Michael Broyer welcomes commence- ment speaker, Wendell Berry. Photo by Darrold Dorr. Petrillo's speech was followed by the awarding of honorary degrees to two COA NEWS long-time trustees, Mrs. Frederic E. Camp (Alida) and Donald B. Straus. "She knows how to celebrate life," said fellow trustee Father James Gower in eulogizing Alida Camp. After introduc- JUNE 1989 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC BAR HARBOR, MAINE ing Straus, Trustee Cathy Ramsdell '78 read a poem she had written, whose Osker said that while studying penguins closing lines brought down the house: COA CELEBRATES during her internship she had observed "Roses are red. Violets are blue.! We the raucous and joyful sounds they are delighted to make again a bachelor SEVENTEENTH make when they are all together. "You of you!" COMMENCEMENT will be hearing these same ecstatic Following a choral performance by calllings from the seniors today," she the COA chorus directed by visiting declared. music instructor Henry Elliott, commen- As though on cue, morning fog lifted Senior speaker Dina Petrillo, con- cement speaker Wendell Berry, author, and bright sunshine provided a perfect fessing that this was her first attempt at farmer and ecologist spoke earnestly of backdrop for COA's 17th commence- public speaking, reminisced about her the problems and opportunities lying ment on Saturday, June 3. Over 500 first visit to COA. "What I was im- ahead for this generation. "We have parents, relatives and friends gathered pressed by at the time was the spirit of hardly begun to grasp the gravity of the under a huge green-striped tent to wit- the place," she said. "It was an exception- mess we are in," he told the audience. ness the graduation ceremony during ally harsh winter and yet there was so "We have become a nation of fantasists. which 34 seniors received a bachelor of much warmth and intensity." Her voice We believe, apparently, in the infinite arts in human ecology, awarded by Presi- full of emotion, she urged her availability of finite resources." The dent Louis Rabineau and Chairman of classmates to respect the differences in question to be addressed, he continued, the Board of Trustees Edward McC. peoples' ideas and practice, to celebrate is not how to care for the planet, but Blair. creativity and diversity in the way they "how to care for each of the planet's mil- COA graduations are traditionally handle and explore issues. "It is through lions of small pieces and parcels of warm, poignant and personal. This one this respect," she said, "that this human land Our understandable wish to was no exception. In welcoming the ecological revolution we are participat- preserve the planet must somehow be graduation guests, senior Megan Mc- ing in will be relevant and effective." reduced to the scale of our com- 1 - Continued on page 2. Continued from page 1 petence," he said. In closing he advised tended to three faculty members who the interconnections between humans the graduates: "Make a home. Help to will be leaving COA to begin new posi- and their environment. The ceremony make a community. Be loyal to what you tions elsewhere. In acknowledging closed with a song composed by graduat- have made Find work, if you can, that education instructor Peter Corcoran, ing senior Jim Cole, accompanying him- does no'damage. Enjoy your work. math and oceanography instructor Carl self on guitar. Work well." Ketchum, and permaculture instructor Innovative and traditional, casual These final words were echoed in John Navazio for their contributions to and formal, happy and sad, full of the ex- the Graduation Pledge of Environmen- COA, Dean of Faculty Bill Carpenter citement and passion and purpose that tal and Social Responsibility presented said, "I can't think of a better way to all beginnings generate, this commence- by seniors Barbara Meyers and Kirsten take human ecology out into the world ment could perhaps best by summed up Triplett. The pledge reads: I pledge to than through education, numbers, and by Dina Petrillo's closing words: "We thoroughly investigate and take into ac- vegetables." are here today to celebrate the diversity count the social and environmental con- Then President Rabineau and Chair- of ideas and approach of all those sequences of any job opportunity I man Edward Mc.C. Blair conferred the present and remembered, and to affirm consider." bachelor of arts in human ecology on 34 our belief that the struggle is Good-byes and farewell were ex- graduates whose studies had focused on worthwhile." Top row: Chairman of the Board Ed- ward McC. Blair and President Louis Rabineau; Mrs. Alida Camp; Ben Verbeck. Middle row: Jessie Greenbaum and Katrina Hodgkins; Donald B. Straus; Dina Petrillo. Bottom row: Jim Cole serenades the graduates. Photos by Jason Alderman, Darrold Dorr, and Carolyn Dow. 2 Kernan to the Governors' Task Force, NEW TRUSTEES Northern Forest Lands Study, a $250,000 federally sponsored study to ELECTED determine how to maintain the integrity of the northern woods of New England and New York while providing for con- Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Ed- tinued economic growth in the area. ward McC. Blair has announced the elec- Morfit graduated from Harvard tion of three new members to the Board: University with a B.A. Cum Laude in J. Mason Morfit and Mr. and Mrs. John English in 1963. He received an M.B.A. F. Stockwell. from Columbia University Graduate Morfit is currently the Executive School of Business in 1971 with a dual Director of the Maine Chapter of the Na- concentration in Finance and Interna- ture Conservancy and a vice president of tional Business. the national organization. Under his The Stockwells, whose daughter Lilea leadership the Maine Chapter was recog- is currently a senior at College of the At- nized by the national Nature Conservan- lantic, are residents of Boxford, Mass., cy as "Outstanding State Program" in and have a summer home in Vinalhaven. 1988 and received the Down East Chairman of the Board Edward magazine Environmental Award for McC. Blair noted that the Board has es- 1989. J. Mason Morfit tablished a new category of annual trus- For over a decade Morfit has been teeship to be awarded each year to committed to land conservation in parents of current students or graduates, America. As Vice President and Direc- "as a way to recognize and involve more tor of Development for the national Na- of the diverse range of friends who com- ture Conservancy from 1980-85, he was prise the College's constituency." successful in raising total cash contribu- A 1957 graduate of Yale University, tions from less than $18 million in 1979 Mr. Stockwell is currently employed to over $53 million in 1984. Between with A.G. Edwards & Sons, an invest- 1976 and 1977 he was the Eastern ment firm in Portsmouth, NH. Mrs. Regional Director of a special Bicenten- Stockwell attended L"Ecole des Beaux nial program of the Conservancy to ac- Arts in Paris and graduated from Mills quire one outstanding natural area in College in California in 1956. She works each of the fifty states. His major at the Brookwood School in achievement during that period was Manchester, N.H. as the head of Crea- negotiating the purchase of a 1,500 acre tive Arts. The Stockwells are active mem- Maine island and raising $1.2 million to bers of the Massachusetts Audubon pay for it. Society and the Newburyport, Mas- He is currently one of three delegates sachusetts Maritime Society. appointed by Maine Governor John Mc- John and Deicy Stockwell Summer Lecture Series: *Senator William Cohen, U.S. Senator Summer Calendar from Maine, Wednesday, August 16, Dr. John Anderson, Professor of Zool- 8:30 pm. ogy, COA. "Endangered Species." Wed- Dr. Stephen Kress, Director, The Puffin "Gertrude Jekyll: A Vision of Garden nesday, July 12, 7:30 pm Project. "Restoring Seabird Colonies: and Wood" 101 reproductions of Meg Scheid, Naturalist, Acadia National Lessons from Puffins, Petrels and photographs featuring English gardens Park. "Beavers." Wednesday, July 19, Terns." Wednesday, August 16, 7:30 pm. and landscapes designed by one of 7:30 pm. Dianne Kopek, Director, The Abbe England's foremost garden designers, Capt. Bob Bowman, Owner, Maine Museum. "The Archaelogy and Native Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932). Kaelber Whalewatch. "Whales and Seabirds." American Prehistory of Maine." Wed- Hall, Community Lounge. May 21 - Wednesday, August 2, 7:30 pm. nesday, August 23, 7:30 pm. August 1, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. *Mr. Gilbert Grosvenor, President of Dr. Don McCrimmon, Associate Direc- Symposium: "Gertrude Jekyll and the National Geographic Society. tor, MDI Biological Laboratory. Beatrix Farrand: An American Thursday, August 3, 8:30 pm. Legacy. July 20, 10-3 p.m. "Strange Attractors: Chaos in the *Dr. John Wilmerding, Professor of Auditorium. Biological Sciences." Wednesday, American Art, Princeton University. August 30, 7:30 pm. Maine Union of Visual Artists Outdoor Wednesday, August 9, 8:30 pm. Sale North Green. Saturday, August 5. Jackson Gillman, Story Teller and Com- *Part of the Distinguished Lecture For information contact Will Zell, (207) edian. "Man Who Planted Hope." Series 1989, sponsored by the 667-3674. Thursday, July 27, 7:30 pm. Champlain Society. 3 the Conovers to teach an outdoor leader- GRADUATES ship course at COA. Garrett comments, "Outdoor Leader- TEACH OUTDOOR ship is the perfect Human Ecology course because it integrates almost every- LEADERSHIP thing." Areas he mentioned include: group dynamics and communication skills, which deal with the interpersonal Alexandra Brown '77 and Garrett Con- elements of leadership; natural history; over '78 met on a hiking trail in 1975, an and logic and mathematics, which indication of their future together. facilitate planning and logistics. Since 1979, they have spent many Alexandra sees students, and herself, months of each year hiking forest trails, taking the confidence and knowledge paddling canoes, and snowshoeing as they gain from the class and using them part of the wilderness guiding they do in new situations. "It is a good balance for their Dover-Foxcroft-based business, for students to have not only cerebral North Woods Ways. confidence and skills, but emotional and Garrett was in his first year at Univer- physical confidence and skills, too." sity of Montana at Missoula and Mutual excitement is key to their en- Alexandra was in her second year at joyment of teaching. Says Garrett, "We COA when they met. After they cor- get recharged by the surprising level of responded for two years, he transferred demand on [the students'] part. They al- to COA, where the College's interdis- ways go further, quicker than we think ciplinary approach allowed them to in- they will." tegrate their interests. For Garrett, this Alexandra and Garrett have strong meant combining natural history, writ- ties to the North Woods Arts Center, ing, and illustration for his senior which they helped found in 1983. The project, a booklet entitled "The Bitter- Center, a non-profit school, teaches a root Mountains of Montana." variety of traditional skills of the circum- Alexandra's interests in traditional polar North, including wood canvas crafts and oral history were seen in her canoe construction, paddle making, and project, "Four Arts of the North Woods knowledge of the native culture from of Maine." which the skills originated. Alexandra Three years ago, COA staff members sees the Center as a way of gathering Liz Lavery makes kindling for a Ted Koffman and Peter Corcoan, who "the best of all the traditions of rainy day campfire. hoped to strengthen the outdoor humanity, and passing them on to other program with Title III support from the people." Photo by Alexandra Conover. U.S. Department of Education, asked -Elena Tuhy COA TEAM SELECTS PARK SITES AS NATIONAL NATURAL LANDMARKS Tammis Coffin '86 is chief investigator prepared to address threats to the site, for a project in Acadia National Park to such as the effects of publicity. select unique sites for nomination as Na- Nominated sites must meet five tional Natural Landmarks. "Her training criteria: illustrative character (the site in earth science," says Hank Tyler of the must be a high quality example of the fea- Maine State Critical Areas Program, "closely matches the thrust of the Nation- tured landmark); natural condition (the al Natural Landmark Program." site must be minimally effected by On Tammis's recommendation, the human intervention); diversity of fea- Critical Areas Program, which had been tures within the landmark; rarity of the contracted by the National Park Service, features (including on site wildlife which solicited the assistance of College of the are considered threatened or en- Atlantic, thus enabling her to have COA dangered on the state and national students and graduates working with her. levels); and value for science and educa- tion. "I prefer the team approach to doing re- search," says Tammis. Linda Gregory "So many scientists have come here to '88 and Michael Broyer '89 were do field work over the past 100-150 selected to assist Tammis because of years, explains Tammis. "Park head- their solid background in geology, writ- quarters has a library filled with reports ing, and botany, as well as their ability to from studies ranging from insects to fire work independently, according to Tyler. ecology." Volunteering on the project is another Once nomination proposals for COA student, Wendy Kearney. twelve sites are completed, they will be submitted to the Director of the Nation- In nomination proposals, specific sites are evaluated in comparison to al Park Service. If approved, the similar sites within the region, based on Secretary of the Interior will sign the Tammis Coffin measures the DBH detailed descriptions of geological fea- final landmark papers for each site chosen, thus establishing, in Tammis's (diameter at breast height) of a tree tures, vegetation, land status, and other words, "super protection" for those sites. while Wendy Kearney records the aspects. Management guidelines are - Elena Tuhy results. Photo by Elena Tuhy 4 COA IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC Even now, after two months back in the States, it's difficult for me to think about the New Zealand Seminar. Not because our ten weeks in the South Pacific were in any way unpleasant, but because the experience was so powerful, so positive and inspirational, I'm afraid to let myself fully relive it, lest I should suddenly sell all my material possessions and hop the next flight for Auckland. It was roughly a year ago that a hand- ful of us went to Academic Affairs Com- mittee with a proposal for a term's travel and study in New Zealand, Fiji, and Australia. The proposal represented a month of creative effort on the part of Peter Corcoran, Chris Kenoyer, and seven or eight students. For one reason First moments in Auckland! (from top left) John Avila, Jim Cole, Peter Corcoran, or another, many of the students in the Chris Kenoyer, Kevin Kirby, Suzie Newborn, Stephanie Throll, Ben Goldberg, Ned original group never made it to the Ormsby, Bridget Mullen, Jeremy Norton, Sally Clinton. South Pacific, a fact which made the nine students who did go feel all the deer, possums, minahs, and other intro- "and our own way of life. They are ours, more fortunate. Many times during our duced species. We visited numerous and we wish to keep them. We have trip, we thought of all the individuals schools, examining new approaches to learned much from Europe and back in Bar Harbor who had made our peace education, bi-lingual instruction, America. Now it is time that you learn travels possible. In a very real sense, we and multi-graded classrooms. We met from us." felt that we were carrying all of COA -- with Maori leaders who impressed us It was with a sense of empowerment the white pines, the pebble beach, the with the strength of their people's his- and a renewed commitment to change spirit of self-governance and the dedica- tory in New Zealand, and also the that we returned to the State. We were tion to Human Ecology -- throughout strength of their future. sad to leave the South Pacific, but there these remote Pacific islands with their For me (and I think for many of us), will be plenty of time for returning. coconut palms and kauri trees, their vol- this was the most powerful part of the Now we must set ourselves to the task of canic peaks, their bureaucrats and ac- Seminar -- listening to the indigenous bridging the gap -- bringing the spirit of tivists. peoples of Fiji, New Zealand, and openness and caring that we found on With the invaluable aid of Suzi New- Australia as they spoke out, with great the other side of the world into our daily born (a COA graduate now living in conviction and eloquence, for the preser- lives in the U.S. and at COA Auckland) and trustee Maureen vation of their traditional cultures. "We - Kevin Kirby Rothschild, we were able to make con- have our own language," they told us, tacts with historians, naturalists, govern- ment officials, and members of the peace movement. We also immersed ourselves in the native ecosystems of mountains, oceans, and bush on several backpacking trips under the leadership of Jim Cole and Chris Kenoyer. Our intention was to focus on three major areas of study: natural history, education, and public policy. We did all this, and more. We camped in paddocks and in national parks, witnessing first- hand the destruction done by sheep, Bridget Mullen and Jeremy Norton share Goldberg ideas with pint-sized "Kiwis" at the two - room Opaki School in the agricultural region north of Wellington, New Zealand. Don Cass recently gave a talk to the tended several conferences during FACULTY/STAFF Maine Organic Farmers on acid rain, Spring break: The New England En- and one to the Frenchman's Bay Conser- vironmental Conference in Medford, NEWSNOTES vancy entitled, "The State of the Bay." MA; the Maine Environmental Educa- Tim Cole is returning to the Mount tion Conference at the University of Bev Agler continues to work with the Desert Rock research station ("the Maine; and a workshop on training North Atlantic Finback Whale Rock") this year for a third time as staff museum docents in Brunswick, ME. Catalogue project and reports that one- scientist. Paula Olson is the newest addition third of the submitted work has been Craig Greene, while on sabbatical to the Allied Whale crew. She is a 1984 completed. The results of her team's this term, has been busy on several dif- honors graduate of University of Maine work is scheduled to be published later ferent projects. He has visited several and is in charge of the processing of the this year. colleges in the western U.S. on a Adopt-A-Whale program and the Lydia Barnes is leaving COA/Allied brainstorming project with other faculty production of the newsletter, Finback Whale for a position as Head Naturalist and staff on the development of better News. for the OKEANOS Research Founda- curriculum programs and exchanges. Lou Rabineau has recently received tion in Hampton Bays, Long Island, NY. He is also working on a detailed study an honorary degree from the College of After this summer she will head out to of the taxonomic treatment of the Boca Raton, Florida. the great western territories of Alaska reedgrasses, genus Calamagrostis for a Kim Robertson is the new director and Hawaii. new Manual of Grasses of North of the Rock project this year and she Judy Beard gave a talk at the America which will be published in 1992. will be working on the photo-identifica- Huntsman Marine Studies Center as Charlie Hesse served as a facilitator tion of finbacks this summer at "the part of the Marine Laboratories for a workshop on Fundraising and Rock." Until then she is working on the Workshop, held April 9-11. The focus of Development at Fort Western in Augus- North Atlantic Finback Whale Catalog. the workshop was to learn about each ta, ME on Saturday, May 6. The J. Clark Stivers has received a lab or research site and discuss common workshop was sponsored by the Maine promotion to Assistant Director of problems, areas of common interest, League of Historical Societies and Buildings and Grounds at COA. and ways of encouraging collaboration Museums. Greg Stone has received a SeaGrant and communications. Judy and John Steve Katona is at the New England Fellowship for studies in Washington, Anderson discussed COA and the re- Aquarium this term and has been busy D.C. He has also written and published search being done by Allied Whale with coordinating the Right & Humpback an article: "The Significant Aggregations people from the Darling Center, the Whale recovery team meetings as well of the Endangered Right Whale, University of Maine, the Department of as publishing an article with Judy Beard Eubaluena glacialis, on the Continental Marine Resources, MDI Biological and Phil Girton (87), "Killer Whales (Or- Shelf of Nova Scotia" with Scott Kraus, Laboratory, and the Isle of Shoals. cinus orca) from the Bay of Fundy to the J.Prescott, and K. Hazard in the Bob Bowman has just returned from Equator, including the Gulf of Mexico." Canadian Field-Naturalist. He has also a trip to the Dominican Republic to Etta Mooser spoke at the April 8 been to New Zealand on behalf of the study the breeding biology of COA alumni meeting held in Portland. New Zealand Department of Conserva- Humpback Whales. His work there was Her talk was entitled "Environment & tion to help them plan a research and done in cooperation with the Center for the Economy." She also attended the monitoring program for the Hector's Coastal Studies, Provincetown, MA. April meeting of Ecologues in New dolphin and the running of the Marine Skip Buyers-Basso has been York, a group which is devoted to the Mammal Sanctuary on Banks Peninsula. appointed Research Associate of the discussion of theoretical issues sur- -Keith Goodrich Atlantic Reference Center of the rounding environmental crisis. Huntsman Marine Science Center in Anne Napier is a candidate for the Saint Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada American Nursing Association Board of and is working on a Deep Sea Exhibit Directors. She has recently published a for them. He also has been appointed brochure detailing her services and to the Hancock County Planning Com- qualifications in the Maine nursing com- mission. munity. Blair Dining Hall is Bill Carpenter has been an active John Navazio has received a re- New Gathering Place member of several writing conferences search assistantship from the University and seminars over the last two months. of Wisconsin at Madison to work on his masters degree in the plant breeding With the completion and dedication of In April he spoke to the Maine Teacher's Association. Recently he also and plant genetics program. His studies the Edward McC. Blair Dining Hall in presented a talk at the Beatrice Paoluc- will be in the physiological disorder of the new Kaelber Hall, a special gather- ing place has developed. A new kitchen ci Symposium in Human Ecology at cucumbers. He and Terri and their assistant, Marla Dority, who brings gour- Michigan State University entitled, daughter Emilia Jane Navazio (born met cooking skills; a variety of dishes "House Logic: Myth and Art in Human March 6 at home) will leave right after each day; and a pleasant setting, all have Ecology." Bill also has work being graduation in June. served to attract students and faculty published in two Maine literature an- Fid Norton has been teaching a new alike. The large restaurant style booths thologies and his book RAIN is entering course, Practicum: Outreach II, this make it convenient for people to sit and its third printing. term as an advanced course in designing talk with friends or confer with faculty interpretive programs. He also has at- and staff. The large windows allow a 6 stood for the first time on an exposed WATSON FELLOW ridge covered with wind-sculpted con- ifers surrounding small patches of al- WILL STUDY pine flowers," he recalls. In the years MOUNTAINS that followed, hiking and camping in the mountains of New England became the central focus of his spare time. As he be- Graduating senior Michael Broyer has came more aware of recreational im- been awarded a Thomas J. Watson 1989- pacts, he decided to become involved in 90 Fellowship for a year abroad to study working to minimize these problems. As interactions between humans and moun- a backcountry volunteer for the Ap- tain environments in five of the world's palachian Trail and as a research assis- most significant mountain areas in tant with the Appalachian Mountain Japan, New Zealand, central east Club, Broyer learned to appreciate the Africa, Nepal and Switzerland. Intend- complexity of the relationships between ing to live among the mountain people humans and mountains. This June he in these countries, Broyer's goal is to will graduate from College of the Atlan- determine what types of ecological im- tic in Bar Harbor, Maine with a pacts occur from human activities and Bachelor of Arts in Human Ecology. recreation and what is being done (or "My Watson Fellowship represents a not done) about developing strategies logical progression in my efforts to for wise and sustainable use of moun- apply the practical applications of tains. human ecology to the complex issues "Unfortunately our understanding of facing mountainous lands," he says. "It the unique ecology of mountains has not gives me a real sense of recognition for kept pace with the rate of human ac- a lot of hard work." tivities and their associated ecological The Watson Fellowship is a national disturbances," says Broyer. "Through re- competition that supports independent search and interactions with the people study and travel abroad for recent col- in these five mountain environments, I lege graduates. Single fellows receive hope to discover the patterns of human stipends of $13,000, while fellows accom- usage and the ecological and human panied by a dependent receive $18,000. problems currently facing these areas." The Foundation views the opportunity For Broyer, who is a native of New for such travel and reflection as a break Hampshire and has rarely travelled out- from formal schooling during which the side of New England, the Watson Fel- Fellows may explore a deep interest, lowship presents an opportunity that test their aspirations and abilities, and will "affect the rest of my life." Hoping to go to graduate school and become a Watson Fellow Michael Broyer view their lives and American society with a new perspective. mountain scientist, he expects to gain an international perspective concerning and Kilimanjaro, central east Africa; the mountain ecology and to enhance his Himalayas in Nepal; and the Eiger and skills as a mountaineer. "Climbing the the Matterhorn, Switzerland. mountains will be a milestone in itself," Broyer's love affair with mountains he says. The mountains he will be climb- began during a hike in the White Moun- ing are: Mt. Fuji, Japan; Mt. Cook and tains in seventh grade. "I still remember Mt. Aspiring, New Zealand; Mt. Kenya the feeling of exhilaration I had when I stunning view of Frenchman's Bay and provide a brighter and more cheerful place to study or to sit than the old "Take-A-Break" located in the Turrets building. As the weather gets warmer, students are drawn to the terraces out- side, which are just a short walk from the new dining facilities. Edward McC. Blair, in whose honor the dining hall is named, along with his wife Elizabeth, is the present chairman of the COA Board of Trustees. He first became interested in COA through the Allied Whale "Rock" program. In 1985 he joined the COA Board of Trustees and in 1986 he was elected chairman. -Keith Goodrich Erica Desmond and Sumi Yuneji meet for lunch in the new Blair Dining Hall. 7 A WHALE OF A PROJECT Every day since the beginning of January, Dawn Meisenheimer '89 has been likely to be found in the basement of the Arts and Science Building prepar- ing the complete skeleton of a 45-foot Minke whale. The whale skeleton that Dawn is as- sembling had been buried for almost three years to help clean the bones. This winter she has continued the meticulous cleaning process by boiling the bones in borax and water, scraping off the tissue, washing each bone in a treatment of hydrogen peroxide to make it white and coat it with epoxy resin to seal and protect it from the effects of Dawn Meisenheimer prepares a new whale skeleton for the Whales-on-Wheels handling and time. She then built a program. metal frame to support the vertebral column and wooden stands for the By coincidence both whales were caught ing Greg Stone's summer diving classes; frame and the skull similar to those al- by lobsterman Dick Merryman of South completing an exhibit for the Natural ready used by the museum program. Harpswell Neck, Maine who found History Museum; and now, for her Taking the design one step farther, she them entangled in the lines of his lobster senior project, preparing the Minke added a frame to hold and support the traps. Meant to replace the old smaller whale skeleton. ribs in place and then designed wooden skeleton used as a travelling outreach ex- After graduating in June, Dawn will flippers to display the whale's flipper hibit, the new skeleton will go on the be joining the Darling Center Marine bones. road only when a larger van can be ac- Lab in Walpole, Maine as a member of A far more complete skeleton than quired for transportation. Robert Steneck's diving research team, the former 20-foot whale backbone used Since matriculating in the fall of and is considering going on to graduate for Whales-on-Wheels, this exhibit will 1986, Dawn has built an impressive school in Marine research. include the skull, ribs, lower jaws, and record of accomplishments: completion -Keith Goodrich flippers of this huge, 45-foot cetacean. of a Marine Lab in The Turrets; assist- COA NEWS NON-PROFIT ORGANIZ. 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