Major Philosophy EDEN Collection Given to Thorndike Library "What use are books when we have 75 NORTHEAST channels on the television?" asked CREEK third-year student Vern Seguin at a reception honoring John and Elizabeth Nason for their gift of Mr. Nason's philosophy collection to Col- lege of the Atlantic's Thorndike Library. Seguin, who spoke on the meaning of the collection to the students, said that students come to COA looking for something more than the superfi- cial. "Human ecology has drawn us, from many different backgrounds and interests, to find answers. Not all the tools we need in seeking out these answers will be found in the chemistry lab or in biology fieldwork," said ELENA TUHY Seguin. "Dr. Nason, we appreciate the tools such as those you have given us to show us what we don't know." The August 13 reception was at- Faculty member Isabel Mancinelli and Master of Philosophy student Kurt Jacob- tended by COA trustees, students and sen (B.A. '90) discuss the FIPSE grant which was recently awarded to the college. staff and such distinguished educators as former President of Harvard Dr. Nathan Pusey and his wife, President Loring Hart of St. Joseph's College in Windham, Maine, and President COA NEWS George Spann of Thomas College in Waterville, Maine. Nason, past president of Swarth- more College and Carleton College, as- sembled a large library of philosophy FALL 1991 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC BAR HARBOR, MAINE books during his sixty years in the field of education. Nason is well-known in COA Awarded FIPSE Grant academic circles through his 1982 book The Nature of Trusteeship, which is considered a major treatise on the College of the Atlantic has been COA's proposal was one of more role of trustees of philanthropic foun- awarded a $133,800 grant from the than 2,000 received nationwide by the continued on page 15 U.S. Department of Education's Fund U.S. Department of Education and for the Improvement of Postsecondary one of only seventy proposals selected Education (FIPSE). The three-year for funding. Through letters of sup- Also In This Issue grant will support the development of port, COA's proposal was strongly en- a focused program in community plan- dorsed by officials from the four towns ning and decision-making. This cur- on Mount Desert Island and Acadia Report from The Champlain Society 2 riculum will be based on direct National Park. The officials com- experience with actual community is- mented on the value of their coopera- Mancinelli Named to Faculty 3 sues and will incorporate state-of-the- tive relationship with the college and Faculty Perspective art software computer tools. their anticipation that the association by Bill Drury 4 "This project is a unique oppor- will continue. The proposal was writ- tunity to coalesce a wide range of is- ten by COA faculty members John New Trustees Join Board 4 sues into a problem-focused Anderson, Richard Borden, Ken Cline Trustee Bayard Ewing program," commented Academic and Isabel Mancinelli, and adjunct Remembered 7 Dean Richard Borden. "We are espe- faculty members Donald Straus, past COA Community cially pleased with the community sup- president of the American Arbitration Members Profiled 10 port we have been given. I'm sure that Association and COA trustee, and is why the project was selected for Ronald Beard, extension educator at Newlin Gardens Dedicated 12 funding." the University of Maine and chair- continued on page 10 COA Contributes to Human Ecology Conference in Sweden For five days in June, more than 300 Straus. Coté mentioned that although COA's contingent contributed in human ecologists from colleges and some of the human ecologists in atten- part to the discussions on education. universities throughout the globe con- dance were already friends of COA, in- Coté chaired a session on New verged on Gothenburg, Sweden, to at- cluding Eduardo Gudynas of Uruguay Developments in Human Ecology tend the largest international and Tag Sundstrom of Sweden, he, Education at which he presented a conference of human ecologists ever Borden and Straus "each probably paper reviewing the development of held. Sponsored by the Royal Swedish met 50 human ecologists we hadn't COA's Master of Philosophy in Academy of Sciences, the "Interna- met before." Human Ecology degree program. And tional Conference on Human Ecol- The major focus of the conference at the session on New Strategies in ogy" attracted participants from was to determine the factors human Education, Straus, a past president of thirty-eight countries. ecologists must deal with to positively the American Arbitration Association The global reach of the conference affect global change. Some of the is- and an adjunct faculty member at impressed College of the Atlantic's sues they discussed were: population COA, presented a paper on "Intui- three representatives - Academic and food resources, transportation, tion: A Human Tool for Generaliz- Dean Richard Borden, Administrative ecological economics, human health ing." The paper examined the Dean Mel Coté and Trustee Donald and education. potential of using intuition as a continued on page 10 Report from the Chairperson of The Champlain Society Dear Alice, 1991 Events Presented by The Champlain Society: gradually mixed-up seaman Leaving at take chop, the in helm it a was thick as exciting we haze plowed with a through skilled navigator and Distinguished lectures by John Marshall, Philip Geyelin and COA faculty; An ornithology walk with Dr. William Drury; Tours to Petit Manan Research Station; The 4th Annual Candlelight Dinner; a pected migrating waters us cious With was Zodiak and more than for a shape. the a the first To time be landed with to see with tower and looking tower and looking- Mt. dry Desert was rollers feet an in Rock have of to and a shear- greet spa- a A tour of the Seal Harbor Gardens of Robert & Ann Bass, Giovanni & Cornelia Bagarotti, and C. Deer- ing & Nancy McCormick; A whale watch cruise; with gone a after crossbow Megan a whale as and a guide, watch I them would have loved dart you The Lobster Quadrille; and Two cruises on the schooner Harvey Gamage. The months of July and August were land-based busy with all of the special activities of- whale obser- many the see. watched soon and until it light laden I mariners. have So forget. that I over hope with waited has me, DNA you brought for and into realize and the Of years a a exposed a a whale scientific a comfort, you to land did me hope, on a to kind the a was shoot feet side and Rock service a away of picture a harmless and life for and I inspect crew to me, / filled won't have of seldom recover wait fered to members of The Champlain vatory in the Society. It was fun to create unusual United States. events involving the college com- Last August, I Many, many thanks and love, safety to so munity that would reward present took several members and entice future donors. friends to visit The trips to Petit Manan are so thrill- the college's George Clark ing that we are beginning to know who research crew there. Of all of our regular enthusiasts will be. that visit, 82-year-old In addition, because three gardens George Clark wrote the letter shown this year are not open to the reprinted here. public, they brought more exclama- The Champlain Society was formed tions, and such comments as "how can in 1988 to recognize donors who con- contributed over $185,000 of the we top this?" tribute $1,000 or more annually to $264,843 raised from outside the Next year's events are now being ar- College of the Atlantic. The main college's board of trustees for the An- ranged: again, trips to Petit Manan; thrust of the society is to raise un- nual Fund. However, we need to en- new gardens will be shown; and one restricted Annual Fund gifts which are large our membership. Pass the word new trip is planned, consisting of a the backbone of the college's budget. to others and help us to secure the col- two boat excursion to Mount Desert In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1991, lege financially. Rock, for a first hand look at the only members of The Champlain Society Alice Eno 2 Teaching Design from an Integrated Perspective After a lengthy search for just the Students right person to add to the Arts and Jesse Tucker Design program, Isabel Mancinelli was and Kim selected to be the newest full-time Smith confer faculty member at College of the At- with new arts lantic. Mancinelli is familiar to COA and design through her teaching "Land Use Plan- faculty mem- ning" as a visiting faculty member in ber Isabel winter 1991 and through collaboration Mancinelli. between the college and the National Park Service (NPS), where Mancinelli has worked in a variety of capacities over the past ten years. From 1982 to 1987, Mancinelli served as regional coordinator for ELENA TUHY NPS and was responsible for reviewing all planning and design projects for nine North Atlantic Region Parks, Na- True to the concepts of human prehensive perspective of a project, tional Historic sites and National ecology, Mancinelli's approach to her Mancinelli believes a successful plan Recreation areas. In 1987 she was classes is a broad, comprehensive one, must combine all these disciplines. named team captain and project incorporating the belief that land use Several of the courses Mancinelli manager for the General Management planning, landscape architecture and offers relate to the three-year Fund Plan for Acadia National Park, a posi- architectural design are connected dis- for Improvement of Postsecondary tion she will continue to hold while ciplines. In order to have a com- Education (FIPSE) grant COA teaching at the college. As team cap- tain, she will facilitate public involve- continued on page 9 ment in the plan and eventually revise and coordinate the final plan. Throughout her life, Mancinelli has Multi-Cultural Students Visit COA enjoyed math, science, and art. At the Catholic University of America in Twelve students from the Bell Multi- Also while on the island, the stu- Washington, D.C., she started as an Cultural High School (BMHS) in dents attended classes at Mount art major, but by the end of her fresh- Washington, D.C. spent five days at Desert Island High School (MDIHS) man year began pursuing a combina- College of the Atlantic in late and met informally with MDIHS stu- tion of her interests through the September. dents at an evening social. architecture program. She enjoyed ap- The BMHS students, some of Teacher Education Coordinator proaching problems from a wider whom are recent immigrants to the Etta Mooser was pleased with the visit range of perspectives using her artistic United States from third-world and and said she hopes the Cultural Diver- as well as scientific skills. developing countries, were exposed to sity Task Force will host the BMHS Upon completing her B.S. in Ar- aspects of college life and issues in students again next year. chitecture, Mancinelli worked as a human ecology through rooming with The exchange between BMHS and draftsperson and junior designer for a COA students and sitting in on classe COA is part of a formal agreement Boston design firm. While there, she at the college. They learned about signed by the two schools in March witnessed the design and construction COA's self-governance process by at- 1991. The two schools are hoping that of a dormitory housing project in a tending All College Meeting (ACM) by working together they will benefit pine forest. The building was an award- and by talking with fall term ACM the students in each school by giving winning one, and yet two years later, Moderator Erin Marken. Marken, them a different experience. every pine tree was dead. Mancinelli who will teach social studies courses COA and BMHS first became ac- attributes this to a lack of under- at BMHS this spring in the school's quainted with each other last year standing the natural systems of the English as a Second Language Depart- when students and faculty from area on the part of the builders. Man- ment, said the students were par- BMHS visited the college as part of a cinelli explains, "Responsible design ticularly interested in COA's regional college tour. Impressed by responds to the dynamics of the governance system because of the COA's strong emphasis on environ- natural systems of a site in determin- voice it guarantees to students. mental issues and its progressive ing the appropriate use of land and The students, who were at first in- education program, the BMHS faculty takes into consideration the context of timidated by the non-city environs, approached faculty at the college the surrounding region." were kayaking and canoeing by the about setting up an exchange pro- Intrigued by the questions of end of the week. COA Teacher Educa- gram. Jeremy Norton '91 inaugurated natural systems, Mancinelli pursued tion Assistant Catherine Elk said, "It the exchange program during the this comprehensive view and obtained took a couple of days for the students Spring 1991 term while student-teach- her Master of Landscape Architecture to become accustomed to the open ing at BMHS. He served as a link be- from Harvard's Graduate School of spaces, woods and lack of taxi cabs, tween the two groups during the Design. but then they loved it." September visit. - Elena Tuhy 3 Chairman of the Board Edward McC. New Trustees Wishcamper and her husband Blair announced in July the election Joseph live in Freeport, Maine. They of Carol Wishcamper and William J. Hail From Maine have two children. Ginn '74 to College of the Atlantic's William Ginn is president and board of trustees. founder of Resource Conservation Carol Wishcamper, a graduate of Services, Inc. (RCS), of Yarmouth, Smith College in Northampton, Mas- one of the fastest growing recycling sachusetts, has devoted many years of companies in New England, and the public service to the state of Maine. largest in Maine. As reported in the Most recently, Wishcamper served on Summer 1991 COA News, Ginn sold the Maine State Board of Education, RCS to Browning-Ferris Industries, a to which she was appointed by Houston-based waste management Governor Joseph Brennan in 1983, company, in May. Ginn remains as and reappointed by Governor John president of RCS and also serves as McKernan in 1988. From 1986 to vice-president of recycling for Brown- 1988, she served as chair of the ing-Ferris's northeast region. board, and in 1984 and 1985, she was In 1974, soon after graduating vice-chair. She resigned from the Carol Wishcamper from COA, Ginn established a lobby- Board of Education in 1991. Wish- ing group called Maine Citizens for camper is currently working as an Returnable Containers to spearhead education consultant for the Maine passage of "the bottle bill" by the Coalition for Excellence in Educa- Maine Legislature. Ginn went on to tion, a statewide partnership of busi- serve as executive director of Maine ness, community and education Audubon Society from 1975 until leaders committed to fundamental 1983, when he left to found RCS. change in education. In 1979, Ginn was awarded an Wishcamper has served on honorary Doctorate of Human Let- numerous task forces and commis- ters from Unity College in recogni- sions in Maine, including the tion of his outstanding contributions Governor's Task Force on School to the Maine conservation move- Funding and the Governor's Com- ing. She is currently a member of the KINDRA CLINEFF ment. mission on Common Core of Learn- This is Ginn's second appoint- ment to the College of the Atlantic executive committee for New board. He previously served as trus- England Association of Schools and William Ginn '74 at his compost- tee from 1975 to 1980. Colleges and the northeastern area representative of the National As- ing operation in Unity, Maine. A summer resident of Eagle Is- land, Ginn lives in Pownal, Maine, sociation of State Boards of Educa- chair from 1986 to 1989. At the with his wife June LaCombe and tion. She is a past chairperson of the present time, she is chairing the Na- their two children, Eliza and William. Maine Chapter of the Nature Con- ture Conservancy's capital campaign LaCombe was a visiting student at servancy, where she served as vice- of the development committee. COA in 1975. Faculty Perspective: What is this Master of Some call College of the Atlantic's topic, only to feel pressured to drop it bers, called "Tutors" or "Dons" in Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) program once they graduated. Some stayed on Britain. Students have the option of car- "the graduate program," as if it were a and continued their work with someone rying on for a year or two at the same new focus on advanced students. But I on the faculty, but their case was even college with the same Don, working on think it should be viewed as a continua- worse because they received no acknow- a special project. They write a thesis, tion of COA's ongoing program to feed ledgement for their accomplishments. and are awarded a Master of Arts de- students' curiosity. Teaching is helping As our purpose is to educate people gree. The program is part of the col- people to grow in intellect and getting as individuals on their own ground, any leges. The major administrative and them to think; giving them "intellectual way we can "so arrange affairs" (as social break occurs when students enter cramps." COA allows its teachers to do founding President Ed Kaelber would the specialist's work for a D.Phil. (the that, and the M.Phil program en- put it) to help them is important. equivalent to the Ph.D. in the U.S.) courages students and faculty to work I was reminded of the program run within the larger framework of the together carrying special, larger projects in the colleges within European univer- university. to completion. sities. These programs are adjunct to Our M.Phil program includes much The need for this program became the regular work of the undergraduates, of what we are already doing at COA. It clear after I had been here several years who in Europe are encouraged to work builds on our strengths. It calls on stu- and saw students get caught up in a independently with certain faculty mem- dents to spend at least two years here, 4 ANNUAL NonTrustee Giving to the Annual Fund FUNDNEWS $350 $300 #300,000 Highlights of 1990-91 Achievements $250 Growth in all areas resulted in a ban- ner year for the 1990-91 Annual Fund: Between July 1, 1990 and June 30, (Thousands) $200 Dollars $150 1991, gifts from all sources excluding $100 trustees totalled 822, a 13% increase over the 726 gifts received in 1989- $181,284 $212,186 $264,843 $50 90. 100% participation in the Annual $0 Fund was received from the 34 mem- 88/89 89/90 90/91 91/92 GRAPH BY GARY FRIEDMANN Fiscal Years bers of the board of trustees, who contributed a total of $563,305. Alumni gifts climbed from 249 in 1989-90 to 282, and the dollar Foundation Grant Propels 1990-91 Fund to a amount of alumni contributions Non-Trustee Record of $264,843 grew 21%, from $18,158 to $22,011. Buoyed by two unrestricted grants lion to over two dozen agencies. It was Membership in The Champlain totalling $40,000 from the Burton G. established in 1984 in California by Society (exclusive of trustees) grew Bettingen Corporation, a private foun- funds donated by the late Burton G. from 66 to 96, with the dollar value dation in Beverly Hills, California, the Bettingen. of Champlain Society-level gifts college's Annual Fund surpassed its In October, Patricia A. Brown, growing from $123,660 to $185,892. goal of $250,000. secretary and administrative director The foundation's primary interests of the foundation, spent two days in Twenty-one parents of current stu- have been in programs to assist home- Bar Harbor meeting faculty, staff, stu- dents contributed $3,125, up from less children and to provide troubled dents, trustees and graduates to learn the fifteen parents who contributed children with health, legal and social more about COA first-hand. $2,750 in 1989-90. services. The Bettingen Corporation "We are working hard to develop a Twenty-four corporate matching has also supported education and has partnership with the board and staff of grants were received, totalling a growing interest in environmental is- the Bettingen Corporation to advance $10,825. sues, particularly in environmental our mutual interests in young people, education. education and the environment," said 293 new donors contributed to this Last year the Bettingen Corpora- Dallas Darland, vice president for year's Annual Fund. tion made grants totalling over $2 mil- development and external affairs. Philosophy program at COA ? By William Drury, Ph.D. one taking courses to fill out gaps or to was some concern that the M.Phil pro- pen. Accreditation by the New England broaden their base, and another pursu- gram might undermine the under- Association of Schools and Colleges ing a project and writing it up. We ex- graduate program, but that concern came harder, as they felt that the pro- pect them to take an active part in the was overcome when faculty were reas- gram would drain off resources. How- community, in discussions and in semi- sured that the proposed program was ever, they were convinced by the nars with other students and faculty. only an extension of what is already argument that several faculty were al- Thus, it is a continuing program for stu- done at the college, and not something ready working informally with students dents who have a good record and are that diverged from the COA's on projects that matched what others already involved in good ideas. To fill philosophy of education. The trustees do elsewhere with graduate students. its potential, a student's program were enthusiastic about the program So far we have several students who, should involve specific creative work for the same reasons, especially since, in addition to taking courses, are deep- within the context of human ecology. as they say, their purpose is to support ly engrossed in a project. Bridget Mul- This will help them establish that they us in our efforts at creative teaching. len (B.A. '91) is working on special ed- have special qualifications for the In discussions with the Maine ucation with Teacher Education Coor- careers they plan. Department of Education, I got the im- dinator Etta Mooser. Kurt Jacobsen Faculty were especially careful in pression that they liked the idea from (B.A. '90) is utilizing the Geographic reviewing the program prior to request- the start, and would, if they had to, Information System lab to assist local ing accreditation from the state. There change their rules to allow it to hap- communities in their land use plan- continued on page 14 5 pointed as assistant to the president "Most Mushrooms Fluoresce" and Newsnotes and corresponding secretary for the "Recent Referreed - Reviewed Re- board of trustees. Ciraulo replaces search Reports" in McIlvainea. Allied Whale research assistants Tim Becky Keefe, who is on maternity leave. Teacher Education Coordinator In September, Dianne Clendaniel Etta Mooser has been appointed to Cole '88, Megan McOsker '89 and assumed the position of Program the governing board of the Academic Kim Robertson '88 closed up the Director for the Natural History and Cultural Collaborative of Maine. Mount Desert Rock whale and seabird Museum. At the Maine Association of She also wrote a book review on Of research station on September 1, suc- Museums Fall Conference, held at Capitalist Schools: Explanation and cessfully completing the 19th season COA in October, she and taxidermy Ethics in Radical Studies of Schooling of research. They then headed to faculty member Skip Buyers-Basso '81 by Daniel Liston in Vol. 4, No. 1 of Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, led a workshop entitled "From "Qualitative Studies in Education and Canada, where they completed a six- Natural Objects to Educational Ethics." week study of finback whale popula- Programs." Congratulations to Allied Whale tion biology funded in large part by Mark "Cos" Cosgrove '88 who research assistant Paula Olson and fel- the Davis Conservation Foundation. served as outreach coordinator for the low National Marine Fisheries Service In other Allied Whale news, the Natural History Museum for three observer Doug Kinzey, who were mar- second year of the Warner-Lambert years, embarked on a journey to ried September 29 in Nantucket Corporation benefit promotion for Al- Nepal, Thailand and India in October. Sound. lied Whale is underway. Bubblicious Bubble Gum chewers can receive a Adjunct faculty member Gray Cox On September 6, Business was a participant in a program in Manager Ann Peach and husband poster and a listing of "20 tips to save Mexico sponsored by Earlham College Arden welcomed their first grandson, the whales" written by Allied Whale this past summer. The Earlhamite pub- Benjamin Somers Peach, who was staffers. Warner-Lambert, Allied lished Gray's article on "The New born to Doug and Ellen Peach in Whale and the Journalism Education Entrepreneurial Ethic" in its January Lockwood, CA. Association have invited all high 1991 issue. During the fall, President Louis school newspapers in the United Librarian Marcia Dworak Rabineau attended the Harvard States to produce editorials or special editions on whale conservation. presented a lecture, "Budgetary Graduate School of Education's cen- Process During Difficult Economic tennial celebration in Cambridge, Zoology faculty member John Times," at a combined conference of where speakers included Carol Gil- Anderson, who received his doctorate the Maine Library Association and the ligan, Israel Scheffler and Howard from the University of Rhode Island Maine Educational Media Association Gardner. He also represented COA at in 1987, recently had his dissertation, at the end of May at the University of the inauguration of Neil Rudenstine "Foraging Behavior by American Maine at Orono. In July, Marcia tra- as the 26th president of Harvard White Pelicans in Western Nevada," velled to Brunswick, Maine, to be pres- University. Since last fall, Lou has accepted by The Journal of Colonial ent at the birth of her first grandchild, been a member of the advisory board Waterbirds. Kathryn Lynn Driscoll, on July 23. of the Center for the Study of Com- Adjunct faculty member Ron Beard Welcome to Laura Eells, the new mercialism, a Washington, D.C.-based assisted in developing a case study on executive secretary to the develop- organization, founded in 1990, which the issue of public access in the Penob- ment and external affairs offices. exposes and combats the effects of an scot Bay Region at the 1991 US-UK Laura recently moved to Maine from excessively commercialized culture. Countryside Stewardship Exchange. Ashford, Connecticut, where she During Lou's tenure as president of The Man With One Tusk, a book of worked for divisions of the United the Maine Independent Colleges' As- poetry written by faculty member Bill Technologies Company for three and sociation (MICA), Maine Governor Carpenter, with illustrations by local one-half years. John McKernan signed a bill sup- artist Robert Shetterly, was published in late fall. Visiting faculty member Sue ported by MICA that creates a Com- Haynes wrote a chapter on "Organiz- mission to Study the History, Status, Patricia Ciraulo (Bart), formerly of ing for Empowerment: Clarifying A Impact and Role of Independent the Development Office, has been ap- Focus to Plan Programs for Troubled Higher Education in the State of Learners," in Organizing for Whole Lan- Maine. guage, edited by Kenneth S. Goodman, Welcome back to former night- COA News is published three times a year. It is circulated to alumni, Yetta M. Goodman and Wendy J. watchman, now groundskeeper, Gregg parents, and other friends of the Hood, published by Heinemann, Smith, who kept the grounds in beauti- college. Portsmouth, N.H. in August. ful condition over the summer. Former Assistant to the President Editor: Elena V. Tuhy Congratulations to Director of Ad- Becky Keefe and husband David are mission Steve Thomas and wife Beth, Writers: Cynthia Borden-Chisholm, the happy parents of Anna Rose, born who are the proud parents of Bailey Dallas Darland, Gary Friedmann, Charles Hesse, Kevin Kirby, Juli September 9. Alison, born July 6. Steve describes Lerner, Sharon Reiser, Dianne Education and design faculty mem- the newest member of his family as Riley, Elena Tuhy, Michael Zboray ber Martin Koeppl and wife Roswitha "feisty and beautiful." Darkroom Manager: Gina Platt Kuhn are the proud parents of Vir- In mid-November, former Trustee ginia Sophie Beatrice, who was born Nina Thompson represented COA at Editing assistance: Charles Hesse July 21 in Munich, Germany. the installation of Stan Trecker as the Printing: Furbush-Roberts Adjunct faculty member Walter Lit- third president of The Art Institute of printed on recycled paper ten has had two papers published: Boston. 6 Soviet - COA Relationship Thrives The number of exchanges College of weeks at the college. They gave a the Atlantic has pioneered with the public talk to COA community mem- Soviet Union is growing. As reported bers and architects from around in previous issues of COA News, COA Maine on "Integrating the Present faculty member and Academic Dean with the Past: Mikhailovskaya Art Richard Borden began the exchanges Square." Their talk addressed how by travelling to Moscow in December they approached the problems posed 1990. Borden and his wife, Cynthia by the necessity of facing contem- Borden-Chisholm, special events coor- porary needs while maintaining the in- dinator at COA, met with faculty of tegrity of the historical arts quarter. Moscow State University (MSU) and Retired Somesville architect Gennadiy Yagodin, the Soviet Joseph B. Thomas IV and his wife counterpart of the U.S. Secretary of Etel introduced the three to COA. Education. Then in April 1991, COA The Thomases met them at The Inter- ELENA TUHY chemist Donald Cass lectured at the national Forum of Architects Builders Mendeleev Institute in Moscow. and the Environment, which was held Nicolai Marfenin During the summer, COA wel- in Gudauri, Georgia, USSR, in comed the first Russian to visit as a February 1990. dinner one evening during Family result of these recent exchanges. He is Meleshchenko, Plaksiyev and Er- Weekend. Nicolai Marfenin, head of the Marine molinsky are members of In late November of this year, four Zoology Laboratory at MSU. Mar- LenNIITAG, a branch of the All- educators from Moscow spent nearly fenin, a teacher who is studying a Union Scientific Research Institute of two weeks at COA and Antioch New broad spectrum of topics concerning the Theory of Architecture and Town- England Graduate School in Keene, the environment, met with COA facul- planning in St. Petersburg (formerly N.H., learning about the programs ty about the possibilities for exchan- Leningrad). The major concerns of offered by each school and setting up ges of students between MSU and the institute, which is a leader in ar- exchanges. COA. He also spoke to a group of chitectural design in Russia, include Teacher Education Coordinator teachers from COA's summer pro- adapting historical buildings for Etta Mooser and a representative gram about environmental problems modern use and developing modern from Union 98 school district have in the Soviet Union. constructions in historical surround- been invited to visit "The Experimen- In early October, three architects ings. tal Infant School of the Ecopolis, from St. Petersburg - - Elena Vasiliev- In addition to their public talk, the Culture and Health Program" and the na Meleshchenko, Alexander three participated in classes during joint program, "The Ecology of Yuryevich Plaksiyev and Andrey their visit to COA. They also gave an Childhood" in Moscow in March 1992. Lvovich Ermolinsky - spent two impromptu folk music concert after - Elena Tuhy In Memory of Bayard Ewing The College of the Atlantic community was extreme- Mr. Ewing devoted ly saddened to learn of the death on October 28 of himself to numerous Trustee Bayard Ewing. A resident of Providence, philanthropic concerns. Rhode Island, Ewing was 75 years old. Among them was the A member of COA's board of trustees since Rhode Island School of January 1990, Mr. Ewing had become closely in- Design (RISD), of volved with the college during that brief period. In which he was an ardent the summer of 1991, Mr. Ewing hosted a sail on the and long-time sup- Harvey Gamage for his Sorrento, Maine, neighbors as porter. He served as a means of introducing them to the college of which chairman of RISD's he had grown so fond. Founding faculty member board of trustees from Steve Katona, who attended the sail, recalls that Mr. 1967 to 1985. In 1986, Ewing's description of COA and its human ecologi- RISD awarded him their cal mission was "the best he had ever heard." highest honor, the A summer resident of Sorrento throughout his Bayard Ewing Honorary Doctor of life, Mr. Ewing spent the rest of the year in Fine Arts degree. Providence, where he was a founding partner of Til- Mr. Ewing is survived by his wife, Harriet Kelley Ewing, a linghast Collins & Graham. Mr. Ewing received an noted artist, his five children - Linda Hamlin, Gillian Ehrich, LLB from Harvard Law School in 1941 after earning Bayard, Gifford and Hasso and eleven grandchildren. a B.A. from Yale University in 1938. 7 Educator Rabineau Compiles Warren Hill and Oral History Emily Bracale '90 discuss the Islesford School, In describing Warren Gardiner Hill, where they both College of the Atlantic President have taught. Hill Louis Rabineau calls him "an ed- was the subject ucator for all seasons a New England of an oral his- farm kid who learned early to enjoy fiddling and story-telling, and to value tory recently hard work and the support of parents, completed by brothers, wife and children." COA President Hill is the former Maine Commis- Louis Rabineau. sioner of Education and the Chancel- lor of the Connecticut Commission on Higher Education. He also was the ex- ecutive director of the Education Com- mission of the States, an organization oral history of Hill's life and profes- which started in the Islesford School, a which former Maine State Senator sional career compiled by Rabineau two-room schoolhouse on Little Cran- Bennett Katz described as being the over the past two years. Rabineau says berry Island, Maine. Other positions most important national organization it was "a true labor of joy" to be able held by Hill include assistant to the in the U.S. dedicated to state policy to do this oral history. Rabineau and president and acting president at Con- Hill first met in 1966 in Connecticut and educational matters. necticut State Teachers College and The occasion for the reception was where they served in higher education. president of Trenton State College. the completion and presentation of an The oral history recounted Hill's Hill, who attended Gorham State life and his very distinguished career, Teacher's College in Maine, received a doctorate from Columbia University's Teachers College, and honorary For Your Listening and Viewing Pleasure. degrees from Bowdoin College and the University of Maine. In a small way, the reception was Third-year also a reunion of people who had been student Dan involved with the Islesford School. Farrenkopf Marion Spurling, a close friend of puts some Hill's who provided the funding for his finishing oral history, was a teacher whose fami- touches on ly was from Islesford. Emily M. G. Bra- the mural he cale, a 1990 COA graduate, started created for teaching on the island this fall. She COA's new and husband Dennis, himself a 1988 Music and COA graduate and Watson winner, Language will live on Little Cranberry for the ELENA TUHY Lab. next two years. The oral history of Warren Hill is the latest in a series of four. According to Rabineau, the four individuals - With growing student interest in language and music at the college, the recent Warren Hill, E.T. Dunlap, Lyman completion of COA's Music and Language Lab, located on the lower level of the Glenny and Richard Millard - were Thorndike Library, will be especially welcome for students in John Cooper's music chosen because "they have been out- classes and Hector Diaz's Spanish classes. standing leaders on the state and na- The lab is fully equipped with two listening booths: "Graceland" contains a tional levels. The histories, which were compact disc player and an audio-cassette player/recorder; "Birdland" has a high- originally supported by grants from speed monaural tape copier and an audio-cassette player/recorder. Both machines The Frost Foundation of Colorado, allow several people to listen at the same time. The lab's main room will be avail- were developed in order to provide able as a practice space for aspiring musicians and future linguists. It is furnished some insights into their lives and with an electronic keyboard, music stands, a table and chairs. thoughts for the benefit of those who The lab, which opened in November after months of planning and preparation are involved and interested in higher by the Library Committee, buildings and grounds and Campus Planning and education." Rabineau's involvement Building Committee, is visually enhanced by a mural painted on the wall facing the in the oral histories stemmed from his door. Third-year student Dan Farrenkopf created the mural, a collage of images duties as senior vice-president of painted with oils and acrylics with a fixed charcoal base, as a project for his paint- Academy for Educational Develop- ing class. Farrenkopf describes the mural as "a different kind of window" for the ment (AED). AED is a private, non- underground room. "It is not a strict narrative," he explains about the images, profit organization dedicated to which range from a group of bison to the keys on a clarinet. "It is about the jux- addressing human development needs taposition of the technological and natural worlds." throughout the world. - Elena Tuhy 8 Student Inaugurates Exchange with Multiversity You have decided you want to travel Multiversity. Her work and theirs internationally, but you don't know a centered around the evolving method- foreign language. Imagine you go ology and theory of social ecology. anyway. Now, imagine you are not just The evolution of this field involves traveling, but that you are going to designing new research models and completely submerge yourself in the utilizing innovative approaches on the culture. You are going to work, play, cutting edge of social research. One live in a foreign country: engage the such approach is in realizing how the experience completely. And imagine researcher influences the subject you love it. being observed or studied and is, in You are imagining what fourth- some sense, a part of the subject. The year student Colleen "Chaz" O'Brien new model incorporates the re- did on her internship for College of searcher as part of what is being the Atlantic this spring. O'Brien left studied and attempts to illuminate the March 9 for Uruguay, a Spanish speak- cultural perspective of the researcher ELENA TUHY ing country in Latin America, know- as part of the truth which she or he ex- ing only enough Spanish to sing "the tracts from a study. Colleen "Chaz" O'Brien lyrics to Santana songs." When she This approach to science, and so- returned to the United States four cial science in particular, has implica- Times Square in New York City. But months later, she not only had conver- tions for those who have taken the despite its similarities to the Western sational Spanish in her grasp, but she Western point of view for granted. In- hemisphere, Uruguay is still distinctly had experienced a very different cul- deed, it may be that the perspective Uruguay: "Los Simpsons" and Ninja ture from the inside. from Latin America as well as other Turtles speak Spanish. In describing a Uruguay is the second smallest non-Western parts of the world could taxi cab ride through the city, O'Brien country in South America, tucked revolutionize the way we see the world. said, "Cabs don't use headlights at under Brazil on the eastern coast. Its In Montevideo, O'Brien had access night. We were going 35-40 mph down inhabitants are mostly of European to South American media which em- a city street and when we came to an decent and it is classified as a third- phasized various global, political and intersection, the driver eased up on world country. Uruguay's principle economic news and editorials. Every the gas, flashed his lights and kept on city is Montevideo, which is situated day she walked through the streets going. They don't slow down!" on the southern seaboard. O'Brien and markets of the city, listening, Living in the city and experiencing worked at a new graduate school in watching and conversing with the some of the culture was of great im- Montevideo called the "Multiversity," people. She shopped in the markets portance to O'Brien's internship. "My which was co-founded by Eduardo and kept notes of Spanish phrases daily experiences were an invaluable Gudynas, a social ecologist and until she became more comfortable education to me as an individual and educator. with the language. She rode the equally as an ecologist." Academic Dean Richard Borden crammed public transportation and lis- For O'Brien it is important that and faculty member John Anderson tened in with other passengers on COA students realize the potential of had met Gudynas at the first Latin frank discussions between strangers the exchange program with the Multi- American Conference in Ecology held and acquaintances. versity as an educational resource. It in Montevideo in December 1989. O'Brien describes Montevideo as a offers not only a chance to master a Since then, Borden and Gudynas have "third-world Boston." The huge Coca- foreign language, but an opportunity been developing an exchange program cola billboards and neon signs of a cer- to see the world from a different point which would include students and tain central avenue reminded her of of view. faculty. O'Brien is the first from COA - Dianne Riley to go to the Multiversity. Gudynas, who visited COA in early 1990, describes the Multiversity as being very much like COA. In the Teaching Design from an Integrated Perspective Summer 1990 issue of COA News, continued from page 3 Gudynas explained that the Multiver- sity is "looking for a new type of received this fall. By integrating the to COA, Mancinelli notes, "The world education which will include research, resources of the Geographic Informa- is approaching a crisis in many areas. practice and contact with the tion System lab, the Center for Ap- COA students not only recognize this, grassroots community, all with an in- plied Human Ecology and Mancin- but are willing to do something about terdisciplinary approach." elli's classes, students will have the it. If I can help students become more O'Brien worked closely with chance to approach projects from a aware of the importance of a human Gudynas and psychologist Graciela variety of disciplines. Says Mancinelli, ecological approach to architectural Evia on research and in preparing "Since land use planning issues affect design and land use planning issues, reports. She received intensive feed- each one of us, we should all know then I've passed on an important skill back, in Spanish, from a small social something about land use planning." that we can all benefit from in the ecology group associated with the When asked what attracts her most long run." - Juli Lerner 9 College Awarded FIPSE Grant Making Theater Happen continued from page 1 Lucy Bell Sellers man of the Bar Harbor Planning aspects of the project will be Dr. J.D. Board. Nyhart of Massachusetts Institute of Adjunct faculty member Lucy Bell At the center of the project is an in- Technology's Sloan School. Dr. Sellers is on campus this fall, once terdisciplinary program in community Nyhart and his team from the Project again making theater happen at Col- planning and decision-making. With on Modeling for Negotiation Manage- lege of the Atlantic. As teacher and assistance from the FIPSE grant, the ment will provide software develop- director of COA's Theater Workshop, college will develop new courses in ment and updates. her tools are few and simple: energy, both the theoretical and practical Coordination of the cooperation commitment, a real enthusiasm for the aspects of decision-making, gover- between the towns, the park and the process of making theater, and a con- nance and applied technologies. Stu- Project on Modeling for Negotiation stant concern for the basic human dents will be encouraged to branch Management will be done by the truths behind the playwright's words. out into particular areas of interest college's Center for Applied Human Sellers has a talent for coaxing after taking a core group of courses. Ecology, which is currently under the genuinely moving performances out of The goal of this curriculum is to direction of faculty member Ken novices and experienced actors alike. train students to be more effective Cline. The center serves as the prin- "I'm always very excited," she says, "to decision makers. It grows naturally cipal teaching space for the core see people doing things on stage that out of the themes of human ecology, courses in community planning and they thought maybe they couldn't do." the focus of COA's baccalaureate and decision-making, and provides a Her excitement is contagious; in the Master of Philosophy degree dedicated space within the college for past six years she has involved all levels programs. Human ecology emphasizes undertaking college-community of the college community in the produc- the interrelationships of human projects, including small meetings, tion process. Students, alumni, staff, beings and their natural, social and workshops and conferences. faculty, trustees and even President technological environments. "The importance of placing stu- Lou Rabineau have appeared on stage, As a practical aspect of this com- dents and decision makers in the same and many others have contributed be- munity planning and decision-making physical space," explains Anderson, hind the scenes. There is never a short- curriculum, COA students and faculty faculty member in biology and direc- age of people who want to be involved. will further their involvement with tor of the college's Geographic Infor- Sellers' own involvement in theater, local community officials and citizenry mation System lab, "is to ensure primarily as an actress, began in high in town planning issues. They will con- immediate contacts in an environment school and continued at Radcliffe Col- tinue to utilize the mapping in which all participants are learners lege where she earned a B.A. in History capabilities of the Geographic Infor- together." and Literature of the Renaissance. Her mation System, which is presently Over the next few years, the college first directing experience was at the used islandwide. Also through this will host workshops, seminars and Kangaru School in Embu, Kenya where project, town policy makers will have meetings to further facilitate island- her husband Peter was teaching mathe- an active role in using and creating wide and statewide exploration of re- matics. From that time forward she was software that they can then take back gional issues. One such conference, a "hooked on directing." In between to their towns for further applications. meeting of the Maine State Oil Spill Embu and COA, her directing credits Assisting with the technological Commission, was held in September. include numerous community theater productions as well as thirteen years - Elena Tuhy teaching at the Germantown Friends School in Germantown, Pennsylvania, where she still mounts a production each spring. Peter Sellers became a trustee of the COA Representatives Attend Swedish Conference college in 1983, and Lucy Bell was continued from page 2 "won over to the place on the first visit." In 1986 she was asked to teach strategy for teaching people to train but reports on actual projects and suc- the theater workshop, and in 1988 she their unconscious minds to generalize. cessful initiatives happening all was named an adjunct faculty member. Borden, a past president of the around the world. Her productions at COA to date in- Society for Human Ecology, played a Coté mentioned that a number of clude Shakespeare's As You Like It role in the overall conference. In addi- the countries represented at the con- (1986) and Twelfth Night (1988), Sop- tion to giving the closing plenary sum- ference were former Communist-bloc hocles' Antigone (1987), Arthur Miller's mation, Borden, along with Eva nations, including Poland, Yugoslavia, The Crucible (1989) and Gilbert and Ekehorn of Sweden's Gothenburg Bulgaria and Latvia. He said that it is Sullivan's operetta Iolanthe (1990). University, co-chaired the Internation- particularly their attendance which This year's production is particularly al Forum, an afternoon of formal and shows "the increasing importance of ambitious, as the class tackled two re- informal presentations by repre- linking together ecological and en- lated plays: Shakespeare's Hamlet and sentatives of human ecology programs vironmental responsibilities with fu- Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guil- worldwide. ture economic growth and denstern are Dead. Borden noted that the presenta- development." - Kevin Kirby tions were not just "thought pieces," 10 Profiles of COA Community Members Extracurricular Education with the architect to refine certain aspects of the design to better fit the Tim Case college's needs. In most contracting jobs, this is a As the Community Liaison for the professional position. At COA, it is proposed Gates Community Center, part of Case's education. The position third-year student Tim Case is the con- is giving Case, who is interested in pur- duit between the College of the Atlan- suing a career in architecture and tic community and those who are design, experience in his field before working on the project. He meets with he even receives his undergraduate de- the project manager, the architect and gree. The work is also giving him the the general contractor, as well as key perspective of the client, a viewpoint members of the college community, to not usually experienced by aspiring ar- keep the lines of communication open chitects. and to keep all parties informed of Case has shared his landscaping one another's progress. He also works and architectural talents with the Tim Case Sharing A Dream numerous friends of the island. The COA community in other ways as college experienced many early suces- well. He has been an active member of Leslie C. Brewer ses, from the creation of a non-profit the Campus Planning and Building organization to the acquisition of land. Committee since he arrived at COA A "semi-retired" computer consultant COA's philosophy of education is and currently chairs the subcommittee and sixth generation Bar Harbor na- based on early discussions between on landscape improvements. For the tive, Leslie Brewer is a community Brewer, Father Gower and Reverend past two years he has designed sets for man, committed to whatever he puts Cushman "Cush" McGiffert, which school performances. In early May, he his energy into. This is nowhere more centered on ecology. A few years later was one of two students selected to apparent than at College of the Atlan- faculty and others built on this participate in the Design-In, a forum tic. Brewer has been involved with ecological base when they developed cosponsored by the Committee for Ar- COA since its inception: he was the COA's focus of human ecology. chitecture in Education of the founding chairman of the college's Brewer's own philosophy of human American Institute of Architects and board of trustees and currently serves ecology is "the discovery of the COA, which brought together practic- as treasurer of the board. ecological relationships within the ing architects to explore new direc- Mount Desert Island (MDI) resi- educational curriculum and within tions for COA's campus master plan. dents considered starting a school on our own lives." He is so committed to Attracted by COA's personally the island in the 1950s and 1960s, but this idea that his vision of utopia is a tailored, hands-on curriculum, Case plans did not get much further than place "where everyone is an ecologist." entered COA in the fall of 1989. He wishful thinking. Then in 1967, COA's future looks bright in has concentrated his coursework in Brewer and longtime friend Father Brewer's eyes. In times where many arts and design and public policy. For James Gower decided to try to start a private colleges are struggling, he class projects he helped lead a land college on MDI. To Brewer, who sees notes that COA enjoys an increase in use planning study of Route 3 in Bar himself as a "doer," this was a chal- student enrollment compared to Harbor and developed original proper- lenging project, but one he would declining enrollment at many other ty tax charts for the local town council. enjoy accomplishing. From the initial colleges nationwide. Brewer sees a suc- Case opted to take a year off from meeting of these two men, COA cessful summer program and the grow- schooling to work and travel after evolved quickly with the assistance of ing graduate program as having graduating from George School (a tremendous outreach. In his own Quaker boarding school outside words, "COA may be valued as a jewel Philadelphia) in 1988. He developed a throughout the world." landscape design and building busi- Observing the various people who ness and, during the summer of 1989, come into the community - as trus- he travelled to the Soviet Union, tees, faculty, staff and students - where he took part in a language pro- sparks Brewer's satisfaction and gram offered by Moscow State Univer- amazement in having his dream be- sity (MSU) and worked in a conser- come a reality. He says that, while sit- vation program with ecology students ting at Commencement each year, he from MSU on Lake Baikal, Siberia. often wonders where he and all the Although he does not have definite students would be if COA were not plans for his career after COA, Case's successful. It makes him glad to see natural determination and positive people sharing the dream of a college outlook guarantee him success in Les Brewer on Mount Desert Island. whatever he chooses to do in life. - Mike Zboray - Sharon Reiser 11 Charting COA's Future Newlin Gardens Dedicated at Convocation During most of the college's early Trustee years, COA's approach to organized William V.P. planning seemed to be accomplished Newlin and on a year-to-year, short-term basis, in adjunct facul- part because the college was feeling its ty member way in determining its curriculum and Lucy Bell role. Nevertheless, blessed with a crea- Sellers stand tive and energetic core of faculty and with their administrators, the college was able to mother, move ahead with steady growth, gain- Elizabeth, ing strength through its human after the ecological interdisciplinary approach dedication of to teaching. the E. Mor- Planning took on a new emphasis, timer Newlin however, after the July 1983 fire, which totally destroyed COA's main Gardens. administration and library building. The immediate needs of the college were clear. Observes Academic Dean Richard Borden, "It was a time of shrinking enrollment and limited During Convocation, held on September 11, the College of the Atlantic com- resources, and it was obvious we had munity dedicated the E. Mortimer Newlin Gardens. to make the most of what we had. We Created as a memorial to the late E. Mortimer Newlin, father of COA Trustee also had to do some pretty innovative William V.P. Newlin and COA adjunct faculty member Lucy Bell Sellers, the gar- integrating of faculty and courses." dens are a gift to the college from Mr. Newlin's widow Elizabeth and the Newlin The challenge and struggle made family. A summer resident of Mount Desert Island for almost forty years prior to the faculty, administrative staff and students more conscious of the need his death in 1977, Mortimer Newlin loved the outdoors and contributed generously to educational organizations. for clarification of and commitment to Highlights of the ceremony, which was held in the gardens, included faculty the mission of COA as a college of member Craig Greene planting a tree, faculty member Bill Carpenter speaking on human ecology. This also led to the the historical relationship of people to gardens, fourth-year student Chaz O'Brien recognition that not all needs could be speaking on the meaning of community and reminiscences about E. Mortimer met immediately and priorities had to Newlin by members of the Newlin family. be established. During the mid-1980s, the Campus Planning and Building Committee (CP&B) served as a catalyst for the Dean Etta Mooser to jointly assume the college which will provide the process of long range planning, al- the responsibility. rhetoric needed for the promotion of though its primary purpose was to Following this step, a small group further capital development." help facilitate plans for construction of strongly interested faculty and ad- The LRPC also proposed a list of of the art and sciences building and ministration members began to meet "special and unique qualities and the new Kaelber Hall complex, as well early in the fall of 1990 with the con- values" that define COA, including as campus landscaping in general. currence of the president. Shortly, ad- human ecology, educational innova- However, CP&B also sought the ideas ditional members were added and the tion and interdisciplinary programs. In of faculty and students to try to obtain Long Range Planning Committee addition, they recommended some a consensus for the future thrust of the (LRPC) became an established com- new directions for long term planning: college, and thus determine the imme- mittee. It is a joint subcommittee of regional involvement, cultural diver- diate and long-term educational objec- the Academic Affairs Committee, the sity and international influence. tives and needs for physical space. faculty, the development office, and Administrative Dean and LRPC A key factor which enabled the col- the Academic Policy Committee of the member Mel Coté explains, "This type lege to take a series of giant steps board of trustees. Several students also of planning is essential in shaping the toward achieving a more efficient and are members. The group meets bi- curriculum. Faculty participation and effective operation at all levels was the weekly during the academic year. interaction is key, of course. In turn award of two federal Title III grants, In its first written report to the this will enable the college to establish the first in October 1986 and a second board of trustees, in April 1991, the priorities for the facilities, and financ- in October 1989. One of the important LRPC stated that its "Goals and pur- ing, needed in the years ahead." by-products of these grants was the poses are 1) to provide a guide for fu- Future issues of COA News will need to establish a formal structure ture curricula and program continue to report results of the for long range planning. Rather than development by establishing priorities LRPC's efforts as proposals are create a new position for this, Presi- for faculty hiring and for the allocation presented to the college community dent Louis Rabineau appointed Bor- of resources, and 2) to create a state- and the board of trustees. den and then Associate Academic ment about the mission and goals of - Charles Hesse 12 Gates Community Center Profile: Designer Turner Brooks Turner Brooks, designer of COA's Millard Dority, chair of the Campus who designed the proposed student proposed Gates Community Center, is Planning and Building Committee and housing, graduated with Brooks. emerging as a world-renowned archi- member of the search committee After completing this degree with tect. He was noted in Vincent Scully's which chose Brooks. Yale, Brooks worked for architectural The Shingle Style Today for his astute Brooks has been very receptive to firms in Vermont and New York understanding of the style and in 1984, input from the community in design- before running his own office for he received the Prix de Rome Fellow- ing the Gates Center. Says Dallas Dar- eight years. In 1986, Brooks teamed ship in recognition of his contributions land, vice president for development up with Thomas Carey, another Yale to the field of architecture. He also was and external affairs, "It is especially alum, to open Brooks and Carey named one of the 100 best architects in important that this building be what Archetiects in Burlington, Vermont. the world by Architectural Digest in we want it to be because the Gates When completed in 1993, the Gates their 1991 edition of AD 100. Center will complete the core of the Community Center will house a 300- The meeting hall search committee academic buildings in the center of seat-capacity meeting hall with chose Brooks on the strength of his campus." performance stage and proscenium, a unique portfolio. "We felt Turner's Brooks is the third member of the music room, five faculty offices, a unusual sense of space and his under- Yale University School of fifty-five seat lecture hall and an art standing of shingle-style architecture Architecture's class of 1970 to be and exhibition gallery. The lobby- would create a building that would tapped to design a building for entrance of the new center will open not only serve a function, but would College of the Atlantic. Daniel Scully, force a dialogue of form between it onto the recently completed Newlin who designed Kaelber Hall, and Gardens. and the existing buildings," explains former faculty member Roc Caivano, - Elena Tuhy New Students Given Unique Introduction to COA Led by faculty member Steve Katona, Beech Mountain and ex- thirteen first-year students spent the ploring the marine life of first Tuesday afternoon of the Fall Frenchman Bay. 1991 term cutting up a dead minke Many new students also whale. COA researchers had towed participated in various the 15' 6" whale, which had died 10 OOPs (Outdoor Orienta- days earlier from entanglement in tion Program) trips, held lobster trap lines off Baker's Island, to during the week prior to the college beach for autopsy. They the first week of fall term then tied it to a tree on the edge of classes. Accompanied by Bar Island to await the new students. older students, staff and The group braved a chilly day and the faculty, students hiked in revolting smell of decomposing car- Baxter State Park, canoed cass as they learned about whale down the Allagash, biked anatomy and fleshed out the bones. through Nova Scotia, sea- After the skeleton is further cleaned kayaked around Mount and de-greased, it will be recon- Desert Island and traversed structed for teaching use and display. a portion of the Ap- A strange way to be introduced to palachian Trail. college life? Not at College of the In total, eighty new stu- Atlantic. dents enrolled in COA's COA prides itself on being dif- B.A. and M.Phil programs ferent and non-traditional, and its this fall. Students in the orientation program is a good reflec- new classes hail from twen- tion of that approach. The "whale ty-two states and four skeleton-making" exercise was one of foreign countries: Canada, five Island Ecology trips held this year England, Japan and ELENA TUHY for the first time to help students Lithuania. The most highly learn more about the immediate area represented state is Maine, where they will be living and to pro- with thirteen students in First-year student Dana Drake digs into life at COA. vide them with a means for getting to the new undergraduate know each other. Other Island Ecol- class. Forty-seven of the students are and three are in the Master of ogy trips included a botanical hike up new to college, thirty have transferred Philosophy degree program. 13 The ECO ECO use of these same resources, is faced munities, and 4) providing leadership with an uncertain future. In these cir- on the state's economic and environ- Connection cumstances, it is not surprising that mental agendas. Since 1990, College of the Atlantic has public debate over economic and en- At ECO ECO's second meeting in vironmental policies increasingly are March 1991, two task forces were sponsored an organization known as cast in "either-or" terms, with the formed and are now at work preparing ECO ECO. The organization's name is a combination of the abbreviated achievement of one presumed to be at their reports and recommendations the expense of the other. for ECO ECO's forthcoming meeting words "economics" and "ecology." Because both the business and the in March 1992. ECO ECO's purpose is to afford environmental communities have a The first task force is working Maine's business, environmental, state huge stake in the state's prosperity, directly with the DEP's director and regulatory and political leaders a the worsening condition of Maine's staff on formulating revised proce- neutral setting in which: troubled economy has begun to dures that govern the department's to meet face to face on a periodic "force" the search for new approaches permitting process. A second task basis to discuss their differences and to problem solving-approaches that force is exploring the feasibility of common interests; emphasize cooperation and that ac- sponsoring a major study to assess en- knowledge at the outset the inter- vironmental risks and needs in Maine. to facilitate new networks of per- relationships and the complexity of Funding for the study is being sought sonal relationships and information the issues involved. It is the college's on a matching basis from Maine busi- exchange among one another; and purpose, through the resource of ECO nesses, the state and federal govern- to collectively develop an agenda for ECO, to help chart and navigate this ments. joint action on environmental new and unfamiliar terrain. Given COA's human ecological policies and priorities. At the first meeting in August focus, ECO ECO is a natural 1990, working groups were formed to enterprise for the college to under- ECO ECO's present membership is explore several proposals for joint ac- take. Bridging disciplines and bringing comprised of 85 persons from tion introduced at the meeting. These multiple perspectives to bear on the throughout the state and includes com- included developing recommenda- solution of complex problems are pany chief executive officers (CEOs), tions for 1) streamlining the state central features of COA's approach to state agency commissioners, heads and Department of Environmental Protec- learning. ECO ECO is a "real-world" board members of environmental or- tion (DEP)'s regulatory procedures, 2) project, in which an array of skills and ganizations, city planners, and local establishing a system for setting knowledge are employed, including civic and political leaders. ECO ECO statewide environmental priorities, 3) planning, scientific data gathering and co-chairs include Elizabeth Swain, finding ways to improve trust between analysis, dispute resolution and prob- Land Use Regulatory Commission; the business and environmental com- lem solving. Peter Cox, founder of Maine Times; - Dallas Darland Warren Cook, CEO of Sugarloaf USA; and Bill Haggett, former CEO of Bath Iron Works. Faculty Perspective: M.Phil at COA Developed by COA faculty, staff and trustees, and coordinated by Ted continued from page 5 Koffman, COA's director of govern- ment relations, summer program and ning. Scott Swann (B.A. perience of history. housing, ECO ECO is the first private '85) is working on The combination can- initiative of its kind undertaken in measuring the effects not fail to improve our Maine. Organized as a catalyst to of observers on the understanding of our stimulate new approaches to solving breeding performance place in nature, economic and environmental of the seabirds they provided we maintain problems, ECO ECO may well be a study. Juli Lerner is bemused skepticism key to helping avert the looming looking into waste toward the "truths" en- public-policy and regulatory gridlock management issues demic to academics. So that threatens to impede the state's and how to get people far our students are economic recovery and the further in- to recycle. Dina Bah- right on. troduction of ecological measures that rawy is developing are needed to protect and enhance ways to integrate Bill Drury began teach- Maine's great scenic beauty and agriculture into tradi- ing at College of the Atlan- diverse natural resources. tional curricula. tic in 1976. He graduated The sustainability and stewardship What does this have magna cum laude from of these natural assets have become a to do with human ecol- Harvard College and Bill Drury earned a doctorate in biol- growing concern of the general public ogy? Human ecology is ogy and geology from Har- and the focus of aggressive advocacy an interdisciplinary effort to bring vard University. He taught at Harvard from by an array of environmental organiza- professional attitudes to bear on our 1952 to 1976, first as an assistant professor tions and special interest groups. At concerns about complex problems of then as a lecturer on biology. In 1991 he was the same time, the state's economy, which humans are a part. Therefore, awarded the first honorary Master of which is based in great part upon the we must integrate the framework of Philosophy in Human Ecology degree plant and animal ecology with the ex- granted by COA. 14 Philosophy Library Donated continued from page 1 dations and non-profit organizations. Nason has a wealth of experience with trusteeship from serving on the boards of Vassar College, Phillips Ex- eter Academy and Carleton College, and from his membership of the governing boards of the Danforth Foundation and Edward W. Hazen Foundation. At the reception, Librarian Marcia Dworak told Dr. Nason that it is a great pleasure to receive the books, ELENA TUHY which replace many of the titles that had been lost in COA's 1983 fire. The fire destroyed the original Thorndike John Nason talks with student Vern Seguin after a reception in Dr. Nason's honor Library, and with it approximately at COA in early August. 10,000 books and all of the peri- philosophy, among them works by COA President Louis Rabineau odicals. Since the fire, the overall Plato, William James, George San- gave the Nasons matching College of Thorndike book holdings have in- tayana and Immanuel Kant. the Atlantic mugs, and presented Dr. creased to 26,500. Among these, col- Dworak read from a letter written Nason with a certificate in apprecia- lections and book funds have been to Dr. Nason from John Visvader, tion of his "outstanding and dedicated established in the names of Philip J. COA faculty member in philosophy. service and distinguished stewardship." Darlington, Thomas S. and Mary T. Visvader wrote, "To a scholar and a In his response, Nason thanked Hall, Karon Hyman, Francis Keppel philosopher, one's books are one's those gathered for their thoughtful and James H. Wakelin, Jr.. friends and advisors. I cannot think of comments. He explained that the nine With the gift of the Nason collec- something more difficult, but at the years he spent as a philosophy instruc- tion, the college acquired many books same time more magnificent, to give tor at Swarthmore College were that are out of print and therefore dif- away." He said that he is delighted probably the "happiest period" in his ficult to obtain. The collection con- that his students will have access to life, before he was "seduced into ad- tains more than 200 volumes and "the great conversations" that meant ministration." Although he had hoped includes many of the basic titles in so much to him while he was a student. to go back and revisit his books when he retired, he did not. He learned how COA had lost its COA Exhibit Donated to Maine Audubon library in a fire and about its human ecological mission through his friend Dr. Stanley Evans, a trustee of COA, and from Don Meiklejohn, public policy faculty member and cousin to Elizabeth Nason. These conversations helped him decide that College of the Atlantic would be a welcome new home for his collection. Nason said that during the tour of the library, it was difficult for him to SKIP BUYERS-BASSO leave the spot where the books had been placed. "All my old friends were sitting on those shelves," Nason said. He hopes the students "find value and insight in what these books have to say to them." The taxidermy exhibit above was created by third-year student Rick Stephenson - Elena Tuhy earlier this year and is now on display at the Maine Audubon Society head- quarters in Falmouth, Maine. In 1990, Audubon contacted COA's Natural His- tory Museum and taxidermy lab with a "wish list" of exhibits they hoped to have The Admission Office has a new prepared. Under the guidance of taxidermy faculty member Skip Buyers-Basso, Stephenson undertook this particular project as a two-term, eighteen hour per telephone number for people week independent study. Creating this exhibit gave Stephenson, who hopes to wanting admission information pursue a career in museum preparation, the opportunity to test several display about College of the Atlantic: techniques that he had not previously used. Stephenson says the purpose of the exhibit is to show that house cats can pose a serious threat to bird life. 1-800-528-0025 - Sharon Reiser 15 Second Annual COA Family Weekend Fourth-year student Rob Finn leads one of the small Student Courtney Llewellyn group discussions during and mom Judy enjoying the the Dialogue on off-campus natural history criuse. housing. role in the formation of a More than 130 parents, parents committee at COA, grandparents, siblings and presented ways in which friends travelled from parents can take an active part throughout the United in the college. The group dis- States and as far away as cussed their possible role in ad- California to visit fifty-five mission recruitment, the students during College of importance of identifying stu- the Atlantic's Second An- dent needs and the need to nual Family Weekend, held seek financial support for October 12-14. First-year student Leah Zuckerman, parent Victoria specific projects. Through a variety of Toensing and first-year student Amy Toensing relaxing on All parents, guardians and events - including a the natural history cruise during Family Weekend. grandparents are invited and vegetarian barbecue, an urged to join the Parents As- alumni career panel, a dialogue on off- their students. sociation. If you are interested, please campus student housing, attending On Sunday afternoon, thirty contact Cynthia Borden-Chisholm, classes and meeting with faculty mem- parents met at the first Parents' As- special events coordinator and alumni bers - family members learned more sociation Meeting. Parent Trustee coordinator, for more information at about COA while spending time with Deicy Stockwell, who has played a key (207) 288-5015. - Cynthia Borden-Chisholm 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