COA NEWS COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC SUMMER 2001 BAR HARBOR, MAINE On behalf of the class of 2001, Andrew Pixley presents a thank you to retiring librarian Marcia Dworak. The class of 2001 gathers on the rocks by the COA pier prior to graduation. Commencement 2001 On Saturday, June 9, the 29th commence- new answers, the best answers, are going to ment at College of the Atlantic was be glocal - that the action is moving to the celebrated on the north lawn. A passing global level and to the local level." shower didn't dampen the spirits of the 71 Dr. Speth continued by suggesting that we graduates or their families. have reason to be optimistic that the A medley of songs was performed transition to sustainability can be made to "a before the ceremony by alumni Heather stable world population", with "a more Candon '99, Rick Stevenson '93 and Eric equitable sharing of income and resources." Seniors march into the tent to Torbeck '94. The West Eden Highlanders "A new generation of 21st century receive their diplomas. led the graduates, trustees, faculty and technologies can be designed with the keynote speaker, Dr. Gustave Speth, into environment in mind and we can attain a the tent to the strains of "Scotland the new consciousness that makes us as much a Brave." Student perspectives were given conserver society as a consumer society." by Sarah Hubert, Blaise Maccarrone, Dr. Speth closed by saying "Thank God Shiva Polefka and Emily Troutman, for you! You are young, you are bright and followed by Dr. Speth's commencement now you are educated. You are human address. ecologists, ready to take on the world, and we Dr. Speth called the class of 2001 the are proud of you." "hope of the world" and urged students to A blessing was given by Sarah Grasso with be the "new generation that understands a closing by Dylan Turner. Three glowing graduates - (I to r) Sarah environmental sustainability in its soul; a The COA Alumni Merit Scholarship Hubert, Rebecca Melius and Sarah generation that knows how to act and not for 2001 was awarded to second year student, Landry. just talk; a generation that knows that Michelle Dumont. The following awards Continued on page 4 COA COA Student Wins News National Recognition The Newsletter of College of the Atlantic College of the Atlantic Senior Sarah Grasso, of Summer 2001 Stamford, Connecticut was awarded a Certificate of Leadership by the National Youth Advocacy EDITOR Coalition (NYAC) in Washington, D.C. Grasso was Carroll Gordon cited "for her commitment, vision and leadership in Public Affairs Manager providing excellent education and a sense of community for lesbian, gay, bisexual and PRESIDENT transgender youth. Sarah serves as a model for Steven K. Katona youth activism, social justice and for giving volume CHAIRMAN OF THE to the voice of young people." BOARD OF TRUSTEES The NYAC is the only national organization of John N. Kelly its kind working to meet the needs of a growing gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth constitu- DIRECTOR OF ency and youth services movement. NYAC DEVELOPMENT represents 120 organizations that range in size from Fran Day large national and urban organizations to small rural Sarah Grasso, '01 and Mary Harney, '96. organizations operating in some of the most WRITERS: Sarah Baker homophobic corners of our country. NYACís Carrroll Gordon mission is to advocate for and with young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender in an effort to end discrimination against these youth and to ensure their physical and emotional well being. COA News is published "Sarah Grasso's work with Down East Aids Network was truly deserving of her nomination for three times a year and is the award from the National Youth Advocacy Coalition," according to Mary Harney, '96, circulated to alumni, students, parents and Executive Director of DEAN. She was nominated by Harney, who oversaw Grasso's work with friends of OUTRIGHT, a support group/safe space for young gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and youth College of the Atlantic. (ages 22 and under )who are questioning their sexuality. Grasso interned with DEAN and pioneered OUTRIGHT under their auspices. She provided counseling and advocacy for young people in need and provided referrals to other agencies when the kids needed emotional and/or medical support that OUTRIGHT could not provide to them. Grasso studied psychology, education and dance at COA prior to her graduation in June. THE COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC "VISION STATEMENT" The faculty, students, trustees, staff and alumni of College of the Atlantic Thank you, Cadillac envision a world where people value creativity, Mountain Sports! intellectual achievement, and the diversity of nature and human cultures. With Patagonia's statement of purpose says "Patagonia respect and compassion, exists as a business to inspire and implement solu- individuals will construct tions to the environmental crisis." Their corporate meaningful lives for vision, together with the generosity of Cadillac themselves, gain appre- Mountain Sports (owners of the Patagonia ciation for the relationships among all forms of life, store), has resulted in the donation of ten and safeguard the heritage percent of the sales profits from the Bar Harbor of future generations. store to College of the Atlantic. VISIT THE COA Thank you, Cadillac Mountain Sports. WEBSITE AT: www.coa.edu Patagonia store summer employee, Jenny Nelson of Hampden. COA News 2 SUMMER 2001 United World College Update Michael F. Carter, County Director for Estonia, Lativa, Lithuania and Poland, of the World Bank, gave a talk at COA on May 3 about the World Bank and its international operations. The talk was hosted by the United World College students. Shown with Mr. and Mrs. Carter are (left to right) Isaac Chege from Kenya, President Katona, Michael Carter, Anthony Yartel from Ghana and Jenny Carter; Dominic Muntanga from Zibabwe is kneeling. This tiny island has been feeling a bit bigger lately. program. The students have also brought a variety The global perspective at COA has grown thanks to of ideas and experiences to the classroom, SO that the generosity of The Davis Family Foundation and the concept of human ecology is growing to their scholarship providing full scholarships to include more cross-cultural perspectives. The graduates of any of the United World Colleges. The United World College scholars are involved in all first students to benefit from this generosity have just aspects of campus life ranging from service as a finished their first year at COA. resident advisor to participation on the publica- Eight students entered the College in Fall of 2000, tions committee, researching on Great Duck hailing from Albania to Zimbabwe. Within six weeks Island and serving as an environmental educator they organized and were presenting their first interna- in the COA Summer Field Studies Program. tional show. Gates Auditorium was filled for this Many local families are serving as host families showcase of songs, dances, stories and folktales from to the students, as they are usually unable to go countries around the world. Students from the USA home over vacations and holidays. joined forces with the international students and This Fall (2001) 12 more United World learned the dances and songs, so that over 40 students College students will enter COA, bringing the were involved in the production. This spirit of total of Davis Scholars on campus to 20. The new community involvement has continued, from the students are from Kosovo, India, Tibet, Argentina, Chinese New Year celebration to an African cultural Nepal, Norway, Sri Lanka, Albania, and Ukraine. Questions... I see a youth in a window bright Do they fully sense that, "Ne'er Before" Staring forth into a darkening night. Has earth's next step held such fateful store? What thoughts laze through such innocent minds? That from a cobweb does now suspend They must look ahead, as we now look behind. The ultimate truth The power to end. Anonymous COA News 3 SUMMER 2001 The Commencement Emily Troutman, '01, read her by Emily Troutman poem, "The Commencement" Every year, your mother marked your height as her student perspective at against the old wood doorframe. At first, graduation. you were measured in inches, and then feet. You began to stand easily without faltering. And eventually, your mother measured you against herself. You are taller or shorter. You have whatever she didn't, opportunities or money or love. You both found ways to make a life out of each other's. Between each year, there is a quiet absence. Some months and inches are left unwritten. You marked one year with rocks thrown into the ocean. Last year was marked by your longing to be in another place, to be more fully in any place at all. And even though there is no doorframe, now, you can almost feel your mother's pencil scratch the paint above your head. You stand inside the doorway and wait for her to straighten your back again, until the hollow space is flush against your youth. You are between, it is the time after and the time before. You find it hard to convey the ways you've grown, not up. In, maybe. Or toward. You know one thousand different kinds of love and apathy. You are beginning to suspect the causes of your parents' disallusionment. And it appears to be based in truth. This year, last year, next year are marked by the same deepening line in the doorframe. Technically, you are not taller. You are graduating, once again, into yourself with a knowledge you cannot name and a growing sense of wonder for every year that brought you here. Commencement from page 1 were presented to seniors: The Daniel H. Kane, Jr. Award to Emily Marie Withycombe; Center for Applied Human Ecology Award to Carrie Marie Banks; the International Studies Award to Stacey Eder, Melissa Orpen, Tara Ramos, Ellen Sedgwith, Mia Strickland and Gabriel Willow; the Edward J. Meade Educational Studies Award to Sarah Hubert and Laura Casey; the William H. Drury, Jr. Award to Chandreyee Mitra. Honorary Master of Philosophy in Human Ecology degrees were conferred upon Dr. Speth and Clyde E. Shorey, Jr., retiring Chairman of the Board of Trustees of COA. A reception in the Newlin Gardens followed the ceremony. Elena Tuhy '90, was sworn into the State of Maine Bar on June 15, 2001 in Bangor. She is licensed to practice law in Maine and Ohio, where she resides. Elena (left ) is shown with her sponsor, Mary Cline, Esq. COA News 4 SUMMER 2001 Election of New Chairman and New Trustees Clyde E. Shorey, Jr., chairman of the College of the Atlantic Advisors. He is one of the founding partners of EC Trade Board of Trustees, has passed the baton to John N. Kelly, of Services, a trade securitization program and associated e- Yarmouth, Maine at the COA annual meeting on Saturday, commerce tracking and reporting system. Foulke is also co- August 4. In addition, the election of three new trustees was founder of an educational software company and serves as a announced. They are Kelly S. Dickson, '97 of Bar Harbor, financial consultant for new business ventures. He was William G. Foulke, Jr., of Bedford, New York and Seal Harbor previously with Bankers Trust Company as Managing and Suzanne Folds McCullagh of Winnetka, Illinois and Director in the Latin American Merchant Banking Group. Northeast Harbor. Mr. Foulke serves on the boards of Pardee Resources Chairman Kelly has been a member of the board of trustees Company and Mianus Gorge Preserve, Inc.; on the vestry of since 1987 and has served as a member of the By-Laws and Ad St. Mary's Church in Bedford, New York and the Parish of St. Hoc Committees. He is an attorney and partner with Kelly, Mary and St. Jude Parish in Northeast and Seal Harbor, Remmel & Zimmerman in Portland, Maine. Kelly is a board Maine. He and his wife, Wendy, summer in Seal Harbor and member and former president of the Maine Bar Foundation; live in Bedford, New York. member and former president of the Maine State Bar Suzanne Folds McCullagh is a former member of the COA Association and Maine Trial Lawyers Association; a Fellow in Council of Advisors. Since 1987 she has been Curator of the International Society of Barristers; a member of the Earlier Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Member Edward. T. where she has worked since 1975. Prior to that she was Gignoux Inn of Courts; and former Assistant Attorney Curatorial Assistant in charge of the Print Department at the General, State of Maine. Kelly and his wife, Elizabeth, live in Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. She also served as Yarmouth. an intern in public education at the Metropolitan Museum of Kelly Dickson is an alumni of College of the Atlantic where Art. McCullagh has published numerous articles and she received her Master of Philosophy in Human Ecology in reviews, curated many exhibitions and lectures internation- 1997. She serves as director of development at Friends of ally. She serves on the visiting committee of the Snite Acadia. She has also worked for Gary Friedmann and Museum, Notre Dame University; is a director of the Harvard Associates and MDI Biological Laboratory. She is the Club and was a director of Landmarks Preservation Council president-elect of the College of the Atlantic Alumni of Illinois. Mrs. McCullagh and her husband, architect Association Board of Directors. She and her husband, George, Grant McCullagh, live in Winnetka, Illinois and summer in live in Bar Harbor. Northeast Harbor. William Foulke is a former member of COA Council of Nurse Practitioner Services for Students Eileen Drummond, RN, NP will be on the COA campus five hours a week to provide services to the COA community. The newly equipped exam room was made possible through a donation by the Student Life Trustees Committee. Director of Student Services Ander Thebaud and Nurse Practitioner Eileen Drummond. COA News 5 SUMMER 2001 A Summer of Arts Is life imitating art or is art imitating life? Bob Kates' shirt Martha Stewart and framer extraordinaire, echoes the images on the wall at "Mapping Mount Desert Raymond Strout at the "Mapping Mount Desert Island" show. Stewart and Strout Island" at the Blum Gallery in June and July. each had several maps in the exhibit. Trustee Sam Shaw and Mrs. Vincent Astor enjoy "The Art of Birds" at the July 15 opening. The exhibit Internationally exhibited sculptor Nancy Bowen con- featured works by John James Audubon, Carroll Tyson, structed a landscape sculpture consisting of large ceramic tiles joined with native granite stones that were John Marin, James Wyeth and William H. Drury, Jr., painted with a stripe matching the stripe in the tile and others. pattern. The sculpture started at the stone wall below the right upper Beatrix Farrand terrace and meandered toward the entrance to the pier where it connected with a large chain. Mount Desert Symposium in the Arts "Land Escapes 2001" organizer Nancy Manter (left), with biographer Justin Spring, author of Fairfield Porter, A Life in Art, and President Steve Katona before Spring's lecture on July 25. COA News 6 SUMMER 2001 Kudos to Ev and Joan Shorey A brilliant summer day was the setting for a luncheon honoring outgoing chairman of the board Ev Shorey and his wife Joan on August 4. In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Shorey, three golden chain trees (laburnum vossii) were planted near the terrace above the Farrand Gardens. Mr. and Mrs. Shorey were praised for their years of service to COA by fellow trustees, staff, faculty and friends and President Katona presented outgoing chairman Shorey with a plaque that stated "Through fifteen years of extraordinary service to College of the Atlantic, Ev Shorey has demonstrated the highest qualities of leadership, generosity of spirit and support, patience, and accom- plishment. As Chairman of the Board of Trustees, he has enhanced the college's quality and brought out the very best in Students, Faculty, Staff and fellow Trustees. With deepest gratitude, appreciation and affection, College of the Atlantic honors Ev and his wife, Joan." Joan and Ev Shorey President Katona presenting the plaque of appreciation to Shorey. The buildings and grounds crew plant the three golden chain trees during the dedication ceremony. Chairman of the board John Kelly proposes one of many toasts to the Shoreys. The Shoreys were joined at the head table by (left to right) past chair- man of the board Edward McC. Blair, Susan Lerner, Ev and Joan Shorey, President Steve Katona and trustee Alice Eno. h Trustee Philip Geyelin adds to the words of appreciation for the guests of honor. COA News 7 SUMMER 2001 CRITERION BURNING SPEAR AUGUST 22 MOLLICONE OPERA AUGUST 31 COMING ATTRACTION The historic art deco Criterion Theater, operated by COA alumni Michael Boland and Sam Hamill and their partner Martin Sheridan, will be the venue for "Love Songs for Maria", an evening of new music by award-winning composer Henry Mollicone, lyric soprano Maria Spacagna, and COA faculty member John Cooper. 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