Kresge Approves Challenge Grant lege of the usiness mpact The Kresge Foundation approved in Total late April a challenge grant of proposed $11,250 $6,150 $18,600 $150,000 toward the construction of the Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Community $15,000 $8,200 $24,820 Center - the 8,300 square-foot meet- ing hall and academic facility planned $37,500 $20,500 $62 at College of the Atlantic. In announcing the challenge grant, Gates Community COA President Louis Rabineau em- phasized that the college must first complete the $1.75 million building campaign by a deadline of January 1, 1993, before COA can receive the ac- tual grant funds. At the time of the Kresge Foundation's approval of the challenge grant in April, the college had raised nearly $1.4 million for the ELENA TUHY building and still needed $368,795 to complete the campaign. With more than $122,000 in gifts and pledges received since then, that figure has Sonny Cough of Bar Harbor (center) stands with Leslie Brewer and Tina Hinckley been reduced to $246,535. at the reception which marked the beginning of the MDI Campaign for the Gates Edward McC. Blair, chairman of Community Center. Brewer and Hinckley serve on the MDI Campaign Committee both the board of the college and of along with fellow COA Trustees John Reeves and Robert Suminsby. the Gates Community Center fund raising campaign, expressed particular satisfaction with the Kresge challenge grant - a first for COA. "We are ex- ceedingly grateful to The Kresge Foun- COA NEWS dation for its support and for this continued on page 2 Also In This Issue SUMMER 1992 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC BAR HARBOR, MAINE Gates Center Facts 2 COA Kicks Off Local Campaign Commencement 1992 3 College Given Land 4 for Gates Community Center New Trustees Join Board 4 Koeppl Leads Youth Project 5 The Mount Desert Island Campaign tina Hinckley, of Hinckley Yachts in Gates Gallery Named 5 for the Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Com- Southwest Harbor, and Lynda Tyson, munity Center got off to a lively start Marketing Director and CEO of the Museum Turns Ten 6 on June 17 in the Newlin Gardens on Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce. Watson Winners Profiled 7 the College of the Atlantic campus, ad- Hinckley said the Gates Center will jacent to the site where the Gates Cen- not only fulfill long-standing space Founding Faculty Feature 8 ter will be constructed. needs of the college, but will also Students Learn about Rivers 9 Members of the MDI chambers of benefit the larger community by af- commerce and local media came to a fording greater access to college Admission News 9 "Business After Hours" reception, co- events and by providing meeting space Howe Presents Lecture 10 hosted by College of the Atlantic and for businesses and other groups in the the Bar Harbor Chamber of Com- community, such as the Enterprise Wastewater Workshop Held 10 merce, to learn more about the Gates Council, Hospice, MDI Tomorrow, Community Center. In addition to Selected Senior Projects 12 and the Frenchman Bay Conservancy. viewing architectural plans and render- Tyson expanded on the idea of the Newsnotes 14 ings of the building that were on dis- Gates Community Center as an play, those who attended heard brief economic benefit to the local business PLUS a special section dedicated presentations from COA Trustee Bet- community. She said, "Right now the to William H. Drury, Jr. continued on page 8 Gates Community Center Facts Named for Thomas S. Gates Jr., Chairman of the College of the Atlantic Board of Trustees from 1978 - 1982, and Trustee from 1973 1982 Designed by Turner Brooks of Burlington, Vermont, who was named one of the top 100 architects internationally by Architectural Digest in 1991. Projected ground-breaking: July 1992 Projected completion date: September 1993 General contractor: Nickerson & O'Day, Bangor, Maine Campaign Chair: Edward McC. Blair, Chairman of the COA Board of Trustees Honorary Campaign Chair: Mrs. TURNER BROOKS Thomas S. (Anne) Gates, Jr. Project cost: $1.75 million Raised to date: $1,503,465 A model of the Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Community Center. Kaelber Hall is on the Balance needed: $246,535 right and the Arts and Sciences building is on the left. 8,300 Total Square Feet 300-seat meeting hall Kresge Approves $150,000 Challenge Grant 55-seat lecture hall five faculty offices continued from page 1 art and exhibition gallery tremendous vote of confidence in Col- a conference center, which is greatly a music room/greenroom lege of the Atlantic," he said. Blair needed by the college and by the area ceremonial lobby added that with receipt of the chal- business and professional community." lenge grant it is highly probable that The Kresge Foundation is an inde- Environmental Design Considerations construction will begin this summer. pendent, private foundation which The college's trustees have agreed that makes capital grants to institutions triple glazed windows construction will begin only after all operating in the areas of higher educa- low-flow toilets the funds required for the building tion, health and long-term care, arts energy efficient heating system project have been raised. and humanities, social service, science passive solar heating in the lobby COA Vice President for Develop- and the environment, and public af- bio-regional and non-hazardous ment Dallas Darland said, "The fairs. In 1991, the Foundation awarded building materials campaign's success in raising over $1.5 grants totalling nearly $63 million to heated water at the source million to date is due to the support 174 charitable organizations in 36 super insulated and great generosity of the college's states and the District of Columbia. trustees and many friends. The Kresge Five grants were made in areas outside challenge now provides the momen- the United States. tum for bringing the final phase of the Grants are made toward projects in- COA News is published three times a year. It is circulated to alumni, parents, building campaign to a speedy and suc- volving construction or renovation of cessful conclusion." and other friends of College of the facilities and the purchase of major Atlantic. The community is eagerly awaiting capital equipment or real estate. Most Editor: Elena V. Tuhy the completion of the multi-purpose grant recipients have raised initial center, which is named for former funds toward their respective projects Writers: John Anderson, John Bider- Chairman of the COA Board of Trus- before requesting the Foundation's as- man, Patti D'Angelo, Dallas Darland, tees Thomas S. Gates, Jr.. Award-win- sistance. Grants are then made on a Michael Flaherty, Gary Friedmann, Steven Katona, Colleen O'Brien, ning architect Turner Brooks challenge basis, requiring the raising Sharon Reiser, Dianne Riley, April incorporated high standards of energy- of the remaining funds, thereby insur- Taylor, Steve Thomas, Elena Tuhy, efficiency and use of non-toxic ing the completion of the projects. Michael Zboray, Yazmin Zupa materials into a design that insures the The Kresge Foundation was created Darkroom Manager: Jason Devine facility will serve both college and by the personal gifts of Sebastian S. Printer: Furbush-Roberts community needs. COA Trustee and Kresge and is not affiliated with any local businessman Leslie Brewer said, corporation or organization. printed on recycled paper "One expected use of the building is as COA NEWS 2 SUMMER 1992 COA Graduates Largest Class in College's History The uncharacteristically cold and of how people in developing countries rainy weather on Saturday, June 6, did are working together to create posi- not deter graduates at College of the tive change and asked students not to Atlantic from celebrating the college's twentieth commence- ment ceremony. Over 700 friends, family members, COA trustees, facul- ty, staff and students filled the tent on the North Lawn of the college's oceanfront campus to watch as 61 students, the largest class in the college's history, received their bachelor of arts in Human Ecology. Each graduate received a flower from the student who an- nounced his or her name and a diploma from Presi- Photos on this page by ELENA TUHY dent Louis Rabineau before shaking hands with Chairman of the Board of Top: COA Board Chairman Edward Trustees Edward McC. McC. Blair presents an honorary B.A. Blair. in Human Ecology to Life Trustee President Rabineau wel- Robert Blum. Above: Eric Hitzel '92 comed the assembled presents a special award to Adjunct guests and spoke about his Faculty Member Donald Meiklejohn, hopes for the students as which is accepted by Jenn Judd '92. they leave the college, Left: Some of the COA graduates who saying, "We take a lot of received State of Maine teaching cer- pride in our ability to trans- tification stand with their teachers. late into action as best we can our images of the edu- forget the lessons in democracy they of a society in which sexual harrass- cated person, the good life, the just have learned at COA. She told the stu- ment is permissible and women's society. We try to translate into ser- dents, "I think it is more important reproductive rights are being eroded. vice our images of Human Ecology it- than ever in our society that we have They reminded everyone, especially self. Let's hope we can continue in people like yourselves who are con- the women of the graduating class, to that effort constructively." stantly questioning, because who "speak the truths about the ways Seniors Savannah Hadler and Col- knows how long we have to make the [your] lives are affected by cultural leen O'Brien followed Rabineau in monumental changes we have to make beliefs and public policy." welcoming those present to the for this planet to survive." Other student speakers were Jef- celebration, and thanked the families, A number of seniors also spoke at frey Desmond-Miller, Eric Hitzel, and friends, and others for the roles they the ceremony, giving their perspec- Mark Tully. played in the development of their tives on the meaning of Human Ecol- Receiving honors from the class perspectives. ogy, freedom, and challenges for the and the college were three members Preceding the awarding of degrees future. of the COA community: a trustee, a was a speech by Medea Benjamin, co- In describing her views of Human member of the staff, and a faculty founder and executive director of Ecology, Lelania Prior said, "A degree member. Life Trustee Robert E. Blum Global Exchange, an organization in Human Ecology shows you what and Millard Dority, the college's Dir- based in San Francisco which aims to the real world is about and allows you ector of Special Projects, Director of strengthen people-to-people ties be- to look at issues from more than one Buildings and Grounds, and Director tween the citizens of industrialized perspective. When looking at the pro- of Campus Safety received honorary and developing nations. blems of our society and our culture, Bachelor of Arts degrees in Human Benjamin, who spent more than a we are better prepared to find alterna- Ecology. Adjunct faculty member Don day at the college before the tives and solutions to the mess we see Meiklejohn, who received an honor- ceremony, praised the graduates. She around us. We can look at a problem ary B.A. in Human Ecology in 1987, said, "One of the things that I have and not feel trapped by the constraints was presented with a reproduction of noticed about students at College of of only one or two options." the Bill of Rights and a certificate the Atlantic is that you are constantly Jennifer Judd and Michelle from the Board of Trustees naming questioning." Matisons spoke to their concerns him a "distinguished professor." As she urged the students to keep about the growing "backlash" against In presenting Blum for his degree, their idealism alive, Benjamin spoke women who challenge the status quo Life Trustee Alida (Mrs. Frederic E.) continued on page 16 COA NEWS 3 SUMMER 1992 Land at Indian Point softwood trees. Faculty member John college has been receiving the proper- Anderson explains that parts of the ty under a general transfer, which al- Donated to COA forest are "nice old birch and beech lots 15% of the property to the In late fall 1990, College of the Atlan- stands with some open field." The soft college each year, based on the tic received a gift of more than twenty- woods are a mix of spruce, firs and Guthrie's original holding. The col- five acres of undeveloped land on some very large white pines within lege will own the entire piece in an es- Indian Point from Henry and parts of the open forest. Its floor is timated six years. Elizabeth Guthrie of Bedford, New covered with a variety of moss and Integration of the property into the York. The gift evolved from a long- lichen. The shape of the property COA curriculum was slowed by time friendship between the Guthries, closely resembles a rectangle, with the Drury's ailing health, but in late 1991 who summer in Southwest Harbor, longer sides flanked by Northwestern and early 1992, Drury and Anderson Cove and Uncle Tom's Cabin Road. and COA faculty member William laid a loop trail around the property Drury, who would often go bird watch- From the road, the land gently slopes which makes the land accessible for ing and discuss natural history with to the beach frontage, which is ac- use in courses and individual research the Guthries. According to Elizabeth cessed by a small gravel driveway. projects. The Guthries bought the land from Indian Point's mixed habitat and Guthrie, Drury, who died in March COA Life Trustee Robert Blum and 1992, had expressed interest in the the college's commitment to its preser- his late wife Ethel in 1945. At that land as a "perfect site" for scientific vation are what make it the "perfect time, one log cabin stood on the site" for scientific observations of nest- observation of nesting birds on Mount Desert Island. property and, according to Elizabeth ing birds on MDI. In Spring 1992, a re- Indian Point is situated on the Guthrie, it was quickly destroyed by searcher from the Fish and Wildlife termites. The land is now free of build- northwestern side of MDI, in Bar Har- Service netted and tagged nesting bor. The 27.7 wooded acres donated ings, with only the gravel driveway and birds on the property to provide "a a loop trail interrupting the forest. foundation for future studies with stu- by the Guthries are adjacent to Na- The Guthries decided to keep the dents on nesting birds' survivorship ture Conservancy property to the property free of development. To con- rates from year to year." south and east and to the last private land owner on the Point to the west. serve it as open space, they granted a As part of Alesia Maltz's Historical conservation easement to Acadia Na- The property has 700 feet of shore Geography course, a student volun- frontage on Northwestern Cove in tional Park in August 1975. Elizabeth teer is documenting the property's Western Bay. The forest is a mix of Guthrie explained their donation to history, which will be used as a guide second generation hardwood and the college was "another step toward in understanding how past events can the preservation of the property." The effect the future of a piece of land. continued on page 8 New Trustees whose purpose is to preserve some the Acting Associate Director at of the buildings in Vila de Cardona, Victim Services in New York. Elected a small medieval village near Bar- A summer resident of Sorrento, Chairman of the Board Edward celona, Spain. Mrs. Fuster, who is Henry D. Sharpe, Jr. lives in North McC. Blair recently announced the studying for her Master of Arts in Kingston, Rhode Island, where he election of Rebecca Buyers-Basso medieval art history at Columbia serves as Chairman of the Board of '81, Valentin and Maria Fuster, University, holds two baccalaureate Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Michael Kaiser '83, Henry Sharpe, degrees, one in sociology from Bar- Company. Sharpe graduated from celona University and the other in Phillips Exeter Academy in 1941 and John Stockwell to College of the Atlantic's Board of Trustees. social work from Winona University and Brown University in 1945. In ad- in Minnesota. dition to other industry and civic ac- Rebecca Buyers-Basso '81 was Valentin Fuster is Chief of the tivities, Sharpe serves as Secretary selected by the College of the Atlan- Cardiac Unit and Cardiovascular tic Alumni Association to fill the of the Corporation of Brown Research Center at Massachusetts University and is a member of its position of Alumni Trustee for 1992- General Hospital and the Mal- Board of Fellows. Sharpe is married 93. She has worked as Program linckrodt Professor of Medicine at to the former Peggy Plumer Boyd. Director for the Maine Community Harvard Medical School. A member John Stockwell, who has served Foundation since 1989. Before that she served COA in the double role of numerous professional medical on the board for three years as societies, Dr. Fuster received his of Alumni Coordinator and as Assis- Parent Trustee along with his wife medical degree from the University Deicy Stockwell, has been named a tant Director of Admission. Buyers- of Barcelona and a Ph.D. from the full member of the Board. The Basso's husband, Skip, is curator of University of Edinburgh. Stockwells, who live in Boxford, COA's Natural History Museum. Michael Kaiser '83 has served on Massachusetts, are the parents of Maria and Valentin Fuster, the board as Alumni Trustee since Lilea Stockwell Simis '90. A vice parents of first-year COA student that position was created in 1989. president of A.G. Edwards & Sons Paul Fuster, have been appointed as Parent Trustees for 1992-93. Kaiser currently chairs the Alumni in Portsmouth, NH, Stockwell Maria Fuster serves as president Fund Committee and is a past chair graduated from Yale University of the Alumni Association. He is with a B.A. in English in 1957. of the Vila de Cardona Foundation, COA NEWS 4 SUMMER 1992 Helping Students Plan Their Community Gates Gallery to be Named for Ethel Halsey Blum Chairman of the Board Edward McC. Blair has announced that College of the Atlantic will name the art and ex- hibition room in the Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Community Center for Ethel Hal- sey Blum, the late wife of Life Trustee Robert E. Blum. This is a fitting tribute to Ethel DIANA BOWLEY courtesy of The Bangor Daily News Blum, a talented watercolorist and a patron of a number of arts-related or- ganizations in New York City prior to her death in November 1991. She was also a reporter for The Paris Herald (now The International Herald Tribune), The New Orleans Item, and the New York Bureau of the As- sociated Press during the 1920s. The 728-square-foot gallery, lo- cated on the second floor of the Gates COA faculty member Martin Koeppl working with Greenville High School stu- Community Center, is expected to play dents on a community planning project. a pivotal role in strengthening the arts and design curriculum at the college. "Kids are the ones who will be plan- help them work out their sense of Ernie McMullen, who teaches ning the future tomorrow; why not let place and a sense of what they want ceramics and drawing at the college, ex- them start today?" asks Martin Koep- that place to be in the future. plains that the gallery will provide pl, education and design faculty mem- The students met with town plan- space to display art created by students ber at College of the Atlantic. ners, business owners, and other in the college's ceramics, painting, Toward that end, Koeppl ran a citizens to understand the decision- drawing and other art classes. Mc- project this spring which helped stu- making process in their community, Mullen says that having this space for dents at Greenville (Maine) High and what role they have in the students to exhibit their work will School have their voices heard in plan- decisions being made. The students "raise the tone" of the quality of the ning the future of their town. Koeppl's learned interviewing and documenta- displays. COA faculty members hope project, "Youth as Planners: Con- tion skills, as well as the hands-on use to use the Blum Gallery to present not structing the Future of Greenville," of various media, including photog- only visual arts, but other art forms as was set up in conjunction with the raphy, videotaping, and audiorecord- well, such as music, poetry, and video. school's Hospitality class, which is ing. Koeppl explains, "Art as an aid to COA art historian and painter designed to help students gain the imagining the future played an impor- Joanne Carpenter hopes having the skills necessary to succeed in a com- tant role in the project." gallery will inspire the creation of a munity whose economy is largely Koeppl met with students in five- permanent COA art collection which based on tourism. hour time blocks, which gave them the would include works related to Maine Koeppl became involved with opportunity to explore many ideas or by Maine artists. She, McMullen, Greenville High School through the and projects in depth and allowed the and others also hope the college will Maine Community Foundation, who students to focus on those issues have a curator for the gallery. had awarded a grant to the school for which they considered important. The Blum Gallery will make it pos- an unspecified community planning Koeppl's major goal was to give the sible for the college to host major ex- project. He was asked to write a students a sense of the role they will hibits of visiting artists, which proposal describing a project he play in the future, and to help them find McMullen says has not been possible thought would best suit the needs of a sense of self-determination so that on a regular basis due to a lack of a the community and the students. they can "make their own unique secured space. Prior to the 1983 fire Koeppl, who feels young people are voices heard in an area that is generally which destroyed the original Kaelber an important and often overlooked dominated by the language of politi- Hall, the college had a secured exhibi- resource in the planning process, has cians and professionals." tion gallery which was located in the led similar projects over the past ten As a conclusion of the Youth as auditorium wing of the arts and years in places such as Brooklyn, NY; Planners project, students met with science building. While the gallery Stavanger, Norway; Assisi, Italy; and town officials, members of the space was not damaged in the fire, it Mount Desert Island, Maine. Economic Development Council, and was converted to provide offices for In Greenville, Koeppl worked with interested citizens, where they faculty and staff. a small group of high school seniors presented a 20-minute video of their on a variety of activities designed to ideas and led an open discussion - Elena Tuhy, Director of Public Affairs continued on page 10 COA NEWS 5 SUMMER 1992 Natural History Museum Celebrates In Memory of Stanley O. Grierson Tenth Year It is with sadness that the college learned of the death of Stanley Oliver Grierson, co-founder of the College of the Atlantic Natural History Museum, on April 12, 1992. Inspired by the success of the Whales- Grierson taught courses in museum preparation at COA from 1981 On-Wheels travelling program, which until 1985 and was the first Curator of the Natural History Museum at first hit the road in Spring 1981, and COA. Skip Buyers-Basso '83, a student of Grierson's who has taught the College of the Atlantic's first taxider- Museum Preparation Practicum since 1986, remembers that Grierson my workshop in Fall 1981, then-zool- donated all his time, much of the museum preparation equipment and ogy faculty member Sentiel "Butch" materials, as well as salaries for some personnel in the early years of the Rommel and then-museum prepara- museum. tion instructor Stanley Grierson set Even after he officially left the college, Grierson maintained his ties out to begin a natural history museum to Allied Whale, of which he had long been a supporter, and to the at the college. museum preparation program, whose students continued to benefit from COA Education Assistant his expansive knowledge of natural history and taxidermy. Catherine Kiorpes Elk '82, who served Grierson studied at Columbia University, the American Museum of as a research assistant for the museum Natural History, the School of Modern Photography in New York, and in summer 1982, and as assistant direc- in the field. Prior to moving to Bass Harbor, Maine, in 1972, he taught tor and outreach program director in for twenty-one years in the Westchester County schools in New York 1983 and early 1984, describes and helped to found the Bedford Audubon Society. Rommel's and Grierson's visions for Grierson is survived by his wife, writer and naturalist Ruth Gortner the Natural History museum as "dif- Grierson; a daughter, Heather Jeanne Grierson; and a son, Scott Tanis ferent but parallel." She explains that Grierson, who attended COA. Rommel envisioned a museum that primarily would provide educational opportunities for COA students and visitors, while Grierson felt that it was Museum Preparation Practicum on the island and the coast of Maine. very important to develop a per- focused on preparing exhibits for dis- It also contains a gift shop, a hands-on manent museum collection. Despite play in the museum. discovery room for children, and a 25- the difference in focus between Rom- Grierson, the museum's first foot minke whale skeleton. In 1991, mel and Grierson, Elk and others feel curator of exhibits, trained COA stu- the museum hosted over 7,000 visitors the two men succeeded in founding a dents in taxidermy and museum from around the country and around "student-centered museum." preparation from 1981 to 1985. These the world. The museum also hosts a Rommel, the museum's first direc- students included Steve Baird '83, who summer lecture series on natural his- was the assistant curator of the tor, and Beverly Agler '81, museum tory and environmental issues. coordinator in 1982, visited other museum in summer; Rick Schauffler While the museum has changed in natural history museums before writ- '83, who became director of museum size over the years, its original focus as preparation in 1983-1984; and Skip a student-centered museum continues ing a proposal to the COA Board of Trustees for permission to start the Buyers-Basso '83, who has carried on to thrive. Buyers-Basso teaches a museum. The Board approved the Grierson's work as museum prepara- Museum Preparation Practicum tion instructor and museum curator plan and the College of the Atlantic throughout the year, and new exhibits since 1986. are in the works. Interim Director of Natural History Museum opened in summer 1982. Another component of the the Museum Dianne Clendaniel and At the time, the museum consisted museum was added in 1985, the same COA students interested in education of several exhibits created by Grierson year the museum opened year-round, present outreach programs at the col- with the creation of the Summer Field and students in his museum prepara- lege and at schools in Maine. Many Studies (SFS) program. Developed by COA students also serve as assistant tion course. Located in the college's Assistant Director Vicki Nichols '84 auditorium, the museum included live teachers for Summer Field Studies. exhibits of wildlife, displays and infor- and community member Barbara Clendaniel says that future plans mation about whales, and interpretive Train, SFS is a day camp which gives for the museum include increasing the programs for visitors. The summer school children the opportunity to ex- alliance between museum program- museum exhibits were displayed plore nature firsthand. The program ming and the science and education around campus during the winter so has grown from two sessions for programs at the college, and expand- that they could be enjoyed throughout grades 4-6 in 1985, to sixteen sessions ing exhibit interpretation to include the year. for grades K-12 in 1992. such topics as botany, insects, and More than 5,000 people visited the Although compressed during the geology. As it grows and changes, the museum that first summer, which in- school year to make room for class- museum will continue to be an asset spired the development of two prac- room space, during the summer the not only to COA students, but to the ticums within COA's curriculum. The Natural History Museum spreads out entire college and to the larger com- Outreach Practicum was started as a over most of the first floor of Turrets. munity as well. The Museum now includes 35 ex- means of developing and presenting - April Taylor, travelling natural history programs, hibits, all created by students, which a second-year student such as Whales-On-Wheels. The depict the natural history of animals COA NEWS 6 SUMMER 1992 opinions of the officials responsible Two COA Students for bicycle policy with his first-hand Win the 1992-93 experience of the effects of those policies, since he will be on his bike. Watson Fellowship From these experiences he hopes to learn what it takes to make a society "bicycle-friendly." For the second consecutive year, two Miller has been very involved students from College of the Atlantic with encouraging the use of bicycles have been granted fellowships to study Foundation. JASON DEVINE courtesy of The Bar Harbor Times for transportation as well as recrea- abroad by the Thomas J. Watson tion while he has been at COA. His senior project, a component of his COA seniors Darron Asher Collins degree in Human Ecology, has been and Jeffrey Miller were two of 70 to develop and implement a bicycle graduating seniors selected in March plan for Bar Harbor and Acadia Na- from among 189 finalists nominated tional Park. by fifty-seven colleges throughout the Miller will be accompanied on United States. With a current enroll- his journey by fellow 1992 COA ment of 240, COA is the smallest graduate school to receive more than one fel- Erica Des- lowship for 1992-93. mond of Lud- The Watson Fellowship is a nation- low, Maine. al competition that supports inde- Miller and pendent study and travel abroad for Desmond recent college graduates. The Founda- were married tion views the opportunity for such June 5, 1992 travel and reflection as a break from on the COA formal schooling during which the Fel- campus. lows may explore a deep interest, test During their aspirations and abilities, and Dancer the trip, view their lives and American society Erica will with a new perspective. continue her Morris Plains, New Jersey, native Darron Collins has taken his passion ELENA TUHY research into the interac- for rivers as a kayaker and combined it tions between with his academic interests in the students and natural sciences and public policy to COA Watson winners Jeff Miller (top) and Darron Collins teachers, develop his project, "From Source to which was Sea: Rivers in Transition." Collins will policy and hopes to attend law school the focus of study river conservation issues in New to study natural resource law once he her senior project. She hopes to ob- Zealand, Costa Rica, Chile, India, and returns from his travels. serve high school and elementary Egypt. He will look at the cultural, so- Jeff Miller, who is from Petersburg, classrooms in New Zealand, China cial, and environmental changes as- Illinois, will travel the world on his and Japan. sociated with recent river bicycle. An avid biker since childhood When the Desmond-Millers return development in these countries. who bicycled across the United States from their travels, Jeff hopes to build Through interviews with hydro- two years ago, Miller will cycle a career on developing bicycling electric plant managers, managers of through New Zealand, Malaysia, policies in the United States and Erica local recreational facilities, fishermen, Thailand, India, China, Japan, and will complete her studies at COA for and others, Collins plans to compile throughout Europe as he looks at the her secondary science teacher certifica- an inventory of current river uses, role of bicycles as a means of transpor- tion. which will include a chronological ac- tation and how various governments Over the eleven years that COA count of the different stages of encourage their use. students have received Watson Fellow- development along the rivers. He will In his project, "Two Wheels ships, beginning in 1982, this is the develop a history of each river with Abroad: An Exploration of Bicycling second year that both of the college's special attention given to Societies," Miller will compare several nominees have received a fellowship. hydroelectric power and flood control, countries in which bicycling has a Recent past COA Watson Fellowship areas of intense recreation, economi- predominate role and look at the en- recipients have studied mountain cul- cally and ecologically important plant vironmental, economic, and cultural tures, political changes in Eastern and animal species, points of religious impacts the bicycle has had on the Europe, and geothermal energy. The or cultural importance, agricultural societies. The study will focus on the Watson Foundation grants single fel- diversions, and industrial uses of the policies, support facilities, cultural at- lows stipends of $15,000, while fellows river. He will also research the degree titudes, and transportation needs as accompanied by a dependent receive of statutory or land use protection as- they relate to the bicycle. $21,000. sociated with each river. As he investigates the govern- - Elena Tuhy, Collins is planning a career in river ments' stated policies, Miller will be Director of Public Affairs conservation and environmental able to compare the ideas and COA NEWS 7 SUMMER 1992 MDI Campaign Announced Founding Faculty Profile: continued from page 1 island does not have adequate space to Linda Swartz Lindsey host the small to mid-size conferences that are increasingly popular among If we are to create a sane world out of the chaos which exists, we have to understand business people. The Gates Center why we as humans do the things we do. We must learn to step outside our own cultural context, to empathize with people who have examined different world views. When we will afford the opportunity to address appreciate our unity in the human condition, we shall have taken a first step in the this problem." evolution of human culture toward ecological society. Through the MDI Campaign, the - Linda (Swartz) Lindsey college hopes to raise $50,000 from 1975-76 COA Catalog businesses and individuals in the MDI area to fund construction of the Gates Linda (Swartz) Lindsey, one of during my graduate work in cul- Center. Hinckley announced that two College of the Atlantic's four tural ecology," she says. The skills gifts of $10,000 each have been founding faculty (along with Bill developed at COA have been put pledged toward this goal by The Bar Carpenter, Dan Kane, and Steve to good use by Lindsey, who was a Harbor Banking and Trust Company Katona), taught courses from an and The First National Bank of Bar founder of the Western Slope anthropological perspective at Harbor. The total amount still needed Energy Research Center in 1978 COA from 1972 to 1976. Among and, more recently (1991) of the in order to commence construction of her offerings in 1974-75 were tit- Delta County Women's Resource the building, which the college hopes les such as Cultural Ecology; Center. to begin this summer, is $246,535. Strategies for Social Change; and Chairman of the COA Board of Lindsey teaches occasional Perspectives on Female Ex- courses at Western Colorado cam- Trustees Edward McC. Blair is the perience. puses and at a state prison camp. chair of the overall Gates Campaign In the 20 years since Linda One of her most important and Mrs. Thomas S. (Anne) Gates, Jr. Lindsey was the first full-time projects has been Colorado Crea- is the honorary chair. Heading up the female faculty member at College tive Education, Inc. (CCE). An al- MDI Campaign are four COA Trus- of the Atlantic, she has had many ternative school which originally tees: Bettina Hinckley, Robert adventures but has not lost her was based on the Waldorf model Suminsby of the Knowles Company in commitment to human ecology. of education, CCE has been reor- Northeast Harbor, MDI businessman Living on a ranch outside of ganized this year into an ecology- Leslie Brewer, and Bar Harbor Bank- Paonia, Colorado with her hus- oriented school and has 42 ing and Trust President John Reeves. band, Steve Wolcott and two sons, students ranging from primary to Eli (12) and Ben (8), she is, high school level. among other things, engaged in In the field of anthropology, raising alpacas, elk, and ostriches. Lindsey's area of specialization Indian Point She explains, "At a talk by [author has been Central and South continued from page 4 and organic farmer] Eliot America. In 1975 she took with Coleman at COA in 1976, I heard her to Ecuador two COA stu- Other planned projects include that any kind of agriculture that in- dents, Loie Hayes and Carol Man- cataloging the land's flora and fauna, volves tilling the soil is inherently ning, to work with the Otavalos and creating a vegetation map using destructive to that soil. So if you natives. Through the years the global positioning in the college's are going to live on a farm, what Lindsey has continued to aid the Geographic Information System. can you do, especially if you live in Otavalos. Designated a Anderson says Drury's dream was the West, where soils are delicate humanities scholar by the State of to have the property serve as a "field and rainfall is scarce? You can Colorado, Lindsey has been campus" for the Natural History raise animals. But only those awarded grants by the Colorado Museum's Summer Field Studies pro- animals that are suited to the en- Endowment for the Humanities to gram. The loop trail will resemble the vironment and which are valuable develop a touring exhibit of Audubon Society's "Trailside enough to allow you to make a Otavalo weavings and to bring the Museums" which give students a close- living without over-grazing." Andean music group Sukay to her up look at both an organism and its Lindsey is a graduate of valley. She also has sponsored habitat. Vanderbilt University (magna sales of Otavalo weavings. Anderson and Maltz hope to see cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and Lindsey last visited College of Drury's dreams become reality. "This the University of Texas (M.A. the Atlantic in 1988 for the dedica- is a fortunate gift for the college, and French and linguistics, "A.B.D." tion of Kaelber Hall and the COA needs to incorporate it into its anthropology, cultural ecology). Thorndike Library. She hopes to course work," explains Maltz. However, she considers COA to bring her family to Maine and in- Drury's love of experiential learn- be her true alma mater. "At COA troduce her boys to COA, where ing and the Guthries' generosity have I learned to apply the concepts of she would like them attend in the aided in bringing an extended "field human ecology that I had studied future. campus" at COA closer to reality. - Gary Friedmann, - Michael Zboray, former Director of Development a second-year student COA NEWS 8 SUMMER 1992 William H. Drury, Jr. William Holland Drury, Jr., Faculty Member in Ecology and Natural His- tory at College of the Atlantic, died March 26 at his home in Bar Harbor following a brief illness. He was 71. Drury taught at COA from 1976 until the time of his death. He helped launch the Master of Philosophy in Human Ecology degree program at the college and received the first honorary M.Phil from COA in 1991. Before arriving at COA, Drury served as Director of Education and Director of Research at Massachu- setts Audubon Society and also taught evolutionary biology and ecology at Harvard from 1952 to 1976. Drury graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College in 1942. Following service on board the USS Gunason during World War II, he returned to Harvard University where he was admitted to the prestigious Junior Fellows program and received his Ph.D. in Biology and Geology in 1952. Surviving Drury are his wife, Mary Lyman Drury of Bar Harbor, four sons, four sisters, and four grandchildren. The following are some remembrances of Bill Drury from colleagues and students. STEVE KATONA Bill Drury, Ecologist man of skill; but time and chance hap- rookeries, and other important pen to them all." Bill saw that we all projects. run different races, and that we are all Bill was a little suspicious of emo- by Steve Katona intelligent and skilled in our own tions, as we often interpreted them as ways. Each of us is a winner in our nature's way of stimulating animals to Bill Drury, Ecologist, spent most of race, regardless of how Natural Selec- do things that were in there best inter- his life investigating connections be- tion views us. est. That aside, I hope he knew how tween plants, landscape, animals, Bill was a compulsive questioner emotionally we felt about him, how people and culture. He wanted to and iconoclast. His curiosity helped us much we all cared for him, and how know how individuals evolve, how look more deeply at the world. We much we miss him. they make decisions, how they interact paid a price: simplicity often gave way If he is up there watching, I think in communities, and how systems to confusion. But we eventually found he must be rather bemused by all the respond to changes in population and added richness and meaning in fuss, by seeing us so solemn in church environmental variables. The world he whatever explanation finally survived and an obituary picture in The Boston saw was dynamic, never at equilibrium his examination. Globe with hair on its head. He always for very long. More complicated still, During our years of co-teaching looked at the other side of the coin, so each individual's world was different, the "Animal Behavior" course, two it would not surprise me if now, since every person, gull or plant had other important themes were the im- beyond the pain, he would try to find slightly different problems to solve portance of deception and self-decep- some humor and goodness in his own and slightly different genetic and ex- tion. As Bill's health failed during passing. periential endowment for doing it. recent months, I wondered how he Susie and I visited Bill about a Bill searched intensely for general would face his own mortality. As a week before he died. We stood by his practical and theoretical principles natural historian and ecologist, he bed with Mary and Peter. Bill was which could help make sense of this regarded death matter-of-factly as a comfortable, but exhausted. He spoke world in flux. The patterns he found in necessary part of life. I wondered if he not just to the four of us, but at times life's tapestry were subtle, compli- would see his own passing in that way. to other people present only for him. cated and enormously interesting. But he did not explicitly acknowledge Toward the end of our visit he Natural selection was the principle his coming death. To some extent he reached under the covers as if he felt which guided most of his explanations probably consciously and unconscious- something. about life. But his perspective was un- ly fooled himself and us, attempting to He extended his hand to us and usual and humane in emphasizing not spare us both grief. I suspect that he said, "Look, here's a piece of wire, like the winners, but the "losers." He did this because he did not communi- from a cricket cage." There was noth- recognized the important contribu- cate easily in the emotions such an ad- ing in his hand. tions of individuals that did things a mission would have aroused. Many of Then he said, "Here's the cricket." little differently, because those us took the opportunity to tell him I extended my hand and took the variants often provided novel respon- how much his life and teaching meant imaginary insect. ses to problems that could be impor- to us. His response showed genuine "It may be the wrong cricket," he tant under other circumstances or in surprise, and he usually said "It's nice said. the future. The program for Bill's of you to say so." However, I think "It doesn't matter," I replied, memorial service included the passage there was another reason that he was "they're both good." from Ecclesiastes 9:11, "Again, I saw unwilling to let go. He still had work I thought of the final scenes of the that under the sun the race is not to to finish his book, the Natural His- film, The Last Emperor. "I'll take good the swift, nor the battle to the strong tory Museum search, keeping low care of him," I assured Bill, "and pass nor bread to the wise, nor favor to the flying aircraft away from tern him on when my time comes." DRURY MEMORIAL i SUMMER 1992 In Memory of William H. Drury, Jr. Remembering Bill of heart shining through. And he paid such close attention to the Drury gulls, drawing sketches of their dif- by John Anderson ferent stances, throwing back his by Patti D'Angelo '92 head and letting out the same I would like to talk to you for a mo- haunting lilt as I heard the other ment about Bill Drury. Bill was my I was told today that Bill Drury day. teacher, and I was a slow learner. A lot was dying, that he was making the Bill encouraged us to watch the of what Bill taught me will take years passage between two worlds. Not island off Schooner Head over the for me to assimilate, and when I have until hours later did I remember weeks to see the changes among finally done so, it will emerge greatly that for the past two days when I the three species' colonies - gulls, changed. I don't think Bill would had been walking, cormorants and mind, though. In the constantly chang- my thoughts had eiders. These ing world through which he moved, turned to him Bill slowly made his way were such com- Bill tended to approve of ideas that repeatedly. Both back to the van, saying, mon birds, ones could adapt to new circumstances, and days, when I had I had passed off while he continually sought True "Every time you say you've been on my way many times as Things, he had no patience for dogma, to see Great quit, the birds show up - unexciting, al- and always pushed at the boundaries Meadow, and most boring. I that a bland acceptance of the status every time, never fails!" then to the watched, quo imposes on the human mind. school, the bend- Sure enough, a peregrine though, and Bill's teaching was highly unconven- ing calls of gulls tional. He felt that the best lessons invariably would tunnel began to rose up suddenly glimpse the were the ones which the student never and sharply, like over the cliff and fly a stiff complicated and knew were taking place until long after echoes against the arc over us, and be joined intriguing they were over. The world regularly dome of sky. worlds that Bill surprised and delighted him with new Their white by its mate. must have things, and he found that we learned bodies would known and been best by being surprised by learning, flash for a mo- a part of. At the rather than by being bludgeoned over ment against the clouds, and I al- Precipice, we the head with rote knowledge or canal- most knew that Bill's spirit was would scan the cliffs for the newly ized process. Birds, to Bill, were excel- riding on those voices. I thought of arrived peregrines. After twenty lent teachers. You could find them my mother's story of her minutes of no sighting, we would anywhere if you bothered to stop and grandmother's death long ago; that begin to head back to the van, look, and once you stopped and their german shepherd had sat out- sometimes even staying in there looked, they lead you inevitably into side all night and howled. The dog when it wouldn't start. A few times vast new areas of understanding. Bill knew someone was dying. I remained outside watching the could take people who were adamantly I only took one class with Bill, cliff, as Bill slowly made his way opposed to Science on ideological "Field Ornithology." And even back to the van, saying, "Every grounds, and, through the instrument though it was not a new practice time you say you've quit, the birds of birds, move them gently through a for me to be birding, I sensed the show up - every time, never series of stages until they were doing enthusiasm and enjoyment with fails!" Sure enough, a peregrine in- and appreciating science without real- which he led that course, simply to variably would tunnel over the cliff ly recognizing how it had happened. be out 2 or 3 times a week in the and fly a stiff arc over us, and be When I first came to the College I sunny mornings. He'd let us con- joined by its mate. knew how the world worked. There centrate on the swallows or red- That's how it seemed to have were a few loose ends that needed to winged blackbirds, that were so happened, his cancer, thundering be tidied away, but for the most part common and visible, as if we were down upon him just when his back the theories that I had learned as a seeing them for the first time again was turning away. There was barely graduate student made sense, and if and again. We marveled every time enough time to see the bird fully the world didn't happen to conform to at the red and yellow patch on the before it disappeared again, taking theory, well, it was probably the fault wing of the blackbird; that pocket our souls with it, back over the of the world rather than of my ideas. cliff. Although Bill had no patience for dogma, he had infinite patience as a teacher. He let me settle in, and then world with the smooth precision of Bill loved what he called "incom- began a dialogue that will be with me theory. He seldom told me that I was petence." Rather than the slick, op- for as long as I am a practicing wrong, rather he raised questions in timized efficiency that dominates ecologist. "Maybe I am too simple- my mind that caused me to go out and much of conventional Ecology, and minded.. he would say, then he take a look, or to go back and take a portrays Nature as a tightly inter-lock- would gently introduce me to the in- second look at what was really happen- ing machine, Bill saw a world of over- consistencies of my argument, the ar- ing. laps and inefficiencies in which most tifacts that I had imposed in order to organisms were simply "muddling reconcile a cantankerous, disorderly DRURY MEMORIAL ii SUMMER 1992 As an outsider for much of his life, Sphere Insolation Bill had a tremendous talent of spot- ting seemingly "hopeless cases" that air had failed or refused to be neatly pack- aged by society. Somehow they drifted Dock mesn to him, and spent time learning from The him, when other instructors had long monday since said, "these will never spend the time learning from anyone." "Always speak to the animal in the language that it understands," Bill would reply, and he was multilingual in a sense that few of us can capture. If one technique failed to work, he would try another, and unlike all too many of us who con- sider ourselves teachers, he was able to judge the point at which a student is his or her own best instructor, and to set them free to find out for themsel- ves. Each student and each class taught him lessons, and when I would apologize for a particularly banal com- ment or failure of comprehension he would always say "No, no, thank you, this has been really most helpful." I think he meant it. Even my failures to understand taught him about the na- ture of understanding, and each stu- dent provided him with a new language that once mastered, would be MARVIN LEWITON full of exciting new things. Bill was my teacher, and I am a slow learner. I miss him and shall go on missing him more than I can say. At the same time, I realize that we could never finish the dialogue that we through." One title that he considered close to the hand of anyone who began four years ago, such conversa- for his book was The Gods Must Be would pause long enough to pay atten- tions continue for as long as life itself. Crazy, because he felt that no sane god tion. Bill's world was one of infinite would have created such a disorderly A recurrent theme in all my conver- surprises, and the conversation would clutter. Rather than being dismayed by sations with Bill was Darwinism. To change - must change hour by hour. the chaos that he found in nature, Bill Bill Natural Selection was more than He was unable to finish much of what positively reveled in it. If chance and just a good idea, it was a way of life. In- he had set out to do, but in a sense change were ubiquitous, then almost dividual variation rather than same- "finish" was not part of his vocabulary. anything might happen, the pos- ness was supremely important. He An ending implied stasis or final sibilities were all around us. grumbled over the tendency in conven- causes, and Bill's world of change had More than anyone else that I have tional education to force everyone no stasis, no finish, no end. I shall miss yet met, Bill's life made sense. Reading into the same mold of "intelligence." him more than I can say, but he has his manuscript I can see that he He pointed out that there were few left us a great work to do, both in the learned from just about everything Harvard Ph.D. candidates that he wider world, and here, within these that he did. With many scientists one would like to trust at the wheel of a bays, among these islands, with these finds that over the course of their lobster boat off Vinalhaven in a fog. birds and these students that he loved. careers they do a bit over here and He objected to strict standards of then shift and do something else over "knowledge," telling me of a lobster- there, and the pieces remain isolated man who said, "I don't know where events with no real summation of the rocks are, only where they ain't." knowledge that can lead to wisdom. At the same time, he could both With Bill the world was a marvelous answer me quote for quote in jig-saw puzzle that could never be Shakespeare as we leaned over the rail completed because the parts changed of The Island Queen off Seal Island, even as one fitted them together. Life and also find it not the least incon- was for learning. The movement of gruous to be quoting an Elizabethan rivers, and the hearing of owls, and the playwright when we were out looking life and death of gulls all carried with for birds. them instructions that were there, DRURY MEMORIAL iii SUMMER 1992 In Memoriam hunger for it now more than William Holland ever, now that I can no longer Drury, Jr. get the brief, refreshing March 18, 1921 doses of con- March 26, 1992 versation with Bill on my by John O. Biderman '77 trips to Bar Harbor. Almost a year and a half ago, a few of But Bill's us realized that Bill Drury was ap- contribution to proaching his 70th birthday and was the college is starting to reduce his teaching com- also an un- mitment at the college. Wouldn't it be finished work, wonderful and fitting, we discussed and what a then, to pull together the "Drury blow his loss gang" - a bunch of Bill's students, will be. For proteges, and even mentors? We many years, began with the thought of celebrating sometimes his 70th year, but expanded the idea stressfully, into a mini-symposium, where some of sometimes un- the many luminaries who had molded the accompanying essays by Steve popularly, Bill was an intellectual their ideas across the Drury kitchen Katona and John Anderson, which beacon and academic conscience for table could share their theories and show the enduring legacy, and the COA. As [founding COA President] work, and honor Bill for his contribu- depth and quality and integrity of Ed Kaelber, who lured Bill to the col- tions. those who will carry the torch. But a lege, has pointed out, the hackneyed I have to admit big part of it comes from recollecting term "Renaissance that part of my something Bill said last January, which Man" applied to motivation was selfish. is possibly the most remarkable thing I If you were going to start a Bill better than al- (Bill would have ap- ever heard him say. plauded my frank ad- really small college, say for most anyone we John Anderson remarked that at could ever know. "If mission of an attribute the time he came to COA, he thought fifteen or twenty students, you were going to he saw widespread in he "had it all figured out" - until Bill and you could only hire one start a really small nature: selfishness - started rattling his models. When Bill college," Ed said in or, as he would often faculty member, it's obvious first came to COA, I thought he had it his eulogy for Bill, couch it, enlightened all "figured out." His was one of the who that faculty person "say for fifteen or self-interest.) I wanted most knowledgeable and analytical twenty students, to create an occasion would be: Bill Drury. minds I have ever met. Yet last and you could only where we could get January, when Cathy Ramsdell, Rich - Edward Kaelber hire one faculty Bill to tell us the cur- Borden, and I paid a visit to 10 High member, it's ob- rent state of his think- Street, Bill spoke intently about the vious who that ing. I'd ideas he hoped to convey in his book. grown faculty person impatient with waiting for him to Rich said: "I have to say that when I would be: Bill Drury." finish his book - what I knew would first came here, I really didn't under- Bill was the consummate all-around be his grand syntheses - and I wanted stand what you were thinking." "Well," naturalist, almost a man out of his to hear it now, to finally get at the Bill responded, "that's because I didn't time: a 19th-century style gentleman- larger truth that had been formulating understand what I was thinking scientist, a patient and close observer inside that bespectacled head for so myself." Indeed, the 16 years at COA of nature. He was well-read and well- many years. were a time of assimilating, reshaping, travelled, also anachronistic qualities. Then, suddenly, word spread late synthesizing. As Bill challenged the He was a bridge between generations last fall that he had taken ill. He began college to strive for a high standard of of ecologists, having studied with a steady decline and never made a turn rigor and excellence, so that college Ernst Mayr and hobnobbed with Kon- back. (In retrospect, the swiftness of challenged Bill with its myriad of inter- rad Lorenz, yet helped shape the ideas Bill's departure was best for him. He secting inputs form many disciplines of a Robert Trivers and launch the could not have tolerated a prolonged and many bright minds. seabird studies of a George Hunt. And time dwelling on some low plateau.) What an honor it was - what pride as a teacher, he was nonpareil, because Time was short, and Bill knew it. we can take - to have been part of almost every encounter with Bill During his illness, his mind became that exciting intellectual journey. And brought out some new knowledge, completely focused on three things: his what a responsibility we have to see some new way of linking seemingly dis- that it continues. family; his book and the synthesis of parate bits of information, some new ideas he had been working on; and the perspective or context. future of the college. The book Part of how I have come to grips remains a great unfinished work, and I with Bill's demise can be evidenced in DRURY MEMORIAL iv SUMMER 1992 Studying River Conservation From the Bow of a Canoe "Expect to get wet at least once before the term ends!" Ken Cline warned stu- dents in Whitewater/Whitepaper: An Introduction to Whitewater Canoeing and River Conservation on the first day of class. Cline, who teaches public policy and environmental law at College of the Atlantic, borrowed the concept for this class, in part, from former COA faculty members Richard Davis and Daniel Kane, who taught Whitehead, KEN CLINE Whitewater in 1976. Although both classes shared the experiential aspect Co-teacher Darron Collins '92 watches as third-year student Pat Watson prepares of whitewater canoeing, the focus of to wipe out during a Whitewater/Whitepaper field session. Cline's course, which he team-taught River (above Ellsworth). As a group, Thomas J. Watson Fellowship which with Darron Collins '92, was different. the class compiled information on the will enable him to spend the year after While the original class concentrated political, legal and natural facts of the graduation travelling to a number of on the philosophy of Alfred North river and prepared a list of river rivers around the world to investigate Whitehead, the course taught in protection strategies that might be ap- their economic and recreational uses. Spring 1992 centered on the propriate for the beautiful and remote After his voyages, Collins plans to at- ecological and legal aspects of river West Branch. tend law school and study natural conservation. Before coming to COA, Cline did resource law. Cline and Collins met with eleven legal work for the environmental Cline and Collins each can give students twice each week throughout movement. Some of his earliest en- good legal, social, and economic the term. Once a week they met on vironmental cases for the Sierra Club reasons for why they are committed to campus to discuss the ecological, his- in Ohio involved river conservation, saving rivers. However, fundamentally torical, and legal aspects of river con- an issue that has remained important they share a more emotional reason: a servation - the "white paper" to him. love for experiencing wild rivers. It is segment of the course. The class then Collins, who team-taught White- this passion that inspired them to devoted Fridays to the "whitewater": water/Whitepaper as his senior share their knowledge with others, paddling different rivers in Maine. project, shares Cline's enthusiasm for both in the classroom and on the Collins explains, "The two parts of the rivers and has explored them exten- water. class go well together; a general intro- sively. This spring Collins received a duction to rivers followed by methods - Yazmin Zupa, a second-year student of how to protect them makes the study complete." As one of the class projects, the stu- dents engaged in a role-playing exer- cise in which they represented the Admission News September is a strong one. The 75 multiple interests and the competing students hail from 21 states and 5 demands placed on rivers. Cline feels by Steve Thomas, foreign countries. Maine leads the that in the study of river conservation, Director of Admission and Financial parade of states with 13 newly students face an example of a human Aid entering students, followed closely ecological question: Because the is- by New York and Pennsylvania sues are multi-faceted, the conflicts Predicting college admissions is with 7 each. We will also be greet- often come down to basic values. Bat- like forecasting the weather. It is ing new undergraduates from Ger- tles over rivers encompass a difficult for an admission director many, Japan, Canada, England and microcosm of land use issues and the or weather forecaster to be correct Czechoslovakia as well as our first controversies we face at an interna- 100% of the time. Both can, how- international graduate student tional level. He believes that the class ever, give a fairly accurate measure from Japan. gave students a piece of the puzzle in of trends, even in times of shrink- Although most of the members understanding the complexities of ing demographics or unsettled of the class have already made resource issues and a solid foundation weather patterns. their commitment to attend COA, to turn to when they examine larger is- This past admission year has several additional students are ex- sues. been an exciting one, and the class pected to choose COA between The final project of the class was to of newly entering students who will now and the first day of classes. prepare a preliminary conservation be joining us in Bar Harbor come The forecast is a good one! plan for West Branch of the Union COA NEWS 9 SUMMER 1992 touched on the hand- Howe Presents First icaps facing poverty- stricken youth who Keppel Lecture grow up with single parents, without Harold "Doc" Howe II, Senior Lec- enough to eat, with turer on Education at the Harvard too much television, Graduate School of Education and and with shrinking former United States Commissioner monetary support for of Education, presented the first Fran- their schools. Among cis Keppel Memorial Lecture at Col- other recommenda- lege of the Atlantic on April 24, 1992. tions, Howe suggested Co-sponsored by the Harvard that communities be- Graduate School of Education and come more involved College of the Atlantic, the program in the education of honored the memory of Francis Kep- their young and that pel, who died in 1990. He was a mem- classrooms become ber of the College of the Atlantic more experiential. Board of Trustees from 1986 to 1988 Howe's comments and Dean of the Harvard Graduate were followed by ques- School of Education from 1948 to tions from Eve 1962. Keppel was the United States Bither, Maine's Com- Commissioner of Education under missioner of Educa- Presidents Kennedy and Johnson tion, and Gordon ROBYN REDMAN courtesy of The Bar Harbor Times before being named Assistant Donaldson, an As- Secretary of Health, Education and sociate Professor at Welfare (for Education). In both posi- the University of tions, he contributed significantly to Maine. The discus- the enforcement of the Civil Rights sion was moderated Harold "Doc" Howe Act of 1964 as it affected educational by Warren G. Hill, a former Maine Commissioner of programs. Keppel, with whom they had attended Harold Howe, who followed Kep- Education. school. pel as U.S. Commissioner of Educa- Preceding Howe's lecture, COA At the conclusion of the panel tion in 1965, knew Keppel through President Louis Rabineau welcomed presentation, Librarian Marcia their work together at Harvard, which the audience and introduced Dudley Dworak presented Mrs. Francis made the selection of Howe as the Blodgett, Director of Development (Deedie) Keppel with a copy of the first Francis Keppel Lecturer par- and External Affairs at Harvard bookplate which will be included in all ticularly appropriate. Graduate School of Education, who books purchased by the Keppel Book In his talk, "Thinking About Kids," brought greetings from the Graduate Fund. Howe discussed a variety of issues con- School of Education. Chairman of the Those interested in obtaining a cerning the education of children, COA Board of Trustees Edward McC. copy of Howe's remarks are welcome both in and out of the classroom. He Blair and Trustee Donald Straus then to contact the Public Affairs Office at shared some of their memories about the college. COA Hosts Wastewater Conference Helping Students Plan continued from page 5 One hundred town managers, wastewater treatment plant operators, state and federal water quality officials, and others from across the state attended a two-day about insights and questions triggered workshop on Wastewater Treatment Options for Maine's Small Communities at by the presentation. "Students as well COA on June 11 and 12. Co-sponsored by COA and the University of Maine, the as their audience hoped this endpoint of the project was only a beginning for conference addressed whether there is a need for implementing new waste-water technologies in the state of Maine, and the blocks to such a development. youth involvement in the planning of Greenville," said Koeppl. Participants discussed a range of alternatives to current systems, including con- From a COA perspective, this was structed wetlands, peat beds, mound systems, and solar aquatics, a method COA biologist Suzanne Morse is investigating for the COA campus. Solar aquatics is one in a series of Koeppl's active re- the process of treating wastewater with microbes, plants, and animals capable of search projects which have been designed to serve as innovative prac- removing nitrates and other substances that are harmful to humans and the ticum labs for COA students, and in ecosystem. Morse, who worked with Nic Houtman of the Water Resources Institute at the the long run to construct a bridge be- tween the Education and the Com- University of Maine at Orono to organize the workshop, said that participants munity Planning programs at COA. came away from the workshop with a greater understanding of the potential for more effectively cleaning up Maine's waste. - Sharon Reiser, a second-year student COA NEWS 10 SUMMER 1992 Southern Perspectives on Human Ecology Graciela Evia, a social ecologist from the Multiversidad Franciscana de America Latina (MFAL) - a new university recently founded in Mon- tevideo, Uruguay - - visited College of the Atlantic in April 1992 to share her perspectives with the COA com- munity. She was invited to the college as a part of COA's Environmental Economics Speaker Series, which also brought environmental economists from Czechoslovakia, Scotland, and across the United States to COA's small Maine campus. CYNTHIA BORDEN-CHISHOLM Evia's formal training is as a social psychologist. She received an under- graduate degree from the Universidad Gracelia Evia and Chaz O'Brien '92 worked together in Uruguay, where Evia is a de la Republica Uruguay and is cur- social ecologist with the Multiversidad Franciscana de America Latina. rently finishing an advanced studies program in group psychology. She be- gained substantial recognition about ideas being developed beyond came interested in the connections of through the United Nations Con- COA's back yard. social and environmental issues in her ference on Environment and Develop- Over the past three years, COA studies, which led her to pursue the ment (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in and the MFAL have developed an in- development of the MFAL. In addi- June 1992. ternational affiliation and an ex- tion to her work with the MFAL, she On April 20, Evia presented a lec- change program. As part of the also does environment and develop- ture entitled "Community Participa- exchange program, students can fulfill ment work with the Centro de Inves- tion: Myths and Methods." In it she their COA internship requirement at tigacion y Promocion Franciscano y explored community involvement and the MFAL. Several students inter- Ecologico (CIPFE). She recently com- the subjective nature of participation, ested in doing an internship with the pleted a study on women and poverty particularly in the approaches utilized Multiversidad Franciscana de issues in suburban areas. by governments and NGOs to en- America Latina had the opportunity College of the Atlantic became in- courage or justify their use of to discuss their needs and goals for volved with the Multiversidad Francis- grassroots participation. The main the program with Evia. As a result, cana de America Latina in 1989 at the thrust of the lecture pointed to the several students may be working with first Latin American Congress on need for a critical analysis of the the MFAL next year. Ecology, where Academic Dean methods and motivations behind - Colleen (Chaz) O'Brien. '92 Richard Borden and zoology faculty grassroots participation, and the need member John Anderson met Eduardo for an ethical evaluation of the power Editor's note: O'Brien was the first COA Gudynas, who co-founded the MFAL relationships that tend to arise in field student to do an internship with the Multiver- with Evia. Gudynas has visited the col- research with local communities be- sidad Franciscana de America Latina for tween the "observer" and the "ob- COA credit. A large portion of her three lege twice in the past two years and in summer 1991, he and Borden had the served." months in Uruguay was spent researching opportunity to work together again at Evia also lectured in classes at the and discussing Evia and Gudynas' first book, La Praxis Por La Vida (The Praxis the International Symposium on college. In Environmental Psychology, for Life), a copy of which has been Human Ecology in Stockholm, taught by Rich Borden, she presented presented to COA's Thorndike Library. Sweden, where Gudynas presented a methods and an analysis of group O'Brien says, "I hope COA is able to paper at a panel chaired by Borden. dynamics. In Ken Cline's Environmen- develop international opportunities for all Evia's visit is an example of COA's tal Law class, she shared her perspec- students because, looking back as I prepare effort to enhance the breadth of its tives as both a citizen of a Third to graduate, it was the most beneficial learn- curriculum and the college's connec- World nation and as an active par- ing experience that COA offered me. The ticipant in the NGO conference chance to confront one's perceptions of tion to Third World issues. During her two-week stay, Evia shared her ex- scheduled simultaneously with Human Ecology, and how those perceptions adapt to the world outside COA, can open periences and her knowledge of social UNCED. up new worlds for students." ecology, psychology, and the connec- Throughout her stay in Bar Har- As a result of her experiences in Uruguay, tions between State and various Non- bor, Evia met individually with COA O'Brien has undertaken a Fulbright Government Organizations (NGOs) students to discuss the Third World proposal to continue working on ways and of South America. The role of NGOs and NGOs. Many students felt it was means of enhancing and equalizing North- an excellent opportunity to learn South dialogue on issues of environment in the formation and implementation and development. of national and international policy COA NEWS 11 SUMMER 1992 Social, historical, environmental, scien- Selected Senior Projects cause tific, economic, and cultural issues are all sub- sterility in jects used to define human ecology, and all are explored through the projects of this year's the worm, Caenorhabditis elegans. In tions of the proposed free trade this micro-biological study, Emmons agreement between the United graduating seniors. A requirement for gradua- tion, students use these projects to expand hopes to provide insight to the field of States and Mexico. Hitzel began his re- their understanding of a particular topic in developmental biology - how a single search by studying the General Agree- order to better educate themselves and to con- cell becomes a mature organism - so ment on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), tribute to the education of others. Human that we may better understand how which he feels pushes toward the Ecology covers a vast array of interests and larger organisms grow from one cell to liberalization of trade barriers without senior projects are just as diverse. Here is a adulthood. This particular organism thoroughly addressing issues of social sampling of this year's senior projects: was chosen because of its rapid rate of justice and environmental degradation. Lynn Ambielli built a stained glass window as her senior project. Ambielli For his senior says, "Working in this medium challen- project, Phil ges me to look at my surroundings, Lichtenstein both physical and social, and use this in- traveled to a formation to create something that can number of is- be a source of aesthetic pleasure and in- spiration to myself and the people who lands off the see my work." Her abstract piece is Maine coast to 6'x2' with many colors and types of photograph glass, including clear bubble glass and various means Dichroic glass, which reflects and of island refracts light into six complimentary transportation. colors. Ambielli worked under the CAP'N guidance of Ann Murphy at Hotflash Annie's in Southwest Harbor. She plans to continue apprenticing at studios after graduation and may enter glass blowing school. Eventually she would like to produce her own glass for her stained glass art. Erica Desmond observed student- maturity and clearly visible organs. The From studying the free trade agree- teacher interaction in the 3rd and 4th project has been continuing for the last ment between the U.S. and Canada, as grade math classes of the Mount five years at Emory University in Atlan- well as numerous periodicals, Hitzel Desert and Pemetic schools on Mount ta, Georgia, under the direction of Dr. feels that currently proposed free trade Desert Island. This year-long project Steven L'Hernault. In the fall Emmons agreements are a hindrance to environ- utilized different methodologies to will begin graduate work in develop- mental protection. On the other hand, gather and compare information on in- mental biology at Washington Univer- he feels regulated trade is a great oppor- teractions between students and sity in St. Louis. tunity to enforce international environ- teachers in these schools. For the first Although many of us may not think mental treaties. "While we cannot part of her research, Desmond col- about our dreams, Eileen Hesser con- control what other countries do within lected quantitative data through observ- siders them to be powerful expressions their borders, we can influence the en- ing, coding and logging different types of our individual creativity. She vironmental standards of the products of interaction. In the qualitative aspect describes dreaming as the creation of a we import," says Hitzel. He plans to at- of research, Desmond conducted inter- "rich, complex and internal world," tend law school after graduation. views with both teachers and students. which "reflects and distorts the exter- Dan Liu designed a senior project The teachers were questioned on their nal world of physical scenery, relation- that is helping health care providers personal expectations and on what they ships, and action." Through "COA and public health coordinators deter- believed were the most important Asleep: Dreams of the Community," mine the health care needs of women qualities to possess as an instructor. Hesser explored commonalties in on Mount Desert Island. Liu's original The interviews with students focused theme and environment in the dreams goal was to study the general on why they thought math was impor- of ten COA community members. She demographics of women on the island. tant and how it might be useful later in approached the study phenomenologi- In the course of setting up her study, life. Desmond's final paper combines cally, attempting to generate greater she discovered that she could integrate the three perspectives of observer, stu- understanding of this internal world by her work with that of Planned Ap- dent, and teacher and includes an comparing the dreams rather than in- proach to Community Health analysis of how the approach in- terpreting them in the context of each (PATCH) and the Women's Health fluenced the results. She plans to pur- individual's psyche. Hesser says she has Center Task Force (WHTF), who are sue graduate study in educational always had an interest in dreams and interested in setting up a woman's research. remembers up to four or five of her health care center on MDI. Liu says Richard Emmons' senior project at- own every night. the project allowed her to work inten- tempts to identify the location of the For his senior project, Eric Hitzel sively with computer analysis. Liu plans mutant spe-17 gene which is known to analyzed the environmental implica- to begin the graduate program in Im- COA NEWS 12 SUMMER 1992 munology at Tuffs University in Boston COA, the Environment & Free Trade this fall. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, waves of change continue to MODERNIZACION EDUCATIVA reverberate all over the world. As this su- perpower has disintegrated, Israel has faced the challenge of incorporating RO UNIVERSITARIO DE some 300,000 former Soviets into its na- tional fabric. Senior Judd Olshan lived CC TADOR on a kibbutz in Israel's Negèv Desert, where he interviewed 20 such Soviet im- migrants, some of whom had taken out loans to go to Israel or had left part of their families behind. For his senior C. project, Olshan compiled a written record of the interviews in which he E describes the ambitions, values, and dif- ficulties of the immigrants and includes their views about their former country and about their lives during the Cold War. Journalistic in nature, Olshan's project explores a global transition Richard Borden, Ken Cline, and Eric Hitzel through the eyes of individuals living it. In February, COA Academic Dean their deliberations over the free Carolyn Reeb developed a diverse set Richard Borden, faculty member trade agreements currently being of skills through her final project, "Dis- Ken Cline, and Eric Hitzel '92 negotiated. tribution and Ecology of River Otters on traveled to Campeche, Mexico, to Borden explains, "The current Eastern Mount Desert Island." Her take part in an international negotiations do not adequately ad- project required that she learn techni- workshop on economics. dress concerns about cultural, en- ques of winter tracking, how to use the The aim of the conference, which vironmental and regional impacts computer assisted analysis of the was attended by faculty and graduate among many groups, both in the Geographical Information System (GIS), students from colleges and univer- U.S. and Mexico." and how to perform statistical analysis on sities in the United States, Mexico, The workshop addressed dif- her own data. Using an earlier study con- and elsewhere in Latin America, was ferent issues related to free trade ducted during 1985-87, Reeb collected in- to develop a set of guidelines to ac- using the tools and concepts of formation regarding otter distribution on company the proposed North ecological economics. Topics in- the eastern part of the island. During the American Free Trade Agreement cluded a model of the world timber winter months, Reeb surveyed twelve (NAFTA). trade; short-term policy recommen- watersheds of the island, looking for The workshop was organized by dations to ensure a free trade agree- evidence of these elusive animals. She the International Society of Ecologi- ment that is sensitive to used GIS to measure vegetation and cal Economics and supported by a environmental concerns; and a long- physical factors of the watersheds, which number of other organizations. At term international institutional ap- she statistically analyzed to determine the heart of this meeting was the proach aimed at insuring that trade those characteristics which comprise widespread concern with broad so- contributes to sustainability rather suitable river otter habitat. Reeb feels cial and ecological issues associated than running counter to it. A full- her project has given her excellent with free trade arrangements. In a length version of the group's preparation for graduate level work, five-day session, the participants analysis and recommendations will which she plans to start in 1993. crafted a document which they hope appear later this year in Ecological "Multimedia Interpretations of will be considered by the United Economics. Greek Subcultures," a series of paintings, States and Mexican governments in poems, and prose by Lauren Slayton, was inspired by her three-month stay on Crete, an island of Greece, in fall 1991. The written and visual depictions, which porary issues of the multi-faceted munity of Carolina Friends School in focus on the "collision of tradition and Greek culture. Durham, North Carolina, of which he modernity" in three Greek environments Jeff Wells used his senior project as had been a part since birth, and grow- - Hania, a city of 70,000; Creesopigi, a an opportunity to refine past works ing into an equally important com- Greek orthodox monastery; and Elos, a and create many new poems on "the munity in Bar Harbor, Maine. Wells traditional mountain village - contrast ecology of being human." The central plans to submit his work to various idealized visions of city, religious, and theme of the poems in his book, Poets journals. In the fall, he will enroll in agricultural life. Slayton chose the dif- of Ecology, is "letting go and nurturing COA's Master of Philosophy program ferent forms of expression to expand her new roots." His inspiration arose out to continue his studies in creativity range of creativity and to express a of his leaving the tight-knit com- and education. clearer sense of geography in the contem- - Michael Flaherty, a senior, and Dianne Riley, a second-year student COA NEWS 13 SUMMER 1992 hometown of Bar Harbor. with her husband, Frank. Cindie had Newsnotes Student Services Director Martha worked at the college since 1985 in a Greenley, along with 15 COA stu- variety of positions, including dents, recently completed a 65-hour Farewell to Lori Alley, who will leave secretary to the president. Wilderness First Aid Response course In January and February, Allied her position as Assistant to the Registrar to enter the Masters of So- which was held on the COA campus. Whale Research Associate Paula Farewell to Russell Holway, who Olson participated in a National cial Work program at the University of Maine at Orono this fall. has left his position as COA night- Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) sur- watchman to work at Mount Desert Is- An article entitled "Wider Points vey of the abundance and distribution land High School. Filling the va- of marine mammals off the Southwest of View" by Academic Dean Richard cancies in campus security are Mount coast of the United States. Borden will appear in Human Respon- Desert Island residents James The National Science Foundation sibility and Global Change, a book "Howdy" Houghton and Bruce Tripp, has awarded a three-year, $480,000 edited by B. Jungen and L. Hansen. who were hired in June. Welcome to The article is based on an invited clos- grant to COA zoology faculty member COA! Chris Petersen and to other marine ing lecture at the International Con- On April 16, zoology faculty mem- biologists to study mating dynamics in ference on Human Ecology held in ber and Allied Whale Director Steve coral reef fish near St. Croix in the Gothenburg, Sweden, in June 1991. In Katona presented a lecture at the Ber- Virgin islands. The grant, which May, Rich was an invited speaker and muda Biological Station on Hump- provides for two student assistants workshop coordinator on Human back whales in the North Atlantic, each summer, will enable Stacy Smith Ecology at the community-wide "Heal- with special reference to Bermuda. '92 and second-year student Mariska thy Places/Healthy People" confer- Earlier in April, Steve presented a Obedzinski to study and work with ence in Sudbury, Ontario, which was "focus day" on marine biology to Chris this year. sponsored by the Sudbury Chamber of Commerce and Laurentian Univer- gifted and talented students from five President Lou Rabineau was in Maine high schools at the Dexter New York City in early April to meet sity. Rich has been selected to attend Vocational High School. with the staff of the Governor's Com- Harvard University's Institute of The community welcomes back mittee on Scholastic Achievement Educational Management in July. Becky Keefe, Executive Assistant to concerning possible identification of Natural History Museum Program the President, who was on leave from Director Dianne Clendaniel attended outstanding students. He was also the 87th Conference for the American September 1991 to April 1992 to cited in a recent article on PATCH Association of Museums in Baltimore, spend time with her newborn (Planned Approach To Community daughter, Anna Rose Keefe. Health) in The Journal of Health Maryland in April. Writing faculty member Anne Education for challenging the Mount As preparation for their Spring Kozak's article on "Foraging for Fid- Desert Island Hospital to become Term team-taught course White- dleheads" appeared in the May 1992 more active in health promotion ac- water/Whitepaper, environmental law faculty member Ken Cline and Darron issue of Countryside Magazine. tivities. This challenge is reported to David Lamon '91 has been hired as have resulted in the establishment of Collins '92 traveled to Nantahala Out- door Center in North Carolina over the Program Director for the Natural the Mount Desert Island Steering History Museum's Summer Field Committee, which addresses health spring break. Ken said the center is Studies program for children this year. promotion programs on the island. known as the "Oxford" of paddling Ronald Leax, a Visiting Artist at Visiting faculty member Candice programs and it provided an "excel- COA in spring 1992, has recently been Stover, who has taught a multi-cul- lent refresher program" for their appointed to the Board of Directors tural short story class and Writing course. of the Mid-America College Art As- Seminar I at COA, was selected to Patti Ciraulo, who served as the Ex- sociation. Ron was on leave from his ecutive Assistant to the President present a workshop entitled "Self-Life- position as Associate Dean from Write" at the Seventh Annual Maine while Becky Keefe was on leave, has University of Washington in St. Louis. Women's Studies Conference held at been in St. Petersburg, Russia, since In April, women's studies faculty Bates College in April. April, teaching English to adults and member Susan Lerner inaugurated a Director of Admission and Finan- children while experiencing life in the speaker series sponsored by Oz cial Aid Steve Thomas and colleagues former Soviet Union. Patti is expected Bookstore of Southwest Harbor with from other alternative colleges around to return to the college in August. a talk entitled "You Are What You Trustee Samuel A. Eliot has left his the country were invited to give a Read: Literary Influences on a position as Headmaster of the presentation on innovative colleges at Woman's Life." Athenian School in California to be- the annual New England Association come Headmaster at The Dublin Welcome to Debra Lucey, who as- of College Admission Counselors con- sumed her new duties as faculty ference at the University of Hartford School, a coeducational college secretary on May 1. Debra, who has in late May. In October, Steve and his preparatory school in New lived in Presque Isle, Maine, for the colleagues will give an expanded Hampshire. Eliot served as vice presi- past four years, recently moved to the presentation to the association's na- dent and faculty member at COA Mount Desert Island area with her from 1971 to 1982. tional convention in Los Angeles. husband Patrick and her two children, This is quite an honor, as only 30 or- At the end of July, Life Trustee Michaella and Sean. In Presque Isle, ganizations out of a possible 4,000 are Father James Gower will retire from Debra worked as an administrative as- selected as presenters. the St. Vincent de Paul parish in sistant at University of Maine. Debra Bucksport, where he has served since - compiled by Michael Zboray, filled a void left by Cindie Marinelli, fall 1983, and will return to his a second-year student who resigned to move to Pennsylvania COA NEWS 14 SUMMER 1992 Students Selected for First Palacky-COA Exchange Ted Bartles, a fourth-year student, and Palacky students in English. visit, he presented a public lecture on Tanja Waldheim, a second-year stu- Meanwhile, Ondrej Kopecny, a "Sustainable Development in dent, have been chosen as the first par- third-year student at Palacky, will Czechoslovakia" as part of the En- ticipants in a student exchange study at College of the Atlantic for the vironmental Economics Speaker program between Palacky University entire year. Currently enrolled in Series and discussed recent political in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia, and Col- Palacky's School of Ecology, he is changes in his country. He also met lege of the Atlantic. majoring in the natural sciences with a with students applying to participate Bartles will spend the fall term at concentration in zoology. in the exchange program to discuss Palacky doing independent research Kopecny is especially looking for- their possible studies at Palacky and on governmental and societal affects ward to working with COA faculty the resources available to them. Dr. on architecture. He will examine build- member Steve Katona and learning Novacek will serve as an advisor and ings from the era of communist rule in about marine biology. In his applica- mentor to COA students attending Czechoslovakia, and compare them to tion essay, Kopecny wrote, "Looking Palacky. those being built today. at the map, I was delighted to find COA Administrative Dean Mel Waldheim will attend Palacky in what a well-known area for surfacing Cote visited Palacky in June. He met the spring to study political, social, whales your college lies in." with administrators and teachers to and economic change in Czechos- To learn more about College of the learn more about life at Palacky and lovakia. Atlantic before Kopecny's visit, Dr. in Czechoslovakia so that COA stu- Both students will also have the op- Pavel Novacek, Director of the dents will have a better idea of what portunity to attend tutorials in the Department of Ecology at Palacky, to expect during their visits. Czech language, as well as to tutor visited COA in late April. During his - Sharon Reiser, a second-year student Friedmann and mittee, and helped to raise Alumni par- Tuhy Leave COA ticipation in the An- nual Fund from less Director of Development Gary than 10% and $3,398 Friedmann finished six and one half in 1987 to about 40% years of service to COA on June 30. and nearly $25,000 in During his tenure at COA, he 1992. worked closely with Vice President Dallas Darland and Dallas' Gary is remaining in Bar Harbor to predecessor, Charles T. Hesse, to broaden the college's base of sup- start a consulting business offering port. Hired in 1986 to assist in the Maine nonprofit or- CYNTHIA BORDEN-CHISHOLM ganizations services Phoenix Fund campaign to rebuild and expand facilities lost in the 1983 in fund raising, or- fire, Gary helped complete that $5 ganizational manage- million effort, and played an impor- ment, and computer applications. Learn," which appeared in tant role in the drive to raise $1.5 Elena Tuhy '90, Director of newspapers across the country. Public Affairs, will be departing at She has increased the depth of million for landscaping, campus the end of July to attend Marshall COA News by having more faculty, driveways and parking, renovation College of Law at Cleveland State staff, and students write articles; by of The Turrets, an oceanfront pier, University in Ohio. Elena has including stories on diverse areas of and other campus improvements in served as Director and Editor of the college community; and by dou- 1988, 1989, and 1990. COA News since February 1991. bling the average size of the publica- In addition to building founda- Previously she had been Interim tion to 16 pages. She has also tion support for COA, one of Gary's Director following the departure of worked to improve relations with major accomplishments has been to Carolyn Dow in August 1990 and the island community. help build nontrustee giving to the was a workstudy assistant in the Elena hopes to return to Maine Annual Fund from $109,434 in 1986 Public Affairs office while she was a to practice civil rights, international, to nearly $300,000 in 1992. Toward student. or criminal law after completing her this end, he worked closely with Elena worked to expand regional studies in 1995. trustees on the development of The and national media coverage of the When asked to identify the Champlain Society (for donors of college. She arranged the Septem- climax of their careers at the col- $1,000 or more annually) from the ber 1990 article written by lege, Gary and Elena both planning stages in 1987 to a current Washington Post columnist Colman responded wistfully, "Working with membership of over 100 today; es- tablished the Alumni Fund Com- McCarthy, entitled "Learning to Lori Alley on the 1992 April Fools' Day issue of COA News." COA NEWS 15 SUMMER 1992 College of the Atlantic Class of 1992 ELENA TUHY Copies of this photograph can be obtained by sending $2.50 to the Public Affairs Commencement Office at College of the Atlantic. continued from page 3 Camp said that it was through Blum's "caring and generosity" that the col- lege has increased in "wisdom and stat- ure" since 1972, when Blum joined the board. COA NEWS NONPROFIT As Founding Trustee Les Brewer ORGANIZATION presented Dority for his degree, he U.S. POSTAGE PAID told the story of how a 17-year-old College of the Atlantic BAR HARBOR, ME Dority showed up at the college one 105 Eden Street PERMIT #47 day in 1970 looking for a job, and has Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 since acquired finesse in a range of skills and knowledge, including "com- munications, landscaping, zoning or- dinances, contract negotiations, ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED building trades, national safety and fire regulations, and the political process both on campus and in the local community." The ceremony concluded with the class of 1992 singing "The Human Ecology Song," composed by Kevin Kirby '92 which begins with these lines: "I know I'm a part of the human household/I know I'm a part of the whole/but living together with 5 billion roommates its starting to take its toll/Cause there's nobody willing to take out the trash/and there's no one who'll turn out the light/The rent's overdue, the fuel bill, too/And our lease expires tonight. Human Ecology, Human Ecol- ogy/That's the thing that we need/It isn't as common as common sense ought to be/You better start planting the seed." - Elena Tuhy