Ed Kaelber, founding president of COA, takes the controls to break ground for the new library and stu- dent center complex. mous donors helped boost the total raised for The Phoenix Fund, the col- lege's rebuilding campaign, beyond the COA NEWS halfway mark of its $6 million goal. By late August, an additional $.5 million had been received in a series of pledges. This brought the total raised for the Phoenix Fund since the start of the FALL 1987 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC BAR HARBOR, MAINE campaign to approximately $3.8 million. Of this total, two million is designated construction of the $3 million building for Kaelber Hall. which will replace the former Kaelber In commenting on the progress of The Hole Hall, destroyed by fire in July of 1983. raising the funds needed to complete the The three-story structure will house a construction of Kaelber Hall, COA In the Ledge student center and dining room as well President Louis Rabineau said that the as a computer center, language-music building's original price tag of $2.5 mil- listening laboratory, and an audio-visual lion had been increased an additional presentation room. The entire second $500,000. This was necessary to provide Edward Kaelber, founding president of floor will contain a 50,000-volume for higher construction costs as well as College of the Atlantic, dug the first library, named for COA trustee the complete furnishing of the building. shovelful of earth on July 27th to make Elizabeth F. Thorndike, and her late "We must raise $1 million more by way for construction of the school's new husband, Amory. September 1988, in order to have the student center complex bearing his Plans for the 20,000-square-foot struc- building finished and ready for the fall name. And he did it with style. ture were drawn up by prize-winning ar- semester. We are confident that our Climbing into the cab of a Gradall chitect Daniel Scully of Peterborough, friends, new and old, will help us backhoe, he good-humoredly took the New Hampshire, who has designed the achieve this goal. Having a library on controls. After a few lurchings and master plan for COA's entire rebuilding campus and space for our growing pro- tenuous starts, he dug the machine's program which was initiated after a fire gram in computer applications is urgent. bucket deep into the gravel of the build- destroyed the College's main building in This new facility will play a key role in ing site, to the cheers of about 100 July, 1983. our ability to attract and retain faculty onlookers. A 2:1 challenge pledge of $500,000 and students of the highest caliber," This was the symbolic beginning for early this summer by a group of anony- said Rabineau. 1 "Works in Progress" program which is one of the most stimulating in- A Message tellectual experiences that one can imagine. From the President Our needs grow, however. The greatest needs are to continue our attention to increasing the compen- sation schedule for faculty, to find College of the Atlantic is reaching a additional funds for student finan- new plateau in its 16th year. We cial aid, and to obtain the resources realize the truth of John Gardner's needed to complete and operate the observation that institutions survive new library, dining hall and com- not because they avoid decay, but puter center. rather because they regenerate their "What is the most stimulating mission, while capitalizing on new activity this year at COA?" I asked experiences and new ideas. Harris Hyman, a COA faculty The regeneration at COA is member who has been responsible phenomenal: (1) new buildings- Louis Rabineau for developing computer activity Kaelber Hall/Thorndike Library is and suggesting solutions toward an nine times the size we had three being built within two years after improved atmosphere for women years ago, thanks to a federal grant. the completion of the through an effort coordinated by His answer: "My students are ab- Science/Laboratory/Greenhouse the Women's Task Force co-chaired solutely exciting!" building. (2) Funding and support of by Susan Lerner and Cathy Rams- With all this to COA's credit, COA is higher than ever, although dell Sweet. (5) The alumni reunion, we keep our mission clear: teaching the needs are greater than ever. (3) coordinated by Phil Kunhardt and and learning with a human ecologi- The largest class in COA's history colleagues, was a beautiful and cal perspective. was admitted this fall, and the meaningful event. (6) The new Sincerely, enrollment has risen to the highest faculty have added greater vitality since before the fire five years ago. to an already vital faculty and Minority enrollment has started to JoAnne Carpenter has become a Jon build, for which we are grateful. (4) full-time member of the faculty. (7) We will be investigating problems The faculty are involved in a Louis Rabineau for art classes but there were only two an instructor of environmental design. students to every teacher. This made it Renaissance of the According to McMullen and Carpenter, tough to actually create "classes." With he will be the new eyes of the art much patience and work, ways were department. It is through him that Art Program found to both teach the students and McMullen and Carpenter hope to give them hands-on experience. For ex- "rethink their goals." Owens views ample, at one point approximately 18 COA as "a place to engage people's fun- When students came to College of the students helped McMullen build a damental questions of design." He Atlantic back in the early 70's, they house. would like to see the curriculum expand came with the hopes of finding practical At the beginning, things were very to include not just building design, but ways of living an alternative, self-suffi- "Utopian," as Carpenter explains it. town, community, and landscape design. cient lifestyle. One similar goal of all Students wanted to learn how to create Owens feels that no educational institu- original 32 students was to be able to and design their own world. But, the tion effectively equates design with the resourcefully build their own house and first year was spent in meetings deciding environment. It is his goal to do so heat it with the sun. This idea triggered what the "masterplan" was to be. Even- here. Together with Carpenter and the growing concern for building and tually six art shows a year were creating with one's own hands. For the first term, the "art program" consisted of a "Pottery Club" which was more or less extracurricular, offering no presented involving mostly Maine art- McMullen, Owens would like to see the credit. Students protested and in the ists. This sparked student interest in program broaden to include more design second term, they received credit for the showing their own work. classes and more visiting art instructors. class. In the second year of COA's ex- At this point COA began to explore Eventually, a workable Gallery will istence, there was an outcry for more the connection between aesthetics and be built to enhance the rapidly growing classes in the visual arts. At that point, human ecology. Classes began to evolve program, and more classes such as due to student persistence and faculty around this interrelationship, and a photography, filmmaking, and graphic enthusiasm, the art program was born. unique program began. Carpenter design will be added to the curriculum. Two key people in the development states that at present time there is no The Fine Arts curriculum is also an of the art curriculum were Ernest other college which has attempted to area which may develop in the near McMullen and JoAnne Carpenter, art establish this important link. future. Carpenter, McMullen, and instructors who have been at COA A potential catalyst in the whole art Owens believe there's room for improve- since its beginning. Both struggled with curriculum development process, Peter ment, but they all agree " the the fact that there was a great demand Owens has joined the COA faculty as horizon's bright!" -Gina Platt 2 Asked if he sees a lot of changes at Task Force on Status COA, Cote says the same energy and purpose are present, but now the college Natural History has more momentum. Of Women Formed "COA has the opportunity to make Museum Has a big leap forward," Cote says. "We have some important decisions to make Super Summer This past spring 1987, COA held a dia- concerning size, program priorities and logue on the predicament of women at curriculum." the college. The dialogue was well at- Cote's professional track record in- HIGHLIGHTS tended, and there was a great deal of dicates his propensity for new organiza- concern expressed. Some of the con- tions and programs. As a doctoral stu- Visitor attendance topped 10,000 cerns included: the shortage of women dent at the Harvard Graduate School of despite the lack of convenient parking faculty; gender dynamics in classrooms, Education, he spent two years at a new created by construction work in the on committees, among staff-administra- Nigerian high school to assist in the regular parking area. tion; and the need for increased integra- development of guidance and vocational 598 visitors on one rainy Monday, tion of women's perspectives in the cur- curriculum programs. August 3! Visitors came from all over the riculum. Recognizing the importance of these issues, those present at the U.S. and 11 foreign countries. dialogue recommended that a task force Interpretive programs were presented be created to investigate problems and every day. A swordfish costume was created suggest solutions toward an improved at- mosphere for women at COA. The and is now in the children's discovery Task Force on the Status of Women corner. resulted, and is composed of community The Naugahyde Whale Program members invited to serve by Lou was presented once a week at Sieur de Monts. Rabineau. The members of the Task Force are: Co-Chairs Susan Lerner and SUMMER PROGRAMS '87 Trustee/Alumna Cathy Ramsdell Sweet; Lori Alley, Staff; Jamien Jacobs, Alum- Wednesday Evening Speaker Series An increase in attendance of 65% na; Lisa Hammer and Barbara Meyers, Students; John Buell, Faculty; John over last year resulted in a total of 400 admissions. Kauffmann, Trustee; Student Alternates are Michael Hall and Laura Cohn; and Summer Field Studies for Children Anne Peach, Ex-Officio. The Task Force welcomes/needs in- This popular summer program for children increased to four two-week ses- put from all facets of the community: students, staff-administration, faculty, sions. Fifty-five children ages 8-11 ex- Mel Cote trustees, alumni (ae), and other friends. plored mudflats, salt marshes, shores, They suggest that interested persons In 1970, before College of the Atlan- and woodlands; canoed, kayaked, swam, contact any task force member or mail tic opened its doors, he joined the ad- hiked mountains, rock-climbed, and comments/suggestions for any matters ministrative staff as the assistant to camped overnight. Local businesses that need addressing and how they COA's first president, Edward Kaelber. helped by providing scholarships. might approach their solutions. Sugges- It was during this time that he com- tions for speakers, films, and workshops pleted his doctoral dissertation on Field Studies by the Sea are also welcome. developing a new college. He continued Vicki taught three two-week sessions. as director of student affairs and admis- Every day the class went on a field trip sions when the college opened with 32 to learn about the environment: marine students and six faculty in 1972. In life, sea birds, land mammals, etc. 1977, he left COA to work at the Original COA Princeton Education Center, where he NEW DISPLAYS Official Returns as developed an outdoor center and en- The Atlantic Puffins, prepared vironmental programs for public and by staff. Research Head private school groups. Porcupine, prepared by Phil Gir- Cote says it is good to be back at a ton (COA '87). more established COA and to be work- A Red Fox pouncing on a ing with a larger staff of professionals. Meadow Vole, prepared by Michelle After being away from College of the "The idea of human ecology has Riccio (COA student). Atlantic for 10 years, Mel Cote, one of become more recognized," Cote White-Tailed Deer Fawn, COA's original administrators, has remarks, "and the enviromental move- prepared by Valarie Giles (COA returned as the college's director of in- ment has become more sophisticated. student). stitutional research. The college has a more stable base now Coyote searching for an Cote's responsibilities will include from which to move forward." Eastern Chipmunk, prepared by marketing research and the development Cote's wife, Polly, a woodcut artist Tigarene Peare (former COA student). of an institutional record system that and librarian, is completing a master of Bald Eagle pictures taken by will be useful in the development of new arts in liberal studies at Dartmouth Col- David Paine, owner of Jordan's programs. lege. The Cotes will settle in Bar Harbor. Restaurant in Bar Harbor. 3 the Clay" in the upcoming songbook Sciences by the University of Maine. He "Rise Up Singing." Elmer will also be has been working on an investigation Faculty/Staff serving on the Acadia National Park into the fungus that grows on blueberry Newsnotes Advisory Commission in the upcoming roots and its prevention. He has also years. been studying a rather fatal mushroom John Anderson, our new faculty that destroys the kidneys. The results of member, comes to COA with honors. his work will be presented in April of Steve Katona has published two ar- At a meeting in San Francisco, the '88 when he will host the 11th New ticles, "Leviathan Has a Face After All" American Ornithologist's Union award- England Mycologists Conference here at and "Puzzles of Whale Migration." He ed John the Council Prize for the best COA. also taught a marine mammal course as student paper presented. The award is Don Cass is still working with part of the COA Summer Program. one of the two most prestigious awards Pam Parvin on the Personnel Manual Beverly Agler (COA '81), having made to graduate students in Ornithol- and is getting ready for the COA trip completed another field season with ogy in North America. to Nepal in December. Maine Whalewatch, is back at Allied Carolyn Dow has been promoted Sally Crock is splitting her time Whale working on the summer's col- to Director of Public Affairs. between Student Health Forms and her lected data and supervising the North Louis Rabineau was elected a son's swimming career. Atlantic Finback Whale Catalogue. This member of the MDI Biological Lab and Rich Borden and John Visvader past spring she presented a paper to the MDI Hospital Corporation this summer. will present the closing plenary lecture, North Atlantic Marine Mammal He also presented an oral history on "Education for Environment: Ecological Association on photo-identification of Lyman Glenny in connection with the Strategy of Survival and Development" Finback Whales in the Mt. Desert Rock Frost Foundation. at the 2nd World Congress of Human area. Trisha Rhodes, a visiting faculty Ecology in Zagreb, Yugoslavia during Judy Beard is developing a user's member this fall, is a two time recipient July of '88. guide to the Computer Assisted Hump- of the State of Maine Innovative Grant Kim Robertson (COA '88) and back Identification System with Sally in Education and is a Phi-Kappa-Phi Tim Cole (COA '88) spent the summer Mizroch of the National Marine Mam- graduate of the University of Maine as part of the full-time crew of the Mt. mal Lab, Seattle, Wash. honors program. She is also doing Desert Rock Marine Research Station. Greg Stone (COA '81) is working research in language interaction between They each spent two weeks on other on his M.A. in Marine Affairs at the teen parents and their children. projects as well: Kim for the Manomet University of Rhode Island. He Peter Corcoran was elected Vice- Bird Observatory on an offshore whale presented a talk this spring on his chair of the Nature Conservancy this and seabird survey of George's Bank research on baleen whales in the Ant- past summer. and Tim with the Mingan Island Ceta- arctic to the Namma society. This sum- Gary Friedmann and his wife cean Study on the Gulf of St. mer he taught a technical diving course Glenon (COA '86) welcomed baby Lawrence. for the COA Summer Graduate Pro- daughter Shelley Brynn Friedmann to COA student Megan McOskar gram. In August he worked with the their family August 6, 1987. Gary was worked as a research assistant for Maine New England Aquarium right whale recently promoted to Director of Whalewatch this summer. team of Brown's Bank of Southern Development. Millard Dority and Marla Rob- Nova Scotia. Craig Green published an article on ertson were married in Bar Harbor on Lisa Baraff (COA '84), a five year "Calamagrostis pickeringli in Maine" in October 24. member of the Allied Whale team, has Rhodora magazine this past July and was Hilda Roderick, one of COA's moved to Provincetown, Mass. to act as recently named a member of the State professional volunteers, visited China director of the humpback whale Planning Office's "Rare Plant Technical this fall through People-to-People Inter- catalogue at the Center for Coastal Advisory Committee." He was a national, the Citizen Ambassador Studies. speaker at the University of Maine Oc- Program. Harriet Corbett completed her tober 24 at the Maine Endangered -Keith Goodrich fourth year of the Rock Project this Species Conference. His lecture is en- summer. This winter she will be work- titled "Acadia National Park and Mt. ing on the finback whale catalogue. Desert Island Case Study." He is also Bob Bowman is joining the Allied working on mapping the rare plants of 1986-87 Annual Whale team as full-time member after Mt. Desert Island. ten years of field research and running Vicki Nichols is completing her Giving Campaign the Maine Whalewatch. He will begin work for certification for teaching K-8th this winter as director of public relations grade. She is also helping a science Surpasses Goal and fund raising. teacher at Emerson High School develop Lydia Barnes joins Allied Whale a Marine Science Unit which she will after working with Scott Kraus (COA help teach. She recently traveled to the On June 30, 1987, the close of the Col- '76) on the New England Aquarium University of Delaware for the inaugura- lege's fiscal year, receipts to COA's An- right whale project and the Nantucket tion of their 23rd president, as the nual Fund totaled $856,347, well be- Whale Watch. She will be working on representative for COA. She then con- yond the Campaign budget goal of the humpback whale matching project. tinued on to Washington, D.C. to meet $769,000, and 10% above last year's Elmer Beal was recently honored with a member of the Institute of record high, the Development Office by the Sing Out Corporation, which Museum Services' program staff. reports. will be publishing his highly popular Walter Litten was reappointed as "We are elated by the extraordinary and much requested song "Fashioned in Faculty Associate in Plant and Soil response of both old and new friends of 4 the College to our request for unrestrict- ed gifts," stated Edward McC. Blair, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. "We are especially encouraged by the large number of friends who increased their giving to the College over the past year." Charles Hesse, Vice President for Development and Public Affairs, added, "The results are extremely gratifying, but we have no time to rest on our laurels. We have just launched the 1987-88 Annual Fund with a goal of $855,000, which includes $759,000 for unrestricted purposes. Unusually gen- erous giving on the part of the College's friends, again this year, will be critical to our success in achieving the goal for the 1987-88 campaign. If every donor would increase his or her gift for unrestricted purposes by at least 10% this year, we will be able to achieve our Environmental design instructor Peter Owens critiques a landscaping total goal." project with student Christiana Glidden. really a fundamental dilemma of of a "downtown concept" for a sprawl- COA Landscape design the challenge of reconciling ing suburban town. our need for secure and definable bound- One of the major projects he has Design Instructor aries with our simultaneous desire to been working on for the past two years, be striving for new horizons. One way "City Center" in So. Burlington, Ver- Urges Community to begin to do this is to ask ourselves as mont, has recently won the Project-of- a community where we'd like to be in the-Year award from Northern New Involvement 20 years, what qualities do we want to England Chapter of the American Plan- retain, and what ones do we want to ning Association (NNECAPA). change. "We have a problem with alienation "If you don't like what's going on in today," states Owens. "People feel out of your environment, you'd better get in- control with what's going on around volved," says new College of the Atlan- them. We don't have many things that MDI/Ellsworth tic environmental design instructor, we do together anymore, but making Peter Owens, who will be teaching a our landscape remains a common Area Campaign course at COA this fall in Visual and ground." Environmental Studies. People looking for common ground Launched A landscape architect, urban design- was one of the things that attracted er, and planner from Burlington, Ver- Owens to COA. "Everyone seemed in- mont, Owens sees teaching at COA as terested in what I do, and how that in- A special COA fundraising campaign an opportunity to develop a program terfaces with what they do," he says. aimed at Mount Desert Island and Ells- that deals with landscape studies where "It's a good place to develop a landscape worth businesses has been initiated to students look at the landscape as a "col- program within the context of a human- raise $100,000 to help the College com- lective piece of sculpture that we as a ist education." Owens is team-teaching plete stage II of the rebuilding campaign society shape and influence." Calling his Environmental Design course in the for Kaelber Hall/Thorndike Library. As the landscape "a mirror reflecting our Fall with COA art instructors Joanne of the end of September, $15,000 in in- values and priorities," Owens says he Carpenter and Ernie McMullen. itial gifts and pledges had been received. hopes to engage his students in realizing Owens has a B.A. in Art and Leading the campaign are COA their own power to affect their environ- Geography from Middlebury College in Trustee Robert E. Suminsby, president ment through becoming involved with Vermont and an M.A. from the Con- of the Knowles Company in Northeast design. way School of Landscape Design. He Harbor; COA Trustee Leslie C. Brewer, Owens sees his role as a "prodder." comes to COA from Burlington, Ver- a Bar Harbor businessman; COA Trus- "I enjoy challenging the typical assump- mont where he worked as a consulting tee Elizabeth S. Russell, senior staff tion that all development is bad. My in- landscape architect and planner and art - scientist emeritus of the Jackson terest is not so much in arriving at the ist in residence. His recent projects in- Laboratory; Frank Bean, vice president 'right' solution for communities like Bar clude preliminary plans for revitalizing of the First National Bank of Bar Har- Harbor as in defining a process and the long-neglected Burlington water- bor; Nathaniel Fenton of the Bar Har- structure that allows for evolution and front, design of a 300-acre park with bor law firm of Fenton, Chapman, Fen- growth without destroying the values panoramic lake views, an access manage- ton, Smith and Kane; and Inge Weber, and heritage of what exists," Owens ment plan and amenity design for a ma- owner of the Cadillac Motor Inn in Bar says. "What we're talking about here is jor state highway, and the development Harbor. 5 New Zoology Human Ecology Instructor Stresses Worldwide: Making Ecological Connections Perspectives "What do we all have in common, and what can we work on together?" COA's new zoology instructor, John are some of the questions that prompted John Kelly William Newlin Anderson, brings with him a global ap- Richard Borden, Professor of Psychology proach to the study of biological at COA and 1987 President of the sciences. Society for Human Ecology (SHE), to To earn his doctorate from the initiate a worldwide search for Human Board of Trustees University of Rhode Island, Anderson Ecologists. Through a careful network- Elects New Members spent seven years studying pelicans, ing process, Borden and Jamien Jacobs, primarily in Nevada. During this time COA graduate and Research Associate, he realized more fully the wide range of have identified and brought together humanity affected by any dwindling over 2000 active participants in the During the summer, three new Trustees resource. In addition he recognized the realm of human ecology and other were welcomed to the College's Board of importance of being able to present cer- related fields. Lines of communication Trustees. tain issues to the appropriate individuals have been developed and enriched Mr. John N. Kelly is a partner in the and associations in order to achieve the among more than 70 countries including Portland, Maine, law firm Kelly, Rem- Austria, Great Britain, Mexico, France, mel and Zimmerman, and resides in Brazil, Japan, Italy, Korea, Poland, Yarmouth, Maine with his wife, Elisa- China, India, Australia, and the Soviet beth, and their three children. He is a Union. graduate of Colby College, 1961, and The Society for Human Ecology, in- Georgetown Law Center, 1967. Mr. Kel- corporated in 1981 in Maryland, was ly has served in several legislative ca- established in order to "provide a forum pacities in the Maine State Govern- through which educators, scientists, ment, including Assistant Attorney scholars, and practitioners may engage General from 1967-69. His professional in activities contributing to the promo- affilations include membership with the tion of an understanding of human Maine Bar Foundation, the Maine State ecology and its ethical and equitable ap- Bar Association, the Maine Trial Law- plication to the well-being of all beings." yers Association and the American Bar The Society for Human Ecology's 2nd Association, respectively. International Conference was held at Mr. William V.P. Newlin is a College of the Atlantic in October 1986, graduate of both Harvard College and John Anderson where, according to a Bar Harbor Times School of Business Administration. Fol- greatest results. For example, if devel- reporter, "ideas and thoughts transcend- lowing his graduation in 1961 from the opers in Reno are damming up the river ed the barriers of race, culture, and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, feeding the lake where the pelicans re- political ideology." he served with the U.S. Department of side, who else is being affected besides According to Borden, "the first task State as a Foreign Service Officer until the pelicans? And how can these people was to find people interested in human 1986. He lives in Washington, D.C. control the developers? Who would the ecology and to develop a network." with his wife, Louisa. Recently retired, affected individuals contact in order to Now, the second task is to inform the he now spends as much time as he can get results, and how? network about itself and to coordinate writing books about Mount Desert Says Anderson, "What I aspire to do communication and collaboration. Both Island. in my teaching is to insure that tomor- Borden and Jacobs have been editing Mrs. Phyllis A. Thompson is a resident row's scientists are prepared to do more and publishing a semi-annual Human of Chestnut Hill, Mass., and Northeast than just study the organisms them- Ecology Bulletin which includes short ar- Harbor, Me. With a B.A. from Welles- selves. They must also be able to relate ticles, reports on requests for informa- ley College and an M.A. from Tufts their studies to other aspects of life and tion, programs and recent meetings, and University, she is presently a Ph.D. can- to present the facts in the best way to book reviews. In addition, an Interna- didate in Art History at Boston Univer- achieve results." tional Directory of Human Ecologists and sity. She serves on several committees of In the years to come, Anderson says, the proceedings from the two interna- educational/cultural organizations in he intends to expand on these ecological tional conferences have been compiled connection with Fine Arts, including perspectives in his area of study. He and published. Projects in progress in- the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts Univer- feels that in the next ten to twenty clude Education for Human Ecology, an sity, and Wellesley College. She also is a years there will be an increasing need international handbook of courses of trustee of the Park School, Boston for ecologically aware individuals in all study in human ecology, and a Human Theological Institute, Friends of the walks of life and he hopes to contribute Ecology Bibliography currently being put Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and Con- toward that end. together by Professor Gerald Young of cord Academy. -Tim Hartt Washington State University and Zev 6 Naveh of the Israel Institute of Technology. Concerning the role of education, SHE's networking efforts COA Goes have identified eighty institutions around the world where human ecology To India is being taught-from elementary school programs to post-doctoral training. The calendar of engagements has been eventful thus far, and will con- Steve Chidester tells of his plans to travel tinue to be. Borden recently returned to India with six other students-for three from Scotland, where the 3rd Interna- credits! tional Conference on Environmental Future was held. Borden represented the I remember sitting through an Academic Society for Human Ecology. Both Affairs committee meeting on a cold, Borden and COA's Professor of snowy Wednesday, last winter. I was on Philosophy, John Visvader, are looking the agenda to make a presentation con- ahead to the summer of 1988. They cerning the COA chorus. Lisa Hammer have been invited to the 2nd World and Bill Carpenter were there also, and Congress of Human Ecology in Zagreb, their proposal came up for discussion Yugoslavia, where they will, in their before mine. It diverted my attention joint presentation, embrace the topic: once again from the snow flying outside "Education for Environment: Ecological towards the meeting inside. Excitedly, Strategies for Survival and Develop- but seriously, Bill began. ment." The Society for Human Ecology "We would like to get an initial will present its 3rd International Con- green light," he said, "one which would ference in San Francisco in October merely begin the process of exploration, 1988, hosted by the Institute for Human concerning a three-credit excursion to Ecology located in Sausalito, California. India." Through this "gathering of perspec- "It's best to break these things easily tives," explains Borden, "points of view to a COA committee, I thought. Bill are finally being developed in concert and Lisa were proceeding tactfully. I was with each other." Borden feels that impressed, and so were the committee "people, cultures, and nations must members as far as I could tell. The trip either with the whole group or in small- work together on a wide range of issues was to take place during the next winter er groups will be encouraged at times, to to ensure a future that may be livable trimester, 1988, and it would be made allow for personal interests. and enjoyable." available to approximately six students. The initial core group has expanded "COA's pioneering commitment to After the initial procedural questions- slightly to include an alumna, Lori human ecology has made this work easy what about your Freudian class? your Gustafson, and Matthew Carpenter, Bill to integrate into our day-to-day ac- Advising responsibilities, Bill?-the "in- and Joanne Carpenter's son, and the tivities here," say Borden and Jacobs itial green light for exploration" was only one among the group who's been who enjoy representing COA as a given. to Asia. As stated, we have all begun leading institution in this growing field." The effect for me was haunting. Bill developing our own areas of study. Lisa -Lisa Norton was proposing a trip to India to look for plans to explore Sufism as well as Indian Human Ecology and I thought whoever theatre and drama. Heidi hopes to see went just might catch a glimpse of it. dancing, Yoga, and Indian art. Mike is After several weeks I submitted my in- going to center on 'human interactions terest, and intent, to go. As early as last in light of cultural restraints.' Lori hopes spring a core group began to form: Bill, to explore Indian medicine. And I will Lisa, Heidi Hoffler, Mike Kimball, and focus on music, from a religious perspec- COA NEWS is published three myself. We 'began to explore' the tive. I do not know of Matthew's in- times a year. It is circulated to specifics involved with the trip. And terest, although he graduated recently Alumni, Parents, Faculty, Trustees, since those early days the final green with a degree in Anthropology from and other Friends. light has been given. Dartmouth. We plan to leave just after Thanksgiv- For me India represents a challenge. Editor: Carolyn Dow ing, taking advantage of the December It will be a challenge to land in a Student Assistants: break as well as the winter trimester. foreign city, Delhi, crowded and full of Steve Chidester, Mark We'll return for spring (that is-mid to surprises. In a state roughly one third Tully, Tim Hartt, Keith late winter here). It's to be a three-credit the size of the U.S., India holds nearly Goodrich, Barbara Meyers, writing course, one credit awarded for four times our population. How do they Lisa Norton, Gina Platt, Mark preparatory work-reading and develop- cope? How will I adapt? Cosgrove ing a particular area of intrigue, the As a group we're all very excited. We other two for actual journal writing hope to take the spirit of COA with us, With special thanks to Buddy Chase of Spindler & Chase Associates, Ellsworth, -a page per day assigned which will and bring what we find back to the Me., Charlie Ferden of Downeast amount to nearly one hundred pages of community here. Look for our presenta- Graphics, Ellsworth, Me., and The material. The itinerary is essentially to tions next spring. Until then Ellsworth American. follow the course of the Ganges, from Namaste. Delhi to Calcutta, although excursions -Steve Chidester 7 intense search for something, maybe about us was that we might not continue to themselves. No one was boring. There nourish that essence here." The weekend 10th Reunion: always seemed to be this challenge to hold seemed to dissipate these fears. As one on to." alumna and present trustee summarized: "I A Time for "You were loved and supported; given don't know if you've realized it, but we're freedom over your life, yet were provided all just Human Being Junkies-we're ob- Reconnecting with responsible guidance through sessed with human interaction." freedom. There was a balance of sharing -Mark Tully and solitude that made it the perfect place to do an awful lot of growing up, and Laughter and memories abounded at a to become your own kind of person." Alumni Offspring- Tenth Reunion weekend on October 9 "I appreciate the feedback I got here. I COA Class of and 10 for over 30 COA alumni. Many ar- mean, whatever you said, it was automa- ????? (from left) rived early enough on Friday to partici- tically taken seriously and respected as a Jessie Kunhardt pate in the noontime Construction Cele- valid comment." and Asa Pingree. bration in honor of the "hole in the "Everyone always met as equals. The ledge," soon to be the foundation for the governance was the struggle of how hu- new Kaelber Hall/Thorndike Library mans could relate at best with each other, building which will house the 50,000- and that's the most important lesson of all." volume library, a student center and din- After the meeting, a ing facilities. wine and cheese party On Saturday, after a boat trip around commenced and the the Cranberry Islands, they gathered in merriment continued the Great Hall of Turrets for a discussion through dinner and a led by Bill Carpenter, COA instructor of dance. literature and writing. They talked about Says one current COA the subject of Human Ecology, how it has student, "My biggest related to their lives, and what stands out fear about the alumni, most now about their time at COA. Some before I met them, was of the comments were as follows: that they wouldn't "Education here involved your whole still have the essence life, not just study. The students were pas- of human ecology in sionate in their learning. They were on an them. Their biggest fear 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 8