COA's Teacher Education Program Turns Five Years before the state of Maine ap- proved College of the Atlantic's Teacher Certification Program, a num- ber of COA students believed the best background educators could have was an education in human ecology. In 1979, a number of students put together an environmental education seminar, which met informally over two or three years. Students and alum- ni later worked with Peter Corcoran, who joined COA's faculty in 1982, to develop a self-study in teacher educa- tion. This study led to COA's approval by the Maine State Board of Education to certify teachers in elementary class- room and secondary science education in February 1987. Over the subsequent five years, ELENA TUHY eighteen human ecologists have graduated from College of the Atlantic with teaching certificates, and the num- ber of students participating in COA's Teacher education faculty member Etta Mooser in class. 1992 marks the fifth year teacher education program grows each that COA's Teacher Education Prgram has been accredited. year. The addition of new faculty and ad- ministrative staff have greatly strengthened the program. Etta Mooser, Ed.D., joined the COA facul- COA NEWS ty in 1988 to teach courses in critical theory, history of education, and learn- ing theory. When Peter Corcoran left COA in 1989 to teach at Swarthmore College, Mooser took over as coor- SPRING 1992 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC BAR HARBOR, MAINE dinator and hired Catherine Kiorpes Elk, a 1982 COA graduate who had First Masters Candidate Selected gone on to earn a secondary science teaching certificate in Maine, to assist her. As program administrator for to Manage GIS in Barrow, Alaska continued on page 10 Kurt Jacobsen '90, slated to receive Inupiat subsistence hunting and fish- COA's first Master of Philosophy in ing culture into a sustainable modern Human Ecology degree in June 1992, economy. Also In This Issue is already on the job as Manager of Jacobsen's Geographic Informa- Geographic Information Systems for tion System will be used to help Gates Center Profile: the North Slope Borough in Barrow, manage the development of the Thomas S. Gates, Jr. 7 Alaska. Borough's extensive petroleum and Howe to Give First In the northernmost community in mineral resources, which include the Keppel Memorial Lecture 7 the United States, Jacobsen is provid- Prudhoe Bay oil fields and the con- ing graphic resource information to In- troversial coastal plain of the Arctic Two Senior Artists 8 upiat Eskimo leaders and villagers. He National Wildlife Refuge. He will also Faculty Perspective is leading a team of six persons, includ- be taking inventory of the Arctic's by Alesia Maltz 11 ing four Eskimos native to the region, biological resources - charting the to reorganize and develop applica- domain of whales, walruses, and seals; Visiting Committee tions for the North Slope Borough caribou, fish, and waterfowl; tundra Considered for College 13 Planning Office Geographic Informa- berry patches and nesting grounds - all Letters to the Editor 14 tion System. The Borough's goal is to of which give life to the native Inupiat incorporate essential elements of the culture. continued on page 12 COA Researchers Develop Database for Acadia National Park College of the Atlantic biologist Dr. been written on the Park, some of change influenced by local human dis- Craig Greene and three COA which date back to the 1800s. turbance, climatic and atmospheric graduates have developed a computer In assembling the information, Re- change, and other factors. Says database which indexes all research ar- search Associates Glen Mittelhauser Greene, "In providing a clear picture ticles written on natural resources of '89, Jamien Jacobs '86 and Linda of what is known about Park resour- Acadia National Park and adjacent Gregory '88, under Greene's direc- ces, this project will aid researchers areas in Downeast coastal Maine. tion, spent over two years contacting and managers in developing the best "Because Acadia has been the researchers and poring through the inventorying and monitoring focus of many naturalists' studies over libraries of College of the Atlantic, strategies for natural resources in the past 150 years, the natural history the University of Maine, and Acadia Acadia National Park." of Mount Desert Island may be the National Park seeking out the multi- The project was the latest of a num- best known of any area of comparable tude of research that has been done ber of such undertakings ac- size on the continent," says Greene. on the region. The database, along complished for the National Park "But until now, no comprehensive bib- with an 800-page bound summary of Service, North Atlantic Region, by liography of this information has ex- the references, will be kept at the College of the Atlantic under the isted." The accumulated information Park's main office on Mount Desert Is- Cooperative Agreement between the will serve as a foundation for future in- land. Similar projects are being two groups. Other projects completed ventorying and monitoring efforts in developed at other national parks in under the Agreement include the Park. the United States. reintroducing peregrine falcons to the The index is organized by region, The newly organized historical Park and studying rare and endanger- species, date, author, and other database provides unique oppor- ed flora of Mount Desert Island. keywords, and provides an annotated tunities for the Park. The database - Elena Tuhy summary of each of the more than facilitates comparisons of historic and 1000 research articles which have Elena Tuhy '90 is the Director of Public Af- contemporary fauna and flora that fairs at COA. may indicate long-term patterns of Hinckley Named Co-chair of The Champlain Society The Champlain Society Chair Alice Eno is pleased to announce Bettina Hinckley's appointment as co-chair of The Champlain Society. Hinckley has been a member of College of the Atlantic's Board of Trustees since 1989. Eno, who has guided The Champlain Society for the past two years, will continue as co-chair. Hinckley is co-founder of Bass Har- bor Marine, in Bass Harbor, Maine, as well a charter broker at Hinckley Yachts. She is a trustee of Carrabassett Valley Academy in Kingfield, Maine, and a former chairman of the South- west Harbor School Board and the ELENA TUHY Mount Desert Island High School Board. She lives in Manset, Maine, with her husband Robert Lyman The Champlain Society member Mrs. E. Mortimer Newlin and Alice Eno, chair of Hinckley. They have three children, the Society, enjoy an afternoon sail on the Harvey Gamage. This was one of the Jill, Benjamin and Elizabeth, and two many events hosted by The Champlain Society during the summer of 1991. grandchildren. "I am very excited about the She and Eno, along with Special Desert Rock, and the Sixth Annual prospects for The Champlain Society, Events Coordinator Cynthia Borden- Summer Lecture Series. and hope we can expand Society mem- Chisholm, are currently making arran- The Champlain Society was formed bership to more members of the local gements for The Champlain Society in 1988 to honor individuals and or- community," Hinckley said. "I have al- summer events. These include a boat ganizations who contribute $1,000 or ways admired the way Alice Eno has trip to Petit Manan, a Falcon Watch, more annually to support the college's handled the job of chair, and I look for- gardens tours on Great Cranberry Is- programs through the Annual Fund. ward to working with her." land, a two-boat excursion to Mount COA NEWS 2 SPRING 1992 Researching Whales In Memory of Ethel Blum in Antarctica The College of the Atlantic com- late James Carpenter, faculty munity was saddened to learn of member at Colby College and During summer in the Southern Hemi- the death on November 13, 1991 father of COA writing faculty sphere, humpback whales feed all of Ethel Halsey member Bill around the continent of Antarctica. Blum. She died Carpenter, to But where do they go to breed during at age 90 at her mount an exhibit austral winter? home in on campus. Art Allied Whale, the marine mammal Lakeville, Con- history faculty research group at College of the Atlan- necticut. member Joanne tic, is helping to find this out. Allied Wife of Life Carpenter, who Whale researchers have confirmed the Trustee Robert organized the ex- migrations of three whales between Blum, Mrs. hibition, remem- the Antarctic Peninsula and Colom- Blum often at- bers that Mrs. bia, South America. The whales were tended college Blum painted identified at both locations using and board func- many marine photographs of the distinctive ventral tions with Mr. scenes, some of pigmentation on the tail flukes. One Blum, who which were in- whale was seen on April 19, 1986 by an joined the spired by areas Allied Whale researcher in Antarctica board in 1973. near Indian and on August 28, 1986 by Lilian Administrators Point where the Florez-Gonzalez of Fundacion Yubar- and faculty Blums sum- ta in Colombia. This was the first time remember her mered for fifty- a humpback whale had been shown to as a kind, four years. cross the equator, as well as the elegant woman who was enthusias- In addition to her professional longest annual migration ever docu- tic about COA. Founding Presi- career, Mrs. Blum was active in mented for a non-human mammal. dent Edward Kaelber recalls that both the New York City and Since 1985, Allied Whale has been Mrs. Blum's interest in the college Mount Desert Island communities. collecting photographs of humpback preceded that of her husband. She was a founding member of the whales from Antarctica for the An- Mrs. Blum gaduated from Wel- Brooklyn Committee for Planned tarctic Humpback Whale Catalog. The lesley College. She worked as a Parenthood, president of a catalog now contains 72 individuals newspaper reporter for The New guidance center for juveniles, and identified by photographs of the Orleans Item for a few years before patron of a number of arts-related ventral sides of their tail flukes. heading to Europe, where she organizations in the city. Here on Photographs have been contributed by reported on sports and society for the island, Mrs. Blum served on College of the Atlantic, The The Paris Herald (now The Interna- the Acadia National Park Com- Heraclitus Project, the Japan Whaling tional Herald Tribune) during the mittee, the MDI Hospital Board of Association, Greenpeace and in- 1920s. She later wrote for the New Trustees, and the MDI Highway dividual scientists, naturalists and York bureau of the Associated Safety Council, which she founded. tourists from the United States, Press. Mrs. Blum is survived by her England, Norway, and New Zealand. Mrs. Blum was a talented artist husband; their two children, John Photographs of pigmentation and whose works were shown frequent- R.H. Blum and Alice B. Yoakum; scars have been used for individual ly. In the mid-1970s, she teamed ten grandchildren; and twelve identification of humpback whales for up with fellow watercolorist, the great-grandchildren. nearly 20 years. Studies based on such photographs have provided detailed in- formation on migrations, abundance, population sub-stock structure, humpback whale movements in the were ever recovered. The recent natality and behavior. Southern Hemisphere. photographic re-sightings, although By comparing these Antarctic Previous description of the move- still few in number, add significant photographs with those obtained by re- ments of humpback whales in the An- new information about the whales in searchers in other regions, it is pos- tarctic region was based largely on the this little-studied region and demon- sible to document the breeding places catches by whaling vessels during the strate the important potential of this used by humpback whales that feed past. Numbered stainless steal technique. One important goal of this around Antarctica. By collaborating cylinders called "Discovery tags" research is to see whether any whales with scientists in Brazil, Colombia, (named for the ship R/V Discovery) migrate between different oceans via Ecuador, Australia and New Zealand, were shot into whales during research Antarctic waters. The possibility that Allied Whale has compiled a collec- cruises, then later recovered if whales individuals occasionally might cross tion of 405 individually identified were harpooned and butchered during the equator or move between the At- humpback whales from the Southern hunting. Migratory routes were in- lantic and Pacific oceans, for example, Hemisphere. While the sample size ferred from the geographic location of has important implications for gene remains small, these photographs con- tag insertion and recovery, but only a flow, population differentiation and tribute to our understanding of small number of the Discovery tags population management. continued on page 15 COA NEWS 3 SPRING 1992 Life Trustee Profile: John C. Dreier participating in COA's self-gover- nance system. For many years, Dreier attended All College Meetings and This is the first in a series of articles profil- this time he wrote about Latin strongly supported the growth of ing College of the Atlantic's five Life Trus- America for various periodicals and participatory democracy at COA. He tees - people who have been honored for their long-term commitment to COA. in 1962 his book, The Organization of sees governance as not only a way to Through these articles, we hope the com- American States and the Hemisphere run the college, but as an educational munity will come to know some of the Crisis, was published. tool, and he worked with students to people who have helped the college be- In 1972, Dreier retired and he and make the system clearer and more ef- come what it is today. his wife Isa moved to Southwest Har- ficient. He modestly recalls that he may have been the one When someone men- who suggested starting a tions the "early days" of steering committee, the College of the Atlantic, group which now over- many of us now as- sees the college's gover- sociated with the college nance system. imagine long-haired Dreier and COA his- radicals in tiny classes of tory faculty member a half-dozen students Alesia Maltz are current- serving on a multitude of ly trying to capture some committees. Those im- of Dreier's insights and pressions may be ac- remembrances through curate, but they are his oral history. In a por- incomplete unless they tion of the history now include the presence of being edited, Dreier people like Life Trustee recounts his experiences John C. Dreier. during a year he spent in Dreier's connection John Dreier talks with fellow College of the Atlantic Life the Soviet Union in 1931- to COA began during his Trustee Father James Gower. 32, not long after his childhood, long before bor, Maine. Dreier was able to revive graduation from Harvard the college existed, when he first be- his interests in conservation and en- College. He poetically recalls a night came interested in nature. Although vironmental issues and set out to on a riverboat packed with pas- he grew up in Brooklyn, he spent devote much of his time to these sengers and freight which he and a summers on his family's farm on Long Island, New York, where he causes. Over the years he has sup- group of friends took down the learned the elements of farm work ported various conservation groups, Volga River: and grew to respect the "earthy ele- including the Maine Audubon "...I remember gliding along down the ments." This early appreciation for Society, the Natural Resources river, through this vast space extending Council of Maine, the Nature Con- out in the moonlight to the far horizon the out-of-doors led him to work with government agencies involved servancy, and Maine Coast Heritage on either side. The peasants were hud- Trust, a land conservation organiza- dled on the foredeck, among the bales with soil conservation and land use. tion in Maine. and crates of cargo, and they would These interests took a back seat begin to sing these wonderful Russian Dreier learned about COA from a for a while when he started working songs - folk songs which I tried to get as a diplomat for the United States friend at Maine Coast Heritage and learn, but which were frowned State Department in 1941. He served Trust, on whose board he served for upon by the government that wanted in various capacities until 1951, when ten years. Seeing COA as a perfect to get rid of the old folk traditions and way to combine his interests in build a new communist culture. But he became the United States Ambas- sador to the Organization of education and. conservation, he the peasants would sing, and their song American States (OAS), comprised joined COA's Board of Trustees in would go out over the immense space of the countries of South and Central 1973, only a few short years after the of the limitless steppes of the Russian America and the United States. college's inception in 1969. From land. We got to be friendly with some of these people and they asked us to During this important period in 1976 to 1978, Dreier served as chair- sing American songs - which we did, man of the board. Later he used his inter-American history, he used his and they would cheer and repeat more diplomatic skills as a member of the finely-honed skills in diplomacy to of theirs. We felt we were touching the Inter-American Peace Committee, help the college recover from the dif- very heart of Russia!" serving as an advisor at major OAS ficult times surrounding the fire conferences. He also worked with which destroyed the original Kaelber Through his grace and ease in dif- Hall in 1983. ficult situations, his quiet leadership, OAS Investigating Committees ex- amining conflicts between countries Throughout the years, Dreier has and his deep interest in governance maintained close contact with stu- and other aspects of the college, of the Americas. dents and faculty through teaching at John Dreier has touched the heart of Dreier left the State Department in 1960 to teach at the School of Ad- the college, sitting in on Don College of the Atlantic. vanced International Studies at Meiklejohn's classes and others, at- - Dianne Riley Johns Hopkins University. During tending student potluck suppers, and Dianne Riley is a first-year student at COA. COA NEWS 4 SPRING 1992 COA Students Show 1991-92 Annual Fund Entrepreneurial Flair GOAL If you have not yet $300,000 At a college where a hands-on ap- contributed to this proach to learning and an interdiscipli- nary perspective are the major year's Annual Fund, ingredients of the curriculum, it is no please do so today! surprise that a number of College of The Annual Fund the Atlantic graduates go on to start their own businesses after leaving the supports faculty $200,000 school. These alumni attribute COA's salaries, student individualized program, which enables financial aid, library students to design their own courses of study, with providing them the back- services, laboratory 165,000 ground and practice in self-reliance equipment, and new raised to date they need to create and manage their initiatives such as own businesses. the visiting artist These entrepreneurial human $100,000 ecologists have launched a variety of program, interna- businesses, which range from an ice tional exchanges, cream shop operated by Lilea '90 and the Masters pro- Richard '88 Simis to a multi-million dollar recycling company founded by gram, and the Cen- Bill Ginn '73. A few of the numerous ter for Applied DRAWING BY CYNTHIA BORDEN-CHISHOLM other enterprising COA alumni are Human Ecology. profiled below: * Alexandria '77 and Garrett '78 Conover headed north with their human ecology degrees. In 1980, they started North Woods Ways, a wilder- COA to Establish Student Exchange With ness guide service based in Williaman- Palacky University in Czechoslovakia tic, Maine. Each year they lead a number of trips, including snowshoe- Beginning in the fall of 1992, College May to explore resources available for ing treks along the frozen Maine Al- of the Atlantic students will have the COA students. lagash and canoeing expeditions in opportunity to participate in an ex- The program is the brainchild of Northern Maine and Labrador, change program with Palacky Univer- Charles Merrill, founder of the Com- Canada. sity in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia. monwealth School in Boston. Merrill * Robert "Sardo" Sardinsky '84 is Each year, the program will allow two contacted Steve Thomas, COA direc- using the background in energy conser- COA students to attend Palacky for tor of admission and financial aid, vation, design, and writing he acquired one semester each. Participating stu- with the proposal that Palacky and at COA in his present job as president dents may take selected ecology semi- COA form an international exchange of Rising Sun Enterprises, Inc., the nar classes (taught in English) and program that could benefit students at firm he founded in 1983 when he was language tutorials at the university. both institutions. Thomas was en- still a student. Presently located in The students may also choose to use thusiastic about the idea, and thus Basalt, Colorado, Rising Sun develops the time in Czechoslovakia to com- began many months of correspon- and supplies energy efficient lights and plete a required final project or inter- dence, planning, and goal-setting by nship, or to do independent research. Mr. Merrill and officials at both in- lighting plans for businesses and or- Each year, a student from Palacky stitutions. With the details of the ganizations throughout the United States and Canada. University will visit College of the At- project falling into place, final prepar- lantic for one year to study human ations are being made to inaugurate * The plan that Allison Martin '88 ecology. The Palacky students may be the first COA-Palacky exchange. developed for a vegetarian and particularly interested in COA's Palacky University was founded in seafood restaurant as her senior marine science classes, as Czechos- 1576 and named for the Czech patriot- project has succeeded in practice: The lovakia is completely landlocked. scholar Frantisek Palacky. Palacky has Burning Tree Restaurant, co-owned In late April, Dr. Pavel Novacek, a the oldest ecology department in and operated by COA anthropology faculty member of Palacky's Ecology Czechoslovakia. Olomouc has a faculty member Elmer Beal, finished Department, will visit COA. At this population of approximately 104,000, its third very successful season in Oc- time, the two students selected to be and lies along the Morava River in the tober 1991 at its location in Otter the first participants will meet with Northern Moravia region of Czechos- Creek, Maine. Dr. Novacek to discuss their studies at lovakia. Palacky. COA Administrative Dean - Sharon Reiser continued on page 10 Mel Cote plans to visit Olomouc in Sharon Reiser is a first-year student at COA. COA NEWS 5 SPRING 1992 museum's tenth anniversary this sum- ed in The American Naturalist and The Newsnotes mer. Biological Bulletin. During the March Environmental law faculty member break, Chris conducted research at the Ken Cline spoke on "Citizen Lobby- Florida Keys National Marine Allied Whalers Beverly Agler '81, Judy ing: How to apply pressure resulting Sanctuary on the reproductive biology Allen, Bob Bowman, Dan DenDanto in positive change," as part of the of tropical fishes, where he will be '91, Steve Katona, Stephanie Martin, Third Thursday Brown Bag Lunch joined by biologists from the Univer- Paula Olson, Jennifer Rock, and Peter series at the Peace and Justice Center sity of California at Davis, Oxford Stevick '81, attended the Ninth Bien- in Bangor in mid-February. University, and the University of nial meeting of the Society for Marine Librarians Marcia Dworak and Toronto. Mammalogy in Chicago, December 5- Trisha Cantwell-Keene and Director In early November, President Lou 9, 1991, where Beverly and Judy of Computer Services Judy Allen at- Rabineau attended the National As- presented papers on "The Value of tended a conference on "The sociation of Independent Colleges and Scars for the Photo-Identification of Librarian in a Network Environment" Individual Finback Whales" and Universities (NAICU) Fall Leader- at the University of Maine at Orono ship Conference in Washington, D.C.. "Regional and Sexual Differences in in late November. They sat in on In December he spoke to the Bangor Fluke Pigmentation of Humpback workshops involving Internet, Rotary about COA's role in the com- Whales from the North Atlantic electronic mail, and networking for munity and the importance of human Ocean," respectively. The group small libraries. ecology. Later that month he travelled presented three posters on: the an- Best wishes to Laura Eells, execu- to Boston to attend the annual meet- tarctic humpback whale catalog; the tive secretary for development and ex- ing of the New England Association use of Geographic Information Sys- ternal affairs, and Bruce Parlee, who of Schools and Colleges. Lou returned tem in the Bay of Fundy; and an 18- were married on March 9. to D.C. in early February to represent year analysis of work done at Mount In December, Associate Director COA at a major NAICU meeting Desert Rock. In January, Beverly and of Student Services Martha Greenley along with Trustees John Kelly and Peter spent two weeks studying a received certification to teach stand- Edward Meade. In March Lou led a group of finback whales in the waters ard first aid courses. round-table discussion on "Building a off Nova Scotia, an unusual oppor- Visiting education faculty member Better Board" at the Association of tunity because there are few places in Sue Haynes was a member of a team Governing Boards National Con- the North Atlantic where finbacks are of special educators who gave the ference on Trusteeship. found near to shore during the winter months. From late December to mid- keynote address and presented a Assistant Director of Admission workshop, "Honoring the Integrity of Ander Thebaud has taken on the March, Paula did aerial surveys of the Individual," at the 9th January added responsibilities of affirmative marine mammals in the southeastern action officer at the college. U.S. for the National Marine Fish- Literacy Institute at Lesley College in Massachusetts. Welcome to Betty Tiedemann, who eries Service. Bob and Kim Robertson Financial Aid Assistant Cathy Kim- will be assisting the Development Of- '88 spent from late December to mid- ball and her husband Steve are fice with the Gates Community Cen- February in the Dominican Republic pleased to announce that they pur- ter campaign and donor stewardship studying breeding humpback whales chased their first house in Stockton on a part-time basis through October. in Samana Bay and Navidad bank. Springs, Maine, on December 27. The COA Volleyball Team reports Anthropology faculty member Botany faculty member Suzanne that they are alive and well. Members Elmer Beal Jr. spent a warm five Morse has been looking into the of this dauntless crew include: Cathy weeks traveling through South feasibility of solar aquatic wastewater "The Wrist" Kimball, Roy "Spaz" America to visit friends in Bolivia, treatment in Maine since spring. She Doan, Lori "Pearl" Alley, Dianne "The South Argentina and Chile during has also been working with Dr. Gary Thumb" Clendaniel, Ken "Big Daddy" winter term. Nabhan, Research director at "Native Cline, Scott "Spider" Gennari, Trisha Congratulations to Evening Seeds/SEARCH" in Tucson, Arizona, "The Pounder" Pinkham, and Steve Librarian Trisha Cantwell and Bar on the role of plant polysaecharides in "Buzzcut" Kimball. Harbor native Alan "Bid" Keene, who modifying the expression of diabetes. were married on December 22, 1991. - compiled by Michael Zboray Gene Myers, a visiting student at Speaking Fire at Stones, a collection COA in 1981, returned to campus to of poems by creative writing faculty teach two courses in psychology member Bill Carpenter, will be pub- during the winter term 1992. Gene is COA News is published three times lished this fall. Fourteen of these a year. It is circulated to alumni, also working on his Ph.D. dissertation poems will be printed in The Beloit parents, and other friends of concerning children and animals at Poetry Journal. Bill is giving a lecture College of the Atlantic. the University of Chicago. series on "Modernism" for the Maine Editor: Elena V. Tuhy Zoology faculty member Chris Academic Collaborative, as well as a Peterson and wife Helen Hess are the Writers: Dallas Darland, Gary series of workshops for the Maine Ar- proud parents of Nina Michele Peter- Friedmann, Edward Kaelber, tists-in-Residence Series. Alesia Maltz, Sharon Reiser, son, born on Christmas morning 1991. Natural History Museum Program Dianne Riley, Elena Tuhy, Michael In late 1991, Chris and Helen had a Director Dianne Clendaniel was Zboray, Yazmin Zupa paper published in The Journal of Ex- named president of the Island Associa- Darkroom Manager: Gina Platt tion of Museums and Historical perimental Marine Biology and Ecology Printer: Furbush-Roberts on their research on the reproductive Societies this fall. She is currently biology of tropical reef fishes. Since printed on recycled paper planning events to help celebrate the fall, Chris also has had papers publish- COA NEWS 6 SPRING 1992 resumed academic studies while serv- programs. In the words of Time Francis Keppel ing as Assistant Dean at Harvard from magazine, Keppel "changed the Office 1939 to 1941. In 1948, at age 32, Kep- of Education from custodian of highly Memorial Lecture to pel became Dean of the Harvard forgettable statistics to the nations's be Presented in April Graduate School of Education, the most energetic nerve center of youngest man appointed to that posi- academic ferment." Mr. Keppel died tion. in 1990. Harold "Doc" Howe II, former In 1962 President John F. Kennedy From 1982-1989, Harold Howe United States Commissioner of appointed Keppel United States Com- was the Francis Keppel Senior Lec- Education, will present the first Fran- missioner of Education, then later As- turer on Educational Policy and Ad- cis Keppel Memorial Lecture at Col- sistant Secretary of Health, Education ministration at Harvard's Graduate lege of the Atlantic on Friday, April and Welfare (for Education). As Assis- School of Education. Howe succeeded 24, 1992. Howe's address, "Thinking tant Secretary, Keppel took the lead Keppel as U.S. Commissioner of About Kids," will be followed by a in creating the Elementary and Secon- Education, serving from 1965 to 1968. panel response. dary Education Act of 1965, legisla- He also has served as a vice president Francis Keppel, who served on the tion which propelled the education of of the Ford Foundation. He presently COA Board of Trustees from 1986 to poor children to the top of the holds an emeritus position as Senior 1988, is being honored by a memorial nation's education agenda and led to Lecturer on Education at Harvard lecture for his distinguished career as new resources and stronger programs University. an educator. He received his A.B. de- for the country's needy children. He If you would like to attend the lec- gree from Harvard College in 1938, also contributed significantly to the ture, please contact the President's Of- studied sculpture for a year at the enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of fice at the college. American Academy in Rome, and 1964 with respect to educational Remembering be willing to read our prospectus. He did, and soon got back to us with the Thomas S. Gates, Jr. observation that while the ideas might "be O.K.," he didn't see how we were ever going to finance such a venture. by Edward Kaelber Fortunately, we had made budget projections which he also agreed to look over. His conclusion was that A resume for Thomas S. Gates, Jr. would note that he had served as while the college was a "long shot," it Secretary for the Navy, Secretary of was "worth a try." He said that he Defense, United States Repre- would "add a little of his money to the sentative to the Peoples Republic of pot." At the time his "little" addition China, and as Chairman of the Mor- was one of the major contributions gan Guaranty Trust Company. What the college had received. might be missed is that he was no In 1970 we asked Tom to join the stranger to the academic world; he college's board, but he was so involved was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the with other matters there just wasn't University of Pennsylvania, where his time. However, he did give us his New father had served as president and The Gates Community York phone number and said that if where Tom Gates was a trustee for Center is named for we needed advice or help to give him a several years. ring, or come see him. The upshot of Thomas S. Gates, Jr., During Tom's twelve-year associa- all this was that in 1973, Tom did join tion with College of the Atlantic, I got Chairman of COA's Board the college's board, and he agreed to to know him pretty well and would of Trustees from 1978 to chair the board in 1978, which he did until June of 1982. add to the description: that he had a 1984. This important new Tom was a leader. His knack for penchant for helping the "little guy"; that he had a knack for seeing through facility, which will provide keeping us focused on the right ques- trivia and obfuscation; that he had lit- a meeting hall, faculty of- tions and his ability to inspire others tle tolerance for bullies; and that he fices, and classroom space, made for the college's early success. had a direct manner which left no And yet with all his qualities of will be built in 1993. doubt about where he stood. strength and leadership, he remained I first met Tom in 1970 at a cock- a modest man. I recall several times tail party in Northeast Harbor. He in- after important meetings that were led time, but I'm quite sure this was a typi- troduced himself, said he understood by Tom, that he raised the question cal Gates ploy. He was testing to see if that I and others were preparing to with some of us, "Did I do what you we had the courage of our convictions start a college, and that he thought it wanted me to?" He always did. and were prepared to defend them. "a lousy idea... we don't need another We had at that time put our ideas on Edward Kaelber served as COA's first presi- college." Not that I realized it at the paper, and Tom said "sure," he would dent, from 1970 to 1982. COA NEWS 7 SPRING 1992 GINA PLATT: On her own, Platt started an Two Senior Artists Communicating Through eight-week photog- Photography raphy workshop for In her senior year at College of the high school students. Atlantic, Gina Platt finds two of her In the workshop, Platt teaches the students strong interests, education and some of the technical photography, converging in her fundamentals of study of human ecology. She began photography when she came to photography, such as COA in 1987, and has continued developing film and taking photographs throughout her making prints. She four years at the college. This term also emphasizes the aesthetics and com- she is also exploring her interests in education through "Environmental municative power of Education and Communication," photography by taught by education and art faculty having the students ex- amine the member Martin Koeppl. The course, which studies modes photographs of com- of learning with a focus on visual mercial and profes- thinking, has a lab section - "Using sional photographers Media Arts in the Schools" - in and discussing with the students the mes- which members of Koeppl's class work with students from Mount sages conveyed Desert Island High School. Using through pictorial im- media as a form of communication, ages. Through the the COA students help the MDI stu- class, she hopes to share her enthusiasm dents find a voice with which to par- about the art of ticipate in solving community problems. photography with her students. Platt considers teaching high school students especially reward- During spring ing. She says her contact with them term, Platt will con- candidate at COA, is an extensive clude her studies at COA with her helps her better understand who she survey of public and alternative high was at that confusing age. At the senior project, a photo documenta- schools in Maine. The directors of same time, she is impressed by their tion of the Maine State Drop-Out the project are examining alterna- enthusiasm and ability to formulate and Alternative Education Study. tive education as a possible answer innovative ideas in solving problems The study, which is being conducted to the existing problem of high drop- to affect change. by Etta Mooser, COA's Teacher out rates within the present public Education Coordinator, and Bridget school system. Platt's photographs Mullen '91, Master of Philosophy will accompany the study results as a visual aid and will be presented to the Maine Board of Education. When she completes her project, she hopes to have the photo essay pub- lished in book form. After graduation, Platt would like to pursue a masters degree in art history and become certified to teach. And although she feels a bit uncertain about exactly how photog- raphy will fit into her future, Platt knows she will always be a photog- rapher. - Yazmin Zupa Yazmin Zupa transferred to COA in the fall of 1991. Two photographs taken by Platt as part of her senior project. above: Two high school girls. left: A dance at Mount Desert Island High School. COA NEWS 8 SPRING 1992 ROB FINN: Painting the Past to Understand the Present Applying Human Within the coming year, the taneously, through its history. Finn Ecology auditorium, a central part of the Col- believes that understanding the his- lege of the Atlantic campus for twenty tory of our surroundings helps us The Center for Applied Human Ecol- years, will be razed to make way for remember the unique qualities of the ogy at College of the Atlantic is more the new Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Com- college. than what it appears to be. Beyond its munity Center. Through his final Finn plans to donate the com- small meeting space in the annex of project, a series of three paintings en- pleted paintings, which measure four Turrets, with a modest but growing titled "Immortalizing the Auditor- feet by eight feet, to the college. He library and a few computers, it is a ium," senior Rob Finn hopes to share hopes the paintings will be hung in a place for people to exchange ideas and his understanding of COA's evolu- corner of the Gates Community Cen- solve problems. It is, in the words of tion, from the perspective of the ter which faces the appropriate direc- faculty member Ken Cline, "a place to auditorium, with present and future tion, so that the paintings serve as take the things we are doing in the members of the COA community. physical locators, or landmarks, to classroom and bring them into the Finn sees the process of painting remind the viewer where he/she community." as a method of applying human ecol- stands in history. Over the past few months, CAHE ogy. He describes this particular paint- This project culminates Finn's two has been used to host organizational ing project as a "study of the cultural years of studies at COA. Attracted by meetings of the Enterprise Council, an ecology" of COA's auditorium; an the college's unique interdisciplinary association of members of the Mount analysis of the relationship between approach to education, he transferred Desert Island community who are in- the basic elements that make up the to COA in the fall of 1990, following terested in environmentally sound college: the people and the buildings. a year of travel around the United planning on Mount Desert Island, and To prepare for the project, Finn States. Before his travels, Finn the presentation of graduate student studied art for Kurt Jacobsen's work with land-use two years at planning on MDI utilizing the Parsons School Geographic Information System (GIS). of Design in Overseeing the operations of New York City. CAHE is a group of COA faculty, During his staff, and students, including ecologist exploration of and Director of the GIS lab John the U.S., Finn Anderson, Academic Dean Richard was disap- Borden, environmental lawyer Ken pointed to see Cline, planner Isabel Mancinelli, Ad- that much of ministrative Dean Mel Cote, Director the country has of Computer Services Judy Allen, "traded its his- Trustee Donald Straus, and students tory for high- Kevin Crandall, Scott Gennari, Angie rises and Dearborn, and Kirsten Lawrence. The highways," lead- group meets once a week to plan and ing to a administer the Fund for the Improve- homogenized ment of Postsecondary Education landscape from (FIPSE) grant, which has supported This painting, one of three to be completed by Rob Finn for his state to state. development of the Center and the senior project, depicts Finn's vision of the present auditorium At COA, he college's new curriculum in com- space on campus. hoped to learn munity planning and decision-making. how to use his The grant also supports an on-going studied drawings, photographs, and paintings as a means of synthesizing partnership with Massachusetts In- plans of the present auditorium build- and addressing the issues he feels are stitute of Technology's laboratory on ing. Each of the three paintings repre- important, such as design and Modeling for Negotiation Manage- sents an era - past, present, and development in community planning. ment for developing new computer- future - of the evolution of the With his final project, he is combin- based tools in regional problem- auditorium itself. He feels it is impor- ing civic planning issues and history solving settings. tant to consider the past as well as the with art to help establish a sense of Cline says the aim of the CAHE future when examining a situation, identity for the COA community. group is to make suggestions "to help and although the three paintings After graduation, Finn would like the college have an integrated pro- depict different stages of the to return to his tour of the United gram that addresses the needs of stu- auditorium's evolution, each one also States. He hopes to bring to different dents in this rapidly growing and vital contains allusions to all three periods. parts of the country his ability to com- area." Their recommendations are Combining images of the past, municate through painting and there- sent to the Academic Dean and the present, and future, his paintings by help to preserve the unique Academic Affairs Committee. One bring to life the feeling of moving cultural identities of these places. recent recommendation was for the through the auditorium and, simul- - Yazmin Zupa college to offer the Computer Aided continued on page 15 COA NEWS 9 SPRING 1992 COA Students Show Entrepreneurial Flair continued from page 5 This entrepreneurial trend con- tinues among current COA students. Tom Waterbury Davis and Diane Bar- nett, who will graduate in June 1992, are putting their computer expertise to work through their newly-created consulting business, "Waterbury Com- puter Consultants." They provide tutoring, word processing, and troubleshooting on MacIntosh, IBM, and compatible systems. A current project has them setting up an ac- counting system for a business client. Barnett, who managed a successful home-based business prior to attend- Seniors Diane Barnett and Tom Davis look over a project for their ing COA, contributes organizational business, Waterbury Computer Consultants. and marketing skills to the business as well as computer knowledge. Davis, problems because I have learned to Other entrepreneurial endeavors who has eleven years of experience in adapt easily to different situations and started by current COA students in- programming and teaching computers, can find alternatives to problems." clude landscape design, childcare, does much of the troubleshooting Barnett and Davis plan to continue graphic design, resume writing ser- work. He says, "The foundation of with the computer consulting business vices, and chocolate truffle production. education I have received from COA after graduation. - Elena Tuhy helps me in solving various computer COA's Teacher Education Program Turns Five continued from page 1 Teacher Education, Elk helps stu- tural High School in Washington Self-Study. dents with academic planning and ad- D.C., which provides an urban setting Mooser believes COA's certifica- vising. for COA student teachers. tion program is different than those of Martin Koeppl, Ph.D., was added This year's anniversary of the incep- state schools in part because COA's to the COA faculty in 1990, not long tion of teacher certification at COA small size "allows us to be explorative. after the state granted the college ap- brings with it the state's five-year We try to give students a strong proval to offer a secondary social review of the program. A successful academic background, a belief in par- studies credential. Koeppl, whose review will give the college permanent ticipatory democracy, and the tools to background is in geography and the status under the state's regular enable them to become constructors arts, teaches courses which focus on guidelines for certification of teachers. of educational innovation and social environmental education and explore Until now, the college has been cer- change." Elk continues, "Our goal is ways in which to help children com- tified under national standards to prepare human ecologists first, municate through a variety of media. designed for "Innovative and Ex- then teachers." They feel a human Two part-time faculty members, local perimental Programs." ecological perspective is needed in the elementary school educators Susan The review began with a Self-Study public schools and that it provides an Haynes and Trisha Rhodes, also con- eport written primarily by Mooser excellent foundation for the develop- tribute to the program by providing re- and Elk, with contributions from ment of first-rate teachers. quired courses in teaching methods COA faculty and staff. The Self-Study, The Self-Study report states, and in mainstreaming exceptional which Elk describes as "an honest "Teacher education based on the children. look at our strengths and weak- study of human ecology encourages Ties with area public schools have nesses," was reviewed by a team of teachers to explore the relationships become much stronger through a num- educators from throughout the state. and connectedness between the ber of collaborative projects, includ- This group, chaired by Dr. Richard separate disciplines and to bring such ing workshops, faculty exchanges, and Card, executive director of the Office interdisciplinary thinking into the seminars for local teachers. COA also of Education Development at the classrooms." This promises to make has been working to develop partner- University of Maine System, visited learning and teaching an adventure ships with non-traditional public COA's campus in late February to ob- for both student and teacher. schools, such as the Bell Multi-Cul- serve classes and verify the text of the - Michael Zboray Michael Zboray is a first-year student at the college. COA NEWS 10 SPRING 1992 Faculty Perspective: Human Ecology on the Scottish Isles by Alesia Maltz The Faculty Perspective, a regular feature in COA News, provides an opportunity for members of the College of the Atlantic facul- ty to share their recent research with the greater COA community. I spent part of my sabbatical this ALESIA MALTZ fall bicycling through the Western Isles of Scotland. On Harris, an island about the size above: The Scottish countryside. left: COA and population density of Mount DEPARTMENT Desert Island, I encountered UNGLISTICS history faculty member Alesia Maltz with ECOLOGY a friend at the Centre for Human Ecology gale-force winds so fierce they could push me uphill without at the University of Edinburgh. pedalling. On Harris I learned their home. They would look at me, the meaning of the Gaelic bless- then at the bicycle, and say, "Ach, an ing, "May the winds be always at environmentalist, are ye?" "No," I your back." would respond, "a human ecologist." I am interested in the effects This was a fudge on my part, of of new technologies on island course. It threw the conversation off communities. I went to Harris be- just long enough for me to say that I cause the community was deciding radio show. Incomers, presumably the was coming with a question, not an whether to accept an application for a majority opposed to the quarry, were answer. I'm glad no one asked me coastal "superquarry." The proposed excluded through language. Of the what a human ecologist is. What is the quarry would be the largest in Great Gaelic speakers, 51 per cent were in answer? A crazy cyclist? An environ- Britain, and would perhaps create the favor, and the remainder were equally mental fire fighter? A community largest hole in the world. People were divided between those opposed and crisis therapist? An ambulance chaser full of questions. Would the hole be uncertain. This unexpected result - no, I mean a quarry application filled with nuclear or industrial waste? reopened the conversation about the chaser? No answer seems sufficient. How many jobs would be created for effects of the quarry on the com- I am interested in the way tech- local people? What effect would the munity, and framed the process of nologies affect islands, in the way quarry have on the community? renegotiation with the Redlands Quar- people use their history to envision Would it operate on Sunday? A con- rying Company. their future, in how people dream siderable divergence of opinion When I went to Harris, it looked as their dreams and how they turn their reflected long-standing tensions be- though the proposal would pass. Now dreams into actions. I act on the belief tween incomers (people from away) it does not seem so likely. I played a that people are not free to dream and locals, between people who felt small part in changing the direction of their future until they know how to the community was the hope of the fu- that conversation, not by telling use their past, and when to put their ture and those who thought it would people what they should do, but by as- past behind them. I am looking for die without the quarry. king about community processes, by ways to tie history to the future and I was told by a detective-turned-lay- providing contexts for silent voices to values to policies. It is essential that minister that people on Harris solve be heard, by helping to bridge the gap we include the social environment in their political differences by talking between locals and incomers. I can see any environmental impact statement. all night with two bottles of whiskey bits of my discussions re-echoed in the Sometimes that requires going against on the table. "For a change," said his changing negotiations with the quarry the wind, but sometimes you find that wife, "I'd like to see you do it with just company, in the survey, and in BBC in- the wind is at your back. one." This seemed a very effective ap- terviews with members of the High- proach, so long as a good number of lands and Islands Development Board. Alesia Maltz has taught courses in history people were participating. One This is human ecology in action, and the sociology of science at College of the proponent of the quarry I talked with but knowing which action to take was Atlantic since 1988. She is currently complet- seldom clear when I was in the middle ing two books, one on the history of the said that 99 per cent of the people, vitamin controversy and the other on the ef- "and by this I mean people from of it. My very presence might affect fects of new technology on island com- here," were in favor of the quarry. the outcome. As I cycled around in munities. She received her doctorate degree This seemed unlikely, so I suggested the gale, feeling like the Wicked in the history and philosophy of science from that a survey be taken. Witch of the East, I had to ask myself the University of Illinois in 1990. This article Two weeks later, there was a spe- what role I, an outsider, played in talk- is excerpted from her Human Ecology Essay cial call-in survey on the local Gaelic ing with strangers about the future of for the college. COA NEWS 11 SPRING 1992 In Deepest Sympathy now numbers 12 persons. James leaves his wife Dorothy Sauer Carpenter; three children, sons Bill Carpenter and On February 11, faculty member Bill Carpenter suffered Stephen Carpenter, daughter Elizabeth Winter; and six the tragic loss of his father, James M. Carpenter, and his grandchildren. sister, Jane Carpenter Poliquin. Caught in an undertow Jane Poliquin played a significant role in the field of while swimming together off the shore of Puerto Rico, archeology. She leaves her husband Bruce and their one- where they were vacationing with family, Bill's father and year-old child, Samuel. sister died of accidental drowning. The hearts of all of us Colby College has established an endowed scholarship at College of the Atlantic go out to Bill and to the mem- fund in their memory, which will be used for the benefit bers of his family at this time of loss. of Maine students majoring in art at the college. In lieu James Carpenter joined the faculty of Colby College of flowers, Bill and his family request that contributions in 1950 and taught at Colby for 31 years until his retire- be made to the "Carpenter-Poliquin Scholarship Fund." ment in 1981. He founded the Colby College Museum of Contributions may be sent to: Mr. Eric Rolfson, Develop- Art, and built the college's art department from a pro- ment Office, Colby College, Mayflower Hill Drive, gram of one faculty member to a full department which Waterville, ME 04901. First Masters Candidate Selected to Manage GIS in Alaska continued from page 1 "My grounding in human environmental values into a proac- ecology was key to my tive planning process that inten- suitability for this position," tionally directs the growth of a Jacobsen asserts proudly as he community." describes how his COA educa- "I never dreamed I would be tion prepared him for the job. working on subsistence issues," "They hired me because rather Jacobsen reflects. "I am chal- than bringing preconceived no- lenged by the opportunity of apply- tions about development is- ing the processes I learned on sues, my training as a human Mount Desert Island, where we ecologist offers an under- are concerned with aesthetic standing of the broad range of values, standard of living, and complex human and environ- quality of life, to Alaskan issues of mental conditions that must be economic development, environ- considered." mental preservation, and subsis- "The Borough could have tence. To the natives, that means hired a specialist to prescribe trying to improve living conditions 'tried and true' techniques," - buying schools, hospitals, sew- Jacobsen continues. "However, Andrea, Leif, and Kurt Jacobsen age treatment with oil money - the Eskimos want original while preserving as much as they thought and new approaches to bor. Members of the town's Planning can of their environment and their their problems. They need to develop and Comprehensive Planning Com- culture." their own answers to questions of cul- mittees, and the town's professional Barrow also holds promise for tural survival. What I offer is planner, are using Jacobsen's maps Andrea Russell Jacobsen '92, knowledge of a planning process that and programs to chart the future Jacobsen's wife, and their two-year- can be applied to any situation, in growth of the town. old son Leif. Andrea hopes to find a Maine or Alaska." Jacobsen's Master's thesis, job in conservation policy or research. For Jacobsen, this is a natural tran- "Human Ecological Processes for She recently completed her internship sition from the college, where he has Planning and Community Develop- with the Conservation Department of been a student since the fall of 1986. ment," uses his experience working the New England Aquarium, where With faculty member John Anderson, with local, county, state, and federal she began a major research project on Jacobsen has developed the College's agencies on Mount Desert Island to the future of New England's commer- Geographic Information System from formulate a model program for cial fisheries. Her senior project is to its initial installation in 1988 to the regional planning. "Too often, plan- develop a position paper for the point where today it serves as the com- ning is a reactionary process. For ex- Aquarium on the history, current pendium for land use, zoning, soils, ample, in response to a crisis such as status, and public role of management hydrologic, ownership, topographic, condominium development in a rural of the fishing industry in the Gulf of biologic, and scenic data for Mount community, townspeople will propose Maine. Desert Island. piecemeal zoning," Jacobsen explains. Kurt, Andrea, and Leif will be back For his senior project, Jacobsen "In my studies at COA, I've learned to in Bar Harbor in June to participate used the college's computers to com- look at all the factors - from demo- in graduation ceremonies. pile and analyze all available informa- graphics and economics to natural - Gary Friedmann tion on the Town of Southwest Har- resources - to incorporate social and Gary Friedmann is Director of Development at the college. COA NEWS 12 SPRING 1992 Paul Grabhorn: Facilitating the Process of Change Whether discussing applications of need to make good decisions for the human ecology in his work, decision planet. The technology in the rooms making in the future, or any number would make it possible to see a range of other topics, Paul Grabhorn is brim- of information, "from the global scale ming with suggestions on how to make to the atomic. This will help the the world a better place. Grabhorn, decision makers understand the layers who was a student at College of the of life," he explains. "These aquariums Atlantic from 1977 to 1982, is founder would be the right environment in and president of Grabhorn Studios, which to get decisions made." Inc., a consulting firm in Washington, D.C., which focuses on facilitation of - Elena Tuhy meetings and interactive problem- Paul Grabhorn solving. In his consulting work, Grabhorn facilitates discussions between key decision makers and gets them to College Considers Use of Visiting Committee agree to certain basic ideas. Using his extensive desktop publishing system, William Trueheart, president of of bringing fresh perspectives to the he then creates a "consensus docu- Bryant College, visited College of the college. Typically, visiting committees ment" that captures the ideas of the Atlantic on January 3 to talk about the are comprised of people from outside group. This visual representation of in- use of visiting committees with the an institution who have expertise or formation is used to reinforce the Academic Policy Committee of COA's particular interests in areas that the in- ideas which come out of the conferen- Board of Trustees. Speaking from his stitution would like to strengthen. The ces and serves as a basis for further many years of experience overseeing Long Range Planning Committee talks. such committees while Associate hopes such a committee will help Some of the groups Grabhorn has Secretary in the Office of Governing COA pursue the goals the college sets worked with include the National Boards at Harvard University, True- for itself. Space Council, the Global Change Re- heart discussed how COA's specific Long Range Planning Committee search Project, and the Coastal needs could be met by such a group. member Borden says the group will America Project. He says he tries to President Louis Rabineau, present a draft of the college's long choose jobs which involve the govern- Academic Dean Richard Borden, and term goals and plans at the April meet- ment or the environment because that others expressed admiration for ing of the board of trustees. is where he sees the greatest potential Trueheart's thorough presentation Throughout the spring, the Academic for change. Grabhorn says, "COA and his enthusiasm for the college. Policy Committee and the Long helped me to see that bringing atten- Trueheart holds a doctorate from Range Planning Committee will sort tion to a problem does not necessarily Harvard's Graduate School of Educa- through the names of those who have bring about change. Facilitating the tion and a Master of Public Ad- been suggested by trustees and others process of change is where applica- ministration degree from Harvard's for membership on the visiting com- tions of human ecology are most Kennedy School of Government. mittee. They would like to have a relevant." Trueheart's visit was initiated by chairperson identified by late spring His experience in "turning ideas COA's Long Range Planning Commit- and hope to have the entire committee into a document" has led him to begin tee, which has been looking into the meet in fall 1992. to build a 'multi-media room,' which use of a visiting committee as a means will contain computer databases, a desktop publishing system, and other electronic equipment to facilitate decision making and networking be- tween agencies. He hopes this prototypical center will be "a place that calls multi-disciplinary visionaries to it to work." Someday Grabhorn would like to see a world-wide network of linked multi-media rooms he calls "earth aquariums." Unlike most aquariums, which contain living specimens, Grabhorn's earth aquariums would contain a database of current informa- tion about living specimens. He en- visions the aquariums as being places in which the decision makers of the Bryant College President William Trueheart speaks to the COA Board of Trustees world could access information they about the role of visiting committees as Trustee Edward Meade and Academic Dean Richard Borden listen. COA NEWS 13 SPRING 1992 Dear Elena, committee, the drive of which resulted The fall 1991 edition of the COA News Letters in the naming and incorporation of the College of the Atlantic on July arrived just last week. It's a handsome 10th, 1969. publication. I like the way it looks, to the Editor You may have noticed that the and I like the range and substance of name of Dick Lewis, my father, ap- articles. Bravo! pears frequently in this history, and in- However, I feel obliged to take ex- deed he was the only COA Founding ception to Charles Hesse's article, "Charting COA's Future," on page 12. Editor's note: The letter from Mr. Lewis was Trustee who was also on the original addressed to Michael Zboray, who wrote the Thorndike committee and the BH You may have already heard this from article "Sharing a Dream." Town Council's Steering Committee. Bill Carpenter or Steve Katona or From the beginning he believed Bar Ann Peach, but in case you have not, I Harbor was a great site for a college, think it's worth noting that the very one which could both benefit the local first sentence in Charlie's piece is inac- Dear Mr. Zboray, community (the tourist season in curate. The reason it's worth noting is those days being limited primarily to that charting the future depends in I read your article "Sharing a Dream" the summer months) and make use of part on an understanding of the past. in the COA News (Fall 1991) with mild local institutions (such as the Jackson If we keep re-writing our history, we irritation. Not that it betrayed any Laboratory, the MDI Biological may have a hard time building a future fault of yours, but it unknowingly per- Laboratory, and Acadia National that is continuous with what really petuated a pernicious myth which sur- Park) for an education interactive with happened before. rounds the birth of the College of the the local environment. For the record, the college em- Atlantic, Today I write in hope that I Although he was employed by the barked on an ambitious long range can reach those entrusted with the U.S. Customs Service, he was active in planning process in 1976, a process chronicling of the College to offer a the Bar Harbor schools and his com- that involved a trustee-staff commit- different perspective upon its founda- mitment to education is mirrored in tee of which John Dreier was the chair tion the careers of his children, one of and for which I provided the staff sup- Amory Thorndike and the Kebo whom is a Gifted and Talented Coor- port. The result of our work was a Educational Foundation had a vision dinator, the other three being college planning document which I wrote of bringing a college to the Bar Harbor professors. Testimony of his commit- describing our goals for the college in area back in the mid-1960s. Their ef- ment to the College of the Atlantic in the years between 1977 and 1982. This forts inspired a like-minded group particular, and especially to its stu- was intended to provide a set of (Amory Thorndike, Dick Libby, Ken dents, is his abiding friendship with guidelines for the college's growth, Mansfield, Don Hobbs, and Dick early graduates from whom he con- not a blueprint, and in 1982 it was Lewis) which met at the First National tinues to receive letters and visits. gratifying to see that we had, in fact, al- Bank to begin investigating more pos- Not much has been made publicly lowed ourselves to be guided by many sibilities. In August, 1967, Dick Lewis of my father's association with COA. of the suggestions and directions ar- and his brother Rev. Robert Lewis His humility allowed the success of the rived at in the 1976-77 planning (who had earlier aided in the estab- College and his friendship with stu- process. lishment of New England College in dents there to serve as the reward for In the early 1980s, Dick Davis, Henniker, N.H.) were invited by Sonny his labor. He would never claim that Rich Borden, and I tackled the task of Cough (then president of the Chamber COA was the consequence of his creating a long range plan for the of Commerce) to make a presentation vision, and would rightly argue that to college's curriculum, an effort which to the Bar Harbor Town Council, insist the College evolved from any Rich continued in spite of my depar- which was followed by a meeting Sep- one individuals' dream would be to ture and Dick's death, both of which tember 20th at which a steering com- diminish the institution, its complexity occurred in 1982. So, I think it is er- mittee was named (Judge Edwin and diversity. roneous to say that there was no or- Smith, Harold Hubler, Dr. Margaret Neither was the College of the At- ganized approach to planning prior to Green, Sonny Cough, and Dick Lewis, lantic the result of spontaneous 1983, and it makes me uncomfortable with Elaine Werboff, Dr. Clarence Lit- generation, but rather of the efforts of that there are students and teachers tle, and Dr. Richard Fox as alternates). many civic-minded citizens, and their there now for whom Charles's observa- For more information, see "BH Col- energies have been too seldom ac- tions will stand as an accurate repre- lege to be Aired at Open Meeting," knowledged. I will try to get my fami- sentation of what happened. Bar Harbor Times, September 14, 1967. ly to provide COA with the early The college's copy of the 1977-82 Early in 1968, Dick Lewis was in- records and correspondence (such as planning document may have been vited to attend a meeting in Boston of they are) which are rumored to be lost in the 1983 fire. If that is the case, the Council for the Advancement of among my father's effects. He suffered and if you would like one for the ar- Small Colleges, where he was greeted a stroke a few years ago and is unable chives, I am 90% certain that I have with enthusiasm, valuable advice, and to speak or get around, but kept a file one in my files. I would be happy to offers of assistance. It was in August of on the college and it doings. send it to you. 1968 that Father Gower and Les Yours for a clearer vision of the Sincerely, Brewer (and later Bob Smith and Al past, Samuel A. Eliot Cunningham) joined Dick Lewis and David Lewis Sam Eliot served as vice president of COA Sonny Cough to form a self-appointed from 1971 to 1982 and is currently a mem- ber of the COA Board of Trustees. COA NEWS 14 SPRING 1992 Scenes from the Talent Show clockwise from upper left: Laura Carroll; Kim Koenig; Darron Collins; Rick Stevenson; and Leo Vincent and Jeff Wells. PHOTOS BY CYNTHIA BORDEN-CHISHOLM and ELENA TUHY Applying Human Ecology continued from page 9 Drafting and Design course being of- fered during the Spring 1992 term. The Center is currently compiling a library of documents from government agencies and nonprofits which is avail- able to students and members of the broader MDI community to use in the Center's work. Allied Whale Researches Humpback Whales in Antarctica The FIPSE grant also covers atten- continued from page 3 dance at workshops so that members of the CAHE group and others from The Antarctic is a difficult place to at press time, but Katona is very en- COA can learn about new tools and visit and work in, so the collection of thusiastic. methods in community planning and photographs has grown at an irregular Several other photographs have decision-making. In February, seven pace. However, Allied Whale Director been submitted this year from An- members of the CAHE group - Steven Katona says that the 1991-1992 tarctic tourists, scientists, and ex- Allen, Anderson, Cote, Crandall, Gen- field season is shaping up to be one of plorers. nari, Mancinelli, and Straus - travel- the most productive in years. Over the past few years, other Al- led to Cambridge to attend a systems Tim Cole '88, a research associate lied Whale research associates have dynamics modelling workshop. They with Allied Whale, is presently on the gathered photos. Kim Robertson '88 learned about "STELLA" and "I National Marine Fisheries Service worked off of R/V Surveyor in 1989-90 Think," computer software programs (NMFS) ship R/V Surveyor, which is and off the Salen Lindblad Co. cruise which "model" complex scenarios working between Elephant Island and ship World Discoverer in 1990-91. Greg through computer imaging. Cote was King George Island. Cole, who is Stone '83 worked from the NMFS ship especially interested in the possibility gathering information on whale and R/V Professor Sledlecki in 1986, and of modelling long-term planning seabird distribution and taking from the National Science Found- scenarios for COA. photographs for the Antarctic ation's R/V Polar Duke in 1987. Stone, Future plans for CAHE include ex- Humpback Whale Catalog, reports now working for the National Under- panding local and regional oppor- that he has already photographed five sea Research Program of the National tunities for students, working with the humpbacks. Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, local community and active public in- Richard Fox, a retired scientist continues to be instrumental in keep- terest groups on joint projects, and from the Jackson Laboratory and an ing the flow of photographs coming in. providing other useful services such as accomplished amateur photographer, In addition, photographs have been GIS and other research support. shot six rolls of film of humpback submitted by Matt Drennan '86, who Those interested in learning more whales during a cruise he and his wife worked for Society Expeditions, and about the Center for Applied Human Barbara of Foxrun Travel in Bar Har- Peter Drury (son of COA faculty mem- Ecology are encouraged to contact bor recently took to the Antarctic ber William Drury) who worked on Rich Borden, Isabel Mancinelli, or Peninsula region. His photographs the R/V Polar Duke. Ken Cline at the college. were still being developed and printed COA NEWS 15 SPRING 1992 COA adjunct Russian-American faculty member Concert for Peace Joli Greene sings with Held at COA Andre Aloshine as Leo Loginov College of the Atlantic adjunct faculty explains one of member Joli Greene, Russian film his piano jazz director and actor Andre Aloshine, compositions. and Russian theater director Leo Loginov shared folk songs, jazz music, and their hopes for world peace during a performance at the college on February 5. Sponsored by COA's Peace Group, the concert featured Russian and American folk songs and jazz piano laborated with eight American stu- compositions written by Loginov. The dents to create a touring show three began the performance with a called "In Peace and Harmony." slide presentation on Moscow and in- Throughout August 1991, the Rus- formation about their peace work in sians and Americans brought their Russia and the United States. message of peace to audiences They talked about "Interplanetary from Maine to South Carolina. The Theater," a youth program Greene final performance of the tour was and Loginov organized in Moscow in held at the United Nations in New 1990 and 1991 while Greene was a coming prejudices. York on day of the failed coup against guest of the Soviet Peace Committee. During the summer of 1991, former Soviet President Mikael Gor- Through theater and music, Greene Greene and Loginov brought eight bachev. and Loginov helped the Soviet students from the Moscow Inter- Loginov, Aloshine, and Greene are teenagers express their hopes and planetary Theater to the Samantha currently living in Portland, Maine, fears about peace and war while learn- Smith World Peace Camp, in Poland trying to create an American branch ing about conflict resolution and over- Springs, Maine, where they col- of the Interplanetary Theater. COA NEWS NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID College of the Atlantic BAR HARBOR, ME 105 Eden Street PERMIT #47 Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED