Bucking the Trend COA's Enrollment Up for Fall In a year when declining numbers of college-age youth have caused college enrollments to drop around the country, enrollment at College of the Atlantic is holding its own and even appears to be on the increase. Director of Admission and Finan- cial Aid Steve Thomas says that as of the end of May, the college had re- gistered seventy-eight students for Fall 1991, a twenty percent increase over the sixty-five students who were registered for the incoming fall class at the same time last year. Thomas cited a recent report issued by the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) which concludes that the region's private institutions have been among the hardest hit nationwide by the declining demographics. He com- mented that COA's positive enroll- ELENA TUHY ment picture seems to be counter- trend when compared to the data reported by NEBHE on other private, Trustee Cathy Ramsdell '78 and honorary Master of Philosophy degree four-year colleges in New England. Thomas attributes COA's rise in en- recipient Bill Drury pause before the commencement activities begin. rollment of new students in part to the human ecology education offered by the college. "Many of the people who are of college age today have grown up in a time when the importance of en- COA NEWS vironmental issues has been presented to them through the media and educa- tion," explains Thomas. "People are more willing to consider spending four SUMMER 1991 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC BAR HARBOR, MAINE years studying these issues and how they are interrelated than they may COA Graduates Second Largest Class have been in the past." continued on page 18 Forty-five seniors, the second largest ecology, and his guidance for many of class in COA's history, were awarded us goes beyond the scientific to the the B.A. in Human Ecology at the philosophical and the compas- Also In This Issue college's nineteenth commencement sionate." Drury was also recognized ceremonies, held on June 8. for his instrumental role in the estab- New Gates Community An estimated 700 guests also lishment of the college's advanced Center Planned 3 celebrated the conferral of COA's first studies program, begun in 1990. Watson Winners honorary Master of Philosophy Ramsdell spoke for many in the Announced 4 degrees. The first of these was COA community when she told awarded to Dr. William Drury and the Drury, "Bill, I want to thank you New Trustees Elected second to former Vermont Governor publicly and personally for all that you to Board 5 Madeleine M. Kunin. have meant to me and the community Faculty Perspective Drury, a distinguished biologist of realists, thinkers and intellects. I'm by Etta Mooser 7 and ornithologist, has been a member glad that I know you." of the college's faculty since 1976. In Graduating Senior Ned Ormsby's Peregrine Falcons presenting Drury for the degree, Trus- introduction of featured speaker Hatch in Acadia 8 tee Cathy Ramsdell '78 said of him, Madeleine Kunin was marked by ad- An Appalachian Journey 10 "Bill has had a dramatic impact on a miration and humor. Describing many number of minds, young and old alike. of her accomplishments in furthering A Sampling of His work has been about the search environmental policy, women's rights, Senior Projects 16 for the nonfiction in the science of and the education and social welfare continued on page 2 inine, receptive principle has to offer, and begin to bring these quieter, in- ward voices into balance with all of our activity." Mike Whitehead encouraged the audience to be involved in decision making. "It is our responsibility to in- sist that today's decisions are made in the long-term interest of everyone," he said. "Participation in government is a right that we must maintain. We face a pressing need to reclaim democracy, and to remain aware of the drawbacks that accompany every choice we make." In relating some of his experiences student teaching at the Bell Multi-Cul- ELENA TUHY tural High School in Washington, D.C., Jeremy Norton said that people must work together to over- Former Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin and graduating come injustice. "As one senior Ned Ormsby listen while President Lou Rabineau speaks who is about to receive a to guests and graduates. degree in human ecology, I have questions," Norton of children during her six years as In a ceremony told his fellow graduates. governor of Vermont, Ormsby con- filled with the "As we fight our environ- ceded, "Even in Maine we can take voices of the grad- mental causes, do we pride in Madeleine Kunin's achieve- uating seniors, wonder what the issues of ments." seven graduates of- the logger are? Do we even In an address which embraced fered words of wel- care? Do we wonder what many of the comments and views ex- come, reminis- the struggles of women are pressed by the student speakers who cences, warnings, in the workplace? Are we preceded her, Kunin urged students to stories, and the wis- willing to stand in act on their passion for the environ- dom of their youth. solidarity with people of ment by bringing that passion to bear Following color? I believe all people on the political process, "where the Bobbi Marin's wel- of struggle should be decisions are made." coming remarks, united as one," he con- "As you develop your environmen- 1991 Watson Fel- cluded. tal skills, you will also be required to lowship Winner President Louis mobilize your political skills," advised Wendy Doherty Graduating senior Rabineau reminded the Kunin. "It is not enough to express presented the first outrage and then trash the system that of four Student Jeremy Norton graduates of some of the events that occurred and could right those very wrongs that Perspectives. Doherty spoke about the the issues that were discussed during spark the outrage." opportunities COA has given her. their years at COA and urged them to Kunin spoke about her recent trip "The broad base of knowledge that I keep in touch with the college. He to Eastern Europe, and about Bul- have acquired here has opened me to concluded his remarks by telling the garia in particular, where she saw the a broad range of interactions with the graduates, "Just think, you have a extensive environmental damage world," said Doherty. "Although I lifetime ahead of you to explain to wrought by that country's efforts to have my own specific interests, I don't strangers what human ecology is." achieve the industrial prosperity of feel limited to them. I have developed Before Chairman of the Board Ed- the West. "The sins that have been the ability to communicate intelligent- ward McC. Blair conferred the committed consistently over a period ly, and to work effectively with all degrees, graduating senior Michael of years by turning water, soil and air sorts of people from many different Hall, who also stood for his teacher into veritable garbage pits have fields. This is, perhaps, the most valu- certification, read The Carrot Seed, a created both a physical and spiritual able skill a human ecologist can have." children's story by Ruth Krauss. It hell" in Bulgaria, she said. Viewing Andrea Ford called for a greater tells of a little boy who successfully this kind of devastation makes one representation of women's voices at grows a carrot. Hall remarked, "Each thing absolutely clear, Kunin asserted, COA and in the world at large. She of us here graduating today is like this "degradation of the environment is no said, "One of the most revolutionary little boy. We have all carefully tended less than a degradation of human life things we could do for the planet is to the seeds of our hopes and dreams, itself. There is a brutality behind this slow down and listen to the voices trusting that someday, something mag- environmental destruction," she said. which we do not normally hear in our nificent would come up. Well, today is "Maybe I do understand what a production-oriented world. We need the day of harvest. Let us celebrate human ecologist is, after all." to recognize the gifts that the fem- the harvest." - Elena Tuhy 2 Gates College of the Atlantic will soon boast a new multi-purpose meeting Community the meeting hall planned before the 1983 Kaelber Hall fire, is named for hall and academic building, serving Tom Gates. One of COA's earliest students, faculty, staff and the wider Center Close and most ardent advocates, Gates island community. Pending the suc- was a member of the college's board cessful outcome of a fund-raising of trustees from 1973 to 1982, and campaign to cap the financing of the new facility, construction of the to Realization served as its chairman during the last four years of his nine-year Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Community tenure as a trustee. Center is planned to begin in April A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of 1992. the University of In limbo for Plate 1. Perspective looking toward main entrance of Pennsylvania, Gates Center. Kaelber Hall/Thorndike Library to right; most of the past Arts and Science Building to left. Gates enjoyed a decade, plans for distinguished a campus meeting career in govern- hall of similar but ment service and more limited use investment bank- were halted ing. Appointed abruptly, in July secretary of the 1983, when fire Navy and destroyed the secretary of "old" Kaelber Defense in the Hall and, with it, Eisenhower Ad- the college's prin- ministration, he cipal administra- later became tive, classroom president, then and library chairman of the facilities. Before Morgan Guaranty the Kaelber Hall Trust Company of fire sidetracked it New York. eight years ago, a Several years after campaign to raise his retirement funds for the from Morgan meeting hall had The Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Community Center Guaranty, Gates garnered over returned to $300,000 in gifts and pledges. In the conceived chiefly to satisfy the government service for one year, intervening years that figure was college's need of a large meeting 1976-77, when he was appointed to doubled to $600,000, even as the space - a need still keenly felt by the succeed George Bush as chief of the college raised other monies to campus community. The new United States Liaison Mission in rebuild Kaelber Hall and to make design, developed by architect China, with the rank of ambassador. possible needed physical improve- Turner Brooks of Burlington, Ver- Edward McC. Blair will head the ments to the campus. mont, fulfills this primary require- campaign for the Gates Community In advance of launching a public ment, and a good deal more. In Center. Chairman of COA's board campaign later this summer to com- addition to a 300-seat-capacity of trustees since 1986, and a major plete the Gates Community meeting hall with performance benefactor of the college, Blair was Center's funding, the college's trus- stage and proscenium, the building formerly managing partner and is tees have pledged an additional will include a green room, five now senior partner of William Blair $500,000 in contributions to the faculty offices, a fifty-five-seat lec- & Company of Chicago. Mrs. building program. With the Gates ture hall and an art and exhibition Thomas S. Gates, Jr., the widow of Center's cost estimated at $1.6 mil- gallery. Tom Gates, will serve as the lion and a total of $1.1 million al- The old auditorium wing of the campaign's honorary chairperson, ready in hand or pledged, the public existing Arts and Sciences building while Katharine Gates McCoy, the campaign will seek from founda- will be razed to make way for the youngest of Tom and Ann Gates' tions and the college's many friends new center, whose lobby-entrance is four children, will join Life Trustee and supporters the balance of one- designed to open onto the recently Charles R. Tyson in co-chairing the half million dollars needed for con- completed Newlin Gardens. In its campaign's Major Gifts Committee. struction. location between Kaelber Hall and In another salutary development When completed in 1993, the the Arts and Sciences building, the uniting the Gates family and COA, newly designed Gates Center will Gates Center will bring to fruition Katharine Gates McCoy was also bear little resemblance to the build- the college's long-standing plans for elected recently to the college's ing first contemplated nearly ten the campus' core physical facilities. board of trustees. (See New Trustees years ago. Plans for the latter were The new community center, like on page 5) - Dallas Darland 3 Her experiments on plants with Two COA Students Win Watson Fellowships elevated levels of carbon dioxide led to her interest in the global aspect of COA Seniors Wendy Doherty and M. in Wyoming, plant science. "In Park Armstrong have been awarded which is home the next twenty fellowships from the Thomas J. Wat- to almost 50% years the CO2 con- son Foundation to study abroad during of the world's centration in the 1991 and 1992. In the nine years since active geysers atmosphere is ex- 1982 that COA students have received and hot springs. pected to double to Watson Fellowships, this is the first While living and 700 parts per mil- year that both of the college's working in Yel- lion," says Doherty. nominees have won an award. COA is lowstone for six "From a plant's the smallest of the fifty-seven colleges seasons, he of- perspective, that is and universities in the Watson com- ten spent time a big change be- petition this year to have more than exploring the cause CO2 inhibits one student win a fellowship. park's geother- its growth." Armstrong, who is from Allentown, mal features. Doherty is also Pennsylvania, will study the social and While at the interested in ecological effects of the use of geother- college, agriculture, one ex- mal energy - energy produced by the Armstrong has ample of human's internal heat of the earth - in Japan, studied public interaction with Iceland, Italy, plants. "I plan to New Zealand, and Mexico. He will study edges to see how plant diversity interview geother- will change in the mal workers, future and to see government offi- Wendy Doherty what people are doing to cials, and the local policy and re- slow down or speed up the changes." people of the source manage- In Israel she hopes to work with the regions to gain a ment issues. He Institute for Desert Ecology, which is comprehensive is considering developing new agricultural techni- understanding of Ola attending ques to reclaim soil for arable land to the impact of graduate school counteract the expanding desert. In geothermal Jou after complet- Malaysia she plans to study the causes development on ing his fellow- of deforestation and its effects on in- each of these ship. digenous people. groups. Park Armstrong COA's Consistent with the college's inter- In preparation other Fellow, disciplinary approach to learning, for his study abroad, Armstrong plans Wendy Doherty, who is from Lacona, Doherty has taken a broad spectrum of to spend this summer researching the New York, will travel to Nepal, courses at COA rather than to focus national energy policies and the Australia, Israel and Malaysia, where exclusively on one area of study. Al- societies of the countries he will visit. she will study the plant ecology of each though she has taken only two botany He will also spend this fall travelling to region. Doherty is interested in com- classes during her four years at the col- Hawaii, Idaho and California to study paring the morphology and diversity of lege, she plans to pursue a doctorate in the use of geothermal power in the United States. plants in different climates and in plant ecology after returning from her studying the interaction between year of overseas study. Through his research, both at home humans and plants in "edge" habitats, The Watson Fellowship is a nation- and abroad, Armstrong hopes to learn where one type of habitat meets al competition that supports inde- how geothermal energy can be most ef- another, such as between a lush area pendent study and travel abroad for fectively incorporated into the nation- and a desert. recent college graduates. Single fel- al energy policy of the United States. "The edge habitat is a dynamic area lows receive stipends of $13,000, while "As the price of oil continues to go up, that is always in flux," explains Doher- there will be increased interest in fellows accompanied by a dependent ty. "With the global temperature receive $18,000. The Foundation views renewable energy," explains rising, scientists predict that many the opportunity for such travel and Armstrong. "Although the United stable habitats will undergo changes reflection as a break from formal States is one of the current leaders in that will be similar to the changes in schooling during which the Fellows using geothermal energy to generate the edge habitats. The edges serve as a may explore a deep interest, test their electricity, other countries pioneered present model of what will happen in aspirations and abilities, and view their its use. I want to learn how we can use the future as the global atmosphere lives and American society with a new geothermal energy to satisfy our ener- and weather patterns change." perspective. Recent past COA Watson gy needs in a more environmentally Doherty first became interested in Fellowship recipients have studied sensitive fashion." the effects of global change on vegeta- mountain cultures, gardens Armstrong's interest in geothermal tion while she was a research assistant throughout the world, and political energy developed through his associa- at Harvard University last summer. changes in Eastern Europe. tion with Yellowstone National Park - Elena Tuhy 4 New Trustees Elected to Board Chairman of the Board Edward Milo, Philip Jr. and Lili. Mary Sher- McC. Blair announced in early man attended COA as a visiting stu- June the election of Philip L. dent in the 1970s. Geyelin and Katharine Gates Katharine Gates McCoy has a McCoy to College of the Atlantic's long-standing interest in the educa- board of trustees. tion of the general public, especial- Philip L. Geyelin is a former ly the young, about conservation editorial page editor of The matters. For the past ten years, she Washington Post, a position he held has worked with the Brandywine from 1967 to 1979. In 1970, his River Museum and Conservancy in work was recognized with a Pulitzer Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Prize for editorial writing. From Through its Environmental 1980 to 1990, he wrote a syndicated Management Center, she started a column for the Washington Post program to educate landowners Writers Group, concentrating on about conservation easements and foreign policy. Previous to his Post other options available to them in association, Geyelin was a reporter planning for the future use of their Philip L. Geyelin for The Wall Street Journal, where land. In addition, McCoy has he served as chief European cor- worked with local government to in- respondent from 1956 to 1960 and troduce environmental legislation as diplomatic correspondent from into township ordinances and to 1960 to 1967. Most recently a create an interest in environmental Scholar-In-Residence at the resources and the importance of Woodrow Wilson Center in protecting open space. Washington, D.C., he is currently McCoy also was involved in the writing a biography of King Hus- early stages of setting up a commis- sein of Jordan. sion to help preserve historic struc- Geyelin is a member of the tures in Chester County, Pa. board of the Paul H. Nitze School McCoy and her husband Charles of Advanced International Studies B. McCoy, Jr. live in Malvern, Pa., of Johns Hopkins University and a and are summer residents of North- past member of the advisory board east Harbor. They have three of the Center for Strategic and In- children: Sara, Christopher, and ternational Studies. Gates. McCoy is the daughter of A summer resident of Bass Har- Thomas S. Gates, Jr., a member of bor, Geyelin lives in Washington, the COA board of trustees for nine D.C. with his wife Sherry. They years and its chairman from 1978 to have four children: Mary Sherman, 1982. Katharine Gates McCoy The three-year-old Bell School has to have students in COA's Teacher COA Begins a student body of 600 high school Education Program do their student youth and 250 adult learners. Many of teaching at Bell. The faculty of Bell Exchange with Bell Bell's students are recent immigrants hope that having COA students teach Multi-Cultural to the United States from over thirty, at their school will help introduce en- mainly developing or third world vironmental issues to their students. High School countries. Ethnically and culturally COA feels such an arrangement diverse, the school's enrollment also will also benefit its students because includes a large number of Hispanic of Bell's urban setting and the teach- On Earth Day, April 22, Jeremy Nor- and African-American students. ing challenges it represents. "COA ton '91 and two hundred students and COA and Bell were first intro- needs to have urban opportunities for faculty from the Bell Multi-Cultural duced to each other earlier this year our students," says Etta Mooser, COA High School took some time out of when students and faculty from Bell Associate Academic Dean and one of the school day to plant three trees on visited the college as part of a regional the signers of the agreement. "D.C. is the school's Washington, D.C. cam- college tour. Impressed by COA's an ideal city for COA students and pus. Norton, who spent the spring strong emphasis on environmental is- graduates. It is the heart of decision- term student teaching at Bell, or- sues and its progressive education pro- making in this country and COA ganized this event to celebrate a gram, the Bell faculty approached alums are well placed there. The Bell recent agreement between the two faculty at the college about arranging program presents an important oppor- schools to work together. continued on page 19 5 Faculty member Ken Cline was Faculty/Staff recently named Chairperson of the 2,400-member Maine Group Sierra Newsnotes Club. The Maine Group is part of the 600,000-member national Sierra Club Allied Whalers Steve Katona, Judy which is concerned with a broad Beard, Paula Olson, Peter Stevick '81, spectrum of environmental issues. Tim Cole '88, Bev Agler '81, Daniel This summer Ken is coordinating an DenDanto '91, Stephanie Martin, effort to establish a Center for Ap- Jenny Rock, and Tom Fernald '91 at- plied Human Ecology at the college. tended the North Atlantic Marine Librarian Marcia Dworak was a Mammal Association Meeting held delegate to the Blaine House Con- April 24-26 at the New England ference on Libraries in March. The Aquarium in Boston. The meeting conference, held at the Augusta Civic focused on drafting a Gulf of Maine Center, was just one of such conferen- Marine Mammal Action Plan that ces held in each of the fifty states to could supplement the general Gulf of draft resolutions for the White House Maine Action Plan currently being Conference on Libraries that will be developed by the Gulf of Maine Coun- held in Washington, D.C. during July. cil on the Marine Environment. Trustees John Kauffmann, Donald On May 27, Patti Bart of the Straus, and Robert Suminsby and OLEG KORNEICHEV Development Office left for a month faculty members Craig Greene, Anne of travel in the Soviet Union. She Kozak, and Isabel Mancinelli at- A wooden church near Arkhangelsk, USSR visited friends in Moscow, Leningrad, tended a reception to welcome Kurgan, and Arkhangelsk. While Secretary of the Interior Manuel the annual meeting of the Association there, she improved her knowledge of Lujan Jr. and National Park Service of Teachers of Technical Writing. the Russian language and did research Director James Ridenour, who visited Faculty member Alesia Maltz left for her COA-sponsored independent Acadia National Park (ANP) on May Mount Desert Island in mid-June to study. 29 and 30. Also present was the newly spend the summer and her fall sabbati- Academic Dean Rich Borden, Ad- appointed Superintendent of ANP, cal leave in Great Britain working on ministrative Dean Mel Cote, and Trus- Robert Reynolds. Through a formal her first book. The book discusses the tee Donald Straus presented papers in Cooperative Agreement between discovery of vitamins and the develop- Goteborg, Sweden, in mid-June at the COA and the National Park Service, ment of physicians' attitudes toward International Conference on Human North Atlantic Region, COA has them. Her interest is in how the Ecology. Rich was the Co-Chairper- worked with ANP on a range of physicians and biochemists of the son of the International Forum, which projects, including the Peregrine Fal- time, who each had a different encompassed an afternoon of formal con Reintroduction Program, the perspective on vitamins, created a lan- and informal presentations by repre- Acadia Flora Project, and the Acadia guage that bridged the two ways of sentatives of human ecology programs Resource Inventory Project. Craig looking at vitamins. During her time worldwide. He also gave the closing Greene has served as an ecological in Europe, Alesia plans to visit several plenary summation. Mel's paper dis- consultant to Acadia on recent car- human ecology programs while doing cussed the development of COA's new riage road restoration and vista-clear- her research and writing. Master of Philosophy program. He ing projects. Faculty member John Welcome to our new design and also chaired a session on New Anderson and his students are also planning faculty member, Isabel Man- Developments in Human Ecology working with Acadia to enhance a cinelli. Look for more information on Education. Don presented a paper on computerized Geographic Informa- Isabel in the next issue of COA News. "Intuition: A Human Tool for tion System map, which will be used This past May, Research Associate Generalizing" during the Strategies in to help manage Park and island Glen Mittelhauser '89 presented a Education session. resources. paper, co-written by A. O'Connell of Farewell to Craig Kesselheim '76, Acadia National Park, on "The Harle- who has spent the past year as the In- quin Duck Adjacent to Acadia Nation- terim Director of the Natural History al Park, Maine 1988-91" at the Inter- COA News is published three times a Museum. In early July, Craig and his national Conference on Science and year. It is circulated to alumni, family moved to Orono, where this parents, and other friends of the the Management of Protected Areas fall Craig will enter the Ed.D. pro- college. at Acadia University in Nova Scotia. gram in Science Education at the Editor: Elena V. Tuhy Allied Whale Research Associate University of Maine. Reporters: Dallas Darland, Wendy Paula Olson will be spending the sum- Writing Program Coordinator mer as a marine mammal observer on Doherty, Gary Friedmann, Kirsten George, Charles Hesse, Greg Milne, Anne Kozak participated in a panel an 80-day research cruise for the Na- Heather Sisk discussion, "The Writer is Her First tional Marine Fisheries Service. The Audience," at the recent national Darkroom Manager: Jason Devine first leg of the trip will take her to the meeting of the College Conference of Atlantic continental shelf to observe printed on recycled paper Composition and Communication. different species of the little-known While in Boston, she also attended beaked whales. On the second leg she continued on next page 6 Faculty Perspective: Alternative Education For At-Risk Students by Etta Mooser bers of students who have left school, propriate methods for studying the but estimates vary from 24% to over issue. The at-risk student must be seen The State of Maine and College of 60% of school-age children nationally. in the context of family, peers, school, the Atlantic are entering into an excit- Compounding the problem is the fact community and the larger society. Ad- ing collaboration aimed at exploring that we have yet to develop ap- ditionally, each of these arenas holds alternative high schools in the state. some measure of responsibility for Along with Frank Antonucci, State creating and sustaining behaviors that consultant for alternative education, I lead to school leaving. Because of have developed a project designed to these complex and interrelated factors help alternative programs in the state the study of students at risk demands a improve their programs for at-risk stu- human ecological perspective. dents. I am a member of the Maine Com- The problem of at-risk students is missioner of Education's Committee perhaps the most complex and dif- on Truancy, Dropouts and Alternative ficult issue in education today. Educators have no good way to define BECKY BUYERS-BASSO education, whose charge is to make policy recommendations for programs at-risk students, although the term is for at-risk students. Recently, our com- generally used to identify students on mittee has added the problems of the verge of dropping out of school. education for the homeless to our We have no accurate count, either agenda. statewide or nationally, of the num- Etta Mooser Over the past ten years, a number of alternative programs have developed in the state to deal with the problems of at-risk students and school dropouts. These programs, ex- More Newsnotes isting in public high schools, are as varied as the students and com- will assist in a survey of harbor por- tories on State leaders in higher educa- munities they serve and have become poises, whose populations have tion under a grant to the Academy for an important part of school offerings declined drastically in the last few Educational Development, where Lou for troubled youth. I am beginning a years. is senior vice president. The subject project for our committee that will as- On March 7, President Louis was Warren Hill, former Commis- sess these programs. Together with Rabineau and Chairman of the Board sioner of Higher Education for the COA graduate student, Bridget Mul- Edward McC. Blair attended the New State of Maine and Executive Direc- len, we will examine seven programs in England Association of Schools and tor of the Education Commission of the state. The projects' objectives are: Colleges Commission on Higher the States. Education's accreditation review of Farewell to Nancy Stevick '81, who to help establish guidelines for fur- the college. While in Connecticut, has served as part-time alumni coor- ther program development they visited with alum Rick Waters '77 dinator since February 1990. Cynthia to help programs develop self- and Life Trustee Bob Blum and his Borden-Chisholm '85, who has been evaluation tools wife Ethel. On May 8, Lou was a guest working in the Development Office at the 36th Annual Dinner for the for two years, assumed that position to establish record-keeping Governor's Committee on Scholastic July 1. Cynthia's new titles are alumni strategies to facilitate on-going Achievement in New York City, where coordinator and special projects coor- study Governor Mario Cuomo and Robert dinator. to experiment with methodologies Nederland were honored. COA is the "How Do We Know What Whales appropriate for the study of such only college outside of New York rep- Eat?", an article by Allied Whale re- programs. resented on the Scholastic Awards searcher Peter T. Stevick '81 and facul- Committee of this organization. Lou ty member Steven K. Katona, We will bring together a variety of has been a member of the organiza- appeared in the Spring 1991 edition of methodologies in the course of our tion since its inception in 1955. In his Whalewatcher, the Journal of the study. We will establish a com- capacity as president of the Maine In- American Cetacean Society. puterized accounting system at each al- dependent College's Association, Lou Goodbye to design faculty member ternative school that will allow us to gave testimony this spring before the Mark West, who is heading off to conduct on-going analysis of students Joint Senate and House Education Canada. Although Mark's time at who enroll in these programs. Quan- Committee of the Maine State Legisla- COA was short, he left a lasting im- titative data such as attendance rates, ture concerning a resolution entitled: pression on the campus. (See Art or Ar- test scores, age, and perhaps socio- Resolve to Create the Commission to tifact? on page 19) economic status, will give us one piece Study the History, Status, Impact and of a larger picture. Qualitative data Role of Independent Higher Education On a belated note, Elena Tuhy '90 such as educational autobiographies, in the State of Maine. Lou recently com- assumed the post of director of public case studies of the schools and inter- pleted the fourth in a series of oral his- affairs on February 1. views with teachers and students will continued on page 18 7 Falcons Hatch in Acadia The announcement on June 20 by Acadia National Park officials that the adult peregrine falcons they have been monitoring since late March were proud parents marked a major ac- complishment not only for the Park and the peregrine falcon reintroduc-