Trustee Don Straus walks to class with students Teal Akeret '89 (left), Mike Youdelman '89, and Elena Tuhy '90. "I have to understand other people's position and not be too hardcore about my own," she says. Ondine COA NEWS Owens says she is learning how deci- sions affect the world in general as well as how to be a better decision- maker herself. Several administrators, looking for ways to improve organiza- SPRING 1988 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC BAR HARBOR. MAINE tional techniques, have sat in on a few classes, one of them led by Straus's that our highly technological society is son David, a founder of Interaction Course in Decision creating. Environmentalists can no Associates in Cambridge, San Fran- longer be narrowly focused. They need cisco and Detroit, and co-author of Making Impacts to look at the whole picture." How to Make Meetings Work. According to Borden, seeing the "This is like a seedbed," says College whole picture is one of Straus's Borden. "We are sowing seeds of some greatest qualities. "Don is a tremen- very important ideas ranging from dous resource," he says. "Having spent face-to-face meetings to community his whole professional life in the study and regional planning, to international and practice of dispute resolution, he cooperation. We are also studying Dispute resolution has been COA trus- is offering practical techniques for state-of-the-art communication and tee Don Straus's business for 40 years. problem solving and peacemaking. By computer systems that can facilitate This winter he is sharing his knowl- learning how to solve problems problem solving." edge of this fast growing field in a through negotiation and collaboration Through selected class projects, course he is team-teaching with psy- he sees the possibility of improving the students are having the opportunity to chology professor Rich Borden. Says quality of decision making at every work with the surrounding communi- Straus, "The course comes out of my level." ty. Three students are working with concern for decision making and prob- At midterm the course in decision Acadia National Park, helping with lem solving as it can apply to College making is having an impact on stu- questionnaires completed by past sum- of the Atlantic. My image of what the dents and administrators alike. An ad- mer visitors and helping to analyze College can be doing in the 1990's vocate of animal rights, Teal Akeret responses. One student is focusing on which would be fundamental to hu- feels the course has helped her in deal- women's issues, particularly as they man ecology is to acquire the tools to ing with controversial issues and bring- relate to battered women in the area. solve the kinds of complex problems ing together opposing points of view. "The course is experimental," says Continued on page 2 1 Decision Making-Cont. from page 1 Straus. The students, whom he finds "interested and eager," are helping to mold the course. "For years Rich and I have been talking about teaching a course like this," he explains. "It is a way to combine our interests in the psychology of group processes and the tools to facilitate complex problem solving. It is really a course in applied human ecology." 0000000000 A trustee of COA since its beginn- ings, Straus is a former president of the American Arbitration Association and chairman of the board of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. He has also been a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace and the Institute for Advanced Stud- ies. As a COA trustee he has chaired two presidential search committees, and is currently a member of the Ex- ecutive Committee and the Academic Eerin Ockerse Policy Committee of the Board of Trustees. He and his wife, Elizabeth, live in Manhattan but are spending in- creasingly long periods of time on Mt. Tim and Deb Hartt enjoy a rare moment together, juggling classes, work Desert Island. The course in decision and study as a married couple. making is the third course he has (already having attended three other Audio/Visual Coordinator at the Col- taught at COA. colleges). Deb says that the initial lege and works various part-time jobs Says COA president Louis deciding factor to come to COA was in town. "Now that I'm here, I'm hav- Rabineau, "College of the Atlantic is that her application was accepted. ing an excellent time. It's a heavy unique in its tradition of inviting However, she also feels that the college work load, but it is so much fun that trustees to share their resources as was very receptive to her needs as an the hardest thing to fit in is sleep!" faculty associates." "older" first-year student. "There were Tim says. Other trustees who serve as faculty a lot of transfer and older students. It Deb is taking Children's Literature, associates are Dr. Elizabeth S. Russell, (COA) wasn't a stereotypical Personality and Social Development, a senior staff Scientist Emeritus at The 'Freshman', 'Sophomore', etc. school," and Chemistry. She is also frequently Jackson Laboratory, who teaches a she explains. seen walking to and from school with course in global ecology, and Dr. While Deb was here at COA, she Sara, their dog. Deb notes that the Leonard Silk, an economist and col- kept in touch with Tim, who had also nicknames she and Tim have for each umnist for The New York Times. wanted to go to college. Unsure, other are Captain Antsy and Deborah because of his age, Tim was hesitant; Doddler. She explains, "He's always on but Deb told him that there were the go I like to take my time." She many "older" first-year students, and surmises that is what makes them com- A Juggling Act that one didn't have to be a specific patible. "But," she says, "it doesn't age to attend COA. Says Tim, "I have make a difference if you're married. a lot of hands-on skills, but I was Being a couple is a juggling act." limited as far as employment goes. Deb -Gina Platt Deb and Tim Hartt are students at and I got tired of the 6-hour commute COA, who also happen to be married; to be together. So I knew I was going but they did not meet here, as one to be moving here to Bar Harbor. I might expect. Yet, each came to Col- also knew my skills would be limiting lege of the Atlantic for many of the here as well, as far as job opportuni- same reasons. ties. So I decided to try going back to COA NEWS is published three Deb, 25, had been a cocktail school." times a year. It is circulated to waitress in Stowe, Vermont. Tim, 29, In August of '87, they were married Alumni, Parents, Faculty, Trus- was a "regular," and the Production on a hillside at Deb's home in Ver- tees, and other Friends. Manager at Stowe Canoe Company. mont. In September of the same year, Growing tired of the tedious aspects of Tim started at COA as a Freshman. her job, Deb determined to go back to Since they moved into their house Editor: Carolyn Dow school. One day she sought out the in Bar Harbor, the Hartts have been Assistants: Keith Goodrich, College Handbook, and started search- constantly busy. Tim is taking three Tim Hartt, Becky Keefe, ing under the A's. She found COA classes and doing an independent Lisa Norton, Ned Ormsby, under "Atlantic," visited in March of study in woodworking. In addition to Gina Platt, Mark Tully. '86, and came to school in September his four courses, he is the 2 lege of the Atlantic over the next few President for Development and Public months," she said. Affairs. "First, matching gifts from the Champlain Society Newlin provided some historical business sector are on the rise. The background, noting that, "It was the number of donors to COA who are Is Launched Society's namesake, the French explorer taking advantage of the matching gifts Captain Samuel de Champlain, who nam- programs offered by their employers is ed our Island L'Isle des Monts-desert during steadily growing, doubling, or even a voyage in 1604." tripling, the impact of the individual's Plans for The Champlain Society of "Champlain, like the College, was en- gift to the College. Another factor is College of the Atlantic were unveiled by gaged in the voyage of discovery," Newlin that the number of donors to the the Development Committee of the said, "when he fetched up hard on a ledge Fund has increased by 38% this aca- Board of Trustees at its January 9 meet- off Otter Cliffs. He fixed his little square- demic year. Alumni represent a size- ing. Following the meeting, Chairman of rigged ketch at Otter Cove and continued able part of this." the Board Edward McC. Blair announced on. Champlain is symbolic of, and an in- "I see the Annual Fund as the that Trustees Phyllis A. Thompson and spiration to, this College in its springboard for the long term well be- William V.P. Newlin had been chosen to perseverance in the discovery of exciting ing of the College," adds Hesse. "Each head the Society as founding co-chairs. new opportunities for learning." year, by achieving the Annual Fund Thompson explained that, "The goal, COA is able to meet its operat- Champlain Society has been created to ing costs for the immediate year and give appropriate recognition to those to move forward with strength into special friends who contribute $1,000 or Gifts Needed Now the next." more each year to the College. The So- Gifts to the Annual Fund help the ciety will offer a variety of social, cultural, For Annual Fund college to maintain its high educational and intellectual events to those donors." standards. The Fund in particular Newlin stated, "Over the last three helps provide for faculty and staff sala- years, about 80 people have made gifts to ries, student financial aid, and such the College at that level which qualifies "Exactly four months remain for us to basic operating costs as library and them for charter membership. We expect raise $457,000 in unrestricted gifts and other educational services, including that the growing recognition of the Col- pledges, if we are to reach our budget- the outstanding Natural History lege's importance and the appeal of the ed goal of $759,000 by June 30, 1988," Museum and Outreach programs. events we have planned will attract even reported Charles Tyson, Chairman of To support COA and its programs, more people to join the Society in 1988." the Development Committee of the gifts should be directed to the De- "Three activities," Newlin continued, Board of Trustees, as the News went velopment Office, College of the "have already been planned. The annual to press at the end of February. Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME 04609. For meeting of the Society will be a candle- "The 1987-88 Annual Fund is be- information, telephone (207) 288-5015, light dinner in late August, the historic hind last year's total for the same Ext. 268. first event to be held in the new Kaelber period by approximately $50,000," Hall." Tyson stated. "Although April, May "We are also scheduling a whale watch- and June have proven, in past years, ing trip in August," Thompson added, to be strong months for contributions COBBLESTONES! "and a series of activities on campus dur- to the Fund, we must call upon every- ing Columbus Day weekend in October. one who has given in the past to not The weekend events are planned to coin- only renew their support this year, but cide with the formal dedication of Kaelber also to increase the amount of their Watch for the April issue of Yankee Hall and the Thorndike Library. Invita- gift as much as possible." magazine featuring COA graduate tions and information about membership Two very encouraging developments Tammis Coffin and her cobblestone will be sent to all current donors to Col- were described by Charles Hesse, Vice project. The Champlain Society logo evokes the image of the awe-inspiring mountains of Mount Desert Island as seen by Samuel de Champlain, the undaunted French explorer who first saw them 393 years ago. THE CHAMPLAIN SOCIETY 3 December 29, 1987. lard, past president of the Council of Walter Litten presented his paper Post Secondary Accreditation and Faculty/Staff on the benefits of a strain of fungi former Massachusetts Chancellor of (Ericoid Mycorrhizae Isolates) to the Higher Education. Along with Univer- Newsnotes growth of Lowbush Blueberry Tissue at sity of Maine president Dale Lick, Lou the Annual Meeting of the Northwest was a panel member at the fall meet- Region of the American Society for ing of the Maine Higher Education Bob Bowman has written the music Horticultural Science. This paper was Council in Augusta. In February, he for a National Geographic Society film presented in conjunction with John was invited by Governer McKernan to on Maine author and storyteller Ash- Smagula, Professor of Plant Science at attend a luncheon at the Blaine ley Bryan, which will be released May the University of Maine. The COA House, the governor's home, along 15 on WTBS-Cable TV at 10 p.m. News misprinted Walter's last update with other members of the Maine In- Bowman will also be on the lecture by stating that the fungi was harmful dependent College Association. circuit. Last month he spoke to 3,000 to the plants; it is not and the News Joan Sanchez is working on a students in the state of Maine. Greg apologizes for the mistake. video portfolio of her choreography for Stone, Harriet Corbett, Beverly Ann Napier was one of 15 nurses grants, fellowships, and as an outreach Agler, Bob Bowman, and Steve invited to represent the U.S. in a two- tool to share with other choreog- Katona, the Allied Whale team, will week visit to Norway, Sweden, and raphers in rural areas. In April and be traveling to the Dominican Repub- Czechoslovakia. The visit will include June she will be studying dance in lic in February and March. They are presentations and teaching. She was Philadelphia. Joan serves on the MDI involved in a joint project with the also invited to speak at the Annual YMCA Board of Directors and teaches Provincetown Center for Coastal National Institute and Conference of Survey of Dance. Studies and Dominican scientists to the American Group Psychotherapy John Visvader has published a study Western North Atlantic Hump- Association in New York City, Feb. translation of four Chinese poems by back whales on their wintering 7-13. She serves on the Governor's Wang Wei in the Sun Magazine and grounds. In December the Allied Mental Health Advisory Council and an article entitled "Human Ecology at Whale staff went to the Seventh Bien- the State Board of Nursing and has the Cross Roads" in the book Prospec- nial Conference on the Biology of Ma- been trained as a Critical Incident ting Human Ecology. He has been in- rine Mammals hosted by the Society Stress Debriefer. vited to present a paper on the Gaia for Marine Mammalogy in Miami, John Navazio and Terry Matson Hypothesis at the Chapman Confer- Florida. Steve Katona and Judy were married in Milford, Mich., on ence of the American Geophysical Beard gave a poster presentation to December 22. Union in San Diego, March 1988. over 700 researchers from across the Lou Rabineau is completing an globe. Greg Stone presented a talk at oral history on Dr. Richard M. Mil- -Keith Goodrich UMO in January on his research of Antarctic Whales. Steve Katona has been named to the National Recovery Team for Humpback Whales and the National Recovery Team for Right Whales. The teams are responsible for producing plans for encouraging the recovery of populations of selected en- Finding A Friend dangered species to non-threatened status. Skip Buyers-Basso was featured on Maine Public Broadcasting Net- By Zilpha Booth work's "Maine Things Considered" in January to discuss exhibit preparation in the taxidermy lab of which he is the curator. In February, he spoke at the Tremont Elementary School about songbirds, ducks and hawks. In April, he will be a guest lecturer at the University of Southern Maine where he will discuss taxidermic display preparation. Peter Corcoran is leading work- shops to train secondary science Illustrations by teachers and classroom volunteers in Teisha Breeden the use of supplementary curriculum materials. He has already provided training and resource materials for 160 science teachers. Teisha Breeden '88 discovered much about handicapped people while Cathy Kimball and her husband illustrating the children's book, Finding A Friend, written by Zilpha Booth. Steve are the proud parents of a baby girl, Larissa Marie Kimball, born 4 Practice Teaching Instills Perspective Emily Gloger, a second-year student in the new COA teacher education program, recalls the second week of her first education course when she was already observing and presenting lessons at the Emerson school in Bar Harbor. "It was then that I began to look realistically at the possibility of becoming a certified teacher," she recalls. Half a dozen education courses later, Gloger observes that "the process of observing and teaching with teach- ers who have varying styles of teaching has allowed me to discover what my own beliefs and place in education are." Education Coordinator Peter Cor- coran, who is guiding approximately 10 students to the goal of teacher cer- Ned Ormsby tification by the end of the year, has been very conscientious about pro- viding students and practitioners in Cross country skiing is the most popular winter sport at COA. Trails abound the public schools the opportunity to in Acadia National Park. This January, students traveled further afield to work together. Mt. Katahdin, for a weekend ski trip led by environmental education in- By the end of the 1987-88 academic structor Chris Kenoyer. From left, Brent Stickler, Chris Kenoyer. year, the local schools will have hosted six student teachers from COA. Paul Boothby, who is currently student merous sketches for each picture. The teaching in the Tremont Consolidated author had to approve each one. School District, is in the midst of Finding A Friend Breeden says she has learned many modifying a new Social Studies unit, important things from the book. "It "Islands and Lighthouses," for his changed my views of handicapped fourth grade students. The students people," she says. "I've always been will simulate, through creative dra- On the cover of a new children's book afraid of them, to look at them, afraid matics, sailing up the coast of Maine. is a pen-and-ink drawing of two boys, of what I'd see. Now I realize that they At the same time they will study his- picking blueberries, watching a fright- are very loving, open-minded people- torical points of interest as they go. ened rabbit hop away. The book is that's what makes them special. They Boothby, in his evaluation of COA's called Finding A Friend, written by are not aliens." Breeden explains that Teacher Education Program, stresses Zilpha Booth, and illustrated by COA the reason she illustrated the book was the importance of observing classrooms senior Teisha Breeden. Breeden's task "so that people will read it and change well before actually teaching in them. was to portray a Downs Syndrome boy their minds about handicapped people." "Observing classrooms has given us the in a gentle way. In the story, the boy, Breeden is now working on her chance to be reflective about what Andy, makes friends with the son of own book, which she is writing and il- classrooms should really look like." an apple orchard owner. She had to lustrating, something she said is easier COA's Teacher Education Program make sure that there was a contrast in than illustrating someone else's story. is based on the assumption that the looks, but that it was subtle. The book is to be called My Dearest study of human ecology is good prepa- Breeden illustrated the entire book Sarah Ann and will be a history of Bar ration for teaching. Says Corcoran, on her own, weaving in the many Harbor based on letters from Eden, "The innovative nature of the program hours of sketching amongst her courses Maine. (The town of Bar Harbor was lies in the idea that the human eco- and work-study, working often far into called Eden from 1796, when it was logical perspective-one which empha- the night. Although Breeden's mother founded, until 1918). The book will be sizes the interrelatedness of life on is a painter and her father an illus- approximately 30 to 50 pages of young Earth-can not only be the basis of ex- trator, she had not had any real train- adult reading. My Dearest Sarah Ann cellent teacher preparedness, but also ing for this type of work. Doing re- will be Breeden's senior project for the can bring a valuable perspective to the search at the MDI Workshop and a spring. public school curriculum." preschool in Ellsworth, she made nu- -Gina Platt -Lisa Norton 5 SUMMERTIME, SUMMERTIME: Dates to Remember Graduation Day: Summer Lecture Series Children's Mental Health Saturday, May 28, 1 p.m. Wednesday evenings Directors June 15-17 Field Studies by the Sea. For high August 3-Peter Raven: Director of Ongoing Summer programs at school teachers and environmental the Missouri Botanical Gardens. the Natural History Museum educators. August 10-Frances Fitzgerald: Every day at 11:00 a.m.-Whales June 26-July 9; July 10-23; Journalist and author on Wheels or the Naugahyde Whale. July 24-August 6; August 7-20 Third Speaker and Date Afternoon programs: Birds-on- Summer Field Studies to Be Announced. Wings, Footprints, and Owl Pellets. For Children Running Camp Every Monday and Friday after- For youngsters entering grades 4, 5, Sponsored by Bob Booker. June 19-25 noon at Sieur de Monts: and 6. German Week Sponsored by the Naugahyde Whale. July 5-8 and 12-15 American Association of Teachers Wednesday Evening Speaker July 19-22 and 26-29 of German. August 21-27 Series: Speakers to be announced. August 2-5 and 9-12 Bureau for Children with Special August 16-19 and 23-26 Needs June 8-10 diseases are common, leading to an in- is the most common form of transport. fant mortality rate of around 20%. the Casses began their hike in exten- Exploring Nepal The city is divided into two sec- sively terraced subtropical lowlands. tions. The old town is about 500 years They climbed through communities of old. Here, Cass says, the streets are "a a few hundred people, usually five or little wider than my office" and packed six miles apart, who support In a vast valley which was once an an- with little stalls specialized to butcher themselves growing potatoes or cater- cient lake lies the mystical city of meat, to sell souvenirs, etc., as well as ing to the trekking trade, and ended Kathmandu. It is here that Don Cass to do the millions of smaller jobs such their hike in unpopulated, glacier-filled and his wife, Suzy Taylor, began a as bending metal for angle brackets, valleys. The Sherpas, inhabitants of three and a half week exploration dur- that are taken for granted in the West. this part of Nepal, have traditionally ing the Christmas break. The newer section of town is the home depended on dung and wood as fuels, Cass found the city to be a vibrant of the government and the affluent. It and deforestation is now a serious pro- melting pot of Indian Hinduism and merges with the intensely gardened blem. While restrictions have been im- Tibetan Buddhism. Kathmandu is surrounding countryside. "Every inch posed on trekkers, the locals continue filled with energetic, spiritual and is used for something," Cass says. to intensively stockpile wood. Under tolerant people, amid modern the leadership of Sir Edmund Hillary, bungalows, ancient shops and ornate the first person to climb Everest, temples, mostly made from bricks from several projects underway are aimed to the sediments of the ancient lake bed. help the Sherpas learn to conserve and While self-sufficient until recently, reforest their land, and to tame their the Kathmandu valley is struggling to wild rivers to supply hydroelectric accommodate a population growing power. with migrants from the surrounding The people, Cass notes, are friendly countryside, refugees from Tibet and, despite their troubles. "I don't think increasingly, tourists. (The country just we heard any yelling the whole time spent half its yearly budget on a new we were there," he says. Cass has passenger jet.) In a city of 200,000, the heard rumors of student unrest in streets teem with people. Foraging dogs Nepal, but others feel the more or less seem to be the only answer to waste totalitarian rule of Nepal's Harvard- disposal. And COWS entangle educated king is doing well at helping themselves in the traffic. Nepal deal with its problems. The water system is thousands of After five days in the city, the Although exposure to a different years old, with most water coming Casses started with six other people, a culture and hiking through wilderness from naturally oozing aquifers that British leader, eight sherpas and three are experiences invaluable to the study defy modern management. There are sherpani for a two-and-a-half-week hike of Human Ecology, the Casses' main few sewer or septic systems, and the to Mt. Everest base camp (16,000') and purpose was not formal research. "We water supply is usually too con- back. Although Nepal is roughly the went," says Cass, "strictly for fun. taminated for direct use. Hotels pro- size of Maine, Vermont and New And that's just what we had!" vide pitchers of disinfected water for Hampshire put together, it has less their guests. Dysentery and related than 5,000 miles of roads, and walking -Mark Tully 6 Internships Provide Focus Learning is not confined to the class- room at COA. Before graduating, COA students choose a field of in- terest in which to get hands-on ex- perience as an integral part of their education. This experience is called an Internship, a way for students to apply what they have learned, as well as to discover what it is like, to be in the workplace. In addition an Internship can provide career direction. Says Internship Coordinator Jill Barlow-Kelly, "A student is not aware of all the different angles from which an internship can be approached or in FOCUSING IN! COA intern Lauren Gilson '88 assists Mount Desert what direction it can lead. Students Island High School student, Michael Haynes, during a biology lab. "You begin to look at Committee for approval. The proposal organization made up of politically outlines the length of time involved, minded artists, writers, painters, college the internship as what and type of job the student is going to professors, and visual performers. be doing; what he/she hopes to learn While Cohn was there she held dia- you get from your ex- from the job, how it relates to their logues in her apartment, organized a perience and not as a field of study, financial and living ar- women's awareness group, and served rangements; it includes a resume and as an artist-in-residence. "It gave me a requirement." approval signatures from their advisors. chance to give people with many dif- Upon approval by the committee the ferent points of view some non- Laura Cohn '88 student departs for what is usually a traditional exposure to different arts," ten-week internship. Three COA cred- says Cohn. "You can't help taking its are given for a student's first intern- COA with you and you begin to look come to me with an idea and I try to ship and one credit for each subse- at the internship as what you get from help them as best I can, but I always quent one. your experience and not as a require- try to get them to look at several Student Laura Cohn ('88) spent her ment." possibilities." internship in Champaign, Ill., working Lauren Gilson ('88) is in the middle The student then writes up a pro- as Organizer/Planner for the Alliance of completing her second internship. posal and submits it to the Internship for Cultural Democracy, a national She is working as a student teacher in the Mount Desert Island High School Biology department. She assisted the biology teacher for the first six weeks by helping with the class, conducting a lab, designing and presenting a lecture and quiz. She will then spend the next four weeks teaching full time. She also spends time tutoring students at the high school. "There are good days and there are bad days," she says. "The bad days help you learn where your weaknesses are." Gilson finds the best part of her teaching to be in the fact that, "Some students challenge you and that is what makes it a real science." To both Laura Cohn and Lauren Gilson the internship is a way to focus on goals and interests. Gilson states, "It's a way of finding out what you're Lisa Norton, an intern at the Connors-Emerson School in Bar Harbor, really interested in." introduces a math problem to third graders, Sarah Reisman and Nicholas Hardwick. -Keith Goodrich 7 COA NEWS NON-PROFIT ORGANIZ. COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC U.S. POSTAGE PAID Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 BAR HARBOR, ME PERMIT #47 ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED ing to Dworak, the library lost much of its role as an appealing place for the New Construction "casual drop-ins" when it was forced to move off campus after the fire. By Braves the Elements coming back on campus, the library will be more accessible and conse- quently more useful, she explains. Despite minor setbacks in the blasting Undaunted by icy winter weather and and removal of tons of ledge in prepa- bone-chilling winds, crews continued ration for the foundation, the sched- to work on construction of the long- uled completion date for the entire awaited Kaelber Hall building complex, building is expected to be in Sep- scheduled for completion in the fall. tember, 1989. Replacing the old Kaelber Hall, which The new dining hall will take the was destroyed by fire in July, 1983, place of COA's cozy "Take-A-Break," this new $3 million structure will housed in the Turrets, the elegant house a student center, a dining hall, 19th century restored summer mansion an audio-visual presentation room, a computer center, and most important- ly, a new library to be named in honor of longtime trustee Elizabeth F. Thorn- dike and her late husband, Amory. Because of its crucial role in the en- now functioning mainly as an admin- tire academic program, the Library is istrative and classroom building. Food scheduled to be completed before the Service Director Pam Parvin is not 1988 fall term begins. This will hope- concerned about delays, as the existing fully allow COA librarian, Marcia Take-A-Break will still be functional. Dworak, and her staff, enough time to She agrees that the Library should organize the facility before the start of have priority. Says Parvin, "One of the school. "We'll obviously have more real bonuses of the new dining room is space," says Dworak, "and that space that the booths and tables will provide has been well designed with all the an excellent alternate study area. Its functions of a library in mind." Better kitchen will be larger, but I plan to lighting, comfortable seating, and three avoid the 'institutional' look as much zones for different noise levels are as possible and make it a 'friendly' some of the features mentioned. area." Dworak worked closely with the These spaces, combined with more award-winning architect Dan Scully of classroom, promise to make the new Peterborough, New Hampshire. She Kaelber Hall a welcome and valuable believes he did an excellent job of de- addition to the COA community. signing the building to meet the needs of a functioning college library. Accord- -Tim Hartt 8