbird, Utah, Professor of literature and creative in October. The title of the conference Biderman '77 and his wife, Marilyn Scharf, also have welcomed a daughter, writing William Carpenter has a new was "Human Ecology: Crossing Bound- Lauren Elisabeth Biderman Scharf, born book of poems, Speaking Fire At aries." Administrative Dean Melville Stones, a collaboration with artist on November 2nd. Cote and COA Trustee and Faculty Faculty Associate Ron Beard has Robert Shetterly. Tilbury House, in Associate Donald Straus presented a been serving as host of a monthly radio Gardiner, Maine, is the publisher. report on ECO-ECO, a non-partisan call-in show over WERU-FM in Blue Copies are available through the Natural public interest coalition dedicated to the Hill, Maine. The show features local History Museum shop at COA. open exchange of views on the relation- guests who discuss a variety of family- Chemistry professor Don Cass trav- ship of economics and ecology in eled to Woods' Hole in November to Maine's future. Rich Borden chaired related issues. Ron is also helping to organize a second Island Network Con- attend a writing workshop sponsored by the Applied Human Ecology Sympo- ference on Mount Desert Island, linking National Project WET (Water Educa- sium; regional planning professor government, business, health, education tion for Teachers). Headquartered at Isabel Mancinelli reported on "Com- and envrironmental interests to explore Montana State University, WET is an puter-Assisted Community Planning issues and work to solve local problems. interdisciplinary program whose stated and Decision-Making"; and students goal is "to facilitate and promote the Morty Anderson, Sarah Cole and COBIANO BLODGETT CARLS PETER TRAVERS, The Bar Harbor Times Pam Parvin and Marla Dority show off their loaves in the COA kitchen. COA NEWS 14 WINTER 1992 Scott Dickerson helped run the confer- ence. Dickerson, who is enrolled in COA's Master of Philosophy program, also happens to be a fine craftsman. Look for his article on designing a Prairie School-style couch in the November issue of Taunton's Fine Woodworking. Dan DenDanto '90, project associ- ate for the North Atlantic Finback Whale Catalogue, married Megan Smith '90 on August 14. Marcia L. Dworak, library director, served as a member of a visiting team for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. They visited Notre Dame College in Manchester, N.H., in early November. Dworak also hosted a reception for the Chief Offi- cers of State Library Agencies (COSLA), which held its annual meet- ing in Bar Harbor in October. Residential Life Coordinator Martha Greenley passed the Maine Guide license exam, recreational class, in December. Director of the Writing Center Anne Kozak and Public Affairs Director Carl From left to right: Trustee Clyde Shorey and his wife, Joan, Liz Cunningham '82, and Trustee Little attended the annual Lovejoy Con- Edward Meade at "Choosing the Presidents Forum" reception in Washington, D.C. vocation at Colby College. Recipient of this year's Lovejoy medal was Sydney president of Chestnut Hill College in Richard Simis '88 and Lilea Stock- Schanberg, journalist, whose coverage Philadelphia. well '90 became the proud parents of of the Vietnam War was the basis for Trustee Clyde Shorey and his wife, Jonathan Stockwell on November 17, the film "The Killing Field." Joan, joined COA alumna Liz Cun- which event makes COA Trustee John Faculty member Donald Meikle- ningham '82 and trustee Edward Stockwell and his wife, Deicy, happy john taught an honors course in public Meade at a reception at the "Choosing grandparents. policy at Syracuse University last the Presidents Forum" held at the Marie Stivers, wife of Clark Stivers, spring. Smithsonian Institution in Washington, assistant director of buildings and Head chef Pam Parvin, assistant D.C., on October 14. The Forum, start- grounds, is now working in Sally Crock's Marla Dority, and the COA kitchen ed by Cunningham, is a non-partisan office as assistant to the registrar and sec- staff have good reason to be proud of educational organization dedicated to retary for institutional research. Marie their culinary talents: in a recent guide convening forums on presidential poli- was previously executive assistant for the to 250 of the top colleges in the U.S. tics and national issues. Friends of Acadia. compiled from student feedback, COA was ranked second under the heading "Great food." A Bar Harbor Times reporter concurred, calling the college's cuisine "fresh, hot and capably sea- COA Welcomes. 74 New Students soned." President Louis Rabineau attended Joining the College of the Atlantic community this fall were 74 new students the Fall Leadership Conference and a hailing from 19 states and 4 foreign countries. They brought COA's total autumn enrollment to 240. meeting of the Commission on State According to Steve Thomas, director of admission and student ser- Relations, both under the aegis of the National Association of Independent vices, the number of students from the Mid-Atlantic region exceeded those from all of the New England states combined. Colleges and Universities. The events were held in Washington, D.C., in The College also welcomed its first international graduate student, November. Araki Chikako from Japan. Trustee Peter Sellers attended the Over half the new students spent the first week of September on out- inaugural ceremony for Harry C. Bar- door orientation trips. Accompanied by staff, faculty and returning students, rett, new chancellor of the New York they canoed the Allagash River, hiked the Appalachian Trail and kayaked in Medical College. Life Trustee Charles Frenchman and Penobscot Bays. Tyson represented COA at the inaugu- ration of Sister Carol Jean Vale as sixth COA NEWS 15 WINTER 1992 Theatre Workshop's Tartuffe a Hit "COA's Tartuffe is Terrific": so read the headline of The Bar Harbor Times' review of Lucy Bell Sellers and her Theatre Workshop's produc- tion of Moliere's hilarious farce Tartuffe performed at the college in mid-November. The 13-member cast consisted of students enrolled in the Theatre Workshop as well as a hand- ful of COA community members, including college president Lou Rabineau, who has been in every play but one since the workshop was start- ed in 1986. PETER TRAVERS, The Bar Harbor Times Times critic Laurie Schreiber was all praise: "Tartuffe is quite a chal- lenging play to take on, but the stu- dents carried it off with aplomb. The long soliloquies were delivered natu- rally and elegantly; the repartee was sharp and funny." Tartuffe was presented in the Camp Orgon (Glenn MacMillan) discovers Tartuffe (Michael Kattner) trying to seduce his wife Community Lounge. Director Sellers (Amanda Poe) in COA's production of Moliere's Tartuffe. is looking forward to mounting future Theater Workshop productions in the Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Community Cen- ter, expected to be completed in June. COA NEWS Nonprofit Organization U.S. POSTAGE PAID Bar Harbor, ME College of the Atlantic Permit #47 105 Eden Sreet Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED